After Penny finished her work on the new safety equipment for now, she returned her focus back to the weather machine she was building. She had finished a prototype that could create fog and now it was time to put bells and whistles on the gadget to make it more functional. She projected the core design of the device and started adding and improving. She put a thermometer, barometric pressure censor and a wind gauge, then stuffed it all in the drone from Spies in Disguise, except without all the weapons. When she was sure the design was more or less complete, she send it to the AIs to calculate changes that would improve it and shrink it a little. She could do it herself, but this way was faster and left her with time to go and see Jenny and bring her some more fruits from her farm games. Also cheese and other milk products. She needed a lot of calcium for her injury to heal faster, or so she heard. Penny still hasn’t dived in the medical study field yet and continued to prefer engineering and programing.

After visiting Jenny and learning that the doctors were optimistic with the lack of complications and planned to discharge her after 4 more days of observation, she returned home to see the results of the design changes suggested by the AIs. The new design looked sleeker than before, less evil looking and definitely smaller, had censors to see through the fog, or in this case cloud and a number of cameras with different modes, heat, infrared, night vision and normal.. She just needed it to be covered by light refracting paint or casing. When the AIs added that to the design, she fabricated four, then enchanted them with the standard enchantments, dimension traveling signal, dissolves when destroyed or on signal.

Penny cast selective invisibility on the drones, choosing to remove every trace of their existence from the senses and leave only the effect they had on their surroundings visible. Then she shapeshifted in a disguise and dimension traveled to the human lands on Play World to test her new invention and if it was successful, pull a prank on the Hero.

She shapeshifted in new disguises a few more times, changed clothes almost as much and when she finally found the Hero, she released the drones and activated them. Almost immediately the room started getting a little colder and a fog started to form around the Hero. Which was not what she was after. Penny cast her telekinesis and condensed the fog into a cloud above the head of the Hero, then cast selective invisibility on herself and approached the drones. She started enchanting them with telekinesis, so they could hold the cloud form, but allow rain drops and snowflakes to fall to the ground. She was sure the technology would make perfectly normal, functioning cloud higher in the atmosphere, but in enclosed room they acted as the center of a fog and without telekinesis, could not keep the form of a cloud above the head of the target. And while she was enchanting the drones, she also made dimension traveling circle on them, so she could send a little water from time to time and recharge the cloud. After all, the Hero wouldn’t always be in a humid place with plenty of water in the air and it would be such a waste to not sustain such a good prank.

Anyway, after she was done with the additions to the drones, she teleported to the corner of the room, changed suits to the Prankster one and then made herself visible again. She whistled again in the perfect manner of innocence, then released a giggle and then dimension traveled home. And while she was doing that, the Hero exited the building as fast as he could and once he was outside started blasting at the cloud with his light magic. He was firing every kind of damaging laser he could think of, but the refracting layer, combined with their constant moving made it impossible for him to destroy them and as he got angrier and angrier about the constant rain falling on him, the temperature continued to go lower and lower as if telling him ‘Chill out dude!’ Soon the rain turned into snow and the angrier he became, the more of it started falling on him. Everywhere the Hero went after that left behind him a trail of water or snow, depending on what mood he was in that particular day.

And Penny, after visiting Play world, she programed the fabricator to make a few more of the weather drones and send them to Raven, together with instructions of what to do with them. How that she had machines with which to create fog, her work would accelerate and soon she would pull her best prank. Maybe not best ever, but it would certainly be the best one to date or is it to this day?

The next day, Penny decided to do something a little risky, but if she was successful, would bring her many benefits in the future. And besides, it counted as just another experiment about the upper limits of her magic. She enchanted her avatar with the strongest variation of selective invisibility she could and then sent it to the summoning room in the God’s Realm, while getting ready to immediately trigger the avatar’s disintegration and severing any connection she had to it. She was daring in her attempt, but not suicidal enough to put her own body in harm’s way.

Once the avatar was in the room, Penny made it approach the summoning circle and get detailed scans of every square millimeter. She may not know their language, but with her knowledge about their spells and how their system of magic worked, she was confident she could decipher how the summoning circle worked and make her magic teleport her to a new, random dimension that she didn’t know about, instead of ones from fiction and games. A place she could explore and marvel at, help nurture and improve and maybe even learn a thing or two from. And when she finally made a game with the items from which she could awaken Jenny’s magic power and then transfer everything she knows about earth magic to her with the Learning Machine, they could go on an adventure together.

Once she was done with the scan, Penny decided to be a little bolder and left the room, while trying to stay concealed even with the selective invisibility in effect. She made her way through the corridor carefully, but still stopped in front of every door to take a peek. She extended one of the avatar’s fingers under the door and transformed it into a camera. She made sure the room wasn’t occupied and at the same time studied its interior so she could teleport within. After all, she didn’t know if when opening the door there would be an alarm, a screech from not oiled hinges or even some magic ward activating when you cross the threshold. So she checked every room with a camera, teleported inside and started snooping around.

Most of the time, she didn’t find anything interesting, but in one room she found a desk with all kinds of magic formulas and graphs. By the looks of it, it was probably the room of a magic god or goddess. Penny carefully studied the papers and with the help of the knowledge of how to change and tinker with magic, she quickly learned the new magic’s. The only problem was, they required too much magic power to cast. She took a sheet of paper, some drawing utensils and made a copy of the magic formulas, but with a few modifications on the part where feeding it with magic power was concerned. Instead of asking for a fixed amount, she made it possible to vary the amount and the more you fed it, the stronger the magic became. That made them compatible for both mortals and gods and also made it possible to feed it more magic than it required, so the spells could be overcharged. Penny was so happy with her new acquisitions, that she didn’t spot it when one page fell under the desk, before she teleported out of the room and to her next destination.

The next room she found interesting was a forge full of all kinds of materials and tools. Everything inside looked all shiny and new and if she was seeing the temperature right, very, very hot. If she didn’t cast cooling magic before going further inside the forge it was possible the avatar would melt, but she didn’t know if someone could sense her casting magic, so instead she just left the room and continued exploring. Maybe after she had visited all the rooms or when she was better prepared, she would visit the forge again and give it a more in-depth look.

The next room she found, that interested her, was a library with so many books it would take her years just to browse all of them. She first moved around the shelves and found every one marked with words in a language she didn’t recognize or even had the most vague of clues how to begin deciphering. It was most probably the god’s language and if she ever wanted to read any of the books here, she would have to find a way to learn it. After looking at the shelves, she moved to a desk at the end of the room, full with books, papers and writhing utensils. One of the books in particular caught her eye. It was written in perfectly understandable and legitimate English, or at least half of it was. Every single line of text was followed by a line in different language, first starting in what she thought to be the god’s language, then in English and then repeating to the end of the book. The text itself depicted a fantasy story about how the world was moving through phases of Demon Lord’s appearing from other dimensions and putting the world under siege. How there were heroes summoned to stem the tide of demons and the history of the world. Sometimes the Hero would win and choose to stay, other times he returned home and yet another he was corrupted and decided to rule the world until his dying day. Other times the Demon Lord would kill the hero and push into the human lands, until a new Hero was summoned. There was never a mention of the Demon Lord deciding to return to his dimension, even when she knew some have chosen this path. The book looked like something writhen, so it would be shown to the Hero to ignite his desire to fight the Demon Lord and the god who wrote it was tired of learning new languages for every other game and simply used translation magic to convert from god language to the new Hero’s written tongue. And while reading the book, the avatar also recorded everything, so she had a full translation of the language. And this book was quite useful and convenient for Penny’s goals. Was the god planning to erase the god’s language just before leaving the book on Play World, or maybe it wasn’t finished and Penny got here at the right moment to learn the language, or maybe everything was just so conveniently scripted by The Author, so she would become even more powerful or for his convenience? Who knows, more importantly, Penny now had her Rosetta Stone for this language and the next time she visited, she would be able to read any book from here she desired. For now, she didn’t want to risk being found out and teleported her avatar to Play World, then to a few fictional worlds and finally to her laboratory, just in case someone could track her movements.

Once the avatar was back safe and sound, Penny tasked the AIs with learning the god’s language and studying the summoning circle and learning what every single part was responsible for. Meanwhile she was in the process of examining more thoroughly the avatar body and thinking of what cooling system to install for the next trip to the God’s Realm. Maybe she could repurpose the laser cooling, or go with something more magical. And in the back of her head, she was also thinking about the scenario of the game she was going to use to unlock Jenny’s magic power and technologies she could program, which she could later import into the real world.