NO ONE'S POV:

The Upside Down

(The bats are still chomping on Steve until Nancy, Robin, & Eddie get them off him & start fighting the bats.)

Eddie: Nancy, behind you! Watch out!

(A bat lands on Nancy's back.)

Nancy: [yelps]

Robin: Oh my God, Nance!

Nancy: Robin, get it off!

(Cut to Y/N, as a werewolf, coming through the gate.)

Werewolf: [exhales]

(He looks to the right of him to see the predicament his friends are in.)

Werewolf: [growls]

(He runs straight for them, snatching away the bat on Nancy's back.)

Bat: [squeals]

Eddie: Holy shit, (Y/N)?! You're huge!

Robin: I told you he was on his way!

(He puts the bats' head in his mouth &...)

*CRUNCH*

(He bites it clean off its body.)

Werewolf: [spits]

Eddie: Come on, come on, come on, you son of a bitch!

(They're able to kill the bats around them, as does Steve.)

Steve: [panting, spits]

Nancy: Steve.

Eddie: Jesus Christ. Jesus H. Christ!

(Y/N changes back to his normal self.)

(Y/N): [groans] Robin!

Robin: Yes?

(Y/N): What the hell were you thinking?! Actually, what the hell were you all--

Robin: (Y/N).

(Y/N): What?

Robin: *points down while looking away*

(Y/N): Huh?

Eddie: Pants, man. You're not wearing any pants.

(Y/N): Oh! Sorry. I've, um, got pants around here somewhere...I made sure to take them off and bring 'em before I turned...found them!

(He puts his pants back on.)

(Y/N): All better. Missing a shirt though. Like Steve.

(Robin's now staring at Y/N's upper body just as Nancy did with Steve's.)

Nancy: Are you okay?

Steve: Well, they took about a pound of flesh. But other than that, yeah, never better.

Robin: Uh, do you guys think these bats have, like, rabies?

Steve: What?

Robin: It's just that rabies are, like, my number one greatest fear.

(Y/N): They really are.

Robin: I wouldn't let (Y/N) kiss me again until he got his rabies shot. And I think we should get you to a doctor soon because once the symptoms set in, it's too late. You're already dead.

[CREATURES CHITTERING]

(More bats arrive & stand in front of the gate.)

Steve: All right. There's not that many. We can take 'em. Right?

(A whole swarm of bats are seen flying towards them.)

Robin: You were saying?

(Y/N): I can take them.

Robin: Yeah, we're not risking you getting rabies.

Nancy: The woods. Come on.

(They start running towards the woods.)

Robin: Great. More running.

(Y/N): I could carry you?

Robin: Not yet.

(Cut to them at Skull Rock, hiding from the bats.)

Robin: Oh...okay. That was close.

Eddie: Yeah. Too close.

Steve: Oh, sh...shit.

Nancy: Steve? Jesus.

Steve: I'm fine. I'm fine.

Nancy: No, no, no. You're not. You're losing blood.

(Y/N): [sniffs] A lot of it.

Nancy: Come on, sit. All right?

(Steve sits down.)

Steve: [grunts]

Nancy: All right.

(Steve shows them his wound.)

Robin: Oh...

(Nancy rips a piece of her jacket off as Y/N & Robin kneel down to Steve.)

Robin: Okay. So the good news is I'm pretty sure wooziness is not a common symptom of rabies. But if you start having hallucinations or muscle spasms or you start feeling really aggressive, like you wanna punch me or something, then you should totally let me know. Though, I'm pretty sure (Y/N) would catch your fist.

Steve: Robin.

Robin: Yeah?

Steve: I kinda wanna punch you.

Robin: [laughs] Sense of humor still intact. That's a good sign.

Steve: Yeah. How are you feeling, (Y/N)?

(Y/N): You're asking me how I'm feeling right now? Well, I've been better. I wish you could heal like me.

Steve: [winces] Don't remind me.

(They leave Nancy to wrap some cloth around Steve.)

Robin: Oh my God. (Y/N), your back!

(Y/N): What about it?

Robin: It's full of scars.

(Y/N): You've never seen my back? Of course not...we've...I never told you?

Robin: No!

(Y/N): As you know I have saved Steve, Nancy, and the others quite a bit since I've known them. I got the scars on my back by saving Nancy. I fought a Demogorgan in this place.

Robin: Did you win?

(Y/N): [chuckles] No. But I did when we fought again. Sometimes the scars I get on my wolf body stay with me in human form. You're grossed out by scars, aren't you?

Robin: What? No. You're a werewolf with a tattoo and scars. The total package.

(Y/N): [sighs happily] I--

Eddie: So, uh, this place is like Hawkins, but with monsters and nasty shit?

Nancy: Pretty much.

(Eddie is about to take a step but Nancy stops him.)

Nancy: Wait, watch out for the vines. It's all a hive mind.

Eddie: It's all a what?

Steve: All the creepy crawlies around here, dude. They're, like, one or something. Step on a vine, you're stepping on a bat, you're stepping on Vecna.

Eddie: Shit.

(Y/N): Pretty much.

Robin: But everything from our world is still here, right? Except people, obviously.

Nancy: As far as I understand it, yeah.

Robin: So, theoretically, we could go to the police station and steal guns and grenades and whatever we need to blow up those bat things that are guarding the gate.

Steve: I highly doubt the Hawkins PD has grenades, Robin. But guns, yeah, sure.

Nancy: Well, we don't have to go all the way downtown for guns. I have guns in my bedroom.

Eddie: You, Nancy Wheeler, have guns, plural, in your bedroom?

Robin: Full of surprises, isn't she?

Nancy: A Russian Makarov and a revolver.

Steve: Yeah, you almost shot me and (Y/N) with that one.

Nancy: You both almost deserved it.

(Y/N): I would've been fine. You don't have silver bullets, do you?

Nancy: I don't.

(Y/N): Yeah, I would've been fine.

(Eddie throws a jacket at Steve.)

Eddie: For your modesty, dude.

(Y/N): Don't have one for me?

Eddie: No, sorry, man.

(Y/N): It's okay. Robin's not complaining.

Robin: I can if you want.

(The ground shakes beneath them. Steve holds onto Nancy as Y/N holds onto Robin. Creatures of the Upside Down snarl in the distance.)

Eddie: So guns seem like a pretty good idea to me.

Robin: Yeah, me too.

(Cut to them walking through the forest.)

Robin: Couldn't we have tried a road, or something just slightly less creepy?

Nancy: I think we're getting close. We're almost out of here. Don't worry.

(The girls walk ahead of Eddie, Y/N, & Steve.)

Steve: Hey, (Y/N). Thanks for, you know, coming after me.

(Y/N): No big deal.

Eddie: "No big deal." Listen to this guy.

(Y/N): I've got your back and you've got mine. Alpha and beta.

Steve: [chuckles] Sure. I'd hug you but...

(Y/N): Your waist is wrapped, gotcha.

Steve: Eddie. Hey, man. Uh...Listen, I just, uh...I just want to say thanks. For saving my ass back there.

Eddie: Shit. You saved your own ass, man.

(Y/N): Yeah, you guys practically didn't need me to show up.

Eddie: I wouldn't say that. I mean, that was a real Ozzy move you two pulled back there.

Steve: Ozzy?

Eddie: When you took a bite out of that bat. And when (Y/N) bit that other bat's head off. Ozzy Osbourne? Black Sabbath? He bit a bat's head off onstage.

Steve: We don't--

Eddie: You know? Doesn't matter.

Steve: No.

(Y/N): I'm more of a Huey Lewis type of guy.

Eddie: It's very metal what you two did. That's all I'm saying.

Steve: Thanks.

(Y/N): *makes a horned fist*

Eddie: Henderson told me you two are a pair of badasses. Insisted on the matter, in fact.

Steve: Henderson said that?

Eddie: Oh yeah. Shit. Kid worships you, dude. Like, you have no idea. It's kinda annoying, to be honest. I can see why (Y/N) now because he's a werewolf, a mythical creature and whatnot.

(Y/N): [chuckles] Uh-huh.

Eddie: I don't even know why I care what that little shrimp thinks, but, uh, guess I got a little jealous, Steve. I guess I couldn't accept the fact that Steve Harrington was actually a good dude.

(Y/N): Been saying that for years now.

Eddie: Dustin told me about that too. How (Y/N) O'Connell would always be the first person to stick up for Steve Harrington. Rich parents, popular, chicks love him. Not a douche? No way, man. No way. That, like, flies in the face of all the laws in the universe and my own personal Munson doctrine. Still super jealous as hell, by the way.

Steve: [chuckles] Great.

Eddie: Which is why I would never have jumped in that lake to save your ass. Not under any, uh...normal circumstances. Nope. Outside of D&D, I am no hero. I see danger and I just turn heel and run. Or at least that's what I've learned about myself this week.

(Y/N): You're being way too hard on yourself.

Steve: Yeah. Give yourself a break, man.

Eddie: See? The only reason I came in here is 'cause those ladies came in straight after you. Now, I was too ashamed to be the one who stayed behind. Before Robin dived after you, she looked at you, (Y/N). Knowing that you'd go after her.

(Y/N looks at Robin as she walks ahead.)

Eddie: She also said something about you two being alphas. Does that mean something to you?

(Y/N): Yeah. It does.

Eddie: I have only known that you and her have been dating for a short time, don't know how long, but I can tell in her voice how she talks about you and vice versa, what you two have, right there, that's love. I'd make sure to tell her just how much you love her. Especially, considering I don't know if we're all going to make it out of this.

(Y/N thinks about what he said.)

Eddie: But Wheeler right there, she didn't waste a second. Not one second. She just dove in. Now, I don't know what happened between you two, but if I were you, I would get her back. 'Cause that was as unambiguous a sign of true love as these cynical eyes have ever seen.

(Steve looks at Nancy as the ground shakes again.)

Eddie: Goddamn it! Here we go again.

Robin: Okay, second on my list of least favorite things, earthquakes. Seriously, I'm unsteady enough as it is.

(Nancy goes on ahead.)

Robin: Nancy! Where are you going? Nancy!

(They catch up to Nancy to see they're close to her house.)

Nancy: Come on.

(Cut to them entering Nancy's house.)

Robin: Might be time to get a maid, Wheeler.

Nancy: Come on. I don't want to stay here longer than we have to.

(They go upstairs where Nancy, Robin, & Eddie enter her room, Y/N enters her parent's room to find a shirt to wear, & Steve stays downstairs because he hears Dustin.)

Steve: Dustin! Dustin!

(Steve's calls bring everyone back downstairs to see Steve calling frantically for Dustin.)

Steve: Can you hear me? Dustin? Du--Hello? Hel...Hello?

Robin: Maybe he really does have rabies.

Steve: Hello? Hello!

Nancy: Steve, what are you doing?

(He shines his flashlight on them.)

Steve: Hello! He's here. Henderson. That little shit, he's here. He's like...He's in the walls or something. Just listen. Use your wolf hearing, (Y/N).

(Y/N): Al...ways.

Steve: Dustin. Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Can you hear me?

(They look at the shirt Y/N's wearing.)

Robin: What are you wearing?

(Y/N): A shirt.

Nancy: Is that--

(Y/N): One of your dad's shirts? Yes. And I have it tucked in because it's too big.

(They start hearing Dustin as well.)

Nancy: Dustin!

Eddie: Dustin?

Robin: Dustin!

(Y/N): Pup?

Steve: All right, either this kid can't hear us or he's being a total douchebag.

Nancy: Will found a way.

Steve: What?

Nancy: Will. He found a way to speak to Joyce through the lights.

Steve: Lights?

(Nancy starts flipping switches but the lights don't turn on. Steve notices the lights begin to glow as Dustin talks. Nancy moves her fingers through the particles.)

Eddie: Whoa.

(Y/N): Cool.

(As does everyone else.)

(Imagine Y/N between Robin & Eddie.)

Nancy: Does anyone know Morse code?

Robin, (Y/N), & Steve: No.

Eddie: Wait, does SOS count? Is that...is that good?

(Back in our world, Erica, Dustin, & Lucas notices one of the lights flickering.)

Robin: It's working.

Dustin: "S." "O." "S." Hey, uh, remember when I said they wouldn't be stupid enough to go through Watergate?

Lucas: Yeah?

Dustin: I overestimated them.

(Dustin, Erica, & Lucas are able to create a way for them to talk to Nancy & the others through a light up board.)

Nancy: Um...Uh...

Dustin: It worked!

Eddie: Yes! Yes! Hi!

Nancy: Okay. Um...

Robin: [chuckles]

(Y/N): Bravo, Henderson.

(Nancy spells out "stuck.")

Lucas: They're stuck in the Upside Down.

Dustin: Okay. Uh, you can't get back through Watergate?

Steve: What the hell's Watergate?

Robin: 'Cause it's in water and it's a gate.

Steve: Oh.

Eddie: That's cute.

(Y/N): It's pretty funny.

Steve: Right.

Nancy: Um, no. It's...

(Nancy spells out "guarded.")

Dustin: Okay. Uh, Watergate's guarded.

Steve: Perfect. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Dustin: We think we have a theory that can help with that.

Robin: Genius child.

Dustin: We think Watergate isn't the only gate. That there's a gate at every murder site.

Nancy: Does anybody understand what he's talking about?

Steve, Eddie, & (Y/N): No.

(Nancy writes a "?.")

Dustin: Okay. Seriously? How many times do I have to be right on the money before you guys just trust me?

Steve: Jesus Christ, This kid's gotta get his ego in check.

Eddie: It's his tone, right?

(Y/N): Definitely.

Steve: I know.

Nancy: Okay. So...So how far is your trailer?

Eddie: Seven miles.

Robin: Nancy. Uh, I know your house here is, like, weirdly, creepily frozen in time and shit, but haven't you always had bikes?

(Cut to them getting on the bikes. One problem, there's only four.)

(Y/N): *stretching* I'll keep up with you guys.

Eddie: Dude, it's seven miles.

(Y/N): So?

Steve: I've ran with him, he can last seven miles.

(Y/N): Thank you.

Nancy: You sure?

(Y/N): Yes. Come on, let's stop wasting time.

Robin: Okay, (Y/N).

(Y/N): What?

Robin: Hop on behind me.

(Y/N): Oh? I thought about suggesting that but...

Robin: You even thought about it, did you? Come on. Just hold onto my waist.

(He makes his way towards her.)

(Y/N): Where else would I hold onto?

(Erica, Dustin, Lucas, & Max are riding their bikes, on their way to Eddie's as is Nancy's group.)

(Imagine Y/N holding onto Robin.)

(As they're biking they pass by a house with bats swarming over it. They reach Eddie's trailer.)

Eddie: Right here.

Robin: That's gotta be a Guinness World Record. Most miles traveled interdimensionally.

Steve: Just inhaled a bunch of that crap. [coughs] It's stuck in my throat.

(Y/N): Pretty sure we're all gonna get cancer from just being here.

(They enter his trailer to see the gate on his ceiling.)

Steve: Goddamn.

Eddie: This is where Chrissy died. Like, right where she died.

Robin: I think there's something in there.

(Something starts poking out the gate.)

Eddie: What the hell is that?

(The gate bursts open.)

All: [yelp]

(They walk up to the hole.)

Steve: No way.

(They look up to see Erica, Dustin, Lucas, & Max.)

Dustin: [laughs] Hi.

Steve: Hi.

Nancy, Robin, & (Y/N): Hi.

Robin: Holy shit, this is trippy.

(Y/N): Yup.

(Dustin & Erica make a rope of sheets as Lucas & Max carry his bed & place it under the hole.)

Eddie: Those stains are, uh...I dunno what those stains are.

Robin: Mmm.

(Y/N pads Eddie's back.)

(Y/N): Sure ya don't.

(They finish making the rope.)

Dustin: I'm not sure how these physics are gonna work. But, uh...here goes nothing.

(He tosses the rope up & it lands down to them in the Upside Down. It stays in place.)

Dustin: There you go. And if my theory is correct...

(He lets go of the rope as it stays in place.)

Dustin: Huh. Abracadabra.

Max: Holy shit.

Dustin: All right, pull on it! See if it holds!

(Robin pulls on it & it holds.)

Dustin: [laughing]

Erica: This is the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen some crazy shit.

(Her & Dustin high five.)

Robin: Guess I'm the guinea pig.

(She starts climbing up the rope.)

Robin: (Y/N), don't touch my butt.

(Y/N): I...wasn't going to.

Dustin: Let's clear the landing pad.

Robin: Oh my God!

Robin: Thank God. That was fun.

(Dustin helps her up as Steve, Y/N, Nancy, & Eddie look at each other, wondering who's next.)

Eddie: All right, I guess I'll go.

(He crawls up the hole & lands on the mattress.)

Eddie: That...was fun. Shit.

(Cut back to Steve, Y/N, & Nancy.)

(Y/N): I'll go last. It's cool.

Robin: No, you're not. Come here, boy.

(Y/N): [groans]

(He grabs onto the rope & starts climbing up it.)

Steve: [chuckles] You're such a good boy.

(Y/N): [strained] I will rip your...

(He goes through the hole.)

(Y/N): ...face off!

Dustin, Max, & Lucas: Good boy.

(Y/N): [sighs] Someone help me up.

(Robin pulls him up into a kiss as cut back down to Steve & Nancy.)

Steve: [chuckles] See you on the other side.

Nancy: On the other side.

(She starts climbing the rope & goes through the hole...)

Right Before This, After (Y/N) & Robin's Kiss

(Robin looks up at the hole as Y/N looks at her.)

(Y/N): Robin Buckley.

Robin: Oh, my full name. This must be serious.

(Y/N): I...

(He doesn't say anything after that.)

Robin: I...what? (Y/N)? Earth to O'Connell?

(She turns around to see Y/N's eyes have become faded white.)

Robin: (Y/N).

(She cups his face.)

Robin: This isn't funny, I need to wake up. Wake up! Please! For me! (Y/N)?!

(Dustin & the others look at them as the same thing is happening to Nancy.)

Steve: Hey! Hey! Stay with me. Nancy! Hey! Nancy, wake up!

(Everyone looks up the hole, Max looks at Y/N then up at the hole.)

Max: Vecna.

(Nancy lands in Steve's pool while Y/N looks at himself in the mirror, in Steve's bathroom.)

(Y/N): ...love you.

(He realizes where he is.)

(Y/N): What the...? Robin! Steve!

Nancy: [grunting, groaning]

(He overhears this, makes his way through the Upside Down version of Steve's house, & steps outside to see Nancy in the empty pool.)

(Y/N): Nancy?

(He jumps down in the pool & helps Nancy up.)

Nancy: (Y/N)?

(Y/N): Hey, Wheeler.

Nancy: Where are we?

(Y/N): From the looks of it, we are back in the Upside Down.

(They see a corpse & they walk up to it. It's the corpse of...)

Nancy: [gasps]

(Y/N): *looks away*

Vecna: Shared trauma. Do you remember what you did, Nancy? Or have you already forgotten like (Y/N) has? When I kill someone...I never forget.

(The pool begins to fill with blood. They climb out of the pool & are transported to the red world Max was in.)

Vecna: I see you've been looking for me, Nancy. You were so close. So close to the truth. How was old, blind, dumb Victor? Did he miss me? I've been meaning to check back in, but I've been busy.

(They see Fred's twisted body.)

Vecna: So very busy.

(Y/N): Nancy, no matter what, stay behind me.

Vecna: You're going to protect her from me, (Y/N)? Why do you think I brought you both here?

(Nancy & Y/N watch Vecna's childhood which includes him mutilating a rabbit.)

(Y/N): [growls]

(They continue to watch his childhood where they see him breaking the bones & popping out the eyes of his mother. Then see Vecna as a child being tattooed by Dr. Brenner. We see that Vecna is Number 001.)