Around 4 years ago, scientists discovered that the theory of different realities was true, there was a different reality for everything. Much like a parallel universe each reality had a slight difference from the one previous or a large difference. A small one being a reality where your fingers were tiny tentacles or a reality where dinosaurs were still roaming. Each change had been there since the dawn of that reality and all of them would inevitably have a different outcome depending on what the changes, but most situations played out the same. Every relationship will always end up the same, if you were born in your reality, another slightly changed version of yourself will be in that reality.
After the 2 years of creating the ‘Alternate Reality Study’, or ARS for short, scientists at an enclosed facility in the desert had been trying to create a way to enter or at least view a different reality. Two months later the team managed to break into another reality, but instead of entering it, they merged the reality with the one they were in. Unluckily they didn’t quite notice since the change in that reality was very slim, the reality had the difference of everybody’s feet were one size bigger. So every single person on in our reality at the same time had their feet grow one size bigger, which made most of them quite uncomfortable in their shoes, but due to the change being so minuscule nobody ever thought too hard on it other than a few people saying that their feet grew a size bigger, which was true.
4 months after that, the same scientists were still trying to create a way to access the separate realities but to no avail, that was until one man named Philip. He was trying to push physics and the general law of normality to its limit, when out nowhere a small ball of black light appeared. It was a ball of light that didn’t create light but took it away in the same way that normal light would protect itself onto something. It appeared in the large tube that Phillip was working in. It stayed there for a minute or so when the metal tools around them were so suddenly attracted towards it, pulling themselves onto and sticking to the tubes outside but not breaking the glass. Then they fell to the ground again, for the ball to slowly expand, then start glowing like a normal light. It glowed until it was brighter than the sun itself. While covering their eyes they heard a crack. They looked briefly at the light ball, and saw that there was a mirror inside, but the mirror wasn’t of their reality, it was one where your eyes were the opposite colour of what they were. It cracked again, the mirror showed a reality where everybody was a dog, then again, showing one where everybody had crab claws for hands. It continued to crack and break and show different realities, until it finally exploded. Not hurting them or anyone, not changing them, not yet at least.
A week passed before anything was noticed, the scientists had written down if anything had changed, they payed close attention to litterally everything. Nothing had changed, not a spec of dust had been changed. They gave up thinking at least something would have changed in that amount of time. They payed attention to a lot of things but instead focussed on other studies outside of ARS.
Present day, a year and 6 months passed and a person was exiting a building. This person was..