Dustin and Alex were in sitting on the sofa while El and Mike were in the bathroom. Just as Dustin was about to ask Alex where she had been they heard Lucas's voice on the walkie.
Dustin quickly burst the bathroom door and told Mike and El. The four of them gathered around the walkie.
"Mad hen. Does that mean anything to you? Like a code name or something?" Dustin asked.
"Bad men. Bad men!" Mike said in realisation before turning to the two girls. "Stay here." He ordered before him and Dustin ran up the stairs.
Eleven and Alex looked at each other a look of fear on both of their faces. A moment later Dustin and Mike ran back down the stairs and out the back door. The girls chasing after them.
The four ran a little way up the hill before getting on their bikes, El on the back of Mikes and Alex on the back of Dustin's. Before they cycled off the four teens made eye contact with an unfamiliar man to the too boys but a highly familiar man to the girls.
"Papa..." Alex muttered under her breath.
"GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!" Dustin yelled as they all biked away. The men from the lab hastily ran towards their vans to chase them.
The voices in Alex's head started to get loud. As the group met up with Lucas. The kept cycling as a van drove towards them. As Alex was about to handle it Eleven quickly flipped the van over, leaving all the boys stunned. They quickly continued to cycle to the junk yard.
Once they arrived at the junkyard Lucas went to apologise to Eleven. The voices in Alex's head had quietened down slightly but we're still faint. While Dustin, Mike and awl were discussing what their next move should be Lucas walked up to Alex with caution.
"Hey I just wanted to say that...I was wrong. I'm sorry." Alex paused for a moment looking at the boy bed speaking. "You don't know me and El and you found us alone in the woods. You had no reason to trust us. You were worried about your friend and wanted to protect him. That's one thing I've learnt about you. You always feel the need to protect and defend those who you care about." She offered him a smile before walking over to the others. Lucas had a proud smile on his face, clearly letting what Alex said boost his ego.
Lucas then joined them as he was explaining what he saw. "This is Randolph Road, right here." He made a map on the floor out of sticks and old cans of soda. Alex already knew the layout of the lab so she walked around the junkyard looking around making sure no one saw them or was coming for them. Alex heard a whirring sound in the distance and looked up to see a helicopter coming towards them.
"Guys..." Alex started looking at the helicopter. The four looked at her before following her eyeline. All of them seemed to have the same idea as the boys shoved their bikes under an old bus before climbing in.
"Go, go, go, go!" "Come on! Come on!" "Lets go! Lets go" all three of the boys yelled over each other.
They all hid in the bus looking at the roof of the bus as if they could see through it. "Mental." Dustin mumbled under his breath.
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"Mike? Are you there? Mike?" Nancy's voice came from the walkie and everyone on the bus turned their heads to look at it before looking at each other. "Mike? Its me Nancy."
Mike ran over to his bag pulling the walkie out and listening to his sister repeatedly asking if hes there. All the boys started debating with each other wondering if it was safe to answer. All of a sudden another voice was heard instead of Nancy's. "Listen kid, this is the chief. If you're there pick up. We know you're in trouble and we know about the girls."
"Why is she with the chief?" Lucas asked suspiciously.
"Jonathan got into a fight with Steve and Nancy was there." Alex answered. All the kids heads snapped towards her and all three boys started bombarding her with questions.
"How do you know that?" Mike asked incredibly confused she could possibly know what happened.
"Jonathan Byres and Steve Harrington?" Lucas asked as if Alex knew what their last names were.
"Who won?"Dustin asked becoming invested in the idea of a fight between the Byres and the Harrington boy.
"We cam protect you. We can help you but you gotta pick up." The chiefs voice said before Alex could answer. "Are you there? Do you copy? Over." he questioned before there was a pause. Mike looked around at the others before finally responding "Yeah, I copy. Its Mike. I'm here." He said before correcting himself. "We're here."
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Dustin was pacing up and down the bus arguing with Lucas about something called "Lando Clarissan" Alex was focussing on this car she saw in the distance that was heading towards them. "Guys..." Alex tried to get the attention of the others but only El and Mike looked at her.
"Guys!" she yelled to get Lucas and Dustin's attention. The four ran over to her seeing the cars approaching. "Shit." Dustin swore.
"Get down and hide. Ill deal with this." Alex ordered the kids ushering them to hide. The kids kept arguing as Alex exited the bus the same time as three men exited their cars holding guns. Alex recognised them as they worked in the lab.
"Two. Your Papa misses you and Eleven come back with us. Do you think I wanna shoot a kid? Go ho,e with that on my conscience? " The one in the middle tried to manipulate Alex who stood their glaring at the men. "Well i wouldn't worry about that. You wont be going home." Alex retorted. (If you get the reference I love you)
The men had started to raise their guns and Alex's hands started glowing red. She didn't move as the men still got closer to her. Alex's eyes then turned red as she took a step towards them lifting up her hand throwing the one in the middle backwards. The one to the left started shooting at her. Alex nodded her head in the direction of the one on the right resulting in the bullets flying towards him and him getting shot instead. Alex then created a ball of red energy in her hand before shooting it towards the last man.
Alex wiped the blood from underneath her nose with the back of her hand and looked up to see a wide eyed Chief. "I assume you're the chief?" Alex offered him a smile.
"Chief Jim Hopper. Its uh... nice to meet you." Hopper said.
"I'm two. But just call me Alex. Dustin, Lucas, Mike and my sister Eleven, El for short, are hiding in the bus." Alex informed. Hopper walked towards the bus questioning "Like the number?" All Alex did was nod in response.
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The loneliest number
Fanfiction002 (or alexia as she liked to be called) had always felt alone. She never was though, she was always with people but never entirely there. That was until she ran away from the lab with her little sister 011 and ran into a group of young boys who wi...
