The back of the large ship opened in front of them. "Just be careful around these guys. This fucker isn't exactly man of the year." Rick said as they flew into the ship.

The ship landed in a large bay. Rick sat in the ship grabbing his flask and taking an elongated gulp. "Just remember a few things Morty. These guys are assholes, losers, and did I mention assholes?" Rick took another gulp from his flask.

A large bay door opened and a tall lengthy male walked out with several other lengthy human like people following behind. Morty noticed the entire group had a blue hue to their hair. It was slightly darker than Rick's own hair. They looked almost identical to each other. There was quite a resemblance to the ones walking up and Rick. That was certain and yet, they were intimidating. When Morty was around Rick, he felt safe but these people just walked more…haphazardly. Maybe it was because they were taller than Rick. In fact Morty felt like they may be considered giants compared to Earth's standards of height.

The two opened their doors to step out of the vehicle.

"Look who returned!" The man in front of the group said wrapping an arm around Rick's shoulders. "How ya doing Ricky?" he asked.

"Don't call me that." Rick said pushing the man away from him. Rick crossed his arms as the others talked.

The man laughed, "How are those emotions treating you? Are you keeping them in check?" He asked, punching Rick in the side of the arm. "And who's this kid with you?"

"This is Morty." Rick said. "My grandson. I guess that makes him your great grandson by blood, if you care."

"I told you not to reproduce with humans. I told you to learn from my mistakes. They're too emotional. Too clingy. Too moral." The man made a disgusted face.

"Yeah, well sometimes you have to deal with your mistakes Richard." Rick stated.

The man laughed.

"You're names Richard?" Morty asked.

"Yeah, mommy dearest wanted to name her little piece of sunshine after his father." The man went to pinch Rick's cheeks. Rick slapped the man's hand away. "Too bad she died giving birth to her sunshine. That's okay, daddy's here!"

Rick let out an audible sigh. "Let's get past the introductions." Rick finally said. "He's Richard, he's the deadbeat that gave me life. That's it!" Rick turned to Richard, "I-I can't even consider you a dad when you never even raised me! Giving life is not the same as being a father. Now if you don't mind, my daughter who I RAISED is at home making dinner!"

The man turned back to Rick, "Come with me Rick! Stay awhile."

Rick looked uninterested following the man. Morty walked next to Rick. "Rick, what's going on?"

The Richard looked over at Morty, "We are alzurians. Your primitive planet is still new to all of us more advanced cultures. I chose to go down for a few days and found Rick's mom who was trying to cheat on hubby. Can you believe that? Humans expect you to be monogamous!"

The people all around laughed at that statement.

"Every once in a while I'd come back to find her and we would have our one night together. She was great in the sack. If you know what I mean. What I didn't know was our genes work and what do you know, we eventually created the meat sack you see here. When she found out she was pregnant, I left and when I came back to find her. I found out she left her husband and disappeared."

Morty looked over at Rick who appeared like he was either uninterested or angry at this man.

"She was trying to find someone who would raise me." Rick muttered.

The man ignored him, "There's the difference between your race and mine. We have no emotions or morals. There's no sadness, no anger, no fear, nothing. We don't even care about each other. If someone here died today, no one would care. I met him for the first time when he was fifteen. His mother kept the little button I gave her to call me when she was ready for, well, you know. He found it and clicked the button, boy you should have seen his face when he found out I was his daddy as he called it. He cried! Can you believe it? Rick cried over meeting someone he never knew existed. He got my good looks and his mother's emotions. Fucking idiot. All he needs are the dumb morals and he'd be like every other human there."

Rick rolled his eyes. "So what's new around here?"

"Always changing the subject! Rick, you're still emotional. Your need to have attachments to things is what's going to destroy you. You don't need a person next to you at all times to survive. Friends are what's going to get you killed."

They sat down around a large table. Rick ensured Morty sat next to him. Richard sat on the other side of Rick. "Lucky for you, we were about to eat." The man said.

Several others came in with food and started spooning the food on everyone's plates. Morty watched as a big glop of mashed potato looking stuff was slopped on his plate. Then someone else put some sort of meat on his plate. Morty looked over at Rick who was talking to his father. Rick turned to the person behind Morty, "No he doesn't want that." Rick said stopping the person from dropping another item on the plate. Rick passed it off as well. Rick's father allowed it on his plate; it appeared like a red gravy.

Everyone was eating and drinking as they were getting rowdier and rowdier. Morty just picked at his food with his fork. Not wanting the splitting headache he had last time he drank, Morty opted for water. Rick on the other hand was farther gone than anyone else. They were all laughing and joking, telling stories that Morty hoped were fake. Could anyone be that dark?

"I…" Rick went to stand up falling back, "I gott-gotta geeet tthe kiiid baurghk." He slurred every word

"Nah, just stay here. I got a room for you guys. You're a little over the limit to be driving in space right now." Richard said.

"Nah, I'm good." Rick laughed as he stumbled again.

"Uhm, Rick, ma-maybe we should take him up on his offer so you can sleep it off." Morty said.

Rick agreed, "Yeah, you're right Morty." He wrapped an arm around Morty.

The two followed Richard.

"Here, you guys can share this room." Richard opened a door revealing a large bed. "It's only one bed but it's only for one night."

"Thanks man!" Rick said walking in.

"Uhm, where's the bathroom?" Morty asked Richard.

"I'll show you." Richard started to walk down the hall with Morty following. "Are you surprised to meet me?"

"Uhm…well until a few weeks ago I didn't even know aliens were real so it's all new to me."

"You never questioned Rick's actions?" the man asked.

"Well, I don't know him that well. I just figured, you know, he's Rick when he does something unusual."

"Between us two, humans and alzurians shouldn't mix."

"You met his mom and got along with her. I'm assuming she was human."

"Yes, but humans don't understand us. When there's a species that understands things like morals and then you don't, it's bizarre. Rick is like an unstable experiment that should never have happened. Something will happen one day and a switch will go off, he will be someone you never knew."

Morty laughed, "I think you're over reacting, he's fine."

Richard stopped Morty in the hall, staring Morty in the eyes, "Listen, kid. He's unstable. He can get very emotional one minute and snap into whatever the next. He follows both sides very strongly." The man hand Morty a vial. "Put this in his drink tonight. Then ask him about Lucille. Then ask about his father. Ask about Lucille and Cindy."

Morty thought back on everything. Rick didn't seem to care earlier that day that he shouldn't lie about his parent's deaths. Then there were the times where Rick would accidentally hurt Morty and seemed to not care. Then it was like something flipped in his mind, and suddenly he would realize he did something wrong and he would try to help Morty out.

Morty was deep in thought when he got back to the room.

"You guys were gone for awhile." Rick said sitting on the side of the bed.

"I had to use the bathroom."

"Did he talk to you?"

"Yeah, a little." Morty shrugged, walking to the other side of the bed. He kept the vial hidden. Would he really use it on Rick? He didn't even know what it did. Rick didn't trust this man, maybe he shouldn't trust him either. What if this was poison? What if this man wanted to kill Rick?

"Morty!" Rick yelled.

Morty was taken out of his thoughts, "what?"

"I asked what did he say?"

"Nothing, sheesh."

"Try again." Rick said.

"He…he said to ask about Lucille."

"Anything else?"

"No." Morty said.

Rick let out a sigh. He still held a bottle from earlier in his hands. Morty didn't remember Rick walking with it to the room but he must have. "I have to use the restroom." Rick stood up, setting the bottle on the ground. He left the door open as he walked down the hall.

Morty sat at the edge of the bed, he pulled out the vial. He stared at the door as the footsteps walked away. Was he really going to do this? He wanted to learn about Rick. He wanted to know more. Morty crawled across the bed over to the bottle. He picked it up, it was half full. He pulled out the vial. It was clear vial with a blue liquid inside it. He shakily opened the top of the vial, placing the lid next to him. Morty took in a deep breath before starting to pour the liquid into the beer.

He watched as the blue liquid disappeared into the bottle.

Morty screamed dropping the beer when a hand grabbed his wrist. The bottle hit the floor as the liquid spilled everywhere.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Morty looked up to see Rick glaring at the kid, still holding the teen's wrist.

"I…I uh." Morty didn't know what to say.

Rick snatched the vial out of Morty's hand. "Did Richard give this to you?"

Morty let out an inaudible noise.

"Did he?" Rick yelled.

"Y-yeah." Morty squeaked out. Rick's grasp tightened.

Rick took his hand off of Morty's wrist grabbing the lid next to the bed. He capped the vial then set it in his lab coat. "That's a truth telling serum." Rick said grabbing the bottle from the floor. "I knew I couldn't trust that fucker. Pinning you against me."

"I'm sorry Rick…I just I…"

"You want to ask me a question." Rick sat on the bed next to him.

"It's fine. I just want to go to bed. I'm sorry Rick." Morty said backing away from the old man.

Morty laid down on his side, "Good night Rick."

Rick didn't say anything; his voice would give him away. Rick pat his hand on Morty's shoulder then stood up from the bed and sat against the wall. He wasn't going to sleep tonight, he didn't trust Richard at all. And to be honest, he was sure he couldn't sleep. From the moment he heard Morty mention Lucille's name, he felt the pain he tried so hard to forget about. The truth was, he was still upset about Lucille. If she didn't die, he would have a much different life. A better life. A life where he would have never known about Richard, outer space, or any of the misgivings that led him to where he was. He put on a cold exterior but Lucille's name was one of the few names that could break him down.

The next day came quickly.

Richard hugged Morty as Rick watched.

"Morty! Come on!" Rick yelled out the ship.

"Bye Everyone." Morty said then jumped into his side, buckling in. Rick held up his middle finger to the group who was waving them off.

Once they were home, Morty walked out of the garage and straight for his room. Once his door was closed and he knew he was alone, he pulled out a small vial. Richard slipped it into his pocket while he hugged him that morning. Morty opened his sock drawer stuffing it in the back.

Maybe, if the time was right, he would use it.

Sorry for the long hiatus. I lost my original chapter and was at a loss for this new chapter. I felt like Richard was coming on too strong for a new character. This chapter has bred a whole new story of Rick's back story. I have it started from when he was young and might put it out after this story is completed.

Anyways, Please review and let me know what you think!