It was night in the mega seed dimension, so the sky was shaded navy blue, the stars dotting the expanse. The mega trees' fruit also glowed at night, making them look like a luminescent city from Rick's location. He bounded towards the area.
Once he arrived the bright cluster, he reached out for one of the fruits, but was interrupted by a gentle voice in the distance.
"I sense something is amiss within you."
Great. Those people. They have long antennae on their heads that can sense anything. All they are are nosy bastards who meddle with your lives.
"Look, I-I-I don't want any of your fucking advice, so do me a favor and piss off."
The stranger walked in front of Rick. He wore a black cloak and fedora type hat. When he removed the hat, he revealed his face to be a dark pink with black eyes and the aforementioned antennae. "If you do not believe that I am true, you have nothing to fear. You must believe that I am interested in your best interest."
God, here he goes. "I don't care about your damn honesty! Get out of my way." He pushed the person aside to reach the mega fruit he dropped. He picked it up and cracked it open to retrieve the seed inside.
"Do you feel uncertain?"
"Listen bitch, I'm always sure of what I do." This stranger was pissing Rick off. He felt his temper start to get the best of him.
"You're lying. No one is always certain in their fate."
Lying? Rick's anger suddenly died down to be replaced by thoughts of his previous interaction with Morty. That caused an emotion to quickly climb up Rick, starting at his legs and making him sweat once it reached and tightened his chest. No, this was too much. Rick could handle anything. Just not this. Anything but this.
Rick drove his hand into his lab coat, ripped out his flask, and drained it of any remaining alcohol. He'd forgot to refill it before he left. It was sufficient to take the edge off, but not nearly enough for Rick's standards of numbness.
"Alcohol will not help the situation. You must know that." The stranger intervened.
Rick's anger returned, overpowering the slight numbness the alcohol gave him. "I'm gonna give you the count of fucking three to get out of my face before I start shooting." He produced a small ray gun from his lab coat and aimed it at the pink alien.
"Threatening me isn't going to fix things either."
"Three." Rick fired a ray blast in the stranger's direction, which he dodged.
"My God! Okay, asshole, I'll go now. Sorry I'm just trying to help you!" He returned his hat to his head and dashed into the night.
After he chased off the hypersensitive alien, Rick resumed his collection of the mega seeds. When he finished, the sky had gotten darker. The mega fruits stopped glowing in preparation for the dawn, the stars beginning to fade as well.
What the stranger said popped into Rick's head. The little relief his flask provided him had wore off, leaving him in a sea of his own despair. Rick hated being sober. He retrieved his portal gun, fired a portal into the air, and walked through.