Hi Fans! I'm back! Sorry I've been away for so long. This chapter was meant to be uploaded ages ago, but I've been having issues with my computer. Hopefully you will like this chapter. Enjoy reading it!
Sandy, Leela and Bender run towards the window and see that they are in a room with cold steel walls, surrounded by cardboard boxes that haven't been dusted in years. "Last time I looked out of the window, we were in the Galaxy of Limbo. Now we appear to be in some sort of storeroom. How did we get here?" Leela said out loud.
"Thank you for the commentary" said Sandy, sarcastically.
Before Leela could reply, there was a knock at the door. "Whose there?" she asks.
"Oh sure, ask the intruder" Sally said. "They have been known to tell you their identities when you ask them."
"Well, how else will you who it is?" asked Fry.
"How about by opening the door?" said Sandy, walking towards the door. She is about to open it, when Leela grabs hold of her hand and moves it away from the doorknob.
"What do you think you are doing?" Leela said. "You don't know who it is! It could be anybody!"
"Well, we will never know until I open the door, will we?" said Sandy, placing her hands on her hips.
They all fall silent when they hear more knocking at the door.
"Leela does have a point" Fry said, breaking the silence. "It could be an alien who has kidnapped us or a group of people who want to hunt us."
"Shut up Fry, those are stupid ideas!" Sandy shouts at him.
"What do you think Bender? Should we open the door or not?" Fry asks, addressing Bender.
"This conversation is boring and it doesn't involve me, so I'm not going to join in" Bender replies.
"Look, I don't care what any of you losers think, I am opening the door!" Sandy said.
"Fine, but I'm getting my ray gun" said Leela. She lets go of Sandy's hand, runs towards one of the drawers and takes out her ray gun. She inputs more ammunition into the gun and aims it at the door. "Okay, I'm ready. Open the door."
"What are you planning to do with that gun?" asked Sandy.
"If the intruder is dangerous, I am going to shoot it" Leela answered.
"Okay, fine. Just don't aim the gun at me, and don't even think about shooting me" said Sandy.
"I can't make any promises" Leela muttered under her breath.
"What was that?" Sandy questioned.
"Nothing" said Leela.
Sandy reaches for the doorknob and pulls the door open to reveal Zapp Brannigan standing in the doorway. Leela pulls the trigger on the ray gun and the blast misses Zapp's head by a few inches.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Sandy yells at Leela, grabbing the ray gun out of her hands and throwing it on to the floor. "That's Zapp Brannigan! Are you blind?"
Leela just shrugs her shoulders in response. "I know. Why did you think I shot him?"
"I thought you were only going to shoot if it was a dangerous intruder!" Sandy shouted.
"He is dangerous! He has put us in dangerous situations several times!" said Leela, pointing at Zapp. "He's the one who probably kidnapped us and put us in this storeroom!"
"Actually, I saw you drifting in the Galaxy of Limbo, so I used the ship's magnets to drag you into the Nimbus' storeroom" Zapp explained.
"The ship has magnets?" Leela asked.
"It does now" said Zapp.
"See, he saved us! How dare you shoot him!" Sandy said. She runs towards Zapp and starts to hug him. "I apologise for her actions Captain Brannigan. I didn't realise that she was going to try to shoot you."
"It's okay" Zapp said, breaking free from Sandy's hug. "When we had a relationship, this was how we communicated. I would flirt with her and she would say things like 'drop dead' and 'nothing would revolt me more'. Those were the days..."
"Wait, what do you mean 'when we had a relationship'?" asked Leela.
Zapp walks to Leela and places his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry to break it to you like this but, I'm breaking up with you" he said, bringing her close to him so he can hug her. "I will always cherish our time together, and I will watch the video from time to time, but I regret to say that our relationship is over."
Leela breaks free from the hug and takes a step backwards. "What do you mean 'our relationship is over'? We never even had a relationship!"
Zapp shushes her and strokes her face. "It's okay, don't cry. We may do it again sometime in the future, but I'm with someone else now."
Leela slaps his hand away. "Don't touch me, you pig. So, who is the dumb bimbo you left me for?"
Sandy runs towards Zapp and holds his hand. "I am not a dumb bimbo, I'm offended by what you just said."
"Why are you offended?" Fry asked. "She wasn't talking about you."
"She was talking about me! I'm Zapp's new girlfriend" Sandy said, kissing Zapp on the cheek.
Leela rolls her eye and folds her arms. "Who didn't see that coming?" she muttered underneath her breath.
"Does this mean that we're getting a divorce?" Fry asked.
"Hopefully yes, so that way we will never have to see her again" said Bender, happily.
"No, I'm not divorcing Fry" said Sandy.
Bender, Leela and Fry let out a disappointed sigh in unison.
"So, if you're not going to divorce Fry, then why are you 'dating' Zapp?" Leela asked.
"Sorry to disappoint you Leela, but me and Fry have an understanding. I can date other people, and he can't." Sandy replied. "And besides, Zapp is a famous space captain, Fry is just an idiot delivery boy. Speaking of deliveries, Fry get the package I wanted to give to Zapp."
Fry leaves the room in order to get the package. Leela watches him leave disapprovingly. "You should be more nicer to Fry" Leela said, addressing Sandy.
"What do you mean by that? I'm nice to that idiot all the time" said Sandy.
"He works like a dog, following your every order. And, for some reason, he remains faithful to you" said Leela. "He is nothing but nice to you, but you are so horrible to him. You insult him all the time, you're mean and manipulative and you cheat on him constantly. I don't know why he likes you, because I don't. No one likes you."
"Oh please, apart from you, everyone likes me!" said Sandy.
"I don't" Bender said. "Also Amy, the Professor, Hermes, Zoidberg..."
"Alright, alright!" Sandy said, interrupting Bender. "I don't need a list of the people who don't like me."
"Do you want the list? I can give it to you if you want, I have it on me somewhere..." Bender said, reaching into his chest cavity searching for the list.
"I don't want it!" Sandy shouts. "And for the record robot, I don't like you either." She turns her attention back to Leela and starts walking towards her. "And I especially don't like you! How dare you tell me how to treat my husband. I married the fool and I can treat him however I want. You had your chance to be with him, but he is mine now. Leave him alone!"
"What do you mean by 'I had my chance'? Is that what you think this is about?" Leela asked.
"Let's look at the evidence, shall we?" said Sandy. "You tried to convince Fry not to marry me on our wedding day, you imagined kissing Fry at the party, you had a dream about kissing Fry after I had died... I could go on and on. You're clearly jealous."
"I am not jealous!" said Leela. "I know a doomed marriage when I see one, and I was only saying those things because they are true."
"My marriage is not doomed!" shouted Sandy. "What happens in my marriage is none of your business!"
"Also, I didn't imagine the kissing at the party, it happened! And the dream was real!" said Leela.
Fry runs back into the room, holding a small package in his hand. "Is this what you wanted me to get for you?"
"Of course it is!" Sandy said, snatching the package from his hand. She walks over to Zapp and smiles at him. "Here you go Zapp. It's a present from me" she said in a sweet voice.
"Oh sure, you're nice to him, but you're horrible to everyone else" Leela muttered under her breath.
"Shut up, Leela" Sandy said, giving her a dirty look.
Zapp opens the package and looks inside. "Velour pyjamas?" he said, taking it out of the package and inspecting it.
"That's it?" Leela said. "We travelled all this way and got lost in the Galaxy of Limbo, all so you could give your boyfriend a pair of pyjamas?"
"Not just any pyjamas, velour pyjamas" Zapp said, caressing the pyjamas. "Leela, maybe if you had given me gifts like this, our relationship may have lasted longer." He kisses Sandy on her cheek. "Thank you, Sandy."
"You're welcome" said Sandy. "I thought you might need something to sleep in when you're on your long voyage. Where are you going, by the way?"
"I've got no idea" said Zapp.
"But, you're the captain. Surely you must know where you are going?" Sandy said, sounding concerned.
"Sometimes my route is planned by the DOOP headquarters, but most of the time, I just start the engine and let nature take its course."
"That sounds dangerous, I hope you will be okay. I'll miss you" said Sandy, holding his hand and gazing into his eyes.
Leela sighs impatiently and rolls her eye. "As much as I like watching Zapp hit on someone else for a change, I'd like to go home at some point."
"Leela does have a point" said Fry. "You gave him the package, so we can go home now."
"Okay fine, you whiny crybabies, we can go home" Sandy said, letting go of Zapp's hand.
"I'll open the Nimbus doors so you can fly out" said Zapp. He gives Sandy another kiss on the cheek and then leaves.
Sandy runs to the door, waves goodbye to Zapp and then turns to face everyone. "Okay, as soon as Zapp opens the doors, we can go home."
"Great! I'll be in the hammock" said Bender, walking towards Fry's room.
"Leela, why don't you do something useful for a change while me and Fry have a talk" Sandy said, taking Fry's hand and dragging him into the corner of the room.
"Fine, I'll be at the controls" said Leela, walking towards them.
Fry and Sandy were standing too far away for Leela to listen to their conversation, so she sits down on her chair and begins to press random buttons on the console, hoping to start the ship. Soon, the engine switches on and she is about to grip hold of steering wheel, when she feels something tap her shoulder. She turns around in surprise to find Fry standing behind her. "Fry, you have got to stop doing that."
"Sorry" said Fry. "I just wanted to thank you."
"Thank me for what?" Leela questioned.
"I overheard what you said to Sandy about being nicer to me. Thanks for standing up for me" Fry said.
"You're welcome" Leela said, smiling at him. "I am right, you know? She should be nicer to you."
"I know, but that's just the way she is" said Fry.
"You deserve better than Sandy. Why did you start dating her in the first place?" asked Leela.
"Everyone kept telling me to move on, and when I bumped into Sandy, I decided to try it" Fry explained.
"Oh. So you're saying that if it wasn't for me urging you to move on, you wouldn't have met Sandy?" Leela realised.
Fry nods his head. "Yes, I think so."
Leela stands up and takes a deep breath as if her next sentence is hard for her to say. "Do you actually love her?" Leela asked.
Before Fry could answer the question, Sandy walks towards Fry and places her hand on his shoulder. "What is taking so long? Have you told her yet?"
"Told me what?" Leela said, confused. "Was there something else that you were supposed to tell me?"
"Umm..." Fry looks at both Leela and Sandy, unsure what to say. "It's nothing important, it can wait until later" he says to Leela, and then hurriedly walks away.
Sandy sighs and runs after him. "What were you thinking?" Sandy said when she catches up with him. "Did you actually tell her?"
"No, I couldn't" said Fry.
"What did we just talk about?" Sandy asked, folding her arms.
"You said that, in order for the plan to work, I shouldn't talk to Leela any more" Fry replied.
"Correct. And you were supposed to tell her that you didn't want to talk to her, but no, you chickened out!" Sandy said, her voice rising slightly. "I cannot rely on you to do one simple thing!"
"I was going to tell her, but I got distracted" said Fry.
"You get easily distracted all the time!" Sandy shouted. "What did she say that distracted you?"
"She asked me if I loved you, and it made me realise that I don't" Fry said. He turns his attentions to Leela, who is sitting by the controls looking out of the window. "I love her."
"Oh, not this again" Sandy said, frustrated. "This is why I don't want you to be around her. You've fallen in love with her again and it is going to ruin the plan! At some point you are going to cave and tell her everything!"
"I've never stopped being in love with her" said Fry, continuing to look at Leela.
Sandy grabs hold of his face and turns it to face her. "Listen, when we get back home, you will tell her that you cannot see her any more. Are we clear?"
Fry sighs and slowly nods his head. "Fine, I'll do it when we get back."
"You better" Sandy said, letting go of his face. She shakes her head and leaves the room.
Fry looks out of the main window to see the doors of the warehouse opening. He watches Leela grab hold of steering wheel and drives out through the doors and into space. Leela turns her head and smiles at him, causing Fry to smile back. After a while, she returns her attention back to driving the ship as Fry silently leaves the room.
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