The Byers Girl (On Pause until season 5)

Chapter Six: The Dive

Hawkins police arrive on the scene of Patrick death, his mangled body pulled out of the water by Jason. Calvin Powell and Phil Callahan question him, pointing out the impossibility of Eddie killing Patrick, but Jason insists he is secretly a vessel for Satan, which gives him evil powers. Powell and Callahan look at Jason not convinced about his belief about Eddie.
In the depth's of Lover's Lake, a fish is grabbed by something unseen and pulled downwards.

Wallace is tortured in a government facility by Jack Sullivan's men. Sullivan again asks him for Eleven's location, which Wallace claims not to know.
Sullivan remains firm that Eleven is responsible for Vecna's killings and Brenner is helping her. Wallace again states he does not know where she is, and so Sullivan has him locked inside an overheated metal box.

Brenner compares the loss of Eleven's powers to a stroke victim's brain, believing the parts of her memories she is repressing are what holds the key to getting her powers back. Eleven tells him of her memory of the massacre, and Brenner warns her that she must stick to one memory at a time so she does not overstrain her mind. Eleven is placed inside NINA, which has screens installed on the ceiling playing video clips from her repressed memories, and sinks into her mind.

The Hawkins group goes to tell Eddie about their findings about Vecna, only to find Rick Lipton's cabin swarming with police because of Patrick's death. Powell publicly releases Eddie's name as the primary suspect and sets an open forum at town hall. Eddie gets out of the lake secretly taking a walkie calling the group telling them to meet him in the woods.

Joyce and Murray, stranded in the Russian woods, try to get Yuri Ismaylov who's tied to a tree to help them. He initially refuses unless paid, but gives in when they threaten to leave him and points them towards his safe house. He leads Joyce and Murray to it, where they arm themselves. Remembering his plan to turn them over to Kamchatka's warden, Murray disguises Yuri as himself and himself as Yuri so they can break inside. Hopper, Dmitri Antonov and the other prisoners are led to a large feast. Only Hopper refuses to partake. One prisoner points out that the guards are letting them regain their strength so they can fight whatever lives next to the arena, as he had seen other prisoners be given the same feast, only for all of them to be killed by it. He insists that they must band together to fight it instead of scattering like the other group did, but Hopper interrupts, explaining the monster is there to hunt them and that the food is to fatten them up.

In her memories, the orderly gives Eleven advice and claims she reminds her of the mythical number One, who Brenner tells the children does not exist.
The orderly insists that One was real and he spent years working with him, and that he gave One advice to tap into his most traumatic memories. He reveals that Brenner had lied to her about her mother's death. Brenner leads the children away for another test. Outside NINA, Owens sighs that they should have told her the truth about something, to which Brenner responds "and risk everything?".

As the Hawkins group walk to Eddie's location, Lucas expresses guilt to Max over witnessing signs of Patrick being abused but not doing anything about it.
He realizes that all of Vecna's victims are linked by darkness in their life, and apologizes to Max for not trying harder to help her. Max insists that it was her fault for pulling away, and they resolve their distance. Nancy admits the toll distance has taken on her relationship with Jonathan to Robin, and the two become friends. Despite Dustin's compass being off, Steve finds Eddie's location, and the group meets up with him. Eddie sees the group and hugs Dustin happy to see them. Y/n smiles watching the two while Steve watches Y/n smiling.

As Powell fails to quell the crowd at town hall, Jason takes control of the situation, blaming all of the deaths caused by the Upside Down in the past years on the Hellfire Club and rallying the town against Eddie. As the police try to stop the townspeople, Karen Wheeler, Claudia Henderson, and Sue Sinclair all appear deeply discomforted. The families converge on the Wheeler house to find the kids gone, and Karen calls the police.

Y/n checks Eddie's broken watch and realizes Patrick's death matches the lights exploding in the Creel house, meaning that Vecna needs to attack from the attic. As the group wonders how they can get to the Upside Down to kill him, Dustin realizes his compass is off, and he and Lucas realize from their past experiences that there must be a gate nearby. The group agrees to follow Dustin's compass.

Brenner arranges a test/game for the children where two of them will stand in opposite circles and try to knock each other over using their psychic abilities. Bully Two easily dominates the competition, leaving Eleven the last one standing. During the fight, Eleven follows the orderly's advice and taps into the memory of her mother being taken away from her, using it to win to Brenner's approval.

While being led through the arena, Hopper provokes Antonov into a staged fight, and Hopper tries and fails to get the upper hand on the guards. Antonov assumes Hopper's attempt was worthless, only for him to reveal that he fought them so he could steal a lighter in the hopes of killing the Demogorgon with fire.

The California group arrives at Suzie's house that's overrun by her many young eccentric siblings. Argyle is instantly smitten with her older sister Eden, and they find Suzie on the roof of her house, her computer taken away for changing Dustin's grade. After providing a fake cover story as to why they need to track the phone number, Suzie has her siblings distract her father while she and the California group breaks into his office and uses the computer to trace its location to Nevada. She prints out a map of the coordinates and sends them on their way, only for them to find Eden getting high with Argyle in the van.

As Powell and Phil Callahan argue about their current situation, they get a call from an officer having found the Hawkins group's car up by Eddie's hideout. Knowing that Lover's Lake is close by, the two head for it. Dustin's compass leads the group to Lover's Lake, and Y/n remembers that the demogorgon would create smaller gates wherever it attacked, wondering if Vecna does the same thing. Steve takes the compass putting the boat in the lake with Eddie.
Eddie gets in the boat helping Nancy in and Steve stays outside of the boat reaching a hand out for Robin who uses his and Eddie's head to get in.
Y/n steps forward and Steve stops her.
"You're not coming" he says shaking his head.
"You're crazy if you think I'm not going" she says poking his chest.
"It's not safe" he says sternly.
"I don't care Steve I'm going" she says pushing past him taking Eddie's hand into the boat.

Steve sighs looking at the boat seeing Nancy giving him an apologetic smile and Robin smirking at him.
"I'm trying to keep you safe and you don't listen to me!" Steve yells looking at Y/n.
"I'm not a kid Steve I can keep myself safe!" she yells back standing on the boat.
The group watch their interaction with shocked expressions.
He sighs getting on the boat.
Dustin yells at Steve for lying to him about not going on the boat because their wasn't enough room.

While spending her extra hour in the Rainbow Room, won by winning the competition, Eleven overhears screaming and comes across Brenner having the orderly tortured. She watches in horror as they drag him away and returns to the Rainbow Room to find Two and three of his accomplices waiting for her, having cut the power to the security cameras, and they attack her for winning. Two promises to kill her if she reports on him to Brenner. When Eleven looks in the mirror, she again sees her younger self, but the room and her clothes are in the same condition they were during the massacre. She uncovers a new memory—her bloodstained self-exerting her powers during the massacre and screaming. Her memory of Brenner again asks, "what have you done?" and she wakes up outside NINA. A horrified Eleven concludes that she killed the children in retribution for the attack.

Dustin's compass goes haywire, and the teens realize they are right on top of the gate. Steve, having the most swimming experience, offers to look for it. As he takes his shirt off, Robin notices Y/n watching him and smirks. Before he dives down she grabs his arm worried,
"Please be careful" she says smiling at him.
He nods smiling at her.

Steve dives to the bottom of the lake, finding several fish skeletons, and notices a red light in the distance. As the younger teens observe the situation, the police arrive, forcing them to hide. Steve finds the gate sealed up and touches it, causing a tendril to press up from the other side. As he surfaces and confirms to his friends that he found the gate, the younger teens lures the police away from them. The tendril floats up to the surface and wraps around Steve's leg, dragging him into the Upside Down. Y/n immediately dives in after him and after a moment of deliberation, so do Robin, Nancy and Eddie. As the police catch Dustin, Max and Lucas, Steve is attacked by bat creatures. One of them strangles him with its tail, holding him down, and the others start to bite into his flesh.