HOLY BREAK! Sorry guys, I got quite sick! First a stomach bug and then some stupid throat thing, and I honestly was sleeping half of my days! I am back and hopefully more consistent, nothing will stop me this time! Nice long chapter to make up for it ;)

Chapter 10: Rescue Mission

Morty

Morty woke up, and he was immediately thinking of Skylar.
And Rick.

Everything was messed up, but Morty was gonna fix it. He knew how to save his 'Friendship' but also how he could force Rick into helping him. It would be like one of Morty's chosen adventures. Morty got dressed, not losing his determination, and marched streight downstairs into the garage. He didnt even say good morning to anyone let alone eat breakfast. Morty barged into the garage.

Rick looked surprised, he stood up from his chair. "M-Morty! L-look let's just-" Morty marched up to him. "O-OK RICK! You're gonna help me fix this, a-and maybe we can just move past it. But y-y-your gonna help me!" Rick sighed, then slumped into his chair. "Alright, Morty. But only because its reeeallly m*ErGh*ade you angry for some stupid reason." Rick nonchalantly turned and worked on his... whatever he was working on. Whereas Morty was fuming again. How could Rick say that when he knew that was his only friend, let alone a girl! "RICK! YOU KNOW WHAT... Give me y-your portal gun for today! W-were giving Skylar a-a field trip of your garage! A-and then, your gonna tell her EXACTLY what you did!" Morty didn't notice over his anger small tears, and quickly turned away before Rick turned back to him. Why did that keep happening?
"Im getting my school stuff and coming back, set the coordinates for right here in the garage and we should show up at about lunchtime." Morty ran out.

Rick

Jeez, Morty was angry. Rick didn't predict his plan would backfire so much. He thought he would just break the ties and Morty would continue on, but obviously Morty liked her more than Rick thought. He hated to show anyone in the outside world his science, but hopefully this would quell Mortys angst and then they could get on with their lives. Besides, Rick was sure what he did was enough to slap Morty back into their adventures. He hoped.

He grabbed the portal gun and was thinking about setting the coordinates to the fart dimension, but decided against it. It would've been hilarious but maybe this was not the time. He set them for the garage, like Morty said. Rick was thinking about what he said, in fact, and he hoped Morty didn't mean he had to apologize to that brat. Rick would show her he was the one talking to her, but he would stand by what he said. It was true of course, Rick snickered to himself. He heard the door swing open again.

Morty

Morty was still angry. He had a solution to the problem, and Rick was cooperating, so why was he... still upset? He shook off his drama and packed for school. "Morty, don't you wanna sit and eat breakfast?" His dad called to him. "Nope, I-I'm leaving now." With that Morty rushed outside and waited for the bus. The plan was in action. He got on the bus and looked around. Skylar wasnt there. Luckily he planned for her not to be, as she avoided him yesterday. He got to school and threw his stuff in his locker, and thought for a moment he was actually thankful that Rick dealt with Brad. At least thats what he assumed happened, Brad didn't just disappear like that.
Well Morty was right. Brad and his goonies were still alive, at least, as they strode down the hall in their stampede. Morty prepared himself for the blows, but Brad only glanced at him and their group moved even quicker. Morty didn't know what Rick did, but he liked it. Even though he was angry with him right now.

The first three classes dragged on and on, and worse, in math asked Morty an EXTREMELY hard question, probably ahead of their curriculum, and morty was dumbfounded. looked disappointed when he didn't answer it... Strange. Finally, it was lunch time. Morty just wanted to fix things. It would make him feel better.

He saw Skylar quickly, as he knew where they sat. He opened his bag with his portal gun ready, and marched up to their table. before he got their, he tried to think of how to do it. He could tell her he wanted to show her something, wanted to talk to her? But he didn't know how to, especially in front of her friends. As he got there Morty decided to screw it. Skylar saw him and started to say something, but Morty just opened the portal, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her in. He wanted some privacy anyways.

They fell into the garage, and Rick was sitting there as planned. "Morty, w-what is this place?! Take me back!" Skylar stood up, and was looking around. "L-let me explain Skylar! I brought you here to explain, but I needed proof." Skylar snapped out of her fear and looked at Morty. "Proof of what? I don't really wanna talk to you right now." Skylar sunk and bowed her head. Morty was determined and brave. "O-ok, this is gonna sound crazy but what happened that day, w-w-whatever happened between y-you and me, wasnt ME!" Skylar looked up and frowned. "What were you drunk or something Morty? Looked like you to me." Morty sighed. "Exactly. B-b-but lemme start a little earlier here, my grandpas a scientist. This is Rick. A-actually, y-you've already met him." Skylar finally noticed Rick, and looked surprised. Rick turned around in his chair, glaring slightly at Morty. Obviously HE thought this was stupid, but Morty didn't care. "Um, nice to meet you. I mean I already met you. Sorry" Rick turned back around. Morty huffed, that was not very sincere. "Lemme e-explain a little further." Skylar was still looking shocked, not really processing anything. "O-ok. My grandpa is a scientist, a-and he used one of his inventions to d-disguise himself as me and ruin our friendship. HE was the one who said those things, I-I wasn't even there that day! I-I was sick! D-do you believe me?" Skylar looked at Morty, and then Rick. "How?! Thats not possible! I, it's hard to believe, Morty! Just listen to yourself!" Skylar took a couple steps back from them.

Rick chimed in "Well it'd be easier if MORTY hadn't sm*UrP*ashed the machine! Maybe I could've shown her." Morty shot a glare at Rick.
"W-well SORRY I was ANGRY! Can't you fix it?" Morty asked, turning to Rick. "Morty you really clocked that thing. Must've been a lot of anger." Rick moved out of the way and gestured to the pile of broken parts, most likely to show Skylar. Skylar hadn't said a word to Rick yet, Morty hoped this wasn't too much for her. This obviously wasn't working well.

Rick

This was a mess. A shitstorm, Rick thought. Morty wasn't very good at explaining, let alone talking to girls. However Rick noticed at the end there that Morty was looking more sad, defeated. Like he couldn't prove it to her because it was broken. Rick decided to help, but he didn't like it. "You guys go talk or something, I'll make another one. Two hours tops if I rush." Rick turned and immediatly cleared his space. He swigged his flask. Morty looked, pretty happy. "Really, Rick? You'd do that?" Rick sighed. He didn't wanna get all mushy and crap. "N*EUrGh*o but I owe ya one so I will. Now leave before I change my mind." Morty and Skylar did, more like Morty pulled Skylar out. Rick got to work, he wanted to get this over with. He hated to admit that seeing Morty so full of anger and sadness made that stupid pain in his gut keep coming back. All this pain was because of him. He just wanted more adventures. And suddenly, Rick noticed he might just get that. He was out of the key ingredient to put in the motor of the machine. Crap.

Morty

Morty was hopeful. Rick would remake the machine, then show Skylar that he could transform into Morty. Morty pulled her out of the room. He didn't know what they were going to do while they waited though. Morty pulled her into the kitchen and sat down, she followed. Skylar finally started talking. "This is crazy. This is crazy! That was YOU who said all those things to me, at least it looked like it." Skylar finally looked at Morty. "Y-yeah I know its crazy and I'm sorry! I-I still don't know why he did it. But i'm gonna prove it to you! I-I swear." Morty looked at Skylar dead in the eyes. Skylar looked at him, then down at the ground, clearly thinking. "Ok. I trust you for now. Once I see it, I'll believe it." YES! Morty had gotten her to trust him. That's all he needed, she'd see the machine and then they'd fix all this. "I'm sorry for everything Rick did. I-I don't know what happened, but obviously it was really bad. W-What'd he say to you? A-as me?" Morty looked at her, and she didn't look up from the ground. "Just, A LOT! I don't wanna think about it." Skylar crossed her arms and hunched. Morty looked down too. It was silence until the door to the garage burst open.

"Uhhhh Morty? C'mere we got a problem." Morty ran to Rick. "What Rick? W-whats wrong?" Morty hoped this wouldn't get in the way. "We're missing a thing I need for the machine... I can't make it without it. I-it's impossible!" Morty sighed. Everything was getting in the way. "Where can we get it." Morty wasn't gonna let this get away from him. He was gonna fix this TODAY. "Well you'd have to come. Its really close to the new government." Morty sighed.

"Then were taking Skylar with us."