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Dawn came almost too early, and the sudden increase in brightness coming from the dragons getting up and moving around (not to mention the low angle of the sun) gave Wall.e a rude awakening. She uncurled into a stretch and tried to yawn off the fog of sleep. She then tried to get up and lost her balance, falling backwards onto her tail. Half-forgetting what year it was, she half mumbled, half exclaimed, (Quit hiding the coffee! You know I need it to properly wake up!) Her dragons laughed at the exclamation, bringing Wall.e back to the present. Shielding her eye lenses against the light, Wall.e struggled to her feet, and stumbled towards the door, muttering (At least you guys aren't cyborgs who forget that they're cyborgs...) She then tried to put her boots on... by stepping into them. She succeeded in squashing the legs of the boots. After a few attempts to put her boots on, Wall.e finally woke up enough to remember that she had to sit down and pull the boots on. After doing so, she picked up her cooler and joined her dragons outside, where they were doing some early morning fishing.

Later that morning, Wall.e, Hal, and Whiptail reached their new worksite. Today, Wall.e planned to start building a new garbage tower, since Broadway hadn't been fully cleared yet, and one of the old towers there has finally collapsed and rotted away into nothing. Wall.e settled right down to work, while the dragons started climbing all over the neighboring buildings and otherwise goofing off. Over the course of the day, Wall.e began to find new things of interest, and try them out. Just a few minutes into her workday, she found a Rubics Cube. It was unsolved of course, and she'd long forgotten how to solve one. She dropped it into her cooler anyway, deciding she'd add it to her collection as a curiosity. Later that morning, she picked up a set of camping dishes. She was unsure what to make of a set of three bowls with lids, and a partly collapsible rubber cup, and even less sure precisely what to do with a fork-knife hybrid with a spoon on the other end. She felt she could always use more dishes and silverware, so the set joined the Rubics Cube. Then she noticed an old bra. Having taken to the Sarashi as a practical garment, Wall.e had forgotten exactly how to wear one... so she put it on her head, with the cups over her eyes. "Woah!" Into the cooler it went. The next item she discovered was an audio pearl, which allowed the user to listen to a local radio station. It flared to life as Wall.e picked it up, old rock tunes suddenly blaring from the pearl. She dropped it, startled, and the tunes stopped. They flared back up as Wall.e plucked it back off the ground, and it stayed on when she placed it in her pocket. She soon located an old Buy N' Large Fire Extinguisher. It was smaller than other fire extinguishers, but surprisingly heavy. Wondering why the extinguisher was so heavy, Wall.e turned it on. She regretted doing so almost instantly, the force of the gas expelled being more than sufficient to send her flying backwards. She landed on her back, and struggled to turn the fire extinguisher off as it continued spraying gas all over the place. She threw the fire extinguisher into a nearby trash heap, intending to deal with it later. She next unearthed a small box, and, fascinated, opened the lid. A wedding ring gleamed back at her. She delicately pulled the ring out of the box and inspected the engraving. It read "Forever Yours, from John to Mary." Finding the ring bland, and having lost her own wedding ring some time ago, though she was still looking for it for the sentimental value, Wall.e tossed the ring over her shoulder, and put the box in her cooler. She then stumbles across a box of old data pearls, each of which contained a file concerning a different species of animal which had been brought back from extinction. Deciding that the data could be valuable, Wall.e promptly added the whole box of data pearls to the cooler. She later pulled a set of car keys out of the trash and pushed a button. In the distance, a car beeped twice, indicating that it was now unlocked. Wall.e figured that the car keys weren't worth the hassle of locating the rest of the car, and so chucked the keys away as well. She continued on in this fashion for the rest of the workday, until she finally came to a stop in front of an old fridge.

Wall.e tapped on the door a few times, wondering what she might find inside the fridge. Practical experience told her that it was likely to be very old food, or else nothing at all, but she had also had a few unexpected finds that had ended up inside old fridges through one means or another. She recalled the first of these finds- she'd knocked the door off the fridge by accident while trying to move it, and a bag of reusable ice cubes had fallen out along with the expected deluge of old food. She still had the ice cubes, tucked away in her restored freezer somewhere. She also remembered the somewhat more disturbing moment where a particularly large and heavy fridge had fallen out of her hands and burst open on impact, allowing a synth skeleton to tumble out. She didn't want to know how it had gotten in there. Wall.e mustered her courage, and blasted a plasma laser at the door. The laser cut through the door with ease, and the two halves of the door fell away, the hinges and part of the door having been eaten by a Hotburple earlier that morning. What Wall.e saw took her breath away. The bottom of the fridge had rusted out long ago, and a plant was growing through the hole. Wall.e surmised that the fridge had previously been open, allowing the seedling enough sunlight to germinate and grow. She then realized that the slam she'd heard earlier that morning must have been the door being blown shut by that mornings strong winds. Carefully reaching inside, Wall.e tenderly scooped the plant out of the ground, and gingerly carried it back to her cooler, where she deposited the seedling and the surrounding soil into a boot. She didn't have a plant pot on hand, so the boot would have to do until she could transfer it to a larger pot back at home. Slowly closing the cooler, she wondered how a Western Red Cedar Sapling could grow so far east, and how she knew it was a Western Red Cedar specifically. Wall.e whistled for her dragons, and started walking home, still pondering the significance of a single, as far as she knew, displaced or otherwise invasive seedling. Neither she nor her dragons noticed the faint red lights trailing them. When they got home, Wall.e barely had time to open her cooler and remove the booted seedling from the cooler before she heard her dragons growling followed shortly thereafter by a loud thud. Wall.e ran back outside, leaving the seedling on her desk (salvaged, just like the rest of her furniture.) She found Hal and Whiptail watching a quivering red light on the ground. The light suddenly darted away from them, and both dragons roared, leaping after it like a pair of overgrown scaly cats...

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Dawn came almost too early, and the sudden increase in brightness coming from the dragons getting up and moving around (not to mention the low angle of the sun) gave Wall.e a rude awakening. She uncurled into a stretch and tried to yawn off the fog of sleep. She then tried to get up and lost her balance, falling backwards onto her tail. Half-forgetting what year it was, she half mumbled, half exclaimed, (Quit hiding the coffee! You know I need it to properly wake up!) Her dragons laughed at the exclamation, bringing Wall.e back to the present. Shielding her eye lenses against the light, Wall.e struggled to her feet, and stumbled towards the door, muttering (At least you guys aren't cyborgs who forget that they're cyborgs...) She then tried to put her boots on... by stepping into them. She succeeded in squashing the legs of the boots. After a few attempts to put her boots on, Wall.e finally woke up enough to remember that she had to sit down and pull the boots on. After doing so, she picked up her cooler and joined her dragons outside, where they were doing some early morning fishing.

Later that morning, Wall.e, Hal, and Whiptail reached their new worksite. Today, Wall.e planned to start building a new garbage tower, since Broadway hadn't been fully cleared yet, and one of the old towers there has finally collapsed and rotted away into nothing. Wall.e settled right down to work, while the dragons started climbing all over the neighboring buildings and otherwise goofing off. Over the course of the day, Wall.e began to find new things of interest, and try them out. Just a few minutes into her workday, she found a Rubics Cube. It was unsolved of course, and she'd long forgotten how to solve one. She dropped it into her cooler anyway, deciding she'd add it to her collection as a curiosity. Later that morning, she picked up a set of camping dishes. She was unsure what to make of a set of three bowls with lids, and a partly collapsible rubber cup, and even less sure precisely what to do with a fork-knife hybrid with a spoon on the other end. She felt she could always use more dishes and silverware, so the set joined the Rubics Cube. Then she noticed an old bra. Having taken to the Sarashi as a practical garment, Wall.e had forgotten exactly how to wear one... so she put it on her head, with the cups over her eyes. "Woah!" Into the cooler it went. The next item she discovered was an audio pearl, which allowed the user to listen to a local radio station. It flared to life as Wall.e picked it up, old rock tunes suddenly blaring from the pearl. She dropped it, startled, and the tunes stopped. They flared back up as Wall.e plucked it back off the ground, and it stayed on when she placed it in her pocket. She soon located an old Buy N' Large Fire Extinguisher. It was smaller than other fire extinguishers, but surprisingly heavy. Wondering why the extinguisher was so heavy, Wall.e turned it on. She regretted doing so almost instantly, the force of the gas expelled being more than sufficient to send her flying backwards. She landed on her back, and struggled to turn the fire extinguisher off as it continued spraying gas all over the place. She threw the fire extinguisher into a nearby trash heap, intending to deal with it later. She next unearthed a small box, and, fascinated, opened the lid. A wedding ring gleamed back at her. She delicately pulled the ring out of the box and inspected the engraving. It read "Forever Yours, from John to Mary." Finding the ring bland, and having lost her own wedding ring some time ago, though she was still looking for it for the sentimental value, Wall.e tossed the ring over her shoulder, and put the box in her cooler. She then stumbles across a box of old data pearls, each of which contained a file concerning a different species of animal which had been brought back from extinction. Deciding that the data could be valuable, Wall.e promptly added the whole box of data pearls to the cooler. She later pulled a set of car keys out of the trash and pushed a button. In the distance, a car beeped twice, indicating that it was now unlocked. Wall.e figured that the car keys weren't worth the hassle of locating the rest of the car, and so chucked the keys away as well. She continued on in this fashion for the rest of the workday, until she finally came to a stop in front of an old fridge.

Wall.e tapped on the door a few times, wondering what she might find inside the fridge. Practical experience told her that it was likely to be very old food, or else nothing at all, but she had also had a few unexpected finds that had ended up inside old fridges through one means or another. She recalled the first of these finds- she'd knocked the door off the fridge by accident while trying to move it, and a bag of reusable ice cubes had fallen out along with the expected deluge of old food. She still had the ice cubes, tucked away in her restored freezer somewhere. She also remembered the somewhat more disturbing moment where a particularly large and heavy fridge had fallen out of her hands and burst open on impact, allowing a synth skeleton to tumble out. She didn't want to know how it had gotten in there. Wall.e mustered her courage, and blasted a plasma laser at the door. The laser cut through the door with ease, and the two halves of the door fell away, the hinges and part of the door having been eaten by a Hotburple earlier that morning. What Wall.e saw took her breath away. The bottom of the fridge had rusted out long ago, and a plant was growing through the hole. Wall.e surmised that the fridge had previously been open, allowing the seedling enough sunlight to germinate and grow. She then realized that the slam she'd heard earlier that morning must have been the door being blown shut by that mornings strong winds. Carefully reaching inside, Wall.e tenderly scooped the plant out of the ground, and gingerly carried it back to her cooler, where she deposited the seedling and the surrounding soil into a boot. She didn't have a plant pot on hand, so the boot would have to do until she could transfer it to a larger pot back at home. Slowly closing the cooler, she wondered how a Western Red Cedar Sapling could grow so far east, and how she knew it was a Western Red Cedar specifically. Wall.e whistled for her dragons, and started walking home, still pondering the significance of a single, as far as she knew, displaced or otherwise invasive seedling. Neither she nor her dragons noticed the faint red lights trailing them. When they got home, Wall.e barely had time to open her cooler and remove the booted seedling from the cooler before she heard her dragons growling followed shortly thereafter by a loud thud. Wall.e ran back outside, leaving the seedling on her desk (salvaged, just like the rest of her furniture.) She found Hal and Whiptail watching a quivering red light on the ground. The light suddenly darted away from them, and both dragons roared, leaping after it like a pair of overgrown scaly cats...