"Doctor Shin, the process is not working. We should pack it up for the day, don't you think?"

  A young man wearing glasses with a white lab coat said as he looked up from the console he sat behind.

  "Shush, Danny. We can't lose focus when we're so close." Doctor Hiko Shintora replied while adjusting a couple of dials on the console he was behind.

  "Y'all can do whatever as long as you hurry up," I said, holding the connection between two massive wires.

  "Yes, yes! Hold on there, Alaya!" The doctor muttered as electricity continued arcing from the massive server that was currently overloading.

  "Doc, I can't hold these much longer." I strained over the seemingly increasing weight of the cables I held together.

  "If you let go of those cables you will be vaporized so I suggest you bear with it for a little longer."

  "WAIT, WHAT! YOU NEVER F-" I started to scream in panic but was cut off by the mad doctor's shout of excitement.

  "Eureka! We've done it! I've opened a window into quantum realities." The twisted old man said as he jumped for joy.

  As he celebrated, a bolt of electricity arced from the quantum reactor that was powering the whole setup and struck me. My body was instantly rocked with an intense burning feeling as my muscles contracted and tensed up. My eyes rolled into the back of my skull. I couldn't think; I could only feel the pain of what I could only imagine being radiation and its proportionate energy quickly starting to rip apart my body cell by cell, molecule by molecule, atom by atom.

  A disturbing silence and calm started washing over me as I stopped feeling pain and stopped hearing what was going on. Although strangely enough, I could see Old Doctor Shintora throw his computer at me. I guess he hoped it would knock me back and stop my quantum electrocution or something, but it didn't do anything like that. Rather, I could feel the computer being ripped apart and melted into my head as I continued to disintegrate. Every particle of my body seemed to be consumed by the unrelenting surge of energy. The last thing I saw was a brilliant flash of light as my body seemed to implode, folding into itself and absorbing into the fabric of reality.

  In an instant, I was surrounded by nothing; I was nothing. I had no body, no eyes, no ears, no nose, no touch to feel, but I could still sense all around me. I was falling, or rather, moving. I was moving fast. I could continuously sense the contracting and retracting of the space around me. I became vibrations, I became light, I became aromas, I became everything as I continued to be transported across what felt like time and space. I wasn't a being; rather, I was more like energy itself. Around me oftentimes I would see the most extraordinary explosions of colors. I saw beyond the spectrum any human could expect to see. I saw what made color, color. I understood it, but I also understood nothing at all. I couldn't even grasp what was happening to me. I could really only sense.

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  What I was experiencing was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. Nothing I could ever even imagine. I could see the lives of everyone to have ever existed from start to finish in an instant. I could see their composition, their cells, the atoms that made up their cells. I could see them and every decision they could possibly make in its infinite entirety. Their interactions with people and what that person would do in turn and their entire future, and their entire lives and compositions all at the same time.

  I could literally see and feel and hear and be everything, everywhere, all at once. Every atom, every molecule, every cell, every organism, every non-organism, every animal, every plant, every body of water, every mass of land, every gas, every metal, every grain of sand, every rock, every meteor, every asteroid, every moon, every planet, every star, every solar system, every galaxy, every galaxy cluster, every universe, universal cluster, every reality I became.

  So much information flooded not through my brain but through me… whatever I was. It all became me. It wasn't me at the same time. All that I experienced, I didn't know what it was. I couldn't tell what I was. I didn't know where I was. I couldn't think of anything to understand. What I was experiencing wasn't as though I was learning; I was just sensing it all in one incredible and insane mess. The only thing I knew, the only thing I could understand without a shadow of a doubt was that I didn't belong. As soon as I felt this realization, all that I was experiencing came to an end.

  I was back where I started, wherever, no, whenever, or… whatever? I didn't know, but I was floating again in the vastness of darkness. Now, however, I felt warmth, and in that warmth, I could feel the weight of my own existence. I could feel myself actually floating, an actual body. I could finally move what I could only perceive to be my arms, what I could only perceive to be my legs. I kicked and they bounced back against this soft but firm outer layer. I remained like this for a long time.

  As time passed, I began to see light, to see color as it bled through from the world outside of what I now could tell to be a human body… my mother's womb. From time to time I could hear my mother sing songs to me. There was one in particular she would always sing.

  "You are everything, you mean everything, to me. I love all of you. because you're all of me and you are everything, to me. I will surely let you grow, even when it's hard, to let you go. because you're all of me, but I'll let you free, because you're everything, to me."

  That song helped me stay calm when the stress of being contained within her began to get to me. I surely acquired a sort of claustrophobia being trapped inside of my mother's womb. I couldn't even scream; I could only kick and what felt like crying. Her song was enough to relieve the agony I was facing. My father made himself known to me as well. I could feel his hand rub against my mother's stomach. The vibrations of the pulse coming from his hand were rather soothing as well. The two of them would sing the song to me together and that was the best. I could tell they were very caring and very loving parents. I swore as a fetus within my mother's womb that I would do all I could to protect them. Because, they were everything to me too.