WALL-E was just small enough to fit into the vent
WALL-E was just small enough to fit into the vent. He hummed the tune for "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" to give him confidence.
So, ATOM was controlling EVE via control panel. It all made sense now. One question was still going through his head though. Why was ATOM trying to kill him?
WALL-E saw a grate in the floor of the vent. He looked through and saw ATOM plugged into the many sockets of the control panel. His wires were quickly coming out of his chest. They were changing to different sockets. EVE was floating next to him, very still. It was as if she was lifeless.
WALL-E could not stop himself from calling out. "EV-ah," he said. ATOM stopped and looked up into the grate. WALL-E knew he had been caught.
Suddenly the grate started to creak. WALL-E had put his hands on it and it was too heavy to support his weight. The grate broke free of the vent and WALL-E fell into the control room.
"Aahhh!" he screamed. WALL-E landed with a thud in front of the control panel. He stood up, looked at ATOM and put his hands together nervously.
"WALL-E," said ATOM, "You're just in time. I have been meaning to talk to you; about EVE." WALL-E felt anger again. "Why?" said WALL-E. "Well since you are going to die soon I might as well tell you the whole story.
"When discovered the power I had. All the things I could control without ever leaving this room; I devised my plan. I would hack into every robot in the city and use them to keep the humans under control.
"There was just one small problem. You, WALL-E. Since you were not built on the Axiom I could not take control of you. I became paranoid. Everyday I feared that you would try and stop my plans since I could not stop you.
"So I went after the one thing you cared about." "EV-ah," said WALL-E. They both turned and looked at her. She then looked up and moved closer to ATOM.
"She really is quite beautiful," said ATOM putting a hand on the side of her face. "I knew that if she was out of your life it would leave you with nothing to live for. You were supposed to leave the city and never come back.
"But you did not leave, and my paranoia and fear returned. I decided I would have to kill you. I managed to hack into EVE's mind, and I wanted to use her to kill you." WALL-E gasped in shock at this. "But for some reason, she would not attack you. I was like her mind was resisting."
WALL-E felt all the happiness he lost come back to him now. EVE still loved him and she was fighting ATOM this whole time. "So, I tried to use the hover-chairs to kill you. You brought the captain into this mess, and here we are right now. I will kill you now WALL-E."
ATOM's hands suddenly opened up and two electric charges emerged from them. The two charges stayed in his hands ready to fire at WALL-E at any moment. "In case you were wondering," said ATOM, "This was the wire I used to control EVE." ATOM pointed to a red wire that was plugged in.
This was all the gloating WALL-E needed to hear. He quickly moved his eyes apart and fired his laser at the wire. ATOM did not expect this to happen and didn't react fast enough. The laser sliced the wire in half and EVE fell to the floor.
"No," said ATOM. WALL-E moved forward to see if EVE was okay. ATOM saw him and fired a charge hitting him right in the face. WALL-E flew back and hit the floor hard, his eyes closed.
ATOM tried to pull the wire from the control panel, but it was jammed and he could not remove it. "This was not supposed to happen," he said, "This was not part of the plan."
WALL-E opened his eyes. He was not dead, he survived. He felt his eyes. The electric charge hit the laser. The laser was now broken, but he was okay. He looked at EVE who was slowly getting up. They both stood up and moved toward each other. "WALL-E!" she said. "EV-ah!" he said.
They both moved to the middle of the room and embraced each other. "EVE," said ATOM, "You are just in time." EVE turned to ATOM and readied her ion cannon, pointing it at him.
"It looks as if we are going to have to do things the hard way," he said. Silently a hover-chair that was floating behind EVE and WALL-E rapidly flew toward them. They both turned and saw it coming. WALL-E jumped just in time to avoid it. EVE jumped in the air to try to go over it, but it still hit her. EVE fell onto the chair and the glass shield sealed her in. EVE was trapped.
So sorry for another short chapter, but I would rather write numerous short chapters rather than only a few long ones. It helps maintain the suspense.
