Rick woke up early on Monday morning thanks to the commotion in the house. He changed and left the room he was staying in. Turned out everyone was getting ready for their day.

Rick opened Morty's door to see the teenager putting his pants on. Morty looked up at the open door making himself fall over. "Morty, I need you to come with me." Rick said not caring to ask if the kid was okay.

"I'm about to go to school." Morty said as he finished buttoning his pants while on the floor. "It's a Monday. I can go after school."

"You can miss one day. School doesn't teach you anything." Rick said grabbing Morty's hand. This was his third test, he wasn't going to wait. "I'm taking Morty to school today." Rick yelled as he made his way to the garage.

"Okay." Beth said, getting ready for work.

Morty stood silent in the garage as Rick grabbed items from a box, sticking them in his inside pockets. They were mainly tools to get him out of a tight spot if his hypothesis failed. Rick may have been taking a big risk but he had to know once and for all if this was real. This would be dangerous for both of them. He grabbed one of his bottles that Birdperson got him and a funnel, filling his flask up. He then took a swig from the bottle before capping it.

"Alright Morty stick next to me and don't leave my side. Do exactly as I say." Rick said stuffing the flask in his pocket.

"Where are we going?"

"We are going to do some shopping at Haroun Square. I haven't been able to shop there in a long time. Gotta pick up some items that I can only get there."

Of course, Morty didn't know what Haroun Square was but he was interested.

Rick shot a portal, two walked through and into an alleyway. Rick walked out of the alleyway as Morty followed close behind. Morty couldn't believe what he was seeing. There were streets and building all around. It was very much like the pictures he saw of New York City's Time Square. It had ads up high with brightly lit pictures on all the buildings. The only differences were the beings walking around. Some were squishy and see through while others were more human looking.

Morty was looking up at a five eyed blue alien that was walking by. It was taller than Rick and appeared to be bobbing to some sort of music on its headphones. Morty was eyeing it until he ran into something else. Morty heard yelling that sound more like gibberish to him. Morty backed away from the creature that was yelling at him. Rick grabbed Morty's arm and pulled him around the large screaming alien.

"Stop staring at everyone Morty. You're drawing attention to yourself. Act normal."

"Sorry Rick, I never saw anything like this."

"Get used to it." Rick stuck his hands in his pocket and walked down the street. After walking a block, he saw two federation officers walking his way. This was the most policed area in the universe. If Morty kept his brainwaves hidden here, he would keep them hidden anywhere. Rick grabbed Morty's arm and had them stare at a flower that was in a pot. "Morty, look at this flower. Isn't this flower neat Morty?" Rick said trying to keep the kid from asking why he suddenly forced them to look in that direction.

"Yeah, I like that color a lot. It's like an orangey red sunset color." Morty went to touch the flower but pulled his finger back quickly when the flower attempted to bite him.

Rick looked up when the federation walked right by them. It worked. He let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding. He started to walk more freely now, Morty followed.

"So what are we here for?"

"Only the best stuff in the universe!" Rick said walking into an alleyway. He opened a metal door with paint chipping off. The two walked into a dimly lit building. There was a thick cloud of smoke in the building making Morty cough.

"Why do they allow smoking in buildings? Isn't it illegal?" Morty asked.

"It's because they aren't pansy asses like Earthlings."

"Wait, do you mean humans?" Morty asked.

"Yeah, whatever. You'll get used to the smoke." Rick made his way to the back.

"What ya here for?" A large slug like creature stood behind a cash register.

"Yeah, I'm here for you know..." Rick said leaning on the counter while looking around.

"No I don't, sorry sir. You will have to be more specific."

Rick set down a large wad of money making Morty's eyes widen. "You know." Rick repeated.

The creature picked up the wad, fanning through it. "Ah yes, I do know." The slug started to move from behind the counter and toward a closed door. Rick followed the slug and Morty followed Rick. "No kids allowed." The slug said stopping at the door.

"Kids with me."

"No kids allowed." It repeated.

Rick sighed, "Fine, Morty stay here. Don't talk to anyone. I'll be right back."

Morty watched his grandfather disappear into the back room. Morty twiddled his thumbs while waiting. An insect like creature that looked familiar to the one at the hotel walked into the store. Morty walked the opposite way attempting to appear like he was shopping. The creature slowly made its way around the store and eventually ran into Morty. It looked down at the kid who gave an unsure smile at the creature.

"What are you doing in here?" the insect-like creature asked.

Morty chuckled and grabbed something off the shelf, he read the label, "Well you know, just looking around. I was looking for, 'Chiron Mulfex.' And what do you know! Here it is!" Morty held it up letting out a chuckle.

The insect seemed okay with the answer and walked off. Morty looked down at its four feet, he was sure they were similar to the ones he saw before when he followed Rick into the portal. He watched as it left out the door.

A few more minutes ticked by before Rick was laughing with the slug keeper as they came from out back. Rick was holding a large brown bag. "Pleasure doing business with ya!" Rick said to the slug.

"No the pleasure is all mine." The slug said back.

Rick walked over to Morty, he looked down at the jar Morty was holding. "Morty what are you going to do with Centaur Testicles?" Morty looked down at the jar before setting it back on the shelf and then followed Rick out.

Rick was smiling brightly as he held his large paper bag in both arms, "Ya know Morty. This is going to be the start of a beautiful friendship! The universe will tell stories of Rick and Morty! We'll have comics and television shows! People will be telling stories about Rick and Morty for 100 years! Our faces will be on t-shirts, pajamas, and those limited edition plates that aren't actually limited edition and only go down in value because they made millions of them."

"You know Rick, that sounds pretty awesome."

Rick opened the portal and the two walked through.

When they were back in the garage, Rick went through the bag. "I got you something too." He pulled out a bag and threw it toward Morty. "It's real good."

Morty caught the bag and looked at it, there was no wording on the bag. It looked like a bag of potato chips but he assumed it was anything but chips, "Gee, thanks Rick."

"Just don't eat those if you plan on doing something that day…or in front of your parents." Rick said.

Morty looked up at him, unsure of what to say. "Uhm, thanks." Morty walked off.

Trial 3 was a success.

Now it was time to tell the other Ricks what he found. It was a good chance that at least an eigth of Ricks already met Morty.

Rick pulled out his space phone and sent a text, 'Meet tomorrow 4 in citadel' to five other Ricks. He had to start small, Morty hid his brainwaves but he most likely couldn't hide all of the Ricks at once. The citadel had an algorithm that allowed it to change places every five minutes. It wasn't a good place to hide for a long period of time but he was sure a quick ten minute meeting would be fine. Besides he couldn't be the only Rick who learned about the power of Morty…or maybe he was. He was the best Rick ever.

More to come…

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