Things at planet express were going well it's been a day since we came back from our first mission and I got a day off so I can go out and do the things I need to do. First thing I need is a trip to the bank. So, as I put on my ugly as jacket for hopefully the last time, I headed out to the bank. On the way I got to see a lot of different aliens all of them looked super cool or super gross there was no in between, I saw a mutant peeking out of a manhole and a cop stomping on the manhole making them fall back in I got to ride the suction tubes a couple of times and that was super fun.
Yes, I did see the mutant get stomped into the manhole and no I didn't do anything I can't go around making enemies yet. Not until I have a strong enough power base in this lifetime. All I have to do is wait until I can start a revitalize the sewers initiative. Meanwhile I was contemplating whether to tell Leela that she's a mutant or not. It would cut out a lot of trouble if I did but there's no guarantee she would believe me without proof. Still walking the street in New York made me anxious I mean there's a one in ten chance everyone is a mugger and muggers these days use laser guns that can disintegrate you. from what I can tell some sort of cascading cellular destruction tech I need to get myself armed asap., but I need to do it legally so I don't get thrown in jail for self-defense. Luckily the world seems to be more like America where you can have a gun with just a permit. Ahh sweet sweet freedom. I finally make my way to the bank and head up to the teller, she smiles at me and I ask for her to pull up my account she goes to ask for my colonic map, and a bunch of other nonsense, but I stop her
"I opened the account 1000 years ago. I just have my bank card, though I do want to make my account more secure later."
She takes a dusty atm card reader out from under the desk, and swiped my card. I put in my pin.
"Alright with a balance of 93 cents plus compounding interest you have 4.3 billion dollars." My eyes are still wide as saucers when I hear this it's one thing to think your rich it's another to know it. She leads me to a room where let's just say they made my exit an entrance, scanned my eyeball, my fingerprints, and even took some of my DNA, now no one can get into my account without authorization, I thank the lady get my debit card added to my RFID career chip, and leave the bank a far wealthier man. My next stop is accounting firm, I don't know the laws about taxes considering that I was legally dead when the interest compounded, I don't want to spend a weekend with the pain monster. I find a nice accounting firm in the nice part of the city, I walk in and everything is shiny, the air smells clear and fresh, and the secretary sitting behind the desk smoking a cigarette, my hand twitches for my pocket before I realize I don't have a vape…. probably going to fix that too.
I walk up to her with a friendly smile.
"Hello, I just came into about 4.3 million dollars from accrued interest after being legally declared dead. I need to talk to an accountant and see what I owe in back taxes."
She looks at me dumbly for a second, but then seems to snap out of it. She presses a button, and hand me the bane of my existence, a tablet with paperwork.
I sit down at one of the chairs and start filling out the forms that they wat me to, it takes thirty minutes before I'm done. I go over and hand them to the secretary,
"Mr. Hamlin will see you now." She points to the door and I follow it to a really lavish office, I come to realize zoidburg race doesn't have to be disgusting because I see a member of his race right now, he's in a well-kept suit his shell is clean and he smells decent. I walk in and shake his claw as he motions me to take a seat.
"So, tell me what's the problem." He says in a voice that sounds like robin Williams to me.
"Well, you see" I reply " I was declared legally dead when my body was cryogenically frozen, due to my lengthy stay in cryogenics I woke up 1000 year later with 4.3 billion in my bank account so I need to know how much I owe in back taxes because I fear the pain monster very much."
"Ahh I've dealt with cases like this." The old crab smiles. "you'll be happy to know you only owe up to the first month after your legal death. So, if my math is right, you only had 93 cents in there you only have to pay 30% of the compounded interest which should be 7 us cents the rest of the money is free and clear…these laws really weren't made for the revived heads of celebrities who are the richest people in the world now." He finishes with a smile and I'm left gob smacked I tried to do the math myself and came to the conclusion I owed over 1 billion. But I just owe 7 cents.
"How much do I owe you for the consultation" I asked with a smile.
"A little over 1000$" he says with a smirk in reply, or at least I think it's smirking hard to tell with the tentacles. I don't even bother haggling with the man that just saved me 1 billion and I swipe my hand on the chip reader it's paid and before I leave, I ask.
"Can I get your card I've got a few business ideas, and I'd love to have a person on hand with experience." He smiles and he hands me a card with his contact info I put it in my wallet and I walk out of the building wishing the receptionist a good day.
Next thing I do is I find a hair salon I'm not keeping this red hair for long. I walk in and I make an appointment to see the next available stylist, with a smile a lady comes over and leads me over to her chair, I tell her that I want my hair to be black but she thinks I should leave a few red highlights of my natural color to make it pop. I agree and also decide to put a hard part in my hair separating the short areas from the long areas with the highlights. I smile when I see what I look like I get her to shave the pre-pubescent beard off me as well. Leaving only the goatee that I had died dark to, it was really simple just the wave of some kind of wand. I smile and tip the lady 20 dollars, walking out of the salon I head to a clothing store. Apparently named forever 22, okay. I enter the store and immediately I can tell this place isn't for me. The clothes are all futuristic and I'm trying to rep 21 century clothing at the most. I went to another department store and couldn't really find anything, as I was walking out of the department store feeling a bit disappointed, I saw another store it was labeled retro digs, that can't be good, but I'm out of options so I decided to check it out. I walked into the store and I could immediately tell this was the place for me. It took me a few hours but I came out with an entirely new wardrobe my current outfit was a red dress shirt, black dickies and a mahogany-colored leather jacket. I got a couple more dress shirts in different colors and the same-colored dickies. It was what I used to wear back in my time. Still a bit more modern than the seventies that fry wore, but close enough to my time I don't forget my roots.
The next thing for me was a shopping spree I bought a computer because apparently the internet can be accessed with the vr equipment just certain parts aren't accessible. I splurged and bought a decent video game console. After being assured by the salesmen that the games don't look like crap like I saw in the one episode over clockwise, and finally my day was over tomorrow I'm going out to try and find an apartment I'll probably bring bender with me. And no, I'm not going to wait a month for dr mabuntoo to pass away, and take his apartment just because I'm not going to live with bender doesn't mean that I don't want him to be able to hang around without having to cut his antenna off. So, I need to find a place with a cable hook up. Luckily, I've got significantly more money than the original fry so I don't have to look at the bottom of the barrel for apartments. I head back to the office, and head into the employee lounge I pull out my computer and find online college courses, I'm going to need to get a few doctorates under my belt, and I have plans that require all of them, if I want to turn humanity into a force to be reckoned with, I'm going to have to push through with some good old fashioned human innovation.
I enroll in an online university that carries all the classes I need, only problem is to get my doctorate ill have to go to mars university for testing. But with my above peak human intelligence, and the classes I took back in my original world when I was jumping from course to course, I'll probably knock the coursework out in about 2 months, since nothings really going to happen in the next 2 months ill have time to work on it while were out doing deliveries. With my online courses chosen, and a day before I'm able to access the course work to get started, I decide to just goof around with my new gaming system, the xcube probably a rip off of Xbox and game cube. Since apparently Microsoft, and Nintendo merged when the borders came down and earth became one united planet, I pop in a game that looks interesting to me, and I spend the rest of the night before I fall asleep playing it.
I wake up in the morning and its Sunday, there's no deliveries today, so it's going to be a good day to go shopping for an apartment, since Amy lives somewhere decently swanky I'll probably ask her where I can find a decent apartment, I need space for a lab and a surgery bay, I'm in the future surrounded by futuristic technology, I'm not going to stop and just peak human strength, my system capped me out at peak human strength speed and durability, whether this was done to encourage my plans or as a punishment for allowing myself to die, I can't be sure. I do know, however, that it's not going to change by just staring at it.
I open up the new cellphone I got…. it's a flip phone that's going to have to be fixed too probably one of my first projects when I take over planet express. I dial Amys number, after a few rings she picks up.
"Hello" she answers
"Hey Amy its fry I got your number from the employee registry. I was calling to ask if you help me look for apartments, something with a lot of space so I can set up a lab and surgery bay?"
"How much do you want to spend on rent?" she asks and I can hear faint clicking in the background. She's probably on her computer. Another difference, apparently Amy in this world knows about rent. Not surprising since the later seasons had painted her as a bimbo when in the beginning, she was just a normal person.
"Between 1000, to 2000 a month." I reply and I hear her hum.
"Yeah, I got a list, where do you want to meet up?"
"Let's grab from food from the deli a couple of blocks away from planet express. My treat since you're helping me find a place." I said with a smile.
"Sure, sounds fun. Meet there in 20 minutes?"
"Sounds good see you then."
"See ya." Amy replies and hangs up. I decide to put on my outfit for the day, a dark grey dress shirt a pair of blue jeans, and a black and white wind breaker. I use the nano styling hair gel I got from the salon and it cleans up my hair into the hard part style I like. The little flecks of red contrasting the dark black of my hair.
I pull on my shoes and I'm out of planet express. I just start walking down the sidewalk since it's a waste to take the tubes just to go a few blocks down the street and I got time to kill anyways, on the way I see alien races everywhere once again I'm stunned by the sheer diversity there is in the future, I'm pretty sure in the lesser known parts of earth like my old home town there would only be humans but still it's neat to see so many different species just going about their days.
It's amazing. I make it to the deli which is literally just named Klein's deli. I see Amy standing around in her pink track suit and I smile at her and wave. She looks confused for a second but come up to me.
"Dude, I almost didn't recognize you. you changed your…everything." She says shocked.
"Yeah, I felt like it was time for a change plus I didn't have many clothes other than what I was wearing when I was frozen." I say with a smile.
"Well, it looks great... I mean you looked good before, but now you look. I'm just going to shut up now." Amy says sticking her foot in her mouth she's lucky they're pretty dainty or else she would choke.
"I get what you mean. Thanks." I say with a chuckle. As Amy attempts her best impression of a tomato.
"Anyways let's get some food." She finally says. And we head in, I order just a normal ham sandwich with homemade some chips on the side, while Amy gets an absolutely massive chef's salad that she scarfs down. it was both mesmerizing and hilarious. She notices me chuckling and laughs herself.
"I am a salad coinsure and this is one of the best salads I've had in a long time. How did you find this place."
"EH I was out getting everything I needed yesterday and stumbled my way past this spot. Thought the food looked good.
"Well, you were right on the money." She says as she shoved another fork full of pea pods onions, and lettuce into her mouth with a content smile.
The sounds she's making would make a whore blush though, and it takes my everything not to start laughing again. I wouldn't imagine someone could be like this from just a salad of all things but hey people are weird in the future.
Actually come to think of it, probably some sort of brain training to help her lose weight since she was a chubby kid... hell I was a chubby man so I could empathize.
Soon we finish up and I pay the bill. She thanks me again for lunch and were off to check out the apartments on this list.
I'll save you and me the headache and just say that nothing eventful really happened due to the money I had to spend I didn't have to check out the "Interesting" places the original fry had to. all of the places I checked were apartments and other than one being too white, there was nothing that really stood out about them but I was fine with that. I ended up choosing an apartment with mahogany flooring and yellowish beige walls. It was a decent place with 4 rooms one for my lab one for a surgical bay, one for a study, and the other for sleeping. Amy was excited about the place, so I hired her on as an interior decorator while I handled the lab and surgical bay, she would handle the living areas. It took a day and a half but by the time we were done the lab and surgery bay were completed with state-of-the-art tech, and the rest of the apartment was tastefully decorated with furniture that went well with the place. Whatever the heck that means. All I knew was now that I had an apartment I was going to throw a housewarming party. And for a house warming party you need party favors I head to my phone to look up some laws and if the laws are willing the local dispensary.
With a quick giggle search a clear pun on google. I find that all drugs from my time are legal, and that makes me smile a bit. Hell, there are even some legal robot drugs but they're all hard drugs, no one has invented the robot equivalent of weed. Hermes and professor Farnsworth are going to be happy with the bong station I'm setting up on the balcony ill need to get several different types of alcohol for bender and the guests. With a smile I pull up the employee directory and get everyone's numbers. I had the professor give me access to the system for just this purpose and I make a group chat on my phone.
Fry: Party at my new place on 158 cherry street ave. tomorrow, everyone is invited, dress semi casual. Booze, bud, and music provided.
Leela: I'll be there, can I bring a date?
Fry: I see no reason against it.
Leela: thanks.
Amy: Leela with a date? :P anyways I'll be there, I helped you decorate the place in the first place. XD
Zoidburg: I'm invited, to a party with friends?
Fry: As long as you take a shower at planet express first and get some new clothes, I see no reason you can't come. I had the professor fix your salary so you could get an apartment at the end of the month.
Professor: blast this damnded thing how do I use it Oh wait its typing everything I say how do I make it stop I was just trying to rsvp to fry's party
Fry: don't worry professor I heard you loud and clear and there's no need to rsvp everyone's invited.
Bender: it's gonna be fun on the bun.
Fry: damn strait I got Pabst blue robot and botwiser just for you and anyone else you invite.
Hermes: How many people are coming. And when will the party start and end.
Fry: as many as everyone wants to bring. It will start at 8pm And it'll end at about 11pm
Hermes: should I bring my son?
Fry: Absolutely not no one's going to be sober enough to play baby sitter.
Hermes: Woohoo Labarbra made me ask that.
Amy: Will there be food.
Fry: I've got that handled I'm getting the party catered.
I close my phone and set out to get everything ready for the party. I bought about an 8th of omicronic from the dispensary, I called in a last-minute request to have elzar's restaurant to cater the party, that was really expensive but worth it. I went out and bought as much booze as I could fit in a shopping cart so much so that I have to rent a taxi to take it all to my apartment. I really need a license. As I got to step into the taxi I get stopped by cops. For a second, I panic because I have weed on me then I remember its legal and become genuinely confused.
"What's the problem officers." It's the two that I remember form the show smitty and URL.
"Theres no problem so far we were just wondering what you were doing with all that booze." I let out a sigh of relief.
"Im throwing the greatest house warming party New York has ever seen. You two are invited if you want to come just remember to come dressed semi casually."
"Aren't house warming parties usually smaller and calmer."
"Nah, I have every intent to make this the biggest party this city ever seen I've already got a few of my friends scouting for people to bring. If you're coming make sure you invite a couple of people as well. Party is tomorrow starting at 8pm to 11 pm on 158 cherry street ave." I bid the officers a good day as I hop into the cab and head home setting up the apartment in the perfect configuration for a party. Making sure to lock my lab surgery bay, and study off from the others. So, no one breaks anything important. I did spend a couple more hours doing about a months' worth of course work for all my different classes, and with my intellect so high everything seemed to stick a lot easier, not to say I have an eidetic memory though. It appears even though I learn quicker, form concepts better and become better at applying logic and reason. I still don't have eidetic memory as apparently; it's something your either born with or you're not…though I plan to fix that as well. Finishing up my last assignment in my engineering design class which was just choosing a machine and modeling it in the futuristic version of cad. I obviously chose to model a simple robotic arm; the kind used in factories not the kind on bender. At first, I thought I might have overestimated myself, since each degree requires at least 16 different classes to take, but thankfully my intelligence really helped me out along with quantum computers being a thing my body having peak human speed, and the super-fast internet it all worked together allowing me to finish months' worth of work in a few hours. With my assignments finished I did a quick check of my place to make sure everything was locked up, took a shower and brushed my teeth.
With nothing left to do I headed back to bed to get a good night's sleep and prepare for work tomorrow and then the party.
The next day went well enough I went to work and we had a delivery to some hellish planet with a name I couldn't pronounce it was my first time looking out into the void and seeing only starts no planet for lightyears we passed by a nebula that reminded me a lot of the horse head nebula though I'm no navigator so I couldn't say where it was, what I can say is I felt very big and small at the same time. I begged Leela for an hour to let me take a spacewalk and after some arguing she agreed to it after we had delivered our package, with a smile I floated in the starry void with a big smile on my face, bender joined me though all he had was a tether not needing oxygen I asked him and thankfully they managed to work out radiation shielding on processors so he wasn't at risk of experiencing glitches do to cosmic radiation, I should have thought about that before I took a spacewalk in an area unshielded by sols electromagnetic field, but It ended up fine anyways. After we arrived back out the planet express building I went to talk to Amy for a bit. she's quickly becoming one of my favorite people in the future especially since I can talk to her about the different courses I'm taking, she thinks I'm being a bit too ambitious since I come from the dark ages according to her, but she was relatively impressed with my knowledge on the subjects I'm taking. Specifically engineering since she had to take engineering courses to get into mars university course on applied physics. So, we chatted a lot about what we both planned on doing when we got our degrees, I was going to buy company from professor Farnsworth and hire Leela to manage the package delivery section while I opened a new section with the help of the professor to start manufacturing weapons, cybernetics, and medical supplies. She on the other hand was planning to continue working with the professor on his many inventions, and I couldn't fault her for it. She was promised a pay raise when she got her PhD. Luckily that was pretty far away, because as it is the company's hemorrhaging money and mom is the culprit. Of course, I'm not going to do the stupidest thing in the future and piss of mom. I'm going to talk to her, offer to buy out her delivery company. she's likely to take it too since she has a damn near monopoly on robots, oil, dark matter fuel, and in the future phones, but I plan to take that last one as well.