(A/N) Here's the next one guys, the chapter will be very important later on so take note class ;) as always review guys! And I hope you enjoy this one!
November 5th 1941
WAFFEN-SS BUNKER, DER RIESE FACILITY
Czech Border Near the Wenceslaus mine.
A Tiger Tank sat in silent vigil over the snow covered landscape, it's 88mm flak gun pointed down the road as an SS-Commandant used his binoculars to scan the road ahead beyond the Bunkers perimeter, another SS guard had lazily laid his head on his hand, bored by his shift on guard duty. His MG-42 lay motionless.
A fancy officer's car suddenly appeared on the horizon, driving ever steadily to the base, the guard in the tower suddenly noticed the car and mounted the MG-42, his aim followed the car as it traversed the tundra.
The Tiger Tank commander watched its progress intently, the turret also slowly followed it as it made its way down. He signalled to several guards, who rushed forward, armed with a combination of MP40's, KAR98K's and a few STG-44's.
Once the car reached the gate, the officer in charge checked the Identity Papers of the SS-General, who promptly saluted arm stretched forward in a Nazi salute, receiving one in return, the soldiers stood to attention as the car slowly drove past and into the base, it pulled up shortly thereafter.
An SS-General stepped out as pulled on fancy black gloves onto his hands, the bitter cold penetrating even his winter clothing.
"General, this is an unexpected pleasure" the on duty officer said to the General
The general impatiently waved off the forced pleasantries and walked to towards the bunker's entrance.
"Don't bother me with this false pleasantness, I'm here to commence the test with the bell, is it operational?"
The officer gulped slightly, sweat appearing on his forehead despite the frigid cold.
"Just about General, the Scientists have had a few problems but they say it's ready for a short field test, nothing more as it will overwhelm the machine"
"I have not travelled all the way out to this frozen wasteland of a country for a short test, The Fuhrer Demands results as do I, do I make myself clear commander?"
The Commander Merely nodded in response, too frightened to say anything more
"Good, this machine could change the course of the War for Germany" The General said as they descended deeper into the bunker, A Nazi Flag was here and there along with the SS symbol of two lightning bolts.
Soon they came to a expansive underground room, around thirty foot in height, Waffen-SS troops stood guard as scientists and technicians milled about, looking at dials and readouts on spectrometers, several tended to the machine that lay in the middle
You could see why the facility was called Der Riese meaning "The Giant" as in the centre stood a machine, almost as tall as the room it lay in and about half that height in width, it was a dull-coloured bronze, wires and cables came out of the top trailed to the ground like mechanical snakes, at the very top, the words "Die Glocke" was stamped in big and bold white lettering, meaning "The Bell"
Upon its centre there was a round hole, its circumference was surrounded in much smaller holes, the general looked up at the Machine with a smile evident on his face.
"The Fuhrer will be pleased, if this test is successful the Machine will be War-ready in a matter of weeks. The War will be won in a matter of months, if not weeks"
The technicians finished the final preparations before most of them left the room, only the General, a guard and the several technicians were left at the machines control station.
The General Nodded at the technicians who promptly started inputting commands, the Machine began to make a whirling hum as it was brought to life, the light in it's centre shone brightly, almost blindingly. One by one the lights on the circumference began to fill with light one by one, the hum grew louder.
"It Working" The General said gleefully, the guard on his side looked on nervously, taking an involuntary step back. Suddenly alarms began to blare throughout the room and the Bunker, technicians quickly starting flipping switches and turning dials
"What's Happening?!" The General Demanded
"The Machine, its overloading, we're trying to shut it down!" The Technician said quickly as he desperately flipped several switches on his left. A red field suddenly expanded from the room, spreading out and encompassing everyone inside.
There, they all shared the same horrifying vision, a gargantuan beast at least sixty feet tall stood, its body made up of a black smoke, multiple spider like limbs with a faceless head stared at them, red lightning lit up the beast in a terrifying light show, as it leered down at them. Before they were all brought back to the room in which they stood.
A pure white energy shot out from the centre hole in the machine, hitting the wall behind them, from it a black like resin expanded from within, the ground shook like an earthquake was happening as the resin quickly spread from the light, the light suddenly faded. But the machine still reminded active.
The blood of everyone in the room went cold as the resin started to hum and growl as a black gangly creature crawled out from the depths of the resin, its flower-petal like face expanded as it roared at them before pouncing on a nearby technician and ripping his face off, blood splattering the entirety of the console that he had been stationed on.
The General, his guard and two technicians managed to flee up the stairs of the bunker as the Demogorgan began to rip the others apart, they couldn't get out as the Demogorgan stood between them and the exit, the technicians pulled out their P-38 Sidearms, firing numerous shots at the creature, it simply roared in annoyance as the bullets bounced off its hide. Before it tore them to pieces.
The four managed to make their way outside, the general signalled for the other guards to move down the stairs and into the Machine room. They made it outside, out of breath and sweaty, The Tank Commander ordered the tank to turn and the Tiger's driver set the tank to turn, its tracks groaning as the tank slowly turned to the entrance, the four made their way to the tank, they desperately strained their ears as Gun-fire and screams echoed from the bunker below.
"We need to shut the machine off" The General said out of breath.
The technician shook his head "we can't, the machine is self-sustained now, a manual shut-down won't work anymore, this is what we were having issues with earlier, they only way to shut it down now is to destroy it" The technician rambled on as he peered round the Tiger and to the entrance.
"Damn it" The General shouted.
"There is a Panzerfaust in the room underneath one of the tables, we kept it there if this problem ever arose" The other technician said
The Demogorgan shrieked as it reached the surface, facing down the Tiger Tank.
Beast against Beast.
"As soon as we get a chance make a run for the bunker"
The demogorgan charged the Tiger, the commandant shouted "Fire!" the 88mm flak gun fired with an almighty crash as the Demogorgan was engulfed by the rounds explosion, the Demogorgan smacked into the wall leaving a crater, smoke rose from the burnt hide of the Demogorgan as it roared, furious and maddened"
The Demogorgan charged with surprising speed, running on all fours as it quickly closed the distance between itself and the Tank, the MG-42 gunner inside unleashed fir upon the creature but that didn't deter it, the commandant in a panic closed the hatch and fled into his tank.
The Demogorgan climbed aboard and ripped at the tank hatch with its claws before climbing inside to the terrified screams of the men inside.
The four took this opportunity to run inside amidst the screams of those in the tank, their screams echoed with them as they ran down into the bunker, upon reaching the door, the three of them ran inside, however the General stood outside the reinforced metal door, his Luger drawn.
"General get inside!" his guard shouted.
"No!" he shouted back "I'll buy you time, now go!" The guard reluctantly closed the door and locked it, The General starred down the hallway as the lights flickered and the Demogorgan came into view.
The General starred down at the Demogorgan, Luger drawn, it lifted an arm off the ground, almost in a curios gesture before the General opened fire with his sidearm, the beast angrily roared as it bounded towards him.
The anguished screams could be heard from within as the guard found the Panzerfaust underneath the table, he ran back to the edge of the room as he shouldered the launcher.
The metal door was being ripped apart by the demogorgan like if it was ripping paper, the guard took a breath and fired the launcher.
The Demogorgan just made it through the door as the rocket hit the machine tearing a massive hole in its bronze steelwork. The demogorgan ran past them towards the gate, ignoring them as its main focus on the gate from whence it came.
The Machines lights flickered and faltered before extinguishing completely, the hum dying down with it as the Machine finally was destroyed, The Demogorgan had barely made it through the gate before it too began to rot away to nothingness, the anchor that held it to this world was now gone.
The guard threw the Panzerfaust to the ground.
And a deathly silence pierced the air.
Hawkins, September 2008 - Present Day
Mike woke up in a deep sweat. What the hell was that? It was only midnight but Mike threw the covers off himself and amde his way downstairs and quietly exiting through the front door.
He needed air.
He sat on the porch for some time, he went over the dream again and again in his head, he shivered at the way the Demogorgan had torn apart everyone but it was Just a dream right? He remembered the vision that he shared with them, the beast in the sky, red lightning encompassing it, it scared him because he recognised it all.
The Beast and the lightning, his thoughts wandered to a certain drawing that was made nearly 25 years ago, as they fought again to save Will from the monsters that lingered in alternate dimension. Sometimes he saw the Entity with similar red lightning in the background.
He shuddered, he could still see the way it leered at him, even though it was a dream it had felt like it was looking right at him hungrily. Is that how Will felt when he saw the Shadow Monster in the upside-down before he got possessed? If Mike felt that bad now, even though it was just a dream, he couldn't imagine how Will must of felt when he was actually seeing the monster.
It was still trapped in the Upside-Down to this day, at least he hoped it was.
Mike Jumped as a hand placed itself onto his shoulder.
"Jesus El, you scared the shit outta me" Mike said, his heart pounding fast, EL merely shook her head in amusement.
"Why are you out here Mike? It's freezing" she asked
"It's nothing… I just had a bad dream is all" she nodded knowing exactly how that felt.
She wrapped her arm around his "Come back to bed" she said, lulling him away with her voice.
He Smiled "How can I resist you" he said leaning his forehead against hers.
"I don't know, but I'm glad you can't" she laughed quietly. She pressed her lips to his in a comforting kiss.
"God damn it" he said losing the battle, El just smiled in response she pulled her husband back into the house.
The Demogorgan had wandered for sometime, looking for fresh meat, it got closer to Hawkins. With every step it took it smelled fresh meat as it grew ever closer, it was effectively ravenous at this point.
It came to a house at the end of street, it was a fairly simple but comfortable house, it wandered carefully and quietly towards it, it's prey ever closer, it looked up and spotted the human that it could smell in the window, its mouth opened slightly in anticipation, wanting to taste the flesh of something fresh.
That Someone Was Dustin Henderson.
(A/N) ooooooh I'm leaving you guys on a cliffy lol will I kill Dustin? Ah only time will tell guys lol I have given a lot of hints in this chapter, makes me wonder if anyone will figure out what will happen, if you don't and when it all comes together its gonna be a shocker lol Until next time guys!