Loss - Lucas Sinclair

The Spy (Part 1)

"I knew it," Lucas sighed as he looked at his sister. He knew Erica had stolen his He-man action figure.

He went up to her on grabbed the toy back with his sister shouting at him. "Hey! They're in love!"

"No," Lucas snapped, "actually, they're not. They don't even exist on the same planet."

"Aren't you too old to be playing with toys?" Erica asked, looking at him weirdly.

"That's not the point," Lucas said, trying to change the subject. "The point is to stay out of my room."

He walked out of the room only to stop when Erica called after him. "Then tell your little nerdy friend to shut his mouth."

He walked back to the doorframe. "What are you talking about?"

"'Code red, Lucas. Code red. Code red.'" Erica imitated Dustin. "Bunch of nerds."

Lucas started to get scared by Erica's (Dustin's) words. "Code red".

Why didn't she tell me earlier? He asked himself as he ran into his room.

"No, no, no, no, no," he muttered to himself as he turned on his radio and found the channel he knew Dustin would be on. "Dustin! This is Lucas. Do you copy? Dustin?"

"Well, well, well, look who it is," Dustin's voice came through the radio.

"Sorry, man," Lucas sighed. "My stupid sister turned it off."

"Well, when you were having sister problems, Dart grew again, he escaped, and I'm pretty sure he's a baby Demogorgon."

Oh no. Lucas thought. A full grown Demogorgon required to superpowered girls to kill it. And now they only have the party.

"Wait, what?" Lucas asked, wanting to make sure he heard it right before starting to freak out.

"I'll explain later. Meet me and Steve at the old junkyard."

"Steve?"

"And bring your binoculars and wrist rocket."

"Steve Harrington?" Lucas asked still on that subject.

"All right, let's go," a new voice that Lucas could only guess to be Steve Harrington's came through the radio.

"Just be there, stat." Dustin said, not answering any questions. "Over and out."

Lucas looked at the radio as the line went dead.

Oh my god.

***

"A lot of the times, power can be controlled by emotion," Ivory said, walking in a circle around Nikki, "but at the same time emotions can be the reason they can be uncontrollable. So, what kinds of emotions do you feel when they start to get out of control."

"I don't know," Nikki shrugged.

"Okay," Ivory nodded. "Guess we'll just have to do a little experiment."

Ivory moved Nikki so she was surrounded by trees instead of her and Gwen, who was watching from a far.

"Okay, let's just try to get you to feel some emotions and see if it helps or not," Ivory said, stepping away from her. "Okay, ready?"

Nikki only nodded in response.

"So, let's imagine your back at the lab," Ivory began and immediately noticed Nikki stiffen, "you're alone in a dark room, waiting for one of the scientists to experiment on you. You know that the experiment will hurt, but you can't fight back or else they will hurt you."

Nikki could almost see herself in the lab, hiding away in the corner, shaking from the fear.

"Suddenly," Ivory continued, "Brenner comes in and he's giving you that wicked grin he does before something awful happens..."

Nikki didn't hear the rest of what Ivory was telling her. The fear took over her mind.

She saw everything.

Papa brought her to a room where one of his enemies stood.

"Now, Nine," papa said, making her face the man. "Kill him."

Nine immediately felt fear run up her spine. She knew she had to kill him or it would be bad for her, but she never liked the idea of taking someone's life away, no matter what they did.

The man made eye contact with her. He looked as scared as she felt. He maybe he saw her fear too, because his eyes went soft as if to promise to help her if she did the same.

She turned to papa and shook her head. She couldn't do it.

Papa sighed disappointed in her as he turned her back to face the man. Without her seeing, papa nodded at one of his fellow scientists.

The scientists pulled out a gun and shot the man without thinking once.

The man fell dead at her feet.

Tears escaped from her eyes as she started shaking from fear.

"Take her away," papa said, stepping away from the girl as two scientists grabbed her arms.

"No, no, no!" She felt her fear rising more. She started screaming all the way to the cold, dark room they would lock her in.

Nikki was taken out of her flashback by her own screaming. She quickly tried to calm herself down before anything bad could happen but it was too late. It looked like Nikki was bowling with the trees and she got a strike.

"Nikki!" Gwen called to her as she wrapped her arms around the trembling girl. "It's okay, it's okay. It's not real. You're okay."

"Well, that's one emotion that makes your powers uncontrollable," Ivory said walking up to the two girls, "fear."

***

Lucas rang the doorbell to Max's house and waited for someone to answer the door. He knew someone was home due to the loud rock music playing inside.

After hearing that Dart was a baby Demogorgon, Lucas decided if Max wanted proof, he would give it to her.

He rang the doorbell again since he was in a rush, and another time just for good measure.

Finally, the door opened revealing Max. She looked surprised to see him as she looked back at her brother in the living room. She quickly got out of the house, closing the door behind her.

"What are you doing here?" She asked in a quiet voice.

"I have proof," Lucas explained quickly.

"What?"

"Proof that what I told you was real. But we have to hurry."

"What kind of proof?" Max shook her head.

"Let's just say, think of Dart but as a Demogorgon."

She glared at him for a second before sighing. "Okay, just give me a minute. And meet me at my bedroom window in the back of the house."

He nodded before running to grab his bike then following her instructions.

He only a had to wait a few seconds before she jumped out her window.

"Come on," Lucas said, waving her over. "Hurry."

She got on the back of his bike in a hurry. "This better be good, stalker."

Authors note
This my favorite episode of season 2. I can't wait for you guys to see the rest! I have it already written out and I'm currently working on the Mind Flayer. So more to come!

Love ya!!❤️❤️❤️