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So basically the longer someone is trapped in the upside down the more affected they are like it basically changes their dna and gives them abilities and if they survive it they have to find a way to survive with these new characteristics and try to hide the fact that there not normal anymore

And the people that have been affected so far are as it reads:
Will Byers, Nancy wheeler, Jonathan Byers, robin Buckly, and Steve Harrington

“The changes don’t start immediately it’s slow and agonizing and can take up too months to realize them, most affected by the changes begin getting feelings of extreme anxiety and or anger, and soon become aggressive sir I’d like permission to use this to our advantage”

The scientist wanted permission to experiment on the idea, “you want to send someone in there and see what happens? And then what?”

The scientist smiled “use the test subject as a weapon for the soviet Union”, “very well then”

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Beginning timeline: after the battle of starcourt
Main character: Mike wheeler
Love interest: will byers

This au was originally based off owm but it extremely deviated from it!!

In this au Mike and max actually like each other there actually best friends and Lucas is ace cause he gives off that vibe except for around max Dustin is dating Susie still and el and Mike talked and found out that they both loved each other but as friends instead of partners

Question's:
1: what should I name this fic?
2: how fast should it go like do you want Mike to be automatically abducted or maybe chapter two or three
3: should I make a playlist? :3

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Hello my starchildren!! Before I get on with the show I want to tell you what all the abilities are so far and which characters have what ability

Since robin, Steve, Nancy, and Johnathan were in the upside down the least amount of time out of all of them they have the mostly normal-ish ability’s (don’t ask me when Steve and robin were in the upside down preseason four, I wanted to give them abilities sue me!)

Robin can memorize text and videos after reading/watching one time, making her be able to learn anything she needs in the time it takes her to read a book

Steve basically has enhanced senses, strength, and speed he’s basically spider man without the spider

Johnathan has photographic memory to a tea and can through touch show any of his memories like rolling through a digital camera

Nancy can tell when anybody is lying even the best liars can’t lie to her, (human lie detector ahhh bitch)

Will spent weeks in the upside down so he has the most changes, his teeth and nails are sharp like a cats, he get full on visions of the future, he can’t control it and he most of the time can’t understand them, he’s got super human strength and his eyes get a little red when he’s mad, he gets mad easily (his temper is shorter than bobs life is season two)

And all of them are a little too strong for it to be normal (anger issues for the entire room yall!)

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It’s been a few days since the battle at starcourt everyone is on edge especially the Byers family will has been pacing around the house and mumbling to him self, hopper has been trying to calm him down ,Johnathan is constantly in his room listening to music or with Nancy, and for once joyce and eleven look the least crazy out of them all.

Why are they all so anxious? Elevens powers aren’t working, will keeps having premonitions about who he’s pretty sure is Mike, and hopper was almost kidnapped by Russian soldiers

Max was going through hell after losing Billy, her stepfather left them, and they had to move into a raggedy old trailer in a sketchy trailer park and her mom started drinking, so max has been spending a lot of nights sleeping in Lucas’s house in the guest room

Nancy had been distracting herself with work and spending time with Johnathan she wasn’t in to bad shape actually

Dustin and Lucas were actually doing good to say the least, Lucas was helping max with her grief, and Dustin was using what he has left of his summer to talk to Susie

Mike was actually doing awful, he felt like he was constantly being watched but nobody else seemed to notice he felt like he was going crazy maybe he should stop listening to crime podcasts on his radio

The party we’re all at the Byers house for a sleepover it was there last one before school they were talking about what they wanted to do in high school club wise, “no I think I’d be amazing at basketball I’ve been practicing playing at the park” Lucas was rambling about joining basketball and everybody else was joking about it “no but I actually think he might be able to do it” everyone stared at Mike as he said that “what he’s tall?!” Max started laughing “I didn’t even know you could be nice if I’m being honest”
And Mike fain hurt putting his hand on his chest.

They were all laughing about nothing to be honest max had convinced Mike to let her paint his nails as long as he could get it off before he saw his dad next, Lucas was throwing popcorn at Dustin who was trying to catch it in his mouth, will and el was laughing at them

Everyone else was asleep Mike and will were sitting together talking “will I never told I was sorry about that argument, what I said was awful and I couldn’t stop thinking about it” will smiled at him setting his head on mikes shoulder “I obviously forgive you dumbass” his eyes were a little crazy but that was normal for them

When will first started “changing” he was attacking everyone except Mike even in such a haze he knew he didn’t want to hurt him, he knew that he loved Mike and the other boy has always been so clueless

The next morning the group is slowly leaving one at a time Lucas and Mike left together since they live on the same street Mike pulled his bike into his driveway waving goodbye to will and headed inside his parents were home he knew because there cars were parked in the driveway he heard Holly’s laughter from the living room along with the sound of the tv he walked into the kitchen heading to the basement, they had moved his room down there his old room became a guest bedroom

His mom was already working on dinner in the kitchen his dad was sitting at the bar reading a newspaper he glanced at Mike and his eye visibly twitched “boy are your nails painted!” He wasn’t yelling but his voice was stern and angry as he stood grasping mikes wrist looking at his hand

‘Fuck’ Mike thought, he had forgotten to wash it off and the worst part was they were painted pink ,Mike has painted his nails black a thousand times and never gotten in trouble but pink was a -girly- color according to his father

He was to panicked to realize until he was on the floor his father had reached up and slapped him across the face “wash that shit off you fag”

Mike was in the bathroom washing his hands scrubbing the nail polish he was also using his mothers nail polish remover tears were falling down his face he couldn’t help it he was forming a bruise on his cheek he felt so embarrassed he just wanted to go to bed and it was only 4 pm ish

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Hey guys I need motivation so I made the playlist hopefully to give myself some

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jkWEtCUlCgEyc1RTyWaHe?si=Q6Qew0YITAKuntU9JGTJmw&pt=57ac3d492d3aa22520b672b2ad456953&pi=a1BeQJ2MTbW57

And if you have any ideas to help with my motivation problem please feel free to share them with me 🥰

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That night Mike sat on his bed he hadn’t eaten dinner- his father saying he didn’t deserve food, he had his legs against his chest resting his head on his knees, his eyes were puffy and red from crying

It was around one am when Mike decided to take a walk so he put his shoes on and snuck out of the house taking his Walkman- that max had got him for Christmas and his favorite songs on tape, he jogged down the street a bit before slowing to a walk as he slipped his headphones on and pressed play

Mike had no clue where he was going but he kept walking, he had made a few turns to ovoid dead ends, his current favorite song -everybody wants to rule the world- was playing in his ears he felt much better now so he decided to go back home so he turned around but…

Mike didn’t recognize the road he was on had he been here before he tried to not panic as he walked back down the way he came but when he made it to the end of the road and couldn’t remember which way to turn that’s when he started panicking and just decided to make a random turn and pray after a few minutes he started running down the street trying to find something he recognized

He was hyperventilating and had to stop he to breathe, that was the most he had ran like ever, once he caught his breath he looked around for anything but he didn’t recognize anything still so he just sat down on the curb and started crying he hated feeling so weak and he almost always felt weak

A black car pulled over on the side of the road and a man stepped out and walked up to Mike, “hello young man are you lost?” The accent was not American but Mike didn’t recognize it so he just nodded “yes sir” the man smiled a little “do you want a ride home?” Mike hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded “yes please sir thank you” the man smiles again and leads Mike to his car

It’s a few minutes before the streets start blurring into a familiar scene as they pass Dustin’s house had he really walked that far? But then the car turned and Mike knew it was wrong “uh sir this isn’t the way to my house” Mike said as he turned his head to look at the man but before he could something hit the back of his head and he was knocked out cold

When Mike came two his head was throbbing and he felt nauseous, he opened his eyes and all he saw was a plain white ceiling with florescent light that burned his eyes and his had to adjust, when he tried to move he found himself unable to his arms and legs strapped down to the bed he lay on he knew he should be panicking but he didn’t he felt strange but calm

Soon he was back asleep this time not for very long and he woke what he assumed was a few hours later and that’s when he started panicking he pulled against the restraints but couldn’t free himself no matter how hard he tried, he felt exhausted but still kept trying to get up

The sound of a door shutting startled Mike, “I see your awake” a woman came into view the her accent was the same as the man from before, the lady was tall with long black hair tied in a bun and sharp blue eyes, “my name is Dr. Sokolov, I’m going to be in charge of your care for now” Mike glared at her as she clicked a collar around his neck

She removed the restraints from his limbs and let him sit up, he fell back down immediately though dizzy “my apologies the soldier that retrieved you was a little too rough on the tranquilizer” she said something else but it wasn’t in English so he couldn’t understand her so he just looked at her confused “oh yeah English only well have to fix that!” She smiled it reached her eyes making her look softer

Dr. Sokolov brought him food and some water and soon he began feeling better too the point he was able to sit up and take in his surroundings, it was a large room with off white walls and black tile floors with white lines and there was a small carpet on the floor across the room with a desk and chair

The room didn’t look like a hospital room at all so he decided that his idea of being in a hospital was wrong so he was back to the drawing board

Later Mike assumed it was the same day Dr. Sokolov came in holding a stack of books and set them on the desk “you’ll have to read these most of the other test subjects only speak Russian so you’ll need to know the language” she smiled and Mike had his answer he was in a lab of sorts

The next morning Mike was reading the books they were in a specific order and where hard to understand but did find out the basics of how to make small talk at least, he began wondering if the others were looking for him.

There was a loud crash as will threw his desk chair at the wall leaving a dent in the wall the rest of the party didn’t even flinch at the noise to busy trying to get el’s powers to work with no luck

It had been almost a week since Mike went missing and they were all stressed and worried and will who had been working on controlling his emotions for years was losing control and having a mental breakdown