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The small world I knew felt suffocating before I met him. Before he showed me the rest. Before he captured my heart.
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“What’s up, the name’s Y’N,” You say with a smirk, “I’m supposed to be meeting someone named Nick?”
The man rolls his eyes, “I-It’s Rick, not Nick, you dumb bitch.”
How charming, he must be the Nick Sanchez, you’ve heard so little about. Or Rick Sanchez you guess.
“Ah, so you are the guy I’m supposed to be meeting?” You eye him, with a smirk plastered on your face. His hair is all strewn about and blue. Not to mention the strong smell of alcohol coming from him. Is he really the guy you are supposed to be working with?
“O-oh, you’re the person who applied,” He looks you up and down with a smirk, “you never mentioned that you were hot.”
You roll your eyes, but a blush forms on your face before you can stop it. Odd way to greet someone, but you guess we all have our quirks. You quickly clear your throat, and say, “So about this Assistant job, aren’t you going to interview me or something like that? Unless this is the interview, in which case you can make a note of the fact that I'm hot.”
Rick chuckles, “Hot and sassy, huh? I like that. Now come on, let’s get this “interview” started.” He grabs your arm before ushering you into the house, and into his garage. Well, can you even call it a garage? It’s more of a high-tech science fiction lab. Your eyes quickly scan over everything you can see, trying to take in and remember everything like you won't get a chance to see it again. You move towards the desk without thinking, looking at the designs and equations in awe.
You see him smirk at you out of the corner of your eye before he quickly hides it.
“Alright let’s go, stop gwaking, and start walking,” Rick says with an aggravated tone, pulling you around to face him. He now has a ray gun of some kind and is standing in front of a green glowing portal of slime? He grabs your hand pulling you along. He walks into the green glowing thing first, pulling you in behind him. You hold your breath and screw your eyes shut expecting to feel the green stuff on you.
When you don't, you peak an eye open.
You let out a gasp, the purple skies, orange grass, and beautifully strange creatures around you wonderfully surprises you. You notice Rick is watching your expression closely. A smirk curls its way onto his face as he watches your face break out into a grin.
All of a sudden the realization kicks in that this isn’t earth and you just stepped through a portal to get here. What even is here? What is this place? You crouch down to touch the orange grass. It's surprisingly soft, and when you pluck a blade of it from the ground, it comes out easily.
“Where are did you take us?” You ask as you look at the orange blade of grass more closely before dropping it.
Rick sighs, “Planet Z-48.” He takes a sip out of a flask you didn’t notice he had until right now, before pocketing it again. Oh great, he drinks on the job. Real professional.
You wait for him to elaborate and when he doesn’t you ask, “So…. what’re we here for?”
He looks about the landscape searching for something before he finally points at a tree in the distance with a large nest resting on its a branch, “There, see the nest?” You nod your head, “That nest is home to a Crytrixon creature, which is basically a snake with wings and a tendency to eat its own children.”
“Sounds fun, lemme guess the Crytrixon has something you can’t find on any planet or some shi- s-something?”
Rick gapes at you in a ‘how did you know’ fashion. You shrug before saying nonchalantly, “Why else would you point out the nest?”
Rick covers up his shock with a cough and a swig of from his flask. “Yeah whatever, just go grab one of the eggs in the nest, and bring them back.” He shoos you away.
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It doesn’t take you that long to get to the nest and grab one of the bright purple eggs. The egg is surprisingly light. You almost drop it along the way when the nest’s Crytrixon comes back to see you robbing its nest. You manage to get out of there with only a cut running down your back. You've had worse so you don't pay the cut any attention.
Rick quickly opens a portal back to the garage, that you immediately jump into clutching the egg to your chest, trying to make sure it doesn’t crack. Thankfully you manage to get through without a single crack on the egg, and you in one piece. You place the egg down, panting, leaning forward and placing your hands on your knees in an attempt to catch your breath. Rick jumps through shortly after you do.
Once you feel yourself breathing again, you find yourself laughing, "Holy shit, that was fun."
Rick's face breaks into a grin when he hears that before he quickly shoves it back behind a cocky smirk, "You can put the egg over there." Rick points to the part of his desk that isn't crowded with papers, lab equipment, and tools before he starts to shuffle through a box.
"Aight," You pick up the egg like the obedient girl you are and place it carefully on the desk.
“H-Holy shit! That thing tore you up!” Rick yells, holding some kind of tool, with wide eyes as he stares at you.
"I'm all good, Rick." You say quickly, waving your hands out in front of you.
"No, you aren't, that cut is huge," Rick takes a step towards you, and grabs your hand.
"I've had worse, seriously, it's fine," You say, attempting to pull away from his grasp.
His eyes fix onto you, his mouth contorts into a frown and he doesn't let go, “Come here before you die from poisoning. Those things have venom in their claws. Annoying bastards.”
You eye him suspiciously, specifically the needle he takes out of his lab coat. How the fuck can that be safe? You look into his eyes, scanning for any sign of bad intent and when you find none surprisingly, you sigh, "Fine."
He smirks, “Come here, I don’t bite… at first.”
Now you’re rolling your eyes.