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Chapter Three: Discovery

The five were seen in the basement with everyone but Eleven, who was on the couch, around a table discussing a plan. Mike came up with an idea to give them time

"We just tell our parents we have AV Club after school, that'll give us ar least a few hours for Operation Mirkwood"

Lucas then toned his voice down a bit "You seriously think that the weirdo knows where Will is?"

"Just trust me on this, okay?"

"Okay"

Mike then seemed to become focused "Did you get the supplies?"

Lucas nodded "Yeah"

He then reached out and placed each item on the table as he called them out

"Binoculars... from 'Nam. Army knife... also from 'Nam. Hammer, camouflage bandana, and the wrist rocket"

Dustin then popped himself into the conversation "You're gonna take out the Demogorgon with a slingshot?"

"First of all, it's a wrist rocket. And second of all, the Demogorgon's not real, it's made up"

Lucas pulled back the wrist rocket "But if there is something out there, I'm gonna shoot it in the eye" He released it and caused it to go forward and back "And blind it"

Will sighed and looked to Dustin "Dustin, what did you get?"

Dustin picks up his book bag and dumps it on the table to see it was full of food

"Well alrighty" He began to go through the food  "So, we've got Nutty Bars, Bazooka, Pez, Smarties, Pringles, Nilla Wafers, apple,  banana, and trail mix"

"Seriously?"

"We need energy for our travels. For stamina"

Bruce crossed his arms with a slightly amused face "We don't need any of that. We're gonna be leaving for only a few hours, not days"

Dustin threw his arms forward "Well, why do we even need weapons anyway? We have her and Bruce"

"She's not a tool!"

"She can still do things with her mind! Imagine all the other cool stuff she and Bruce could do"

Dustin then came up with an idea "like"

He walked over to a blanket which was tossed aside to reveal the Millenium Falcon model

"I bet... that she could make this fly!"

El looked over at Bruce for help to see him shaking his head, she looked back to see him standing in front of her

"Hey hey. Okay, concentrate. Okay?"

He then let go of it only for it to fall "okay, one more time"

Before Dustin could grab it was slid under around his feet with black claws around on a part of it, it was pulled up to see that Bruce had it in his hand with an angry expression

"I said, she's not a tool"

He tossed the model back to the couch it came from as Dustin put his hands up in defense

"Alright, I just wanted to see it fly"

Silence filled the room for a few seconds until Karen was heard from the house "Boys! Time for school!"

Mike, Dustin, and Lucas quickly got their stuff and went upstairs as Bruce looked at El, he kneeled to her with a sigh and a smile

"Well, I gotta go. Don't make a lot of noise and do your best to stay down here. I know you'll go upstairs no matter what I say"