Low battery. The AR contact lenses will now disintegrate. We hope you have enjoyed the prank played on you. We recommend removing the lenses in the next 10 seconds to avoid complications during the disintegration. 9… 8… 7…

The NSA agent was surprised by the newest blue screen to appear in his vision.. For the past few days all the screen were implying to the existence of a system and Earth’s integration in it, but now it looked like someone was playing a trick on him. He hesitated for a second because he felt nothing in his eyes and didn’t want to poke himself, but this made more sense than the existence of the system, so he hesitantly put his index fingers to his eyes and felt the smooth glassy surface. When he removed them, there were two very thin lenses stuck to them, then after seconds the lenses started to disintegrate. That proved it. He has been pranked and for days almost believed he was being integrated into the system. But when had the lenses been put on him? Maybe the night before he started seeing the screens? Someone had entered his apartment and done this to him. Someone he would find.

Penny was woken up by the ringtone of a phone. When she looked at the number, she quickly realized it wasn’t her phone that was ringing, it was Vall’s. She got into character, modified her voice and received the call.

-Valentina Santiago here. Who am I speaking with?-

-Hello, I am a liaison officer for the United States army and I have been assigned to work with your company to facilitate the establishment of ties and smooth the problems that arise on the way. My name is Robert Owen Burns, but you may call me Rob if you like.-

-Rob, what can I help you with?-

-I wish to schedule a meeting to discuss the packet you left the army and to talk about how best we can cooperate in the future.-

That is great news. So the army is done with the testing and likes my prototype? I am free tomorrow. My assistant will make reservations and send you the time and place. I look forward to doing business.-

Penny ended the call and asked A.I.C.A. to schedule the meeting at an appropriate place, then contact the liaison when she was done. She did her normal morning routine and then sat in front of the TV and started to think out loud.

-A.I.C.A. have I become lazy after acquiring the fabricator?-

-I don’t know, Penny. I have only known you after you acquired it. But I don’t think you mean lazy in the same way the word is intended, because from my observation you are working too much.-

-After the fabricator came into my hands the possibilities to create things just expanded to such a degree that I just have to imagine it and no matter the scale, if it can work, it will. I don’t have to think about how to construct it into the real world, or if it is possible to do for other people. I can drown the markets with technology from the world of science fiction, but I can’t teach the people how to build it themselves. If the fabricator technology spreads, will people forget how to manufacture goods any other way? And while on the subject, how are we faking the production facility for the toys?-

-You have a factory in China, like everyone else that sells things cheaply.-

-That… is actually a pretty good story. And I assume all the documents are in order? Good. One less thing to worry about. Now, was there anything interesting caught by the surveillance systems?-

Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

-The contact lenses have disintegrated. The NSA agent you played the prank on looks to be determined to find you, but there are no clues as to his intentions for after. If he is smart, and the calculated probability is high that he is, he will check the patents offices and find all viable AR technology and start investigating from there. You will probably be visited as well for questioning. The global agencies still have no clue who hacked the television networks or who infiltrated the NSA computers. The demon lord has commissioned a new armor to be made and it is expected to be complete today. The human king has organized a parade for the hero that will be held later in the day. The rest are the usual work that goes on in the agencies.-

-Hmm, a parade and an armor. I could work with that. While I am there I may as well see if they have some magic metals I can swipe. I like shiny things. And I may have a project that can be improved with some magic in the mix.-

Penny grabbed a few items from the joke shop that she previously purchased and went to the DTR. She was starting to get used to traveling to every dimension from this place, even if she didn’t need the monitors to visit them. She equipped her suit and got ready to travel.

-A.I.C.A. before I get swept in another thing and forget to do it, can you put an ad for a shop attendant? I won’t have any time to take care of the shop with all my travels and inventing and other stuff.-

After leaving instructions for her assistant, she dimension traveled to Play World and got ready for prankster work.

The first place she visited after coming to Play World was the castle of the human king. She searched every room in the castle to find the Hero or the clothes he would wear for the parade, so she could pull her prank. When she did find the Hero, he was already wearing the clothes, so she carefully removed an item from her pocket dimension and enchanted it, then put it on the Hero’s head and teleported to the DLC. Here things were a little harder to finish fast, as she didn’t know where the blacksmith who was responsible for the armor was located. Penny decided to start by finding the buildings with the most smoke coming from them and check them one by one until she finds a blacksmith that was finishing an armor and if she found more than one, she would just follow the demon lord to the correct one. For the next hour she moved from building to building finding all kinds of shops and craftsmen until she did find a blacksmith who was working to finish polishing an armor piece. She carefully examined the different metal ingots at the back while waiting for the armor to be finished. Of course by examine I mean she started pumping magic power through them and measuring the ease with which it moves through the metal. In the end she swiped the ones through which it moved the easiest and hardest. Of course The Author should have made her do that very same thing with earth metals, but I didn’t think about it until this chapter, so there you have it.

When the armor was finished and polished to a mirror shine, Penny concentrated and cast a new enchantment she had been working on in her free time, what little of it she had. While she was at it, she cast an enchantment on the demon lord’s new sword as well. No real reason to leave it alone after all.

After finishing her business in Play World, Penny returned to Earth and started examining the metals she had just acquired.

-A.I.C.A. order a kilogram of every nonpoisonous or radioactive element in the periodic table that I can’t just get from some game. While you are at it, research the appearance of every fantasy metal in media, so I can get some and experiment with it. Also find me some precision scientific or magic equipment to examine the new metals. Actually research magic elements and plants in media. I will work on my two secret projects while you do that.-

And for the next few hours she did just that, working on secret projects that probably half of the readers already suspect she is working on.

Back on Play World, we are watching as the hero is riding on a white horse, waving to the crowds, trying to reassure them that everything would be okay. He was wearing his shiny parade clothes and a beautiful pointy dunce hat, which everyone but the Hero and the royal family could see and read the writing in every language thanks to trickster magic. And you can your imaginations for what happens after that. I am busy with other stuff.

Now we go to see what the prank on the Demon Lord was. I mean that is why you read this story right? The Demon Lord has just changed into his armor and was showing himself to his troops. He unsheathed his sword and brought it above his head for inspiration of his troops and every one of them saw him and was awed. The Demon Lord was wearing the pinkest armor you could ever imagine and was holding the longest French bread. Not a baguette, maybe a ficelle.