A/N: So sorry this took so long! I had a bit of writers block, and I've been trying to work on it slowly. I believe I started to write the next chapter, so hopefully that won't take so long
As the elevator continued to descend I held onto Steve's hand for dear life. Steve did his best to try to comfort me giving the situation we were in. I was panicking as if we didn't die when the elevator stopped, we would die from starvation or the Russians would kill us. When the elevator came to a sudden stop Steve fell and I fell on top of him.
"Sorry Steve." I got up quickly,
"Is everyone okay?" Robin asked
"Yeah, I'm great, now that I know that Russians can't design elevators!" Steve exclaimed as he went over to the controls for the elevator.
"I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work." Robin spoke
"They're buttons. They have to do something." Steve spoke as he kept pressing random buttons
"Yeah, if we had a keycard." Robin told him
"A what?" Steve asked
"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 stuck in here." I groaned as I definitely didn't picture myself being trapped in an elevator.
"Yeah." Robin looked to me
" Just so you nerds are aware, I'm supposed to be spending the night at Tina's, and Tina always covers for me. But if I'm not home for Uncle Jack's party tomorrow and my mom finds out you four are responsible, she's gonna hunt you down, one by one, and slit your throat." Erica told us as she did a slitting throat motion
"I don't care about Tina! Or Uncle Jack's party! Your mom's not gonna be able to find us if we're dead in a Russian elevator!" Steve exclaimed
"Hey." Dustin got our attention "What if we climbed out?" He asked as he pointed to the grate. Steve and Dustin climbed up it and when they came down, the look on their faces, I could tell that climbing wasn't an option.
Dustin and Erica made themselves comfortable on the floor to sleep. Steve, Robin and I stayed up and tried to come up with a way to escape.
"Maybe we can open the panel and do something with the wires." I shrugged as it could work.
"Do you know how to do anything electrical?" Robin asked.
"No." I shook my head, "Maybe we are gonna die down here." I put my head in my hands,
"Hey." Steve took one of my hands, "We are gonna get out of here." He reassured me,
"Thanks Stevie." I smiled at him,
"So, what else can we do to get out of here?" Robin asked as she got or attention. Steve was coming up with other ideas as I ended up falling asleep on his shoulder.
When I woke up I felt Steve's arm around my shoulder and his head resting on mine. I moved a little bit to try to get comfortable so I could go back to sleep as I really didn't want to stop cuddling with Steve.
"Ty, you up?" I heard Steve whisper,
"Yeah. Sorry if I woke you up." I whispered back,
"You didn't." He told me. I pulled away and started to stretch, "How are you feeling?" He asked,
"Just a little hopeful." I shrugged before I saw Dustin sit up,
"Did you guys come up with anything?" He asked us,
"Maybe using your walkie to contact someone." I shrugged. He looked down at his watch,
"The mall should be opening soon. I'll go up and try to reach someone." Dustin spoke.
I got up and started to stretch my legs and back better as sleeping while sitting was uncomfortable. I watched Steve get up out of the corner of my eye and stretch as well. Dustin climbed up and tried using his walkie. After a few minutes Steve went up to talk with him.
Robin and I were looking over the panel as we heard what sounded like water hitting the wall.
"Can you redirect your stream, please?" Robin called.
"Like I really don't get it." She looked over to me,
"Robin." I glared at her before we heard a loud clanging. We both turned to see Erica trying to open the container of green liquid.
"Hey, hey! Be careful, careful, careful! We don't even know what that is." Robin went over and took the container from her
"Exactly. It could be useful." Erica argued
"Useful how?" I asked
"We can survive down here a long time without food, but if the human body doesn't get water, it will die." Erica told the both of us. The more time I spent with this girl, the more I started to see how smart she was.
"I hate to break it to you, but this is not water" Robin stated
"No, but it's a liquid, and if it comes down to me drinking that shit or dying of thirst, I drink." Erica smiled, I turned as Robin went to go listen at the door and then went up to the opening to tell Steve and Dustin that we have company. Quickly Erica and I climbed through the grate before I closed it. We were all sitting quietly as Steve watched the two Russians. They were speaking to each other before carrying the boxes out. As they left Steve grabbed the bottle of green stuff and placed in under the door quickly. We all rushed down and shimmied our way under the door before the container started to crack and finally broke as soon as Steve came through.
"Still wanna drink that?" Robin asked
"Holy shit." I heard Dustin say and it made us all look to see the long tunnel before us.
"Well hopefully you guys are in shape." Steve stepped forward, "Looking at you roast beef." He said to Dustin, I fell in step next to Steve as we started walking down the tunnel.
"You think they built this whole mall so they could transport that green poison?" Steve asked
"I very seriously doubt it's something as boring as poison. It's gotta be much more valuable,
like promethium or something." Dustin spoke
"What the hell is promethium?" Steve asked
"It's what Victor Stone's dad used to make Cyborg's bionic and cybernetic components" Robin explained
"You're all so nerdy, it makes me physically ill." Erica held her stomach and pretended like she was going to throw up
"No, no, no. No, don't lump me in with them. I'm not a nerd, all right?" Steve told Erica, I looked over to him,
"Stevie, you and I both tried to play Dungeons and Dragons...that's kind of nerdy." I nudged him,
"That's one reason and we didn't even finish the damn game." He looked over to me
"Why so sensitive, Harrington? Afraid of losing cool points to a ten-year-old child?" Robin asked
"No, I'm just saying I don't know jack shit about Prometheus." Steve told her. I pinched my nose
"Promethium." DUstin corrected him
"Prometheus is a Greek mythological figure." I told Steve
"Whatever." He mumbled but I could tell he was a little bothered by it,
As we continued down we were discussing that the Russians could be harboring a nuclear weapon but Robin brought up the reason why Hawkins of all places. That sparked a thought that maybe they were here for another reason. I felt Steve tug on my hand, I looked over to him as he signaled me to stay back with him and Dustin,
"You think the Russians know?" I asked
"About-"
"They could." Dustin looked to Steve and I
"So it's connected?" Steve asked
"Maybe." Dustin looked to us
"How?" I asked as I gripped Steve's hand
"I don't know, but it's-" Dustin shrugged
"Possible." We all said in unison,
"This is very bad." I looked down at the floor as Steve squeezed my hand to reassure me
"I'm sorry, is there something you'd like to share with the class?" Robin asked us as she noticed we were no longer behind them. Before we could answer the walkie went off and it was picking up the Russian code. That meant we were close to where the comm room was and if we got there, then we could try to get a message to the outside.
When we came to the end of the hallway, we were sneaking behind boxes to avoid being seen. Erica had pointed out where the comnn room was and we made our way there to come face to face with one of the Russians. Robin tried her best to communicate with the guy but when he started to grab his gun, Steve screamed and rushed at him to try and tackle him. The Russian pushed Steve off of him, and pushed him again. Steve elbowed the Russian in the stomach and quickly grabbed one of the comm mics and hit the Russian in the face, causing him to hit his head on the table and knock out on the floor. I watched as Steve pushed his hair back,
"Dude! You won a fight." Dustin pointed to Steve, Steve looked over to Dustin and then to me as I was probably smiling like an idiot. He smiled back at me and we kinda stood there for a moment. My heart was racing and I knew it wasn't the time to be staring into Steve's eyes, Dustin and Erica arguing got our attention before Robin came down telling us that there was something up the stairs. We all followed to see that the blue light was brighter than before. Robin and Erica were at one window while, Steve, Dustin and I gathered at the other. I felt Steve's arm wrap around my waist as we were all staring in awe at the machinery before us. It looked to be this big laser being pointed at this huge crack in the wall….it looked like they were trying to open something. I turned my head slightly to whisper to Steve,
"Is that what I think it could be?"
"I think so." He nodded as he looked to me
"Fuck." I breathed as I went to make my way down the stairs, the others followed,
"Wait, you've seen this before?" Robin asked,
"Not exactly." Dustin spoke, "But this is very bad. Like end of the human race bad." Dustin told her,
"Steve, where's your Russian friend?" Erica asked as we all looked to where he once was. Soon after an alarm went off and that meant we had to move.
We ran as fast as we could through the facility and came to a dead end. Erica found a grate that we could escape through, Robin and Steve were holding the door as the Russians were trying to get in. I went to go help but Steve pushed me away,
"Go with Dustin and Erica." He told me,
"I'm not leaving you." I shook my head before Dustin tried to pull me towards the grate. I pulled myself out of his grasp and before Steve could even push me away, I kissed him. I knew this seemed like hardly the time but I knew if I didn't do it now, I would regret it. As I pulled away Dustin started to pull me towards the grate,
"You better stay alive, Harrington." I looked to him,
"I promise, Mayfield." He smiled at me before Dustin closed the grate behind us.
"We're gonna get help and save them." Dustin reassured me as we started crawling. I did my best to contain my tears, and we came to a stop so Dustin could stop the fans. I was quietly listening as Dustin was proving to Erica that she was in fact a nerd.
"Ty, everything is going to be alright." Dustin reassured me as he saw me crying,
"I really hope you're right." I looked to him as I wiped away the tears.
When we found another grate, we opened it and saw that we ended up where they were storing more of that green poison. Dustin got excited that one of those carts were parked here.
"Can you even drive?" Erica asked Dustin,
"Max did it once." Dustin commented,
"She also almost took out a mailbox." I looked to Dustin as he got disappointed, "You really thought they would leave the keys in there?" I asked him as he got out.
"How big did you say that Demogorgon was?" Erica asked
"Big. Nine feet or so. Why?" Dustin asked before he found the keys
"Erica?" Dustin asked before she scared him with some kind of taser thing
"What the hell is that?!" Dustin exclaimed
"A deadly weapon. Could be useful." Erica shrugged
"For what?" Dustin asked
"What do you think?" Erica looked to Dustin, "Taking down Commies, saving your friends." She answered, "Because if I have to hear her cry about her boyfriend, I might be sick." Erica pointed to me,
"He's not my boyfriend." I looked to the both of them. They both rolled their eyes
"Thought you were more realistic than that, nerd." Dustin looked to Erica as she walked away, 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 asked, "Easy with that." He said to Erica as she was still holding the taser, "Easy with that." He held up his hands, "Our chance of surviving, and theirs, rises substantially. Just trust me on this." Dustin spoke before he started to dive off. I was sitting in the back but while Dustin was driving. I looked to the poison before I had an idea,
"Wait, Dustin." I looked to him as he stopped,
"What?" He asked,
"I have an idea." I smiled as I went to grab those vials.
I had the idea of creating a diversion by breaking those bottles and pulling the alarm, in order to give us time to save Steve and Robin. Then we were off to carry out our plan and I hoped to god that it was going to work. I know this was risky but we did have a weapon so, there was a good chance we could save them.
Dustin screamed as he hit the doctor with the taser. The doctor quickly collapsed and I grabbed Steve as Dustin grabbed Robin so we could lead them to the cart. I ended up sitting in the back with Robin and Steve as I wanted to look over Steve's injuries. I was trying to do my best to look over them but he was being so handsy. Any other time I would enjoy it more but this wasn't the time.
"Steve, this isn't the time." I chastised as I moved his hands,
"But you're so beautiful like an angel." He looked up at me as he placed his hands on my waist, "Can I have another kiss? That last one was like fireworks." He tried to pull me close to him,
"Later, Stevie." I took his hands away before the cart came to a full stop. I fell on Steve and he hugged me,
"I love it when you call me Stevie." He spoke
"Like I'm so happy that you two are like finally together. I don't have to listen to you two talk about each other anymore." Robin exclaimed, I looked over to her before getting out of Steve's grip and dragging them both into the elevator.
While we were in the elevator, Robin and Steve were playing around with one of the moving boats. Steve ended up falling off on the ground and Dustin and I went to go look at him. I put my hand to his forehead to feel his temperature,
"He's burning up." I stated,
"You're burning up because your so hot." Steve flirted, I rolled my eyes as Dustin went to look at his pupils,
"His pupils are super dilated." Dustin spokke
"Maybe he's drugged" Erica stated
"Boop!" Steve went to go poke my nose
"Steve, are you drugged?" Dustin asked Steve
"How many times, Dad? I don't do drugs. It's only marijuana." He told Dustin, I bit my lip so I wouldn't laugh. Apparently the Russians took Steve's keys, so my car was the only option of escaping. When the elevator came to a stop we started to make a run for it out of the gate until two Russians with guns started coming towards us. Quickly Dustin, Erica and I took Steve and Robin through the mall's hallways to reach the movie theater. Dustin and I knew the path very well.
"Can I sit next to Ty?" Steve asked Dustin,
"No." He sat Robin and Steve down in the two front seats, I had noticed that Steve had a bag of popcorn. I shook my head as Erica and I sat in the other two seats in the front that was on the other side of the theater. Dustin had left to go try and contact the rest of the party. I really hope that they would come and we would get out of this situation.