ѕ02/ᴇ03 - ᴀᴜᴛᴏ ᴇʀᴏᴛɪᴄ ᴀssɪᴍɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

A distress signal flared in the space cruiser while Rick was driving, Summer sat in the backseat and Morty sat beside Rick. The light of the signal alerted Rick, bringing a smile to his face in excitement when he pressed the beacon to get the location, "Ooh~ Yeah, distress beacon-urrrrp-yeah baby!"

"You're excited about that?"

"Number one rule of space, kids. Whenever there's a distress beacon, nine out of ten times it's a ship full of dead alien bodies and free shit!"

He turned his ship towards the location of the beacon, "One our of ten times it's a death trap b-but I'm ready to take those chances~!"

The three of them landed on a ship shortly after and it was empty, eerily quiet and there were cobwebs on the walls. Rick lead Summer and Morty with a flashlight in his hand and Summed crossed her arms with an unsure look on her face, "Seems like something terrible happened here.."

"Yep, cha-ching. Oh, and if you guys happen to find any eggs, don't shy away from it. Give one of them a shake, those face huggers are worth more than this ship."

BANG

Summer turned around at the loud echo, "What.. was that?!" Morty turned too, frightened at the multiple possibilities of who or what it could be and then the three of them heard steps coming towards them from the dark hallway that they had just come from,

"Ri-Rick?"

The steps got louder and Rick slowly moved forward, his eyes narrowed and he steadily got in front of his grandkids when they stared at the darkness. Rick then pointed his flashlight at the hall and saw a person coming with a hideous body structure, once the persons face was reveal, Rick couldn't help smile, "[Name]!" He coughed immediately, "I-I ma- oh, hey [Name]."

"What? Oh hey guys, ooh Summer's here too, how's it goin' chicka?"

Rick, Morty and Summer saw that the odd lump on your back was actually a bag of goods that you had found around the ship and Morty smiled at the sight of you, "He-hey [Name]."

"Morty." You had nodded in greeting to him and then turned to Rick, winking as you lightly shook the bag of things on your back, "Wa- who is this? And why do you know my name?"

You smiled at her as Rick stood by you and you spoke carelessly as she stared at you skeptically, "Let's just say I've met you before, in another dimension."

Rick appeared visibly disappointed and irritated, "Urgh, seriously? Don't tell me you've met another douchebag called Rick too." You shook your head, "Well there's an entire citadel of them, Rick.." He clicked his tongue and then an automated door opened as multiple people with light blue skin came through with worried faces. Rick saw them in surprise and dropped the bag on your back as he smiled to hide the fact that he was going to steal from the ship, "Oh hey, thank god you're alive.."

"Can you help us! Our planet was taken over by some sort of.. entity! It absorbed the minds of our people!" The lady in front spoke, her breath ragged as she desperately sought help for the remainder of her crew, "We didn't know it was happening before it was too late." Another male spoke beside the lady, "The people it takes over, it looks like yours friends and your family but their not, anymore.. There.. part of it!"

"H-urp-excuse me, how do you know it didn't get on the ship with you?" You pointed out and they looked at you in surprise, Rick saw the two people standing behind the group of four and spoke with disinterest, "Those two ding-dongs look pretty calm about the entire thing."

They screamed, high-pitched and you cringed at the sound when the two beings that seemed hypnotised grabbed the other people and began spewing a thick, green liquid into their mouths, forcing it down their throats and then the victims stood as if completely unaffected whilst being controlled by the unknown 'entity.'

"Call it." Rick uttered and you nudged him, "How didn't they even notice."

He rolled his eyes, smirking a little, "I know right." He reached into his coat to grab a gun and then all six of the aliens form the ship stared at Rick, they all simultaneously broke out into a smile and spoke together, "Hello Rick, long time no see."

You raised a brow and thought back to who this may have been considering the amount of checking up on Rick sort of but not really stalking you had done and then his eyes widened ,"Unity?"

"Rick?" Summer and Morty looked up at their Grandpa in confusion, looking for answers as you had been glaring at Unity, it caught this and smirked your way before smiling again when Rick looked at it, "Oh boy- uh, this is my grandkids, Summer and Morty." He looked at the two teenagers nervously and avoided looking at you, "Summer, Morty, this is Unity - we sorta.. used to uh, date."

Unity lead Rick, Morty, Summer and yourself to it's ship and once Rick and his grandkids were in, Unity stopped you briefly with a smile, all six of the aliens that she had just taken control of, smiling at you kindly, "Sorry, I didn't introduce myself-"

"You didn't have to, I heard your name like twice and that you used to date Rick, the intention of being nice and trying to be kind is wasted on me."

Unity looked a little shocked as she stared at you, her smile fell but your face hadn't changed from the calm and neutral expression it held, you walked passed her and Rick as well when you exited the main part of the ship, taking your flask from your jacket to twist the cap open and take a large swig when you ignored the scientist you adored.

"You got quite an operation goin' here, Une. You're a whole planet now, huh?" Rick let himself down the ramp of the ship and approached the woman alien standing in front of the entire crowd that watched with no expression on their faces. You didn't like the feeling it gave you, you didn't like the thought of an entire population being controlled against their will with no freedom in any aspect whatsoever.

Perhaps these people weren't great before but it didn't mean that a single entity could forcibly take control over them, "After we broke up, I spent a lot of time wandering through space-"

A male next to her continued, "Then I was able to find this world-" And another one spoke up with a deeper voice, "Where I was better able to focus on my passion for unification."

You cocked an eyebrow from beside Summer, "So, taking away peoples freedom?"

"Or stealing peoples bodies?" You smiled lowly at Summer when she mirrored you and then Rick shook his head, attempting to defend his ex-girlfriend as he covered his eyes briefly at his granddaughters salty attitude, "Summer, [Name].. Rude. Why don't y-you guys go play with Unity while me and Unity do some catching up."

"Unity and I."

He narrowed his eyes on you, keeping his eyes on your face for a while longer than intended before some other people came by Morty and Summer to take them somewhere else, "Run along now." He waved you off and you crossed your arms, angered at the thought of what they may do and due to the fact that you couldn't exactly stop it when there was so many of it.

"U-Uh Rick! Aren't these people going to barf into our mouths and absorb us!?"

"Jeez, relax Morty, we're guests here because if something happens to you, who knows what Rick will do, right?" A sweet smile to Morty that reassured him turned deadly when you looked at Rick, pressuring him to defend himself and agree with you because he knew he wouldn't let anything life-threatening happen to his daughters idiotic kids.

And you wouldn't let anything happen to them either, they were to special to you and it didn't really matter what dimension they were from. You guessed this was how Rick saw life and love though, because he had so many versions of his family, they meant so little to him.

Unity smiled and you came to the conclusion that the body Unity used the most, which was this woman dressed in a formal suit and skirt, had been the president or leader of this population because of how dominant it was in this body, "[Name] is right, I won't let any harm come to you two- I mean, three."

"Alright, g-go-"

"Did you just say two? Did you guys hear that? It said two. Oh if you think you can hurt me you better think twice, bitch."

"Woah, [Name], let's cool it down with the hostility - this is my ex-girlfriend." Rick was genuinely surprised by the malicious look upon your face, the was your eyes burned as they stared daggers at Unity and then he seemed to piece something together, "Wait, do you know Unity?"

"No god dammit, I'm your wif- shit, I'm bored, I'm going to look around this piece of crap." You took the flask out again, and with your other hand, you had grabbed your portal gun to shoot one into the wall and walk through briefly to grab the stuff you had hidden in your laboratory in dimension C-137 and you emptied the flask down your throat to pour your own drink into it.

When you turned around to g back into the portal to the world Unity was on, along with Rick, Morty and Summer, you were shocked to find Summer behind you, Morty creeping his head through to follow his older sister as he was frightened by the zombie-like people on the planet ruled by a hivemind.

"Jesus! Summer, get out! Morty, don't get in here!" You shooed them out and Summer flinched at your outburst, almost moving out with a sour look before she heard another voice, "Grandma? I'm not in your lab! Did you say Morty?!" You heard C-137 Summer downstairs and sighed in anger, pinching the bridge of your nose when Mortys shaky voice spoke up, "He-hey, Isn't thi- this is my r-room, right?"

"Was that me?!" Summer's eyes were wide and then you shoved them both out, walking through the portal as Morty almost tripped backwards before Unity caught him, "Fucking kids.." Summer and Morty stared after you when you walked away in a haste, they observed the way your posture was slouched over, only straightening up when you tipped the flask into your mouth and they looked at each other, "D-Did that other Summer call he-her.. Grandma?"

You walked alone on the streets as boring and unified people walked by going by with their lives, there were newspaper present with the headline reading, 'World Peace Achieved.' and you scoffed at the thought process of this entity who lived to take over other peoples minds and control them like some sort of coward.

Rick had been walking around the streets with Unity, always talking to a new person that was actually it. They discussed it's plan and what Unity was trying to do as it described how they were going to join the Galactic Federation to have access to multiple other dimensions and planets to also take them over and become what the single-minded call a 'God.'

Rick and Unity conversed and spoke of how Unity had grown ever since the time they both met, Rick tried to convince it that he had grown as well only to gain disapproving looks to which he questioned, Rick expressed how he had gotten back with his family - perhaps due to the fact that he was lonely or how he maybe wanted to be with collective again.

The two hit it off as if they had never left each other and it made you sour. And the only way to avoid them was to go near Summer and Morty. When you found both of them, they had been watching the people of this planet sculpting their faces into a mountain. Morty was eating a burger that he had gotten from a pile of burgers on a plate beside him on the long chair he laid on and Summer had her arms crossed with an annoyed look, not allowing herself to enjoy this when it felt so wrong to her.

"What's wrong with you? There putting your face in a mountain and got you burgers too.." The both of them turned around to see you, relieved to see you had come back and that you were relatively okay. They didn't know that the sight you saw was distorted and colourful, a rainbow mixing through everything in your sight as things were floating or coming to life and the smile on your face only made Summer suspicious, "[Name]? Why're you smiling so creepy?"

Laughing, you ignored her (or you didn't hear the question but that didn't matter) and then you flopped onto the floor besides them while your eyes were bright green, "He-her eyes are green.. Are- are you alright?"

Morty spoke shakily while a half-eaten burger was forgotten in his hands and then Summer rallied quickly, sitting up as one of Unitys bodys stood by her with a fan, "Nothings alright here, Morty! Don't you see, these poor peoples bodies are being used, they're a planet of puppets!"

"I second that!" Morty looked from his sister and then to you quickly, wondering what had happened to you to get like this but he remembered the place that Rick had taken him to, to get a drink that was so rare and special that it was only made and sold by one person in the entire multiverse, you.

Morty acknowledged the fact that you could indulge yourself in the drink because it was yours but he didn't know you would be so reckless as to turn up in such a messed up state where you couldn't even tell what was the floor and what wasn't. He saw you beginning to swim on the floor and Unitys body spoke with a frown, "Yeah, I can hear you.."

The body looked at you and it's voice got your attention, "You shut up! You're the one raping all these people of their freedom!"

"O-Oh geez, that's a bit to-too much, isn't it, [Name]" You glared at Morty when he frowned and Summer watched you with wide eyes, frightened by your choice of words, "Oh come on, Morty, you're fourteen. Rape isn't just about a sexual activity being forced upon someone, it can also be non-sexual like how Unity is raping these people of their freedom of action and speech because it's taking away their ability to choose whether they'd want to be controlled like a god damn zombie!"

"I'm angry! Take me to Rick!"

Unity, Morty and Summer silently observed the way you pouted and screamed Ricks name with a desperate tone and they didn't know how to react. You stomped your foot like a child even though you were most likely four decades older than Morty and Unity looked away briefly, "Now's.. not a good time."

Anger bubbled inside you and then Summer stood up with a frown, "No, [Name] is right and this planet isn't!" She stormed off and you followed as Morty looked in between Unity and yourself before finally deciding to follow you. Summer went back into the town and found a megaphone at a store, she stood atop a block in the street and turned it on, yelling as Morty stood by her side to watch as he wasn't sure what he could do.

"Wake up people! You have to fight it! You're under the spell of an evil monster!"

A man came by and stopped as he looked up at Summer. He had a small ponytail and glasses and then Summer jumped down, "I can hear you, you know."

"Yeah, so you keep saying." Summer proceeded to slap the guy, slapping him across the face twice and then again when Morty yelled out for his sister to stop, "Come on, you have to wake up! You have to have some individuality somewhere."

"Why do you hate me, Summer?" The man stood straight and his glasses were crooked on his face, you stood by Morty as you watched what was going on and Summer replied angrily, "I'm not talking to you!"

"Look at her go, look at that Sum Sum go.." Morty looked up at you in fear and then watched as his sister grabbed the wallet off of this man to read out his name, "I'm talking to Steven Felix! Steven, set yourself free!"

"Summer, before I took over this planet, this man was a registered sex offender." She looked a little frightened and backed away, "Well s-so what? At least he was himself.." She looked awkward and you couldn't help laughing, Morty saw that your eyes were still green but they seemed to be going dull as more time past, "He-hey [Name]?"

"Whassup lil' Morty?" He bypassed the odd reply and rubbed the back of his neck, "Wh-what did- I mean.. Are you my Grandma?"

The green faded to a light turquoise and he noticed the large grin on your face that began to drop as Summer continued conversing with the people of this planet and then Morty backed away slightly when your face was completely neutral, "I think you mean Grand-wa~s, am I right or what! Haha~"

"Summer, prostitutes are now scientists, the homeless are now phisosifers.."

His eyes turned cross-eyed and then Summer rolled her eyes, "Oh what? Phisosifers? Where'd you learn how to speak, you grandpa-stealing slut." You stood by Summer, two normal, white eyes watched her and the male as he seemed to cough and then he crouched over as he grabbed his stomach, fell down and vomited the same green liquid that had been puked into him to gain control over his mind.

You stepped back and raised a brow, "Oh nice, really nice view I got here.." The people surrounding you also started collapsing and to your surprise, Summer and Morty got closer to you as they looked around in shock, "Alright I'm some parental over here, let's just go. If you guys put the puzzle pieces together, then you'd know that Unity is most likely intoxicated with drugs or something like fractal dust."

Summer, Morty and yourself walked through the city to see more people vomiting and then they'd stand up again looking different. The man that Unity said was a registered sex offender smiled when he looked at Summer and when she asked what was going on the man, Steven, replied, "Who's Unity? You kids have nice feet, mind if I take a picture?"

"Gross, no!"

More people were becoming themselves and they were starting to remember their names and their occupations as well. But they also remembered something else that probably, most likely really should've stayed behind and forgotten, "- and as you can see from my flat, concentric nipple rings, I'm a member of this planets top race!"

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