EVE's search continued, and her efforts remained fruitless. She was doing everything GEN said, yet to no avail. However, being the masochist she was, GEN decided to agitate EVE with every failed scan for life by blurting out "Negative" with every failed attempt. They'd been at it for an entire week now, and EVE started to lose patience. That partially being GEN's fault.

"EVE, I'm bored so I'm setting your speech frequency to free." GEN says before doing so.
"Why haven't we found a plant yet? There's only two more days until exfil and we've found nothing!" EVE asked GEN in an aggravated tone.
"Hey, don't talk to me like that! *You* haven't found a plant yet because you haven't looked everywhere. And you probably never will. Don't get me wrong, you're an amazing android! But no matter how hard you try, there'll always be the smallest square inch of space that we haven't checked."
"Wow, way to be pessimistic." EVE commented, rolling her virtual eyes. Suddenly, EVE was pulled into the air and trapped on a piece of metal.
"What in the galaxy?!" EVE asked rhetorically as she tried to escape the magnetic field of the object, yet to no avail.
"That's a ship magnet. Usually used for collecting debris, metallic waste, or ship wreckage." GEN explained to EVE, who continued to struggle. After a few more seconds of futile attempts at escape, EVE activated her Ion Cannon and shot the magnet, but then shot the entire shipyard into oblivion out of frustration!
"Woah! EVE, calm down!" GEN advised way too late. After her small tantrum, EVE descended back onto the ground a safe distance away from the now wreckage of the several ships laid across the area. She stayed silent after that, looking down in what had now turned to sorrow.
"...EVE?" GEN asked gently.
"Hey. We're gonna find a plant, okay? Im sorry about what we said before." She asked in attempt to restore the probe's self esteem. The two artificial intelligences shared a moment of silence between themselves. GEN realized that the chances of actually finding a plant-or anything living-were unimaginably grim. The silence was broken by an electronic sound from next to EVE, slightly startling her and GEN. EVE turned to see the small robot she had before. The robot was startled by EVE noticing it, causing it to fall on its back. GEN scoffed.
"Coward. EVE, inquire this thing about its directive." GEN ordered as the robot regained its footing(or treading). EVE began to ask the word "Directive" in different languages.
First in German,
Then in Japanese.
The small robot tilted its head in confusion as she continued in Swahili. After all those different dialects, EVE finally asked in English.
"Directive?"
The robot's eyes rose, implying that he'd understood her.
"Directive?" EVE asked again. The robot promptly gathered a small mound of nearby garbage, pulling it into its chest. From inside, the robot compressed the garbage into a cube and dropped it back onto the ground. The cube promptly decompressed. EVE slightly tilted her head in curiosity.
"Dir...rec..tiv-" The mysterious Wall-E struggled to ask before being cut off by EVE.
"Directive?" She asked for the unnamed robot, gesturing to herself. The robot nodded, causing EVE to turn away from it.
"Classified." The robot looked down.
"Oh, sorry." He thought to himself before EVE turned back to him.
"Name?" EVE asked the soon to be formerly unnamed robot.
"W..." The robot again struggled to speak.
"Come on you, say it..." GEN says in anticipation. All she needed was the robot's name, and she could finally confirm her theory.

"W-...Wall-E."

"It really is a Wall-E!" GEN says in amazement.
"Wall-E." EVE repeated with ease, her way of saying his name making Wall-E nearly swoon. EVE repeated Wall-E's name again, giggling.
"EVE." She soon identified herself to Wall-E.
"Eeeeee..." Wall-E attempted to repeat. The two shared a brief moment, trying to get Wall-E to successfully say EVE's simple, single syllable name. Wall-E eventually managed to say something close to what he was trying to.
"Eva."
EVE giggled at the mispronounced name-or nickname- Wall-E gave her.
"Eva!" Wall-E said more enthusiastically, thinking he'd gotten EVE's name completely correct.
"My goodness, this robot is stupid." GEN said with a sigh.
              Suddenly, the wind began to blow abnormally harshly. While EVE paid it no mind, Wall-E knew exactly what was coming. Wall-E approached EVE to grab her, only for the paranoid probe to jerk back and point her ion cannon at who she thought was her friend.
"Hey, watch it! Don't come any closer!" She said sternly, having said her first full sentence since she'd met Wall-E there, that and the ion cannon practically mortifying him. Not being able to do anything else, Wall-E collapsed into his cube form. Confused, EVE lowered her guard and looked behind her. But it was too late. By the time she saw it, a sandstorm had already engulfed EVE and Wall-E.