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Chapter Eighteen | Freedom

Chapter Eighteen | Freedom

Finally, we found a different room. Dustin pops his head up and Erica and I also sequeeze in the air ducts hole. We were in a room full of big tubes with that chemical stuff inside them.

"Jackpot." Dustin states.

We climbed out of the air ducts hole and placed the lid back on. "God, it feels good to stretch!" I then stretched, my bones aching.

Dustin then looked over and walked down the stairs, Erica and I followed him. There was a small red vehicle. "Do you even know how to drive?" Erica asked.

Dustin smirked over at me. "I don't, but Aspen does." I slide into the driver's seat, ready to turn on the car. Erica stands outside the car and Dustin slides in beside me.

"Aw, come on." There was no key.

"You seriously thought that they'd just leave keys in here?" Erica sassed.

"There's gotta be spare." I concluded. I started to feel around the car and Erica had left the car's side now. There was no spare key.

"Hey, Dustin?" Erica suddenly asked.

"Yeah?" Dustin jumped out of the vehicle and so did I.

"How big did you guys say that Demogorgon was?"

"Big." I answered and watched Dustin search for the keys. I'm very helpful, I know. "Nine feet or so. Why?"

Erica didn't say anything after that. I watched Dustin walked over to a panel that needed a key to open. He instead used a mini screwdriver that he had.

He then opened it and turned to me, holding the keys. He chucked them to me and I caught it smoothly.

"Found 'em." Dustin looked over to where Erica used to be standing. She wasn't there anymore. Our faces dropped.

"Erica?" I slowly said, suddenly nervous. I can't believe we lost a child.

There was then a loud zapping, scaring both of us and we clutched onto one another. There was Erica with a deadly weapon.

"What the hell is that!?" Dustin exclaimed and I pushed myself off him.

"A deadly weapon." Erica smiled. She then shrugged. "Could be useful."

She then zapped it again and I jumped. "For what?"

"What do you think?" Erica retorts back. "Taking out Commies, saving your friends."

"Thought you were realistic than that, nerd." I teased her. She rolled her eyes and walked off. "We don't even know where they are, and even if we did, there are a million guards up there with weapons way deadlier than that."

"The best thing we can do for them is to get out of here and find help." Dustin added.

Dustin had climbed into the seat besides the drivers. There was only two seats. I slide in next to Dustin.

"I am not sitting on Dustin's lap." Erica complained.

I looked down at the keyhole and insert the key in and turned it on. "It's either that sweetheart or walking." I smiled at her and sighed before climbing on Dustin lab.

"Our chance of surviving, and theirs, rises substantially," I tell them. "Just us on this. Please?"

Erica didn't say anything and I begin to drive the small vehicle down the hallways.

After awhile we'd finally found the room that held Steve and Robin. Dustin grabbed the zapper of off Erica and I held her by myside. The alarm was blaring ubove us again it was starting to get on my nerves.