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Part Two: The Spacecraft Battle

WALL-E decides to follow Eve when the ship took her off Planet Earth. Where are they? Ooooooh!The Axiom! The spacecraft where humans live.What are they doing there? It seems the plant is the key...

As soon as they arrive, WALL-E is amazed by the way humans and robots live together in harmony. But what surprises him the most,is that humans are unable to walk. Why aren't they like the humans in Hello, Dolly!?The VHS that showed people moving and dancing. These people instead, are obese, leave all manual work to robots, are always staring the screens in front of their faces. and move on

is carried to the ship's captain while WALL-E hides and observes from a distance..The captain is very surprised that a robot finally found life on Planet Earth. Going back home after 700 years? Yes! It's time to start the Recolonising Operation. The only thing they need to do is to put the plant in the holo-detector and the Axiom will fly back to Planet Earth! But, where's the plant? Eve reactivates, finds WALL-E hiding, and sees the plant is not there, she thinks WALL-E stole it... Suddenly, the captain discovers WALL-E and they both are carried to cleaning cells. However, WALL-E manages to run away with Eve..

On their escape, WALL-E and Eve discover that GO4, the ship's second-in-command, has the plant and is about to destroy it..He activates the capsule's self-destruct sequence with the plant inside! WALL-E tries to catch it, but he gets trapped inside the capsule that is ejected into space and explodes! Eve follows the capsule with anguish... but, wait! What's that?WALL-E manages to find propulsion with a fire extinguisher and escapes at the last minute, with the plant unharmed! The Axiom immediately heads towards Planet Earth, where people can start their recolonisation and where WALL-E and Eve can live happily ever after for another 700 years.

Adapted from WALL-E (2008) Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Film).



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