Chapter Six: E Pluribus Anum

                                    

                                          
Robin and Erica stared in confusion at what the Russians were doing while Steve, Dustin and Alex shared a scared look. "The gate."
"I do t understand you've seen this before?" Robin asked as they ran down the stairs. 
"Not exactly." Steve answered for himself and Dustin. "I have." Alex anxiously mumbled.
"Then what exactly?" She continued to question the three teens who somehow knew of the gate. "All you need to know is it's bad." Dustin summarised.
"It's really bad." Harrington added. "Like everyone's-gonna-get-killed-by-inter-dimensional-monsters  kind of bad." Alex confessed.
"Inter-dimensional monst- you know about this how?" But before they could tell the whole upside down story to Robin Erica spoke up. "I'm Steve? Where's your Russian friend?" They all turned to look where the unconscious Russian was previously laying to see he was no longer there.
Steve looked through the door to see that said Russian was alerting the others of the break in. 
"Go, go, go, go!" Steve yelled as they began running through different rooms being chased by Russians. Until they reached the gate-opening machine. They all stopped wondering where to run next but Alex only felt as if something bad would happen where she was standing. 
She pushed the unsettling feeling down when Steve yelled to her. ""Lexi! Remember when I said worst case scenario?! This seems like a worst case scenario." Alex gave Steve a nervous glance before flinging her hands towards the dozens of Russians running towards them sending a large red wave in their direction, sending them flying into the wall.
"Holy Shit!" Erica exclaimed as they all continued running the other way. "Hey, how the hell did you do that?" Robin questioned. 
"I'll tell you when we're not at risk of being killed by Russians." While running Steve and Alex pushed and shoved any Russians in their way, Alex using her powers and Steve using random barrels to block them.
They ran into one of the rooms and Steve and Alex leant against the door to stop the Russians from getting in. "Robin!" Steve called. "Help us!" Alex instructed as Dustin and Erica escaped into a vent. "Come on!" Dustin encouraged.
"Go! Just get out of here." Steve ordered. "Go come on! Now!" the curly haired boy begged.
"No, just go get some help okay?"
"Call Hop!" Alex instructed. Dustin jumped in the vent and stared at the three older teens holding the door. "What are you doing?" Steve screeched.
"Go!" They all yelled to the boy. "I won't forget you." Dustin admitted before the older teens yelled at him to go once more and he finally did. The door then burst open knocking the three over. 
As the Russians pointed guns at the teens a man in a white lab coat pulled out some needle that Alex instantly recognised as what the doctors and scientists used to use in Hawkins lab. As the man injected the needle into Alex's skin she began to feel faint and heard Steve yell before she passed out.
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 Alex had woken up as she was being tied to a chair. "Leave her alone!" She heard Steve scream. "Shut up....you're so loud." She mumbled. "I'm so glad you're okay." Steve sighed.
"They gave me the same crap I used to be given in the lab...How did you get that?" She turned to question the Russian that was leaning down so he was eye level. "We have a mutual friend, who helped us out. A Doctor Brenner."
"Papa...." Alex's voiced stared at the man in fear. El's worries were right, Brenner was still alive. "I thought Chief Hopper was your dad?" Robin asked.