"Beth, huh?..."
Rick began to tightly screw something small into his makeshift box and coiled a few of the wires around it's base counterclockwise, his eyes never leaving as he finished plugging and tinkering, eventually reaching over for another odd trinket. There was something like sadness in his voice, calloused over with a lifetime of cold rationality which made it all but unrecognizable. It didn't last long, his next words coming quick and uninterruptedly.
".. Th-The glowing rock sticking out of the cable box Morty, the purple one Morty, the one stealing cable from every other dimension imagineable, I need you to bring it here Morty. Bring it here fast-"
His words were cut short by a small spray of sparks erupting from what looked like an old fashioned pager that had been crossed over with a miniature metal detector, his brow furrowing in concentration as he pulled off the casing and began to hurriedly unscrew and rearrange the wires he had shuffled together. It would now become apparent that there were a few extra devices in the garage that hadn't been there before, mostly sitting in a pile in the corner beside a silver rifle of some sort and occasionally having a haphazard piece launched in it's general direction from Rick's current project.
"-Dammit."
Something that looked quite literally like a microscopic nuclear explosion erupted in slow motion at the base of one of the wires and gave off a minuscule mushroom cloud as Rick winced and grunted. The light from the nigh pinpoint would be just enough to light up the garage a little more than it already had been, Rick grimacing in mild annoyance as he swatted at the tiny smoke plume and reached for his welding helmet.
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Jerry had wandered into the hallway nervously, angst and confusion writhing on his face as he cradled a freshly salvaged pint of double-fudge chocolate chip in his arm and waited for things to make sense to him again. Whether he was or was not muttering something about his marriage or about having a bad dream was hard to tell as it sounded largely like a nervous parrot attempting to imitate the less sensible end of a garbled telephone call.
Rick began to tightly screw something small into his makeshift box and coiled a few of the wires around it's base counterclockwise, his eyes never leaving as he finished plugging and tinkering, eventually reaching over for another odd trinket. There was something like sadness in his voice, calloused over with a lifetime of cold rationality which made it all but unrecognizable. It didn't last long, his next words coming quick and uninterruptedly.
".. Th-The glowing rock sticking out of the cable box Morty, the purple one Morty, the one stealing cable from every other dimension imagineable, I need you to bring it here Morty. Bring it here fast-"
His words were cut short by a small spray of sparks erupting from what looked like an old fashioned pager that had been crossed over with a miniature metal detector, his brow furrowing in concentration as he pulled off the casing and began to hurriedly unscrew and rearrange the wires he had shuffled together. It would now become apparent that there were a few extra devices in the garage that hadn't been there before, mostly sitting in a pile in the corner beside a silver rifle of some sort and occasionally having a haphazard piece launched in it's general direction from Rick's current project.
"-Dammit."
Something that looked quite literally like a microscopic nuclear explosion erupted in slow motion at the base of one of the wires and gave off a minuscule mushroom cloud as Rick winced and grunted. The light from the nigh pinpoint would be just enough to light up the garage a little more than it already had been, Rick grimacing in mild annoyance as he swatted at the tiny smoke plume and reached for his welding helmet.
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Jerry had wandered into the hallway nervously, angst and confusion writhing on his face as he cradled a freshly salvaged pint of double-fudge chocolate chip in his arm and waited for things to make sense to him again. Whether he was or was not muttering something about his marriage or about having a bad dream was hard to tell as it sounded largely like a nervous parrot attempting to imitate the less sensible end of a garbled telephone call.