"REPORTED SIGHTING OF CLOWN IN HAWKINS SEWERS," the headline read. As Mike Hanlon read the article, he remembered what had happened to him and his friends, the Losers Club. When they were 11 or 12, they had defeated It, a shapeshifting alien. Just months ago, It had returned, but the Losers Club managed to defeat It again.
Mike grabbed the phone and dialed a number. A kid's voice said, "Hello, who is this?" the kid asked. "Hello, my name is Mike Hanlon. Is this Mike Wheeler?' Mike asked. "Yes," Mike Wheeler replied. "You're the kid who saw the clown in the sewers, right?" Mike Hanlon asked. "Yes," Mike Wheeler said. "Kid, you're not the first person," Hanlon said.
"What do you mean?" Wheeler asked. "This clown you saw is an alien known as It. It's been around for thousands of years. A long time ago, when I was about your age, my friends and I met this clown, who had killed one of my friend's brother," Hanlon said.
"What happened afterwards?" Wheeler asked. "We defeated It, but we weren't so sure that It was dead, so we made an oath to fight It, if It came back," Hanlon said. "Did It return?" Wheeler asked.
"Just last year, It returned to my town, Derry, Maine, but my friends and I defeated It again," Hanlon said. "And now he, I mean, It, is back again," Wheeler said. "Right," Hanlon said. "There are only a few people who know this, but something similar to this happened to my friends and I. My friend, Will, went missing after he left my house one day. It's a long story. My friend went missing. My other friends and I found a super cool telekenetic girl. The police later found Will dead in the woods, but Chief Jim Hopper found that the body was fake. Then, we found that a monster took Will to another dimension. The telekenetic girl killed the monster, but disappeared, and Will came back," Wheeler said.
"Do you know what this other dimension is called?" Hanlon asked. "The Upside Down," Wheeler answered. "And, what is this telekenetic girl's name?" Hanlon asked. "The people that took her from her mom named her Eleven, but her real name is Jane," Wheeler said.
"Did Eleven, or Jane, come back after she disappeared?" Hanlon asked. "Yes, she came back the year after she disappeared, and we found that Hopper had been hiding her to "protect her"," Wheeler answered.
"It sounds like Eleven could really help defeat It," Hanlon said. "It usually appears every 27 years, but it's only been a year since we defeated It". "Maybe every 27 years, he haunts your town, but between that time, he might be haunting other towns like Hawkins," Wheeler said. "That makes sense," Hanlon said. "How do you know that the clown I saw is It?" Wheeler asked. "Just like the closn you saw, It lived in the sewers," Hanlon replied
"Oh," Wheeler said. "I gotta go. My mom is coming in a few minutes". Then, Wheeler hung up the phone.
