"I swear, if I'm dying tonight because of you, I'm gonna haunt your ass so hard, Harrington!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah! I'm gonna go full Poltergeist and shit!"
"Then bring it, Graveswood."
"Challenge accepted."
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In which after years of suppressing their...
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Chapter One-Hundred-And-Forty-Nine: Fighting Bats
(The Massacre At Hawkins Lab)
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Steve was on the ground, thrashing and kicking. And swarmed around him were bat... things, with tentacles for tails. One had its tentacle-tails wrapped around Steve's throat, while the others swarmed around Steve's side, biting and tearing into his flesh. Steve was choking out gurgled screams of pain, face purpling.
Shock froze Rowan. Then fury incinerated it and crackled through her.
She rushed to Steve's side and fired a bolt of lightning at the bat choking Steve, stunning the monster. The other bats screeched, but before any of them could attack, Nancy was there, her oar whacking a bat off Steve, as behind her, Robin, Valerie, Eddie and Leo gathered.
"Hey there," she snarled. And the battle began.
Nancy whacked another bat off as Rowan thrust a hand out and tore a third bat from Steve. It screeched as blood oozed out from the bite and Rowan's heart lurched at seeing the wounds it left behind on Steve as Valerie and Leo smacked the fourth and final bat off, leaving Steve now fighting with only the bat that choked him, still stunned but it was coming to consciousness. With the third bat in her telekinetic hold, Rowan jerked her head and the bat's neck broke with the movement. She tossed the monster aside and teleported to Valerie and Leo's sides as the bat flapped up with a furious screech, shouting, "DUCK!" as she fired a bolt of lightning into the monster, electrocuting the bastard. It fell to the ground, twitching, but Rowan didn't have time to ask if Valerie or Leo were okay—or help Steve—when she heard Nancy shout, "Quick! Hold it, Robin!"
"I got it!" Robin yelled, and Rowan twisted to see Robin still holding the squirming bat choking Steve under her foot as Nancy whacked the oar's handle into the beast, as Robin shouted, "Get it!"
" Kill it! Kill it!" Eddie screamed.
"Now, Nancy!" Valerie shrilled.
As Nancy and now Robin began braining the bat, more roars came and Rowan looked to see a swarm coming, all teeth and flapping wings.
"Shit!" Eddie yelled, gripping his oar before he began smacking the closest bat. Rowan's eyes widened when she saw a bat come for his unprotected back.
"EDDIE!" she shouted, but the metalhead was preoccupied with the bat in front of him. Teleporting, Rowan thrust out her hand, lightning exploding out and striking the bat as it gave a pained screech before falling to the ground, a barbecued corpse.
Rowan panted, lowering her hand, but her sixth sense spiked as she heard furious screeches. Lifting her hands again, lightning burst out and struck the bats rushing headlong for her, their bodies spasming before they fell. A whack sounded behind her, and Rowan turned to see Eddie slamming his oar against another bat.
