AN: This one is unimpressively short and feels a little stupid… Let's hope for better days in this challenge again.
Warnings: discrimination and insults
Summary: Lizard Rick and Aqua Rick have an argument about who of them is the superior species.
Finally Ricktober, Bitches! – Chapter 21: Lizard Rick and Aqua Rick – Who's the superior Rick?
Oh, this was it! The heat was on now!
Who did that fish face think he was?! Claiming that he would be the superior one?
"What exactly is supposed to be superior about you, Mr. Gills For Lungs? If I take away that little goldfish bowl that you keep on your head, you're gonna drop dead in a second. That doesn't sound very superior to me!" Lizard Rick accused loudly, causing a few heads to turn their way.
"Oh, yeah? And what can you do? Crawl on walls on catch flies with your tongue. Sounds like some real great achievements, Frog Face." Aqua Rick mocked back.
The duo was standing in the middle of the Citadel's main atrium and arguing. Initially, they had just accidentally bumped into each other and of course, instead of just apologizing and being on their way again, they had stopped to stare at each other and then began to throw insults.
Probably because both Ricks were looking like humanoid animals, and not like your standard human scientist. Unique ones like them liked to stick out and were proud of it, but naturally, they can't share the spotlight.
So, they acted like divas now, putting on an embarrassing show for all the Ricks and Mortys around them to see. Good thing that they didn't have their own Mortys with them today because the poor anthropomorphic boys would have been so embarrassed about their grandfathers. Then again, they might have been able to separate those two.
As it was though, there was no one to stop them as they started to fight over who was the superior species now, even if it was completely dumb.
"Hey! Being able to climb walls like Spiderman was still considered cool the last time that I checked!" Lizard Rick countered. "Swimming doesn't sound too impressive in comparison. I mean practically everyone can. Even babies."
If Aqua Rick wouldn't be an ectotherm, the water inside his tank would have started to boil. "Oh, you say everyone can, really? Makes me wonder how well you can fight underwater. I bet you're nowhere near as fast as I am. Oh, and let's not forget that I can also breath underwater. Let's face it, in a battle between us, I would win hands down!"
"Pfft." The lizard man looked unimpressed. "Yeah, maybe if you battle it out with Mermaid Rick. However, that is exactly the point: you can only do all that under water! And I'm not sure how much that stupid glass bowl is messing with your vision, but we're currently standing on land. So unless we move it to the fountain and you hope that a little splashing will improve your chances, I'll be the one to hand your ass to you!"
"How you're gonna do that? By evading me while you crawl around on the ceiling like a coward?!"
The two Ricks were intensely staring at each other, ready to jump their opponent's throat when an annoyed (human) Rick suddenly butted in.
"Yo, will you keep it down! Who gives a fuck if one of you is better than the other? You're both freaks and should just keep a low profile."
The death glares of both animal-like Ricks were suddenly centered on the poor sap who had decided to get between them.
"As if you've got the right to speak, you hairless ape!" They said simultaneously.
And thus the human Rick became the new target of their argument…