Sweetie Belle stepped up to the front door of her home and opened it. She walked inside and met the gazes of her parents, who dropped their jaws.

"Sweetie Belle?" her mother asked as she looked her daughter over, noting her shiny metal body and mane as well as the steel-blue panel plates connecting her Exo-Armor.

In a raspy electronic voice, she answered, "My name is SW3-B, Vanquisher of Evil, Protector of Worlds."

Ribbon Wishes covered her mouth and pouted.

"Hehe, I'm just kidding!" Sweetie chirped in her normal voice before pulling her mother into a tight hug. "I missed you, mommy!"

"I... missed you, too, H-Hun." She choked and tapped her daughter's back. "You're stronger..."

"Oh! Oopsie." Sweetie Belle blushed and backed away. "Jenny is supposed to teach me how to manage my new robo-powers, but she had to go destroy a c-class meteor, or... something."

"Aw, that's too bad. Or I guess it's good? Anywho, what kinda new stuff you got goin' on?" her mother asked.

Sweetie Belle shrugged and lifted her front leg, which transformed into a grappling gun and fired a hookshot through the wall. "Oops! I... Uhm... okay hold on." She then wiggled her leg around until the hook retracted, which finished tearing the wall down on its way back.

Her father sat on the toilet behind the wall reading a newspaper. He lowered it and raised an eyebrow.

Sweetie shielded her eyes and gagged before heading outside. "I'm gonna try and figure this stuff out for a minute. I think I get how it works, but it's weird."

Ribbon scratched her head and blushed. "Okay. Be careful, sugarplum."

"I will!" Sweetie Belle waved goodbye, which turned her other foreleg into a sparking taser. She blushed and shook her hoof back to normal. "...Bye!"

She galloped down the street for a while, and then began to slowly trot as she reached the trail through Sweet Apple Acres. The sun glared down from above, and she noted that the feeling of heat was absent. After a few short minutes, she reached her clubhouse.

"Scootaloo? Apple Bloom?" she called out, then two familiar faces peeked out through the window.

"Wow!" Scootaloo shouted. "You look so awesome!"

Apple Bloom trotted down the ramp and inspected her automaton friend. "Why didn't you tell us you were a... a robot?"

"I didn't know," Sweetie Belle explained.

"Who cares?" Scootaloo bumped into Sweetie Belle and tapped her side. "Ooh, solid. Let's go blow stuff up with rockets and explosions!"

Sweetie Belle frowned and took a step back. "Wait, I don't know how to control my stuff yet. Jenny is gonna teach me as soon as she gets back from destroying a deadly meteor."

Scootaloo's eyes widened and she chewed on the tips of her hooves in overwhelming excitement. Apple Bloom narrowed her eyes and placed a hoof to her chin.

"So... have you been a robot the whole time? Or did ya go get turned into one?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Whole time, but I didn't know. I guess I'm only three years old, too. I have thirteen years of memories, but some were implanted, or... something." Sweetie Belle shrugged and smiled.

"Implanted, huh?" Apple Bloom said and turned away while Scootaloo poked at Sweetie's legs.

Sweetie Belle pulled her leg away and accidentally triggered a rocket thruster that sent her toppling over and crashing into a tree. "Ouch!"

Scootaloo cringed and peeked between her front hooves. "I'm sorry! Are you okay?"

Sweetie Belle stood up and shrugged. "Yeah, I think so. That didn't hurt at all, but it was scary."

Apple Bloom rushed to her side and hugged her. "You gotta be more careful, silly."

"I know, I know. I'm not sure what I'm doing though... I'm sorry I'm not as cool as you guys thought I'd be." Sweetie Belle sighed and lowered her head.

"Apple Bloom and I think you're robotness is awesome, right?" Scootaloo grinned and placed a wing over her shiny metal back. "You'll get used to your gadgets soon I bet. When you put your mind to it, you can do anything!"

"That's right!" Apple Bloom wrapped a foreleg around her friend's neck and nuzzled her cheek. "We'll be here to help ya every step of the way!"

Suddenly, the tips of two short antennae attached to Sweetie Belle's ears began flashing red. Her chest then slid open and a monitor sprung out. On the screen was Jenny struggling to cut through a solid metal meteorite.

"Sweetie Belle! I need your help to break this thing apart. There was an error on the radar and the density was miscalculated. We need to fuse our particle beams in order to—"

The screen went to static, and Sweetie Belle looked to the sky. In the distance was a bright white dot, and she gritted her teeth. "Guys... This is what I gotta do... I... I need to go, now, or Equestria could be in huge trouble!"

Scootaloo and Apple Bloom glance to each other with wide, beaming smiles. "This is so cool!" they shouted in unison.

"This is serious!" Sweetie Belle frowned and wiggled her ears.

"Right!" Scootaloo thought for a moment. "Okay, so remember how you pulled away from me earlier? Do that with all your legs at the same time."

Apple Bloom nodded, then Sweetie gave it a shot. Sure enough, all four thrusters activated and her ears repositioned themselves on the side of her head while her tail transformed into tail wings.

"Whoa!" Sweetie Belle shouted while struggling to keep her midair balance. "It worked!"

Apple Bloom cheered. "Okay, now try and move forward. Point your nose towards that star and just go!"

Sweetie Belle nodded and focused on her target, then aimed her thrusters all in the same direction. In a flash, she zipped through the air as the output automatically increased after detecting alignment. Her tail and ears kept her level as she soared and left a thick pink trail of vapor behind her. Glancing down, the cloud tops blurred into a round blanket covering the world, and the top of her head frosted over.

"Woo!" she shouted as she tilted her head and made a gradual curve to the right. Soon the meteor was in full sight, and she crash landed onto the surface.

"Glad you made it." A tall female android pointed a large pistol at her head. "Talk about two birds..."

Sweetie Belle tilted her head, then reacted instantly as the gun fired. She ducked beneath a small device fired towards her head, then lifted her front leg. "Come on, do something! Lasers! Rockets! Anything!"

"AHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You think a baby battle-droid can stand up to the amazing Queen Vexus? Even your superior, XJ9 has fallen. Just surrender now and join The Cluster before I'm forced to scuff up that pretty armor of yours." Vexus smiled and pointed towards Jenny, who was tied up and unconscious with a mind-controlling device attached to her head.

Sweetie Belle glared and lowered her body. "Never!"

Queen Vexus clenched her fist, which began to glow. Sweetie Belle pointed her foreleg which immediately fired a grappling hook at the evil robot, who ducked beneath it with ease. The hookshot then crashed into Jenny's forehead and knocked loose the device.

Jenny shook her head, then opened her eyes. "Wha... Queen Vexus!"

Sweetie Belle stepped backwards as Jenny tore the steel cables wrapped around her body to shreds.

"No, you fool!" Vexus fired another shot at Jenny, who zipped forward and delivered a powerful swing with a spiky fist.

Vexus phased through the attack unharmed, and Sweetie Belle readied her grappling hook. "It seems you've managed get loose again... Next time, XJ9. I promise you that you and your impudent little friend will be mine."

Jenny fired an array of rockets towards Queen Vexus, who tore a rift in space and slipped through. The rockets carried onto the distance after the portal closed, and Jenny balled her fist. "I haven't seen her in years... We need to be careful. Good thinking with that grappling hook by the way. Anything else might have actually damaged me."

"Thanks," Sweetie said with a blush. "But who was that mean lady?"

Jenny lowered her pigtails and sighed. "She's trouble. She wants us to join her ever growing army of bad robots who want to enslave all life on this planet. We have to stop her before she grows too powerful. I... I let my guard down while dealing with this meteor."

"Well now that I'm here, I'll watch your back! Let's take care of this thing!" Sweetie Belle smiled and activated her thrusters.

"Don't worry. That transmission you got was a fake. Queen Vexus is a master of trickery. I can handle this wimpy c-class no problem. I'll teach you how to deal with them later," Jenny said as she fired a drill-tipped missile into the meteor's core.

The two then took flight and headed back to the surface of the earth. After landing, the explosive device detonated and blasted the space rock into a million pieces that lit up the sky in a spectacular display of mid-day shooting stars.

Scootaloo and Apple Bloom bumped their hooves together as they watched the tiny balls of fire dissipating in the sky.

Jenny smiled and leaned down next to her cybernetic companion. "You're a natural at this. I remember when I first started trying to fly and use my gadgets... Let's just say that you'll have it mastered in no time at all."

Sweetie Belle blushed and smiled. "I can't wait to learn."

Jenny crossed her arms and grinned. "Good! Lesson one starts right... Now!"

Author's Notes:

Episode 2 coming soon!