A/N: Special thanks to FanBob FicPants for helping me come up with ideas for this.

"Wait, you're telling me Hopper is alive?" Lucas asked. Everyone regrouped in the early morning. They were still tired but quickly became more alert when Eleven spoke of her dream.

"Don't think, I know," Eleven corrected. "I don't think it was a dream. I think I traveled into the Upside-Down. Not the main part, but the part I can access through my powers. I don't know exactly where he is, but I sense danger."

"But why would your powers come back now?" Dustin asked.

"We're still trying to figure that out," Max said.

"We need to find where Hopper is and get him out," Eleven said.

"I think I know where," Joyce said. "He supposedly died when we were in the Russian base. His body was never found, and they left for Russia shortly after we destroyed the machine. They might have taken him back To Russia as a prisoner."

"Then let's grab our passports and get going," Lucas said. He clapped his hands together once.

"No, this is too dangerous for everyone to go," Joyce protested. "I'm taking Eleven and Jonathan with me. Will, see if you can stay with a friend. If not, I'll get you situated. We'll be back as soon as possible."

Joyce left the dining room, going to set up things for the mission. Eleven remembered something. She had run into Kali on New Year's Eve. They exchanged house phone numbers. Eleven called her so many times she had the number memorized.

Eleven wrote down the number on a piece of paper. She handed it to Will. "Call this number if you have any troubles," Eleven instructed. "Ask to talk to Kali Parasd and tell her you know me."

She then left the room.

Hopper was sitting in the cafeteria. He was eating the mush they called mash potatoes. He hated it when he first arrived, but he soon realized this was the best he was going to get. It didn't taste that must worse than rum.

He spotted Dimitri standing at the back of the cafeteria. Dimitri was the only guard he even slightly got along with. He could get him to do whatever he wanted with some peanut butter. He had saved some from this morning.

Hopper walked over to Dimitri. "I got the goods," Hopper said. He pulled out a small container of peanut butter. Dimitri didn't say a word. He just popped off the lid and ran his finger through the container. "Now tell me what's going on in the lower levels. I can hear screaming."

"It's always a pleasure doing work with you," Dimitri sighed. "I don't know much about what's happening in the lower levels. Only the higher-ups know about the lower levels. I know that they've discovered a second dimension. It's like ours, but it has monsters and it's dark. They have photos from the inside, but I haven't seen them."

'The Upside-Down,' Hopper thought. 'They must have reopened it.'

"They've been sending in a spy," Dimitri explained. "Someone who is tethered to the Upside-Down. I don't know how, but the dimension is a part of them. They keep sending the spy into the dimension to collect data. I don't know why they need this information. The spy has been here as long as you, I think. That's all I know."

Dimitri walked away. Hopper had been planning to escape the prison for a while now. He now had a reason to stay for longer. He felt like he needed to help the spy break out. He always felt responsible for Mike becoming flayed. If he didn't send him home in such a rush, maybe the mind flayer wouldn't have gotten him. Going home would have to wait.