As the night sky spread over the small town of Hawkins, Y/n Harrington searched her house for spare change to use at the arcade with her friends. She lifted pillows, cushions and even mattresses only to find 8 quarters and a few nickles and dimes. Just as she sighed, a familiar voice rang over the radio, "Y/n? Lucas? What's your haul?" Dustin asked as Y/n walked to the radio. " 8 quarters, Henderson. I'm heading out now." and with that she shut off the radio and ran downstairs.
"No running, shithead!" Steve yelled as the shorter girl almost crashed into him. "My bad, mom!" The girl ran outside to grab her old beat up bike and pedal quickly to the arcade. Y/n was sure she would be the first one there due to her being the fastest at pedaling. When the arcade came into view, she began to slow down and hopped off, quickly running in and asking keith to change her nickles and dimes for quarters.
The boys soon arrived and they all got into an intense game of Dragons lair. The party shouted at Dustin as he played and he soon died, getting angry at the machine. "Overpriced piece of shit!" He shouted as he kicked the machine. While Dustin had his little tantrum, Lucas mocked him for not being able to beat his high score .
"At least least you still top at centipede. Not dig dug though, thats my game." Y/n stuck her tongue out as a loud chewing was heard behind the group. "Are you sure about that?" Keith asked, sticking another puff into his mouth. "No! No! No!"
Dustin and Y/n yelled as they looked at the high scores. "MadMax? Who's Madmax?" Dustin questioned to which Keith chuckled, "If you want information, it comes with a price." The group slowly turned to look at Mike who shook his head quickly. "No! No way!" "Come on Mike!" Dustin tried to reason but Mike didnt budge.
"I'm not prostituting my sister!" "Y'know what? Don't get him that date. He's gonna spread his nasty ass rash to your whole family." Y/n mentioned. Secretly she thought it was a bad idea due to her brother dating the older Wheeler so Dustin Keith and her argued a bit more before trying to get their high scores back.
The younger Harrington woke up a bit later than usual due to her being out with her friends at night. She was woken up by her brother who rushed her since he had to pick up Nancy Wheeler as well. "Come on, Y/n! We don't got all day!" "I'm almost done, dickhead!" Y/n shouted as she tied up her vans and grabbed her skateboard. She ran to Steve's car, immediately calling shotgun but it didn't matter since he would make her sit in the back anyway.
After picking up Nancy and arriving at school, Y/n quickly got out the car and was almost hit by a blue mustang. "Fuck you!" She yelled at the car as she skated to the middle school, wanting to get to class as quickly as possible.
The young Harrington sat in the back of the class where Mr. Clark had assigned her new seat due to her and Dustin always talking. Dustin had been her best friend longer than anyone and he was the most tolerable out of the party, Will being right after.
As Mr. Clark talked about something that flew over her head, the classroom door opened to reveal the principal and a familiar redhead. "Is this our new student?" Mr Clark questioned and the principal nodded. "All yours," and with that he walked away. Max attempted to sit in the back before being stopped by the teacher.
"Hold on! You're not getting away that easy!" He turned to Dustin. "Drumroll please?" Dustin started up a drum roll as Mr.Clark spoke, "Coming all the way frome Sunnyvale, California. Maxine Mayfield" "It's Max." "Excuse me?" "Nobody calls me Maxine. It's Max." Dustin and the party turned to Y/n and they all mouthed 'Madmax' as the girl walked to the only free chair that was to the taller girls left.
After school was over, the party walked out to watch Max, wondering if she could actually be MadMax. "There's no way that's MadMax." Mike spoke as he stared at the redhead. "Yeah. Girl's dont play video games, besides Y/n." "And even if they did, you can't get 700000 points at dig dug. It's impossible." Lucas turned to Mike, "How many Max's do you know?" "Zero. That's how many." Y/n said as she stared at Max doing tricks on her board.
"So?" "So? She arrives at school the day after someone with her name beats mine and Y/n's score? She has to be MadMax." Dustin commented before the younger Harrington spoke again, "And she skates so she's like, awesome." "Awesome? You haven't even spoken a word to her!" Mike argued until Dustins voice shut everyone up, "Shit I've lost target!" "Look!" Will said and every looked at the redhead again, now throwing something into the trash. Everyone looked at each other and ran to the bin, Y/n diving head first to pull out a crumpled paper that said in all capital letters,
"STOP SPYING ON ME CREEPS"
After school, You Dustin and Lucas decided to head to the arcade to see if you could spot Max there and if she was playing dig dug then your theory would be correct, she was MadMax. As you leaned on a truck, Lucas to your left and Dustin to your right, Dustin looked at his watch. "Oh shit my mom's going to murder me." He said, obviously as a joke. "Go home. We'll radio you if she is MadMax." Lucas said as he looked through his stupid binoculars again.
"Oh you both want me to leave so you can make your move!" "Like you're a huge threat." Y/n joked, drinking from her can of soda. " 10 O'clock! 10 O'clock!" Dustin shouted as all of their heads looked in that direction. "They're arguing!" "We can see that. I don't know why you need those, you're so stupid." Dustin said as they ran over to the arcade.
The three peered through the window and saw Max playing Dig Dug, beating Y/n's new high score. "She's incredible." Y/n said as she slid to the floor, the boys copying her. "She's MadMax." The trio said at the same time. The three rode home in triumph and with a new goal. Ask Max to go trick or treating with the party.
