A/N Ahh, thank you all for the nice reviews on my first two chapters I kinda uploaded them pretty hastily, I think I might edit them a bit, but I'm glad it's going well so far!

AnonymousCoolDude - Thank you! I hope I'll get them out pretty quick for ya,

A - I was trying to make my characterization of WALL.E similar to the first movie because my story is only set about 8 or 9 months after the movie, he wouldn't have too much more dialogue than he did in the movie, and I know he would still be interested in finding stuff while he worked.

GhostDuck - Yeah the artificial womb thing was something my friend thought of and I thought that in 800 years humans wouldn't be able to give birth naturally anymore so it was the only thing they'd be able to do to keep the population growing.

A (second review) - Ooh, well at the moment EVE is quite put off about his attitude, we don't know what will happen with him yet...,

NetBug009 - Ahhh..., I was gonna make his colour navy blue but I figure, he's security, he's gotta strike fear into whichever bad guy he'd come across and I also forgot to mention he would have two vertical stripes down either side which would be a lighter colour of blue. Glad you like it so far,

Fayte581 - Thank you! I'm glad I'm not totally rusty with my writing skills,

Chapter 3: Investigation

The next day started like any other day, WALL.E would wake up, charge himself, say goodbye to EVE and go off to work. Today however, he was going to keep a keen eye on anything he found to see if he could catch the thief himself.

EVE wanted to keep an eye out as well, even though she knew it was SAM.E's directive, she was tired of her things going missing. There was something all of the missing items had in common; they were either made of shiny metal, glass or other materials that gleamed in the sun. It explained why her stands were not stolen once they were in the ground.

SAM.E was patrolling the crop fields when EVE came up to him. She wanted to explain her findings to him so he might find the thief a little quicker.

"SAM.E!" She said as she approached him.

The blue/black robot turned towards her, his eyes slightly thinner. "Yes?" he asked impatiently.

"Clue." EVE said simply and placed three items in front of her, a stick, a rock and a piece of shiny metal. She turned around for a moment and pretended to steal one of the items and took the piece of metal. Then she did the same thing again with two pieces of metal and took those two. It was her best attempt to show him the thief was only interested in shiny things.

"I see." SAM.E said. "Suspect is partial to objects that shine, this has already been concluded. Thank you." he said in his robotic tone. He quickly scanned the whole area around her and turned to leave.

EVE was quite put off by his behaviour. Did the Captain mean to have him programmed that way? She decided to take a break and ask the Captain what he thought.

WALL.E was having no luck finding out who was taking his things which were still going missing. Every time he thought he saw something there was nothing. He eventually realized the only things the thief was interested were shiny things. He decided to hatch a plan. He quickly dug through the garbage and found a broken piece of mirror. He rolled forward a bit and then quickly threw the piece backwards before peeking out behind the garbage pile. He was very shocked to see what happened next. The piece of glass soared through the air and disappeared before it hit the ground.

"Ahh!" He screamed and quickly went over to where he saw it disappear, he lifted himself up and felt around but there was nothing. He knew what he'd seen but it didn't seem possible. He knew he had to tell EVE and rushed off to find her.

EVE arrived at the Captain's workstation and quickly knocked on the door.

"Come in," Captain McCrea said. "Oh EVE, what brings you here?" He asked.

She sighed and floated on over to him. "SAM.E" she said simply.

"What about him?" He asked.

EVE did her best impression of him; she slit her eyes and floated around trying to look disinterested before giving the Captain a questionable look.

"Why... is he like that?" the Captain asked, thinking that's what she meant.

EVE nodded, thinking it would be impossible for him to even be friends with her or the other robots.

"Well," he said. "I looked into old records of law enforcement and I found that the ones who were completely focused on their jobs would easily find out who caused the crime. Also, If SAM.E were to make friends with anyone, that one could be a potential suspect that he wouldn't think of because of their friendship. Therefore he has been programmed to treat everyone fairly so not to rule anyone out. I'm afraid he comes off as a tad rude though, he might have a personality mod once this whole mess is taken care of."

EVE nodded, she understood now. He needed to be that way, at least until he learned there were some that he could trust if he even could do that. She turned to leave, nodding to the Captain once more.

"See you later EVE."

WALL.E was still looking for EVE, she wasn't in any of the fields or near the gardens.

"Evah!" He called. "Eevah!!" he sighed, this wasn't getting him anywhere.

Finally he spotted someone, it was the new robot, maybe he would know. He rolled over to him while he was scanning and burst through the grass.

On reflex, SAM.E unfolded his stun gun and pointed it at whatever had surprised him. "Freeze!" he said.

WALL.E screamed and boxed himself in fright. when he heard the click of his arm reforming he peeked out to see if it was okay.

SAM.E just floated there waiting. "WALL.E unit, yes?"

"E-evah?" WALL.E asked carefully unboxing himself.

"EVE unit's whereabouts are unknown." he said and turned to leave.

WALL.E was about to keep looking when he thought maybe he should show SAM.E what had happened to him. Maybe it would happen again, he tried hard to say the security bot's name.

"S-sm" he said, waving his arms. "Smm-ee!"

SAM.E turned around again to see the small robot trying to tell him something. "What is it?"

WALL.E gestured for him to follow and started to go back to the trash piles.

The security bot had no choice but to follow him, thinking this had better be good.

EVE was just leaving the town when she saw WALL.E's small form being followed by SAM.E. She quickly flew over to see what was going on.

"Wall-e?" she said when she caught up to them.

"Evah!" WALL.E said happily and gestured for her to follow like he'd done with SAM.E.

EVE followed beside SAM.E waiting to see where WALL.E was taking them. Eventually they reached the trash piles where WALL.E worked all day. She figured he must know something about the thief and was trying to tell them.

WALL.E went back to where he'd seen the object disappear and rummaged through the trash again. This time he found an old shiny pair of eyeglasses. He gestured for everyone to hide behind the trash. EVE lowered herself closer to the ground as did SAM.E. WALL.E tossed the glasses over the trashpile, he waited to see if they would disappear again. The glasses soared through the air and landed soundlessly on the ground again.

"Huh?!" WALL.E said in surprise, going over to pick them up again.

SAM.E stared in disbelief, why was this robot wasting his time? He shook his head and started to leave.

WALL.E tried tossing them again but nothing happened. He looked sadly at EVE.

"Wall-e..." EVE said putting her hands in an attempt to tell him to stop.

WALL.E sighed and dropped the glasses, looking downwards. They didn't believe him, robots can't imagine things can they? He looked around and noticed SAM.E was nowhere to be seen.

The security bot had already left, deciding he'd had enough. It was just a waste of his time and he had other things to attend to.

As she watched the item fall EVE wasn't sure what to think. She wanted to believe WALL.E really did have something important to show them but nothing had happened. She rubbed her hand over his head, "Wall-e...," she said softly.

His eyes turned upwards towards her and went to grab the glasses to throw them again but they were gone. "Evah!" he said looking downwards

The white robot looked and saw that the glasses were indeed gone from where he had dropped them. Her eyes grew wide; he was trying to show them that the items vanished into thin air. Someone or something was hiding its appearance.

WALL.E whooped happily, he was glad EVE finally saw what he had seen. SAM.E had not however and he wished he'd waited a bit longer.

EVE was absolutely astounded that they were missing. Whatever was stealing had been concealing their identity, it didn't seem possible but she was determined to find out how.

The sun was quickly setting painting the sky with a brilliant sunset. The beauty of it was however, being threatened by dark clouds creeping along the sky from the other side of the horizon.

"Evah..," WALL.E said pointing to the growing darkness which was staining the perfect sky.

She nodded, knowing it would eventually become a violent storm. They headed for home just at walking pace for it was quite close.

WALL.E hoped SAM.E knew what to do if a storm hit. He remembered EVE trying to fight him the first time a sandstorm blew up. He kept this in mind as the sky grew darker and the wind started to pick up.

EVE figured he would know to take shelter and return to the ship. Just as they reached the door they heard an announcement advising people to return to their homes. This had been new protocol ever since the humans had landed and a sandstorm had nearly injured some people.

WALL.E sighed in relief when they got inside for rain started to pound with small metallic tinging sounds on the roof. He flicked a switch and lit up the Christmas tree lights he had brought with him from his old place.

EVE pointed at the box of tapes he had brought home the day before. She picked it up and placed it beside the player. She was curious to see if any of them worked.

For the rest of the night WALL.E tried different video tapes. The majority of them worked which was pretty lucky on their part. When they prepared to shut down for the night he still couldn't shake the thought that SAM.E would be trapped in the storm.

He looked out the window one last time and jumped back in fright. "Evah!" he cried, he thought he had seen a ghostly figure outside the window.

EVE quickly came over to the window and looked, but she didn't see anything. She looked at WALL.E and shook her head. He looked again, saw that there was nothing there and sighed. Maybe it was his imagination and then he saw something else.

"Smm-ee!" he said, and went towards the door. The security bot was trapped in the thunderstorm not too far from their home.

"Wall-e!" EVE cried but the little robot had already gone outside.

WALL.E knew he could survive being struck by lightning but SAM.E might not have that modification. Wind and rain raged around him as thunder crashed and lightning lit up the area for an instant. He had to squint his eyes and saw that SAM.E was just up ahead. WALL.E bravely kept going until he reached him. More lighting flashed and he knew he had to hurry.

"Smm-ee!" he said urgently and tried to take his arm to pull him to safety.

SAM.E's first instinct was to yank his arm back just as EVE had done. He stood there stubbornly but WALL.E wasn't about to give up.

He grabbed his arm tightly and started to pull him back to the house. Lighting flashed again striking just feet from where they stood but WALL.E kept going.

Just as they reached the house however, the lightning stuck one more time zapping the two of them.

"WALL-E!" EVE yelled in horror watching the two of them shake violently. She'd seen him get stuck by lightning with her security cam but never in real life.

WALL.E was stunned by the shock of it all but he was all right. SAM.E however had shut down and floated there silently. He pushed him inside and shut the door feeling completely drained.

EVE rushed over to him concern flooded her eyes as she checked him over to make sure he was all right. She checked his computer chip, saw that it was intact and sighed in relief. Part of her however, wanted to punish him for being so careless in his brave act.

"Wall-e!" She took her hand and banged it on his chest plate once before hugging him tightly. You idiot, be more careful next time! She thought as she hugged him.

WALL.E rubbed his head under hers before looking up at her, he was sorry for scaring her. He looked over at SAM.E floating in a dormant state not too far away.

EVE looked his way as well figuring the lightning just initiated a shutdown mode. Tomorrow morning she would take him to the repair ward and get him checked out.

WALL.E began to shut down himself retracting into his cube-like form. EVE decided to shut down as well, seeing the storm had just begun to let up. She was glad everyone was all right and hoped there was no lasting damage to either WALL.E or SAM.E.

A/N There's chapter 3, next one coming soon, edit I have changed a few things about this chapter, I'm sorry I can tend to be a little too descriptive at times,