32- The Death of Mike Wheeler Part 2
Summary: Mike and El replace Eddie and Dustin.
Requested by: Mileven fan
The demobats were screeching around them.
El and Mike were hiding in Eddie's trailer, trying to distract the demobats so Steve, Nancy, Johnathan, Eddie, and Robin could sneak in and kill Vecna.
"I'm going out there," El told Mike. "I'm going to distract and kill them while you run away."
"What?" Mike yelled. "No way, I'm going to help you."
"How?"
"I don't know! But you're not fighting them all off alone."
"Michael Wheeler, you get your butt up that rope and stay safe. Got it?" El demanded.
Mike just glared at her.
"Good."
El crashed open the door and ran out, screaming and using her powers to throw demobats around, killing them.
Mike sighed but followed direction and started climbing the rope.
"Ahh!" El shrieked, catching Mike's attention.
The demobats had their tails wrapped around El's legs, arms and neck. El was struggling to break free.
"El!" Mike yelled.
He grabbed his spear and shield off the ground and ran out of the trailer.
"Come get me!" he yelled, grabbing a bike off the ground and jumping on, pedaling with all his might.
"Mike, no!" El screamed the best she could.
The demobats knocked the bike on the ground, taking Mike with it.
El kept struggling against the tails, trying to break free.
Mike quickly stood up and wielded his spear and shield, like he'd describe how so many characters had done before in DND.
El broke her left arm free.
Mike charged forward, feeling the demobats circling around him.
He stabbed some of the demobats out of the air, but soon the demobats swooped down, attacking Mike.
El got her neck and other arm free.
Mike suddenly collapsed and El screamed, lurching forward, making her left ankle twist in a weird way.
The demobats fell out of the air, all dying.
El didn't pay much attention to that, just got out of her leg bondages and raced forward to Mike the best she could.
"Mike!" she sobbed.
Mike was laying on the ground, blood surrounding him.
His blood.
"Mike!" El sobbed again, reaching him.
"No, no, no." she said kneeling down.
Mike had a faraway look in his eyes, blood shining on his teeth.
"Mike?" El whispered.
"Hey, El."
"We got to get you to a hospital, come on." El said, pulling on his torso.
Mike didn't move.
"Okay, I can just use my powers to lift you." El said. "Let's go."
"El." Mike stopped her.
"What?"
"Take care of them for me. Okay?"
"No, we can still take you to the hospital." El protested. Mike went on, ignoring El.
"Make sure Will knows that I'm sorry for being a crappy friend and that he's my best friend, make sure that Lucas and Erica get along, so they don't turn out like me and my sisters and let Lucas know that I appreciate the way he was always there, make sure Dustin knows that he always makes me laugh and to make sure he doesn't lose his optimism. Make sure Johnathan knows that he was like the older brother I never had, that Steve knows even though I didn't like him at first, that I'm glad he protects us. Thank Eddie for guiding us through high school and thank Robin for making sure that we were alright, even though she didn't really know us. Apologize to Max for me, tell her that I'm sorry for the way I treated her, and she actually really is tubular. Apologize to everyone really, for the way I treated them. Make sure Holly knows that her older brother loves her and tell Nancy that even though I was always an annoying pest, I looked up to her and love her with all my heart."
Mike was losing energy.
"And make sure you know," he continued, his breath hitching. "That you were the best thing that ever happened to me and that you don't need superpowers for me to love you."
El let out a sob.
"El?" Mike said. "I love you."
El's breath was shaky.
"I love you too."
Mike smiled, then his chest stopped rising and a glazed look took over his eyes.
"NO!" El screamed. "MIKE!"
The girl sobbed and held her boyfriend's body to her chest.
"Mike" she whispered.
Steve, Nancy, Johnathan, Eddie, and Robin walked back to the trailer.
They did it.
They beat Vecna.
Well, they thought they did.
He had disappeared.
But still, he was gone.
They approached the trailer, expecting Mike and El to be waiting for them in it.
Instead, they saw two figures on the ground.
Nancy was the first to run, the others not too far behind.
When Nancy got there, she started crying.
El looked up.
"I'm sorry." she croaked. "I- I couldn't save him."
Nancy kneeled down, hugging both kids close to her.
Johnathan hovered close and Eddie, Steve, and Robin stood around, all shocked but not sure what to do.
"Holy crap." Eddie finally whispered.
Steve and Robin simply just nodded.
After a couple minutes, Steve quietly approached them and told them that they had to go.
Both girls were fine until he stated that they would have to leave Mike behind. They put up a fight like no other. Finally, Johnathan and Steve shared a look and started to pull/carry both girls to the trailer, getting kicked and scratched at along the way. Both guys apologized the whole time.
They all finally climbed the rope.
The group piled into the RV and headed to Creel House to meet the others.
When they pulled up Dustin, Will, Erica, Lucas, and Max all ran up.
"We're okay!" Dustin exclaimed. "Jason was a problem for a bit but we handled it."
Max looked around and saw that there was no Mike and El and Nancy were silently crying.
It clicked and Max shoved past Eddie and Robin, who were standing in the way, and hugged both girls.
Lucas, Dustin and Will noticed this.
"Mike?" Will asked.
Steve looked grim.
All boys started crying.
El climbed out and started hugging them, which led to a group hug.
Erica leaned a bit on Robin, tears shining in her eyes.
"I'm going to kill him." El declared, muffled by Lucas's shirt. The older teens told her how Vecna disappeared.
"I'm going to find him." El stated. "And I'm going to kill him."
Nobody argued.
They liked the plan.
AN: Hope you liked it Mileven fan! I didn't have Max killed because again, how much can El take and I think that would have ruined the plot. Requests are open.
