(Your POV, December 1st.)

I looked up the schematics for the fourth time on Penny and everything is working as it should normally be.

"DAMMIT!" I yelled as I threw an electronic at a wall.

Ruby: "Maybe it's best if you don't throw your equipment at the academy's wall."

Me: "There's nothing wrong with Penny's circuitry, there's nothing wrong with Penny's programming! what the hell is going on with Penny?!"

Venws: "Maybe she's been overtaxed."

Me: "It's quite possible. (sigh) Penny have you ever been feeling overtaxed lately?"

Penny: "even though certain events have been particularly trying, Several burdens have since been lifted, all of the hard drives have been defragmented and all of my Systems-S-S-Systems-S-S-Systems-S-Systems-S-S-S-S-Systems are operating normally."

Me, Venws and Ruby was looking at each other while her stuttering occurred until I said to her "Penny... what the hell was that?"

Penny: "Please restate the question."

Venws: "you stuttered."

Penny: "This unit... Doesn't recall any stuttering."

Ruby: "Playback your own records."

Penny pauses for a minute as she playbacks her records and we look at each other.

Ruby then kisses me on the cheek and said "I learned a lot from my boyfriend." I chuckled softly at Ruby.

Then Penny resumes and said "This unit can't account for the current occurrence."

Me: "Penny... could some kind of force be affecting you?"

Penny: "it is possible but it can't be certain at this time."

Ruby: "I got to get to class, is it okay if you look after Penny, (Y/N)?"

Me: "sure."

Ruby leaves.

I looked up some more schematics on my laptop until Penny asked a question.

Penny: "Are you afraid?"

I turned around and said "I beg your pardon."

Penny: "Are you afraid of me?"

I smiled softly and answered "No. of course not, I love you and all of my girlfriends equally, especially you."

Penny smiles and softly said "thank you."

I nod my head meaning 'your welcome' then Penny said "I have to go."

Me: "ok, come back soon so we can help you."

Penny: "ok."

Penny walks out of the room while I look for anything that might be happening to Penny.

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(No one's POV.)

As Penny walks out of (Y/N)'s room and around a corner, she stops and both of her eyes turns into a bright shade of red and whispers "you should be." Penny then blinks and her eyes turns back to her normal green colour as she walks to class.

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(Your POV. 7/12/2025)

I was just reading through the absent grimoire and drinking my tea Blake made me until I heard a voice.

??????: "hey (Y/N), whatcha doing?"

???: "What are you doing?"

Me: "Hi dad, hey Jaeris. Just reading the Absent grimoire. Anyway, do you want to tell me something?"

Jaeris: "yeah actually."

Dad: "Allen called and said that the government wanted a report on the attack of dr Insano and apparently your first regeneration."

Me: "oh. Well, thank you for telling me dad."

Jaeris: "anyway, what's in the book of yours anyway?"

Me: "well, Outer Gods like the Entity and the king of worms and other useful things involving magical, mystical and apparently scientific weapons and/or items. A weird and/or fascinating legend here and there."

Dad: "like..."

Me: "well, they're is one legend that's been bugging me, get this. 'They're's a story of two good wizards, a father and his son. Both of them had many fights with a lot of their enemies but they're is one who knows their power very well. The metal warrior knows them so much, he required two advisors and their armies to train him in strength and mind to give him more power and will defeat the wizards when they are unprepared for the first time but it will lead the prideful knight to a repeat failure for the final time as fourteen boxes and an army of powerful, Magical warriors, noble extraterrestrial's and strong warriors of alchemists and machine. The war will be won when the tiny slayer is sent back to his exile.' (Closes the Absent Grimoire) The Two Wizards and The Prideful Knight... Sounds like anyone familiar you would know?"

Jaeris: "Do you think anyone of our allies and/or enemies is related to this?"

Me: "it's a possibility but I'm not entirely sure."

Dad: "well, better be prepared... just in case."

Me: "true, better call Allen."

I was about to call Allen until general IronWood and Penny came in.

Dad: "Mr IronWood, it's nice to see you but none of us knew you were coming to Beacon Academy."

IronWood: "I appreciate your welcome Linkara but I was just checking on your son to see how his work is..."

Penny interrupts IronWood by saying "The wizards battle is almost prepared-The Prideful slayer fights-Silver-Silver-Silver-Silver-Silver-Silver!"

Me/IronWood: "Penny, hard reset, engage!"

Penny starts to reboot her systems while we talk.

Jaeris: "What was that?!"

Me: "it's only the problem we're having with Penny, it's only getting worse, after some of the upgrades me and dad have given her last month, she would say something over and over. Sometimes it would be a number, sometimes it would be a letter, sometimes it would be a poem, yesterday it took an hour for me and Ruby to stop Penny from repeating the number 96."

The four of us (me, dad, Jaeris and IronWood) huddle up and IronWood replies "And you haven't found out what's causing these malfunctions?"

Me: "no, why?"

IronWood: "Well, one of the Atlesian Knight prototype's was a Lieutenant but it was obsessed with adapting to others and learning new things in 9685 milliseconds, eventually it went insane and it realised what the A.I was doing, so the Lieutenant then activated the Self destruct procedure but the explosion didn't just end the A.I."

General IronWood grabs his right arm.

Jaeris: "The explosion... Blew off... Half of your body."

Dad: "And you used remaining parts of the lieutenant to fix your body up."

IronWood: "(sighs shamefully) Yes."

Me: "Even though I agree that robots and A.I's like Penny (with some of the upgrades we gave her) are capable of processing and think at that kind of speed but when they aren't, they think at a normal pace. Pollo and Venws didn't went insane, Nimue and Pluton are fine, all of the CyberMats are reasonable."

Ironwood sighs and said "could you please promise me you will make sure Penny is safe."

Me: "alright."

IronWood nods his head and walks off while Dad and Jaeris go up to Comicron-Z.

Me: "Penny, could you wait here while I talk to Allen on my scroll, please?"

Penny: "sure."

I called Allen.

Me: " (talking to Allen) Hey Allen, it's me. I will talk to you about the battle with Insano and my first regeneration."

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(No one's POV.)

While you left, Penny's eyes turned Red and whispered "I'm going to kill you."

To be continued...