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Rick and Haruko chapter 1: Show Me What You Got (originally published on January 28, 2024)

AN: Guess who's back? Back again? Haruko's back, tell a friend! And this time, she won't be hanging around the Pines family in Gravity Falls because this time, we'll be going all the way back to her untold origin story first revealed in Fooly Falls 2: Ride on Shooting Star. Everything from the destruction of her home planet all the way up to the fabled Mechanica Mission where Haruko betrayed Rick, Birdperson, and Squanchy to get her grubby mitts all over Atomsk, and everything in between shall be revealed here at last, which will take a few cues from FLCL Alternative & Grunge and naturally involve a ton of crossovers because that's basically my special interest. Revealing just how Haruko became the woman she is today is going to be a very interesting ride, especially since as of now, FLCL has finished its final two seasons and we still know nothing of her origins. Or at least, its final two seasons until Production I.G. decides what else they can do with the franchise next. I think I'm talking too much, let's get on with it!

It started like any other day on the planet Wasprus for the past seven years. Workers would wake up, get ready, go to work, go home, and repeat the process for the next day. It wasn't always this way, though. Wasprus was once known as a relatively stable and prosperous planet. Then, everything changed when a mysterious megacorporation called Medical Mechanica conquered this world and forced its inhabitants to work themselves to death to produce Medical Machines.

One such inhabitant was a 19-year-old young woman named Haruha Raharu. She was a tall, slender girl with dull brown hair and sickly yellow eyes who was but one of many busy bees forced to do backbreaking labor for her planet's new mysterious overlords. Haruha remembered how they arrived when she was only twelve years old and tried to reach a peaceful agreement with Wasprus's government, but when a band of rebels led by Raharu's mother Rihanna broke into their headquarters and learned of the company's true plans, MM decided to cut to the chase and staged a hostile takeover. Most of the rebels were imprisoned and executed, but Rihanna managed to get away and went into hiding, only to be killed years later by her drunken husband. Although Haruha drifted away from her mother due to how often she was away as a member of the resistance, she does remember Rihanna as a kind and imaginative woman who encouraged Haruha's creativity and would do anything for her family.

"ALL WORKING-CLASS CITIZENS WILL BE FINED IF THEY ARE LATE!" a loud announcer commanded while sirens began blaring, cuing Haruha to get a move on and go to work. Along the way, however, she accidentally bumped into a man on the street, and the two fell over.

"Hey, watch where you're going, asshole!" Haruha cursed at the man while getting up and walking off. "And get to work already, sheesh."

"Ooh-la-la, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." the man belched in annoyance before taking a sip from his flask and hiding from the authorities in an alleyway. "Okay, guys, looks like we have a bit of a problem here."

What Haruha didn't realize was that the man she bumped into would soon change her life forever. High above the planet's city of EroEro, hidden behind the smog that had covered the sky, the faint silhouette of a red phoenix hovered in the air.

Upon reaching her designated locker at the Medical Mechanica factory where she worked, Haruha put away her belongings before she heard a peppy, New Zealand-accented voice call out for her. "Hey Raharu, good morning!" It was her good friend Grok, a tall and muscular member of her species with blue hair and green eyes who she always saw with a cheerful smile on his face despite the horrible environment they grew up in. "Whew, good to see you're still alive. I was worried you would be sentenced to the camps for being late."

"Thanks, Grok." Haruha smiled weakly at Grok before she closed her locker. "So, how's your little revolution going?"

"Starting small, but I think I got something good here." Grok said eagerly. "Unfortunately, one of my applicants was caught with one of the pamphlets I sent out, and well, let's just say we won't be seeing him at work anymore. You remember Taro, right?" Raharu frowned in disappointment. Taro was another good friend from back when Wasprus wasn't under Medical Mechanica's control. Some might even say Haruha had feelings for him. She remembered Taro as socially awkward but extremely intelligent for his age, traits that Haruha found quite attractive. To hear that Taro was planning on rebelling against Medical Mechanica, only to lose his life for it, broke her heart.

"Ooh, you had a crush on him, didn't you?" Grok muttered while giving his coworker a pat on the back. "My deepest condolences, kiddo. I'll make sure to tell his family what happened, too." Suddenly, a massive silhouette towered over the pair, striking fear into their hearts as they turned around to discover their boss standing behind them. "Hey, boss, just having a little water cooler talk before work."

"You can talk with your friend later, Grok." Heinzenberg, a tall and robust man with a thick toothbrush mustache, a flattop haircut that was starting to grey at his temples, a very long nose, and a bizarrely large cigar in his mouth with "ALWAYS KNOWS BEST" written on it, declared as he folded his arms with an intimidating glare. "NOW GET TO WORK!"

"Yes sir, sorry sir!" Grok yelled in fright as he skittered away from Heinzenberg, leaving Haruha behind to face his wrath.

"And as for you, Haruha, I have a special job for you." Heinzenberg said while holding out a wrench. "Reports have come in about several defective Medical Machines in Sector C-618. Go fix them, and don't slack off."

"Yes sir, sorry sir." Haruha meekly replied as she took the wrench and walked away diligently, her nervous smile turning into an angry glare behind her boss's back. "Jackass."

Haruha's job was simple: Just get in with that wrench and fix the Medical Machines. The Medical Machines standing before her were all in various colors, but they were just as muted and uncreative as she expected everything on Wasprus to be. That was Medical Mechanica's goal, to snuff out all creativity and free will for whatever reason that she never bothered finding out.

"Strangers in the night, Scooby-Dooby-Doo." Haruha sang to herself as she popped open a teal Medical Machine's face and began investigating the source of the problem she was ordered to fix. "Hm, it doesn't seem like anything's wrong," she observed. "Maybe I should go a little deeper."

Just then, she heard a drop of water rhythmically dripping from a nearby pipe. It was a nice beat that Haruha simply couldn't resist tapping along to. The tune was almost intoxicating. She couldn't help but start drumming along. Using her wrench and a nearby rod, Haruha turned some nearby equipment into a makeshift drum kit to play with. She started making music, and it was some of the most fun music she had ever heard or played.

"Hey, keep it down in there, Haruha!" Heinzenberg roared as he kicked down the door to Sector C-618 to confront his rebellious employee. "Either stop those abominable sounds, or I'll do it for you!"

"Make me, you old fart!" Haruha cackled as she continued playing her tune. Without saying another word, Heinzenberg pulled out a laser cannon and began firing at Raharu, who dodged every attack before scampering off. "Try and catch me, brush face!"

"You'll pay for this, you freethinking brat!" Heinzenberg yelled as he pounded on one of the Medical Machines and made them all come to life, despite previously saying that they were all malfunctioning. "GET HER!"

The Medical Machines obeyed the supervisor's commands. They began opening fire at Haruha, who continued dodging every attack while causing massive damage to the factory, much to the annoyance of her coworkers.

"Hey, Haru. Do you think you could take your sticking it to the man down a notch?" Grok kindly asked his friend as the factory began collapsing in on itself. "We're all trying to work here."

"Oh, come on, Grok, I thought you were all about revolution!" Haruha exclaimed to her coworker. "Just live a little!"

"You're right, but I prefer me revolution to not cause any property damage!" Grok yelled back at Haruha as he began to run away from the collapsing factory with all the other workers.

As more Medical Machines were sent flying into the wall by Haruha, Heinzenberg turned his laser cannon up to eleven and prepared to disintegrate Haruha with a single blast. But Raharu would not go down easy. She picked up a broken pipe and leaped at her boss to use it as a baseball bat. "ALRIGHT, LUUUUUNCHTIIIIIME!" The pipe clashed with the laser cannon as it fired, creating a massive explosion that caused the iron to completely fall to pieces as the employees fled for their lives and caused shockwaves across the city.

When the dust settled, the area was in shambles, and Heinzenberg was completely furious. "HAAAAAAA-RUUUUUUU-HAAAAAA! YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU'REEEEEEE FIIIIIIIIIREEEEEEDDDDD!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as Haruha was dragged out of the factory by a pair of Medical Machines. "And the rest of you, get out of here! You all get the day off until we can repair this dump!"

"Does that mean we get paid in advance?" Grok asked. Heinzenberg only replied with a long, braying laugh at his employee's expense for daring to ask such a question.

"You serious?" Heinzenberg replied once he stopped laughing. "The only one who will pay here is Raharu once her old man finds out what happened here."

Elsewhere in EroEro, the man Haruha bumped into earlier took a drink from his flask and let out a loud belch before turning to his two companions. "Well, boys, it looks like we won't be performing here for a long time."

"Indeed, Rick." A birdman replied while examining a holographic tablet. "It says here that for seven years, Wasprus has outlawed any form of creativity or freedom of expression after being taken over by Medical Mechanica. This is part of the company's goal of killing any free will across all dimensions, and you will find they will never stop."

"Aw, squanch!" A little cat person complained while kicking a rock into a trash can. "At least we can lay low here in the low-income parts of this planet until the coast is clear."

"Wait, both of you, shut up!" Rick ordered his companions as they watched a pair of Medical Machines drop Haruha Raharu off at her apartment home after she was fired. "I know that little shit! I bumped into her earlier today!"

"What's with the Medical Machines?" the cat asked.

"I believe those Medical Machines are bringing her home." The birdperson observed. "I fear for whatever she has to face in there."

As the Medical Machines departed, Haruha took a deep, solemn breath as she grabbed the doorknob and opened the door to the place she dreaded returning to the most. Back to her father.

Reagan Raharu sat in his chair watching TV, sweat matting his brown hair as he took a long, slow sip of his flask. He had been an obedient servant of his planet's new overlords for seven years, quietly nodding his head at every command while sitting back with a drink in hand. However, his daughter Haruha didn't quite so agree with his compliance, which led to frequent arguments between them as she got older, combined with the death of her mother in an accident. Just then, Reagan heard the door open behind him. "How was work today, Haruha?"

"I got fired." Haruha declared. "Finally."

"Could you please say that again?" Reagan declared gloweringly as he got up from his chair to confront his rebellious daughter. "You got fired?"

"Yeah, I got bored and started going all chitty-chitty bang bang on some pipes, but then Heinzenberg noticed and tried to kill me," Haruha said casually. "He then blamed me for destroying the factory, but what does he know? He prefers to blame everyone except himself!"

"Do you realize what you've done, Haruha?!" Reagan Raharu said as he gulped from his flask before smacking his daughter across the face. "Your slacking off and playing that infernal music nearly got us all in trouble!"

"You would not believe how boring my job gets!" Haruha tried speaking up for herself in defense. "Not everything has to be about conforming to our society's unrealistic standards, y'know!" She then pointed out the window towards some depressed residents of EroEro. "I mean, look at her, look at him, look at all of them. They don't know what they have inside of them. They're just sleepwalking through life, wondering when something amazing is going to happen on this planet when they aren't going to get any because they're forced to conform."

"I don't give a rat's ass about standards or conformity, young lady!" Reagan continued ranting. "Either behave like every other girl on this godforsaken planet or never show your face around me again!"

Just then, the cruddy apartment home of the Raharus started rumbling, and a loud voice bellowed, "SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT! I WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU GOT!" The ceiling began falling to pieces little by little; all capped off with a steel girder losing its support and falling right over Haruha's father.

"WHAT THE FU-" was all Reagan could scream before the girder reduced him to a puddle of red. As relieved as Haruha was to see her abusive father finally die, she had no time to relish in this. Whatever this voice needed, Haruha wanted to find out.

"This is it, Haru. This could be your big chance!" Haruha said as she peeked out her window to discover a giant head looming over Wasprus, its mere presence causing massive damage to the planet's ecosystem as emergency sirens began blaring.

"SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" the head boomed, the shockwaves from its voice sending dozens of Medical Machines ordered to attack it flying away.

"Looks like it's time for me to save the world." Haruha stated as she combed through her crumbling home in search of something to battle with. Looking through her parents' destroyed bedroom, Haruha sifted her hands through the rubble until she found a Gibson Flying V hidden under the bed her mother used to play for her. "Long time no see, old girl. Did you miss me?"

"SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" the head roared, prompting Haruha to burst out of the bedroom and prepare to leave home in pursuit of her destiny.

"Well, guess this is it." Haruha declared as she turned to face her crummy apartment one last time. "Goodbye, water-stained ceiling. Goodbye, silverware drawer that doesn't close all the way. Goodbye, carpet that's never been dry. Goodbye, lamp that shocks you every time you touch it. Goodbye, plastic bag of plastic bags. Goodbye, medicine cabinet with sentient black mold in the corner with a taste for human flesh."

"SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" the head interrupted Haruha's bitter farewell to her old home.

"Okay, okay! Sheesh, keep your pants on!" Haruha groaned before closing the front door and hopping on a hover-scooter, leaving behind her old life once and for all as the vibrations of the head's roaring caused the apartment to fall apart entirely.

"All citizens remain calm and proceed in an orderly fashion to the shelters." a member of Wasprus's police force commanded the citizens of EroEro as they marched to safety from the giant head, aided by members of the Galactic Federation. "Damn these Cromulons. I never would've guessed they'd show up one day."

"Hey, aren't we missing a few?" another officer asked before presenting a hologram of the Raharu family members. Both Reagan and Rihanna Raharu were labeled as deceased, but their daughter was dubbed at large. "All units, comb the city and bring us Haruha Raharu!"

"Look!" Heinzenberg yelled as he pointed at Haruha in the distance on her scooter. "I can see her right over there! Get her!"

"Yeah, that's the spirit, Raharu!" Grok exclaimed joyfully as he punched a police officer in the face and stole his laser gun. "The revolution has finally begun!" The other members of Grok's rebellion against Medical Mechanica cheered for their freedom and immediately began taking up arms against their oppressors. "Thank you, old friend, for everything."

"Grok, my broski, you finally got that freedom fighter team started!" Haruha said as she stopped her scooter in front of the masses to greet her coworker. "Good for you!"

"Halt, young lady! You are in violation of Medical Mechanica's orders!" the police officer stated while his partner summoned a fleet of Medical Machines to bring her in. "Step away from the scooter with your hands in the air and hand over your musical instrument so no one has to get hurt."

"Just let me pass, you guys. I'm trying to save your ungrateful asses here." Haruha urged the cops while looking towards the Cromulon invading Wasprus. "You'll all thank me later when I deliver you from evil!"

"I'm going to assume you killed your father before coming here." Heinzenberg said, confronting his former employee while revealing the hologram tablet of her family. "It doesn't have to be like this, young lady. Just put everything down and come with us to safety. Perhaps I can hire you back and offer you a promotion if you come with me. I'm practically the only family you have left."

Enraged at her abusive boss implying that the two of them were like father and daughter, Haruha launched into a furious tirade against her home planet's current state. "YOU ALL ARE SO ANNOYINGLY STERILE; I'M LITERALLY SCREAMING RIGHT NOW! If there were a Guinness Record for fascism, you would hold it!" she screamed while highly stylized kanji began flying around, confusing everyone present. "So go on with your Big Brother is Watching bullcrap and your egotistical indoctrination; it just proves you're one of the lunatic cringe! This part doesn't make sense when we translate it, so just forget it! Do you know what this is like? When you're watching something subtitled because dubs suck? And the only people who laugh are the native speakers!"

"What are you even on about?" Heinzenberg asked, raising an eyebrow at Haruha's enraged rant before he was suddenly decapitated by a swing of her Gibson Flying V, causing his head to go airborne before landing on the ground in front of Haruha, which she stepped on and created a bloody mess beneath her feet.

"Damn, I always wanted to do that." Haruha smirked to herself in sadistic pride before looking to the police. "Anyone else wanna come with him?"

"Okay, we're dropping all pretenses. KILL HER!" the leading policeman commanded his armored troops to shoot Haruha down, but she dodged every single projectile fired at her while cutting down more cops with her guitar. "How can she even do that with a guitar!?"

"Because she believes in freedom, just like the rest of us!" Grok proclaimed happily, unaware that his group of rebels had all been massacred for their crimes until he came face to face with a gun to his chest. "Oh crap."

The gun fired, and Grok was left with a giant hole in his chest as he slowly collapsed from the grievous wounds. "Ah well, it was fun while it lasted." Grok shrugged as he took his death in stride and fell to the ground. With Grok dead, Haruha virtually had no one left to call friends or family on Wasprus. But when she would save the planet, that would all soon change as she escaped the police and made her way towards the Cromulon.

"HMMM." the Cromulon muttered while pursing its lips. "NONE OF YOU WANT TO SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT! NOW PREPARE TO BE DISQUALIFIED!" The Cromulon then revealed a giant laser cannon pointed straight at Wasprus and poised to destroy the planet once and for all had it not been for one resident having the gall to oppose them.

"WAIT!" Haruha yelled as she got up on an abandoned stage and presented her Flying V to the Cromulon. "Let me show you what I got!" The residents of Wasprus began to crowd around the stage while the police watched with intrigue.

"Everyone, hold your fire." the officer stated. "I think this girl may be our last hope."

"Oh, so now you finally realize it!" his partner exclaimed angrily before slapping his superior in the face.

"FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO TAKES THE CHALLENGE!" the Cromulon boomed while the laser cannon retreated. "WHAT IS YOUR NAME, YOUNG LADY?"

"My name is Haruha Raharu." Haruha introduced herself to the Cromulon. "Can you please tell me what you want?"

"WE ARE THE CROMULONS, HOSTS OF THE INTERGALACTIC REALITY SERIES PLANET MUSIC, WHERE WE ORDER PLANETS TO SHOW US WHAT THEY GOT WITH MUSIC." the Cromulon explained. "IF YOUR MUSIC DOESN'T SATISFY US, THEN YOU SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED!"

"Well, I guess I might be willing to take that challenge!" Haruha declared bravely as she finished tuning her guitar. "Now then, may I?"

"PLANET WASPRUS, SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" the Cromulon answered, compelling Haruha to play her guitar for the amazed crowd that had gathered before her. Haruha didn't have a particular song in mind; she was just content with rocking out on her guitar and playing an ode to dreamers like her across the universe who started from nothing.

"Mom, this one is for you!" Haruha muttered to herself while her music got louder and the outline of a giant red phoenix glowed brighter and brighter in the sky. "I'm doing it; I'm really doing it!"

"Stop right there, brat!" one outraged Wasprian police officer yelled as he stopped Haruha's performance and pointed his gun at her. "I'm going to make you pay for killing my brother, Raharu! Heinzenberg was a good man who wanted to make a living and support his people, and you took that away from us!"

"Kind of in the middle of something here, douchebag," Haruha complained while lowering the gun to her face.

"BOO, NOT COOL!" the Cromulon agreed with Raharu while the audience began complaining as well. "DISQUALIFIED!"

"Aw shitballs, you guys, we gotta run!" the belches of a middle-aged man sounded as he and his two companions, a stonefaced bird person, and a catlike creature, ran for the hills to a hijacked cargo ship. Haruha immediately recognized the man as the one she bumped into on her way to work earlier, but who were the other two with him?

"Running from what? The Galactic Space Patrol Brotherhood, the Cromulons, or Medical Mechanica?!" the cat-man asked.

"All of them!" the old man yelled.

"And it's not just them. Look." Birdperson announced, pointing upward to a giant red phoenix that warped itself over Wasprus.

"IT SEEMS WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST JUDGE!" the Cromulon boomed. "LEGENDARY PIRATE KING ATOMSK, SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!"

While the old man and his posse urged Haruha not to give in, she was utterly mesmerized by Atomsk's might as she slowly stepped towards him. There was something so radiant about this strange creature that had appeared to destroy her planet; it was almost magnetic.

"Don't do it, babe, that's Atomsk! His power will seriously screw with your head!" the man warned, but Haruha didn't listen and reached out to the giant bird while her hair turned into a bright shade of pink. A large chain wrapped around the Pirate King's neck attached to the girl's wrist, and she pulled it with all her might, eventually breaking it in two.

Just as Atomsk screeched, Raharu was dragged away by the bird person and raced to the cargo ship, escaping the doomed Wasprus in the nick of time before it completely exploded from Atomsk's presence while the Cromulon made its escape. "Welp, there goes that gig." the man groaned in defeat, taking a chug out of a flask. "How's our extra cargo doing?"

"Still out squanch from Atomsk." the cat-person stated, checking for a pulse just as their passenger came to.

"Oh geez, what happened?" Haruha moaned, rubbing her head when she took notice of the old man, the bird, and the cat surrounding her. "Where am I, and who are all of you?!"

"Well, I can assure you, miss, I am not a man in a suit that will teach you the alphabet." the birdman answered. "You may call me Birdperson. These two are my bandmates, Squanchy and Rick."

"Okay, we played the name game. But where's my planet?!" Raharu shouted, grabbing the two animal-like creatures by their collarbones.

"Well, funny story, babe, might wanna squanch around and see what happened." Squanchy suggested trying to break free, and the girl took his suggestion, gazing out the back window to find what was left of her home planet.

"My home's all gone." Haruha muttered, shedding a few tears, but those tears were soon replaced with a celebratory manic grin. "I'M FREE!"

"Whoa now, aren't you the least bit torn up about everyone you ever loved there now pretty much dead?" Squanchy stated.

"I don't care, 'cause no one felt that about me either!" the Flesh Curtains' passenger whooped. "No more shitty dad, no more boring job, and no more stifling of creativity!"

"Hell yeah, now you're speaking my language!" Rick replied merrily. "Hey, didn't get your name, lass. What do they call you?" he asked, putting a microphone to the girl's mouth.

"I'm Haruha Raharu." she introduced herself. "I'm pretty sure you might've heard earlier, but it bears a little repeating."

"Hm, doesn't roll off the tongue as much." the drunken traveler commented. "You ever tried picking up a name like the ones in the comics like Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Billy Batson, or Fred Flintstone?"

"I don't believe that last one came from a comic." Birdperson tried to correct his bandmate until he was shushed.

"I got a great one! How about Haruko Haruhara?" Sanchez announced, pretending to knight the girl with a Rickenbacker bass.

"I like it, really does sound like those old comics!" the newly renamed Haruko exclaimed. "So where to?"

"Wherever the hell we want to!" Squanchy answered, pointing onward to the stars beyond. As the four began laughing the day away, Haruko started to think back to her encounter with Atomsk. She had only heard stories about how he was the freest being in all of space, and now she got to see him up close. The sheer power the Pirate King possessed felt utterly hypnotizing to Haruko. She must have it for herself. But as she would soon realize, this girl wasn't the only one who coveted Atomsk's power.

In a spaceship hovering above the remains of Wasprus, a man looked down upon the ruined planet with disdain while nursing a glass of rosé wine in his hand. He looked like your average businessman with his sharp suit and unkempt pale blonde hair, but his most defining feature was the mechanical prosthetics on his body. His hand was replaced with a mechanical arm with claw-like fingers and an omega symbol on the back, and a metallic mask covering the bridge of his nose and his strong chin. This man was Repre S. Entative, the appropriately named Representative Director of Medical Mechanica.

"So you can confirm that every last inhabitant of Wasprus is dead?" Repre asked a Medical Machine standing by his side.

"Affirmative, death toll of Wasprus's destruction: complete." The Medical Machine responded calmly.

"Shame. They were such busy little bees." Repre shook his head in disgust while taking a sip of his wine. "Go out and search that asteroid field for anything that can still be useful to us."

"However, you must be informed of a few things of note." The Medical Machine declared as its screen presented specific information about the planet's destruction. "Although we can confirm that every inhabitant of Wasprus is dead, one managed to escape before the planet's destruction with assistance from Rick Sanchez of Dimension C-137 and his accomplices."

Repre loudly spat out his wine in response to the news. "WHAT?!"

"In addition, the Cromulons' invasion of Wasprus also had an uninvited guest in the form of the Pirate King, Atomsk." The Medical Machine continued while revealing a picture of the Pirate King destroying Wasprus.

Repre did not take this news well at all. With his teeth gritted, he angrily smashed his wine glass against the Medical Machine's screen and spilled wine all over the robot, all while letting out a furious shriek. "ATOMSK AND SANCHEZ WERE HERE?!" he yelled. "AT THE SAME TIME?!"

"Confirmed." the Medical Machine replied. "Would you like to message the Lord Superior Officer about this?"

"Yes, tell him everything!" Repre answered hotly. "And make sure to forward this to the Galactic Federation and the Council of Ricks as well." He then turned back to the remains of Wasprus and gazed out the window of his cruiser with his mechanical hand against the window. "I will find you, Atomsk, and I will make you my property."

And so, the curtain rises on Haruko's origin story and the beginnings of her obsession with Atomsk. From here, you shall see her relationship with Rick go from the bond shared between Marty McFly and Doc Brown to deteriorating until they go full Revenge on the Sith with each other, with Haruko as Anakin Skywalker and Rick as Obi-Wan Kenobi with a dash of Emperor Palpatine since Rick is not a good role model for Haruko at all. Haruko is a dreamer who originally barely had anything and now wants everything. In contrast, our main villain for much of this story, Repre S. Entative, already has everything he could want as a high-ranking member of Medical Mechanica, but he desires more power than he already is satisfied with and won't let anything get in the way of his immature crusade, with the only thing keeping him in line being the Lord Superior Officer, his mysterious boss whom we shall see in person in the next chapter. Speaking of which, the next couple chapters between now and the finale shall focus on the individual members of the Flesh Curtains, much like how Alternative and Grunge focused on each of its main characters in every episode, as Haruko will soon get the lion's share of development in the next chapter, followed by Rick, Squanchy, and Birdperson in every succeeding chapter. Tune in next time!

#flcl #rick and morty #crossover #fanfiction #rick and haruko #haruko haruhara #rick sanchez #birdperson #squanchy #repre s. entative #atomsk

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