Pinkie looked up at the Egg Carrier with a smile, she always enjoyed seeing all her robot friends, especially the robot copies of Sonic The Hedgehog. Eggman had once told her that the robots she had interacted with had actually begun to become sentient, as if her ability to spread joy and kindness worked its way into their programming, creating an artificial consciousness. Some even choose to go by names instead of E-1000 and E-10000 numbers. There were even a few of the E-100 robots around other than Omega that she had gotten to know, although she was unable to meet the original seven, considering E-102 Gamma destroyed them all before he himself was destroyed.

As she walked up to the large ramp at the back of the ship where multiple robots where setting up a temporary base of operations, she noticed three of the remaining E-100 robots. The first was coloured green, and instead of having arms and legs, he had two turning metal belts for travel and two large cylinders at its sides, each with four drills facing outward, this was E-109, code name Kappa. The next was coloured a light brown, with its legs replaced by a flexible grey pole with a blaster at the end which also acted as a foot, it's arms had two red cylinder forearms with three metal claws at the ends, with holes in the palms that shot out bombs, E-110, code name Lambda. The last robot was grey, with no arms or legs. Instead he had two wrings sticking out of his side and a more powerful thruster in its back, with two eagle claw shaped laser cannons under its wings, E-108, IOTA.

"Hello~" Pinkie sang out as she waved to them. The three robots noticed her and beamed with joy, immediately rushing over to her. IOTA got to her first and flew circles around her. Kappa picked her up with his inactive drills and hugged her while Lambda stroked her mane affectionately.

"You seem to have a unique talent for making robots fall for you." Pinkie heard a familiar voice chuckle. Looking over Kappas shoulder she saw Shard standing there with his arms folded.

Pinkie giggled and nuzzled into the hug from the friendly robot. "Well, I am loveable." She joked.

"Careful, none of us want you to get your dads past ego." Shard laughed as he looked around. "So, you having fun on your vacation?"

"Yep!" Pinkie formed a wide smile before letting it fall into a frown. "But the zones here are broken..."

Shard scratched his chin and looked away in thought. "Eggman did say that he ship detected some strange readings here..." He shook his head and gave the pink pony a smile. "Anyway, I assume you're here to see Eggman, come on I'll take you to him." As Shard turned around he saw that all of the Egg Pawns in the area had surrounded them to get a look at Pinkie. "Of course..."

Eggman set his tools down and looked over the schematics for a new robot assistant he was creating to help him organise and provide some logic amongst the other robots. "Man, and I thought building Metal Sonic was difficult, I just can't seem to get this one right...how many prototypes have I gone through for this?" He asked himself in confusion. "Oh well, I've turned animals into robots I think I can figure this out..."

He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes before turning to face the sceptre that was floating in a sealed storage tank, after a spike in its energy once they reached the land of Soleanna, Eggman decided to take steps to insure that it couldn't harm anyone if it was dangerous.

"If what I read is true, then you played a part in that Solaris Project...so I'm not taking any chances with you."

Suddenly, the door to his lab opened to reveal Shard, Pinkie and the three E-100 robots. Pinkie immediately ran up to Eggman who brought her into a hug.

"Easy there Pinkie, I'm an old man remember?" He joked with a grin.

"You're not old cousin, your only 43, you aren't old until you're 65." Pinkie giggled as his moustache tickled her cheek.

"Geez, way to cheer me up, remind me of my age in twenty years why dontcha?" He chuckled and held her close. "I'm all for a suprise visit from you now and again, but aren't you supposed to be on vacation?"

"Well, we are staying in Soleanna for awhile, and daddy saw the Egg Carrier, so I thought I'd stop by to say hi. Although I think daddy just wanted to have some alone time with Sally." She giggled.

Eggman raised a brow at this. "Really? He's interested in Sally? Huh..."

"Who do you think he liked?"

"No one, I figured he was alright with just you and him, along with Rouge and Omega. Oh well, I'd better by invited to the wedding or I'm going back to evil." He stated with a cross expression.

Pinkie just grinned slyly. "You know I'd only stop your plans like Sonic used to~"

"That would actually be a lot of fun...I miss those days."

"Well...we could find some place for you to take over so I could stop you without it actually being seen by people. Maybe some island of flickies or something, maybe steal the chaos emeralds?" Pinkie suggested with a smile.

"That's not a bad idea!"

"When do I ever have bad ideas?"

Egg am raised a brow. "The party nuke?"

Pinkie stopped and blushed slightly. "It was ment to be a better solution to violence in waring countries...but also just to improve my arsenal."

"Pinkie, you don't need and arsenal of weapons of destruction. Your greatest weapon is your ability to turn people to your side. Heck, those strange robots I detected are still trying to follow you in here." Eggman gestured to the four robots with pink eyes trying to come through the door at the same time.

"Yeah uh...could you maybe take them off my hooves? They're kinda creepy and don't talk..."

"Certainly, I can study them and figure out who developed them." Eggman snapped his fingers and four Egg Pawns walked towards the robots and disabled them, hauling their bodies to a different lab. "Anyway, you said you wanted to improve your arsenal and you clearly have a knack for befriending and gaining the trust of robots, so why don't you take these three with you?" He asked gesturing to the three E-100 bots that all stood, or hovered, at attention. "I don't really have much use for them, and they seem really fond of you, plus you've already got Metal Sonic at your beck and call. They could be helpful in certain situations."

Pinkie smiled and nodded. "That sounds great!" Suddenly her smile faded. "But how can I take them around with me?"

"Well, I could modify them to shrink down or compress themselves into small cubes that you can stuff in your infinite mane...leave them with me for a few hours. I'll get Metal to get you once I've finished modifying them." Pinkie smiled and hugged her cousin again. The robots all jumped for joy and Shard shook his head while chuckling.

Meanwhile

In the middle of a forest by Soleanna city, a dark purple bubble appeared and a mobian fell out of it. "So...this is the past..."

Author's Notes:

Yep, Pinkies getting a few tagalongs, I'm think,g of possible personalities for the robots, if you have any suggestions let me know.