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"There you go, DUM," said Tony. He placed the small controller next to him on his charging station. "Now you can go ahead and study as much as you want. Just none of that restricted stuff. Your eyes are far too innocent for that kinda thing." He patted him on his claw and walked out of the lab for the night, turning the lights off as he went.
DUM-E grabbed the controller from where it was placed and then fumbled with it for a while before beeping in frustration. "I can control this for you if you would like?" JARVIS' voice sounded through the lab and DUM-E beeped happily in response (Yes please. Stupid human objects. Can you find the movies called "animated"? Mister Barton talks about them all the time.) "By animated I assume you mean Disney, Pixar and the like?" (Yes!) JARVIS moved from the main Netflix page to the Kids page. "Here we are. Anything that particularly interests you?" DUM-E looked over the potential films with a careful eye, before spotting one that almost screamed at him to watch. (JARVIS! That one has a name that ends like mine! And it's a robot too! Can I watch that one? Maybe there will be someone like Dad in it to look after him like he looks after me!) JARVIS made a noise something like a fond chuckle and put the movie on.
DUM-E watched avidly as WALL-E's adventures were displayed before him on the screen. He quickly picked up the tune of the song played throughout, chirping it whenever it came on, and when WALL-E was almost crushed by the plant machine he made a noise vaguely resembling a sob. As the credits rolled, DUM-E decided he wanted to be more like WALL-E. "Which movie would you like now? Or would you rather switch off?" (Can we put WALL-E on again please?) JARVIS queued up the movie once again. And again. And again. WALL-E was played a total of 6 times that night; when Tony walked in the next morning he found DUM-E switched off with the credits rolling. If DUM-E could dream, it would have no doubt been about his new favourite film and his new idol.