Welcome back! I'm shocked as to how fast so many viewers read the new chapters. And with the reviews you guys are putting. Thank you all! I mean, I never knew that this story would get so many views. Anyway, enough boasting, you all came for the chapter! Since I have nothing more then the disclaimer to say the story can begin!

Disclaimer: I don't own MLP. The only thing I own is the OCs, and the idea for this story.

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As school went on, everything stayed the same as before. The only difference was that I kept coming across my friends, but in human form. First Fluttershy, then Princess Luna and Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and then Rainbow Dash. All of them were the same in every way except that they were humans. They all either helped me, or actually acted friendly. The only thing was, they didn't really know who I was, but they kept on acted friendly even though they didn't have to. They even went out of their way just to do so.

I only ever had one friend that was like that, and he had to move somewhere else because his dad passed on and they couldn't afford to stay here. I really did enjoy this day more than I ever would if they weren't around, but the thing that still kept me from staying with my friends was the thought that it was wrong in a way. I mean, yeah it was a great thing that I had friends, but it seemed selfish to just accept staying in a dimension I didn't come from just to fit in. It didn't feel right.

As I thought about all of this, I was walking through the hallway, heading to gym. Before I got there though, I was interrupted by someone.

"Excuse me. Can you tell me where I can find the library? I can't find it anywhere." I looked behind me and saw a girl with tan skin, black hair that went to her mid back with a light purple streak going down it. She wore a purple shirt that had stars all over it and one big main star in the middle that was colored a light purple, she also had purple jeans, and simple tennis shoes.

"We don't have a library here. The school has everyone go to the local library." I explained. I tried to continue to my next class since the gym was on the other side of the school, but she stopped me.

"Wait. This school doesn't have a library? Why?" The girl asked, obviously confused.

"Are you new to the city?" I asked. She nodded. "That's why you never heard what happened. You see, no one here really uses the school library except for a spot for graffiti. They gave up and closed the library down since then." I summed up. She was shocked to say the least. "Look, I have to go to gym class." I said as I started walking.

Though, she followed me, walking next to me. "Funny. Me and my brother have gym this period too." She said as she walked with me. The other students noticed and were giving the girl odd looks. Mainly because no one ever walked with me to a class before today, let alone talk to me.

"What's everyp-one looking at?" The girl asked. I looked over at her, skeptical. Did she almost say 'everypony'?

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" I asked. There was no way I heard that wrong.

"I said, 'what's everyone looking at'?" She said. She than nervously swallowed quietly, but I still noticed. I choose to ignore it since she was expecting an answer.

"Well, most everyone tends to avoid me." I clarified.

"Why's that? You seem normal." The girl said.

"You can think that... but they won't." I said. After I looked at her, I saw Twilight for a quick second. That made me think of her as a friend so I spoke up. "You see, I was in a terrible accident when I was a kid and since then some of me's made of artificial parts." I explained.

She looked at me with an expression that seemed as though she was thinking. "What's your name?" She asked as we got to the gym.

"I'm Zeke." I told her. She simply nodded at that.

"I'm Twila. By the way, if it's not too much to ask, can you keep my little brother, Spike, out of trouble? He's a Freshmen and I'm worried that someone might hurt him." Twila asked me.

I guess I could. I mean, what were the chances Spike could get in trouble anyway? "Sure, I can try. But I don't know what I could do."

She smiled at me and went off to the girl's locker room as I went in the boy's locker room. As soon as I got there, I saw Mike holding up a strange-looking kid by the collar of his shirt.

"You wanna say what you said to my face!" Mike said, getting in Spike's face.

"A-all I said was that you were really big looking!" Spike said. Spike had spiky hair, with the tips of his hair dyed green. He had a green t-shirt with a purple un-zipped jacket, and he had purple shorts on to match.

"That's it! Get ready to lose your face!" Mike said as he pulled back his right arm, ready to punch Spike in the face.

"Hey, lay off the freshman!" I yelled out, mad. I had never seen the kid around before, and with the purple jacket and the green shirt he looked just like Spike.

"Why should I?! You dumb, wimpy robot gonna make me?!" Mike yelled out, dropping Spike to the ground without care.

"Yeah, I will! Besides, are you really going to go so low as to beat up some freshmen? Pick on someone your own size, ya fat hairy ape!" I yelled, glaring right at Mike.

"What did you just call me, robot?!" Mike said as he punched the palm of his hand, cracking his knuckles loud enough for everyone in the locker room to hear.

Fat. Hairy. Ape." I repeated slowly. Mike slowly started walking over to me and I started backing up as he got close. That's when I backed up into some lockers. "Crap..." I said quietly.

He cocked his right arm back, ready to punch me. "Any last words before your head becomes part of that locker?" He asked, smirking since he thought he had me. I had no way to get away, and thought I was trapped.

That's when I saw it. Another second long flash and Mike was the bear I met the first day in Equestria. At that moment, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I cracked my neck and looked right at Mike. "Yeah. Hope your hand gets better soon." I said with a confident smirk.

That's when I put my plan to action. As Mike brought his fist forward, I jerked my head to the right. Mike missed me just barely and punched the locker right behind me, the part with the latch to be exact. "OW!" He took a few steps back, waving his hand, trying to get rid of the pain. It was bloody and already getting purple, but he didn't look like he cared.

I backed away from the lockers and got in front of one of the benches they had in the middle of the locker rooms. I watched as Mike got even angrier, like a bull seeing those red cape things. "Your gonna pay for that robot!" He charged at me, ready to slug me. But I was ready again. I side-stepped out-of-the-way just in time and Mike tripped over the bench, falling to the floor.

As soon as I looked around, I saw Morgue and Joe start to come over towards me. There was no way I could out match Morgue, or out smart Joe. I backed up a little, and bumped into someone who had a big gut and was at least three feet taller than me.

"WHAT HAPPENED IN HERE?!" I looked behind me to see that Coach Cooper was glaring at all of us. He was the football Coach, along with one of the three gym teachers. "Well?! Someone give me an answer!"

As Joe stepped up to explain his version of the story, Spike beat him to it. He stepped up and pointed right at me. "This guy stood up for me, from being hurt by the big guy on the ground. He didn't hurt the big guy, the big guy just hit his hand on the lockers trying to punch this guy." Spike explained quickly.

The Coach inspected Spike. "That so?"

Spike saluted, like he was in the military just for fun. "Yes sir!" The Coach didn't take offence to it or think it was a joke since he was in the military before, and most of the student body knew it.

"At ease." Spike put his hand down, not expecting the Coach to take him seriously. The Coach then went over to Mike. "Mike, you're not allowed to start fights. Report to the nurses office to have your hand bandaged." Mike nodded as he stood up. "And you do know what you did was wrong. If I hear you doing anything like this..." The Coach sighed, not liking what he was about to say Then I'll have no choice but to expel you from the football team. Dismissed."

Mike nodded then headed to the nurses office. "Now the rest of you, shows over! Get dressed out! Be in the gym in two minutes or less, or else there will be fewer students in the gym tomorrow!" The Coach announced to everyone.

As we all headed to our respective lockers, the Coach stopped me. "And you..." He pointed his finger at me, unsure of what to say. "You..." He sighed, not having anything to say to me. "Make sure that green haired solider over there stays out of trouble." He finally said as he left the locker room.

I sighed in relief as I headed to my locker, which was right next to Spike's. "Are you okay Spike?" I asked.

"Y-yeah... How do you know my name?" Spike asked, cautious towards me.

"Your sister, Twila, told me to watch after you." Spike sighed in relief as he knew why I knew his name. "Come on, we better dress out and go to the gym."

"What does dress out mean?" Spike asked. It didn't make sense about why he didn't know what that meant, but I simply thought that his middle school didn't call it dressing out or something.

"Well, gym class has its own dress code. So they want us to be in a t-shirt and shorts. Since it's the last period of the day, just take off your jacket. You should be fine then." I explained. Spike nodded, understanding, and took off his jacket.

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After everyone else got dressed out, we headed to the gym. Everyone was told to gather up in front of the gym, where the Coaches would tell us what we were doing today.

Spike went over to Twila, who was standing with everyone else I had met today. Felicia, Jackie, Rainbow, and Pinkie. Along with one other girl who had black hair with a dark purple streak going down it. She looked like she was pampered and had make-up on. She did not look happy with being in gym. They were all talking and laughing with each other. As soon as Spike explained something to them, he pointed to me and the rest of them looked at me and smiled.

After I saw them all, that's when I saw Morgue and Joe talking to each other. Joe talked and pointed to me, then Jackie. Morgue then talked, pointed at me, then pointed to Felicia. I could tell that all of my new friends saw them too and frowned at them. Joe and Morgue didn't care as they kept talking about something that had to do with us. They were to quiet for us to understand what they were saying.

That's when Mike came in and everyone in the gym fell silent. It was a rare sight, seeing Mike injured. He was mad to say the least and had his hand wrapped up. All the students saw him and his injury, then they saw how Mike was glaring at me the whole trip over to Joe and Morgue. I could feel all of them stare at me, but I just kept my arms crossed and looked ahead to the coaches that were at the front of the group, talking.

After a few more minutes, the coaches spoke up. "Okay class. Due to the fight that just happened in the boy's locker room, were going to have the whole class punished." Coach K said.

I then felt all the stares that were on me turn into either extreme shock, or extreme glares. They were all either surprised that I was in a fight with Mike and Mike was the only one who was hurt. Or. They were angry at me that I just cost the whole class a day of free time.

"So as punishment, we are all going to take a lap around the whole school block. That means around the Elementary School and back, for the new students coming in from East Quest High." Now that was funny. All of my friends coming from a place called East Quest. That sounded just like Equestria to me.

Most of the students all groaned in annoyance. That is, except for three certain school thugs I saw out of the corner of my eye. They were chuckling and smiling right at me. I knew they had something special planned for me for all the trouble I had put them through today.

"Well, you all better get going. If you can't run the whole lap before class ends, then you might not only miss your bus, but you will also get no points for today. Does everyone get it?" She asked.

"Yes Coach K." Most everyone said, as the rest just nodded.

"Good, then go on, clocks ticking!" Coach K said. Everyone then ran out, Morgue and his group being the first ones. It looked as though they were in a hurry to get outside.

I ran out too. Most people in the gym prefered to go in groups, but I just stayed to myself. I was never fast, but I had good stamina so I was able to run as fast as I could for a while.

My seven friends got outside after me and kept at a slow pace, grouped together. The only reason they went at such a slow pace was so the slowest one in the group could keep up, who was in this case the last girl I have yet to meet who looked like she wasn't even trying.

As I kept running, I couldn't help but feel something was happening. And the feeling got stronger with each step I took. Even though this was a dream, I knew this wasn't good.

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Uh oh, something's going down! What's going to happen? Is Zeke the only one that knows that something's wrong, or does someone else know about it too? Will it involve his new friends? All these and more, next chapter!

Question of the Chapter: Do you think it's fair for the whole class to be punished when it's only one group of kids in the class who were the problem?