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Benders head felt dizzy, his vision blurry and everything else was spinning. The robot shakes out of it and lets himself sit down.
Thank God it was all over.
Or was it?
As Bender walked from the nearest porno theatre and robot strip club, he overheard voices.
Why was everybody so loud all of a sudden?
They were never this loud before. Bender shudders, he felt oddly cold. He passed by a family of four, a young girl had suddenly sighed, "I wish I had some candy"
Bender felt his body move on its own, heading over to the store and stealing it without anyone noticing. He gives the candy to the little girl, to which she hugs him and says, "thank you mister!"
"...no...problem?"
After that, the bending unit instantly runs back to the planet express and let out a heavy breath, which was unneeded because he was a robot, but, he felt it was necessary at the moment.
He trembled, thinking to himself as voices from the depths mocked and tormented him at each and every moment, and unfortunately for him, every single one of the crew was there at the conference table. They turned around and stared at him as he was leaning against the door.
Bender quickly turned his frightened demeanor around and glares at them, "the hell are you looking at!?" He growls and everyone turned to face away from the bot, giving Bender a sense of silent relief. He sits down in his chair, hoping no more demands were given. Today wasn't his lucky day.
The professor spun around in his chair, almost like a villain that was waiting for the hero to show up, "good news everyone! We have a delivery to the planet of Zorlo 23, but first...er, can someone find my boxing tape?"
Oh no.
Bender felt his insides vibrate and he tries to control himself although he can't stop it, he gets up instantly and as fast as the flash, finds the tape that Farnsworth was looking for, "here you go, master!"
He slaps a hand over his mouthplate and gives himself a confused look of worry. Everyone was looking at him. It felt awkward, he didn't like it. Fry gets up and heads over to his small boyfriend, "Bender? You-"
The robot suddenly dashes away, leaving the others behind. Fry was concerned about his best friend and partner.
"Is it just me, or have we seen him like that before?" Hermes asks and everyone suddenly had the weird feeling of deja vu hitting their bodies.
Leela speaks up after she thinks about it for a moment, "remember the time code incident? Benders eyes were red swirls and he kept doing things for those disgusting aliens?"
Fry let's out a sharp gasp and he mutters inaudibly, "the obedience virus." He gets up and his sneakers hitting the ground as he headed for the door. Leela grabbed his arm before he could leave, "where are you heading?" She asks him.
"To go find my boyfriend," Fry says, determined and shrugs his arm away from her. He stomps out the door, everyone in the building seemed surprised.
Meanwhile, Bender sat curled up in a ball, his legs to his metal door. He seemed to be crying and he was covering where his ears would be if he had any. Everything was so loud.
He hiccuped and sobbed as he felt himself shaking. It was embarrassing to be in the state he was in right now. He was supposed to be tough, macho, not some whining baby.
"Bender?" A familiar voice spoke up and the robot in question seemed to freeze. He looked at his best friend and human boyfriend with sad eyes.
Fry soon put the flashlight on the floor next to them and sat next to the bending unit, "Bender, you still have the virus, don't you?" The robot looked away as soon as Fry asked. A hand on his metal shoulder surprised him and it pulled him in close so Fry could hold him.
His boyfriend ran a hand down his extendo arms and used the other to rub circles on the robots smooth metal back, "shh, it's okay, sweetheart," Fry says in that soothing tone of voice Bender always needed when he was upset.
The bending unit hugged onto Fry for dear life, he was a sobbing mess.
"Fry, I-...I thought they deleted it, I thought it was gone!" Bender seemed to choke on his own words which was technically impossible but he did anyway, "everyone is so loud and my body keeps acting out on its own! And- I- i- I'm fighting it but it just keeps making me-"
Fry carefully kissed Benders mouthplate, letting electricity run through him and Benders optics to widen. Fry was used to the electric tingle by now. Bender let himself be held and leaned in forward more, his signal of kissing back. Fry parted after a bit, smiling warmly and petting Benders head now, making him purr.
"It's okay, we'll get the professor to delete it, honey," Fry whispers sweetly to his robot, "this time, I won't leave you till it's actually gone and proven."
Bender let's the horizontal lines in his mouthplate lift into a smile. Fry lifts him up a bit and puts the robot in his lap before carefully lifting himself up and carrying the unit back to the planet express building.
Fry hands Bender a pair of earmuffs, "to block out the noise." The bending unit appreciates it and puts them on, letting them drown out and muffle all the voices that he could hear in New New York. The human kept running a hand down Benders arm, knowing how it kept Bender calm.
It took a while, but Fry held Benders hand all the way through it. Farnsworth had completely erased the iobey virus and any kind of connections with it.
Fry came up to the smaller and kneels on on knee besides the table where Bender laid on his back on, "how are you feeling?"
"It's not so loud anymore.." Bender let's out a content peaceful sigh and leans the side of his head on Fry's chest. Fry gives Bender another warm smile of reassurance and love, "you wanna stay home today and watch a movie?"
Bender nods, "I'd like that."