Recap of the first three parts
In the year 3'001 a man from the past named Fry has been convinced by his Asian colleague Amy to use a revolutionary machine to swap heads. He accepted and she went to have fun into town with his body, while he was caught exploring Amy's body by his girlfriend Leela. They swapped heads because Leela wanted to use Amy's body to have sex with her own body to get revenge on Amy. When she caught them, Leela demanded to swap heads with Amy, taking Fry's body to her house. Amy and Fry used the privacy to have fun with Amy's and Leela's bodies. They get awoken the morning after by Bender, the crew robot, announcing Leela died.
Part 4: load from save point
« What do you mean Leela is dead??! » Fry yells at the robot.
Bender's limited capability for expression doesn't fail to show anger « I mean dead. Passed. Extint. She snuffed it. She was walking to the transport pipe yesterday when a car got outta control and crashed her into a wall, killing her on the spot. » He looks down, almost as if a hint of empathy struck him for a second « I am sorry, meatbags. »
Fry is feeling his head spinning, while he fights against the sudden sulking feeling that is taking over and the knot in his troath « But, that means » he looks down at his hands, who belonged to the body of his girlfriend « My body... my body is gone too. She took with her. I won't see her ever again. And I will have to live with her body »
An awkward silence falls in the room, while everyone seems to be lost in thought « Wait. Maybe there's something we can do. » Amy's face enlightens with an idea « She is not gone. Not yet. » she starts getting out of bed, gathering her clothes and starting to dress up.
« What do you mean? » Fry asks, watching as she clasps her lavender bra to cover her chest
« The head swapping machine » Amy smirks « Leela told me you made a backup of her body. I made sure to disable backups when we swapped. The original backup of her body and mind are still available in the machine »
« That means... » Fry smiles, starting to catch up
« We can clone her and it will be like she never died! » Amy concludes
« You mean that I got worried for nothing? » Bender complained « Ah! Screw this. I am gonna get some booze » he utters as he leaves, mumbling curses as he walks away.
After they put their clothes back on, they hurry to the laboratory and they load a barrel of liquefied biomass in the tank behind one of the vats. « We don't have the material to synthesize the clothes, but everything else should work. I am so glad you remembered to make a backup » Amy says with sincerity.
« I just hope that everything goes smoothly » Fry admits, while the door of the vat closes, the biomass enriched fluid flows in the main chamber and the laser beamers starts doing their mass agglomerating job.
Since the glass that closes the vat is frosted, they can't really see well what is happening inside, and so the following 30 minutes are filled with anxiety and uncertainty. When the beamers finish their jobs, they can hear the whirring of the mechanical arm lowering the helmet on something, a good indication that everything should have worked as intended. Several minutes later, the fluid starts to flow back in the tank storage in the back of the vat, after which the door opens with a pshhhhhttttt. A woman's leg steps out of it, followed by the rest of Leela, and as she looks up to notice Fry and Amy, they can see the full confusion on her face as she suddenly covers herself « Aahhh! Fry! What is Amy doing here. and why am I naked?? »
Fry and Amy have become very emotional by the sight of the cyclops, since they were afraid to have lost her forever. Fry can't resist and runs over to hug her tightly.
« Fryyy?! » she smiles, confused « What happened? The machine didn't work. We both got a copy of my body... But wait, how did Amy get her body back? Wasn't she still using your body to have sex around town? »
Parting from the hug and grabbing her by the shoulders, Fry looks at Leela in her eye with a gaze full of seriousness « What is the last thing you remember? »
« We just stepped into the machine to swap our heads, after you resized your head to be in proportion with Amy's body. »
« Oh, Leela. A lot of things have happened » Amy chimes in from the back, beginning to tell her the entire story. She sneakily skips the part where her and Fry had fun in the bedroom, and Fry decides it would be smart to keep the secret too.
When she's all caught up, she look at them with a grand look of surprise on her face « I died??!! Oh no! I am so sorry Fry! Now how are you going to get your body back?? »
« Pretty much like we did with yours, no? » he asks, but Amy shakes her head
« That's not how it works » she sighs « The backup restore creates a full clone, it cannot be used to create just a part of it »
« So what does it mean? » Fry asks worriedly.
« it means we can create a new Fry from scratch » she states while pressing buttons on the control panel « but there will always be a copy of your head and one copy of Leela's body that will be... leftovers. We can make a clone for you with your body, but either you or your clone are going to end up with Leela's body. »
« Oh. » he utters, defeated, and after a short pause, he looks up with his eyes to lock gazes with Amy « Do it. Yeah you heard me, I don't care » he continues, squishing Leela's bottom in one hand « She deserves to have her boyfriend back to normal »
« Oh, Fry » Leela whispers, touched « You would rather see me dating your clone than forcing me to date you with a clone of my body? That's, that's so sweet of you. You know that I love you, regardless of what body you have » she smiles, with a sparkle in her eye as she looks at Fry « But on the other hand, I won't oppose you if you want to clone yourself ».
« I do » Fry admits « There is a version of me who is fully normal in that machine, and I would hate to leave him trapped in there forever. I want to see my normal self to have a normal life, even if I won't be able to experience it first hand. I don't know if I am making sense »
« Hmn! » Leela nods at him « I understand. You have my full support. But can I ask you for one thing, Fry? »
« Anything, Leela » he replies
« Can you give me my shirt, pants and boots. I need to get to my house to get some clothes for the both of us. You can keep the lingerie on, I just have to be decent for the trip. I am going to grab a quick shower and get back here with a change of clothes for you, ok? »
« Ok. » Fry worriedly agrees, starting to undress « But promise me you'll be careful. Remember you have been cloned because your other self got run over. »
« I will be careful, I promise » Leela smiles, while putting on the clothes as Fry takes them off « Thanks for the concern » she gives him a smooch.
When Leela leaves, Fry and Amy reload the tank on the back of the vat with biomass, the new female bodied employee having to be extra careful to not slip, thanks to the black stockings he is wearing. They select the Philip_Fry.bod file and start the restore body subroutine. The glass door closes, the fluid rushes in, the machine starts buzzing, and the only thing left to them is to wait.
A body starts forming in the machine, and in 30 minutes circa the machine finishes its function and the fluid starts to flush back in the back tank. A person with orange hair, spiky on the front, stumbles out of the vat, making Fry and Amy gasp loudly. They realize in horror that the person who just got out of the vat is indeed a clone of Fry, but he has Amy's body from the neck down! His head is also smaller, proportionate to Amy's tinier body.
He looks down at his hands and his body, his eyebrows lowering in confusion « Huh? It didn't work. And why am I naked? Lee- » he looks in the direction of the other tank, but there is nobody there so, startled, he looks around just to lay his sight on the other Fry and Amy.
He freezes in utter confusion as the Leela bodied Fry greets him with a small waving of his hand « Hi, Fry. »
The Fry with Amy's body demands explanations, but the other Fry has none. Amy's cogs in her mind seem to finally have started spinning, since she grabs Fry-Leela's shoulder to get his attention « Wait, Fry. You didn't use the same name for the backup when you and Leela swapped, right? »
Fry starts to think really hard, but before he can say a work Fry-Amy remembers « Yes, I told Leela to put the same name. I thought we had to use name underscore surname as the title. »
« Oh no, Fry! » Amy pulls on her hair in shock and frustration « You have overwrote the file! »
« Overwrote? » both Fry ask in unison
« It means you replaced the data of your original body, refreshing the backup to the moment where you swapped with Leela! » she screams distraught.
« Would anyone explain to me what is happening? » Fry-Amy exclaims, putting his hands on his hips in frustration « Why there is another Fry with Leela's body and why are you freaking out about the backups? »
They explain the entire situation to him, his face becoming more bewildered and hopeless as they explain « So, we are stuck like this for good. My body is gone forever... »
« I think so » Amy confesses, her and Fry nodding disappointedly.
You hear the laboratory door opening, Leela pushing it with her butt to enter « Hi. I'm here. I got your clothes cha- » she doesn't finish the sentence, letting the clothes fall to the floor as she sees both Frys together « What- What happened? »
« We chose the wrong name for the backup » Fry-Amy sighs, walking towards her « Fry's body is gone for good »
« Oh! » is the only thing Leela manage to say, before slumping her shoulders down and starting to cry. Fry-Amy hugs her to console her « It's not your fault Leela. I was the one telling you the backup name to write. »
« No, Fry » she looks up at him « It was me who insisted to swap in the first place. But wait, there is still my swap with Amy, right? I must had Fry's body then, right Amy »
« No, I had his body when we did that swap » Amy says, since Leela has no memories of it. Her last memory before stepping out of the vat was before swapping with Fry, since her backup they used to restore her was from that point « But we didn't make a backup at that time » Amy continues « There was already a backup of me, and we both had bodies that weren't originally ours so I didn't do backups of messed up bodies. I am sorry »
« It's gone gone then » as Leela's sadness makes everyone's eyes water. They all join in a big hug, Fry-Amy still completely naked and Fry-Leela wearing only underwear and the stockings.
Several months passed, and the two head swapped Frys have decided to change names to not create confusion. Given their poor imagination, they simply decided to adapt the names of their bodies, combining them with the name they were used to be called. Nobody called either of them Phillip in their entire time at the Planet express, but they quickly started to nickname them. Fry-Amy quickly became Framy in just a couple of days, and Fry-Leela naturally morphed to Freela for convenience. They also fully embraced their femininity, asking to be referred as women (also by using she/her to talk about them) and dressing more femininely. Freela usually wears pastel crop tops that leave her bellybutton uncovered, her favorite being pink, a black pleaded skirt with a belt over pantyhose or leggings and black closed toe ankle strap low heels. Framy usually wears midriff low cut t-shirts, sometimes with a jacket, jeans shorts and open toes platform shoes.
The two of them have agreed with Amy and Leela to keep an open relationship between them, dating each other freely without jealousy. Of the four of them, Leela is the most outwardly oriented of them, trying to go to bed with men more often than dating Freela or Framy, but she is open to having some good love making with either of them. She isn't very interested into Amy, but she doesn't despise her either.
Framy and Freela go alernatively on the delivery missions, while they secured a simple work as janitor after the company janitor, Scruffy, quit.