A casual rock war and a secret hideout.

Song: Tomorrow's money, MCR

"Nice throw!" Stanley calls to Beverly. "Thanks."

Athena catches up to the two, arriving with Eddie, Richie, Ben and Bill. She moves to the front with Bill and low and behold Henry Bowers and his gang are there. He removes his grip off Mike and starts to walk over to the group.

Mike jumps away from the gang, and into the river to get to the losers. Eddie and Athena reach down and help the boy up, Ben eventually taking over from Athena and help Mike down.

"You losers are trying too hard. They'll both do you, You just gotta ask nicely" Henry hisses, he then motions towards his crotch and turns his attention to Beverly. "like I did."

Ben soon screams with rage, like a battle cry. The losers get a fright from Ben because he is usually on the more innocent, wholesome and pure side of the losers.

"The fuck?" Belch comments. Ben soon reaches down and throws a rock at Henry, hitting him square in the head.

"Come on, get him!" Victor yells picking up some rocks. "Oh fuck" Athena whispers and fills her arms with rocks.

"ROCK WAR!" Richie cries, soon getting hit in the head by Henry.

The losers soon engage into a war, with rocks flying through the air. "Give them hard!" Victor grunts, throwing a rock.

"Watch out Bev!" Athena comments and pulls her out of the way. She gives an appreciative nod and gets back to throwing rocks.

"Drop dead, you fuckers." Richie shouts as he stands back up. "Eddie!" Athena yells as he jumps into the river, making the whole situation a bit more dramatic. The losers end up thrashing the Bowers gang, Belch and Victor surrendering. "Come on guys!" Belch yells.

"Go to the hell, losers!" Victor comments, running into the bushes. Henry is left on the ground, staring into the water. Bill and Stan help Mike up and the losers start to leave. Richie and Athena turn to leave when Richie turns back to Henry.

"GO BLOW YOUR DAD, YOU MULLET-WEARING ASSHOLE!" He then flips him off with both fingers. "Come on trashmouth!" Athena giggles and grabs his wrist. They end up walking in a line with Ben in the front.

"Ben, where are we going? Our bikes are back there" Athena points out. "I need to show you guys something." He replies.

The two are interrupted by a passing goods train on a bridge.

"Thanks guys, but you shouldn't have done that, he'll be after you guys too now." Mike explains as they start to enter the forest. "Ah, now Bowers, he's always after us." Eddie explains. "I guess that's one th-th-thing we all have in common." Bill stutters.

"Yeah homeschool, welcome to the loser's club!" Richie shouts.

"Gosh damn it Ben, are we there yet?!" Eddie complains for the 100th time.

The group comes to a hault and Ben kneels down. "Actually, we are."

He rummages his hand around some leaves and then tugs on a rope laying on the ground. It opens up to show a door. "What the-?" Athena starts when Ben jumps in. Beverly and Athena walk up and peer in, seeing an empty room. They start climbing in. "Come on!"

Richie smiles at the red heads, and walks up to them climbing in. Athena jumps in and looks around, seeing what used to be a bunker.

When richie is two steps off the ground he jumps off the ladder, giving Athena a fright. "Jesus Rich."

"What the dick this? How did you build it?" He asks walking around. "When did you build it?" Bill asks when he gets down. "In my spare time. The hole had already been dug. I just reinforced the walls And I made a wooden door. And that's it." Ben looks at the group who all look pretty impressed. Athena walks over to where Richie was and stands next to him.

"Good for my first attempt, right?" Ben leans up against a post, which triggers part of the roof to fall, making a loud bang next to Stan. "Jesus!" He shouts. "Oi, wrong religion" Athena teases, making Stan smile.

"That is a great feature. What happens if you touch another pillar, Professor?" Richie teases, making Ben look down a bit guilty.

"Beep beep, Richie." Athena whispers softly.

"Okay this is exactly why there are safety codes why we have permits." Eddie says, slapping his hand while explaining to Ben. "This place is a death trap, do you understand that?"

"It's a work in progress, Eddie." Ben sighs. "Just so you know, if I get hurt, you will be responsible."

Eddie turns onto his heels and spots a flashlight hanging from the ceiling, he flicks it with his hands. "What is this? Did you go to Iron Maiden?" Ben looks at him confuesd, "It's a flashlight."

"What is that? A horse hitch? Since when do you have horses down- Oh, this is cool." He picks up a paddle ball and starts playing with it. "It costs like three dollars, be careful with it." Ben mumbles under his breath.

"I have one of these, Stanley, do you see it?"

"Okay, can you maybe- not?" Stan says blinking a couple times and jerking his head back as Eddie flings the ball in his face. "Maybe not what?"

Athena, Beverly, Richie and Bill lean against a wall; watching the argument unfold with arched eyebrows.

"Be awesome and celebrate the fun of the magic of the paddle ball!!"

Eddie gets the ball too close to Stans face. His hand he was using to protect his face gets caught in the string and it breaks apart, the ball rolling away down into a crack.

"Wow! Well done fuck nut you broke his thing!" Eddie yells at Stan who furrows his eyebrows.

"I broke it?!"

"Yeah, you broke it with your face!"

"What?!" Stan says in confusion. "I'm not putting my fucking hand down there!"

"Alright, I have lost more braincells hanging out with you lot down here than when I usually do." Athena rolls her eyes and steps towards the ladder. "See you guys around?"

"Yeah, I was planning for us to decorate it tomorrow and stuff. So bring some things like a spare guitar or something?" Ben suggests. Athena smiles and combs a piece of her long red hair behind her ear, her eyes sparkling. Yeah sure, I'll bring a spare amp, guitar and find a generator in my dads garage to plug it in.

The losers look at her blankly, like she spoke in another language. She sighs, "I'll bring some things so I can play the instruments."

They all nodded, like she just translated what she said. "Alright, see you losers."

Athena walks up the steps, and is about to leave when she is greeted by Beverly. "Oh hey Bev."

"I should probably be leaving too, so I'll walk back with you," She smiles warmly. "Coolio."

"Now that the girls are gone... Richie we all would love to know why you suddenly have been so soft on our beloverd Athena?" Stan smirks. Richie jerks up and his face flushes red. "What? No I don't!"

"Oh c-c-come on Rich, You used to h-h-hate her. And now you only say like t-t-two insults per d-d-day which is r-rare." Bill rolls his eyes.

"Dude, I don't like her. I just think shes cute." He shrugs it off. "Pfft, yeah 'thinks shes cute.'" Eddie rants. "You can't talk Eddie, you look at her with heart eyes!"

"Not as much as you do!"

"Hey, hey. Stop arguing over one girl. We can talk about it more tomorrow." Mike says as he starts to walk up the ladder, "And we can fix up this little club house" Ben smiles.

They all agree and climb up the ladder, Ben locking it up after they all leave.

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When Athena arrives she parks her bike on the side street, seeing half of the losers bikes. She puts her guitar on her back and picks up her mini amp. She crosses the river, being extra careful not to get wet and eventually reaches the bunker. She hears some voices and the doors already open.

She climbs down the ladder and sees Bill, Richie, Eddie and Beverly having an argument. "Hey guys." She calls out. They all jump up and turn to her, Richie's face very pink.

"You okay?"

"Yes. We are fine redhead." Richie snaps. "Woah, woah. Calm down." She rolls her eyes. She sets her amp down next to the generator she asked Ben to take for her, and takes her guitar case off her back. "Wheres Ben?" She asks.

"He w-went out to g-g-get some more nails" Bill replys. "Okay." She stands back up and noticed that they have decorated the place a lot more; adding posters, lamps, a swing, a hammock and some tables covered in magazines, books and other accessories.

This looks much more cozy. Ben, Stan and Mike enter a couple minutes later, Ben with the nails and a couple tools. Stan had a tin in his hand and Mike brought a couple snacks.

"Here," He reaches his hand into the tin and pulls out a white and red spotted shower cap and hands it to Athena, and then Beverly, Bill, Mike and Eddie. "Whats this?" she asks. "So you don't get spiders in your hair. "Fair enough" She takes a clip in her pocket and pins her hair up into a bun, letting a few stray hairs run wild and then puts the shower cap on.

She looks over and sees Richie already claimed the hammock, reading a 'Loki Marvel Comic'.

"What the fuck is this?" Richie raises an eyebrow at Stan as he holds out a shower cap. "To keep spiders out of your hair down here." He explains with a grin. "Stanley, we are not afraid of fucking spiders." Richie rolls his eyes. Stanley smirks and steps out of the way, revealing the five others putting their caps on. They all turn to him wide eyed.

Richie sighs. "I stand incorrect." Eddie soon takes his shower cap off and walks over to him.

"That's a first" Beverly and Athena say in unison. They turn and start to laugh at each other, Beverly lighting the cigarette in her mouth. "Touché" He smirks.

"Rich, your ten minutes are over." Eddie yells as he stands in front of Richie. "What are you talking about?" He lazilly replies. "The hammock. Ten minutes each was the rule!" Eddie whines, clapping his hands together.

"I don't see any sign." Richie states

"Are you being this way right now?" Eddie complains, getting more pissed off with every minute that passes."Why would there be a sign, when it was a verbal agreement?!"

Mike sits down on a swing, watching the fight unfold and Athena stands next to him with a big smile on her face.

"I didn't agree on anything!"

"We made a deal!"

"I see your vagina."

"Ten minutes for everyone."

"I fucked your mom!.

"You did not!"

"Fuck you!"

Athena walks over to where the guitar was and moves the generator so its near the hammock where the boys were arguing. She plugs in the amp and unzips the guitar case, revealing a turquoise blue guitar. "Hey, I thought your guitar was sunburst?" Mike questions.

"This is an older one I had laying in my room, thought it could live here." She answers plugging the cord in. She twists a few knobs on the amp and then plugs the guitar in and turning it on. It makes a loud screeching noise which gives everyone a fright. "Sorry!" she calls out to the group. She puts on the white strap and starts tuning the guitar as it was pretty old, twisting the tuning knobs to tune the guitar properly. Before Athena did this, she turned the volume on the guitar down, via the black volume knob on the front of it.

"When I graduate, I'm going to Florida." Mike pipes up. Athena finished tuning the guitar and looks over at him, the guitar still hanging in front of her. "What's in Florida Mike?" She asks.

"I don't know, I-I guess it's a place I've always wanted to go to." He smiles. "Stan you should with Mike to Florida, you already act 80. You can clean up with all the grandmas" Richie snorts, making a kissy face and throwing a Jolly Rancher into his mouth.

"Oi Trashmouth pass!" Athena calls out. Richie dips his hand into the bowl of Jolly Ranchers and throws her a couple. She unwraps a watermelon one and puts it into her mouth, then handing a green apple one to Mike. Athena then looks back at her guitar and starts playing random chords to a song she made up,

"D-do you guys think we will all still be friends?" Stan asks out of the blue. The group stop and turn towards him. Athena stops playing and looks over at him, letting the guitar hang once again, the last chord she played just ringing out in the open space. "When we are older?"

"What? Why wouldn't we be?" Ben chuckles. Bill walks over and sits down next to him. "Do any of your parents hang out with their friends from middle school?"

Eddie uses his foot to kick Richie's glasses getting a sigh of annoyance from him.

"Things might be different then." Stan explains. "We all might be different."

"We'll always still be friends, I-I-I don't think that just g-g-goes away because we get older..."

Athena steps a bit closer to the boy, who had his head resting down. "Yeah Stan come on... You don't have to be so... "

"Sad."