Andrentureasu quietly sat near WALL-E and EVE's trailer. She was glad to see that they were getting along fine.

Andrentureasu was curious about WALL-E and EVE's adventure after the Axiom returned to Earth. She had been told the story of how WALL-E and EVE had brought the Axiom back

to Earth, but she didn't know the story of what had happened afterwards. The only thing that the humans could tell her was that she should ask WALL-E and EVE themselves.

She had never gotten around to asking them. She wasn't sure if they wanted to talk about it. By now, she was tired of waiting, so she went up to them and told them her desire to

know what happened after the Axiom landed.

EVE said, "Of course we wouldn't mind telling you that story."

Andrentureasu said, "Really? I was sure that you didn't want to talk about it."

WALL-E said, "We've been asked about that a lot recently."

"You have?"

"Yes. Okay, so after WALL-E was revived, we went down to where the humans were and-."

"Um, EVE, I think you should skip ahead, because the first month wasn't all that interesting."

"Whatever you say, my love."

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EVE activated with a quiet hum. It was pretty crowded in WALL-E's trailer due to the fact that their friends didn't want to sleep anywhere but in the trailer, but she was used to it.

After all, they had been living here for a month.

EVE was the only one awake at the moment. The previous day had been particularly exhausting. Helping the humans rebuild was hard…and boring. By now, though, the human's

settlement was quite stable. The humans had also gotten quite thinner. They weren't back to their original shape, but they were getting there.

The other robots began to activate. D-FIB had clear attractions to M-O, although he didn't seem to notice it. EVE and WALL-E's love for each other, on the other hand, was quite

obvious, for WALL-E immediately held onto EVE's hand when she went up to him when he woke up.

PR-T sighed. "Once again, we have a long day ahead of us."

They all knew what she was talking about. They were not looking forward to the day ahead.

Well, EVE thought, at least Auto isn't around anymore.

She shivered a little at the thought of Auto. She was genuinely glad that Auto was gone. On the other hand, Auto might make things more interesting…

EVE scolded herself for thinking that. No, it's a good thing that Auto's gone, and that's that. Just as well, because nobody in their right mind would reactivate him.

However, she was wrong…very, very, very wrong…

Insert story breaker here

In the darkness of the bridge of the Axiom, Auto's eye switched on. At first, he didn't remember what had happened. As he slowly woke up after being deactivated for a month, his

memories started to come back to him. The WALL-E unit, Probe One, the captain turning him off, the plant…

With a start, he realized what had happened. He accessed the computer to find out how long he had been out. He had been out for a month. Then he realized that he was lying on

the floor.

He tried to move and found that something was different. He could move his head like normal and he still had all his spokes, but there was something else. The periscope that had

connected him to the ceiling had been replaced with something bulkier. It was like a body. There was also something attached to the other end of the body, but it didn't have any

obvious purpose.

Attached to the sides of the body seemed to be 8 tentacles, 4 on each side. The tentacles had several articulation points. There also seemed to be something on the end of the

tentacles. He moved one of the tentacles so that he was looking at its end. There were claws. 4 claws, arranged like the corners of a square, the sharp edges all facing the center. It

would be useful for climbing and grabbing things.

He realized that the tentacles were meant to be used as legs. He slowly got up. The thing at the other end of his new body was a counterweight.

When he had gotten up, he looked around the bridge. It was the same as before. However, when he looked out the window that had before looked out into space, he was in for a

shock. It didn't look out into space. He didn't know for sure what he was looking at, but he was sure it was Earth's surface. The Axiom had landed.

He immediately tried to access the A113 directive to find out what he should do, but he couldn't find it. After much searching, he realized that it had been deleted. More searching

revealed that he had no directive anymore. He was free to do whatever he wanted to do.

He began to think. He thought about everything that had gone wrong, about the WALL-E unit that was supposed to be on Earth, Probe One who had eventually decided to defend

the WALL-E unit, and the captain who had turned him off. He decided that he wasn't mad at the captain. After all, if it hadn't been for the WALL-E unit and Probe One (especially the

WALL-E unit), the captain would have remained the same. No, he put all the blame on those two robots. He thought about them more and more and soon he flipped out his taser. He

had decided that he despised them. He wanted to kill them, and he would do it in the slowest and most painful way he could. And to ensure that it would be very hard for them to be

repaired before they died, he would put them in a place that few others would think to look.

He thought about his plan. First, he would become familiar with the layout of the area. Then, when the time was right, he would mortally injure one of them, Probe One preferably.

Then, while the other grieved over the dying one, he would strike the non-injured one. He would then put them somewhere the others would never be able to find them. After that,

one way or another, he would get all the humans and robots onto the Axiom and launch it into space again, where they would live as before, except there would be no

reconnaissance and there would be no human captain. They would live forever on the Axiom.

Before Auto got too carried away, he checked the ship's vital systems to ensure that nothing was wrong.

The humans had taken into consideration him returning. The engines had been damaged beyond easy repair. It didn't matter. He knew how they could be repaired. He would first

have to find GO-4. If GO-4 refused to help him, he would find a way to fix that. Auto put his taser away. He was going to accomplish his goals, one way or another.

Author's note: I know I should take a break from updating stories, but I can't help it! I just have so many ideas! And I have a chance to express them to the world at last! I

will attempt to take a break, but I may not. By the way, the "Insert story breaker here" thing is because my original story breaker lines (is that what they're called?)

wouldn't show up in the doc manager, so, there you go. Besides, I think it's funny. Also, sentences "like this" are the robots speaking in the axiom code. Just italics, unless

otherwise noted, are thoughts, by both humans and robots.