“I don’t think this is a good idea, Daisy,” Lily said.

“Relax, Lily, we’re gonna be in and out. I just want to grab Mr. Johnson’s quantum field stabilizers, and then we can go,” Daisy exclaimed.

Mr. Johnson kept special science equipment in his locked safe in the classroom. Daisy found a sticky note on his desk with random numbers and letters and assumed it was for the safe. She opened the safe and found a bunch of advanced science equipment. Daisy was super into science and was working on a wormhole generator to find alternate dimensions. Her last missing piece was a quantum field stabilizer.

Daisy grabbed the stabilizer, closed the safe, and ran out of the classroom. She hid the stabilizer in her backpack and waited until she got home to take it out. 

“This is it. Once we install this, we’ll be able to travel through dimensions,” Lily said. 

Lily and Daisy had been working on this wormhole for six months. Their biggest dream was to talk to alternate versions of themselves and ask what their lives were like. After two hours, the stabilizer was finally ready to install.

“Do you want to do the honors, Lily?” Daisy asked.

“I thought you’d never ask,” Lily replied.

 Lily slowly put the stabilizer in the slot, and immediately, a burst of energy shot out. The girls felt a tingling sensation in their bodies. They started being sucked into the wormhole like a tornado. One second the girls were there, and the next they weren’t.

The girls were transported to a paper world where everything was made out of paper, and Daisy and Lily turned into bright, colorful, origami butterflies.

When Daisy tried to talk, she noticed she didn’t have a mouth, and Daisy started transforming into a comic strip.

“LILY, WHAT HAPPENED TO US!” the comic strip read. 

Lily turned into a paper question mark. Daisy and Lily got stuck in a paper world where they could turn into anything paper, but they had no idea how to get out. Daisy noticed that the place where they were transported was in a park near her house. Daisy and Lily turned back into origami butterflies and flew to Daisy’s house. 

Daisy’s house was a 2D black-and-white house with no way to get in. Once you opened the door, it would just be the backyard. Daisy had no idea what to do. But Lily had an idea. She thought that if she could find a pencil, she could draw Daisy’s house and make it 3D. Lily turned into a comic strip and explained the plan to Daisy in comic form.

Lily then turned back into a butterfly, and they made their way to a department store nearby. They noticed that some buildings were 2D and some were 3D. Once they got to the department store, they were relieved to see it was 3D, so they went inside. Everything in the store was flat: the shelves, the items, the registers, and even the employees. 

While Lily and Daisy were flying around the store, they found a VR headset that could put you into a world not made of paper. It was the newest trend in this world. Daisy and Lily both slipped into the headset and got transported into a VR world, except it was their human world. 

“Hey, we’re back home now,” Lily said.

“I don’t think we’re home yet. This is just the VR headset. We have to figure out how to get the wormhole through the VR reality and into this world so we can go back home,” said Daisy.

Since the VR headset was set to their home reality, they knew where to go. They went to Daisy’s house, and it wasn’t 2D this time. Once they got in the garage, the wormhole was there, but there was no portal. They had to figure out how to get the portal running again and transport it into the paper world. 

Daisy and Lily thought that maybe they could try to spawn in a quantum field stabilizer, as the old one had run out of juice. Since it was VR, they were able to spawn in the quantum field stabilizer right in their hands. Before they put the stabilizer in the slot, they weren’t sure what was going to happen. Last time they did this, they got sucked in and stuck in the paper world, but since they were in VR, it might make their situation even worse.

They decided to bring the wormhole over to the department store where they had been and see what they could do there. They teleported to the department store with the wormhole and headed over to the aisle they were in. Once they got there, they saw two origami butterflies on the floor with a VR headset. They realized they were consciously in the VR world. Daisy came up with an idea to throw the origami butterflies in the wormhole, and maybe they would get transported home while having the VR headset on.

Daisy put the stabilizer in the slot and immediately ran to the opposite side of the aisle. As more and more things were getting sucked in, they quickly threw their butterflies in the wormhole. The VR headset flew off, and they were back to being paper butterflies, but they were flying through realities. They flew through a world made of plants, a world where dinosaurs never went extinct, a world where robots took over, and finally made it back home.

They got transported out of the wormhole back into Daisy’s garage. Once they got out, the wormhole was destroyed, and when they looked at the clock, no time had passed.

“We made it back! We’re safe!” Lily said.

Except little did they know, this wasn’t their reality. Just in the other room was Daisy’s sister–a sister she never had–and Lily’s family was in a different state. Daisy and Lily celebrated in Daisy’s garage, unaware of what would happen next…