The past
They flew above Elmore for some minutes then Karrie landed near a school bus.
Karrie entered inside the vehicle through the sheets.
"Come here!" she said from a small window.
Penny entered inside the school bus through the sheets as Karrie did. She was surprised for doing that. Was she a ghost now?
"What the…"
Penny noticed the school bus wasn't empty. There were all her classmates; Tina, Masabi, Carmen, Bobert…
She was in front of everyone but no one seemed to notice her. She was invisible to them.
Penny was about to say something when she noticed herself sitting on seat. She looked different. She was wearing her shell.
The school bus stopped and Gumball entered with Darwin. When the blue cat noticed the old Penny, he stopped moving. He looked like someone who saw one the most beautiful things on earth.
"Do you recall this?" Karrie asked.
"Yes! It's when Gumball saw me for the first time, but it happened long time ago. I was still wearing my shell! What's the…"
The bus arrived at school. Penny followed Karrie inside the Elmore Junior High. She found again her old self near her locker.
Gumball arrived. He looked clumsy this time.
"Penny….I….I…I love you Penny!"
"What?" the old Penny said.
"Penny….errr….I mean peanuts! Yes, I love peanuts!"
"What do you mean "I love peanuts"? I'm a peanut!"
Karrie gave a look to Penny.
"Do you recall this too?" she said.
"Yes, I recall this too! Even this happened long time ago! Do you have the power to travel through time? Why are you showing me my past?"
Karrie talked after a while.
"Don't worry. This was only a demonstration. I have something really important to show you! Follow me!"
Karrie brought her friend back to the house they left, but this time it was different. Patrick was walking around the house and Penny's mom was practicing with a bagpipe.
Even this time no one noticed them.
Someone knocked at the door. It was Watterson. This time he was wearing an elegant dress.
"Oh, thanks for coming, Gumball!" the old Penny said opening the door.
Even that scene was familiar.
"Yes I remember that day too! Gumball came to me to attend my pet's funeral!" the modern Penny said.
"Exactly, and what happened next?"
Penny felt embarrassed for a while. She had some problems to remember that.
She went up the stairs and inside the bathroom. She found Gumball trying to pick up the black tarantula from the toilet. Despite he was harmless; the tarantula jumped on his head and started to bite him several times.
Penny saw her boyfriend falling from the window and fighting against the spider while all the others, in the yard, were ignoring him.
"Mr. Cuddles poison was strong, so you took Gumball to the hospital!" Karrie said when the blue cat felt on the ground.
They moved to the Elmore's General Hospital to see Gumball on a bed with his body full of pustules.
"It was a bad day for him!"
"Yes, but I was there with him!"
Penny saw her old self with the Watterson family.
"Happy to see you're fine because I have a friend who would tell you "sorry"!"
The old Penny showed the tarantula who jumped on the blue cat again.
The scene froze. Mr. Cuddles was in midair while all the others were screaming.
Karrie was watching the modern Penny.
"Yes I also remember that day!"
"Do you still remember how it ended?" Karrie asked.
"Sure!" Penny answered.
The scene came back to move.
This time it showed the old Penny grabbing Mr. Cuddles before he could attack Gumball.
"I saved him!" Penny said.
"Yes, you weren't engaged with him that day but you saved him because you are nice girl!"
"So, what was the point to show me that old memory? I'm a nice girl. I told you!"
Karrie kept talking.
"Just keep it in mind. That wasn't the only good thing you did in your life, you did a lot of nice things…..before that day!"
"That day?" Penny was confused.
"The day where your life changed forever!"
Karrie brought Penny back to school again.
A school play was in act. The kids were playing "The beauty and the beast". Gumball and Penny were the main protagonists.
They were playing the last scene were the blue cat accidentally cracked old Penny's shell instead of kissing her.
"Something dangerous and unstable lies behind this shell!" Patrick said.
Penny and Karrie followed the old Penny inside Gumball's room where there was a dazzling light.