Hello everyone, and welcome to the first chapter of 2025! Today, our heroes will be dealing with simulations and alien con-artists.
Also, please read this: I have been hearing a lot about how bots ask for art commissions, so I'm going to say that I'm not going to agree to any art commissions. And if there are actual people who do want to do an art commission, then I apologize, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than Noa and any other OCs that might appear. Everything that is canon belongs to their rightful owners, Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.
Rated M because it's Rick and Morty.
Please enjoy!
Season 1 Intro
We open up to a view of outer space, where we see some objects float by, such as a hourglass, a eyeball shooting lasers, a dismembered hand, and a 3+3=6, until we zoom in to a nearby alien planet, where we see Rick, Noa, and Morty running from some frog-like creatures, with Rick creating a green portal for them to escape in. Noa and Rick jump in, but Morty trips, causing to miss his escape as the portal closes. Just as the frog-like creature were about to pounce on him, a grey portal opens, with Noa's arm reaching out and grabbing Morty's leg, pulling him to safety.
Next, we see Jerry shooting at some monsters with a gun.
We then cut to Morty's room, where Jerry is helping Morty with his homework. However, when Jerry pats Morty on the back, his face falls off, revealing to be a robotic double of Morty, which freaks Jerry out. In the background, the real Morty walks in, only to be grabbed by Rick and Noa, who lead him out of the room without Jerry noticing.
We then see Beth, Summer, and Jerry tackle Rick and Noa to the ground, causing the former to drop a device that lands at a nervous Morty's feet.
We then cut to the Smith house, where we see Noa and the Smith family surrounding a pregnant Jerry, who was lying on the dining room table, about to give birth. Morty and Summer were both holding a futuristic looking gun, both sporting scared looks. Noa's hands were glowing with black and white energy, as he had a look of anger. Rick, meanwhile, was about to help deliver to baby as scared Beth stood next to Jerry, who was taking deep breaths.
We next see Morty, Noa, and Annie being confront by Hepatitis A.
Finally, we see the space cruiser being chased by a Cthulhu-like creature. Inside the cruiser were Rick, Noa, Morty and Summer, the latter of whom was holding a baby version of the monster chasing them. We then zoom into the monster's open mouth, giving us the title card.
Rick, Noa, and Morty
We open with Noa in his apartment, sleeping on his fold out bed when his alarm clock starts blaring.
Turning it off with a grunt, the Nothling halfling gets up with a yawn. Stretching for a bit, Noa opens his eyes, and immediately knew that something was wrong.
His apartment was filled with what can best be described as inaccuracies, as some of his household objects are either the wrong size, and/or the wrong color. There is also the fact that some of his items are missing, as well as there being items that he never owned.
Looking around for a bit, Noa lets out an annoyed sigh as he quickly realizes who is responsible for this.
"God damn Zigerion scammers."
We then cut the Smith house, where we see Rick in the garage, dissecting rat on his workbench.
"T-t-t-this is just sloppy craftsmanship." He said as he stops dissecting the rat and takes a sip from his flask before going back to dissecting.
That's when Morty walks in from the garage door. "Hey, Rick. Boy, sure is really especially beautiful out there today, huh?"
"Oh, yes, Morty. It's almost unbelievable, isn't it?" Rick asked with an eyeroll, not taking his eyes off the rat.
"Yeah, you know? There's something about the air. And just the way the sunshine is." Morty said with a smile.
"Oh, sure, buddy. Yeah. Sure. B-brilliant. Very convincing." Rick said.
Morty to gain a confused look at this. "Wh… convincing?"
This causes Rick to face his grandson. "Oh! Responsive, too! In real time! I love it!"
"Uhh... okay." Morty said with a weirded out look.
"I'm going to work. Morty, good morning." Beth greeted in a robotic tone as she walks to the car with a blank look on her face. "Dad, good morning." As she gets into the car, Rick rolls his eyes. "I am going to work. Goodbye."
As she drives away, Morty gives Rick a questioning look. "What's with Mom?"
"Oh, what's with Mom? So, you're saying that she's acting weird?" Rick asked back. "How soph-*Burp*-isticated. Careful, guys. You're gonna burn out the CPU with this one."
"Okay, you know what, Rick? You're acting weird, too." Morty stated with a slight glare.
"Whatever, quote-unquote "Morty."" Rick said, making air quotes with his fingers.
"Alright, well I'll see you after school." Morty said before walking off, only to bump into the side of the garage door. "Ow! Oof! Ugh! Damn it! I'm all right. I'm okay."
As Morty leaves, Rick stares at him in suspicion as he takes another sip from his flask.
We soon cut to Morty's high school, where we see him in Mr. Goldenfold's math class.
"Alright, who can tell me what 5x9 is?" Mr. Goldenfold asked, causing the class to break out into whispers. "Morty?"
Morty, who was leaning on his arm with a bored look, gaining a nervous look. "Uh, me?"
"What is 5 x 9?" Goldenfold asked.
"Um, you know, it's, uh, at least 40." Morty said nervously.
The class gasps at this.
"Morty, that's exactly correct!" Goldenfold said with a smile. "5 x 9 is at least 40! Come up here."
As Morty walks up to the front of the class, his classmates cheer for him.
"Whoo! Way to go, Morty!" Jessica cheers.
"Everybody, this is the best student." Goldenfold said as Morty reaches the front of the class. "I want you to be the teacher today." He then sits in a empty desk. "Teach us, Morty!"
What no one noticed was that Rick was watching from the classroom window. "Interesting…"
"W-w-w-what do you want me to teach you?" Morty asked, sounding a little flustered.
"Ooh, ooh! How do you make concentrated dark matter?" A student asked.
"Oh, that's a good question." Goldenfold said in agreement.
Morty was completely thrown off by that. "Concentrated huh?"
"Concentrated dark matter. The fuel for accelerated space travel." Goldenfold explained. "Now, do you know how to make it?"
"Uhhh…"
"Come on, Morty. Isn't your grandpa and his apprentice, like, scientists?" Jessica asked.
"Oh, yeah, but, you know, they told me that I shouldn't go around spouting off about, you know, their science and stuff." Morty said nervously.
"I bet you've seen them make concentrated dark matter a lot." Jessica said as she squeezes her breasts with her arms. She then gets up and walks up to him seductively. "You know, if you tell us, I'll be your girlfriend."
"Uh, y-you will?" Morty asked with a goofy grin.
That's when Goldenfold walks up to Morty. "Seems like a rare opportunity, Morty."
Suddenly, Rick kicks the door open. "Morty, u-uh, come on. There's a family emergency."
Rick then grabs his grandson's arm, only for Goldenfold to grab the other. "Stop right there! If he leaves, I'm giving him an F!"
"He doesn't care." Rick replied as he pulls Morty from his teacher's grip.
"Aw, man!" Morty groaned as Rick drags him to the boys locker room. "Rick, I have to go back! I think I was about to get married!" Rick then runs to the shower and lets Morty go, causing him to fall on the shower tiles face first. "Ugh!"
"Take a shower with me, Morty." Rick ordered as turns one of the showers on.
"What?!" Morty asked in shock as he gets back onto his feet.
"Listen to me, Morty. Get your clothes off and get in the shower right now." Rick said as he starts striping his clothes off until he was naked. "Y-y-y-you got to trust me, Morty."
"Ugh! I'm gonna get an F in class, Rick." Morty complained before he started strips his clothes off.
"Morty, that's not class. T-t-t-that wasn't your teacher. This isn't your school. This entire world is not the world." Rick said before spreading his arms out. "We're inside a huge simulation chamber on an alien spaceship."
"Wait a minute. W-what are you talking about?" Morty asked as Rick goes under the active shower head.
"It's all fake *Belch* Morty, all of it." Rick said as he crosses his arms. "Nanobotic renderings, a bunch of… crazy, fake nonsense, Morty. I couldn't say so until we got in the shower. They won't monitor us in here."
"Monitor us?!" Morty asked in shock as he looks around and covers himself. "W-who?!"
"Zigerion scammers, Morty." A voice spoke up. Following it, the two saw that it was Noa, who was starting to take his own clothes off and putting them in his pocket dimension while joining the two in the shower. "The galaxy's most ambitious, least successful con artists. You know, it's lucky for us they're also really uncomfortable with nudity."
Once he was fully naked, we see that dark grey patterns went along his impressive body, showing us that they went along his upper thighs and his back
However, Rick and Morty were too busy staring at a not-so-little detail of Noa's.
"Oh my God, no wonder you've been with so many chicks." Rick said in shock and barely hidden envy.
"I know it's above average..." Noa said, only to be interrupted.
"Above average?! That's a fucking third leg!" Rick shouted.
"Okay, can we stop talking about my dick?" Noa asked in a annoyed tone.
Shaking his head, Morty then glares at the two. "Aw, come on guys. If everyone's just gonna be insane today, at least let me be insane with Jessica."
Morty then went to grabs his clothes, only for Rick to grab them. "I can't let you do that, Morty."
"Give it to me!" Morty shouted as he grabs his clothes and gets into a tug-of-war with Rick.
"No! You give it to me!"
"G-g-give it!"
"Morty, come on! Morty!"
"No, Rick!"
Off to the side, Noa just watches, not wanting to get involves with the naked tug-of-war.
We zoom out to a control room filled with aliens, the Zigerion scammers, revealing that Rick and Noa were right.
And like they said, the aliens were uncomfortable with the trio's nudity, as they all groaned out in disgust.
"Oh, god, sir! They're still naked! Ugh." A Zigerion shouted in disgust.
"Well, check every five quintons and tell me when they're not!" Prince Nebulon, the leader of the Zigerions, ordered while averting his gaze from the monitor.
"I think we should make Kevin look, sir." The Zigerion said, pointing to his neighbor, who turned around, revealing to be a rather nerdy looking Zigerion.
"What?! No! W-w-why would you even say that?" Kevin asked in a incredulous tone.
"Uh, sir, we have a situation over here." Another Zigerion spoke up.
"If there's a wiener on that monitor, I swear to god, Stu." Nebulon threatened.
"Something is drawing a lot of processing power." The Zigerion, Stu, said before noticing something. "Oh, wait. No wonder." The big monitor in the center of the control room then reveals Jerry driving a car. "There's another real human in the simulator."
"Okay, Jerry, big pitch meeting. Make-or-break time." Jerry said to himself while using a electric nose-hair trimmer. "You can do this."
"How did this happen?! Where's the Abductions Department?" Nebulon demanded.
"Hey, man, Abductions just follows the acquisition order." A Zigerion said.
"Don't put this on Acquisitions! We only acquire humans that haven't been simulated!" Another Zigerion shouted with a look of anger.
"Well, Simulations doesn't simulate anybody that's been abducted, so-" Kevin corrected, only to be interrupted.
"Oh, I see! Oh, oh! It was no one's fault. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Well, then, problem solved." Nebulon said in a sarcastic tone, only to gain a look of anger. "Oh, wait no. There's still another human in here! Who is he?"
"Rick's son-in-law, Jerry Smith. So far, he hasn't noticed he's in a simulation." Stu said.
Nebulon sighs at this. "Well, cap his sector at 5% processing, keep his settings on auto, and we'll deal with him later. Rick Sanchez and Noa Greyscale are the targets."
With a pull of a lever, Stu lowers the CPU's power from 100% to 5%.
We then zoom into the simulation, where we see Jerry taking a deep breath.
"Gotta relax. It's just a pitch. Gotta relax." He said to himself before turning on the radio.
"This is earth radio. And now, here's…human music." The radio said in Nebulon's voice before playing a repetitive rhythmic beeping.
Jerry seems to like it, however, as he rocks his head back and forth in rhythm with the so call music. "Hmm. Human music. I like it."
We then transition from Jerry's sector of the simulation to the sector of our main trio, where we see them running down the neighborhood streets naked, with Rick holding onto Morty's clothes.
"Rick!" Morty shouted as Rick shoves his clothes down into the sewers.
Rick then grabs Morty's shoulders. "Uhp, uhp, uhp! Morty, keep your hands off your ding-dong! It's the only way we can speak freely. Look around you, Morty."
Noa then gestures to the surrounding area. "Do you really think this world is real? You'd have to be an idiot not to notice all the sloppy details." He then points to a hotdog vender, who, instead of putting a hotdog in a hotdog bun, puts a hotdog bun in between two hotdogs. "Look, that guy's putting a bun between two hotdogs.
"I don't know, Noa. I mean, I've seen people do that before." Morty said.
Rick then puts to a nearby old lady, who was walking a cat on a leash instead of a dog. "Well, look at that old lady. She's-she's walking a cat on a leash."
"Uh, Mrs. Spencer does that all the time, Rick." Morty said.
Rick just grabs his hair in anger. "Look, I-I-I don't wanna hear about Mrs. Spencer, Morty! She's an idiot!" He then points at something. "Alright, alright, there. W-what about that, Morty?"
Noa and Morty turn to a Poptart with arms and legs walk out of giant toaster house with a microwave for a garage and gets into a toaster car before driving off.
"Okay, okay, you got me on that one." Morty admitted.
"Oh, really, Morty? Are you sure you haven't seen that somewhere in real life before?" Noa asked in a very sarcastic tone.
"No, no. I haven't seen that. I mean, why would a Poptart wanna live inside a toaster? I mean, that would be, like, the scariest place for them to live. You know what I mean?" Morty asked while scratching his head.
Noa give Morty a 'are you fucking serious?' look while Rick rolls his roll his eyes.
"You're missing the point, Morty. Why would he drive a smaller toaster with wheels? I mean, does your car look like a smaller version of your house? No." Rick said.
Noa gives Rick the same 'are you fucking serious?' look before letting out a annoyed sigh.
"So, why are they doing this? W-what do they want?" Morty asked as the three began walking down the street.
"Well, that would be obvious to you, Morty, if you'd been paying attention." Rick said in a snide tone.
The three then hear the sound a sirens wailing through the air as an ambulance drives up to them. It stops and the back doors open, revealing two paramedics and a patient on a stretcher.
"We got the president of the United States in here! We need 10cc of concentrated dark matter, stat, or he'll die!" One of the paramedic shouted.
Noa responded to this by slamming the ambulance's doors shut.
"Concentrated dark matter! They were asking about that in class." Morty said with realization as the three continued walking.
"Yeah, it's a special fuel we invented to travel through space faster than anybody else." Noa explained.
"And these Zigerions are always trying to scam us out of our secrets, but they made a big mistake this time, Morty. They dragged you into this. Now they're gonna pay!" Rick declared.
"Wait, wha, w-w-what are we gonna do?" Morty asked in a nervous tone.
"We'll scam the scammers, Morty. And we're gonna take them for everything they've got." Rick said before facing Noa. "Noa, I need you to getting into the simulation control and distract the Zigerions until we're ready. When you see a stage with people around it, that's your cue to come back."
"Got it." Noa said before creating a grey portal on the ground and jumping in.
Noa then drops into the control room, causing the Zigerions to let out startled screams from his sudden appearance, as well as the fact that he's naked.
"Oh god, Noa is here and he's still naked!" Kevin shouted as he and his co-workers averted their gazes away from the Nothling hybrid.
"I can, unfortunately, see that!" Nebulon shouted back as he also averted his gaze. "Noa! How the hell did you get in here? Our intel said you haven't mastered off world portals yet!"
"Yeah, off world portals. That doesn't mean I haven't mastered on world portals." Noa said with a smirk as he crosses his arms.
"Remember to fire our intel guy..." Nebulon muttered to himself while rubbing his temples. "Can you at least put some clothes on?"
"I guess I tortured you all enough. Just give me a sec." Noa said as he summons his clothes from his pocket dimension. Once he was fully dress, he looks at the Zigerions in amusement. "You can look now!"
Peeking for a bit, Nebulon and his minions let out sighs of relief. "Oh thank god..."
Noa then notices something on a nearby monitor. "No way... Is that Jerry?"
"We accidentally abducted him along side you guys." Stu answered.
Noa then notices the low quality of the simulation Jerry was in, and how he wasn't noticing it. "...What the processing power of the CPU for Jerry's simulation?"
"5%" A Zigerion answered.
"...Wow. I knew Jerry was a dumbass, but I didn't think he was this much of a dumbass." Noa said, half flabbergasted, half amused. "Can I stay here and watch this?"
"You're not going to kill us?" Nebulon asked in a surprised tone.
"While part of me wants to just to get this over with, Rick would most likely want to deal with you guys his way, and would constantly bitch about it if denied." Noa said with a shrug. "And honestly, that is something I rather not deal with."
"Fair enough." Nebulon said with a shrug.
We then zoom into Jerry's simulation, where we see him in a conference room, standing in front of a audience of fake people (Not that he knows that) who were staring at him blankly.
"Welcome to our ad agency. I'm Jerry Smith." Jerry greeted. "Alright. I'll just get to the pitch. Um, simple question, gentlemen, what are apples?" He quickly clears his throat. "Excuse me." He drinks a glass of water before clearing his throat again. "What are apples?" He then pulls a poster broad to the front of the room. "Apples are food. And when do we need food? When we're hungry. With that, I give you your new slogan!" He flips a page over, revealing the words "Hungry for Apples?" on a apple.
The fake audience continued to blankly stare at Jerry, which starts to freak him out. "Well, say something! Do you like it?"
"Yes." One of the audience members said flatly.
"You do?" Jerry asked in a surprised tone.
"Yes." All audience members said flatly.
"So I sold it? I sold the idea?" Jerry asked, getting a little excited.
"Yes."
"Oh my god! Thank you!" Jerry said happily as he shakes the hand of the nearest audience member.
The others stood up and started shaking hands as well, or at least half of them did while the other half shook their hands at empty air.
Jerry then exits the building and slides do a handrail with a smug smile before landing near an old man, a woman, and a mailman.
"Hey! I just sold my first pitch!" He said to them.
"Slow down!" The old man shouted.
"Lookin' good." The woman said.
"My man!" The mailman shouted.
Taking out his phone, Jerry dials a number as he heads "home". As he walks home, he passes the same three set of people, not that Jerry notices.
As his phone rings, the simulation creates a fake Smith house, where a simulation of Beth answers the kitchen phone.
"Hello." She greeted in a flat tone.
"Guess who just sold the apples campaign." Jerry asked with a smirk.
"Who just sold the apples campaign?" Simulation Beth asked.
"Me! I guess it wasn't a rip-off of "got milk?" after all. Guess someone was wrong." Jerry said in a smug tone.
"Yes."
"Well, all is forgiven, because right now, I've got an erection the size of an East Coast lighthouse, and I'm coming home to share it with my beautiful wife." Jerry said.
"Okay."
"Wait, really?" Jerry asked with a smile.
"Yes."
"Yes! See you in 10 minutes!" Jerry cheered before hanging up. "Hey! I'm going to make love to my wife!"
"Lookin' good."
"Slow down!"
"My man!"
As Jerry runs "home", he didn't notice one of the mailman CPUs glitching into a tree.
We zoom out of the simulation to reveal that Noa saw everything that just happened and was laughing at Jerry being too stupid to noticed the obvious fakes.
"Oh my god, what a dumbass!" The Nothling hybrid laughed as he held his sides. He then notices a crowd of people forming around a stage. "And that's my cue."
"Hey, wait-!" Nebulon shouted, only for Noa to create a portal and jump through it.
Jump out of the portal, Noa saw Rick and Morty (Both now fully clothed), with the former gold necklaces and had his right pants leg rolled up while the latter has a gold necklace with a clock on it and was holding a purple hat.
"Ah, Noa, glad you can make it." Rick said. "I'm going to need you to play deejay."
"Got it." Noa said with a nod as he heads to the DJ station.
That's when Morty gained a nervous look. "Aw, geez, Rick. I-I don't know if I like this plan, you know? I mean, crowds, t-t-t-they have a tendency to make me really nervous."
Rick gets on one knee and places a hand on Morty's shoulder. "Morty, relax. It's just a bunch of 1s and 0s out there. You're gonna be fine." Rick then looses Morty's pants before placing the hat on his head. "Just follow my lead." The two share a quick fist-bump before Rick faces Noa. "Yo, deejay, drop that beat."
With a nod, Noa starts playing hip-hop music as Rick and Morty walk to the front of the stage, where they were greeted by a small crowd of simulated people.
"Uh-oh, Morty. This crowd looks too small for one of our famous rap concerts." Rick said. "I don't think we can perform our new song, "The Recipe for Concentrated Dark Matter," for a crowd this tiny."
"You got that right, Rick." Morty agreed.
That's when a horde of people ran into the park, no doubt a sigh that the Zigerions were taking the bait.
"Now that's more like it!" Rick cheered. "Morty, here we go. Let me hear everybody say "hey-oh!" yeah!" The crowd did just that. "All the ladies say, "yeah!"" The simulated women did just that. Rick then wiggles his right hand. "Everybody over thirty, do this with your hands! Everybody with a red shirt, jump up and down!"
The simulated people did what they were told, causing them to glitch out.
That the simulated Smith House, a simulation of a little girl with a blank look was mindlessly bounce a ball up and down, which occasionally glitching out of her hand.
That's when Jerry parks into the driveway and runs inside, no doubt excited to get some action from his "wife".
We go inside to see Jerry kissing the back of Simulation Beth's head, who stood still next to the kitchen phone.
"Mm. Mm. Mm. Yeah, don't move. Mm, mm, mm, mm! Mm!" Jerry whispered before he continues to kiss his "wife".
We then cut back to our trio, where we see Rick still giving out commands while Noa and Morty (the former not longer playing DJ music) stood next to him as they watched the crowd glitch out heavily.
"Yo, everyone whose first name begins with an "L" who isn't Hispanic, walk in a circle the same number of times as the square root of your age times ten!" Rick ordered. This was the straw the broke the camel's back, as the simulation froze. "Run guys! Before the system reboots!"
The trio take off.
Back with Jerry, he was having sex with Simulation Beth, not noticing that she was frozen like the rest off the simulation. "Yeah! You like that? Now who's unremarkable? You hungry for apples? Are you hungry for apples?!" Once he relieved himself, Jerry rolls over to the side with a satisfied look. "Oh, my god. That's the best sex I've ever had in my life." Jerry then gains a ashamed look. "It's… it's too good. I don't deserve this, Beth. I'm a fraud."
Back with the trio once again, they were running through the streets of the frozen simulation.
"Oh, man, Rick! W-w-w-where we running to?" Morty shouted.
"Out of the simulation, Morty." Rick answered. "Normally, the chamber operates like a treadmill, with the virtual world disappearing behind us and being rendered in front of us as we move through it, but while it's frozen, Morty, we can get to…"
The trio soon reached the outer limit of the simulation.
"...the edge. Here we go." Noa said as he and Rick jump off the simulation.
"Holy crap!" Morty exclaimed as he looks around.
"Come on, Morty." Rick ordered.
Once Morty jumped off, the three out of the room, unaware that the Zigerions were watching them.
"Sir, they're over the edge." A Zigerion said.
Yes, they are. Just as planned." Nebulon said with a smirk before let out a evil laughter, which his minion joined him in. "Oh, this is going to be such a mindfuck!"
Our trio soon found themselves in a corridor, looking around for any guards.
"Keep your eyes peeled for the central processing room guys. That's how we're gonna scam these idiots." Rick said as the three walk down the corridor.
"So, hey, why do these aliens keep coming after you two, if you're so much smarter than them?" Morty asked.
"It's an obsession for them at this point." Rick answered. "The Zigerions have been trying to outsmart me for years, Morty. Every time they do, I'm one step ahead of them." They then spotted two signs, with the one pointing right said "CPU" while the one pointing left said "Escape Pods". "Aha! Here we go." Going right, the three found themselves in a room that had rock pillars that were covered in glowing crystals. "Grab as many processors as you can carry, you two. These guys aren't good at much, but they're really good at making these chips."
Rick, Noa, and Morty started pulling the chips out and throwing them into a pile.
"I've got so many, I can barely hold them all!" Morty said as he uses his shirt to carry a bunch. "Look at, look at this." One of the chip falls out and hits the ground, shattering. "Oops. I dropped one."
"Don't worry about it, Morty. There's plenty of them, you little goofball." Rick said before playfully throwing the chip he was holding at Morty, who laughs, which causes Rick and Noa to laugh. The three throw the chips at each other for a bit before Rick tackles Morty to the ground. "Come here, Morty! Oh, I gotcha!"
"Come on, quit it, Rick! Quit it!" Morty laughed.
"Nothing wrong with just a little bit of horseplay every now and then, little fella." Noa said as he helps Rick and Morty onto their feet before giving the latter a small noogie.
Exiting the CPU room with as much chips as they can carry, our trio head to the escape pods, where they see a pair of guards blocking them.
Thinking fast, Noa grabs a chip and throws down a corridor, shattering it and causing the guards to investigate. With them gone, the three ran into a escape pod.
"Wow. What do you know? Huh. That was easy." Morty said.
"Totes malotes, dawg." Rick said in agreement.
Noa, however, gained an uneasy look. "It felt a little too easy."
"You're over thinking it, Noa." Rick said.
"Just kind of hard to believe, you know?" Morty said.
Rick just gives his grandson a smile. "Believe it, Morty. And once again, I'm flying away with everything I can carry, and the Zigerions got nothing of mine."
Back with Jerry, he enters the room of his simulated boss. "Mr. Marklevitz, do you have a minute to talk?"
Simulation Marklevitz walks into a wall before facing Jerry and snapping his fingers. "Yes."
"Look, I'm a fraud. I mean, let's face it. "Hungry for apples" is just a rip-off of "Got milk?" It's almost identical." Jerry admitted in a shameful tone.
Simulation Marklevitz snaps his fingers. "Yes."
"Okay. I deserve that. Um, I guess I'll just pack up my desk." Jerry said in sad tone.
Simulation Marklevitz snaps his fingers. "Yes."
Jerry starts to cry as he walks to the door. "Oh my god." He then faces his fake boss with a glare. "Wait. You know what?! No! The milk people don't have a patent on simple rhetorical questions! Y-You— There's not even a single word in "Hungry for Apples" that's shared by "Got milk?" It's a completely different slogan. It's different! And I shouldn't be fired. I should be promoted!"
Simulation Marklevitz snaps his fingers. "Yes."
"Yeah!" Jerry shouted, only to realize what his fake boss said. "Wait. Really?"
Simulation Marklevitz snaps his... Oh, you know what he's doing right now. *Snap* "Yes."
"Yes!" Jerry cheered. "I mean, it may be derivative, but it's the most successful campaign to come out of this agency in a long time."
*Snap* "Yes."
I-I'm not saying it should win an award for commercials, but it could certainly be nominated for an award for commercials specifically about apples, like an Appley or something." Jerry pondered.
*Snap* "Yes."
"Is there really an award called the Appley for apple-related ad campaigns?" Jerry asked in a surprised tone.
*Snap* "Yes."
"Could we nominate me?" Jerry asked in a slightly hopeful tone.
*Snap* "Yes."
"Holy crap!" Jerry shouted with glee.
Walking out with a smug look, he missed Simulation Marklevitz glitch out and walking into his desk.
At the Smith house, the escape pod lands in front of the garage.
"Get in guys. I'm gonna be able to use these processors to make some real important science stuff." Rick said as the three enter the garage. Pulling a book back and revealing a secret safe, Rick types in a code, only to be denied. "Huh. I thought I entered the code right." He types it again, only to be denied once more.
Suddenly, everything around the three fades away, revealing they were in a simulation.
That's when Nebulon and a trio of guards enter the chamber. "Well, what's this? W-what could this possibly be? Because it looks like you're inside a simulation…inside a simulation. You're still on the ship. Game-day bucket go boom!"
"I thought it was too easy." Noa muttered.
That's when a female Zigerion enters and approaches Nebulon. "Sir, the, uh, doctor's appointment to examine the discoloration on your butthole flaps was-"
"Too loud, Cynthia. Too loud and too specific." Nebulon said, causing Cynthia to leave. He then faces Rick. "We've known how to make concentrated dark matter for a long time. But now we also know the code to your fabled safe, Rick Sanchez! All your most valuable secrets will now be ours!"
"Uh, yeah, until I get home before you and change the combination, you bunch of idiots!" Rick shouted.
"That is why you're never getting home. Get them!" Nebulon ordered.
The guards were about to grab them when Rick, thinking fast, pulls Morty's pants down, causing the Zigerions to recoil in disgust. "RUN GUYS!"
The three take off, with Morty pulling his pants back up. As they ran through the ship while being chased by guards, they soon found themselves in some sort of containment room.
"Oh my god!" Morty shouted at the sight of the room.
Seeing the guards closing in, Rick runs to the platform in the room and deactivates the gravity, causing everyone to float.
Noa quickly grabs Rick and Morty and floats upward, with two to three guards following. Our trio soon reach a similar platform, where Rick turn on the gravity, causing the guards to fall.
They then continue running.
Taking a break from the action, we cut to Jerry, who was at ceremony called Appley Awards, with him standing upfront.
"I got to tell you, this morning, I didn't even know this award existed. Now I'm holding one. And, um… Look, I want to say that today was the best day of my life But the truth is, it's, it's more meaningful than that." Jerry said, holding a award shaped like a guy holding a giant apple over his head.
"My man!" The mailman simulation shouted from the crowd.
"Yes. Thank you, sir. I am finally complete!" Jerry said.
That's when the simulations turned into the mailman. "My my my my man!" They then turn into random objects and people, which freak Jerry out before the simulation crashes and disappears.
"Aah! What the hell?!" Jerry shouted before seeing the Appley Award disappear from his hands. "No."
That's when Rick, Noa, and Morty enter the room. "Jerry?!/Dad!"
"What are you doing here? W-why are you dressed like a waiter?" Rick asked. Noa was about to answer, only to be interrupted. "Screw it. We don't have time. Come on."
Rick then grabs a sobbing Jerry by the back on his shirt before running out of the room with Noa and Morty.
The four soon enter a restricted area, where guards chased them through various simulations before they reached a hanger full of spaceships.
Entering one, the four took a seat.
"Man up, Jerry! I may need you to work the lasers." Rick shouted as activates the ship's controls.
Flying out of the hanger, their ship was being pursued by others ship, who were firing lasers at them.
"Oh, man! They're hot on our tail, Rick!" Morty shouted.
"I guess they really do have concentrated dark matter." Rick said.
"Well, you know how to make it, too, right, Rick?" Morty asked.
"Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, check the engine room. We just need cesium, Plutonic quarks, and bottled water." Rick ordered.
Morty ran out of the room for a bit before coming back with the requested ideas. "Whoa! It's all here, Rick!"
"Wow, Morty. Lucky break." Noa said as he narrows his eyes in suspicion.
Rick then points to a nearby bucket. "Grab that bucket. Okay, two parts Plutonic quarks, one part cesium."
"Okay. Uh-huh. Alright." Morty said as he mixes the ingredients.
"Now empty the water bottle into the bucket and pour it all into the fuel tank so we can get the hell out of here!" Rick ordered. However, Morty just freezes in place. "What are you doing, Morty?! There's no time!" That's when the ship fades away along with Jerry's suit, revealing that they were simulations. Morty then glitches out, revealing that he was a simulation this entire time. "Oh, no."
"What the…?" Jerry, who was now in his underwear, asked.
"Should've figured." Noa groaned.
"No!" Rick groaned as he facepalms.
That's when Nebulon and a few Zigerions entered the chamber, looking pretty smug.
"Oh my god, Rick. How dumb are you? You're inside a simulation of a simulation…inside another giant simulation" Nebulon taunted before laughing. "W-we never had the recipe for concentrated dark matter. But we do now! We do now, sucka!"
"You simulated my grandson's genitalia?! Y-y-you bunch of diabolical sons of bitches!" Rick shouted as he was about to strangle Nebulon, only for a guard to hold him back.
"Kevin fought real hard to supervise that project." A Zigerion said.
"You said you weren't gonna tell anyone!" Kevin shouted before crossing his arms. "I'm never gonna live this down, am I?"
"All right. Okay. All right, great. Wonderful. You win. Can we go home now?" Rick asked in a annoyed tone.
"I don't know. Can you?" A Zigerion asked.
"Ha! Nice." Nebulon said as he fist-bumps the Zigerion before facing Rick. "Okay, okay. Show this gullible turd to his shuttle. I'm done with him. Oh, wait. Let me get a picture." Nebulon then uses his phone to take a selfie with Rick. "Aww. Look at his face. He's trying to figure out if He's in a simulation still. Are you, Rick? Are you? You're not. Or are you?"
"How about I kill you and see if we really are in a simulation." Noa said in a even tone.
Nebulon backed away in fear. "You're not in a simulation, you're not in a simulation!"
"Good. Also, do you have a recording of Jerry's time in the simulation? Because I want to show him all the various, and obvious, fakes he didn't notice." Noa asked, getting a flabbergasted look from Jerry.
Nebulon rubs his chin in thought before shrugging his shoulders. "Eh, sure. It's pretty much useless data to us anyway."
Kevin then walks over and hands Noa a disk in a case.
"Thank you." Noa said as he puts the case in his pocket. "Now then, you have a shuttle for us."
As the guards lead them away, Nebulon speaks up. "Oh, a-and, by the way, I don't have discolored butthole flaps. That was part of the simulation."
"Oh. Uh, sir, should I cancel that appointment, then?" Cynthia asked.
"Yeah! Of course you should!" Nebulon said loud before whispering to Cynthia. "No, keep it. Move it up, actually, if you can."
We cut to a shuttle being launched out of the Zigerion base, which had Rick, Noa, and Jerry in it, taking them back to Earth.
Jerry was looking out the window in sadness, which Rick noticed. "Hey, Jerry, don't worry about it. So what if the most meaningful day of your life was a simulation operating at minimum capacity?"
"You know what, Rick? Those guys took you for a ride, too. You should try having a little respect for the dummies of the universe, now that you're one of us." Jerry retorted before crossing his arms.
"Maybe you're right, Jerry. Maybe you're right." Noa said as a mischievous look forms on his face.
Back on the Zigerion space station, they were celebrating.
"All right, everybody. Two parts Plutonic quarks… One part cesium…." Nebulon said as he adds the ingredients. "A-and listen, I'm sorry for shouting earlier. I-I couldn't ask for a better staff. I love you guys, and I love all your families." He then adds the water. "And the final ingredient…"
The Zigerion space station suddenly explodes, killing all the Zigerions.
"Whoa! What the hell?! W-what happened back there?" Jerry asked in shock as he witnesses the explosion.
"Why don't you ask the smartest people in the universe, Jerry?" Rick suggested before taking a sip from his flask. "Oh, yeah. You can't. They blew up."
"Those idiots didn't consider the possibility that we just say a fake recipe and that they have no way of knowing if it was real or not." Noa said with a smirk.
Putting his flask away, Rick turns on the radio, which plays "Baker Street" (A/N: Null Nui does not own this song). Rick vocalizes the saxophone as he has the chair he was in recline.
{STINGER}
At the agency Jerry works at, he was pitching his "Hungry for Apples?" idea for real.
"So… What do you think?" Jerry asked.
He was met with disapproving glares.
"You're fired." Mr. Marklevitz said.
"Wha-? But t-this idea was tested in a state-of-the-art simulation." Jerry stammered.
"Well, then, it was a terrible simulation. Get out." Mr. Marklevitz ordered. Jerry hangs his head and leaves. "Man, how does a guy like that go home and have sex with his wife?"
At the Smith house, we see a drunk Rick enter Morty's room, who was asleep.
"Hey, Morty." Rick greeted, waking Morty up. "Hey, little buddy. H-h-how you doing in here right now?"
"Aw, geez, Rick. What are you doing, man?" Morty asked in a tired tone.
"Y-y-you're a good kid, Morty. Y-you're a real l-little c-character, Morty." Rick said.
"Oh, boy."
"You know, I had a really rocky road today, M-Morty." Rick continued. "You're my little friend, aren't you? We had some good times together, huh, M-Morty? We You're a real true hero out in the field. You're a... You're a real trooper, huh, M-M-Morty?"
"Have you been drinking, Rick?" Morty asked.
"I really appreciate you, Morty." Rick said.
" O-okay, cool. A-alright, Rick." Morty said.
Rick, out of sudden aggression, pulls a knife out and brings it to Morty's neck, freaking him out. "You little son of a bitch! Y-y- are you a simulation?! Huh?! Are you a simulation?!"
"No! No! No!" Morty shouted in panic.
"You little son of a bitch!" Rick said before calming down and lowering the knife. "I-I-I'm sorry, Morty. Y-you're a good… You're a good kid, Morty. Y-you're a good… You're a good kid."
Rick then collapses onto the ground and begin snoring.
"Oh my god!" Morty shouted. "W-w-what the hell? What a life."
Outside the Smith house, we see Jerry pull up in car. Exiting it, he walks to the front down with his head down, still sad over being fired.
As he opens the front door, he let's out a startled yelp, as he found Noa there waiting for him with a smirk.
"Hey Jerry, glad to see ya! Also, sorry about you getting fired." Noa greeted in cheeky tone.
"How do you know about that?" Jerry asked.
"I saw the look of shame you had when you walked up to the door." Noa explained. "Which meant at best: You pitch was rejected. Or at worst: You were fired. And when it comes to you, I always prepare for the worst."
"Way to kick a man when he is down." Jerry said in a flat tone.
"Don't worry, I know just the thing that'll cheer us up from your negative energy." Noa said in a playful tone as he takes out the disk he got from the Zigerions. "The two of us watching the simulation you were in and me pointing out all the obvious fakes you didn't noticed."
"Look, I don't-!" Jerry said, only for Noa to cover his mouth.
"Now, now, don't be like that." Noa said before he grabs Jerry's arm. "Plus, Beth does want us to spend some time bonding, and what better way for us to bond then by watching you be a dumbass."
Noa then drags Jerry to the living room, while the recently fired man let's out a cry, no doubt not looking forward to more humiliation.
And that's that!
Man, that took longer then I would've like. Then again, this was mostly due to the fact this is my second to least favorite episode of Season 1. It's a good episode, just not one of my favorites.
In fact, just gonna say it now, when it comes to episodes I don't like, it might take longer than usual.
Anyway, I hoped you all enjoyed, and I'll see you next time!