Thanks to the good will from the city, we got a pair of back stage concert tickets to the beasty boy's concert. I even scored a plus one for each of us. I was taking Amy, Bender, Leela, benders date who was a fembot by the name of Andra, a slim fem bot with a riveted dress hair piece styled like she came from the 80s, and her name was clearly a pun on android. Leela's date who was one of the pilots she had trained coincidently the same one I saw getting therapy and tried to play it off as a sprain. His name is tom, I did not ask if his last name was cruise, he wouldn't have gotten the joke anyways. While tom cruise head was still alive no one remembers top gun. All they know about him is he's trying to convert people to scientology. Anyways he was a decent looking guy a bit of a nerd if I do say so myself, he had slick back brown hair a slim build and he wears the modern equivalent of aviator sunglasses, and a brown bomber jacket. Like I said a nerd.
We ended up calling a limo to take us to the concert, the same limo I hired to go to Amy and I's first date, as well as to the 20th century auction. When we got in, I immediately pulled out something I spent all week working on. Robot weed, or its equivalent. I call it spark as its main function is to send a self-contained virus that makes a robot feel as if they just smoked weed like a human. The virus purges itself after an hour with no addictive affects on the robots it inhabits. It looked similar to the spark bender got addicted to in the free will unit episode, I tossed it to bender and I also pulled out pre-roll for me and Amy who said she wanted to experience a concert like people did in my time. High as a kite.
Bender took a hit of the spark I gave him and then handed it to Andra. Leela didn't want anything other than the wine she was sharing with tom. Amy and I took the pre roll and sparked it up both of us passing it back and forth taking hit until we were nice and buzzed, getting the smell out of the limo may cost a couple hundred bucks but honestly it's worth it. Amy and I have been high together few times thanks to nanites in our bloodstream protecting our brains from any real damage, but I still don't indulge too much as I spent a large portion of my twenties getting high and became pretty dependent on the stuff. Then again that was when my life had started going down the shitter so it could have been just me looking for an escape.
Either way we were being safe about it, neither of us wanted to become dependent on any substance to handle all of our problems. It took about an hour to reach the concert hall with the heavy traffic. We finally arrived to the concert and we were all feeling pretty good as the concert staff lead us to the VIP section we were laughing a giggling at each other's dumb jokes, Leela seemed to be finally relaxing for the first time in months. Bender was having a good time with Andra. As they were both just laughing at each other. Then the show starts with some really cool pyrotechnics that scared the crap out of bender, he literally shat bricks. The music was not to my taste, but that wasn't very surprising after all the future is creatively bankrupt, It would make sense that it wasn't that hard to become popular with old music even if it wasn't the best example of what we had back then. I still sang along with some of the songs I knew, and even left the VIP section to join the mosh pit, with combat cyberware that was a fun experience. Leela joined me and I had to stop her from roundhouse kicked the first person to bump into her. Thankfully it was tom that explained what a mosh pit was because after I stopped her we got separated. Still while the experience was a positive one, I can't help but feel sad that a lot of my favorite music was gone. I wonder if the heads of Kansas were still alive? Maybe I could convince them to go on tour? Maybe sum 41 and simple plan? Eh I'll think on it later.
Still, we had fun and soon the concert was over. We headed backstage to meet the band and get autographs as was expected of us. Bender got pulled off by one of the speaker robots, I wasn't worried bender wouldn't get addicted to jacking on with a better alternative. Hell, he might inadvertently make me a robotic drug dealer. Which to be honest I'm fine with I plan to get spark to pass with the EFDA anyways as a recreational robot drug. After Bender and Andra leave together telling the four of us not to wait for them, we all pile into the limo.
We drop of Leela and Tom at Leela's apartment, then head to my apartment for the night. Neither of us have actually slept alone since our relationship became official and to be honest, I'm not bothered by that fact at all. Sharing my life with someone else that I genuinely love is one of the best things about my new life in the first place. When we get to my place, we're completely sober as we walk up the stairs to my penthouse suite. We decide to cuddle and a watch a movie. This time it my turn to pick the movie so I choose Kingsman the secret service. Amy nearly cried when Harry heart got shot, I managed not to spoil the next movie but only just. She cheered when valentine got speared to a table, and laughed just as hard as I did when eggy went back to shack up with princess tilde.
She wanted to put on the sequel right away but it was already 1am so she reluctantly agreed it was time for bed. We ended up curling up together in my bed and just passed out after all of todays excitement.
When I woke up I felt like I had to sneeze some of Amy's hair had found its way into my nose, I quickly turned and sneezed waking her up.
"Hey, if you get boogers in my hair, you're the one cleaning it." She says very seriously hiding a snicker.
"Don't put your hair in my nose then." I laugh out.
I get up and stretch out quickly using one of my showers in a can, as I can already see by my alarm clock freaking out, we're late for work again. I toss a can to Amy on the bed as she's stretching out as well.
"Ugh I don't want to go to work today."
"Well, that's too damn bad" I say in a western prospector voice.
"You're lucky you've already shown me holes or I would throw this can at you." she said holding a shower in a can. She cracks it open an instantly she looks more refreshed.
We finally finish getting ready since we both have spare clothes at each other's apartments, and head out to catch the tube to planet express.
When we arrived, I was shocked to see bender sitting with an ice pack to his head and he was wearing sunglasses. Damn it bender.
"Bender did you jack on last night?" I ask with a deadpan face. If he says yes im going to kill him I slaved over spark for a week to ensure we could avoid the robot devil this time.
"No. I just overused the spark thing you gave me." Oh well that's better, if he overused it rather than using it as intended it would slow down and overheat his cpu by introducing to many programs for it to handle. that's still better than jacking on. That is actively damaging to the cpu and creates addiction sub routines.
In the end everything played out entirely differently we avoided the ion nebula and delivered the package properly.
After we got back, I decided to head down to the sewers to check on the metropolis project. I hadn't checked in on it in a month so a lot of it should be on its way to be finished. I decided to bring Leela with me because it's known now that she's the second in command of the metropolis project. I also surreptitiously contact Moris and Munda and tell them Leela knows about them and is ready to meet them. The municipal building which will be the center of governance for metropolis has a meeting room where they can meet without anyone noticing their similarities and blowing the whistle on Leela being a mutant. It took a lot of convincing, but they finally agreed to meet Leela.
We walked out in front of planet express together. Amy decided to go to her apartment and wait for me to come there after I finish up here. I reached down and pulled up the plate which shocked Leela for a few seconds before she remembered I had cyber arms.
We climbed down the newly restored latter that lead to old New York's Harlem area. The area I was focused on rebuilding. To say a lot had changed in the last few months was an understatement all the bulding were properly rebuilt, the lighting system as up and running flawlessly, their were tons of buildings advertising with neon light the glowed in the dim lights on the afternoon. The city was crawling with mutants selling wares in different shops. The only thing metropolis really needs is human tourism to boost the economy. The people who bought large swaths of the area have actually started factories, research centers, businesses, and all sorts of others goodies that are already helping the economy. They even have mutant first hiring incentives.
"Looks like everything is already on track." I said to Leela, who had been reading through the files.
"Yeah, but look at this report!" Leela said handing me a file as I read it my eyes got bigger and bigger.
Unfortunately, the revitalize the sewer initiative had run into problems. A group of mutant extremists called the genetic perfection alliance has been building up their followers in the sewers their whole purpose to stop unaltered humans from expanding into the sewer. They've so far been peaceful but they have made threats to bomb certain key areas in the new Harlem area.
"Call up there leader I want to get an understanding of whether hes an activist or an extremist."
"What are you going to do if hes an extremist?"
"Kill them all of course. I wont have my plans ruined by some jumped up mutant ,with no sense of what's good for his own people, claiming to be doing this for the betterment of mutants. I've dealt with hundreds of those types of people in my own time and had to grit and bear it. I won't do that here."
"You can't risk killing them on your own, you should contact the mutant mafia."
"No way, the only way they would take the hit is if I gave up liberties in metropolis. Not happening."
"But if you do it yourself then you're running the risk of people finding out, and while you wouldn't be in legal trouble due to the mutants not being categorized as human you would definitely lose a lot of mutant support."
"Which is why I'll hope the representative can be convinced with words and I won't have to stoop to violence. If it really comes down to it, though, your right. I'll have to hire a few mercenaries."
mercenaries weren't an unknown thing in the future they just rarely stayed on earth. Say what you will about the political, economic, and social climate. The law enforcement on earth is top notch. They would come down on my ass if I hired them to take down unaltered humans, but for mutants it shouldn't be a problem. I pull out my phone an make a call.
"Hey professor I need to get in contact with some mercenaries…. Yeah, the cheaper the better we aren't made of money... Thanks."
It was settled I nodded to Leela and we both ended up going out to the meeting room her parents were waiting in after Leela had already scheduled the meeting with the mutant segregation activists.
When we walked into the meeting room what I saw shocked me these people may have resembled leela a bit in the show, but in real life the resemblance was uncanny, leela started tearing up.
"I…I can't believe it... after 25 years I've finally found you... I finally know where I belong!" Leela said as she started sobbing holding on to her parents.
"We… We didn't want you to know. Better to live your life not knowing about us on the surface than to live down here with us."
"You must despise us." Munda spoke her voice breaking and im not having an easier time either this scene always made me choked up in my first life.
"You're my parents all I've ever wanted was to know you." Leela said hugging tightly to her parents as all three started crying. Wiping a tear off of my face I smiled. This reminded me of what I was living my new life for. To make a difference.