"I just couldn't stay away!" Forthright laughed maniacally, "You can't kill me!" she was on a big LED screen, controlling the biggest robot ever built, "You'll never ever kill me!"
"How in the world did you survive that!?" EVE shouted.
"I uploaded my consciousness to a master computer that you'll never find!" she replied, fire in her insane eyes, "My new body isn't ready for me yet, so I'll have to fight you this way instead! Please don't die too fast, or I won't be able to enjoy it!"
"I can't believe you'd come back this way!" Aya shot a laser blast, "If you're gonna be a super-villain, at least show some decency!"
"Aya!" EVE exclaimed.
She stopped battling for a second to shrug, "What?"
"Ugh..." EVE hit her visor with her left hand.
"Look out!" Rio shot again, taking a piece of the metal shielding off.
Ruby cursed, "We're never getting through at this rate!"
Leah realized what she had to do and set WALL-E down, "Stay here! I'll be right back!"
Chibi tried to stop her, but she was already gone. She swerved around the robot and found its back-panel, prying it open and tearing the cords out. She then entered a universal kill-code and closed the opening, searing the edges with her laser cannon (this was the second time she ever used it).
"What!? What's going on!?" Forthright panicked, "Retreat! All systems are failing! I said retreat!"
The screen flickered off and the robot tumbled forward, landing with a loud metallic thud!
"Leah!" EVE rushed to her, "You're hurt!"
"What?" Leah felt the side of her face, which was black and charred, "Oh, n-no, I-I'm fine, really-!"
"No you're not!" EVE scolded, "This is a serious injury! Let's get you to the repair ward right away!"
"What were you thinking, idiot!" Ruby cursed again, "You could've gotten yourself killed!"
"I'm sorry." Leah didn't know what else to say, "I...I was being careful..."
EVE sighed, "I know. It's okay, let's just get you to safety." she took Leah's arm in both her hands, scanning over her with her laser scanner, "You don't seem to have sustained any other injuries. That's good. Come on, Go-4 can take you."
Leah didn't say anything else as she let her sisters lead her to the repair ward. She looked at Chibi as she passed him and WALL-E, concern and fear in his eyes.
Leah smiled at him, Don't worry, Chibi. she thought, I'll be okay.
Chibi watched as the thin arm with a laser on the end of it wove over Leah's head and patched up the damage, putting cords back together and fusing bits of metal to itself. It was kind of hard to look at, but at the same time, he couldn't look away. All that was left afterwards was a discoloration of the metal around where the wound was; a scar.
"Ugh..." Leah touched it gingerly, looking in a mirror, "Do you think it makes me look bad?"
Chibi displayed his sign that said, No!
"You're sweet, Chibi...but, it's so ugly!" she lamented, "I look like I lost a fight!"
Chibi shook his head, taking out his notebook and pencil again, writing down, it maks yu look stron.
"Does it?" Leah looked like she was about to cry, "It's so gross..."
no its not Chibi used his radar to make sure she read it.
"Chibi..." she replied, attempting to calm herself down, "Thank you..." she glanced at her reflection one last time before picking him up, "You're such a sweetheart..."
EVE slammed her fist down on the table, "This is ridiculous! We'll never kill her if she can just...regenerate!" she growled, "Any ideas on how to take her out?"
"Well, we need to destroy her master computer." Rio said, "We need to find it."
"How?" Aya asked, "The author is never gonna let us find it!"
"Will you shut up about the author!?" EVE exclaimed, "I suppose next you're going to tell me that my love story is a movie!?"
"What!? Of course not!" Aya said, "That's absurd!"
You'd be surprised.
"Well, what do you suggest we do instead?" Leah asked, stroking Chibi's head with one finger.
"Well..." Aya was about to say something, but then she thought about it, "Um..."
"We have to at least try." EVE said, "Wouldn't an author give their characters a chance?"
"Well...some people have written some really sad stories..." Aya frowned, "With very sad endings..."
"Then let's hope our author is a kind one." EVE replied, "I'm gonna do some more research."
"Eve, you always do the research." Leah said, "Let me step in for you this time."
"No. I should do it." EVE told everyone there, "I just want to get it over with. I can connect it with my previous research and do so quickly. And besides, I don't want to inconvenience anyone else."
Leah looked slightly disappointed, "Okay."
"You can help me should the need arise." EVE stretched her arms out, "Well...you guys are dismissed. I'm gonna go do that."
"Evah!" WALL-E wined.
"Don't worry, Babe. I'll join you guys soon."
Leah watched her go while WALL-E got flustered from being called "Babe". He could never get used to that, it seemed.
"Well, I guess we're going home." Leah said.
There was something off about her tone, but Chibi couldn't quite place it.
Chibi jerked himself awake. Oh no no no, no sleep for him! He was going to stay awake if he had to scrub the entire truck from top to bottom and rearrange all of WALL-E's belongings! Okay, he wasn't actually going to do that, but he felt like it!
Then he realized something. One of the probes was missing.
Oh no... Chibi scrambled out of the truck and ran down the side of it, not bothering with the Chibi-Copter this time. He used his radar to pinpoint where the probe had gone and sprinted. He just hoped that Leah wasn't in danger again. He hoped upon endless hope that she hadn't gotten too far. Luckily, his battery had been upgraded to an energy-efficient 100,000 watts. He had faith that he'd be able to get to her before he ran out of power.
But that wasn't his true concern.
What he saw when he found her made the heat drain from his face.
Connected to Leah's heart was a rubber pump...
And connected to the other end of the pump was a jug of water...