Chibi was frozen. Then he had turned and begun to sprint even faster. He begged his legs to carry him as fast as possible. He couldn't think of anything else as his eyes Watered and his battery acid stung.

It was the worst fear he'd ever felt, and he despised it.

He stopped at the hole in the roof and used his radar as strongly as he could.

"Wha-?"

They had begun to wake up. He did it again, more desperately this time.

"What?" EVE rolled her head around and approached him, "What's wrong, Chibi-Robo?"

He tried to get her to follow him. She read his expression and understood, nodding and picking him up, "Show me."

He pointed and she went off in that direction.

Her eyes turned into big bright circles, "LEAH!" she dropped Chibi gently and grabbed her, violently slamming her back with her arm and choking her. The water spilled from her stasis chamber as she was blacking out. She kept doing this until no more water would come out.

"No! No, Leah! Stay with me!" EVE demanded, "Stay awake! I'm not letting you sleep!"

"Eeeevvve..." Leah slurred.

"No! Wake up! Stay awake!" EVE slapped her in the face, "What did you think you were doing!? What were you thinking!?"

"I...I..."

"Nevermind! Just stay with me now!"

"What's going on!?" Rose exclaimed, the other girls behind her.

"Leah just tried to kill herself!"

"WHAT!?" Rio cried.

"NO! YOU IDIOT!" Ruby screamed fearfully, "Is she okay!?"

"She will be!" EVE sped off with her sister, "Help me get her to the repair ward! Hurry!"

"Come on!" Rose grabbed Leah, speeding along with everyone else, "Don't fall asleep! Stay awake Stay awake!"

Leah was out of it the whole way there. She almost slipped away a few times and Chibi thought he'd be sick when he saw smoke pour out of the wound she made on her heart. WALL-E caught up with them at some point, and Rose had to fight to keep Leah from drifting off. Finally, they reached the Axiom and Leah was shoved into the repair ward.

"OhmigoshOhmigoshOhmigosh!" Telly panicked.

"Leah!" EVE talked to her as she was swept away and scanned, "I'm not letting you sleep until I'm one hundred percent sure that you won't die! Okay!?"

"Eve..." she said a little clearer than before, "Why...? It hurts..."

Chibi couldn't stand the way her voice sounded. He thought he was hearing a grinder in his middle as he watched her pain. It hurt.

"I know! Listen, Leah! You're going to get through this, okay!?" EVE kept talking, her voice getting more and more upset and broken, "I'm not letting you die! It won't happen, okay!? You'll be fine! You're going to be okay!"

"Uuugh..." Leah held her abdomen painfully as the next laser swept over her. She had extensive mineral damage in her main compartment, and her stasis chamber was smeared with oil and grease. Her motherboard and hydraulics were still chugging along, though they had been almost completely destroyed. The arms on the ceiling tucked her into a slot and forced her compartments open, flushing out the mineral damage and fixing the chips and boards in her brain. It was very painful.

Finally, the machine hooked her up to an emergency charger and let a slow trickle of electricity back into her system. Whenever she sparked, it would stop and go back, drain the power, fix it up again, and hooked her back up. After all of that, she was able to gain the flow of power leaking into her tired battery.

"Why?" Leah cried, "Why?"

"W-why what, Leah?" EVE asked.

She looked at her sister, speaking carefully, "Why did you save me?"

"Why did I-! Because you're my sister!" EVE exploded, "I love you! Why wouldn't I save you!?"

"That's a retarded thing to say!" Ruby cursed again, "You tried to commit suicide and you think we don't care!?"

"How could you even think that!?" Rio added angrily.

"Yeah! You're special to us, Leah!" Rose said matter-of-factly.

"I can't believe you actually did that!" Aya cried, "I don't know what I would've done if you'd succeeded!"

"I agree!" Telly shook with fear.

Chibi watched again as Leah's eyes curved down, despondent, "I..." her voice shook violently, "I..."

She burst into loud sobbing, "It's not fair! I keep feeling so horrible! It won't go away! Why can't I just be happy for once!? Why can't I just feel right!? Why does everything I do feel so pointless!?" her screaming got louder, and the sound of metal on metal was overwhelming, "I JUST WANT TO FEEL AGAIN!"

EVE hurried to the computer and did one more quick scan of her sister, a green laser that swept across Leah's white body from right to left.

"Computer." EVE was in calculation mode, "Diagnose internal circuitry."

"Diagnosis; Eve Probe Four has an imbalance of three main unknown chemicals. Recommend treatment; a complete system reset."

"No!" EVE exclaimed immediately, "Thank you, computer."

"I'm happy to be of service."

"So, what do we do?" Rio asked.

EVE did her least favorite thing to do just then; She said, "I don't know."

"We're doomed." Aya said.

"What!? No we're not!" EVE snapped, "I've said that before and we're fine! Uhhh, you guys watch Leah for me! Don't let her leave and don't let her fall asleep! I have to go do something real quick!" and with that, she was gone.

Chibi scrambled up to Leah's head and tapped her gently. She turned to look at him, "Hey, Chibi...how did she know...?"

He patted his chest.

"You told her!?" Leah shook her head, "You always seem to be awake when I don't want you to be..."

He didn't have the heart to tell her that he didn't need sleep. As long as he was moving, he could go a million years without it.

"I can't believe it..." Leah sluggishly rubbed her forehead, exhausted, "I can't believe I failed because you saw I was gone..."

He made her look at him again, pulling out his notebook and pencil so he could tell her, i new somthin was ron

"Hang on, Chibi." Rose moved to the computer and grabbed a gizmo from it, "Use this. I think it'll work nicely." she stuck one end onto his head. A hologram appeared before them, waiting.

"Oh. I forgot we had those." Leah commented.

What's that? Chibi's thoughts were spelled out on the hologram.

"It translates thought into word." Aya giggled, "Neat, right?"

Yeah, it is neat. again, Chibi's thoughts were typed up, Mind if I hold onto this?

"Sure. We have plenty." Rose told him.

"That's awesome!" Telly said, "Now I can speak directly to you!"

Yeah. Like you don't do that anyway.

"What's that supposed to mean!?"

What? Oh! Uh, I didn't mean it like that! Chibi would have to watch what he was thinking with this thing on.

"Chibi, just talk." Rio said, "How did you know something was up?"

So, Chibi tried to gather his thoughts, organizing them one by one until he found the best way to convey what he was saying.

Okay... he watched as his thoughts were displayed on the screen for all to see, Here's how I know...