Chapter Nineteen | Familiar Faces
"I repeat this is a code red, do you copy?" Dustin questions into the walkie talkie. We were in the backstage of the movie theatre, somewhere we'd be alone and in private.
"Dustin?" I heard a Mile speak over to the walkie talkie, expect it wasn't clear.
"Mike?" I grabbed the walkie talkie off him.
"Aspen?" I heard Mike say my name. "Dustin and Aspen!"
"Mike!" We both holler in excitement.
"Oh, my God, you have to listen. I know we've been MIA and I'm sorry, it's not because I'm mad." Dustin paused. "I mean, I actually was mad, but it's also because we were trapped underground in a secret Russian basement."
"Dustin, guys, you're going too fast, I can't understand you," Dustin ignored Mike.
"I know that sounds insane but the Russians have infiltrated Hawkins! The goddamn Russians!" Dustin then continues to explain to Mike what was happening. With the gate, the Russians, how they were doing it.
"And now they're after us, and we don't have a way out of here, so we need you to come and get us," I concluded. "Can Nancy drive?"
"Mike?" Dustin suddenly said when Mike wasn't responding.
"Dustin, you there?" I heard him say, but he was crackling.
"Mike? Mike, do you copy?" Dustin pleaded. I then checked the power on the walkie talkie. Crap, it's basically dead.
"Shit!" I cursed. "Not now. Please, not now. Mike! Mike!"
We then quickly rushed back down into the theatre and sat next to Erica. Dustin turned to her. "Do you have any batteries?"
"Specifically double-A?" I requested.
"Why would I have batteries?" Erica asked.
"I always carry batteries." Dustin defended.
"Then what's the problem?"
"I need eight." Dustin looked down at my walkie talkie.
"Eight?" Erica hissed.
"Shit." I murmured. "I guess we have to go with plan B."
"Plan B?" Erica frowned. "What's plan B?"
I then looked over to where dumb and dumber were sitting. Aw, man. They weren't sitting there anymore.
"Guys, we have a bit of an issue."
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"How much do you want to bet they're in the bathroom?" I asked as we exit the theatre.
Dustin rolled his eyes. "They're not going to be in the bathroom." The mall was still kind of busy.
"Guys, shut up." Erica snapped. "We can check scoops first. Then if not, we'll check all the others stores and then the bathrooms. Sound clear?"
"Ay, ay, captain." I murmur sarcastically and head towards scoop. They weren't there. There were different employers working there.
We check around all the store, they weren't here. "Okay, now we can check the bathrooms," Dustin grumbled and I smiled.
We checked the downstairs toilets first, there was no one here. We checked both, boys and girls.
We then went upstairs. They weren't in that one then we remembered they hey; the theatres have toilets and that's probably where they were/
We entered the girl's bathroom and there were Steve and Robin, giggling their asses off in a toilet. They had sat on the ground.
"Okay," I stated angrily. "What the hell?"
They both stared at us before they started laughing again.
The movie had finished because we can hear chatting and exiting the theatre room. We opened the door quietly, all five of our heads popping out.
"And... blend." Dustin speaks and we all filed into the crowd, walking beside each other and acting normal for once.
"Well, shit, that worked," Erica speaks, looking up at us.
"Course it worked." Dustin rolled his eyes. "We just have to get on the bus with the rest of these plebes, and home sweet home, here we come."
"Uh, Dustin?" Steve asked.
"What?" Dustin replied.
"Yeah, we might not wanna go to your house." Steve continued.
"Why?" I asked.
"Well, I might've told them your full name." Steve sheepishly said.
"What is wrong with you?" I hissed, my eyes widen.
"Dude, I was drugged." Steve defended.
"So?"
"So?"
"So you resit." Dustin groaned. "You tough it out. You tough it out like a man."
"Oh, yeah, it's easy for you to say." Steve mocked.
"Guys?" Robin suddenly asked. She stopped us and we saw some guards in black ahead. My eyes widen slightly.
"Abort," I whispered to them but one of them caught eyes with us. "Abort. Abort." We all then turned around and ran in the opposite direction.
"Shit." We all cursed out when we reached the escalator stairs. I muttered 'screw it' and slide down the middle part.
I reached the end and waiting for the others impatiently, and after we'd gone down we all rushed into hiding.
You can hear the heavy footsteps of the Russians around the bottom court of Starcourt mall. Everyone had left by now aside from us and the Russians.
We had hidden behind a counter in the Starcourt. I tried to hold my breath to stop my heavy breathing some being heard. It didn't work out so well.
A Russian man then speaks, I closed my eyes. I knew they had found us. I held onto Robin and Dustin's hands tightly for comfort.
The car alarm then blares throughout the mall, making all five of us jump in surprise. My heart rate speeding. I then heard something slamming and some yelling.
I sighed in relief knowing that it was El. I had a hunch it was El, okay? We all slowly peek behind the counter.
The car that was on display had completely destroyed the Russians and the chairs. I then looked up and saw that El was standing there with a bloody nose.
Behind them was Mike, Max, Lucas, Will, Nancy and Jonathan. Oh, my God, man was it good to see them.
A smile broke out onto my face when I saw my friends standing there. We all rushed out from the counter and the guys had come down to meet us halfway.
Dustin giggles. "You flung that thing like a Hot Wheel!"
I wrapped my arms around my sister first and she does the same thing to me, she lets out a sob.
"Oh, my God, Aspen," Max squeezed my tighter. "I thought you were dead or something."
"No," I laughed, hugging her back.
"Lucas?" Erica had asked.
"What are you doing here?" Lucas demanded to his little sister.
"Ask them. It's their fault." Erica shrugged.
"Aspen, you need a shower." Max pushed away from me and I grinned.
"I know." I agreed. "Will!" Will turned to me and wrapped his arms around me, however.
"True, yeah. Totally true." Steve agreed. "It's absolutely our fault." I pull away from Will, grinning like a mad man.
"I'm so glad you were safe," Will tells me quietly.
"You too, Byers." I then stand next to Will and Max. My hands intertwined with Will's, he seemed shocked, to be honest, so was I, but we kept our hands intertwined otherwise.
"I don't understand what just happened to that car," Robin speaks.
"El has superpowers," Dustin explained.
"I'm sorry?" Robin's eyes widen.
"Superpowers." I continued on. I point a finger to my head. "She threw it with her mind. C'mon, catch up."
"That's El?" Erica asked, pointing to El.
"Who's El?" Robin demanded.
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Nancy asked Robin.
"I'm Robin." Robin introduced. "I work with Steve."
"She cracked the top-secret code." I burst with pride.
"Yeah, which is how we found out about the Russians in the first place," Steve added on.
"Russians?" Jonathan asked. "Wait, what Russians?"
"The Russians!" Steve repeated louder and I rolled my eyes. That doesn't exactly explain what the Russians were doing.
"Those were Russians?" Max asked, astonished.
"Some of them," Erica added.
"What are you talking about?" Lucas asked his sister.
"Didn't you hear our code red?" Dustin asked.
"Yeah." Mike turned to us. "I couldn't understand what you two were saying."
"Goddamn low battery," I muttered.
"How many times do I have to tell you with the low battery?" Steve asked us and we smiled at him sheepishly.
"Well, everything worked out, didn't it Steve?" Dustin retorts back.
"Worked out?" Erica says in disbelief. "We almost died."
"Yeah, but we didn't, did we?" Dustin replies back smartly. God, I'm getting sick of these people. Not the others, just Dustin, Steve, Erica, and Robin. I've spent too much time with them.
"It was pretty damn close," Steve recalled.
"Okay, Russians?" Lucas demanded again. "As in, they're working for the Russian government?"
"What is it are you not comprehending?" I asked them. "Are we not speaking English? Oh, my God, do you think because we spent so much time with the Russians we started to automatically speak Russian?"
Will squeezed my hand. "No, you're speaking English, Aspen."
I sighed. "Aw, man. That would've so cool."
"We have a fall-blown Red Dawn situation." Dustin continued.
"So this has nothing to do with the gate?" Max asked.
"It has everything to do with the gate," I tell her, looking over at her. El had walked away from us and had fallen to the ground with a grunt.
"El! El!" Mike cried out and ran to her side.
"What's wrong with her?" We all rushed towards El who was in pain on the ground.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Mike repeated worriedly.
"My leg." El whimpered and squeezed her eyes shut. "My leg."
"Her leg, her leg okay." Jonathan then rolls up her pants. They rip off the bandage and I cringed at the sight of blood.
We all exclaim in disgust. Then, something moved inside of El's leg making her groan out. "El! El!" Mike calls for her. El continues to wail. "El! El! Are you okay?"
"Of course she's not!" I throw my hands in the air.
El then lets out a scream.
A/N
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