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"You should all remember…that the message and warnings I gave you…"Captain B. McCrea lay on his bed, breathing with difficulty. "Must…fix the computer of the Axiom…all the information of humans and Earth is stored in it…"

"I will live up to your expectation father, and the data will be found."His son knelt down beside his bed, holding his still-fat hand, tears down the young man's cheek.

Consist of a ship rescue cabin and a brick house, the home of Captain B. McCrea was full of people. Humans stood quietly, kept a distance to the old captain and his family. The miracle of the robots—WALL-E,slid quietly to a corner and kept him as a brown cube. His partner EVE hovered near him, wait but couldn't say anything.

Captain's breath began to grow more and more rapid but more and more shallow. "There is …another…"

He couldn't complete his speech anymore. The hand buried in his son's softened, then cold, then stiffened.

Thunder rolled muffled in the sky.

Sorrow flooded through the room. The young man buried his head into the old man's arm and began to sob. His wife, holding their baby, sat softly into a hovering chair, couldn't say a single word. Some people covered their faces and went out of the room. The little M-O unit rolled into the corner which WALL-E stayed.

The little baby turned his head, looking all this confused.

"Gran-grandpa...?" He murmured softly.


A hundred years later.

A 14-year-old adolescent sat on the boarding platform, two legs slowly swung in the air, staring pointlessly toward the green vast plain surrounded the Axiom. It was noon then, however, the sun didn't pour its powerful light into the newly-born ground. Dark clouds rolled lower and lower. More and more days appeared like it now.

He glanced at the dirty cloud coldly, then turned his head back to the green misty land. Now he was sitting high in the air and could fall anytime. But he didn't care. Floods of thoughts had drown him in and he was too numbed to see anything. The wind blew strong and wet. The child rocked slightly in the wind. It was cold. But he ignored it.

Thunder mumbled in the distance. He still didn't aware of it.

"It's about to rain, Han, please enter the ship to take a shelter."A small robot flew over the platform and reminded Han.

The thin figure startled as the mechanical sound burst behind him. "Got it."He stood up slowly and walked into the ship.

It was really unusual for a 14-year-old adolescent walked into the ship alone. Long after the Axiom landed, the well decorated ship board had changed into a quite empty trunk. Humans took almost everything away from the Axiom they needed for construction. The place where plugged in various appliances now remained only the bases. Some beams were taken away as reinforcing bars for the houses. And the clean shining floor now were covered with layers of wet and dry dirt from Earth of this 100 years. The high power artificial sunlight from the top had no longer illuminate for years. Only few amount of holo-advertising boards were sparkling on-again-off-again, which could became permanent dark at any moment.

Even at noon, inside the Axiom were almost totally black. Small steel wrecks and wrap boxes were everywhere. But the huge trunk was the best echo-making system. Han's steps echoed in the huge empty cabin. If he stopped, his ear would filled with the sound of wind and the creaky groan of the ship's shell. When there were no wind whispering, his ear would plug with uncomfortable quiet. However, he eventually got used to such quiet after spending more and more time aboard.

The empty Axiom were the best place for kids to play Zombies Gonna Eat You. Sometimes 10 to 20 kids would rushed into the Axiom. Girls often left the ship just 10 minutes later with fear but pouting with dignity. Boys always stayed in there, almost forgot leaving. They hid in the dark corners, some kids made ghost screaming from time to time. Clever ones often just quietly hid in a corner but they would abruptly catch a double team or even a poor loner. The hunters and the preys' screaming echoed every place inside the Axiom.

These boys were just seemly brave and don't afraid of dark. Once the game's over, if the majority of boys had left, the rest would obediently follow the large force. Even did some gifted snipers. None of the kids dare to stay on the ghostly Axiom alone. But after their 12th, they would get tired of such a game. They were no longer afraid of anything on the Axiom, however, they simply didn't want to enter the boring cabin again.

Han was one of the members of the zombie side. He was almost scared to death by the dark cabin and his companions when he was a boy but he just couldn't help resist the exciting events. He had learned to reach any part of the Axiom after years of exploring, it was a great help for him to walk in the Axiom now.

A faint humming suddenly came from the top of the cabin. Han glanced at one of the entrance he just passed, there were raining heavily outside. However, the rain drops were mixed with mud, dropping onto the boarding platform, spattering black slurry on everywhere. He heard that the rain sometimes came like this just since 20 years ago and no one knew why.

He was already 14 but still entered the Axiom. So he was considered to be a kid never grown up by his companions. He was weak compared to some boys started to attain maturity so he became the best target to bully. Han hid into the cabin to avoid friends' sneers. Because of the sneers, he spent more and more time on the Axiom.

Is the dark cabin that horrible? There was nothing. Just cold, dark and sometime blurring by wind. There was no vampire, no zombie and no alien. His little friends thought that, so did Han. They didn't enter anymore because it was no longer terrible, but Han realized it was no longer horrible that he came in more and more confidently.

"If you are not scared then come in like me!" Once Han was surrounded by several big boys.

"Who told you that I am scared so I don't dare to enter, you idiot?" A boy sniffed at him, "You even didn't finish what you supposed to do in the farm. Kick him!"

"Ho…how can I finish ploughing that farm in one day? Nobody can do that!"

"Oh? Is that the reason you escaped to the Axiom? Very funny." The boy suddenly dragged Han's collar, " There are so many robots, dummy! Can't you throw your job to them?!"

After the beating, Han didn't tell his parents about this. But the stained cloth and his purple and red scar didn't escape from his mother's eyes. He had to tell everything to his mom. More to his expectation, his mom paled, then told his father about this.

"You have already 13. If you don't learn to farm since now, how could you feed yourself later?" His mother tried her best to turn her son's mind.

"You are ruining our family if you against the rules our ancestors made before!" His family roared at him angrily. "You can receive Nothing from the shuttle. It will never fly again. Now is your business to learn more on the land!"

It was not the first time Han heard of this. He understood very clearly that what he would receive was a 30 minutes lecture. If worse, it would just plus a dinner of nothing. He wouldn't be beaten. So he took a deep breath, preparing himself to make the word go in his ear and out of another.

"…I know McCrea told us to repair the Axiom's data base, but that's not your business. We are no longer the giant pigs in the chair. Our technology are gradually return to the path. Robots are helping us find the missing data. And there are many specialists are trying to figure out the ship's problem. You should never concern about that."

Countless minutes had passed since Han was involved in this lecture. His mind just finished wondering around and he heard his dad began to persuade him like this. This was a good sign, for it means that the speech was about to finish and plus a nice sentence reduce.

It is kidding. Han thought to himself. He had entered the ship for many times, there was no one ever up to the bridge. There was no robot, no specialist, nothing. But he still lowered his head, pretending realize his mistake. This would make the end come soon. Just gave them some time to pour all their words out.

Of course, he didn't turn his mind from the moralistic words. On the contrary, he spent more and more time on the bridge. One reason was the big boys. Another was, he had found his very attraction in the ship.

His father told him not to touch the ship because one day Han completed one circuit in the bridge by coincidence. Then a part of console came into functioning. This event was a surprise to the whole Earth Village, just like Captain B. McCrea wired the video broadcast on that day. But soon he was banned to go up to the bridge because people were afraid that he would awake Auto the mayor criminal one day. Captain McCrea once said that Auto had emotions. They would never expect what would happen if he was awake. So the old captain warned people never wake him up.

Han was scared by this prohibition at first, but soon he found that there was no one guarding the Axiom. So he continued go into the bridge then. After he understood better of the circuits, he found that the very reason of the console's failure was that the logic circuits inside the bulkhead was damaged by the cruel nature. Han had been to the Axiom's computer room several times. Every time he was choked by the mouldy smell inside the room, which was supposed to be an air free area.

After some careful considerations, he finally found some ELE-Es (Electronic Engineer Unit) and was happy to find that they didn't suspect him because of the prohibition, which means that they didn't know the whole thing or they didn't care about it. He watched as the ELE-Es repairing the console and the computer. He was about to ask the ELE-Es something about the computer, a robot suddenly turned around, spoke to Han in his monotone voice.

"There are system permissions in the computer, we are not authorized to break the permissions."

Han froze for a second. After the ELE-E explaining to him what was a system permission, Han told them he gave them permission and urged them to break it.

"Negative. Failed to authorize. You are not the top administrator."

Han froze once more. "Can you round that little program to continue repairing?"

"Negative: this is not a little program, this is the necessary way to complete repairing."

Now there is only one way. "Who is the top administrator then?"

"I am sorry, it is classified."The monotone voice answered.

"Why?" Han figured it really strange.

"I am sorry, we are ordered not to answer this question."The monotone voice answered again.

Han lost deeply in thought. After living so long with robots, Han knew that he could receive nothing even he forced them to do a job they were ordered not to do by a superior earlier. That was mysterious that Captain B. McCrea could even dug Auto's 700-years'secrete. Maybe they would told me if I change a method?

But soon he was proved wrong. He found that whatever he say, once talked about the top administrator, those robots would always cleverly round his topic away and never told the name. Later, those robots would evade his visit or call politely. They even figured out Han's purpose at every conversation's very beginning.

Han finally understood. Everything was clear now. His methods must have been tried before by his fathers, but it didn't work anyway. McCrea finally said that he wanted people to repair the computer, which indicated that he couldn't do it and he wasn't the top administrator, and it could be infer that every captain must not be. Shelby Forthright? Maybe. But there were 5 launch windows on this bay. There must be more launch windows around the world. If one man commanded every computer on the ship, all the ship could be malfunction totally once he gone away. There would be no more shuttle remain in space in less than 700 years. Actually the Axiom has recordings that the ship has failed before, but had been repaired without outer directives.

…Could a CEO really care about such ships' permission? More importantly, McCrea could use his tongue again to force those robots tell the name rather than delayed it until today.

Then the answer was clear. It was Auto that controlled the computer all the time and he know well the robots' logic, so only he could gave them a immutable order. On the other way, old captain's warnings were superior than repairing the ship's computer. So all the progress were stuck here for so many years. Humans were helpless, so did robots.

Han didn't mind the warning so much. He had listened to so many ancient stories about such things. He was convinced and even frightened for some real things that the stories mentioned about before, however, once he found that the Axiom was just dark inside but with no monster, suspiciousness grew in his mind. That warning of keeping Auto sleep also couldn't escaped from the list. Every time he entered the bridge, he couldn't ignore that inert wheel.

Smaller than I thought. Han thought when the first time he scrutinized Auto. At first he didn't dare to touch Auto. But soon he began to prod the black-and-white spokes and then grabbed the taser, put his skin against that two steel bipolar needle with a grin.

Only he touched the switched upwards could this guy wake up. But that switch was so high that without some jumps couldn't anyone touch it. As for the spokes, he could spun and touch them whenever he wanted to.

Han sometimes just looked at Auto for a long time instead of fiddling with the console. He found that Auto's white face plate now was stained with slight brown, his spokes also remained the traces of violence.

The most powerful villain has scars too, they can always get wounded. Han looked at Auto quietly and thought what made this so called bad ass consider to be heinous. Now his single optic was dark, the motor behind his face plate didn't drag him straight neither, let him hang on the ceiling softly and was at an 14-year-old teenager's mercy. If he was that terrible, he wouldn't be beaten by a fat captain and now be eroded by time.

Han was so eager to recover the computer that he almost lost his mind to jump and switch. He was afraid that if the computer continue being left like this, they would have no more chance to find the statistics back and the hardware would be eaten by the mould soon. That would be the judgment day of all the humans–no knowledge, no survival.

Reactivate him?

This was a serious philosophy question.

Han didn't know if there were anyone thought about this during the 100 years. Maybe they had thought about it but didn't proceed because of the warning. He suddenly regretted that he didn't have more chance to know more about Auto. In his opinion, Auto was not so dangerous as most of people said. But he didn't sure about it.

The only danger must be that taser. Han had thought it for times. So he began to rack his brain at whether he should reboot Auto.

These days, he looked like a boy who had had his spirit crushed out of him. He lost his appetite and couldn't sleep well. His parents were concerned about their son's health. One day his mother came and asked him about something irrelevant but Han just shuddered and denied subconsciously. He even couldn't dare to look into his mother's eyes. So this morning, he slipped out of the house before his parents could abuse him and went to Axiom straightly.

What was the old captain afraid of? Was he afraid that Auto would launch the ship into the space? Maybe he still could do this 100 years ago, but not now. He could never make it over a thousand meters high because the ship would broke into pieces within minutes.

Suddenly another possibility came into his mind: the position of Auto among all the robots . Maybe McCrea was afraid of his power and ambition to control all the humans. But what was the purpose? Kidnapping humans, the worst, killing all of them, then rule the Earth? However, after the revenge, he couldn't leave the ship, he couldn't find other material to repair this abandoned ship, he could only tolerate the life inside the bridge. Finally he just could rule all his robots just as the beginning of his revenge.

Apart from this, Auto actually didn't show his ambition to control all the humans referred to all the events. In his prosecution case of Rogue Day, he even didn't take the cruelest method towards humans because of his plot of "exposed the dark purpose."

Han had watched many movies from the computer. He inferred from an ancient Sci-fi movie that if Auto really wanted to control the whole ship, he would never leave the captain a way to survive and all the people inside the ship would under his control without any doubt.

He went up the bridge and suddenly was aware that he had stood in front of the wheel. He has convinced himself with all the reasons he could found to break the cell of this lonely synthetic soul. He didn't know whether his thoughts were right, but he couldn't let himself to think more objectively now. This requested too much for a 14-year-old boy.

However, he didn't take action immediately. His face were pale and hands were sweating.

It wasn't the first offence for him to broke the rules. But it was the first time that he was about to break such a rule. He was terrified at what would happen after he broke this rule. If everything went smoothly and Auto didn't revenge, he didn't know how his parents and the village Mayor would think. If he was wrong, Auto did began to kidnap humans, he would be the first victim.

Just thought about one man may lost his life in a day if he pressed the switch, anyone wouldn't do it without hesitation.

Looking through the large window, the muddy rain seemly unstoppable. This was a perfect time. If he didn't do it today, if he was caught going up again and they began to send guards sitting there, he would never have chance to go up the bridge. Then the computer could never be repaired…

The temptation were too strong. He felt as if he was date back to the days he was still a child, hiding in a dark corner in the Axiom. His hearts almost jumped out of his throat. He thought he would die soon at that time, however, he was afraid that today would be a real trial of his life.

When he was about to touch that switch, his shaking finger suddenly stopped. A great idea came into his mind. He grinned. At least this could extend his life, or maybe better…

After the work, he hid behind Auto's face plate, using a long steel stick slowly rest on that small switch. Then he pressed harder and harder…