"Sooooo," Summer said, from the front of her ever-hilarious Danger Shop-generated classroom because that's all they'd need for today's lesson, "I haven't really bothered going through radios yet to pinpoint who all among you may or may not have had kids this weekend, especially since I was kind of busy sneaking a portal back home so I could break into my grampa's lab and steal this," she held up something that looked like a particularly sleek VR headset, "which I am, like, ninety-nine percent sure my grampa will kill me if he knew I stole them, so they're going right back as soon as class is over but what these are are Interdimenional Goggles, something he invented to keep tabs on what was going on in different dimensions without actually having to go to them. And I figured, this week is a good week to really just sort of talk about the whole interdimenionality of it all.



"You see," continued Summer, "out there, there are infinite reality and infinite dimensions so vast that we can barely even grasp just how endless it all is. That's something my grampa, who is the only person in my dimension to have ever really gotten a good grasp on interdimensional technology, although, technically speaking, he's not my grampa from my dimension; my grampa from my dimension is actually dead, and this grampa came in from another dimension where he and my brother kind of ruined the Earth by turning everyone into horribly disfigured monsters, all because my brother had a lame ass crush on a girl and tried to love potion her. Pro-tip, everyone/ Don't love potion people. It's gross and creepy and, it can also sometimes destroy humanity as we know it.

"Anyhoooo, the kids weekend is a good example of how this place actually has all these weird little natural leaks into the idea of alternate dimensions," she said. "As do some of those weekends when you wake up thinking you're someone else or, if you're me, becoming someone from one of your other timelines. It can get really confusing, but it's also kind of interesting, how maybe your choice to have Wheaties for breakfast instead of five doughnuts can alter the entire trajectory of your future. Or how in some other dimension, it's completely plausible for you to have a child with a stuffed cat or go taking over galaxies with someone you haven't even met yet.

"Most of you have probably been here long enough that you've got a few examples of these alternate dimenions under your belt already, but today, we're going to take turns peeking into a few other dimensions with these," she lifted the goggles again, "bad boys. Now, I just have the one pair, so we'll have to take turns, but the cool thing about these is that it taps into the wearer's DNA, so what you see through these things will be purely based on your AU experiences. Fair warning, though. Infinitie universes mean infinite possibilities, which means possibly seeing something you're not going to like or maybe even not seeing anything at all. Because you don't exist in a lot of universes, even if you do exist in a lot of others, and that can be kind of a mindfuck.

"And then? Based on what you see, we can just kind of, you know, talk about it, I guess? How do you feel about different realities and do you think that this ability, either through something like the Interdimensional Goggles or something like the possible future kids weekends here at Fandom, to witness or even experience these other versions are detrimental to how we live our lives? Does it make us act differently? Should it? Or was it all just part of the plan all along, we were meant to gain that knowledge in this dimension? Do you think having something like this happen creates another rift in the timeline, a seperating of this dimension into two or more based on how we react to what we experience?

"Like, these are pretty deep thoughts, but it's the sort of thing this place is going to throw at you. Is it helpful to discuss and think about them? Or does it all just not matter in the end, and we should all just kick back, throw on some Interdimenional Goggles, and enjoy the ride?"



She shrugged, grinning at them a little. "I know this version of me doesn't really have the answers to that, but this version of me does have some swiped dimension-viewing goods, so let's jump in and see where this timeline leads us. Who wants to go first?"