A Walk in Your Shoes II
Chapter 3: No! I'm him.
I decided to change the plot of the story. As I mentioned in the summary before, part of the story involves Zoidberg saving the world as Zapp. When it comes to writing things like that, I suck. Instead, it will become a series of deliveries made by the crew. Depending on how good the reviews are will control how long the story goes before it ends. If you don't like this idea, say so and I'll try write a good scene with Zoidberg saving the world. But you have to review it or I'll end up writing a different ending.
Zapp and Zoidberg got up. Both of their heads hurt. Zoidberg thought Zapp might be angry, so he ran out of the room, making that odd whooping sound. He ran around a corner and right into Leela and Bender.
Bender looked at him and paused before speaking. "Acting like Zoidberg will not get Leela to like you, Zapp."
Zoidberg was confused. He wasn't Zapp. Zapp was rich and famous. Zoidberg was a doctor. "No, I'm…" was all he was able to say before Leela kicked him in the groin.
"C'mon Bender," Leela said, walking down the hallway to the employee lounge.
Bender followed Leela into the lounge, laughing about how humans were stupid and could feel pain. Zoidberg was left alone in hall for about a minute until Professor Farnsworth walked in. He didn't say anything, just placed an ice pack near Zoidberg.
Zapp was confused. He normally was, but this was more confused than normal. He saw himself run out the door, but he remained still. He looked down at himself and saw two, giant, red claws. "Excellent," he thought, "Leela will love these."
Zapp walked out of the room and into the employee lounge. He saw Leela and himself sitting on the couch. He still didn't realize Zoidberg was in his body. As mentioned before, Zapp was an oblivious, idiotic, pervert. And then, in one sentence, Zapp proved he was all three, again. "I don't know who's the better looking one on that couch."
The room was silent. From everyone else's point of view, Zoidberg had called Zapp good looking. Bender and Fry looked at each other and cracked up.
This was the happiest moment of Bender's life. It was even better than those various nanoseconds when he was an audience member at Elzar's. Zoidberg had embarrassed himself to the point where no one would ever get near him again. Zoidberg was acting so weird that it almost seemed like he and Zapp switched bodies.
Bender was laughing so hard that he tripped over backwards and landed on a box of magnets. He stopped laughing and all was silent for a moment. Then he started singing folk songs.
"Good news, everyone!" said the professor, who just walked in. "You'll be delivering these magnets to Earth 7. It's a planet exactly like ours, but over one thousand years behind ours in technology. They just invented the refrigerator and you need to deliver these magnets to put on them."
"That's the dumbest mission you've ever sent us on!" Leela exclaimed.
"Yes, I know," the Professor responded, "But I do enjoy looking at Bender suffer under the control of magnets."
"She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes, and Bender is great," Bender sang, unable to reply. If he wasn't incapacitated, Bender probably would have said, "Damn you, old man!"
"Oh, and Bring Zapp and Zoidberg with you, too," the Professor added.
"Why?" Fry asked.
"Because," Professor Farnsworth responded, "I don't like either of them and I can get rid of them for a little while if they go with you on your mission. Now get out! And tell Bender to load those magnets on the ship."
"Jimmy cracked corn and Bender killed all humans," Bender sang.
Due to the singing problem, it took well over an hour for Bender to load the magnets onto the ship. Along with needing to sing when magnets were on his head, Bender had to do these crazy dance moves, too.
While they were waiting, Zapp wanted to spend time with Leela. He put his arm around her shoulder.
Leela was very shocked when she saw Zoidberg putting his arm around his shoulder. She was also very disgusted by it, too.
"Zoidberg, get off me," she said.
Zapp was surprised. How could Leela confuse him for an ugly red crab? Zapp was smart enough to know who he was. But then Zapp realized what had happened. He remembered about two months ago when the Planet Express Crew delivered his underwear. All six of them were acting very odd. After they had left, Kif explained that they had switched bodies. Zapp didn't believe it, but he realized now that it was true. He and Zoidberg must have switched bodies.
"No, I'm him," Zapp said, pointing to Zoidberg.
"Yeah right," Leela said.
"It's true, tell them, crab-thing," Zapp said.
Zoidberg wasn't paying attention to anything that was going on. When he Fry and Leela looking at him he said, "Anchovies."
Fry and Leela couldn't believe it. Zapp had to be telling the truth. Only Zoidberg was that obsessed with dead fish. They turned around to see Bender. He had placed the magnets on the ship and pulled away from them. He looked very angry, but anyone would, being forced to sing folk songs for over an hour.
Fry and Leela were about to explain things to Bender when the Professor walked in.
"What are you still doing here?" he shouted.
"Professor, Zapp and Zoidberg…" Fry began to say.
"I don't care!" the Professor shouted. "Get the hell out of here!"