The soft tinkling of a piano, the velvety dark lighting and the gentle hum of machinery, Quinn is found surrounded by these as he meticulously examined the purple gem previously found around his nape. Setting it on a gridded panel, a line of light went through the Gem, and a digital replica of it appears on a separate screen.

"Unusual wave patterns… unpredictable and displacing atomic structure, an immeasurable amount of subatomic particles… What is this? A separate sample must be acquired." seizing a monomolecular scalpel, Quinn sliced off a minute shard of the gem, just enough to have a discernible shift in its mass. "No reaction… unusual, I thought it would explode cause of the incredibly unstable structure."

Turning away and laying the separate shard in a vacuum storage unit, Quinn faced the central gem and was shocked when it started to regain the mass it lost. "Well… that… is not physically possible." glancing at the vacuum storage, "and it didn't take it back from the separate sample. How is it creating mass?" pressing several keys, a device popped out. Taking it, Quinn set it over the gem and flipped a switch on the devices' side. Waiting for a few moments, a graph appeared on the monitor designated Energy Level. "An exponential graph huh? And it's still increasing…" Cutting another shard out of the gem, Quinn observed that the line dipped, yet in a matter of seconds, recovered the lost energy and kept increasing.

"So it's an energy cell… with an infinitely increasing amount of potential energy in it. I guess that somehow explains how it regains its mass." Laying the gem down and taking the shard, Quinn placed the shard onto an observer panel. "So it's not increasing in energy levels. It's just a power cell. But what if I gave it power?" Quinn asked, relocating the shard onto a recharging station. Attaching 2 small jumper cables on the shard, Quinn turned on the current and observed the shard increasing in mass and size. "Interesting, so it compensates the increase in energy by growing."

Taking the shard off the recharging station, "Now… can this work?", Quinn wondered as he placed the shard on a separate machine, Quinn then keyed in a few commands, moments later, a high pitched whine came from the device as the shard was bombarded by subatomic particles, causing the unstable atomic and molecular structure of the shard to shift and contort. As this was happening, stray bolts of electricity were beginning to crackle on the surface of the shard.

"Oh, Shit!" Quinn exclaimed in surprise as he dove behind his desk, quickly revealing a panel and pushing a button, the machine is abruptly encased in a 3m thick lead plated titanium-steel alloy, just in time for the shard to release a blinding flash of purple light, and explode violently. Peeking over the desk, Quinn questioned out, "What happened?! Computer! Bring out the final readings of the manipulator." Responding to Quinn's command, a monitor pops out displaying a multitude of graphs, tables and diagrams. "Let's see... it looks like that the discharge of electricity and subsequent explosion was caused by the release of excess energy. And since the shard contained an absurd amount of energy... that could have turned out extremely dangerous."

As the mess was slowly cleaned up, Quinn went ahead and sliced off 2 more shards from the parent gem. "Let's test it with 2 shards, could probably work... not sure." Taking the 2 shards, Quinn repeated the experiment in another manipulator. "Change shard 1 in 3...2...1!" Diving behind another desk, Quinn observed the same processes. A high pitch whine sounded through the lab, however, instead of the electricity produced from the shard bouncing about on the first shard, it began to jump towards the second shard and be seemingly absorbed. A few seconds tick by and - with a quick burst of white light - the first shard turned into a golden pocket watch, and the second shard increasing in size.

"Ok... it worked. So I can make anything from the shards, and the shards - and subsequently the main gem - can absorb energy, whether directly or indirectly." Quinn muttered to himself. Taking small, tentative steps towards the manipulator, Quinn slowly took the pocket watch with a gloved hand, placing it on a large petri-dish and relocating it to a vacuum storage unit. "Readings," Quinn commanded. Several tables and graphs appeared on a monitor displaying energy readings and more importantly, atomic signatures for the pocket watch, confirming that it is indeed a pocket watch. "I guess this is a successful experiment then. Congratulations me." cheered Quinn to himself, " Now onto other matters."

"Next step, reversing the change, I could probably use the force dampener to weaken the forces holding the atoms in the object together thus separating the atoms, use a mass to energy converter on the atoms, and then have the energy absorbed in the second shard. And since the shards increase in size when energy is given to it, I can have the remaining shard split in 2, thus having no loss unless other circumstances affect it."

Months later, Quinn is seen hunched over the gem chuckling to himself. "This is a gift all right... Jesus Christ..." Months of researching and experimenting with the Gem yielded exciting yet terrifying conclusions. Using certain machines with specific functions revealed different abilities of the Gem.

Creating objects and reverting it back to its previous shard form was possible using a matter manipulator for creation, and a force dampener and converter to revert it back. This is its necessary capabilities, creation and destruction. Ideal for manufacturing garments, food, medicines, drugs, armaments and so much more. But its primary purpose was travelling, specifically Omniversal Travelling.

The Omniverse. Different and more complex from the simple multiverse. The Omniverse is actually considerably simple to describe. Starting small, imagine a book or a book series, fiction would be best, let's say the Harry Potter series. The HP books represent the central universe of HP. Any other stories based on the HP books are separate universes in the HP multiverse. Visualise this as a bubble, a bubble. Take another book or series, for example, Frankenstein. The book will have its own multiverse, with different scenarios but still the same people.

These 2 multiverses can intercept with each other. Forming a 'crossover' connecting the 2. This 'crossover' will emerge as an isolated universe, not a multiverse, All these multiverses are all contained in 1 omniverse. Every multiverse is just approximately 1 %, everything else is just pure energy. This is what the Gem is gathering its power from.

Travelling the Omniverse only requires a shard from the Gem to be enclosed entirely by dark matter, this forces the shard to exhaust all of its energy in a contained explosion, rendering an orbicular space encompassing it 6ft high by 2ft wide, utterly void of everything. The 4 fundamental forces of nature are devoid of any meaning in this space. Gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak force are rendered null and void. By entering this space, one is transported directly outside of the multiverse they are in, and are located in an eternal void between the multiverses.

This void can appear uniquely to various people based on their life, a soldier from the time before guns were invented entering the Void may view it as an everlasting barren plane of weapons stabbed into the ground. For Quinn, when first entering the Void, observed it a limitless library, shelves upon shelves of books.

While inside the Void, a traveller is able to visit the various worlds incredibly easily. For Quinn, all he had to do was to pick up a book and open it. This enabled him to travel back to his own world, not another one for he did not have the necessary equipment for a return.

Returning back to Quinn, still chuckling to himself, "Ha... so I can travel anywhere, this just makes Project: PT even longer... and it was already an infinite class... well... more things to work for. I just need a way to defend myself, collect information and make travelling easier." Glancing at all the machines, devices and instruments he used to interact with the Gem, "I need to compress all of these and put it 1 small tool. Fortunately... Computer! List what I just said to sub-project: VSM."

Some moons pass, and Quinn has completed the VSM. Able to carry out anything he would require, with automatic precepts. The VSM main objective is to: Defend Quinn, collect data, allow for Omniversal travel, be a companion. To accomplish these objectives, Quinn developed the VSM to be able to change form by utilising gem shards built-in the VSM. To defend Quinn, the VSM is capable of emitting electrical shockwaves at hostiles, or, alternatively, Quinn can turn the VSM units into any weapon he sees fit to use in the current situation.

To collect data, the VSM units are fitted with every data collection machine Quinn has used. To travel, Quinn designed the separate VSM units, Model-P, for the opening of the portals needed. And to accomplish the companion goal, the VSM is included with a learning AI... it's essentially JARVIS, but more snarky... not everything is thought out my dudes... anyways...

To fit all of these machines and bulky circuitry, each VSM unit is equipped with a hammerspace, this is made feasible by using a shard, changed, so that is has such a powerful gravitational influence that it folds space, enabling Quinn to fit all the needed machinery inside. The actual unit itself and anything surrounding it are protected by a 'skin-tight' null field, Quinn designed it to emulate the nullifying characteristics of the portals used to travel.

To control the VSM, Quinn implanted the main control chip in his brain, to communicate directly to the VSM AI, visual implants so that he can track each of the VSM units' conditions, and finally, circuitry embedded in his fingers and hands to detect their locations, to send messages to the central control chip in his brain. This was to interact with the holographic interfaces on each unit, to be able to manually control each one.

With his research on the Gem and the completion of the VSM, Quinn was finally, after 3 years of dedicated research, ready to begin exploring the omniverse. Funnily enough, the hardest part for him was deciding which world he would travel to first. His research really only took 2 and a half years, choosing which realm to go to took an additional 6 months to decide. However, Quinn finally resolved to travel to the world of RWBY, the main rationalising was to study Dust.

"VSM! Initiate Gate protocol, it's time." Quinn commanded, "Yes sir." VSM replied, "Gate opening in 5..." a VSM unit flew a few feet in front of Quinn. "4... " the unit began to whirl in place, gaining speed swiftly, then it began to crack. "3... " a clap of thunder burst from the unit, a purple flash emitting from it as the very space around the unit splintered and fractured, into infinitesimal pieces leaving the shard to spin upon its axis at unimaginable speeds. "2... " the shattered space around the VSM started to violently funnel into the epicentre, a great and terrible tempest howling and the sounds of the unknown deep reverberated, a silent wail growing ever tumultuous originating from the shard, when at its most powerful point... "1!" The shard disappeared. Silence. A gate has been opened, peering into it. An all-consuming eclipse, stillness. Nothing.

"I still hate this... so much. No choice though." Quinn thought, stepping towards the portal. Taking one final look back at his lab, "Heh. Not, good times... but times all the same." Taking the final step in the portal. Quiet.

The Lab is still, the dust begins to settle, a click is heard through the sound systems, and the melodious tinkling of a piano rose to play transversely across the lab, the lights turned off one by one, replaced by a tender, velvety red. Tranquil and calm. And so it shall be until the return.