A/N: This chapter takes place about a week later.
Chapter 3
WALL-E whistled to himself as he returned home from another day's work. Yes, his line of work-his directive-was still needed. The trash that remained on the planet still needed to be cleaned up. As for the skyscrapers of trash that lined the world? Those were being incinerated, so as to purge the world of trash completely instead of just compact it and move it somewhere else.
As for EVE, who was now his "wife" of sorts-her original directive, which had been to find life on Earth, had been completed. Thus she did not really have much to do. Sometimes she helped him by whooshing up cubes of trash onto ever-piling skyscrapers that were to be incinerated-thus getting the job done much faster-and sometimes she helped with security, as needed.
As for M-O? He was still a janitor. But he had managed to overcome his programming and directive and only get rid of "contaminants" that were cluttering up houses and clean up people themselves as needed. Basically, he was still a clean-up guy-but of a different sort now.
WALL-E saw his trailer within sight, which M-O had cleaned and spruced up a little bit so now it looked less rusty and dirty. It actually looked like a nice home. EVE had been especially appreciative of this, who although she had enjoyed WALL-E's home as it was before, she thought it looked even better now.
As WALL-E opened his trailer door, he noticed that EVE had powered herself down. Was she really that bored? WALL-E wondered to himself. "Ee-vah?" he asked hesitantly and whistled. Even 20 years later, he still had never learned to pronounce her named properly. Neither of them really cared at this point though. EVE, at the sound of his voice, instantly powered up. "WALL-E!" she chirped happily as she hugged him. WALL-E's pet roach, who still lived, hopped onto EVE's arm and chirped happily as well.
WALL-E pulled back and asked "Ee-vah?" as if to ask why she was apparently bored. EVE huffed. Was he really blind to see it? It was because she had nothing to do. "No directive," she replied. "Directive?" WALL-E repeated. "No," EVE replied sadly and turned away. WALL-E pulled her back to him. "Directive?" he asked again, this time pointing at himself. "No," EVE said firmly.
WALL-E sat back stunned for a moment. EVE realized she'd said the wrong thing, and then said more specifically, "WALL-E... here," holding her hand over where her heart would be if she were human. "Not... directive. No... directive," she finished. WALL-E nodded, understanding now but was still concerned. She did not sound well. He decided to try and cheer her up, and pulled out one of the lighters that they both cherished. "Ee-vah?" he asked, holding it out to her.
EVE stared at it for a moment. She then shook her head angrily, warbled to herself, and then flew out of the trailer in a rage of sorts. She needed to clear her head.
Now WALL-E was really confused. He looked at his pet roach, asking it "Huh?" as if to say What'd I do? The roach chirped, obviously not giving a clear answer. WALL-E decided to go and follow her and see if he could get any more sense out of her. Of what she needed.
EVE flew about over the human colony, fast and furious. She was already calming down a little bit, having forgotten how fun it was to fly like this. But she still wasn't happy that she no longer was needed by the humans, and that WALL-E didn't know what to do to help her.
As she flew over some of the houses, she suddenly felt herself being yanked back and pulled down. She looked down and saw a group of about ten, fifteen humans who looked angry. She realized that she had been caught by a magnet and was quickly thrown to the ground with a slam by the magnet, and was immediately trapped under it.
"Ha! We got her!" an unknown voice shouted victoriously, "That was easier than I thought!" EVE gave out an angry chirp. Do they really think they can get *me* that easily? She managed to unhook her blaster arm just slightly and got ready to fire it at the large magnet. She remembered using this trick 20 years ago to free herself from a magnet hanging on a beached ship and ended up causing a lot of destruction. It was shortly after that when she had her first conversation with WALL-E.
She used the same trick again as she fired the magnet off her, and rose up immediately. The humans, startled, quickly pulled out what looked like guns. "Get back!" one of them yelled, "She's armed!" EVE indeed was armed, although she hadn't had to use her blaster arm in years. She armed it however, and started firing warning shots at the humans. "Go!" she yelled at them. "Go!"
"No!" said the one that looked like their leader. "We are here for you, EVE. And you are coming with us, whether you like it or not!" EVE laughed in a deadpan sort of way. She fired two more warning shots, narrowly missing them. She took a closer look at their leader... and recognized him as Brett McCrea, the son of her former superior. Shocked, she lowered herself down for a moment, and said firmly to him, "You. Go. Now." "Never," Brett snarled.
"Why?" EVE asked, keeping her blaster arm pointed at him. "You have information that we need," Brett replied simply. EVE shook her head. There was clearly no way that they were going to give this up. She levitated further up, and spoke one word: "Fine."
Then she let all hell break loose.
The first shot went straight for Brett, who ducked and it hit one of his cronies instead, blowing his head off. She fired more shots, taking about four more of them out. They started firing guns, which did very little damage to her but kept her occupied for a brief moment. Brett then turned to another one of his henchmen, and yelled, "Give that thing to me, NOW!" The henchman complied, and handed him what looked like... Is that a taser? She asked herself.
It distracted her long enough for Brett to fire the taser and nail her with it. She was instantly hit by searing volts of electricity, and instantly she fell back down to the ground. The taser left her immobile, and her vision began to fade out. "We've got you now," Brett spat, and the last thing she remembered was the voice of WALL-E, who had just showed up screaming "Ee-vah!"
