Owl Man and the rest of the group landed outside of the pit. Leela looked around, gazing the surroundings with her single eye, trying to deduce a plan.
"Damn it, this place is too big, it could take hours before we find Fry!" Leela cursed to herself.
"Actually, Fry told me where he was in his telepathy, he did." Zoidberg offered.
"Cheese it; I'd recognize these disco era foot prints anywhere! Follow me!" Bender ordered.
"Always with the disrespect toward Dr. Zoidberg, I have the nerve to tear you limb from limb, row bit.!" Zoidberg snarled in his Yiddish accent.
"Zoidberg, shut the hell up! Bender don't be mean to Zoidberg. You did a good job Dr. Zoidberg, now lets all focus on finding Fry!" Leela demanded.
"Hooray somebody is being nice to me! Hooray for me, hooray for Zoidberg!" The strange lobster alien cheered.
Leela rolled her eye and started to follow Bender who had already started without them. He was either really concerned for Fry's health or Fry had a few spare bucks in his superhero costume. Moments later they found their way to the reptile house.
"Ok, there are a lot of rooms in this hell hole. We all need to split up. Bender, Zoidberg you go that way. Guano Man and I will go this way!" Leela whispered.
"ITS OWL MAN" The hero dressed like a brown Batman yelled.
Owl Man's yelling began to echo through the halls, and soon animals of all sizes and shapes howled and roared from different corridors toward the noise of the intruders. Leela was losing her patience with this guy; he was turning into a real nuisance, even worse than Dr. Zoidberg himself.
"Nice going meat bag. Leela, shouldn't we team up the two rejects?" Bender begged.
"Sorry, Bender not this time. I figure we could each use a decoy or a human shield if need be." Leela explained, putting her hands on her hips, she hoped that Owl Man and Zoidberg would think she was being sarcastic, yet she was 100 honest.
Bender's right eye flashed as if he were winking at her idea. She heard a faint evil chuckle as well.
"Ok, let's go Owl Man, or whatever your name is. Zoidberg, be careful and listen to Bender!" Leela ordered as her and Owl Man took off the opposite end of the hall.
"The Zoo Keeper probably has finished off your friend! His powers where fading fast, he could barely think he was so tired!" Owl Man said in between huffs and puffs while the two sprinted side by side down the hallway.
"No, he is just that big of a moron!" Leela replied.
Bender and Zoidberg had begun their search for there missing comrade as well. The robot and the shell fish wandered the dark hall of the dark, smell building.
"Ahh. Smells like my cousin Zoidfarb's house, it does!" Zoidberg inhaled the putrid air.
The duo stepped into a door that was left open. Bender's eyes zoomed out of his head and he began to babble like a lunatic in a candy store. The small, solid gold retriever jumped up and down and wagged its tail. The small clanks filled the room.
"Oh you're God!" Bender exclaimed running to the small animal.
The robot opened his chest cavity and casually placed it inside, whistling a tune to himself. Zoidberg stood silent.
Leela and Owl Man had stumbled upon the drunken ape who had manhandled Leela earlier. He seemed to be passed out, a bottle of LeBrou in his outstretched paw. The two silently crept over him and hear a wheezing noise from behind a steel door. She silently pushed the steel door open, the rusty hinges squealed like a moaning whale.
Damn it! That was loud enough to wake the dead in space! She cringed as she pushed the door fully open.
"Fry!" She exclaimed as she saw the red headed delivery boy/superhero lay on the ground. He still appeared to be breathing, she wasn't a doctor, but she knew more than Zoidberg that he was still alive!
"Leela…..I blew it. He got away, you were right, I am a failure at everything I do!" Captain Yesterday gasped.
Owl Man let Leela tend to the injured youth. He pulled out a scanner and began investigating around the room, looking for clues or anything else that would lead him to the Zoo Keeper.
"No, no. You are not a failure, it's just that well, you're not good at anything!" Leela comforted him. "But you're a good friend, a great friend."
"Sorry to ruin the moment, but I found the Zoo Keeper!" Owl Man interrupted.
"Where?" Leela called still tending to Fry.
A bolt of energy whizzed past Leela's ear and hit the floor leaving a smoking crater. She could feel the skin on her ear burn, it just missed.
"Right here, and don't bother fighting me, I have taken your friend hostage!" The Zoo Keeper taunted.
Leela slowly got to her feet and faced the voice. The Zoo Keeper had taken Owl Man hostage and the weapon aimed at her.
"He isn't a friend of mine, trust me. I already run around with enough morons as it is!" Leela said, sarcastically.
"Enough with the small talk!" The Zoo Keeper shot the weapon through Owl Man's head and he fell limp to the floor. Without hesitation he effortlessly aimed the weapon at Leela and hit her directly in the chest!
"No! You…you monster, why? Why?" Captain Yesterday pleaded.
"All criminals break the law; I'm breaking the law of comic bad guys, to let the hero live so he can be defeated!" The Zoo Keeper explained blasting Fry in the shoulder.
"Hey chump! Only me and me alone will shoot him and put him out of his misery! He promised me!" Bender's voice boomed through the room. A small barking sound emitted from his chest cavity.
"You thief!" The Zookeeper aimed the weapon at Bender and blasted him through his head. Bender's eyes went dark and a plate covered his single socket. The Bending bot fell to the ground like a pile of trashcans falling down.
"Now it's your turn, all of your friends, are gone. I promised you that you would watch!" The Zoo Keeper said, zapping Fry in the head this time.
The Zoo Keeper stepped over Fry's body, as if it was a puddle in the street. He didn't even bother to look at his handy work. He opened Bender's chest cavity and reclaimed his latest heist and left the room.
Moments later Dr. Zoidberg scuttled into the dark room and gasped at the horror he saw before his eyes.
"What is this? My friends, all of them dead?" Zoidberg looked up into the sky and bellowed why.
The lobster dug his face into his claws and began to cry silently to himself.
Suddenly a memory from long ago played in his head.
"Even though you've been raised as a decopodian, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have yet discovered."
Zoidberg stopped crying and lifted his head out from his claws. "Yes, yes of course!"
"They can be a great people, Kal-El, I mean Zoidberg, and they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you…my only son"
Zoidberg began to scuttle in circles, faster and faster whooping the entire time. He became faster the speed of sound; his speed still grew and grew. Moments, later he was nothing but a blur, and soon not even visible! The lobster man had broken the speed of light! The earth's rotation began to reverse, slowly at first but picked up speed gradually. Finally the lobster stopped his scuttling and whooping…The room was empty. None of his friends where longer visible, no signs of violence. Zoidberg looked at his watch.
"If my calculations are correct, I must act fast, I must." Zoidberg said to himself scuttling out of the room.
"That damn lobster! Late again!" Hermes said eyeing the office clock.
"So what are we waiting around for Hermes?" Leela asked.
"The Professor doesn't have any deliveries so he wants to parade out some of his inventions. Dats all" Hermes explained.
"Shouldn't somebody, uh, wake him up?" Fry asked.
"That's Zoidberg's job mon. In case the Professor wakes up dead." Hermes objected.
"Fine, I'll do it." Amy went on.
Zoidberg continued to scuttle his way towards the Planet Express Building. Turning back time, had taken a lot out of him, he had been neglecting his work out regime.
A few moments later the Professor emerged in his lab coat and slippers. He saw that his beloved crew had sat at their respected spots waiting for him.
"Ha ha, the academy called me a fool, but I have done it. I have created a deodorant so potent, that it has the ability to work for one entire week even with excessive showering and sweating." Professor Farnsworth bragged holding up a stick of deodorant.
Zoidberg slid into the room and slipped on the waxed floor. The lobster flew directly into the frail Professor and they both landed on the ground. The sound of fragile bones breaking sickened the crew.
"You clumsy oaf!" The Professor howled. "That was my second artificial hip this week! Zoiiiiiiiiiiiiiidberg!" The Professor yelled.
"Nice going, you worthless, oh nevermind! Come on lets get the Professor to a real doctor!" Hermes ordered.
Zoidberg watched as the rest of the Planet Express crew hauled the Professor to the ship on a stretcher. He felt bad that he had accidentally injured the frail old man, whom had given him the job even though his medical knowledge was shady at best. He heard the sound of the ship blast out of the docking bay and toward the Taco Belleview Hospital. Making sure nobody was around; he took a familiar red and blue plastic deodorant stick and smashed it effortlessly in his claws.
"Worthless, am I?" Zoidberg asked no one in particular.
Zoidberg scuttled into his office and looked through his telephone directory. He dialed the number to the New New York Zoo.
"New New York Zoo? Yes, It is I the Zoo Keeper, bwa ha ha ha. I am going to steal your beloved solid golden retriever. So don't alert the police force or I will be foiled!" Zoidberg went on.
The man on the other line had no time to speak back; the Doctor slammed the phone down into its cradle.
"Another day saved. That's that." Dr. Zoidberg congratulated himself.
The End………..Or is it?
