Whirly Dirly Conspiracy - Parenting on the Fly

Rick, Jerry, and Mason, all stood in line for the Whirly Dirly. Mason stood behind Jerry, looking at the man's back with narrowed eyes. He stepped closer to his father-in-law and started sniffing him.

"Um, can I help you?" Jerry questioned turning around to face Mason.

"You're starting to sweat Jerry. Anything you want to say?" Mason said

"What uh, no?" Jerry nervously spoke avoiding eye contact.

Mason leaned in closer to Jerry making the man uncomfortable. "I know that smell. It's the stench of lies mixed with fear. What are you up to?" He whispered

"Nothing! Nothing!" Jerry cried waving his hands.

The trio were next in line. Since the ride was fit for eight people with two seats at a time, Rick and Jerry sat in the front while Mason sat alone behind the two.

"This is gonna be awesome! I gotta hand it to you, Jerry. This was a solid idea," Rick said

"Uh, yeah. Uh-huh." Jerry nervously looked over his shoulder causing Mason to raise a brow.

Mason looked behind him to see two others riding with them, but they were seated on the very last row, leaving two empty rows between them and Mason. The alien King narrowed his eyes growing even more suspicious. Before anything could be questioned the ride started to move.

"And you know what? I'll cop to it. I put a lot of strain on your marriage. It wasn't fair. I'm sorry," Rick apologized

"What?!" Jerry exclaimed flabbergasted

"Whoa Rick, Myra's told me you never apologize. Have Vereps learned to fly?" Mason jokes

Jerry looked back at Mason with confused eyes.

"It's the equivalent of your earth pigs, but much heavier, with three sets of legs," Mason explained

"Anyway.." Rick turned to Jerry. "I didn't respect your marriage. I certainly didn't do it any favors and for what it's worth, I'll apologize to Beth for it when we get home."

Jerry stared forward, mouth agape with a far off look in his eyes. The coaster cart started to make its way up the tall track and Rick cheered, throwing his arms up.

"Whoo! Whirly Dirly! Yeah!"

"Stop the ride! We got to get off!" Jerry shouted

"What are you talking about, buddy?" Rick questions

"We gotta get out of this thing. We gotta get out!" Jerry frantically shouted pushing against his and Rick's safety bar.

With a grunt, he was able to get the bar up.

"Jerry, come on, man! We haven't even gotten to the first whirly," Rick said

"No, no, this sucks. It's so boring. I mean, I'm falling asleep here. Let's just get out and crawl down the sides," Jerry said

Jerry attempted to stand up, but he was pulled down by Mason as the ride car shot out into the air. The car was airborne for a few seconds before it landed on another track that was rotating at a fast pace.

The men yelled and cheered, as the cart went around fast then hopped track again.

"Uh, get down! Duck down! It's more fun when you scrunch down," Jerry quickly spoke pushing Rick down.

"Jerry, what the-!"

"Fuck!" Mason cursed as a bullet grazed the side of his head cutting it open.

The bullet continued on hitting Jerry dead center in the forehead.

"Oh, shit," Rick said staring at the limp Jerry.

Jerry's body glowed before the bullet popped out his head and the man came back to life.

Mason stood up in his seat, holding his bleeding head, staring at the two aliens who were playing sniper.

"You fuckers wanna go!" Mason shouted

He pounced on the two aliens picking one up and throwing him towards the front of the car. He landed on the seat between Rick and Jerry, where Rick effectively took the guy's gun then kicked him off.

The second guy jumped on Mason, but he rolled to his back tucking his legs in before kicking up into the alien's chest. He went up and his head smashed into a track, beheading him, but a second later his head grew back. Mason frowned and grabbed the back of the guy's shirt, flinging him towards the side of the cart beheading him a second time, but just like before his head grew back.

"I was wrong! I want my enemies to stay dead!" Mason said

"Mason, up here! There's a spot where you can kill him!" Jerry shouted

"Good call, Jerry!" Rick said

When the cart hit the highest point Mason wrapped his arms around the aliens head, then snapped his neck. He let go of the body and crawled to the front sitting behind Jerry and Rick once again.

"Hey, how'd you know about that?" Rick asked

"Uh…"

Jerry stuttered but didn't have to answer as two mechanical claws dropped from above grabbing Rick pulling him into the air. Several aliens in a hover copter were trying to make off with Rick, but he wasn't having any of that. He pressed a button on his lab coat before slipping out of it dropping back in his seat. There was a loud beep before his lab coat exploded causing the hover copter to go down. It crashed in the Whirly Dirly and sent the track the three men were one flying away. As the track rolled away the immorality barrier dropped down. The three continued on until the track finally crashed into a rocky sidewall.

Rick and Jerry stood up, other than some minor scrapes and bruises they were fine. Mason, however…

"Oh my god!" Jerry shouted pointing at Mason.

Mason glanced down to see a large jagged piece of metal in his leg.

"Meh, could be worse," Mason shrugged his shoulders before reaching down, yanking out the metal hissing between his teeth.

He tore off some of his clothing to craft a makeshift bandage tying it tightly around the wound, Jerry watching the entire time with an uncomfortable queasy look on his face.

"So, uh, Jerry, big fan of the Whirly Dirly, are you?" Rick questioned

Jerry bore a nervous smile, "Not anymore. Obviously." He chuckled awkwardly pointing at the ruined ride.

"But when you were, how did you know about it?" Rick questions

There was some movement in front of the three and one of the aliens that had attacked them fell out of one of the tack cars.

"Hey, one of them is still alive," Mason said

"We had a deal, Jerry Smith," The alien coughed before flopping to the ground, finally dead.

Both Rick and Mason narrowed their eyes at Jerry, the man feeling unbelievably uncomfortable as he was glared at from both sides.

"It's a really common name," Jerry said

"I'm not saving you," Mason spoke folding his arms taking a step back.

Rick started to walk towards Jerry with a stoned face look, Jerry responded by backing up quickly holding his hands up in a sign for Rick to show mercy.

"Now, take it easy, Rick. You've been in a serious roller-coaster crash. It's-It's no time to be thinking about who did or didn't play a role in your attempted murder."

Jerry, as he backed up didn't see the strange creature lying behind him and ended up stepping into the mouth of a carnivorous like snake creature. The creature immediately latched onto Jerry pulling the man slowly into its stomach.

"Get it off me! It's eating me!" Jerry shouted

Rick turned around and started taking pieces of the Whirly Dirly building something. Mason just took a seat on the ground watching as Jerry was sucked in.

"Look, I confess, okay? They told me about all the bad stuff you did to this planet and reminded me of all the bad stuff you did to me. But then you said you were sorry, and I realized you're not a monster. Not like this thing. It's got me good. This is a mislead, right? You're inventing a thing to save me," Jerry said

"That would be called a knife, Jerry. It's been invented. I'm making a way out of here. One seat ought to do it." Rick yanked out a Whirly Dirly seat putting it on the ground.

"Mason, buddy, help your father-in-law out here," Jerry said

"Nope ain't moving from this spot," Mason said

The snake alien was now up to Jerry's mid-abdomen and flopped on the ground causing Jerry to faceplant in some purple like goo on the ground.

"I'm sorry. I-I made a mistake. I won't do it again!" Jerry shouted

"Nobody ever does," Rick said

"You self-righteous piece of shit!" Jerry slammed a fist on the ground. "You took my family!"

"I took your family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 ccs of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options!"

"Damn," Mason whispered

"That all ended because she felt sorry for you," Rick said

Jerry stopped struggling against the snake, looking rather depressedly at the ground.

"You act like prey, but you're a predator! You use pity to lure in your victims! That's how you survive! I survive because I know everything. That snakes survives because children wander off, Mason survives because he's got a backbone and breaths fucking fire, and you survive because people think, 'Oh, this poor piece of shit. He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening silent wail of his wilting soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him.'''

Rick's words seemed to really hit Jerry as the man started to cry. His lack of struggle allowed the snake to fully swallow him.

"Rick!" Jerry's muffled cries could be heard from the snake.

"Sooo, how long are we gonna keep him in there? I can't let him be digested, I did promise Myra I wouldn't let her father die," Mason questioned

"Give me that knife of yours to cut him out," Rick said

"Here," Mason said

He reached into his boot pulling a nice sized knife handing it over to Rick. The mad scientist plunged the knife into the belly of the snake and with one stroke down sliced the thing open.

"Damn this is a good knife," Rick said

"I know right," Mason smiled taking his knife back putting it in his boot.

Jerry slid out of the snake's belly covered in a bile green goo.

"I knew you two wouldn't let me die," Jerry said

"That was never an option," Rick said

"Because you never had a son?" Jerry said

"No, because I need a living organism coated in gibble snake bile to attract a shmooglite runner," Rick said

He dragged Jerry over to the thing he was inventing strapping Jerry into the chair.

"Wait, what's happening?" Jerry questioned a tad scared.

Rick turned a dial and several fans surrounding Jerry turned on.

"Use that confusion, Jerry. It'll make you wriggle more like an abandoned newborn," Rick said

There was a low groaning from the forest and two glowing eyes peeked out from behind the foliage.

"Jesus Christ! What the fuck Rick?!" Jerry shouted

A large bipedal alien creature stepped out seeming to be drawn to Jerry.

"Help! Help me!" Jerry screamed

The shmooglite runner didn't seem to have a mouth, but that was quickly dismissed as the front half of its body split open revealing several rows of sharp teeth. The shmooglite runner ran at Jerry mouth open wide, it's intent clear as day.

Jerry screamed and squirmed in his seat as the thing charged at him. Rick popped up behind a bush with a makeshift blow dart hitting the shmooglite runner. The alien went down like a sack of potatoes sliding across the ground landing right at Jerry's feet.

"Whooo! And it's down!" Mason cheered

Rick created some kind of control device hooking it up to the alien's body giving the men transportation. Rick and Mason sat atop of the creature while Jerry was tucked under inside a pouch-like sack the shmooglite runner had on its stomach, but with the added bonus of having what appeared to be a scrotum dangling in front of his face, that continuously slapped him as the creature ran.

"There's a spaceport 20 miles (32.19 km) south. We'll be able to board a galaxy class cruise ship and jump through a wormhole that will put us within spitting distance of the Milky Way. But, hey, it's about the journey, not the destination, right, Jerry?" Rick said

Back at the Smiths house, a giant inside out Summer was still screaming in pain, while Beth was still on hold.

"Just stay put, sweetie! Mom's still on hold," Beth spoke gesturing to her cellphone.

"Morphizer customer service. How can I help you?"

"Yes, I'm having a little trouble with one of your machines," Beth spoke into the phone

Morty poked his mother's arm trying to grab her attention but she waved him off.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, ma'am. Do you see a little compartment on the side of the machine?"

"Let me check." Beth looked on the side of the machine locating the compartment. "Yes, got it."

"Mom," Morty said but Beth put her hand up telling him to stay quiet.

"Great! Now, do you see the little button next to it?"

"I do," Beth said

"Give that button to push."

"Okay," Beth said

"Mom, listen to me," Morty said

Beth continues to ignore her son kneeling down pressing the button causing the compartment to open up.

"We're free!"

Three mini aliens run out of the machine screaming about freedom.

"Okay, so I pushed the button and three little men ran out. What do I do next? I think we got disconnected," Beth said

Morty grabbed Beth's phone, throwing it to the ground, breaking it.

"Morty!" Beth exclaimed

"Don't Morty me! I had Myra help me trick Rick into taking Dad and Mason on an adventure because I thought I could get a break for this kind of shit but no! Like father, like damn daughter! You want to be like Rick, congratulations! You are just as arrogant and just as irresponsible!" Morty shouted

The Smith's neighbor, Gene, heard the commotion and walked over leaning on the fence that separates the two families yards.

"Everything okay here?" Gene asked

"Mind your own damn business, Gene! I'm having a conversation with my mother here!" Morty shouted, causing the man to leave. "Kissing Rick's ass isn't going to help keep him around mom but it will help you lose everyone else."

"Like I lost Summer," Beth said

"You haven't lost her, yet," Morty said

"No, I definitely did. She's gone," Beth said

Morty looked to the destroyed garage finding no Summer.

"God damn it!" Morty cursed, stomping his foot.

Rick, Mason, and Jerry made it to the port before the space cruise left. The three men were now in line for customs trying to board.

Jerry stepped into a scanner machine that beeped greenlighting the man.

"Go ahead," Security said

Next was Mason. As he stepped in a minor warning signal went off as a screen read "High Threat". Mason simply held up a leather pass with his family's royal crest on it.

"You may pass your highness, but we must collect your weapon. It will be returned to you when the voyage is over," Security said

"Fine whatever," Mason pulled the knife from his boot. "It's not like I need it to take down my enemies anyway."

After he passed over his weapon Rick stepped in next. Warning sirens blare regarding Rick as a maximum threat. Four metallic limbs came out of the machine restraining Rick's arms and legs.

"Oh come on," Rick said

"What's happening?" Jerry asked

"Your friend is class C or above cybernetic augmentations. Emphasis on the above. In any case, he needs to be neutralized," Security said

"What wait!?" Jerry said

The Security Officer pressed a button and a needle came out injecting a liquid into Rick's neck. He was let go and walked over to his in-laws, swaying a bit.

"Ugh! Brain hurty," Rick said

"Why does he sound...stupid?" Mason asked

"What did you do?" Jerry asked

"It's a synaptic dampener that blocks violent tendencies and controversial thoughts. He will now be an ideal passenger," Security explained

"I want cookies and a 90-minute cut of Avatar," Rick said

Jerry raised a brow, "Seriously?" He snapped a finger in Rick's face.

Rick jerked back, covering his face. "Quit it."

"He's drooling more than normal," Mason commented

"It'll wear off in 6 hours. It's cheaper than banning dangerous people from flights. I mean, let everybody buy a ticket, right? Otherwise, the terrorist win," Security said

As Morty and Beth loaded the machine into the back of Beth's car a portal opened up and out stepped Myra with a wriggling MJ in his baby harness.

"The fuck happened here?" Myra said

"Myra, what are you doing here?" Morty asked

"Morty, did you call your sister?" Beth asked

"No," Morty said

"He didn't. Summer called me being all weird aaaand I may have felt a bit….bad about how our conversation ended. I came to check up on her but got a little delayed. But why is the garage in pieces and where's Summer?" Myra asked

"Summer made herself giant with Rick's machine and then Mom tried to fix it but it only made things worse and now a giant inside out Summer is running around somewhere," Morty explained

"Oh….Well that ain't so bad," Myra said

"You two get in the car we have to find your sister," Beth said

Beth got in the driver's seat while Morty and Myra got in the back. Myra got to work figuring out how to operate the machine. She peeked down at the open panel on the side.

"Yo, what used to be in here? Are those tiny office chairs?" Myra questions

"They used to be tiny alien men inside but Mom let them out," Morty said

"Stop trying to make this seem like it's my fault, Morty," Beth said

"It's true, you did let them out," Morty said

Myra raised a brow but shrugged her shoulders before popping a panel open studying the machine.

"I'm sorry I'm not a classic maternal archetype. Okay, I don't know what to do when you people come to me with your weird puberty issues. What are you going to do when your daughter asks you if she's attractive?" Beth questioned

"I'll say yes," Morty said

"Morty, gross!" Beth said

Myra connects two wires before telling Morty to press the main button. He presses the button and a beam shoots out hitting a nearby mailbox causing it to grow to the size of a house before breaking and crushing the local mailman.

"Well, she's gonna be super hot. Her mothers gonna be Jessica," Morty said

"I'd say the same thing as Morty. Not the Jessica part, but I mean I don't care how fucking ugly my kids are, they're gorgeous because they're my kids. Besides statically speaking no matter how you look, someone out there is gonna find you attractive. Ooooh, that's why Summer called me crying. Wow, I did not handle that matter well," Myra said

"Wait, she asked you that too?" Beth questioned

"Yup," Myra said

"When did Summer ask you that?" Morty asked his mother.

"Right before she Clive Barkered herself. Why?" Beth questioned

"Wait, I know where she is! Ethan and Summer were supposed to go camping, and then he dumped Summer for this girl, Tricia Lange, who's got huge boobies and took her. Campsite...The one with the name that sounds like somebody gave up halfway through making it. Uh, Camp Flabanabba!" Morty said

Beth narrowed her eyes determined as she gunned the car's engine. "Mama's coming, baby. Mama's coming, and she cares about your titties."

Rick, Mason, and Jerry were now aboard the space cruiser sitting in a rather luxurious car. Mason sat in a seat across from Jerry and Rick, watching as Jerry talked down to Rick.

Jerry smirked holding up a pamphlet. "They have sweet smiggle honey cookies. Mmm! And low-calorie petroleum flakes.

"Obviously cookies," Rick said

"Let's get you the flakes then," Jerry said

"Okay, but it's not what I wanted," Rick huffed, crossing his arms.

"Well, maybe next time you won't be such a dumb piece of shit and you can pick for yourself," Jerry said

"Huh? Now I see where Myra gets her vindictive side from," Mason thought

"That's not nice," Rick said

"What's that? Did you just have a controversial thought?" Jerry said

"No," Rick said

Jerry smirked, "That's what I thought, bitch. You little punk ass." He raised a fist feigning a punch causing Rick to flinch. "This is the best." Jerry laughed

"Hmmm…" Mason scratched his chin. "Should I inform Jerry that just because Rick is docile doesn't mean he'll necessarily forget how Jerry is treating him?...Nah!"

"I agree."

Jerry and Mason looked to the left to see Risotto Groupon, the alien that propositioned Jerry about Rick's assassination. He was holding a laser blaster, keeping it concealed with a towel.

"You made things even easier than if you hadn't been incompetent."

"Oh for fuck's sake!" Mason groaned, throwing his head back.

"Uh-oh. We get shoot shoot now," Rick said

The three men were led to the cargo hold by Risotto.

"Can't you do something? Your like really strong, right?" Jerry whispered to Mason

"Yeah, but I can't survive a fucking laser bullet to the face," Mason whispered back

"All right folks, if you could please take your seeds, we're about to insert a warm out. So, I hope everybody bought a dinner first," The Captain announced over the PA.

Both Jerry and Rick chuckled saying, "Nice."

Rick let out a grunt as Risotto forced him to his knees. Then he turned his gun to Mason, shooting the Prince in his non-wounded leg.

"Fuck! You blue furry asshole!" Mason shouted falling to the ground.

"Oh my god, Mason!" Jerry cried

"He's not going to die, that's just to incapacitate him. Now, Jerry step over there and take..." Risotto looked at the still cursing Mason. "And whoever the hell he is, and lock yourselves in the escape pod."

"You're not killing us?" Jerry questioned

"I'm killing Rick. You two are free to go. You're no threat to me or anyone."

"Now you're just being mean," Jerry said

"Yeah, you're mean no offense," Rick said

"You also a fucking piece of shit!" Mason shouted

"I can shoot your mouth off as well," Risotto said to Mason. "Mean would be shooting you, Jerry. This is saving a bullet. Go back to your quietly ashamed family and live out the rest of your days in denial of your vagina fantasies."

"It was a one-time thought that everyone has!" Jerry shouted before pouncing on Risotto.

"What are you doing?" Risotto questioned with a deadpan face, as Jerry hung from his arm.

"I'm being triumphantly brave!" Jerry exclaimed

"It's not triumphant or brave. You're not risking anything," Risotto said

"You might shoot me," Jerry countered

"I think you know I won't. Because you know I feel sorry for you. You're just doing this so you can tell yourself you fought-"

Jerry decided he was tired of the aliens' words and bit him. Risotto cried out, throwing Jerry off of his arm but the reflex caused him to fire off his gun hitting a panel. An alarm started to go off a bright red light flashing in the room.

"Temporal shields compromised!"

"Congratulations, Jerry you get to die a man." Risotto said pointing his gun at Jerry.

Jerry cowered on the floor putting his arms up. "That's okay I'll leave! Please don't shoot. I'm the vagina guy, remember."

Risotto shot at Jerry, the bullet missing but something odd happened. Mason, who had limped into an escape pod after the warning signal went off, watched from the safety of the pod as Rick, Jerry, and Risotto wriggled around as if having a bad acid trip.

"The fuck did I marry into? Well at least Myra's worth it," Mason said

When the men finally regained some sense of normalcy they looked around the cargo hold confused.

"Oh, god. I feel like our souls were united, and we were all one entity," Jerry said

"Our bodies unchanged, yet our minds have lived a thousand lifetimes. Is that enough time for me to forgive you?" Risotto questions

Rick smirked holding his arm up. "I don't know, but it's enough time for my synaptic dampener to wear off."

He pressed on the side of his head and his arm turned into a gun. When he fired it off instead of a bullet out a came a suction cup on a string. It latched onto Risotto's gun and Rick reeled it into his arms. Once the weapon was in his hand Rick shot the alien in the head.

"He hadn't decided he was still going to kill us!" Jerry exclaimed

"He was talking himself into it. I've seen it before cosmic apotheosis wears off faster than Salvia," Rick said

"Nice shot Rick!" Mason called out.

"Thanks."

"I'm starting to believe you because I just finished merging with your essence for an endless epoch, and I'm already back to thinking you're an asshole," Jerry said

"Fine with me. Let's just go our separate ways. Sounds like you and the word epoch have a lot of catching up to do." Rick stopped over to the pod Mason was in. "Scoot your ass over."

"Wait, don't leave me!" Jerry cried out.

He ran over to the pod squeezing in.

"All right folks, you're free to get up and walk around the cabin and maybe take the worm home out for breakfast," The Captain spoke over the PA.

"Okay, you can do the dinner one or the breakfast one but not both," Someone else said

"Gah, let's get the fuck out of here. I don't know what's worse, the lame-ass jokes or the gaping bullet wound in my leg," Mason said

Rick started the pod up launching them out into space.

"Damn it...they still have my knife," Mason said

"You guys think you got that thing figured out?" Beth asked

"Yeah, I'm like 80% sure that it'll operate how we want it to," Myra said

"Good. Because I have an idea," Beth said

She turned the car driving onto the campground.

The sunset and the campers set up fires. Ethan and his new girlfriend sat around their own fire roasting a marshmallow.

"It's actually a contraction of some and more you see that?" Tricia said

"Oh, wow. I was way off," Ethan said

Suddenly the trees behind them were crushed as the giant inside out Summer appeared screaming. As she was about to go for Ethan and Tricia a wailing moan similar to Summer's rang out, and from another set of trees out came a giant inside out Beth. The two interacted, Summer first throwing a fit before Beth started to comfort her.

Morty and Myra walked on the scene wheeling the machine next to them. The two took a seat on a log before grabbing their own marshmallows.

"Morty, Myra, what's happening here?!" Ethan said

"Summer got to my grandpa's garage, messed around and turned herself into a monster. My mom did the same to make her feel better. She's a good mom," Morty explained

"Yup." Myra picked up a flaming marshmallow before feeding it to her giggling baby.

Tricia watched with tears in her eyes as Summer and Beth hugged.

"Oh, my God. I have to call my mother!" Tricia cried with a smile before running off.

"Tricia, wait!" Ethan called out.

"Ethan, Ethan, hey it's okay, sit down," Morty said

Ethan looked at the twins apprehensively, but he sat down, or rather was forced to sit down as Myra grabbed the bottom of his jacket yanking him down.

"You made our sister cry, Ethan. You messed with her body image," Morty started to make a s'more before using some thongs to hold the treat in the campfire.

"Look Morty I,-"

Myra shushed the teen putting her finger over his mouth.

"Careful Ethan. You're s'more is burning." Morty lifted the s'more out showing it melted and on fire.

He narrowed his eyes at Ethan as he reached over turning on Rick's machine. He looked to his left to see Myra giving him the same look, MJ staring at the teen with a sharp-toothed grin. Ethan went stiff gulping.

The escape pod landed in the yard of the Smiths house and out stepped Rick and Jerry, Mason limped out holding on to the pod.

"Uh, I guess we better get on the same page about our fake adventure," Rick said

"Right," Jerry said

Rick looked to Jerry. "I'll make you a deal. I'll leave out the part where you try to murder me."

"And I'll leave out the part where you admit to sabotaging our marriage," Jerry said

The two men shook hands before looking at Mason. He just shrugged his shoulders.

"Meh, Myra won't really care how I go hurt, as long as I don't come back dead," Mason said

Rick looked at Jerry, "You want to…?" He gestured toward the house.

"Nah, if the family sees me like this they'll feel sorry for me. Which is no longer my signature man. Later days amigos." Jerry gave the two a salute before he started walking away.

Rick nodded his head as he and Mason started to go inside.

Jerry stopped walking and turned around. "Actually I just realized I don't have my wallet in my bus pass is in there so maybe-"

"Stay strong, Jerry I believe in you!" Rick said before slamming the front door.

As the door shut lasers activate locking the door as a sentry gun comes out from above. Jerry watched from the outside as Rick entered the dining room being greeted by his family.

Mason limped his way into the Smiths living room flopping on the couch. Myra who was also on the couch raised a brow.

"And what happened to your legs?" Myra asked

"Male bonding," Mason said

"Whatever, let's just get you home before you bleed everywhere," Myra said

"Being tended to by your rough callous hands sounds like a dream. Where's MJ?" Mason asked

"He right-" Myra looked down at her baby carrier to find it had been chewed through, "Oh for fuck's sake!"