We all continued screaming as the room continued falling. "We're going down! We're going down!" Steve shouted through screams. "Yeah, no shit Harrington!" i shouted back.

"Why don't these buttons work!" Dustin shouted as he pressed all the buttons. Suddenly, the room stopped falling causing us all to loose our balance.

"My groin. My groin. It fell on my groin" Steve mumbled as the box fell on him. I crawled towards him as i pushed the box off of him. "You alright?" he asked holding his groin. "Ask me tomorrow" i said.

"Is everyone okay?" Robin asked. "Yeah i'm great now that i know that Russians can't design elevators!" Steve shouted angrily as he began pressing all of the buttons. "I think we've already established that those buttons don't work!" i exclaimed.

"They're buttons. They have to do something" he said. "Not without a key card" Robin said. "What?" he questioned.

"It's an electronic lock. Same as the loading dock door. If we don't have a keycard, it won't operate meaning-" "We're suck here!" Dustin exclaimed finishing Robins sentence. "That's great. That's really great" i said as i began pacing up and down the small room.

"Just so you nerds are aware, i'm supposed to be spending the night at Tinas, and Tina always covers for me. But if i'm not home for Uncle Jacks party tomorrow, and my mom finds out you four are responsible, she will hunt you down and slit your throats" Erica snapped.

"I don't care about Tina! Or Uncle Jacks party! Your mom won't be able to find us, if we're dead in a Russian elevator!" Steve shouted. "Hey, what if we climbed out" Dustin said pointing to the small opening on the roof.

Steve pushed me through the opening as i helped him up. "Well shit" he mumbled. "Can we climb out?" Dustin shouted from inside the room. "Unless you can climb up a 30 foot rope then, no, i don't think so " i said.

I sat down on the roof and put my head in between my knees. "We're going to die down here" i mumbled. "Yeah... Probably" he said looking up.

"We have to get back. I need to tell my dad what's happening. He can fix this. We have to make a plan" i said standing up. "Okay... How do we do that?" he asked.

"I'll figure it out... I have to figure it out."

For the next few hours, Steve and i stayed up trying to figure out how we can get out of this mess. Without realising, i must have fallen asleep.

I woke up to Steve and Dustin taking. "Jesus, what time is it?" i asked. "Haven't a clue. But you haven't been out that long. Just a few hours... I think" Steve said.

"Has anything changed?" i questioned. "Nope, still no idea what we're going to do" Dustin said standing up. He picked up the walkie talkie and began trying to get in contact with the others.

Steve slid himself over to me and gave me a weak smile. "This is probably the worst case scenario, huh?" Steve said with a laugh. I gave a small laugh back. "Yeah... Pretty much. But wait!" i said looking through my pockets.

"Look what i have" i said showing Steve the flower book mark he had made. "Oh well, now we're all saved" he said sarcastically. "I feel like this may be bad timing, but all i can think about is Chinese food" i said.

"Well then, the first thing we'll do when we get out of here is get Chinese food. Just not imperial panda" he said as i laughed. "Definitely not" i said. His staring lingered as my smile slowly faded.

"If we get out of here, i promise we'll do a lot more than just going out for Chinese food" he said. "What?" i questioned. Steve opened his mouth to speak but we were interrupted by Dustin running over.

"We've got company" he said. Steve and i helped the others onto the roof as we heard the doors open. Two men walked inside and began speaking Russian.

Once they left, we all hurriedly went down through the opening on the roof and put one of the glass tubes in-between the closing door. We began sliding under the door, one by one.

"Let's go! Come on!" Steve whispered. Once we all made it through, the tube broke causing all the green liquid to burn through the floor.

"And to think, i was contemplating drinking that" i mumbled. "Holy mother of god" Dustin said. We all turned around to see a hallway which continued on for miles and miles. "Well, i hope you guys are in good shape. I'm looking at you roast beef" Steve said patting Dustin on the shoulder.

"Why me?" Dustin questioned as i shrugged my shoulders. We walked for what felt like hours. "I mean, you have to admit, as a feat of engineering, this is pretty impressive" i said.

"What are you talking about? It's a total fire hazard. There's no stairs, there's no exit, there's just an elevator that drops you halfway to hell" Steve said. "They're commies. You don't pay people, they cut corners!" Erica exclaimed.

"To be fair to our Russian comrades, i don't think this tunnel was designed for walking. I mean, think about it, they developed the perfect system for transporting that cargo" Robin said.

"It all comes to the mall like any old delivery. And then they load it up onto trucks and nobody's the wiser." "You think they built this whole mall so they could transport that green poison?" Steve asked.

"I very seriously doubt it's as boring as poison. It's gotta be much more valuable, like promethium or something" i said. "God, you're all so nerdy it makes me physically ill" Erica said as she rolled her eyes.

"No, no, no, don't lump me in with them. Im not a nerd, all right?" Steve exclaimed. "Excuse me? How am i a nerd?" i snapped. "You read books and shit. That's like... Nerd 101" he said. "Why are you so sensitive Harrington? Scared you'll loose cool points to a 10 year old?" Robin teased.

"No... I'm just saying i don't know jack shit about permetheus" Steve said. "Permethium!" i exclaimed. "Jesus! Alright! Per... Meth... Whatever!"

"Look, what i was trying to say was, i'd say they are using this green liquid to power something" i said. "Like a nuclear weapon" Dustin said. "Totally."

"Walking towards a nuclear weapon. That's great" Steve said sarcastically. "But if they are building something, why here? Why Hawkins? I mean, we're a bathroom break to Disney land, if we're lucky!" Robin exclaimed.

Steve, Dustin and i stopped walking as Robin and Erica continued on. "You think the Russians know?" Dustin asked. "About the..." Steve said. "They could." "So it's connected?" i questioned. "Maybe" Dustin said. "But how?" Steve questioned.

"I don't know but it's possible." "I'm sorry, is there something you three would like to share with the class?" Robin questioned as she saw us whispering. We all stayed quiet.

Suddenly, we heard the walkie talkie begin to make noise. It was the Russians saying the Russian code once again. "Its the code" Robin said.

"Wherever that broadcast is coming from-" "Its close. And if there's one thing we know about that signal-" "It can reach the surface" Dustin said. "Let's go" Robin said as we all continued walking down the hall.

After walking and walking and walking, we finally reached the end of the hall. We all ducked behind the wall and peeked around the corner.

There was 100s of people walking and driving around. "I saw it. The comms room. First floor north west" Erica whispered. "You saw the comms room!" i exclaimed. "Correct!"

"Are you sure?" Dustin asked. "Positive. The door was opened for a second, and i saw a bunch of lights and machines and shit in there" she said. "That could be a hundred different things" Dustin said in annoyance.

"I'm willing to take those odds" i said to Steve as he gave me a glare and sighed. "All right. We're gonna move fast and we're gonna stay low" he whispered. We all nodded and followed him.

We crept towards the room where Erica said she saw all the lights and shit. We saw a man dressed like a scientist leave the room. Before it shut, we all ran up and crept inside. "See now, that wasn't that bad" i said.

We all turned around to see a Russian guard with a confused look on his face. We all froze. The man began reaching for his gun. "действовать осторожно" i said. This meant "Tread lightly" in Russian.

The man said something in Russian which i did not understand. "серебряный кот" i said. This meant "Silver cat" in Russian. I thought if i kept saying things from the code, he mightn't kill us.

The man gave me a strange look as i kept repeating the words from the code. I looked at Steve who looked more baffled than ever. I was out of words to say. The man scoffed and began reaching for his gun.

Suddenly, Steve screamed as he launched himself at the Russian guard. Steve tackled him onto the control panel. The guard slowly got up and threw a punch but Steve ducked quickly. The guard pushed him back as Steve fell onto the control panel.

As the guard began to try and pick Steve back up, he elbowed him into the stomach. Steve grabbed the phone from the counter and smacked it off the guards head. The guard fell back and hit his head off the floor as he laid there unconscious. We all stood still in shock.

"Dude! You did it! You won a fight!" Dustin exclaimed.

Steve laughed softly as i gave him a thumbs up. Robin ran over and grabbed the key card from the guards belt. "What are you doing?" Erica questioned.

"Getting our ticket out of here" Robin replied. "You want to walk all the way back?!" Erica exclaimed. "I mean, we could hang out for a bit, relax, have a picnic maybe" i said sarcastically.

"Have a picnic? We came here for the radio!" Erica snapped. "This plan is way better. If i knew Steve could knock out a Russian guard, that would've been our plan in the first place" i said.

"Guys... There's something up there" Robin said pointing at the bright light above the staircase. We all ran up the stairs and froze as we saw what was through the glass window.

I felt my breathing get quicker and quicker. The Russians were trying to get through the gate. They had built this massive machine to try and break through. I backed away from the door as Steve and Dustin gave me a terrified look.

"We need to get back. We have to warn El. And Will. And everyone" i mumbled. "What? You know what this thing is?" Robin questioned. "We have to go! Now!" i shouted as they all followed me back down the stairs.

We were all about to leave until we saw that the Russian guard who was passed out on the floor was now gone. The alarm began to echo through the entire base. We peeped out the window to see all the guards pointing at us.

"Halt! Halt!" they shouted as they began running towards us. "Shit. Go, go, go, go!" Steve shouted. We ran back up the stairs and through the door leading to the gate. We pushed passed all the confused scientists and tried to find a place to hide.

We were stopped as we were right next to the opening of the gate. "Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!" Dustin screamed as he gasped for air.

The guards eventually caught up to us as we finally found a room to hide in. We ran inside the small room as Steve tried to hold the door from the guards who were trying to push through. "Robin! Joy! Help me!" Steve shouted as he was struggling to keep the guards out.

"Here! Come on let's go!" Erica shouted as she found a small vent leading out of the room. "Guys come on!" Dustin shouted. "Just go!" Steve shouted.

"No! Come on we have to leave?!" Dustin exclaimed. "Just go and get help! Call my dad!" i shouted. "I'll never forget you" Dustin shouted as he reluctantly left without us.

We tried to hold the guards back for as long as we could, but eventually, they got through. Around twenty guards surrounded us with guns as we put our hands up in surrender.

This won't end well.