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Mike!

Lucas, can you hear me? Over.

What the heck is wrong with this thing?

Can anyone hear me?

Crud, crud, crud!

I know you're out there!

I can see you, okay? You weird ghost dog thingy.

Oh shoot.

Oh shoot.

Keep your ectoplasm off of me!

That was one of the coolest things I've ever...

Save it, dork. Are you getting on or not?

On, on. I'm getting on.

I have faith, Jonathan. I have so much faith in you.

-Ha. Faith in me, but not in my cooking. -No.

Maybe.

Wow, I am making you a killer Valentine's Day dinner,

and this is the thanks I get.

Let's talk about thanks when it's on the table in front of me.

Hurry!

I'm trying!

Looks like we're gonna have to find another way.

Any sign of the others?

No.

Nikki!

No!

Uh…

Zombie Boy?

Don't freak out.

But that thing just dumped us in the garden of evil.

Come on!

What do we do? We'll never be able to outrun this thing.

Come on. This way.

Hey!

Over here!

I'll meet you at the old sawmill.

Go!

Stupid!

El! What are you doing?

I am done running.

Um…

If… if you're tired, that's fine. We… we can find a place to hide.

I do not want to hide.

I want to protect you.

El, listen to me.

You can't fight that thing.

I can.

You can't! You tried! Your powers don't work on it!

Now come on!

Oh no.

El!

What the heck? What the heck?

I think we lost it.

Lost it? Yeah, I'm definitely losing it. What the heck, Henderson?

I knew that thing was dangerous. You knew it was dangerous.

And you thought all we need to handle it was a little… little…

Planchette.

That was Hurricane Casper. It almost killed us.

Ah, nuts. I'm getting no reception.

Turn left up here.

Do you have a brain under that dumb hat? We pissed off a ghost.

Your little friends are in the wind. Who even knows if they're alive?

Left, please.

How are you so calm right now?

Turn left now.

I know my friends are missing,

but I'm not going to waste my time dithering.

I'm going to find them.

But the ghost.

This ghost might be able to hide from the naked eye,

but it is powerless against my humble camcorder.

But I'm gonna need your help.

No way! The last time I helped you, I almost got haunted out of existence.

Charlie, listen to me.

Whatever that thing is, it took your uncle.

It's come for you three times.

Do you wanna sit around and wait for it to come knocking again?

Or do you wanna face the peril head on?

Jeez, fine, shut up already.

But I reserve the right to kick your butt if this all goes south.

Deal. In the meantime, driver, take me to Radio Shack.

Lucas!

Whoa.

Good to know you still care.

Whatever! I'm just glad you're alive.

That was a bonehead move.

How's this for a bonehead move?

Think you can drive that?

I told you, I'm a zoomer. I can drive anything.

For the last time, that's not a real class.

Whoa!

Did it see us?

I think we'd know if it did.

There's no way we'll make it out to the truck without being spotted.

I hate to say it, but…

We're stuck.

I really hope everyone's okay.

What's wrong?

Listen.

I haven't heard a single wing flutter

since we landed in this stupid flower patch.

-Have you? -No.

The Hate Sprites have backed off. For some reason...

-Nikki! -Go, Will! Go!

This way!

It won't let us leave!

But why?

What are you waiting for? Just come and get us!

Hey! Whoa, Will!

Sorry. I don't know what's…

Just take it easy for a second, okay?

I think if we don't get out of here soon, we might not have a second.

El! We have to go!

Ah!

Watch out!

Oh, God.

Hello? Are you okay?

Hello?

Oh no.

No!

I have to help.

Alive.

He's still alive.

This is my fault.

If I had run, no one would have been hurt.

Am I nuts, or are the stars moving?

Not stars.

What are they doing?

It's like they're bees

collecting nectar, pollen.

Pollen does not glow.

Not usually.

We should follow them.

No.

No following, no fighting. We're gonna get help.

He needs it.

And you know what? So do we.

Camera battery, check.

Now, all we have to do is...

Hey, excuse me.

I'm going to need you to turn out your pockets.

Uh… Okay. But why?

She doesn't mean you, Henderson.

Happy?

I've got my eye on you, Dandridge.

Promise?

Jerk.

That was weird.

Did you swirly her, too?

Didn't need to. I'm a Dandridge.

No matter what we do, we get glares, stares, and swears.

But that's unfairs.

Ow!

-Now you're getting it. -Yeah?

'Cause I don't get it at all.

Why don't you explain it to us?

I'm not saying I told you so,

but do you still seriously think that's some old miner's ghost?

Maybe not.

I told you so.

But if that's from the Upside Down,

if,

then it's not like anything we've ever seen before.

Neither were the Demodogs.

Shoot, I missed it.

Let me guess. You missed your buff bonehead battle.

It's The War to Settle the Score, and you know it.

Are you seriously less worried about our lives

than you are about some stupid wrestling match?

It's not stupid. It's… And it's not just some wrestling match.

Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. I forgot I was talking about high art.

My dad canceled his trip out.

I haven't seen him since we left.

But it sounds like money's tight, and…

I mean, I don't know what I was expecting.

Money's always tight.

I'm sorry.

Wrestling was our thing, you know? Even when everything else sucks,

it's the thing we can talk about together, even when we're not in the same place.

So, the match tonight…

I know it sounds stupid to you, Lucas, but it's not stupid to me.

You're right. It's not stupid. I shouldn't have said that.

Thanks.

And you were right, too.

I don't mind lovey-dovey stuff.

It's the fake Valentine's Day part. Drives me crazy.

But if you like it, I…

I guess it's cool.

I'll tell you what.

If we make it out of this, I'll make it up to you.

The missed match, everything.

How?

You just gotta trust me, Maxine.

I guess I do. Stalker.

It's seriously okay. Anyone could have forgotten.

Spaghetti. For spaghetti and meatballs.

Okay, maybe not anyone.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Yeah, his car's right off Boulder Road. You can't miss him.

Mike?

No chance you got around to kit bashing a proton pack?

Yeah, it was next on my to-do list.

But hey. Hey, listen to me.

Look, I promise I'll make you one, okay?

It'll be the last present to the H.I.C. from me.

Last?

I mean, uh, a present.

Yeah, I'll make… I'll make one for each of you all.

Whoa. I just need…

I just need to catch my breath.

Heh.

Hey, Will.

You wanna try something crazy?

Yeah, yeah, screw you, too.

Will? Will! Hey!

Zombie Boy!

That was rad.

Come on! Come on! Hurry!

So, is it just Eggos or…?

Just Eggos.

Hey, looks like you made Valentine's Day happen after all.

You guys having fun?

Oh, yeah. Tons.

You sure? Because you seem twitchy.

Mike, what's going on?

Actually, I need some advice.

Don't let this go to your head,

but I've noticed that you never seem scared of monsters,

or other dimensions, or even failing calc.

So, like, how?

I'm gonna let you in on a secret.

I'm scared. Like, all the time.

But this insane thing happened, oh, maybe a year or so ago.

I don't know if you remember.

And I realized that just because I was afraid,

that didn't mean I had to let that fear have power over me.

Fear is power.

Yeah. So when I'm scared, here's the trick.

I close my eyes.

I count to five.

I inhale…

…and exhale.

By the time I breathe out…

All that fear seeps away, too,

and I get that power back.

You don't have to be afraid of asking El.

Asking El what?

To be your girlfriend?

Oh. Oh yeah, girlfriend.

Mike?

You know what? You're right. I don't have to be scared.

I'm actually so not scared that I'm gonna go ask her right now.

Thanks, Nancy.

The flowers glow, right? The blue ones, like the ones that were under the cabin.

They glow sometimes. Not always, right?

Right.

So why? What are they always around when they start glowing?

Fear.

What gives, Dandridge?

You tell me you're splitting town with your uncle,

and instead you're rolling around with barf breath?

Barf breath?

Lost my ride. My uncle disappeared on me.

So I guess I'm stuck in this dump a while longer.

Man, you Dandridges really are cursed.

If you're sticking around, you can help me settle a score.

What score?

Well, you see, there was this freak.

He walked into our hangout. He messed with Pauly's bike.

What? That's a load of bull. Meathead over there took our camera.

Oh…

Is this true, Henderson?

I… I… I mean, it wasn't like destruction of property.

It was, you know, light dinging of property. Okay, look...

I'm not beating him up.

Thank you.

But I'm not gonna stop you either.

Wait, what?

Sorry, nerd. You're on your own.

Those creatures show up near the flowers, and they scare the bejesus out of us.

And all that fear and adrenaline, that's energy, just like Nikki said.

And it all gets siphoned off into the flowers.

Oh, come on, guys.

You don't want blood all over your knuckles, right?

Um…

Oops?

You little piece of...

-Get on! -Whoa! I thought you left!

I had to get them away from my bike, genius.

Get them!

I mean, it's no wonder we're all so tired after these fights.

Our energy is being drained.

But what do the flowers do with the energy they collect?

Two words. Hate Sprites.

It all makes sense. Think about it. The ghost, the Hate Sprites.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

They're not just protecting the flowers. They're feeding them.

That's what they were doing in that field,

gathering the collected energy and taking it somewhere.

The more you're scared…

…the more you're drained.

And all that energy,

all that power seems to end up…

With the ghost.