It Couldn't Get Any Stranger

The Gate

You wait at the laboratory when you hear two people coming up from behind you.

You spin round ready to attack.

Oh,it was just Mike and Lucas.

This place had you on edge and you didn't know why.

"Hey y/n, it's abandoned, no one else is here, no one can hurt you"

Suddenly what max says triggers a flashback....

***

It's 1983, you lie in an empty room. No bed, no toilet, no decorations, no lights . Just a pitch black, empty chamber with metal walls.

You were drenched in tears and your face was itchy from it, but it was too cold to move.

Suddenly the door swings open.

You flinch.

A man stood there, he blocked all the light which made him look like a dark,ghostly silhouette.

You know him as Dr Brenner.

He ran the laboratory.

"Get up 007, no one is going to hurt you"

***

"Y/n! Y/n!!" Max says.

You were on the floor curled up into a ball.

"You fainted, you just fell onto the floor! Are you alright?" She looked at your eyes, she understood.

This building definitely didn't have the best memories.

Dustin gets off his bike now that Lucas and Mike are here, brings out his pliers and began snipping the fencing around the lab.

"Could you hurry up?" Lucas says.

"Hey you can't rush this kind of thing!" Dustin says.

"You can when you need to kill some demodogs!" Lucas says.

Dustin rolls his eyes and finishes cutting a small hole in the fence.

You don't know how but everyone somehow got through.

When you were inside the lab, it felt weird.

You'd lived here for 12 years and still hadn't been here before.

The reception.

You walked past the bloodstains on the floor. Dustin, Lucas and Max clearly didn't know what they were but Mike did.

Mike gulped as he walked past. What you saw in his eyes was.. loneliness.

He missed Will too.

You walk over to him, he pulls a face but you reassure him you want to help him.

You place your hand on his arm and the tears disappear from his eyes.

"W-what how?" Mike stammers.

"Superpowers remember!" You smile.

He nods and you jog to catch up with Max.

"Damnn this place has a creepy vibe" Max says whilst running her hands across the cobwebs on the wall.

"It would make a great haunted house.." she continues.

You just nod, you weren't sure what a haunted house was.

You were all possibly underprepared since the only weapon you had was Lucas's wrist-rocket.

You realised you were the only one who knew where the gate was so you took the lead as you walked along the corridors and went up flights of stairs.

Eventually, you found it.

The gate.

Or what remained of it..

***

"007, 008, 011, today is the day we make contact. Now 011, you are going to be safe, it can't hurt you in there."

You and 008 watch as she walks up into the tank and is lowered inside.

The doors shut and 011 is plunged into darkness.

She starts screaming..

The wall starts crumbling..

It breaks apart and you notice 008 sprint off and away from the workers as the fumble with buttons and try and pull 011 out of there.

You stand there oblivious.

The gate opens.

***

Today it was more or less sealed up but it looked like something had just broken through.

"Y/n, I thought you came out through the gate at the warehouse" Lucas says.

You gulp.. "I did."

"So wha-"

Lucas's question was answered before he even asked it.

From the shadows emerged a grotesque creature, covered in slime and had blood dripping from its mouth.

The demogorgan.

Stronger than ever.