It was a fairly boring day at the Loud House. Lori was going downstairs to watch some TV before she found Rick was watching a program with someone strangely familiar on it. "Is that...Lincoln?"
Rick turned to her. "Oh, hey Lori. Yeah I found this from a universe where we're fictional characters on a TV sitcom."
Lori stared at the TV. Lincoln, who was being played by someone called Wolfgang Schaeffer, was pacing back and forth in his room. He groaned. "Great, thanks to Lucy, I'm gonna miss the Rip Hardcore Midnight Marathon and I'm gonna miss out on getting an official Macho Man badge! I need to come up with a plan." He snapped his fingers. "Maybe Grandpa Rick could help me out."
The scene then cut to Sitcom Lincoln entering Rick's garage. "Grandpa Rick?!" Lincoln called out. He then groaned upon noticing a pickle on the table. "You did it again, Rick? Did you really not learn anything from last time?"
Suddenly, someone behind Sitcom Lincoln picked up that pickle. It appeared to be this sitcom's version of Rick, played by Christopher Lloyd, as he took a bite of the pickle. Sitcom Lincoln suddenly looked rather awkward. "Oh, sorry Rick. I thought you..."
"Are you kidding?" Sitcom Rick asked before spitting out the pickle. "Never!"
...
Lori continued staring at the screen in bewilderment. "There's actually universes where we're just fictional characters?"
"Yep." Rick replied nonchalantly. "Though, considering there's also universes where this is real too, these might as well be glimpses into the lives of alternate versions of our family. See look." He changed the channel.
...
Rick and Lori were in the middle of a shoot out at Blips and Chitz as they were both taking cover. "Aw man, this is just like Die Hard!" Rick remarked.
"Die hard?" Lori asked.
"Yeah, Die Hard."
"Die Hard."
"Die Hard!"
"Die Hard?!"
"Yo, Die Hard!"
"Die...Hard?"
"Let's go! Die Hard!!!"
...
"Well that was extremely unfunny." Rick remarked. "Still, if you're in the mood to narcissistically watch your alternate selves, I could think of worse ways to waste your afternoon. What'd you say?"
Lori considered it for a moment. She had to admit, her curiosity was piqued. "Ok, sure." She said as she took a seat next to Rick.
"Alright, looks like we're doing this a third time. Though it'll probably feel less like an actual third time and more like a fan made one because we are in for some real self indulgent shit this time." Rick then changed the channel.
...
In the city of Wagga Wagga, Australia, Bushworld Rick drove his car up towards the Loud House. "LINCOLN! LINCOOOLN!" Bushworld Rick screamed.
A tired Bushworld Lincoln opened the front door. "Rick? What are you screaming for? I was trying to have a sleep."
"GET IN THE CAR, LINCOLN! GET IN THE CAR!"
"Eh, what?"
"LINCOLN, GET IN THE DAMN CAR NOW! GET IN HERE!"
"But I was gonna read me comics."
"GET IN THE FUCKING CAR, LINCOLN!"
Suddenly, Bushworld Lori came out. "He's not coming with you! LEAVE HIM ALONE! He's literally sick of the adventures!"
"GET IN THE FUCKING CAR, LINCOLN!" Bushworld Rick shouted, ignoring her.
Bushworld Lori stomped towards the car. "You're literally a fucking wanker! You leave my brother alone!"
"Lincoln! Get in the car!" Bushworld Rick continued to shout.
...
Lori blinked slowly. "What did I just watch?"
"I uh...I guess that's what our lives would be like if we lived in Australia?" Rick shrugged. "Alright, let's try something more interesting this time. Like how about a universe where Pokemon are real?"
...
In the town of Royal Woods, somewhere within the Unova region, a Pokemon battle was taking place. In the backyard of the Loud House, Lincoln, whose shiny eevee was currently out, was having a battle with Lola, who was using her tyrunt. "Eevee! Use tackle!" Lincoln shouted.
"Just bite it already!" Lola shouted in response.
The other Loud sisters were also in the backyard, watching the battle. Lori was sat on top of her torterra. Leni stood with her shiny gardevoir. Luna was jamming out with her low key toxtricity, her noibat perched on her head. Luan cheered both sides on, along with her brionne and her buneary. Lucy quietly watched, alongside her zubat and gothorita. Lana was busy playing in the mud with her poliwag and her trubbish. Lisa was sitting on her metang with her magnemite floating next to her. Meanwhile, Lily was floating around, carried by her drifloon while her somewhat concerned klefki floated after her.
As they battled, a portal appeared as Rick stepped out of it. He groaned upon seeing what was happening. Not long after his arrival, Lincoln managed to win the battle with a well timed swift. "Ah, dang it!" Lola cursed before returning her tyrunt to her pokeball.
As his siblings cheered, Lincoln let out the rest of his pokemon, which consisted of a yamper, a sprigatito, a riolu, an azumarill and a shelgon. He knelt down with a smile. "You guys did great out there." Lincoln's yamper responded by pouncing onto Lincoln, licking him. "Hey! Stop!" He chuckled.
"You kids having fun with your glorified Pokemon abuse?" Rick decided to ask.
Lincoln frowned. "Rick, it's not like that."
"Someone's been listening to Team Plasma propaganda." Luan snarked before turning to Lincoln. "Hey Lincoln, looks like you're pretty good at 'Eevee' training." She chuckled. "Get it?!"
Lincoln gave her a confused look. "Uh, what?"
Luan frowned. "Forget it."
Rick shrugged. "Hey, maybe Team Plasma have a point. I mean, do Pokemon really enjoy having to fight each other?"
"In actual fact, yes." Lisa responded. "Pokemon battles have been scientifically proven to provide stimulation for your Pokemon as well as burn off excess energy. I would know. I am a licensed Pokemon professor."
Rick rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah."
"Guess who's back!" Everyone turned to see Lynn, the current champion of the region, had returned home alongside her Incineroar.
"Hey, Lynn!" Lincoln went to go greet her, along with his eevee. "Have any fun battles today?"
Lynn shrugged. "Meh. It was kinda boring today. None of them were a real challenge." As they we're talking, Lincoln's eevee stared up at Lynn's incineroar expectantly. After staring down at him for a moment, Lynn's incineroar sat down cross legged , allowing the eevee to play with her.
Rick scoffed, earning a slight glare from Lynn. "Uh, something you want to say, Grandpa Rick?"
"I just don't get why people think being a Pokemon champion is such a big deal." Rick confessed. "Like, what, you just happened to catch Pokemon that are better at fighting others. Big deal."
Lynn rolled her eyes. "Shows how much you know. There's way more that goes into Pokemon battles then that. Something tells me you're just jealous since I doubt any Pokemon would want to be your partner."
Rich huffed. "Please. Like becoming Pokemon champion's that hard. I could do it in a day."
Lynn smirked. "Fine. Prove it then. Catch a team of six and see if you can actually beat me."
Rick glared at Lynn. "Fine."
...
A day later, Lynn and the other siblings were waiting in the backyard for Rick to return with his team, having sent a message beforehand that he was on his way back. Eventually a portal appeared as Rick stepped out of it. "Alright, we doing this or what then?"
"Hey, let me see your Pokemon first." Lynn exclaimed.
"Excuse me?"
"You already know what Pokemon I have so it's only fair I see yours."
Rick rolled his eyes. "Fine." He got out a pokeball and sent out his first Pokemon.
Everyone stared up in shock and horror at the Pokemon Rick had caught. "I-Is that Arceus?!" Lori stuttered.
"Huh? Oh yeah. The so called God of all Pokemon." Rick said nonchalantly. "I-It was a little hard trying to find it but it wasn't too hard to catch. Anyway..." He then brought out the rest of his Pokemon. The siblings shock didn't go away as Rick's team was filled with legendary Pokemon which consisted of Mewtwo, Deoxys, Genesect, Eternatus and somehow, Ultra Necrozma. "So, we fighting or do you want to save yourself the embarrassment and just name me the Pokemon champion?" He asked Lynn.
Lynn took a moment to gather her bearings after staring wide eyed at Rick's Pokemon. "Y-Yeah, fat chance. Catching a legendary Pokemon doesn't suddenly make you good at battling."
Rick glared at her. "Yeah, we'll see about that!"
...
Rick changed the channel. "So, uh, what'd you think of that?"
Lori turned to Rick. "Rick, I have literally never played a Pokemon game in my life."
"Oh."
"Still, didn't you want to see who'd win?"
"Yeah I'm...good." Rick said awkwardly. "Alright let's try something simpler. Like how about a what if scenario?"
"You mean like that Mar-"
"Shut up." Rick said, cutting her off as he changed the channel.
...
Rick, Lincoln and Lola went through the portal and arrived in Rick's garage, having finished their adventure in Mewni. Lincoln then turned to Lola. "Lola, I've been thinking about what you said and I'm sorry for ignoring you. It was rude. I should've heard you out."
Lola shook her head. "Nah, it's ok. I understand. Even I think it gets way too noisy in this house sometimes. Sorry for hijacking your adventure and all."
"Hey, it's not all bad." Rick remarked. "Least I got a souvenir." He then held up a wand.
Lola stared at Rick in surprise. "Is that Star's wand?"
Lincoln frowned. "Did you steal that?!"
Rick shrugged. "Hey, I least deserved something after putting myself through all that." Suddenly, a wave of magic washed over the wand, transforming its appearance, making it resemble Rick's portal gun. The star pattern at the top now resembling a portal. "Ok, that was weird."
"Are you gonna try to learn magic?" Lola said excitedly.
Rick rolled his eyes. "What you call magic is just a form of science you don't understand. So what I'll be doing is figuring out the science behind how this thing works."
...
Rick was in the garage as he was getting ready to cast his first spell. "Alright, what was it that princess said, uhh...narwhal blast?" Rick could feel a rush of magic surge through him as swirl patterns appeared on his cheeks. A bunch of narwhals then appeared as they began rampaging around the garage. "God! Shit! I should not have done this in the garage! Fuck! Damn it!"
...
Lincoln was watching TV when Rick came into the room. "So, how's spell casting?" Lincoln asked.
"You're not gonna believe this Lincoln. This wand leads to its own little pocket dimension where all the summoning spells came from." Rick stared at the wand in awe. "I think there's more to this thing than I thought! Who knows, maybe figuring how this thing works could lead to discoveries about our entire universe!"
Suddenly, a fiery portal appeared in front of Rick. A demonic looking girl with red hair, white skin and wearing a yellow dress emerged from the portal before snatching the wand from Rick's hands. "I'll take that." Hekapoo simply said before disappearing back into the portal, which closed before Rick had any time to react.
Rick, along with Lincoln, stared in bewilderment at what just happened. "Uh...so I'm not the only one that just saw a Hazbin Hotel character come in here and take the wand, right?"
...
"Huh." Was all Rick said about what they just watched.
Lori squinted her eyes in confusion. "Uh, what was all that about?"
"Oh yeah, we never told you about that time Lincoln, Lola and I went to that Mewni dimension, did we?"
Lori's eyes widened in shock. "Mewni?!"
"Yeah, Mewni." Rick raised an eyebrow at Lori. "Is something wrong?"
"N-Nothing." Lori stammered as she looked away.
Though Rick wasn't convinced, he simply shrugged to himself before changing the channel.
...
Royal Woods was a much different place one hundred years in the future. Technology had enhanced much farther and faster than it had done in the previous centuries, leading to a city filled with flying vehicles, interactive holograms and all sorts of life from all corners of the universe. Strangely enough, the sky was now different shades of blue and purple. Atop a white skyscraper, a woman that appeared to be physically in her twenties was staring out at the city. She wore a lab coat, a pair of glasses and had her brown hair in a ponytail.
As she was staring out, a teenage boy approached her. He had a holographic notepad coming out of a watch he was wearing. "Excuse me, are you Lisa Loud?"
Lisa turned to him with a pleasant smile, having expected him. "Ah, you must be here for the interview, correct?" The boy nodded. "Alright, why don't we take this to my lab?"
...
The boy followed Lisa into a rather large laboratory where a number of experiments we're going on. Lisa appeared to have a rather interesting group of scientists working under her, which consisted of a gnome, a green skinned alien with a gem in her stomach, a monster that resembled a kappa, an anthropomorphic frog, what looked like a human until the interviewer noticed her pointed ears and surprisingly, a gromflomite.
Lisa led the interviewer to an empty table as they both took a seat. "So, I suppose you'd like to know what projects we've been working on recently, hm?" Lisa asked.
The interview scratched his head. "Actually, I was wanting to ask if it was true you were actually immortal?"
Lisa sighed as this question. It wasn't the first time she'd been asked about this. "I suppose I am immortal in a sense. My grandfather had found a way to effectively pause the process of aging." The holographic notepad the interviewer had seemed to be automatically taking notes as Lisa spoke. "I wouldn't exactly say I'm completely immoral but it is theoretically possible that I may live until the inevitable heat death of the universe. Or possibly beyond depending on circumstances."
The interviewer nodded. "Could you tell me more about your grandfather? Or about the rest of your family?"
For a brief moment, there was a sad look in Lisa's eyes. "Ah...yes. Well, I grew up with ten siblings. It made for a rather eventful childhood. Sadly, none of them seemed keen on the idea of potentially living forever so I'm the only one of them remaining now." A thoughtful look then appeared on her face as she muttered mostly to herself. "Though it still baffles me how Lana managed to outlast all of them..."
"I'm sorry to hear about that." The interviewer said sympathetically.
Lisa shrugged. "It is what it is. Besides, it's not all bad. I did at least convince my wife to try out eternal youth with me."
...
"Whoa! Plot twist!" Rick remarked.
"Is this really what the future will be like?" Lori asked.
Rick shrugged. "I mean, possibly? It's an alternate universe so nothing here is guaranteed. Though I have talked about the possibility of immortality with Lisa before so who knows?" Lori went quiet. "What? You interested in immortality too? Because I can do that for you if you want."
Lori took a moment to respond. "Let's just...move on to something else."
Rick then changed the channel again.
...
It was the 22nd of November, 2023. Rick and the Loud siblings, except Lily, exited the portal to find themselves in a field with a lot of strange figures and a blue bus. The siblings all looked around in curiosity. "Uh, Rick, what is this?" Lori asked.
"This is Fortnite, kids! We're in Fortniiiiite!" Rick exclaimed excitedly.
The siblings stared at him in confusion. "Uh, what?" Lori asked.
"Well, more specifically, we're at the zero point. A place connected to every reality that exists in the omniverse."
"Is this where you've been disappearing to?" Lincoln asked.
"Yeah I got called here to deal with some alien invasion. Then this cube shit happened then... I'll be honest I haven't really been keeping track of everything going on here. I-It gets pretty complicated and hard to follow. Not that I couldn't do it, I just didn't care enough to do so. The only thing you kids need to know is you're all about to join in on the battle royale!"
"A battle royale?" Luna asked, suddenly looking alarmed. "You mean like a fight to the death?!"
Rick shook his head. "No, no, it's cool, it'll be fun. The whole thing is on a loop. Once it's over, you'll just come back here, don't worry about it. It'll be a fun...fun time."
"But, why are we doing this?" Lincoln asked.
"Like I said, it's for fun! And also so I can collect some data about this place without actually having to compete."
The Loud siblings couldn't help but exchange worried glances at this.
...
Everyone, including the siblings, had gotten into a flying bus that flew across an island. Eventually all the siblings jumped out and used their gliders to fly to different points of the island.
Leni, as well as a few other players landed in a place called Paradise Palms. Leni remembered that Rick told her that she needed to find some weapons for herself so she-
"Oh my gosh! Is that Ariana Grande?!" She suddenly shouted as she noticed Ariana Grande gracefully descend into Paradise Palms. Forgetting what was she was supposed to be doing, Leni ran towards Ariana Grande to greet her. "OMG, I am, like, such a big fan!" In response, Leni suddenly found a shotgun aimed at her head. "Huh?"
"Yuh." Was all Ariana said before pulling the trigger.
...
Lori groaned to herself, having landing somewhere called Greasy Grove. "Why am I doing this?" She asked herself. She noticed another woman nearby, looking somewhat alert. A blonde woman wearing a green leotard and a red beret. Lori didn't exactly want to find out what would happen if she got attacked first so she steeled herself and aimed her gun at the woman.
However, just as she fired, the woman quickly dodged out of the way, disappearing from sight. "What the?" Lori exclaimed.
The next thing Lori knew, Cammy was right in front of her. "Spiral arrow!"
...
Lisa found herself in a factory known as the Flush Factory. She found herself staring in awe at an actual robot. He seemed to look bored and was somehow smoking a cigar. "Fascinating. I never thought I'd actually get to see an actual automaton from the future!"
The robot soon noticed her. "The hell are you staring at you little weirdo?"
Lisa was taken aback by the robot's crass demeanour. "My apologies. Would it perhaps be okay if I studied you. I've never seen such an advanced mechanism."
Bender looked annoyed. "Yeah, why don't you study my shiny, metal ass?!" He said, showing off his rear.
"Excuse me?"
"Or better yet, study this!" Bender then got out a grenade launcher.
...
Luan panted as she ran through a maze somewhere within the Wailing Woods. She was currently being chased by a mad woman with blonde hair tied up into pigtails who was currently swinging around a large mallet. "Where are ya, girly? Come out and play!" Harley Quinn giggled before she started looking annoyed. "Look kid, I got places to be and people to kill so why don't you stop wasting both our time, eh? Gah!"
Suddenly, an explosion went off, startling both Luan and Harley and destroying a part of the maze. At the centre of the maze was a shoddily made fort. Stood on top of it was a pale, young woman with blue hair tied into two long braids. She was holding a rocket launcher as she let out a rather deranged laugh.
Harley approached Jinx, looking somewhat annoyed. "Hey, hey, what's the big idea? Ya trying to steal my bit or something?"
Jinx gave Harley a disturbed look for a moment before letting out a chuckle. "Oh, sorry, my mistake. It won't happen again." She then fired another rocket at Harley, who managed to dodge it. "Oops."
"You're really starting to bug me, blue hair!" Harley shouted.
"Go throw yourself down a well, circus freak!" Jinx shouted back.
"Boy, these jokes are really bombing!" Luan joked from where she was hiding before immediately regretting it.
After a moment, Luan heard Jinx say. "Nice one, toots!" She then heard a rocket being fired her way.
...
Lucy was in a graveyard at a place called Haunted Hills. She was currently staring at a skeleton looking around the place in wonder. "My, what a fascinating place." Jack Skellington remarked.
Lucy's heart was beating fast as she gazed in wonder at the actual personification of her favourite holiday. Eventually, Jack noticed her as he waved at her. "Hello there, young lady!" Lucy shyly waved back, a blush on her face. "And hello to you too, good sir!"
"Huh?" It seemed like Jack was talking to someone behind her. She turned around to see a tall man wearing a white mask and blue coveralls. He was also holding a knife.
...
Lynn ran through Pleasant Park, just barely managing to dodge an explosion. "DIE!" She was currently dealing with a teenager with spiky blonde hair. He was wearing some kind of superhero outfit that included what looked like grenades on his arms. Eventually, Lynn was able to hide behind a wall from the angry hero as she tried to catch her breath.
"Where the hell are you?!" Bakugo growled. "Stop wasting my time. I'm the only that's gonna win this battle royale! So why don't you do me a favour and kill yourself you damn extra!"
What was wrong with this guy? Lynn thought to herself. She'd been accused of being arrogant before but this guy made her seem downright humble.
"Found you!" Bakugo growled, causing Lynn to jump. However, before Bakugo was able to attack, he ended up having to dodge a different attack.
"Fire ball jutsu!" Bakugo was barely able to dodge the giant fireball heading towards him.
Bakugo turned to the other teenager who had spiky, black hair and what appeared to be ninja garb. He had an emotionless look on his face "What the hell do you think you're doing, bastard?! You wanna fight?"
"How annoying." Sasuke pointed a sword towards Bakugo as it crackled with electricity. "I don't have time for weaklings."
"What did you say?!"
Lynn decided to take the opportunity to sneak off, not wanting to deal with either of these maniacs. Hopefully, they'll take each other out.
"KAAAAMEEEEE!"
All three of them looked up to see a man with extremely spiky black hair and wearing strange, alien armour, up in the sky as he was creating an orb made of energy.
"HAAAAAMEEEEE!" Vegeta kept screaming.
Bakugo and Sasuke stared in shock while Lynn just slumped in defeat. "Ok, that's just unfair."
...
Luna was at Risky Reels, a drive-in move theatre. She was sneaking behind the screen before she felt something wrapping around her legs, pulling her up and leaving her upside down. "Hey, what the?" She then felt her arms get restrained by some kind of webbing.
The person doing this was someone in a full body, black and white superhero outfit with a hood. "Sorry about this." Spider-Gwen apologised. "You don't mind hanging around here for a while, do you?"
"What? You can't just leave me here, dude!"
Spider-Gwen took a moment to realise what she was doing. "Oh right, battle royale. Duh!" She then got out a gun. "Sorry, not really used to doing this."
Luna sighed. "I really shouldn't have said anything."
...
"Run!" Lola shouted. She and Lana were at Snobby Shores as they were currently running from an incoming storm as being in it seemed to hurt them. "Quick, in there!" Lola pointed towards a building.
The two ran into the building and quickly shut the door. It was rather dark inside. "Think we'll be safe in here?" Lana asked.
"Probably." Lola responded. The twins then heard the sound of a lightsaber as it lit up the room. The two then turned around to see Anakin Skywalker behind them. "Uhh..."
...
Lincoln had made it to the centre of the map in a place called Dusty Divot. He was currently hiding in a warehouse as he could hear gunfire in the distance. The battle had gone on for a while now so it seemed like there was only a few players left. "This is insane..." Lincoln remarked to himself as he wondered how he got himself into this situation.
He then let out a yelp as a blonde man in battle ready gear suddenly bursted into the warehouse. However, before the man could attack him, in the blink of an eye, he was taken out by someone else. A moustached superhero in a red and white outfit. Lincoln let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks, you really saved me there."
Omni-Man responded by wordlessly glaring down at Lincoln. Lincoln's relief turned into nervousness as he realised this guy wasn't here to save him. "Uhh..."
However, before Omni-Man could do anything, he was suddenly taken out in a single shot by someone with a sniper rifle. "Phew." Lincoln sighed before he was suddenly sniped as well.
The person who did this, winning the victory royale, was a goth, anthropomorphic calico cat that wore a black beanie. Upon winning, the cat proceeded to do the default dance.
...
After the game ended, the Loud siblings found themselves back in the field in front of Rick again. He looked somewhat disappointed. "Geez, I was hoping one of you would've won that. I was kind of hoping for a bit more data. You guys want to go another round?"
The Loud siblings all shouted different variations of 'no' at him.
...
Lori blinked slowly. "What did I just watch?"
"Yeah, I uh... I don't know how to dissect that one." Rick then simply changed the channel again.
...
Rick and Lincoln were flying to Earth in the cruiser, having finished an adventure that took a few days. Rick gave Lincoln an annoyed look. "You really had to tell them their planet was shrinking, huh?"
Lincoln huffed. "I had to tell them! It was the right thing to do."
"Yeah and your annoying sense of justice ended up starting a civil war. That I had to deal with."
"That's better than everyone on that planet dying!"
Rick groaned in response. Their argument died down as they flew down to Earth and into Royal Woods. Something about it seemed off. The streets were completely empty and the sky was a polluted shade of yellow. "Jesus. What the hell happened while we were gone?"
The two got out of the cruiser and entered the house. "Hello?" Rick shouted. He received no response. He and Lincoln glanced at each other in concern.
...
Rick opened up Lisa's bunker. To his surprise, a lot of Royal Woods' citizens were hiding down there, including the rest of the family. "They're back!" Lynn shouted.
"It's about time!" Lori vented in frustration.
"What the hell's going on here?" Rick asked.
"We're hiding from the invaders." Lisa responded.
"Invaders?" Before Lisa could explain more, Rick's phone started ringing. It appeared that while he was gone, he had received a lot of missed calls from the President. "The hell?" He answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Rick?!" President Curtis let out a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank God."
"Alright, what is it this time?"
"Rick, I don't know where you've been but this country is being invaded by two different armies that...basically came out of nowhere." There was a hint of desperation in President Curtis' voice. "We thought they were aliens but we're not entirely sure."
"Uh huh." Rick said, somewhat growing irritated. "And you couldn't deal with them because...?"
"We tried taking them both on but they both decimated out forces! One of them has an army of robotic frogs and the other one has...slime robots!"
Rick raised an eyebrow. "Robot frogs and slime robots, huh?"
"Rick, this isn't the time for a dick measuring contest. From what we've gathered, both armies look like they're about to clash in Royal Woods. We need you to take them both out when they do. I'll...owe you one if you do it."
Rick rolled his eyes. "Fine." He put his phone away. "Alright, good news everyone, Grandpa Rick's here to handle everything."
"Should one of us come with you?" Lincoln asked.
Rick shook his head. "Nah, I can deal with this by myself.
...
Rick flew his cruiser above Royal Woods. He could see how the sky had turned such a disgusting shade of yellow as he saw both armies, each leaving a trail of destruction in their wakes. It seemed President Curtis' descriptions of the armies wasn't too far off. One of them consisted of purple slime monsters with robotic armour on them. The other army had more than just robot frogs though as there were two giant herons among them as well as airships and a giant, flying castle.
Not that any of this was that important to Rick. He could probably deal with both quickly enough.
...
King Andrias marched through the ruined streets, a grim expression on his face.
He remembered the letter that the Plantar boy had read to him. A letter from his dear old friend. For a moment after, he had a brief feeling of regret. But it was far too late to change course now. The things that he had done. The pain he had caused. There was no turning back now.
Now, it was impossible for the prophecy to come true. All threats to their conquest were gone. So there was nothing else for it but to continue. Though the humans still persisted in trying to stop them. Including this man who stood before him. Though it was strange. This man's army was completely different from the forces he had faced so far. Not that it mattered. This conquest had been centuries in the making. He will return his kingdom to glory. Nothing was going to stop him now.
And nothing was going to change that.
...
Phillip Wittebane, also known as Emporer Belos, glared in disgust at the army before him. It took a couple centuries but he had finally finished his goal and with the Day of Unity, had cleansed the perdition that was the Boiling Isles. But just as he was ready to go home a hero, that Luz girl told him about how everything had changed over the centuries. How people had lost their way and given in to sin. The girl had told him this in an effort to save herself by offering to be a guide but he was no fool. He wouldn't be tricked so easily.
With her out of the way, he had finally reached his goals. A shame he had to kill another grimwalker to get there though. Oh well. He'll get it right next time.
Belos had a better idea than what Luz had offered. He had already conquered one realm full of sinners. Why not a second. After all, he still had an army of abomatons under his control. He would conquer this world and return it to the old ways. Perhaps then they will give him the credit he deserves as their saviour.
Still, he wasn't expecting to find this. An army of sinful creatures, wanting to conquer this world for themselves. He supposed it was his responsibility as this world's saviour to stop them as the leader of this army approached him.
"Haven't you primates learned by now that you can't stop us?" Andrias taunted. "Who even are you?"
Belos chuckled. "I am the saviour of this world. A sinful creature like you has no right to exist. I'll purge you and your army."
Andrias raised an eyebrow, not really understanding what this man was talking about. "We'll see about that."
The two then heard sarcastic clapping. They turned to see Rick casually stood nearby. "Wow, so this was what everyone's been pissing themselves over? A big lizard and some guy from the 16th century?"
"And who are you supposed to be?" Andrias asked.
Rick narrowed his eyes. "Why do you sound like the President? Anyway, I'm Rick Sanchez. Smartest man in the universe. Your little conquests are starting to annoy me so do you two wanna do me a favour and cut this shit out? I've got better things to do then deal with..." he gestured to the aircrafts and castle on Andrias' side. "...whatever this Breath of the wild shit is."
...
As Rick and Lori were watching, Lana then came into the room. "What are you guys watching?"
"Interdimensional cable." Rick replied. "We're looking at a what if scenario involving invaders from other dimensions."
"Is that a giant lizard?" Lana asked, pointing at Andrias.
"Yeah. Wonder if he comes from that dimension where amphibians are the dominant species."
"What?!" Lana exclaimed. "There's a dimension with talking frogs and lizards and you never thought to show me it?"
Rick shrugged. "Never had a reason to go there."
"Well can't we go there for an adventure? Pretty please?" Lana pleaded.
Rick groaned. "Fine. We'll do it later." Satisfied, Lana then left to go back to what she was doing.
...
Both Andrias and Belos stared at Rick in bewilderment before glaring at him. Andrias unsheathed a laser sword. "I've spent too long waiting for this. I won't let anything stop me now!"
However, to both his and Rick's shock and disgust, Belos' body began to change as he transformed into a deformed, skeletal creature made of some kind of green sludge. "You disgusting sinner! You will pay for your sins!"
"Oh shit!" Rick cursed as Belos lunged towards him. He then flicked a small device towards him.
Belos paused as he heard a strange beeping noise. "What the-" He then blew up, spreading green sludge everywhere, including on Rick.
"Ew, I did not need bits of coloniser on me today." Rick said before disappearing into a portal underneath him, dodging a slash from Andrias' sword.
Andrias looked around in confusion. "Where did you go? AH!" He looked down to see that he had been blasted from behind, leaving a large hole through his chest.
Rick noticed that Andrias' insides were both biological and mechanical. "A cyborg huh?"
Belos fell to his knees before letting out a bitter chuckle. "I suppose...this is what I deserve." He then collapsed to the ground as he died.
Rick then frowned as he felt something crawling in his skin. "Oh no you don't." He then got out some kind of container. He used another device to scan some of the sludge on the ground before plugging it into the container and turning it on. The container then began vacuum all of the sludge, including all of what was on Rick.
Once all of it was trapped inside, a face formed from the sludge inside the container, contorted in rage. "How dare you! You will suffer for eternity for this!"
"Yeah, newsflash asshole. God isn't real. Enjoy fucking nothing." Rick then pressed another button on the container.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Belos screamed in agony as the inside of the container erupted with flames. By the time the fire dissipated, there was nothing left but ash.
While Belos' death caused the abomatons to shut down, that didn't seem to apply to the other army as he dodged an attack from a robot frog before firing a laser at it. He then fired at the heads of the giant herons as they were about to attack him, killing them. Rick realised there was someone else in charge as he stared up towards the flying castle.
...
After getting into the castle, Rick searched around, dealing with a few robots with invisibility cloaks before he found the one controlling them all. Though he wasn't expecting to see what he did. It appeared to be a teenage, human girl though she was wearing some strange black armour and had a helmet over her head that had ten red eyes and four branched horns. She smiled upon seeing Rick. "Well, well, so you killed Andrias. We shouldn't have expected so much from that pathetic excuse for a king." She shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh well. It was impressive seeing what you were capable of. We could really use a mind like yours."
Rick gave Darcy an odd look. "Are you...are you possessing a teenage girl or something? Th-That's kinda weird, you know."
Darcy ignored the question. "Why not join us? I can't imagine why you'd want to fight for these primates. Wouldn't you rather fight for a higher cause? Get a chance to taste true power?"
Rick rolled his eyes. "Oh boy, the whole 'join me' speech again. Yeah, I'm not interested. Also I can literally see the wire that you're plugged in from." He pointed towards the wire at the back of Darcy's helmet.
Darcy had a blank expression on her face before she smirked. "Heh heh. Ok then. Let's see what you're really capable of then." She then grabbed a black staff that turned into a scythe made of red energy. She ran at Rick and attempted to slice him, only for Rick to disappear into a portal beneath him.
Darcy didn't seem to move after that as Rick teleported behind her and used an electrified whip to slice at the wire. Darcy turned around with a look of horror on her face. "No! My connection!" Darcy screamed as sparks of red electricity came from the helmet before shutting down. The girl then collapsed as the helmet fell off of her.
Rick sighed. His grandkids would probably be very upset if they found out he left a kid in here. He knelt down and tapped the side of her face. "Hey, wake up."
The girl groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. "Huh? W-Who are you?"
"Name's Rick. You are?"
"Marcy." Marcy replied as she rubbed her eyes. "Where's Anne? And Sasha?"
"Uh, no idea." Rick replied. "I have literally zero context of anything that's been going on here. I'm just here to stop an invasion."
"But...does that mean...?" A look of fear appeared in Marcy's eyes as she put a hand over her mouth and began slowly shaking her head.
Rick glanced away awkwardly and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, so uh...do you wanna explain what this whole deal is or...?"
Marcy's eyes widened. "Watch out!"
"Huh? Gah!" While Rick wasn't looking, the Core had sprouted legs and had taken the opportunity to latch onto Rick's head while he was distracted. "What the?!" He let out a scream of pain as his whole body was enveloped by some kind of red energy.
He then began to chuckle as Marcy backed away in fear. "Holy shit, this mind is amazing! So much knowledge! I'm Dick now, bitch! With this mind, we can take over the universe!" He slowly began to frown. "But...why would I do that? That's such a waste of my time?" He growled to himself. "Get it together! What else could be more important than complete domination? But...that's just so much work. What am I even getting out of this? Grah!" Dick clenched his head. "What is...wrong with me?!"
...
Within the core's matrix, King Aldrich stared around in horror as everything began glitching out. "How? How are you doing this?!"
"Geez, and I thought the Federation's brainalyzers were cheap." Rick snarked as he slowly took control over the core. "Seriously, you're a collection of the smartest minds from your world and the best you could come up with is 'steal resources from other dimensions'? Really?"
King Aldrich stepped back. "This is impossible! Your mind is twisted! You're a monster!"
Rick grinned. "I'm Rick Sanchez, bitch!"
...
Rick let out a scream before the core completely shut down. He then threw off the helmet before stomping on it, smashing it into pieces. "Piece of crap." He then turned to Marcy who was staring at him in shock. "Alright, where were we again?"
...
Something about what Lori just watched filled her with a sense of dread. "Rick, we're not gonna deal with those people in the future too, are we?"
Rick shrugged. "It's an alternate universe so maybe it will, maybe it won't. Who knows?" This didn't make Lori feel any better. "Anyway." Rick changed the channel.
...
Lori and Mr. Poopybutthole were casually walking through the streets of Mr. Poopybutthole's home planet. "Ooh wee, I am sure am glad all that stuff with Cecelia got resolved."
"I'll say." Lori said as she passed by a television shop. She paused as she saw someone familiar on the display TVs. "Wait, is that Grandpa Rick?"
"Ahem." On the TV, Rick pressed a button on his keyboard which played a low-key, bouncy song. "Uhhh...lop-oo-lop-oo-lop-oo-dups, nop-oo-nop-oo-nop-oo-nuts."
"Ooh wee, that is Rick. Hey, are those cromulons?" Mr. Poopybutthole pointed towards the giant heads in the sky who were booing Rick.
"We cannot take any more of this!" A cromulon said. "We have decided that Earth is now eliminated."
In an instant, the cromulons fired a laser at Earth completely destroying it.
Lori and Mr. Poopybutthole stared at what they just saw in complete shock and disbelief. After a few moments, it began to sink in what just happened.
Mr. Poopybutthole clenched his head. "Oh God, my fiance was on that planet!"
For Lori, it began to sink in that her family and everyone she loved was dead. It sunk in that everyone she knew was gone. That she no longer had a home. That she was the last human alive.
She fell to her knees before she started screaming.
...
It had been months since the destruction of Earth. A cromulon was floating through space when he felt something weird. "Huh?" His face began to contort, as it began getting sucked into itself. He began screaming in pain until his mouth was completely sucked in. Eventually there was barely anything left of the cromulon.
The person who did this was floating nearby, wearing a jetpack and a helmet to breathe in.
...
Lori stumbled into the bar of a nearby planet. She looked somewhat different now as her hair was cut short and she was wearing hunting gear. She dropped some money in front of the bartender. "Give me the hardest drink you've got." The bartender nodded before giving Lori a mug of some strange green liquid.
Lori took the mug and went to take a seat. It had been quite a while since she last saw Mr. Poopybutthole as he had basically disappeared on her. Not that she could find it in herself to care. Ever since her planet was destroyed, there were only ever two things on her mind. Getting revenge on the bastards that took everything from her and dulling the pain with alcohol. A part of her wondered if this was what Rick felt like. Not that she'll ever know now.
"Lori?"
Lori's eyes widened at the sound of a familiar voice. She turned to see an old friend, wearing a strange uniform. "Tammy?!"
Tammy let out a laugh of relief. "Oh my God, you're alive!" She pulled Lori into a hug. "When I heard about someone killing the cromulons, I never would have guessed it was you!"
Lori pulled away. "Tammy, I'm so happy to see you but..." she gestured to what Tammy was wearing. "What is all this? Is Birdperson here?"
Tammy sighed as she went to take a seat. "Lori, there's a lot about me you don't know so... may as well tell you now."
...
Lori stared in shock as Tammy finished explaining about how she had secretly been a Galactic Federation agent and had only hooked up with Birdperson in order to take out people that had been rebelling against the Federation with a fake wedding. Tammy looked somewhat guilty. "I know this must be hard to hear but...your grandfather and his friends were terrorists. They did a lot of bad things. They needed to be taken out."
Lori sighed. "Maybe you're right but..." She gave Tammy a saddened look. "Does that mean you were only pretending to be my friend just to get to Rick?"
Tammy shook her head. "It's not like that. Lori, you're my best friend. You have no idea how happy I am to see that you're okay. I missed you."
Lori let a small smile appear on her face. "I...missed you too." She found herself not really caring too much about the whole Galactic Federation thing. She was just happy one of her friends was actually alive and that she wasn't the last human.
"So have you just been hunting down cromulons this whole time? We kinda thought they were invincible. How did you find a way to kill them?"
Lori sighed. "I met someone. Her name was Krombopulos Amy. Her husband was an assassin before he died. He created a device that could kill cromulons. And luckily for me, she taught me how to make them."
Tammy slowly nodded. "Interesting. The Federation have been trying to figure out a way to take them out for a while now. Their stupid music competition is a threat to everyone in the galaxy. I've got a proposition for you. Why not join the Galactic Federation?"
Lori blinked in surprise. "Huh?"
"It'll be great!" Tammy assured her. "The Federation only wants to help bring peace and stability to the galaxy. And if we can take out the cromulons, we can guarantee the safety of countless planets! What do you say?"
Lori thought about it for a moment. She wasn't exactly sure that the Federation's goals were so noble as she had heard some rather ill rumours about them every now and again. Still, at this point, what did she care? She'd rather be working with her friend than stay alone. "Alright. Sure. I'm in."
Tammy smiled warmly as she offered her hand for Lori to shake. "Then welcome aboard." Lori reciprocated and shook her hand."
...
"Geez, I guess some people are willing to do anything if their situation is desperate enough, huh?" Rick remarked.
Lori didn't take notice as she had a troubled look on her face. After what she just saw, she wondered if her Tammy would have still wanted to be friends if Rick wasn't in the way?
"Lori?"
Lori shook her head. "Sorry, let's just move on." Rick then changed the channel.
...
"I'm really hungry."
Lucy had said this to her fellow club members, having become a vampire yet not been able to drink any blood since. It was then that her friend Haiku had stepped forward. "I suppose I can let you take some of mine." She had said. However, instead of her arm, Haiku had offered Lucy her neck.
The next thing Lucy knew, her friend was dead. She tried to ignore the screams of horror from her fellow club members as she ran out of the school.
...
Rick let out a sigh of relief, thankful that he was back in his regular body. "Thank God you fixed this in time Lincoln. Any longer in that body and things could've gone real bad."
Lincoln rolled his eyes. "Tell me about it." He turned around, only to let out a yelp as he saw his sister, Lucy. Blood was dripping from her mouth.
Rick's eyes widened. "Jesus, Lucy, what happened to you?"
Lucy was trembling. "I...I...Haiku...she..."
Lincoln's eyes widened in realisation. "Lucy, you didn't..."
Lucy choked a sob. "I couldn't control myself. I didn't mean to do it." She gave Rick a pleading look. "Please, you have to bring her back somehow. I'm begging you!"
Rick raised an eyebrow. "Uh, Lucy, I may be the smartest man in the universe but, uh, I can't cure death."
Lucy walked towards Rick. "PLEASE! There has to be something you can do?!"
Rick rolled his eyes. "Jesus, if this is that important to you, I'll just bring over another version of your friend from another universe. How does that sound?"
For a brief moment, Rick managed to catch a glimpse of Lucy's eyes for the first time. They were filled with both rage and grief. It was the last thing he saw before she lunged towards his neck.
...
Lucy found herself in shock at what she had just done while Lincoln stared at her in horror. "Lucy...what have you done?"
Lucy stared down at her shaking hands, covered with blood before reaching out towards Lincoln. "I...I didn't..."
Lincoln stepped away from her. "STAY AWAY FROM ME!" He shouted fearfully.
Both of them then stared in shock as Rick began to stand back up. His skin now somehow even paler. "Rick?" Lucy asked.
"Yes, master." Rick replied in a somewhat stilted manner.
"Master?"
"Is there something you want, Master?"
Lucy stared at Rick blankly for a moment before she began laughing. Lincoln had never heard anything like it. Usually, Lucy sounded emotionless when she laughed. This time, she sounded completely out of her mind. "Lucy?"
Lucy turned to Lincoln with a twisted grin on her face. Haiku's death had completely broken her. She never wanted to see any of her loved ones die again. She never wanted to feel this pain again. "Lincoln..." She slowly began to approach him, causing him to step back in fear. "How would you like to live forever?"
...
President Curtis currently had his jacket off as he was sweating up a storm. There was somewhat of a panic at the white house as the news of an army of vampires had swept across the world. He was currently in a meeting with one of his generals. "What's the situation."
"Our sources have confirmed that the state of Michigan has been completely overrun by vampires. An army of them are heading their way to Washington as we speak." The general explained.
President Curtis slammed a fist on his desk. "And why haven't our forces dealt with them yet?!"
"Sir...that's the other thing. Our sources have confirmed that Rick Sanchez is among the vampire army. He has been single handedly taking out our forces. We don't know what to do!"
President Curtis' eyes widened in horror. "Rick Sanchez?"
"Yes, sir."
President Curtis slumped into his seat. "We're doomed..." He said mostly to himself.
The general looked worried upon seeing the President's reaction. "Sir? W-What should we do now?"
"ARGH!" The President didn't have time to make any kind of reply as a portal suddenly appeared behind him. Whoever came out of it sunk his teeth into his neck.
...
The President of the Galactic Federation was quite pleased with the news that his agent, Tammy, had given him. That the planet Earth had been conquered singlehandedly by her. He was currently riding a Federation mothership along with an army of soldiers as they headed towards Earth. He spoke to Tammy, who had started wearing a helmet, covering her whole head. "So, you're definitely sure that Rick Sanchez is dead and won't be a problem for us?"
"Affirmative, sir." Tammy responded.
The President nodded. "Good, good. Unexpected as this development was, I'm quite pleased that you took over their planet so easily. Those humans must be stupider than we thought."
"Thank you, sir."
...
The ship landed in Royal Woods in the middle of the night. Upon exiting the ship with his army, he looked around in confusion as the streets seemed to be completely empty. "Huh, I was expecting more people to be here."
Tammy took off her helmet, revealing a pale face. She spoke into an earpiece. "We've got them."
An army of vampires then descended upon the Federation army.
...
Lucy was sat upon her throne in a large, gothic castle. The Earth had been completely conquered and just about everyone on it had been turned. But she still wasn't satisfied. Her angry at the universe had not been quenched. She was currently speaking with Rick, who was showing off his now glowing red teeth. "So, with your enhancements, we'll be able to turn anything in the universe."
Rick nodded. "Yep. They're completely invincible and can pierce through and infect anything. Once we enhance our army with these, nothing will be able to stop us." Lucy simply nodded in approval.
And so began Lucy's conquest of the rest of the universe. The more planets she conquered and the more her army grew, the faster it was to conquer other planets. As a certain gem homeworld would soon see.
...
Yellow Pearl stared in horror at what she was witnessing on her holographic screen. "M-My Diamond! We have a situation here!"
"What is it?" Yellow Diamond asked impatiently as she took the screen from her Pearl. She then saw what was happening on Homeworld. Alien invaders were on the planet, attacking its gems. She saw them bite into their gemstones, turning their forms red as they then too joined in on the attack on Homeworld. Her eyes widened as she stood up. "Assemble all the quartzes, topazes and rubies for battle! This is an emergen-"
She was unable to finish her sentence as a portal appeared in front of her. Rick leapt out of it and lunged toward her gem.
...
Somewhere near Homeworld was an empty garden where one gem stood, having been commanded to wait there by a friend. She had waited there for thousands of years until someone had finally visited her from the warp pad. However, it wasn't her friend. It was a couple different gems. All looking at her with hungry eyes.
...
It wasn't long until Lucy had taken over every planet in the galaxy. Not even Unity stood a chance against her forces. And yet, she was still not satisfied. She found herself now turning her attention to other dimensions.
...
"Princess Star has come to visit, your majesty." A servant of Butterfly Castle informed his queen.
Queen Moon nodded. "Send her in then."
Queen Moon quickly grew concerned upon seeing the state her daughter was in. Her hair was covering her face and her skin was pale. "Goodness, Star, are you alright?" Star said nothing as she slowly walked towards her. "Star?"
Star suddenly let out a hiss, baring her fangs before she lunged towards her mother.
...
At Castle Avarius, Ludo waited impatiently for Buff Frog to return with his report. Eventually, Buff Frog came in with a panicked look on his face. "Well, what's going on, Buff Frog?!" Ludo asked.
"It is very bad!" Buff Frog explained. "Everyone in the kingdom is getting...infected with something. Even Princess Star got infected."
Ludo tapped his chin. "Hmm, maybe we could use this opportunity to finally get that wand!"
Buff Frog shook his head fervently. "No! Bad idea! It is much too dangerous. Even the Magic High Commission got infected somehow!"
Toffee, Ludo's new evil efficiency expert, gave Buff Frog a look of shock. "They've infected the Magic High Commission?!" Buff Frog nodded. Toffee then grabbed the interdimensional scissors and created a portal. "Then we need to leave this dimension."
Ludo gave Toffee a surprised look. "What?!"
"This dimension is doomed. We're better off leaving now before they infect us, next."
...
"Stay back!" King Andrias shouted. At Newtopia Castle, King Andrias was trying to fend off his own Newtopian Army, including General Yunan and Lady Olivia. All of which seemed to have turned into monsters.
As he tried to fend them off, he heard something from outside, causing him to take a glance out of the window. Two giant herons had broken down the walls of Newtopia, as they began attacking the citizens along with those other monsters. "Even them?!" Andrias asked himself.
Letting himself get distracted was a mistake as the vampiric newts would soon overwhelm him, pinning him to the floor. "Get off of me!" He shouted. All these years of waiting and this is how it ends? He then noticed Marcy slowly approach him. "Marcy?"
Marcy then grinned, revealing her fangs before lunging towards Andrias' neck.
...
The Collector rubbed his eyes. "I...I'm free?" He looked around to see that a baby titan was here. As well as most of the population of the Boiling Isles, including Belos.
All of them staring at him with hungry, red eyes.
The Collector stared at all of them. "Wow..." He then smiled. "I can't believe so many people want to play with me!" He then wiggled his finger, causing the castle to disassemble.
...
Lucy was sat in her throne room when Rick approached her. "Bad news, master. The portal gun doesn't work anymore."
"What?"
"The citadel found out what was going on here. They've cut us off from the rest of the multiverse."
Lucy was silent for a moment. They had other access to planets and other dimensions but this news meant that this was as far Lucy's conquest would go. And after everything she had done, she found that she didn't feel angry anymore. In fact, she felt absolutely nothing. She didn't feel happy, nor did she feel any regret. Just nothing. Not even the idea that she and every other vampire may run out of blood to drink and would die out seemed to phase her. She had gone from respecting the concept of death to outright loathing it to not even caring any more. After all, what was the point? Her family were nothing more than mindless slaves now. And controlling the entire universe didn't bring Haiku back. Nothing could. But then again, it's not as if she could go back now. "Is there anything left in the universe that could challenge my reign?"
Rick thought for a moment. "There is one person."
...
The Nightmare Realm, also known as Dimension 0 was where the demon known as Bill Cipher resided. He was currently watching what was happening to the other dimensions through a rift when he realised he had a visitor. "Oh, look who it is! It's the smartest man in the universe. How nice of you to visit!" He dropped his pleasant demeanour. "I know why you're here you know. You probably heard some dumb rumour that I was gonna take over your dimension, right? Well, good news for you because I now have zero interest in conquering yours or any other dimension! Lucky you, huh? And since I'm feeling so generous, I'll let you leave here alive." Rick did nothing. He continued to stand before Bill, who started getting annoyed. "I said, you can leave." Once again, Rick just stood there. Bill started laughing. "Oh, this is rich! You actually think you can turn me into one of you! Me! Of all people!"
"Oh, I don't think I can. I know I can."
Bill then noticed some figures behind Rick. They were all his henchmaniacs. They had all been turned into vampires. "What the?!" He then realised he was surrounded by vampires from all across the universe. He gave Rick a look of fury. "Do you even have any idea who I am?" He turned red with rage, grew to a giant size and grew some extra arms and mouths. "Do you have any idea what I'm capable of??!! I'll make you eat nightmares! I'll disassemble your molecules!! ARGH!" He was then attacked from behind by a huge pink beast that let out a huge roar. "AGH! GRAH!" He was then knocked back and forth by a white haired kid in a superhero outfit and a girl with twigs in her hair, surrounded by a red aura. "AAAARRGHH!" He was then hit with two blasts of magic. One from a girl resembling a moth and one from a girl that resembled a demon. Finally, before he realised what was happening, he was surrounded by a magic circle that completely restricted Bill causing him to fall to the ground. He noticed the vampires were all slowly approaching him. "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO#%*?#%.#,#{\,!"
The screen turned to static.
...
Rick and Lori stared at the screen in shock. "Well, that was disturbing." Rick remarked.
"Who even were most of those people?" Lori asked.
Rick shrugged. "No idea. Maybe they're important to someone, I don't know."
Lori then remembered that there was a point where Lucy was a vampire and had an incident with her friend. "C-Could something like that have happened to us?"
"Maybe." Rick then saw Lori's look of distress. "I-I mean who knows? I don't think our Lucy would have gone that far. Or at the very least I wouldn't have let her bite me like that." He noticed her mood didn't improve much. "You good?"
"I'm just...it's starting to hit me how close we keep getting to these end of the world scenarios."
Rick scoffed. "Pfft, you haven't seen anything yet. This kinda shit's happening all across the multiverse. Look."
Rick then proceeded to show various end of the world scenarios. Including a universe where the Galactic Federation destroyed everything.
A universe where they were attacked by Worldender.
A universe where an army of snakes destroy everything.
A universe where the Earth is invaded by glorzos.
A universe where the Diamond authority destroyed the Earth.
A universe where a boy known as The Collector made the Earth his playground.
A universe where they're attacked by a monstrous wave of black static.
A universe where, strangely enough, they're invaded by toilets with singing heads coming out of them.
Lori couldn't take any more. "Stop! Just stop! I don't want to see these any more!"
Rick rolled his eyes. "Hey, it's not that bad. If anything, you should be happy none of this is happening to us."
"I literally don't care!" Lori exclaimed. "Can we see something nicer now? Like one where things aren't terrible for us?"
Rick shrugged. "Alright, if that's what you want." He changed the channel.
...
Lori was then shown a reality where things were perfect for her family. They were all living in a mansion and were currently playing in piles of money. "I can't believe we're so rich!" Rita exclaimed.
"I can't believe we already achieved all our dreams." Lynn exclaimed.
"And that we never have any fights or disagreements whatsoever!" Lincoln added.
"And I can't believe I have no psychological issues whatsoever!" Rick exclaimed.
...
"So, how does it feel to see a reality where everything is perfect, knowing that it's not you experiencing it?" Rick asked.
"Honestly, I'm fine with that." Lori replied.
"Really?"
Lori gave Rick an annoyed look. "What? Is it that strange that I might be happy for someone else. Rick, was there some kind of point you were trying to make with showing me all this?"
Rick shrugged. "I'm just saying, even if things aren't great now, it could always be much worse. Maybe you should be happy things are the way they are?" Lori then started to stare off into space. "Lori?"
"I'm a clone, aren't I?"
Rick blinked in surprise. "Whoa, wait, what?"
"It's true, isn't it? You're trying to get me to be happy with where I am now because the real Lori's out in space."
Rick pinched the bridge of his nose. "Oh, Jesus, I should've seen this one coming. No, Lori, you're not a clone. If you were actually a clone, the idea that you were one would never enter your mind. I'm not stupid, I know how fucked up things would be if you agreed and our family found out somehow."
Lori took a moment to let that sink in. It did make sense. If she was a clone and told her family, it would lead to some serious consequences. "You promise you're telling the truth about this."
Rick raised a hand. "I swear to you, without a shadow of a doubt that you are not a clone. There's no clone business going on whatsoever. Well, apart from that spare body for Lynn I still have but that's irrelevant. Point is, there's no reason to get paranoid about clones. Ever."
Lori sighed in relief. "Ok then." She then got up. "I think I've seen enough alternate universes for a lifetime." She then headed off upstairs. Even if she felt assured that she wasn't a clone, the stuff that she just saw left her with a lot to think about.
...
Later that day, as promised Rick took Lana to the dimension where amphibians were the dominant species as the two left the portal. "Alright, here we..." He trailed as he looked at his surroundings. The plant life was dying. The sky was polluted as it rained ash. There were strange machines and there were factories dumping toxic waste into the water. Rick frowned before shooting another portal to go back home. "Yeah, no, fuck this actually."
Lana looked disappointed. "But Grandpa Rick, couldn't we-?"
"Nope. Not dealing with this."