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"It got Will that day on the field. The doctor said it was like a virus, it infected him." Mike nodded.
"And so this virus, it's connecting him to the tunnels?" Indiana asked looking at the pale boy.
"To the tunnels, monsters, the Upside Down, everything." Mike looked to everyone.
"Whoa. Slow down. Slow down." Steve spoke up. "Okay, so, the shadow monsters inside everything. And if the vines feel something like pain, then so does Will." Mike tells the teenager.
"And so does Dart." Lucas added.
"Yeah. Like what Mr. Clarke taught us. The hive mind." Mike continued. Steve looked to the boys confused, "Hive mind?"
"A collective consciousness. It's a super-organism." Dustin explained. Mike picked up a picture of a drawing. "And this is the thing that controls everything. It's the brain."
"Like the mind flayer."
"The what?" Max, Steve, and Indiana sked at the same time.
Dustin ran into Will's room and grabbed a book from their DND game. He opened it up to a page that held an odd looking picture. Everyone crowds around the boys.
"What the hell is that?" Hopper asks.
"It's a monster from an unknown dimension. It's so ancient that it doesn't even know its true home. Okay, it enslaves races of other dimensions by taking over their brains using its highly-developed psionic powers." Dustin explained.
"Oh, my God, none of this is real. This is a kids' game." Hopper groans.
"No, it's a manual. And it's not for kids. And unless you know something that we don't, this is the best metaphor--"
"Analogy." Lucas corrects
"Analogy? That's what you're worried about? Fine. An analogy for understanding whatever the hell this is." Dustin scolds.
Okay, so this mind flamer thing..." Nancy leans forward.
"Flayer. Mind flayer." Dustin corrects.
"What does it want?" Nancy finishes.
"To conquer us, basically. It believes it's the master race." Dustin tells.
"Like the Germans?" Steve states, earning odd looks from everyone.
"Uh, the Nazis?" Indiana asks. Steve nods and points.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nazis." Steve crienges.
"Uh... If the Nazis were from another dimension, totally. Uh, it views other races, like us, as inferior to itself." Dustin continues. Mike steps forward.
"It wants to spread, take over other dimensions."
"We are talking about the destruction of our world as we know it." Lucas looks around.
