Rick sanchez | Rick and Morty |

You had worked with Rick Prime for long enough that you had stopped pretending your relationship with him was a normal employer and employee arrangement, You knew exactly what he had done.

You knew about the dimensions he'd destroyed, the people he'd manipulated, the technology he'd stolen, and the things he'd done simply because he could, You knew that Rick Prime wasn't some misunderstood genius who had accidentally gone too far, He knew exactly what he was doing..

And you still admired him

To you, Prime had always seemed almost impossible to reach, He was brilliant in a way that made everyone else in the room feel several steps behind, He could walk into a completely unfamiliar system, look at it for thirty seconds, and understand what it was doing, he wasterrifying, He created technology that other Ricks considered impossible, treated dimensions like rooms he could simply walk into, and had built himself into something that felt larger than an ordinary person..

And strangely enough, despite everything, he had been somewhat close to you, He trusted you with things he didn't trust most people with, He let you handle components directly from his private laboratory, He'd sometimes sit beside you while you worked, correcting something without asking, making some arrogant remark when you got something wrong, or unexpectedly asking what you thought about one of his ideas..that was as close as you were ever gonna get to him.

So when he'd sent you away to retrieve a rare component from another dimension that he needed to continue his project, you hadn't even really questioned it, why would you?.

You had left the facility believing you'd be back within the hour since getting it shouldn't take too long to get back to him.

Except You didn't know that Rick C-137 had got to him first

When you finally returned, you teleported back in the base, only to find the power shut down, the machines humming around the chamber had been damaged or shut down, Several panels had been torn apart, equipment was scattered across the floor, and the room looked like a fight had ripped through it, everything was a absolute mess.

That's when you used your tracking device to get to the room where your device said he was, when you finally got there you could barely believe your eyes.

Prime had been strapped into one of his own mechanical restraints. The chair was damaged almost beyond recognition, its locking mechanisms twisted and broken from force, Prime was still secured against it, his body completely motionless and broken.

You thought you were gonna puke right there, his face was barely recognizable, many bones in his face seemed to be broken and he was a bloody mess, the blood from his body dripped to the ground, staining your shoes as the stench of the blood made your head spin, but before you could even mutter a word out, you heard footsteps behind you as you quickly turned around to see Rick, his face and body were covered in blood that clearly wasn't his, his hair was a total mess due to the sticky blood that clung to him, his expression was empty and tired, You quickly tried to pull out a weapon from your pocket but he was quicker

Last thing you saw was him pull out a device from his labcoat and point it at you, a bright light came out of it as your vision went white, thats all you could recall

You didn't know what day or time it was when you woke up, you couldn't move your hands or your legs, you were tied to what seemed to be a chair, upon looking around you noticed that you were in a laboratory, not Prime's lab tho, this one looked more messy and un-kept, there was a board on the wall, it had pinned picture's of prime and random planet's and locations

"..T..the fuck?.." You spoke in a weak voice, but your attempt at getting familiar with your surroundings was ended when the metal door opened as rick walked inside, he looked more clean and somewhat healthier, but his expression still felt the same, you could see the way he stared at you as if he was fighting the urge to just finish you right there and get this over with, even the thought of having to deal with another person who was close to prime made him sick.

Suddenly he grabbed a strange device from one of the drawers as he spoke "This is a memory abstraction device, each usage hurts like fucking he- hiccup Hell, i could abstract all your memories and re-play each of them until i find everything i need..or you could answer every single one of my questions.

You suddenly saw him look at someone behind you as he spoke "Turn the light on Morty."

You heard a click as suddenly the laboratory lights turned on, almost blinding you as you hissed in pain, your eyes fighting to adjust to the sudden brightness

"So first question, who the fuck are you?."