Hopefully this clears up the last three ficlets. My explanation is that Peter first found her by the shopping cart, but she didn’t like the first impression of him, so she ran. Then the ScoutBot found her, and she decided to go with it.

oh see, now this could go in several ways. One could twist it to be Peter=good and scoutbot=bad, or it could be peter=bad and scoutbot=good. I like it, I like it much…

I took this in the Peter=bad, scoutbot=good direction, but it could also be open to interpretation.
But, if someone wants to take this in another direction, that would be fine too.

Very fun, and impressive job trying to reconcile some inconsistencies in the chain of ficlets, which is bound to happen with multiple authors. Too many chefs and all that. I like the reasoning too, works quite well from the viewpoint of a child.