This is Part 2 of the series of posts in which there is Stranger Things without a particular character.
Part 2: Mike Wheeler
In 1983, four years after test subject Eleven banished Henry Creel from Hawkins National Laboratory to another dimension known as the Upside Down, Dr. Martin Brenner commands Eleven to touch a creature she stumbles upon while spying upon Soviet spies in her mental space. Upon creating contact, a gate to the Upside Down is created at the lab, through which the creature, the Demogorgon, breaks into the lab. In the confusion, Eleven manages to escape the lab through a pipe, a way revealed to her by Henry. Eleven runs into Mirkwood, and eventually finds Benny's Burgers. Benny, however, is killed by Brenner's agent Connie Frazier and Eleven once again runs into the woods.
She stays there for a couple hours, wandering helplessly, until a group of people calling out "Will Byers!" stumbles upon her. They find her and take her to the Hawkins Police Department, who then transport her to the Hawkins Memorial Hospital. Eleven is incredibly confused. Finally, Dr. Brenner and his agents arrive at the hospital and take Eleven back to the lab. Dr. Brenner continues running tests on Eleven. Meanwhile, the Demogorgon rampages the town of Hawkins, killing Barbara Holland. The Demogorgon creates several gates all over Hawkins to get in and out of the Upside Down. Using these gates, Henry, now in control of the entire Upside Down, sends an army of other Demogorgons and adolescent versions of them, Demodogs, to destroy the town and kill all the civilians. Using the shadow-like leader of the Upside Down, the Mind Flayer, he possesses and melts all the military who arrive at Hawkins, who are unable to kill the Mind Flayer with their weapons. The flesh and blood of the military and other civilians become a proxy body for the Mind Flayer, and eventually, Henry reaches his goal of reshaping the world, with an incomprehensibly gargantuan Mind Flayer made of the flesh and blood of the world and an army of Demogorgons & Demodogs by his side.
DEATHS:
Everyone except Vecna & the Upside Down-ians