A/N: Translating is a tough work.


Noise.

Shock.

Anger.

The artificial sunlight penetrated into the single optic.

The burden lightened suddenly.

Because of the coil's self inductance, it didn't froze right away. He still had a few microseconds to be aware that his strength as well as his mind were going.

Don't do that! You are all doomed to die!

The last flow of consciousness tried its utmost to cried out. However, it had no way to learn whether its voice had been heard or not.

It seemed that just few seconds later, he came to himself abruptly. As soon as the voltage achieved the effective level he thought he still can retrieve the situation. The static commands came to life and carried on their undone missions of spinning and dashing. At the same time, his CPU rapidly programmed the next step of movement. However, he paused suddenly by the strange feelings that his sensors sent to him.

He tried spinning his flame, surprised to find that there was something tied on his frame so that he couldn't move a bit.

Including the active top pulley. It seemed was stuck by something.

Suddenly he realized the light was strangely poor. Is now the cycle night?

As well as the gravity. He looked out of the window, what he saw shocked him.

Was the Axiom crashed into an unknown planet just in a few seconds when I was unconscious?

Pricking sparked on his left handle where the taser hid. He activated the diagnostic program. The unexpected answer was that he just tazed himself. The electric discharging while the taser was still folded. What a shame. The unfamiliar embarrassing feeling flooded through his core, made him froze for a moment.

The messy code finally went back to their routine as the processors came online one by one. He understood finally.

The captain brought the ship to Earth successfully. Now is the irreversible doom of the human beings.


It was an opposite story in Han's eye.

He jolted at the sudden sound of powering up. His hand uncontrollably trembled and suddenly lost its all strength. The steel stick surely fell onto the ground, making a pretty loud crystal sound.

Crap.

Han watched the wheel as he scrambled into the console behind, heart almost jumped out of throat. The blood hit his head and brain, causing him desperately dizzy. He was so frightened that his hands involuntarily moved to his mouth, to avoid emitting any sound. At the same time, the steering wheel abruptly jolted and began spinning, almost broke away from what Han just spent a large amount of time on it. He had seen the trembling of those ropes; some of them even was about to loose.

The boy closed his eyes. He shrunk himself deeply under the console, with the strong hope of just find a hole on the ground so he could flee out of this room without being noticed. He was afraid that if he came out he would bump into an rageful autopilot who was ready for tazing anyone.

It was the most unbearable moment that Han ever been in.

But nothing occurred.

He carefully raised his head, found that Auto didn't get rid of the ropes. He gave out a silent relief sigh. But soon he was astonished to find that the robot didn't even try to flee himself again.

The servo motor had already drag the plate upright. And 5 handles were in place, which suggested that the robot came online successfully. But he just stayed still quietly without any sign of acting.

Is he contacting other robots now so...?

Han was terrified by his own thoughts. He swiftly covered his mouth to prevent scream emit from his lips.

The rain had stopped. Twilight was dimly arrived. A cold wind must drilled out from somewhere, blowing some dusts dancing into the air. Han suddenly felt itchy in his nose. He quickly gagged his nose to avoid the sudden blow of breath, which cause another symptom of almost breaking the eardrums. He felt his chest in a dull pain but couldn't compare with the tearing pain in his ears. The boy tried to focus on the sound and was pleased to found that he could still hear things. And most importantly, the sneeze seemed didn't have made any sound.

When he raised his head again, a horrible voice shocked him.

"Come out." A mechanical, monotones and cold timbre.

On one hand, Han was extremely frightened. On the other hand, he never heard anyone's voice was like that. He actually didn't recognized the meanings of the two words. Now the only thing he could do is tried his best to stop himself trembling so that he could make less sound.

"I know, you are, behind." The deep voice appeared again. This time , the robot said it in tune and he slowed down, as if he was trying to let Han understand.

Han indeed understood it this time. He crawled out from the console, cautiously came around from the back to the front of the round plate where the red light now flashing on its middle. He kept a distance of at least two meters between the robot, still observing the slight movement of adjusting the aperture in the single optic.

"Loosen." Auto said.

Han stood there with his face pale. He didn't dare to take any action.

"I need your assistance."Seeing Han didn't move, Auto said in tune.

" W…will you taze me?" Han gazed the emotionless-apparent robot alertly.

"Negative."Answered instantly.

Han still didn't pace forward. He was serious about being tazed. Han didn't know whether Auto lied to him.

"I'm not lying."Said in a calm and deep voice. Auto got Han's mind.

Han finally decided to drag himself slowly and carefully to approach the robot before him. He plucked his courage to stand on a chair near Auto, timidly loosing the ropes which wired tightly around Auto's spokes and the top pulley. Finally, he put out his knife and carefully shoveled the glue which stuck the taser spoke together.

It's really not Auto's fault to taze himself at the beginning. Han did. When Auto was switched off, his taser was open but Han folded it. So when Han turned him on, as the program of tazing reactivated automatically, the taser would naturally activated.

After he done his work, Han stepped backward. He watched as the robot spun in small degrees and moved back and fore slightly. Then they looked at each other, without saying anything.

"Which year?" A long time later, Auto broke the silence.

"The year 2950." Han said.

The spider-like robot paused for this answer. Then he asked. "Who are you?"

"Han Kent."

"Who wakened me?"

"Me."

"Why?"

Han looked into that emotionless red round optic. The answer was just beneath his tongue but he just couldn't speak it out. Han was actually relieved a little due to the conversation between him and Auto because Auto seemed not that terrible as he thought before.

He tried to calm himself down, then spoke as clear as he could.

"There is a failure in the computer but none of us are able to get rid of it. They say that it is unauthorized and I think—"

The stationary robot suddenly pulled up, cause the boy swallowed all his words and shiveringly lowed himself down. Auto surmounted the face-paled boy and came to the console. When Han finally stood up again, he was amazed to find that Auto was operating the console.

Just after a few swift prods, the robot suddenly paused. Then he turned his face plate to Han.

"Completely destroyed." Auto said, " Repair-bots are ready."

Han gasped at this answer. He shuttered a bit. This time, he forgot his own alarm of Auto and walked toward him, spoke with a horrified face.

"Auto, could you not to connect other robots…for now?"

"Why?"

"Do you know that Captain B. McCrea once told us all not to boot you up? If I was to find I would be at no mercy…" Han almost begging.

This time Auto didn't give respond immediately as he always did. He paused for several seconds for this.

"Confidential instruction transmitted." Auto finally answered, with face plate turning to the huge French window. "Han, when you successfully reactivated me, all the robots of the Axiom would have observed my log-in signal."

This truth was far beyond Han's expectation, though it should have been well considered. He chocked for a long time, staring aimlessly out of window.

Suddenly the boy cried out, cause Auto shifted his spokes.

"What?"Auto asked.

"Gosh, it's already dark!" Han dashed to the stairs—the elevator was already rusty. "Don't turn on the light, don't let anyone notice there's something moving in the bridge!" He halt suddenly in the stairs and threw down these two sentences to Auto. Then he disappeared under the stairs.

Watching all this, Auto spared no action. Odd.He thought. He felt the message Han just gave to him made his CPU stuck for a second. I'll check their memory banks once the repair-bots show up.

Again he turned to the window. Although it was already dark outside, he could still recognize the rough, dark blanket covering the land. Plants.

Did I make a wrong conclusion? Auto thought to himself. He didn't forget to check Probe one's memory on that day. Although the directive A-113 occupied mostly in his conclusion, he didn't ignore that inside EVE's recording, the Earth indeed was unsustainable. No grass, no water, only endless deserts and relics; it was obviously not the right time to return. So he told the captain again and again that Humans cannot go back.

However, even under his opposition, the captain actually brought the ship back on earth. More importantly, all the humans survived. He felt his logic components just have met a much stronger resistance. Not possible. Nevertheless, the reality did give him a ironic consequence.

There's one more thing. Auto felt more confused. Why captain warned people that I shouldn't be rebooted?

What the hell of all these.

Inferred from Han's behavior, many humans still remained deep hatred toward him up to now. It's true that his taser had impressed people deeply but, it never ranked from the bottom of his list of solving progress. During the 700 years, you can even count the uses of his taser by counting your single hand fingers. Not until the last day in space didn't human show any disgustingness toward him.

Auto couldn't figure out any reason that people appeared to him now. Very funny.

The Network had already configured inside his CPU. He couldn't help checking and analyzing the frequency of the interaction. No surprise. From the moment that he logged in the Network, the frequency of communication had drawn a pretty subtle crest. Since he couldn't check the content of those private communications, all he could do was just watch the tendency to see if it was related to him.

A strange sound suddenly interrupted the commander's thought. It sounded like different groups of metals rubbed each other. Auto turned around, was a bit shocked to see that the elevator used to be functioning smoothly and quietly now seemed had lost any aspect of its benefits. It stopped and ran randomly.

After seemed like almost a century's time, the elevator struggled to open its door. Some ELE-Es appeared. Once they moved out of the elevator, they stopped in unison.

They watched their fully on-line commander in awe. They shared the similar thoughts with humans, that they might meet with a terrible avenger. For this they even discussed about how to deal with that situation for a while. However, when they nervously came out of the elevator, Auto didn't show any anger to them. Instead, he just politely and calmly hung on the other side of the bridge as he always did before. Their burden released a lot.

"Good evening, boss." An ELE-E broke the silence in Robotics.

ELE-Es received Auto's instructions and began to work immediately. At first they remained reserved under the monitor of Auto. But as the repair work proceeding, they didn't been interrupted a bit by the commander. Soon they all forgot they were still monitored and began to chat occasionally while working. They didn't dare to chat when working at bridge before. Today should them did that, however, after 100 years of human culture exposure no one could avoid being affected. The random chats eventually turned to continuing sound with some bursts mixed in it; that's their own laughter.

Auto spared a quite large space for them. He just hung on the almost longest distance between these robots as he could in the room, quietly watching them. If he felt it offended he would warning them much earlier. But he didn't do so. If the chatter didn't effect the working efficiency a lot, he would let them go. Not until those robots stopped to messing around would he make a announcement. Besides, he can trapped some information from their topics.

Auto didn't like beating around. But since he met the serious setback due to his cursoriness to the circumstance, he choose to wait and observe rather than take actions that have already loaded in his processor. Now the situation had changed. Not until he made sure that he had collected enough information did he decide to proceed. So he changed his mind of checking their memory banks once he observed their changes.

They changed. Auto inferred from the talking way that his ex-crew showed. Now they were more and more like humans. Which suggested that they would probably hide some information. Would they hide information from me? Auto lost in deep thought. He decided to be more careful to give instructions the next time.

So the air in the bridge was relaxing, temporary. The harsh commander seemed to pay no attention to the troublemakers in his office. The OCD patient seemed to be cured. That's a good sign.


However, Han was going through a hard time.

It was the first time that he had ever felt the distance between his home and Axiom was too far to let him make it. He felt as if he had walked into midnight, but still didn't exit the giant cabin. Darkness closed every corner inside the Axiom. He forgot whether he had been walked in this situation before or not. He was afraid. But the surroundings didn't frightened him. He was afraid that he didn't know how to explain to his parents why he came back so late. He skipped the farming again, without knowing who would be the informant of him.

His mind uncontrollably began to film how his parents would react of this. He was threatened by his own imagination, jolted to start running. Han was always quite proud of his explosive footwork and endurance, however, today he felt no matter how quick his leg oscillating he was moving even slower than a snail. And he felt exhausted even after a few footsteps. The right exit seemed like keeping a not too far but not close enough distance between him forever. In other words, it just like you and moon. You walk, it follows you. But when you chase it, you will never catch it up. It always keep a distance between you.

Han finally made it to that unwillingly welcomed exit, with butterflies in his stomach. The cold wind swept through him. He signed in relief. At least he had finished half of the way.

Looking through the boarding platform, Han could see scattered lights shone on the vast ground. He was sure that he could point his home out from theses lights immediately. When he raced down the platform, a terrible truth suddenly hit his mind.

Nice half way. Actually, 3/4 of the total path was just waiting for him.

In the bleak night Han run alternated with walk, almost out of breath. However, although he had much longer way to go than on the ship, he didn't felt so anxious as before. Maybe it was because of the wind?

More and more familiar farms had been passed by. When the light of his own home finally shone its way to him like lighthouse, he suddenly stopped.

Strangely, he wasn't so eager to enter the house now. He even was afraid of it. He wouldn't know what he would face. What Auto said to him suddenly echoed in his mind. If that was true, now the message of Auto's return must have been spread through the whole Earth Village. Although Auto told him that he had transmitted the new directive, between the time of the transmission and booted up could still let some big mouths be out of hook.

He heard something from the living room. He listened to it very carefully, was shocked to distinguish that there were some unfamiliar voices. Crap. He knew that his family rarely receive guests on the working days, there was no holiday around either. The big boys wouldn't inform to his parents about his absence. So the worst had happened. He had been found.

However, he was amazed to find that he was calming down instead of more frightened as he thought.

Han went into a farm and found a muddy pond. He applied some mud onto his pants and sleeves, pretending that he had been worked hard till now. Then he slowly walked toward his house, looking extremely exhausted.

He quietly opened the door, with the thought of undetectably slid through the door then gave a fine excuse. But as soon as he opened the door, three faces and a robot pair turned to him. The conversation stopped suddenly.

He knew it well when he was out of the door. Now the three beings out of his family let him thought that the thing couldn't be worse.

The mayor, Wall-E and Eve.

"You've done what, young man?" His father yelled at him and strode toward him.

The poor boy shrunk himself and closed his eyes. Beating was unavoidable. But this time, he could only pray he would still alive.


Previously. Two hours ago.

Wall-E and Eve were proceeding their mission of exploring after the rain. Now that humans had returned to Earth. They were regarded as expeditionists. With the help of Eve, Wall-E now could go to much far away from the Earth Village to explore the sustainable place. Humans also provided them seeds every time they set out to spread the hope of life.

Just when Wall-E was played with a string of newly found bells, Eve received a login signal.

She was confused that who would log in even 100 years after the Axiom landed so she checked the signal. To her shock, that actually was Auto.

Eve didn't like Auto. Even at the beginning. She would show respect to him, but it was just out of primary programming and manners. Especially when he almost tazed Wall-E to die, she couldn't bear any moment this wheel functioning. If I have had to face this moron. She thought. I would get him.

Eve tipped on Wall-E gently but with worried eyes projected on her face. Wall-E turned around confused. Eve told everything to Wall-E, seeing this waste compressor shrunk himself into a box immediately and trilled.

【Go for the mayor.】She said in Robotics, holding Wall-E up and then flew for the Earth Village.

Later Eve received another message from Auto. This time was an order that every robot must not inform any humans about his awaken.

Even it came from her boss that had set in her programming, she resolutely decided to disobey it with sulk. Auto is too dangerous. She thought. Such news must told humans as soon as possible.

After they rushed into the mayor's home, Eve tried her utmost to told it to the mayor. Then she insisted the mayor come to the bridge with her.

However, the mayor just lost in thoughts. After a while, he told Eve that he would check it first rather than go to the bridge immediately.

There was a control room near the mayor's house. He had installed a secret camera in the bridge, the other side was linked to this room. He initiated the holo-screen. A boy's figure jumped into the screen suddenly.

Just checked it more carefully, he was very near the steering wheel with tiny movements on his arms. The boy seemed talking with the robot before him.

"It's him." The mayor said. "No surprise."

"Danger." Eve repeated this word. "Must go to the bridge."

The mayor made a gesture of restrain, "I'll have a talk to his parents first." He brought a small receiver and exited the room so he could still monitor the bridge.

Eve was reluctant to accept the result, but she said nothing more. She held Wall-E then exited the room too.


"Hey, don't do that so hurry." The mayor held the rage man back. "Let kid explain it for us."

" What else can come out of his mouth?" The man stopped, but anger still remained on his face.

"Here, would you like to tell us what you did today?" The mayor came to Han and asked calmly.

The boy still shrunk himself. He raised his head in horror, face paled. " Went into the bridge and reactivated Auto."

"Why did you initiate him?" The mayor asked, still calmly.

" For the computer…" Han said it in rather faint voice. He didn't dare to look into the mayor's eyes. Although the man before him seemed didn't plan to blame him or something, who could tell it?

The two felt a commotion behind them. The woman was grabbing her husband tightly. As for the man, his anger looked like a flame thrust straight into his own son.

"Tell something about Auto, please?" The mayor turned around and asked again.

"I…I…" Han knew the answer however, he didn't dare to say it. For this would be a terrible proof of betrayal.

" Tell us, please." The mayor said gently. "It would be fine."

Han haltingly opened his mouth, then looked down to the ground, muttered.

"I…I think he is fine…"

"What do you mean by 'fine' ?"

"…He didn't taze me. He didn't swear. Nothing occurred…"

The boy lost his courage to continue.

" That's OK. Go and have your dinner." The mayor tapped the boy's shoulder and said.

It can't be true! Han glanced at mayor in disbelief. The man just responded him with a calm face. The boy rushed into the kitchen.

I am released! I will not be beaten! Han scoffed the already cold food. At the same time, he was secretly listening to the sound from the living room.

"We respect you and your decision, Mr. Grande. But now we are quite worried about it." Her mother's voice slid into Han's ears. " Although nothing happened today, who knows later? Even you cannot guarantee this."

"That's right." The voice of the mayor was still calm. "So may I suggest we should deal with it tomorrow? It is not a good time to go to the bridge now. Relax and don't blame your kid, alright?"

The door shut gently. Han became nervous again, because dad's gloomy gaze were approaching. His mom also didn't show any sign of approval of him. Han subconsciously dropped his spoon into the plate.

However, his dad didn't explode with rage. The farmer just sat near the table and began to have dinner. So as his mother.

The whole family finished the dinner in a extremely weird silence.


I don't know whether Auto should act like that when he is reactivated. I think this one's much different from what I've read in both FF and DA. If you think it is unreasonable please review. Of course, other reviews are badly needed.