𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 ; ᵂᶦˡˡ ᴮʸᵉʳˢ

viii ; The Upside Down

Come to find out after Joyce and Hopper left to find Will, Nancy and Jonathan had gone missing as well. So, Mike walked around the school to find the two older teens. Mike came back in a hurried pace, saying that they left, Jonathan's car was gone as well.

"They're probably just sucking face somewhere" Dustin shrugs

"Gross" Lucas comments

"No. No way!" Mike cringed

"Did they go with the chief?"

"I don't know"

"No" Eleven whispers

Ethan stands up from the bleachers to stretch his legs, and so he could read his friend's lips a bit better.

"What? Did you see them? Do you know where they went?" Mike questions, worried about the safety of his older sister.

"Yes"

"Where? Where'd they go?"

"Demogorgon"

Mike glances from Ethan, to Dustin, and to Lucas, not knowing how to take the news. Were they okay? What were they doing with the demogorgon? Dustin and Lucas stand up, pulling Mike and Ethan to the side.

"This is crazy!" Mike exclaims, "We can't just wait around"

"Mike, in case you forgot, we're still fugitives" Lucas interrupts

"Yeah, if we go out there to find them, we're toast" Eth adds

"Yeah, and we don't even know where your sister is" Dustin says, shrugging

"El can find them" He says, pointing his hand back at her exhausted appearance

"Mike look at her" Dustin sighs, directing to the fact she'd fallen half asleep where she sat.

"We should stick to the chief's plan. Wait for them to come back and we can get all this sorted out." Ethan signs, walking out into the hall, disengaging from the conversation

He finds a stack of homework papers in a 6th grade class across the gym, and sits them on the floor on one end of the hall as he walks some 20 feet away from them. He looks down at his scratched up, pale hand and back at the stack of papers. He had to train myself, just for defense. What if the bad men found them? He couldn't let them take Eleven, or any more of his friends.

The anger and sorrow filled his head. What they did at that lab was despicable, abuse. Using children for weapons. The thought of them growing up in there as adults and being used to fight the commies terrified the living hell out of him. How could the only parental figure in our lives, manipulate and gaslight them, use them like that. Make them feel special and tear them down, like the men in Tuskegee Experiment, there was a vaccine for the disease and they were hidden from it half their lives.

A spark lights up in his hand, and it quickly burns into a raging fire. He throws it down the hall, not thinking of the consequences of his actions. It hits the stack of papers, quickly lighting on fire and burning in the middle of the hall, which sets off the fire alarm once again, and sets the sprinklers off. The fire extinguished, the cold water hitting it at such a rapid speed, the alarm stops, but the water keeps pouring.

He stands in the dim hallway, proud of himself for building up enough anger and sorrow to throw his fire so far. Improvements.

He teleports at random across the school, getting from the gym area to cafeteria in just one teleport, and he got to 15 teleports without passing out. Which is great. He's improving. The stress he's under is helping the powers release themselves. Invisibility however, would take to long to try out. By the time he walks back into the gym, the boys are gone. He teleports to the cafeteria, where Mike was in the middle of kissing Eleven.