small town big city

Summer vacation of ‘88, the gang—Y/n Hopper, Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, and Eddie Munson—gets back together in Hawkins, with plans to go on a cross-country road trip; Nancy from New York City, Robin from Indianapolis, Y/n from Notre Dame, and Steve and Eddie still in Hawkins. Of course, their plans are derailed as always, and the only road trip they’re going on is through the Upside Down. One gate malfunction later, and they find themselves back on Earth——in New York City, 2017.— - — - —AKA: The one in which the Fruity Five get stuck in the future de-aged to their high school selves, and suddenly, aliens and monsters are real… in the not-Upside Down. They’re left trying to find a way home while staying off the radar of both the superheroes and supervillians of New York, which gets to be an even bigger struggle considering one of their number lives with the majority of the former group.After all, how could one ever expect a Hawkins summer to be normal?