The efficiency of the robots was absolutely very high. After only one night, the Bridge's maintenance team had basically restored the console's function.

Auto watched as they left the Bridge and then went through the test by himself. Now that the console was repaired, a stack of warning lights all started flashing and beeping on the console. Auto checked out the error types one by one, realizing that the ship was in much worse condition than he had expected. Many of the sensors on the ship had failed, the actual damage would be more than those flashing lights currently reported.

Worst of all, there was terrible damage in the processor room of the ship's computer. Auto discovered this by checking the logbook. The Log was the only document he could guarantee that he kept a intact copy as well as the Axiom's computer. Fortunately his own copy didn't seemed to have much problem, which means that he did not need a disability level assessment.

Now that humans have settled down on Earth. However, resources are no longer able to fully allocated to the Axiom. So what should be considered now is which part of the ship needs to be repaired.

When Auto was thinking about this issue, footsteps came behind him. He turned around, waiting for the visitors who appeared at the staircase.

A head came out of the staircase, followed by another, then another ... Auto was quietly surprised when the last two Non-human members finally came to his sight.

Wall-E is still functioning.

Auto didn't hate Wall-E. If this little guy could have understood the situation any better, he wouldn't take the action in such an extreme way. But this robot's stubbornness really annoyed him at that time. 700 years of his own command, none of the robots who own normal chips dared to offend his authority. Now he had focused on the 4 human beings, while leaving the idle peripheral of the lens silently recording the movements of the two robots.

Eve...

For the time being, confirmed that she had listened to my instruction. The time between I having been found login and sending instructions was too long, which greatly increased the possibility of her reporting. She's too fast to be stopped.

"Good morning, Auto." Han stood in front of 3 people and greeted the red-eye robot hanging in front of them silently.

"Good morning, Han." "Auto responded immediately.

"I ... I'm sorry, Auto ... " Han quietly raised his head and glanced quickly at his father, whispering.

Auto did not respond. The red light in the wide-angle lens had not changed a bit.

"What did you do last night?" The Mayor strolled leisurely toward the center of the Bridge, asking Auto in a really casual tune. He took a glance at the console. The light of the functioning part was flashing, glowing in a pretty active way than any time of the past.

"Supervising the console repairing and troubleshooting other failures." Auto responded immediately.

"The scenery here is good. " The Mayor looked out the huge floor-to-ceiling window. "Do you know how is the condition of human now?"

"Humans have survived. " Auto responded.

"That is correct." The Mayor slowly paced the Bridge and moved behind Auto, "Do you know why you've been reactivated?"

"Been told that the computer failed which you couldn't solve it. "Auto answered. He turned slightly in order to see the Mayor.

"He's an asshole, he shouldn't be rebooted." The farmer whispered to his wife. The latter clasped her husband tightly, staring nervously at the spider-like red-eye robot and their own son.

"We saw everything that happened yesterday, Auto. "The Mayor came back where he stood at the beginning, looking straight in the red-eye robot, " But there are some stuff we don't understand, could you explain it to us?"

"What is it?"

"First of all, do you know who warped you up?"

"Don't know. Although there is greater possibility toward Han. "

"He did it." "The Mayor added. "So what do you think about it then?"

Auto paused for a few seconds. "Confused." After a while he added another word. "Angry."

"Here is another problem." The Mayor kept a distance between Auto, but watching closely at the robot's every move, "Why didn't you taze him?"

There was a little commotion behind the Mayor. Turning behind, he saw Wall-E had already shrunk into a yellow box, silently sneaking down to the console. Although Eve was just quietly hovering there, her expression however, was not friendly.

" I promised I wouldn't taze. "Answered the monotonous tone, "And my taser was broken."

"If he hadn't have you promise and you didn't have broken your taser as well?" The Mayor continued asking, "Answer it directly and honestly, without considering our feelings."

"Negative."

"Why?"

" I don't taze people without reason."

Hearing this, the farmer immediately took a step forward and pointed at the red-eye robot.

"Why, you think we don't know how you planned to treat the captain that day?!"

Eve's beautiful blue HUD eyes turned into an extremely angry upside down crescent. This lie was too hard for her to bear.

"It seems that no one trust you. " The Mayor glanced at the two individuals holding the negative vote, and there were probably two more. " Do you have any alibi?"

Finally Auto gave out a little body language. He uttered a short, muffled electronic sound which sounded like an old cormorant purr. It was a good while before he spoke.

"I have no alibi." It was said in tone. It seemed difficult for him to say something with a tone or saying a long sentence." If you're going to accuse me of this, go ahead. "

If the story could dated back to more than 100 years ago, when the Axiom was still floating in space, Auto probably would have add a " This conversation can serve no purpose any more, goodbye." then immediately turned his back on those group of people. But today he restrained the impulse. Instead of disoperation, he just waited silently for the respond.

Han looked nervously at the Mayor and Auto. The conversation was getting sharper. from Auto's changing behavior, he could tell that Auto was a bit annoyed now. If the Mayor kept asking the robot like this, he might not as kind as he was yesterday.

"Wall-E and Eve are here now, Auto. " The Mayor deliberately point at the two robots, "They have been considered as the direct victims of you. We need to have a good conversation so that we can make a different impression of you. But if you refuse to continue to communicate, it may deepen the misunderstanding between us. "

"Agreed." Auto resumed to his monotonous tone.

"We humans need to go down to the Captain's Apartment and have a private conversation. So you three can spare some negotiating time. What do you think?"

This time, Eve did not acting first. Instead, Wall-E immediately slid farther back and began to shiver.

The Mayor looked at Auto and shrugged.

"I ... promise won't harm you." Auto said stiffly. He wanted to asked Eve to lock her gun, but didn't say it out.

"That's great. Have a nice talk. " This was an order rather than a simple sentence. The four humans walked down the stairs.

Han went down the last. He stood at the stairs and glanced at the robot he had rebooted by his own decision. Han really didn't want Auto to be shut down because of another vicious incident. Besides, he was unarmed now.


After the door of the staircase was closed, the three Non-human members on the Bridge looked at each other for some embarrassing moments.

Eve suppressed full of rage inside her processor, but somehow she just could not burst it out.

Although those three were really lame at spoken English, once using the Robotics and the Axiom Communication System, the two Axians were indeed fluent talkers. As for another left-behind member, if he was pulled into the Axiom Communication Network, he would soon rise to the rank of a Navy commander of the Marine of information.

【You ...】 After a long time, Eve just said such a word on the Internet.

【I was about to ask you, why didn't you carry out my order of keeping confidential?】 Auto questioned Eve.

【Why should I ? Now that I am out of your jurisdiction, I have the right to choose carrying out the instructions I think is right. 】Eve was unwilling to be outdone.

【Hey, when did you get out of my jurisdiction?】 Said Auto, who was astonished and irritated. 【And what the hell do you know that this directive is wrong?】

【If you're innocent, why do you have to hide yourself? You are obviously guilty.】

【...】Auto sent a string of dots to express upset. 【The boy didn't want me to be found so soon. Did you see how he was afraid of those adults? Who knows what he would go through.】

【... 】 This time, Eve was choked. She really saw Han was almost beaten by his father yesterday.

【Would you please asked me why before you take your own action, I DON'T eat anyone.】

【Very nice statement. But could you control yourself?】 Eve gave a contemptuous reply.

【Same day again?】

【Yep, the Mayor have said "Let's Negotiate."】

【Nothing to negotiate. The facts are obvious.】

【Hey say, you two frontlines, could you please find somewhere else to diss each other?】 Suddenly a robot came in.

Auto immediately switched them to a private channel.

【Very clever. Claiming that I was defective so that you could say the plant was a failure.】 Eve now fully in her revenge plan.

【... Move on.】

"..." Eve thought Auto would retort, but she didn't prepare to receive that kind of respond.

【Then you told that little guy to destroy the plant. Don't mention that you almost killed Wall-E in that pod. Have you ever considered my instructions? 】

【…Continue.】

【My instructions is to keep the plant and send it to the captain, but what have you done? Sabotaging my logic and blocking my execute ways. Yes, it's unbearable for me. You know it well but still made me suffer from this? 】

【…】

【You are also so mean to him. He couldn't understand what you're talking about. You just tazed him to death. Was tazing the only program in your processor to solve such problems? 】

【…】

【And you tried to taze the captain! This is the extreme offense! The captain insisted on coming back, you have to obey his orders anyway! 】

【Eve, they couldn't survive if came back.】

【What about now?】

【…】Auto replied. 【Done?】

Eve felt her suspicions had confirmed. 【Don't think we didn't figure out why you wanted to stay in space. Because you can't leave the Axiom. When we come back you can only stay in the Bridge, then you'll be abandoned. So you didn't want to come back, right? 】

【Negative. 】

【Negative? 】 Questioned Eve.

【Negative. 】Auto replied, 【Done?】

"..." Even though her expression was all crooked, Eve was extremely annoyed to find that she actually had nothing to say now. She had no expectation that the conversation would be her own solo play.

【It seems that you're done.】 After half a minute, Auto replied. 【Then I'll solve your doubts start with the first one.】

【Please.】 Eve responded in grumpy. Since Auto was playing with the psychological tactics, why not she play with him?

【First of all, your memory was indeed faulty.】Auto replied.

"!" Eve immediately drew out her plasma gun. 【I did not tamper with the memory!】

【Your memory showed a wrong plant source. 】 Auto answered calmly. He silently increased the power of the servers connected to all the bearings, ready to respond to Eve's plasma gun at any time.

【Anyway, I found the plant.】 She said. 【This proved that the Earth's ecology was restored and human beings could survive. 】

" ... "Auto stopped the blurted retort and decided to proceed as planned. 【Secondly, I have considered your instructions. But it is not so important compared to the survival of mankind.】

Very well. Eve thought to herself. Sure enough, this guy's disposition is not changed. Now even trying to pack himself as noble and innocent.

【Then, at that time, tazed him was the most logical choice. 】 Auto stared at the Wall-E, who was almost startled.

Eve immediately raised the gun, pointing straight at the red optic. 【Your logic is the biggest mistake. 】

【Put it down.】 Auto responded coldly. 【Explain it, what is the mistake?】

【If what you said is right, that human beings come back to no survive. Then what's going on today?】 Eve just slightly lowered the muzzle's height, but still pointed to Auto.

【There was nothing wrong with my logic, but with your memory and the plant.】 Auto responded. 【Your memory showed that the dust was floating everywhere; the rubbish was covering the ground; the sewage was flowing. The plant was not found in the right place. All these signs show that the Earth was still unsustainable. I could only judge that the ecology was not restored. 】

【If there was no recovery why are those humans alive now?】Eve repeated the question and approached Auto.

【Timing back, Eve. 】 Auto moved back a little,【You can count by yourself, what was the probability that humans would survive when they came back?】

【Very high.】Eve replied. 【Have you seen the oxygen content? Fully meet the standard of needn't wearing a helmet. 】

【So what else are the conditions of the human survival?】 Auto asked Eve deliberately. The condition of human's existence is absolutely not only the oxygen content can be solved. Through 700 years of managing the spacecraft, Auto knew it very well. He quickly checked the results of that day's scans from each EVE probe, determining that apart from the rising oxygen levels, other indicators of survive on Earth were far from being required. Eve absolutely couldn't refute him.

Eve knew it was a dead end. Her insistence on going back to Earth was not simply an order at last. She knew it, but she didn't want Auto to find out what the reason was. So she decided to give up. 【You win.】

【Next one is about the captain's order.】 Auto continued, 【 The A113 directive had made it very clear. "Override Directive", "Take Full Control", "Do Not Return". You have seen the video as well. Don't tell me that you don't understand the meaning of these words.】

A long pause.

【You are a fool.】 Eve finally said. 【You are an advanced Artificial Intelligence, couldn't you judge that this directive will be invalidated one day? And this day must exist! 】

【This day has not arrived. 】Auto was a little annoyed, 【Don't use the present conclusion to infer the past! 】

【I mean,】 Eve stared at Auto, 【Couldn't you estimate whether the directive was correct or wrong at the first time?】

Auto paused this time.【Did you think the directive was wrong?】

【Finally you understand.】 Eve said sarcastically, 【Think by yourself, if you had to stay in space, the ship's resources would be consumed without replenishment all the time. After the ship was all ran out of resources, the human would only perish. Letting you such a stubborn mind take control of the ship, I am really afraid that the Axiom passengers were all sentenced to reprieve by your clever justice. 】

【That's not the truth.】 After hearing Eve's words, Auto replied immediately.

【If the running out of the spaceship's resources was happened before I brought back the plant, or if the plant I brought back was misjudged by you and then the resources were running out, who should pay for this?】

【If the Earth was indeed sustainable, there would not be only one single plant , but bunches. The EVE probes were sent around the world. It was impossible to bring back just one specimen. If I did make a mistake, the next time if you brought back the plant again I would correct the conclusion immediately. 】Auto replied, 【And the Axiom's resources were still rich in 2815. 】

【I don't care about that. 】

【That's your stuff.】 Auto replied coldly. 【There's no bugs in my logic.】

【Your logic must have failed.】Even though it was a silent online conversation, Eve still stared at Auto. 【You will never honestly admit that you are wrong. 】

【Please point it out.】 Eve was so insisted that he had a problem that Auto lost the further interest in the conversation. Even though he had no interest in the beginning.

【I couldn't find out by myself. I'm not a program expert after all. But if your logic is right, why did so many people think that you've got malfunction?】

【Popularity cannot represent facts.】 Auto dumped a few words. He didn't want to explain it anymore.

Eve was rather rage. She had full of words but Auto's defense was so strong that she couldn't make it out at all.

【You tazed Wall-E, that was wrong! You gonna taze the captain, that, was, wrong! 】

【I've told you why.】

Eve was almost about to told Auto how important Wall-E was to her heart. But she tried not to throw out this trump card. Can't let Auto find the ultimate reason of my abnormal performance.【As for the plant, shortly after we returned to Earth we indeed found a bunches of plants on a damp slope. 】

【Is that relevant to my logic?】 Asked Auto.【It's your negligence. 】

Eve was almost burst out.

She also had her own thought and needs. After watching the security record videos of her own standby mode in the captain's apartment, her attitude to that small yellow compressor finally changed. She finally realized how much he cared about her. She suddenly understood the meaning of the holding hands. She suddenly felt that she should protect Wall-E, cherish Wall-E. Like he protected her and watched her day and night when she was out. The obligation code quickly became the directive she gave to herself, which was even more important than her initial set of instructions: Find the plant then report to the superior.

So when she saw Wall-E being tazed, she felt as if she was suffering from the shock as well. When she understood that Wall-E had tried to use the remaining energy to show her a lighter and his own lens to suggest that she could only find his components on Earth, the plant was merely a Trojan Horse for the obsession of returning to Earth.

Does Auto know this? Eve wouldn't know. But she knew that this was definitely her drawback. Just let the topic stopped here. Eve told herself again and again to stopped the urge to argue further, which really need some willpower. At least he thought the problem was that I haven't provide the correct information, just a mistake on work. There was noting to do with my private defections. Auto's attitude towards the two was somewhat different.

Eve stopped arguing back. The Communications Network and the Bridge were all in awkward silence.

Although Wall-E couldn't hear Eve and Auto's silent acrimony conversation, he inferred from the subtle movements of the two that something must have just happened. He looked at Auto's optic, which was glowing a very scarlet-red and now returning to a state of no emotional revelation as usual. Then he looked at Eve's angry expression, worrying. He was afraid that Auto might just hurt Eve's somehow. He couldn't help slipped out of the under console, cautiously moved toward Eve, while watching Auto's action alertly.

Apparently Auto had aware of the action of the little yellow compressor. He turned for a slight angle to face Wall-E, who immediately stopped and then quickly shrank into a trembling box.

【Eve, would you mind if I talk to him?】 Auto suddenly changed a topic. 【I owe him an explanation.】

Eve was amazed at the sudden change of her commander's attitude. This was too unusual. Still, Eve explained it to her partner, encouraging him not to flinch. Wall-E finally got the courage to slide toward Auto with Eve's accompany. Auto lowered his elevation.

"Request: Communication Code." Said the monotonous tone.

If it was in the space, Auto would decisively give him a scan to get the code by himself. But today he did not do so to show a bit friendlier.

"ER-4 ... 272. ... " Wall-E uttered the string of code, trembling.

Just after he stated out the string did his system suddenly received a message of successfully logging in the Axiom Communication Network. A huge amount of conversation swiftly passed through his own processor. The familiar sense of surprise arose from the emotional module, just as he entered the Axiom and saw the human traffic.

In this marine of information, however, he couldn't catch a certain word. He just knew there was a lot of noise.

He suddenly received a significant message.

【Welcome to the Axiom.】

It took a while for Wall-E to realize that this message was sent by the red-eye robot before him. He finally managed to send out a message after several attempts.

【Uh?】

【Sorry for the taze, Wall-E.】 Auto cashed in his promise.

【Uh ... uh? 】Wall-E was still numb.

【He is apologizing to you, dummy.】 Eve explained to Wall-E. Then she turned to Auto in sullen.【You'd better give him some time.】

Auto didn't say anything. He just transmitted an Robotics installation package to Wall-E. Not until now Wall-E dropped his guard towards Auto.

【You act very unusual today, boss. 】Because Auto didn't using a private channel, many robots had seen the apology message that Auto just sent.【I've never seen you make a apology before. 】

【I didn't need to do that before.】

Any robot with higher EQ knew that the answer was very slick. But no one pointed it out. The boss valued his pride very much. It was the Axiom fact that the robots knew.

The communication network immediately set off a wave of data. The greetings, enthusiastic invitations and the symbol of robots' laughter flooded the server. Wall-E almost overwhelmed in this new virtual world.

Auto turned to Eve again. 【Still want to proceed the topic ?】

Although Eve was no longer anger after saw what Auto had just done, she wouldn't claim that the past thing was just gone. Her expectation of Auto's hospitality at the beginning never appeared. Her so called revenge was also nobbled. She never expected that.

Just as she was going to say something, footsteps echoed on the stairs. Turning around, four humans came up.

Han carefully looked at the three robots, letting out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they all looked good. It seemed nothing went wrong.

"How is the talk?" The Mayor said to the three robots. Auto and Eve looked at each other for a second. Eve grunted and turned the HUD screen away.

"Reconciled." The monotonous tone reported.

The Mayor saw Eve's performance. He gave Auto a suspicious look but did not comment on this.

"We discussed underneath and made a decision. Because you have a decisive effect on the maintenance of the computer, we will not take any coercive measures against you for the time being. But it depends on your performance. The effective period of this decision is tentatively one month. If you do well, which means that you have not been complained of any offensive behavior or evil intention, the time can be extended appropriately." said the Mayor.

"Thank you sir." Auto answered immediately.

The Mayor didn't mean to leave the Bridge now. Instead, he went toward Auto, and stopped not far from him. Han stared blankly at the Mayor.

"To tell you the truth, I knew this will happen sooner or later." The Mayor looked at Auto, the latter kept motionless. "I was planning to solve your business after this quarterly production. But this boy helped me."

The peasant couple was stunned. They did not expect that the Mayor had intended to do so. Eve showed no expression on her HUD, but currents of shock flashed through her processor.

"Han was right. We cannot delay fixing the computer anymore. Now the processor room is so rusty that if we don't restart him, we'll lose more data. If I don't do so, I don't know if anyone else can do that after my tenure. So please forgive me." The Mayor said to the couple who were in the opposite direction of the Bridge.

"Well, we know you have reasons to do so, but you have to inform the people in the Earth Village. Because not all the people are as rational as us." The woman said.

"It doesn't need to apply it so soon now. It's not in my present plan." The Mayor said. "The only thing I hope you to do is keeping his stuff as a secret, will you? Now we should give him some time to repair the computer. When the time is right I will announce it."

The peasant couple nodded silently. The Mayor gave them a sign to leave. The peasant couple walked down the stairs.

Eve glanced at the Mayor. She picked up Wall-E and ready to leave, who was still drown in the digital world.

【Tell him to be aware of his own chip.】Auto saw Wall-E's blankly lens which like a drunk man. After informing Wall-E many times but couldn't receive any respond, he turned to sent a message to Eve. He didn't point out what it meant. It was actually a bit nuisance to many people and robots.

There were only the Mayor, Han and Auto still left in the bridge.

"Tell me about your maintenance plan." The Mayor asked Auto.

"Try to fully repair the function of the computer, copy all the existed data then try to filled up other data blanks."

The Mayor nodded slightly. "How long is it going to take?"

Auto paused for a long time. "At least 3 months." He finally answered.

"As for other systems, do you have any ideas?" The Mayor looked at Auto very calmly.

Auto suspended for another long time. This was the question he was thinking about, yet he had no answer.

"... Negative ... " He said, " Any suggestion? "

the Mayor smiled. "Well, for the next 3 months I'll show up for many times. And I need you to tell me the condition and state all the systems on the Axiom, then we'll talk about it. Will you agree?"

"Agreed."

The Mayor was satisfied with the answer. The smile on his face was becoming more and more obvious. "You seem could get along well with him. Since he spare far more time than I do, so you two will probably spend more time together." The Mayor told Auto. "As long as he went up to the Bridge, I want you to teach him more about the ship. He is a smart kid."

"Agreed."

The Mayor patted Han's shoulder, "Well done." "He smiled and said to Han. Then he turned and walked down the stairs.

Han watched the Mayor disappear in the staircase. He turned back to see Auto in surprise.

Am I dreaming now? Han can't believe in himself. It's settled! There was no conflict! His fears were now all disappeared. Things were actually much better than he had expected.

"Hey, you're not as scary as what mentioned in the legendary." Han excitedly said to Auto, "You know, I was almost scared to death until just now. You should never let them shut you down again."

"Hope so." Auto gave an ambiguous answer.

Han smiled at Auto, as bright as the sun now shone into the Bridge. Auto felt a traces of electricity had just flooded his long-unused emotional module. When was the last time I saw a human smiling? Auto was in deep thought.


After a long time, Eve replied to Auto.

【I'll continue the negotiate later. Just watch it.】


A/N: So this is the chapter 3, which is full of dialogues. I don't know whether you can accepted it or not. The conversation between Eve and Auto actually could represent some of my point of views towards the movie.

Unfortunately, I have to prepare for many important exams in the next one and half a month. So the story will not be uploaded a new chapter until at least July 11th. Also, this chapter was partly translated by the Microsoft Word( I was too tired) so maybe there are some strange expressions. If you don't understand any part of the story, please review. If you like the story, please review. I would really appreciate your comments.