Penny cast a few more enchantments on the avatars to hide any abnormal signals from them that could be detected and then started whole heartedly exploring this brand new world she had visited. She already input all data needed to make it look like they were born and raised in this world, learned the laws, rules and regulations of the heroes and villain and now all she needed was some money to register Jenny’s avatar into the S.P.A. and start herself a business. Nothing big or elaborate, just building weapons and gear for both heroes and villains. The question now was, should she steal some money or find a legitimate way to earn some quick cash?

In the end, Penny decided to find something valuable for this world, find or make it in a game and then sell it on auction anonymously. It still wasn’t time for her to attract attention to herself this early, not before she studied some of the advanced machines here and found a counters for them and the heroes she would come up against. So, she got to researching things in the library again, but this time with the help of her new AI.

After hours of research and infiltration of the archives, Penny came to the conclusion she would have to take a kilogram of every fictional metal from movies, television and games and put them for auction, because most of the things listed as expensive metals were things she had not seen or heard about anywhere. She found their molecular structures and properties and nothing sounded familiar, so she was going to have to program them in a game and only then would be able to distribute them. But she also didn’t find any metal from Earth fiction so if she put some samples on the black market to draw interest, she could then sell more on auction, driving up the price because of how rare and useful the metals are. She also recorded everything there is to know about the natural laws of this place and sent it to her AIs to construct a model of the dimension so she could run tests on technology and new inventions.

Anyways, this one trip to the library also proved to her that she wasn’t ready to adventure yet in this dimension. She still had a ton of preparations to make, so she teleported her avatar to Jenny’s and enchanted both of them with selective invisibility and then lifted her helmet. It was time to stop playing to have lunch and maybe a desert after.

-You know, Jenny, I thought we would go to this other dimension and immediately be able to play, but it turns out it takes a lot more preparations.-

-Why did you think it would be easy?-

-Because all the novels on the internet about transmigration make it look easy. Protagonist wounds up in another world, finds people by the second or third chapter, gets to a town and bam, the adventure begins. Now I understand they do it that way, because they don’t want to think of ways to explain how they need to get money, IDs and many more necessities. Guards don’t even check if people have documentation and just let anyone join the adventurer’s guild.-

-Well, that just means they live in a fantasy world and we in the real world. Take your time arranging things for our adventure and when you are done, we will have fun together.-

-Will do. I also plan to install some flight functions in your avatar and micro bot controller in mine so I can mimic the powers of a technopat or something.-

And indeed that is what Penny did for the rest of the day. She made new designs for micro bots that would interact with machines and almost instantly hack them, then studied a little of the technology of the other dimension, but couldn’t find any detailed explanations for how some things worked, so she would have to infiltrate a laboratory or a learning institution to steal their research or blueprints. Penny also visited a lot of fictional places to steal some impossible metals like Vibranium, Adamantium, Unobtainium, Uru, Nth and more. She of course left them in her pocket dimension, because she didn’t want them all to turn into useless Earth metals when they came in contact with her dimensional laws.

The next day, after doing her morning routine with Jenny, Penny put the avatar helmet back on and continued doing preparations for their next visit to the dimension. She visited several laboratories and what would be classified as universities and stole all of their data from their current and previous experiments and discoveries. And to her surprise everything was very easy. She expected in a world with villain, security would be stricter and more robust. Maybe even a magic defense or two, but there was nothing of the sort. There wasn’t even a teleportation block, not that she entered by teleporting inside, but they could have at least tried to stop her from teleporting inside. It was very rude to go easy on security, as if telling every criminal the things inside weren’t worth it to be defended.

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But, after the tenth or twentieth place she visited, she went to what she translated as the local Hero Association’s Rental Domes, which were the super community’s power laboratories and super science and other such locations for research and as the name said, the security there was HARD. There were scanners for every spectrum of light, magic runes for detection, metal scanners, biometric locks and even teleportation blockers, both technological and magical. It was like a dream place for her to try and steal from. She had to think on how to circumvent every single security measure if she didn’t want to be caught and she loved the challenge. She even might have an idea on how to infiltrate the place.

Penny left her avatar in a secluded place under selective invisibility, the spell still being the most powerful invisibility magic she could find anywhere and then removed her helmet. She gathered her AIs and started a planning session on how to infiltrate the place and every dome in it. And she loved the exchange of ideas and the excitement of planning a heist, she might implement her plans to organize a crew and be a mastermind in this new world she was planning to play in.

Another day passed in study of the magic’s of this new dimension and ways to go around them. She conducted a number of experiments while also observed the place and who was coming and going with some new drones. Her plans were increasing in number and refinement and by the next day, Penny believed she had plans from A to K, possibly N, which would allow her to succeed. Now, she just had to implement them and see what happened.

And this is the part The Author hates to do, because he is very bad at it, explaining in detail how things looked, what the protagonist did and why and all that jazz. He couldn’t just write that Penny implemented plan A, which was to steal some DNA from a janitor and clone some of his blood and skin, use magic to mold his fingerprints in the skin, fabricate an eye with the exact same iris and record his heartbeat and many other functions, then install devices that could mimic fresh samples, like oxygenating the blood, making the skin have temperature, pulse and perspiration and then drugging said janitor, making her avatar take his appearance with the help of micro bots and illusions and then going through security. Wait, can The Author just do that and not explain other things? And the story would still be interesting? Well, whatever.

Once Penny made it through the outermost security, guards and biometric scanners, she cast selective invisibility on parts of the avatar, in this specific case the metal parts, so the machines wouldn’t be able to detect it, then continued through some more security measures. Penny had spent some time in the last few days improving her mastery over illusion magic and was actually able to create some new spells that worked the exact opposite of the selective invisibility, it actually made people believe, the parts she wanted them to, were real. And The Author is probably not explaining just how useful and different the spell had turned out from before, but what can you do? Bad authors give bad explanations. Anyways, with the help of this new spell, Penny was able to pass the next few security measures, even the soul scan and come out as the authentic thing in the “eyes” of all the machines and enchantments.

And finally the janitor made it to his assigned section of the domes and went to work. Penny wasted some time, pretended to or more precisely actually did the job and observed carefully what went around him, waiting for the perfect moment to continue with the plan. Which didn’t take long, as soon as the guards went around him on their round, Penny deployed some micro bots to infiltrate their systems with her AI and made it look like she was doing her janitorial work, while in actuality she started entering domes and copying all the data in their computers and archives. A few times she had to hurry up to finish before another patrol went around her, but after they passed her, she continued on to the next done and then the next. When she made it through them all, she just had to finish her work day and go on her way. And that is exactly what she did. What, did you expect something to go wrong and for Penny to have to work around the issue? With this lazy author, who can barely finish his chapters how he wants them and you want him to pile on more action and stuff? Ha, I laugh at your wishful thinking. No, you will have to be satisfied with just that or imagine your own little scenario, because The Author sure won’t do it.

Anyways, once Penny left the facility, she walked away in the direction of the janitor’s home and when she was sufficiently far away, she teleported the avatar to a secluded place and stashed it there with selective invisibility cast on it. Then, she lifted the helmet from her face and started looking through all the data she has gathered from that dimension. Once she was sure there wasn’t anything that could be harmful to her AIs, she transferred the data to be available for them and then started discussing plans for the future and how to implement them successfully. Soon she would be ready for that dimension and its heroes, but they would have no idea of who she was until she allowed them to know about The Prankster. Now insert a maniacal villain laughter.