The present
When the glare vanished, Penny noticed to be alone. Karrie disappeared without leaving any trace.
She felt funny. She noticed to have hands. Her hands were furry and blue, also her paw-like feet.
She also was wearing a shirt and a pair of pants with a belt. She realized to be turned into Gumball Watterson. But why?
She looked around and noticed her old self without the shell in front of her.
Penny gasped for the surprise. She was watching herself with Gumball's eyes.
"Why? Why you gasped Gumball?" her old self said.
"It's because I'm ugly? Do you think I'm a monster?"
The old Penny started to change her appearance into several monsters.
The modern Penny was too scared to react. Her transformation were excessively fast and scary.
"Penny! Please, stop!" Penny said to herself.
She was grabbed to her leg when she turned into a dragon and flew away.
Penny (in Gumball's body) tried to not look down. They were flying high. She would die if she fallen from that height.
"Please Penny, stop!" she said again but her old self wasn't listening.
She loosened his grip and fell.
"Aiiiiiieeee!" she screamed.
A huge hand rescued her.
She turned to her back self and saw her savior; it was Hector.
Penny had to thank him but she was still too scared for what happened earlier.
"So, that was what Gumball proved when he saw me for the first time without my shell?" she hypothesized.
Hector carefully placed Penny on the ground. This time they were inside a forest.
"Thanks!" Penny said thanking the big guy.
Hector didn't move. He started to point something in the middle of the trees.
Penny looked forward: there was only a lake between the trees.
Hector was still pointing the lake.
Water was fair clear. Penny tried to drink some.
Before she could drink, her reflection in the water slowly changed.
The lake was showing to Penny her recent period of life. She saw Gumball kissing her saying "You're extraordinary!"
She saw when she turned into a medusa and tried to stone her classmate that was bothering her.
Penny had another scare.
She also saw some enjoyable moments; when she had dinner with Gumball at Elmore's mall, when Gumball made her a surprise by spreading some clues around and when he took all his life savings to buy her a Christmas present.
A teardrop fell in the lake.
"Oh Gumball…." Penny said sobbing.
"…you're such a nice person. I scared you, I terrorized you, I almost killed you without knowing it but you loved me anyway. I'm so lucky to have you as boyfriend but I fear you don't deserve a girlfriend like me! People like you deserve a cute and stable girlfriend; not an unstable, dangerous and creepy one! Yes, I finally realized that; I'm a creature who forces people to love me by using fear and destruction! I destroyed your house when I thought you found me ugly. I almost turned someone into stone when it bothered me. I'm such a terrible girl. For this I don't deserve any present for Christmas. I thought I have been nice this year but I was wrong! Sorry Gumball!"
She cried and cried and cried.
"If only I could turn back in time. If only I could return to be a harmless, nice and friendly girl that I was once! If only I could get my shell back! If only I listened to my father…."
Penny stopped crying.
"What should I do? There must be a way!"
Hector arrived to calm down the little creature.
"Oh Hector, what should I do?"
Hector helped Penny; he was pointing something; Elmore's cemetery.
Penny flew to the cemetery where a black-caped guy was waiting for her.