[hider=Music][youtube]QRk1s5Kf3aQ[/youtube][/hider] [center][b]"Welcome to the world of tomorrow!" - some sort of amateur prologue -[/b][/center] Ah, New New York. A city of towering skyscrapers, floating cars, space-ships, transport tubes, MOM's Friendly Robot corporation. Sitting somewhere in this shining metropolis, located in a strange red building that looks part tower, part hangar is Phillip, J, Fry. What is our main protagonist doing? Why sitting on the couch, watching TV and drinking Slurm of course! "And now we return to our story of the alligator swarm. What do you have to say, foolish human scientist?!" The green alien newscaster known as Morbo said, the screen switching to an elderly looking smart science person. It seemed to be fairly boring ... so with a click Fry changed the channel. "Oh Monique, will you return to me" The sound of a certain 'Calculon' robot sounded as the TV now started showing a television opera. "Sweet, All My Circuits is on!" Fry shouted, sinking back into the couch as he began to watch his show. He loved this show! He and Bender would watch it all the time, drinking Slurm or beer while sitting around as the other staff members of Planet Express did work. Just him and his best friend, living the live in the year 3000. Speaking of Bender ... the grey Bending unit had just walked in. "What's up chumps! Fry!" Bender shouted obnoxiously as he entered the room, nearly stepping on the small black ,,, monkey, thing that was Nibbler. The three eyed pet of his love interest, Leela quickly jumped out of the way. It made a growling noise as it looked back at Bender, before turning back and going to sleep in the office kitchen. "Hey Bender! All My Circuits is on!" Fry shouted back to his friend, who immediately joined him on the couch. "I think it's a rerun from last week" he said, throwing his now empty can of Slurm in the direction of the trash. It missed and came to rest in a small pile of tin cans just outside the trash. Fry merely shrugged and turned his attention back to the television. "So this is the episode where Monique decides to return to Calculon after they break up, right?" Bender asked as he opened up a can of beer. Since his system required him to drink alcohol in order to run, he was rarely seen without a beer in hand. He also smoked cigars, but only because they looked cool. "Yeah, I think they're at the part-" Fry started. "Good news everyone!" The voice of the professor interrupted him. All the staff started to come to the conference table, where the professor had called from. There was the Jamaican bureaucrat, Hermes. There was the one eyed cyclops with purple hair tied into a ponytail that was Turanga Leela. The Martian intern, Amy. Also coming into the room was Zoidberg, the alien crab monster that was the crews doctor. Lastly, there was Scruffy, the Janitor. Sighing, Fry aimed the remote at the Professor, and started repeatedly pressing the pause button. "Jeeze, why does this stupid thing never work when it needs to" He said, reluctantly pausing the television and getting up. "As i was saying, I just completed my newest invention!" The ancient scientist said, his eyes likely showing enthusiasm behind several inches of thick glasses. "It's a view-a-scope that allows us to peer through the multiverse!" "Sounds like fun on a bun!" Bender repeated one of his catchphrases as he leaned on a nearby wall. Although his comment was uncharacteristically nice, his attitude seemed to be rather apathetic. "What's a multiverse?" Fry asked. He rarely understood what the Professor rambled about, usually opting to just sit back and nod as if he understood. "I'm glad you asked, Fry" The old man replied, putting on his 'fing-longer' and pulling up a holographic display. "You see, scientists discovered evidence of the first parallel universe back in 2781, but we've never wanted to explore it any further. Apparently it wasn't as interesting as other subjects, and has sort of stagnated. Anyways, the multiverse is a collection of universes that either are parallel to each other, and sometimes are vastly different, but often are nearly identical." "Like that one time that we found a new universe we found where Bender was gold and Fry and Leela were together?" Hermes inquired, with the professor giving a reaffirming nod. "Indeed. Most universes are different by only one or two things, but sometimes they're different by a lot of things." The professor then pulled up a schematic on the projector. "Anyways, my device allows us to peer into other universes and see what they're up to. I decided to avoid any complications that i'd make it only looking." "You mean it was easier, right?" Fry remarked, stretching his arms back and turning his head back towards the TV. "Well this sounds boring, I'll let you all do the universe, peeping ... thing" He said, then turned to leave. As he did, Bender joined him, once again nearly stepping on Nibbler. The small black alien jumped up onto the table in fear, tipping over the invention and causing it to crash onto the floor. As it did, it sent a beam out that hit both Fry and Bender as they sat on the couch. They vanished from the room, dissappearing to who knows where. "I'm assuming they'll be fine" "Most likely" "Mhmm" The Planet Express Crew went back to their respective jobs around the building, safe in the assumption that Fry and Bender were both replaceable, and both would return sooner or later. After all, that event was rather mundane compared to some of the other strange things that happened around New New York. ---- [center][b]Meanwhile ... somewhere else[/b][/center] "ow ... what the heck was that for!?" Fry complained as he rubbed his rear end. He remembered walking towards the TV when something kicked him in the ass. He assumed it was Leela, once again accusing him of laziness. "Ehwha" He mumbled as he turned around to find that he was no longer at Planet Express. There were a bunch of strange people there as well, although it didn't affect him too much seeing as he came from a place where strange was normal. He even saw Bender, so whatever got him likely got his friend as well. [ System loading ... ] [ initializing system check ... ] [ system check complete ... ] [ scanning nearby stealing targets ... ] [ scan complete ] Bender got up slowly, looking around and detecting multiple sources of people to steal from. He he he he ... chumps. He noticed Fry was still there, which was good. He was always an easy target. There also seemed to be some Asian kid, as well as a good amount of different people. The kid seemed like an easy target, although he didn't know if they had any good items to steal. He then noticed that all of his items were gone. In fact ... it looked like someone stole from him ... the very thought! Someone was looking to get their ass kicked.