Wall-E: Transform and Roll out
Chapter 3: Stalkers
EVE "sat" on the floor watching Hello, Dolly, WALL-E's favorite movie, as she waited for her true love to return home. She is feeling worried about him because he's never this late after work. In the meantime, as to pass time, she hovers towards WALL-E's artifacts on the trucks conveyor belt that once carried other WALL-E units. A long time ago, when WALL-E met EVE, WALL-E showed her some of his stuff that intrigued her like bubble wrap, an egg mixer, a rubix cube, a light bulb, and her personal favorite, a lighter. EVE sighs as she continued to look at more the artifacts and decided to "play" with one of the lighters.
Back outside where the highway connects to the city and WALL-E's trailer, WALL-E continued to make haste to the trailer. Faster and faster he went. Stopping for nothing and not getting distracted to meet EVE. As he nears a corner near the exit of the city, something got his attention to his right. He stopped, though he was not supposed to. To his right, next to a bunch of trash pile of cubes that he stacked months ago, was a familiar looking car: it's the TYCO Wheelie car. WALL-E's eyebrow lift up in confusion as if saying "how did that thing get here?" Just to make sure that this isn't the same car from the store, WALL-E took a brave approach to the car. He expects it to be a different model and not the same one like last time. However, he was wrong. It's the same one with the same color and nothing changed. This is getting creepy for WALL-E. He took a few steps back with metal hands cupped together as a way of saying he didn't see nothing and continued to his journey.
Suddenly, as he was moving away, he heard something move against the dirt road. Something rolling like wheels. Can it be what he thinks it is? He turns his head and gives out a yikes. The TYCO Wheelie car moved out of its hiding place and now it's on the same road as WALL-E's on. WALL-E began to shake as he was terrified but shook it off and continued his way home. There goes that noise again. He turned his head and the car moved again. It's following WALL-E's way back home. WALL-E began to realize that this is not a car or a toy at all. It's something else but what and what does it want?
WALL-E had an idea. If this thing want something, then he'll give him something. WALL-E unhooked his cooler from his back and took out his collected artifacts. Inside his cooler were car keys, a plastic fork, an Atari 2600 game, and a Piston Cup (A/N: Who else doesn't like Pixar's Easter Eggs). WALL-E took out the Atari 2600 game and left it in front of the car.
"Here." WALL-E said.
There was no response. WALL-E began to think that this car doesn't want the game. Perhaps it want something else. Could it be the cooler? No. Not the cooler. It's one of WALL-E's favorite personal things. He can't give it up to something stalking him but he has no choice. WALL-E gave out a sad tone and dropped his cooler in front of the car. Once again, no response. Okay, if this thing does not want WALL-E's buried treasures, then what? He had enough of his time being wasted. EVE is waiting. WALL-E drives away from the car. He heard that noise again and looked back to see the car following him. Now it's time to push the pedal to the metal and he drove away at top speed, thinking he'll outrun the car. He thinks he's free of his stalker but turning back to see his accomplishment turned to fear with the car following behind. WALL-E screamed in panic and tried to lose his stalker the best way he can. He's almost home. Just a few more yards and probably he'll lose it.
Inside the trailer, EVE heard something coming. She hovers to the main door switch of the trailer and opens the door. As she gets a clear view of the outside, she sees WALL-E with his hands up in a sheer panic.
"WALL-E!" EVE happily said as she saw him coming.
To EVE, it looks like he's asking for a hug. She opens her arms up to grab him as he approached the trailer but the little robot dodge the hug, went inside his "bed space" and converted into a box.
"WALL-E?" EVE said as worried/confused as she is as she closes the door.
She hovers towards WALL-E's box form, all shaking. EVE gently taps WALL-E as a way to get him out of his box form. WALL-E's head popped up slowly with his binoculars eyes down as an expression of being scared.
"WALL-E?" EVE asked again to make sure he's okay.
"EV-AH!" WALL-E happily said as he popped back to robot form and hugged EVE in relief. EVE doesn't understand what happened to him nor even know the full back story. WALL-E stopped hugging and explain to EVE the best way he can. He explained that he found something in the store, met up with John, and being stalked by a car. EVE, however, believed the first part of the story but doesn't believe the last part about the car. WALL-E went over to the door switch and flipped it to opened.
The door flung opened to the opening night sky with the sun almost completely out of sight. As the door opened, there it is. 10 feet away from the trailer is the TYCO "Wheelie" car. WALL-E freaked out and hid in his box form. EVE looked at WALL-E and then the car. Is this the thing that scared him. Willing to protect him at all cost, EVE equipped her right arm, mounted plasma cannon and hovers towards the car with extreme per-caution. Closer and closer she gets, thinking by any minute that car can pull a fast one. WALL-E peeped out of his hiding spot to see if anything happened but nothing yet. EVE approached the car, expecting an identification number or a name. Nothing at all but the brand name of TYCO, a symbol of a red, robot face on the front, and a model name called Wheelie. Without any sign of a threat on the outside, EVE decided to scan the car on inside. She used her scanner to see if she can find anything inside of it. The scanner read NEGATIVE. SUBJECT: TOY.
It's just a toy. This was the only thing that came into thought for EVE. She disarmed herself and flew to WALL-E who came out his hiding place.
"EV-AH?" WALL-E asked her if she found anything.
"Toy." EVE explained as she pointed at the car.
WALL-E looked back at the car and then back at EVE and shook his head in disagreeing with her.
"WALL-E." EVE explained again. "Toy."
"EV-AH."
"TOY!"
WALL-E had no choice but to go and agree with EVE even though he still does not.
"Toy." WALL-E said back.
EVE nodded and closed the door of the trailer. Before the door closed completely, WALL-E took one last look and decide to forget about it. It's time to relax and go to bed and forget about these strange stories.
It's 9:00 pm and the robots are all asleep. Their pet cockroach is left free roaming around the trailer but will catch some shut eye later. All seems to be going well but except for one. WALL-E awoke from his slumber and quietly crept out of bed and not to disturb EVE. What awoke him is something that popped into his robotic mind that he nearly forgot about early. Then it him: he forgot his cooler...and it's outside where that stalking car is. He knows he doesn't want to go outside and cause trouble but his cooler is more important. But what if that thing is out there? Does he really want to bother?
Making up his mind, WALL-E decides to go for it and he uses the escape hatch on the roof very quietly. He makes his way to the back of the trailer where the door meets, expecting that car. Surprisingly, in front of his eyes, the car was not there. Instead, it was something that's less scarier: his cooler with his prized buried treasures. WALL-E whistled in amazement and he hurried to pick up his cooler. As he checked, everything was in there. The whole stuff he gave away to that car that stalked him. However, where's the car? Did it vanished? Is it still here? What's going on here? This began to bug WALL-E until he finally got his answer. There, in the distance of dry land where EVE's ship once landed, is the car...and it's moving.
WALL-E went down the hill where it connects to the the dry land. He followed the car in by stealth and hid behind a boulder. Using his binocular eyes, he zoomed onto the car that stopped in the middle of the dry land. Now what's it doing? That questioned changed when the car began to do a brand new trick. The nose of the car extended out and split in two "legs." The both side panels of the TYCO car also extended to reveal "arms and fingers." The last thing it did was stood up and the windshield of the TYCO car opened up to reveal a robot face with blue eyes.
WALL-E's eyes grew in amazement. It's not a toy car. It's a robot. Through all this time, he was being stalked by this thing. He watched as this robot shot a light into the night sky as a signal for something. WALL-E observes the light and noticed something about it. The beam of light took the shape of the same exact symbol of that robot's chest when it was in vehicle mode. Could this mean it's a signal for reinforcements or is it a signal for a threat?
WALL-E continued to watch until the light turned off from the robot's chest and he saw it convert back to a TYCO R/C car. WALL-E thinks the car is going back to his trailer and he his theory is right. WALL-E, again, races back to the trailer before the car found him. He approaches the door instead of the hatch and calls frantically for EVE to open it. Inside the trailer, EVE woke up from the loud banging of the door. She opens it up and finds WALL-E coming in all "out of breath."
"WALL-E?" EVE asked as if saying what was he doing outside.
"EV-AH!" WALL-E replied back. "Ro-bot."
EVE raised a an eyebrow. Robot? What does he mean? WALL-E went to the trailer door and opened it and outside in the night was again that car that was a robot. WALL-E explained again what happened but EVE does not believe him.
"WALL-E." EVE said. "Toy."
"EV-AH?" WALL-E replied.
"TOY!"
The last remark was bad enough for WALL-E to just give it a rest and he goes back to bed while EVE closes the door, not believing anymore or WALL-E's weird stories. Outside, the car remained parked at a spot, unaware that someone else is watching; high above. Up on top of a pile trash cubes was a bird. But it was no ordinary bird nor was it a different species from Earth. This bird, however, was a robot too. Not only that, this bird was equipped with a camera on top its head that recored the whole incident between WALL-E and the robot car. His metal skin was composed of black for the head, yellow for eyes, white and red for some parts of the body; white, black, and red for the wings. On each of the wings is a symbol that's purple. The symbol shows an evil looking robotic face with "devil horns." The bird's name is Laserbeak.
Laserbeak disarms his camera and flew off into space. He flew right out of the Earth's solar system and into another galaxy until he was near a purple ship that resembles a dagger with a shark's dorsal fin pointing back at the stern of the ship and fins pointing forward on the wings. The ship was also equipped with high defense weapons, a space bridge, communications tower, and hanger. The name of this ship is the Nemesis.
Laserbeak enters through the ship's hanger; flying over other robots that are different from him. These robots are called drones. Their job is to make sure the ship is running smoothly and nothing malfunctioning. Most of their time, their job is to create weapons and collect glowing energy cubes dubbed energon.
Passing over the drones and entering the elevator to the top floor, Laserbeak enters a the command bridge and being greeted by four robots that are bigger than him and share the same symbol as he has on his wings. The symbol is a name of a group called the Decepticons. One of the Decepticons was the group's scientist and military operations commander. He shows no face but rather a yellow light bulb that anytime it blinks, it means that he's talking. He has one arm that's a blaster and the other with a hand. His alternate mode is a lazer gun. His name is Shockwave. Beside him was the Decepticons' second-in-command and air commander of the Seekers. His alternate mode, in vehicle form, is an F-15 eagle. His name is Starscream. Next to him was a blue robot that had a blaster mounted on his right shoulder. His front body is decked out like a micro cassette player. His name is Soundwave and is the owner of Laserbeak, which in turn means that Laserbeak can transform into a cassette tape.
"Lazerbeak returns, Megatron." Shockwave said as he sees Laserbeak fly over him to the leader of the Decepticons.
The leader's name is Megatron. He appears very bio-mechanical. His color was silver, wore a helmet and heavily built shoulders and legs. He is equipped with a fusion cannon on his right arm and a steel flail.
"Welcome Laserbeak." Megatron said as Laserbeak "rests" his metal feet on Megatron's left arm. "Unlike like some of my other warriors..."
Megatron looks at Starscream with a glare and says, "...You never fail me."
Starscream didn't respond but had his mouth opened in shocked of what his leader said.
"Soundwave!" Megatron said. "Playback Laserbeak's findings."
Laserbeak flies off of Megatron, transforms into a cassette tape, and inserts himself into Soundwave's opened chest.
"As you command Megatron!" Soundwave replied as he transforms into a cassette player.
Once a cassette player, Soundwave connects himself to a giant monitor of the bridge and playback Laserbeaks recordings from his camera. The monitor came on and shows the first image: Earth. The video shows Laserbeak flying over what used to be New York City with humans repairing the city. The next image revealed what happened hours earlier with Laserbeak spying on the robot that stalked WALL-E. Next, it revealed the robot speaking to his communicator.
"Come in Optimus Prime," spoked the robot on the screen by rhyming his next sentence. "I'm giving you a signal cause it's time. I found the Vector Sigma Key. It's held by an Earth bot named WALL-E. I, Wheelie, will keep an eye. Hurry to Earth so boredom won't let me die."
That the last words that Wheelie spoke on the screen and the last bit of Laserbeak's recordings until it revealed the location of WALL-E, his trailer, and EVE. This brought Megatron a smirk on his face.
"So Optimus Prime." Megatron said to himself. "You found the key, all for me. Now it's time we settle this my way."
"What should we do now Megatron?" Shockwave said. "Shall we invade Earth?"
"I second on that." Starscream added. "Let's head to Earth."
"No!" Megatron replied. "We don't go to Earth yet. I decided that if the Autobots want to play, then we'll play. Soundwave, bring me Frenzy."
"Yes Lord Megatron." Soundwave replied as he transforms back to robot mode and press the eject button. "Frenzy, step forward."
Another cassette tape popped out of Soundwave but it was a blue one. The blue cassette tape revealed a small robot with two white laser cannons on it's back. His name is Frenzy.
"Frenzy reporting." He replied.
"Frenzy!" Megatron commanded. "Head to Earth and spy on the Autobot known as Wheelie. Also, confront the Earth robot WALL-E and demand the Vector Sigma key."
"And if Wheelie gets in the way?"
"Crush him."
"Yes Lord Megatron. It shall be done."
Frenzy exits the space bridge and heads towards the hanger.
A/N: Next chapter, Frenzy and Wheelie go head to head.