"The week is long. The silver car feeds when blue meets yellow in the west." The four of them recited the final translation, Christines lip curling up in confusion as she looked at the other three.

"That makes no sense. Alright, let's close up." Steve said, ushering the three out of the store. They waited outside while he closed the gate, Steve speaking as he pulled it down.

"I mean it just-it just can't be right." Steve said, locking the gate and standing io as the other three started to walk. Christine waited for him, Steve catching up to her as Robin spoke.

"It's right."

"Honestly I think it's great news." Dustin said, earning a shake of the head from Steve and Christine.

"What's great about a secret message we can't decipher?" Christine said, making Dustin look back at her.

"So much for being American heroes, it's total nonsense." Steve chimed in, slipping the keys into his pocket and pushing his hat into Christines stomach. She grabbed it, the girl putting it on her head with a small smirk.

"It's not nonsense."

"He means it's nonsense to us Dustin." Christine saved Steve's thoughts, trying to make Dustin understand.

"No I mean it's nonsense, the words don't correlate at all-" Steve said, Christine cutting him off as she realized they were not on the same page.

"It's a secret message Steve. It's got a hidden meaning." She said, nodding her head at him as Dustin spoke.

"Precisely. It's obviously a code." Dustin said, looking back at the two of them as they walked behind him and Robin.

"What do you mean a code?" Steve asked in confusion.

"Like a super secret spy code." Dustin said, trying to get him on the same page.

"That's a total stretch." Steve said, shaking his head at the younger boy who was giving him a pointed look.

"I don't know, is it?" Robin said, putting in her thoughts and making Steve scoff.

"You're buying into this?"

"Listen, just for kicks, let's entertain the possibility that it is a secret Russian transmission. What'd you think they were gonna say, 'Fire the warhead at noon'?" Robin said, making Christine nod.

"Exactly." Dustin agreed, the girl speaking again.

"And my translation is correct. I know that for sure so...'the silver cat feeds.'. Why would anyone talk like that unless they were trying to mask the true meaning of their message?"

"Hence, super secret spy code." Christine added, the girl matching her stride with Robin.

"And why would anyone want to mask the true meaning of their message unless the message was somehow sensitive?" Robins point was completely valid, Steve seeming to halfway believe it as something else caught his attention.

"I guess that confirms your suspicions." Robin said, looking down at Dustin with a dumbfounded look.

"Evil Russians."

"Damn." Christine added, feeling a pit drop deep in her stomach.

"I can't believe I'm about to agree with this strange child but, yeah, totally evil Russians."

"So how do we crack it?" Dustin asked, looking between the two girls who were walking beside him.

"Well I guess we translate the test and hopefully a pattern emerges." Robin proposed, the other two nodding. Christine crossed her arms over her chest, her eyebrows furrowing as a question formed in her head.

"How far does your Cerebro actually reach though Dustin? Could it hear all the way from Russia?" She asked curiously.

"I don't know, probably. What if Silver Cat is a meeting place?" Dustin brushed off her question, Robing speaking soon after.

"Or a person?"

"Or a weapon." Dustin said, Christine suddenly noticing that one person was not with them anymore.

"Where's Steve?" She asked, all of them turning around to see Steve fiddling with coins in his pocket, standing by the horse ride. Christine started back towards him, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she wondered what he was doing.

"You gonna ride?" She asked, Robin asking him what he was doing.

"Do you have...I need a quarter." Steve said, looking at Robin with an aggressive look.

"Sure you're tall enough for that ride?" She taunted, Steve shaking his head and holding his hand out.

"Quarter!" Steve caught the quarter as Robin threw it, dropping it into the slot and crouching beside the horse. It started soon after, Christines eyes widening as she heard the tune.

"You need help getting up little Stevie?"

"Sh!" Dustin started to laugh but Christine held her hand up to him catching up on what he was getting at. "Would you two just shut up and listen?"

The music played, Christine and Steve sharing a look as they heard the familiar tune that was on the recording. Christine felt the pit drop even deeper, realizing it was on the recording, which meant that maybe the transmission had come from a little bit closer to home than she expected.

"Holy shit. The music. The music!" Dustin said, pulling the recorder out of his backpack. He played it, the music matching up between the recording and the actual horse, Christine looking at Steve confused and also a little bit proud.

"I don't understand."

"It's the exact same song on the recording." Dustin explained to Robin, the entire group piecing together the meaning of this discovery.

"Maybe they have horses like this in Russia."

"'Indiana Flyer? I don't-I don't think so. This code it didn't come from Russia." Steve said , shaking his head as he looked at the three of them.

"It came from here. It came from the mall." Christine said, furrowing her eyebrows as they all looked at the horse.

"Well what does that mean?" Robin asked, looking back at Christine who was now pulling Steve up by the sleeve. She was rather freaked out now, feeling uneasy that there was secret Russian code being transmitted form Hawkins, a strange enough place as it was.

"It means we should probably get out of here." Dustin said, shaking his head at the other three. They all nodded in agreement, equally freaked out about their new discovery. Dustins little genius mind was reeling, trying to figure out what it could possibly mean, Robin also trying to decipher the code in her head. Christine bumped Steves shoulder as they walked out, the boy looking down at her with wide eyes and a questioning look.

"What?"

"Good going. You were right about the song." She said, giving him a half smile. He walked her to her car when they all went their separate ways, Robin and Dustin waiting by Steve's car for a ride and Christine giving them a wave. Steve felt kind of nervous parting from her now, knowing there were potentially some evil Russians running amok in the town.

"What are you going to do now?" Steve asked as she opened her car door, the girl leaning on the window as she shrugged.

"Probably go home. Just...try and think about what that code means."

"Right well-"

"Steve! Hurry up! Kiss your girlfriend goodbye and take us home!" Robin yelled from his locked car, Steve groaning as he looked back at her. He cringed, scratching the back of his neck awkwardly and then watching as she laughed the tiniest bit.

"Just be careful. We don't know what this means you know?" Christine broke into a full grin at that, her eyebrows twitching together as she reached up and pinched his cheek.

"Aw you're so worried about me. It's adorable. I'll be fine. Have fun with that crew." Steve's face turned red as she accused him of something he was guilty of, the girl getting into her car and rolling the window down. "See you tomorrow."

"Okay see y-bye." Steve said, patting the top of car before she drove off. He cursed himself as he turned around, his hands on his hips as he gave Dustins and Robin a ridiculous glare. He shuffled over to his car, a seriously irritated look on his face as Dustin looked at him innocently.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't say anything." Dustin defended, getting into the back seat. Steve shook his head as he started the car, his eyes meeting Dustins in the mirror.

"You didn't stop her. Listen Robin, me and Christine have never been nor will we ever be a thing. Okay?" Steve lied right through his teeth, knowing damn well that they had been a thing . The only thing he wasn't too sure about was if they would ever be a thing.

"Really? I don't know. You already act like her boyfriend." Robin sounded unconvinced, Dustin chuckling in the backseat and earning a glare from Steve again.

"I don't act like her boyfriend." He scoffed, not fully convinced himself as he thought of some of the boyfriend like things that he did for Christine. Robin looked at him with a smirk, completely unconvinced as Dustin chose to have no comment from the back seat.

"Alright whatever you say."