Pages of Penny: ch2 - A New Day - Part 1 of 4
Penny. That's her name. Penny, no last name. People have last names. She's not a person. Where is she? The Vale Maintenance base. Her father wanted her to try living on her own, so no one was there. The automated system woke her up. Rising from her ball bed, Penny pauses, reaching for the socket plug and pulling it from her jaw before standing up completely. The body-chair pulled away as Penny stepped off of it. She resealed her jawline and pulled her neckline down, snapping it in place with her 'fashionable' neck brace.
After that, she went to a corner of the room, a shower space, and turned on the fluids. She allowed slick orange fluid to run across her and turned it off after a moment, and picked up a brush and began to scrub herself. She started with her arms and legs, then onto her featureless body and even her back, her arms bent unnaturally as they reached areas people normally can't. With that finished, she got a hair brush and began pulling the fluid from her hair.
Now she clothes herself, her garments and topping herself with her bow. Penny approached the spiral staircase, which automoatically lowered for her to ascend. Before the stairs were complete, she looked at the schedule for the day on the other side of the room, and recalled the memorized day's schedule.
She has to appear before Ironwood today, at 3 in the estate. Maybe her father will finally come too. Other than Mr. Ironwood, Penny isn't scheduled for combat duties today so she's free to do whatever she wants until then.
Musing as she climbed the stairs, Penny considered what she could do. Beacon Academy is having classes and she won't be able to socialize with Ruby today. Yesterday was an active day with training, so today, Penny decides to collect information at the local library.
Penny walks again, heading towards The Plaza. It's been a week since the criminal Mr. Torchwick destroyed the tunnels under the Street gardens and released all the Grim upon the city. A little resentment eeked off Penny as she watched the people resume repairs again this day, as signs of the fighting were washed away; Penny was off with Ironwood, who didn't allow her to go and sent all the APS to contain the Grim from overrunning the city. Thanks to Ruby and her team, many of the grim stayed local as more hunters and huntresses arrived at the scene.
Penny only got to see the aftermath, seeing the roads being haphazardly brushed clean and now repairs erase the first piece of evidence of a battle Mr. Ironwood always warns her about.
The café shop was easily repaired having only patio décor damaged. Penny glanced at the café but didn't see the rabbit Faunus there today, or any of her friends. Passing on, the library was an obvious fixture in the city, appearing as a tower with a plaza area around it for social gatherings. Some places were fenced off as well due to damages; the sidewalk is being repaved, tree planters are empty with holes, a wall is being reinforced before being patched. Penny navigated around the construction obstacles into the main library communications tower.
Inside the Library levels is a circular three story library, with six different book lifts and two elevators. Penny uses the spiral staircase in the center to climb to the third level. Each floor had massive bookshelves, being a major city landmark each floor was nearly 15 feet high so the third floor was almost 50 feet up, giving people a view over the rooftops. People populate aisles, some parents and kids frolic around, on the first floor, as Penny climbed up, were more empty and the books thicker.
On the third story, Penny walked over to a specific shelf of sciences and pulled three books out in practiced sequence. Then she walked over to the window and exmined all the open chairs. Seeing the least comfortable one open, which was also the most durable, Penny places herself there and begins reading.
Each page took only a second to read for Penny, given her limited processor programing. With that delayed programming, she could learn and apply more effectively, as she understood the knowledge quickly that refered to the composition and placement of human biology and the inner workings each organ. Having finished the first textbook in just a few minutes, Penny rests and looks out the window, recognizing where various places are by their placements on the streets. Someone approached her from behind. At a glance, she recognized him as one of the rabbit Faunus's friends, the dark one that looks fast.
"Hey," Fox said, smiling sweetly.
END.