Penny decided that today she would help people live more healthy lives… while pulling a prank. The first part of the process was consultation on medical sites about on what vitamins and minerals can you overdose without any negative effects on the body, but since The Author is bad at research and also lazy, he only researched the visible signs of overdose with only one substance and would rely only on it for the prank. Next she found in which fruits and vegetables the majority of the elements were found in and started taking them from games and arranging them in boxes in the laboratory. What people may not know and Penny certainly has not used until now was that the fabricator didn’t only work for fabricating machines and other items, but could also be used for food. So, Penny programed it to extract only the things she needed from all the fruits and vegetables in the form of a dry powder, which she packed in metal boxes and put in her pocket dimension.

After hours of repetitive work, she had enough to pull her prank, so she went on to phase two, finding what company delivered their bottled water and what types of coffee and tea was drunk, drank, drink… at the office? And acquire the same brand, then slip her substance inside and replace it with the genuine product. ’But won’t they know something isn’t right, when their water is different color and their coffee tastes different?’ And why do you think The Author invented a spell like selective invisibility? It is because he solves almost every problem with it. It is his Deus Ex Machina, the ultimate cheat code, the solution to most impossible pranks. She was going to make the color and taste of the powder invisible and program it to only become visible five minutes after entering a human body. So, anyways, Penny shapeshifted in some very generic, totally forgettable form, took out some money from her casino stash and went shopping, while checking her surveillance cameras in the NSA, CIA and some other places, to see what she should be buying. At the first store she bought instant coffee and a pack of ten litters’ bottled water, then she exited the store with her shopping cart, transferred her purchases in her pocket dimension without anyone seeing her and then teleported to a different store, where she bought packs of ground coffee and more water, then repeated everything in another store and then another.

When she got back to the lab, Penny put on gloves, wiped her purchases to erase fingerprints and DNA and started carefully opening packages and spilling half of the content out, then filling them back with powder and then, using her forgery skills, closing and sealing them back up. The powder in the water was completely invisible and due to the water’s properties, the jugs looked filled like normal, but the case was different with the coffee. At first it appeared that half the content was missing, so Penny was forced to cast illusion magic to make the powder look and smell like coffee, while invisible and tasteless. It was a very tricky thing to do. Now all she had to do was deliver the packages where they were needed and then wait and see what happened.

First she visited a place that should be delivering water today, and shapeshifted as one of their employees, then cast illusion magic on herself to look like she was wearing their uniform. She was wearing the infrared lights around her head and was very careful not to be seen at the same place and time as the employee she was posing as, while she exchanged the bottles with ones from her pocket dimension of the same brand. Once or twice she was almost caught, but that was part of the excitement in pulling pranks. Once she finished her job here, she teleported away and shapeshifted as someone else.

The next place she visited, she had to decide how she wanted to do things. The first way, become invisible, enter the building, change their water bottles with her own, then enter the kitchen and do the same with the coffee and water coolers and bin bam boom she is done. The second way, she intercepts someone working in the building, binds and gags them, assumes their identity, enters the building, snoops around, changes the water, the coffee, works for an hour as a secretary or documents clerk or whatever, then leave, flashes the bound and gagged person with the Neuralyzer and let them continue to do their work. Hmm, that second one sounds more fun than the first one, but would take more time. On the other hand, she could gather some intelligence while she was there. But she hadn’t studied the target’s mannerisms and way of speaking and could be found out as an imposter. Eh, why not at least try, she could always just run away if things get hot in there.

Penny quickly checked some old footage from the place, identified some people she could impersonate and waited for them to go on break, before discreetly kidnaping one of them and shoving them in a restroom after covering them in duct tape, gagging them and putting the out of order sign. Then she assumed her looks, copied her voice and borrowed her purse, before going back to work. Everything else pretty much went according to plan. She visited the kitchen and while no one was looking, swapped the coffee and tea with the ones she had, then did the same with the water coolers. With the help of her glasses and A.I.C.A. she did the work of the person she impersonated, filled files, forms, made copies and all that. When it was time to go home, she visited the closet or warehouse or whatever, full with water bottles and swapped them as well, then she released her hostage, flashed her and told her what she had done in the last several hours, then send her home.

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The next day, Penny did pretty much the same thing as yesterday, but this time she studied her subjects thoroughly. After all, today she was hitting the CIA and NSA and every little slip may lead to problems in the future. But the study and preparations proved to be effective and in the end today also went without a hitch and all the water and coffee that entered the bodies of the agents and personnel was switched with the one full of beneficial vitamins and minerals. When Penny went home, she was quite happy with herself and her prank and now she just had to wait a week or two to see the results, so she just sat back and relaxed. Maybe she would code a game about sneaking into places with the help of hacking skills and disguises.

We jump a little forward in time for the ones who are impatient for the results of the prank and need to know the result immediately. The first symptoms started showing just a few days after The Prankster visited the agencies and started as barely visible coloration around the hands. A week in the process of everyone drinking water and coffee, everyone had beautifully orange skin due to all of them having carotenemia or more understandable would be to call it beta-carotene overdose. At that point in time, everyone sporting orange skin was required to visit a doctor and have a full battery of tests and physical examinations. The doctors in the end told them to stop eating carrots, sweet potatoes and a few other foods, but not one of them could remember eating any of these things in the quantities needed to suffer the overdose. It took them a few days to come with the idea that maybe it was the food or something else in the office, so they got rid of all the snacks, tea, coffee and vending machine content, then waited to see the results. When noting changed in the next week, they threw away everything again, but this time they included the jugs with water and replaced them with unopened ones from the utility closets and wherever else they kept them, which also didn’t solve their problem.

For the next few weeks there was a significant decrease of undercover operations, surveillance in the open and many other assignments, because most of their agents could be recognized immediately by their orange skins. At that point Penny took pity on them and send them an untraceable email telling them what she had done and signing the mail with her assigned name The Prankster. After all it is only a prank if the other party doesn’t suffer prolonged or permanent damage. After that, all the orange agents saw a significant improvement in the next two weeks and in a month were completely back to normal. Still, that was a dark time for the agencies hit by The Prankster and they were more eager than ever to put him behind bars.

Penny on the other hand, after chilling for a day after pulling the prank, got back to work on her secret project and the elements that made it. She combined parts of all kinds of stolen projects and studies, upgraded some drones and send the new designs to Raven, tinkered some more with laser cooling and the weather machine and generally did whatever she liked to do.

The next day, just for a change of pace, Penny visited Jenny and the two went shopping together. Now that Jenny had casts on both her legs, she required some changes of wardrobe and a little fun while she was shopping, so Penny tried to make the experience as pleasant as possible. She pushed the chair around the shopping mall, did a little modeling session with the new clothes, then they had a break for lunch in one of the food courts and then window shopped for jewelry, accessories , electronic products and toys, before visiting a supermarket to buy food and then Penny brought Jenny home. When they arrived, there was a delivery box waiting in front of the door, and when Jenny looked at it, it was send from Penny.

-What is inside the box, Penny?-

-Hmm, oh, just some helpful gadgets if you decide to work from home and don’t want to waste time going to the office. A new smart watch I made a few weeks ago, with holographic display and increased processing power, the game console we are in the process of putting on the market, in case you get bored and an avatar system you can hook to the console.-

-What is an avatar system, Penny? I know you play games with avatars, but I have a suspicion you are not talking about that.-

-Oh, no, no, it isn’t that. The avatar system is a VR helmet that connects you to a machine, in this case a drone, you control with your mind and can see and hear everything they do. The drone I connected it to have holographic projectors, so everyone in the office can see you as if you were there and you will see everything the drone sees. It is perfect for doing work from distance.-

-Let me guess, you were bored when you made it?-

-Actually, I can say for certain that this one wasn’t born from boredom, but necessity. I had to test something dangerous and didn’t want to be anywhere near it, but still wanted to observe it closely.-

-So instead of installing cameras like a normal person, you invented overly complicated way to do things?-

-Cameras wouldn’t do. I had to have a way to interact, so I built a robot body and needed a way to control it and that is how the avatar system came to be. Just imagine how many paralyzed a quadriplegic people it could help live more fulfilling lives. Just have to find a way to present it as entertainment or game system, instead of medical, so we won’t have to wait years for it to be approved.-

After their conversation, Penny helped Jenny inside, then she kissed her and went home. Jenny just started unboxing everything, while contemplating just what the whole truth could be, to make it possible for Penny to build such devices with such ease.