The car speeds into the woods, Dustin shouting into the walkie-talkie while Will peers out the window. Trees shoot past them. The closer they draw to the cabin, the colder Will feels.

"Damn it, they won't answer." Dustin throws his walkie-talkie onto the seat and leans forward to Steve and Robin. "Can't you go any faster?"

Eyes glued to the road, Steve flicks his hand at Dustin's face. "I'm flooring it, Henderson!"

As they pull in front of the cabin, Will's hand shoots up to the back of his neck. Tingling. Steve hits the brakes, nearly crashing into the station wagon, and all four of them slam forward.

"Jesus, Steve, careful, you nearly-" Dustin's voice cuts off as everyone stares through the windshield at the enormous monster towering above the cabin.

"What the-" Robin murmurs, and the monster rears its slimy head to look directly at the car.

"Oh, shit." Slamming his foot on the gas, Steve reverses the car as the monster lets out a shriek. It tears away from the cabin, the earth rumbling beneath its legs, and begins storming after them. "What the hell is that?" Steve shouts, speeding the car backwards through the woods.

Will's heart pounds in his throat. "It's like the thing from the hospital, only ten times bigger."

"Oh shit, oh shit." Dustin presses his head to the window as he peers through the glass. "What do we do? What do we do?"

"We have to help them! We have to get everyone out of there!" Will shakes Dustin on the shoulder. "Radio them! Radio them!"

Grabbing his walkie-talkie, Dustin nearly drops it as he turns it on. "Hello? Does anyone copy? This is Dustin, Will, Steve, and Robin. If anyone copies, please answer. This is a code red! Are you guys alright?"

In front of them, the monster turns around while they continue to speed away onto the road. Screeching, the car spins in a half-circle and surges forward down the road and away from the woods. Will leans forward, grasping the back of Steve's seat with his hands. "Where are you going? We have to go back. Our friends are in danger!"

"Did you not see that thing?" Steve scoffs. "What are we supposed to do against that? I don't want to go in defenseless and die."

"I don't care," Will says, a whine in his voice. "Steve, you have to go back. Please. We need to help them."

"He's right, Steve," Dustin says. "We don't leave anyone behind."

Steve glances at them through the rearview mirror, sighs, and spins the car around, flooring it back to the cabin. When they arrive, there's no sign of the monster or the station wagon. Robin cranes her neck to peer out the window. "Did they pass by us on the road?"

Dustin shakes his head. "We never went past their station wagon. They probably went in the other direction."

Opening the car door, Steve gets out and surveys the area. "Do you think that monster followed them?"

Dustin and Robin murmur, "Probably."

Will holds his hand up to his neck. A feeling, like an echo of dread, stays under his skin.

"Let's see if they left anything inside," Steve says and jogs up to the cabin door. As Dustin and Robin hop out of the car and head inside the cabin with Steve, Will pays close attention to the feeling in his neck before following them inside.

The cabin is wrecked. Glass and wood is scattered on the floor, furniture thrown about. Steve reaches down and picks up the Russian taser from the ground, pressing the button to turn it on. It doesn't light up. "Broken," he mutters.

Dustin turns on his walkie-talkie. "Mike? Do you copy? It's Dustin. We're at the cabin now. Where are you guys?"

Nothing but static answers. Shifting through a pile of broken wood, Robin pulls out a bloody axe and turns it over in her hands. Will's stomach churns. Holes gaped in the walls of the cabin and above them, they could see the night sky through a massive hole in the ceiling.

"Jesus," Steve mutters, kicking around debris. "I hope everyone's alright."

Feeling a slight prickle in his neck, Will hovers near the door. "Where do you think they went?"

"Anywhere to escape that thing," Dustin says.

Robin chuckles. "How the hell do you escape that thing? It's bigger than a house."

"As long as it can't find them, they can escape it."

"But what if it does find them?" Steve asks, and Will begins to feel the dread under his skin claw its way to the surface.

Dustin shrugs. "We'll find them first, and then we'll deal with it."

"How the hell do we deal with it?"

"I'm sure we'll figure something out."

A chill runs down Will's spine. His neck tingles. "Guys..." His voice trembles, and everyone looks at him. "He's back."

Everyone screams as a meaty claw shoots through the wall behind the television, flinging around the room and grasping about at them. Robin ducks beneath the dining table as the claw swings over her head. The claw shoots towards Steve. He throws himself to the floor, the taser toppling out of his hands, and slides behind the kitchen counter. Will and Dustin dash to the wall as another claw tears through the ceiling, smashing into a shelf and sending books and board games crashing to the floor. "Steve!" Dustin shouts as the claw moves towards the kitchen area.

Without thinking, Will leaps forward, grabs the taser off the floor, and smashes it into the claw. Electricity bursts through it. The monster shrieks, the claw burning off and dropping to the floor. Will takes a swing as the other claw flings towards him, searing it with the taser. The flesh of the monster drops, burnt, to the floor, the smell of it hanging in the air.

"Will, your hands," Dustin says from across the room. Will looks down and nearly jumps out of his skin. His hands and forearms are buzzing with sparks of electricity. The taser drops to the ground, and the blue and white flashes of light disappear.

Robin dashes out from underneath the table, helps Steve to his feet, and runs to the door. "Come on!" she shouts, and Will and Dustin rush after them. They barrel inside the car, Steve fumbling with the keys as the monster lets out a screech from somewhere in the woods, and tear away. They don't slow down until they've reached the road.

All the while, Dustin shouts into his walkie-talkie. "Does anybody copy? This is a code red! Code red! We need to know where you are."

As they wait for an answer, Steve glances to Will from the rearview mirror. "How'd you get the taser to work, Byers?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, it was broken when I picked it up. How'd you get it to work?"

"I don't know."

"We copy," Lucas says over the walkie-talkie, drawing everyone's attention away from Will. "We've got a code red as well. El's been injured. We're taking her to the convenience store, Bradley's Big Buy. Meet us there. Over."

"Copy that. Over."