EVE gently held WALL · E and dashed onto the next level, arriving at the courtyard of the economy-class deck. A wall of stewards¹ came forward and tried to block their path. "Halt!" a steward² shouted. Behind him, other stewards stood ready to use their freeze rays to stop WALL · E and EVE in their tracks.

 

The mob of reject-bots sprang into action. They would do anything for WALL · E. The defective³ beautician-bot lunged forward. Using her hand mirrors, she deflected⁴ the oncoming barrage⁵ of freeze rays. Umbrella-bots took up the cause and snapped open, protecting WALL · E, EVE, and the throng⁶ of reject-bots behind them.

 

On the bridge, Auto⁷ watched as the stewards' blips disappeared from his screen. Certain that things couldn't get any worse, Auto was astounded⁸ to see the image of the Captain appear on his screen. And the Captain was holding the plant!

 

"Ha! Ha! Look what I got, Auto!" the Captain said, taunting⁹ him. "That's right! The plant!"

 

"Not possible," Auto answered angrily, his eye going wide.

 

The Captain was tricking Auto. He didn't have the real plant. He was merely projecting the image of the plant taken from EVE's memory chip into his hands.

 

"You want it?" the Captain said, hoping Auto would take the bait. "Come and get it, Blinky!"

 

The portal in the Captain's ceiling suddenly snapped open and Auto shot down into the room. Auto's eye saw nothing.

 

"Captain?" Auto said, cautiously searching the dark room. Suddenly, the Captain leaped at Auto. He grabbed on to the machine and refused to let go as Auto dragged him around the room.

 

"Let go! Let go!" Auto yelled. Auto thrashed wildly and finally yanked the Captain up through the portal in the ceiling and onto the bridge.

 

"You're not getting away from me, One-Eye!" the Captain shouted. He reached for the big blue button as he and Auto flailed¹⁰ around the bridge.

 

"That's it! A little closer," the Captain grunted¹¹. "Must ... push ... button!"

 

All of a sudden, Gopher popped out of his pneumatic tube and saw the fight. He immediately charged toward the Captain.

 

Auto whipped the Captain around, accidentally hitting Gopher with the Captain's foot. The force sent Gopher crashing through the control-room window. With his siren screaming, Gopher landed in a heap on the lido deck below.

 

伊芙温柔地抱着瓦力，冲上上一层，来到经济舱层的庭院。一队乘务员机器人组成人墙向他们冲来，试图拦住他们的去路。“停下！”一名乘务员机器人喊道。其他乘务员机器人站在他身后，做好了使用冷冻光阻止瓦力和伊芙继续前进的准备。

 

那群残次品机器人立刻挺身而出。他们愿意为瓦力做任何事情。出了故障的美容机器人冲上前去，用她的镜子手掌使迎面袭来的冷冻光网偏移了方向。然后打伞机器人接手，“啪”地打开伞，保护瓦力、伊芙和他们后面的残次品机器人。

 

傲特在舰桥上看着他的屏幕，乘务员机器人们的标志亮点都消失了。确信情况不可能变得更差的他看见船长的影像出现在他的屏幕上时震惊不已。船长手中还捧着那株植物！

 

“哈！哈！看我拿到了什么，傲特！”船长嘲笑道，“对的！就是那株植物！”

 

“不可能。”傲特瞪大了眼睛恼怒地答道。

 

船长在骗傲特。他没有拿到真正的植物。他只是将从伊芙的记忆芯片中得来的那株植物的影像投射到了他的手里。

 

“想要吗？”船长一边说一边希望傲特上钩。“来抢呀，布林奇！”

 

船长舱房天花板上的门突然“啪”地打开，傲特冲了进来。傲特什么都看不见。

 

“船长？”傲特边说边小心翼翼地在一片黑暗的房间里搜查。突然，船长向傲特扑去。他抓住这台机器，哪怕傲特拖着他满屋子乱窜也不肯松手。

 

“松手！松手！”傲特喊道。傲特剧烈扭动着，最后拽着船长穿越天花板的门进入了舰桥。

 

“你甩不掉我的，独眼龙！”船长喊道。他和傲特在舰桥上扭来扭去时，伸手去够那个大大的蓝色按钮。

 

“就是它！再近点。”船长咕哝道，“必须……按……按钮！”

 

突然，戈法从他的气流输送管里冒了出来。他看见两人在打斗，立刻朝着船长冲去。

 

傲特猛地抓起船长，无意中使船长的脚撞到了戈法。戈法被这股力砸得撞破控制室的窗户跌了出去。他的警报器一路狂叫，直到他重重砸在下面的泳池甲板上。

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