(you are for will) the action takes place around the fifth season, the party and the rest of the team remained in hawkins to maintain defense in the city center and protect the remaining residents. now joyce and hopper took over the role of managing all the actions - they command all the sorties of the guys, who are now the main defense team, and in general the entire internal structure of their shelter, which is the former high school. the situation changes and hardens everyone very much, gradually some members of the party move away from each other, and el and mike still break up, deciding to figure it out when everything calms down. at some point she and will feel unwell, as it later turns out this is due to their indispensable internal connection with the inside out and they get out of the city for a while to a barely intact lab to figure out what's what. the rest still hold the defense every day, worrying about their friends. especially mike is not calm. he is being specifically gnawed by memories from 1984, when a close friend had a very, very hard time, he is afraid that everything could very well repeat itself. as it turns out later, will now also has powers like those of el, which somehow settled during his long stay in the inside out. soon all this will probably be revealed when he and eleventh return back