Aya felt something swirl around inside of her, all logic and reasoning thrown out the window as she realized how much it hurt. It uncomfortably grabbed her, getting in her head and her robotic organs. She tightened her fists in the dark, everything glitching around in her nightmare world. The pain spread like a fire, starting with her bite wounds and travelling down, getting stronger and sharper and scarier. Aya cried out until her head vibrated, wishing the pain would stop, wishing with every drop of the acid in her body that she would just die already so she wouldn't have to feel this kind of gripping agony.

She was cold. So cold she could feel all the liquid in her body freezing into ice. She shivered violently. How can something freeze like snow and burn like fire at the same time!? Nothing felt right, everything hurt, everything was frozen and on fire at the same time, it was by far the worst experience she'd ever faced. Her fists tightened and her throat burned, her fingertips turning into hard dead ice. She finally found her way out of the darkness in the form of a blinding light.

She felt a scream tear through her body as she woke up, seeing the familiar walls of the repair ward around her.

"Aya!?" Nos held her carefully, "Are you alright!? How do you feel!?"

Something still wasn't clicking. The pain was gone, but her back was sore and her throat was dry. Did she even have a throat? It was hard to tell in the fuzz of her vision.

"Aya?" Nos looked into her eyes, "Can you hear me?"

She didn't respond, instead feeling something odd; thirst. An overwhelming thirst for something. Power? Electricity? She was still half-asleep.

Nos tried to call to her again, "Aya? Can you speak?"

She suddenly lunged for him, piercing his neck with her fingers and creating an energy-absorption field around them, pulling the energy out with her face right next to it. She instantly felt relieved. Nos felt the pain and the draining of energy and realized what was happening.

"Well, that was fast." Nos rolled his eye, "Of course you would need that the second you woke up."

Aya slowed, coming to a kind of realization as she pulled away, "Nos? Is that you? Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!"

"Hey, calm down." he reassured, "I'm fine. You just did what instinct told you."

"I'm sorry!" she repeated, "I don't know what came over me!"

Nos laughed, his hand over the wound on his slender neck, "I should have expected that, really. It was more my fault than yours."

Aya looked at her fingers, which were coated with Nos' servo-fluid, "D-Did I...?"

"Yes, little one, you bit me." he replied, "But it's okay. It doesn't take long to get used-!"

"I'M A VAMPIRE! OH MY GOSH I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A BLOOD-SUCKING CREATURE OF THE NIGHT! IT'S LIKE THAT STUPID BOOK ALL OVER AGAIN!"

"Aya!" he grabbed her and turned her towards him, "For pete's sake! Calm yourself! It's fine, you're okay!"

"No it's not fine!" she panicked, "I just bit you and I don't even have a mouth! That makes so little sense on it's own but then I started sucking your energy and will I have to do that forever this is like-!"

Nos sighed as she kept rambling. He realized that this was going to be difficult to explain, and even more so to teach her how to live like this. She kept going on about characters from an old book series named after how the sky works and the child they had that was half and half. He didn't even understand most of what she was saying.

A sly grin came over his face as he got an idea.

"-and even more so Renesmee grew up so fast-!" she was silenced when Nos pressed his lips to her screen, a spark lighting between them.

She let her eyes close before Nos pulled away, still holding her protectively, "Wow..."

"You did tell me you didn't want to die before you were kissed." he smiled, "How could I say no to something like that?"

She was about to say something, but she didn't know how to word her question.

"Listen. I take back what I said last night." he replied, "My servo-pump had never beat so fast than when I looked at you, scared and dying. It twisted painfully in my chest when you fell unconscious, and stopped beating entirely when Eve told me you were going to die. I realized that if I was to continue living, it had to be by your side. You've officially stolen me, Eve Probe Two, Aya. I am madly in love with you."

Aya's electric-pace quickened, "Y-you really mean that?"

"With all my soul." he nuzzled her forehead gently, "I've never been more sure about anything. I wish to be with you for all eternity."

"Nos..." Aya rested her head on his shoulder, "I don't know what to say..."

"How about, 'I love you too'? That works fine."

She giggled, "Ah...I love you too, Nos-4a-2..."

They stayed this way until EVE ordered everyone together several hours later, so they could begin the operation that would make the humans independant from the Axiom once and for all.

Operation: Independance.

One Month Later...

"I'll get there first!" Aya called as she zoomed away, her pale yellow wings spreading out to catch the wind.

"Hey! That's not fair!" Nos chased after her relentlessly, "You got a head start!"

"Because you weren't fast enough!" Aya waved her fingers next to her head, "Bleh!"

He knew if she had a tongue, it'd be wiggling at him. He stuck his own tongue out, "Alright! You asthed for it!"

"Oh no!" Aya realized, "I take it back! Uncle uncle!"

"Too late!" he finally grabbed her and pinned her underneath him, running his tongue underneath her head.

"AH!" Aya shivered, her arms in the air, "Nos! I said no licking!"

"I can' help it!" he replied, "You're too delicious!"

"Ew! Cut that out!"

"Alright, that's enough you too." EVE set WALL-E down next to her, "We're supposed to be expanding the borders, remember?"

"Right. O' courth." Nos retracted his tongue and helped his beloved stand, "Where's it gonna be this time?"

"Right here." EVE drew a line with her finger in the dirt, "We'll go all the way around and then circle back to town. Rio should be arriving any minute with the seeds."

"Speak of the devil!" Rio set a giant sack down in front of her, leaning on it, "Whew. Let's start planting!"

Aya gasped, "Look, Nos! It's our house!"

"Yes, it's getting quite close to the border." he replied.

"Sure. Ignore the witty one." Rio grumbled, "Where are the houses gonna be?"

"Right here, here, and here." EVE pointed to the map she'd brought, "Huh. At this rate, we can bring Yonkers back to life within the next fifty years!"

"Woohoo!" WALL-E cried.

"Not that again..." Ruby rolled her eyes, "You mention that movie again I'm going to-!"

"DON'T SAY ANYTHING!" EVE exploded, "Let's just get to work! You can start over here, Babe."

"I'm here!" Leah set down a giant jug of water, "Let's do this!"

So they got to work, planning out where the next houses would be, making little areas for crops, and determining how many they would need to build by the time the seniors graduated from the new high school. There were a lot of eager minds there for sure.

"Hey Nos?" Aya asked while she spread carrot seeds around. WALL-E and Nos' hands were really good at tilling the soil.

Nos looked up, "What is it, Love?"

"Remember when you let me into your room and I did a little snooping?"

"I try not to."

Aya laughed, "I couldn't help but come across something interesting."

"Which thing? The John Cena magazine?"

"No, not that." Aya replied, "Hello Dolly made me think of it."

"Oh. Is it my old copy of Nosferatu?" he guessed.

"Yes! How'd you know?"

"I was named after that movie." he replied, "It was a movie Zurg liked to watch when he wasn't trying to blow up Star Command."

"Really? Everyone has good in them, huh?"

"Yeah." Nos kept digging up the dry dirt, "Even me."

"Especially you." Aya corrected, "But, that was close."

He laughed, "You want to watch it?"

"Nosferatu? Of course I do! You have a VHS Player?"

"What. Wall-E has one. That surprises you?"

"No no, not that." she moved on to potatoes, "I just couldn't find it."

"It's under my bed." he said quizzically, "Did you really not think to look there?"

Aya shrugged, "It was dark."

He shook his head, "You silly girl..."

"Anyway. After this whole thing is wrapped up, I would very much like to watch it. I've always been a fan of silent films."

"Hm." Nos watched WALL-E hand a small flower he'd found to EVE, "Is it because of those two?"

"That's part of it." she said, "It's just so cool seeing people communicate without sound."

"It's easy to rely on sound." he agreed, "Alright, we'll watch it tonight."

"Yay!"

He loved her enthusiasm. Kids these days couldn't appreciate old things the way the old robots did.

He went back to his work. He was really lucky to have his family.