A/N: Sorry I haven't posted in a while. My computer was being really stupid, STUPID COMPUTER! Anyways I'm going to post two chapters today.
Let's get to it!
Mikes p.o.v
"I still can't believe that didn't work." I had said that about ten times already.
"I think we heard you the first time Mike." Carson groaned.
"They have idea." Eleven put her hand on my shoulder, "Stupid one, but they want to help."
"I know." She moved her hand down to mine which made me blush.
"So you have powers to now?" El pulled me to the fort I made for her when we first met.
"I guess so. They're… apparently teleportation… powers." I said between coughs.
"What's tell-a-port-ation?" She asked. I was about to speak when I suddenly coughed again.
"Teleportation or teletransportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature, film, video games, and television." Carson said before turning back around and messing with my supercom, "You need to get that cough checked out by the way
I looked at Eleven who still looked confused so I explained an easy explanation, "That's one way of saying it. Teleportation is a power where someone can move from one place to the other without moving." I faked a smile.
I saw a small smile form on her face, "That's mental."
I laughed at her words reminding me of Dustin. It was hard for me to laugh or smile from the toxic air around me. It felt like my throat was burning. Carson stopped what she was doing before turning back around to look at us. "You can travel through space and time, who knows what else you can do." She walked over to us. "What is he like now?"
"Dustin?" El asked, Carson nodded. "Mike can tell more."
They both looked at me and I thought about all the fun times I had with Dustin, "Well, he's a very… weird guy. He always has a good sense of humor. He always makes us laugh when we need it. He's probably one of the smartest kids in school. One of them. He can be a scaredy cat sometimes, but he can also be brave. When he wants to. He has a good sense of direction. So on…" I said.
"He sounds just like I remember." Carson sort of smiled then looked at me, "I feel grateful right now even tho we are in the upside-down.
My stomach growled as well as everyone else's. "Well that doesn't sound good." Eleven and Carson both looked at each other then back at me.
"You guys don't have anymore food do you?" I asked, they both shook their heads.
"You know we can see if Hopper brought something earlier than usual." Carson suggested.
"I don't know." I said in sake of El's health she couldn't survive the walk.
"You're right I can go alone." Carson was about to walk out the door when she turned around. "You know Mike, if we are in here to much longer you might get used to that burning feeling in your throat. It just feels numb to me." She turned around before walking out the door.
"Are you ok?" Eleven asked.
I could feel the hairs on my neck stand up from the cold breeze that hit me, "I'll… be fine."I coughed again.
"No." She poked my chest, "You are in pain."
"It's just my throat. It's also a little colder in here then I thought it would be." I shrugged slightly.
"It is cold." She looked around, "And dark." She added.
"Yeah, you've been here for a while how do you feel?" I asked her.
"Feel, c-cold, and s-" Before she could finish her sentence, she fainted.
"Eleven!" I quickly got on my knees and picked her up in my arms. I started feeling drops of water under my eyes. "El! El wake up!" I kept yelling, trying to wake her up when I heard a loud screech. "Carson!" I needed help and fast. I could feel her arms getting colder by the second. My throat started burning even more and I started feeling weaker and weaker. I heard the screech again and again as it got closer, "Demogoron." Was all I could say when the wall burst. I turned my back and held Eleven closer to my chest. "Eleven! Eleven wake up!" I kept on screaming. When I looked up I saw it, the demogorgon. There it was right in front of me. I felt frozen like I couldn't move. I knew I had to, I had to save El. I couldn't lose her again. I couldn't move at all when I realized I didn't have to move I can teleport. It was all new to me and I only did it once, but I had to try. I closed my eyes and focused on Lucas's house. I kept that thought in my head when the last thing I heard was a screech.
"Mike? Mike?" I heard a small gentle voice coming from above me.
I slowly opened my eyes realizing what had happened. "Eleven?" My voice cracked.
"Mike." I felt a cold hand fall on my cheek. "You save me."
I got up looking at my surroundings when I realized this was Lucas's bedroom.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Don't know?" Eleven shrugged, "I wake up awhile ago, saw Carson."
I Looked to my right and saw the familiar wolf on her four legs. "I saw that your basement was destroyed and looked for you here." She pushed a box of EGGOS next to me. "He did put some food out for us."
I grabbed the box and started chewing on the EGGOS. We all sat there in complete silence. Eleven finally broke the silence.
"Mike?" I looked over at her, "I was saying something, but forgot."
I put my hand her shoulder and said, "It's okay. If it was important then you'll remember sooner or later."
"Okay." She grabbed an EGGO from the box and started chewing with me.
Hoppers p.o.v
I slowly sat up in my bed looking out the window. I pushed the covers off my legs and went to the bathroom. When I got there I turned on the shower and got ready for the day. My uniform was on the bed as I just stared at it. Time to start the day, I thought to myself. When I finally finished getting ready I went to my small porch and looked into the horizon. I took out the pack of cigarettes and lit one. It's just so quiet. Why couldn't life be just as beautiful and quiet as the ocean on the horizon. I had admired the sight. The drive to the police station was short as usual, but when I passed the lab I saw more and more vehicles lining up in the front. I wondered what could be going on there and that it was going to be harder than I thought to sneak the kids in there and out. My car stopped in the parking lot as I got out the car and went inside the station.
"Hopper." Flo was right up front, "Your late as usual." She plucked the cigarette bud out of my mouth as I picked up a coffee mug and walked over to my office.
Inside I saw an all too well familiar face, "Joyce?"
"Hopper." She said happily, "I just wanted to invite you to Will's birthday coming up in two weeks."
I looked up at her, "What? Why would I want to go to a kids birthday?" I asked.
"Well since, I thought, that well you helped Will out of the… um… you know… that place. I just thought that maybe you would like to go to his birthday. I'm sure Will would be happy to meet you there." She explained.
"Okay, I'll come." I said, "But only for a few minutes."
"Okay that's fine with me." Joyce walked out of my office.
"Okay." I started going through some of my stuff when I heard the phone ring. I picked it up, "Hello?"
"Is this Jim Hopper?" I heard a man's voice come through the other end.
"Yes, who is this?" I asked.
"I'm with Hawkins National Laboratory." The man said.
"I figured just as much." I wasn't surprised by this bit at all, "What do you want?" I asked another question.
"We need you to come in. Dr. Owens needs to talk to you about subject twelve."
"I thought you guys were done with that! That poor kid had just went through so much in the past few months." I thought about something real quick, "You guys know where he went don't you?"
"We don't know for sure, but we think that we do." He said.
"I'll be there in ten minutes, tops." I said back before I hung up, "Poor kid. He's going to be in a lot of trouble soon."
Before I left one more person called, "Hello?" I asked through the phone.
"Chief Hopper this is Nancy. Do you have any ideas on how we are going to get in the lab?" She asked.
"I have one idea, but I don't know if it's going to work until tomorrow." I answered.
"Okay, bye." I heard the other end hang up before I did.
"Why does it always have to be the Wheelers?" I asked myself.
I drove to the lab in about seven minutes. When I went through the gate I noticed that there were more cars there than there were earlier. I found a spot to park before I went through the front doors. Before I could go anywhere else a woman stopped me. She had short brown hair with highlights of white and dark blue eyes.
"What's your business here?" She asked in a brutal manner.
Before I could answer Dr. Owens came in the hallway, "It's okay Dr. Brenner, he's with me."
"Dr. Brenner?" I was very sure that he had died, but this is a she.
"Jim, this is Martin Brenner's younger sister, Sue Brenner." Dr. Owen's just smiled and walked down the hallway as I followed.
When we got to a small room with two chairs and a table in the middle we stopped. I sat on one side and he sat on the other. His smile from before quickly vanished.
"We need to talk about subject twelve." He looked me straight in the eye.
"I know, but I thought you guys said that it wasn't a success so you gave up." I simply said.
"Do you even know who subject twelve is?" He asked me.
"Honestly I just know that subject twelve is a boy."
Thirty Minutes Later
When I got back to the station I waited until three o'clock to call everyone's mother's to tell them to bring their kids to the station. But before than I just contemplated about everything that I had heard from Dr. Owens. I also thought about how I was going to tell everyone about everything/.
Lucas's p.o.v
I was riding my bike to school when I heard something. I stopped my bike to see what it was. It had came from inside a pawn shop. I walked inside when I didn't just hear it I saw it. The lights were flickering everywhere. I looked around to see if any of the walls were sticking out, but no. I also didn't see the shop manager anywhere.
"Hello?" I looked around when the lights stopped. I saw the manager come from behind a corner, "I think there's something wrong with your lights." I told him.
"M-my lights n-never d-do that." He stuttered.
I heard something like someone was talking I looked at the manager, but he said nothing. "Mike?" I whispered. The manager looked at me confusingly before asking;
"Shouldn't you be in school?"
"Oh yeah. Bye!" I quickly ran out the door and got back on my bike.
It took me about three minutes more before I got to school. I put my bike in the bike rack and quickly locked it up so no one would steal it. I started running inside when I heard a teacher scream "NO RUNNING!" at me. When I got to my locker I quickly unlocked and opened it. Before I could close it I saw someone come running up to me.
"What took you so long?" Dustin asked with Will coming shortly behind him.
"The pawn shop's lights started flickering, so I went inside and when I did I heard someone talking to me in almost a whisper." I answered.
"Are you sure it wasn't just the manager?"Will asked.
"I'm sure. His lips were sealed shut and no one else was there." I closed my locker and started walking to science with Dustin and Will.
Mr. Clark started teaching us about astronomy. He was talking about stars and how they were made. His hand was flying across the chalkboard, writing and drawing everything he was talking about. Everyone was writing notes except me, all I could think about was how our plan was going to work. I didn't even know if it was going to work at all. I started drifting off into space when I heard something. I quickly tilted my head towards the board. Everyone was staring at me, even Mr. Clark.
"Lucas? Can you tell me what the star is made of?" He asked me.
"Um, the star is made of-" Before I could finish my answer the bell rang.
"Don't forget you have a test wednesday!" Mr. Clark yelled out to the fast leaving class.
Dustin, Will and I ran up to the front desk. We all just stood there waiting for Mr. Clark to look over at us.
"Where's Mike?" He asked us.
We all looked at each other before Dustin spoke up, "He was at my house for the night when he found out that he was sick."
"Oh okay. What is it you boys want?" He asked us another question.
"Can we use the heathkit?" Will asked.
"Sure, but you only have ten minutes." He grabbed the keys from his desk and handed them to me.
"Thank you." We all said in unison.
After we broke the first heathkit radio it took awhile for Mr. Clark to get a new one. About a month after December Will had his first try with the radio and he loved it. We had to pull him away from it so we wouldn't be late to our next class.
When we got to the door to the heathkit room we unlocked it and ran in. Dustin quickly slammed his bag to the ground and unzipped it. He pulled out the paper with the correct frequency on it and unfolded it. He gave it to me and I slowly turned the knobs around and around to get the right signal. When I finished all we heard was static.
"Are you sure this is the right-" Will was interrupted by a voice coming from the radio.
"Do you even know who twelve is?" We all looked at each other with confused glances. Who is twelve?
"Honestly I just know that subject twelve is a boy." We all gave each other a look that meant question.
"I believe you know him better as… " Static arose before the man could finish his sentence.
"Did you guys hear Hopper's voice or was that just me?" Dustin asked.
"I know I heard him. I want to know who twelve is." I said messing with the radio a bit before we heard his voice again.
"I'm sorry did you just say Michael Wheeler?" We heard Hopper's voice then static again.
"Mike!?" Will yelled.
"Mike is subject twelve?" I asked myself.
"How?" Dustin asked.