I only just noticed that this is chapter 11 and it's about getting Eleven… Coincidence?
Also sorry for being a day late, yesterday the principal had a go at me at school for having a lighter in my pocket. Which I had from lighting a campfire Wednesday and I forgot to take it out. So today I found out that no one really gave a crap so nothing really happened, and yesterday I was too worried to write anything. (Yeah I'm that type of person, I've never really got into trouble before)
Darkness, it was full of it. It was like the black dimensional bridge she would enter when looking for someone, but the floor was ice. El pushed herself off the cold slippery ground. She looked around her, nothing. No one was there, however whispers could be heard. El looked at the ground and saw a girl. She looked around 19, blonde hair, not that tall. El reached down and touched the ice floor and it cracked. The girl she saw on the other side looked down at her, surprised.
The ground shattered and El started floating, like there was no gravity. The girl started floating too, and they collided with each other mid-air, with a light bump. "Who the hell are you?" The girl asked, she tried to move back a bit, but she was floating, so it was a little difficult.
"E-El" El asked nervously, was she dead, was she dreaming? She didn't know. The girl looked at her with a raised her eyebrow.
"I'm Caitlin" Caitlin responded calmly, she was used to the eternal darkness, but this had never happened. El looked at her with wide eyes, a while back 004 told her why Jack was reluctant to look for someone, and told her about Caitlin.
"J-Jack wants to get you out" El said quietly, to be honest, she was terrified.
When El had said that, Caitlin's eyes widened, but then she smiled. Jack is coming to get me? Coming to save me after all these years? Why now, why not 5 years ago? A million thoughts ran through her mind, she couldn't decide on which emotion she was feeling. Anger, sadness, happiness, love, excitement, fear,
"And how is he going to do that?" Caitlin asked, as far as she knew, it was impossible to get her out of the endless void. She hated it, every day you'd wake up and nothing happened. You just did what you could, her powers didn't work very well due to how cold it was. Caitlin could manipulate fire, not create it.
El shrugged, she didn't know either, as far as she knew it was near-impossible to get in without dying, and then getting out seemed harder. However Jack's a stubborn son of a bitch, and he would do anything to complete his mission. 004 had made that very clear, explaining a bit of his and Jack's backstory.
"Maybe you can get us out" Caitlin theorised. El was able to shatter a layer and make them float just by the touching the floor. El looked at her with a raised brow. "How?" El asked, she seriously had no idea what Caitlin was talking about.
"Well, what you just did, was meant to be impossible. And you did it just by touching the ground" Caitlin explained.
El nodded in comprehension. Maybe she could use her powers to escape, she wasn't sure. El thought it was worth a try, but she wasn't sure how, since there wasn't a wall that she could smash. She didn't know, so she thought about it.
Slam
Jack slammed a few pages of calculations attached to a binder onto the D&D table. He had a smug look on his face, as if he just outsmarted Einstein, which he might of just did. Mike and Hopper looked at the pages and then at him with a helpless look in their eye. Jack got the point that they had no idea what they meant.
"Alright, basically this whole time I've been finding ways to shrink myself or slip into by running at a certain angles at certain speeds. But what if I could expand the portal? I thought to myself, it would have to expand a lot since it's tiny, but come to think of it, it's entirely possible. If I was to take the edges of the portal and tear it open, my arms would tear off since the portal contains the mass of the Void, which weighs around 9 septillion tons." Jack paused to breath, before rambling on again. "And also the edges would be impossible to grab since they're a plank length apart. But what if I move my hand so fast and hit the portal with it that I tear the Space-Time Continuum..."
It took a few minutes for the essay that Jack had just read processed in their heads. Until it clicked into Mike's head. "Wait, if you were to tear a hole in the Space-Time Continuum, then the whole universe would get sucked into a puncture." Mike replied.
"Exactly, except that if I was to run in there and run back out at Super-Speed, then repair the hole. Then the world won't get destroyed" Jack explained.
(Just a note saying that the Space-Time Continuum is impossible to tear, and shaking your hand at super speed won't tear it either. However everything else is mostly true (I did my research))
"And what the hell does all of this mean?" Hopper asked, he wasn't much of a science geek, but if it came to saving El, he would do whatever it takes.
"I do something that might destroy the world, to save the world, and get El back" Jack explained, then after a few moments opened his mouth again. "And maybe instead of killing 001 we could just put him in the Void directly"
Mike nodded, he wasn't so sure about what Jack was going to do, but if it was for El, he'd do it.
17 hours until the end of the world
Jack looked at their corpses, 005 and 006. He knew that 001 was hunting them down while also convincing the Australians to help him. He sighed, cussing and taking a cigarette out of his pocket, and lighting.
"Hey! How old are you exactly?" Hopper nearly yelled.
"Really? I'm fucking 20 years old mate" Jack replied, and obviously Hopper didn't believe him. Mike however was surprised, he looked 15.
"You are not 20 and I'm not your mate!"
Jack rolled his eyes and took a card out of his back pocket, it wasn't a card, it was a birth certificat.
"Back then, the lab didn't think about erasing all traces of me, my parents were both dead so no one looked into my disappearance." Jack explained while giving it to Hopper, who read it as fast as he couldn't
The name was smudged, but he could make this out.
Jac yl r
Born: 2nd February 1964
The rest was burned, so he guessed someone tried to destroy it. But Jack was right, he was 20 years old. Jack had a smug look on his face as he inhaled the smoke.
"You do know that smoking will decrease you lung capacity-" Mike was about to go on a rant about Jack smoking but was cut off by Hopper and Jack saying "We don't care" in unison.
Jack will never lose his stubbornness will he?
That was a pretty short and shitty chapter, I know, but I got home late today cause it snowed so fucking heavily today (Ironic that I got snowed in at school on THE FIRST DAY OF WINTER). Sorry, and not many exciting things happened in this chapter. I'm planning on there being few chapters left, I'm not sure if I want to do a long chapter or two average ones.
Tell me, next chapter:
Do you want it to be a long one or two medium ones.
If you choose long one, next chapter will be the finale, other than an epilogue.
Two medium ones mean two more chapters.
Decide and let me know by leaving a review, please, this is super important.
Peace
