In Peabody's mansion, it was quiet, very quiet. So quiet, you could hear a pin drop. So quiet, you could hear a mouse squeak. It was graceful at nighttime, even in a spring evening a few months after the WABAC incident.
In his laboratory, it was quiet. All the technological wonder that Peabody created was off for the night, it was peaceful. Except there was typing going on near a gigantic machine with several buttons, and a doorway. For some reason, Sherman's best friend, Penny Peterson was trying to do something. She looked slightly stressed.
"If mom and dad think a babysitter is babysitting me for tomorrow night, they're wrong." Penny then said, slightly angry. "I hate babysitters. Thank goodness Mr. Peabody created this cloning machine, now there can be 2 of me without the space time continuum being in danger."
Penny hated babysitters ever since she was in preschool, and now that she's friends with Sherman, she'd rather spend time with someone she liked rather than to be with someone she hated. And with the cloning machine, it's finally possible there can be 2 Penny Petersons at once.
The machine's doorway opened, and Penny went into the machine, smiling. The machine's door closed, and a bright light filled the laboratory for a quick 3 seconds.
And the machine's door opened, and Penny came out, but she looked confused, it wasn't what she expected, there isn't 2 of her, she then sighed in dissapointment, but then, the machine closed its doors again, and for a moment, the bright light returned.
"What's happening?" Penny asked, shocked.
And after 10 seconds of a bright light, the machine's door open. Penny was surprised to see her clone. It was like looking at a mirror.
"Wow..." Both Pennies whispered in awe.
"So there's 2 of us, now." Penny then said, smiling.
"Ironic, but mostly cool." The clone replied.
The clone walked out of the machine, but so did 2 more Penny clones, much to everyone's confusion.
"Wait, what just happened?" 2 Pennies then asked.
"Didn't you set the cloning machine to 2 Pennies?" The other 2 Pennies replied.
The real Penny responded with a nod, confused at what's going on. Soon, more and more Pennies came out of the cloning machine, much to everyone's confusion.
"Whoops. I might've set the dial to 2 million." Penny sheepishly said.
"Oh...right. Because I was thinking about the population of Amity Park in the Roaring 20's." A Penny clone then said.
"And if all of us get babysat, then we'll be in for a long night." Penny then said, with all of her clones agreeing, chattering in agreement.
"*gasp* Sherman!" Penny and her clones said, frightened and worried about how Sherman will react to 2 million of Penny.
"Sherman will freak out if he sees all of us at the same time!" 2 Penny clones said simultaneously.
Speaking of which, in the kitchen, footsteps were heard. They were heard like a hamster on a hamster wheel. Those footsteps were a boy's footsteps, those were Sherman Peabody's footsteps. The boy was in his pajamas, exausted, barely awake, and he put on his glasses.
"My gosh, it's 1AM, why can't I head back to sleep?" Sherman complained. Sherman walked over to the fridgerator, hoping to get a midnight snack to help him sleep well on this night. He opens it, and there was nothing there for him to chow down on. Sherman sighs, and heads back to his bedroom, but before he did, he looked at something,
It was his adopted father, Mr. Peabody, and he was snoozing on the couch. Sherman smirked at this, he then whispered, "What a good father." He has loved Mr. Peabody as a father for years. Sherman's about to be 8 in 2 months, and hopefully, his father has a great gift for him.
A noise was heard in Sherman's bedroom. Sherman startled for a quick second. He was worried, what was going on?
Sherman fled to his room, and so far, he saw nothing. It must've been something that fell out of something.
Sherman sighed in relief, everything was okay. Then, Sherman heard a voice. "Sherman..." the voice whispered.
Sherman then startled again, then he turned on the lights, only to see his friend, Penny Peterson.
"Oh, penny! It was just you and not a ghost!" Sherman laughed. Then he became confused. He then said, "Wait, what are you doing here?"
Penny looked worried at the time, she took deep breaths, and then said, "You remember that Peabody's a genius, right?"
Sherman nodded "yes", and then Penny continued, "Well, I may have..."
Then, something grabbed their attention, the closet door. It was shaking for a brief second, then it opened, and somethings fell that made Sherman shocked: A bunch of duplicates of Penny.
The Penny duplicates looked at Sherman, nervously. Then they said, "Um, Hi, Sherman."
Sherman was surprised, then he looked at Penny for a brief second, and said, "Penny, did you use the cloning machine?!"
The real Penny nodded "yes". Sherman could tell how apologetic this is.
"How and why on earth would you do something like this?!" Sherman raised his arms in anger.
"Well, promise you won't get mad?" Penny asked, worried.
Sherman sighs in anger, knowing that Penny has done something stupid, however, who could stay mad at a child so innocent?
Sherman then said, "No. I promise I won't get mad."
Penny took a deep breath and said, "Well, since tomarrow was the beginning of summer break, I figured I may as well pull off a prank for this year, so I used your dad's cloning machine to clone myself, tricking him into thinking I used time travel improperly."
Sherman groans in anger, and then shrugs. He then said, "Well, how many clones were there?"
One of the clones said, "At least 9000." Sherman gasps in shock, and then faints.
Yep, Penny's going to be in a load of trouble.
A few minutes later, Penny, a Penny Clone and Sherman entered a dark room, looking for the cloning machine,
Penny nervously then said, "Well, this is the place."
Sherman then turned on the light, and the 2 saw something that shocked them, a gigantic machine with several buttons, and a doorway. It was the cloning machine.
Sherman was confused about something, he then said, "Wait, Mr. Peabody said that it needed to be tested."
Penny then said, "And that's why I tested it out. To see if it actually works."
Sherman then replied, "Wow, that cloning machine must be a huge success."
Penny's clone then said, "Are you kidding? The battery needed to charge after the 2 millionth of the duplicates."
Sherman then gasped in shock, and then said, "2 million?! Are you out of your mind? Which could mean...the rest of the clones are at your home. You know, Penny, I thought you were smarter than this. You cannot tell Mr. Peabody about this."
Penny rolled her eyes in thought, then the other Penny stood in front of the original, and said, "Wait a minute! You remember how much trouble you got for using the WABAC, right?
The clone did have a good point, Penny probably got grounded for a week since she almost destroyed the universe with her little incident with the WABAC. Then Penny glared at Sherman, the clone looked suspiciously at Sherman.
The original then angrily said, "Hey, that's right!"
Sherman then said, "Please, Penny. You have no idea how Peabody will be furious if he finds out about this! I'll do anything to keep this a secret!"
Penny and her clone were suprised at this, this gave them an idea.
Both Penny and her clone asked slyly, "Anything?"
Penny then whispered something into her clone's ear, the clone smirked at this.
The clone then said, "Wow, I've always wanted to see what would happen if he would join in on pranking Mr. Peabody!"
Sherman felt as if this was a bad idea. He then said, "Please, anything but that!"
Both Pennies crossed their arms, and then said, "It's that or you're in trouble!"
Unbelievable. Then, Sherman started to smile at this idea, how bad could it be?