CHAPTER NINE Interdimensional travel always seemed like something from science fiction to Beams. His best friend, Frank, was a firm believer in multiverse theory, though mostly because it seemed like a cool idea to him, rather than because it had any real scientific basis. Beams, on the other hand, had always thought it was a cool story idea, but that it would never work in real life, although when he considered all of the crazy things he had seen since going to work for Rubberman, he wondered if his skepticism had been slightly arbitrary. In any case, when Mr. Space opened a portal and stepped through it, Beams did not hesitate to walk through it after him. He had seen enough proof from Mr. Space to realize that multiverse theory was indeed correct and that he could trust that the porta