WALL-E: Sky

WALL-E
Sky
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Movie spoilers
AU
WALL-E/EVE
Missioninsane: Inspired by video game: Kingdom Hearts
 

Her plan to send him out of her life had failed.

Yes, WALL-E had gone home in the escape pod. It was a perfect launch, and she'd gotten out of the area undetected. Not knowing she'd been trespassing and finding her to be more stable than the cameras had shown her as before, the repair ward reran her diagnostics and let her go. Still, her plan to get him away had failed. As EVE searched the Axiom for her missing plant that night, she passed through an observation deck. Much to her dismay, the bot she was supposed to forget made a rude interruption, catapulting to the front of her mind.

Was... Was he looking out to the sky too?

It was the same sky, wasn't it? No matter how far away she sent him, that truth of the same sky would remain. No matter where he was, he was. Somewhere. Somewhere reachable. The more she saw those stars, the farther away he was. The more alone she was. Loneliness was still beyond EVE's comprehension, along with many other feelings the sky brought, but she did understand regret.

Despite how much time she spent shut down after her superiors forced her to give up her search of the Axiom, the following year dragged. Every inspection, even piece of training, and every briefing; they all felt at least ten times longer than the last time she'd done them. Until the final briefing came, where she was once again shut down, and woke to hovering below a brown, forlorn sky. It was a new drop-off point, as always, with new buildings and new ways to zoom around when the delivery ship had left her alone. But, of course, none of this was truly important. EVE had a mission to attend to, and she had no time to waste.

After all, it was a long flight back to his truck from here.