All Hallows Eve to you all… trick or treaters.

On this day of October 31st… I now give you the teaser to the sequel. Note that this chapter should be considered a sneak peak to what may inevitably come to pass. Complications have not allowed me to give you more, but I intend to show the rest of this premiere later before the year is done. I have my dedication elsewhere and things with life but let us see if I can manage.

Note: I do not own the rights to Halloween or Stranger Things. Those belong to that of Miramax/Blumhouse and Netflix.

Without further ado… let us take in this treat… of what had transpired… a year after the fateful night in Haddonfield… in the sleepy town where no one ever thought anything phenomenal… or horror that would happen.

On the day many would dread upon hearing its name.

October 31, 1979, Halloween

A boy drove with high speed on his trusted bicycle through the maple street, while reaching back to pick up a wrapped newspaper from his bag and threw another at the porch of the next house.

He would repeat the process again and again.

It would be an hour before most neighbors will wake up and will notice the paper on their way to work or school.

However, when the delivery boy had passed from sight, a man in his bathrobe and sandals opened the door of his house and reached to pick up the paper right on top of his rug.

He returned inside just in time for the kettle start whistling. He removed it from the stove and poured the boiling water into his teacup that housed a tea patch inside. He opened the newspaper and turned it to the page that displayed his favorite morning activity: a crossword puzzle.

He then set his minute minder timer to ten minutes before he began his puzzle.

He managed to finish the puzzle exactly when the timer chimed.

He went over to his bonsai tree near the window, and carefully took a small pair of scissors to give a very small trim on one of the farthest branches.

He went to the bathroom to apply shaving cream over his chin and sides before taking a razor trim to shave off any early signs of a grey growing beard.

He later began dressing himself in his professional attire consisting of a white shirt, grey suit, and a blue-and-gold tie. He looked at himself in the mirror as he straightened his coat.

Thus Dr. Martin Brenner made ready to begin another day at the lab.


Hawkins National Laboratories

Deep inside the cold building that laid on the outskirts of the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana… the children lab subjects gathered to play in the Rainbow Room.

The Rainbow Room was a wide square room made of salt white walls, ceiling, and floor, along with the entrance door and one-way mirror. The room had been converted into a playroom for the subjects. There were shelves and boxes that housed all sorts of board games and toys. Tables and chairs were set up to draw pictures and even a game of chess.

What gave the room its name was no doubt due to the wide rainbow row that was painted across all four walls with the six colors:

Red.

Orange.

Yellow.

Green.

Blue.

Purple.

There was even a rainbow ring in the center of the floor.

The Rainbow Room was perhaps the one of the few places… or perhaps the only place in the lab that shed any imitation of warm color that contrasted the vast corridors of cold white, gray, and black.

This was the place the children could go to partake in the limited sources of entertainment. When they were not confined to their personal quarters or going to the rooms to train in the tests Papa and the others had prepared for them.

Even though it was a room to play games and enjoy the quality time they were given… it couldn't be set apart from how other children would play in the outside world.

The children of the lab were not considered like that of other children, nor that of the normal populace. They were all dressed in white hospital gowns. Some older dressed in grey sweaters and trousers. Most of them had their hair shaved to a buzzcut, which their doctors explained was that it would be easier to measure… the activity in their heads.

Even when playing and engaging in the activities… they all went about them silently. They didn't as much laugh, shout, or went around very carefree. Not when guards dressed in pure white uniforms watched them.

Guarded them.

There were cameras stationed at each corner of the room.

Monitoring them.

And especially… of what each subject could do.

Two twin subjects crawled around the Rainbow Ring on the floor chasing after toy cars… that they moved without touching them.

Two subjects sat together at the table as they focused on the moving set of spinners… that had been spinning non-stop without tipping over for at least a minute or two.

Two others sat across from one another at another table as they engaged in a chess match. Though it looked nothing extraordinary was displayed… one could note the unusual reaction and decision time both children took before they moved a pawn against each other's side. And how almost instantly they choose to make their next move.

One subject kneeled over to use his finger to move a marble through a labyrinth… even when there was glass separating him from taking physical hold over the ball.

The subjects in the Rainbow Room were going about their activities as usual… despite the incident that happened the other day.

Martin Brenner entered the room and went over to sit next to Ten. Ten was a young male subject, with blue eyes and his blonde hair clean shaven. The subject was looking over a magic 8-ball.

"That's your favorite, isn't it?" Brenner asked with a smile as he went to sit down next to the boy. "How are you feeling today?"

"Okay," Ten answered.

"Are you up for some more lessons?"

Ten looked to his 8-ball and shook it. When he stopped, he looked at the window that showed the blue prism inside that decided the answer:

SIGNS POINT TO YES.


Brenner took Ten by the hand and led him out of the Rainbow Room and into the hallways.

"Afternoon, Dr. Brenner," A middle-aged female doctor with curled gray hair greeted as she passed the pair with Subject Six in hand.

"Dr. Ellis," Brenner greeted back as he and Ten continued their own way, passing one of the rooms belonging to one of the other children.

011.


In one of the test rooms, Brenner strapped sensors on Ten's head, and turned the polygraph that started recording the rate of his brain activity.

Ten began his lesson and closed his eyes.

Martin sat down and took clipboard with a blank paper. He began drawing with a crayon.

"Okay… what do you see?" He asked Ten, whose eyes were still closed.

Ten stood still, but his eyes moved behind his eyelids. Trying hard to see the drawing on the clipboard. The polygraph noted his increased activity.

"Don't force it," Brenner advised. "Just like we practiced."

"It's…" He tried saying… before seeing the image of the drawing if but for a millisecond in his mind. "A yellow circle?" He then realized. "The sun."

"Very good," Brenner smiled. "Very good." He praised as he went to pick an orange crayon and started drawing a similar shape like the yellow sun. He went to draw triangle eyes… and smile on the circle. "Okay. Now what do you see?"

"Uh…" Ten started to look confused as he mentally popped the image. "A… uh… an… an orange?"

Brenner looked confused and looked back at the crude drawing he drew. "It's… it's supposed to be a pumpkin. A jack-o-lantern."

Ten almost looked ready to chuckle even with closed eyes. "It still looks like an orange fruit. A talking orange."

Brenner chuckled back. "It does, doesn't it? Well, to be honest, I never was much of an artist." He admitted as he set the clipboard aside. "Let's try something a little more challenging. Is that all right with you?"

Ten nodded, still with closed eyes.

"Alright, then. I would like you to find Dr. Ellis," Brenner instructed.

A moment later, Ten's eyes moved behind his eyelids. His polygraph rate increased.

"Have you found her?" Brenner asked.

"Yes."

"What is she doing?"

"Lessons with Six in his room."

"What kind of lessons?"

"Six is trying to move a block. A red block."

"Can you hear what they're saying?"

He then noticed Ten's calm demeanor was cracking and replaced by a growing disturbed expression.

"Something's wrong." He spoke.

"If you lost the visual just let it go. Reorient it."

"They're…" Ten's face cringed. "They're screaming."

"Why are they screaming?" Brenner questioned and noticed the blood flowing from Ten's nostril. "Ten?" The doctor asked, now starting to become concerned.

He then heard the alarm ring.

He got up and went to the communicator on the wall.

"Peter? Alec? What's going on out there?"

Voices came, but they were very static.

"Six and Dr. Ellis…" Brenner turned to Ten, whose eyes were opened, and his expression was one of horror. "They're dead. They're both… dead."

Then came the sound of a bump, and a child's scream coming from beyond the door, catching Brenner's full attention.

The man walked slowly to the door, all the while the screams continued.

He walked slowly towards the door, till…

The door suddenly broke and flew towards him. Soon, everything went black.


Brenner woke up, laying on the floor, his hand went to his face, and he felt the blood from the wound on his forehead. He lifted himself up a bit and looked to see the room was a mess. He turned and looked to see Ten lying on the floor also.

Dead.

The boy's body… had been slashed. Gashes of red blood stained his gown. And his head bled out from a gash on his cranium. Right next to him was the now broken and bloody polygraph machine—without a doubt the murder weapon.

Brenner stared in complete horror and shock… before he crawled towards the Ten's body and cradled him in his arms with sadness and disbelief building up.

He then heard another scream from beyond.

A girl's scream.

With what strength he had, the doctor got up and staggard out of the room… and he looked upon the horror that was displayed throughout the hallways.

Bodies and blood… everywhere.

Bodies of guards… doctors… and his subjects.

All dead.

He staggard back in horror as he looked to see some of the subjects in their quarters… their bodies mangled and slashed.

He managed to pass by and peered into Six's room. The boy was lying in a pool in his own blood. And then there was Dr. Ellis… who was gutted and stuck to the wall with a metal pole sticking through her.

The doctor balked back and put his hands to his face.

It felt as if his balanced world was falling apart all around him.

All coming undone.

What the hell was happening?!

Who was doing this atrocity?!

He then heard the girl's scream again coming from the Rainbow Room.

No doubt where the source of this madness was.

He staggard towards the room, till he felt his foot connect with something. He looked down and saw Alec's dead body. His neck was twisted so obtusely against the wall… it almost caused him to retch. He then saw the guard's gun not far from him. For good measure, Brenner took hold of the gun and checked the ammo. It was still full.

Equipped with a means of defense, the doctor made his way to the entrance of the Rainbow Room and entered…

…into a nightmare.

The Rainbow Room… which not long ago was full of lively subjects playing games and toys… had become something akin than the inside of a butcher's shop.

Corpses were strewn around. Some had their heads and limbs… twisted and broken. Some had their eyes gouged out. Some had been stabbed and even their throats had been slashed.

It was starting to be enough to make Martin Brenner wail like never before in his life.

That was until he noticed the figure lying on the floor near him.

Her body and limbs were not mangled or twisted like the others. Even though there were splashes of blood over her gown it did not look like it belonged to her. There were tears of blood streaming from her eyes and nose. She looked to be breathing as she made a gasp for air.

Subject Eleven was alive.

"Eleven!" Brenner gasped as he quickly kneeled before the female subject and lifted her head. "Eleven! Can you hear me?"

The buzzcut girl of eight years stirred as she barely registered his presence. Before the doctor could address her again… it was when he finally noticed there was someone else present in the Rainbow Room with them.

Something else.

Something worse.

Brenner saw him standing on the opposite side of the Rainbow Room. He stood facing the now broken one-way mirror. His large back facing Brenner.

The figure turned slowly to face Brenner, who could only gasp stood up to see who it was.

The subject was of a strong build for his recently turned age of 22. His height allowed him to tower over all the other subjects.

This subject… was the one Brenner… feared as the most dangerous. One he didn't dare show liability like he did for the others.

The subject's features comprised of dark hair that had been shaven to a buzz cut, while his eyes…

Only one of his blue eyes remained intact… while the other had been damaged blind.

This was Subject Thirty-One.

Otherwise known by his birth name…

Michael Audrey Myers.

"Michael…" Brenner uttered. "What have you done?"

Michael remained silent. Silent as he had always been since he was a child.

"What have you done?!" Brenner uttered again with rage seeping in.

Michael said nothing, as he tilted his head and continued to stare at Brenner.

And Brenner saw it.

He saw that the young man he had taken in year ago this day… had the same eyes Dr. Loomis had always warned him about.

The Blackest Eyes.

The Devil's Eyes.

A moment passed… and suddenly… the Shape lunged towards Brenner.


According to an old Irish tale, a fellow known as Stingy Jack took the Devil out for a drink and skipped on his tab. In retaliation for such humiliation, the Devil cursed the fellow to forever wander the earth. It was said, that on the night of Samhain, when the moon turns full, when the stars go out, when the night is black as shadow… villagers would carve and light lanterns out of pumpkins to stave off Jack and wandering spirits.

In October 1986, a year after the dark night, very few pumpkins had been lit. And those that had been… each burned into an inferno that lit during the black night.


(Halloween Kills – Main Theme OST)

STARRING

DONALD PLEASENCE

As Dr. Loomis

JAMIE LEE CURTIS

As Laurie

WINONA RYDER

As Joyce

DAVID HARBOUR

As Hopper

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

As Eleven

GATEN MATARAZZO

As Dustin

CALEB McLAUGHLIN

As Lucas

NOAH SCNAPP

As Will

SADIE SINK

As Max

NATALIE DYER

As Nancy

CHARLIE HEATON

As Jonathan

JOE KEERY

As Steve

DACRE MONTGOMERY

As Billy

MAYA HAWKE

As Robin

PRIAH FERGUSON

As Erica

JOSEPH QUINN

As Eddie

GRACE VAN DIEN

As Chrissy

EDUARDO FRANCO

As Argyle

MASON DYE

As Jason

BRETT GELLMAN

As Murray

JASON TODD SMITH

As Ronny

THOMAS MANN

As Frank

GABRIELLA PIZZOLO

As Suzie

Also Starring

JAMIE CAMPBELL BROWER

As Henry

With

MATTHEW MODINE

As Dr. Martin Brenner

And

PAUL REISER

As Dr. Sam Owens

And

DAN O'HERLILY

As Conal Cochran

AIRON ARMSTRONG

As The Shape

Make-Up FX Designer

BARRIE GOWER

CHRISTOPER NELSON

Music by

JOHN CARPENTER

CODY CARPENTER

DANIEL DAVIS

KYLE DIXON

MICHAEL STEIN

Music Supervisor

DEVOE YATES

Costume Designer

EMILY GUNSHOR

Executive Producers

CURTIS GWINN

IAIN PATERSON

Executive Producers

SHAWN LEVY

DAN COHEN

Executive Producers

BOB OSHER

ANDREW GOLOV

Executive Producers

JOHN CARPENTER

JAMIE LEE CURTIS

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

Executive Producers

JEANETTE VOLTURNO

COUPER SAMEULSON

Executive Producers

DANNY McBRIDE

DAVID GORDON GREEN

Executive Producers

SHAWN LEVY

DAN COHEN

Executive Producers

RYAN FREIMANN

Produced by

MALEK AKKAD

JASON BLUM

BILL BLOCK

THE DUFFER BROTHERS

Based on the Characters Created by

JOHN CARPENTER

DEBRA HILL

And THE DUFFER BROTHERS

Directed by

DAVID GORDON GREEN

SHAWN LEVY

NIMROD ANTAL

THE DUFFER BROTHERS


STRANGER THINGS

4

HALLOWEEN FOREVER


Here is the teaser.

Know this important note. This story may be a long process and ways to go. Updates will be long and slow. There was and is the chance that this story will be put on hold. That is due to other commitments I have in other stories and in life. I would like to see if I can manage, I find the time to do more of this story.

I couldn't resist to not at least publish this prologue and sneak peak on this day of all days… especially weeks after the canon end of David Gordon Green's entry. That and any of you who are in the long wait for Stranger Things 5.

This story may be bigger and darker than the previous entry, so I give the rating for caution and in case. That is what happens when it's Halloween and when the Boogeyman is still lurking, right?

Next, I want to give a moment of silence to the horrible tragedy that happened in Seoul, South Korea, after more than 153 and counting people had been killed in the Seoul Halloween Crowd Surge. It's horrible.

I wish you all to be well and stay safe.

Happy Halloween.