The Clown

Chapter 20: The Girl

Iron Man got on his suit and stepped out of the car.

"Hey, what is he doing?!" Harley yelled. "Mr. Stark!"

He then noticed the phone, as Aqua was still on the line. Harley picked it up.

"Tony? You still there?" Aqua asked.

"No, he's not." Harley replied. "He's fighting Pennywise."

"Fighting Pennywise? Harley, you need to-"

He hung up, and looked back. Everyone was in the back of the bus, scared. Georgie was crying, and Bill was trying to calm him down.

Harley went back there and saw that Ven was crouched down and covering his face.

"Hey, Ven. Look at me."

Ventus looked up, pure terror on his face. "I'm scared."

"Yeah, I know." Harley said softly. "Mr. Stark's taking his time. It's going to be fine."

Was it going to be fine? Well, Tony was kinda nervous too, as Pennywise had changed form completely.

"You are doomed." That weird thing said.

"We will eat both your arms, and then both of your legs, and then we will eat your face. You will be this armless, legless, faceless, thing, rolling down the street, like a turd... In the wind."

"Say that again?" Tony said, feeling really creeped out.

"I said, we will eat both your-"

"No, no. I don't need to hear it again. I just got one question. What are you exactly?"

The thing opened up to reveal half of Pennywise, and half of the weird guy.

"We... Are Venom."

It lunged towards Stark, but Tony dodged it. He blasted it with thrusters, but somehow, "Venom" blew up the blaster with its strange goo!

"Whoa... Didn't expect that. Jarvis, backup!"

"Coming right now, sir."

Soon, there were a bunch of suits surrounding Venom.

"Whoa..." Harley exclaimed.

But the excitement was greatly disappointed as Venom effortlessly killed all of the backup suits.

"Oh, wow." Tony said.

He flew towards the monster, but it flung him back and he hit the ground!

"Mr. Stark!" Harley yelled.

"So many snacks, so little time." Venom said.

He opened his mouth, revealed a long, disgusting tongue, and bent down to eat Tony, but just as he was about to devour Stark, something held him back.

"What... What is this? Wha- AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Venom dissipated, to leave only Pennywise.

Behind him, was a girl. She stared at Pennywise, looking really mad. Also her nose was bleeding.

"Who are you?" Pennywise asked.

"Go away." The girl said. She tilted her head, and Pennywise's neck snapped and he died.

Pennywise was gone.

Tony stood up and took off the headpiece.

The girl collapsed, breathing hard. Harley jumped out of the van, running towards them.

"El! You ok?" He asked.

The girl nodded.

"Come on, let's get you to Mike's."

He helped Tony pick her up and take her to the vehicle.

"This is your Eleven you were talking about?" Tony asked.

Harley nodded.

They got Eleven settled in, and drove off.

Meanwhile, Terra's doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Strange said. "Stay here with Hartman."

Hartman had just informed everyone about Peeney Weeney, and they were pretty confused, but they understood.

Dr. Strange opened the door, and there stood DJ Khaled.

"Yo, is Terra here?" He asked.

"Uh, yeah." Strange replied. "Who are you?"

"You don't know?" Khaled exclaimed. "I'm DJ Khaled!"

Terra walked up to Khaled.

"Hey, man. What do you need?"

"I got a problem, man. Somebody took Asahd!"

"What?!" Terra exclaimed, surprised. "Why would somebody take Asahd?"

"I don't know. All I know is that I dropped him off at Pusha T's house, and he said he heard Asahd crying, and saw this black thing floating through the air, and it had a high pitched laugh."

"Darkness?" Hartman asked.

"Yeah, it was pretty dark."

Terra looked at Strange and Hartman.

"Pennywise?" He mouthed.

Hartman nodded.

Terra turned back to Khaled. "We'll take care of this. C'mon. Let's go meet up with Stark."

"Stark? You mean Tony Stark?"

"Yeah." Strange said. "Let's move."

Back in Hawkins, Harley directed everyone to Mike Wheeler's house.

"Alright, here we are." Harley knocked, and the door opened.

"Harley! He-"

He was shocked to see Tony Stark holding Eleven, with Ven, Georgie, and Bill by his side.

"Uh, ok. I know you." Mike said, pointing to Tony.

"But who are they?" He asked, his eyes directed at the others.

"They're friends. Let us in, please." Harley asked him politely.

Mike nodded, and helped Tony carry Eleven inside.

They walked into the living room and sat on the couch.

Mike folded his hands and looked up.

"So, introduce yourselves."

"I'm Ventus, or Ven, and this is Georgie Denbrough and his brother Bill."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Mike, by the way."

"We know." Tony told him. "Now, we came here for a very important reason. My friend Harley here told us that you know about Will Byers' disappearance and the Demogorgan. We need to know what you know, so we can help."

Mike sighed, and breathed deeply. Then he started talking.

"We don't really have a lot. Will's mom doesn't like to see him with video games, and my parents don't care about me like they do my sister, Nancy. But they let us play board games. One day when we were little, Will and our other friends were introduced to Dungeons and Dragons. An old game, but a good one. My mom used to play it. We actually liked doing this, because we got to make up ways to play, and stories. A little while ago, we were playing, and Will lost. The Demogorgan got him. The next day, he was gone. His mom went crazy, then we found her." He pointed to the girl.

Eleven was peacefully sleeping next to Mike.

"So, how did you know it was the Demogorgan?" Ven asked.

"Eleven told us. And that was after we found out she had power."

"Y-you know, it might n-not be the D-D-Demogorgan." Bill said.

Mike stared at him. "What do you mean?"

"H-have you ever heard of s-symbiotes?"

1008 words.