"And then Eleven will use her powers to break them out." Mike stated looking down at the map that Will had made the night before. After the whole incident, Max went home and El had started with MIke the whole night. " Sounds good to me." Max told the two.
They had been working at this out for hours now and had just come up with a great plan. "Oh before we leave, I need to grab something from my house." Max told the pair as she grabbed her skateboard." Be careful." El warned her. " Promise." Max said leaving the pair alone in the basement.
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Max burst through the front door of her house and a line to her room. She grabbed a backpack from the floor next to her bedroom door. She immediately stuffed a walkie into it as well as so essentials that might come in handy.
As she finished, a knock came from the front door. She swung the bag over her shoulder, grabbed her skateboard, and headed for the front door. She crept slowly towards the door in case it was the shapeshifting monster. She looked through the peephole. What she saw shook her to her very core.
Outside her door was Billy, looking perfectly fine. Like he hadn't just died last summer. She held back a gasp as she headed towards her room. SHe grabbed her walkie from the back pack and pressed the big red button so she could speak.
"It found me. Please hurry." She whispered afraid that it would hear her, " Max?" Came El's innocent voice. " EL please hurry." Fear laced her words. " Hold on. We're coming." Mike's voice came through. " Okay." She breathed out holding the walkie against her chest. She grabbed her bag and rushed into her closet to hide.
She slid down the wall trying to steady her breathing. She heard the creak of the front door and immediately knew that it had gotten in. The sound of the floor boards creaking made Max even more uneasy. The footsteps got closer until they stopped right in front of her closet doors. Max took a big inhale praying that the doors would not open. The doors opened to reveal Billy standing there smiling down at her.
"Hey Max." He said letting those words float in the air between them. He made a move to grab her causing Max to move further into the closet. He moved again but was stopped by an invisible wall between them. Then an ear splitting scream erupts as he is thrown away from the closet.
Max made a run for it as she left the closet and towards Mike who stood behind El. "Run!" She screamed at him as she passed him, causing him to take after her. As they made it past the patio, Max could still hear El's screams. They headed towards Mike's house, the sound of their feet hitting the payment echoing out into the night.
They heard another person behind them causing the two to look behind them to find El. As she reached them she ran into an invisible wall. She yelled in frustration then turned around to face her opponent. With her powers she slammed the monster into the ground twice, lifting him into the air then allowing it to fall to the ground. It caught on after the third time.
It used its powers to grab her. She struggled underneath it's invisible grasp. It threw her out of the way and watched as she hit a street lamp and collapsed to the ground. MIke heard the sound of something hitting metal. He prayed that it wasn't El.
Turning around, he spotted Max being picked up by an unknown force. " Max!" He yelled as he bolted towards her, grabbing both of her hands, and tried to pull her away from the force. He quickly felt something grab him from behind.
Within seconds he was being pulled away from Max and being thrown across the street. He skidded across the pavement causing his right arm to be covered in his own blood. Max called out for him in fear as she saw him lying on the ground unconscious. The next thing she knew she was in a whirlwind of black. The street became quiet as Max disappeared from plain sight.
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El googly sat up, her eyes blurry, head stinging from the hit she took. When her eyes adjusted, she searched the streets for her friends. The first thing she noticed was the monster and Max were gone. She huffed out an air of frustration. But what she saw next chilled her bones.
Across the street was Mike, a pool of blood surrounding him. She jumped up from her spot and immediately regretted it as black spots covered her vision. When they subsided she ran as fast as she could to Mike. She dropped down on her knees. " Mike?" She gently shook his uninjured arm. "Mike?" She said again.
"Mike!" She felt him stir. He turned over onto his back revealing his injured arm to her. It looked like when someone falls off a bike and scrapes their knee but like ten times worse. She sighed.
"El." He responded. " They got Max." He explained as he tried to sit up. " I know." She told him sadly. She helped him to his feet. He looked down at his arm and grimace. " Do you think you could help me with this when we get home?" He asked her. "Yeah." She said softly as they headed towards his house.