One Gate Closes, Another Opens

by CalvinHobbesGatsby

Will Byers has been returned to his family, the gate to the Upside Down has been closed, and Mike has been reunited with Eleven. Everyone thinks that the horror is behind them. However, the group now faces a new threat. A scientist is coming to Hawkins and he expresses interest in Eleven. The difference is he's not from their world. He's from ours. AU season 3. JoyceXHopper

1. Groom Lake

I DON'T OWN STRANGER THINGS. THIS IS AN ALTERNATIVE SEASON 3

Area 51, Nevada, U.S.A.

(Dr. Reaves's POV)

It was another day at work for Dr. Cameron Reaves. He hardly looked old enough to ne a doctor, he was very skinny with short black hair and pasty white skin. If you ever asked him about his job, he would've just told you that he was a theoretical physicist. It wasn't anywhere near the truth, but it was better than just saying that he couldn't tell you. Dr. Reaves was a scientist who worked at the most secure base on the planet: The Groom Lake testing facility, aka Dream Land, aka Area 51. Between the time he left Las Vegas in the morning on a Boeing 737 until he returned home at the end of each working day, he entered a world that no outsider could ever truly know; except through rumor and the occasional shocking revelation...

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After he arrived, Dr. Reaves went through several layers of security checkpoints until he finally got through and headed for the elevator. He went inside and pushed the button to head deep into the lower levels of the facility. After a few minutes, he arrived at his place of work.

LEVEL 11

PARALLEL THEORY

After he exited the elevator, Cameron headed into the main lab where he found his superior: Dr. Sheldon Hofstadter waiting for him. Hofstadter was a hefty man with piercing eyes and a serious demeanour.

"Ah Cameron, we've been waiting for you." Dr. Hofstadter said as Dr. Reaves entered the main lab.

"How's it coming?" he asked as they looked to see that some of Hofstadter's subordinates were working on a strange machine.

"It's going as planned, we just reached a new breakthrough." the doctor replied. As the doctors moved in, Hofstadter pulled out his tape recorder.

"Dr. Hofstadter's log, 12-2-18. 0700 hours. Project VOID is going according to plan. Since the Universal Transportation Device or UTD was completed over one year ago, we have conducted groundbreaking research into the theory of the multiverse. After discovering Alternate Universe 0135, we began with animal test subjects. These tests were partially successful in the sense that we were able to transport the test subjects to and from AU0135 alive. However, since thay are dumb animals, they are unable to debrief us on their experiences. However, the physical success of these test subjects persuaded MJ-12 to allow us to begin using human test subjects. We now begin the task of creating the proper conditions for human subjects." After Dr. Hofstadter turned off the recorder he and Dr. Reaves turned to their crew of scientists and engineers.

"All right, let's get to work." Reaves stated.

NEXT TIME, WE HEAD TO HAWKINS. REVIEWS NEEDED.