In case you don't live forever

Chapter 13: Lando Calrissian

Peter's Pov:

Lucas frantically peddled his bike quickly with me holding onto him for dear life. Both of were panicking. Once we were in range Lucas yelled into his supercom until he heard Mike respond. "Yes I copy. Do you? They know about Eleven! Get out of there! They know about Eleven! The bad men are coming! All of them! Do you hear me? The bad men are coming!!" Lucas yelled, started to sound out of breath. He peddled even faster than before. We were both panting and I wasn't even peddling, I was just so, so very scared. "Dustin, Dustin, Do you copy?" Lucas yelled into his supercom. Dustin's reply was muffled to me because I was sitting behind Lucas and I was panting so heavily. "Where are you?" Lucas asked Dustin. Dustin replied and Lucas yelled at him again through his supercom. "Meet me at Elm and Cherry!" Lucas told him and continued to peddle.

Lucas quickly peddled and I saw Mike, El and Dustin come off from the grass onto the road, meeting up with us. They stopped their bikes. "Where are they?" Lucas asked, out of breath. "I don't know" Mike stammered. "I think we lost them" Dustin said just before I heard tires screeching. I looked back to see the white vans again. "Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go. Faster,Faster!" Mike yelled and they all peddled as fast as they possibly could. "Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit" Dustin yelled. Another van turned in front of us and I was yelling my ass off and I hid my face in Lucas's coat. I was scared as shit. Before I knew I looked up and the van that was in front of us was now in the air and crashed behind us, causing the rest of the vans to stop. We all fell quiet and I looked at El and gave her a small smile as Lucas, Mike and Dustin peddled away from the vans.

They peddled straight to the junk yard, thinking that it was the safest place at the moment, which it probably was. "Holy... Holy shit. Did you see what she did to that van?" Dustin was out of breath as he got off his bike and pushed it to the ground. I got off Lucas's bike and Mike got El of his bike. "No Dustin, we missed it" Mike said sarcastically. "I mean that was..." Dustin was still trying to catch his breath. "Awesome. It was awesome" Lucas finished for him, walking up to El. "Everything about you being a traitor and stuff... I was wrong. I'm sorry" He apologized to her. "Friends... Friends don't lie. I'm sorry, too" She said softly to him. "Me too" Mike interrupted sticking out his hand for Lucas to shake. Lucas got up and shaked it firmly.

Mike looked at me after he was done shaking Lucas's hand and looked at my cast. "Hey Peter, what did you do to your arm?" He asked. "Oh I fell out of a tree" I explained. "Well that is just the saddest fucking thing I have ever heard" Dustin spoke and I glared at him a little. "Are you okay?" Mike asked walking closer to me. "Yeah I am. I just broke the bone in my forearm and will have a cast for like 2 months or something" I told him and he nodded a little.

Lucas told Mike and Dustin about everything we saw at the lab. He explained using twigs and rocks. "This is Randolph Road, right here. The fence starts here and goes all the way around. And this is the lab right here. The gate's gotta be in there somewhere. It's gotta be" Lucas explained, using twigs and a can to show what it looks like. "Well, who owns Hawkins Lab?" Dustin asked. "The with said "Department of Energy"" Lucas told him. "Department of Energy? What do you think that means?" Dustin glanced at all of us. "It means government. Military" Mike told us. "Then why does it say "energy?"" Dustin asked Mike. "Just trust me, all right? It's Military. My dad's told me before" Mike explained. "Mike's right. There's soldiers out front" I spoke. "Do they make like, light bulbs or something?" Dustin asked. I couldn't tell if he was beinf funny or actually serious. "No, weapons. To fight the Russians and commies and stuff" Mike told him. "Weapons" Lucas looked up from the ground and looked at everyone in the circle. "Oh jesus, this is bad" Dustin complained. "Really bad. This place is like a fortress" Lucas said. "Well, what do we do?" Dustin asked.Mike shrugged his shoulders "I don't know but we can't go home. We're fugitives now." Dustin and I heard a helicopter noice and looked up. "Guys. Do you hear that?" Dustin stammered, asking the other three if they heard the helicopter noice. They looked up and started freaking out. They grabbed their bikes and started shoving them under a bus. We ran inside a bus and all got down so no one could see us. I sat next to Lucas, holding onto my knees carefully with my cast covering my right arm. It was a slightly uncomfortable position but I wasn't too worried about comfort right now. "Mental" Dustin mumbled

We sat quietly waiting for the helicopter noice to go away until.we heard a noice from Mike's supercom. "You guys hear that?" Dustin asked us and I nodded a little. Mike quickly dashed over to his backpack and pulled his supercom out. The voice spoke again. It was Nancy. "Is that your sister?" Lucas asked Mike. She spoke again. I couldn't exactly hear what she was saying but it sounded like she needed Mike to answer. "Ok, this is really weird" Dustin mumbled and I grabbed Mike's supercom out of his hand but he took it from me. "Don't answer it" He told me. "What? Why not?" I asked him. "What if it's a trick?" Mike told me. "Its your sister" I said to him. "What if the bad people kidnapped her? What if they're forcing her to say this?" Mike explained and I looked at him like he was crazy. "Its like Lando Calrissian. Don't answer" Dustin spoke and Nancy spoke again. We still didn't answer then I heard the chief speak. "Why is she with the chief?" Lucas asked. "How the hell does he know about..." Dustin looked over at El. The chief spoke again. "Now we should answer for sure" I told Mike and he started to speak into his supercom. "It's Mike. I'm here. We're here."

Dustin paced up and down the bus. "Will you stop pacing?" Mike asked him, getting annoyed. "Its been way too long. 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 spoke, still pacing. "Its not a trap. Why would the chief set us up? Nancy, maybe but the chief" Lucas told him. "Lando Calrissian" Dustin told Lucas. "Would you shut up about Lando?" Lucas yelled. "I don't feel good about this. I don't feel good about this!" Dustin yelled at Lucas. "When do you feel good about anything?!" Lucas yelled at him. We heard cars approaching and all ran to the front of the bus. The cars pulled up in front of the bus and they were the cars of the bad men. "Lando" Dustin mumbled. "You think they saw us?" I asked. "Both of you, shut up!" Mike told us and we stopped talking. The doors of the car closed and the bus door started to open. Before it was open fully I heard someone punch and knock someone to the ground. We heard the door open fully and we all stood up to see Hopper and my dad, Harry standing at the front of the bus. My eyes widened when I saw my dad, slightly surprised that he was here with Hopper but it made sense. "All right, lets go" Hopper said and we all followed them out of the bus. When we were out I ran to my dad and wrapped my arms around his waist and hugged him tightly. He hugged me back and he must have seen the cast on my arm because he asked me about it. "Sweetie, what happened to your arm?" He asked, still hugging me. "Oh um.. I fell out of a tree and Lucas took me too the hospital" I explained. "He nodded "Lets get in the car" He said and we all got into Hoppers car.

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