(quick note I'm well aware it was actually Leela that ordered the salad at elzar's but I think this adds a bit more to Amys character while giving her a way to connect to the protagonist as it comes from trauma the two share.)
After about an hour talking with Amy we disband and I head back to my place to prepare for the party.
With a quick check over everything I decide it all looks good the bong station is on the balcony, the alcohol is behind the bar that's being manned by one of elzar's mooks, the catering company is here, and the music I picked which is to be fair mostly stuff from my era, not Frys. By the way I can't say how thankfully I am that somehow despite most of our media being wiped out, almost all my favorite songs still exist in the future. With a smile I sit down and wait until 7:30 I hear a knock on the door, I open it to see Amy with a 4 of other girls.
"I brought my sorority sisters with me hope that's okay?" Amy says with a smile
"I told you to bring people and you brought people." I return smiling from ear to ear. To be honest I'm just happy she came. The extras are even better.
"Wait" Amy starts "You're having this catered by Elzar? Isn't he ridiculously expensive.
"Amy you've seen my bank account my interest alone would cover Elzar. Especially since I talked those idiots into changing my interest to monthly or id take all my money out of their bank." She snorts which makes me laugh. Then her sorority sisters start tittering. Their laughs I find annoying but I won't see them much the rest of the night and if I do I'll be too stoned to care.
As everyone gets settled and the girls decide to get something to eat before the party really starts off. I take some time to take out my game system from the closet and set it up on the tv. Almost forgot about it in my preparations. I pull out a game that's clearly a rip off of mortal combat, and set it up with 2 controllers on the big screen in my living room. Just as I finish, I hear another, ding and go to answer the door. Its bender and he brought friends as well but this time the ratio is pretty skewed there's 7 human guys 4 human girls, 5 robot guys, and 2 robot girls.
"Bender, you brought the party." I pat his shoulder and he laughs.
"You know it baby. I couldn't let your party flop!" he says with a laugh, and then he heads off. I greet his guess. And make a quick announcement.
"All robot elzar has made robot food as well you just have to ask the wait staff." I saw and get cheers back. I smile and head in to meet and greet everyone, after about 10 minutes off making my face hurt with fake smiles I hear another ding. I head to the door and its Leela. she's in a relatively pretty dress, and her date has a dress shirt dress pants combo with a patterned tie.
"Leela, you disappoint me. You were supposed to bring more people." I say with a mock pout. She rolls her eye at me and hands me a mini fruit salad tree. I immediately take off a banana just because I curious, it tastes like a banana I don't know what I was expecting. I put it on the counter. Leela and her date head over to the couch and just start talking, but im not worried about that as I can hear more people coming, and they're coming in droves, first is the police officers that I invited they brough a couple of the people from the precinct, then Hermes who has his wife and a few other bureaucrats from the central bureaucracy. They're all dressed very formally but I let it slide. Zoidburg comes alone, but that's fine. He's dressed well and doesn't smell like a dumpster that's all that matters to me. Next is professor Farnsworth he came alone but he was dressed ridiculously. Since everyone that was going to be here was here, I headed over to the speakers in the living room and set up the music, the first song that played was chop suey, surprisingly almost everyone liked it and asked what it was called. At this point the party really started with everyone listening to the music, talking or playing the xcube. The only thing that felt out of place was me. I joined in some light conversation with the guests, but after that my social battery had already died, still I decided to get something to eat and came across Amy again who was at the bar nursing her drink and trying to ignore a guy that bender brought who was relentlessly hitting on her. Her clear disinterest disappeared when she saw me.
"Oh fry how are you." she said while she walked up to me and gave me a hug. Whispering into my ear. "This creep won't leave me alone." I hold her close and smile but whisper.
"Call the cops level creep or kick him out level creep?" I ask with a serious tone.
"Neither just annoying level creep. I think he gets the message now." I look at him he looks disappointed, but he goes on to the next girl. Who seems far more receptive to his advances it's a girl Amy brough with her, so sorority chick.
"Kay, how 'bout you stick with me? I was just about to grab something to eat."
"Sure, sounds good…. You know you can stop hugging me now." She giggled at me. With my face heating up I let her go.
"Thanks fry."
"No problem."
We both head to the catering booth set up near the door, I ask for a burger and Amy surprise surprise asks for a salad with extra Italian dressing.
"Woman You could have literally anything on the menu and you choose a salad…. after I bought you one yesterday! That is not food. That is what food eats!" I laugh fake mocking her. She turns a shade that matches her sweatsuit.
"I… I like salads!" She defends while trying not to burst out laughing. We decide to go sit on the couch and watch two idiots beat each other senseless in a fighting game. After a few minutes we start to relax and start eating, she's making a bit to many sensual noises to that salad so with a smirk I turn over "You want I should leave you two alone together?" she hits me on the shoulder three times but her face is red as a tomato. I laugh like a lunatic after a bit she calms down, and laughs at herself.
"You know Fry, I really like hanging out with you, you're not like a lot of other guys who are only friends with me because my looks, or my parents' money."
"I feel the same way your easily my favorite person that I've meet in the future. Don't tell bender" I whisper to her with a sly smile. She laughs
"I not getting knifed for you ill snitch the second he catches on." She said mercilessly leaving me to my fate and laughing at my fake affronted look.
She looks curiously over to the balcony and has a thoughtful look.
"You know despite all I've heard about it I've never been high before." She says and instantly I know where her minds going.
"Okay but there's some pretty serious stuff over there so stick to the pre-rolls." I reply and I lead her over to the balcony where Hermes, and 3 police recruits are smoking from the complementary bongs.
I walk up to the table that holds all the sticky goodness, and grab a pre-roll of some light weight sativa northern lights, and walk over to Amy offering her the first hit after lighting it up. She smiles and takes a big hit then immediately starts coughing.
"You need to go easy on this especially since it's your first time." I say grabbing the pre-roll so she doesn't drop it and taking a hit myself. It takes a bit to kick in and we both just sit there talking to each other passing it every now and then till we both realize were high.
"So, this is it. All the cartoons made it sound way livelier than it is"
"Yeah, that's to discourage kids form smoking it. It's not great for the brain. "I giggle and she giggle with me then we both break out laughing not even knowing what was so funny. This new body doesn't have the tolerance I built up in my old life. I smile and me and Amy just continue talking and laughing for the rest of the night. When it's finally time for everyone to leave they all start filling out the police unit URL and Smitty both have girls from their respective races on their arms, and I see a lot more couples leaving. But Leela looks a little sad as she's leaving alone. I sigh and know I'm going to hear about this tomorrow. I turn to see Amy and for the first time tonight I see her look pensive.
She puts her hand in mine and looks at me, I look back with a smile and before I know it our lips are locked, I'm shocked at first but the kiss felt right. I move one hand to the small of her back and another to her hip, I can feel her smiling through the kiss. After a few moments she pulls back.
"Thanks for the great night fry. I'll see you tomorrow." She pecks me on the cheek and then she's gone. Leaving me surprisingly sober, and with a dopey grin on my face I prepare for bed. While my buzz comes back, I fall into bed with knowing tonight I'll have some sweet dreams.
I woke up in the morning with crap stuck in my eyes, and 2 missed calls on my phone, it finally comes back to me what happened last night, and I can't help but groan…this is going to be a monumental pain in the ass. I look at the two missed calls and both of them are from Amy, this conversation can wait until I have had a shower and brushed my teeth. So I toss my phone on my bed and head into my shower turning it on the hottest setting to wake myself up. After a scorching shower I brush my teeth, and put on fresh clothes I laid out before the party. I'm about to head over to my phone when I hear a familiar voice.
"Hello? Fry? Are you home?" Its Amy. I sigh I really didn't want to deal with this right now. The will they won't they feelings crap is something I hate. I was never good at it, and I don't even know my own feeling on the situation yet. I like Amy but do I want to date her. Does she want to date me. Do I want her to want to date me. These are questions I don't have the answer to. this is the kind of shit I hated in my old life and it somehow jumped into my new one 4 damn days into it.
"Yeah, Amy I'm coming sorry I just woke up." I walk over to the door and open it and standing in front of me is probably my closest friend in the future.
"Oh sorry I didn't mean to wake you." she says as her face turns pink.
"Its fine we should probably talk." I say and she looks a shocked but her face turns resolute after a few seconds.
I signal her to come in and we sit down on the couch.
"First off, I'm sorry about the kiss. I was not thinking straight and I just couldn't stop myself. I'm sorry if I made things awkward between us." My stomach is in knots not a feeling I understand despite being one I felt often in my previous relationship, and trying to logic through the emotion even with my heightened intelligence still isn't helping.
"Amy, you don't have to be sorry. You may have initiated the kiss but I certainly didn't pull away. it's weird but the moment felt right. I get if you not interested in me like that. Hell, I'm not sure what I feel on the topic." I state pretty bluntly that probably came out wrong.
"What do you mean you don't know what you feel?" instead of the anger I was expecting she just gives me a confused look. And I sigh.
"I didn't grow up in the best of households" in either life "and I have alexithymia which means I don't understand emotions that well. Others or my own, and I didn't really get much help with that from my parents who were cold at the best of times. My mom she tried God bless her, but even she was a bigger hindrance than a help, and so I grew up using logic to try and understand what others feel, or what I feel, and in this situation, logic just isn't working I haven't had time to work out how I feel yet. I know I don't blame you for the kiss, and I know I liked the kiss a lot, but I don't know how I feel about you. I know I like you as a friend probably almost a close as a best friend and that's just from the 3 days we've known each other. I also can't really figure out how you feel about it either which I think is why my stomach is in knots." I say trying my best not to sound pathetic and I'm pretty sure I'm failing by the sympathetic look on her face.
"I feel the same way and I have normal functioning emotions." She says with a bit of a sly smirk I know her for. I chuckle a bit. "I don't know if I like you like that, but I know in the few days we've known each other, that you've made me really happy, and I feel safe and comfortable around you enough to be myself." She says with a soft smile. Its honestly one of the best smiles I've ever seen. "So, I think we should go on a date." She says with a brighter smile. I think it over for a moment and smile back
"Okay I'm down…. but don't expect me to put out of the first date." I say and she hits me twice with my throw pillows, and huffs.
"That's my line!" she chuckles "thanks for being so understanding fry. I guess it's pretty hard for you but I think no matter how this goes that you're a great guy." She hugs me.
"Now come on were going to be late for work." She laughs as she pulls me up off the couch, I smile as I allow myself to be pulled up and we walk to the tubes together.
She goes first and I go after her, on our way through the tubes we just talk like we always had on our ambitions, on our projects, and how we plan to reach our goals. It's a fun conversation but she doesn't miss the chance to tell me she still thinks taking so many classes in so many different fields is a bad idea. I can't blame her if I didn't have my bullshit system powers I would truly be screwed.
Speaking of the system
Philip j fry
Title: Man out of time.
(note, 10 is the average limit of humans. Mental and Metaphysical stats pulled from life)
Strength: 10
Dexterity:10
Durability:10
intelligence:13
Charisma: 10
Available points: 5
It seems I got a level from getting the apartment and throwing a party. Im starting to see a pattern every time I finish the plot of an episode I gain a level.
Welp time to waste stat points
Philip j fry
Title: Man out of time.
(note, 10 is the average limit of humans. Mental and Metaphysical stats pulled from life)
Strength: 10
Dexterity:10
Durability:10
intelligence:15
Charisma: 13
Available points: 0
I still haven't figured out what charisma does because I'm no less awkward then I was before, but then again, I did notice some changes to my physical features that make me feel I'm closer to a rugged main character than the dorky Philip j fry was, still that's only anecdotal. I smile and continue my conversation with Amy and we arrive at planet express together, as we walk in, we see everyone sat in the situation room. Leela, Hermes, and professor Farnsworth look out of it, and bender looks exhausted, but pleased. I'm sure he's happy to not have a roommate to inconvenience his sexual conquests with such mundane complaints as keep it quiet so I can sleep. And I slept like a baby on my 45,000-dollar bed Amy picked out for me. Good for both of us really. I walk over to bender and congratulate him
"Bet you had a good night." I said with a sly smirk since I had seen him leave with two fembots on his arms.
"Like you wouldn't believe. Though I could use a beer I'm exhausted."
"Theres a vodka bottle in my cubby go ahead and take it. I don't drink anyways. Just bought it because I was curious if alcohol still tasted like shit in the future, it does." I say patting him on his shoulder and he gives me a look like hes about to cry.
"Bless you, you meat bag you!" he hugs me.
"Alright man you're wrinkling my shirt, and it's worth more than your body so I'd appreciate no oil stains." As I pull him off, I pat his back and send him on his way. Looking at the hung over or strung-out bodies of my friends. Or really, they're just acquaintances, but I could see becoming friends with each one of them.
"Thank you for getting him out of here. He is way too loud for the hangover I have this morning." Leela says laying her head on her desk.
"You didn't drink that much at the party though?" I say confused id seen her get one or two drinks in the whole even. For some reason she glowers at me, then rolls her eyes.
"I got dumped last night! By the way I stole a bottle of scotch from your bar." I just shrugged I had no need for it. I planned to just give it all away to the party goers but I got distracted. And now I have a ton of expensive alcohol in my bar that I have no use for. Eh whatever ill figure it out. Or just use it to impress guest when I'm entertaining.
"So aside from Leela's unfortunate situation. Did everyone enjoy the party last night?" I ask and get grunts of agreement, except from professor Farnsworth, who was rather excited for an old man.
"Oh my. I've been to plenty of parties in my life. But that was probably one of the best I've ever been to even I got some action from the police chief, oh yes. Plenty of action indeed." I smiled and hid my wince ooh tough break URL but then again, he didn't seem so unlucky himself when he left with a fembot accompanying him. him."
Hermes finally perked up after drinking enough liquid go juice to kill a baby elephant.
"Oh yes and the bong station was to die for it was like being a kid in a candy store me and Labarbra stayed up all night stoned out of our gords with the boy away we had the most fun we've had in years." He smiled and I could tell he meant it. That was good.
Zoidburg scuttled in and he was actually clean and presentable today; I was shocked but more confuse than anything.
"Zoidburg did you not sleep in the dumpster last night?" I ask and he chuckles.
"No, I meet a girl at the party I stayed at her house last night why not." Holy shit gets this man a shower and apparently, he had game. Makes my placating professor Farnsworth by keeping him around when I take over almost worth it now if only, I could talk him into taking medical classes online and getting his PhD, but that will all depend if he says yes. If not, I fully intend to hire a new staff doctor and have zoidburg be his assistant. There were too many accidents around here to leave zoidburg as our last line of defense. Without any real medical training. A doctorate in art history while impressive is not a medical doctorate. Nor is it a substitute for one. I'll talk about this later with professor Farnsworth, we haven't had a sit-down talk since when I came back from the moon.
"Anyways I want to thank everybody for showing up at my party, but don't expect another one until we reach another big milestone, probably celebrating my first year in the future is the next one." I say with a smile and bender who just came back whoops, and everyone with a hangover clutches their head.
"Professor isn't there some kind of hangover cure yet?" I ask keeping my voice soft
"Unfortunately, no fry no one has ever come up with a real hangover cure despite years of trying." The professor answers rubbing his temples.
"So should we just call it a day and head home then?" I ask a little excited I'd love to take a nap right now.
"No." Hermes shuts it down and I sigh. "You have a mission." he presses a button and the holocrine comes on displaying a yellowish planet, "this is vergon 6 home to many endangered animals and a D.O.O.P mining planet." I scoff my feeling of the democratic order of planets made clear to anyone around me.
"Unfortunately, it's been mined down to a hollow husk, and will soon implode, incidentally this will kill all the animals. Your mission is to go and rescue two of every animal."
"Where are we supposed to take these animals after they are captured?" I ask I really didn't know what the professors plan was for the animals in the original I mean it was illegal to even go to the planet aside from mining teams.
"OH, my I knew I was forgetting something." the professor runs to his room and pulls out the paperwork."
"This is the paper work you need to get past the D.O.O.P d.m.z. you're to take the animals to mars university where they will try to bring the endangered species back with breeding programs, and genetic engineering." Professor Farnsworth says almost stopping to throw up twice throughout his whole speech. Handing me a tablet with all the needed information.
I take the tablet, with this we should be able to bypass that idiot Zap Brannigan, hopefully at least. Leela looks at me shocked because I remembered something she didn't think of. But then just ignores me and goes to get the ship ready.
I walk to the ship with Leela anyways.
"Hey Leela remember we need to top the ship up with dark matter." I said to her.
"Ugg… I feel like a used diaper and now you're the only one making sure things are going to plan around here. I need a day off."
"I'll talk to the professor about you getting Tuesday off. Till then we just gotta be ready." I say patting her shoulder and heading to do pre lift off prep.