151. The Squitzes and the Crawns

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" roared the Crawn as its 12 metallic shell legs crawled toward the group.

"OH, SHIT!!!" yelled Rick, backing away.

"AEROSMITH!!!" yelled Celine, as blasted her bullets at the monstrous crab, which crawled to the side as it uses its claws to defend its face.

"VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLA-!!!"

Star blasts magic energy beams at the crab.

Zed blasts magic energy beams as well.

Yang tries to use his killer virus, but the crab is somehow immune to Purple Haze's virus.

Yang gasps in fear as he backed away.

It roars once more as it stabs its claws in the ground.

"Reawaken the machine," said Zed, as he twirled his fings facing Rick.

Rick's tech reawakens once more.

Rick nods to Zed, thanking him, then gives Morty a mech suit.

"WUBBA LUBBA DUB-DUB!!!" yelled Rick, as he and Morty blast one shot at the Crawn.

It is almost unaffected.

Rick and Morty blast hundreds of blasts at the crab.

Van snipes the creature from far away.

Ryle yells and uses Heaven's Door at the Crawn, but got too close as the crab knocked him hundreds of feet away, knocking him out.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" roared the crab.

One butterfly lands on Yang's nose.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" yelled Yang. "BUTTERFLY!!!"

Yang yells and runs around, screaming out of fear.

"WHO THE HELL GETS SCARED OF BUTTERFLIES!?" growled Rick, as he is slapped away by the crab.

Morty manifests a machine gun out of his suit and flies around to blast at the crab.

Several planes blast their bullets at the giant crab.

Suddenly, they are all knocked out... somehow.

A yellow-haired, very slender yet slightly muscular, lion humanoid with a long tail floats into the room.

"Lord Spazura... Give us more time," asked the chief of the Squitzes, Lord Sponja-Kola.

"Hmhmhmhmhmhm..." smiled Spazura. He spoke in a posh, effeminate, and British accent. "Why hello, Lord Sponja-Kola. You look rather pale for a fishy-smelling Squitz."

"Lord Spazura... Please!" yelled the Squitz, who stood from his throne, walked down the stairs, and knelt before Spazura in fear.

"I WANT TO SEE MY DADDY!!!" yelled Spazura, growling in rage.

"You will! I promise!" yelled Sponja-Kola. "We're working on the runes right now!"

"YOU ARE TWO DECADES LATE, SPONJA-KOLA!!!" Spazura growled. "I WANT MY DADDY!!!"

"You will meet your father. I promise!" he yelled in fear. "But-!"

"BUT WHAT!!!?" asked Spazura. "If you hinder this mission with another pathetic excuse... I will destroy your world!"

"Rick Sanchez is here!" yelled Sponja-Kola.

"What!?" asked Spazura. "Who!?"

"A friend of the man who trapped Bill Cipher," said Sponja-Kola. "The smartest man in the Universe! The interdimensional traveller!"

Spazura smiles. "Hmhmhmhmhm! Tell me... Why couldn't you activate the runes?"

"I don't know..." sobbed Sponja-Kola.

"BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE INTERDIMENSIONAL RUNE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL INTO ALL DIMENSIONS!!!" yelled Spazura. "The rune of King David of Terra. You said that he was an interdimensional traveler, correct?"

Sponja-Kola nods quickly.

"Then he must know the rune of King David... The final equation to interdimensional travel," said Spazura. "I need to meet my Daddy... Foruko! Spawne!"

A tiger humanoid and a snow leopard humanoid appeared behind Spazura. He slowly turns his head to them.

"I want you to find Rick Sanchez. AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU BRING HIM BACK ALIVE!!!" he growled.

The two Streykats nod and fly away.

"You... Lord Sponja-Kola," said Spazura. "Keep working on it."

Spazura snarls.

Meanwhile...

*GASP*

Everyone slowly stands up, trapped in some sort of wooden hut in a grassland.

"Shit," said Rick. "Where are we? Oh, shit... No... We're in the-!"

"Why, howdy doodly there, folks!" smiled an octopus-headed humanoid called a Squitz.

"Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean called-..." said Zed.

The group walks out of the hut and sees a group of swamp people. They have octopus heads and humanoid bodies. The village was made of wood and was placed on top of the trees of the swamp. There is a foot-tall flood of water on the ground. Purple trunks and purple wood, the treehouses were old and ancient. The people wore waterproof pants, scarves, and shirts. Moss and vines flowed down from the branches above. There are stairs for every house.

"Squitzes," said Rick.

"What!?" asked everyone else except Star.

"A Squitz is a species of tribal aliens from the 4th World," said Star.

"They're 4th Dimensional?" asked Ryle.

"No," said Rick. "Not everyone from the 4th World is 4th Dimensional. Think of them as drawings as compared to our 3rd Dimensional Plane. They were created by cruel psychopathic and narcissistic gods who rule several Universes of the 4th World. Infinite Universes, one timeline. Though, ever since the Flashpoint Paradox and the Loki Event, infinite variant timelines emerged from one, creating a Multiverse of Madness.To the gods, we mean nothing to them."

"Welcome, fellow 3rd-Worlders, to our humble village in Planet of Wetland," smiled the humble Chieftain, bowing in respect.

"Hello. I am Rick Sanchez. Do you know any place where we could get harder minerals?" asked Rick. "Or have you even discovered metal yet?"

"Metal?" asked the Chieftain, speaking very slowly.

"Oh, Jesus," Rick facepalmed.

"I'm just kidding with you!" laughed the Chieftain. "We have a mine down south. I see that you wish to leave our planet so soon?"

"Yes. We should not be here. Not now, at least," said Rick.

"Why not?" whispered Zed, in Rick's head.

"It's about to blow up," Rick replied, which everyone in the group heard.

"WHAT!?" they asked in their minds.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" screamed one of the villagers.

"Welp! Time to go!" smiled Rick, walking away, as Celine grabs Rick's collar. "What's wrong?" she asked one of the villagers.

*THUD*

*SPLASH*

A large wave of water splashes in their faces as two Streykat soldiers, a humanoid tiger, and a humanoid snow leopard, stood before the villagers, wearing black and spiked metallic armor.

"Squitzes of the Village of Cockle, we have come to capture you in the name of Spazura."

"WE WILL NEVER BOW DOWN TO LORD SPONJA-KOLA AND HIS TYRANNY!!!" yelled a soldier.

Spawne, the humanoid tiger, blasts a Steel Ball from his holster and into a house as it blows up. The Steel Ball returns in his hand.

"YOU WILL ALL DIE, FOOLISH SQUITZES UNLESS YOU BOW DOWN TO SPAZURA!!! WE'RE CURRENTLY ON ANOTHER MISSION, SO DO IT QUICK!!!" yelled Foruko, the Snow Leopard. "Oh, hello..." he sneered, seeing Rick Sanchez. "What do we have here?"

On his hologram shows Rick Sanchez's file from the Galactic Federation of the Rhapsody Universes.

"Hmhmhmhm," Foruko chuckled. "What a coincidence..."