Zoidberg quickly ran from the room to search for the first crew member he could find. Meanwhile Leela and Amy were in the parlor sipping margaritas. Leela still had the evidence of her recent flood of emotions, and Amy was trying to help her feel better.

"Oh, its ok, Leela. I'm sure that those two aren't really that serious."

"He became a man-fish to be with her, Amy! How could you not call that serious?"

"I don't understand why you…"

Just then, Zoidberg stumbled into the room and burst out with,

"The Professor's gonna kill Fry and the fish-woman!

The two women looked at him and Amy said,

"What do you mean 'the Professor's gonna kill Fry?'"

"In the lab; he told me. We gotta save him!"

Leela's face hardened and she retorted,

"Why should we? He obviously doesn't want to be human, and he's more valuable the way he is now. If the Professor wants to kill him, I say 'good riddance.'"

Zoidberg ran over to her and groveled,

"Please, Leela! He's my best friend; I don't want him to die."

The women looked at the distressed space-lobster until Amy spoke up,

"Wait a minute, if he's your best friend, why did you try to kill him on your planet that one time?"

"Hey yeah," Leela retorted.

Zoidberg realized that he wasn't going to get anywhere with the women, so he left the parlor with a dejected look on his face and the ladies went back to their margaritas. Zoidberg was on the verge of panicking. He really didn't want to see Fry get dissected. He was one of the only ones who was ever nice to him. Then he thought,

"Perhaps the robot will help."

He returned to the hanger and sought out Bender who was still lying on the floor, passed out from his go-round with the magnet. Zoidberg attempted to shake him awake and said,

"Robot! Please wake up!"

Bender mumbled something and turned over, but Zoidberg wasn't going to give up so easily. He tried again to shake the robot who finally gave some kind of recognition of being alive. He turned over and muttered,

"Oh, what hit me? Zoidberg? Whaddoyawant?'

"Robot, please! The Professor's gonna dissect Fry; we gotta help him!"

"Pfft, like I….wait a minute. Whaddoyamean the Professor's gonna dissect Fry?"

"He told me…in the lab. He said he was going to cut him to find out how he works on the inside. He said he was going to do the same thing to the fish-woman. Please, we gotta save 'em!"

Bender thought about for a minute while rubbing his chin. Did he really want to save a human? The answer came to him after a moment. He did. Fry was Bender's best friend and if he didn't help then there would be no one to share anything with ever again. He rose to his feet, pointed his finger up at nowhere in particular and said,

"I will save Fry!"

"Hooray!" Zoidberg shouted in reply.

"What are you on about now, Zoidberg?" a crotchety, old man's voice said.

Bender and Zoidberg whipped around meeting the Professor's face and the hand-held saw that he had brought with him. Zoidberg searched for something to say, but all he could come up with was,

"I was just….um….celebrating one of my planet's holiday's. Yeah."

"Oh really? Which one?"

"….um…Lobster Revolution Day?"

"Oh you mean the day the lobsters revolted against their human overlords and took over the planet, but perished because of the lack of water?"

Zoidberg and Bender looked and each other and Bender shrugged. Zoidberg looked back over to the Professor and replied,

"Yeeeeaaaaah."

"Oh, my," said the Professor thoughtfully. Well in that case, I probably shouldn't desecrate a sea creature on this holiest of holidays."

Then Bender piped up,

"That's right, Professor. You can desecrate the bodies of the sea-people tomorrow. After all, you've had a long day, and it's late."

"You're right Bender. It can wait another day, I suppose. After all, it's Lobster Revolution Day."

The Professor toddled off, and both Zoidberg and Bender sighed in relief. Then they made their way to the tank that the two merpeople were sleeping in. Bender knocked on the glass and shouted,

"Fry! Fry! Wake up, buddy!"

"Wait, robot; don't knock on the glass. You might break it."

"Well then, Mr. 'Lobster Revolution Day' why don't you go wake them up?"

Zoidberg reluctantly hoisted himself into the tank and shook Fry and Umbriel. Fry had fallen asleep with his arm around her and was none too happy about being woken especially after just having fallen asleep a few minutes ago. Zoidberg gestured for them to swim up to the surface, but Fry didn't get it. He looked to Umbriel for clarification and she sleepily said,

"I think he wants to talk to us on the surface."

It finally got through to Fry's head, and the two merpeople swam up where they were greeted by a panicked robot. He said,

"You guys! We gotta get you out of here! The Professor wants to dissect you!"

Fry understood that. He got a look of sheer terror on his face, but it was Umbriel's turn to be confused. She said,

"What do you mean, Mr. Bender? I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with the word 'dissect.'"

Fry leaned over and whispered in her ear what it meant and after she heard it, her expression mirrored Fry's. She cried out,

"Mr. Bender, Mr. Zoidberg! Please get us out of here! I don't wanna die! Oh, Fry hold me."

She buried herself into Fry and erupted into tears. Fry held her and said,

"There, there, Umbriel it'll be all right." Then he looked to his two friends and said,

"You guys gotta get us out of here! I don't care how you do it, but get us back to the ocean!"

Zoidberg's head and shoulders emerged from the water and he said,

"We need Leela's help. She's the only one who can….."

He was cut off by Bender, who retorted,

"That one-eyed, purple-haired monster left me up on that magnet and left me to sing the most hated song in history! I am not going to ask her for help."

"Who said you needed to ask?"

Bender and Zoidberg whipped around again at the female voice. Fry cried,

"Leela! You're going to help us get out of here?"

Leela crossed her arms and sighed before replying,

"Yes."

Fry, Bender and Zoidberg gave a rousing cry, but Leela put her finger to her lips and said,

"Shhhh! Keep it down! If you wake up the Professor, he'll want to cut you open for sure."

The three of them immediately went quiet. Then Leela said,

"Okay, its 15 minutes to the ocean and a fish can't last for more than 15 minutes out of water. However, I can't get the ship out without waking the Professor, and he'll know that I left with you when he finds you two, me and the ship gone. So we've got to be very fast about this. Bender?

"Yo."

"Is the tank that you built still operational inside the ship?"

Bender sheepishly looked down at the ground and said,

"I sorta used it."

Leela sighed angrily and turned to the two merpeople. She said,

"Do you think you can live long enough to get back to the ocean?"

Umbriel said,

"As long as we've got a little bit of water, we'll be fine sugar."

Leela turned back to Bender and said,

"Go and get two big bottles, so we can fill them up with water. But for heaven's sake, be quiet!"

Bender turned around muttering something about robot slavery and how he was going to kill Leela when this was over. As soon as he was gone, Leela turned to Zoidberg and said,

"Can you be a distraction and stall the Professor?"

Zoidberg said,

"Yes captain! I'll be the best distraction that ever was. I'd gladly put my life on the line for my friends! I'm so happy!"

Zoidberg broke down into tears and grasped Leela in a hug. Leela pulled him off of her in disgust and said in a distasteful voice,

"Zoidberg, just stall the Professor and don't touch me again. Ever."

Zoidberg saluted and took off out the door. As soon as he was gone, Bender came back carrying two empty water buckets and said,

"Here you go, Leela. This was the best I could find."

Leela was sure that it wasn't but they were running out of time. She said,

"It'll have to do. Fry, I'm going to toss these to you. Fill them and give them back to me."

Leela tossed the buckets to Fry and he dipped them in the water and handed them as carefully as he could back to Leela. As soon as that task was done Leela called on Bender again. She said,

"Okay, now then Bender is going to have to carry you into the ship."

As soon as Bender heard that he crossed his arms and said,

"I am not going to carry either of them. They can walk, right?"

Umbriel and Fry looked angrily at Bender and Umbriel put her hands on her hips. She said,

"Now Mr. Bender; does it look like either of us can walk here? Unless you want to see your dearest friend cut up into pieces, you'll do as your captain asks."

Bender looked chastised and the words of the mermaid and he retorted,

"Fine, but I'm not carrying the buckets!"

Bender extended his arms and plucked the mermaid from the tank. He carried her into the ship and strapped her into a seat. Then he returned for Fry and repeated his action. On the way there, Fry said to him,

"Thanks buddy. You're the best."

"Oh, shut up, meatbag," said Bender, but he said it with a hint of a smile.

As soon as Bender placed him in the chair, Fry strapped himself into the seat and Leela gave a bucket to the two merpeople. Bender took his place by the navigational chart and Leela took her place at the pilot's seat and said,

"Now hold on tight. This is going to be rough."

They clutched their buckets of water as Leela started the ship. The ship's rockets roared to life and they took off for the ocean. Leela had been right about the Professor. No sooner had the ship left the hanger when the Professor strolled in with his handheld saw with an angry look on his face saying,

"There's no such thing as 'Lobster Revolution Day!' Where are you Zoidberg! I'm going to tear you a new cloacae!"

The Professor looked over at the tank and saw that it's only occupant was a Decapodian waving at him! He looked around the hanger and saw that his ship was missing as well. At that sight, he grew so angry that he ran to the tank and started beating on it. He shouted,

"You come out of there, you miserable excuse for a doctor!"

Zoidberg just stared at him and didn't move. Finally the Professor gave up and said,

"Fine, I'm going to get help from the most decorated soldier in the known galaxy!"

The Professor stormed off to make a phone call. He brought up the number on the computer screen and speed-dialed the Nimbus. A gargantuan ship captained by the most idiotic yet successful man in the Milky Way Galaxy: Zapp Brannigan. The video phone, however, was answered by Zapp's second in command: Lt. Kif Kroker. The green alien immediately recognized the caller and answered it in hopes of speaking to his beloved; Amy Wong. When the face of the Professor greeted him, his smile fell and he said,

"Hello Professor. How can I help you?"

"I need to speak with Captain Brannigan immediately! It's urgent!"

"I'm afraid the Captain is bust at the moment, but perhaps I can…."

Kif was cut off by the sound of a male voice which was entirely overconfident and full of itself.

"Kif, who is that?"

Kif gave a weary sigh and said,

"Planet Express, sir."

"Planet Express, eh? The workplace of the lovely, sultry and sensual Leela. She must be calling for me."

Zapp Brannigan appeared on screen and pushed poor Kif out of the way. When he saw that it was the Professor who was calling, he said,

"Oh, Professor; I was expecting…eh, someone else. Is Leela there?"

"No she's not! In fact she's absconded with my ship and I need your help!"

"Why should the military help with such a trivial thing as an absconded ship? They make something for that nowadays, don't they?"

"Blast it, Brannigan! She stole it along with two very important scientific discoveries that will guarantee me the Nobel Prize at the next award ceremony!"

"Oh. Well, in that case Captain Zapp Brannigan at your service. I'll get them back for you, don't you worry about it."

Kif spoke up and said to the Professor,

"Um, is Amy…."

Brannigan cut the transmission before Kif could finish asking his question and Brannigan said,

"Now now, Kif, we must save the pleasantries for later and focus on our new mission. Set a very sexy course for Planet Earth."

"How do you know they're on Earth, sir?" asked Kif with no trace of emotion.

"Brannigan's Law, Kif. I just know."

Kif wearily sighed again, but did as he was told. Meanwhile, Leela had reached a spot in the ocean that seemed good enough to set down. She activated the water pumps and the pontoons and put the ship down in the water. Umbriel and Fry unhooked themselves from their chairs, and Bender picked Umbriel up first and chucked her into the water. Then he did the same with Fry. As soon as they hit the water they immediately felt better, and Fry said to Umbriel,

"You go on down, and I'll be there in a minute."

"All right, hon but let me at least thank our rescuers."

Umbriel swam over to Bender and Leela and said,

"I can't thank you enough for getting me out of that place. You are true heroes."

Leela just crossed her arms and said,

"Forget it. Just get out of here."

Umbriel looked at the Cyclops sadly and she said to Fry,

"I'll see you in a minute, sugar."

Umbriel kissed Fry on the check and dove beneath the waves. For a minute, Fry was alone with Leela and Bender and he said to them,

"Bender, thanks again buddy. I'd be sushi by now if it wasn't for you."

"Oh, just get out of here and go live happily ever after."

Bender took off sobbing leaving Fry and Leela alone. Leela looked at the redhead and said,

"Are you sure this is what you want? To live like….this?"

"Fry looked around himself at the vast ocean and said,

"I….I think so. Yes; but Leela?"

"Yes Fry?"

"Just promise me that you'll never forget me."

"How can I? You're a….well; I'm not sure what to call you."

"I'm a merman, Leela."

They looked at each other for a minute and suddenly Leela knew in her heart that she didn't want to see him go like this. She jumped into the water and swam to him.

"Leela! What…."

Leela embraced him and said in a sobbing voice,

"I'm sorry, Fry! I'm sorry that I rejected your proposal! I'm sorry that I threw you out! I'm sorry! Please don't leave like this!"

Fry was confused. First she wanted to kill him, now she wanted him to come back? Umbriel resurfaced to find out what was taking so long and saw Leela hugging her man. She demanded,

"What is going on here?"

"Umbriel!" Fry started, "She was hugging me; I swear!"

Umbriel turned accusing eyes towards the Cyclops and said,

"Is that true, Miss Leela?"

Leela released Fry and looked down at the water.

"Yes," she admitted.

Umbriel swam over to Fry and grabbed him. She said to Leela,

"You had your chance with him, sugar. He's mine now. Come on, Fry. Let's go."

Umbriel angrily dove back down and with one final look at Leela Fry dove down and followed her. A flick of a copper-colored fish-tail and he was gone. Just like that, and with him went Leela's heart. She swam back over to the ship and hoisted herself onto the pontoon. Bender met her there and said,

"What's the holdup? You and fish-face get in a fight?"

Leela shot him a dirty look him and went back to the Captain's chair. She closed the hatch, shut off, the water pumps, deflated the pontoons and started the rockets. Soon they were shooting off back towards Planet Express. They never made it. The Nimbus quickly descended on them, and forcefully pulled the smaller ship inside with a tractor beam. Zapp Brannigan was waiting at the loading dock with handcuffs. He boarded the ship, approached Leela and said,

"So, you had to come crawling back, didn't you? I knew you couldn't stay away forever my sultry rock dove."

Leela wanted to punch him so bad, but she resisted and said,

"I guess I'm under arrest. Just do it."

"Do it? That's what you did with Zapp the last time! WHOOOO!"

Leela delivered a well-aimed kick at Bender's head again and he clattered to the floor. He picked himself up again with death threats to Leela, but Zapp said,

"Enough of this chatter. Where is the science project?"

"What are you talking about," asked Leela.

"You're employer told me that you had absconded a project of his that would win him the Nobel Prize. So you tell me where you stashed it, and perhaps we can….work something out?"

(tck tck)

"Go take a long walk off a short pier, Zapp. I don't know what you're talking about."

"Ooooo, stubborn, eh? Well, I have ways of making you talk. Kif, take them to the brig."

Kif approached Leela and Bender and said,

"Follow me please."

Reluctantly Leela and Bender followed the green, squishy alien to the Nimbus' holding cell, but before Leela left the room, Zapp grabbed her shoulder and whispered in her ear,

"We'll have a very sensual talk later; Captain to Captain."

Leela just rolled her eye and kept on walking. Unbeknownst to the robot and Cyclops, two merpeople had witnessed the Planet Express ship's capture, and were well on their way into an argument about it.

I fixed a few spelling errors that I caught, and once again reviews are desired and appreciated. Please review!