Shego groaned as she got up. “Where are w - Drakken?” she said as she turned to look for Kim, but instead came face-to-face with the blue-skinned man she used to work for when she had been evil.
“Shego?” asked Drakken, who was even more confused than Shego was.
“What in the hell are you doing here?”
“I'm asking myself that very question, Shego.”
Then Warp and Robin squeezed themselves out of the pile. Warp immediately took off for the door, Robin giving chase. “STOP HIM! DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY!”
Leela had it covered. She jumped out of her chair, rolled over the table, and threw her leg out as she landed on the ground – expertly tripping up Warp, who slammed face-first onto the ground, instantly knocked out.
Shego was impressed. “Nice move.”
Robin wasted no time. He immediately put handcuffs on the felled villain. He looked at Leela. Normally, someone like him would’ve questioned her about her single eye, but he’d seen enough as leader of the Titans that he knew it needed no questioning. “Thanks.”
“No problem.” Leela looked at Warp. “Who is this guy?”
“Warp. We were chasing him when he opened a time portal. We all fell in.”
Shego, having found Kim, was helping the girl to her feet when she overheard what Robin was saying. “Waitwaitwaitwaitwait - time portal?”
“Yes,” said Starfire, escaping the pile of people. “A time portal. Though I fear once again that someone has disturbed his Vortex Modulator and we are not in the future that Warp knows as his home.”
Ron popped out of the pile, holding Rufus as he had been doing to protect the little guy from getting squashed underneath all the people. “Sooo, we're in the future?” he pondered, scratching his head.
“Unfortunately, that is so,” answered Starfire.
“Hunh. That's weird,” said Ron, remembering something…that he couldn’t remember clearly enough. It was a weird feeling – like he was an amnesiac having déjà vu. Whatever the hell that meant…
“What's weird?” asked Kim. Ron didn’t know it, but Kim was feeling the exact same way – there was something in the back of her mind…she could sense she knew something she couldn’t quite place…
“I don't know why, but for some reason I've always kind of expected everyone in the future would be really ripped,” said Ron.
In the background, nobody noticed Beast Boy change into a snake, slither out of the pile, and change back to human - where he promptly started a series of stretches to kill his aching back.
Kim was a little surprised at Ron’s comment. “Odd,” she said. “For some reason, I've always expected the same thing, too…”
Brother Blood was still trying to fathom what the hell had just happened to him. He tried to get a bead on his surroundings – then saw Cyborg to his right, looking the other way. “Cyborg?”
Cyborg’s head spun around. “Blood? What are you doing here?”
“You tell me, since this is obviously the doing of your little band of friends,” Blood growled.
Fry couldn’t hold his confusion any longer. “So let me get this straight - you were chasing that guy, he opened up a time portal, and all of you fell in it and came out of the other side over here?” he asked.
“Yes,” Robin clarified.
“Wow,” said Fry. “All I did was get frozen for a 1,000 years. That's so much cooler.” Then Fry noticed something about the person who had just responded to him. “Hey, waitaminute - I know you!”
“You do?” asked Robin.
Raven, having escaped the pile of bodies, raised an eyebrow. “He does?”
“Yeah!” replied Fry. “You're that Robin kid who was always hanging out with that Batman guy!”
Robin cringed.
“Bat…man?” asked Raven, still trying to determine whether this deserved laughing at or not.
“Yeah,” Fry went on. “What was your real name? No, it wasn't Adam West - um…Dick Grayson!”
Robin sighed, looking down. “No…”
“No, wait, I know this… Tim Drake?”
“No…”
“Christopher O'Donell?”
“NO!” Robin exploded.
At Robin’s outburst, Starfire immediately took the offensive. “His name is Robin, and you shall leave it at that!” she growled, grabbing Fry’s coat collar. “Do you understand?”
“Okay, okay!” said the surprised – and now annoyed – Fry. “Lay off, lady! Jeez…” At that, Starfire abandoned her grip on his coat collar.
Beast Boy came over, scratching his head. “So, um…exactly what year are we in?”
“The good ol’ wonderful year 3000!” Amy chimed in cheerily.
Everyone but the Planet Express crew and Warp gasped.
Kim couldn’t believe what she’d just heard. “3.…thousand?”
“Yeah,” said Fry. “A million years since my time!”
“A thousand, moron!” Bender clarified for him. “Sheesh…”
“Oh - right…” Embarrassed, Fry decided to lay low and just listen.
Then Kim’s communicator beeped – which, considering they were in the year 3000, she'd already expected never to happen. “Huh?” She looked down. Maybe some random person who’d hacked the satellite. “What’s up—Wade?” she said as she answered it and Wade’s utterly confused face popped up on the screen.
“Kim?” asked Wade. Kim could practically see the nervous beads of sweat on his face over the communicator’s video feed. “ What's going on? One minute I'm tracking you and the Titans - and the next thing I know, there's flying cars and spaceships blasting by my window!” the 10-year old queried.
Kim took a deep breath, then began. “Apparently, we're in the year 3000, Wade. “Turns out Warp's from 100 years ahead of our time - our, old time, I mean. He opened a time portal, we all accidentally fell in - and we wound up here - in, uh…exactly where are we?” she asked, realising no one had mentioned a city name or something yet in all the chatter that had just gone down since their arrival.
“What?” asked Zoidberg. “You mean, like, what city?”
Hermes, who had been waiting for a chance to get a jibe in at Zoidberg all day, saw his chance and took the plunge. “No, she means what garbage dumpster, ya’ over-evolved lobster brains – of course she means what city are we in!” he exploded, tearing into the Decopodian’s words.
“Alright! Stop yelling at me already!” wailed Zoidberg, who then fell into a bout of crying.
Hermes wanted more. “We're not yellin’ at ya', ya’ filthy crab - we're yellin’ at everyting’ you are! Everyting’ ya’ evah will be! Now quit yer’ whinin’ or I'll deduct ya’ pay even further dan I already did when ya’ whined earlier dis’ mornin'!” he shouted as Zoidberg bawled. Satisfied, he sat back in his chair.
“Ooh! I'll tell you!” Amy chimed in. “We're in-”
Bender cut her off. “-The wonderful city of New New York – only the happiest place on Earth!”
“So, uh…how did I end up here?” asked Wade over the communicator.
“Yes, I'm wondering the same thing,” Drakken added.
“Ditto…” drolled Brother Blood.
“Incredible!” Farnsworth still hadn’t realized he was talking to a wall. “A question from Fry's age which still cannot be answered today!”
“Um - he's talking to the wall…why?” Raven asked.
“He's 160 years old.” Bender’s answer got no response from Raven.
“Ok,” Shego cut in, “I know everyone's all fascinated with us being in the future and such, but - how exactly are we going to get back?”
“I don't know.” The voice was muffled. Everyone looked behind them as Warp got up – and broke the handcuffs! “But I don't intend to stay here.” With that, Warp bolted for the open door as fast as he could go.
“HEY! STOP HIM! STOP HIM!” cried Robin. But it was too late. Warp was gone before anyone could give chase. Everyone looked on, dumbfounded.
“Well that leaves our chances slightly more nil than they were before…” Ron looked at Rufus as Rufus nodded, chittering the equivalent of “Mhmm.”
END ACT ONE