Chapter 2

(Disclaimer with Chapter 1)

Leela sighed as she inserted the quarter into the coffee machine and waited.

"Astro or decaf?" The machine asked.

"Astro" Leela answered lazily as the machine grabbed a cup and filled with coffee.

"Milk?" The machine asked.

"Yep." Leela yawned as she took the cup. She walked drearily back to the seat and placed the coffee cup in the holder after taking a long sip. She reclined and put her feet up on the control panel accidentally hitting a button, unknown to her. She closed her eye and placed her hands behind her head. After all, the auto-pilot was on, she needed a nap. It's not like they were going to hit a black hole or something.

"CRASH... SMASH..."

"OW!" Silence... Leela woke up, looking around herself before running to one of the back rooms.

"BENDER, BENDER! What are you d...? Oh god! FRY!" Leela screamed before looking to Fry, he had been hit on the back of the head with a lump of what seemed to be dark matter. The Benders pointed to each other.

"He did it!" They said in unison.

"I don't care who did it! We need some one to help Fry! Fry... Fry?"

And then it happened...

Fry felt as though a vacuum was sucking him out of a bag, kind of like when he was in the Cryogenics tube, or like when you pick out those last crumbs from a bag of crisps (potato chips for non-Brits). Wait, he was in the Cryogenics tube! He stirred before looking around himself; a large man was standing before him.

"Phillip J. Fry?" He asked lazily.

"Uh, yeah, I guess so?" Fry answered, in slight shock.

"Welcome to the Future" He said with the least enthusiasm.

"Uh... But... Wha'? I was in the future a minute ago!"

"Yep, a'course you were. Just get over there and wait." He pointed to a room. Fry bowed his head and walked there. Was his life all just a dream? Was Leela and Bender just figures of his imagination? Was the only place he ever fit in, just all an illusion? Fry looked up.

"July the first, two thousand, three hundred and fifty?! WHAT?!" He blinked before getting down on his knees and sobbing, it was all a dream, his imagination, an illusion. Leela, the love of his life, was never real, Bender his best friend, was probably just a hunk of metal at the moment, or a car. He'd never be able to see them again.

"Turunga Leela?" The man's voice said.

"LEELA?" Fry turned around to see a lady, with one eye, and purple hair! IT WAS LEELA! He grinned and hugged her.

"Fry?"

"Leela?!"

"Fry?!"

"Leela!"

"FRY!"

"LEELA!"

"Fry, what the...?"

"Leela! How the heck...?"

"I dunno, I just went to sleep when..."

"Hey guys" Came a voice from behind the two.

"Bender!?" Fry and Leela chimed in. Bender took a puff of his cigar.

"Bender, Shmender, Ender, Kender... I'm back baby." The three hugged each other, strange, how could they all go into the past? They never thought of it and all walked outside, people were staring at them, especially Leela. Robots were just starting to be made by the millions so Bender was fine, but people stared at Leela, they had never seen a mutant before. The city was almost as rubble as the cars drove through it, obviously New New York was to be built soon, then the flying cars would come and then the robots... Then the heads in jars, that, they could do without, but none-the-less... The tower blocks were crumbling and even the people seemed broken down. There was definitely a feel to the city that made it seem almost ancient.

"Uh, this is my old city guys, New York!" Fry announced after a slightly awkward silence.

"Wow..." Bender gasped as he took out a purple camera from his chest compartment and took a few snapshots of the city before holding the camera in his right hand.

"It's kinda like New New York, only uglier, and smellier..." Leela said.

"Don't forget dirtier!" Fry added. Just then a rubbish van (dump truck, whatever) came past and dumped a load of stinking litter on top of an already overflowing bin (trash can, whatever). "See?" Fry said as Bender took another photo.

"So, uh, what is there to do around here?" Leela asked.

"Good question... We can go play some baseball? Or basketball?"

"Nothing like Slurmsball?"

"Nope."

"Ugh, boooring!"

"Uh Fry..." Said Bender, butting in. "How exactly did we get back here?"

"I dunno, you're the robot..." A short pause. "Bender, how did we get back here?"

"I think I know" Said Leela. "Y'see when we were in the ship, we must have crashed into a black hole... Cue flashback."

Flashback

Leela is narrating.

"Y'see, what happened was as I went to get some coffee..." (Wobbly lined, colour going over the edges Leela goes to get some coffee) "I left the ship on auto-pilot, but then I went for a nap..." (Leela is on her chair, huge Z's coming from her) "So I must have hit the auto pilot off, and we went into a black hole... Or something."

End Flashback

"Gee Leela, you're flashbacks have became really lousy lately." Fry noted.

"Yeah, where are the lasers and all that crap?"

"Meh, I wasn't really trying..."

"My ass you wasn't trying!" Bender growled. "There's something weird about this place... And Bender intends to find out!" Bender took a Sherlock Holmes- style hat and pipe from his chest compartment and put the hat on, lighting the pipe and taking a puff from it every so often.

"Bender, stop being stupid..." Leela mumbled, knowing it wouldn't change Bender anyway; he was a stubborn man-bot. Fry, at the time, was drooling over Leela. Leela smiled to herself, knowing what he was doing as she pretended to look around.

"Well, I guess we're stuck here..." Fry said. "Uh Leela... Do you... Uh, wanna go out with me some time?" Leela looked down to the pavement, she'd always denied Fry of his dates, and they'd been out twice... And it was magical, but she pretended she hated it...

"She says yes, now go!" Bender pushed the two off before they had time to say anything else, Fry led Leela into a posh restaurant. "We're from the future, they give discounts on Wednesdays to future people... I hear..." Fry took out two 'Admit one' tickets from his pocket and handed them to the waiter.

"This way sir, and madam..." He added before walking the two to a corner of the restaurant, the corner was candlelit and the walls were wallpapered a luscious red, it was probably the only decent building left standing in New York at the time. Fry smiled and so did Leela, they looked at each other before nodding, tonight was going to be the best date ever, and Fry had a little extra something for Leela too...