---200 years and 17 days earlier...--- Circuit awoke in his bed in the middle of the night, shocked by what he had witnessed in his dream. "Note to self: never play Fallout 4 while eating Taco Bell ever again," he said, before going back to sleep.
The morning came about like normal, and it was the beginning of the school term. The students of Canterlot High prepared for what was going to be another term of study and high-school drama...
Before the bell for first period rang, Principal Celestia announced that there was a special ceremony going on in the auditorium, and that all students and staff were required to attend.
All the students gathered in the auditorium, as Principal Celestia stood on the podium proudly. Nearby her was a girl with white skin and long orange hair, looking nervously at the crowd of students below her. She did however, look rather nice~ "Ladies and Gentlemen, today Canterlot High is going to make world history! Today, as a sign that we are going to step into the future brightly, I proudly wish to welcome the first android student of our school, Ivory Bloom" Celestia responded.
Many students weren't sure what to make of this news. Some thought it was part of an elaborate prank. "An android? Yeah, and I'm the prince of Nigeria," they would say. Others were outraged. "They're admitting robots to this school now? What next, horses?!" they would say. Of course the irony in this argument was that one of the students, Sunset Shimmer, was actually from another dimension whose sentient population was entirely equine, but of course not many people knew that. Still others were fearful of being upstaged, mainly the math and science geeks and the jocks. "Admitting an android to a high school is like letting a bodybuilder who takes steroids play baseball," they would say. Only a select few outside of Circuit and his friends actually welcomed Ivory with open arms.
Ivory felt terrible at the news. She wanted to make a warm welcome to as many people as she could, but practically 95% of the entire student body absolutely hated her. She felt absolutely gutted at this feeling, and whenever she could, she preferred to keep quiet about her feelings and day to day life. Then, she was seen as weak and became a target in the eyes of the elite geeks and jocks
Ivory tried to talk to some students later that day, but they often mocked her, often stuttering like Max Headroom. "Guys, this isn't right," said Fluttershy, watching from a distance.
Ivory watched as the students walked away laughing and mocking her, to which she lowered her head sadly. "I agree, this isn't right." Sunset told the group. "We should help her, she won't last very long like this. Emotionally anyway..."
"We could...um...at least invite her to sit with us?" Fluttershy said. "I mean...we wont be well liked by the other students but..." "It's at least worth a shot, I suppose" Crimson nodded in agreement before waving Ivory over. The android seemed to smile at the offer and went to walk over to the group, only to be tripped over by one of the jocks and landing face first onto the ground, to which the whole cafeteria seemed to laugh.
Ivory slowly got up, face covered in whatever she had on her plate, before making one final trip to Circuit's table. The other students watched in disguist and scoffed, while some didn't seem to care in the slightest. However, eyes were still on the young android however as she took a seat next to Pinkie.
"You alright, hun?" asked Applejack, concerned. "Your facial expression makes you look like a Stanley Kubrick villain, darling," said Rarity, also concerned.
Ivory didn't even say anything for a good moment or two, before finally nodding in response. "Some humans are here are sick..."
"It's just....I've done everything that I could to show them that I wont harm them at all, yet they still treat me like garbage." Ivory said before hiding her head into her arms. "I've never felt so useless..." Sunset placed a hand on Ivory's shoulder, knowing just how she felt having experienced the rejection of the school since she enslaved it after her corruption as a Shedemon.
Ivory just wished that she could go home after today and pretend that this never happened, but she knew that she would never stop getting persecuted due to her difference as an Android. "I just....wish that I could just hide"
Ivory just nodded sadly, where after lunch, it seemed that everything managed to get worse and worse for her. She managed to get thrown into the dumpster, her locker filled to the brim with hate messages and profanity, and almost hit by a car after the final bell was sounded. However, it seemed that as she was heading home, she was being followed quietly. Slowly but surely, a group of those who despised Ivory the most quietly crept up in a car to find where she lived. Some streets later, and the car slowly pulled into the side as Ivory walked into a two-story house. Crimson's house... Originally, those in the car wondered why she would be visiting Crimson. Until the connection was made that she lived with him, and that Crimson was responsible for bringing this abomination of life to Canterlot High. So they all devised a plan. If Crimson was taken out of the picture, so would Ivory... The car soon sped off as Ivory walked through the door, unaware of the nightmare that the next coming days were going to bring...
