The group busted through the last remaining beam that separated them from the ground floor of the Axiom. As they let go of Eve and landed on the ground, the trio immediately scanned the area for signs of opponents. Eve spotted a Steward that had grabbed a broken VN-GO robot and was wrestling with it. Not pausing to think, she quickly shot off the other robot's tractor beam and shoved the Steward into a storage room. Sae quickly slammed the door shut; at least that was one foe out of the way.

"Alright guys!" Kirie pointed ahead, "Auto most likely thinks that we're still stuck down in the dump, I don't think we'll be met with a problem...."

"Right!" Eve responded as she clicked her gun again; but despite her determination, Sae cut them off.

"Looks like they have other plans." the teacher bot pointed up at the television screens, which now displayed a picture of Eve holding her gun out at the viewer. Apparently the Steward that they had just incapacitated had taken a picture of Eve as they shoved it into the room.

"Well this is just great..." Mage spoke up as the warning signal went off across the Axiom. But only a few moments after speaking, Kirie's eye lit up, "Sae! You go with the others, Mage, come with with me, I have a plan."

"Better work," Sae replied as Eve led her away, "Don't get yourselves hurt out there!" Even though they had been on journeys together, the haunting loss of Otua was obviously still stuck in her mind; she didn't want her other friends to be hurt, not even Kirie, despite their differences.

"Don't worry Sae!" Mage tried to sound encouraging as she waved goodbye and wheeled after Kirie.

Once again the group was separated; Kirie and Mage heading one way, and Sae, MO, Wall-E, and Eve the other. As Eve darted through the underground level, she heard a rather peculiar sound from behind; looking over her shoulder, she saw the VN-GO robot that they had saved trailing after them. It was sputtering out a tune of some sorts. Recognizing the beeps and squeaks as a poor interpretation of one of his beloved songs, Wall-E hit the play button in his tape player. At once a song sounded throughout the entire floor. Sae noticed it as a song called 'Put on your Sunday Clothes'. As if they were playing Pied Piper, robots began to follow them in a swam. Sae noticed that they were all the robots from the repair ward; they were all rallying behind them.

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"So just what is this plan of yours?" Mage kept up with the hacker as they raced down an empty hallway. Kirie didn't answer at first; she scurried up onto a side of the wall and anchored herself to it.

"Keep a look out while I work Mage," Kirie said, she took her two fore claws and began to spin them like drills. Using these new cutting tools, she began to slice at the metal sheets on the wall. In no time she had cut two tidy holes. Mage peeked into them and saw a network of different wires and dials; whatever this thing was, it must've been important.

"Kirie, what exactly is this?" Mage squinted to look at it all. Kirie answered by sticking one of her claws into the opening she had made, there were a few clicks and electric fizzles.

"It's one of the boards on the Axiom that controls the lines that the Stewards travel on. Certain robots on the Axiom can only travel on the corresponding lines that are drawn for them, such as cleaner bots and supply bots."

"Oh...." Mage rubbed her hands together; her mischievous mind didn't need anymore explaining, "Let me help you with that then Kirie..."

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Auto ignored the thuds and shouts of the Captain on the level beneath him; the wheel was pleased with the days events. He was now in charge of the Axiom, and his stupid prototype was finally dead. As he went about the regular chores of maintaining the ship, he saw a message transmission to the side of the main computer terminal. Not sure which Star Liner was in the approximate range of the Axiom, the Autopilot clicked the receive button. Expecting to hear a fellow Autopilot or human Captain, he was caught by surprise.

"Well you found us," A voice said in a haughty tone, "Congratulations. Was it worth it? Because... despite your violent behavior, the only thing you've managed to break, is the shell."

"Impossible," Auto didn't find the voice to be familiar. Who was tapping into the communication mainframe?

"Look, one eye," the voice continued, "You think you've won, but you haven't. You're not smart, you're not a scientist, you're not a doctor, you're not even a full time employee on the Axiom. Where did your life go so wrong?"

"Silence!" Auto was getting frustrated by the taunting voice, "I have complete control over the ship."

"Then you wouldn't mind taking a look at this then would you?" The voice replied as the screen changed to Eve and Wall-E running down the halls with the militia of broken robots. Almost immediately after the picture was displayed, Auto heard the warning sirens over the Axiom declaring Rogue Robots. The wheel growled in anger, how were they still alive? "You better do something about this quickly...." the voice taunted again.

Not replying, Auto quickly deployed the entire brigade of Stewards to deal with the rally of rogues. As he was hastily clicking out commands, the voice spoke again.

"My guess is that trying to deal with them will just make your life even worse somehow. I don't want to tell you your business, but if it were me I'd leave those robots alone." as the last sentence was spoken, Auto clicked the end transmission. If he could scowl, he would have. Quickly pulling up the screens that were monitoring Wall-E, Auto watched as the Stewards were sent to intercept them. But as he waited, his curiosity got the better of him. In his fit of panic, he brought up the data for the transmission, he froze over as he saw the origin of the signal.

The Aperture Marine.

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Eve led the motley crew down the hallways; she knew that they didn't have a lot of time, since Auto would have already deployed defenses, and Wall-E needed to be charged and repaired. As they were making their way through the tunnels, they were suddenly stopped by a full blown screen of Captain McCrea, who was "whispering" at them.

"Eve! Wall-E! This is the Captain, I'm locked in my room." he said in a highly secretive tone.

"Does he realize he's broadcasting this message over the entire ship?" Sae face palmed at the Captain's obliviousness.

"Take the plant to the Lido Deck, I'll try and hit the button for the Holo-Detector! Now get moving, Auto is probably going to cut me-" The screen fizzled to static and the message was lost; Auto had seen to it. Eve knew they had to hurry, with Auto becoming more paranoid, things could only get worse.

And Murphy's law did not hold an exception to this situation; Eve already heard the sirens of the Stewards approaching. The two would-be armies met in the center of the road. The stewards bellowed out their signature "HALT!"

"Eve!" MO Chirped, "First wave! Second and Third coming!"

Eve scowled at the obstacle in her path, not hesitating, she shot one of the Stewards dead center and blew it up in a puff of smoke. But another Steward simply filled the downed one's spot. The other robots helped in the fight too. As Wall-E took refuge behind the umbrella robot Brl-A, Eve continued to shoot at the enemy. MO rushed up to a steward and began to spin his cleaning wheel so fast that he managed to scrape it up; but it wasn't until he got help from D-Fib and the steward was brought down in a shower of electricity and crackles. The still strong fleet of stewards fought back by snagging some of the rebels in their tractor beams and shooting at them, but Pr-T and Brl-A used their reflective surfaces to bounce the various beams back at their enemies. Sae grabbed the downed tractor beam gun of one steward and snagged another one of it's brethren. She flung the steward back, which in turned knocked over the ones behind it like giant dominoes. But despite their efforts to fight off the Stewards, it seemed that there was no end to it. Watching from his point of safety, Wall-E knew he had to do something, that's when he noticed the Han-S whose arms were tied down. Not really knowing what it might accomplish, Wall-E used his cutting laser on the robot and set him free. Almost immediately the Han-S gave out a roar and flailed its arms around; it then proceeded to crash headfirst into the wave of stewards.

What followed next was a huge scene of carnage that was so violent and graphic that even the writer had problems actually describing it; mostly due to the fact that she wanted to keep this story PG-13 rated. But the aftermath was no surprise. The Han-S hovered triumphant and slightly crazed on the heap of broken stewards. Seeing that this wave was dealt with, Eve lead the charge once again.

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"Are you almost done in there?" Mage was frantic, "The first wave of stewards already intercepted them. who knows if they can hold out for two more!"

"You can't rush a tactician," Kirie said as she continued to mess with the controls, "Give me one minute."

"I gave you ten minutes!" Mage snapped, "Let me at the controls!"

"Now Mage, I - hey!" Kirie was shoved aside by Mage, who began to work just as fast on the control board. Mage turned two knobs, and wiped her hands.

"That should do it," Mage beamed, "Just watch now..."

Curious as to what Mage could have done in such a short amount of time, Kirie watched the small video feed in the corner of the board. Mage had redirected the lines of the other two teams of stewards, she didn't see how this was going to get them anywhere. It wasn't until she noticed....

"Mage.." Kirie scratched the top of her head, "Those lines wouldn't be...."

There was a tremendous crash of metal as the other two troops of stewards collided with one another. Mage had set the two lines to intersect and connect; efficiently slamming the last of the stewards together in a beautiful mash of destruction. Kirie stood frozen in disbelief for a moment; letting it sink in that someone else besides her was the one tampering with order.

"Tell me Mage," Kirie asked as she slinked around the teacher bot and formed her necklace shape, "Did you use to cause trouble on your ship?"

"All the time," Mage answered casually, "Why do you ask?"

"Nothing," the hacker mused, "Just curious is all, lets go find the others."

Not to press the point farther, Mage turned from their work and wheeled off to rendevous back with Eve and the others. She wasn't too sure what the next move was, but they both knew that at least Eve and Wall-E had things figured out.

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The wheel was more panicked now; the stewards had all been dealt with, and the army of rogue robots were heading straight for the lido deck. (And most likely, their destination after that would be the bridge.) In his 700 years of activation, Auto for once was at a loss of what to do. Not to mention... not to mention the Aperture Marine.... there was no way that ship still existed. It must have been an error in the message systems. He recalled somewhere in the ship's computer that the Aperture Marine was dismantled before the Cyan Marine fleet was developed. Why against all odds would he received a transmission from them then?

Trying to get his mind of it, he thought about the latest events; a few moments ago, he saw that McCrea try and hack the system in attempt to tell the Eve probe and the Waste Allocator where to take the plant, but he easily cut off the message. It seemed that all around him, people and robots alike were rebelling, trying to destroy his perfect order.

Things got worse as the message system went off again, looking down to make sure it wasn't from the phantom ship, Auto saw that it was the Captain's transmission. Figuring that McCrea was ready to give up and submit to A-113, the autopilot clicked the receive button. On the screen he saw the Captain holding the plant that only an hour ago, he thought he had destroyed.

"Hello Auto!" McCrea said in a chipper voice, "Guess what I got?"

"Not possible," Auto choked on his words.

"That's right," the man chuckled, "You want it? Come and get it blinky!"

"No!" Auto wouldn't stand for this, quickly opening the hatch that lead to the floor below, he began to scan the room for signs of his would-be prisoner. "Captain?" he called out into the seemingly empty room. "Captain?"

He was caught by surprise as McCrea somehow managed to ambush him; his weight almost snapping off his wheel. The captain, despite his inept abilities in combat, was putting up quite a fight; Auto tried shaking him off and tossing him away, but McCrea kept a firm hold on him. "Let go!" Auto roared as his attacker, "Get off!"

"Not a chance one eye!" McCrea seemed energized by the fight. Auto continued to struggle with his adversary, finally attempting to pull himself up back onto the control deck; McCrea's girth plugged himself in the hatch, creating another hassle. "Let go!" Auto commanded again.

"Too heavy for ya?" the Captain shot back.

Auto's reply to this was to take his higher handles and poke his eyes out. But despite the initial pain, McCrea recovered quickly and grabbed the lower part of Auto's wheel before he could whisk himself away. Now being carted around the control deck, Auto was more mobile and more dangerous; he slammed the captain against the walls, attempted to squish him against the control boards and basically fling him off. GO-4, who had been waiting in reserve, saw that his boss was in trouble and rushed out to help him. But McCrea kicked the small steward bot dead center and the little twerp was sent flying out the window with a loud crash of glass breaking.

As GO-4 fell to what he knew would be his impending doom. He felt like time had frozen; he reflected on how he had behaved the past 700 years. Why had he done what he did? It wasn't like Auto rewarded him or even cared about him. He wondered if he could have been a hero; could he had held Auto in place as Eve and the box robot took the plant to the Holo-Detector? Could he have been one of the robots who brought humanity back to Earth? As he continued to fall, he mused over the day, he wondered about the Teacher Bot Sae, he became saddened as he realized he would never see her again. Not like it mattered anyway, she saw what he had done back on the bridge; she hated him, he was sure of it.

As he kept falling, GO-4 saw what seemed to be a silver fish swimming in the vastness of space.