They had traveled for three hours before they came across an inn. Katie was surprised at Andrentureasu's speed. When they got to the inn, they were too tired to continue. A young
woman with an apron answered Katie's knock on the door. She jumped back when she saw Andrentureasu.
Katie, tired, said, "Can we stay here for the night?"
The woman, slightly frightened, said, "Um, we don't have any rooms open, but I'm sure the lobby couches would be just fine."
The lobby couches looked like they were supposed to be used as beds. There was only one person in the lobby. When she saw Andrentureasu, she jumped off the couch, frightened.
"Who-what are you?"
"My name is Andrentureasu. I'm an Albatrian. An alien."
Katie said, "Hi. My name's Katie. What's yours?"
The girl, who looked about 11 years old, said, "Oh. I'm…Bonnie."
Bonnie had blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. She seemed nervous and sad.
Before leaving, the woman with the apron said, "Breakfast will be in the morning. It's free. I'll bring yours to you, Andrentureasu."
Because they were so tired, it wasn't long before Andrentureasu and Katie were asleep. Bonnie went to sleep crying an hour later.
The next morning, Katie woke to find Bonnie already awake and had red eyes. Katie knew that something was wrong.
"Bonnie…are you all right?"
"I don't wanna talk about it."
"That's all right. By the way, I'm from Transin."
"Why did you leave?"
"I hated my parents. They were always so repressive. Where are you from?"
"I'm from Gallicus."
The moment she said that, Andrentureasu woke up.
"Gallicus? That's where we're going. What's going on over there?"
Before Bonnie could answer, the woman with the apron came in, holding a plate of cooked steak.
She said, "Breakfast is being served. Here is yours, Andrentureasu. I hope you don't mind steak."
"Not at all."
Bonnie and Katie went off to the dining hall for breakfast.
When everyone was done with breakfast, they all went to the lobby. Everybody, when they saw Andrentureasu, stared in surprise at her. A few minutes later, a bell began ringing.
Everyone except Katie and Andrentureasu began panicking.
Katie was baffled. "What's going on?"
The woman in the apron said, "The Rangio gang. They're a band of robots whose lives haven't worked out that well for them. I heard that their leader suffers from a broken heart. I
also heard that he's 2,000 years old."
A man said, "He formed the gang about 500 years ago. He's said to be the most evil robot that ever lived. And I believe that! He's been responsible for the destruction of countless
towns and the deaths of countless people. And he often kills them himself."
Another man said, "Yeah! In fact, he killed Bonnie's parents yesterday morning!"
Bonnie burst out crying.
The man said, "Should I have not said that?"
Katie said, "No wonder she had trouble getting to sleep last night!"
A woman said, "They have destroyed so much…all we have left is this inn…it will certainly be their next target…along with us."
Andrentureasu said, "I'm gonna see if I can convince them to spare the town for one more day."
The woman in the apron said, "You'll get killed!"
"I won't. I'm stronger than you think."
"…very well. I'll let you try. The rest of us will find a place to hide."
Andrentureasu went outside while everyone else hid in the basement.
She stood there in the blazing sunlight, waiting for something to happen. She then heard something behind her. She looked and saw a robot ten feet behind her holding a
somewhat large rock as if he was going to throw it at her. When she saw him, he soon put it down. She then heard several sounds and looked to find that she was surrounded by
robots, all seeming to be looking at her with malicious intent. None of them looked familiar, which made her glad.
One of them said, "If you think you can stop us, you're insane."
Andrentureasu said, "I don't plan on stopping you. I want to talk to your leader."
At that, all of them burst out laughing. She hoped that this meant they would agree.
It did. One of them said, "That's all you want? To talk to our leader? All right, then!"
The robots in front of her stepped to the side to reveal their leader. When she saw him, her eyes went wider than they ever had before. It was NOT what she was expecting.
The leader went up to her and said, "Since you want to talk to me, I presume that you have something to ask of us. If you want us to spare what's left of this town, I'm afraid that
we cannot comply."
Andrentureasu, holding back tears, said, "I want you to spare the town for one more day so that the people can leave."
The leader looked at her. There was a malicious look in his eyes that made her feel sore.
He looked at the rest of his gang. He, not sounding very honest, said, "I'm sure we can agree to that." The rest of the gang members agreed with him. Andrentureasu knew that
they didn't really mean it. The leader knew that she knew. He said, "We'll wait for you to leave." With that, the gang left. She stood there, in utter disbelief. A few minutes later, Katie
and Bonnie came out.
Katie said, "How did it go?"
Andrentureasu said, "I got to see the leader."
"And?"
"You could never understand what I felt when I saw him."
Bonnie said, "You know him."
"I did."
Katie said, "Who was it?"
Andrentureasu, her voice cracking, said, "It was WALL-E."
"You mean the robot that, 1,300 years ago, fell in love with that other robot and ended up bringing humans back to Earth?"
"Yes, THAT WALL-E."
"I heard a lot about his personality at that time. I would never have expected him to become a marauding, murdering, rogue robot."
"Me neither. The man said that the leader suffered from a broken heart. Something must have happened to EVE while I was gone."
"Who's EVE?"
"EVE is the robot WALL-E fell in love with. I'm going to have to find some way of finding out what happened to her. I'm not about to ask WALL-E. Not only will he be highly unlikely to
want to remember, but it will also be very dangerous. I must find the others."
Katie eagerly climbed onto Andrentureasu's back. But she didn't move. She was looking at Bonnie.
"Bonnie, we're going to Gallicus. I would like you to come with us."
Bonnie shook her head.
Andrentureasu said, "Bonnie, the Rangio gang is going to destroy what's left of this town as soon as I leave. I don't want you to be killed as well."
After some hesitance, Bonnie climbed onto Andrentureasu's back. She quickly took off.
Andrentureasu felt pained at having to leave the townspeople to die, but it was the only choice she felt she had.
Not once did she turn around, not once did she even stop or look back. She just kept running and running and running. They had a long journey still to come.