I'm going to set a date for a basic benchmark to reference other parts of the story, the date for this chapter is AGW (After Great War) 71 December 10th (My birthday.)

Chapter 6: Arrangements…

Atlesian Cybernetics Facility

Doctor Polendina walked down the pathways of the facility, looking at the technological advances of the Atlesian science teams that had worked here for fifty years, creating droids and weapons that had defended Humanity. He walked on to the more recent creations and stopped at door #217, titled: NH4ndroid.

Richter opened the door, and walked inside the room, looking at the metal arms, legs and other body pieces that were arranged in an orderly fashion. He then opened up one of the drawers on the side, which revealed some yellow envelopes, all with his Signature on them. Searching through them, he finally found just what he wanted: "Ruby Rose, Project Report." He opened the package and quickly took his notebook and pen, jotting down the codes for certain types of recordings on android mannerisms.

Laughing: 00101000 10011100111111 10010111100000 10000000111111 10010111100000 00101001

Interest: 00101000 01111110 01011111 01011110 00101001

Crying: 110010100101 01011111 110010100101

Pain/Intense feeling: 00101000 00111011 10110100 111100001110 111010110110 10000010100 111100001110 111010110110 01100000 00101001

Thinking: 1101100000111110 1101110100010100

The recent successful transfer by Ruby has only strengthened the Professor to follow through with one of his oldest projects. But this time, he had a basic model to use to help him. He went up to another room linked to the Lab, and pressed the access card. The doors slid open, and the professor walked through, looking at the small research area around them that was only known to him and very trusted individuals. A small photo was located near the back of the room, one that displayed a younger Polendina and a woman with long copper, his wife. He had once been too occupied with his work, seeing raising children as a nuisance and they had attempted once to have a child, which came out stillborn, but now Sarah was dead, and he felt lonely, a vacuum in his heart longing to give out affection. Seeing that he had the necessary materials to work with, he began the first official step of Project PENNY, his baby girl.

SDC Manor, Atlas

Ruby sat with Weiss as they both did some math problems together, the branch being division, which they both excelled at. Weiss was a naturally gifted girl in terms of academics, and Ruby was an android with built in calculators. Tai and Qrow had been called by the administration of the school, who said that Ruby's scores in quizzes and tests in math were always perfect, and they were elevating the little genius to second grade, this was a blessing and a curse at the same time. Ruby now had a credible excuse for why it didn't look like she was growing at all, and it gave her the chance to have a class with yang next year. The bad part? Ruby was now the goody-two shoes Faunus of her grade, and some other older children decided that they did not like being one-upped by a younger Faunus, leading to an incident that came very close to revealing Ruby's prosthesis.

Ruby was buzzing with delight as she walked out of the school doors for recess. She had answered all the questions right again in the recent math quiz, and had cheered with a smile at other students. Some of the other students who didn't score as well took her smile as a shit eating grin, and seethed as the young wolf skipped outside for recess. Ruby continued to walk until she saw what appeared to be a moving red dot near the pavement besides her. She pounced on the dot, only for it to retreat a bit further from her. She tried to follow it even further, running faster and faster as she followed it, until she ran into the person who was holding the laser, a couple of other boys behind him.

"Huh, so that's the Faunus, that makes sense, no human being would've fallen for that laser pointer trick. She fell for it like my neighbor's dog." He scoffs to his entourage, pulling on Ruby's red tipped ears. There was no pain, but the feeling of having a soft appendage like an ear being squeezed was very uncomfortable. Ruby cried out, trying to dislodge the boy's hand from her soft ears. She grabbed the boy's hands and pushed out, hoping to get him to stop. What happened was a series of unfortunate events. Ruby, in panic, had not brought out her Aura and felt the ear beginning to tear. Ruby then used to much power in her hand again, which caused the boy's hand to be hit particularly hard against his face. The boy did not let go of her ear, and the amount of force the two of them we're exerting was enough to tear the tip of Ruby's left wolf ear clean off. The boy gasped in surprise, holding the piece of fur with shock and mild terror, and ran off with his boys behind them, ear left behind. They did not want to be the ones who had to explain why Ruby had lost the tip of her ear. Ruby stared at the piece of her ear in shock, picking it up slowly and trudging back to her class, the school bell not as loud as the ringing in her own ears. She looked at a nearby window and saw some sparks flying from the tip of her torn ear.

She never did tell on them, opting to stay in sullen silence instead. The teacher had asked if she was alright, but she brushed her off, saying that it would get better. She had put on a baseball cap on to prevent people from seeing the sparks and had been excused from classes for the day to go to the doctors in case the "ear" got infected. Yang had asked her what happened, but quickly shut up when Ruby lifted her cap and displayed a torn left ear with sparks flying out. She realizes that she was lost in thought when Weiss begins poking her cheeks with a pencil eraser, drawing her out of her memories.

"Ruby, are you okay?"

"Sorry Weiss, I was just…thinking about things. I'm fine."

Weiss looked skeptically at her before she asked for her help on the challenge problem. Ruby did the problem, hoping to distract herself from her thoughts. Doctor Polendina showed up after a few minutes, holding a carbon copy of the ear that was damaged. He wore a concerned face when he saw Ruby doing questions like a depressed eleventh grade student.

"Why that frown on your face Ruby, you're going to become shriveled like a dried fruit!"

"Why do people hate my ears?"

This question stunned the professor, who mentally connected the dots when he saw the torn ear, which looked like it had been pulled instead of being cut or scraped. He breathed out loudly, motioning Ruby to sit beside him as he replaced the ear. Ruby does, and she detaches her ear so the professor can access it and put a new ear on.

"The situation is a complicated one child, one that has lasted many, many years. But be assured that you are not the first unfortunate soul who has been harmed by this long standing hatred, but I must say, things are twice as violent as they were a few years ago, and it is unfortunate when they get kids like you hurt in the process."

Ruby opens her mouth, but Professor Polendina motions for her to hold her thoughts in for a moment longer. He finally gets the new ear in order, and it gravitates and fixes itself to Ruby's head once more.

"Some Humans have always had a fear of the unknown, and nobody knows how the Faunus came to Remnant."

Weiss had also stopped listening, in favour of hearing the old man tell a story.

"Nobody knows much on the limitations on Faunus behavior, since there are rules in place that do not allow unethical research. Back then nobody had fancy surgery and sensory equipment to find out about Faunus, so many assumed that they were Grimm in Human form, or that they were animals that were imbued with dust, but nobody is closer to finding the answer. So humans are afraid of your kind, and that fear has been passed down, and made worse because of the White Fang, this hate will not end anytime soon, but you shouldn't let it make you sad, because there are plenty of people who love and take care of you, got it?."

Ruby sleepily mumbled a "got it" before her sensors shut out and she fell asleep in Richter's lap, mumbling and snoring quietly in her sleep. Weiss had also succumbed to the dream monster, and fell asleep with her head laying against Ruby's. He carefully picked up the two and set them on the closest bed he could find, and left, closing the door behind them. One thought in his mind as he left for his labs to work on Project PENNY.

This generation is the one that will change the world, I'm sure of it. I will do my utmost to aid them, hopefully PENNY can be with them too.

Sorry for the short chapter, hurt my hand a few days ago and now I type really slowly.

Dr. Polendina is a SUPER big softie.

Binary is interesting