Everything Was a Lie

Rick was about to kill himself, and Morty thought he was playing another boring prank on him.

Because Rick had pulled similar boring pranks many times before.

It had practically left Morty traumatized.

But when Rick really took out the energy gun and aimed it at his own head, Morty knew he was serious!

"Stop! Stop! Don't fucking shoot yourself!!!"

"Jesus! You're the only one who treats me well!"

"Don't fucking do anything stupid!!!"

Morty lunged to grab the gun, but Rick's strength was no joke. He could easily take on a hundred Mortys.

Yet the two of them ended up struggling over it.

As they wrestled over the gun, Rick suddenly murmured, "The Portal Gun is in the drawer. The third preset coordinate. Whether I live or die depends on you."

After saying that, Rick seized Morty while he was distracted and threw him downstairs.

When Morty hit the ground and looked up at Rick—

Rick aimed the gun at his own head, a hint of relief on his face, and fired into his temple.

Bang!!!

His head burst apart like a watermelon right in front of Morty.

Bloody chunks splattered across the entire staircase and hallway.

Beth and Jerry were alerted by the gunshot. They ran out, and their faces filled with terror when they saw Rick's corpse.

Who could accept their own father suddenly shooting himself on a quiet late night without any warning?

Beth absolutely couldn't.

Tears immediately streamed down her face. She clawed at her hair, utterly unable to accept what had happened before her eyes.

Coming back to his senses, Morty trembled as he ran toward the garage.

Following Rick's instructions, he took the Portal Gun from the drawer. But when he was about to select the preset coordinate Rick had mentioned, he stopped.

Rick had suddenly broken down and chosen suicide, yet before dying, he had quietly told Morty that whether he could live depended entirely on him.

He had even told Morty where the Portal Gun was.

That meant this was probably not something he was supposed to do immediately. It had to be delayed.

There was no evidence to support that logic.

But Morty felt he shouldn't do it right away, so he immediately changed the Portal Gun's coordinates and set it to another universe.

He had just opened the portal.

When another portal appeared beside Morty.

A Rick in a suit stepped out, holding a golden cane. Smiling, he slowly applauded and continuously praised him. "Beautiful! This is the most thrilling scene since Pokémon Morty!"

"69595 Morty! You truly are a special Morty!"

"Because of your wonderful performance, you drove a Rick to suicide!"

"Our ratings just shot up by 30%..."

"The entire internet is talking about that suicide scene right now!"

"Come on, kid. Come with me. A special interview is waiting for you next!"

Looking at Suit Rick's excitement over the ratings and listening to his incredibly grating words, Morty's entire worldview suffered an unprecedented blow.

Pokémon... Morty?

A reality show?

I spent half a year in this world. I spent so much time with my Rick, and now you're telling me it was all just a reality show?

A fucking reality show???

You pieces of shit with barely any humanity in your brains, you turned other people's lives into a reality show?

A blazing fire suddenly rose inside Morty.

He finally understood why Rick had said those words to him before they fought over the energy gun.

This whole so-called reality was a joke!

The two of them were just actors following a script!

Especially him, that idiot!

He had always thought he lived in a real world!

Who would have known that everything here had been scripted from beginning to end! Every so-called unexpected event had been designed! Everything he did had been faithfully broadcast to the audience!

This was a fucking joke!

Looking at the smiling Suit Rick, Morty tapped his neck with his left hand. A set of nano armor surged out from his body and wrapped around him protectively.

"Haha! Viewers, this weak and helpless Morty actually wants to resist a Rick!"

Suit Rick's ridicule and exaggerated expression made the Ricks and creatures of other species watching from in front of their TVs roar about how exciting the plot was!!!

First, a Rick had been driven to suicide by a Morty!

And now, a Morty was resisting a Rick and wanted to fight him on the spot!

Within the Dark Matter Network spread across endless multiversal worlds, Morty's armor caused the amount of information across the network to increase by at least threefold in a short period of time!

Because aside from broadcasting to the Citadel of Ricks, Rick TV Station also aired some of its programs to the outside world during certain time slots.

Just as the people in front of their televisions were anticipating Morty battling Rick, perhaps even truly killing a Rick—

Morty ran!

He feinted, then jumped straight into the portal and escaped!

As someone with normal intelligence, Morty didn't think he could kill a Rick.

Even if this Rick seemed to specialize in reality television.

Once the other side got serious, Morty still had no chance of beating him.

So feinting and running away was the correct choice.

And the place he ran to was the Cthulhu World, because it was in the middle of an epic war between the Galactic Empire and Cthulhu monsters.

Even if those Ricks wanted to capture him, they wouldn't be able to bring him back so easily.

What happened next was indeed exactly as Morty expected.

Suit Rick, who had originally wanted to capture this special Morty, tracked Morty's coordinates and discovered that it was the Cthulhu World from the previous episode.

So he gave up on pursuing him.

After all, wasn't their show built around authenticity?

Every world that appeared in the scripts was a genuinely existing world, not that guy from Dimension C-137's miniature universe.

"He escaped! He fled to the world we saw in the previous episode, damn it!"

"There are Galactic Empire troops over there!"

"Our television station has limited resources, so we're unable to capture him!"

"All right, everyone watching at home, the story of our seeded contestant and major favorite ends here for now. Next, let's see how the number two seed is progressing!"

After saying that to the camera, Suit Rick shut it off, opened a portal, and returned to the Citadel of Ricks.

As for the aftermath of everything that had happened here.

The Ricks didn't care at all!

After Suit Rick left, Rick, who was in another room, finally came out.

"What do we do now? It looks like the script ends here. The production crew even destroyed our original world. What are we supposed to do next?" Old K asked as he followed him out.

Rick's octopus face twitched several times. In truth, he still hadn't recovered from the shock.

How had things been going so well, only for him to suddenly commit suicide?

You killed yourself and solved the problem, but what about the rest of us... what are we supposed to do?

But while watching the show just now, that Morty seemed to have fled to the Cthulhu World.

Should I go find that Morty and ask him? I have a feeling there's still something he hasn't told us, Rick thought.