Season 01, Episode 06: Rick Potion No. 9
The bell rang at the dusk of the school day in Henry Herpson High School as students began going towards their last period for the day, and soon, Principal Vagina spoke through the PA System. "Principal Vagina here, don't let the name fool you, I'm very much in charge, reminding you that tonight is our annual flu season dance. I don't know how many times I have to say this but if you have the flu, stay home, the flu season dance is about awareness, not celebration. You don't bring dead babies to Passover."
As he was making his announcement, Morty walked over towards his locker, picking a book out of it before gazing at a picture of Jessica that he taped to the other side of the door. Closing it, he looked to see the real Jessica with two of her friends walking by as she greeted them, and Morty couldn't help but to sigh as she walked over. "Ohhh. Okay, here we go." After a quick breath, he walked over to Jessica. "H-Heyy Jessica, ughh."
"What's up Morty?" Jessica replied before suddenly going to a sneezing rage.
"Uuugh, I was… wondering… if you would like to go on a… date-"
Before Morty could speak, a teen with black hair and a red shirt, blue jeans, and a green and white hoodie came up and went towards the two. "Woah, woah, woah? What are you doing?" Morty struggled to speak, but the jock was starting to put the pieces together. "Wait, wait, Were you about to talk... to her?"
"Well, I mean, I was thinking about it." Morty admitted.
At this point, the jock had all the information he needed. "Dude, Stay in your league! Look at how hot she is! You don't see me going to a bigger school, in a wealthier district and hittin' on their prettiest girl!"
"Gee, thanks, Brad." Jessica sarcastically remarked with a neutral look on her face. As the two walked and Brad talked with his girlfriend, a shocked Morty looked on, quietly dropping his book.
The whole experience made Morty depressed and he slumped onto the table. He was barely in the mood to poke his fork against his food as Reimu looked at him with concern. She then noticed that Jerry was making a sandwich and giving Morty some of his advice. "Eh, Try not to worry about it, Morty. You're a good kid, and there's not a premium on that right now, but you'll be getting girls sometime after Brad's out of shape."
"You're missing the point, Dad. I don't want girls, I want Jessica!" Morty complained.
"With that attitude of yours, she probably wouldn't want you." Reimu pointed out as she entered the conversation. She was packing in a few snacks while Marisa walked in and snuck her hand into the pantry. "Besides, there are other girls you could talk to and date."
"Not. Fine. It's not fine, Reimu! I just want Jessica!" Morty interrupted.
At this point, Marisa looked towards Morty. "You kept talking about her ever since you returned home like she's some kinda object, ya yandere."
"Woah, woah, woah, blondie. I think he should listen to me for a while." Jerry replied.
Marisa merely rolled her eyes and merely ate from the wafer cookies she snagged as Reimu spoke. "My friend might be blunt, but she's right. You'll have to learn when to pick your chances, and Jessica might not even be interested."
"Ignore that, Morty." Jerry said as he grabbed a jar of sauce from the fridge. "I remember feeling that way about a young lady named your mom, and that's not an urban dis, your mom was my Jessica. I remember the first time I saw her, I thought…"
Before Jerry could speak, Rick butted into the conversation. "I should get her pregnant, then she'll have to marry me."
As Rick grabbed a glass from the cupboard, Reimu rubbed her temples as Jerry looked straight at the mad scientist's eyes. "I beg your pardon, Rick, INAPPROPRIATE." he berated, pointing toward Morty to prove his point.
Rick paid no heed to Jerry as he grabbed ice from the fridge. "Sorry, please proceed with your story about banging my daughter in high school." As he began pouring juice into the glass, he looked towards Morty. "I'm not sure you want to take romantic advice from this guy, Morty, his marriage is hanging from a thread."
"My marriage is fine, thank you!" Jerry barked.
Marisa merely shook her head while Reimu facepalmed at the stupidity, but only Rick continued speaking. "Jerry, it's your house, whatever you say it is is how it is…" The scientist proceeded to pour juice into the glass that he was holding. "…but I think that even a blind man can see that Beth is looking for the door. I barely have a reason to care and even I noticed."
"Come on, Rick, don't talk about my parents like that." Morty begged.
"As rude as he was about that remark, he does have a point." Reimu pointed out, causing Morty to scowl. "I do not know much about their marriage considering we were estranged most of the time, but what I can see is basically a ticking time bomb waiting to detonate."
At that point, Rick walked behind Morty and spoke. "Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call "love" is a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it, your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science."
As they left, Jerry began walking backwards. "Yeah, I'm just going to...check on your mom." With that, he exited the kitchen and went towards his and Beth's bedroom.
As Rick walked away, Reimu merely sighed. "What he was talking about was merely lust, Morty. Love is more complex than that. It's not the best idea to get romantic advice from a man who doesn't know about it such as Jerry or a man who doesn't care about it such as Grampa. The former hasn't given your mother the time to get to know him better, nor did they really have a formal marriage or a reason to go together."
"And what do you remember about that?" Morty asked. At that point, he got up from his seat and walked away. "Eh, I don't care about it unless it has something to do with Jessica."
"Morty, wait! I haven't told you about it yet!" Reimu protested.
"Talk to the hand, Reimu. I'm not interested if it's not related to Jessica." Morty replied.
As Morty vanished into the kitchen, Marisa gathered Snuffles and scooped him up. "If anything, he's probably being a party pooper about the whole thing, Reimu."
A slight bit of worry went through Reimu's mind as she looked back to where Morty walked off to, but she shrugged it off for now. "I'm gonna gather my stuff as well. We'll be at Sanae's place shortly."
Meanwhile, Morty went towards Rick's garage, now dressed in a fully-dressed suit consisting of a blue jacket, a pair of jeans, a yellow shirt, a red tie, and black shoes. Rick was currently working on something on the garage, and Morty also noticed a couple of vials that were placed nearby.
Upon noticing Morty walked in, Rick smiled and turned his gaze over to him. "Morty, hand me that screwdriver, huh? I'm almost finished making my ionic defibulizer, Morty. It's gonna be great."
Morty held his right elbow with his left hand as he walked towards Rick. "Hey, listen, Rick. You know how you said that, you know... love is a chemical and all that stuff from earlier?" He proceeded to walk up towards Rick. "Well, I was thinkn', you know, www... could you make some sort of chemical thing happen inside of Jessica's mind, you know, so where she falls in love with me and all that sort of thing, you know, like maybe make some sort of love potion or something?"
Rick merely rolled his eyes as he looked at his grandson. "Morty, that's such a poor use of my time, it's beneath me. Hand me the screwdriver."
"YOU KNOW WHAT, NO RICK! I'M NOT GONNA HAND YOU THE SCREWDRIVER!" Morty barked. "Uh, I'm never gonna hand you anything ever again, Rick. I'm always helping you with this and that and the other thing. Www...what about me, Rick? Www... why can't you just help me out once, once, for once?"
Rick groaned at his grandson's ridiculous requests. "You're growing up fast, Morty. You're growing into a real big thorn straight up into my ass!" Agitated, he turned towards some of his equipment and began working on it, creating an orange liquid that poured into a vial. "Listen, this is called oxytocin. I extracted it from a vole. You know what a VOLE is, Morty, you know what a vole is?"
Morty merely shook his head as he watched his grandfather create something in his equipment.
"It's a *urp* It's a rodent that mates for life. How could you *urp* not notice it, your cousin has a book about animals she brought with her from college." Rick explained. He grabbed the serum and handed it to Morty. "This is the chemical release in the mammal's brain that makes it fall in love. Alright Morty, I just gotta *urp* combine it with some of your DNA."
"Oh well, okay…" Morty said. He attempted to unzip his pants, but Rick put a stop to him.
"A hair, Morty, I need one of your hairs! This isn't Game Of Thrones." As Rick plucked a hair out of Morty, the boy let out a small yelp. "Don't be a baby! You've got plenty of them." Rick dropped the hair into the vial, causing it to fizzle and turn slightly darker. "Alright, Morty, whoever you smear this stuff on will fall in love with you, and only you, forever. Ya happy now, Morty?"
Morty pumped his fist in excitement. "Heck yeah! Thank you, Rick!" After a quick hug from his grandfather, Morty immediately got up and left.
"Wait, aren't you gonna-" Before Rick could ask, Morty was already out. A looming sense of dread came upon him, but he shrugged it off. "Why the hell am I feeling that way? This is fucking fullproof with two capitol 'F's!"
Meanwhile, in Beth and Jerry's room, the former was typing on her computer with an unamused expression on her face while the latter sat on their bed with a saddened expression on his face. "Beth… do you still love me?" Jerry sheepishly asked.
Beth sighed and momentarily stopped her work and looked towards Jerry. "What kind of question is that?"
"The 'yes' or 'no' kind." Jerry answered.
"Jerry, do you want homeless people to have homes?" Beth asked.
"Yes." Jerry stated.
"Are you going to build them?" Beth asked again.
"No." Jerry replied.
"Then why did you choose yes?" Beth asked, remaining unmoving from her spot.
"Wait, iii... is loving me the house or the homeless people?" Jerry asked, walking towards Beth with a confused expression plastered onto his face.
Seeing that, Beth turned the chair around and looked at Jerry with an irritated look. "Loving you is work, Jerry, hard work, like building a homeless shelter. Nobody wants to say 'no' to doing it, but some people put the work in. So what do ya say? Do you see me working here? Does this conversation seem tedious to me?"
"Sort of?" Jerry answered.
"But I obviously sort of love you, don't I? So stop asking and maybe I'll love you more." Before Beth could speak any further, she noticed an alert on her phone and looked at it. "Crap, They need me at the horse hospital."
Jerry watched as Beth got up from her chair and quickly grab some winter gear. "Wait? This late?" Jerry asked.
"The racetrack had a starlit derby, there's a seven horse collision, and Davin's there alone." Beth plainly said. As she got out the door, a record played in Jerry's head as he got progressively angrier, progressively angrier at Davin.
As Reimu drove her car towards Sanae's house, she felt slight jealousy about her friend. Of course, they went to the same college and worked at the same shrine, but Sanae, in many ways, lacked many of the weights that Reimu had in her life, specifically the absence of dealing with a dysfunctional family like the Smiths. While she did feel jealousy, she was also quite proud that her friend kept up her gung-ho personality, even after the twists and turns that Morty's choice for a so-called adventure provided.
Reimu and Marisa looked up towards the Kochiya Residence. Unlike the Smith Residence, which was more so sprawling and sticking to the ground despite having a second floor, the Kochiya Residence was more densely packed together with a bigger second floor. Its walls were painted a light red color with dark black shingles on its roof, and a chimney was sticking from behind the back. It even had a front porch with a tableset and a few statues. She could still see the spot that that spare piece of Ruben landed getting repaired on the side of their driveway, a reminder of what happened with Ruben and Anatomy Park.
As soon as they went to the driveway, Reimu and Marisa got out of the former's car and walked up to the simple doorway to the house. While Marisa held Snuffles in her hands, Reimu pressed the doorbell once, and the sound of footsteps was heard for a few seconds until the door opened. The person who opened the door was Sanae, who was wearing a white shoulderless shirt being held up by spaghetti straps, as well as a pair of simple blue jeans in contrast to the skirts and long stockings she usually wore, as well as a pair of flip-flops.
"Hi, Reimu! Hi, Marisa! How was your drive today?" the greenette asked, keeping her usual chirp.
"It was actually rather nice. I had a chat with my family about some things on the way here, mostly regarding what each of us have been up to since I first went to college." Reimu answered.
"Oh really, how were they?" Sanae asked.
"They're doing just fine! I told them about Grampa's adventures, and Mom and Dad were surprisingly mundane about the whole thing." As Reimu sat down, she took some time to think back. "But then again, Grampa has been an influence over their lives before my birth, and that's saying something."
Marisa merely shrugged as she fell down onto the couch. "Yeah, I remember her talkin' about that whacky sci-fi grandpa of hers. Back then, I didn't think it was goin' to go full circle, ze."
"Yeah… the giant Santa Claus was quite scary." a thoughtful Sanae mentioned. "They're still talking about the whole thing on the news, and they had just discovered a stray bit of Santa bone lately."
Reimu looked out the window and sighed. "Hey Reimu, is there something wrong?"
"My extended family, that's what's wrong." Reimu mentioned. "When Summer was a baby, Beth simply upped and abandoned the family and moved in and out with Jerry. I haven't heard heads or tails of what they were up to, and neither did my parents. Well, that is until college hit. I would've expected many things, but what came was completely against my hope. A dysfunctional family with kids who thought Beth was an only child and their parents which took three years to make proper contact with."
"If it took that long to convince them to let you make contact with their kids, then how was it easy to just let me into their lives like that?" a curious Marisa asked.
"I don't know, Marisa." Reimu stated. "Still, I'm worried. Beth and Jerry argue quite a lot, and I'm just afraid that one stupid move will tear the already fragile family apart. Plus, Morty seemed rather down and unaccepting that his crush was dating somebody else. I don't know why, but I can't help but feel like something's gonna happen."
Marisa merely shrugged. "I recognize why you're so worried, but don't you think you're being a little superstitious about the whole thing?"
Reimu couldn't help but to sigh. "Even with Grampa's antics, I still consider the Smith family to be much more of a challenge to deal with." She couldn't help but to laugh. "Even if Grampa was more of a challenge, I still find that wacky sci-fi stuff to be quite fun and a real game changer." Her smile turned into a frown. "Still, given how toxic those people are, I have some serious challenges to overcome, and if I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have seen the large amount of things I have because of my grandfather, but still…"
"Still what?" Sanae asked.
"Why did he come to them, and specifically, why did he come for Morty?" Reimu asked.
Marisa shrugged. "Dunnow. However, ya might be onta somethin'."
"How so"? Reimu asked.
"From what I can see, guy is not adventuring material." Marisa mentioned. "Remember his fantasy land?"
"Yeah…" Reimu thought back towards that day. She remembered how Morty wanted to do a 'classic' adventure without any sci-fi elements, and how he attacked them to smash the portal gun in order to force his ideal adventure onto them, even if they were leaving. She remembered when his idealism was challenged during their adventure, and she didn't know what the after-effects were going to be. Speaking of Morty…
"Where is he now?" Reimu silently mumbled. Snuffles whimpered as Reimu held him in her arms.
Morty had just entered the gymnasium, and the moment the doors opened, his ears were bombarded by the song by a rapper and his band on stage, and the sight of various students dancing amongst the crowd.
Flu. Yo, you gotta be aware.
Aware about the flu,
up in the air.
Imma get me a shot and make the flu go away.
Flu hatin' rappers just rappin' away.
Yo. Yo. Flu hatin' rapper.
It's a flu hatin' rap…
This is about flu awareness.
Gotta be aware of the flu in the airness.
Yo, I'm a flu hatin' rapper.
My name is MC Haaaaaaaaaaps- Haps Yeah, I'm MC Haps, I'm a flu hatin' rapper, yo...
As he walked amongst the crowd, a familiar face. He saw the person he was looking for. Jessica Palmer was talking with her friends and completely oblivious to his presence. Morty couldn't help but to grin internally. He was a few steps away from the kill.
As he approaches them, he takes out the vial and spills it on his hand. "Hey there, Jessica." Morty said, reaching the contaminated hand out to Jessica before pretending to trip, smearing the potion onto her body. "Whoops."
As Jessica turned around, the serum's effects quickly kicked in, being shown by her pupils being dilated. "Omigod, Morty. You look REALLY nice tonight." Jessica said, now being fully under the love potion's yoke.
"WOW, thanks!" Morty said. As Jessica suddenly grabbed him and pulled his face into her breasts, the young teenage boy savored every moment of it. 'Oh my, I wish this could last forever' Morty thought, giving off a light smile.
"I love you, Morty. I love you so much it burns!" Jessica droned.
"Oh man. I love you too, Jessica!" Morty said, blushing in embarrassment. What they didn't know was that Brad was walking nearby, and he looked at Jessica and saw her strange behavior. He went to investigate, and shoved Morty away from Jessica's embrace. "Ow! What the hell?"
"Is this punk bothering you, Jessica?" Brad said with a smile before turning to Morty. "What did you do to her-"
"LEAVE HIM ALONE, BRAD!" Jessica yelled, angrily shoving brad away. "I'M IN LOVE WITH HIM! HE'S MORE MAN THEN YOU WILL EVER BE!"
Jessica sneezed into the shocked Brad. The flu virus was carried by the wind of Jessica's sneeze, entering Brad's mouth and going through his bloodstream, stopping at his brain where it entered the nerve cells, causing them to glow green as a reaction kicked in, causing Brad's eyes to dilate. "Aw man, Morty, ugh, I'm really sorry." Brad apologized.
"Oh, well, no problem Brad." Morty thought out loud, totally unexpecting of a sincere apology.
However, he didn't expect Brad to suddenly hug him and speak his next words. "There's somethin' special bout you, somethin' special." he droned, hugging Morty's back and squeezing his butt.
"Woah, take it easy!" Morty stammered.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HIM!" Suddenly, Jessica pounced onto Brad.
"BACK OFF! I'M TRYING TO BE WITH MY MAN!" Brad yelled. The two former lovers, both of which were now under the thrall of the love potion, were engaging in a fistfight over Morty. Before they could continue, Principal Vagina and Mister Goldenfold came walking in.
"That's enough Bradley. We don't want you injuring your ball-throwing arm." Gene Vagina plainly said before he and Goldenfold proceeded to drag the infected Brad away from the fight.
"Oh, Principal Vagina." a disappointed Brad lamented.
As he was being dragged away, Jessica cradled Morty's face with her arms. "Never leave me, Morty, NEVER."
"Uh, sure. I mean, of course not. What do you think that was all about?" a confused Morty asked, trying to puzzle what exactly went on with the love potion.
"Who cares? Just hold me." Jessica droned.
"LET ME GO! I LOVE YOU MORTY!" As Gene and Goldenfold dragged Brad away, he sneezed into the punch bowl and some into the vents. A few moments later, unsuspecting guests began to drink from the punch, not yet getting any side effects, but oh, would time tell.
Meanwhile, in the Smith Residence, Summer and Jerry were in the living room, with the latter of the three becoming rather paranoid about his spouse as his relatives spent their time on the couch. "She's gonna be alone with that guy all night." he moaned.
An unimpressed Summer merely rolled her eyes at her father. "Yeah, Dad, digging around the inside of horses. It's not a very romantic setting."
By now, Rick casually walked into the room. "Well, Summer, there's always the possibility that she made the whole work thing up. Maybe Davin's digging around in her insides."
"Grandpa, gross! You're talking about my mom!" Summer moaned.
"Well, she's my daughter, Summer. I outrank you." Rick blatantly replied.
Jerry took a moment to stop scrolling through his phone. "She's not responding to my texts!"
"Careful, Dad. Jealousy turns women off." Summer replied.
"Well, isn't that convenient?" Jerry sarcastically remarked.
"Not for the men they cheat on, no." Rick retorted with equal sarcasm.
"Okay, I'm... going to go out... for some ice cream…" As he spoke, Jerry got off the couch and began walking closer and closer to his doorway. "And maybe stop by the hospital... to support my wife... with my confidence."
After Jerry went out the door, Summer glared at her grandfather. "Grampa! You're such a dick!"
"I'm sorry, Summer. Your opinion means very little to me." Rick sarcastically replied. However, he soon became curious and decided to ask a question. "How come you're not at this stupid dance everyone loves so much?"
"Screw that, I don't want to get sick." Summer replied, still texting on her phone. "It's flu season."
"It is?" Rick asked, getting a worry up his spine.
"Yes." Summer replied.
Rick quickly put the pieces together, remembering the love potion and factoring in the flu, and a frightened look spread across his face as the possible scenario played in his mind. "Uh oh…"
Back at the Kochiya Residence, Reimu, Marisa, and Sanae were sitting in the living room, talking to one another while Snuffles began sniffing in the air. Reimu, out of curiosity, began looking at the small white dog. "What is it, boy? Did you catch something interesting?"
As he began sniffing, he started to whimper, and Reimu soon began to notice something weird happening to her two friends. They suddenly started sneezing out of nowhere, and every time they opened their eyes, their pupils started to dilate a bit. "Are… are you two okay?" an increasingly worried Reimu asked.
"N-never better." Marisa stated. "Say… where did Morty go off to, anyway?"
"What?" Reimu asked, getting ever more worried as she grabbed Snuffles and proceeded to walk backwards, noticing that her friends were walking towards her with predatory intent.
"Yeah, he's like, the number one guy in town." Sanae replied. "He's so-o-o hot!"
Reimu's pupils began to shrink as the two girls pounced onto her, forcing her to dodge them and run away. "Okay Snuffles, I know this is NOT normal."
She looked as the two got up and Marisa spoke. "Hey Reimu, aren't you gonna take us to Morty?"
"I don't even know where he is!" Reimu answered. She soon retreated to the front door, being forced to close it in front of her own friends and barricade it with some of the statues. Seeing them attempt to open the door, she proceeded to run away and type on her phone, calling the first person who would have knowledge of the situation. "Grampa! My friends have suddenly become lustful towards Morty and attempted to attack me! What the hell's going on!?"
"Oh, God. What now? I *urp* didn't suspect that Morty's love potion will spread that fast…" Rick mentioned.
"Love potion!?" Reimu yelled, starting to get angry.
"What the hell, Rick? Y-you're mentioning this?" the voice of Morty asked.
"Well, obviously, she was the one who called, Morty!" Rick argued. "You're not gonna believe this because it usually never happens, but I made a mistake!"
As they were talking, Reimu noticed that Rick didn't turn his end of the phone off, and noticed that several people were fighting each other over who she presumed to be Morty. Soon enough, she heard a door open, followed by the voice of Principal Vagina. "Morty, are you okay!?" Gene asked.
"I'm fine!" Morty answered.
"Good. If anything happened to you, I would kill myself." Gene replied. "I love you bad, mo-mo!"
Soon enough, Reimu heard another door open, followed by the voice of Goldenfold. "Morty, the principal and I have discussed it, a-a-and we're both insecure enough to agree to a three-way!"
As she heard the various voices conglomerate as Rick closed the door to his Space Cruiser, and angered Reimu decided to speak up. "Alright, remind me why people are suddenly lustful towards my cousin again?"
Rick merely rolled his eyes as he locked himself and Morty in the Space Cruiser, with hundreds of lust-induced people grabbing onto it. "You wanna know the full *urp* details? Well, Morty over here was sad about Jessica-"
"Don't remind me!" an angered Morty yelled.
Rick ignored Morty's remark as he continued speaking "...so he wanted me to make a sissy love potion to fall in love with Jessica or whatever, but she had the flu, and the serum decided to piggyback on the virus. It's gone airborne!"
As the Space Cruiser ascended upwards and shook off a few persistent people, Reimu groaned from her side of the phone call. "That's not love, that's nothing but mindless lust!"
"Don't worry. You're genetically related to Morty, so you're immune. Also, I-I, I whipped up an antidote. It's based on praying mantis DNA." Rick explained, pulling out a vial of green liquid before pouring it into his cruiser. "You know, praying mantises are the exact opposite of voles, Morty. I mean, they mate once, and then they, you know, decapitate the partner. I mean, it's a whole ritual. It's really gruesome and totally opposite. There's no love at all. I-i-i basically mixed this with a more contagious flu virus. It should neutralize the whole thing, you two."
Reimu couldn't help but to sigh. "Well, I'm not here to stop you, I guess…"
She saw a shape proceed to spray some sort of green gas across the town, and she saw everyone who was affected to return to normal. She let out a sigh of relief, but heard someone screaming, and immediately looked in horror to see said person mutate, with them looking like a giant praying mantis has grown right out of them. Soon enough, several of them began to mutate as well, with the rest of the population following en suite not long after.
"Okay, well, sometimes, science is more art than science, kids. A lot of people don't get that." Rick stated.
Soon enough, Reimu saw someone else call, and decided to accept it. "Reimu?"
"Dad!" Reimu's eyes widened.
"Sweetie, thank God you're unaffected. I don't have much time left. Your mother and everyone else have started to mutate into mantis monsters! It's horrible!" the voice of Reimu's father stated.
"No shit. I'm off to rescue Beth's family." Reimu stated.
"Listen, Reimu. I don't have much time left, if any. But please, stay strong and-" Whatever her father had to say was cut short when the door was opened. The voices of people familiar and unfamiliar enveloped her father's screams as the phone was disconnected, leaving Reimu, who had a shadow over her eyes, to tense up in anger.
Before she could do anything brash, she calmed herself and took a deep breath. Her parents were too far away, but perhaps she could still save the Smiths, they're still family, after all.
Meanwhile, at the Smith Residence, Summer was watching a program on television, where two teenage girls were talking to one another, one of which was pregnant.
"I had sex with Billy."
"But you were already pregnant."
"Yeah, so what's the worse that could happen?"
Unfortunately for Summer, what she was watching was interrupted by a sudden news flash. "We interrupt 'Pregnant Baby' with breaking news."
"Oh, come on!" Summer groaned.
However, what Summer did not expect is that the reporters were both heavily disfigured, as if a giant mantis was growing out of each of them, and what was really shocking is that Morty's face was on the big screen, right in between the two disfigured reporters. "This just in, Morty Smith's whereabouts are still unknown." the female reporter said.
"What the hell?" Summer thought out loud, clearly confused at what she is witnessing.
"The only thing that is known is… how cute he is." the female reporter concluded.
"I love him so much that I… want to make love to him and then eat his head." the male reporter confessed.
After a brief silence, the female reporter turned to her male co-worker. "I love him more than you do, Harold!"
"YOU WISH, YOU STUPID BITCH!" the male reporter barked back.
Quickly, the two escalated into a fight, and Summer was almost as quick to press the remote and change the channel to something else in hopes of getting away from that nonsense. However, the channel that she went to was another news show, this time in the searing desert of Arabia. She didn't know what they were saying, and all that she did understand was her little brother's name. She hugged her knees as knocking on the door, and looked as the door burst open, letting the cold snow in, as well as three mantis people.
"WHERE IS MORTY!?"
Summer screamed, and before she could do anything, the mantis people were all shot through the heart. When they fell down dead, Summer was able to see Reimu, who was holding a simple rifle in her arms. "Reimu! Thank God you're here!"
As the redheaded teen hugged Reimu, she smiled, but regained her composure as other insectoids began approaching the duo through the snow. "Can't talk now. We have to rescue the other members of your family! Grab a winter jacket and get into the car."
Nitori Kawashiro, for one reason or another, couldn't sleep tonight, no matter how hard she tried. The car mechanic found herself unable to fall asleep, and she decided to get up from bed to work out this restlessness. She was currently in her winter gear, clearing up the persistent mess left from her last client's car when she heard voices whisper out in the distance.
"H-hello..." Nitori asked. She looked on into the distance, seeing silhouettes in the distance.
Unfortunately, as they grew closer and clearer from the snowfall, they began to appear human, but also heavily disfigured. Nitori's eyes widened as she saw what looked like humans with giant mantises growing out of them approach her. "Morty..."
Nitori screamed as the insectoids approached her. Soon enough, one of them noticed her and reared its disfigured limb up for an attack. "You're not Morty! Bring us Morty!"
Nitori managed to roll away from the limb, only for one of her sleeves to tear off, revealing not just human skin, but smooth, green scales reminiscent of a turtle's growing on parts of her arm and hand. The car mechanic breathed heavily as the monster attempted to wedge its jagged limb off the ground it accidentally hit. Seeing this as her chance to flee, Nitori went inside her residence/shop to find something within it. She proceeded to put her hand in her shirt and pull out a necklace with a golden key on it. Seeing the mantis monsters chase her and scream Morty's name, she went into her pantry and found a small container.
"Yes! Jackpot!" Despite the situation, Nitori couldn't help but to smile, but inside, she was feeling a sense of dread as the mantis monsters approached her. Deciding that it was now or never, she opened the container, revealing a set of cards. By now, the mantis monsters have broken into the pantry, ready to attack the seemingly helpless bluenette.
With lightning-quick precision, she turned around with glowing blue light charging up in her hands as she trusted them right in the direction of the mantis monsters. A glowing blue circle manifested underneath her feet, with runes forming around and in it. To top it all off, a group of symbols manifested right in front of her.
水符「ハイドロカモフラージュ」Water Sign "Hydro Camouflage"
As soon as the symbols vanished, spheres of blue light erupted from the circle Nitori was standing on and went right towards the insectoids, knocking them backwards, yet thankfully not killing them. Whatever mutants remained were thrown back by streams of smaller light spheres. Seeing as they would take some time to get back up, she immediately grabbed a backpack full of supplies and darted out towards her car. Unfortunately, she found it being dismantled by mantis monsters, who all began to look at her with aggressive intent.
Nitori sighed. "This is gonna be a long night."
Meanwhile, Rick and Morty have parked the Space Cruiser somewhere in the desert. Morty was watching a newscast coming from China, seeing that they too were mutated into mantis monsters. He didn't understand anything that they were saying, but with his image, they knew that he was the main focus. "Oh, my god, Rick. The whole world is infected!"
Rick, who was listening to the whole ordeal, was tending to a set of chemicals on a makeshift table. "Yeah, it's pretty wild how fast that spread. I've really outdone myself."
"Outdone yourself?!" Morty called back. "W-w a-are are you kidding me, Rick? This is not okay! This is bad! Not only do they want to have sex with me, but now they all want to eat me afterwards."
Before they could continue, Rick's phone began to ring again, and the voice of Reimu came out. "Grampa, it's me. I'm still alive, and I have Summer and several of your weapons with me."
"Oh, God! What's happening here!?" Summer asked.
"Grampa, I suppose you're working on an antidote to this mess, right?" Reimu asked.
Rick merely rolled his eyes. "Well, duh. What do you think I did? Obviously, my first one was a wash. DNA is a little more complicated than I thought." Rick proceeded to pick up a serum and look towards Morty. "You know what, though, Morty? This right here's gonna do the trick, baby. It's koala mixed with rattlesnake, chimpanzee, cactus, shark, golden retriever, and just a smidge of dinosaur. Should add up to normal humanity."
The sound of a facepalm came from the other side of the phone, and Morty looked at him quizzically. "I don't- that doesn't make any sense, Rick. How does that add up to normal humanity?"
"What? You want me to show you my math!?" an annoyed Rick asked. "I'm sorry, are you the scientist or the kid that wanted to get laid?"
"This is hell." Reimu stated.
As Reimu was driving towards the direction of Saint Equis Hospital, she noticed a traffic jam in the freeway, littered with cars and the corpses of non-infected humans. Curious, Reimu stopped the car and looked at Summer, nodding at her before handing her a gun. Reimu proceeded to grab her own gun and descend down into the wreckage.
She noticed some saddened moans in the distance and she proceeded to get closer. It turns out that it was Jerry, who was crawling and crying as he went under the cars to avoid the mantis monsters. Jerry screamed as one of the managed to find and grab him, but Reimu shot it before it could have the chance to kill him.
Jerry caught his breath and took a look at his savior. "What the- Reimu?"
"Come on! We still have one last person to save!" Reimu stated, reaching her hand out to Jerry. Seeing no other choice, the simple man grabbed Reimu's hand as she helped him up.
Back at Saint Equis Hospital, Beth and Devin, a man with a scruffy beard and yellow hair, were going into one of the office rooms, clearly an office filled with African-style decorations. The two let out sighs of relief as they took their gloves off. "Phew. Well, I'm glad we saved all those horses. I'm almost sorry we're finished." Devin said.
"Yes, it's satisfying work." Beth admitted.
"Uh uh, it's more than the work." Devin said, wagging a finger at Beth before walking towards the desk. "I love being in that sterilized room, sealed off from the room. It's the only time I can really think." Soon enough, Devin turned the lights off as strange music began to play. "…and feel."
"Hmm, uh, what are you doing?" a semi-confused Beth asked.
"Playing African dream pop." Devin answered. "What do you do after a long night?"
Beth watched Devin press a button on his remote, somehow lighting a candle. Beth sheepishly stammered for a bit before catching her words. "I-I um, I better get going. Um, Jerry's been texting some pretty high-matinence stuff."
Before she could exit, Devin closed the door behind her and eerily walked towards her. "Beth…"
"What is it, Devin?" Beth asked, looking to see the blonde-haired man approach her as she walked backwards, clearly getting more and more afraid every second.
"Just once, I'd like to know," Before Devin could finish his sentence, he suddenly sneezed, and when he opened his eyes again, his pupils dilated "…what it was like to give your son a bath." he said, now fully-under the thrall of the love potion's effects.
"What!?" an afraid and confused Beth asked.
"What does… Morty's skin smell like?" Devin soon grabbed onto Beth, keeping her in place. "How soft-urgh! How soft are his privates?"
"Urgh, let go of me Devin!" Beth yelled, pushing herself out of her fellow veterinarian's grip.
Beth ran behind the desk, watching as Devin threw the equipment off of it and roared. Her expression turned from semi-angry to horrified as Devin grew bigger, mutating into a mantis person, with sharp claws, antennae, and two pairs of mandibles where his mouth should be. "Take me to Morty." Before the mutated Devin could pounce on Beth, he heard the door slam wide open and looked at the silhouette of the figure before him. "You're not Morty."
The figure turned the lights on, revealing herself to be Reimu, who simply smirked. "Nope. I'm just here to pick up a relative of mine." Devin proceeded to angrily charge at Reimu, but he got shot in the leg and started tumbling down the stairwell. Reimu looked to see Devin, obviously bleeding to death despite the singular injury and sighed. It was just like the Gromflomites from before. Even if you hit their legs, they're just that fragile.
"Reimu? How the hell did you know I was here?" Beth asked.
Reimu couldn't help but giggle. "A little bird told me. Come on, I'll explain once I get you with the rest of the gang."
"...so, from what you just said, this was the fault of Morty and Grampa Rick?" Summer asked.
"Well, yeah." Reimu stated. She looked out of their car, which now had spikes fastened onto the front, and observed the huge crowd of mantis monsters. "From what I gathered, Morty blackmailed Grampa into making a love potion simply because he couldn't accept that Jessica was with another person. Honestly, it sounds pretty petty."
"Oh, give me a break. My parenting can't be that bad." Beth replied, with Jerry crossing his arms to support his wife.
"I wasn't talking about your parenting, Beth." Reimu stated. "Although, I can now see why Morty has so many insecurities and drawbacks."
"Hey!" Beth and Jerry said simultaneously.
Reimu couldn't help but facepalm again, but noticed the Space Cruiser flying up in the distance. Without hesitation, she called Rick once more. "Grampa! I have the whole set!"
A voice came from the other side of the phone. "Well la dee da, gold star for you, Reimu…"
Rick was flying his Space Cruiser up the skyline of Seattle as he held the serum in here. "Take a good look down there, Morty, and soak it in, because, you know, once I pull this lever, it's all back to normal."
"Just do it already." Morty begged.
"Wait a minute." Reimu interjected. "Before you go all willy-nilly with that Franken-serum of yours, you should at least test it on someone before you decide to use it. I saw what happened with the mantis monsters, and I don't want it to degrade into something worse."
"You know, you have a point, Reimu." Rick stated. "That way, we could at least enjoy it a little more, there's no rush."
A facepalm could be heard from the other side of the phone, followed by a sigh from Reimu.
"Come on, Reimu. Once it's fixed, it's done. It's fixed. You know, we could- we could just enjoy it for a little bit. I mean, l-l-l-look at how crazy it is. I mean, soak it in, you know? It's- it's pretty neat. It's pretty interesting."
"That's it, Rick! I'm pulling the lever." Morty snapped. Morty snatched the serum from Rick's hand, poured it into the container, and undo his seatbelt.
"No! Wait, we don't know-" Reimu's cries fell on deaf ears as the young boy as he immediately pulled the lever, sending the spray down onto the Earth below. When the dust cleared, everyone seemingly returned normal. "…what it will do."
"Well, what do we have here? Looks like I was right and you were wrong, huh?" Rick boasted. "I-I-I-I feel like you're feeling pretty stupid right about now, huh?"
"It's just like the last one…" Reimu quietly stated.
"Wait. Like the last one?" Rick asked.
Morty looked out of the window in horror. "Aw geez…" What the duo saw was rather nightmarish, even more so than the mantis people. A man fell on his hands and knees as his body started to bloat. As he vomited, his arms turned into snakes and slithered away while an extra pair of arms sprouted and his mouth widened, becoming a grotesque mutant of disfigured flesh. Similar transformations occurred as one guy's nose fused with his arm and another sprouted multiple eyes. A mutant looked towards another one and seemingly ate it, but in reality, the two fused into one being.
They couldn't see it, but the whole world started to change along with Seattle's residents. In China, various businesses and activities were interrupted as further mutation occurred. It happened in Moscow, where a game ended when its players transformed into mutants with more prevalent mantis appendages still present. In Arabia, a gathering was interrupted in a rather similar way.
From the ground, Reimu and the Smiths looked on in horror as its residents underwent another mutation, turning from bad to worse in a few seconds.
Up in the sky, Morty looked down in horror at the new Cronenberg monsters crawling amongst the streets.
As for Rick, he nonchalantly took a few sips from his flask. "This must be the best day of your life, huh, Morty? You get to be the mayor of 'I Told You Town'." He took another sip. "You're welcome."
By now, Reimu couldn't help but groan in disappointment as she proceeded to drive her car amongst the wreckage. She was now mad at Morty for what he did, and disappointed in Rick for callously going along with it. In all honesty, she was unsure what to do except quietly cry as she sped through the horde of mutants. At this point, she did not care about the ethical situation. She just wanted to punch someone, or something, at least.
As soon as she saw that she was running into a building, she soon saw Rick's Space Cruiser land on it and quickly stopped before she would've ran into it. It was then when Beth and Summer began kicking down their respective doors and shooting every Cronenberg they could find, with Jerry looking at his wife and daughter in shock, and a bit of arousal for the blonde.
Seeing that they have it covered, Reimu sighed as she got out of the car, looking with sadness at the mass of disfigured corpses lying on the ground, and many more that were crawling amongst the wreckage. She was about to sigh when she heard several explosions and a few flashes of light, followed by a voice speaking up. "Hello!? Anybody here!?"
Reimu looked in shock to see her car mechanic, of all people, who had her own little array of slain Cronenbergs. She could spot that Nitori's hair was frazzled, her clothing was torn, which revealed green reptilian scales growing on her arms and the sides of her neck. "Nitori? How are you here!?"
"Wait, Reimu?" Perking up, Nitori ran up to the college student, enveloping her in a hug. "Oh gods, I thought every human being in town turned into monsters and-!"
"Wait wait wait… every human…" Beth asked.
"Oh gods…" Summer pointed out.
Jerry peeked his head from the car. "What's even with your scales?"
Nitori looked at the scales growing on her hands and sighed. "Welp, I'm busted. I'm still the same old Nitori, but I'm not actually human."
Reimu couldn't help but sigh. "I'll deal with that later, regardless, I'm glad you're here, Nitori. I need all the reassurance I could get after what I experienced today."
Nitori smiled at her friend and nodded. "Thank you, Reimu."
"I appreciate the thanks, but for now, we have one more loose end to tie up." Reimu stated.
By the crack of dawn, Rick and Morty have seated themselves up on a building, overlooking the mutants as the rising sun peaked out and the snow stopped falling. "Boy, I really Cronenberged the world up, didn't I?" Rick said, looking at the array of mutants that were once human beings. "We've got a whole planet of Cronenbergs walking around down there, at least they're not in love with you anymore. That's a huge step in the right direction."
By the time Reimu got up, she looked to see that Rick and Morty were talking to one another and presumably observing the chaos going on at the surface. By the time she heard the first sentence, Morty, whose suit was disheveled and torn up, stood up and looked at Rick. "Oh, my god! It's a living nightmare! How could you be so irresponsible, Rick?"
"Yes, he was being irresponsible, but you had just as much blood on your hands." Reimu interjected, causing her grandfather and cousin to look at her. "Yes, Grampa made the serums and gave them to you, but you had the idea that started it all, presumably because of Jessica."
"How did you know about Jessica?" Morty asked.
"Remember last afternoon, when you were bummed because of her?" Reimu asked. "I kept offering alternatives, but you shot them down. Instead of asking her out like normal or finding another girl for yourself, or even considering the possibility that she might ask you out in the future, you crawled up to the lab and used a love potion to force Jessica to mate with you." She couldn't help but sigh. "Whether she meant to call you that or not, Marisa was right. You are a yandere. Now how did this whole thing happen, anyway?"
"All I wanted was for him to hand over a screwdriver, Reimu! Morty was the one who… wanted me to buckle down and make him up a... roofie-juice serum so he could roofie that poor girl at his school." Rick interjected.
Reimu couldn't help but to facepalm. "You do know that Morty's not the only possible choice, right? Remember when I was willing to take his place? I was willing to throw my future away to save his, you know."
"Where's my family?" Morty asked.
"They're still climbing up the stairs." Reimu stated. By that time, the Smith family and Nitori all climbed up, with Rick catching a glimpse of Nitori's scales.
"What the fuck? Who ordered the lizard person?" Rick asked.
"Grampa Rick, it doesn't matter!" Summer interjected. "You have to fix this, you're smart! How would I ever text my friends or be popular at school ever again?"
Rick looked at all of them and sighed. "Welp, I do have one emergency solution that will put everything back to normal, though this one is relatively risky."
"Just do it!" Jerry begged.
Rick merely rolled his eyes. He opened the trunk of his Space Cruiser and handed a set of backpacks to the remaining survivors. "Here. Put these on while I do a bit of scouting." As Reimu, Morty, and Nitori put on their backpacks, Rick opened up some holograms and began typing on his keyboard.
The weather was pleasant, birds were chirping, and plowers were busy plowing the excess snow away. The Space Cruiser flew downwards to the driveway, landing in the garage of the Smith Residence. As they got out, Reimu looked at Rick with curiosity. "Now why did you say that reversing time was a risky move anyway?"
"It's because of fucking time cops, Reimu!" Rick interjected. Morty exited the Space Cruiser as Rick shifted his focus to his grandson. "Morty, if you see a time cop, it means you've either broken some law, or they're trying to frame you because they're too lazy to find the real culprit! They don't care if you're innocent, Morty!"
"Woah, take it easy, Rick. At least we managed to get out of it." Morty stammered.
"We're still gonna have a long talk about this." Reimu interjected, causing Morty to slump in disappointment. She then turned towards Rick. "As for you, do not accept any requests like that love potion ever again. I do not want another apocalypse caused by Morty's hormones and/or your carelessness."
"I was just about to ask him if he would hand me a screwdriver." Rick stated.
Following a moment of silence, Reimu sighed and smiled. "Well, I guess I'll let you finish… whatever that is…"
As Morty handed the screwdriver over to Rick, he smiled at his grandson. "Okay, now we've got one screw turn, and two screw turns, and-"
Reimu was about to close the door when she heard an explosion come from behind her, followed by something ramming into her with full force. Caught off-guard by the blast, she felt straight on the floor. She wondered if Rick and Morty were okay and proceeded to turn around, but what she saw horrified her. The corpses of Rick and Morty were lying on her back, disheveled and mangled from the blast. Fear, anxiety, and panic rose once more in her, and all she could do was scream at the corpses of her family members.
Soon enough, a portal opened, and Reimu looked at it and screamed once more.
"Augh! Whoever's screaming, fucking stop it!" a familiar voice said.
Reimu took some heavy breaths as she cradled Rick's body, and looked to see two people who looked exactly like Rick and Morty enter the room as the portal closed right behind them. "G-Grampa? Morty?" Reimu asked, shakily looking at the two people before her.
"Wait? Grampa?" Morty asked before looking at Rick. "Rick, what is this place?" Morty looked down to Reimu, and saw the bodies she was cradling. "Holy crap! Who is that girl, and who is she- Oh my God! WE'RE DEAD! AND HOW IS THAT TO DO WITH THE GIRL!?"
As Morty began freaking out, Rick took a look at the girl holding her original Rick's body, and sighed. "Shit. I was hoping that nobody would notice."
"Who are you people, anyway!?"
"One moment, please." Rick said. He looked towards Morty and slapped him in the face, causing Reimu to wince as she saw her cousin have a huge mark on his face, though it didn't look like it would bleed. "Apparently, I was way off the grid with this one. Morty, this is your cousin, Reimu…"
"Cousin…?" Morty asked. After another awkward moment of silence, he collapsed to the ground and started panicking once more, rolling side to side on the ground in fetal position. "WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME!? REALITY IS BREAKING! MY LIFE IS A LIE AND I NEED TO WAKE-"
After another slap to the face, which caused the young woman to wince once more, Rick looked at Morty dead in the eyes. "It's fine! Everything is fine! There's an infinite number of realities out there, and in a few dozen of those, I got lucky and turned everything back to normal." He gestured to Reimu, who was still holding the corpses of her deceased relatives. "I also had to find a reality in which we both also happened to die around this time. Now we can just slip into our dead selves' place in this reality, and everything will be fine."
Reimu quickly put the pieces together, and quietly sobbed at the revelation. "So, my Grampa and Morty are… they're really dead, aren't they? You came here to replace them, didn't you?"
"Shit. I almost forgot about you." Rick pulled out an all-too familiar gun and prepared to activate it. "Now hold still and let your Grampa Rick make it all-"
"NO!" With lightning-quick precision, Reimu slapped the memory gun out of Rick's hand, causing it to shatter into pieces on impact. Her eyes widened with horror, she immediately sprinted out of the room, crying as she did.
As Reimu ran out of the garage, presumably towards her room, Rick shook his head. "When she recovers, we'll be in a lot of trouble, Morty…"
"Rick! What about the reality we left behind?" Morty asked.
"What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty?" Rick retorted as he picked up the corpse of his dead alternate counterpart. "The answer is 'Don't Think About It!', it's not like we can do this every week, we get three or four more of these tops! Look, I've already got myself, so you pick up your dead self and bury these bodies. Come on, haste makes waste."
Morty looked in despair as Rick looked back at him once more. "Oh, and if I hadn't screwed up as much as I did, we'd be these guys right now, so, again, you're welcome."
Marisa had raided the closet for wafers when she noticed something weird going on in the backyard. She noticed Rick and Morty with what looked like dead versions of themselves lying on the ground. While Rick had his signature apathy at the state of his dead body. Morty looked distraught as he gazed at his own corpse.
By then, Rick had finished burning his counterpart's body and nudged for Morty to do the same thing. Marisa looked on and remembered a few moments ago when she saw Reimu crying up the stairs. She attempted to ask, but she refused to listen to her. Perhaps that was what she witnessed. Even though she didn't know the two that much, it was still pretty painful to know that they were really dead, with alternate versions of them replacing them as if they were garbage. Marisa had heard of the Gay Summer incident from Reimu, but this was on another level.
She could still see that traumatized look on Morty's face as he walked into the living room, seeing his parents arguing amongst themselves like they usually did and slump on the couch between his grandfather and Summer.
Nitori Kawashiro was feeling a lot of emotions stir up in her mind as she drove her car to the store. She was happy that the situation was over, but other feelings were still present in her mind. Anxiety on how she was going to tell them about what she really is. She looked at one of her clawed hands and sighed as a plume of magic erupted out of it only to completely dissipate. She was also rather angry at Rick and Morty since they were the apparent source of the catastrophe that now never happened. She also felt a smidge of curiosity as to why she, Morty, Rick, and Reimu were the only ones that remembered anything. Perhaps it was those backpacks they were wearing, but she was unsure.
Before she could tense up, she sighed and put her hand on the wheel. "Keep it together, Nitori. This is just going to be another shopping trip, yesiree." As she drove, another emotion rose up inside of her.
Worry.
She knew that the four of them were not going to be the only ones who remembered. There were other forces on Earth who would be able to remember the hell she went through, and she wondered what their reaction would be. She didn't know what it was going to be like, but she knew that they would be absolutely pissed. Sure, Rick was a mad scientist and Morty had some issues, but the latter was also a kid, did they really have to earn their wrath?
As the thought back to a phone call, Reimu, for some reason, hasn't answered. She looked at her cell phone, where she had Reimu's phone number. She sighed. "What am I going to do…?"
As she drove to the store, she passed a park where a traditional Shinto gate stood. The gate started to light up, with the area in it turning bright purple and the camera zooming inside.
In an unknown place, a purple-haired Japanese woman wearing a traditional kimono frantically ran up the steps of a palace, carrying a scroll in her hands. "Open up! Open up! This is extremely important!"
The two guards, both of which were wearing feudal Japanese armor, looked at the girl. "Hieda no Akyuu, what is your purpose here?" they said simultaneously.
Hieda began to stutter. "Somebody messed with time… humans… all of Earth… even here… disfigured monsters… Morty Smith… enter… now…"
The guards looked at each other, and shrugged before opening the grand doors of the palace, allowing the purple-haired woman to enter. She went across the carpet and kneeled to the person sitting on a throne, presenting the scroll to the shadowy figure. A hand reaches out from the darkness and proceeds to grab it as Hidea's trauma-filled eyes look up at the figure, wary of whatever reaction they will give her.
To ChimaTigon: You might have to wait it out.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello again, friend. I bring you a new episode, that being Rick Potion 9. With the elements in place, things are going to be different, and I am not just talking about Reimu's influence this time. You see, I have got BIG plans for the next few episodes, so I am likely going to be on haitus as I piece the plot points together bit by bit. In canon, Rick Potion 9 still had consequences, but in this story, they're gonna have to face something that came about directly because of the outcome from the love potion incident. A lot of you have been asking when I am gonna bring the yokai into the mix, and this is the first episode in a small arc that I will start work on soon. That, and college work as well.
Remember to stay curious, stay weird, and stay patient. This might take a lot longer than I expect, but then again, it might be a lot shorter as well. If you retain your patience through all of this, then thanks for your cooperation. Anyways, I hope you are here to see what I have cooking in due time. Catch 'ya later, tater.