Author's Note: I don't own Futurama or anything to do with it, and this is strictly a non-profit only thing.
A quick addition to Something Completely Different.. which explains how and why Fry and Morgan were destined to be together, and it wasn't solely by fate. I felt like I had to write this, since "Bender did not destroy Hermes's office" doesn't really qualify for an explanation. Why did things turn out much differently? You'll find out.
Applied Cryogenics, January 1st, 2000..
"Well.. now it's your choice. Is there nothing in the future worth saving?"
The answer that Philip J. Fry gave to the Nibblonian would set the future in stone, for better or for worse. Lord Nibbler had already made his decision after massive amounts of research on the Mighty One which spanned over twenty years.. and he hoped that he chose wisely.
It all comes down to two.. if my hypothesis is correct, then my decision will have already affected the future although I have not done it yet. It must be protected, or else all will be lost.
"Morgan."
"And why her?" Nibbler asked, though already knowing the answer.. he knew what the entire life of the Mighty One would be and all the important decisions he would make. "Why this woman above all else?"
"I love her." Fry said. "She's really showed me what life's all about.. you're right. I can't stay here anymore, and I can't leave her."
"She must be The Other.. though another may once have been."
Nibbler thought back to the conversation that he had only moments before with the future version of the Mighty One, before he pushed his past self into a cryogenic chamber and vanished back into his own time period. The future was set.. the Brainspawn were doomed to failure and the universe was now safe for the time being.
The legend of the Mighty One consumed Nibbler, to the point that he wanted to silently guide his life behind the scenes. With the help of an ancient Nibblonian artifact that allowed the user to look into time itself, he set out on a long and tiring journey to find the best available path.
Nibbler searched the time lines for many years, until narrowing the available choices down to two.
In both time lines, the Mighty One's mission would succeed. But there was one huge, glaring difference between both.. one which would not define whether the universe would survive or not, but would affect the overall happiness and joy of his charge.. and another.
Though he did not know him personally, Nibbler grew to care about Philip J. Fry and only wanted the best for him. The two choices were in fact two women.. Turanga Leela, and Morgan Proctor. In both time lines, the first woman broke his heart to the point where he may not have recovered.. something which was a very grave reality in other horrible time lines that Nibbler didn't want to think about.
In one time line, the second woman and the Mighty One did not get along and later despised each other.. but Nibbler glanced further back into her past to discover that she was a lonely, broken woman. Her death came only years later in an accident, which nobody cared about or remembered.. her life was cut short and unfulfilled.
Nibbler looked also into both versions of Turanga Leela's future. In one, she was happily married to the Mighty One and bared two children.. and in the other she was happily married to someone else and bared three children. In both time lines, she lived to a ripe old age (for humans) and was sorely missed and well remembered by her loved ones. Either way, her life had been complete.
He was a master manipulator, but Nibbler couldn't help but to feel pity for the second woman.. Morgan Proctor.
In the second time line, she was the wife of the Mighty One and bared only one child with him.. due to complications with the birth of her son, she could not have any more children. But that was more than enough, as she avoided her terrible fate in the other time line and lived to the age of one hundred and forty-two.
Nibbler was intrigued. He had viewed their meeting, falling in love.. and eventual marriage in the second time line. But he did not know which one to choose.. both offered the Mighty One comfort and happiness for the rest of his life.
He decided to discover the difference between the meeting of Morgan Proctor and Philip J. Fry in the second time line.. the time stream was identical to the first up to a point. In the year of 3001, the robot named Bender ran outside Planet Express after a poker game instead of hiding in the office of one Hermes Conrad. It might not have seemed like much, but it made the difference between one woman or another.
Nibbler did not know what caused the robot to suddenly change his mind, but he figured that it had to have been interference of some kind. Possession.
The chain of events triggered by that one edit to the time line was staggering. Though many things would remain much the same, unlike the first timeline Morgan would not be cold and unforgiving.. and would not use the Mighty One for a mockery of what love should be. The woman would not take over the job of Hermes Conrad and would only truly meet her future husband when he was at his lowest.. low enough to lay his soul bare before Morgan, which will trigger something in her that she did not remember she could have or feel.
It would not be forced.. just a very slight nudge in the right direction, and Morgan Proctor and Philip J. Fry would do the rest.
After very careful and hard thought, Nibbler made a decision with a single word. Morgan.
Not only would the Mighty One be happier much sooner (Turanga Leela took quite some time to love him in the first time line, and unintentionally broke his heart on more than one occasion), but as a bonus he would also be saving the life of a woman who he had also grown to care about after much study. Her descendants in the far future would go on to invent technology that should have not appeared for centuries, saving and improving many lives.
Turanga Leela was not forgotten to Nibbler either.. he had forseen that both she and her children in both time lines would later be advocates for equal mutant rights, and would go on to impact the world in many ways.. much further than anyone could have ever imagined. He would make sure to disguise himself as a nearly-mindless pet to keep a close eye or three on her, and to also guide the Mighty One in times of need.
It took Lord Nibbler three years, seven months and twelve days to finalize his decision.. and now that the Mighty One had appeared to him and clearly told the name of his mate, there was no going back. He would just have to make sure in a thousand and one years to take brief control of the robot, Bender.. long enough to keep him away from the bureaucrat's office and invoke destiny between a man and a woman.
Short, but that's all. Hope you enjoyed this story, and yes.. it is something completely different. Nibbler's decision pretty much created what I'd call "Universe B".. in the canon Universe A (named as such in The Farnsworth Parabox), he would have decided on Leela instead and not influenced Bender's actions. By doing so, Morgan and Fry would have met very differently and never would have even considered marrying each other after the events of How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back.. nor would they see each other again.