The Celebration

"NOOOO!" EVE screamed as she watched Wall-E being slowly crushed under the weight of the Holo-Detector. His bulky frame slowly disappearing under where she could see, she kept holding back the hover transport knowing if she didn't many more lives would be hurt in the process. She was helpless and soon to be, all alone again. What felt like centuries in her mind as quickly all the dancing outside of the ship played out in one stream, her new found love was dying and she couldn't do anything about it.

As the Captain reached up and won the fight with Auto, the ships auto-pilot, and switched back to manual control, EVE broke free trying to pull free her love. Watching him still being slowly crushed beneath her, she tried with all her strength to pull the Holo-Detector up out of its place. She couldn't do it. All she could hear in her mind was Wall-E screaming out her name, "EEEEVVV-AAAHHH!"

EVE woke with her Ion weapon out and charged pointing at the door of the truck, almost in a state of panic she looked at the floor where the small cube of Wall-E's frame still remained. She sighed in relief and headed to the hole in to roof where she had blasted for Wall-E to gain power after the event in her dream.

"Always the same dream," EVE thought as she floated up thru the hole. It was still very early in the morning. "I never dreamed before, why now?" she thought looking out at the horizon where the first fingers of light licked at the lightly green but mostly barren land outside of her and Wall-E's home. Wall-E wouldn't be awake for another two hours she reminded herself from her internal clock. As she stared out into the distance she realized it was already Friday. The party would be starting that evening for the couple.

She recalled the dream, trying to figure out why it frightened her so much. She was in total bliss when Wall-E was around, why these "dreams" when she was so close to him. After watching the sun rise, she thought she figured out why, she couldn't be without him ever again. Their lives were so in tune with one another, it was hard to think about life before EVE met Wall-E. Soon she could hear the boxy robot making his way outside, barely registering that the door to the truck was opening.

Wall-E made his way to the top of the truck, opening his panels to charge his internal battery as he did every morning for the last seven centuries. He looked at EVE's view panel with a strange look. She almost seemed out of focus with what was currently going on around her. Wall-E cocked his head to one side.

"Ev-ah?", Wall-E said in a inquisitive form. EVE turned and didn't say anything. She looked at his curious eyes, staring deeply into them after hearing the beep from his fully charged system. She slowly floated over to him, pulling him up into her arms.

"Wall-E", she whispered as she held on to him as tight as she could.

Wall-E seemed to get that something was bothering EVE and put his hand in her extended fin of a hand.

Intertwining into held hands, he looked at EVE and said, "Ev-ah? Happy?"

He looked at her until her eyes moved into upward blue crescents. She giggled lightly and leaned down to "kiss" him. A spark landed between their heads. Wall-E let out a sigh as he always did when she "kissed" him.

"Yes, Wall-E" EVE said softly as she released him from her hold. "Dancing?" she said to remind him of the party that night. Wall-E made a happy squeal saying he was more than ready.

EVE giggled, she decided that most of the humans were taking the day off of working she should spend some time with Wall-E. So somehow she convinced Wall-E to stay home, mostly it was putting in "Hello, Dolly!" into the old video player he had and making sure he was entranced to it. She just wanted to be close to him and Wall-E wasn't about to stop her.

In the early afternoon, both Wall-E and EVE heard a sound like chirping coming from outside of the truck. Seeing M-O was a small pleasure that they did not always have. M-O was still busy cleaning out the homes of the new colonists. Slightly reprogrammed once he got to Earth by John, M-O was to clean just what was considered to be dangerous on Earth. Not that he minded of course, he was more than tired of hearing the warning signal given to him when he looked anywhere.

"Whoa!" M-O said as he entered the truck, EVE and Wall-E both turned to look at him. M-O motioned toward the colony nearby. He chirped meaning they should follow him. They did without question, Wall-E turned off his video, making sure that he could still remember all of the song, "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" and with that closed the door to the truck he called his home. Catching up to M-O and EVE quickly, he looked around at the colony's outskirts. The new green grasses and trees grew very well.

The first plant that had been planted by the Captain once getting to Earth for the first time was moved to the center of the town when it became apparent it was a large oak tree. Wall-E rolled up to it seeing other stands around the tree and many people moving around the area he was trying to figure out what was going on. As M-O lead on, they got near where the Captain and John were standing. M-O made a chirping sound to get both of their attention. As they turned they recognized the group of robots immediately,

"Wall-E! EVE! So good to see you! Hope you slept well. The Captain and I have been working on a surprise for the both of you." John said with a smile on his face.

"That's right, John had the idea first and well….it took off from there." The Captain said with a certain glee in his voice. John leaned over to the Captain's ear, whispering something.

"I don't see why not!" Exclaimed the Captain and with that he ran toward a small podium near the growing oak tree. EVE and Wall-E looked at each other curiously, EVE shrugged telling Wall-E she had no idea what was going on. Wall-E banged his hands together, as was done when he was nervous. EVE reached out with her fingers, and grabbing one of Wall-E's hands calming him a little.

The Captain stood up on the podium and spoke loudly. "Everyone! Everyone! Can I please have your attention?" Everyone in the square stopped and looked at him. "Thank you" he stated, and with a smile he looked back at the couple and began his speech.

"As many of us are privileged to know Wall-E and EVE as friends and family of this community, I would say that the help and friendship they have provided throughout the last year has been beyond words," he paused looking at some of the other robots arriving in the square, "and we also owe a debt of gratitude to our other robot friends that have been nothing but helpful during this past year." He smiled even wider."I am proud to say that every year during this day, the yearly anniversary of the landing on Earth and jump starting our lives, we will celebrate a holiday known as Landing Day! This celebration will be held in honor of the robot that showed nothing but courage and loyalty in the whole of his heroic," the Captain smiled, "and accidental saving of us from the Axiom, Wall-E!"

The crowd erupted in applauds as Wall-E and EVE rolled up to the podium. Wall-E was looking around trying to figure out what was going on. He did not understand what the people were doing. So to not feel left out, Wall-E started to clap too. The Captain laughed looking down at the couple he continued, "Wall-E, EVE if you so choose, we are offering to move your truck in its entirety to a closer point in town. Or we can build a house for you. It is your choice to do so or not, it is our gift to you for saving us." The Captain wiped a tear from his cheek. Wall-E still could not figure out what was going on and looked up at EVE who had apparently understood. Wall-E made a note to figure out what was going on by asking her later.

The rest of the evening was filled with music and food. Even though Wall-E, EVE and the rest of the robots could not eat food, they soon realized that it was a happy thing to have happen. John spoke up after one of the songs had dwindled down,

"Wall-E, we know how much you love the movie Hello, Dolly! And we only found it fair for your party to look up some of the songs," John paused as Wall-E rolled closer to John. Hearing anything about Hello, Dolly! was one of his more favorite things, the only thing that out shot that was easily EVE.

"We found some of the music from the ship's archives. We thought you might enjoy it!" John hit the play button on the sound machine. As he did, "It Only Takes A Moment" started to play. Wall-E slowly turned to EVE who was giggling a little way away from him. He rolled over to her taking her hands in his, resting his head in her shoulder.

"Ev-ah" Wall-E said as they started dancing.

"Wall-E" EVE replied softly holding him against her.

The world seemed to melt away as the spun slowly toward the center of the square. The moonlight lighting the ground, the music sweet and caring. Never meaning more to either of them more than it did this moment. Everything but the music dropped from the couple's minds. The song started to dwindle toward the end. Slowly EVE bent her head down to Wall-E's caressing his face with hers. A small spark leapt between them as the world slowly returned into focus. Neither letting go of the other, just staring into each other's eyes, EVE had forgotten all about her nightmare, Wall-E did not have a care In the world.

John put his arm around Mary, watching the robot couple finish their dance. Tears welling up in both of their eyes, they stopped to wipe them. Not daring to clap because it might ruin the moment.

Slowly the night dwindled on and more and more people said their goodbye's to Wall-E and EVE. As they left the party hand-in-hand, Wall-E looked up at EVE, her beautiful face and figure shining in the pale moonlight. He couldn't think of a moment that he couldn't have been happier. He stopped, still holding onto her hand, she stopped to looking toward the sky as he was. The stars were growing brighter every day. More and more EVE felt at home with Wall-E and Wall-E still was madly in love with her.

As they stepped into the truck and closed the door, EVE watched Wall-E try and dig something out of a shelf as he normally did. She looked around their home, a hole in the roof, junk everywhere, a small iPod with only one video. She then realized that moving would only take away from everything Wall-E was. While she thought about this, Wall-E found that he was looking for. Excitedly beeping about something he found she went over to him. She thought that she couldn't change anything about the home they were in because it was perfect.

As she went into her hibernation mode she watched Wall-E form into his box falling asleep. She sighed and was hoping the nightmare would not return. She slept more peacefully than she ever had before.