Leah carefully set Chibi down, "Okay, I don't know how you got up, but please go back down! I need to take care of something else."
What!? No! Chibi clung to her hand, a pleading look in his eyes.
"Chibi, let me go."
No! he tugged against her, threatening with his radar again.
"No don't!" Leah stopped to breathe (metaphorically), "Look...I understand your concern, but...this is my burden, okay?"
He wouldn't let up.
"Let me go? Please?"
No!
"Chibi..."
He brandished his radar again, I'm not letting you go.
"Chibi...Chibi..." Leah almost looked close to tears, "Okay...fine...I'll stay here...I'm tired anyway..."
Chibi put the Chibi-Radar away, satisfied. Leah scooped him up again and placed him on the shelf inside, "Sleep well, okay?"
Yes! Chibi lay on the shelf and feigned sleep again while Leah went into stasis mode.
He wasn't letting her out of his sight.
Luckily, he didn't have to fake it for long, because only a few hours passed before EVE woke everyone up. Leah was very sleepy, but she stopped the group before they left and explained the situation.
"What?" EVE held her confusion a moment longer before bursting into hysterics, "You went off to that death trap by yourself!? You could've been killed! What possessed you to go on a solo mission in one of the most dangerous places I've ever seen!?"
Leah listened patiently while she was reprimanded, "I'm sorry..."
EVE sighed in exasperation, one hand on her forehead, "It's fine. But Leah, from now on, could you just go with the rest of us? I really don't want to host another funeral!"
Leah blinked, "Eve..."
"I'm serious! Do you know how devastated I would be if I lost one of my sisters!?" EVE took Leah's face in her hands, "Please! Don't be so flippant!"
Leah let her expression grow sad, "I'm sorry, Eve. I didn't mean to worry you."
"It wasn't just her!" Rio exclaimed, "We were supposed to do this together!"
"Yeah!" Ruby added angrily, "If anyone is going on solo missions around here it's me!"
"No! No one is going on solo missions!" EVE insisted, "Well, what was supposed to be our mission has been unexpectedly completed behind our backs, so instead I guess everyone has a day off." she slumped, beeping in Binary Code, And maybe I can get a break from all this actual talking...
Her sisters laughed (Chibi doesn't understand Binary).
"Well..." EVE leaned to the side, "Maybe now I can spend some time with my favorite little husband...?"
WALL-E perked.
"Everyone out!" EVE shooed everyone else out of the truck and pulled the door's level, "And don't come back!"
The door clicked into place.
"So wait, you're telling me we didn't need to check up at the Axiom!?" Rio exclaimed.
More laughter.
Chibi went through the files on the Axiom's computer. It took a lot of running back and forth to use the keyboard, but luckily, he only needed to use the mouse most of the time. He was curious. Hopefully he could get some information about what happened to Jenny after he fell asleep. He was praying that she lived a long and happy life, soon to have many children and grandchildren and whatever, but he wouldn't know unless he did the research.
"Chibi-Robo!"
It was Telly.
"Did you hear about what Leah did!? Omigosh it was ridiculous!"
Heh. So Leah still hadn't told anyone that he went with her.
"Can you believe it, Chibi-Robo!? I swear, she's going to get herself killed if she's not careful!"
Chibi propped one leg on the mouse, leaning against it as he surveyed the screen. He luckily knew Jenny's full name, which was Jennifer Penelope Sanderson. He knew her birthday, which was June 1st 1998, and he knew her description, red hair brown eyes and clear skin. Using this information, he was able to find his Jenny in all the other people named Jenny.
"Chibi-Robo? What are you doing?" Telly watched the giant monitor as Chibi resumed his searching. Only one Jenny stood out to him among the rest. He opened her biography.
Jennifer Penelope Sanderson, born on the 1st of June, 1998.
Yes, this is what he was looking for.
"Jenny!" Telly cried, "It's Jenny!"
Chibi couldn't suppress a smile. The disaster that hurt Chibi and put both Chibi and Telly to sleep had turned out to be a discharge from a failed terrorist attack, and it wasn't bad enough to hurt Jenny or the rest of the family. Whew, that's a relief. She ended up having one child named Keith and two grandchildren named Ellen and Mary. Mary ended up solving world hunger by creating a means for anyone - no matter how poor they were - to grow their own food. Ellen contributed by getting a high-tech water filter to third-world countries so salt water could be converted into fresh water.
Wow. Chibi was proud of his little Jenny.
"That's...really amazing..." Telly said.
Yeah. It was.
"Chibi?" Leah came up the elevator, "Oh, there you are. What are you doing?" she approached the computer, "Ah. So that's Jenny?"
Yes!
"She's cute." Leah remarked, "Anyway, can I borrow this computer for a minute?"
Chibi stepped aside, gesturing to the keyboard, Help yourself.
"Thank you. Computer, save search and print search results."
A piece of paper was spat out of a machine on the side of the room, "Here ya go." Leah handed the paper to Chibi, who stuffed it in his head compartment, "Okay, let's see here..." she typed vigorously.
Chibi curiously watched what she was doing while Telly flitted about, "Who's Shannon Forthright?"
"She's a descendant of Shelby Forthright, the CEO of Buy n' Large." Leah explained, "She's the one who declared war on us and tried to kill us. She also created and enslaved Ruby."
"That doesn't sound good at all!" tiny sweat marks flew from Telly's head, "Rose told me the fear was the worst thing she'd ever felt..."
"It was bad." Leah agreed, "Wait...what's this?"
Chibi and Telly looked at the screen. On it was a file that the computer picked up from an unknown source, "That definitely wasn't there before..."
It was a video file of unknown length and quality.
"Oo..." Telly said, "Let's watch it! I'm curious!"
Chibi was too.
"Alright...here goes nothing..." Leah clicked on the file and watched it play.