[ WP ] You meet a version of yourself from a parallel universe . Tell me about it .

I was pretty much beside myself with amusement & disbelief when he showed up here. 
 
 It was like my nerdy dreams had come true; like those Stargate & Star Trek episodes, or Fringe, Savage Dragon, and Sliders' fundamental premise -- or the whole spider-verse crossover. I tried to explain to him that from various media I was familiar with the concept of his parallel universe jumping, albeit curious what brought him here out of nowhere, to be suddenly standing in -- I guess `` our'' -- home. He obviously got in by asking the landlord for the spare key; we look enough alike that with his hat covering his full head of hair it just looked like if I'd shaved and perhaps lost some weight... Okay a lot of weight, and maybe had some corrective cosmetic surgeries... 
 
 In any case, as you might surmise he cut off my babbling about shows and movies and comic books to point out that if he squandered his potential on all this media he would never have developed the tech to bridge the dimensional gaps -- which I had to admit was pretty impressive, even if the other me was being a bit of a tool with his condescending down-talking. He then interrupted himself to tell me `` Jumping ahead'' [ something something ] and then, after down-talking to me more about `` infinite possible realities'' and `` infinite more created every instant'', like I'm some total noob to the concept, he tries to tell me some junk about how there is another version of us who is world hopping trying to kill the alternates of us, in some misguided quest for individuality. 
 
 It was around this time I pulled out a pre-rolled & lit it, asking my double if he could tweak my internet or tv to pick up alternate universe shows & movies and stuff. He seemed put off by my flippant attitude towards exposing him to the mind-impeding substance ( my guess would be it interfered with the stick in his -- ), but also by the complete disregard I seemed to have for his warning. So to settle at least some of his concerns I said: 
 
 `` Look, I'll smoke this all, you do n't have to have any; hook up the TV & the internet for me while I explain --'' And I went on to point out that if infinite realities exist, and infinite ones are birthed into existence at every moment, then every time a version of us pops into a universe he would split that reality into paths that include that event and paths that exclude it. So there would be a whole bunch of universes split from just this one, where my double was n't here. My double seemed to have had a handle on the math but had n't considered the practical sense. 
 
 But by this time was putting final touches on the device he was affixing to the back of the big flatscreen on the wall, having already put a neat little chip in my phone and some sort of spider-looking thing on my laptop, another on the desktop... 
 
 I had to ask -- `` Why did you come to warn me of all possible alternate versions anyway? ``, to which he replied `` It's nothing about you personally, you seem to do little else than slack and waste your talents on purile entertainment & petty indulgences; I was simply tracking the alternate, and could only seem to track him to this universe & not his subsequent trip -- I've logged it in my transdimensional databanks that our alternate likely only used this world as jumping-off point to make an untraceable getaway.'' with a frustrated sneer. 
 
 To which I grinned widely and said simply `` Good, that's what I figured.'' As I jammed a pin into his wrist-mounted universe-jumping device's override setting before he could react, as his hand was propped against the wall while he fiddled behind the flat screen. He turned & looked at me like a deer in headlights, but I'm no deer, dear -- this Buck has the horns, and I gave him a good solid head-butt before his gadget's overload caused his physical form to collapse into a localized event-horizon, drawing him into lord only knows what random reality. With his toolbox sitting on the counter there was scant chance he'd be able to rig it to bring him anywhere other than more random universe after universe like early season Sliders... 
 
 I'm just glad the alternate from this universe left a stash and happened to be out of town or I'd have a had a lot of trouble getting the upper hand on that stuck up piece of crap. `` quest for individuality'' my ass -- I just was n't into putting up with versions of myself who were insufferable pompous jerks, and it seemed laughing boy was so eager to join their ranks he had to follow me here. Besides, each time I killed one it just made more sets of realities stemming from both me killing and not killing alternates, it's just a wash in the big picture. What a windbag, good riddance. Of course if I want to stick around here then sending him away was the only option; killing him would have been messy no matter how, and might lead to all kinds of tricky questions.. 
 
 Probably worth it though, expecting to have some good times when this reality's me comes back from out of town. Unlike the stuck-up douche-nozzle version, we seem to have similar tastes and attitudes, so I'm sure he'll appreciate the new tv & computer hookups for alternate-universe tv, movies, comics & video games. 
 
 I hope he does n't mind sharing his life -- I'd hate to have to have to killa guy who for all other intents and purposes seems pretty chill.
