And here I thought this one wouldn't have any support, but thanks a bunch to the positive reviews I've recieved. Here's you chapter three. Some useless robot anatomy lesson at the bottom.
Suspicions:
Chapter Three.
Leela backed up from the room holding her hands to her sides trying not to trip on something.
'Me and my bright ideas. What am I gonna do now?' she thought.
"Leela, are you alright?" Fry's voice entered her head. Leela shook her head.
'What now? Tell them I'm blind, or just act naturally?'
"We are so boned." Bender whispered, but Leela heard it.
"Maybe she didn't see anything." Fry whispered.
"Oh, no she didn't see anything." Bender said sarcastically, "When she screamed 'I'm blind,' That wasn't aimed at us at all."
"Guys I can still hear, you know." Leela said aloud.
"Uh...Leela." Bender's footcups made their usual thumping as he came into the room where Leela was. "Look...uh..damn"
"What Bender means is, we're awfully sorry." Fry added.
"What is the matter with you two." Leela asked a little flustered.
"What do you mean what is the matter with us? You're the one who walked in on us." Bender defended.
"Well, this is a spaceship, not the Lovenasium." Leela replied.
"Ohh, that was low." Fry added.
"Sorry, I...just.." Leela huffed with frustration.
"Leela, whose flying the ship?" Fry asked.
"I have the autopliot on." Leela replied.
"Just one question. Are you really blind, or was that just a smart-assed remark at our expense?" Bender inquired.
"No, I'm really blind." Leela replied.
"You have got to be bending me." was Bender's rebuttal.
"So, I thought you two were playing tricks on me, I had to know." Leela retaliated.
"And look what curiosity did to the cat." Bender laughed.
"Hay, that's not funny." Leela replied pointing to the coffee maker.
"Oh yah, she's blind. Leela wouldn't willingly make herself look dumb to prove a point." Fry replied.
"What do you know, you cruton." She pointed to the copilot chair.
"Okay, okay, that's enough..." Bender still giggling, finally he calmed the giggles down, "What are we gonna do, big boots?"
"A..bout what." Leela asked.
"The delivery, the ship, getting home, oh I dunno, alive." Bender smarted.
"I can fly blind just fine thanks. I've done it before." Leela sat down in the correct seat at least.
"Yah, I was there, and I was seriously afraid for my life." Fry replied.
"I'll show you." Leela took the autopilot off.
"Listen, Leela please, we've all made ourselves look stupid up here today, just let me or Bender drive okay." Fry pleaded. Leela sighed.
"Alright, Bender, you take the wheel." Leela commanded reluctantly.
"Huh? Why can't I drive, I've driven before." Fry whined.
'Well at least, things haven't changed too much.' Leela thought.
"Because you'll kill us all and get us lost." Bender replied.
"That's not fair." Fry whined.
"Alright, Leela, can Fry drive back?" Bender asked. Leela sighed again.
"Alright, just let me lie down for a while." Leela exited the room and went to her cabin. She knew the ship pretty well to get around at least. Til she realized she was in the bathroom.
"Oh crud." Bender and Fry heard Leela scream.
"Poor Leela." Fry whispered. Leela didn't hear it though.
"Poor Leela?" Bender mocked, "Poor us, what if that one-eyed jerk tells everyone what she saw us doing?" Bender asked.
Fry leaned back with his feet up, Bender was at the pilot position steering. Fry thought for a moment.
"Leela's a good friend, Bender. I don't think she'll tell anyone." Fry replied.
"Oh, no? Then what's she gonna tell them her excuse is for being blind?" Bender inquired.
Leela lay on her bed with her arm over her head, 'What do I tell them made me blind? I can't tell them I walked in and saw..." Leela shook off that thought. She couldn't get the image out of her head. She didn't even think it was possible. 'Bender had Fry on all fours and was...' she shook off the notion again. 'I mean for pete's sake, how the hell is it possible for a robot and a human to...? I mean I saw it, it's possible alright, but are both parties getting anything out of it..And why am I thinking about this?'
"We could have her say she walked in on some old guy, who had wondered in the ladie's room and was standing there butt-naked taking a whiz in the sink." Fry suggested. The delivery boy was pacing back and forth.
"Listen Fry, Leela's not going to lie for us."
"Well what are we supposed to do?" Fry asked. He stopped pacing and shrugged.
"I told you we're boned." Bender sighed.
"Well, why is it such a bad thing?" Fry smiled.
"Fry, it took us three years to admit it to ourselves." Bender replied to the hopeful red-head.
The conversation trailed off the subject at least long enough to land on the 'Garden Planet'. Leela got up and had walked back up to the front of the ship.
"Now Fry, I'm counting on you to deliver this crate and not do anything stupid okay." Leela asked. Fry rolled his eyes maybe three times, glad she couldn't see it.
"I know you're rolling your eyes Fry, see this is why you can't fly the ship, your immaturity." Leela lectured.
"Uh, Leela, Fry's been gone. He didn't hear that last rant." Bender put in.
"Lousy meatbag." Leela stole one of Bender's lines and went back to her cabin. Bender could not help but have a laugh at the cyclops misfortune as he puffed on one of his signature cigars.
Leela soon felt the ship take off.
"It's okay Leela, Fry made it back safetly, for once. We're heading home." Bender said on the overhead communicator. She thanked sweet zombie jesus at this news.
Leela's mind started to wonder back to the event that had blinded her. 'Maybe if I accept it I'll get my sight back.' she thought. A couple of seconds passed, 'Ohh, I can't do this.'
"We need to get our story straight before we land at Planet Express." Fry said happily at the wheel.
"No, we don't." Bender defended. He got out a beer and popped the top.
"Why don't you want to talk about it?" Fry asked.
"Fry, lets drop the subject, okay." Bender took a big swig.
"But why? Are you ashamed of me?" Fry asked.
"No, it's not that at all."
"Then what the hell is it? I mean if people knew at least we wouldn't have to sneak around like a couple of convicts. I mean I know you're used to it, but we haven't done anything wrong." Fry pushed the issue.
"Look what happened when Leela found out, she went blind, Fry." Bender said defensively.
"So you are ashamed of me?" Fry looked a bit hurt.
"No Fry, I'm not..." Bender was tiring of Fry's persistence.
"I mean, all we do is sneak around and hide, yet, you deny we have anything. I'm like a hookerbot to you."
"Fry, no hookerbot will do what I have you do. That got me in bad trouble one time for asking." Bender pointed Fry's way, with beer still in hand.
"I wish you hadn't shared that." Fry's confidence dropped.
'Look Turanga, this doesn't change that they're your two best friends. Things won't change that much. At least I know the truth...don't I?' Then it hit her, she didn't really know the whole story. And she wasn't sure she could get it out of Fry and Bender...could she?
Leela walked up to the front of the ship holding onto the wall for sweet, sweet guidence. She still heard Fry mumbling about something to Bender.
"Hay Leela, how's your sight coming along?" Fry asked.
"Terrible, I can't even see grayish blobs." She replied sitting down.
"I'm sorry Leela. I didn't think you seeing me and Bender would cause you to go blind." Fry replied, Bender shot him a look. Fry shrugged at the robot.
"No, no, it's not that. It just sort of shocked me. I didn't realize I was that easily prone to trauma." Leela explained.
"I didn't think you'd have such a problem with it." Fry stated. Bender continued the 'shut up Fry' look.
"I don't I just..." Leela sighed, "I didn't...think it was even possible for you two to uhh...I mean I knew Bender was a dick, I didn't think he had one." Leela said out of the blue.
"Bite my shiny metal ass." Bender shot back. He lit a cigar.
"No thanks, I already saw Fry doing enough of that." Leela thought joking would ease the tension she felt in her gut. Fry turned blood red for a moment.
"But wait, I always thought your antenna was your uh..." Leela stopped, okay she didn't know robot mechanics as well as she thought, big deal.
"Nope. The antenna just defines me as a man."
"Well and allows people like Mom to control you when she wants to take over the world. Also the army." Fry put in. Bender shot him an evil look.
"I just thought seeing how you're a robot, you wouldn't have need for genitals or anything sexual." Leela continued.
"I told you once before, robots are obsessed with sex 'entirely for the perversion'. Besides haven't you ever heard about 'Sexmatron 5000'?" Bender propped his feet up and blew a puff of gray smoke into the air.
"No, not really." Leela stated. Glad she hadn't really.
Bender sighed, "Look Leela, robots are designed with a cornucopia of human-like features. What they lack in that technology, they can have installed."
"So...you had one installed to enable you to have sex with Fry?" Leela replied solemnly. Fry jerked like someone had dropped something heavy and the sound had made him jump. Bender rolled his eyes.
"I refuse to answer that." Bender blew another puff.
"I was just curious." Leela stated.
"And what have you learned about being curious?" Bender pointed to her eye, "Absolutely nothing."
Leela slouched down, yep, another insult at her expense. She didn't need sight to see that. She just knew Bender.
"Oh, leave her alone, Bender. I mean...maybe we shouldn't have been fooling around on the ship." Fry sighed.
"You're damn right, you shouldn't have. I mean..." Leela stopped. She didn't like the sadness in his voice, she figured it was her fault.
"Look, I'll..." Leela sighed, "I'll tell them, I poked myself in the eye."
"Or you could just tell them, you walked in on some old dude who had wondered into the women's room and was standing there butt-naked taking a piss in the sink." Bender suggested. Leela shot him an evil look, well it was off a few centimeters, but no one paid any mind.
"Hay, that was my idea." Fry piped up. Bender noticed Leela's look.
"Like I said, Fry thought of it." Bender replied.
"I think it's best we stick with my story." Leela stated.
"Or you could say you poked yourself in the eye after you saw the old guy, taking a piss in the sink. You know, to get the image out of your head." Bender suggested. Fry giggled at the remark.
"I'll stick with my story." Leela stated with her hands on her hips, not amused by the stupidity.
"Well, my fine meatbags, I'm gonna go shut down for awhile. When we get home, don't wake me up." Bender put out his cigar, got up, and headed for his quarters.
Leela heard his footcups thumping on the floor of the ship, then the door close.
"Fry, let me aks you something. What are you getting out of this?" Leela asked.
Fry shot her a look, he was glad she couldn't see.
"I think that's a little personal, Leela." He replied.
"What I mean is...do you..love Bender?" Leela found it hard to make those words come out.
Fry stopped and stared forward. He never thought about it before. He really wasn't sure how to answer the question that Leela was imposing.
"I..dunno, Leela. I never..." Fry stopped and looked over at the blind cyclops who was awaiting the answer.
"It's okay, Fry, you don't have to answer." Leela sighed.
"Thanks Leela."
An hour later, the Planet Express came into view and Fry safetly landing the ship in the hanger. Okay, I'm kidding, he took out some of the roof.
Hermes looked over at Zoidberg.
"Dats comin' out of your pay." The Rastafarian Bureaucrat replied. Zoidberg put his head in his claws and started crying.
Fry and Bender helped Leela off the ship.
"Leela, mon what in da name of Bob Marley's ghost is wrong with you?" Hermes scolded in account to the crappy landing.
"Sorry Hermes, Fry had to fly the ship home." Leela replied as they helped her to a seat.
"And why is 'dat mon?" Hermes continued persuing his silly truth of the matter at hand.
"Because...I'm blind." Leela replied reluctantly
"Sweet honey bee of infinity! How did this happen?" He asked.
"I poked myself in the eye Hermes, I'll be okay." Leela stated.
"Well maybe you should see a doctor mon." Hermes stood with his both hands on his hips, paperwork still in his left hand.
"I'm a doctor." Replied the hopeful Decapodian.
"A good doctor." Hermes shot Zoidberg a hateful look.
"Awwww." Zoidberg slumped his shoulders and walked away downtrodden.
"No, Hermes, I said I'm fine. Just like I was told that other time, my eye just needs rest." Leela remarked.
"Well, okay 'den, but if your sight isn't back by monday, 'den I suggest you see a doctor." Hermes sat back down and continued with his paperwork.
Leela felt her way into the Employee Lounge, it wasn't easy, but she had Nibbler to guide her like last time.
"Fry, Bender you here?" She asked.
"'Sup big boots." Bender replied, he and Fry were sitting on the couch watching television as always, since the "Work day" hadn't officially ended.
"No one else is in here are they?" She asked.
Fry looked around to make sure. "Nope, just us three."
"Okay good, boy that sure was close." Leela replied.
"Yah, uh thanks for lying for us Leela, you're a true friend." Fry replied.
"You're welcome, but I don't want to catch it happening again on my ship. Got it?" Leela warned.
"What? That's a load!" Bender arched up.
"Bender, you two need to be a little more careful, you don't want the rest of the crew to know, do you?" Leela replied.
Fry looked over at the automaton, once again hopeful. Bender didn't notice the look, instead he looked like he had been caught with an illegal cigar.
"Uh..no you're right. We'll be careful." Bender replied, Fry hung his head in disappointment.
"Good, now since it's the weekend, you should get your fill of it before Monday. So I'll see you then...I hope." Leela and Nibbler left the room.
Meanwhile in the next room. Professor and Hermes were listening.
"Dat sounds more suspicious than a greensnake in a suger field, Professor. Me tinks 'day hiding something." Hermes said in his thick Jamaican accent.
"It does seem stange, my dear friend." Professor replied.
"You don't think they're stealing cargo and selling it for 'der own profit do you?" Hermes replied.
"I don't know, but that would be terrible news, oh my yes."
"Well, I'll be keeping both me eyes on them." Hermes replied.
"Wha..? Who are you?" Professor shuffled off mumbling to himself. Hermes shook his head.
And there you have it. Chapter three. I didn't think there would be a chapter three, and look at that.
A lesson in robot "anatomy", sort of. I've took the liberty to learn more about what could be Bender's hidden compartments, Why? For one I have no life...just kidding.
The antenna:
Although Bender refers to his as 'little Bender' some things throughout the series contradict that it's his wing dang doddle. Supporting this theory; the episode 'Bend Her', Bender becomes a fembot, by replacing testosteroil with femmzoil and removing "item", the antenna. But when the Professor is changing him back to a manbot, the antenna that was previously chopped off, pops back up like it was always there.
However in some episodes Bender can push the antenna down and it stays down (see 'A clone Of my own'). Others he uses it like a pump (Fear of a bot planet). Or it will pop up to tell him food is done (My three sons), in 'The routeof all evil' Leela actually removes it to pour in the yeast, when they make beer. Eliminating purposes in 'I, Roommate'. But maybe he got an upgrade. Also flashes as an answering machine in 'Kif gets knocked up a notch'. Also in 'Less than hero', flashes when the mayor calls for the New Justice Team. Ofcourse Mom designed all of her robots with antennas, everyone thinks its to make them look more science-fictiony. But the antennas are really for her universal robot controller. Which she used to make them rebel in 'Mother's Day'. In 'I, Roommate' the antenna has the ability to mess with satellite frequency on televisions, not cable, just that damned satellite. Cutting it off fixed the problem. Fry points out that its a useless antenna and he's not like a ham radio. Bender don't want to be half a robot, he considers it "little Bender" like it's a penis joke. But if the antenna would have stayed removed the military, or Mom wouldn't of been able to control him. But he wouldn't look right. As far as the army, robots can have their patriotism cicuits activated in times of war. This did not come into play in 'War is the H word', although the ball of the antenna did light up when the bomb was activated. In 'Bendless love' Angleyne had two antenna on her head, but I believe they were her ears. Like Calculon's. Calculon has two antenna. One on each side of his head. In 'The devil's hand are idle playthings' however, they are refered to as ears. The robot devil gives them to Leela after she's been defened. This kills my theory again as in 'Beast with a billion backs' Calculon is in a robot plastic surgeons office having something below the equator worked on. The doctor says it's as big as he can make it, and warns him that it looks totally fake. Calculon says to let him worry about that. Okay, I'm no genius, but I know what he was working on. Either it was his antenna, or he had a wing dang doodle installed. But whose to say all robots are the same? Calculon is not a bending unit.
Hidden Hardware: Camera 3.
'When aliens attack' introduces Bender's camera three. Shown off screne for obvious reasons. Again this camera is shown in 'Futurama Comics' issue number 6 'Xmas time is fear', the camera "below the equator." Later Bender admits to not being able to get his camera to "perform" if they got his drift. Fry tells him it's alright it happens to him 9 times out of 10.
Also in 'Fear of a bot planet' Bender pops popcorn opens his chest and the popcorn falls out into a tub. He asks if anyone wants butter and pushes down on his antenna like a pump, it doesn't show below for obvious reasons.
Hidden compartments: Bender's shiny metal ass;
In 'Godfellas' After people pray for wealth, Bender reaches behind him and opens a hidden door, We never see the compartment or whatever, and retrieves a quarter. Then when the infidels attack, Bender says they must of found his nuclear pile. Obviously he has another cabinet. Everyone who watches Futurama knows that when Bender is scared he shits bricks, they have to come from somewhere. Seen in 'Space Pilot 3000', twice in 'BwaBB' at anomaly and after being shocked by the anomaly. Also in 'Bending in the wind', after eating 20th century potato chips. In another comic he shits a whole brick wall, but I can't recall which one. 'The 30 percent iron chef', Bender grades pepper-corn, guess where it comes out? 'Crimes of the hot', guess where Bender's exhault fan is? In 'Bender should not be allowed on tv', Bender carried the tv in the conference room and plugged it into his behind.
My point of this useless study, was not only because I was bored. And not because I wanted to be perverted, okay maybe a little, but I keep hearing "How would Fry and Bender...?" So I conducted this study. The point is my fiends that there is more to Bender than you see on the outside, mostly this is for the show's writer's convienience. Like adding timers to his door in 'BwaBB' when he makes the hot pockets. So as fan fiction writers we can use the various information hidden in the show, by lazy writers, like me. Or we can be more creative and invent our own hidden hardware for our favorite degenerate robot. It's all for fun anyway. And for your boredom, next chapter will cover robot procreation and such. Why must I over analize everything with my relentless logic?