"Aww, jeez, Rick, I was just about to—"
"We are the 39th. The jump failed. We're the ones holding the line. And the deletion wave is…" He checks his watch. "Three minutes away."
Rick freezes. He slowly turns to Morty, eyes wide. Rick And Morty --39-LINK--39-
The 39th Iteration
"Oh, man. What do we do? Do we fight it? Do we run?" "Aww, jeez, Rick, I was just about to—" "We are the 39th
pauses. He looks almost somber.
They land in an identical kitchen. The chair is silent. The cereal is still. And the deletion wave is…" He checks his watch
"Is that bad? Thirty-nine sounds like a nice number. It's, like, three times thirteen. That's lucky, right? Three times lucky?"
"No time for your 'about tos.' The Cosmic Index just ticked over to 39. You know what that means?"
"It's not lucky, Morty! It's prime . Primes are unstable. When reality hits a prime iteration, the fabric gets… tweaky. Last time this happened, my left testicle briefly became a sentient black hole that only spoke Esperanto."
"Oh, jeez."