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¹³ - 𝐈𝐭 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬

"I mean, when it was just Dart, maybe..." Dustin trails off

"But there a army now" Lucas tells them

"Precisely" Dustin says

"His army" Mike says quickly

"What do you mean?" Steve asks as he turns a little to look at them

"His army" Mike says louder "Maybe if we stop him, we can stop his army, too" he then grabs one of Wills drawings

"The shadow monster" Dustin says looking at Wills drawing

"It got Will that day on the field. The doctor said it was like a virus, it infected him" Mike explains to them

"And so his virus, it's connecting him to the tunnels?" Max asks

"To the tunnels, monsters, the upside down, everything" Mike tells her 

"Whoa. Slow down. Slow down" Steve says to them  

"Okay, so, the shadow monsters inside everything. And if the vines feel something like pain, then so does Will" Mike explains

"And so does Dart" Dustin adds on

"Yeah, like what Mr Clarke taught us. The hive mind" Mike says

"Hive mind?"

"A collective consciousness. It's a super-organism" Dustin explains

"And this is the thing that controls everything. It's the brain" Mike says

"Like the mind flayer" Dustin says and the three boys then look at each other as Lucas clicks his finger

"What?"

Dustin then pulls out Wills D&D book placing it down onto the table where they are standing around looking down at it.

"The Mind Flayer" Dustin says opening the book up

"What the hell is that?" Hopper asks him

"It's a monster from an unknown dimension. It's so ancient that it doesn't even know it's true home. Okay, it's enslaves races of others dimensions by taking over their brains using its highly developed psionic powers" Dustin explains to him

"Oh, my, god, none of this is real. This is a kids game" Hopper says annoyed

"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 cuts Dustin off

"Analogy? That's what you're worried about? Fine. An analogy for understanding whatever the hell this is" Dustin says

"Okay, so this Mind Flamer thing-"

"Mind Flayer"

"What does it want?" Nancy asks

"To conquer us, basically. It believes it's the master race" Dustin says

"Like the Germans?" Steve asks and everyone looks over at him

"Ah, the Nazis" Dustin says to him

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nazis" Steve says looking down at the table embarrassed

"Uh... If the Nazis were from another dimension, totally. Uh, it views other races, like us, as inferior to itself" Dustin tells them 

"It wasn't to spread, take over other dimension" Mike says

"We are talking about the destruction of our world as we know it" Lucas says

"That's great. That's great. that's really great. Jesus!" Steve says walking away running a hand through his hair