I'll explain the relationship of the father-daughter relationship in further chapters. THIS IS NOT PSEUDO-CEST OR PEDOPHILIA.
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"C'mon Jake, wake up!"
Jake groaned, hearing his bro's voice calling from him in the kitchen of their tree house. It was pretty early in the morning, but they had to wake up a bit earlier to get something to eat. Princess Bubblegum had invited them to witness her attempts at activating her time machine, which she had been working on for months now. The first time they saw it, it looked like scrap metal and exposed wires. Finn was exceedingly excited to see it, working or non-working. Finn called once more, and Jake finally dragged himself from the warm confines of his drawer-bed. Stepping into the kitchen, he grabbed a piece of slightly burnt toast, knowing that this was probably not the worst breakfast he's ever had. Drinking a cup of coffee, he turned to Finn, who had found his socks and was just now putting on his shoes.
"Ready to go, buddy?" He asked, stretching out, mimicking the length of a Rainicorn.
"How couldn't I not be ready, this is going to be awesome!" Finn said, obviously pumped. Jake chuckled, allowing the thirteen-year-old to climb onto his back as he scurried downstairs and through the door, Finn narrowly missing the top of the doorway. Finn laughed as they bounded towards the Candy Kingdom. Suddenly, something black and cloaked in red flashed beside them, causing Finn to almost slip off his steed. It was Marceline, in a red cloak to block out the morning sun; her hair was in a messy bun at the top of her head.
"Hey you guys." She smiled somewhat, floating beside them as they ran.
"Hey Marceline, what're you doin'?" Asked Finn, regaining his balance on the back of the magic dog, sticking his tongue out in his attempts.
"Well, the princess invited me to see her time-machine thing. I'm pretty bored, so I decided to see what's up." Said the vampire queen; tucking a lock of her black hair behind her ear.
"Awesome! I can't wait to see what she'll be sending back!" Finn grinned, fist-pumping. Marceline rolled her eyes, and swept past the human boy, temporarily putting him off balance. Finn yelled a complaint, but smiled, attempting to race after her on Jake. However, Marceline was impeccably fast, even more than the magical dog. Marceline had beaten the pair to the castle, already speaking with the bubblegum princess. The room was dark, illuminated by the multiple screens and flashing lights of the machine. Wires were on the floor, a tripping hazard, and two large, circular-like indentations in the wall showed where the portals would be once the machine was activated.
"Oh, hey you guys." Princess Bubblegum greeted, turning towards the huffing dog and the human boy, smiling warmly.
"Hey PB, are you ready to do some time-travellin'?!" Asked Finn excitedly.
"No, Finn, it'll take a few minutes to set a few coordinates and get it warmed up." She turned towards the machine again, which looked ready as it ever was going to be. "You can go and wait in the main hall for now, guys. It'll take me a few minutes."
Finn and Jake groaned, obviously disappointed, and began shuffling out of the room. Marceline stayed quiet, looking towards the doorway, and decided to become invisible. She watched the candy princess, who was beginning to input coordinates on a keyboard of sorts, the screen brightening up as it began to lock on to the time and area in which she chose. Pressing a red button, PB nodded, and left the room. Marceline waited a moment, and floated to the screen, becoming visible once more.
On the screen appeared to be a large tree, Finn atop Jake as they ran from the tree-house. Marceline realized this was just minutes ago. Why would Bubblegum pick something so boring? Oh, right. It wasn't 'safe'. She knew that Bubblegum could do better. Frowning, she looked at the keyboard, and deleted the setting, and typed a new one. On screen, a new objective was formed: 996 Years in the Past. A large and what appeared to be destroyed city was on screen. Marceline took a deep breath, and nodded, and began to float back, when a bright light appeared in one of the portal-like areas of the machine. It was a purple, swirling vortex. Marceline cocked her head, and looked at the screen. There appeared to be a vortex similar to the one before her, and she realized that it had worked! Smiling to herself, Marceline stepped up to the portal.
"Marceline, What are you doing?!"
Marceline jumped, looking at the door. Jake was peering through the door, shock visible on his face in the dark room, PB and Finn quickly joining the dog to see what was up. Princess Bubblegum had a horrified look on her face.
"Marceline, don't go through that portal! It's still in beta! It could be dangerous!" Yelled PB, beginning to scramble over the dog.
Marceline stuck out her tongue, and with a brief "Later!" and jumped into the vortex.
Marceline felt her stomach jump into her throat, her body swirling along with the vortex. She could hear the yells of the Candy Princess and the human behind her. She couldn't feel anything except the cold, sucking feeling as her body was being forced from her time period and into the past.
"Oh no, guys, this is really bad!" Princess Bubblegum yelled, stomping up and down, practically creating a rut in the concrete floor. Finn and Jake looked at one another, worried for both the vampire and the Candy Princess before them.
"The time machine wasn't meant to send people back in time! It was meant to send items back!" The princess was practically pulling out her hair at this point before she started doing breathing exercises, looking back at the machine. The first portal had disappeared, and a new one had appeared at the second indentation.
"The time machine will replace the younger Marceline with the older Marceline," Said the Princess calmly, "Because you cannot have the same two people in the same time period."
Suddenly, there was a large yell and childlike screaming from the portal, a child being catapulted from the vortex. It was the younger Marceline, wearing a pair of jean overalls, a red t-shirt, and a pair of mary-janes. The Princess rushed to the vampire child, who began to take her pulse, but stopped.
"Right, vampires don't have heartbeats." Said Jake, rushing over to the child; Finn appeared to be in a state of shock before coming to the younger vampire's side. Luckily, the child appeared to be breathing, although faster than normal.
"Call for Peppermint Butler— we need Doctor Ice Cream." PB said seriously.
