EVELYN sat on the edge of the plateau that her family's truck was perched on. She sighed.
Why did she tell her mom that Auto was her new friend? All it did was make EVE scream at her, and forbid her to go anywhere near the Axiom.
It didn't seem fair to her. What did Auto do wrong? He seemed so nice, even with that attitude. He was her friend, and she couldn't disappoint him by not showing up.
She got up onto her wheel and slowly crept past the truck. Once in the clear, she sped down to the Axiom
She knew would get a lot of trouble if her mom and/or dad found out, but she didn't really care.
As Auto stared out the window, spinning every so often, when a light on the control board flashed and beeped at him. Moving over to it, he pressed it and a hologram video feed showed EVELYN coming up the elevator. She would probably get mad if he ignored her, and Auto didn't have enough time to simply retreat into the ceiling, so he took his place back at the windshield. A surprisingly human thought ran through his CPU:
This is gonna suck.
EVELYN came into the bridge once the elevator arrived, where Auto was staring out the window.
'Auto?' she called to him.
The mechanical helm visibly twitched turned around.
'...Hi?' she said, not knowing what else to say.
Auto turned back to the window and swiveled, as if he was still steering something. There was an awkward, for EVELYN mostly, pause for a minute where EVELYN simply watched Auto "steer" and, if she was lucky, press a button.
'Is that all you do all day?' EVELYN finally asked him.
'I am fulfilling my directive of commandeering the Axiom,' he replied.
'Commande- But the Axiom is landed. You're not steering anything,' EVELYN told him.
'Though that is what you may think, it is clear this ship is reacting to my every command. I must fulfill my directive.'
EVELYN climbed up onto the control panel, and sat on the edge. 'You're not making any sense ' Auto looked over at her, as if attempting to push her off with his eye.
'I am programmed to make perfect sense.'
The female shook her head. 'You're a stubborn robot, aren't you?'
'Stubborn' is not in my programming. I am not programmed to be stubborn.'
'Yes. You ARE stubborn,' EVELYN teased him.
'I request that you remove yourself from the Axiom's command grid.' Auto replied.
EVELYN got down and pouted. 'Well...fine. I'll just go home,' EVELYN said as she rolled over to the elevator.
She manually pressed the button, and entered the lift.
'Bye, Auto,' she said.
No answer.
The doors closed and the elevator dropped.
Auto watched EVELYN speed back to her house.
Honestly, it wasn't quite as bad as he expected, but the girl was becoming a pest.
He pressed a button and the lights went out. He folded up, and retreated back into one of his holes in the ceiling to power down.
The Axiom was quiet...
