The spacecraft began to close up. A low hum filled the air. WALL · E suddenly remembered—he was under a ship! The hum was coming from the ship’s engines, which were now roaring to life. It was time to take cover again. WALL · E dug another hole in the ground and jumped into it.

When the smoke cleared, WALL · E once again raised his head. He looked up and saw EVE. She was circling over the desolate bay. As she swooped and darted like a hummingbird, she emitted a blue ray from her front panel and scanned the terrain. WALL · E scrambled out of the hole and quickly found a boulder to hide behind. He watched EVE continue to scan random objects, occasionally doing a loop in the sky. She zoomed past WALL · E’s rock. Frightened yet enchanted, the rusty and dented WALL · E unit kept watching this sleek new state-of-the-art robot. This was love.

EVE gently descended to the ground, and WALL · E decided to move one rock closer to her. As he rolled forward, his treads loosened some debris—RATTLE, RATTLE, KLUNK!

EVE whipped around in the direction of the noise. She instantly raised and fired the blaster mounted within her arm. KA-BLAM! WALL · E’s boulder exploded into bits. The shivering robot was unharmed but terrified.

EVE scanned the area again. All quiet, she noted, no signs of life. She moved on and wandered through WALL · E’s vast avenues of trash. WALL · E rolled after her. She had just tried to blast him, but like a puppy, he continued to follow her, unable to stop.

He watched her scan a mound of tires. Then he flinched as his cockroach decided to approach EVE from behind. Her razor-sharp sensors picked up the movement. She spun and blasted the bug with a direct hit. Unharmed, the insect simply crawled out of the smoking crater and, with his usual curiosity, continued to approach EVE.

She let the roach get closer. The little bug intrigued her, and she let him crawl up her arm. WALL · E heard her emit a series of electronic beeps. She was giggling! The roach must have tickled her.

WALL · E’s spirits soared. EVE had feelings! Then, just as suddenly, he was struck by fear again as EVE’s sensor turned in his direction. She locked onto him with her scanners and fired rapidly with her blaster arm.

WALL · E dodged the blasts, scooting among trash piles as EVE obliterated them one by one. With nowhere left to hide, WALL · E boxed himself up and shook uncontrollably. EVE stopped firing. Her electronics hummed, “Identify yourself." But WALL · E heard only beeps and whistles. He didn’t understand what EVE was saying.

She slowly approached the shivering box. The cockroach ran down EVE’s blaster arm and hopped onto his master. EVE’s blue light scanned WALL · E. NEGATIVE. He was not what she was looking for. She retracted her blaster arm and glided away.

Peeking out from inside his box, WALL · E watched her, completely awestruck.

太空飞船开始关闭舱门。空气中充斥着低沉的嗡嗡声。瓦力突然记起来他正待在一艘飞船下面，而那嗡嗡声是飞船引擎发出的轰鸣声，飞船的引擎开始运转了！他该再一次躲藏起来！瓦力又在地上挖了个坑，跳了进去。

烟雾散去，瓦力再一次抬起头来向上望去。他抬头看见了伊芙。她正盘旋在荒凉的海湾上方。她像蜂鸟一样猛地向前俯冲，她胸前的面板上发射出一道蓝光扫描这一地区。瓦力挣扎着从坑里爬出来，迅速找到一块巨石藏在它后面。他看着伊芙继续随机扫描物品，时不时在空中绕一个圈。她高速飞过瓦力藏身的巨石。浑身锈迹斑斑、坑坑洼洼的瓦力有点害怕，却又醉心于她，他一直看着这个造型优美、技术先进的新型机器人。这就是爱。

伊芙轻轻地降落在地面上。瓦力决定藏到离她更近的一块岩石后。当他慢慢向前驶去的时候，他的履带压松了一些岩屑。“嘎嘎，嘎嘎，哐！”

伊芙猛然转身面向声音的来源。她立刻举起手臂，发射了安装在里面的爆破枪。“咔——砰！”瓦力藏身的巨石被炸成了碎末。他浑身发抖，虽然安然无恙却吓了个半死。

伊芙又将这个区域扫描了一遍。她意识到这里一片寂静，没有任何生命的迹象。她沿着瓦力在垃圾堆中压出的宽阔道路继续前行。瓦力跟在她后面缓缓行驶。她又试过向他射击，但他就像一只小狗一样，继续跟着她，无法停止。

他看着她扫描一堆轮胎。当他的蟑螂决定从背后靠近伊芙的时候，他被吓坏了。她敏锐的感应器察觉到了蟑螂的动静，她转身开火射向这只昆虫。它却毫发无伤，只是从冒着烟的弹坑里爬出来，还和往常一样好奇，继续向伊芙靠近。

她没有阻止蟑螂向她靠近。这只小昆虫激起了她的好奇心，她让他爬上她的胳膊。瓦力听到她发出一连串“嘟嘟嘟”的电子音。她在咯咯笑！一定是蟑螂让她觉得痒痒的。

瓦力受到了极大的鼓舞。伊芙有感觉！就在这时，伊芙的感应器突然转向他的方向，他又被吓着了。她的扫描仪锁定他，手臂上的爆破枪迅速朝他射击。

瓦力在垃圾堆间疾行以躲避枪击，而伊芙一个一个地把它们炸掉。瓦力再也没有地方可以藏身，他将自己团成一个盒子形状，不由自主地浑身发抖。伊芙停止了射击。她的电子设备发出了低沉的声音：“报出你的身份。”但是瓦力听到的只是嘟嘟声和呼啸声。他不明白伊芙在说什么。

她慢慢靠近这个正在颤抖的盒子。蟑螂沿着伊芙的爆破枪手臂往下跳到了他主人身上。伊芙的蓝光扫描了瓦力。“否”。他不是她要寻找的东西。她收回了她的爆破枪，飞走了。

瓦力从他的盒子里探出头看着她，惊叹不已。