A/N: Alright, my first WALL-E story, and I have a few notes about it:

First, this story will feature two characters from different show/movie, but I won't list this as a crossover for that reason, and also I don't think that many will check the crossovers section anyways.

To avoid confusion: whenever I say EVE in the story, I mean the probe one, others I call with numbers instead.
Also, dialoque written in italics means that the character speaks in the Axiom codec, which can't be understood by humans or WALL-E.

Last but not least; I'm doing this story into a comic too, which will be available at my DeviantArt page. The story cover is already done: http: / / toothlessfuture. deviantart. com/gallery/#/d3edc0y (remove the spaces for the link to work).

The characters belong to Disney/Pixar.

Chapter 1: Call of Duty

It was silent inside the truck that was home to an old trash-compactor robot WALL-E. For two years the truck had been home for a different kind of robot also: the Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator probe one. Or just simply EVE.

Thanks to WALL-E's and EVE's actions, the humans aboard BnL starliner Axiom were able to return to Earth after seven hundred years in space. For two years humans and robots alike had worked hard to clean the city where Axiom landed (as nobody knew the original name of the city, it was simply referred as the City) and its surroundings. Much had been achieved, but there was still much to do.

Few of the incinerator units had been repaired, and all the huge trash piles WALL-E had compacted over the seven hundred years had been burned down. Still, WALL-E had his daily job of compacting trash, along with his larger WALL-A brethren. And to be honest, that was a job that wasn't going to end anytime soon. EVE often admired WALL-E's persistence in his simple, seemingly never-ending work.

EVE on the other hand had a much different job. Her task, like her four sister probes, was to explore the empty buildings, note everything inside, create layout drawings and analyze the building's overall condition. It was important for the repair team to know all those things in order to decide if and how the structure was to be repaired or if it was better to tear it down. EVE found it to be somewhat similar to her old directive, and that was probably the reason why the probes were assigned to just that task.

But, besides of their important jobs and large parts in humanity's return to Earth, EVE and WALL-E were special in one more thing: they were the first robots ever to fall in love. It would have never happened without WALL-E's persistence in the subject, and finally EVE had understood after events that almost cost WALL-E's life (or more accurately, persona, but in the case of robots it's pretty much the same thing).

Now the robot couple lived in the old immobile WALL-E carrier truck that had been home for WALL-E for centuries. Even though work took most of their active time, they used every second possible to be together, to see different places around the city, and of course, to hold hands.

The insides of the truck were clustered with a wide range of different items from spoons to old game consoles to spare parts for WALL-E. They were items that WALL-E had found among the trash and picked up to add to his collection. And it definitely wasn't a small collection. Sometimes EVE thought that there were a little too many items stuffed to the relatively small truck, but she couldn't bring herself to make WALL-E to get rid of some stuff.

The internal clock of an egg-shaped, stunningly white object hit 6.00 AM. With a flash of light from the seams, the top of the 'egg' separated as a head, and similarly two arms, or maybe they should've been called fins, separated from the sides of the 'egg's' body. EVE hovered some 50 centimeters above the ground and made a robotic yawn.

EVE was a robot that was extremely simple in design, but very complex from the insides. In fact she was the most advanced robot there was. She moved by hovering and thus needed no legs. She had two arms that were connected with magnets to the body, so they weren't physically connected to the main torso. Similarly the head floated above the body, and both arms and head fit seamlessly to the body, forming a perfect eggshell form. Additionally, at the tip of both fin-like arms she had four magnetically connected fingers that she could separate when needed, but normally they were connected to the arm.

Only visual differences in her whiter-than-snow form were a round, black monitor in the front of her head and a number '1' in the chest area. In the monitor were two bright blue LED eyes, which currently looked pretty sleepy.

In the place of the number '1' there had been a green plant symbol, but as her directive was changed it was replaced with a number so the humans could tell her apart from her four identical sister units.

But that wasn't all, as hidden in EVE's right arm was powerful quasar-class ion cannon capable to blow away most obstacles. It wasn't just for show; the probes were licensed to use it too.

Also, she had a stasis chamber for holding vegetation samples, which took most of the inner space of her torso. It was pretty much redundant now, but still useful for carrying items, like tools, when necessary.

EVE looked around. It was dark, but she knew that the sun was already rising outside. It was going to be a special day, as she had yesterday received the word that captain McCrea wanted to meet her today morning at his office. It was probably something important, as the captain rarely sent such formal requests.

Like usual, WALL-E would wake from the sleep mode just an hour later, so EVE hovered silently to the door to not interrupt his sleep. Although both EVE and WALL-E spent the night in sleep mode, they did it for slightly different reasons. WALL-E, who was solar-powered, used the sleep mode to save energy until he could recharge again, whereas EVE used the sleep mode directly to recharge her batteries. In theory that meant that WALL-E could work round the clock if sunlight was provided, but EVE had to always spend some hours asleep. In practice there were no major differences what-so-ever.

The door opened, creaking like always, and EVE hovered out. She pushed the 'close' button and turned to admire the view. The City with all its skyscrapers bathed in the yellow light of early morning.

Some of the buildings of the City had been already renovated and were in use, but most were still empty, possibly hazardous, and waiting for to be inspected by the EVE probes.

EVE pulled few loops, enjoying the feeling of flight, before she headed towards the City. Soon a huge figure became visible from behind all the buildings. It was almost like an ocean cruiser, except that it was designed to sail the skies instead of seas. The Axiom, the 'crown jewel' of BnL's Starliner fleet had been grounded for two years now.

Although the humans were in process of settling the City, many still preferred to live in their cabins aboard the starship. Captain McCrea was one of them, although he claimed it was due to not finding a suitable office just yet. EVE didn't buy that.

As EVE closed in on the ramps leading up to Axiom, she saw a familiar shape just little ahead.

"Three? Three!" she called the white figure in Axiom codec.

It turned around and revealed to be identical to EVE aside from the number in chest, which was three instead of one. "One, nice to see you", Three greeted.

The two EVE probes hovered together inside the Axiom.

"So, you were called to meet Captain too?" EVE inquired.

"Yes, apparently we are all… I'm pretty sure Two has messed up something again", Three stated dryly.

Oh not this again, EVE shook her head. "You shouldn't judge your… our sister so easily."

Three stopped to roll her blue LED eyes. "Oh, you know what she's like. Every time she hovers inside a building disaster falls! I'm not judging anything, it's just the way she is, and you know that."

EVE didn't reply. It was true that Two had caused a lot of unintentional trouble since her activation, but EVE believed she just needed time to adjust to the new job. Whereas others… well, they weren't so optimistic.

The probes hovered through the empty lido deck towards the elevator leading to the bridge. McCrea should be waiting for them there.

As the elevator's doors closed behind them, EVE used the time to calm down. If it the meeting really was about something Two had done, she needed a lot of patience handle the arguing probes. This time she'd make sure no one gets any burns caused by Four's cannon. As it wouldn't be hard enough to keep her out of Two's throat (figuratively speaking of course) without the fear of getting someone blasted.

The doors opened and revealed the bridge of Axiom. Smooth, black surfaces full of screens and controls were filling the space next to walls in the circle-shaped room. Large windows shoving a view to both lido deck and outside took place above the control panels. In the middle of the room was a tube-shaped elevator leading to captain's quarters that were just below the bridge.

In front of the front window was a wheel-shaped robot hanging from the ceiling. The autopilot of Axiom, AUTO, had been deactivated since the return to Earth. That was for the best of everyone, as AUTO was known to follow his directives a little too strictly, and nobody wanted to take any risks by activating him again. And that wouldn't be necessary unless they wanted to go back to space again, as the Axiom's computer was perfectly capable of taking care of the ship's systems while grounded.

Next to AUTO was standing a… well, fat, man. Captain McCrea had been getting in a lot better shape than what he was at the time of landing, but it was still a long way to go to reach the 'ideal' size for a human. He stood there in his captain's outfit, hands behind his back, looking out to the dawn.

Behind the captain were hovering three familiar egg-shaped EVE probes, two of them giving glares to the one in the middle, who was dangling her head and looking nervous. Great, here we go again…, EVE thought as she and Three hovered towards the other probes.

McCrea turned around and EVE saluted him. "Good, One, Three, now when you're here we can start", the captain begun. "You must wonder why I called you all here. Well, it's about something that happened yesterday." That being said, EVE could have sworn that Two's monitor tinted towards red in shade. Four mumbled something in Axiom, giving even more deadly glare to Two.

Not getting distracted, the captain continued: "Due to probe two's actions, a twenty-floor building collapsed." Four turned her hands into fists and EVE just barely managed to get between her and Two.

Five, like usual, slowly backed off from the potential explosion, whereas Four's eyes were burning with rage. "Out of my way One! Let me on that idiotic excuse for a probe!"

"I-I couldn't know that was a supporting pillar", Two tried to defend, her screen now definitely redder than usual.

Four tried to get past EVE with a quick spurt, but EVE took a firm grip from her and prevented it. "Behave yourself in front of the captain, probe", EVE gave a stern look to Four's eyes. She wasn't in the mood for this at all.

Four struggled a bit before she settled down, but not without a few death-promising glances towards Two.

"Okay, listen, I'm not going to accuse anyone here", McCrea said. The poor captain had received a fair share of Four's temper, and he didn't want to get involved with the probes' fights. "The point is what happened afterwards. Some members of the repair crew came to examine the ruins, and found a hidden entrance underground."

"Oooooooooh", the probes exclaimed, save for Four who was now changing from outraged to annoyed.

"After a quick signal-probing it seems like there is a huge complex hidden underneath the City. Thanks to probe two, it was found."

"That's ridiculous! Two fails big time and it's a good thing? How's that even logical?" Four protested.

"Yeah, I agree", Three added.

"No, you don't", EVE snapped. "And you, shut up already!"

"So doing accidentally something good is a good thing? Well, I don't buy that", Four blunted.

"But still you seem to think that doing accidentally something bad is a bad thing!" Two joined the arguing. EVE could almost see the daggers flying from eyes to eyes.

McCrea rolled his eyes. His idea didn't feel so good anymore, but he was gonna present it anyways. "Would you listen to me, please?" After he had gained the reluctant attention of the EVE probes again, he continued: "I want you to search trough the complex together, as a team. Probe one will act as the leader."

It was hard to decide which one was the most shocked; Two, Four or EVE herself. Millions of thoughts zipped around in EVE's circuits, most of them promising certain doom for them all. Ignoring Two and Four, who had just begun to call each other with names again, EVE turned to the captain: "Captain… not good idea."

The captain wasn't sure if he should laugh or cry. It was ridiculous how uncooperative these robots were. "One, I see you have your, eh, differences, but it is necessary for you all to go, or it'll take ages. It is important to know which kind of facility had had to be hidden."

EVE understood, but that didn't make it any easier.

"Here, take these communicators", McCrea said and handed five round, small black objects to EVE. "They can be attached to your 'wrist' by magnets, so you can coordinate better down there, and also report to me immediately to me if you find something important."

EVE handed everyone their communicators and then attached hers to her left hand.

"That's all. Two, you know the place, so lead the group there. There should be someone giving you further instructions. Keep in contact with the communicators, and good luck", the captain wished.

The probes headed for the elevator, and EVE was already considering of turning off her audio receivers. It sure was going to be a long day.

I'm currently writing this pretty fast, but I'm not sure if I'll update before the first chapter is done in the comic form, which might take some time ;)

Reviewing is greatly appreciated. -TF-