Rick was panicking,something he had rarely had ever done. He should've thought this through, but the frustration of doing the same mundane job for so long and never rising above it was too much to handle.
So, when his boss had promoted a Rick he had never met before to the position that rightfully belonged to him, he had snapped.
Having just brutally murdered an alternate version of himself, when he realized how bad he messed things up for himself. Rick turned around and saw his co-workers, other Ricks looking in shock, as if they weren't criminals themselves. Quickly snapping out of his thoughts, Rick ran out of the room leaving the bloodied corpse of his former boss behind and ran into the room, where they were keeping "Simple Rick." He quickly accessed the room's security protocols and successfully locked himself in with his counterpart.
Rick put his back against the wall and slumped down to the floor, slowly realizing the consequences his actions would bring.
He'd be killed or used in torturous experiments made by other more sadistic Ricks, leaving him with only one thought: "I have to escape from here."
Opening his eyes, he noticed that S.W.A.T team Ricks had arrived. Rick stood up, not feeling confident with his plan to escape. He was cornered, with no means of crafting anything that could help him fight his captors or escape. With no other choice, Rick decided to reason with them. They were also Ricks after all, maybe some of them would be able to understand where he was coming from.
"Rick J-22." One of the armored Ricks, spoke with a megaphone. "We have you surrounded." The Rick managed to blurt out before burping.
"Surrender peacefully and end this quickly." The Rick put down the megaphone, indicating he was finished speaking.
"You don't understand! The citadel, these jobs! T-t-they tell us we're special because we're Ricks but all they do is take that away from us!" Rick J-22 pleaded with the armored Rick, who looked at him blankly and simply said, "We understand. What are your demands?"
Hearing the mumbles of Simple Rick behind him, Rick J-22 thought of an idea that could be his way out of this situation.
"A-A-Alright I want an untraceable portal gun, that'll get me away from this god damn prison!' He yelled.
Rick watched as his counterparts looked at each other and nodded in agreement. One of them spoke into his headset, and not too long after, a trio of armored Rick's walked in. One of them held up the portal gun. "Okay man, calm down. I've got your portal gun."
Rick J-22 lowered the defensive fields and allowed the armored Rick's portal, with the untraceable Portal gun, through.
He took it and approached Simple Rick. Unhooking him from the machine that trapped him.
"W-Where am I?" Simple Rick asked, confused and dazed.
"It's okay man, you're going to a better place." Rick J-22 reassured him, noticing the guards getting extremely anxious. He fired the portal gun. "Wait, no don't!" One of the guard Ricks, yelled. But it was too late, since Rick J-22 had already shoved the hostage in. Blood poured onto Rick J-22's clothing, as his suspicions about the Rick's not leaving him leave alive came true.
"Really!?" He yelled. "A portal to the blender dimension? I'm a Rick too, you know! In fact I'm more Rick than any of you!."
"Well then, you should know, that was your only leverage!" The armored Rick, yelled angrily. "Well then, come and get me m *#!&%***!#!" Rick J-22 screamed.
Another version of him activated a high tech thermal torch, to breach through the entry way. Rick J-22 felt a speck of fear, but stood his ground, when the owner of the establishment came in. Rick D Sanchez III.
He spoke with the officers, reasoning with them by stating, "What Rick isn't a terrorist?"
He walked out Rick J-22 through the room, he was trapped in and all his co-workers clapped. He had never been this happy in the longest time. It was almost too good to be true. That was when he realized it. It was too good to be true. His boss had just lost his money maker and needed a new one.
In order to do that the victim of the machine had to experience an amazing memory.
Rick snapped out of his trance, when Rick the third was handing him the keys to the car he was about to drive away in. Rick J-22 realized this was his one and only chance.
Without wasting a minute, he pulled out the nailing machine he had killed his other boss with, and began to fire. The other Ricks too late to realize, what was happening. The crowd of other Ricks and Mortys shocked at the actions that had just transpired.
Just as he had thought. His purple suited counterpart had been too arrogant to have a SWAT team placed on the outside as well.
Getting in the vehicle, Rick J-22 began driving as far away as he could, from the cursed factory he had wasted so many years in. He knew it wouldn't be long until the Citadel would find him, so he would need to escape.
Crashing the car into a local cafe and getting out as soon as possible, Rick J-22 weaved his way through the panicked Mortys and fleeing Ricks and found an unconscious Rick on the ground.
"Bingo." He said to himself, as he pulled out that Rick's portal gun. Knowing that it wouldn't be long until the Citadel's law enforcement arrived, he fired the portal gun and stepped into the portal that would lead him to his new life.
that's the end of chapter 1 guys. I really loved episode 7 of the Ricklantis mixup. Anways please make sure to point out any grammatical/spelling errors I have made. It a bit embarrassing but I'm having trouble with the difference between To and Too so please point it out. Anways I hope you enjoyed so please leave a review with some feedback guys. Thank you and have a good day/night/ whatever time you are reading this
edit: Thank you/u/ Literaturefangirl for your guidance in support. You made this fanfic 100 times better than it was and hopefully chapter 2 can reach the greatness you brought to chapter 1,stay tuned for more guys!