//------------------------------// // Another Orphan // Story: Planet Express's Package Pony // by MrAquino //------------------------------// Everyone stood around in the laboratory, watching the Professor doing some minor experiments on Derpy. These said experiments were normal doctor things from checking her blood pressure, taking a single strand of her mane for DNA purposes, checking inside her ears, listening to her heart, and having her eyes track the light of a small flashlight. Bender, for his part, was busy fixing himself after what Leela did to him after he tried to club Derpy. "So how is our little Derpy?" Leela asked. "She's perfectly healthy," the Professor answered, putting his tools away "though I'm not so sure about her eyes." "Why are they crooked like that?" Fry asked "My best guess are two things: When her package crashed here, the impact of said crash might've made her eyes crooked as we see right now. The other guess is a simpler one, but she was just born with crooked eye." "So she has Strabismus?" Zoidberg asked "She does, actually! And how the hell do you know about that!?" "I study humans, remember?" "But Derpy isn't a human." Amy replied "She's not!?" A low growl was heard in the room. "Who let the dogs out!?" The professor asked. Another low growl. Everyone turned to Derpy. Derpy looked down at her belly, poking at it, followed by a low growl. Bender laughed at the sight. "Oh! You're hungry?" He mockingly asked, turning around and bending over. "Well bite my shiny metal ass!!!" Bender laughed at his own joke. Derpy tilted her head, giving a curious look at Bender's ass, shrugged, and bit onto Bender's ass with an adorable 'Nom'. Derpy's teeth bit into Bender's ass, making him stop laughing and scream in pain! He began to run around the area in circles "GETHEROFF-GETHEROFF-GETHEROFF!!! GET THIS STUPID THING OFF!!!" With only a shrug, Hermes extended his leg out and tripped Bender. He caught a hold of Derpy and took her off, despite Derpy's effort on taking a bite from Bender's shiny metal ass. Bender got up and noticed a small puddle of spit on his ass. "Ah crap! My ass in now 5% less shiny!" "That's what you get, mon." Hermes replied. Derpy closed her eyes and stuck her tongue out, blowing a raspberry at him. "WHY YOU-!!!" "Relax, Bender." Fry said, holding his fist from doing any harm. "We're not going see her again." "Not see her again!?" Both Amy and Leela yelled in unison. "Why yes!" The professor replied "I'm about to contact the pound to get Derpy off our mitts. She will be taken care of... I think." "But she's not an animal!" Leela argued, holding Derpy up to the professor. "She's a sapient creature like us that's just a child! I heard her giggle as I punched Bender." "So! Many animals laugh! Just look at hyenas whenever they watch an Adam Sandler movie!" "ECH!!!" Derpy gagged at the mention of Adam Sandler. "See!" Leela announced, pointing at Derpy " She's intelligent enough to hate Adam Sandler!" "Hm... maybe... but can she say anything!?" "Of course she can!" She adjusted Derpy to look at her. "Come on little Derpy! Say 'Ma-Ma'!" Derpy made a weird face, trying to comprehend what Leela just requested. "...Mmmmmuh." Derpy attempted to speak. "That's it! Keep trying!" "Mmmuh." "Come on!" At that moment, Scruffy came back inside, but in his hand was a package filled with muffins. Derpy's eyes & pupils grew in size and sparkled. "MUFFINS!!!" Derpy pushed herself hard, making Leela fall onto her chest, releasing Derpy. The Filly ran to Scruffy and jumped up & down, her wings flapping rapidly with each hop. "Muffins! Muffins! Want muffins!" Scruffy watched Derpy for a few moments, but shrugged and tossed a muffin to Derpy before continuing back to his closet. "YAY!!!" She held onto the muffin and began eating it, letting out her adorable 'nom' sound with each bite. Everyone, including Bender, watched with their mouths wide open as what Derpy just did. "...Well," the professor spoke "I guess you're right on that... but she still needs to go! I think the Orphanarium has room." "What!?" Leela replied "Why!?" "None of us have any money to take care of something besides ourselves! I don't want any pet that'll last longer than me, Fry is new here." "True," Fry replied "and I don't know much about the future." "Bender hates her." "DAMN STRAIGHT!!!" Bender yelled, using a rag to clean his ass. "Hermes doesn't want something that'll ruin his work." "I can't have anything ruin all of my work!" Hermes exclaimed, putting some papers in a file before storing said file into his jacket. "Amy has too many pets." "And I'm with the professor." Amy added. "And Zoidberg may just find her as delicious as that guinea pig I was saving!" "I said I was sorry!" Zoidberg pleaded. "Face it Leela! She has got to go! We don't need children around here!" "Well I do." Hermes simply commented. "Minus Hermes, of course." Leela looked at the crowd telling her they need to give Derpy to someplace better, but she looked down at the filly, who gave her a sad look. Though this filly just arrived, Leela could see two major things in her that they shared: Not having good eyesight and are orphans who may have parents from a different planet lightyears away. Derpy may be a new species from something considered myth, and her eyes gave her an advantage in being adorable, but what's not from saying the other orphaned kids at the Orphanarium ridiculing her for her eyes as she did? Or with people looking at adoption and ignoring her for her eyes? "...If none of you will take her, then I will!!!" Leela announced. Everyone gasped at her revelation. "Leela!" Fry yelled "You're really going to take her in!?" "I have to, Fry! I don't want Derpy to go through the living hell that I went through!" "Well you better get her eyes fixed!" The Professor advised "You don't want her to see double, now do you?" "Professor! I have One eye! I have a lack of depth perception! She has two and can see more than us on our own!" "Other than what's in front of her." Bender commented, followed by his laugh. Leela, still holding Derpy, did a back flip and kicked Bender's head right off. Derpy cheered and giggled as Bender's body began to walk around blindly, trying to find the robot's head. "Oh you think that's funny!? Just wait until I mount your head on the wall!" Leela kicked Bender's head like a soccer ball, making his head hit the wall and fall, landing inside a trashcan perfectly. "Come on! It's getting late and we better get home!" Leela walked out of the room with Derpy in her arms. Derpy stuck her head out and waved towards everyone. "Ba-Ba!" she said before the door closed right behind them. "... I think I just had another heart attack." The Professor spoke. It took a while for Leela and Derpy to get home, and though it was getting dark, Derpy couldn't contain herself as she looked everywhere around New-New York, staring at the buildings and waving while saying her best 'Hello' at nearly everyone that passed by them. (Though, with Derpy, she pronounced 'Hello' as 'Hewwo') A couple of the citizens they passed made Derpy shiver and cover herself in fear, though Leela was there to reassure her that if they attacked them, she'd be able to kick their ass. The most fun experience Derpy had was going through the Tube Transport System; while it's true that everyone in New-New York uses thee everyday and may not find any more joy in them, for Derpy, it was almost as if she were flying over the city, nearly crashing into buildings only to take a steep drop down before going into said crash. Leela couldn't help but smile and giggle at Derpy's experience, though she did wonder if the wings on Derpy would allow her to fly, or they needed time to grow like the owls around the city. Hopefully, they weren't for show. They walked inside the building holding Leela's apartment. Luckily, the people working there are fine with pets (or beat-oid aliens), just as long as they were potty trained and don't cause much noise at night. They approached the apartment door labeled '1I'. "Here we are," Leela announced as she unlocked the door with one open arm. "I know; quite a coincidence to be living in an apartment labeled '1I', right?" Derpy shrugged. Leela giggled at her answer "At least your honest, most would laugh at that." She opened the door to her apartment and they walked inside. Derpy looked around, seeing the apartment looked completely empty with the exception of a couch, a kitchen, and a door that lead to her bedroom. "I know, it's kinda empty, but it's necessary to pay the bills. Come on, the bedroom isn't that bad." The Bedroom was really refreshing from the snow-white room that was Leela's apartment. Luckily, a bathroom was there for Derpy in case she needed to do her business, and Leela was more than willing to teach Derpy how to use the toilet correctly. Leela gave Derpy a bath in the bathroom sink; while Derpy smelt like, well, muffins, it couldn't hurt for the filly to be clean for the night and, luckily, her feathers were like that of a duck's, so perhaps if she couldn't fly, she'd be like a duck and be a good swimmer. Derpy was soon dried off and looked much fluffier than before, it was easily finished as Derpy shook herself off like a dog, reverting back to her normal self. Leela laid Derpy on her bed before going back to the bathroom to clean some of the mess done in there and to switch to her pajamas; a simple two part purple set with a long sleeve top and pants. After Leela climbed into bed with Derpy, the cyclop held onto Derpy and closed her eye, feeling the small, fluffy filly. Derpy, for her part, felt safe in a strange new world filled with excitement, wonder, and danger; She closed her eyes and snuggled under Leela's chin. slowly drifting into sleep. "Ma-ma." Derpy said before sleeping. A single tear fell from Leela's face as she smiled. "Goodnight, Derpy." she replied before going to sleep herself. "Sweet... dreams." For the first time in Leela's life, she wasn't crying from sadness, but was happy that something came into her life and brought something she missed; Innocence. Perhaps tomorrow in the morning, Derpy will change everyone's life as well. EXTRA SCENE!!! It was late at night; Leela was snoring pretty loudly and Derpy woke up at the sound of... singing? The singing voice had a Scottish accent and whoever was singing sounded awful! Derpy got up to try to tell the person to knock it off, but stopped as she realized the singing voice was inside their home. Was it a burglar? It can't be; why would a burglar sing as he or she is stealing something? Could it be a roommate? Can't be; it sounded close. Derpy got out of Leela's grasp and walked along the bed, but stopped as she heard the voice close to Leela's right rump. Curiously, Derpy went under the blankets and, when close to the singing voice coming from Leela's butt, she lowered Leela's pajama pants down a bit, only to stop and give a curious look at what was a very small face with short purple hair and having a double chin with bits of a neck beard. Said small voice stopped singing and gave a curious look right at Derpy. "Oh! Well hello there wee little lad!" The small face greeted itself with the same accent "Came here because of my beautiful singing voice?" Derpy shook her head. "You don't like it?" A nod "Well too bad! One day, I'm going to be free from Leela's ass and I'll become a famous singer! ♪Amazing grace! How can I-♪" Leela snorted, followed by a gasp. The blanket was thrown to the side, blowing cool wind back to Derpy. Leela stared at Derpy for a few moments, and Derpy stared back, followed by a curious look. "Oh crap!" Leela yelled. She got up and ran into the bathroom. Using her own reflection, Leela pulled out an exacto knife and punctured the small face on her right butt cheek, making it scream as it deflated and was ultimately silenced. Derpy let out a sigh of relief as Leela came back and held her as she sat back on her bed. "Sorry about that. That was Susan, my boil." "...Boil?" Derpy asked "Yeah, a singing boil with a Scottish accent. She's been a part of me ever since I can remember, and I have to deal with her every few months. Oh I'm sorry she woke you up like that, and I'm even more sorry if she freaked you out." "Nuh-uh." Derpy shook her head. "Wait... she didn't frighten you?" Derpy covered her mouth with her front hooves, giggling. Leela's eye turned impatient on her. "Oh... I have a singing boil on my ass and it's funny?" "Uh-huh!" Derpy nodded. Leela sighed. "Well... you're young, and I guess it kinda is funny. Just... please... don't tell anyone at work, okay?" Derpy nodded. Leela hugged Derpy again and the filly snuggled with adopted mother. "Come on, let's get to bed without a singing boil waking us up. It's late and we've got a long day ahead." Derpy yawned adorably, making Leela yawn as well. With all lights turned off, Susan deflated, and both back in comfortable positions, both cyclops and pegasus slowly went back to sleep.