As Sapphire walked out of her last class of the day she walked past the principals office. As she walked past she stopped before leaning closer, hearing a conversation going on between Principal Celestia and a voice she didn't recognise.

"Well Roden, it looks as if everything is in order, welcome to Canterlot High." Celestia said with a happy tone.

"Thank you Auntie, I look forward to my time here." The other voice spoke in a tired but pleased tone.

"Still have trouble sleeping at night?" Celestia asked with concern in her voice.

"I've been getting better, last night I slept a good six hours."

"Well that's good to hear, if you can get it up to eight you should start feeling better in no time. I would have suggested sleeping tablets but I didn't want to rub salt in the wound."

"It's fine, I've already accepted that my body rejects that kind of medication, it's just something that has to happen naturally, although I have found a certain type of tea to help me during the night. Although a little hard to come by, I managed to buy a few of the trees of which the tea leaves grow on, so if I cannot buy any I can just harvest my own." Roden explained.

"Good to know. Now, I hope that the other students will not single you out for who your mother is...heavens know these teens know how to hold a grudge or judge someone." Celestia expressed with a sigh.

"There will be those that choose to judge me for my mothers reputation and actions, but if they cannot accept me for me, then they aren't worth my time or attention. I will be fine, Auntie Celestia." Roden reassured.

"Very well, have a good day Roden." Sapphire quickly continued on her way as she heard the figures inside get out of their chairs. She didn't bother to look back as she was in a hurry to find Shard who had promised to bring her to the CyCorp building.

As Roden stepped out of the office and closed the door he stopped and reached down to the floor, feeling some heat in two small spots by the door. "Someone was eavesdropping, not surprising but still a little rude listening into someone's conversation like that." He shook his head and stood back up. Placing his hands in his hoodie pockets and shifting around in his scarf he began walking down the hallways of the school.

As he turned a corner he found that most of the students were there either conversing with friends or gathering stuff from their lockers at the end of the day. He took in a calming breath before he began walking through the crowd. Everything was going great...until they started to recognise who he was.

Sapphire had caught up to Shard and Ditzy who were waiting for her at the entrance to the school. "Hey there cus, you ready to go?"

"Yeah, the sooner I get home the better." Sapphire said quietly.

Just as Shard was about to push the front doors open he stopped as he heard the students in the hallway start to whisper and murmur. It attracted all three of them and they turned to see what the commotion was about. As Sapphire turned around too quickly she ended up bumping into someone and falling down.

"Ow..." She looked up to see an outstretched hand. She grabbed it and the person helped her up.

"Sorry about that miss, excuse me." Roden said simply after helping her up before walking right past her outside the door.

A group of students just looked at the scene in confusion. "Wait a minute, isn't there supposed to be so,e kind of eye contact and a long silent stare after they bump into each other?" A boy with spiky black hair wearing a blue jacket asked. "Come on written what the hell?" Sigh, yep, this one is a fourth wall breaker. Hello to you too Treble Mix. "Don't you hello me mister! What the hell was that about?" You'll see, and could you stop breaking that damn fourth wall, it's expensive to repair.

Anyway, if this chapters randomness quota is filled we can continue.

"You know, Treble Mix is right, every single time that's happened in the past something has come out of it, but that guy didn't even bat an eye." Vinyl said while folding her arms. "Something is wrong here."

"It doesn't have to happen every single time you know." Mise said with annoyance. "Like it or not, not all people will have an instant love connection."

Sapphire just blinked and turned to Shard. "Um...ok...lets just get going." Shard nodded and pushed the door open. As they walked out they saw Roden climb into his green hummer and drive off in the huge vehicle. "Any idea who that guy is, the other students seem to know if they were whispering about him."

"I don't know, I've never seen him before. What about you Ditzy?" Shard asked his girlfriend.

"I don't think so, I don't remember anyone I know that wears any shade of green other than Lyra." The three looked to each other before walking towards a black and orange sports car, Shards car.

"Alright, let's get going, we can worry about who that guy was later." Shard said as he climbed in the drivers seat.

Meanwhile, Celia was walking through a desolate forest, miles away from any sign of civilisation.

"So this is your plan to delay me? Put me far away from the one you planned to stop me? Typical of you to dance around the problem Pyra."

Look, it's either this or have the main problem of the story be dealt with too soon, that's bad storytelling.

"Yeah sure, that's your excuse."

She continued walking until she came to a clearing in the large forest. Holding up her hand the world around her began to shift, broken pixels appearing in the air as reality was rewritten in that small area. As she ceased her hold on reality a large hole that cut deep into the earths crust was in the place of the clearing, but did not go down far enough to have deadly heat or reach ant magma chambers.

"This is the place alright, well I'm only wasting both of our times just standing here."

She formed wings of broken pixels and jumped down into the large hole while descending slowly.