It was nighttime, a naked Kymberly woke up, yawned, and stretched. However, something wasn't right, Penny... wasn't on top of her. This caused her to wonder and feel a little concerned, "Penny? Where did you go?"

Kymmy rushed back to their room, hoping Penny was there. Unfortunately, when she opened the door, the redhead wasn't there. On the verge of another panic attack, Kym gasped, "Penny? Penny?! PENNY!"

Rushing to the lobby, the tall black chick frantically ringed the bell on the front desk and asked the Sunda pangolin at the front counter, "Have you seen this girl? Her name is Penny, and she's nowhere to be found."

She showed him a picture of Penny, but the clerk shook his head, much to her disappointment. As she sadly walked away, he muttered into a walkie-talkie, "Someone's getting fired for not abducting the woman that just barged into the office."

That sentence made the African American stop cold and turn her head, ""Abduct"? You're talking about... ME?!"

"Oh, un, n-n-no. That's irrelevant to what you just asked."

Marching over to the pangolin, she yelled, "No, it's not! You lie!"

"N-n-no I do not. N-n-n-now if you'll excuse me-"

"No one said I would!"

An incensed Kymberly grabbed the Manis javanica by its long snout and lifted it off the ground, commanding as she held his snout in her fist, "Talk, you rotten maggot! Talk or I see your future ending now!"

The pangolin sniveled nasally, "I'm not a maggot, and you see my future ending? That's doesn't-"

"Mom was a fortune teller and dad was a drill instructor."

The Malayan refused, "Well, I ain't talking."

"Where's Penny?!"

"I still ain't talking!"

When Kymmy squeezed the snout, he screamed, "OW! Stop that!"

"Not until you spill! NOW!"

"No!"

*squeeze*

Kym snarled, "Confess or I'll make your nose bleed until the cows come home!"

"Still... not... talking..."

*harder squeeze*

All the Pangolin could do was flail as his nose bled. Gradually, Kymberly was close to breaking the mammalian instigator by constantly crushing its snout like a stress ball, using maximum pressure and making the Pangolin scream louder and louder as it felt more pain with every squeeze. Since it was staying strong and not caving in, Kymmy used both hands to twist the clerk's nose like a pepper grinder. That didn't work either, so Kym tried out one more tactic, "Maybe I'll force your nose up my ass."

That caused the Pangolin to whimper as the black woman spread her legs wide, "No, not that, anything but that!"

"Perhaps if I plug your snout in my butthole and shit in it..."

"No! PLEASE! That's disgusting!"

"...and let my feces fill up your nostrils while also forcing you to put some in your mouth..."

"Ok, you win! I'll tell you what happened!"

"It's about time. Now, you're gonna divulge details before I put you down, just so I'm not duped."

"*sigh* You know about Philip?"

"Yes, my husband that was murdered by Rudy."

"Well, I'm one of his cohorts."

"What?!"

"It's true, I'm just one of many circus animals that were secretly frustrated by Philip canceling his circus while marrying you. Rudy took us all in, offering to fill the role your dead husband abandoned with his new circus, and he wants to have you enslaved forever and forced to star in his circus as his captive since he considers you responsible for everything bad that happened to him. We set up this resort and promoted it as a trap meant to capture you."

"Ugh, that bastard."

"My walkie-talkie was for communicating with Rudy. He sent some critters to kidnap you when you least expected it, but seeing you here means that other girl you talked about was taken instead! By accident!"

"Goddammit! Where is your boss?!"

"His castle is half a mile away, in a castle hidden in the forest!"

Sighing, Kym released the clerk, who rubbed his nose as he watched the tall female stomp over to Rudy's castle, "Ow. I'm gonna be bleeding for days."

Penny, still naked as always, groaned in pain and coughed as she drowsily opened her eyes. She noticed she was in unfamiliar territory. All the redhead was a dark room with gray bars, shackles, and skeletons as she asked herself, "Where am I?"

Penny tried to look for a way out, but two ferocious wolverines on leashes made her stay back against the wall. Worse, heavy footsteps made her stop cold and close her eyes. A massive, rotund figure that was about 30 feet tall cast a shadow over the naked girl and asked with a frustrated growl, "Name?"

"What?"

"NAME?!"

Hearing the voice roar with an angry tone made the girl with glasses whimper, "P-Penny..."

"LOOK AT ME! OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT ME!"

Shivering with fright, Penny looked up and saw a monstrously tall, overweight, green-skinned clown. She gasped, "Rudy..."

Rudy snarled as he held the girl in his fist, "Well, Penny, I assume heard of me, eh? Who told you about me?"

"Kymmy..."

"Did she tell you about her dead partner?"

"Yes..."

"What are your connections with her?"

"I-I-I-I'm-"

"YOU'RE WHAT?!"

"Her new partner! *sniffle*"

Being blown up at a lot made tears pour out of Penny's eyes and down her cheeks. The angry clown growled, "So she remarried... I suppose you're slightly more tolerable than Philip since you don't have a circus to cancel and aren't able to render me unemployed as a consequence."

"I don't. Is there anything I can do to make you let me go?"

"DID I SAY YOU COULD TALK?! NO! YOU ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

Rudy then explained, "Kymberly was supposed to be in this jail cell, but my incompetent minions clearly can't follow directions to save their lives."

Two penguins and a hyena mumbled, "We said we were sorry."

Being the merciless beast, Rudy fed the two penguins to one wolverine and the hyena to the other. Penny almost threw up from seeing those poor organisms mauled to death with teeth and claws. Rudy continued, "To improvise, I'm gonna use you as bait to lure her to me."

Shakily, Penny raised her hand to speak, making Rudy sigh, "What?"

"Are you going to kill us?"

A smirk formed on Rudy's face as he snickered, "No, I know a fate worse than death."

"W-w-w-what?"

The redhead was almost too afraid to know, but he shared, "Both of you will be forced to be in my circus... forever."

Penny's eyes widened in fear as he added, "I'll never, ever let either of you go free. You'll both be my personal slaves until you both pass away from old age, then I'll make sure neither of you have a funeral for anyone to attend. Maybe I'll even enslave all of Diamond City, or better, I'll kill you and leave Kymmy all sad and despondent."

"Please, don't."

Rudy grew very mad as he bellowed and tossed Penny to the floor before whipping her, "SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU'RE A STUPID, USELESS, UNATTRACTIVE NOBODY THAT DOESN'T DESERVE ANYONE! YOU'RE AS WORTHLESS AS THE COIN YOU'RE NAMED AFTER, YOU FUCKING GINGER! THAT'S RIGHT! YOU'RE AS GROSS AS THE GINGER PEOPLE USE FOR COOKING!"

After 50 hits, both sides of Penny's body were decorated with brutal welts. Her glasses were broken, too. Penny was starting to bleed from the bloodshot stripes vandalizing her soft and smooth skin. As Penny wept from being physically and emotionally abused, Rudy left and cackled wickedly. Choking back sobs, Penny whimpered as she was weakened to the point where she passed out, "Someone help me..."

In a black void, Penny was alone, then she heard someone call, "Penny?"

Penny saw, "Kymberly?"

"I don't love you anymore, Penny."

That made Penny panic, "Why?"

"I love Rudy. He's more worthy than you and Philip combined."

Rudy carried Kymmy away like a bride, both flipping the redhead off as she desperately tried to catch up, "Come back!"

Vanessa, Yolanda, Christine, Shannon, and Denzel appeared, saying bluntly, "You're not our friend anymore, Penny."

Penny quivered with sadness, "Why? What did I do?"

"We don't want to associate with a waste of time and space. Goodbye."

Dr. Crygor, as well as Penny's mom and dad, all pointed and shouted, "You should never have been born!"

Wario yelled, "I should never have hired you!"

Penny's friends from WarioWare Inc. angrily exclaimed, "We hate you! Get out of our lives!"

Penny was back to being all alone and stranded in a pitch-black emptiness. She sat down and hugged her knees as her voice cracked, "It's so cold and lonely in here. I can feel pain all over my body."

Inside the cell, Penny was crying from all the nightmares while the two wolverines pointed and laughed at her. Also, a brown bear, a black bear, a panda bear, and a polar bear all serving as security guards also pointed and laughed at the redhead's tears like school bullies.

Kym, with a rifle in her hand that she packed in case of emergency along with some extra ammo, followed the directions to Rudy's palace. She banged on the door and commanded, "Attention, Rudy! Open this door right now!"

It wasn't Rudy that opened the front door, it was just a kangaroo that was serving as security guard. Kymberly simply shot it and let herself in. She looked at a nearby directory and read it thoroughly, "Throne room on floor 20, no. Control room on floor 10, not there either. Penny must be held prisoner, so a dungeon is the best bet. Aha! Floor B5!"

"Freeze, intruder!"

"Dammit!"

Kymmy was spotted by some hostile otters and rhinos. She bolted instead of shooting them and looked for a way down to Basement 5. Opening a door to a staircase, she closed the door, used a loose pipe to keep it closed, and waited for her pursuers to pass. Footsteps got louder, and louder, and LOUDER, then they got quieter and quieter until Kym heard nothing. She lost them and sighed in relief. Suddenly, alarms blared, and eerie red glows emitted from emergency lights, her presence known to the whole building.

Sighing in exasperation, she hurried down to Sublevel 5. However, by Floor B4, an alligator and a crocodile ambushed her by bursting out of the door, but the tall black chick was prepared and killed them with one bullet each.

Finally, Kymmy made to the dungeon. She stayed silent while monitoring the obstacles standing between her and Penny from a wall that kept her hidden. 25 feet straight away from her were the four bears outside the cell and two wolverines inside it. They were ruthless enough to tear her to shreds in five seconds, but they stood no chance against her semiauto. Staying out of sight, she fired, killing the bears. Both wolverines and Penny were startled by the gunfire and resulting bloodshed, then the redhead saw bullets blowing the wolverines' brains out, she backed into a corner, sitting in a puddle of her own blood as she trembled.

Vision all blurry, Penny squinted and saw someone using a bear claw to pick the lock on her cell. Once the cell door opened, the girl with red hair gasped and cowered, but her tall black wife said in a gentle voice while slowly approaching her, "Calm down, Penny. It's me, Kymberly. I'm here to save you!"

Too scared to listen, Penny quaked and flailed her arms, "N-no! It's a lie!"

As Penny kept thrashing her arms as if to shoo Kymmy away, the African American woman assured the pale-skinned girl, "It's true."

"It's not!"

Kym held Penny's wrists, "Penny, look at me, listen to me. I'm trying to help you."

"You're not! You hate me!"

"I do not. Who had the nerve to tell you something so ridiculous?"

"R-Rudy."

"Figures."

Rolling her eyes, Kymberly reasoned, "If I didn't love you, would I have come all the way here to get you out of this mess?"

Sniffling, Penny answered, "No..."

"I love you, Penny. I love you with all my heart, and don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking otherwise."

A moment of silence, then Penny hugged her and sobbed into her neck, "I love you too!"

For the next few minutes, Penny bawled into Kymmy's shoulder as the tall woman held the short girl in her arms, letting the redheaded woman dispense her grief and despair and feel safe. Being comforted in her wife's embrace helped her regain control of her emotions. Kym cooed while stroking Penny's hair, "Shh. It's ok, babydoll. I got you. Mommy's here."

Once Penny stopped crying, Kymberly put her down and cringed, "Oh my god, Penny! You're soaked in blood! Did Rudy do that to you?!"

"Yes..."

"Well, the worst is almost over, we'll get out of here, send some police choppers and army tanks after the scary clown and-"

*GASP*

"Penny? What is it?"

"He's behind you."

Turning her head, Kymmy's eyes widened in horror as she noticed the clown, "Oh no, Rudy."

Rudy grumbled, "You got here quicker than I thought. I guess no luring is required, now to kill your precious little snowflake and make you work like a slave forever."

"No way in hell will you hurt this delicate little creature anymore. We're outta here."

"Ha! Yeah right! Good luck not falling to your deaths!"

"Wh-what do you mean?"

"Look outside."

Kym looked out of a window, and she and Penny almost had heart attacks. They were about 1,000 feet above the ground, and Kym asked, "HOW?! How are we this high up?!"

"Helicopter propellers, duh."

"Oh god."

"Go ahead, escape. I dare you."

Kymberly, with Penny still in her arms, bolted. That made Rudy growl while chasing them, "You dared?! How dare you! Well, no matter, I thought ahead and made sure you had no access to parachutes, jetpacks, or escape pods."

Slowing down in realization, Kymmy felt flushed as she worried about how to make it out alive. The huge monster clown taunted, "Why don't you just give yourself up and accept a life of no freedom, sacrifice the geek, and everything will be great. Death or submission, what'll it be?"

"Wait, how will you handle an emergency without ways to get to safety?"

"Like what?"

The tall African American chick whispered something inaudible for quite some time to Penny, who smirked as she pressed a red button on the wall that read, "Self-Destruct."

Alarms blared, the rooms were glowing red, and a speaker voice was heard, "Warning. Self-Destruct button pressed. This castle will detonate in one minute."

Rudy yelled at the redhead, "GODDAMMIT YOU STUPID BITCH! YOU'RE GONNA KILL US ALL!"

Giggling mischievously, Penny said, "Everyone except Kymberly and me. Check this out!"

Penny and Kymmy opened a window and jumped out, much to Rudy's shock. The speaker voice counted down, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."

KABOOM!