𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥

012. The Gate.

     

     STEVE PEERS out from the hiding spot, looking both ways. "Okay, clear." He says before he led Valerie out of hiding, holding her hand as she waves the other three out of the hiding spot they had to tightly squeeze in together. "Clear, come on, let's go." She says.

"Okay, that was close." Robin says, following behind the other two with the kids. "Too close." Dustin agreed and Steve glanced back, letting go of Valerie suddenly. "Relax." He says and looked back ahead of himself. "Alright? Relax. Nobody saw..." He trailed off when he saw what was up ahead of them, Russians soldiers, scientists, technicians. "Shit!" Steve rushed to the side, hiding behind a red cart.

"Jesus!" Valerie leans against the wall, closing her eyes before looking at Steve. "Red Dawn." Dustin says. "I saw it." Erica whispers. "First floor, northwest." She added. "Saw what?" Valerie says, looking at her. "The comms room." She says and Valerie looks at Steve. "You saw the comms room?" The ninteen year old simply says, looking away. "Correct." Erica says.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive. The door was open for a second, and I saw a bunch of lights and machines and shit in there." She says. "That could be a hundred different things." Dustin says and Robin looks at Valerie and Steve. "I'll take those odds." She says making Valerie look at her.

All Steve does is sigh, looking away and then they all peer out to look for the room before they quickly hide again. "Alright. We're gonna move fast, we're gonna stay low. Okay?" Steve tells them and Valerie nods. "Okay." Robin says before Steve goes ahead of them, Valerie and Robin following after them along with the two younger ones behind them.

"Shh. Move it!" Steve says and then they hide again, Steve waits as a man leaves the comms room before he got up, "let's go!" He says and rushed over to the door before it could close and lead the others in. The four stand to the left of the door as they look at the man sitting at the seat in front of the controls.

He spins around in his seat, taking off his headphones before standing up. Robin steps forward, talking in Russian which makes the man stop in his tracks. She repeats the phrase to which the Russian responds back, they talk for a bit and then the Russian scoffs, reaching for his gun but Steve yells, running at him and attacking him making Val's eyes widen.

The two men fight now, pushing each other around the room until Steve grabs a mic from the table and hit the man with it as Valerie's jaw drops. The man gets knocked out because of the fact he hit his head on the other table, Steve panting as he pushed his hair back. "Dude! You did it!" Dustin points at him.

"You won a fight!" Valerie laughs, clapping her hands. Steve looks to the passed out man, smiling and chuckling softly before glancing at Dustin and Valerie. Dustin runs over to the man and started grabbing his keycard from his belt, "what are you doing?" Erica asked.

"Getting us our ticket out of here." He says and she points. "You want to walk all the way back?" She asked him and he walks over. "Well, we can hang out for a little bit, relax, have a picnic maybe." He says and she furrows her brows. "Have a picnic? We came here for the radio." She exclaimed at the taller teen.

"This plan is way better."

Valerie follows Robin up the steps, "what are you doing, Rob?" She whispers. "Checking it out... come on." Robin nods and Valerie continues with her up the stairs, by her side where they look into the window on the door.

Robin runs down the stairs, "guys." She caught their attention. "There's something up there." She pointed up the stairs. Robin opens the door for them and they all go inside, going over to the two doors with the long windows. "Holy shit." Dustin says when they saw what it was. A big machine being fueled by men in red suits, using those containers of green liquid as the machine fires at the wall, it was opening up a portal. A gate to the Upside Down.

Dustin and Steve look at each other, "the gate." They say in sync as Valerie looks at them. "I don't understand. You've seen this before?" Robin asked as they run down the staircase. "Not exactly." Steve says and Robin looks at him. "Then what, exactly?" She looks back down at the stairs. "All you need to know is it's bad." Valerie says, looking at the taller girl.

"It's really bad." Dustin says, nodding. "Like end-of-the-human-race-as-we-know-it kind of bad." The boy added afterwards. "And you know about this how?" Robin asked them. "Um, Steve? Where's your Russian friend?" Erica says and they all look over, sure enough the passed out man was gone and the alarms start blaring as red lights began flashing.

"Shit." Steve runs over to the door, opening it and spotting the man he had fought with. He slams the door, "shit. Go, go, go, go, go!" He shouts and they all ran up the stairs. They enter the room with the scientists powering the machine, causing them all to turn and look at them. "Go! Shit! Shit, shit, shit!" Steve says and they run off to the side, running down the stairs leading towards the machine.

Dustin screams and pushes a guy in a red suit out of the way before reaching the end of the aisle, near where the machine was shooting out the energy at the wall. Dustin was panicking and Valerie had a tight grip on Steve's arm, standing close to him. "Guards!" Erica shouts. "This way!" Steve says and ran down the stairs on the side. Steve pushes a guy out of the way and then barrels at two Russian guards.

They run into a room where Steve blocked the door and Valerie tried her best to help him. "Here! Come on, let's go!" Erica shouts and Valerie looks at Robin helping them keep the door closed. "Go..." She says and Robin looks at her. "I-I want to he--" "Robin, just go! You have to go with them." She tells her.

"Come on!" Dustin says and Steve looks over. "No! Just go get some help, okay?" He says and Valerie looks at Robin. "You go too!" She says and Robin begin running over to the vent, following after Dustin as she stared at Valerie who stared back at her.

Once they left and the vent closed, just then the Russians got the door open, throwing Valerie and Steve to the floor. They run in, raising their guns at them as Valerie raised her hands and tapped Steve gently to do the same.

  

  

  

 

  

  

   

  

  

  

AUTHORS NOTE

my laptop makes a weird noise (when it's loud) whenever i watch netflix or youtube videos and idk how to fix it lmao
+ i won't be updating for a while, at least until monday because i'll be leaving on a trip with my friends :) so i'll be taking some time off to relax and have fun on the trip lol