Mabel and Morty

This is a revised version of the first chapter

All rights for Gravity Falls and Rick and Morty belong to their respective owners; I don't own anything.

This is not intended to be a romantic story. I just thought that if those two ever met they would be friends.

Chapter 1 - New Beginnings

Rick was gone. Everything was supposed to be different but to Morty, nothing was; it was just like before Rick came to live with them. Even though some of his teachers were aliens and the subject were different, he was still failing. His dad had a job now, everyone still gave him a hard time. Now there were tourists from other planets who stare at Earthlings but nothing was different from how he lived his daily life. He was just as lonely as he had been before.

He walked home alone again. He was getting tired of everything, of the monotony of living here. When he got home he went to the garage. It was empty of all Rick's things. Even the safe that no one could open was taken. Now it was filled with a car and tools that would never be used. With a heavy sigh he slid down against one of the tires, wrapped his arms around his knees and closed his eyes.

He thought of what it was like when Rick was there. He dreamed of the adventures that they went on and the people that they met. Not all of the adventures turned out good, there were even times when everything was wrong, but it was still better than this. Rick wasn't the kindest person around but he was special and Morty wouldn't trade their adventures that he had gone on for the world.

He pretended not to hear the knock on the door. It was Conroy calling him for dinner. When he didn't answer Conroy came in and made him sit at the table. It wasn't his choice anymore; everything was scheduled and decided for him. Food wasn't even food anymore, it was just pills. He didn't think that being under the government rule would be like this, Rick had been right all along.

All this time, Summer had been concerned about Rick. She didn't seem to understand who Rick really was. She wanted to see him as something amazing and awesome, and he was but she never saw the mess that he left behind.

When everything was done, the family had fallen apart. Rick had scared him, it sounded like their adventures were going to get more and more extreme. That night, when he went to bed, he tossed and turned. For some reason, the Morty remembered Lawyer Morty. It seemed to happen a lot, not to all of them but some of them, Morty's were stupid. More stupid than normal. He couldn't help but think that since not all Ricks were the same then all Mortys probably weren't the same either. He didn't really know any other Mortys though.

Over the next couple of weeks Rick changed everything in the house. Without his father there to put his foot down, Rick's science stuff started spreading through the house. He still kept most of his 'important' stuff in the garage. He had taken Morty on so many adventures over that time that he could no longer keep track of everywhere they had been.

One day, during dinner, Rick came into the room and grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him to the garage. "M-m-morty," he said, leaning over some machine that he had been working on for a while, "we gotta go. We gotta find these crystals Morty, these thermal crystals. I need them, Morty." Morty rubbed his arm and looked away. "Al-alright Rick, lets just do whatever."

He really didn't feel like arguing with him right now. All he wanted to do was sleep but he couldn't seem to even when he tried. Rick turned to him sharply and said, "You're not taking this seriously, Morty!" Morty gave him an annoyed look back, "Whatever Rick. I just tag along with whatever you want to do anyway."

Rick glared at him but opened the portal and walked through. Morty reluctantly followed him. He assumed that this was going to be another tiring adventure.

Rick had taken him to a weird planet where he was almost killed again. Just as they were about to get the crystals that Rick needed he found another Rick and they got into a fight. He noticed the other Morty standing off to the side. He decided that he was going to go and talk to him.

"H-hey." he gave him a little waved as he approached. "Hi." the other Morty replied. "So, um, you're C-137 Morty?" Morty nodded, "Yeah, where are you from?" "Oh, I'm E-648 Morty."

There was an awkward silence between them as the Ricks were having an all out fight between them, lasers flying everywhere. As they were watching them, Morty had an idea. He turned to the other Morty and said, "Do you wanna trade Rick's?" The other Morty's looked shocked. "W-what are you talking about? We can't do that, can we?" "Well, w-we could just pretend to be each other. Your Rick is part of the Citadel, so if you took my place you would only have to be with one Rick." The other Morty thought about it for a moment. "Why would you want to do that?" Morty looked at the Rick's for a moment, "I want to meet other Morty's. I never get to talk to any. If you want, we can trade back later."

The other Morty agreed, and they told each other about the things that had happened to their own Earth's recently so that they could fake it as best as they could. He didn't think that they would be able to trick Rick for very long but it would be enough for him to take a bit of a break. He decided that he was going to deal the consequences later.

As they arrived back at the Citadel, the other Rick looked over at him and said, "I can't believe that jerk C-137." "Yeah," said Morty, "and his Morty is so dumb to." The other Rick laughed and walked over to a bunch of other Rick's and started to tell them the story of what just happened.

He was standing with some of the other Morty's. He saw his reflection in a window and realized how bad he looked. He almost didn't recognize himself. There were dark bags under his blood shot eyes. He looked tired in general.

Morty tried to fit in, he really did, but he couldn't understand why the other Morty's were so complacent with the way that the Rick's treated them. The other Rick wasn't as mean his Rick but he didn't seem to care as much as his Rick either. It took this experience to realize that Rick cared at all.

"Come on, M-morty." said the other Rick one day. "W-w-where are we going?" The other Rick glanced over at him, "The Citadel of Ricks wants us to go and do something. I'm not going to explain it to you because you wouldn't understand anyway."

Morty gave him an annoyed look but was ignored once again.

While they were on this alien planet, the other Rick was killed by some poison gas doing whatever he was trying to do. He never found out what the other Rick was trying to do.

He had been a little ways away, staying out of the way like he was told, but he was starting to feel a little sick. Quickly he took the other Ricks portal gun and shot a random portal and limped through. He was started to cough up some blood.

He didn't know how it happened but somehow he ended up in a galactic hospital. He felt a lot better, not only was he not feeling sick anymore but he also didn't feel as tired.

It wasn't long before a plump, pink female nurse came into the room. She walked up to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright sweetly?" said asked him kindly. He could feel her flat oval shaped finger tips, each the size of a quarter, squeezing his shoulder. "I feel a lot better." he said weakly. "That's good," she smiled at him. "You still have a lot of resting to do. I put your things over there." She pointed to the corner with her long fingers to where he could see his clothes and shoes where with the portal gun sitting on top of it. "Is there any family that you would like up to contact?"

Morty thought about that for a moment. He had been in this hospital before, just as a guest though. And he was probably in a different dimension. Now that he thought about it, they probably wouldn't remember him anyway. He could actually say anything he wanted. "I don't have a family." Said gave him a sad look, "There's no one you can call if you need to?" Morty shook his head.

This little lie set off one of the most dangerous and painful adventures of his life. It also gave him more freedom than he knew what to do with, and through this he would learn things that he would never even think about before. With all the pain and hardships there will be equal amounts of fun and joy. If it weren't for that little lie, his Rick, who realized that the Morty's switched almost immediately, would have found him that day and he would have gone back to is normal life.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~time skip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dipper had spent the entire bus ride listening to his sister talk. It wasn't like he wasn't happy to be going back to Gravity Falls but without Gruncle Stan or Gruncle Ford there it just wouldn't be the same. He just couldn't get as excited as she was.

"Plus, you get the see Wendy again.~" she said, nudging his shoulder. "Shut up." he said, pushing back. They were both laughing when the bus suddenly swerved and almost tipped over.

Dipper climbed over the seats to the window, which had a perfect view of the road. A boy, his age or maybe just a little older, was on the ground crawling away from some monster. He looked hurt but what was behind him scared him.

The monster was at 10 least feet tall. The whole thing was shades of gray and green. It looked like it had scales in some places but also feather. It stood on its forearms like an ape. He had read though the entire journal several times but there was nothing like this in there.

The boy on the ground had a bloody shoulder and side. In his hand was what looked like a white scanner.

Before he even knew what was happening, Marbel was out of the bus and running toward them. "Mabel!" he shouted after her. She already halfway there and firing her grappling hook at it. He moved to the front of the bus to go help her.

The end of the grappling hook was snapped off by it's sharp teeth. The boy got up, ran toward her and pointed the scanner. A portal appeared behind them and they were gone. The thing reached for them but the portal closed and it's arm and part of its torso disappeared. The thing wailed in pain for a moment or two before laying on the ground. Blood was covering the area.

By the time he got to where they were, there was no trace of them. looking around frantically he nearly slipped in the mud that was made because of the blood. "Mabel!" he nearly sobbed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~at the same time, elsewhere ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mabel's eyes sparkled as she looked around at the magical place that she had found herself in. The grass was blue with purple rocks and things that looked like coral sticking up like weeds. The sky was orange, like it was sunset with clouds streaking by. A giant planet was so big in the sky, it was 10 times larger than the sun. It looked like it was going to crash into the planet. Before her were some of the strangest trees she had ever seen. The bottoms were bulbous and they went straight up with no branches at all. Great purple fruits were hanging down from them like branches of a weeping willow tree.

The boy that had brought her here was staring up at the fruit. "Hey~" she called, waving her arms to get his attention. He looked at her with a surprised expression, like he had forgotten that she was there. "Are those good to eat or something?" she asked as she bounced up to him. It wasn't until she got closer that she realized how tired he looked. "W-well no, not really. It's just that they're, uh, useful for other things." He said as he put a hand behind his head.

She noticed the scanner thing in his other hand. "What it that?" she pointed and leaned down to get a better look. "Oh," he raised it up to eye level. "This is Ricks-, my portal gun." "So you can go anywhere in the universe at anytime?" she asked. She was getting excited at the thought of it. He stepped back a little. "I guess."

Mabel put her hand on her chin and thought for a moment before saying, "Well, why don't I help you get that fruit and we can try to figure out how to get home?" "O-ok." he answered.