Rocky felt more like a prisoner than a patient.
The duo of Walle and Rocky, now turned trio with Eve in the mix, were still sitting on the cart that was taking them to an unknown destination. Well, it wasn't exactly unknown since they knew that they were going to the Repair Ward, but they've never been there before.
Eve was always described as flawless by her creators, and even Auto had put into her records that out of every Extraterrestrial Vegitation Evaluator probe, she was the most dedicated, strong, and fearless. Her shooting range was always precise(she would NOT count that time that she missed that idiot, Rocky), she always came up with the best strategies, and she was even the very first to feel basic emotions. All the other probes were bland and practically lifeless like every other robot on the ship because they were only made to follow their directive. But Eve, though her directive meant more than anything to her, could still feel curiosity, happiness, anger, and even sadness. She was absolutely perfect... So why the hell was she labeled as defective? She never should've met Walle. She never should've trusted him for even a second. She couldn't even believe she had liked that no good thief. Everything would've been fine if she had just never met him. Well, sure he was the one who found the plant in the first place and was kind to her and...no. It was all his fault. He was a horrible robot.
Walle had never been to a repair ward. Back in his home, whenever a part of his broken, he would just look for another shut down Walle unit, take off their perfectly working part, and replace his own with theirs. He was pretty sure that they didn't mind. They never moved when he took them, so it was probably their own way of saying "Sure, have whatever you like". The fat man mentioned that he'd be getting cleaned. Maybe that meant that he would be nicer to look at. He would like it if Eve looked at him the way he looked at her. Right now, she wouldn't spare him a single glance. He knew she was angry at him, but still didn't really understand why. But that wasn't important. What was important was that he had to cheer her up. He'd make it up to her somehow. She liked plants, so maybe when he, Eve, and Rocky went back to earth, he could spend the next year searching for as many as he could get his hands on. Anything to make her happy.
Rocky wasn't as curious as Walle, nor was he as angry as Eve. He was probably somewhere in the middle, while also feeling a little bit of impatience. All he wanted was a way to get back to the trash planet with Walle and Eve. But Eve wouldn't cooperate because she blamed Walle for something he wasn't responsible for, and now they were being treated as broken robots. Rocky had no idea how they were going to "fix" him when he didn't need fixing in the first place. And he started worrying that they would try to open different "compartments" of his by tearing his space suit apart and opening up his helmet to see his "inner functions". He had to escape now, but he couldn't. His wrists were cuffed together tightly by a shiny blue light that felt uncomfortably warm against his skin. Walle and Eve had them wrapped around their bodies so they couldn't draw their arms out. Rocky's paws were so close together that he could barely uncurl them to summon his Keytar. But asking for a fight would probably be stupid anyway. So many robots were around. The humans couldn't do anything, but the robots probably could. He would just have to wait for the opportune moment.
About five minutes later(Rocky just assumed since he wasn't really keeping track of time), the cart finally stopped at a door. It opened, and the cart slid inside. And on the inside were some...interesting looking robots. Most of them were shaking uncontrollably and spouting out nonsense or just repeating the same words over and over again. And all of them were restrained behind the same blue light that was wrapped around the trio. The captain may have thought that Eve and Rocky were defective, but he probably had never even seen how bad all the other robots were.
They stopped right at the front of the door, and a mechanical claw came out of a hatch in the ceiling and turned the reproachful Eve around after stripping off the blue light around her and Walle's bodies along with Rocky's paws. Rocky massaged his paws with a sigh of relief as he watched the claw place a red object on Eve's chest. Then it pressed the yellow button that was in the middle of the object, and Eve immediately shut down. Then the claw picked her up and started moving her farther down the room and into another door at the very end. Walle gave a warble of fright and tried to go after her, but the claw grabbed him and attempted to put a red object on him as well. Rocky gasped and hastily moved Walle out of the way and scrambled out of the cart with the robot in his arms, trying to make a dash toward the door Eve was in. He knew he was in trouble now, but he was only trying to formulate a plan as he went along. He was sure he'd be able to find some way to escape without breaking a few limbs.
"Just a trim?" Rocky almost slammed into a pink cylinder robot that was now powdering white stuff all over the visor on his space helmet. "Hey! What the-?" Rocky couldn't get the words out since it kept slamming the powder directly under his visor every time it opened. And it didn't even stop there-he could feel it trying to smear lipstick on his mouth but failing since he kept moving around violently. Finally it ceased, but not before holding a mirror in front of his face. "You look gorgeous!" It said in a perky female voice.
Rocky cringed in horror at the sight of hideously packed on make up that had also somehow got stuck in his fur. To his relief, a claw picked up the pink robot and placed her behind one of the blue prisons. He started to run again, but the claw latched onto his back as well, and placed him and Walle behind another blue wall. Cursing under his breath, he attempted to wipe all of the make up off of his face as Walle stared around the room curiously.
On either side of the room, rows of the small blue prisons held at least one robot. Some were shaking so terribly that the claws would have to wrap the blue substance around their entire bodies, like they did to this massage type of robot that was slamming against its prison way too hard. Right next to Walle, a vacume type of robot appeared to be wheezing. Walle edged closer to have a better look, and suddenly it jolted up and "sneezed" dust all over Walle's face. The startled Walle turned to look at Rocky, whose face was switching between suppressed laughter and awkward sympathy. He wiped off the dust and grime with his suit, leaving Walle back to his regular grimy self.
It didn't really look so bad, Rocky thought as he continued to gaze around the room. If the worst they did was strap them with the blue substance, then he was probably in good hands. He just prayed that the fixing wouldn't hurt...
Rocky winced when he heard a screech coming from the inside of the door that Eve was in. Maybe it wouldn't be as painless as he hoped...
"EVA!" Walle was going positively mad now as he continued to stare at the door. Rocky turned to see why it was causing such an uproar. Through the see through door, he saw a mechanical arm massaging the bottom of Eve's head...but it was causing her head to move so far away from her body that it looked more like decapacitation. Though Rocky was fairly convinced that Walle would learn soon enough that she wasn't in any real danger-
Walle had started firing a laser from the middle of his eyes directly at the blue substance that was blocking their prison. Rocky's pupils contracted in panic. "Walle, NO!"
Too late. Walle awkwardly tumbled out of the small prison, and, as if things couldn't get any worse, the floor he thudded against happened to hit a play button on his chest.
"Put on you sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there!" The loud cheery voice coming from Walle's speakers was more than enough to attract the attention of every robot in the room- defective and security alike. Rocky, regretfully finding no time to roll his eyes, snatched Walle up and ran to the room Eve was in, summoning the Keytar in his pup pack.
"Okay, change of plans," He told Walle breathlessly, "Get Eve and GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"
A crash, and Rocky and Walle had entered the other room, Eve staring incredulously at them. "Walle...?"
Walle, still thinking that Eve was in danger by the metal hands that were near her, searched around for some sort of weapon. He had no idea how to use them, but he had to fight to get Eve out, right? Then he spotted Rocky's giant key-it was perfect. It was big enough to smash things! He tugged it out of Rocky's paws.
Rocky gasped as Walle held onto to it, though the instrument was facing backwards towards the other room. "Er, Walle..." He approached him slowly so he wouldn't jump and accidentally activate a sour note. "You really don't want to-"
However, the threatening movement of one of the keys had Walle involuntarily shudder and increase pressure on the Keytar, and confirmed Rocky's worst fear: He accidentally activated a high note.
It all felt like everything was going in slow motion. The hard vibration in his throat told Rocky that he had just shouted "NOO!", and by the look on Eve's face, she had reacted the same way. It felt like his visor had suddenly shut tight, for he could not hear anything now except his heart thumping roughly against what he could've sworn was his head. The shockwave zipped through the Repair Ward, heading into the last place the trio in the room had wanted it to hit: The Power Supply for this room. A second later, the Keytar's loud note FINALLY decided to return to Rocky's trembling paws...Rocky could feel his face growing hot with anger.
"WALLE!" He shouted, and he could barely hear Eve's voice simultaneously shouting that as well, though her anger sounded white hot compared to his own, which was mainly just stemmed out of frustration. He had wanted to find a subtle way to escape since most of his LOUD attempts to escape in other worlds had often stuck him with an exhausting fight, and now Walle's antics had pretty much cornered him into another one.
But when he saw all of the threatening mechanical claws shut down and hang limply from the ceiling, Rocky's anger ebbed as quickly as it came...Until all of the defective robots were able to get out of their prisons since the power was the only thing that could hold them back. Walle awkwardly pressed the stop button on his self installed stereo and turned to Rocky with frightened and guilty eyes. Rocky stared back, his expression unreadable.
All of the defective robots left their prisons with warbles and whirs of excitement, and for some reason they kept staring around the room like they were looking for someone. But they immediately stopped when they all laid their eyes on Walle. As if following a telepathic mutual agreement, every single one of them crashed into the room and raised Walle high into the air like they were hailing a hero(though Walle did not look like he was enjoying it at all). To make matters worse, they carried him right out of the room-and not just out of the repair room, but right out of the ward and directly into the depths of the ship.
Next to Rocky, Eve let out a groan of frustration and flew off in Walle's direction. Well, that was probably a good sign...either that or she was doing it so she could kill him personally. He hoped it wasn't the latter. Though most of the anger had faded from Rocky, he still felt a little frustrated like Eve. But he still had to save him, and Walle didn't know any better anyway. Rocky proceeded to follow Eve.
Walle was having the worst time of his life. Never mind the fact that a bunch of robots he barely even knew were taking him away from Eve and Rocky, but he'd just never seen them so angry before. Not even Eve had ever looked at him with such hatred and resentment, and never had Rocky ever raised his voice at him even once. He'd had the one chance to make it up to Eve by saving her life, and it may have cost him his friend and love. Nothing could get any worse than that.
But it seemed that it would as the robots carrying him suddenly halted. Walle felt himself fall forward(one of the robots released its grip on him) right in front of the menacing, bulky robot bodyguards that now stood in rows before them all. On each of their "television screens", a red hand was displayed, and it was holding out all five fingers in a "stop" motion.
"Halt." He heard all of them say simultaneously. He started trembling again as a cold feeling of dread and fear took him over. He also had a bad habit of shivering and not doing anything else when he was terrified...What were those things going to do to him?
"Walle!" The little almost shut himself into his boxed form when he heard two voices shout his name. But it turned out to be Rocky and Eve. He wasn't sure whether he should be relieved or even more terrified.
Rocky picked up Walle and said quickly, "Okay, Walle, let's just go and find some way out. Don't worry, we'll-"
"CAUTION: ROGUE ROBOTS."
Rocky paused and turned to stare straight in front of him. He hadn't even noticed those robots until now. But their unexpected appearance wasn't what caused him and Eve to emit a gasp of shock; it was the pictures they were all showing on their screens. All of them were the same picture: Sora picking up Walle with a look of panic on his face, with Eve glaring daggers at both of them. Right underneath the picture was a sign that flashed "Rogue Robots".
Great. Like breaking out with defective robots wasn't bad enough. Now they were wanted criminals!
"Walle!" Eve turned back to glare at Walle again. But she didn't have time to say anything else. At the corner of the bulky robots, a red light was flashing dangerously, and it looked like it was charged and aimed straight at the trio.
"Crap!" Rocky, about half a second before they could shoot, practically crashed into them with his Keytar at the ready. He wasn't sure what those red lights did, whether they were lasers or some other kind of weapon, but he knew that they weren't good.
Eve was already of him, flying while carrying Walle right underneath her. Rocky had to sprint at top speed to keep her in sight. Right behind him, the bulky robots weren't chasing them since Rocky had destroyed nearly all of them in his haste, but the defective ones sure were. They were probably still wanting to worship Walle or something.
Eve finally hid in a dark corridor where not even her gleaming body stood out and crouched with Walle, who mimicked her. Rocky, taking the hint, also dived right into it. Lucky for them, all the rejects sped past them all. Five seconds later, more bodyguard bots were following them.
Wiping sweat off his brow, Rocky stood up a little to stretch out a bit. Walle turned to him, still looking very nervous and scared. Rocky sighed at his pitiful expression, and gave him a halfhearted pat on the head. He just couldn't stay angry at him. "It's okay. We'll work this out somehow."
Eve looked positively livid, however. She was making all sorts of nonsense whirs and high pitched screeches that Rocky was surprised went unnoticed by passerbies. But he was able to get some of her hand gestures. First she kept pointing fiercely to her plant insignia, then to Walle, then she pointed out the same picture of the trio that was flashed as "Rogue Robots" on a nearby screen. Rocky felt anger boil up inside him again.
"For the last time, Walle did NOT take the stupid plant!"
Now Eve directed her ferocity on him, while still pointing to the picture. Rocky just glared back. Okay, maybe the fact that the three were now wanted criminals was partly Walle's fault, but he didn't mean it at all! He was just trying to save her-what other explanation did she have that he crashed into her repair room?
"Look, it wasn't his fault! He just-! He was trying to save you!"
Well, that hadn't been the right thing to say at all. Rocky could practically hear the circuits in Eve's body overheating. Her crescent eyes were narrowed and downward so much that they were mere furious slits on her screen. Obviously she didn't believe him. Rocky reproachfully glared back. Behind him, Walle shook uncomfortably.
"How do you know YOU didn't lose the plant? Do you just immediately blame someone else even though all the evidence just points to yourself?" The words were out before they even came to Rocky's head. But a second later he already knew that he had said too much. Eve, with her lightning fast reflexes, shot out her gun and aimed it threateningly at Rocky, but he did not back down. He could easily fight her back. If she shot, he couldn't care less. All he wanted was for Eve stop blaming Walle for a crime he didn't commit.
For seconds, minutes, or even hours-Rocky couldn't tell- the two just glowered at one another, invisible sparks flying between them. Finally, Eve's eyes grew rounder when she looked past Rocky into a window. Rocky didn't bother turning around to register what had captured her attention. Suddenly, Eve seemed to have a satisfied look flicker over her eyes, then she grabbed Walle and fixed Rocky with a cold stare, holding out her other hand. Rocky stared at it like it was crawling with vermin, before reluctantly grabbing hold. She pulled him rather violently away from the corridor when the coast was clear.
"Hey, where are we going?" Rocky demanded as Eve showed no sign of slowing her pace though she was practically dragging him across the floor. She just stared resolutely ahead, with Walle, who now looked a little happier, held in her other arm.
XXX
One trip through an elevator later, the trio of fugitives reached a round and dark room, where Eve found a keyboard of some sort and proceeded to type something in it. Rocky had absolutely no idea what she was planning. For all he knew, she was probably just gonna blow him and Walle to smithereens after that last fiasco.
Almost unconsciously, he turned to see how the little robot appeared to be handling the situation. He expected him to still be shaking a little, but instead he looked quite calm. Placid, even. He wasn't staring into space or anything, but he was focusing intently on Eve's hand that wasn't typing, but hanging stiffly by her side. Walle proceeded to place his own two hands together, then returned to gazing at hers with the same longing expression he always carried when he was around her.
Unbelievable. Even though Eve blamed him for so many things, even though she was so livid with him, and even though it seemed impossible that the two would ever get together, Walle was still deeply in love with her. Rocky honestly felt both impressed and exasperated at the same time. For one thing, despite the fact that Walle was a robot, he had shown just as much-if not more-heart than any other friend he had made in any other world, and not just because his love for Eve could never be broken, but because of his kindness and innocence that he showed to everyone around him. He'd never give up on Eve, even if his love always remained one-sided.
A few blue flashes, and something in front of the threesome lit up. Before them, at the very end of the room, was a round pod that lit up with a white light. Eve stood before it, and gestured toward it. "Earth." She said simply.
Walle and Rocky stared at her in confusion. What did she mean? The pod was probably meant to transport them somewhere, but where was Earth?
"Earth." She repeated with an edge of irritation, and this time she gestured toward a screen that was above the pod. Displayed on it was a picture of round blue ball with splotches of green in various places. Walle suddenly warbled in understanding and turned toward Rocky, gesturing toward himself, then back to the picture.
"Huh?" Rocky felt more befuddled then before. Walle just kept repeating the hand signs over and over again. Rocky slowly came to a realization. "Oh! The trash planet!" Walle nodded enthusiastically, grabbed Rocky's paw, and pulled him into the pod. This was good, then, Rocky thought, at least now they could go back and Rocky could finally get back to Anna and Chase. He'd wasted so much time following Eve...
Walle sat on one of the cushiony couches that was stored inside it, banging his treads together casually like a kid waiting at the doctor's office. He turned to Eve and pat his hand on a vacant spot of the couch. Rocky already knew what was coming: Eve shook her head with a cold look on her face. "Directive." She stated, pointing at her plant insignia.
Walle didn't like that response at all. He defiantly sped out of the pod and placed himself before Eve, curling into his boxed form determinedly.
"Walle..." Rocky rolled his eyes, leaving the pod for a moment to pick Walle up and place him back alongside himself. "We have to go. It's obvious we're not wanted here." He glared at Eve, who determinedly avoided his gaze.
Rocky could not remember why he had so enthusiastically agreed to help Walle find a companion in Eve. He should've been able to tell that Eve would never be willing to stay with him. She would probably easily trade his life for a plant if she had the chance. He was forced to believe that whatever friendship that Walle had shared with Eve was over, along with the chance of finding love with her. But he wasn't giving up yet. Maybe when he got back to Anna and Chase, he could build a robot to accompany Walle. He was pretty sure he could do it with his tools, and Rocky would never want to see Walle left all alone in that lifeless world...
Rocky had been so busy swimming in his own thoughts that he hadn't noticed Walle shifting back out of the pod and next to Eve. "Walle," He heard Eve say in annoyance. But before she could do anything else, there was a loud beeping sound coming from the elevator.
Someone was coming up.
Gasping in panic, Eve hastily shut the entire room down, bathing everything in darkness once again. Rocky hastily hid in a corner that was too dark for anything to be spotted, and crouched down, not even caring that it was cramped. He felt rather than saw Walle and Eve crouch beside him, both in their enclosed forms.
Out of the elevator came the red sirened robot, Go-4. That was enough to get Eve to peer curiously as he sped past them, thankfully not noticing their presence. What was he doing here, though? Auto never assigned him to explore anywhere but the captain's room and the EVE Probe Check room.
He typed in a few unknown letters on the Keyboard, and the pod sprang to life again. He entered the pod and, curiosity reaching its peak, Rocky Walle and Eve turned their heads to the pod to see what was so important to place in there.
Out of his compartment, bathed in a red light, and placed roughly on the ground, was the plant.
"Plant!" Eve whispered in shock, and she heard stifled gasps from the other two as well. Go-4 was already starting to leave. The three hastily hid back in the corner until Go-4 went back to the Keyboard and started typing again.
"Walle..." Along with the discovery and relief of finding the plant safe and sound came the unwelcome surge of guilt Eve felt flooding over her body like filthy mud. Walle was innocent. Rocky was telling the truth. Walle had never taken the plant and lost it or anything of the sort. And if Rocky had been honest about that, then that must've meant that it was true that Walle had thought that Eve was in danger and was trying to "save" her. It was all an accident and misunderstanding. How could she have been so dense? It was obvious from the very beginning that Walle cared so much about her. Stealing and making her wanted by authorities on purpose was the last thing Walle would want.
And she blamed everything on him.
"Walle..." She turned toward him, her voice dripping with sadness and forgiveness. She would make it up to him somehow. He was bound to-
Where'd he go?
"Eva! Rocky!"
Eve looked into the pod and her eyes widened into saucers. Walle was in there, and he was holding the plant!
"WALLE!" She made to make a grab for him, but Rocky came in faster. He sped into the rocket and picked Walle up, about to haul him out, but before he could even put a foot forward, the pod's door snapped shut.
It blasted into space.
Go-4 left. He never even heard Eve's anguished scream.
"No!" She looked all around the room. There had to be a way out into space somehow. She didn't know how, nor for what reason, but she knew that Go-4 wanted to destroy that plant. And the only way to destroy it when it's on a pod was to have it crash into a planet, or set it to self destruction. Most likely, it was the latter. Either way, she had to catch up to them and stop the pod before it was too late.
At last, she spotted an airway tunnel that directly led into space, and shoved herself in it, shooting herself at almost blinding speed as she flew toward the ship.
Rocky would've been screaming if he could move his mouth, which was occupied with being blown back by the G-force. As soon as the two had been launched, it forced Walle's backside to smash against the door and Rocky to smash against Walle. For a few terrified seconds Rocky thought he'd crushed him, until the ear splitting scream behind him told him otherwise. Either way, they were in deep trouble and Rocky had no way of moving since they were flying too fast.
"Cruising speed." A female computer voice rang.
Rocky and Walle immediately fell off the wall and painfully collapsed on the floor.
"You are now free to move about the cabin."
They both shot up and looked around for some way to get out. Luck seemed to be on their side as Walle spotted a control stick at the front of the pod, sticking out and lighting up red like a beacon of hope. He grasped it and attempted to tug at it and turn it around-anywhere, left, right, back, he didn't care. As long as it was away from wherever they were being sent to!
"It won't work, it's on Auto Pilot!" Rocky exclaimed hopelessly at Walle's fruitless attempts. To make matters worse, the female computer voice said, "Twenty seconds til self destruct."
Rocky gasped and stared desperately at the controls. He saw a tiny red button flashing up next to sign that said, "Cancel Self destruct". He pressed it eagerly...nothing happened. He repeatedly pressed it to no avail, starting to grow more frustrated and worried as the count down clock ticked down.
"Ten seconds til self destruct."
Next to him, Walle gave a high pitched shriek of fright and, for some reason, grabbed a fire extinguisher that happened to be in the room. He kept banging it against the window, apparently thinking that he could break it open.
"Ten...nine..."
Rocky's breathing quickened. He summoned his Keytar to help Walle try to break the window, but it was still shut tight.
"Eight...seven..."
"Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT!" Rocky cursed everytime his Keytar crashed into the window with no results. Walle was shaking worse than ever.
"Six...Five..."
So this was it. He'd come all this way, hoping to find Walle a love, and now they were both going to die trapped on a pod in space. In fact, Eve probably didn't even care. She wanted them out of the way anyway, right? Well, she'd be getting her wish...
"Four...three..."
...Wait a minute. There was still one more chance! He honestly wasn't sure if it would really work-odds are it would just implode in their faces- but it was all he could think of.
"Two..."
"WALLE! HOLD ONTO ME!" Walle obeyed and leaped into Rocky's arms. Sora covered him with his whole body, held his Keytar high into the air, and shouted one word:
"ALL THE NOTES AT THE SAME TIME!"
XXX
BAM!
Eve came to an abrupt halt more out of shock than anything else. A few feet away from her, the very pod that she had been chasing...exploded. With Walle and Rocky still inside.
"No...no." It wasn't true. It couldn't be! They weren't dead- not right after Eve had realized that Walle was completely innocent. She wanted to make it up to him. At the very least, she wanted to apologize for being so cruel and heartless. But now...he was gone. She'd never have her chance to make up. There's no way he could've survived. Her only friend was dead...
And Rocky had been telling the truth too. The only reason he had been so rude to her was because he was only trying to defend his friend with fierce defiance. He may have been stupid, but he knew Walle very well, and did actually seem to be a good person- at least to friends. But his death just didn't strike her as much as Walle's did.
She started forward again, not exactly knowing the reason. Maybe just to see one little snippet of proof to show that they were alive. Anything-
Something was flying toward her. It was small, but it was gradually growing bigger. All of a sudden, it just flew past her, leaving behind a shower of white sparkles, shouting in a comfortingly familiar voice, "EEEEVAAAAA!"
"Walle!" He was alive! Somehow, he made it through! Every negative emotion that Eve had felt seconds ago were snuffed out by the sight and sound of Walle. She eagerly chased after him.
What she didn't notice, however, was that Walle wasn't the only one who escaped unharmed. Or at least, not completely harmed.
Rocky, half conscious and floating downwards and upside down to boot, stared straight ahead as he tried to rescramble his thoughts. His ears made odd screeching sounds that muffled out the voices of the two robots miles away from him, and his SW spell had just worn off. Lucky for him, the spell had been powerful enough to block off the worst parts of the explosion, though there was now a small burn on the back of his right leg. The point was that he and Walle had survived. They were okay...
But how was he supposed to get through space? Paddle with his paws? At least Walle had the fire extinguisher to propel him. Eve could already fly. Rocky had no way of doing it, and Walle and Eve were probably too far away to hear him anyway. That's just great...
But he wished he COULD fly, with wings like Skye. He also wished he could fly a helicopter. But there must've been a way- he wasn't sure if it would still work. But it was worth a shot anyway. Shaking the cobwebs out of his head, hoping that he was as awake as possible, Rocky activated his pup pack jets and summoned the happiest thought he could muster.
Skye kissing him...
Rocky barely even noticed that he was already surging forward until he saw that Walle and Eve's shapes were getting closer and closer. When he was close enough, he yelled in excitement, "Walle! Eve!"
The two turned to him, both looking very happy. Walle gently pressed the handle of the fire extinguisher so he was brought to Rocky. Eve flew forward until he could see her eyes, now sad crescents. Her look was enough to tell him everything.
"It's okay. Really." Rocky sighed. Honestly he was still a little miffed about their squall, but for Walle's sake, he'd be willing to befriend her. And now she looked like she was in a good mood now that she knew that Walle was safe.
She gave him a happy nod and turned back to Walle, holding out her arms and approaching him like she was gonna hug him. But Walle accidently let loose some white sparks on her. Eve giggled and waved them away. "Walle..." She held out her arms again, ready to apologize.
"Oh, Eva!" Walle interrupted, holding out a hand. Eve stopped in confusion as Walle opened his box compartment and held something out. "Eva..."
Rocky and Eve's eyes widened.
"You...I don't believe it..." Rocky murmured, his face involuntarily blooming into a broad grin, "You got the plant?"
"WALLE!" Eve sounded absolutely delighted as she placed the plant in her own compartment. All of sudden, she embraced Walle tightly and started spinning him joyously, letting out a gleeful "WOO-HOO!" Behind them, Rocky let out an equally blissful laugh.
Walle felt dizzy. Half because of elation that Eve was hugging him, and because he was spinning around so fast the stars were swirling all around them. Since Eve seemed to be comfortable with hugging him, he just decided to nuzzle into her neck tenderly. Eve didn't mind it. In fact, for reasons she couldn't comprehend, she enjoyed it very much.
Walle had absolutely no idea how much this meant to her. Eve knew that Walle saved the plant because he knew that it was important to her and he wanted to make her happy, and nearly gave up his own life for it. This was probably the second time he had helped her, the first being when he helped her out of the sandstorm. In fact, if Walle hadn't caused that ruckus back on the ship, the trio never would've found the plant...
He deserved so much more than a hug, she decided happily. So, she looked into his happy eyes that reflected the beautiful stars, leaned close to him, and sparked a kiss.
Rocky gave a light gasp. That spark that he saw- that wasn't just a spark! And judging by the fact that Walle made an absolutely blissful warble as he limply let go of Eve and just floated there with a dreamy expression, he had thought the same thing Rocky had. Eve kissed him!
Eve giggled at Walle's reaction and Rocky's expression. The little robot had definitely enjoyed that, just as she had hoped. Though she had to admit, she honestly enjoyed that too. Even more than the warm nuzzle that he gave her. He was so sweet...
But she still had a job to do. And this time, she wasn't going alone.
"Walle? Rocky?" She gestured back to the ship. Rocky pointed to himself in confusion. "You even want ME back?" Eve nodded. "Why? Because I put up the protection field?" He wasn't challenging her or anything, he was just curious.
Eve widened her eyes again. Sora had saved them both? That changed her opinion on the PAW Patrol pup completely. He wasn't as dumb as she thought. All the more reason to keep him here. She nodded again, smiling with her eyes.
Rocky returned the smile gratefully. "Let's go, then."
But to their surprise, Walle shook his head and activated his fire extinguisher in a direction that was not going toward the ship. "Yoo-hoo!" He called playfully. Eve giggled and followed after him.
Rocky gazed in awe at the flying couple. Eve was actually putting her directive behind her for now to enjoy a moment with Walle? She must've been really happy...and he had a feeling that it wasn't just because he saved the plant. Rocky had a sudden urge to join the two's fun, but he restrained himself and just floated there, enjoying the show. This was their moment, and he would let them savor it.
"It only takes a moment..."
That was the song that played through Walle's head as he and Eve twirled, soared, and danced through space, neither one stopping, neither one having a care in the world. Walle couldn't remember another time so beautiful and enchanting as this. In fact, the more time he spent with Eve, the less he remembered at all. Nothing else mattered to him except Eve. There was no one else in the universe except those two. They flew between rocket engines that emitted a mesmerizing purple glow, they twirled around the wings that dimly shined their bodies as blue, and Walle vaguely remembered passing Rocky by, who waved to them happily and gave Walle a thumbs up.
But then it was over seemingly as soon as it began. Walle's fire extinguisher had reached its limit, and could no longer propel him. He let go of it and soared helplessly through space. Cold emptiness surrounded him as he no longer felt Eve's presence beside him. It was liking waking up from a wonderful dream into a world of darkness.
Then he felt something warm and smooth grasp him gently. "Eva..."
Eve gave him a tender smile. She had enjoyed their dance too. In fact, even she appeared reluctant to stop...
She beckoned Rocky toward the ship, and the young pup obeyed. Together, the three entered the ship. They had to get to the captain now. With Walle and Eve's rekindled and even closer relationship, Rocky felt like he could do anything now.