A Walk in your Shoes

Chapter 2: The Invention

"Oooh, interesting," said Dr. Zoidberg, "Don't you think so, Bender?"

"Shut up, Zoidberg," Bender replied, "So what does this piece of junk do, anyway?

"The Mind-Machine can do anything that has to do with one's mind," the Professor began to say," Anything from reading someone's mind to controlling the thoughts of others." The professor had a slight evil smile when he mentioned controlling thoughts.

"Why would you want a machine that does that?" asked Amy.

"I don't want to use it to take over the minds of the government!" the Professor began to shout. "Why would you ask a question like that? Who are you? I've never seen it before! It's not mine! I can't believe you'd think I'd try to take over the government! Get out!"

"We can't," Bender said, "If we do, you won't give us beer."

"Ohhh," the Professor said, seemingly forgetting about what he had been talking about before. "Then, in that case, would you like try it out?"

"No," everyone said at the same time.

"Great," the Professor said as he pushed some buttons on the machine. Six helmets popped out. "Put these on. I've put the settings on mind reading. I myself want to read Bender's mind. I'm sure we'll all see how much stuff he has taken from us."

Bender looked around and chuckled nervously, "Why would you think that? I didn't break into your safe with the combination 67 - 45 – 02 and steal $910.23."

Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Bender, Amy, and Professor Farnsworth all put on their helmets. "The more power you use," the Professor began to explain, "The closer our minds become, making it easier to see what goes on in your heads."

Soon, everyone started reading each other's minds. "Ohh my," the Professor said, "Leela, did you know we have the same blood type? This is wonderful, I always thought you had a wonderful pair kidneys."

While Leela was convincing the Professor to leave her alone and to stop coming up to her with a scalpel, Mom, of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, was yelling at her three sons. "Hurry up, you worthless piles of flesh!" she was yelling. "We're losing $55,890 an hour with these generators all messed up. If they aren't ready in ten minutes, you'll start paying for them with your limbs!" Mom's sons, knowing she wasn't lying, started working even faster.

Back at Planet Express, Professor Farnsworth was explaining to Amy the only danger in using the Mind-Machine. "The only risk," he explained, "Is if there's an electrical surge and the machine overloads. If that were to happen, then our minds might become to close, and we can't have that happen. It might have catastrophic consequences."

Back at Mom's, ten minutes later, Walt, the smartest of the three sons, suddenly shouted, "I got it!" He turned around to see Mom sneaking up on him with a saw. When Mom saw that he saw her, she threw the saw over her head. "Ow," someone said. "Awww, shove a big old melon in it!" she shouted, "Now, Walt, what is it you got?"

"I have the answer!" Walt said, "We surge extra electricity into the generators. It'll overload all electronics in a ten mile radius, but it will also fry the virus that's in the generators."

"Walt!" Mom yelled. Walt put his hands up to protect himself, but instead of hurting him, Mom said, "That's brilliant! Not only will it purge the generators of the virus, but overloading the electronics is great. It will break all electronics that people use, and we'll – I mean I'll – make millions when they go out to by replacements. Surge the generators, now!"

Exactly ten miles away, the Planet Express crew fell into unconsciousness.