Rick was in his lab working away for the past couple of weeks after he had collected the data he needed from this reality's Morty he began to work on a device that could simulate his brainwaves. Rick did feel bad about torturing the boy, Mortys often lived short timid lives before dying because of their Ricks.
"Beep-Beep" the pocket-sized device had hummed, signifying it was complete and functional. Rick glanced at it, smirking at his own genius. With that device, he'd be safe from his enemies without the hassle of a Morty. Now all the only thing left to do was finish his very own portal gun. The formulas from this version of himself had helped significantly and shown Rick where he had gone wrong on his original attempts. He began tinkering with the machine.
Meanwhile, the Citadel had gone full damage control after the events that had happened at the Simple Rick's factory. Not only had a fugitive escaped, one of the most important Ricks had died at the hands of a lower class, Rick. With the election over most had expected President Morty too speak out about recent actions, but surprisingly he had remained pretty quiet since his victory. The citadel, of course, couldn't afford to lose face like this so they had sent an investigative team to figure out Rick J-22's whereabouts in the multiverse. Rick Sanchez F-87 was one of those Ricks. He had received a file about Rick J-22's history prior to his arrival at the Citadel. Rick J-22 hadn't discovered inter-dimensional travel in his own universe, making him a great candidate as a lower class Rick worker.
"Hey Rick, we found some witnesses. I think they can help us crack this case" said Rick X-654. He had a noticeable scar starting above his left eyebrow and ending on the right side of his cheek. This Rick also had a rather noticeable cybernetic left eye.
"Well bring them over, we don't have-" Rick stopped burping mid-sentence.
"All day" he finished. Rick X-654 nodded and looked at another Rick waving his hand. That Rick had then brought over a rather disgruntled, and disheveled looking Rick. Despite his appearance, Rick F-87 got ready to question him.
"Hello Rick, I'm Rick Sanchez dimension F-87. I hear that you have substantial evidence about the location of Rick J-22?" he asked rather mundanely. Truth be told, Rick had his own business to deal with in his own dimension, and when he had been pulled away from that, to work on this case, he wasn't "happy" to say the least.
"Yeah, that bastard took my portal gun when I was unconscious." The other Rick had spat out bitterly. This had perked Rick F-87's interest since this lead could end the case quite quickly, and he'd be able to to finish things up back in his home dimension.
"What's your dimension number?" he had asked without skipping a beat. He glanced at his partner Rick X-654, who readied his portal gun prepared to fire away a portal to whatever dimension number this Rick would state.
"First of all I want to make sure you guys won't be abandoning me too rot here, I want to come with you all or at the very least make sure I get assigned a new portal gun," Rick stated, not wanting to stay any longer at the Citadel. He had come here for a material that had been exhausted in his home dimension when he had suddenly been hit by rubble caused by a crash and knocked out. When he came to, he had discovered his portal gun was gone.
"Alright sir, we'll be sure to give you a portal gun. Just follow that Rick over there." Rick F-87 pointed towards one of the Ricks working with him on the case.
"Now just tell me your original dimension number." Rick F-87 asked getting impatient.
"I'm from dimension G-897, and if it helps I think it's safe to say that that piece of shit is probably hiding out at my home." Rick G-897 said angrily.
"Thank you for help." Rick F-87 said as turned away from the Rick. Rick X-654 fired open the portal gun stepping into it and away from the citadel shortly followed by his partner, as they appeared at the familiar scene of Beth's house. They quickly reached into their pockets grabbing weapons with their own unique design.
"Alright partner, we got a hostile Rick in there. Do your best to not alert him to our location, and try to keep the body count to a minimum" Rick X-654 said coldly.
"Got it." was all Rick F-87 could say as he went to the back of the house as his partner looked to find another way in. Rick snuck in through a window, crouching as he hid behind a couch. He saw that the TV was on with a weatherman speaking about rain showers tonight. He noticed the date and time on the TV, realizing it was a Monday morning meaning that this universe's Morty and Summer would be away at school, and Beth would be at work. The only one other than Rick J-22 that could be at the house right now would be Jerry. A scowl crept across his face as he thought about him.
Rick F-87 wouldn't need to think about Jerry any longer as he heard shots being fired from the garage, followed by a cry of agony, and a quick "thwump" right after. Rick immediately went on the offensive readying his gun as he neared the door. Hopefully, his partner had killed Rick J-22, but if it was worse case scenario he'd have to finish the job. Rick kicked open the door, not finding Rick J-22 but instead the corpse of his partner with a huge hole in his chest with smoke coming out. Rick couldn't waste time and took cover immediately. Not too soon after a small red flying drone came into the garage firing a huge laser, cutting the desk Rick was using as cover as he rolled out of the way firing a shot at the drone.
The shot had zero effect as it simply bounced off the invisible force field enwrapped around the drone, the drone then began rapid-fire forcing Rick to jump back into the house, however, he didn't make it unscathed as he got shot in the foot, making him fall from the pain. Rick turned around to look at the drone seeing it was charging a blast, likely the same one that had killed his partner. Thinking quickly he reached into his jacket and threw a sleek metal sphere at the machine sticking to the shield and causing it to malfunction giving him a clean shot at the drone. Right as he was about to fire his weapon at it a stray laser appeared out of the room going straight through his forehead, causing his head to hit the ground with a light thud, eyes rolled up in his head.
"You know part of me reaaalllyy hoped that you guys would let this g-g-go." Rick J-22 began to talk.
"But of course that was wishful thinking." after stating that Rick went into the lab grabbing his Morty waves simulator. Though it was useful, it had a downside of needing to be charged for 30 minutes. He'd be able to use it for 5 hours max unless he'd be able to get a better power source. However, that didn't bother him because he had succeeded in creating his own interdimensional portal gun. He now had what he desired, albeit a small victory it was a victory nonetheless.
"Red drone" Rick called out. The small drone had flown into Rick's lab, with a small whirring noise.
"Yes sir, Rick?" it said with a polite robotic voice.
"Jeez, I r-r-really need to think of a better name for you" Rick mumbled.
"Anyways, I need you to clean up this mess. However don't dispose of the bodies, in fact, put them over there." Rick pointed towards the middle of the garage.
"Yes sir" the drone said as it buzzed by into the room where Rick F-87s corpse was. Rick then began to rummage through the lab grabbing weapons, notes, anything that he had deemed useful. After getting up he saw that his drone was finished with its task and was awaiting his commands.
"Alright, time to show those citadel f* $&!# that second-rate Ricks won't be enough to take me down," Rick said, opening a portal right next to the corpses before kicking them in. The portal quickly closed, and not too long after Rick had fired open a new one and had stepped into it followed by his drone.
Typing away on his computer, Rick looked at it with a blank stare. He was in charge of organizing the funds for the citadels funds, and he was far from fond of his job. He was bored almost all the time and daydreamed about going on adventures like so many other Ricks do. He wondered if he had a Morty in his home dimension and if so he wondered how different he was from other Mortys. His thoughts soon came to a halt as a portal opened above his desk, and two objects fell out breaking his computer and desk with a loud crash. Rick had removed the arms he immediately covered his face with when the objects crashed down on his desk. It was then that he realized that these "objects" were two Ricks….two DEAD Ricks.
"Someone get the security!" he heard a Rick shout from behind, soon followed by the terrified screaming of a couple Mortys, and the anxious murmurings of Ricks. He then sighed furrowing his brows, and pinching his nose.
"Today is gonna be a long day," Rick thought to himself.
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