Stranger Things: Dustin Henderson (Gaten Materazzo) looks at Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) and tells him, "You die, I die." Steve nods and echoes the same sentiment. The new trailer for the second volume of Stranger Things season five, which was released by Netflix, shows the life-threatening stakes for the gang.

After uncovering Vecna's sinister plot, realising the impact of Will Byers' (Noah Schnapp) disappearance, and most of all the surprise return of unexpected characters, in Volume One, the second volume is setting the stage of the unleashing of Vecna's grand plan for a new world.

"We’ve always known that Will has a connection to Vecna and the Upside Down. In Season 2, we started to delve into it, but one of the earliest ideas in the new season is, ‘What if Will were able to harness this connection and use it against our villains?’ We also felt it very natural to re-center the story on Will. He was the kid who was taken in Season 1, so it felt right for the story to come full circle. If anyone (was) going to be the key to ending Vecna, it needed to be Will," says co-creator Ross Duffer to Netflix.

The second volume consists of four episodes, with acclaimed director Frank Darabont directing the fifth episode of the season (which is the first episode of Volume Two). The second volume is set to premiere on Netflix on December 26. Netflix revealed that the season will premiere at 06.30 am on the platform.