[WP] As you die, you wake up and find yourself strapped to a chair. Wires and tubes have been attached to your body and numerous shadowy figures walk up to you. “That was life sentence 24,” one of them says, “Only 356 sentences left.”
Prompt from u/Oscar49 https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ctk9ob/wp_as_you_die_you_wake_up_and_find_yourself/
Lights. Lights all around me. As my eyes slowly readjusted my mind wandered, “where am I? Is this heaven? No not with the life I lived, it must be…” A figure came into view, no, more figures – a whole crowd was just standing staring at me. “What is this?” My eyes darted down towards my feet and legs. Wires and tubes encased my body like serpents waiting to strike. A voice bellowed from the room, “That was life sentence 24. Only 356 sentences left.” The words danced through my brain uprooting all the memories and thoughts that felt long gone…..
“MORTY, I AIN’T GOING DOWN LIKE THIS!!!” the words barely left my mouth before the door burst open. Marty, my partner in crime, my lifeline was standing in the window, looking directly into my soul. His face was round and pale littered with tiny strands of brown hair emerging from the pores of the exterior of his jaw. His lips moved slowly. I couldn’t make out what he said through my own screams of agony and despair. Then he was gone… Just like that left by the only man that would stand by me or that I thought would stand by me. Dozens of huge, towering men with biceps the size of small watermelons filled the room. I couldn’t move. Hell I couldn’t even think. My eyes shifted to the remnants of my legs or leg. My right leg lay inches away from where it should be, only connected by the blood and guts that lay between it and me. “Rick Sanchez, you are under arrest for intergalactical crimes in universes D32, C41, F5…” The list went on and on as my consciousness slowly faded…
“ha…ha…ha….hahahHAHAHAHA” The shadowy figures that once looked content were now plastered with fear. I raised my head with a grin that can be described as nothing else but as pure malice. “You motherfuckers just wait, my 25th life will end all of you!” One of the figures quickly pulled a lever and my body contorted like a mannequin being brought to life. The world once again faded, but this time I wouldn’t forget…this time is going to be different. Just you wait Morty.
Note: Oh geez was this weird to write. I wasn’t really sure where I was going with it but as I started writing I felt like it had to be an homage to Rick and Morty. My idea for the short excerpt was to try and write as a character that I wouldn’t normally picture myself as. TBH I’m more of a Morty than a Rick in so many ways. But where’s the fun in writing in a way that you already know.
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