My Number One (001/Henry Creel/Vecna x Reader)

Revelation

"It's been less than twenty-four hours, Mike," said Lucas.

"It's been a whole night," Mike argued.

"That's not long enough to justify risking our lives by running into the Upside Down to look for her!" said Lucas.

Dustin stepped between them. "Lucas, you wouldn't understand. Mike's just lost the love of his life—" he said sarcastically.

Lucas interrupted saying, "He hasn't lost her! Mike, I know it's easy to think from the perspective of mere humans such as ourselves, but don't forget that Eleven is strong enough to lift buses with her mind."

Mike sat down and nodded. "I know you're trying to argue against me by saying that, Lucas, but it's actually making me feel a lot better."

Lucas sat down, too. "Good."

"But you're not just saying it so you don't have to step inside the Upside Down? You really do think she's safe?"

Lucas sighed, as if he had reassured Mike enough times already, and snapped his head around to face him. "Yes!"

Dustin looked at Lucas and pointed his index finger authoritatively. "Do you need me to come between you again?"

"As if you'd be able to do anything, Dustin," said Lucas.

"I think we should go look for her."

Dustin screamed of frustration. "No! We're not, and that's it. Two against one."

"Will hasn't voted yet!" argued Mike,

"Need me to come between you two?" asked Lucas sarcastically.

I opened my eyes, and the vision ended. I could still hear the faint muffled sound of their voices, but now that I had snapped out of my concentration, it was different. I couldn't imagine what they were doing anymore.

I hadn't even meant to fully immerse myself and take myself into their realty...see what they were doing...but it had happened anyway. When Mr Brenner would make me do that experiment back at the lab in a pool of water, I used to find it difficult. Mr Brenner had probably made me feel more nervous. I was better without him. I was better since being with Henry...stronger.

So, it seemed they wouldn't come looking for Eleven...yet. I'd have to kill them before they did so.

The thing was, I couldn't simply send a Demodog in to kill them off. If it was possible, I would have done it already. But Demodogs don't speak any languages, and there were no portals to the Rightside Up which were directly near Mike's house, so there was no way I could tell the Demodog who to target. It might have worked if I kept spying on Mike and his friends until they neared a portal, but I didn't have the patience for that. If I practiced spying, though, I could learn how to spy without being near their location—learn how to spy on them easily, from anywhere I liked. Easier said than done, though. Of course, I had to lay in a pool of water when I did that with great difficulty back in the lab. My nose would bleed down my face and spill into the water, and I'd pass out.

I did had another option, though. I could kill them myself; no Demodogs involved. I was far stronger than they were. I wouldn't even need a weapon. I could simply sneak into the Rightside Up, into Mike's basement, and massacre the four of them.

It would be risky, though. They knew about the Upside Down. They even had an insider's perspective now—Will's. He knew how things worked.

I decided I'd wait and think about my decision before rushing into it and doing anything which might end up being a mistake. Perhaps I'd even tell Henry. Not about the fact that Eleven was in our basement, I'd leave that part out. Only that Mike and his friends didn't know where she was, and that they were planning on searching the Upside Down to find her. I was sure Henry would think of something. He could put Demodogs near all of the portals in Hawkins to guard them, or maybe the thing he told me he was working on would be ready soon so we could use that...the thing he said was going to be bigger and stronger than any Demogorgon. I wondered what it was.

When I was nearing our new house on my way back, I pulled on the Demodog I was riding to stop him in his tracks. Something lurked in the distance...a it looked big, and strong. It stood tall against the murky sky, a dark build, in the form of a monstrous spider.

I stared with my mouth open, and still starting at it, rode towards it on the Demodog again.

I found Henry near this monster, in a field near our house. He'd heard me coming, because, as I neared him, he turned around to face away from the monster, and at me.

"This is my creation," he said, watching me as I watched the monster. "The Spider Monster. Go and see it."

I looked at him for reassurance, and he nodded, so I took a few tentative steps towards it, then stopped.

"Go on," Henry said, directing me further.

I walked until I was right before it, and looked up at it. I wasn't sure what Henry wanted me to do, until the monster reached out one of its thick legs and pulled me in close to its massive body. Trembling, I was now facing outwards as two thinner versions of itself, but this time formed of shadowy particles...mist, extracted themselves from it. There was three monsters now; the Spider Monster, and...

"Mind Flayers," said Henry, guessing what I was wondering. There are more of them inside the Spider Monster, but they all come together to form it. They can all work separately to kill people when they're separate from the Spider Monster, and when they return to the Spider, they transfer the power they gained from people they killed over to it."

"This is incredible," I said. "And you built this?"

"Yes, but it's still a work in progress. Its conscience, its brain, is made from many of the people we, and it, have killed—I call them the Flayed. They're essentially working for us, and they don't even realise it. Their minds are dedicated to controlling this creature. I don't even have to. I can control it if I want, but why should I at the moment when they're doing all the work for me?"

"So...are they inside the monster? What do you mean?"

"They're not physically inside of it, they don't need to be—just their minds. Their bodies are inside an old farmhouse, but that's irrelevant. The bodies are lifeless. It's hard to explain, but you don't need to know all the details. The gist of it is that many of the people we have killed have not gone to waste. Their mind power has been put towards helping us take over the rest of the world."

Suddenly, about twenty rats scurried from beneath the Spider Monster. I pressed myself harder into the Spider's body, not wanting to be near the rats. Henry laughed, and motioned with his hand for the Spider to pick me up into the air, out of reach from the rats, and it did, using one of its massive legs. Then, the rats all began exploding, a strange substance bursting out from inside of them.

"The chemicals exploding from those rats can cause people to become Flayed. They're really just an extra tool to aid us. We don't need them, but they're helpful."

The Spider Monster put me down, and the two Mind Flayers returned to it, to their proxy body.

This was all perfect timing. The time to take down Mike and his friends, right when we needed to, and take down humanity once and for all.