Today was Grandparents Day at Diamond Academy. Dr. Crygor was eager was to dazzle Penny's friends and classmates, though Penny mentioned, "Please don't make a mess. I have to work with these people."

He assured her, "Relax, this invention will wow them for sure."

"I don't know if we need to let people see this."

"Come on, it'll be fun. I'm fun. I helped you work on this thing, so it should be flawless this time."

"What if you say or do something that embarrasses me?"

"I'm promise I won't."

Penny's first period teacher began, "Ok, seniors. We'd all love to share in your wisdom and experience. Penny, would your grandpa like go to first?"

Dr. Crygor headed up to the front, carrying a briefcase. He cleared his throat and started, "Greetings, young hooligans."

Some people giggled, Penny cringed a bit as she felt a little embarrassed already, Dr. Crygor resumed, "Who here wants to a singer when they grow up?"

Half the class raised their hands, Penny was one of them and her grandpa kept going, "Now, I'm sure it would take a lot of practice to get your singing voices to be pitch perfect, but what I have may be a shortcut to audible gold, but I can't take all the credit for this. The original version of this was Penny's idea."

Opening the briefcase, he pulled a test tube sealed with a cork, announcing, "Behold, the Tonally Transformative Elixir 2.0! It will 100% not cause any stomachaches or taste like fermented dishwater."

Penny said, "No! You don't have to tell them that!"

Some people started laughing a little.

Unlike the original version, the new one was not boiling and brown, it was red and room temperature. Dr. Crygor drank it and his voice was much higher pitched, "Oh! My voice, the tonality is effervescent! The elixir tastes better too."

Now Penny's classmates were intrigued, some saying, "Wow! He sounds great!"

However, Dr. Crygor had a severe stomachache...again. Penny brought her Super Specialized Tummy Tonic in case of emergency for him to drink. It took a few minutes for him to feel better and he failed to keep his big mouth shut, "Do not drink this. You'll regret it."

Her students started laughing again, Penny returned to her desk and buried her face in it, humiliated over the ordeal as a few people heckled her for making a concoction that caused stomach pain.


After school, Penny locked herself in her room, embarrassed over being called out for her elixir. Dr. Crygor explained from outside, "Come on, Penny. I didn't mean to humiliate you."

She asked, "Then why did you bring up the stomachaches?"

"To...caution everyone?"

"Ugh! I knew you were embarrassing and not fun!"

"That's not true. I am fun!"

"How can I be sure?"

"Uh...you wanna go on a fun family vacation for the weekend? I can take you to some pretty fun places."

Taking a few minutes to contemplate, Penny agreed, "...ok."


Once they packed up, Penny and Dr. Crygor hit the road. However, some time after leaving town, someone speeding behind them hit their car. They screamed as they spun out of control and crashed the car into a forest. Thankfully, they were completely unharmed, but now they had to walk and get their car towed.

Long story short, they had quite a trek. Some birds kept bothering Penny as she shooed them away from her neck. Also, Dr. Crygor was bitten by a thankfully harmless snake, he sprained both of his knees and almost fell in a lake.

When they got out of the forest, Penny thought they saw their hotel. However, Dr. Crygor directed her to a lower quality motel, making her a little underwhelmed. It was a good thing they made it on time. After checking in, they cleaned themselves up and Penny looked around for something to do. Nothing good was on TV and all they had was a pool and hot tub. Dr. Crygor said, "Well, I'm not embarrassing you. That a plus, right?"

Penny sighed, "I guess."

"You wanna get some refreshment from the vending machine?"

"No thanks. I'll just go swimming."

As soon as Penny changed into her swimsuit and went to the pool, Dr. Crygor noticed his car was towed to a repair shop that was conveniently located right across the street. Once he got the car back, he saw a store with music CDs and decided to stop there for a bit, looking at songs that Penny might like.


Hours later, it was almost closing time at the motel pool. Penny got out, dried off and changed back into her normal clothes when she went back into the motel room. Then, she found her grandpa asleep on a chair, a CD cover in one hand and a pen in the other. She looked at the CD cover, it was Miley Cyrus's Party in the USA, Penny's favorite song. That surprised her, "Is this...for me?"

Amazed, she looked at the sticky note on the CD cover that Dr. Crygor wrote, it read, "A fun favorite song purchased by a hopefully fun old man. Love always, your grandpa."

Penny smiled, touched that Dr. Crygor got her the song she always wanted, she thought that maybe her grandfather was kind of fun after all. Putting the song on her bed, Penny turned off the lights, happily wrapped one of his arms around her as she sat on his lap and snuggled, whispering before sleeping, "Good night, grandpa."

Dr. Crygor smiled, pleased that he made Penny happy as he wrapped his other arm around her, holding her close while saying in his sleep, "Good night, Penny."