The Ricks Must Be Crazy

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Walking away from the Cinema, I felt Rick's arm curl around my waist.

"Geez, I can't believe we found a version of Earth with a Ball Fondlers movie franchise." Morty laughs.

"I can't believe the things this reality considers PG-13." Summer laughs. 

"Yeah, I-I'm pretty jealous."

"Don't be Morty, there are pros and cons to every ultimate timeline, fun facts about this one; it's got giant telepathic spiders, eleven 9/11's, and the best ice cream in the multiverse!" Rick smiles. The kids become excited and we all beeline for the car. "We're gonna go get some ice-cream motherfuckers!"

 In the car with Summer and Morty in the back, I look to Rick as the car struggles to start.

"Oh great." He huffs.

"Oh boy. W-what's wrong Rick, is it the quantum carburetor or something?" Morty asks as he got out of the car with Rick. Summer stays in the back as I join the pair out front.

"Quantum carburetor? Jesus Morty; you can't just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something." Rick checks out a glowing box and I recognize it's the car's battery. "Huh. Looks like something's wrong with the microverse battery - we're going to have to go inside."

"Uhm. Go inside what?" Morty asks.

"The battery, Morty." Rick sighs. "Be right back, Summer. Stay put, don't touch any buttons, and ignore all random thoughts that feel... s pider-y."

"Wait! You can't leave me here!" She panics.

"You'll be fine." I reassure her. "Ship, keep Summer safe." 

"Keep. Summer. Safe." The ship repeats.

"Did you really add your voice into my car?" Rick deadpans. Before I can answer, we are sucked into the battery.

"Oh, man. Where are we?" Morty asks.

"Morty, remember eight seconds ago when when you said, 'Go inside what?' And I said, 'The battery'? And then we showed up here, and I wasn't like, 'Whoa, this is unexpected. This is not what I was expecting, Morty. What a perplexing mystery this is'."

"All right, all right. We're inside the battery. I get it. You don't have to bust my balls." Morty rolls his eyes.

"Huh, this isn't right. This pipe's supposed to be sending 20 terawatts of juice up to the engine." Rick turns and types into his computer, a few seconds later it beeps. "Instead we've got... zero? Now what are these people doing?"

"Whoa whoa whoa, people?" I raise my eyebrow and shake my head.

"It's time for some hands-on engine repair. All right, hold on to something." Rick says before pulling a level.

"Holy crap! I thought we were inside your car battery, Rick. T-t-this is like a whole p-planet or something." Morty stutters when he sees the world around us.

"Thanks, Morty. I'm pretty proud of this bad boy. Check it out." Rick pushes a button that shows his car battery. "I put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. I then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale. And, you know, some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone and stuff."

"Yeah, cause that's totally not slavery." I sarcastically comment.

"It's society. They work for each other, Y/N. They pay each other. They buy houses. They get married and make children that replace them when they get too old to make power."

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