Gaia; Galaxy Unknown; Dimension FH-001. ????? [05/30 FT].

"Ohmygod," said Summer, arms tight around herself although it did very little to stave off the cold; where they'd wound up was nothing like where they'd come from, the forests having grown dark and gloomy with fog, blocking out the sunlight, and giving them very little concept of how long they'd been there, how much time had passed, or where they might even be in relation to wherever Jerry had gone or Gaia's childbearing site. She slumped against a tree for a moment, then let her exhaustion and Gaia's gravity pull her to the damp forest floor.

"If Grampa Rick was gonna knock up a whole planet, why couldn't he have knocked up a smaller one? We're never going to find him now. Or Mom. Or Dad."

( If I die, don't eat my ass. That'd be weird. || CW for some super-sketch drug use. )

"Well?" asked Morty.

But Summer held onto that in her lungs for a moment longer before she exhaled out a puff of purple smoke.

Summer's voice was strained as the vapor worked its way through her.

"I think we got this, bro."

[[ and my litte side saga from S04;E09 of Rick & Morty, "Childrick of Mort" continues! Which should break down into four parts today, NFB, NFI, BBQ. OOC always welcome, so on and so forth! ]]

Gaia; Galaxy Unknown; Dimension FH-001. ????? [05/30 FT].

( Let's show Mom and Dad what video games and partying are all about! || CW for the worst time to have a bad drug trip. )

Another sharp shift from the ship that threw them fast down a corridor as the vehicle shot straight forward at full speed, climbing up a mountain like it was a ramp with enough fire and power behind it to launch it straight into the atmmosphere...and beyond.

Until it finally found its final resting place in a new object that it shot itself straight into, with an impact so powerful, it only took that one last toss to leave Summer and Morty in an unconscious heap in a small puddle of blue vomit on the floor.

[[ taken from S04;E09 of Rick & Morty, "Childrick of Mort," continued from here! And to be continued....in a bit! *Makes the most out of dramatic pauses in the narrative* ]]

Gaia; Galaxy Unknown; Dimension FH-001. Sunday Afternoon [05/30 FT].

With a groan, Morty felt himself coming to again, pushing himself up, which nudged his sister off of him. "Are--are we dead?" he slowly moaned. "D-did we die?"

Summer pushed herself up a little, her head aching, her stomach roiling, her whole body feeling like it had beem chewed up and spit out by the multiverse's worst bad trip ever. "I...don't ever want to be high again," she declared, slumping back against the corridor wall with a hand to her pounding head. "I-I..." Her other hand joined the first. "I got scared straight," she realized. "Ohmygod, I got scared straight!"

This was a lot to handle right now.

( We gotta get out of here before this guy falls out of the sky. || CW for dead dieties, pissed-off planets, and catching up to the A-Plot. )

"Hang on tight, kids," said Rick, clinging onto the controls of the ship as Gaia burst open, spewing out a thick wave of lava, a column of which they barely avoided as they raced forward, trying to beat out the flow before it reached Beth and Jerry, standing in awe at the proceedings from the surface. Rick swung the ship down and lowered the landing poor door just in time for them to crawl in and be flown to safety, back where they'd parked the station wagon, far, far away from the planet's furious destruction of everything Rick and Beth had built.

[[ I can't believe this stupidity is what I spent my weekend on. Anyway! Continued from here transcribed/adapted from S04;E09 of Rick & Morty, "Childrick of Mort", and we are just about done~ Woot. ]]

En Route to Earth; Dimension FH-001; Sunday Afternoon [05/30 FT].

Back in the station wagon, flying away from Gaia and leaving her in a smoky ruin of her own destruction, the family set the course for home, and Beth couldn't help looking back on what remained of all she and her father had built together in the meantime.

"I mean," she then said, turning away and toward Rick driving beside her, "Gaia's not gonna raise those guys to...hunt us down....right?"

"Oh," said Rick with confidence, "most definitely. I put a tracker on that ship, I'll blow it up if they come anywhere near me."

"Well, kids," Jerry, in the back seat and wearing nothing but a necklace, a crown of leaves, and a loincloth that was much too small, even for him, sighed in resignation, "never thought I'd say this, but...Summer?" He leaned forward over the seat to give his daughter a smile. "You were right."

And Summer, still trying to figure out how she felt about the whole getting super high and killing God of it all, never exactly expected to hear that, either. "Wait," she flinched back a little because she was pretty sure she could literally smell her own father's balls from here, but also she was waiting for the other foot to drop, "what?"

"I thought I wanted to teach you guys about tents, but...really?" He sighed, looking away in shame. "I just wanted to feel important. I guess sometimes you kids do know what you're talking about..." He dropped his voice a little cagily. "Even if it's mean."

Summer rolled her eyes, because if you wanted to have a touching moment, there, Dad, you could have skipped that part just fine, and then Morty chimed in, too. "Right," he said, "but didn't you, like, go into god-mode and fight Mom?"

"Love is the only power that matters, Morty," Jerry informed him in a peaceful, beatific tone.

"No," Rick interjected tersely, "you had actual power, and you did jack shit. That was a divine staff. You could have cured cancer or raised the dead. Instead you made bugs."

"Well, I was impressed, Dad," Beth offered. "He saved my life. No thanks to you."

Rick looked at Beth for a long moment after she turned her own eyes forward outside the windshield; then, his own eyes follow suite a moment before they shifted toward the back seat.

"You kids got high on alien mist and drove a ship into that Zues guy's head," he blurted out. "Basically murdered him."

"Grampa! What the hell?!" Summer shouted, while Morty's own protests of "Come on!" overlapped with hers.

"What?" Rick countered firmly. "You did! I mean, not to cast the first stone, but, Beth and Jerry, pretty terrible parenting on your part. Did you know Summer huffed a K-Zax Array? She basically smoked The Ring. Most pilots die after three days. And Morty, the fucking moron, he thought the ship worked like a game controller. What in the Disney channel fuck is that? Maybe help him with homework next time. He's clearly crying for help!"

And just like that, betrayal, anger, disbelief and disappointment was stirred up into such a jumbled mix that none of it could land squarely on Rick's shoulders anymore, dropping the mood inside the car down to the very floor, everyone too busy simmering in their own irritation to say anything. And with that in place, Rick simply reached over and finally just turned the radio on.


[[ /fin! Thus conclused S04;E09 of Rick and Morty, "Childrick of Mort". Thanks for reading and more than likely boggling at my canon! Summer's got reception again, so this post maybe NFB, but it is open if anyone wants to get in touch! ]]