Chapter One-Hundred: Auto Mutiny

Back with the Captain he plays with a toy Axiom and a globe of the Earth making Rocket noises "Prepare for landing..." he said making Landing noises "We're here everybody!"

"Yeah, Captain!" he said making crowd cheers.

"Captain we're home! It's so beautiful!" more crowd cheers"

"...No it's nothing. I was pleased to do it. It's all about you people –" but from the trash Eve bursts out from it, like an angel and blows the lid off.

The Captain is stunned by this vision as she opens her chest to reveal the plant.

"How...? How'd you find it!" he asked as Eve hovers over to him and salutes and formally presents him the plant as he takes it in his hands.

Still potted in the old boot he gazes at it in wonder. "We can go back home...for the first time!" he

laughs. "What's it like now?" he asked as Eve shrugs.

"No, no! Don't tell me! I want to see for myself!" he said as he turns to his console and hits a button.

A Cylindrical Device rises from a panel and the Captain sticks it to the side of Eve's head.

A Holographic Screen projects from the device and plays back images of Eve time on Earth.

A collage of images rapidly scroll past from being delivered to Earth, flying above the devastated landscape, blowing up a rock Wall-E, Jason and Max was behind, Scans of numerous trash location sect.

"Wait...that doesn't look like Earth...Where's the blue sky..." the Captain said as he looks over to his computer screen with the beauty images of Earth still on display then compares them with what plays on Eve's screen.

"...Where's the grass?" he said as his face drops in defeat.

Eve watched as The Hello Dolly clip of Poysc plays...It stirs the Captain out of his funk as he looks up at the screen then leans in for a closer look.

"...I know that song..." he said as he observes the dancers' feet "And they're... dancing. Yes, dancing!" as he looks down at his foot tapping in time to the music.

His gaze drifts over to the plant in his hands as he lifts it up and makes the boot dance.

"...You made it somehow, eh little guy? You didn't give up, did you?" he said and as if in response, the plant wilts slightly and a leaf drops as the Captain gasps.

"Oh no, no –" he said but remembers, "wait a minute!"

The Captain urgently hovers across the room and leaves Eve alone as her recorded memories continue playing as the clip changes to It Only Takes a Moment.

Eve recognizes the music and watches the lovers on screen hold hands.

'There's something familiar about that gesture...' she thought as she looks at her own hands and slowly, she interlocks her fingers as Eve's eyes go wide.

'This is what Wall-E was trying to say to me!' she thought as her memories continue on the screen where a tap on the shoulder and Wall-E presents her the plant and then screen goes black then her security camera footage initiates.

Wall-E's vigil for Eve plays out from protecting her from the rain and getting struck by lightning five times, the sun, the sandstorm, keeping watch night and day, trying to jump start her heart.

Eve was amazed at Wall-E's selfless dedication to her and realized the meaning of Wall-E's love.

"Wall-E..." she said softly as she looked at her hands again.

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Still waiting between the towel racks Wall-E rehearses holding out his hand to Eve.

'Eve?..Oh I'll never get it right!' he thought as he becomes impatient and sneaks his way over to the garbage chute and stuck his head in.

"Eve?" he said as he voice echoed and he got no answer as he looked down the chute endless drop as he climbed in.

Holding himself spread eagle to stay in place he Carefully inches his way up to the Captain's quarters...

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Out on the Upper Deck a monorail pulls up and M-O steps off still hot on Wall-E's trail and scrubs the dirty tracks towards the bridge lobby.

M-O Then notices Wall-E's fresh track leading to the trash chute.

"Ah-hah!" he said.

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"Come on!" Jason said scooting closer as he crawled into the captain quarters with Max behind.

"Eve!" Max said as they saw the Captain was at his wet bar watering the plant in the sink.

"There you go little guy. You came a long way for a drink of water... Just needed someone to look after you, that's all –" he said as he was struck with a notion and stares out the window at space for a beat and sees his reflection holding the plant and glances at his Earth globe.

"We have to go back!" he said as he looked to Jason and Max, "hey! You are the two from Earth!" he said pointing to Eve memory on screen.

"Captain you need to get back to Earth, Wall-E the only one cleaning it and it needs to stop! All you need to get off your butts and take care of your home!" Jason said the Captain activated his chair's call button.

"Auto, come down here!" he said.

"Aye-aye, sir" Auto said on a speaker.

Eve was still watching Wall-E's vigil on the screen playing Pong, Wall-E etching their names in a heart and Eve was lost in the moments and very touched.

"Wall-E..." she said as she remembered "Wall-E!" She turns to leave and finds Auto lowering in front of her.

Auto spots the plant in the Captain's hand and A113 flashes on Auto's eye.

"Auto, Eve found the plant. Fire up the Holo-detector" he said.

"That is not necessary, Captain. You may give it to me" he said noticing the Captain wasn't even listening.

"You know what? I should do it myself" he said heading for the elevator for upstairs.

"Captain!" Auto said shooting back upstairs threw a hole then pops out another in front of the elevator and blocks the Captain.

"Sir, I insist you give me the plant" he said darkly.

"Auto, get out of my way" the Captain said.

"Sir, we cannot go home" Auto said.

"What are you talking about? Why not?" The Captain asked.

"That is classified. Captain, give me the plant" Auto said as the Captain holds plant out of reach.

"What do you mean, 'classified'? You don't keep secrets from the Captain!" he yelled.

"Give me the plant!" Auto said losing his patience's.

"Tell me what's classified!" the Captain yelled.

"The plant sir" Auto said holding out his hand.

"Tell me, Auto! That's an order!" The Captain yelled as it became a stare down.

"Aye-aye, sir" Auto said rising back into the ceiling and lowers down over the vanity console and began a high speed button pushing.

A new B-N-L video message the appears labeled: "TOP SECRET: FOR AUTOPILOT EYE ONLY".

The B-N-L fanfare then plays then cuts to the B-N-L CEO at the podium haggard and nervous and wearing an emergency oxygen vest and the fanfare plays too long.

"Just cut it off, will ya!" the CEO yelled as the music stops as he forces a chuckle. "Hey there, Autopilot! Uh, got some bad news. Operation Cleanup has, uh, well... failed! Wouldn't you know, rising toxicity levels have made life unsustainable on Earth" he said.

"Unsustainable? What?" the Captain said.

"Darn it all, we're going to have to cancel Operation Recolonize" he said as he dons his life vest, "So just, uh...just stay the course rather than try to fix this problem, it'll just be easier if everyone remain in space" he said.

"Easier?" The Captain said feeling offended.

"Mr. President, sir, it's time to go" a man on the screen said.

"Alright, uh...uh...I'm giving override directive: A113. Go to full autopilot. Take control of everything! And do not return to Earth! Repeat! Do not return to Earth!" he said as he throws on his gas mask.

"Now let's get the heck out of here" he said as the CEO races out of the room and the message cuts out.

Auto then turns to face the Captain as the Captain shakes his head in disgust.

"Now, the plant" Auto said.

"No, wait a minute. Computer, when was that message sent to the Axiom?" the Captain asked.

The paused image on the holo-screen highlights as the dare begins to calculate on the screen as it shows years scroll rapidly backwards then stops on 2110.

"Message received in the year 2110" the computer said.

"That's - that's nearly 700 years ago! Auto, things have changed! We've got to go back!" The Captain said.

"Sir, orders are: 'Do not return to Earth'." Auto said.

"But life is sustainable now! Look at this plant, green and growing! It's living proof he was wrong!" the Captain said.

"Yeah Max and I were there and we are just fine!" Jason said.

"Irrelevant, Captain" Auto said.

"What? It's completely relevant!" he yelled pointing out to space "out there is our home! Home, Auto! And it's in trouble! I can't just sit here and...and...do nothing! That's all I've done! That's all anyone on this damn ship has ever done...NOTHING!" he yelled.

"On the Axiom you will survive" he said.

"I DON'T WANT TO SURVIVE! I WANT TO LIVE!" The Captain yelled.

"I must follow my directive" Auto said.

"DAAAARGH!" the Captain yelled in frustration and turns away as his eyes catch sight of the Captains portraits and notices Auto in every one of them looking over all their shoulders a little closer every generation.

The Captain slowly looks over his shoulder and Auto is right behind him and the Captain looks at the plant in his lap.

His countenance grows determined as he rights his hat and turns to face Auto and gives the most authoritative order of his career.

"I'm the Captain of the Axiom. We are going home today!" he yelled as Auto slides into his face and makes the Captain flinch.

"Too bad" he said as he sent out a signal and Gopher shoots out of a pneumatic tube and salutes Auto.

Eve immediately remembers him from the Pod Bay

'I must warn the Captain!' she thought.

"Gopher?" the Captain said as Gopher activates his suspension beam and snatches the plant away from the Captain.

"Hey! That's my plant. This is mutiny!" he yelled turning to Eve "Eve, arrest him!"

Eve then draws her gun and points it at Gopher as Jason and Max summoned their weapons.

Gopher then raises his arms in the air.

Eve opens her chest cavity then motions for Gopher to put the plant inside her.

"Eve, you are to put this plant straight in the Holo-detector" the Captain said as Gopher slowly advances towards Eve but smirks then tosses the plant across the room and down the trash chute.

"No!" the Captain yelled.

"No!" Eve said.

'It's over the plant is gone' Eve thought

The plant suddenly reappears in the chute and rises up from the chute as Wall-E's head follows unawares of the plant resting on his head.

"Eve?" Wall-E said.

"WALL-E!" The Captain, Eve, Jason and Max said.

Wall-E straddles the top of the lip chute as the plant drops onto his chest as he looked down at it with surprise.

"Plant!" Wall-E said holding it up

"Wall-E! The plant!" The Captain yelled as Eve made a toss it motion.

Wall-E anticipates to throw it, when Auto lowers right in front of him, trying to block.

"Give me the plant!" he said.

Eve moves to help Wall-E but Gopher traps her in his suspension beam.

"Hey!" Jason yelled as he and Max goes to attack as he catches them in the beams.

"Zero Point energy? Right!" Max growled.

Wall-E dodges Auto's advances then opens his chest and tosses the plant into his chest and slams it shut.

"No!" Wall-E said as Auto hits Wall-E with a Taser on his held Electrocuting Wall-E.

Wall-E's chest circuitry blows out as he wheezes then drops lifelessly down the chute as Eve screams.

"Wall-E!" Jason yelled.

Gopher floats her trapped form over to Auto the button on her defect boot is pressed by Auto as she shuts down into pod mode.

Gopher's ray holds Eve over the opening then drops her down the chute as she bangs against the sides as she tumbles.

"You can't do this!" Jason yelled as he dropped upside down in the chute followed by Max.

Gopher then salutes Auto and exits as Auto turns to the Captain spinning his Taser in one hand as he smirked evilly at the Captain shook

"All communications are terminated. You are confined to quarters" he said as the power shuts off in the room and Auto rises back up through the ceiling.

Up the hole Auto went into the Captain looks up and shakes his fist in fury.

"NO! MUTINY! MUTINY! MUTINEEEEE!

he yelled as the hole closed.

Nothing but darkness was all Eve could see till the word "Reboot" suddenly flashes as her view comes into focus and Scans around and feel's disoriented.

Eve ended up in the Garbage Depot as Eve lies in a seemingly endless warehouse of trash but not just trash, slime, and cyborg parts were everywhere in piles dumped from a variety of celling chutes.

Eve looks down to see computer mice crawl over her as one of them has crawled over her Reboot button and switched her back on.

"Wall-E! Wall-E!" Eve yelled as a warning alarm sounds.

Eve spots a platform, loaded with giant trash cubes as it slides into an airlock as the inner shield doors lock and seal.

"Caution: Activating airlock disposal...Activating airlock disposal" a computer voice said as the exterior hatch flies open and the vacuum of space instantly sucks out the cubed trash.

Eve begins to panic and calling out again "Wall-E!" she yelled as suddenly, her area is flooded in light she flinches at the sight of two giant compactor robot as their eyes glowed and the trash around her rumble up behind her.

They bear a slight resemblance to Wall-E and WALL-A emblazoned on their jump suites.

Each grab a ton of trash at once with their gravity control as Eve is swept up with the junk and compact it and dropped to the ground.

Eve was now trapped in the side of a giant cube as her cube is picked up and transported to a waiting platform stacked with other massive cubes.

Eve looks over and discovers Wall-E was trapped in the cube next to her with Jason and Max.

"Wall-E!" Eve yelled as he groans.

"Wall-E" Jason yelled trying to break free.

Again the alarms kick in as the platform slides on rails across the safety line and into the airlock as the inner shield doors begin to close.

Eve needs to act fast her gun was stuck inside the cube with her legs as she struggled to pull herself far enough to pull it out and activate it and blast herself free.

Eve then flies over to Wall-E and he's stuck deep in the cube.

Back in the Garbage Depot M-O suddenly drops from a ceiling chute and lands in a pile of trash covered with filth the screams at the sight.

"AH!" he screamed looking at all the piles of trash everywhere and the airlock doors closing in the distance he then pulls down his hat over his eyes and zooms in and locks on Wall-E as his screen reads "Foreign Contaminant".

"YA!" he yelled as he ran out and speeds towards the airlock.

Eve was tugging on Wall-E, desperate to free him as he's slow to pull loose.

"YA!" Jason yelled slamming his fist on his shoulder and broke free as he began to pull Max free.

The Gap in the doors was now narrow Eve knew she was never going to make it.

M-O was racing towards the doors and just as he was there the doors slam tight against his head. He was now stuck.

The exterior hatch opens and Eve yanks Wall-E free as the trash flies out into space as she flies against the force and fights to reach M-O and grabs onto his roller clutched in his hands as Jason held onto Eve body and to Max.

Inside the Garbage Depot the WALL-As notice M-O stuck in the door and slams the Emergency shut-off button for the airlock.

The exterior hatch then closes making Eve and Wall-E fall to the ground in a heap.

"Oh" Eve said noticing the wide-eyed M-O who was shaking uncontrollably with fear and still stuck in the door.

"Whoa" he said.

Moments later the WALL-A light up a small work space as Eve props Wall-E up against some trash.

'Oh he's barely functioning' Eve thought seeing a warning light flashes on the meter on his chest under his skin.

"Wall-E" Jason said.

"Stay wake little buddy" Max said she gently opens his chest cavity and examines the damage she carefully pulls out his circuit board, it was charred and shorting out, Irreparable.

Eve flies off into the depot in searches for a new circuit board.

As M-O loomed over Wall-E "HA!" he said as he dutifully began cleaning Wall-E.

After finishing up he pulled down his helmet and scan Wall-E again as his read 0% "uh!" he said sitting down next to Wall-E in exhaustion.

Wall-E feebly offers his hand in gratitude "Wall-E" he said weakly.

"Jason."

"Max."

M-O stares at the filthy hand then cleans it before he shakes it "M-O!"

They sit in awkward silence for a moment as Wall-E thought the name over in his head.

"M-O?" he said.

M-O" he said

"M-O?" he said.

"Okay interesting name" Jason said as Eve returns with found circuit boards and shows each one to Wall-E.

'Will any of these work?' she gestured as he shakes his head with a frail 'no.'

Wall-E opens his chest and pulls out the plant "Di...rec...tive" he said weakly.

Eve holds the plant as her "return to Axiom Superior" flashes in her display as she considers it for a moment then tosses the plant over her shoulder to the floor.

"No" Eve said as she holds her hand out to him "directive."

"Ah" Jason said as they see Wall-E struggles to lift his hand to Eve's a he reaches out and bats her hand away and surprises Eve.

Wall-E then pushes past her and crawls over to the discarded plant and gives it back to Eve.

"Errr..." he said trying to tell her the way to save him.

Eve can't make out what he is saying as Wall-E gives up on talking and fumbles around his pockets and pulls out the Zippo lighter and lights it.

Eve then stares at the flame and thought about where he got it, "Earth?" Eve said as Wall-E nodded

"Earth" he said as he lifted his eyebrows like the time he fixed his broken eye.

"EARTH! Eve the truck!" Jason said.

"Earth! Earth!" she said now understanding as she scoops him up.

"M-O?" Wall-E asked.

"Wall-E!" M-O said as he rushes over to Wall-E and grabs onto him as Eve as Jason summons his glider as he and Max jumps on as she raises her gun to the room and blasted a hole in then ceiling and takes off with the two of them up through the garbage chute with Jason and Max following and the WALL-A's waving goodbye.

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