She-Wolf ( Under Heavy Editing)

Chapter 26

" Good to see your both alive," he says, I looked at him and chuckle

" I should be the one saying that," I said, We all regrouped at the fountain as Mike went over a few things. I laid on the floor while Lilly sat next to me and Ethan stood in front of us,

"The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins, to stop El, to kill her and pave a way into our world," Mike explained

"And it almost did. That was just one tiny piece of it," Nancy said,

"How big is this thing?" Hopper asked,

" It's big," Jonathan said "Thirty feet, at least," I looked at Lilly and notice her leg was scared making me angry

"Yeah. It sorta destroyed your cabin." Lucas said, "Sorry,"

" Okay, so, just to be clear, this...this big fleshy spider thing that hurt El,  it's some kind of gigantic... weapon?" Steve asked, 

"Yes," Nancy said,

"But instead of, like, screws and metal, the Mind Flayer made its weapon... with melted people," he asked

"Yes, exactly," she responded 

"Yeah, okay. I-- Yeah, I'm just making sure," he said,

"Are we sure this thing is still out there, still alive?" Joyce asked

"El beat the shit out of it, but, yeah, it's still alive," Max said

"But if we close the gate again--" Will began

" We cut the brain off from the body," Max continued

"And kill it." Lucas finished " Theoretically,"

"Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo!" the sound of the bald man made us look at him as he walked over and placed some papers down

"Okay, this is what Alexei called"the hub." Now, the hub takes us to the vault room." he said,

"Okay, where's the gate?" Hopper asked

"Right here. I don't know the scale on this, but I think it's fairly close to the vault room, maybe 50 feet or so," he said, but Erica cut him off

"More like 500.  What, you're just gonna waltz in there like it's commie Disneyland or something?" she said,

"I'm sorry, who are you?" he asked,

" Erica Sinclair. Who are you?" she stated,

" Murray... Bauman," he said,

"Listen, Mr. Bunman, I'm not trying to tell you how to do things, but I've been down in that shithole for 24 hours." she said, " And with all due respect, you do what this man tells you, you're all gonna die."

" I'm sorry, why is this four-year-old speaking to me?" Murray asked,

"Um, I'm ten, you bald bastard!" she shouted, 

"Erica!" Lucas warned,

"Just the facts!" she said

"She's right. You're all gonna die, but you don't have to." Dustin said as he steps up " Excuse me. Sorry, may I?"

"Please," Murray said, as Dustin grabbed the paper and began to draw on it

"Okay, see this room here? This is a storage facility. There's a hatch in here that feeds into their underground ventilation system. That will lead you to the base of the weapon." he said, " It's a bit of a maze down there, but between me and Erica, we can show you the way."

" You can show us the way?" Hopper asked,

"Don't worry, you can do all the fighting and the dangerous hero shit, and we'll just be your... navigators," Dustin said, but Hopper shook his head,