Pete Bertino
The air pulled out of his lungs, a moment of breathlessness and it is over. The lyrics to a Pink Floyd song fill his head. “home, home again” "Home.." AM Lincoln said as he steps through the wormhole, older but not aged, his gray-green eyes betray his youth. A sense of weightlessness fills his body every time he rips. The cube glows a florescent green. The journey although less than 5 seconds is 13 years across 1 universe. He looks at the familiar beige wall that stands before him. Water dripping into one of the many drains that kept the labyrinth from flooding and the hum of traffic above ground were the last things he heard when left and were still here to welcome him back. Quake, his cousin, would be waiting in the safe-room. The entry back to his present time left him feeling airy, almost light on his feet as it always did. The sensation you might feel after a long flight on a airplane, AM didn't feel queasy, not a bit, just a little off. Although not the first rip back in time, this rip had given him the years that would never show on him. He put the Q pad back in his backpack. Quake and AM purchased a half dozen 2nd generation I pads, which Quake hacked into it for the purpose of inter-dimensional time travel, by navigating wormholes that circle Earth,each version of it. So far with the help of the cube, Quake has found nine dimensions. It was the cube that allowed travel through time and dimensions, the Q pads were how they controlled the cubes. The cube continued to glow bright green as he walked down the corridor with many false doors, and stairs that would go up to more hallways and another set of stairs to lead you back down again. Only two doors were real, the first was to the "safe room" as his cousin Quake would call it. The other led to a staircase, after 50 or 60 steps leading up you would come to a door made of reinforced steel, through this you would find yourself exiting the Mifflin street subway station in south Philadelphia. A fire engine red si
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