Stare.

🔆Chapter Six: El Pluribus Unum

"The gate." Steve and Dustin both said. We made our way back down the stair case. "I don't understand. You've seen this before?" Erica asked. "Not exactly." Steve stated. "Then what, exactly?" "All you need to know is it's bad." Dustin said. "It's really bad." "Like, end-of-the-human-race-as-we-know-it kind of bad." Dustin explained. 

We made our way back into the comms room. "And you know about this how?" I looked around the room to see no sign of the man that Steve had knocked out. 

"Um, Steve? Where's your Russian friend?" I asked. Everyone else looked down to where he was supposed to be. Suddenly an alarm started blaring. Steve ran to the door and opened it looking out. He shut the door aggressively and said, "Shit. Go, go, go,go!" We all ran back up the stairs and into the room with the gate. 

All the Russian scientists looked at us. "Shit, go, go!" Dustin yelled. I ran after Dustin, who was in front of me. We ran closer to the machine and where the gate was. 

"Holy shit! Holy shit!' We were now right in front of the lazer the machine was producing into the gate. "Guards! Go!" Erica yelled. "This way!" Steve said as we followed after him. 

He pushed a guy in a red suit out of the way as we ran down a small flight of stairs. More guards came running out of another entrance. Steve quickly pushed two barrels at them and began running again. I ran over to another door and quickly opened it. Steve ran in last and shut the door, pushing it shut against all the guards outside. 

I turned around to see Steve struggling to keep the door shut, so I ran over to him to help. "Help me, come on!" Steve yelled. I pushed the door, trying to keep it shut. "Here! Come on, let's go!" Erica yelled as she was opening a vent that led down into the ground. "Come on!" Dustin yelled over to us. 

"Go! Just get out of here!" Steve yelled to him. "Go, come on, now!" Dustin yelled.  "No! Just go get some help, okay?" I yelled to him. "What are you doing?!" Steve yelled as he saw that Dustin was standing in the vent looking at us. "Go!" We both yelled. "I won't forget you!" Dustin yelled to us. "Go!" We said as the door busted open. Steve and I both fell to the ground as multiple Russian guards entered the room pointing their guns at us. We both put our hands up in defeat. 

I was now sitting in a small empty room without Steve waiting for what felt like hours. Finally, two soldiers had unlocked the door, walked in and grabbed me taking me through another hallway and into another room before being thrown onto the hard ground. 

Steve was lying on the ground unconscious. "Hey..." I said, trying to make my way to Steve with my hands taped together. "Steve?" I said, looking over at him. "Steve? Steve?" 

Another man came into the room. I looked up at him and said, "What did you do to him? What did you do?" He walked over to me and slapped me across the face, sending me falling backwards. He gave orders to the guards in the room in Russian. The guards walked over to us and grabbed me by the arm and pulled me up. "Don't touch me!" I yelled. 

They grabbed two chairs, putting them together with the backs touching. "Steve-" I yelled again as they put us both on the chairs. "Steve, wake up. Steve?" They then tied us down to both of the chairs using belts. "What did you do?" I shouted. I looked behind me to see the man lift Steve's head up. "Don't touch him." He shook his head before letting go of Steve. "Steve? Steve, can you hear me?" 

"I think your friend needs a doctor." The man said, walking over to me. "Good thing..." The man stopped in front of me and leaned down right in my face. "we have the very best." He looked behind him at the other guards, laughing. He turned back to me. I leaned forward in the chair and spat in his face. He stopped to whip his face and say, "You are going to regret that." He said something in Russian before leaving with the other guards. "Bastards." I yelled at them. "Let us outta here!" I shouted. "Bastards! Let us out! Let us out!"