Botober 29: Rupture 2

Looking at today's Botober prompts, it suddenly occurred to me that a direct sequel to yesterday's story would be an easy way to make use of them.  I have to watch that, though; I'm not as good at pantsing longer stories as I used to be, and the last time I tried a weekly short story challenge I bogged down after three parts of the same story.  But whatever, it's fun.  (The tricky part is figuring out where to stop...so I 
just stopped when I got tired.)

Oh, yeah, what are those prompts?

• Things: A lowercase infinity
• Concepts: You Will Find That You Cannot Escape From This Research Station
• Advanced: An apple made out of matter that cannot exist in our universe
• Terrible: A shopping cart filled with cabbage

( Rupture 2 )