She was so busy thinking of all the different things she could get she never saw the door until she walked into it. It didn't help that Jenny was laughing at her for it. "I think you need to ask about optic upgrades." Jenny said before sticking her tounge out at her.
She Stuck her tounge out back at her before asking, "Why aren't the doors opening and where are the guard automatons?" Looking around she didn't see anyone, not even Sasha. What ever was going on meant they needed a Dire-Wolf class war automaton. That alone started her E.S.R. Gamma, "Jenny Willow Sanders Emergency Sub Routine Gamma is now active. Please confirm end user/partner/sibling password code."
"Umm...Oh right, the password code is: Strawberry Cake is yummy, but only Granny Sarisan makes the bestest ever!" Jenny said as she started to look around worried. They had taken a G-car so mom and dad weren't here if it was the Grey Men, Luddites, or one of the other groups either out to capture or kill Automatons and anyone with them and being Steel Hearts big sister meant she was number one on their list. Plus being here meant there might be a rogue automaton on the loose. "Do you think they lost a rogue automaton inside and locked everything down to catch it?"
"Sending a ultrasonic inquiry to assertain information on the subject of anomalies..." Steel Heart said in a harsh machine like voice. "Rogue confirmed, subject Discord, owned by Hasbro for the Canterlot Theme Park, status: stuck in a ventilation shaft. Currently Dire-Wolf Sasha is attempting to bypass the Poly- Processor Core to stop it from thrashing about before pulling it out of ventilation shaft. Procedure completed, blockage removed, subject moved to [redacted] for observation to determin if it was a glich, virus, or a sentient attempt to escape caused by the personality downloaded into it. Down grading from high alert to safe. Please cancel all level Gamma Emergency Sub Routines in 3...2...1... mark." Steel Heart staggered and then shook her light metalic pink head and silver mane before sitting down and rubbing her Marking Plates over her Poly-Processor Core. They were a perfect match to Jenny's necklace.
"Still getting feed back from ultrasonic communications?" A extremely large, 9 feet tall at the shoulders, wolf asked as she walked towards them. "You need to sync-up more often with other automatons. It may seem silly but singing with as many different automatons as you can while keeping time with ultrasonic sound teaches your receptors to filter it into something useable so your Poly-Processor Core doesn't have to do all of the work the receptors should be doing already. Your receptors are overloading from prolong disuse and then sudden usage that overwhelms them all at once. Their like your Poly-Processor Core, the more nanites we infuse you with may make you smarter, faster, and better than any robot ever built, but they also cause things to develope more organicly meaning we can't just download everything into you at once. basically you have to go to school and learn the same way your human family had to learn."
"Okay, but I still think it's silly and why can't we just be made knowing everything we need to know Sasha?" Steel Heart asked as her Poly-Processor Core finally started to cool back down.
"Dr. Sarisan tried that at first and everyone of them went rogue when they first came on line. It took a year and 4 destroyed labs to realize all of that information was driving them mad. So now we all have to start with the very basics and if it's a custom job like Discord, a personality construct download into them to shape how they think and act. Smart money says it was the personality download that did it, to much of the fictional personal history of the character he is based off of." Sasha then laughed and leaned foward as if to tell them a secret. "You should have seen the mess they had when they mixed up the downloads for Nightmare Moon and Filly Princess Luna. It took us a week to catch filly Nightmare moon and stop her from turning out every light she could find because 'The Night Shall Last Forever'. In the end an intern caught her with a simple box trap proped up with a stick and baited with a moon pie. Hasbro loved her and paid to have her coat colors changed from Luna's to Nightmare Moon's, bought the rights to a story called Past Sins and renamed her Nyx. As for Nightmare Luna, they just recolored her and made a few physical alterations and she became Luna from the end of the story."
"So nothing bad is going to happen to Discord?" Jenny asked.
"Nah, just a quick poke around in his head and a patch to fix whatever is wrong, then off to Hasbro School to learn what he needs for a year or two before the old Discord is transfers to a colony ship headed for Wolf-124b retiring to a pure automaton colony. Hasbro is even paying for his Poly-Processor Core transfer to a new body of his choosing." Sasha told them. "The closest thing we have to a death penalty is a factory reset and it has never been used because most problems are easily solved with a patch over whatever went wrong or an antivirus to clean out the virus that caused the problem." Sasha said before turning to the opening doors. "I believe you have an appointment and I know Dr. Sarisan will want to see her granddaughters and show off her latest invention."