It Couldn't Get Any Stranger

Back to the Russian Base

After over half an hour of biking you realise you really want your own bike.

It was soooo annoying riding on the back of Max's because you had no seat.

As she pedalled along the uneven roads you passed a sign.

"Welcome to Hawkins"

But if you read the graffiti you would see.

"Welcome to Hell"

It sure felt like hell in the upside down.

The pumpkin fields alongside the roads held almost no pumpkins bar one or two of the small and rotten ones.

It reminds you of when Max told you about when she went into the tunnels last year.

Just then you spot the warehouse. It looked smaller than it felt walking along the vast tunnels that connected it to the Mall.

It would've been so much easier walking from the Mall. Why didn't you think of that.

Max pulls up outside the warehouse and throws her bike on the floor.

"Seriously? We've been waiting like half an hour for you!" Dustin says.

"Sorry I couldn't sleep last night" you say.

"That's not an excuse and also, why did you radio at midnight?" Mike says.

"I was just a bit anxious that El hadn't got her powers back."

The party fell silent. They hadn't thought of that either.

Suddenly out of nowhere Eleven lifted her arm.

Closed her eyes.

Behind us the bikes rose 5ft into the air before she lowered them down to the ground gently.

"Yes, I have powers, they came back after the mindflayer died, I'm just trying not to use them as much" she says.

"Wait so this means I brought flame-throwers for nothing?" Dustin says.

"No, you idiot we can kill the demogorgans with those " Lucas says.

Mike, Will and Max stare at the boys arguing, you walk over to El.

"Are they always like this?"

"Yep." She says.

You both laugh, then the whole party turned round and you both look down at the floor embarrassed but then you laugh again.

El was great.

Dustin picks up the flamethrowers and passes them around, he had five so only Mike, Max, Lucas, Will and him had them.

It was alright though, you could try and make it 'sleep' or something.

You all walk around the perimeter of the building before you find a vent.

"Aha!" Dustin points to it, he bends down and flashes his torch through the vent. "I got stuck in here with Erica." He says.

"With Erica?" Lucas says.

"Yep, a couple of months ago do you not remember?" Dustin replies.

Max and El roll their eyes.

"Sorry, I talk when I'm nervous" Dustin says.

"Why did you bring a torch when it's like 10 in the morning?" You ask.

"Hey you never know what you might need!" He says.

"What are we gonna do now?" Mike asks.

"It's obvious isn't it. The smallest of us will crawl through and open that door," Dustin points to the barricaded door you had all just tried to open.

"Who even is the smallest?" Max asks.

"I don't know, it used to be Will but he has grown loads, so I'd say it's me" Dustin says.

"Okay well let's get you in there." Lucas says.

El yanks open the vent with her mind and Dustin crawls in.

In no time Dustin has opened the door and you all walk inside the abandoned Russian base.