This first chapter doesn't mention the Lemonsisters, and I don't think it's as funny as I hope the rest of the fic will be. Please read and give opinions (but please don't say it's unacceptable without giving reasons why, this is my first fic so it probably isn't great)

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Princess Bubblegum's eyes widened in shock. "I… thought they… stopped" she stuttered. The Princess was in the candy castle's laboratory, working on her latest project. The entire laboratory was a mess. Papers were scattered all over, many crumpled and filled with rough notes. Opened flasks of brightly coloured chemicals could be seen on every desk, and some had even been spilled or broken with little done to clean the spilled liquids.

The day was as bright as it normally was in the candy kingdom, and the sun shone through the large window which the Princess sat in front of, filling the room with vibrant colour, thanks to one of Princess Bubblegum's previous inventions, 'Light Reflecting Wallpaper'. The darkest thing in the room was Princess Bubblegum herself.

Her hair hadn't been washed in days, and split ends branched from her normally perfect pink locks. Her lab coat was stained with both chemicals and food. Behind her safety goggles, the Princess's eyes were baggy and tired. It was very unusual for Bubblegum to work for days at a time like this, and the entire Kingdom was starting to worry.

Princess Bubblegum stared down at the unfolded note which lay on her desk in front of her.

"Mmmmn

Priincess

Bubblegum

We are starving.

Immediately send us

All of your candy.

How dare you."

It was signed 'Lemongrabs', and it gave the Princess a sickening déjà vu. She could have sworn that when Lemonjon decomposed himself, he produced enough lemon candy to feed the entire Earldom of Lemongrab for at least six years. It had only been four months. Unless the Lemongrabs had been extremely greedy, which she had calculated was impossible even for the entire Earldom, she was certain that the Lemongrabs had rediscovered the secret to making candy life somehow. But how? Finn and Jake brought back the only copy of the plans to making candy life back from the Lemon castle, and she had erased the memory from both of their minds fully. Now she thought of it, where was the plan for making candy life? Somewhere amongst the other scattered papers and blueprints? "Never mind" she almost whispered to herself "I'm sure they can investigate".

Meanwhile, Finn and Jake were in the dark surveillance room of the Candy Castle, with two banana guards. The only light sources were from the door which was left ajar, and the various screens in the room. The banana guards were sitting on two swivel chairs facing the screens, with Finn and Jake leaning on the chairs behind them. They were all watching footage of the castle on the TVs in front of them. The banana guard in front of Finn was holding a VHS tape up, with a badly written date and location on the front.

"This is a tape from about 2 to 3 months ago" the banana guard on the left, with Finn standing behind him said.

"From Princess Bubblegum's bedroom" said the other banana guard who had Jake standing behind him.

"Don't tell anyone" the banana on the left replied.

"Yeah this is our secret"

"Our secret"

"Yeah don't tell…."

"Okay, we get it!" Finn interrupted the banana guard in front of him loudly, although not loudly enough to draw any attention from other rooms. The banana in front of Finn nodded, and slid the tape into one of the VHS players. A fuzzy static image appeared for a couple of seconds on the screen above it, and then a tape showing Princess Bubblegum asleep in her bed played. "Hey why are we spying on the Princess?" Jake asked looking confused and slightly disgusted. "Shh!" The banana in front of Jake snapped "Just watch the shadow okay?" Jake squinted and peered over at the shadow on the black and white TV screen, and so did Finn. For a few seconds, nothing seemed unusual about the shadow. "Maybe we should fast forward a little" The banana in front of Finn suggested, and he pressed and held the fast forward button on the VHS player. Fuzzy lines appeared on the screen, until the banana on the right almost shouted "Stop!" at which point the other guard took his finger off the fast forward button.

Everyone leaned forward, almost in shock and awe. There were two white, eye like dots in the shadows, and if you looked carefully, you could see a darker shadow that resembled a lemon. Finn gasped "LEMONG…mmmmph". The banana guard behind him covered his mouth before he could finish shouting loud enough to wake everyone on the same floor. "Keep watching it gets better" he said sternly. Finn kept looking at the screen, with the banana guard's hand still over his mouth. Unlike before, where Lemongrab's figure stood still watching the victims in their sleep, his shadow appeared to move, as shown by the two white dots moving. The white dots bounced across the screen, until they stopped close to the wall. It looked like they had stopped at Princess Bubblegum's drawers, as some of the furniture spread to where it wasn't as dark and was therefore visible. The two white dots dropped down and turned so only one was slightly in view. It remained like that for a few seconds, until the white dots turned to face the screen directly and sprinted out of view.

"What did he want?" Jake asked, still with a confused expression.

"Never mind that, we have to tell PB!" Finn ignored Jake's question.

"But this is OUR SECRET!" The banana behind Jake turned to face both of them. He didn't seem threatening, but he definitely wasn't happy with the idea of Princess Bubblegum ruining their chances of future footage that could be used for hot gossip and to pass the time. It wasn't that fun to stare at black and white screens all night, especially when there was hardly anything exciting on them.

"FINN! JAKE!" A voice bellowed from above.

"That's Bubblegum, we better go" Jake announced to the bananas before he and Jake started to run out as both bananas swivelled in their chairs to face them.

"WAIT!" one of them shouted, causing Finn and Jake to screech to a halt right before they even reached the door. Both of them turned to face the Bananas. The one to their left warned "Don't tell her"

"Yeah, yeah" Finn replied, tired of the bananas repeating themselves. "Now let's go!" Finn and Jake sprinted out of the door before the banana guards could warn them again not to tell Princess Bubblegum about their videos of Lemongrab's stalking. Finn and Jake weren't even thinking of telling the Princess about a video recorded two or three months ago as they ran up to the castle laboratory. There wasn't a point of telling Princess Bubblegum about something that had happened only once and too long ago to bother taking notice. It didn't really matter that Lemongrab was in Princess Bubblegum's room once, did it?

Finn and Jake reached the castle laboratory, and stopped just as they came through the door, panting and sweating. They had to run a long way and up many stairs to get to the laboratory on one of the higher floors in the castle. Princess Bubblegum was sitting on the opposite side of the room. She turned to face them.

"Finn, Jake, I want you to go to Castle Lemongrab, and find out what is causing their recent food shortage. It's possible that they used the lemon candy to make lemon children, but I want you to find out how they used a lifetime supply of lemon candy in four months" Princess Bubblegum addressed Finn and Jake calmly. Both of them were in shock, but tried very hard not to show it. They both thought about the video they had seen only a few minutes before.

"Sure thing PB" Finn replied cheerfully, trying hard to cover up the shock he felt inside. Jake transformed into a large lemon camel with Jake's orange colour and facial features. Finn jumped onto him, and Jake the lemon camel stretched out of the castle and ran towards Castle Lemongrab, carrying Finn with him.