A Walk in your Shoes
Chapter 3: Switched
After about fifteen minutes, the Planet Express crew began to wake up.
"Owww, my head," Fry began to moan, "Wait, something isn't right. OK, let's see, white tank top, purple hair, one eye, voice that sounds like Leela. Hmmm, I don't know what's wrong." Fry stood there for another few minutes before he gasped and yelled, "Wait! I'm Leela!"
Fry in Leela's body ran over to his own body and started hitting it and shouting, "Leela, uhhh, or Fry, or whoever you, or I am, wake up!"
Fry's body began to stir. "Owww, stop it. And what do you mean, 'Whoever you are'? I'm Leela." Leela stood up and saw herself looking at her. She screamed and then said, "If you're me, then that means…" Leela looked down and saw she was wearing the red coat Fry wore. "I'm Fry!"
"Haha, losers. Bender is invincible. No machine can mess up my mind, and anyone who wants to can bite my shiny metal ass."
As Bender was busy talking about his invincibility, Fry and Leela started laughing. Bender soon stopped and looked at himself to see he was red, wearing sandals, and had two claws. "Awww, crap." He turned around and saw his ex-robot body and said, "This is awful! I can't do anything to Zoidberg! It would be doing something to me, and I love me!"
"Let's see," Leela (in Fry's body) said, "Me and Fry have somehow switched bodies. Bender and Zoidberg have done the same thing. Does that mean…" Leela was then interrupted by a loud scream, "I'M OLD!"
"Yeah," Fry said, "Amy and the Professor have switched, too."
"Hmmm," the Professor said. The crew was sitting at the table trying to figure out what had happened. "This must have happened when we were using the Mind-Machine," Professor Farnsworth continued, "We are a small group that gets its electricity from Mom's Friendly Robot Company. With the problems Mom's is having, the generators must have had a burst of energy that overloaded the Mind-Machine. When the electricity came, our minds were pushed into other bodies."
Amy was still terribly upset while the Professor was talking. "Ohhh, what will Kif think? And my parents, they'll never stop talking about the fact that they won't have any grandchildren now?"
"Anyway," the Professor continued, "Our only hope is to re-overload the machine. And knowing the kind of heartless witch Mom is, we have a problem. So, any ideas?"
"Bite my red, shell-covered ass," Bender said. "I like this body. I can smoke and drink and I know it's causing harm for Zoidberg when we switch back. I say we wait a while."
"Don't worry, everyone," Zoidberg said, not realizing that no one cared for his health. "I have five lungs and three livers. I won't have any harm come to me."
"Then let me out of this body!" Bender yelled.
"Don't worry," Leela said. "Something will come along soon that will make this situation better."
Suddenly, the company's videophone began to ring,
"See, I told you," Leela said. "I bet whoever is calling can probably help us." Leela pressed the on-screen button to see who was calling. It was Zapp Brannigan. "That's not what I meant," Leela said very angrily.
"Hello my sensual Leela," Zapp said, "I am in need of a package delivered to my ship, the Nimbus, and I thought you might be itching to be in my sexual presence. I would, of course, pay $55,890 for you to deliver. And perhaps, a little extra if Leela and I could have some, alone time." Zapp said this with a grin.
"We'll do it!" the Professor shouted.
Zapp was surprised to see who he thought was Amy to be so excited, but then he remembered Kif. "Ahhh, yes. You must want to spend some special time with Kif." After saying this, he saw that who he thought was the Professor start crying. "Okaaayyyyy, um, I'll see you when you come by."