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"They're not gonna get anyone in range all the way down here." Tate sighed as he heard Dustin and Steve talking above the small room they were in.

"They might." Scout argued as he gave her an annoyed look.

"But they won't." he shot back as she waved him off. The sound of peeing was heard as the duo turned and saw pee dripping down the side of the wall.

"Can you redirect your stream please?" Robin called out as Scout sighed and sat down on one of the boxes as Erica began to bang the green gew on the metal pipes.

"My god." Tate groaned as he sat down next to Scout with a loud sigh as well.

"Carful, carful, carful. We don't even know what that is." Robin said as she ran over and grabbed Ericas arms.

"Exactly, it could be useful." Erica said while putting a hand on her hip.

"Or it could not be and we all explode." Scout shot back at her as Erica simply rolled her eyes.

"Useful how?" Robin cut in with a odd look.

"We can survive down here a long time without food, but if the human body doesn't get water, it will die." Erica pointed as as Tate leaned back some, bumping Scouts shoulder but couldn't bring himself to care.

"Sounds better then this." he mumbled as Scout punched his arm.

"I hate to break it to you, but this is not water." Robin said with an insane look.

"No, but it's a liquid, and if it comes down to me drinking that shit or dying of thirst. I drink." Erica said with a sarcastic smile.

"I didn't realize the sibling similarity until now." Scout mumbled as she grinned slightly, missing Lucas.

"Robin, what is it?" Scout asked as she watched the older teen lean her ear against the wall.

"We've got company." she said while climbing up the latter toward the boys. The remaining three were quick to climb up as well, hiding on top of the room as the Russians took boxes from the room they were in only moments before.

After they left, the door began to close again as Steve jumped down, using the container with the gew in it to stop the door from closing all the way.

"Tate, come on." Scout said after she got to the other side, pulling him quickly as Robin, Erica, and Dustin did the same. Steve was the last to crawl through just as the glass shattered, the green gew smoking and fizzing everywhere.

"Glad you didn't drink it now?" Tate asked as he looked back at Erica, who was looking at it with horror in her eyes.

"No shit." Scout mumbled.

"Both of you shut up!" Erica yelled at the two, making the teens shut their mouths.

"Holy mother of god." Dustin said as he looked down the long hallway before them.

"Well, hope you guys are in good shape." Steve said while continuing to try and catch his breath.

"Let's go, come on." the older boy said as Robin lead Scout infront of her while they began to walk down the hallway.

"I mean you have to admit, as a feet of engineering alone, this is impressive." Dustin said as he looked around.

"Maybe for a geek." Tate mumbled as Scout slapped him with an annoyed look.

"A geek that hasn't screwed up his future." Scout shot at him, standing up for her cousin quickly.

"It's a total fire hazard. There's no stairs, there's no exit, there's just an elevator that drops you half way to hell." Steve said as Scout hummed as she fixed her yellow tank strap.

"We were in hell before getting into the elevator, king Harrington." Scout said as she walked by his side.

"You don't pay people, they cut corners." Erica added in as Tate nodded alongside her.

"To be fair, to our Russian comrades I don't think this tunnel was designed for walking." Robin shook her head as Scout nodded in agreement.

"Far from a marriage ceremony either, guess we'll have to push our date back, Robin." Scout said to her with a teasing look, only getting a shake of a head and a half smile back.

"Can we not start with Scouts flirting again? I had enough of her telling Steve how beautiful he was." Tate said as Scout shrugged.

"Well he is." she said as Steve sent her a half smile.

"I mean think about it, they developed the perfect system for transportation that cargo." Robin added in, cutting the convention short.

"It all comes into the mall like any old delivery."

"And then they load up onto those trucks and nobody's the wiser."

"You think they built this whole mall?"

"Makes since if they did."

"Just to transport that green poison?"

"I very seriously doubt it's something as boring as poison."

"Right, it's gotta be much more valuable."

"Like promethium or something."

"What the hell is promethium?"

"It's what Victor Stone's dad used to make Cyborg's bionic and cybernetic components."

"You're all so nerdy, it makes me physically ill."

"Agreed."

"You don't know shit, Tate."

"I know you're a complete geek."

"I know you're a complete air head."

"No,no,No, don't wrap me in with them. I'm not a nerd, all right?"

"Why so sensitive, Harrington?"

"Yeah, why so sensitive Harrington?"

"Afraid of losing cool points to a ten year old child?"

"No, i'm just saying I don't know jack shit about prometheus."

"Promethium, you mean. Prometheus is a Greek Mythological figure, but whatever. All i'm saying is, it's probably being used to make something."

"Or power something."

"Like a nuclear weapon?"

"Totally."

"Walking toward a nuclear weapon, that's great."

"The greatest."

"If they're building something, why here. I mean, Hawkins. Seriously, of all places."

"Maybe for its fabulous school system."

"At the very best we're a toilet stop on the way to Disneyland, but maybe that's it, maybe it's our very-" Robin began to speak on before realizing Steve and Dustin weren't following.

"Hello, Beautiful Harrington and Cousin... have something you'd like to share with the class?" Scout called out to the two as the remaining four all turned to look back at them. The sound of static Russians speaking suddenly filled the hallway as they all shared a wide eyed look before rushing to pull to walkie out of Ericas backpack.

"What are they saying?" Tate asked as Robin held it close to her ear but within range of the others.

"It's the code." Robin spoke softy as she listened.

"Wherever that broadcast is coming from-" Dustin began before being cut short.

"It's close. And if there's one thing and we know about that signal-" Robin said as Scout jumped in.

"It could reach a surface." she nodded her head.

"Let's go." Tate grinned as he pulled Scout up as the others did the same.

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i'm sorry it's been a while since the update.