Rick:

It had been around five years since Rick had returned to his family, Morty and Summer had both gone to college and started lives of their own and for the first time in a while, Rick had felt truly alone. Sure he still had Beth who had plenty of time to spare having been divorced from Jerry for some time now, but it just wasn't the same. He spent most of his time alone in the garage he called his workshop either inventing something far beyond human comprehension, getting drunk, or both.

Mainly both.

Rick was on the verge of his third scientific breakthrough of the morning when he had run out of the Schmelbonian crystals he needed to complete it "SHIT!", he screamed loud enough to be heard through the house, he knew this because Beth came in to check on him, "Everything alright dad?" she asked concerned for his well-being, "No." he replied "I was ju-ugh-st about to finish this fucking thing when I ran out of fucking crystals, now I've got to go to another fucking dimension to get more" Rick said, the annoyance in his voice apparent. Beth had a thought "Oh, well maybe you could use some help or maybe just some company.", Beth knew how her father had been feeling lately and tried her best to help him, but it never worked out as she'd hoped, "Th-That's alright sweetie, it's just a simple retrieval mission. It shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes." Rick said as he entered the coordinates into his portal gun, "Alright, well be safe" Beth said, "I will." Rick said as he opened a portal and stepped through.

Rick looked around at the world he'd ended up in, "What the hell?", he was on a beach, he could see a boardwalk in the distance, and a large statue not far from him, "I must have put in the wrong coordinates.", Rick began to inspect the device when it started sparking in his hand, he threw it to the other side of the deserted beach and took cover as it let out a huge explosion.

Rick stood up and stared at the charred area of the beach as he let out the one word that came to mind.

"Shit."

Pearl:

It had been around three years since Pearl and the Crystal Gems had healed all of the corrupted Gems and saved the earth from the threat of Yellow Diamond and Homeworld, and with that, there was no need for the Crystal Gems anymore. The Gems had all gone their separate ways; Steven, Amethyst, and Peridot all went to college for their own reasons, Garnet went back to Homeworld to help repair the damage done by the Diamonds, and Lapis Lazuli went on to explore Earth with some rockstar she had become good friends with. The only one's left in Beach City were Pearl and Greg, and although they were on good terms, she and Greg didn't share enough common ground to hang out all the time as friends. For the first time since joining the Crystal Gems, Pearl was alone.

Pearl was sitting in the beach house reading the latest book she had gotten from the library, since her retirement Pearl had found human literature to be an excellent way to pass the time. She had just gotten to the story's climax when she had heard a strange noise from outside, she went to investigate the sound because let's face it, nothing exciting ever happens in Beach city anymore.

She walked out to the porch to look out at the beach, where she saw what looked to be an elderly human tinkering with a small device and mumbling to himself. Suddenly the device started sparking and the man threw it as far away from himself as he could and dove to the ground, Pearl went to go see what was going on when the device let out a large explosion. Pearl ran up to the scene without the man noticing and heard him let out a small word as he stared at the charred area of the beach. A simple one syllable word that she recognized as a human's expression of distress.

"Shit."

Both:

The portal gun was destroyed and Rick was stuck in the place he would come to know as Beach city until he could build a new one. Rick took a drink from his flask, "S-ohh-o much for being home in fifteen minutes" he burped out, he was taken by surprise by the woman behind him who was panicking over the situation, "What happened, are you alright!?" she was almost shouting, "Jesus Chri-!" Rick started to say, startled by the sudden appearance of a woman he didn't realize was there with him, he regained his composure and tried to assure the woman he was alright, why he didn't just brush her off with a simple 'I'm fine, fuck off' he may never know, but for some reason he decided to be pleasant 'At least by Rick standards', "Yeah I'm alright, just pissed off by the fact that I'm now stuck here until I can rebuild my ride home", 'Ride home?' Pearl thought confused, she had seen the device before it blew up, and to the unknowing observer, it didn't look like any kind of transportation device.

After a moment of silence, Pearl spoke up "Would you like to come inside? I could make you some tea.", Rick thought about it for a moment, he usually didn't drink anything that wasn't spiked, but some tea might help him calm down and get his thoughts together, "Yeah, sounds good.". The two started walking toward the temple when the silence was broken yet again "I'm Rick, by the way, Rick Sanchez." Pearl proceeded to introduce herself "I'm Pearl".