Disclaimer:

As usual, I don't own the Futurama characters. I do however own my OWN TELEVISION in my room. Aren't I the most awesome dude around? Anyway, this is the last chapter of the little story. If you want to hear about more adventures of the Futurama crew as well as Thomas, let me know.

Final Chapter: Welcome To Earth.

Fry and Leela ran back to the bridge of the space ship to see that no one was there. Leela looked around frantically and Fry glanced around the bridge to see where everyone went. "Hey Leela, it doesn't look like there's anyone here." Fry commented. "You don't suppose that fake killed the rest of the crew and ate their bodies?"

"I don't think so." Leela replied. "There's no struggle, and if that was the case, then how come you weren't eaten?"

"Let's find out!" Fry grumbled, beginning to make his way back down the hallway. "Why would it he not include me like that? This is like high school all over again."

Leela went to say something, but simply sighed tiredly and followed Fry down the corridor. She took out her laser pistol and carefully monitored her sight as they made their way to the other end of the ship. They didn't find the fake Fry, but they did find Bender relaxing in his hammock in the crew quarters.

"Bender!" Fry shouted as he entered the room. "Did you happen to see someone with red hair, a white t-shirt and red jacket, and blue pants?"

"Yeah. The flesh pile sleeps above me because he's a biiiig baby." Bender replied indignantly. "Just because I fell on him once while on the upper hammock and nearly broke his--"

"Bender, there's a stowaway on the ship." Leela interrupted him.

Bender looked at her for a good ten seconds. He shrugged and then averted his gaze from them. He returned to reading Leela's diary, laughing out loud at some spots. Leela became indignant with him and snatched the book out of his metallic hands. "Hey! I was reading that!" Bender protested.

"Do you even care that a Fry double is running around?" Leela asked.

Bender suddenly got up from his seat and punched Fry painfully in the face. He flew across the room and landed in some empty crates, the pile collapsing in on them. Fry's muffled swearing could be heard under the wreckage, and Leela rolled her eye in annoyance as Bender triumphantly dusted his metallic hands off. "There! I've done my part."

"That's the real Fry, you dumbass!" Leela chided.

"Was it, Leela?" Bender asked seriously. "Was it?"

"Yes! I rescued him from the main cargo bay!" Leela replied. "He's been with me the whole time!"

"Hey!" Amy called out, peeking her head out from the doorway. "Why is everyone in...Fry and Bender's room?"

"BENDER and Fry's room!" Bender replied definitively. "Say it like you're supposed to."

"Amy! There's a stowaway that looks like Fry on the ship!" Leela declared to her. "You didn't see him around, didn't you?"

"Yup." Amy replied cheerily. "I saw him going back to the bridge."

"Thanks Amy." Leela said to her as Fry arose from his spot in the boxes. The three of them ran back towards the bridge, all the while Amy was smirking behind their backs.

They ran to the bridge and they found that it was still empty. They looked around nervously in and around any place where the clone could be hiding, and after a couple of minutes of searching they came to the conclusion that no one was here.

"We lost him!" Fry grumbled, and then turned to Bender. "Why the hell did you punch me? Don't you know me when you see me?"

"I thought you were this stupid clone we're hunting. Don't hold it against me." Bender replied with annoyance. "Now stop whining, you whiner."

Amy came back into the bridge, and looked at Fry strangely. "How did you get back here so quick?"

The three looked at Amy blankly, and she looked at them. "What? Did I accidentally put lipstick on my teeth again?"

"Amy, there's a stowaway on the ship." Leela said tiredly. "And the crappy thing is that I think he can become more than just Fry."

"So that means he can become anyone on this ship?" Fry asked nervously. "Does that mean when you see him as me, and me and him do some sort of switching thing and then you'll have to shoot one of us, and we'll both be all like 'I'm the real Fry, Leela!' and you can't tell us apart?"

"Oh, just keep talking like that and I'll be able to tell you two apart." Leela replied tiredly.

"Either that or she'll just shoot both of you." Bender offered. "I'd gladly take that painful decision off her hands."

"Before the fake Fry left, he hugged me." Amy said. "It was actually really nice. Fry, you need to learn to hug like that."

"He hugged you?" Leela asked. "He must be able to transform into whatever he touches."

"But how was he able to change into me?" Fry asked. "I don't remember hugging any shape changing aliens lately."

"It's obvious we picked up this hitchhiker on that stupid Sean Codion planet, but who else touched you?" Bender asked.

"A lot of people." Fry muttered and blushed with embarrassment.

"Well we know that he can't change into Bender." Amy said knowingly. "Bender's a robot, and he probably can't change into Robots."

"Wrong again, Amy." Another Bender called as he cheerily entered the bridge. The two benders looked at one another, and they both glared angily.

"What the hell are you?" Bender 1 asked.

"Bite my shiny metal ass, you weirdo." Bender 2 grumbled and turned to the rest of the crew. "Blast him! He's the fake Bender!"

"No you're the fake Bender, you jackass!" Bender 1 shouted. "Blast him, guys!"

"For the love of god, you guys are dumbasses." Bender 2 shouted. "Stop messing around and blast him, you chumps and chumpettes!"

"If you don't shoot him, I swear I'm gonna kick your asses!" Bender 1 shouted.

Leela raised the gun up unsteadily toward the Benders. She frowned and sighed in exasperation. "It's no good. I don't know which is the real one."

"I'm the real Bender!" Bender 1 shouted.

"That's what everyone wants you to think, you dumbass." Bender 2 grumbled. "Act in character or else the whole thing falls apart. If you're going to be me, at least do it half decently."

"You're blowing it!" Bender 1 shouted. "What the hell is wrong with you, chump? I thought we were in this together!"

Leela growled in frustration, aimed the gun and shot the Bender. He sputtered in surprise as the laser shock hurled him down the hallway. The other Bender began laughing and smiled at them. "I can't believe you almost fell for that imperso—aagh!"

Leela shot another charged laser blast, launching the second Bender down the hallway. Fry and Amy looked at Leela with uncertainty, and Leela simply brushed some hair out of her eye nonchalantly. "I actually just wanted to shut them both up."

Fry, Leela and Amy approached the two fallen Benders. Leela had a knowing grin as she approached the first one. He was mumbling something in song to the effect of "Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care…mmhm hmmhm cracked corn and Bender is great…"

"And that's our real Bender." Leela said definitively to the other two.

"Which one is this one?" Amy asked.

"Oh who cares." Leela said as they helped the first Bender up.

The other Bender got up and rubbed his ass. He gave a disdainful look that almost looked like a pout as he took to his feet. Fry approached the second Bender angrily. "We know who you really are, so you can drop the act!"

"...What?" The Second Bender asked, and sighed. "Damn it! Am I leaking or something?"

"Leaking?" Fry asked.

The creature looked around warily and then sighed in relief when he found out he was in fact, not leaking. He glared at Leela. "No fair! How did you know he was the real one?"

"Easy." Leela replied knowingly. "Whenever he's exposed to magnets and such he starts singing folk songs. The frequency of this laser blaster can be set to electromagnetic."

"I do not!" Bender retorted defensively, and then sighed wistfully.

"And since you're not really a robot, the blast hardly hurt you." Leela continued.

"Well, now that you've effectively spoiled my fun, what are you going to do with me?" The creature asked.

"Show us who you really are!" Fry said.

"No, I won't be doing that...but I'll be willing to compromise." The Fake Bender replied and then turned bright green. His body lost its integrity and he moulded into a figure they saw before. This time however, the black haired boy was wearing more than a dark green Speedo; He was wearing a loose fitting hunter green hooded sweatshirt, leather pants, and black sneakers.

"It's the guy working at lady Jaxxxmine's." Fry said. "Uh..."

"My name is Thomas Richard Harry." Thomas said. "Nice to meecha all!"

"You stow away on the ship, impersonate us, beat up Fry and run around like you did and expect us to just cordially greet you back?" Leela asked angrily.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Bender." Bender greeted flatly. "You know if you wanted to stow away, I could've kept you in my chest cavity. It would've cost ya though..."

Suddenly the ship shook violently and everyone was thrown to the ground. An alarm sounded and everyone went to the bridge. Leela looked at her console and gasped. "In all our running around, autopilot steered us into a field of asteroids! One of the engines just got damaged!"

Another violent shake jarred the ship and threw everyone to the floor again. Leela sat in her chair and took the wheel of the ship, and everyone took to their stations. "I'm gonna have to steer us the rest of the way through it. Hold on."

Leela manoeuvred the ship the best she can with the damaged engine. Fry worked his navigation controls at the same time Bender kicked his feet up on his consol and he lit a cigar. Amy nervously monitored environmental controls, and Thomas stood there blankly, watching the others.

Leela was doing well, moving the ship as gracefully between each asteroid as she could. They were almost clear of the asteroid field when a small one came into visibility out of nowhere. Everyone cried out as the asteroid crashed into the ship's window. The result was a large crack that quickly broke further to become a small hole.

The hole began sucking the air and small objects out of the bridge. Leela looked in horror as this was happening, and quickly began a key command. When the key command wouldn't comply, she smacked the console in anger. Fry looked at her fearfully, "Uh...what's wrong? I mean, besides this."

"We don't have an emergency lockdown mechanism!" Leela cried.

"Oh well." Bender shrugged as he dragged on his cigar, but suddenly lost it out the window.

"If we don't have something malleable to plug that hole, we're done for!" Leela said angrily to Bender.

Thomas sighed, drooping his shoulders. He ran to the hole and jumped, his body quickly turning green and losing its form. The resulting form was a large blobby green mass with various swirls of colour throughout its mass. Thomas spread himself out as far as his form would allow, and sure enough the cabin pressure returned.

Leela continued her course, and soon enough they made it through the asteroid field. The space was calm once again, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Bender approached the blobby mass and said. "Thomas sacrificed himself to save us from a calamity that he pretty much caused...oh well. It evens itself out...except that I lost my cigar, and for that I will never forgive him."

"I'm not dead!" Thomas' unworldly voice replied sharply. "I'm just…well, never mind. We're not gonna die right?"

"Not once Bender gets outside and repairs the front window!" Leela replied, and Bender groaned.

Bender took a gigantic roll of tape from a box and went outside into space. As he applied the space tape, Thomas released himself from the window, oozing onto the floor of the bridge. He slowly reformed into his human form. Thomas' shoulders slouched as he sighed and shook his head, disoriented.

"That was pretty cool!" Fry said with a smile. "Where did you learn to do that?"

"It's what we do." Thomas replied mysteriously, shrugging coolly. "So where are you guys headed and can I go with you there?"

"Well, we're going to Earth." Leela replied. "Have you ever been there?"

"Well, no I haven't." Thomas replied with a hopeful grin. "What's it like there? I've heard so much about that planet, is it true that it's a cess pool of depravity and filth?"

"Some areas more than others." Leela shrugged.

"Awesome." Thomas grinned.

They approached earth's atmosphere and broke through it carefully. They broke though a huge cloud barrier and Thomas was delighted by what he saw. He saw towering buildings, cars flying across the skies in organized patterns, gigantic animated billboards, lights, noises and glorious pollution. Thomas couldn't help but stare in enthralled joy at what he saw, and the others smiled to one another as they watched him.

The ship touched back down in Planet Express, and the crew got out of the ship. Farnsworth and Hermes approached them angrily and pointed fingers at the damage the ship endured.

"Sweet gorilla of Manila!" Hermes shouted, aghast. "How do you manage to do THIS on a porn delivery!"

"You had better have a good excuse for doing this!" Farnsworth shouted threateningly. "Don't make me activate the chips I embedded in your skulls again!"

Thomas looked around curiously as he stepped off of the ship and into the Planet express docking bay. He approached the two people he never seen before with a friendly grin. "Hey! Are these those two tyrannical, insane bosses I heard so much about?"

"Yo." Farnsworth said flatly. "And you are?"

"Thomas: A neat shape-changing alien from another planet!" Fry introduced enthusiastically. "He saved our lives…after, well, endangering them."

"Shape changing alien, you say?" Farnsworth asked as his interest piqued. His face lit up and he became overjoyed. "Oh! Oh! This is wonderful news!"

"How is this wonderful, dude?" Thomas asked nonchalantly.

"You must be a phasm! I've always wanted to do resear--" Farnsworth suddenly stopped himself and then gained a more sober and cool demeanour. "You're going to need to work off the debt for the damages. How would you like a job?"