Say Something I'm Giving Up On You

How Do We Save Him?

Mike and El headed back to the Byer's house after escaping the tunnels. The moment they came in, everyone surrounded them with a group hug. They both hugged them back and after a few minutes, they all let go. Lucas and Dustin patted El on the back and grinned at her. She grinned back, happy that she was back with the people she called home. She then introduced herself to Max and Steve, who arrived after Mike had left, and then to Bob, who Joyce called to help the with the drawings that were still surrounding the house

Rey then came up to Mike and gave him a small smile. "So I guess you didn't really need that much backup after all then?" She said. Mike chuckled as she put a hand on his shoulder. "You really are like the leader of your party after all. Stubborn, but always there to help a friend out," she added.

Mike smiled at her. "Thanks Rey. You are a good addition to the party. You can be another one of our mages, like El. Same with 007, 009, and 010," He said.

"I'd be happy to be one of your mages, whatever that is," Rey replied. "By the way, 007, 009, and 010 found some names that they want to be called. Actual real names and not numbers."

"It's true," 007 spoke up from behind them. "I'm going to be called Keelan from now on." She said.

010 then spoke up. "I'm going to be called Ryder," He said.

"And I'm going to be called Cat. Because I love cats now," 009 said.

Mike nodded and gave them a thumbs up at their names. Everyone smiled at him, happy that he was happy again and not miserable. If El were to disappear again, he would probably want to go jump off a cliff, so they couldn't let anything else happen to her or him. The two lovers would be together forever due to everything they had been through. Apart or together, they were always going to be there for each other. 

Their joyful moment was then broken when El spoke up with, "Where's Will? Can I see him?"

Everyone exchanged looks. Rey looked over at her with a sad look for a moment before looking at everyone else. "El, Mike, Keelan, Cat, and Ryder, we gotta talk."

...

The six powerful people went into Jonathan's room to talk privately with each other. Mike and El sat down on the edge of the bed together, Rey sat down in a chair by a desk, Keelan, Cat, and Ryder all sat down on the floor. Mike and El were the only ones who were confused on why they were talking in private because they weren't there for a while. But the four others in the room knew exactly what was going on.

"Mike, El, we realized something while you two were gone," Rey started out with saying. "Will has a part of the Shadow Monster inside of him. That means that he can see what that thing sees and feels what it feels. That also means that the Shadow Monster can see things that Will sees too. We don't know exactly what it's doing to him, but it's definitely changing him," She explained.

Mike and El exchanged looks with each other before looking back at the other four. "So What you mean is that Will is pretty much possessed by that monster? What can we do to get it out of him?" Mike asked.

Keelan shrugged in response. "We're not sure. We tried a bunch of things to try to get it out, but nothing. The only thing we know is that it has passage around Hawkins due to Bob figuring out the maps. They all surround the town, which could give the monster easy access to anywhere," she said.

"And other monsters," El added in quietly. Everyone turned to look at her before she continued, "In the tunnels, more monsters. Tried to attack us. Like the Demogorgon, but not the Demogorgon. Smaller, but just as bad." Then she looked over at Mike. "Tried to attack Mike, but I stopped them."

Mike wrapped an arm around her and gave her a small smile. Then he turned back to everyone else with a determined look. "Well, now we know what we have to do," he said, "We need to get this monster out of Will and then learn how to destroy these tunnels. There has to be a way to stop these monsters from taking over the world."

Everyone nodded in agreement. "What we have to do is find out the Shadow Monster's weakness. We may need to talk to Will for this one because he knows more about this thing than we do," Ryder said.

"And lets just hope that this fucking Monster doesn't overhear our fucking conversation. That's the last thing we need right now," Cat said.

Their conversation was interrupted when there was a loud banging on the door. The six exited the room to check out what was going on. Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, Dustin, Lucas, Max, Joyce, and Hopper were gathered around the door with weapons out just in case. Mike took out his gun as well while El, Rey, Keelan, Ryder, and Cat had their powers ready.

The door kept on banging louder and louder and grunting noises could be heard from outside the house. The group's nervousness was growing more and more with each bang. Suddenly, the door burst off it's ridges and fell onto the ground. Everyone gasped in surprise as they stared at the door. They all looked up at who it was at the door and El, Rey, Keelan, Cat, and Ryder felt their hearts drop.

Dylan was at their door with Heather, Damien, and Jordan. The evil experiments from the lab had found them. 

Jordan had broke down the door with his super strength. Heather then used her light powers to take out the lights in the room as Damien used his speed powers to grab everyone, except for the former experiments, and tied them up. As Heather put the lights back on, Dylan stepped out with an evil smirk on her face. She then electrocuted the ones who were tied up before looking over at the former experiments.

"Shocked to see me?"