"Careful, sweetheart! I'm not a young as I used to be!"

Shelby Forthright was with a five-year old girl who had long black hair and was bouncing up and down. It didn't take much imagination to guess who it was. Shelby himself wasn't visible in the recording, but he sounded very old.

"You're the one who's being too slow, Grampapa!" Shannon exclaimed, "Are you recording!?"

"Yes! I'm recording!" Shelby laughed, "What did you want to show me?"

"Watch! Watch me!" Shannon jumped up onto the wall of the ship and scaled the surface effortlessly. She pushed off the wall and sailed through the air, finally landing on the other wall and sliding down sideways on her feet. She slid all the way in front of her "Grampapa" and put both hands into the air triumphantly, "Tada!"

"Beautiful! Absolutely stunning!" Shelby replied, "If I wasn't holding a camera and a walking stick, I'd be applauding!"

"Yeah! I've been practicing!" she exclaimed adorably, "It's an old-fashioned kind of activity called 'parkour'!"

"Bravo! Bravo!"

"Oh! Grampapa! Didn't you have a surprise for me, too?"

"Yes I did! Right this way, my lady!" the camera spun around as Shelby hobbled in a different direction.

"Wait! Is it this way?"

"It is, my dear! Just stop at the door!"

Shannon excitedly jumped across all the walls, nimble as a panther stalking its prey. She was strong for someone who was only two and a half feet tall. She got to the giant metal door long before Shelby did.

"What's behind this door?" Shannon asked once he'd caught up.

"I wonder? Hm, let's find out, shall we?"

She smiled as she typed into the keypad with swift fingers and the door slid open. She gasped. Inside the giant room was an industrial machine, new and shiny. Something came out of a chute in the side and Shelby went to retrieve it.

"For my little baby girl..." Shelby gave her the thing, which was a cloth doll with black yarn hair and brown button eyes.

Her grin stretched from ear to ear as she took the doll, "Oh my goodness she's beautiful!"

"This is a very old-fashioned doll. I know how much you love old things!" Shelby turned the camera back to the machine, "I built this just for you!"

"I love it! I love her!" Shannon's smile softened as she moved the doll's hair from her face, "I'm gonna call her...Poppy!"

"Well then, it's nice to meet you, Poppy!" Shelby laughed again, "Happy birthday, Darling!"

"I love you, Grampapa!" she disappeared off the bottom of the recording.

"Oof! Careful! I'm old!"

"Haha! Thank you! Thank you!"

The camera drooped just a bit, "You're welcome, Precious."

The video ended and three robots were left dumbfounded.

"Whoa..." Telly said.

Leah closed the file, "Computer, when was this video recorded?"

"Message recorded in the year twenty one eight five."

She felt her eyes widen, "What? How old is this girl?"

The room was quiet for a beat. Leah resumed typing, "Hang on..."

Information file after another, Leah managed to find out that Shannon's mother's name was Noella. A few firewalls hacked through later, and she found a picture of a plaque on the side of a casket. Engraved on the plaque were the words, Novella, beloved granddaughter.

Leah cried out in realization, "Shannon Forthright is Shelby Forthright's great granddaughter!"

"Great granddaughter!?" Telly hovered close to Chibi, shivering from propeller to foot, "So how old is she, then!?"

"Let's find out...well...she was born in twenty one seventy nine, so she's..." she calculated in her head, "Six hundred twenty nine!"

"No one can live that long!" Telly exclaimed, "She doesn't look that old!"

"Wait, something's not right." Leah typed some more, "I mean, I knew they were related, but I had no idea they shared a direct bloodline!"

"What does that mean?" Telly asked.

Leah brushed her hand across her forehead, "Just who is she, really...? If she was still alive after all that time...oh no..."

"What!? What is it!?"

"I have to tell Eve!"

"Wait! She said to leave her alone, remember!?"

"I don't care! Her life is more important!"

Chibi radar'd her again.

"You wanna come?" Leah rolled her eyes, "Whatever, let's just hurry!"

She sped across the blooming desert fast enough to blow someone's eardrums out if they were too close. She wasn't about to let her family be in danger because she was too slow.

"Eve!" she banged on the door of the truck, "Eve! Open up! Come out, please!"

The door finally opened, revealing a very annoyed-looking EVE, "What do you want?"

"Eve! You have to come with me back to the Axiom!" she pleaded, "Bring Wall-E too! It's urgent!"

EVE became concerned, "Leah? What's wrong?"

"There's no time to explain! We have to go now!"

An explosion in the distance sounded, and after a moment of surprised shock, EVE headed off in that direction.

"Eve! Don't!" Leah grabbed her arm, panicking, "Please just come with me! Please! I beg of you!"

EVE turned her head around, "I'm sorry, but I'm not letting that get into town!"

"NOOO!"

EVE zoomed off as another explosion was heard, blowing up on the horizon.

"Ohhh!" Telly said, "What's going on!?"

"Not good things..." Leah replied.

"Leeeah?"

"Oh." Leah turned around, "Hey, Wall-E." she set Chibi down on WALL-E's body and picked him up, flying off, "We have to save EVE!"

Chibi clung to WALL-E's neck, afraid of falling off.

Meanwhile, the other EVE's had seen the explosion and immediately went to investigate, so when the three of them arrived, they saw the rest of Leah's sisters fighting the giant robot that had appeared.

It was the machine.

"Hey, everyone! Did you miss me!?"

Everyone was suddenly quiet. Finally, after what was possibly the oddest silence of all time, Aya broke it by pointing and yelling;

"I friggin knew it!"