CHAPTER 02 – MEXICAN BENDOFF
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
"Blotto! Blotto! Come
on, wake up!"
Slowly Bender awoke
from his dream and opened his eyes.
He had dreamt about his
friends…and the last time he would ever see them.
Bender sighed. He was
ready to leave this world forever.
"Just leave me
alone…let me die in peace."
"You're not going to die."
Joey Mousepad said.
"You're fine."
Silence.
"…"
"Uhm…Blotto?"
"I am? I mean…I'm
fine?"
Bender looked at his
chest and there it was: A shiny new door, which looked just like his
old one.
"Yahoo!"
He got up and began
dancing.
"Bender is fine! Bender is fine! Blablabla, Bender is
great."
"Let's see how fine
Bender will be after we're done with him." the Donbot said.
"Donny B? What's
the matter?" Bender axed.
There he stood, the
Donbot, who just arrived at the rendezvous point along with Clamps,
and he looked as angry as a robot could.
"How dare you betray
us, after you've been treated like a friend, like a brother…like
a son?"
Since Bender wasn't
that interested in going to prison, he decided to take the whole
thing seriously. The first thing he had to do, was rejoining the
robot mafia, at least for one job.
Being an ex-member of
the mafia, Bender knew all the places where he might meet them, the
first one of his list being Elzar's restaurant.
"Of course,
nobody should know, that won't be much of a problem."
Elzar was on the phone,
talking to one his 'special' customers, while Bender came in.
"Yes, you can trust
me, we're very trustworthy and discreet."
"Yo, Elzar, is the
robot mafia here?"
The Neptunian looked at Bender.
"They
sit at their usual table."
Bender went on and
Elzar continued his discussion.
"What? Of course, we
serve everything, and only the freshest, none of 'em being older
than ten years."
"Clamps, Joey,
Donbot, how's it going?"
The three robots looked
at Bender, as he reached their table.
"If it isn't
Blotto…" the Donbot said.
"What do you want?"
"Well Donny, ya
know…I wanted to forget about organized crime, I'm not into
working with others and stuff, but…let's say there is a rumor,
that you guys are planning…a robbery…"
"Come to the point."
"I want to help you
with this one and, of course, I want to get my share in the end."
The Donbot seemed to be
annoyed.
"You left us and now
want to work with us again? What, tell me Blotto, what have I done,
to deserve such a treatment? You are not showing any respect."
"Shall I clamp him?"
Clamps looked at
Bender.
"You want to be
clamped!?"
"Yo, Clamps, calm
down now…" Joey interfered. "Donbot, come on, you know he did a
good job back then and we could need a fourth robot."
The Donbot looked at
Joey.
"Joey…do you trust him?"
"Well…I know he's
evil, but so are we, so why not?"
"Well then, if you
are willing to give him another chance, so am I."
"But I wanted to
clamp him!"
"Be quiet Clamps!"
the Donbot said. "You don't clamp your friends."
Bender grinned.
Bender trembled with
fear.
"Please don't kill
me. I…I didn't do it! It was Clamps!"
"Why should Clamps do
such a thing? He's only a few crimes away from a brand-new pair of
clamps."
"Yes! New clamps!"
"Clamps. You take
care of him. Joey, we're leaving." the Donbot ordered.
"But-…alright
boss." Joey sighed and followed the Don.
Now Bender and Clamps
where alone.
"Now you'll be
clamped!"
"Please, don't do
it, I hate being hurt, it's so painful."
Clamps was about to
begin, when suddenly a car crashed through the wall and hit him.
Fry was driving the car
with Leela sitting next to him. They were on the way home, after
buying a new set of teeth for the professor.
"Leela…" Fry
said.
"Yes?"
"I want to talk to
you, now we are alone, so I guess it's the right moment."
He
held her hand with his.
"You do rem-"
"Fry, you lose
control!" she yelled.
"No, I know what I'm
doing, just let me tell you this."
"No, I mean the car!
Hands on the steering wheel!"
Fry looked through the
front window of the car, just in time to realize, that there was
another car, coming right at them.
"WAH! A car!"
He managed to get back
on the right lane, but still it was way too close.
"Don't you EVER do
this again Fry. I'm too young to die!"
"I'm sorry."
"So…you were
saying…?"
"Well…you remember
that night at the opera, right?"
"Sure, it was just a
week ago."
"Well, Leela…ever
since I wanted to tell you something…it took me a week to write
down my words…and I'm only half done, but I can't wait any
longer, so let me tell you what I've got so far and then let me
make up the rest."
"Okay Fry…go
ahead."
"Tank you."
Fry took a piece of
paper out of his pocket and unfolded it. Then he began to read.
"Leela. You know that
I love you. I told you so often. But…"
"Uh, Fry?"
"Please Leela, let me
finish. So…uh, yeah. But you…"
"Fry, for gods sake, you're
the driver!"
"I'm what?" he
axed.
Then he remembered.
"Oh…"
He looked out on the
street.
"WAH! Many cars!"
Fry grabbed the
steering wheel once again and tried to avoid cars on both lanes.
The car ended up of the
street.
"Puh, that was close,
but we're save. There are no more cars." Fry said.
For the third time he
looked out through the front window, but this time, there weren't
any cars, but a building.
"WAH! A depot!"
This time a wasn't
able to prevent the accident.
The car crashed through
the wall of the building and finally stopped after hitting a robot.
"Ow. My head doesn't
feel good." Fry said. "Where are we?"
"I don't know"
Leela said while she got out of the car.
"But that's
Bender!"
Fry got out too.
"And that robot we
hit, who looks like the one from the robot mafia…I think it's the
one from the robot mafia."
"Fry, Leela, what the
hell are you doing here? Anyway, save me!" Bender said.
"What happened here?"
the Donbot, who suddenly was back along with Joey, axed.
"Donbot…may I ax
you something?"
"What is it
Joey?"
"Do we really…you know…have to clamp him? I mean,
maybe the cops forced him to do this. They probably found out about
him working for us. I'm sure he didn't want to do it."
"You still trust him,
Joey?"
"Sort of…at least,
I don't think we should kill him. Look inside your heart-file
Donbot, you know I'm right."
The Donbot looked at
Joey.
"Alright…but this
is his very last chance. The next time he gets in our way, he'll be
shut down."
The two walked back.
"I hope we're in
time to stop Clamps."
But as they arrived,
Clamps was on the floor and there were two humans.
"What happened here?"
the Donbot axed.
Bender shrieked and hid
behind Fry and Leela.
"What happened to
Clamps?"
"It wasn't me, they
did it, kill the humans first!" Bender shouted, still hiding behind
his meaty friends.
Both, the Donbot and
Joey, pulled their guns and aimed at Fry and Leela.
As always, Leela was
the one to react fast.
She opened Bender's
chest door und took out two guns.
"Fry!" she said
while she gave him one of them.
Now it was two guns
against two guns. Fry and Leela ready to kill the two robots, the
Donbot and Joey Mousepad ready to kill the two humans.
Then, there were
sirens.
"What's that?"
Leela looked around. "The police?"
"Everybody come out!
We have you partially surrounded."
"How did they know
where we are?" Joey axed.
"Let me clamp them!"
Clamps, who was back on his feet, said.
"Donny, Joey, Clamps.
Hurry and leave, we'll keep the cops busy." Bender said.
"But-" Joey began
talking, but was interrupted by Bender.
"No butts!"
He giggled.
"Seriously, no but,
just go! Hurry!"
Joey nodded and
followed Clamps and the Donbot who were already running away.
It was then, that the
police entered the building from the other side.
"Nobody moves! You
are all under arrest for damaging this building."
"So they arrested you, because you destroyed the wall of the depot?" Amy axed.
"Yes." Leela answered.
"And now you're broke, because you had to pay for it?" Amy axed.
"Yes." Fry answered.
"And they agreed to forget about Bender and the robot mafia, because his chest door was damaged during his mission and they didn't want him to sue them?"
"Yes." Bender answered.
"Pretty good story, isn't it?"