WALKING BACK TO THE WHEELER'S, Mariella spoke quietly to Eleven about how she'll clean her up when they got there and how she wishes she had extra clothes on her for Eleven to wear.

Walking into the back door and rushing into the basement, without a second thought, she grabbed Eleven's hand and led her into the bathroom and shutting the door.

"Listen, that was really... Badass," Mariella starts as she turns the sink on and dampens a cloth.

"Badass?" Eleven asks, looking to her confusedly.

"Like... Cool. But cooler than cool. Badass," Mariella responds. "That was a really bad explanation, wasn't it?" She adds, giggling as she brings the cloth to Eleven's face and wipes dirt off her.

Eleven smiles softly, laughing along with her as Mariella continues to clean up her face.

"Hey, sorry about last time. All the arguing. We're just worried. Lucas is worried. Mike's worried," Mariella apologizes, wiping Eleven's cheek before nodding for her to look in the mirror.

Apprehensively, Eleven gazes into it and sighs, touching her head and looking to Mariella sadly.

"Oh, shut it," Mariella smiles at her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "You don't need it, you know? The wig. You're pretty the way you are," She goes on as Eleven picks up a strand of her waist length hair and plays with it.

"It gets annoying. Trust me. The boys are always yelling about how it tickles and it's heavy!" Mariella says causing Eleven to laugh at her words.

"Annoying," She agrees, nodding.

"Like the boys," Mariella adds with a pointed brow and smirk.

The door clamours open and they both turn to it in shock. "Guys!" Dustin yells to the as if they were deaf.

"What?" Mariella asks with an agitated expression.

"It's Lucas, I think he's in trouble," Dustin responds before rushing back to Mike

Mariella looks to Eleven and rushes after Dustin, "What do you mean? Trouble?" She asks as she stands next to Mike and leans into his shoulder. Eleven follows and sits down in the empty chair at the table where Dustin picked up his walkie.

"Do you remember how he said he was looking for the gate?" Dustin asks and Mariella nods.

"What if he found it?" Dustin goes on as Lucas' voice comes through the walkie, shouting out indistinguishable words.

"What's he saying?" Mike asks.

"I don't know, he's way out of range," Dustin responds,

They all listen to the walkie, trying to make out the words Lucas shouts. Mike bringing it up to his ear.

"...Son of a bitch!" Lucas says.

" Lucas, if you can hear us, slow down. We can't understand you," Mike says into the walkie.

"Yes, I copy! Do you? They know about Eleven! Get out of there! They know about Eleven! The bad men are coming! All of them! Do you hear me? The bad men are coming!" Lucas yells, but it was cracky through the walkie. It was hard to understand.

""Mad hen." Does that mean anything to you?" Dustin asks them. "Like a code name or something?".

"The bad men are coming!" Lucas shouts again.

""Bad men." Bad men!" Mike whispers and looks to Dustin and Mariella in a panic as the walkie begins to act up again.

"Stay here," Mike says to Eleven before running up the stairs followed by Dustin and Mariella.

They run to the living room window and look out, seeing a Hawkins Power and Light van. "What's that guy doing?" Mike asks them.

"You don't think..." Dustin goes on.

"He's one of them," Mariella nods as Mike runs off, leaving Dustin and Mariella staring out the window in fear. They watch as more come and surround the house, staring out the truck windows and at them.

"Shit!" Dustin says as he pulls the curtains shut.

"What do we do?" Mariella asks as she begins to tie her hair back with the hair tie on her wrist. Dustin runs off.

"Dustin!" She sighs, following after him and into the kitchen.

"Mike!" Dustin says.

"One second!" Mike responds, holding a finger up to him.

"Mike!" Dustin yells.

"We need to leave... Right now," Dustin pants when Mike looks to him before running back to the basement.

"Hi, Mrs. Wheeler, thanks for having us! Bye!" Mariella smiles nervously before running after Dustin.

♧

They rushed out of the house after collecting their things. Grabbing their bikes and running out to the back of the house before getting on them. They watched as a group of men approached them, stopping midway and just staring.

"Go, go, go!" Dustin yells at them to start pedalling as the men turn to their vans.

"Where?" Mariella says as they begin biking down the grass.

"I don't know! Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God," Dustin says as he follows after Mike, Mariella, and Eleven who made it onto an empty road.

"Dustin!" Lucas shouts through the walkie. "Dustin, do you copy?".

"Yeah, Lucas, they're on us!" Dustin responds.

"Where are you?" Lucas asks. He was in range.

"Cornwallis," Dustin says.

"Meet me at Elm and Cherry!"

"Copy. Elm and Cherry!" Dustin mimics as bike onto a curb.

"Okay!" Mike nods.

"They're coming up!" Mariella calls out, hearing the sound of two vans follow them from behind.

"Shit!" Dustin yells.

"This way, come on!" Mike shouts to them, biking onto someone's driveway and down the back and into a park. They notice two girls who sang a song and clapped each other's hands and Dustin began to ring his bike bell.

"Look out!" Mariella shouts at them.

"Out of the way! Out of the way!" Dustin adds as he zooms in between them.

"Sorry!" Mariella calls after passing them as they continued biking past someone's house and onto a road and stopping, noticing Lucas.

"Lucas!" Mike says in relief.

"I don't know," Mike stammers out.

"I think we lost them," Dustin adds.

"No, we didn't!" Mariella screeches as they all turn their heads to three vans who were again pulling up from behind.

"Go, go, go, go, go!" Mike yells as the trucks tires screech.

"Faster, faster!"

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!"

"Just go! Don't look back! Keep going!"

"No!" Mariella yells as another vam pulls up in front and speeds toward them.

Next thing they knew, it goes flying into the air and over them. They all look up in awe.

"Holy shit!" Dustin yells out as they continues biking.

"You just saved us! Again!" Mariella cheers and pedals faster.