Okay, here is chapter 10 of The New Dimension. In the last chapter, Penny embarrassed Sherman and caused everyone to freak out. So here is the chapter, and I hope you enjoy.

I wanted to stay home and try to recover from the incident with Penny, but Mr. Peabody said that we would be attending a meeting at City Hall tonight. I wanted to protest, but I had this really strong feeling that that would have been a bad idea. And come to think of it, I was kind of curious to see what the meetings at City Hall would be like in this dimension.

Mr. Peabody drove to the City Hall at 7:45, and the meeting began at 8. I don't remember being in the City Hall before, and it was huge. The main room where the meeting took place had a huge bright chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and there were several rows of seats on the ground as well as many more seats on the side. Mr. Peabody got us front row seats as well, and I had a pretty good view of the podium. However, there wasn't a single splash of colour in the building.

Slowly, a fat woman with long hair stepped into the room and calmly stepped onto the podium. And just like that, all the conversation gave way to silence.

If only people in my own dimension were this well-behaved. I could get used to this.

"Attention!" the woman called. "I am Mayor Grunion, and we have quite a bit to cover tonight, so let's get started right away. First of all, there's something weird going on in the city. Do you guys know about this?"

"My neighbour has a green front door!" a random woman cried out.

"My friend didn't catch the ball when I tossed it to him," a man whined.

Dozens of complaints popped up across the room, including "My pencils are coloured!" and "I saw the police and they weren't going to the donut shop!". I already knew about that last one, but I wasn't about to say anything.

"Exactly," Grunion said. "The city is changing! Now we can't just sit here and let this sort of thing happen to our city now, can we?"

The statements of agreement bubbled from the crowd like boiling water.

"Now, what do you think we can do about this?" Grunion asked,

"You let us commit crimes!" a man yelled, standing up from the crowd.

I froze. That was the same man that committed the crime at the donut shop last night. Except he wasn't coloured. Or at least he didn't look coloured. But I guess I have to teach that cop that you need to keep criminals locked up for extended periods of time.

"Absolutely not!" Grunion scoffed. "My job here is to stop the changes, not to accelerate them!"

"I thought I arrested you," a cop sitting near him said. It was the same cop that I helped, and it looks like I won't have to teach him a lesson after all.
"What? No you didn't!" said the man trying to lie, but it was hopeless.

"You're coming with me!" the cop said, dragging the criminal out of the room.

Grunion sighed. "You see, this is why we have to-" Grunion drifted off and her face twisted into an expression of surprise. "W-What?" she stuttered. "My approval rating! It's only 99.9%! How could this happen? My approval rating should be 100%! It's always 100%!"

There was nothing but silence from the crowd. I don't blame them. It was really silly to freak out because your approval rating fell by a tenth of a percent.

Wait. But the people here freaked out at the slightest change. Meaning they were freaked out right now. So I guess I do blame them.

"I am way too shocked to continue this meeting. Go home, everybody!"

Well that was a short meeting.

Everybody soon began to leave the building in an ordinary fashion. This simple task would have taken several minutes in my dimension, but here everyone was out within two minutes.

Before I knew it, I was back outside, and it was really cool to look up at the sky, even if it was black and white. I could make out several coloured traffic lights across the streets, and I thought I saw a red car drive through an intersection in the distance.

"That was a short meeting," said Mr. Peabody.

"I know right?" I said.

"I mean, Grunion freaked out and cancelled the whole thing! It was crazy. I guess I've got a lot more research to do."

I simply shrugged at that comment.

"You okay?" Mr. Peabody asked.

"Eh, I'm fine. Why?" I said.

"Are you still mad at Penny?"

"Oh yeah!" I said. Of course I was still mad at Penny, the incident only happened several hours ago. However, Mr. Peabody was just starting to figure out feelings so I let it slide.

"Sherman?" said a voice. I instantly recognized the voice. It was Penny again. Mr. Peabody turned to her and gave her a dirty look.

"What do you want? Are you here to embarrass me again?" I yelled.

"No, I'm not!" she rebutted.

"You're here to knock me out, aren't you? Or kill me?"

"You don't understand, I am not!" Penny yelled.

"Back off, Penny!" Mr. Peabody yelled. That really did not sound like Mr. Peabody at all. He was still quite different in this dimension, even when he's coloured. "You are not hurting Sherman again! He is my son!"

"Run for it!" I yelled, as Peabody and I took off towards the car, which was only about fifteen feet away.

"Sherman! Mr. Peabody! Please! Listen to me!" Penny begged.

"Run, run, run, run!" I panicked.

Luckily, Peabody and I made it to the car and we both hopped in like a bullet, and Mr. Peabody wasted no time starting up the car.

Penny caught up and started banging on the windows, and that was the last straw for me. "Floor it!" I screeched. The car zoomed ahead and Mr. Peabody tried to make it home as quickly as he could.

Penny is desperately trying to tell Sherman something, but he won't listen. What does she want to tell Sherman, and why is she so desperate to tell him? Find out next in The New Dimension.

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