Cobalt stood outside his father's spacepod, which had been moved to just outside his grandparents' truck. Willow had gotten some kind of depression after her son was born, and so she insisted that she at least live next to her parents home. V-GR was quick to oblige, personally not caring either way, and he always wanted her to be happy.

He couldn't help but smile as his mother rested in the arms of his father, her favorite place to be. The whole family was gathered together on this sunny day, which had gotten quite large. It had started with the five EVE Probes; EVE, Aya, Rio, Leah, and Rose. Ruby had been adopted as their sister, and EVE married WALL-E, who had Cobalt's mother, Willow.

Aya had married NOS-4-A2, and they had two children together, Fletcher and Vivian. Amery was the mother of V-GR who Willow, and had Cobalt. Fletcher married a humanoid named Asteri, and they had their kids; Toby and Mel. Asteri's Mom was named May, and Asteri had five siblings. Leah was dating Chibi-Robo, and Rose was dating Telly Vision. Cobalt had counted them all one day, and he discovered that this family had 21 members in it! And that wasn't even counting M-O, (who was one of the only robots Cobalt knew who was shorter than his mother) or Darwin and his wife.

He had a large family, and that's how he liked it.

"Cobalt?"

"Hm?" he turned around to find Cassandra huddled in the shade of WALL-E's truck, "Are you okay?"

"I um..." she mumbled, "I forgot my sunscreen..."

Cobalt laughed, "Seriously? Again?"

She huffed, "Yeah, yeah! I get it! Can you just go grab it for me?"

Cobalt kept laughing as he retreated into his parent's spacepod, spotting the fps 70 on the inside table. Cassandra's skin tone was so light that she couldn't stay out in the sun for too long without her skin turning beet-red from the uv radiation. That's what happens when you have pale-moon skin, his father had told him.

"Here ya go." he handed the bottle to her, "Go nuts."

"Thanks." Cassandra opened the bottle and slathered the white creamy paste on her hands and face, "Whew." she slipped the bottle into her oversized pocket and stepped into the sunlight, "Thanks, Co."

He cast a sideways glance at her, "No prob, Cass."

"It's rather hot out here, isn't it?" She said as she stepped into the sunlight, "I'm not used to it. My moms rarely ever let me leave the house."

"I'm glad you could get out at all!" Cobalt softly elbowed her, "Or I wouldn't even exist right now!"

"Haha! True, very true." Cassandra clasped her hands together in front of her, "It's so lovely..."

Cobalt watched M-O scolding WALL-E while he laughed in response. It was amusing how those two spoke to each other. Cassandra stared at M-O for awhile, a light blush coloring her cheeks, but Cobalt didn't notice.

Cassandra huffed, "So." she said, "This is it, huh?"

He looked at her confused, "What do you mean?"

"You have a big family." she replied, "And to think, it all started with two robots who fell in love."

"Like Adam and Eve..." Cobalt finished.

Cassandra giggled as EVE planted a surprise kiss on WALL-E's optics, leaving him dazed, "Yeah. Wall-E and Eve."

"Wall-E and Eve..." Cobalt let his hovering mechanism carry him slightly downwards, "How far will the family expand, I wonder...?"

"TOBY!" Fletcher pushed through the crowd as he chased after his son, "You get back here with that! It's not yours!"

Toby flew up into the air with his tongue out, "Catch me if you can!"

"Come back!"

"Whoa." Cobalt watched the two as they flew over his head, "What is he holding?"

Cassandra listened carefully. She heard something sloshing, but only slightly, and a bit of crackling. She just caught that through the whooshing of air as Toby flew past her. She instantly knew what he had stolen; a battery.

Her eyes landed on him, "One moment."

She ran across the small field of grass, watching for when Toby swooped downwards. She jumped up and grabbed his ankle, surprising him into falling down. The battery flew from his hands.

"I got it!" Fletcher dove for the energy capsule.

Cassandra stood up, earning a dirty look from Toby as he slumped away.

"Whew. I got it." Fletcher put a hand on Cassandra's shoulder, "Thank you, Cassy. I completely forgot this was in my cloak."

"What is it?" she asked, "It sounds a little different from the regular batteries."

"It's just a relaxant." he replied, pocketing the bulky capsule, "It's only for adults. I'm glad you got it back before Toby could bite it."

"I see." Cassandra said.

"You shouldn't have been holding that!" Asteri scolded him, her eyes flashing yellow.

"Sheesh. Sorry." Fletcher replied, "That was my bad."

"That was cool!" Cobalt exclaimed, "How do you do that?"

Cassandra smiled, "My second mom taught me how to jump around like that. She said it would save my life one day."

"Has it yet?"

"Well...kind of." she replied, "But enough about that. Look who just arrived!"

"Whoo! Ted and Hannah!" Willow greeted cheerfully, "It's so good to see you again!"

Cobalt was about to join them when he noticed something odd. A shadow was falling over them. He looked up to see what it was, noticing his family doing the same.

"Whoa..." WALL-E huddled closer to EVE.

"What is that...?" Cassandra grabbed Cobalt's hand.

Only V-GR and Amery's faces reflected pure horror.

"Cobalt!" V-GR dashed to his son, "We have to go now!"

"What?"

"NOW!" he grabbed Cobalt and bolted to his spacepod, turning it on and hastily trying to get it into orbit.

"Dad! What's going on!?"

"I'm so stupid...I'm so stupid..." V-GR shook as he fumbled with the controls.

"Cobalt!" Cassandra called, flinching back when the engines came to life.

"What's going on!?" Willow exclaimed, "V-Gr!? Where are you going with my son!?"

V-GR didn't reply.

"Dad?"

The two of them quickly launched into the sky. Cobalt felt himself slam into the floor as V-GR steered them out of the atmosphere, blasting far enough away that civilization became a tiny green dot among the brown.

Cobalt felt the pressure in his head subside, slowly lifting off the floor as V-GR settled into an orbit. He hadn't been into space in a long time, so getting used to the awe of there being no gravity and the Earth spinning under him was interesting. It looked like a giant brown marble.

"Dad, what's going on?" Cobalt asked as V-GR finished with the controls, "What was that thing?"

V-GR sighed, a hand on his forehead, "Sorry. I just really needed to get you out of there."

"Why? Was that thing coming for me?"

V-GR turned his head to look at his son, "Um..."

"Dad, is there something you're hiding from me? Tell me, please?"

"I'm not hiding anything..." he responded, "I've just never brought it up...listen, I need you to listen, okay?" he was trying to keep his voice even, but he was quickly starting to blubber nonsense, "I-I..."

"Dad." Cobalt took his father's shoulders, "You have to calm down. Breathe."

V-GR sucked in a breath of air, his ventilation system hitching violently, "Hhh...ah..."

"Start from the beginning, okay?" Cobalt soothed, "It's okay."

"Okay..." V-GR was finally able to calm down enough to speak, "Listen...I was never built on Earth..."

"I know. Mom told me." Cobalt said gently, "You told me too, remember? It's okay."

"Right...well, that thing came from my native planet." V-GR explained, "I can't believe I forgot about it..."

"What? What does that mean!?"

"You shouldn't exist!" V-GR exclaimed in despair, "You're an abomination to them! Willow is from Earth, I'm from their planet! We made a child together! I can't believe I didn't think of that!" he began to cry, "I'm so sorry, Son...I'm such an idiot..."

"No you're not." Cobalt wrapped his arms around his father, "It's fine. We'll be okay."

"It's not fair..." V-GR cried, "I love you so much...I can't let you go..."

"Dad..." Cobalt was getting really worried. His father always carried himself well, using humor to lighten a tense situation, or smiling his way through an argument. Even when he got into an awful argument with Willow, he managed to get through it with a clever reminder of why she loved him so much.

Now though, he was a broken shell. He completely broke down and was sobbing. His eyes had turned red, when they were usually neutral white or happy blue. He didn't even feel like himself anymore.

Cobalt simulated a deep breath through his speaker, "Dad..."

V-GR finally pulled away to sniff and rub his screen, "I'm sorry...this must be jarring to you..."

"Um...it is..."

V-GR tried to smile, "It's okay. I just need to keep you off of Earth until that giant ship goes away."

"And...how long will that take?"

"Um..." V-GR glanced out the window. The ship that had cast the shadow looked like a sore thumb over the surface of the Earth, "I don't know."

Cobalt kept ahold of his father's hand as he watched everything below. He only hoped he was the only concern for these wretched aliens.