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The kids arrived at the junkyard. They panted as they mounted of their bikes and dropped the vehicles to the ground. ""Holy... holy shit. Did... did you see what she did to that van." Dustin stammered out. "No Dustin, we missed it" Mike said sarcastically.

"I mean that was..." Dustin trailed off as he tried to catch his breath. "Awesome. It was awesome" Lucas panted as he hugged Vee. The girl gladly hugged back as she smiled.

Lucas then walked towards El who sat on the ground. He kneeled down in front of her. "Everything I said about you being a traitor and stuff... I was wrong. I'm sorry" Lucas apologized and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Friends... friends don't lie. I'm sorry too" she muttered with a sad look.

"Me too" Mike spoke out. He stuck his hand out and Lucas stood up. He hesitated before gladly shaking his hand. They stood in silence before a cry broke out.

They looked towards Vee who was on the verge of tears. She suddenly tackled El to ground with a big hug. "Эль мне очень жаль! Я не должен был на тебя кричать! Я был так зол. если бы я знал, что ворота находятся в лаборатории, я бы защищал тебя. пожалуйста, прости меня!" Vee cried in Russian as she apologized to El. (El I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have yelled at you! I was just so angry. if I had known the gate was in the lab I would've defended you. please forgive me!)

Even though El didn't understand a thing the redhead had said, she understood her motives. She rubbed her back as she hugged Vee. "It's ok, I am sorry for lying" El muttered.

Tee smiled at his sister and Eleven before joining in the hug. "Я тебя тоже прощаю Ванда" Tee said, referring to the moment they had in the woods. (I forgive you too Wanda)

Soon enough, the other three boys had joined the hug. They all embraced each other as Vee's cries joined with the wind.

"This is Randolph Road, right here. The fence starts here, and goes all the way around." The kids all sat in a circle as Lucas and Vee explained the outline of the lab. Well, it was Lucas who was explaining. Vee decided to keep quiet. She felt like if she spoke anymore English, all the broken English would confuse them.

"And this is the lab right here. The gate's gotta be in there somewhere. It's gotta be." Lucas placed a rusty can he had found in the middle of the sticks. "Well, who owns Hawkins Lab?" Dustin asked. "The sign says 'Department of Energy' " Lucas informed.

"Department of Energy? What do you think that means?" Dustin questioned. "It means government. Military." Mike told him. "Then why does it say 'Energy' " if Dustin asked one more question, Vee would certainly punch him in the face.

"Just trust me, all right? It's military, my dad's told me before." Mike explained. "Mikes right. There soldiers out front. Right Vee?" The girl simply nodded.

"Do they make, like lightbulbs or something." And with that, Vee punched in the shoulder, hard. She found it a bit rude and unnecessary if she had punched his face.

"Ow! What was that for." Dustin held his shoulder as he looked at Vee "too many questions" she said sternly.

"They make weapons... to fight the... commies and uh- stuff" Mike stammered and choked on his words as he stared at the twins. "Weapons" Lucas whispered. Their eyes flickered towards El, Tee and Vee. "Oh Jesus, this is bad."

"Really bad. That place is like a fortress." Lucas said. A slight motor sound could be heard but none of them but Tee focused on it. "Well, what do we do?" Dustin asked.

"I don't know but we can't go home. We're fugitives now." The sound got louder and now Dustin was listening as well.

"G-guys? Do you hear that?" They looked towards the sky to see a helicopter.

They quickly put the three bikes under the rusty bus. They ushered each other inside the vehicle. They ran to the back and quickly got down. "Get down!" Lucas shouted as he threw himself to the floor.
The whirring of blades slowly disappeared as they panted.

"Mental"

"Mike, Mike are you there? Mike?" Nancy, Mike's sister could be hear from Mike's radio. "You guys hear that?" Dustin asked.

"Mike, it's me, Nancy." They all ran to Mike's bag and quickly opened it to fetch out the comm device.

"Mike, are you there? Answer. Mike we need you to answer." Nancy cried out. "Is that your sister?" Lucas stared in confusion.

"This is an emergency Mike. Do you copy? Mike do you copy?"

"Ok this is really weird." Dustin stated. Lucas grabbed the device out of Mike's hand but Mike took it back.

"Don't answer" Mike told him. Lucas looked at him in disbelief. "She said it was an emergency." Lucas argued. "What if it's a trick?"

"It's you sister!" Lucas yelled out. "What if the bad people kidnapped her? What if they're forcing her to say this?" Mike theorized. "I need you to answer." Nancy's voice rang through the comm.

"It's like Lando Calrissian. Don't answer" Dustin agreed with Mike. "We need to know that you're there, Mike." All of a sudden, there was a change of voice.

"Listen kid, this is the chief. If you're there, pick up. We know you're in trouble and we know about the kids." Jim Hopper now has the radio. Mike shot his head towards Dustin in shock. "Why is she with the chief?" Lucas asked no one in particular. "How the hell does he know about..." Dustin's voice trailed off as he stared at the three shaven head children.

"We can protect you, we can help but you gotta pick up. Are you there? Do you copy? Over." Hopper tried to reason with them and it was slowly working. They all stared at each other in silence before Mike hesitatingly rose the comm towards his mouth.

"Yeah, I copy. It's Mike, I'm here..." Mike looked at the others. "We're here.

Dustin paced back and forth as they waited for the chief to come collect them from the bus. "Will you stop pacing?!" Mike yelled at him. "Its been way too long. Do you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe this is all a trap, and the bad men are coming to get us right now!" Dustin shouted.

"It's not a trap! Why would the chief set us up? Nancy maybe, but the chief?" Mike threw him a look at the mention of his sister betraying them. Lando Calrissian." Dustin pointed a finger at Lucas.

"Would you shut up about Lando" Lucas yelled at him. "они дерутся, как старая супружеская пара." Tee muttered to Vee. "Hey, hey no whispering in Russian. I'll start thinking you guys are commies" Lucas pointed an accusing finger at the twins. They just stuck the middle finger at him with a lopsided frown. "Hey!" (They fight like an old married couple.)

"I don't feel good about this. I don't feel good about this!" Dustin shouted in Lucas's face. "When do you feel good about anything!" Lucas shouted back.

Before the two could bicker any further. A motor of a car was heard. They quickly ran to the front of the bus and looked out the window. Two cars appeared into the yard. "Shit" Dustin cursed. They quickly ran to the back of the bus, hiding behind the seats. "Lando" Dustin simply stated.

"You think they saw us?" Lucas asked Mike, ignoring Dustin. "Both of you, shut up" Mike demanded sternly. The sound of the bus door was heard. Followed by a thump. A few more grunts from other men were also heard before the door to the bus fully opened, revealing Chief Hopper.

They stood up and stared. "All right, let's go" Hopper said but they just continued to stare in disbelief. "Let's go!" He yelled again, this time the kids grabbed their stuff and followed him out the bus.

The kids stumbled out of the police car. They were met with Jonathan, Joyce and Nancy at the front of the Byers house. Nancy, who Vee knew as Mike's sister, ran forward. "Mike, oh my god. Mike!" She grabbed Mike and put him in a tight bone crushing hug.

"I was so worried about you." Nancy let Mike go and looked down at him. "Yeah, uh... me too." Mike said unsurprisingly. Surprised and confused at his sister's sudden care for him.

Nancy looked behind Mike and furrowed her eyebrows at the two girls.

"Are those my clothes?"

YALL LOOK AT ALL THE MOOD BOARDS I MADE. THERES SO MANY PRIDE FLAGS WTF 💀

we're almost done the first act. Yayyy

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