Morty turned his head to see what Rick was referring to, only to see a large creature that looked like it had the body of a shark, except instead of skin it had armor like a horseshoe crab, and all around it's body it had a series of octopus like arms. He also noticed that the monster had a large gemstone at the tip of its nose. What Morty didn't realize was in the time he had been taking in its features it had shot one of its arms straight at Morty.
Thankfully, Morty took notice before the arm hit him. He had just enough time to yell "Oh Shi-" before Rick pushed him out of the way of the arm.
When they both looked up they saw that the monster had turned its attention toward the same group of multicolored people running towards it, they could also hear the short purple one yelling "I told you there was more than one!".
Before Rick and Morty could run back to the hillside (the only surface flat enough to accept a portal) the monster seemed to have noticed how far away the colorful people were and looked back towards Rick and Morty.
It picked up one of its arms for another swing, but before it could bring it forward the entire thing was frozen solid. Morty turned to see Rick aiming his freeze- ray directly at the monster, moisture still condensing in the air from the cold barrel.
"Well now I know it works on large creatures" Rick stated well looking at the gun.
"Anyway lets get out of here and over to that bar Morty." They started walking over to the hill side when they heard someone's voice.
"Woah, that was really cool! How did you do that!?" Rick turned to see a short kid in a red shirt with a gold star on it that had ran up next to him.
"Oh thanks kid, I did that with the power of science." Rick replied before taking out his flask and taking a couple sips out of it.
Once more Rick and Morty started walking toward the hillside, and once again they were interrupted by a voice that sounded rather monotone. "Halt, who are you and what are you doing here?" the group same group of people from before had stopped running right in front of them, they also noticed the voice was coming from the tall red one.
"Oh geez" Rick mumbled to himself. "Look we don't want any trouble, I just wanted to show my grandson how much it sucks to live in this universe, now that I've done that we'll be on our way now."
"Not until you tell us who you are and where you got that weapon we saw you with. You could be a threat to us and the citizens of this city!" the tall one said,
Rick thought about just portaling out of there right then and there, but he didn't want to risk these strange people following them.
"I find it interesting that you're questioning my weird weapons when you're armed to the teeth with weapons made of whatever that stuff is, I swear I saw that short purple one pull her weapon out of her chest! Yeah, that's not weird at all."
"Hey, don't judge me old guy!" yelled the purple one. "Amethyst!" yelled the thin pale one in response. "Not now you two" said the red one to both of them. "Guys, guys, just calm down, we're all friends here." said the boy.
Amethyst? isn't that the name of a gem? Wait a minute! Rick thought to himself as he began to realize what kind of beings these people might be when he noticed that each one of them had a gemstone or gemstones embedded somewhere in their bodies.
The bickering continued between the thin one and the one they called Amethyst as the boy kept trying to settle them down, all the while the red one once again turned her attention to Rick and Morty.
"Your weapons are of our concern because we are the crystal gems and it is our mission to defend this place from potential threats!" she uttered.
"Yeah, well my name's Rick and I don't give a fuck!" Rick said before he took another long sip from his flask.
The whole time this was going on Morty was standing there darting his eyes around not knowing what to do, he saw the ongoing argument between "Amethyst" and the thin one and he noticed the red one getting progressively angrier at his grandpa's comebacks.
"Alright everyone just calm down Okay!? Geez, I- I mean you guys are all acting like animals!" Morty shouted, fed up with all the noise.
Before anyone else could respond Rick turned to him and said "You know what you're right m- *buurrrp* Morty, we should just talk about this like rational people you know. We should- run!"
After saying that last word Rick grabbed Morty's arm and started running along the beach in the direction of the town, Morty followed, not having much of a choice since Rick was holding his arm.
"After them!" the red one yelled loudly, quickly getting the others attention, as soon as they heard her they all began running in the direction of Rick and Morty.
"Wait, I wanna see your cool gadgets!" the boy yelled towards them.