P is for PPP.
Now before you think I'm getting lazy, a PPP is a real thing in my multiverse of stories. PPP is short for Portable Portal Projector. It's a device that allows the stockbots of the Multi-Mart to deliver groceries and other items to those customers who can't leave their worlds. Sort of like how some stores used to deliver items to shut ins.
PPPs are similar to remote controls or cell phones. Here is an excerpt from Multi-Mart to explain what they look like and do...
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The
stockbot walked over to one of the consuls and pulled a small lever. A panel on the wall behind them flipped open
and revealed shelves of small, blinking devices that resembled cell phones.
The
stockbot picked up a device and handed it to Gym. The manager showed it to Kyle, “This is the
newest model Portable Portal Projector, or PPP for
short. It can open portals to other
Earths and return back. It can even
travel from Earth to Earth and even cross through closed Earths.”
Gym pointed to the front face of the device, “You see here on its front
there is a key pad where you can dial in any Earth’s number. Then you press the button with the star and
it’ll open a portal to that world. If
you’re in a hurry you can just hit this arrow key and it’ll open a random
portal to the first universe it finds.
The return key brings you back to the store.”
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So imagine your cell phone could take you here...
and then take you here...
or here...
or here...
and where ever you went, after a small period of time for the PPP to reset, you could just leave whatever environment...
and enter a new world...
If you don't like the Earth you are on, you can simply try a new one...
Some would be set in what would appear to be the past for you...
And the next one could be the future...
While in some universes, Earth wouldn't resemble itself at all. Maybe a different planet in the solar system would be the designated "Earth" that the Multi-Mart uses...
"Imagine the possibilities!" - Quinn Mallory from Sliders
