The next morning the two women emerged victorious from their room, successfully defeating the tentacle monster… wait, what was I writing about again? Ah, yes, the two woke up early the next morning and Penny demonstrated the exercises she did every morning to help her stay in shape and increase her magic power. Jenny was a little exhausted by the end, but managed to finish together with Penny, then Penny and Jenny took a shower together and again got a little frisky. After the much longer than usual shower, Penny led Jenny to the laboratories and showed her where the other dimension transport circle was being made.

-M.A.L.A. how is the debugging of the circle going? Is it ready for use and what is the margin for error?-

-After the latest modifications, from the 1000 tests we conducted, 998 times the object was transported to the surface of a planet with the exact parameters input into the circle. 1 out of 1000 times the subject was transported in the air a kilometer above sea level. 1 out of 1000 times, the object was transported in space around the world.-

-Then we will visit a world with the avatars and if we like it, I will directly teleport us without the use of the circle. Even with such low margin for error, it is better not to teleport people with the circle and just use it to scout the worlds and sent avatars. Jenny, what world do you want to visit and have an adventure on?-

-Yesterday you said something about us being hero and villain, so why not find a world where people have super powers?-

-Hmm, such a world is pretty dangerous for normal people like us to visit, so I propose we only ever go there in avatars. I will build us some that can perfectly mimic real bodies and install magic and tech to mimic super powers. But first, let us see what world we can find and research it a little first.-

Penny and M.A.L.A. input new parameters into the dimensional transport circle and started their search for a parallel world or another dimension, where the laws of physics and magic allowed real, extraordinary super powers to exist. But if they couldn’t find anything good, Penny thought of an idea that could allow her to live in DC, Marvel, Image or somewhere else even after the end of a comic issue or movie.

-Penny, we have preliminary results. The circle found a parallel world, 2 other dimensions, a realm and a pocket in, what looks like the void between realities. All have the specified parameters, but we will need to send probes to see what is what.-

Penny fabricated a few dozen drones, then enchanted them with dimensional connection and selective invisibility, making sure no form of technology or magic would be able to see or sense them, then send them through the circle to the different places. Everything the drones saw and heard was transmitted on a wall in real time and the results were somewhat surprising if not entirely unexpected. There were no humans anywhere in the broadcasts. The parallel Earth was inhabited by lizard people. By the looks of it, there wasn’t extinction event and after years of evolution, the dinosaurs became what humans were here. She still had to find why the laws of physics and biology and everything else allowed super powers to exist there. It, being a parallel Earth, should have the same universal laws.

The first other dimension she checked, had strange natural phenomena happening from time to time and she was able to record some of them. Also, the creatures that inhabited that world looked quite alien and like nothing found on Earth. They seem to have developed on an entirely different biological systems too.

The second dimension she found immediately registered her drones and send a prompt to ask them if they wanted to be registered by the System. The words were quickly changing between all the languages she knew, which meant something was intruding on her, so she immediately severed the connection. There was no way she was letting some system invade her own dimension and wreak havoc with its implementation. She had read too much system apocalypse novels to trust something like that.

Then, there was the realm. There was just a single planet staying in place. There was no sun, moon or anything else around to make it anything other than a realm. Penny suspected it was a lot like Play World and probably created by some gods in the pursuit of entertainment or another powerful being. The answer to who created it would decide if the place was viable for her adventure or not.

Then, there was the little pocket in between realities, or that is what the circle was telling them. The drones sent there transmitted back a world that didn’t feel any different from Earth, except for the super powered beings that were from a different species. And there wasn’t just one species of sentient creatures, but a plethora of them and for a moment she was wondering if it wasn’t the transmission of some movie. Now, she was almost certain that this place was created by some gods and was probably the starting point of a new dimension or even a universe. That would also explain how so many things could be similar to Earth and yet allow for the bending of natural laws. Or it could be that The Author is stuck with his writing and doesn’t know how to explain things to progress the story further. Whatever the case, Penny started working on 4 different avatars to visit the different places and prepare them for their arrival.

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When Penny finished the first avatar, she put the avatar control helmet and after casting selective invisibility on the avatar, transported it to the parallel Earth to see what caused the differences between the two. First she found a sleeping lizard person and using engineering magic copied the language and some memories onto a magic stone, then with the link the avatar had to the pocket dimension, she transported it to M.A.L.A. Once she learned the language in its written and spoken forms, she would use the help of A.I.K.A. to create real time translation for the avatar to use. There was no reason to hurry and learn a new language if you wouldn’t use it in the future. Then, Penny walked around in search of a library or someplace else where knowledge was kept.

As she was walking around, Penny started discerning differences between her Earth and this one, other than just the species of the citizens. Everything technological around her worked on clockwork technology that was a lot more advanced than anything on her Earth, but she didn’t find anything working on electricity or internal combustion. It was remarkable to see such divergence in technological paths.

When she arrived at a library, she was able to more thoroughly understand other things that were different. Many years there was a rift opened in this reality that allowed parts of another dimension to mix with this one and that altered some universal laws and introduced exotic particles in this dimension. The people of this Earth used some of these new elements in their technology, others were introduced into the environment and people, animals and plant started gradually changing. It looked a lot like the introduction of dark matter and other exotic particles from the series The Flash. But, Penny didn’t think this place was suitable for her adventure. She would need to learn a lot more about clockwork technology to be a relevant villain and she didn’t think she would be able to find a way to link her AIs to this technology in reasonable amount of time. So, she transported the avatar back to her Earth and left the drones a little longer to study this world.

The next place her avatar was transported to was the first different dimension. Here she also first found a sleeping person to copy the language from and then made her way to a library to find more about the place. From what she found out, this place was a lot more compatible with her plans to have an adventure and the books about the natural laws and how they worked in general, and by that I mean school books, were very helpful in determining that most devices and powers from fiction would work in this world. It also helped that they had electricity and data streams, but she had to copy a whole bunch of books on programming languages and computer system architecture and other things, before she was able to transfer some AIs to help her register an identity. For now, she scanned every book she thought would be helpful in her endeavors and then left the rest to some drones, while she transported her avatar back home. The drones would scour other places and scan more specialized books for later reading.

And just as Penny was about to visit the realm she wanted to investigate next, something quite peculiar happened. One of her drones visited somewhere it shouldn’t have and the entire world started frizzing and then just disappeared, together with all her drones.

-Did the circle send me to some Matrix place or something? I didn’t even know it was possible to directly travel to the digital world. But, by the looks of things, my drone, even invisible, did something that led to the program crashing and either doing a hard restart of the system or just shutting everything down.-

Well, at least that explained why there wasn’t an entire solar system or anything more sophisticated and was left as just a realm. Now, it was time to check the last place she had found. The one most likely to be created by gods and making the world’s systems flexible, to allow the creation of powers and impossible technologies. It also explained the presence of all the different sentient species on one world. They were all created by different gods as their people, who looked like or resembled their creators, if she had to guess.

Penny did pretty much everything the same way as before, copied the language, found a library and scanned a few books. But here, she also found mention of the local gods and the factions they led. If she wanted to play on this world, she may have to contact her patron and ask him to get permission for her to visit and play around. She didn’t want her presence to later be found by the local gods and that to lead to some kind of misunderstanding or even was amongst gods. So, after she did a little research, wrote the world’s coordinates according to the circle and left some drones behind, she transported her avatar back home and started thinking of what to do next.

First, she had to ask Jenny where she wanted to play, then she had to contact her patron and ask him for the permission, even if she decided not to visit this world first, she still wanted to visit later and play there. And the most reliable way to contact him, other than visit his god’s realm and possibly get into trouble, was to pull a prank and talk to him while she was doing it. So, now the question was, where and what prank to pull?