broken | a byler story

chapter 6: second phase

"Holy Shit" said Will

"So... how do we stop him?" Mike asked

Dustin flipped to the end of the manual, "Well it says here, that there's a chip in the top right drawer of his desk... but-"

"But what?" Steve asked

"But to activate it, it needs to be placed into Vecna for a full minute... and we need to have to have a 1,000 mega watt laser to burn through Vecna's skin" Dustin said

"Where the fuck do we get a military grade laser from?" asked Will

"Also, how do we keep him still and keep the chip in for a minute?" Mike asked too

"Wait... there's something written in pen, looking like it had been written after this was printed," Dustin said, "It says alternatively, you can find the vial of 'Anti-Henry'"

"Perfect!" Robin said, "So where do we get this 'Anti-Henry' vial?"

"It's a goddamn riddle," Dustin said annoyed, "In the room of kaleidoscope-like things to forego, behind the artifact that becomes you when you are there, and is vacant when you're gone."

"So basically a giant mush of gibberish" Lucas said

"No," El said, "Papa only hid things when it was a life or death situation. This 'Anti-Henry' is probably too important to keep lying around."

"It also said that all test subjects have a place in their mind," Dustin said, "It says the only way to use the Anti-Henry in his mindscape."

"Wait... so does that mean-" Steve started

"El can access Vecna's mindscape, but Vecna can also access hers" Will said

"Eleven, why did you never tell us about your mindscape?" Mike asked

"I don't have one" El said sadly

"What?" Robin asked,

"All of the test subjects were connected by a space in our minds. When 001 became Vecna, he shut us out from the mindscape, I haven't been able to access it for years" El said, clearly annoyed.

"Ok enough chit-chat" Lucas said, "Lets solve this riddle. Nobody talk unless you've solved the riddle."

____________________________________________________________TWO HOURS LATER

"I think I have some of it" Will said, excitedly

"Same" said Mike

"The 'artifact that becomes you when you are there, and vacant when you're gone,' that's a mirror." Will said

"And the 'room of kaleidoscope-like things to forego' is the rainbow room" Mike said

"Holy shit," said Dustin, "The Anti-Henry vial is in the Rainbow Room"

"EL!" Mike yelled, "WHERE'S THE RAINBOW ROOM?!"

"The same place it was when we passed through it" El said

"The creepy room with random spots of blood?" Will asked

"Home sweet home" El said sarcastically 

"Well..." Will said, "This lab is fucked up."

"Tell me about it," El said, "Let's just head to the rainbow room and then GET OUT."

____________________________________________________________HAWKINS LAB: RAINBOW ROOM

The group reached the Rainbow Room about ten minutes later, while Brenner had tried to clean up after the 001 Massacre, there was still blood splattered in some places, thus people chose not to go in there very often.