Chapter 2
The Lab
❛Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone❜ - Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel
Third Person POV
makani's eyes slowly opened, pain hit her like a brick wall. she was aching and stinging all over. she ran her fingers across her skin to find multiple stitches and bandages scattered around. she gingerly touched her forehead and hissed as soon as she touched it. slowly the memories of the previous night came back to her and she was brought back to reality.
her mom was really gone.
she let out a sob and just as she was about to break down a man came into the room. the man looked like he was in his late 50s, he had grey hair and wore a black suit and tie with a white shirt, he had eyes that were masked by kindness but had something else behind them. he had a friendly smile on his face but it seemed forced.
"why hello there i see you have finally woken up," he said. makani was still upset about her moms death, she looked down at her fingers and started fidgeting with her ring.
"im the man who saved you from dying in that unfortunate car crash, you can call me dr brenner." makani slowly looked back up at the man, "okay... and?" part of makani hoped that she died in that crash too or that her mom survived instead, now all she felt was numbness and emptiness.the man continued to speak, "i work for the government and here we help gifted children unlock their full potential and you my dear have potential, great things will come from you," makani raised her eyebrows in surprise, "we believe you will be the key to multiple dimensions that contain things that could potentially help us surpass the russians in technology,"makani took a moment to process what he had just said. dimensions? technology? russians? her head was already pounding from her concussion this was all too much for her.
"so... you saved a fifteen your old kid from a car crash and brought them to your creepy ass hospital to send them into a unknown dimension?" questioned makani."you know what that sounds like to me? child endangerment, whats in it for me?" dr brenner gave makani a friendly smile "well you have no family, we can either send you to foster care where you can be a nobody or help us and go down in the history books," makani sighed, "oh wow i'm really spoiled for choices aren't I?" dr brenner showed no reaction and waited for the girls response, "okay well where do I sign up then?"
she spent a year training her mind to do mind bending things, she immensely improved her emotion reading power, it enabled her to read peoples emotions and even tap into key memories of there life. she also did basic combat and survival training. they even supplied her with a basic education and kept her up to date on all the basic knowledge you needed to know at the age of 15. they gave her a tattoo labeled 021.
sometimes makani wondered how her life would have been if she went to foster care, at the time she believed that she truly had no one and had no choice.
finally the big day came, the day she would finally pursue her mission of going into the upside down. she had a full body suit on and a mask that filtered the air so she wouldn't be inhaling the toxic fumes, they connected a cable to the back of her suit so they could pull her back out. dr brenner pulled a thumbs up and gave her a reassuring look before she finally took a step in.
everything looked the same but different. like a decayed version of earth. walking further in she observed the vines, everything seemed to be alive and the vines appeared to be pulsing. "everything good in there 021?" makani always thought it was odd how they referred to her and the other kids in the lab as a number as if they were some lab rats. all of them had some form of special abilities, the children rarely have interactions though.
"yeah i see unicorns and rainbows and shit so anyway all jokes aside can i return? its actually creepy as fuck in here." The radio was silent for a few seconds before she got a reply. "return? we worked far too long just for you to return in under 3 minutes 021," makani rolled her eyes and turned around. fuck this. makani started going back towards the gate but before she could a small grey slimy looking creature emerged from the shadows. the creatures face was shaped like a pointy flower and had rows and rows of teeth with no other facial features.
makani paused in fear as it slowly approached the rope, the only thing keeping her from being trapped in this shit hole. suddenly, its face closed around it and chomped right through the rope making it snap. makani's heart dropped as she saw the rope fall to the ground, the rift was too small for her to climb back through as it shrunk. she attempted to read the demogorgan's emotions and couldn't find anything, it was like it was shallow and empty. but one thing was clear though....
it was hungry.
adrenaline pumped through her veins as she spun on her heels and bolted through the now corrupted lab. she turned into a narrow hallway trying to throw off the baby demogorgan and sprinted into the janitors closet. it sprinted right past her down the hallway, makani waited until the shrieking was far in the distance before coming out of her hiding spot.
it finally dawned on her, she was stuck in a alternate dimension with practically nothing and no one.
Authors Note: broo i have so many ideas you guys aren't ready for this. Nancy and Makani will be meeting each other soon. Anyway hope you enjoyed and a vote would be pretty cool anyway see ya
-Artymisy
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