A group of friends is about to travel between realities. They are using a machine which looks a lot like a modern American glass phone booth (Dr. Who and TARDIS reference, anyone?). We call it a "Time Machine", though it actually doesn't travel in time - it travels between different, parallel realities. Three of them were in the machine and were going on a mission. A friend and I were left behind, but we wanted to go along so bad we tried running for the machine as they started it up. We were outside it, but we were caught in the "blast radius" of the travel effect, and after a flash of light we were somewhere else. Or rather, in the exact same place.

The warehouse we were in was now derelict. It was broken, with rust all over the walls, dirt all over the floor and a thick mix of dirt and... something else, in the air. Something was obviously wrong. The trip somehow teleported me and the other late traveler into the machine. The others scowled at us - apparently, no one was supposed to move when the machine was working. Our running sent it haywire, taking us somewhere else entirely. We could be in serious danger. We walked out of the machine slowly, and an eerie music started playing. My friends started to panic "What is that?", someone asks. Uh-oh. "It's RESIDENT EVIL!", I shout, starting to panic as well. I seemed to be sure the music belonged to the horror/zombie franchise Resident Evil.

We all ran into the booth again and tried to make it teleport away, when we spotted something moving in the other room. To our increasing horror, I recognized it as a zombie from the Left4Dead series: The Witch. She was crying and wailing and slumping towards our door. One more step and we'd be in plain sight. The machine whirred as it started up, but the Witch was fast, if she saw us... And then she did. She turned, growling, and charged towards us, claws up. She was closing in, about to rip us apart when we saw another flash. The machine made the trip just in time. Phew.

This time it took us to the right place: we arrived in what seemed to be a department store. The place was luxurious, well lit and, for some reason, considerably empty. Still, it was the right place: we were here with Robin (from the How I Met Your Mother TV series), where she would meet the alternate-world version of Barney (also from HIMYM). It turns out that in her original timeline, Barney had married someone else. Heartbroken, she figured a way to be with him was to find one of his alternate versions. Alternate Barney was supposed to be here, at this time and place, and much to her joy we soon ran into him. Alternate Barney wore glasses, had a beard and was a doctor. He was much more serious and responsible. When they laid eyes on one another, it was clear they had fallen in love.