Author Note

A short story to cover Jump 11. Since the Jumper prevents 11 from making contact with the Upside Down not much would happen in Hawkins over the year he stays there, or ever at all really, so I decided to focus this Jump on building a connection between 11 and the Jumper.

Stranger Things Jump Set Up

Gothic

Budget - 1000cp

Location

Hawkins, Indiana

Identity

Scientist (Inventor)

Skills

Universal Knowledge - Free

Sixth Sense Static - 900cp

Mad Science - 700cp

Party Role

Mage - 550cp

Artist - 500cp

Flattering Flirt - 400cp

Research Notes - 300cp

Companion - 200cp (Romanoff, assume I take her as a companion during the MCU Jump)

Eleven - 0cp

Natasha Romanoff

Budget - 500cp

Location

Hawkins, Indiana

Identity

Citizen (Wife)

Avoidance - Free

Universal Knowledge - 400cp

Party Role

Cleric - 250cp

Artist - 200cp

Car - 0cp

Black Widow's Powers and Abilities: Master in the covert arts of espionage, infiltration & subterfuge. Expert martial artist, with exceptional agility & athletic ability. Utilises advanced weaponry including customised stun batons & "Widow's Bite" bracelets capable of stunning enemies with electrical discharges.

Jump Chain 11 - Stranger Things

Part 1

Casino. Outside of Hawkins.

Lux hadn't changed much over the last decade, and so far in this Jump, it seemed much the same as it had been before, other than having moved to a remote area near a small town far from New York. However, I knew that things would be altered as sooner or later one of my companions would feel the need to redecorate.

The casino was just off a major freeway and therefore we would get some visitors, but I doubted I'd be getting as much business as I used to. Not that we really needed the profits and I didn't imagine that I'd be spending much time here during this Jump as I would have other things to occupy myself with.

This happened to be fine with me as this Jump would only last a year, and I didn't want to gain too much attention from the people of this world. I wouldn't even be living in the penthouse as I'd arrange for this Jump for Natalia and I play the role of a married couple who'd moved to Hawkins recently. Cameron had a cover as well, she'd be acting the part of Natasha's younger sister, who was staying with us.

I had good reasons for doing this as not only did make more sense for a young couple, an artist and an inventor, to move to a small and quiet town to better focus on their work, I intended to bring 11 into my group, and she was a kid, it would be better to provide her with a more traditional home until she got settled, and then I'd slowly introduce her to my weirdness.

For this meeting only Natasha Romanoff, who would be playing the role of my wife, Cameron and I were in attendance. We were currently planning a special mission so that I could pick up 11 very early in the Jump and avoid a lot of trouble later on.

The lab we'd need to attack was a very secretive and private place; it was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and guarded by military police. It was composed of one multi-story building that led down to an underground complex. It was located within a secluded forest with only a single road leading to it.

While normally this place being so isolated and hard to approach would make it hard for a group to assault the building, this time it worked in my favour as it meant that when I did attack and taken down the lab, it would time for the people here to receive any reinforcements, making my job much easier.

Today was November 1st 1983, and while we had a whole year in this world I wanted to break 11 out now because, on November 6th, 1983, a man called Brenner would decide to repeat the experiment and encouraged Eleven to make contact with a creature native to another reality. However, should Eleven make contact, a tear in space-time would somehow be created, linking this dimension with the creature's dimension. A monster would attack and in the ensuing chaos, Eleven would somehow manage to escape from the lab.

Since I'd forked out a couple of hundred CP to get her as a companion it seemed likely that if I waited until November 6th, she'd end up finding me. But sometime in the same evening as 11's run for freedom, a boy called Will Byers would be abducted by the monster. Which would lead to a series of events that got people needlessly killed, and put the whole world in danger, something I knew thanks to my Judgement Day Perk.

I planned to prevent any of that mess from happening by breaking 11 out a few days before she ripped a hole in reality, and that meant moving now, just in case Brenner decided to act sooner for whatever reason. Sure doing this would make my year in this world duller, but also much safer for everyone. While giving me ample time to train 11 and prepare for future Jump Chain adventures.

I felt certain that 11 would warm up to me more quickly if I saved her and destroyed her prison. This was something that I needed to do carefully as I need to make the lab's destruction seem like an accident while ensuring that anyone investigating the incident would think that 11 had died.

This would be important as while I could take 11 far away from here I didn't really want to until she got to know me, and if the Demogorgon (or however that was spelt) somehow still made it to this world, as it might have the ability to do that on its own without the rift, I'd need to deal with the creature myself.

"I've hacked into the lab's mainframe" Cortana reported "Their computer system is more advanced than I would have expected given this world's tech level. Which means I have access to the cameras, the electronic locks, the fire suppression system, and everything else we'll need for the raid".

Cortana showed us images of Eleven's room, a CCTV monitoring room, a surveillance room. An empty cell, as well as an experimentation room of some sort. Also, we could see the elevators, an interrogation room, even the supply closets. Nothing was hidden from us.

"We will start by having Cortana disable the cameras while I send in the probes to take out the guards and to stun anyone coming out of the doors" I began by saying "Then while Cameron goes in the front, Natasha enters through the fire door at the back which Cortana will lock afterwards sealing anyone left inside the lab. I'll apparate on to the roof and work my way down while you two girls take out anyone on the lower floors. We'll clear the building room by room, and then we shall quickly get everyone outside so I can memory wipe them".

While I had no mercy towards the people who'd used 11 as a science project no everyone in the building would even know about 11, and if I did attack the lab rather than make it look like an accident that would lead to a major investigation, possibly even bringing a heavy military presence into the area, and this I didn't want.

No, it would be best to make it look like an out of control chemical fire burned the lab down, and that it collapsed while 11 was still inside. The body of a small child could easily be lost in the fire and rubble, or so the government types would think. I to destroy the lab in a way that would look accidentally, it wouldn't fool someone like me, but the caveman science of this world lacked the tools to expose the kind of deception I could create.

I'd gotten a Perk back in the Harry Potter Jump that made me an expert with memory charms. If all went to plan I'd have more than enough time to alter everyone's memory and with the right spells, it was possible to make people believe what you told them. They'd all believe that an out of control chemical fire was the reason by the lab's demolishing and the chemicals would be blamed for any fogginess in their heads.

"Then before anyone wakes up I'll grab 11 and use my Sling Ring to get out of there" I said to the two females "I'll stun her if I have to, but I'll think she'll take any chance she can to get out of the lab, and its not like she has anywhere else to go".

The plan was more complex than it needed to be, but it would be done with the least loss of life possible.

"We need to get moving as possible," I said, "And the probes are ready so we go tonight".

With that I let the two women go and prepare while I went to put on my armour.

(Line Break)

Hawkins Lab. Indiana.

There were no guards up here on the roof as far as I could see, and my Force Senses confirmed this so I quickly cut my way into the building below, and as I jumped down into the top floor I heard the alarms going off, as well as a lot of shouting.

"The doors and sealed, cameras are off and then I cut the phone lines" Cortana reported, "The building is in lockdown, no one is going anywhere".

I figured that everyone was heading down, either to try to escape or to deal with the deadly assassins I'd brought with me on this raid. There were guards up here and when they opened fire on what must have looked like a terrifying figure, I did an impression of Neo and used my powers to stop the bullets. The bits of metal dropped the ground, and the guards looked at their guns as if they'd some malfunctioned.

"You won't get the reference," I said, "Which is a shame as I bet that looked so cool from where you're standing".

I must look cool as well. I'd gone with a suit of armour that made me my suit of modified Imperial Knight armour.

After the re-institution of the Empire, years after the Yuuzhan Vong War, some Force Users became Imperial Knights. They all wore a standardised suit of red armour and all used white bladed lightsabers. My armour was a dark red and I used a silver bladed sabre, but the look was much the same.

Normally my version of this armour didn't contain any electronics in case I needed to use in a place like Hogwarts, however, I'd added kinetic barriers, and I'd equipped an Ancient Personal shield in case 11 didn't respond to me in a friendly way, or in case the guards had explosives.

The armour was composed of lairs, to start with I wore a high-collared black body glove made from the same energy-absorbing material as that worn by Anubis's Kull Warriors, as well as black combat boots.

Embossed armour covered the torso, mostly over the rib cage area with a single, trapezoidal panel over the abdomen. The armour included twin-layered flared shoulder, that were mounted on simple hinges for extra mobility, with the shoulder pauldrons bearing an image of phoenix on one side for sole, and a death's head on the other simply because it looked cool.

I also wore red gauntlets and a belt, which included pouches to hold things with, such as magical items I might need. Unlike my other suits of armour with this outfit I actually wore a cape, which I'd enchanted like the rest of the armour to help me in battle. In this suit, my speed, strength, stamina and magical powers were boosted.

While I'd created this armour for fighting magic users, it was made from mithril and other materials with mystical properties, it could serve me now as it this suit shouldn't scare 11 too much, unlike my Sith Stalker armour or Power Armour.

"Any problems?" I asked over the comm, after stunning the two guards with the phaser I was using for this mission "How are you girls doing".

Over the sounds of fighting, I got replies that everyone was going fine, and I imagined that even while limited to stun weapons they were having fun. For both of them, this raid wasn't something new, they'd gone on missions much like this one many times before.

I shouldn't worry about them I needed to focus on what I was going and get on with my job here.

(Line Break)

Hawkins. Indiana.

The attack went well and now Eleven, the girl who'd been kidnapped as a baby and raised in Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on for her inherited psychokinetic abilities, was in my living room eating all of my food. It was a good thing that I'd set up a replicator as otherwise, she would be eating me out of house and home before the evening had passed.

"Skinny little thing" Natasha commented.

They'd not been feeding her enough, no doubt an attempt to keep from getting too strong, but I didn't fear her powers, I intended to nurture them.

"Timid to" Black Widow then said.

Because 11 had been raised in Hawkins National Laboratory, if you could call it that, she was almost completely deprived of any real socialisation while growing up, as such Eleven was indeed timid. She was socially withdrawn and extremely cautious of people. However I'd noticed from watching her on the show that she could become fiercely protective to those who cared for her, and this was once of the reasons why I'd chosen her as a companion and a sort of apprentice, as loyalty was important to me.

As for raising her well wouldn't be hard to do better than her last guardian as I knew from reading the lab's files, the electronic versions of which that Cortana had snagged for me, that every time Eleven attempted to defy Dr Brenner's orders when under his control, she would be locked in a cramped room as punishment, potentially for hours on end, and not given food. Which was a terrible way to enforce discipline. Sure a parent needed to punish bad behaviour, but not to such extremes and there was next to nothing in the files about positive reinforcement.

These painful experiences were what had to lead her to develop severe claustrophobia and become malnourished. She would likely show some signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, and unlike the damage done by physical abuse and malnutrition to her body, I couldn't simply heal that kind of harm with my powers.

Due to her very limited vocabulary, she could not effectively communicate her thoughts and emotions to other people. Also, she had little to no understanding of simple concepts such as friendships or keeping promises. Thankfully she seemed to understand that she was safe here as so far she'd not tried to run away.

Another thing I knew was that Eleven had been born with a vast array of preternatural abilities, acquired through a combination of inheritance and exposure to hallucinogenic drugs while in utero during her mother's time as a test subject. These abilities were the reason she was abducted at birth and raised at Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on, they were also partly why I'd come here to take as a companion.

The effects of the experiments done on Eleven and her powers were unclear. It is possible that her powers laid dormant from birth and could only be unearthed through further experimentation. However, it is also possible that Eleven had access to these powers at birth and merely gained understanding and experience using them during her time in the laboratory. I would have to run many tests on 11 to find out more about how her powers worked and where they'd come from. I wanted to know if other humans at this stage of development could learn to do what she did, or if 11 was like me, existing in a state closer to ascension than most people.

Like most humans with powers that I'd met her abilities are somewhat linked to her emotional state, being at their strongest when influenced by her anger and fear. Being in distressing situations would occasionally cause Eleven to unleash her powers involuntarily. This was most likely how Eleven had opened the Gate: her fear of witnessing the Demogorgon possibly magnifying her powers to the point where she was able to open an interdimensional portal. Now that was an ability of hers that I was super interested in as could not be easy to rip open holes in reality with just the power of her mind.

Using her powers took a physical toll on her body. When using her powers to perform more menial tasks, Eleven would usually only suffer from nosebleeds. However, when accomplishing more daunting tasks she would become physically exhausted, even to the point where she'd be unable to walk.

Hopefully, after plenty of training, some medical treatment and time spend getting more than enough to eat she'd be able to use her powers without such a big physical toll on her young body. One day I might make some improvements to her body, but I should wait until she'd physically matured.

"I think she needs a bath" declared Natasha.

Since I had no desire to deal with any feminine hygiene issues I'd let Widow, or one of my other companions who I'd introduce 11 to later, handle all of that. Aside from that 11 was going to need proper clothing, and that would include girl clothes. When it came to that I was only experienced in creating body armour for woman, and undressing women, so I'd leave 11's wardrobe to others.

I'd selected Natasha to serve as my primary companion as she'd also been raised by government types to be used as a weapon, and as such would have some idea of what 11 had experienced, and be able to help the young girl adjust to a new life, or at least this is what I hoped would happen.

Also, have a former Russian spy living here in Cold War USA was just too amusing to pass up.

"You do that," I said, "I'll go make sure her room is ready".

(Line Break)

Hawkins. Indiana.

"You ready to get cleaned up?" Natasha asked, offering the frightened girl a smile.

It took a moment to register, then 11 nodded, before following Natasha into the bathroom. After shutting the door, Widow turned on the tub's faucet. The water rushed into the tub so loudly that El jumped, eyeing it nervously. It was as if she'd never seen a bath before. Then Natasha remembered that this girl had been placed in sensory deprivation tanks as part of the experiments on her so naturally, she'd be nervous here.

"It's okay. You'll like this" Natasha promised as she comforted the young girl.

After checking to ensure that the water was warm, rather than too hot or cold. Then they stood across from each other and it became clear to Widow that 11 didn't know what to do next.

"Can you take your clothes off by yourself?" she asked.

She did so without further issue.

"Not worried about being naked around people are you?" Natasha asked.

She'd never been one for modesty either, this was something Gothic was grateful for, at least with his older female companions, she didn't know how the Jumper would respond to this little girl being so causal about nudity, but she didn't think it would bother him. He'd spent most of the last decade living above a strip club.

"What is…naked?" 11 asked.

Natasha hadn't expected that question.

"Its when you don't have any clothes on," she defined simply.

11 looked at herself.

"Being naked is fine when you are here at home with us," Widow told the girl "Just remember to wear clothes when you're outside, or have people coming over".

She had no desire to body shame the psychic girl as while she was a skinny thing and pale, this didn't mean she should be ashamed of her physical form.

"It's gonna be a little warm," Natasha informed as Eleven rose a leg over the tub.

The girl's face changed as she got into the bath, she went from looking nervous to something close to happy.

"It feels nice, doesn't it?" Joyce said while smiling at the girl.

"Warm…" Elevens said, her eyes closing as she began to embrace the relaxing effect.

Natasha had to wonder if this girl had bathed at all outside those sensory deprivation tanks. She'd been subjected to many a cold shower during her upbringing and she imagined that 11 had as well.

"Well you can take a bath whenever you want," Widow offered,

Next, the former spy reached for the shampoo. 11 didn't have much in the way of hair, but it still needed cleaning.

"I'm going to wash your hair," said Natasha "Keep your eyes closed".

"Okay," 11 replied with a nod.

Widow figured that this bath was going to take some time and that she going to have to explain quite a few things, yet she didn't feel concerned about that as she found that she rather like the idea of having a sort of daughter to teach. Maybe 11 would like to learn a little ballet? It was either that or stabbing methods, and that didn't seem suitable for the young girl.

(Line Break)

Hawkins. Indiana.

When setting up this Jump Chain I'd been very specific in what I wanted. The house needed to be somewhat normal as to help 11 more easily adjust, but it also needed to be the workplace of an inventor. As such while the house had all the things a house normally had, such a living room, dining room, and a kitchen, it also had a large shed which would serve as a workshop.

We also had an attic and basement, both of which could be expanded in size internally with a little wand work, and turned into whatever we desired them to be, such an art studio or maybe a playroom for 11. These rooms would have to be locked up in case anyone came into the house and looked around.

As for bedrooms, there were three of those, one for me and a companion to share, a room for Cameron and of course 11 needed her own room. I was currently in that room making sure that everything was perfect for the young girl.

The room seemed girly enough to me. Posters of unicorns and all that cutie stuff that small human females seemed fond of having around. The decorations didn't concern me so much as the bed and the toys, and these were not the kind of toys my companions would normally have in their rooms, these kids toys. Dolls, and bears, more unicorns, as well as what I'd added thanks to the replicator. Such as a Barbie Dream House and a modern-day television just for her use.

I intended to spoil 11 more than a little. She'd missed out on so much, and more than likely she'd need to be aged up somewhat for the next Jump, which was only a year away, so I intended to cram in some childhood experiences here and to teach as much as I could so that a year from now she'd be ready to go to High School as I already had an idea of what Jump I would do next.

Taking out my wand I used the space expansion charm to make the room a little bigger, but only on the inside, the house wouldn't change dimensions on the outside, I had to be subtle about this in case someone came into 11's bedroom who wasn't a companion. That shouldn't happen, but I was going to risk some contact with the rest of this town, once I'd disguised 11.

"All cleaned up," declared Natasha.

I turned to see the former S.H.I.E.L.D agent and the psychic girl, who was wrapped up in many towels, she seemed to like the towels.

"This is your room," I told 11 "All the stuff in here belongs to you. Toys, clothes, everything".

Which would seem like a lot to someone who'd spent their life so far in what was pretty much a jail cell. 11 took some time to inspect the room, trying to take it all in.

"Let's get you dressed," said Natasha as she moved over the cupboards.

11 just removed the towels, showing no concern for their being a male in the room, and I found that to be adorable. It should have been awkward, but I soon realised that 11 would have no understanding of modesty and as long as she didn't go streaking in public it was okay if she wanted to be naked.

Natasha got 11 dressed and seemed maternal while doing so, which amused me, and I knew that I'd made a good choice in my primary companion for this Jump.

As 11 got dressed I noticed that the girl paid attention to Widow's hair, before running her hand over her own buzz cut. It was at this point I knew where to begin the process of helping the young girl fit in.

"Let's put you to bed," I said.

I passed her a teddy bear and took out my wand. Using the animated charm I made it dance for a few seconds which made 11 throw the cuddly toy across the room with the power of her mind.

"Just a trick," I told her "I made it do that with my powers".

She eyed the bear, and I brought it over to the bed with my telekinetic abilities.

"See I have powers just like you do," I said to 11 "That's how I made the bear dance, so nothing to be scared about".

She took the bear and inspected it before allowing it under the covers with her. With that I headed out of the room, making sure not to close the door fully as she wouldn't like that.

(Line Break)

Hawkins. Indiana.

With a flick of my fingers, I turned the page of the potions book so that it showed the instructions for the brewing of the Manegro Potion, a magical potion which when drank would cause a person's hair to grow by several feet. Normally this was done as a prank, someone would drink the potion and find themselves badly needing a haircut, but in this case, the potion would not be used as a prank. I wanted to grow 11's hair

I started to read the page.

Effects

When drunk, a person's hair will grow out rapidly from their head. In some excessive cases, a person's hair can grow out several feet.

Dangers

Chinese Chomping Cabbage: Using an agitated cabbage may cause excessive bubbling within the cauldron. These bubble bursts can result in total hair loss upon contact. Chinese Chomping Cabbage also have an uncanny desire to chomp and attempt to eat anything and everything in sight. Many novice potioneer have reported having to replace their potion books at the result of this carnivorous roughage. Careful, they bite.

Nettle Leaves: Nettle leaves tend to cause stinging when touched. It is recommended to use gloves when handling them.

Ingredients.

One Chinese Chomping Cabbage.

Three Fresh Nettle Leaves

One Burdock Root

Four drops of Rose Oil

This was a pretty simple potion so I quickly went into the Cosmic Warehouse and began rooting around in the chests that contained potion ingredients. Serana had been rather careful to gather a lot of ingredients, all of which were kept fresh via stasis charms. After some looking around I found everything needed for the potion. I then returned to the kitchen so that I could begin to make the potion.

Brewing Instructions

Calm the Chinese Chomping Cabbage by distracting it with a carrot. When distracted, carefully whisper compliments to the cabbage to soothe it.

As stupid as that sounded it turned out to be the right way to do things as when I didn't calm the cabbage it bit me.

Carefully place 1 Chinese Chomping Cabbage into the cauldron. Heat on low for 15 seconds until it turns a pale brown. Add 1 Burdock Root to the Mortar. While adding 4 drops of Rose Oil, grind the Burdock Root into the thick paste. Add 6 scoops of paste to the cauldron Leave to brew and return after 20 minutes with a Pewter Cauldron, 17 minutes with a Brass Cauldron, and 13 minutes with a Copper Cauldron.

So at this point, I had a little time and during that time 11 came over to me. No doubt she was looking for something to eat, she ate a lot.

"I'm making you something to grow your hair," I told the small girl.

She seemed shocked for a moment when I lifted her onto the counter, but she calmed down when she realised that I just wanted her to see what I was doing. While we waited between cauldron changes I fed the girl and talked to her. She only nodded back, but she listened to everything, and I knew that her ability to converse would improve over time.

The potion will appear yellow when ready.

Yes, that was yellow, not a very pleasing shade of the colour.

Pluck 3 Fresh Nettle Leaves and place them into the mortar. Using the pestle, mash the Fresh Nettle Leaves into a gooey mixture. Add all contents of the mortar to the cauldron. Stir clockwise 3 times.

"The potion will appear green in colour if brewed correctly" I read out loud.

It did indeed look green, so I poured it into a potion bottle and got 11 to drink it. As I'd hoped she soon ended up with a lot more hair than before. The hair was dark brown and it suited her. She spent a few moments running her fingers through her hair, and she seemed pleased with the results.

"Go look in the mirror" I instructed.

She did that, and then came back into the room, she stood there for a moment before running up and very briefly hugged me. She stopped very quickly and then just stared at me for a while.

"Guess you like having hair," I said.

She just stared at me some more, and then went over to the television to watch it.

"You're welcome! I told the girl.