AN: I don't own Stranger Things. Ok, so the format of this is set in one night. I will add a bit more science fiction to the story as the night goes on. Now, the Party assembles
Chapter 2
Quickly, The Party assembled at Mike's house. Lucas arrived first and when he saw Max was injured and still upset, he went to her and comforted her. Will, Dustin and Steve Harrington arrived a few minutes later. Steve came through the door wielding his famous nail bat, ready for a fight.
"Ok, how the hell do we have more shit from that place?" He growled looking around the room.
"It's not the Upside Down." Mike said leading everyone to the basement.
The group gathered on the couch and floor as Max told everyone what happened an hour before. Lucas fists were clenched tight in rage, Will had a worried look on his face, Dustin had his hands in his face and Steve looked like a migraine was coming on.
"I thought they shut that place down" Steve said. "I guess they are using it as a staging area. It makes sense, it's practically the only place they can work in secret that has equipment they need" Dustin said.
Equipment The word made Mike nearly nauseous. Jane told him sometimes about the experiments they did to her. They needed to get her back.
"Going there is a guaranteed suicide mission" Mike said simply. "But she is a Party member, and we help out a member in need" He continued
"Ok, I know you dorks keep the whole Dungeons and Dragons rules in real life, but I thought helping a party member meant moving a couch, not assaulting precinct 13" Steve said.
"It would be more like attacking Castle Ravenloft" Dustin said, earning a glare of not now from Lucas and Steve.
"It doesn't matter what this is like, we need to go get Jane back," Max half shouted. She was still feeling the adrenaline from the attack but was trying to be level headed.
"Yea, and it has to be just us." Mike said. They all knew it was true, any adult who could help left for the weekend. The only reason Steve was there was because he had no plans and figured he would make sure none of the little shits got in trouble this weekend. He did that a lot.
"All right, not that I am saying this is at all a good idea, but how the hell are we going to do this?" Lucas said. Even Mike agreed this was not a good idea. He didn't even really have a plan. He would need time, and by the time he had a plan, they could be long gone.
"Ok, how about we head over and scope the place out. I have a few guns at my house we can use." Steve said. The room went silent. They needed to rescue Jane and they knew the men they were facing would kill them without a second thought, but it was uncomfortable the thought of taking lives.
"I hate the idea of killing someone, but we need to defend ourselves" Lucas said. Mike nodded in agreement. "Ok, let's regroup at Steve's house." Mike said grabbing his jacket.
The Party took different means to get to Steve's house. Mike, Lucas and Dustin rode their bikes while Max and Will rode with Steve. Max still was shaken up and didn't trust herself on the bike. Steve wondered if hey should leave her behind.
"I'm fine, its just, I never have been shot before and here I am going to a place where I might get shot again" Max reassured herself more than anyone else.
"I just wish we had more, ya know, adults doing this" Steve said.
"Unless you wanna ask Max's brother for help, we are on our own." Will said. Steve had unfinished business with Billy, and was not that hard up for reinforcements. Besides, who would really believe them?
They arrived at Steve's house and headed for his father's gun cabinet. " Now, remember: you don't aim a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot him. And, you don't shoot a man unless you intend to kill him. No warning shots. Hey, you listening to me? No warning shots. Warning shots are bullshit. You shoot to kill, or you don't shoot at all." Steve said helping fit the holsters on them.
Steve then loaded them into the family van and they drove a few miles away from the lab. They parked and headed to a place overlooking the lab. Dustin and Will began scoping out the perimeter and saw a few guards out at the fence, and one on the roof with a sniper rifle.
"I dunno how we are going to get through that." Lucas said, handing the binoculars to Mike. As if they were being listened to, a massive thunder storm began forming. The rain forced the outside guards into guard shacks, and had the sniper going inside. The party ran down and hid in a ditch, watching one of the gate guards. "I have an idea" Dustin said.
After telling the group his plan, he walked up, and tapped on the window. The guard got up in frustration and left the guard shack. "The hell do you want boy?!" he demanded.
"Please, I need help, my parent's car crashed and I don't know what to do!" Dustin began fake crying, which the rain helped. "You are really going to need help if you don't fuck off out of here boy." He said, going for his weapon.
"Hey, don't talk that way to my son" Steve said, surprising the guard and hitting him in the head a few times with the bat. Steve and Dustin moved him into a ditch and opened the gate.
"Ok, be prepared, we don't know what's in there." Mike said. They quietly, yet quickly ran into lobby and found a gruesome sight. Multiple soldiers were dead around them. It appeared they were ambushed.
"What the hell is going on here?" Max said as they stepped around the bodies. Many appeared to also be dead trying to cover dead scientists. Their weapons were also missing.
They made their way to a security room and found it empty. Looking over the cameras, they began a plan.
"We split up, and I don't fucking care about splitting up the party" Steve said anticipating Dustin. "We do some intel gathering and meet back here. Keep low and out of sight." He said. They quickly left in separate directions, agreeing to meet back once they searched the first floor.
The sudden rain did more than just provide the group a sudden entrance to the lab, it also ruined Nancy and Johnathan's plans. They were out camping without a tent when it suddenly began downpouring. Nancy remembered checking the weather and it was supposed to be clear all weekend. Deciding to regroup at the Wheeler house, the pair made their way back to town.
"Mike, are you home?" Nancy called as she entered the house. It was still early and he could not have gone to sleep. Nobody answered her though.
Johnathan was grabbing a couple of towels from the bathroom when he noticed Mike wasn't in his room.
"You think he went to Dustin's?" He asked as he helped Nancy dry her hair. "Heaven help him if he is alone with Jane if Hopper comes back" She said with a half grin. "But I dunno where he went off to, he even left his homework on the table" She said looking in the kitchen.
Looking at the table she also found the first aid kit out and also a bloody wash cloth. Major warnings came to her. "What the hell happened here?" She said picking up the bloody wash cloth.
"Hang on, let me call the Henderson's. Will was staying there." Johnathan said picking up the phone.
The phone rang twice before he got an answer. "Mrs. Henderson, hey its's Johnathan Byers, is Will there? I'm just checking on him." He said to the receiver. "Yea, ok thank you Mrs. Henderson" He said hanging up. Nancy looked at him for an explanation.
"Will and Dustin left with Steve, they said it was a code red" He said gravely. "Ok, that usually means a few things for them" She said.
"Yea, but she said they left in a hurry. Add to the blood, we might need to check the hospital." Johnathan said grabbing his keys from his pocket.
"Wait, code red usually means something from that lab. What if they went there?" She said with sudden realization. "Ok, we can check there first." He said heading to the door. "Just once, I would like to not have to deal with some monster from another dimension" She said as Johnathan started the car.
Dr. Brenner was sitting across from Jane, knowing he held all the cards. Nobody knew she was there and knew nobody would come looking for her. Children had fleeting feelings.
"The drug that we injected with you, not only could it be a good sedative also inflames a part of your brain that causes migraines. Your powers work, it just will hurt for several hours" he said pulling a vial out. "We will inject you again before we leave." He said placing the vial on a table.
Jane kept struggling while glaring at Brenner. "You think this will end well for you?" She spat at him.
"Once we get you to your new home, you will understand our work." He said simply. He looked to one of his men for a report. "Sir, a storm is keeping the helicopter at bay." He reported. Brenner turned away from Jane and was concerned, the skies were supposed to be clear. No clouds in sight.
"Sweep the building, we might have a few stragglers." He ordered. The soldier nodded and began barking orders into his radio.
Brenner walked out of the office to the hall and looked outside. The people he took this lab from for his staging area shouldn't have known he betrayed them so soon. He needed to prepare to get Eleven out before their retaliation force came.
While he was recovering from the attack by that creature, he was approached by a government research group. He agreed to join them in their research and defense projects. He told them this lab would be a great place for anonymous research. It was supposed to be shut down so nobody would expect it when the group moved in.
But it was a trap he laid to claim their tech and also regain one of his subjects back. His favorite, the one he anonymously began searching for. Then in December, he heard she was still in Hawkins, living with that drunken fool Jim Hopper. After getting the information from Dr. Owens and disposing of him, he began his plan.
It seemed to have worked but a few patrols hadn't reported in and this freak storm came out of nowhere. He needed to get Eleven out soon.
Jane saw Brenner was somehow starting to panic. He hoped the intruder was Mike coming to get her. On one hand it was very implausible that he was the one causing trouble, but she hoped he was there on a rescue mission. Somehow, she seemed to know he was there. Like a strange feeling she had that maybe her former Papa was about to have a bad night.