Chapter 2

May 14, 1991

Fry looked out the window that wasn't covered in ice. He looked around, and people walking by were wearing really weird clothes.

"Oh my God! We went back in time!" gasped Fry. "But where?"

"Well you'd better figure it out, Fry, because we're stuck here," said Leela.

"How?" asked Fry. Leela pointed to the plutonium chamber. It was empty.

"Oh, cursed life!" gasped Bender. "This is truly the end of my career as a banjo player!"

"Wait," said Fry. He saw a place that said "Coming Soon: Stinkin' Randy's Video. "I know this place! This is gonna open in two months! Then close in a month! We're in 1991!"

Leela and Bender were mad. Fry smiled nervously. He struggled opening the door because of the ice. When he finally got it open, he gazed upon the "glory" of 1991. He started walking around, and he left Leela and Bender in the car.

"Fry, wait! Remember what happened last time we traveled back in time? You became your own grandpa!" screamed Leela.

"Aw, screw him! Let's just look around," said Bender.

"But Bender, robots don't exist and I have to find new clothes," said Leela. She found a spare pair of sunglasses and put them on. She looked around for a clothes store.

"Aw, shining robot," moaned Bender. "What am I supposed to do?" Suddenly, his eyes wer stuck on a robotic dog, which was lying on the street. "Eh?" He got out of the car and picked it up.

"I'm namin' ya Bender Jr. II," he said, petting it. "Now, where the hell am I?"

Fry was walking around his old neighborhood. He remembered all the old stuff that was there: Pannuci's Pizza, Crazy Lester the Hobo, the garbage pit of fire, and a lot of other stuff.

"Hey!" mumbled Crazy Lester the Hobo. "Haven't ah seen yer 'round somewheres?"

"Crazy Lester!" gasped Fry. "Oh man! I haven't seen you in forever!"

"Yer smell like flowers and…flowers," said Lester drunkenly. "Back when I were senator of Germany, 'aboot' two hundred-yeeeeers ago, I were havin' parties with Marilyn Monroe and—and Buddy Holly and—and—" He fainted dead away on the bench he was sitting on.

"Uh, nice seein' you again," said Fry, sneaking away. He kept walking around, until he came across the lot where he saw someone there, mad. It was himself at age 15! He remembered this. A car would come up and he was going to jump in the way, almost killing him!

"Phil, NO!" Fry cried. He ran over to the empty lot and pushed his younger self out of the way, then—

WHAM!

He was hit with the car. He was pushed back and fell unconsious in the road.

"Hello? Sir?" asked his younger self. "Oh, geez. I'm going to take you home with me."

Leela was in the middle of the city, looking for a decent clothes store. "Ugh," she muttered in disgust. "Guess this'll have to do." She went inside the Macy's in downtown New York City.

She went over to the clothes section and saw some of the weirdest clothes ever! She picked up a shirt that had no shoulders and short sleeves.

"Guess this'll have ta do," she said. She went up to the cash register and dropped something from her pocket.

"Oops," she said. She bent down and her sunglasses fell off. When she came back up, the register gasped.

Leela looked at the floor. "Aw, hell," she said quickly.

"Wait, lady!" said the guy behind the counter. "I have a cousin who will make your eye famous!"

"Eye?" screamed Leela nervously. "Wha-what eye?"

"Don't be modest," said the man behind the counter. "Here's his card. His place is only two blocks from here. He'll get you hooked up with the biggest stars that live in New York!"

"New New York," corrected Leela.

"What?"

"Nothing," she said. "What's your cousin's name?"

"Trey Stone," said the man. "He and his best friend Matt Parker work together."

"Cool."

Bender was walking around in the crowded streets of New York.

"Hey! Stop pushing me, you coffin-stuffer!" he shouted.

No one paid attention to the fact that he's a robot, but just another annoying New Yorker.

"Hey, you pieces of skin-covered crap! I said MOVE. OUTTA. THE. WAY!" He pushed two people out into the street and they were hit by a moving truck.

Bender heard a siren in the distance. "Aw, crap! Now I know why Fry's always complaining. C'mon, Bender Jr. II!" Bender started running down the street until he ran into two very tall policemen.

"Uh, howdy! Greetings from Canada! I'm sure you'd like to learn aboot… uh… Kroff Dinneuh!" said Bender nervously.

"Hmm. I've heard about these robots from Canada that promote "Canadian-iss," said the dumb cop.

"There's no robots in Canada, stupid," said the smart cop. He gave the Gilligan (takes off hat and bonks him in the head) to his partner.

Bender started laughing.

"What?" asked the smart cop with anger.

"Uh…look! It's…uh…Fiona Apple!" said Bender.

"Where?" asked the dumb cop.

Bender kicked the two cops in the shin and ran off.

"OWW! Son-of-a—HEY!" shouted the smart cop.

"Guess them Canadians are smarter than we think," said the dumb cop.

Again, the smart cop gave the dumb cop the Gilligan. "Follow that robot!"

Bender started running into a local neighborhood. He noticed a small kid selling "Nickel Beer."

"Aha! Beer will give me the strength I need!" said Bender. Suddenly, the "Popeye" theme song played in the background as he took some glasses of beer and downed them. Bender started running faster and faster until he tripped over a brick.

"Gross!" he said.

"All right, mister," said the dumb cop. "Spread 'em."

"Butt-baby, let me do the arrest," said the smart cop.

"Barbrady," said the dumb cop.

"Oh, sorry, what'd I say?"

"Butt-baby."

There was a pause. The smart cop and Bender started laughing.

"All right, you. You're under arrest." He cuffed Bender and brought him back to squad car.

Uh-oh! Leela might become an alien model, Bender got arrested, and Fry might have changed the future for the worse…for him. What happens next? Stay tuned!