When Cindy and Hannah reached the house, they were greeted by a very stern Penn.
"Where have you two been?" Penn sharply asked.
"Why do you care?" Cindy asked back.
"Your mother put me in charge of you two while she's working late," Penn stated. "You're lucky she's not home early or you two, mostly me, would be in big trouble."
"Penn, I always send you a text about where I'm going." Cindy defended.
Penn took out his phone, he saw anunopened text, and when he opened it, he saw Cindy's message. "Oh," The man said, now feeling stupid. "Okay, you guys are off the hook for now."
"Look, we've had a long day," Cindy pouted. "We just wanna eat dinner and lay down."
"There was a chicken in the fridge, but I ate it." Penn replied.
"You ate a whole chicken?!" Hannah exclaimed.
"Hey, you guys were late," Penn defended. "I was worried sick."
"So, instead of calling us and checking to see if we were okay, you just ate the whole chicken like the fat pig you are?" Cindy growled.
"What? I eat when I get stressed..." Penn pouted innocently.
"You eat all the time!" Cindy growled again.
Penn glared at her which made her whimper and hide behind the hybrid girl. "That's what I thought, and for giving me lip, you are going to bed without supper." He huffed.
"You ate dinner, Fatso." Hannah rudely pointed out.
"Go to your room." Penn ordered.
Cindy hung her head in sadness and headed toward her room. Hannah followed Cindy while giving Penn a dirty look. When Cindy arrived in her room, she went face-first onto her pillow.
"Cindy, you can't just let Penn push you around like that." Hannah stated as she rubbed Cindy's back.
"He says he wants to toughen me up." Cindy said to Hannah.
"Well, that's what my Uncle Winslow wants me to do too, but at least he's straight about it," Hannah replied. "At least your uncle isn't as worse as Grell is."
"It's Drell." Cindy corrected.
"You get my point," Hannah started off. "You are like an underdog, that means you have a lot of fighting and honor in you."
"Yeah, but I've been a doormat all my life." Cindy sighed.
"Well, that's gonna end." Hannah stated.
"But how?" Cindy asked.
"Starting with you!" Hannah said with confidence as she pointed a finger to the living doormat.
"Me?" Cindy squeaked.
"Yes, the first person to stand up for yourself is you," Hannah started off seriously. "You have to give me very honest responses to the questions I'm about to give you."
"I'm scared..." Cindy rubbed her arm. "What is it?"
"Do you feel like that you deserve to be treated with respect?" Hannah asked simply.
"I think." Cindy answered with uncertainty.
"I'll ask again," Hannah replied before repeating herself. "Do you feel like you deserve to be treated with respect? And think about all the times that you've never gotten respect."
Cindy think about her time in Gumboot,all the adventures she was forced to be on, and even every time Jo, Maggie Quinn, Drell, and Penn would bully her. The girl shut her eyes tight for a minute and soon finally answered with confidence. "Yes!"
"Next question," Hannah continued. "Do you feel worthy of respect and do you feel good enough to fit in?"
"Sometimes," Cindy shrugged. "I do have a group of friends who care about me." Her stomach then grumbled which caused for Sledgehammer to wake up.
"Hi there, little guy," Hannah greeted the pet. "What's your name?"
"His name is Sledgehammer," Cindy introduced before turning her attention to her opossum. "Where have you been?"
"I was just having some me time." Sledgehammer defended.
Before Cindy could answer, her stomach growled again which made her pout. "Man, I'm sooooooo hungry."
"Then we should go downstairs and grab a bite to eat." Hannah suggested.
"But-" Cindy said before Hannah was already on her way down. "Okay..."
Cindy followed her, sneaking past Penn who was asleep on the couch.
"Mm... Carlotta, tell me more about Senor Chihuahua..." Penn talked in his sleep.
"Doof," Hannah whispered to Cindy as they made it to the kitchen. "What are you in the mood for?"
"I think mac & cheese." Cindy suggested.
"You got it." Hannah whispered as she searched for the equipment.
"Do you know how to cook?" Cindy asked the hybrid girl.
"My dads taught me a thing or two about cooking." Hannah answered as she put on some boiling water.
"Penn, I think I saw a super model coming across our house." Cindy said as she went in the living room to distract Penn.
"Cindy, can't you see that I'm busy?" Penn glared as he sat up on the couch.
"Um... Tell me about your childhood... Outside." Cindy made up.
"Why do you ask?" Penn asked. "Right after this show..."
This caused for Cindy to groan.
"Is something cooking?" Penn asked as he sniffed the air.
"Uh, that's my mom's perfume..." Cindy lied nervously. "Ode de Pasta."
Hannah then poked her head out of the kitchen, her head covered in cheese. "Dinner's almost ready." She whispered to the accident prone girl.
"Was that Hannah?" Penn asked.
"Um, that was your imagination." Cindy lied.
"Cindy, what's going on?" Penn demanded.
Cindy ran to the kitchen door and blocked it. "You want in, you're gonna have to go through me."
Penn then picked up Cindy and put her aside so he could enter the kitchen.
"Penn, please, stop!" Cindy begged as she tried to stop her uncle by grabbing him by the leg.
When Penn entered the kitchen, he saw a well prepared macaroni and cheese dinner for two.
"Penn, what are you doing here?" Hannah asked in shock.
"I live here, you little mutant." Penn pointed out rudely.
Hannah growled at that comment.
"I thought I told you two, no supper." Penn said.
"Well, if you haven't eaten dinner in the first place, we wouldn't be doing this in the first place." Hannah defended.
"Penn, let us eat." Cindy begged.
"NO!" Penn shouted until suddenly, Hannah hit him over the head with a skillet.
Penn then fell to the floor, unconscious.
"Why did you do that?!" Cindy exclaimed.
"He was being annoying." Hannah defended.
"Well, you didn't have to knock him out." Cindy said.
"He was asking for it," Hannah defended as she got down and dragged the adult man's unconscious body to the basement before she quickly came up and locked the door so she could dig into her mac & cheese. "Let us enjoy our dinner before it gets cold."
Cindy decided to join in. She took a bite out of her macaroni and cheese and found it good. "This tastes delicious!" she commented as she continued to eat.
After a while, the girls finished their dinner and they began to clean up. Shelly soon entered the kitchen and saw the girls cleaning.
"Mom, you're home early." Cindy noticed.
Before Shelly could explain, she noticed that they were alone without an adult. "Where's your Uncle Penn?" She then asked her daughter and house guest.
"Um, I think he was taking a nap." Cindy lied.
"Yeah, lazy Penn." Hannah added.
A banging noise then came from the basement.
"What was that?" Shelly asked the girls.
"I think there's a big giant rat in the basement." Hannah lied.
"GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Penn demanded as he banged on the door.
"Cindy, what is going on here?" Shelly asked.
"Cindy had nothing to do with it, Mrs. Butler," Hannah spoke up before explaining everything. "It was all me. When we got home, Penn ate the chicken and made a excuse about being worried sick about us and sending us to our room without supper, then I snuck to the kitchen and cooked mac & cheese, when Penn found out; I knocked him out and dragged him to the basement and locked him in it. Please don't be mad at us."
"I'm not mad at you, girls," Shelly replied. "I'm mad at Penn."
Shelly then unlocked the basement door and Penn look scared when he saw an angry Shelly. "Girls, I need you to go to your room while I have a talk with Penn." The lady of the house requested.
The girls did as they were told and they headed to their room.
"Man, somebody's gotta teach that man a lesson." Hannah said.
"I don't think we should make him even more angry." Cindy replied.
"Well, he can't get away with it," Hannah growled. "He needs to learn what happens when you cross Hannah CatDog."
"What are you going to do to him?" Cindy asked, scared.
"You let me worry about that," Hannah answered with confidence. "He won't know what hit him."
After Shelly yelled at Penn, she went to bed and so did he. Everybody was asleep, except for Hannah, who was sneaking out of her room with a sack. She tiptoed in the hallways like a burglar and snuck into Penn's room. The door creak, but Penn was in a deep sleep, she took out a alarm clock and set it to 3:00 AM, and the young hybrid placed the alarm clock under Penn's bed. Penn snored loudly as he fell asleep and hugged a pillow while mumbling the name 'Carlotta'.
When Penn started to wake up, Hannah took out a rag filled with chloroform and placed the rag on his face which made him fall back asleep. Hannah then next took out super glue, a mysterious paper bag, and then put glue on his glasses, and glued his alarm clock, and after that, she pulled out ropes and started making a booby trap. She pulled out a razer and she shaved his head and face, she is now done, but she put super glue on his doorknob, and she exited out of Penn's room quietly, and headed back to her room. She got back to her room, hide the sack in her suitcase and go to her cot and cover the blanket over her body.
"I can't wait to see the look on Penn's face." Hannah whispered to herself as she fall asleep, smiling.
