After Mike and Dustin left Lucas' house, Lucas prepared to search for the gate and for Will.  He gathered his compass, radio (just in case), binoculars, and the wrist rocket.  He ties a cameo army bandanna around his head and grabs his bike to begin his search, but as he was coming out of the driveway, he frowns when he sees a van outside his house.  It was a Hawkins Power and Light company.  A repairman comes out of the van and waves at him with a friendly smile.  Lucas didn't see anything weird about it so he takes off to follow the compass.  

Mike and Dustin began their search for Eleven as they ride their bikes through town.  But both of them carried a feeling something was missing.  And they knew what.  Lucas.  Dustin couldn't shake the feeling off and Mike was still being stubborn. 

"This is weird without Lucas." Dustin says. 

"He should've shaken my hand." Mike states. 

"He's just jealous." Dustin says. 

Mike frowns, "What are you talking about?"

Dustin sighs, "Sometimes, your total obliviousness just blows my mind. He's your best friend, right?"

"Yeah..." Mike shrugs, "I mean, I don't know." He says, unsure with how things are now. 

"It's fine. I get it. I didn't get here until the fourth grade. He had the advantage of living next door. But none of that matters. What matters is that he is your best friend. And then this girl shows up and starts living in your basement, and all you ever want to do is pay attention to her." Dustin points out. 

"That's not true."

"Yes, it is. And you know it. And he knows it. But no one ever says anything until you both start punching and yelling at each other like goblins with intelligence scores of zero. Now everything's weird." Dustin states. 

"He's not my best friend." 

Dustin chuckles and scoffs, "Yeah, right."

Mike sighs, "I mean, he is, but so are you. And so is Will."

"Can't have more than one best friend."

"Says who?"

"Says logic."

"Well, I call bull on your logic, because you're my best friend, too." Mike states. 

Dustin slowly grins into a full smile, happy with hearing that, but soon, the smile drops as they both ride through town and see the local deputies at the grocery store and a crowd was watching the commotion.  They were talking to a man who looked like he was describing a person.

"Whoa." Mike exclaims as they see the broken automatic door and glass all around the parking lot.  

Dustin looks over to Mike with a worried look, "You don't think..."

Mike pants in worry, "Uh... definitely."

They knew Eleven has been here, then that must mean that she wasn't far.  They both take off to search for her.  Seeing that the store was close to the woods, maybe she was in there.  As they rode past the store, neither of them realized they had eyes on them. 

Meanwhile, Lucas takes his bike up a small hill and walks with it as he keeps his eye on the compass.  But when he looks up, he stops as he sees a long tall fence in his way.  It carried barbed wire at the top.  He looks at the compass, seeing the needle pointing the way but the fence was his roadblock.  He looks left and right, trying to see if there was a way around the fence, but it was incredibly long.  

"Oh, man." Lucas groans and begins to try and walk around the fence.

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*Ok, I really hate this part so I wish to skip it.  If you ask me, Steve is a huge A**hole for this if you guys remember this scene, you understand why I hate it*

Meanwhile, Jonathan and Nancy were shopping for supplies to hunt for the creature.  In order to test out their blood theory, they needed to prepare better this time.  They bought a gas tank, long nails, a bear trap, lighter fluid, a hammer, and extra flashlight.  

The clerk looks at them in shock, seeing two teenagers buying all this stuff.  Even more surprised when Jonathan asks for bullets.  When he asks what they were planning to use all this stuff for, Nancy simply said.

"Monster hunting."

As they were packing up the car, Jonathan couldn't help but laugh at what Nancy said back there.  Suddenly, she began to think back when she and Barb were shopping for top to please Steve.  How they treated it like a life or death situation.  Now, this was even more life or death.  

Suddenly, a car drives by, honking its horn.  It was a friend from school, Reed.  He was saying something about 'can't wait to see your movie'. And leaves Nancy confused.  She goes back to see what he was talking about.  Jonathan follows her till they reached the Hawkins Theater. 

Nancy gasps in horror as she sees written over the theater where they kept the names of all movies premiering.  In big spray painted words, 'Nancy 'the Slut' Wheeler' were written over the now showing board. Tears fill her eyes, she was so embarrassed and people who knew her, looked over to her, pointing at her.  Who could have done this?

She hears the faint laughter coming from the alleys and sees Steve, Tommy H, and Carol, all laughing as Steve held a can of spray paint.  Furiously, she storms over to him and slaps him hard.  She demanded answers and he claims that he was worried about her and couldn't believe he was worried about her, then calls her a lying slut when she didn't understand what he was talking about.  Then Jonathan walks up.  

Nancy finally realizes that Steve came over to her house last night and she didn't know. She knew now that he must have saw them in bed.  She tries to explain herself, but Steve accuses her having sex with Jonathan and calls him out, calling him and his family a bunch of screw-ups and disgraces.  Comparing him to his father.  Jonathan had enough and jumps Steve.  Beating him up till Tommy H helps.  Steve manages to get a few good punches until Jonathan fights back.  Nancy tries to break up the fight, but fails.  Then to her horror, the cops come by.  Jonathan was so pissed off, he didn't realize that he assaults Callahan.  The deputies manage to take control while Steve, Tommy H, and Carol take off.  

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Jace holds Fi close as he walks her out of the house with Gloria and Hopper following him.  

"Well, thank you for your time. We appreciate it." Hopper says to Becky. 

"Hmm, yeah, I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help." She nods at them. She sighs as she watches them all, "Good luck."

"Thank you." Jace says.

Joyce looks back at Terry, looking at her in such sadness.  Thinking, 'is this going to be me soon?' 'Will I ever get my boy back or will I wait 12 years like she did?' She couldn't help but think that horror.  

Joyce shuts the truck door as she looks down in disappointment.  She was hoping for something more, but she felt like she was back where she started. 

"Hey..." Hopper snaps her out her thoughts. 

"What?" She asks softly. 

"We're gonna find him." He says strongly. 

Joyce scoffs, "Yeah, like Terry found her daughter?"

"We're close." Jace states. 

Joyce's breath begins to tremble, "Twelve years? Twelve years she's been looking for her--"

"And then she shows up at Benny's five nights ago with with her..." He jerks his thumb behind him, meaning Fi, "Which means we've got a chance." Hopper says and a pained, yearning look forms on his face, "You know what I would give? For a chance? You know what I would give?" He asks as he begins to think about Sarah.  

Joyce sighs, understanding him.  Gloria reaches and grips Hopper's shoulder in comfort, "What all of us would do for a chance." She sighs. 

Suddenly, the radio erupts in the air, "Hey, Chief, you there? Hey, Chief?" Callahan's voice calls out. 

Hopper sighs and reaches for the handheld, "Yeah, go ahead."

"Yeah, a fight broke out here and--"

Hopper cuts him off, "Cal, I don't have time for this."

"It's Jonathan Byers. You haven't seen Joyce, have you?"

Joyce's eyes widen in shock, "My Jonathan?" She gasps. 

"Is he ok?" Hopper asks. 

"He's a little banged up, but ok, he's cooling his heels at my desk.  Charges will be filed." 

"What?!" Joyce exclaims. 

"I'm on my way." Hopper says and cuts the call.  He starts the truck up and heads back towards Hawkins.  

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At the station, Nancy was in the lounge with Flo as she fixes an ice pack for Jonathan.  Nancy rocks on her heels as she watches Flo get the ice and a rag.  

"Do you think we'll be out of here soon?" She asks. 

"You, yes. Him, no. He assaulted a police officer." Flo scoffs as she places the rag down and turns the ice tray upside down over it, making the ice come out.  

"Well, how long are you gonna keep him?" Nancy asks. 

"You and your boyfriend have big plans, do you?" Flo asks sarcastically.

Chuckling awkwardly, Nancy frowns at her, "He's not my boyfriend."

"I think you better tell him that." Flo scoffs. 

"What?" Nancy was confused. 

"Only love makes you that crazy, sweetheart." Flo says and hands Nancy the ice pack, "And that damn stupid."

Nancy stood frozen, she couldn't believe it.  Jonathan...in love with her?  No, it can't be.  She thinks about it.  He is cute.  And so incredibly sweet.  Sometimes.  He's a bit of a roughneck, but...he was different.  And she liked the different side.  

She sighs and walks back into the office area to sit next to him.  

"Found some ice." She says. 

"Thanks." He sniffs.  He was about to take it, but he forgot he was cuffed.  He sighs and lets her do the honors. 

She gently presses the ice against his cheek and sighs softly.  She couldn't stop thinking about what Flo said.  About love.  

Jonathan watches as she sighs heavily, averting her eyes, "Everything okay?"

She gives him a small smile, "Yeah. Everything's fine." 

But was it?  She wasn't sure.  She was so confused.  After what Steve did to her earlier, she wasn't sure if they were together anymore.  But she can't just be with someone else so quickly.  She wasn't Carol.  She needed time to think. 

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After her adventure in town, Eleven sat in the woods, with the boxes of eggos around her.  She happily chews on another.  Loving the taste of them.  Sadly, it was frozen, but she didn't care.  It was food.  

"El!" Dustin's voice erupts from the distance. 

Eleven jumps and gasps, she knew that voice.  

"Eleven!" Mike shouts from the distance.  

"Mike?" She whispers. 

They were looking for her?  Why?  Why would they? She gets up from where she sat and walks to follow the voices. 

"Eleven! El! El!" Mike continues to shout with Dustin. 

"Eleven!

"Eleven!"

Eleven stood from the distance and watches Mike and Dustin call out to her as they walk around with their bikes.  She gasps and hides when they freeze.

"Hey, stop. Do you hear that?" Mike asks as he perks up. 

"What?"

"El! El?" 

Suddenly, walking up the hill, was Troy and James!

"Hey, there, Frogface. Toothless." Troy grins evilly as he carries a knife with him. 

"Shit! Run, Mike!" Dustin exclaims.

"What?"

"Run! Come on!" 

They drop their bikes and take off with James and Troy on their tails. 

"You're dead, Wheeler." Troy shouts from behind them. 

"Move, Mike! Mike, come on, run!" Dustin shouts.

Eleven comes out from her hiding spot, panting with fear.  She couldn't let Mike and Dustin get hurt.  The boy carried such an evil look like the bad men did at the Lab.  She rushes to follow them. 

Lucas was still trying to find a way around the fence.  He managed to find a corner and begins to walk around it, but his compass begins to drop.  He was losing the signal.  He frowns as he hears his radio beeping as well.  He goes back to where he was walking from and sees the compass go back to where it was and the beeping on his radio increased.  He frowns as he tries to look down what was behind the fence.  He goes towards a tree and begins to climb it.  He sits on a large branch and grabs his binoculars.  From where he sat, he could see a huge sign that said 'Department of Energy'.  He could see people going into the building.  An army truck.  Several familiar white vans with the words 'Hawkins Power and Light' posted on them.

Lucas gasps and breaths heavily in panic.  They've been watching them!

Troy and James managed to chase Mike and Dustin all the way towards the Quarry.  Troy managed go around to cut them off while James was behind them. 

"Cramp!" Dustin groans as he was falling behind ands tries to fight through the pain. 

"Just keep going!  Keep going!" Mike yells over his shoulder.  

Dustin and Mike skid to a halt when Troy was in front of them with the knife, "Shit!"

"Stay back!"

"Don't come any closer!" 

Together, they gather rocks and sticks to fight, but they knew it was no good.  Mike throws a rock pitifully and misses.  

James scoffs, "Nice throw, numbnuts."

Dustin tries to tackle Troy, yelling out a war cry as he rushes at him, but Troy was quicker.  He grabs Dustin and holds him trapped in his arms.  Holding the knife close against his face. 

Mike gasps as he watches Troy hold his friend at knife point. 

"Get off! Get off me!" Dustin grunts and fights out of his grip, but he couldn't. 

"Let him go! Let him go!" Mike demands.

"Stay back, or I cut him!" Troy threatens. 

"What do you want?"

"I want to know how you did it!" Troy yells at him. 

"How I did what?" Mike frowns at him. 

Dustin whimpers in fear as he eyes the knife that was so close to his face.  He didn't want to be cut.  

"I know you did something to me. Some nerdy science shit to make me do that." Troy grits out in anger. 

"You mean piss your pants?" Mike scoffs at him. 

"Our friend has superpowers, and she squeezed your tiny bladder with her mind." Dustin says and yelps when Troy yanks on him harder. 

"Shut up!"

Dustin groans and continues to fight. 

"I think I should save Toothless here a trip to the dentist. Help him lose the rest of his baby teeth." Troy grins as he brings the knife closer to Dustin's mouth. 

"Let him go. Let him go!" Mike yells. 

"I'll let him go, sure.  But first... it's your turn." Troy chuckles.

"My turn for what?"

"Wet yourself."

"What?"

"Jump...or Toothless here gets an early trip to the dentist." Troy demands. 

Dustin struggles as he protests, "Stop! No!" He gasps. 

"I'll cut him right now!"

Mike couldn't let his friend get hurt, hearing him whimper as the knife draws closer to his lips.

"All right, just hold on! Hold on!" Mike says as holds up his hands and slowly begins to move towards the edge of the long drop. 

"Mike, don't do it. I don't need my baby teeth, Mike! Mike, seriously, don't!" Dustin struggles hard in Troy's grip, but he was too strong.  "Mike, don't do it! Seriously, don't do it, man! Seriously, don't!" He begs. 

"Troy, I don't think this is a good idea, man." James says worriedly as he watches Mike stand at the very edge of the cliff.  

"Mike, don't!" Dustin yells.

Mike looks down, seeing the long drop in fear.  His whole body shook in terror, he had to do this.  For Dustin.  

"Dentist's office opens in five...Four! Three! Two!" Troy yells as he slowly brings the knife closer and closer at Dustin.

"Mike!" Dustin begs.

"One!"

To their surprise and horror, Mike took the leap.  He screams as he falls, but soon, the screaming stops quicker than it should.  Troy lets go of Dustin as he stands in shock.  The three of them take off to look down.

"Holy shit." Dustin gasps. 

Mike squeezed his eyes close, waiting for the impact.  But...he didn't feel like he was falling anymore.  He opens his eyes wide and gasp heavily as he finds himself floating in the air.  He looks around to see if something caught him, but nothing...nothing was holding him.  He couldn't explain it. 

James and Troy looked at each other in shock and confusion, then turn back to watch Mike continue to float.

Mike yelps as he feels himself being pulled up, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" He whimpers as he continues to fly.  His body turns upside down as he sees Troy, James, and Dustin when flies over them and drops on the ground with a grunt.  Mike frowns, but his confusion was gone when he sees Eleven.  

Troy, James, and Dustin look over to see what he was looking at.  Dustin smiles big as he sees Eleven.  Mike and Dustin knew what happened.  Eleven saved him.  Eleven continues to give Troy and James an angry glare.  Troy was about to come towards her, but watches James fall back.  As if someone pushed him.  He frowns and turns to look at her again.  She moves her head and, suddenly, he felt as if someone took his arm and snapped it.  He could hear the sickening sound of his bones cracking.  

"She broke my arm! My arm!" Troy screams. 

She stops as she stood just few feet away from them, her nose bleeding as she continues to glare. 

"Go." She snarls. 

Troy and James scrambled to get away, "Let's get out of here! Let's go!" Troy shouts as he clutches on to his broken arm. 

"Go!" James shouts and runs with Troy. 

Dustin grins in triumph, "Yeah, that's right!" He shouts at James in Troy as they run away, "You better run! She's our friend and she's crazy!"

 "You come back here and she'll kill you! You hear me? She'll kill you, you sons of bitches!" Dustin continues to yell, not realizing the shape Eleven was in after the felt the energy draining her.  She could barely stand.  Dustin voice echoes all around her, "She'll kill you, you hear me?" Eleven finally faints.

In her dreams, Eleven's eyes snap open as she finds herself in the dark world again.  Nothing around her except the watery floor.  She looks beyond her as she hears the growling of the monster again.  Her heavy breaths of fear mixed with it's horrible growls.  She wishes so badly that her sister was there with her.  But she wasn't.  She slowly approaches the the monster, seeing it bent over as it continues to growl.  She stood mere inches away from it.  It seemed so real, she could smell it.  It's horrible, hot, death breath as if it was fanning in her face.  She slowly reaches out to touch it.  Remembering what Papa said.  It can't hurt her.  But, when she finally touches it.  She could feel it's slimy skin.  It was so cold and clammy.  

The monster turns fast and roars at her, opening it's large mouth.  It's teeth nearly touching her.  It's head exploded and all there was, was it's blood dripping mouth!  She snaps out of her state and screams in pure terror.  Her energy goes beyond it's limit.  She swears she could have heard Five screaming with her. 

Outside, Dr. Brenner and his men were startled at the sound of loud banging.  A bright explosion of light and power erupts throughout the lab and a large crack was made in the wall.  Lighting bolts stabbed into the metal and concrete.  Opening the gate. 

Eleven groans as she hears a voice calling out to her, "El, are you okay? El?" She slowly opens her eyes and sees Mike and Dustin kneeling over her with concerned looks. 

She, suddenly, begins to sob softly, "Mike... I'm sorry." She cries. 

"Sorry? What are you sorry for?" Mike frowns at her.

"The gate...I opened it. I'm the monster." She whimpers as her lips tremble and tears fell. 

"No. No, El, you're not the monster. You saved me. Do you understand? You saved me." Mike states. 

Eleven cries softly and feels Mike pull her to sit up. He pulls her into his arms and hugs her, holding her till she calmed down.  Eleven wraps her arms around him as she cries softly into his shoulder.  Dustin grabs them both into a group hug.  Eleven sighs as she calms.  It felt nice being in Mike's arms.  He made her feel safe.  

Finally, they were on their way back to Mike's house, without realizing the repairman from Hawkins Lab was watching them. 

"I have eyes on 'em now. They're heading home." He says into his radio, alerting the Lab. 

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Hopper sighs as he rubs his head, he looks up and sees that they were finally entering Hawkins.  Joyce continues to look out the window, staring at nothing as she thinks about everything Terry must have went through.  Fi sat in between Jace and Gloria.  She sighs as Jace held her hand throughout the trip. She liked it.  She liked him.  She frowns at herself.  'So, this must be what Gloria was telling her about. Like.' She smiles to herself, she liked the feeling he gave her.  She didn't want to lose it.  

Suddenly, Hopper spies a white van in the rear mirror.  He frowns as he notices it was picking up speed. 

"Jace." He says, gaining his attention. 

Jace frowns and looks over his shoulder, "What is it?"

Suddenly, another van moves around the other, matching each other's speed. 

"Trouble." Hopper says. 

Joyce frowns as she looks in the side mirror.  Gloria looks and gasps, she moves and grabs Hopper's headrest, "Do you think...?" She asks. 

"Get Fi down." Hopper states and begins to speed up.

"Get down, sweetie." Gloria says as she pushes Fi to duck. 

The vans were getting closer, no matter how fast Hopper was going.  Soon, they were side by side with the truck.  Fi looks up and sees familiar men driving the van.  

She cries out in fear, "No!" She screams. 

Jace covers her body with his, protecting her.  He couldn't let them get her.  Soon, the vans begins to ram the truck. Making the women scream and cry out.  

"Shit!" Hopper shouts and grunts at the impact.  

The vans continue to ram them, trying to force them to drive off the road.  Fi whimpers as Gloria shouts and hits the side of the door hard.  Joyce whimpers at the impact.  Hopper tries to gain control, but with all the ramming, it was hard for him to drive.  

"Damn it, enough!" Hopper shouts and grunts.  

Fi begins to pant heavily as static crackles around her.  She can't let them take her.  She can't let them hurt her again.  She must protect her friends.  She shoves Gloria and Jace back to press themselves against the seats.  She yells as she lets her energy go.  

Two large lighting bolts explode from her arms and move like snakes on the road.  The bolts latch themselves on to the vans, gripping on to the metal bumpers.  Gloria and Jace watch in shock and concern.  Joyce's eyes widen as Hopper could barely believe what he was watching. 

With another yell, Fi flings her arms, making the bolts cause a huge wave.  Like she was holding two whips in her arms and the vans flip into the air, giving Hopper the chance to drive around the coming van.  Dodging it in time.  The two vans fly into the air, crashing against each other as they land.  Blocking the path for the other van when it tried to follow.

Fi groans and falls against the seat as her energy leaves her.  Panting heavily, She lies limply and Jace pulls her into his arms.  He holds her close in support.  

"Here." Gloria hands him some tissues, helping him to stop her bleeding. "Oh, god." She gasps when she sees blood coming out of her ears.  

Joyce and Hopper were panting from the shock, "So, that's the abilities Becky was telling us about." Joyce gasps out.

Jace sighs as he holds on to Fi, relieved that they escaped, but worried for her health. Fi grunts as she struggles to look and see the men from the vans.  She whimpers softly when she sees a familiar face walk out of the unharmed van.  

"Papa." She whimpers and snuggles deeper against Jace's chest in fear.  Jace looks back and sees Dr. Brenner glaring at them as they drive away.  He continues to hold her close to him. 

"I'm never letting him touch you ever again.  I promise." He whispers and caresses her back.

Five whimpers as memories begin to haunt her.  She hears the echoing of her cries and screams in her ears.  She remembers them strapping her down when she was younger than she is now.  They strapped her down on her stomach and tested her spinal fluid and column.  Dr. Brenner didn't want them to use any sort of anesthesia.  He needed her fluid to be clean and pure.  Five continues to scream and cry as they cut and poke her with needles.  They learned that her source of power didn't just come from her mind, but also her nerves.  The electrical charges that the human body creates.  Hers were far normal than others.  Dr. Brenner just grins at their discoveries. 

Fi cries and holds on to Jace tightly.  She didn't want to feel pain anymore.  She wanted this.  Being in his arms.  Being with him.  To be free.  She sniffles and sighs in his arms.   

"We're almost home.  It's gonna be ok." Jace whispers. 

"We need to get Jonathan out of jail.  Then, I want you all to get some place safe.  Keep Fi away from town, away from people.  We can't let anyone know where she is."  Hopper says. 

"What about her sister? We need to find her." Gloria says. 

"We will." Hopper states. "We will."