"Seek" - Part Five

Part Five

            After what happened to Si, a frantic Joyce had no other choice but to call Jim Hopper over. This could have been a new lead on the case of her missing son. She tried to explain the situation to Hopper in full detail, no matter how insane any of it sounded.

            Hearing about the girl (Si) and how she was helping to find Will, Hopper came to the only feasible conclusion: “She was pranking you guys. Some dumb kids at school probably put her up to it.”

            “Hopp, do we know any kids stupid enough to pull such a cruel prank, using this?” She showed him the bizarre tool Si left behind in her living room.

            Hopper grimaced at the device. “What is that?”

            “I don’t know,” Joyce said. “But that girl used it to help us talk with Will, and the next thing we know, all the lights in our house go crazy.”

            “Joyce, she probably used this thing to do just that to scare you.”

            “Again I ask, Hopp, who would waste the time and intelligence to do that?!”

            Unable to convince her of the possible truth, Jim was ready to give up; but he needed to know more about this unusual girl who used unusual tools to conduct fraudulent investigations.

            For that, he had to address the person who spoke to her first: Jonathan.

            “Do you know anything else about this girl?” He asked him.

            Jonathan shrugged. “Other than the fact she looked cute, nothing much.”

            While Jonathan did his best to answer the chief’s questions, Joyce felt Si’s crazy device intensely pulsating in her hands when pointed at a specific direction. “Guys, look at this,” she directed Hopper and Jonathan’s attention to it. “I think it’s working like a metal detector now. It might lead us somewhere we’ll find Si and Will.”

            “This place is mental. It’s way cooler than the Millennium Falcon.”

            Dustin’s observation of the alien spaceship he, Mike, and Lucas discovered in the woods came shortly after the girl they found with it brought them into its dimensionally disproportionate interior.

            Mike, on the other hand, was more captivated by the girl, whose name they learned to be Eleven from the numbered tattoo on her left forearm.

            “Is this where you live, Elle?” He asked her.

            Eleven shook her head and again only said, “Alien.”

            “Well, the fact that it’s bigger on the inside gives that way,” Lucas noted.

            “Who does it belong to?” Mike questioned Eleven.

            She responded by placing her hand on the control console, influencing the ship to bring up an image of a beautiful teenaged blonde on the console monitor.

            Dustin was instantly enchanted. “Whoa! She’s even hotter than Nancy!”

            “Dude…Seriously?!” Mike remarked in disgust.

            “How does a normal-looking girl like her own an alien spaceship like this?” Lucas deliberated.

            “She’s Supergirl,” Dustin alluded. “Alien on the inside, human on the outside.”

            “Missing,” Eleven uttered.

            Mike drew his own hypothesis from her random remark. “You mean that girl on the screen is missing? Where could she be?”

            They suddenly heard a car driving up outside.

            Stepping out of the alien spaceship, they saw it to be Steve Harrington, Mike’s sister Nancy, and a guy wearing some type of Halloween costume of a devil bounty hunter. Mike, Lucas, and Dustin were impressed by it.

            “Sick costume, man,” Lucas told him.

            “I…I don’t think it’s a costume, fellas,” Steve apprehensively pointed out.

            “Hellboy,” Eleven identified the costumed stranger with a judgmental tone.

            “Look, kid,” Hellboy said. “I’m sorry that I—”

            Without warning, Hellboy was flung across the air by an unseen force, smacking against a tree.

            “I deserved that,” he groaned.

            The blood trickling out of Eleven’s left nostril was enough to convince Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Nancy, and Steve that she possessed some kind of telepathic abilities. To see it up close astounded them.

            “This girl gets cooler every second,” Dustin commented.

            Nancy’s attention moved away from the telepathic girl to the giant domino-shaped spacecraft near them, opened to reveal its dimensionally disproportionate interior. “What is this?!”

            “A spaceship that gets in and out of other dimensions,” Hellboy answered, gathering himself. “And that thing back there is from one of ‘em. It killed Barb.”

            “Barb’s dead?” Nancy gasped. Devastated, she cried into Steve’s shoulder.

            “What ‘thing’ are you talking about?” Mike asked.

            Before Hellboy could answer, a Hawkins Police Dept. truck pulled in right next to Steve’s car. Jim Hopper got out of it with Joyce and Jonathan Byers; when he saw the domino-shaped, dimensionally-disproportionate alien spaceship, his jaw dropped.

            “This might just be the weirdest night of my life,” he reflected.

            Hellboy noticed Joyce with a familiar device pulsating in her hands.

            “Where did you get that?!” He unforgivingly inquired. “That’s Si’s.”

            “You know her,” a surprised Joyce said.

            “Yeah, I know her,” Hellboy grumbled. “Where is she?”

            “The Upside Down,” said Eleven, whose response drew perplexed glances from the people around her.

            Si and Will ran for hours, doing what they could to stay out of sight from the gargantuan spider entity. The best place for them to hide was the Hawkins Public Library – or the dark dimension’s version of it.

            “What does it want from us?” Will asked.

            “It wants something mostly from me,” Si said.

            “What are you to it? Why are you so important?”

            “This may sound crazy – then again, we’re smack-dab in the middle of ‘crazy’ – but I’m an alien from another planet within another dimension known as Gallifrey.”

            It was a lot for Will to process, but he ultimately found the idea amusing.

            “So…you’re like E.T., only just…you know…prettier,” he observed.

            Si blushed from the compliment and even more so when Will noted afterward:

            “And if there’s anyone I’d want to be trapped in a parallel dimension with, I’m glad that it’s someone as brave as you are.”

            As flattered as she was to hear this, Si promised him, “I’ll get you back home, Will, by whatever means necessary.”

            Their moment of peace was disrupted by the quaking of the library’s foundation.

            It could only have meant the spider entity had found them.