~Arcade ❄︎ Lucas Sinclair~

THE SPY

They all walked through the byers' house looking around at all the crayon drawings surrounding the house. Will was asleep on the couch with Jonathan sitting next to him, talking quietly. Nancy stood beside him rubbing his shoulder kindly.

The kids sat quietly at the kitchen table, everybody mourning the death of Bob Newby, while hopper was on the phone.

"They didn't believe you, did they?" Dustin asked, when Hopper got off the phone.

We'll see." Hopper responded.

"We'll see? We can't just sit here while those things are loose!" Mike spat.

"We stay here, and we wait for help." Hopper said firmly.

After a while Mike got up from his chair and walked to the coffee table and grabbed something that looked like a rubix cube.

"Did you guys know that Bob was the original founder of Hawkins AV?" Mike said, fiddling with the rubix cube like box thing.

"Really?" Lucas said.

"He petitioned the school to start it and everything. And then he had a fund-raiser for equipment. Mr. Clarke learned everything from him. Pretty awesome, right?" Mike said with a slight smile.

"Yeah." Dustin and Lucas agreed.

Mike walked back to the table and sat the blue cube down.

"We can't let him die in vane." Mike said.

"Well, what do you want to do Mike? The chief's right on this. We can't stop the Demo-dogs on our own." Dustin said.

"I mean, when it was just Dart, maybe-" Dustin started.

"But there's an army now." Lucas finished.

Dustin nodded. "Precisely".

"His army." Mike stated.

Everybody faced him while Steve asked, "What do you mean?".

"His army. Maybe if we stop him, we can stop his army, too." Mike suggested.

"Wait, slow down. Who's him?" Steve asked.

Mike rushed to the other room and came back with a drawing of a creature with multiple legs and dark like a night sky.

"The shadow monster." Dustin stated, examining the drawing.

"It got Will that day on the field. The doctor said  it was like a virus, it infected him." Mike said, explaining things that were talked about in the lab.

"And so this virus, it's connected him to the tunnels?" Max asked, trying to understand the situation.

Mike nodded. "To the tunnels, monsters, the Upside Down, everything.

"Whoa, slow down, slow down." Steve said, trying to grasp at everything.

"Okay, so, the shadow monsters' inside everything. And if the vines feel something like pain, then so does Will".

"And so does Dart." Lucas said.

"And the rest of the.......... demo-dogs?" Kate said, a little questionable towards the word.

"Yeah, like what Mr. Clarke taught us. The hive mind." Mike said." Hive mind?" Steve asked.

"A collective consciousness. It's a super-organism." Dustin explained.

"And this is the thing that controls everything." Mike said, jabbing his finger at the drawing. "It's the brain".

"Like the mind flayer." Dustin said. Lucas snapped his fingers and pointing at Dustin, agreeing with him.