Thanks people for liking a poetic Story for a change. Here is the follow-up.
In Part One we visited the universe one hundred and ten trillion years after the Big Bang. Our hero Omega and his people escaped the last known dying red sun by becoming living spirits. Now they must embark on a remarkable journey... (By popular request)!
Omega and his associates flew faster than light. Up ahead there appeared a white pin-*****.
“A star!” exclaimed Omega.
“Not a star,” corrected Father, “It’s another universe!”
That tiny white gem grew into a globe, until it filled most of the “sky”.
Father: “Omega, you have a choice now. Most of our people are going on to that universe. To a new life. But some of us are going further first. We are going to take full advantage of this spirit form, and travel out as far as we can. We are going to try to discover the truth about Existence.”
Omega: “But how will you find your way back, Dad?”
Father: “We have established an unbreakable link with our people. When we have completed our quest we will follow that thread and return home. Are you up for it?”
Omega: “Of course. You only get a chance like this the once.”
Father: “Good. Let’s go.”
All the goodbyes were made and the two parties went their separate ways. For Omega, his odyssey began.
This time, they seemed to fly away even faster! Another “star” appeared. Then another, and another, until the whole “sky” was filled with a myriad of them.
Father: “Yes, son, you guessed: these are not stars but universes. We are somewhere in the middle of a Multiverse. And we are heading out!”
At some point Omega became aware that there was a “boundary” to the multiverse. That the multiverse was some vast globe of universes! Soon they were leaving that globe. Before long they were looking back at that circle his father called “The Multiverse”.
Then Omega became aware of another globe in the distance. As they moved away, this second globe looked much larger than the first. Like a sun and earth. But then other small spheres appeared: until there were eight of them orbiting that “sun”. Omega’s multiverse was the third of those eight from the “star”.
Father: “It’s an Oxygen atom, son!”
Omega: “What?”
Father: “That sun thing is the nucleus and its, er, planets are electrons. Two in the inner shell and six in the outer. Classic Oxygen.”
Omega: “Wow!”
They kept going. Soon they encountered more oxygen atoms as they sped away from their own “atom”. They also encountered countless Hydrogen “atoms”.
Father: “Water! We are in water! Lots of impurities though.”
Their pace seemed to multiply. Nevertheless it took ages. Eventually, however, they left what turned out to be a stream of water. Falling to some unknown ground. Slowly but surely, though, a “figure” materialised above them.
The realisation hit them all at once. Frozen in “time” before them was, a little lad having a *** behind some bushes! And both their old and "new" universes were somewhere within that stream of *****.
Father: “I think it’s time for us to return home, son.”
Paul Butters
Again influenced by HG Wells...