New Bot on the Block
Chapter 1: Jenny's Worst Day
15 hours earlier, in a house in the city of Tremorton, a certain teenage robot in snoring in her bed, when the clock alarm blared up in annoying beeps. She then slumped her hanging arm on the red button and raised her head to see the time is 7:30am; unsurprisingly, she groaned and she got out of her bed, preparing to get ready for school. She starts, like every other morning, by shining her metallic body until it reflects like a mirror, then she went over to the bathroom and washed her pigtails with a mixture of soap and water, before she went back to her room and packed her bag with her books and utensils. She then went downstairs to prepare her mother breakfast before she went to the garage and grabbed 2 cans of sealed motor oil before she went back in to the Dining Room, when she saw her mother in her nightgown coming down the stairs and she drowsily said "Morning, XJ-9…"
Jenny rolled her optics and replied "Morning mom…" She then helped her mother to the dining table and went to the kitchen to grab her meal, before placing them in front of her; Nora then said with a drowsy smile "Thanks, dear… That's very appreciated." Jenny expressed a gentle smile, before she went down to the cellar and checked on her sisters, to see much to her relief they were still dozing off. She then quietly came back to the ground floor and grabbed her bag before Nora said "XJ- *ahem* Jenny… I forgot to mention, there's no immediate threats at the moment. Not even a stealth ship within the vicinity, which is quite a relief. Hope you have a good day, X… *groans* Jenny. Sorry by the way." Jenny shrugged it off before she left the house to the bus stop and waited for said bus; when she heard the bus horn, she stood up before she realised it wasn't stopping and ran alongside it to see, unsurprisingly, the Crust Cousins laughing and pointing at her. Jenny groaned in annoyance before she noticed Brad on the window seat and she banged the side of the bus with her hand, shouting "Brad! Braaad!" Another look at Brad and Jenny saw him fixated on his Musique, making her slow down into a complete stop, her mouth gaping in disbelief.
It was 10 minutes till the morning assembly when Jenny finally arrived on foot, panting heavily due to the Sky Patrol not allowing her to fly wherever she wants to, despite her role as the Earth Protector. She then took her time to take a breath, when Brad said "Hey Jen… Why didn't you hop on the bus?" Jen then raised her head with a leer and sarcastically replied "I don't know… maybe it has something to do with it being FILLED WITH STUDENTS?!" Brad flinched when Jenny raised her voice and said "I saved you a seat, Jenny. Why didn't you get on it?" Jenny gestured her head towards the school entrance and Brad turned around to see the Crust Cousins making a mocking impression of Jenny running, saying "Oh."
Brad turned around and said apologetically "Sorry Jen, I was too fixed texting a… friend… on my Musique." Jenny raised her brow and questioned "Friend? What friend?" Brad looked hesitant to reply, when the school bell rang and the school went inside to the assembly; as Jenny and Brad went inside the hall, she got dowsed by sewage water by the Crust Cousins, making her aggravated. As if it couldn't get any worse, the principal came along and pinched his nose, saying "My word! What is that unforgivable stench?" Britt then lied to the principal "Sir, Jenny couldn't bother catching the bus because she was sliding along the sewers for fun!"
Jenny was about to retort, when a flying spark hit the principal and he said "Ms. Wakeman, detention after school for your unhygienic behaviour! Stay out of the hall… and for heaven's sake, clean yourself up…" Jenny's left arm twitched in stress and she blankly walked out the hall and into the Girl's Bathroom to clean herself with a wet paper towel. When she finished cleaning, she looked at herself in the mirror and thought to herself "First, I missed the bus, then I got sacked from the assembly for 'unhygienic behaviour'… this is just going to be the worst day ever, I know it!" She leered at herself in the mirror, before sighing and said softly "Here we go…"
Just as Jenny would predict, her day at school is a living hell: In mathematics, Tiff slipped a cheat sheet into Jenny's maths book when she wasn't looking and Jenny has to write on the chalkboard in her detention 'I shall not cheat in Maths.'; During Science, Britt switched the regular oil in the Bunsen burner for a can of Motor Oil in Jenny's Bag and when Jenny used it for class, it exploded and the baking soda mixed with vinegar was splattered all over the classroom. Jenny's time in lunch is the worst, because all the students, save for Britt and Tiff, spat out their cafeteria food in disgust because there's Motor Oil coated in their food. Even the staff were astounded to see the principal scolding harshly at Jenny for vandalism she hadn't even committed, saying she's got detention for the rest of the year with no exception, regardless of her role. By the time the school bell rang for the end of day, Jenny is so tense she broke the chalkboard, snapped the mop in half and even broke the cafeteria's doors clean off their hinges.
By the time she had returned home, it was 5:00pm and she was dragging her bag along the sidewalk with tense optics. As she was about to enter her home, she heard Brad calling her name and turned her head like a crack of a whip. She was hoping to get relief from Brad, after getting an unfair treatment at school, but what he said next was the opposite effect "I was texting Melodie on the bus. She and I got back together, despite her being a robot; I didn't want to tell you because you're still hot about her." Jenny's left eye twitched in frustration and said softly, though her anger was present "You've been seeing Melodie again, despite what I've been through today? Missing the bus, getting detention, being sacked from assembly…" Brad facepalmed himself and noted "Oh yeah, one other thing I forgot to tell you: There's going to be a Debutante Ball in 2 weeks' time. That was announced in assembl—"Brad saw Jenny's head turning tomato red in rage and quickly said "Gotta go, bye!"
He then darted back to his house like a hummingbird, leaving Jenny to enter the house and slam the front door so forcefully, the whole block shook. Nora then yelled loudly "Jenny! I've told you so many times…" Nora stopped speaking when she saw the state of her daughter, from head to toe, realising she had a really tough day. Nora began "Jenny, I…" Jenny stopped her mother from talking, shaking her head gently and she walked up the stairs into her room and locked it behind her, before curling up in the bed and began sobbing. Nora went up to Jenny's room and pressed her ear against Jenny's door and heard hard, painful sobs; it didn't stop, even when dinner came, until 10:00pm. Nora sighed depressively, before she took off her glasses and went to sleep snoring, when an alert just came on her laptop, with a message saying 'Alert… Restricted Blueprints hacked by unknown IP user… Tracing Signal… Trace blocked… Blueprint (Model XJ-9) sent to unknown IP user…'