thirty three

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DUSTIN, LUCAS, AND ERICA went up to holly, taking her lite brite, and unplugging it.

"hey!" holly raised her voice, since she was focused on it.

"i'm sorry. sorry. sorry." lucas immediately apologized.

erica went up to holly, and gave her a full-size candy bar. "for your understanding."

they went into nancy's room, plugging in the lite-brite.

"okay, you guys seeing this?" dustin yelled, trying to talk to them in the upside down.

nancy started moving her fingers around, and the lite-brite on the other side started brightening.

"holy shit!" erica exclaimed with a smile of excitement.

"we're not moving it." dustin yelled to them. "but we're unplugging it, stand by!"

"yank it." dustin instructs lucas, with lucas obliging.

"okay, try it now!" dustin instructed them.

"okay." nancy responded. "uh.. uh."

y/n started moving her fingers, which formed the word 'hi.'

"the worked!" dustin yelled to them.

the five of them in the upside down started cheering.

"okay.. um.." y/n mumbled.

y/n started moving her fingers, which formed the word 'stuck.'

"okay, okay. they're stuck in the upside down." lucas realized.

"uh, you can't get back through watergate!?" dustin asked them.

"what the hell's watergate?" steve confusedly asked.

"'cause it's in water and it's a gate." y/n reminds him.

y/n started moving her fingers again, to draw a word.

'guarded.'

"okay, we think we have a theory that can help with that." dustin shouted to them. "we think watergate isn't the only gate. that there's a gate at every murder site."

"does.. anybody understand what he's talking about?" nancy asks the rest.

"no." everyone shook their head. "no idea."

y/n moved her fingers, drawing a question mark.

"okay, seriously!?" dustin snapped. "how many times do i have to be right on the money before you guys just trust me?"

"jesus christ, this kids gotta get his ego checked." steve commented.

"it's his tone. right?" eddie agreed.

"i know."

"okay, so how far is your trailer?" y/n asked eddie.

"seven miles." eddie replied.

"nancy." robin called. "uh, i know your house here is, like, weirdly, creepily frozen in time and shit, but haven't you always had bikes?"

nancy glared at robin, in realization.

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max was released from questioning from the cops, she immediately threw her headphones back on.

max looked over, and saw dustin on the stairs.

"come on." dustin whispered, and motioned for max.

max didn't give in at first.

"come on." dustin repeated.

max scoffed, rolling her eyes, and went over to dustin.

they went outside, quickly getting on the bikes, as officer callahan yelled for them.

erica slashed the police car's tires, so they couldn't catch up on them.

the four of them continued biking, and the five of them in the upside down were doing the same.

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in the upside down, they arrived at eddie's trailer, with the thunder rumbling.

they quickly got off the bikes, leaving them on the floor.

"that's gotta be a guinness world record." robin commented. "most miles traveled inter dimensionally."

"just inhaled a bunch of that crap." steve complained as he coughed. "it's stuck in my throat."

they went into eddie's trailer, and spotted a gate on top.

"goddamn." y/n commented, looking up at the gate.

"this is where chrissy died." eddie informed. "like, right where she died."

"i think there's something in there." robin told them.

they looked at the gate, which was moving.

"what the hell is that?" eddie quietly asked.

then suddenly, the red stuff in the gate was exploded with a spear, which turned out to be dustin, erica, max, and lucas.

"no way." steve commented.

y/n looked up, and saw max.

"hi there." dustin says.

"hi." all of them responded.

"holy shit, this is trippy." robin said.

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dustin tightened the curtain, making a rope, as max and lucas got a stained mattress from eddie's room.

"those stains are uh.. i dunno what those stains are." eddie informed them.

"not quite sure how these physics are gonna work." dustin tells them. "but, uh.. here goes nothing."

dustin threw the curtain rope over the gate.

"and if my theory is correct.." dustin let go of the rope, which stood on its own.

"holy shit." max commented.

"all right, pull on it! see if it holds!" dustin instructed them.

robin pulled on the rope with all of her force, and it stayed in place.

"this is the craziest shit i've ever seen in my life." erica spoke. "and i've seen some crazy shit."

"guess i'm the guinea pig." robin remarked, as she grabbed the rope and started climbing up.

robin made it to the other side, landing on the mattress.

nancy went up next, going up, and landing on the mattress.

y/n, steve, and eddie shared glances, deciding who should go next.

"all right, guess i'll go." eddie tells them, and grabs onto the rope.

eddie started climbing up, also landing to safety.

next was steve and y/n, y/n deciding she should go next.

"see you on the other side, kid." steve tells y/n.

y/n smiled back. "on the other side."

y/n got ahold of the rope, and grunted as she continued climbing up.

y/n eventually made it over seeing the mattress, y/n let go of the rope, thinking she was going to land to safety.

but y/n started free falling in a black void, landing on a hard surface, with vines surrounding her.

y/n got up from the ground, in pain, and looked around her.

steve, however, still in the upside down, looked over at y/n, shocked at what he was seeing.

y/n was standing there, not moving, with her eyes faded to a foggy-white color.

"y/n.." steve whispered, then began shaking her. "hey! hey! stay with me. y/n! hey! wake up! y/n!"

max looked up at the gate, seeing steve continuously shaking y/n.

"vecna." is all max said to them.

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