***(No cheating… read part one first)***

I hope you can see the advantages offered by my open-ended plotline for my ongoing science fiction series. By having my hero able to visit any dimension that we can imagine, the possibilities for fun and adventure are endless. Oh, and… spoiler alert… did I mention that he has an alien artifact that can teach him anything? I mean anything. Foreign or alien languages, how to fly any alien spaceship, any talent or skill he needs or wants to know. I have set us up with a blank canvas on which to paint with our imaginations, and noting is out-of-bounds.

As I told you in the last post, I have thrown together a few ideas to get you started. I want you to outdo me. I want you to come up with ideas that make me question your sanity. But here are a few just for fun.

Our hero can visit a dimension where horses became extinct, and cowboys ride other animals. This idea alone offers countless directions in which we can go. And think about how funny all the Western movies would be…

The thing to remember is that it wouldn’t seem funny to the people living in that dimension at all. It would just be the way things always were to them.

But cowboys riding on tigers… how cool is that?

We can use any animal we want, or make up new animals, or maybe take small animals and make them big enough to ride. It is all up to us.

Or we could picture a universe where ancient Rome never fell. That could be fun. We would all be wearing a toga. Good thing I have nice legs…

Or how about a world where dinosaurs never became extinct?

Okay… the next part might offend some people… but sometimes art and creativity can do that. Because my hero is based on me, and because I study history, I have had a little idea running trough my head lately. When the stress of… spoiler alert… being an intergalactic hero and running an intergalactic human/alien corporation gets to be too much for the guy, he tends to disappear on little vacations. And since he can now travel to other dimensions, I was toying with the idea of having him go and meet some famous people.

One of the people I thought of was Adolf Hitler. No, I am not a fan, but anybody who studies history might be interested in meeting him, maybe before the war started, or even before he really got into politics. Just to talk to him, figure out what made him such a world-class nut case.

“WHAT?”, I hear you asking, “How can he travel back in time? You didn’t say anything about time travel.”

Sorry, I thought you would realize that many of the other dimensions, the other realities, are not synced up with ours on the same time scale. What I mean is that some of them are ahead of ours, or behind ours. So technically speaking, time travel is a simple option to add to our stories.

My first idea was that our hero could meet Hitler in a reality where he was a stoner slacker. Because that would be funny, and it would mean that the war would never happen in that dimension. But when I started to do pictures for this post, I decided to go even more crazy. I ask you to picture a reality where Hitler was born a little later, and rock and roll was invented a little earlier.

And… well… I don’t know how to break this to you, but what if the Beatles went to Germany to play their music, like they did in this reality, but something happened to one of them, and they need to get a new guy to play in the band, and it just… worked out…

And they stayed together…

And everything was groovy…

Hey, I am not saying I am going to add this to the real story…

I am just trying to show you that if we can think of it, we can make it part of the story.