REBOOTED FROM THE OLD VERSION
Based off one of the greatest ideas ever! And that is Finn taking care of a young Marceline! Well I think it was a great idea.
Also yes, Finn is fifteen. Like how he is in the show.
Disclaimer: I do not own Adventure Time or any of its characters
"Augh. Man it's hot!"
It was a warm sunny morning, with all the buildings buzzing with business. All the candy buildings that is. There were little cupcakes and candy bars and basically everything sweet running around the place carrying loads of supplies. Most seemed in a rush and some did not. The Candy Kingdom was always a busy place.
"It's okay Jake. We're almost there anyway."
Along the chocolate roads, there were two figures who seemed to be heading toward the great Candy Castle. One was a boy, and one was a dog. They were going rather slow though because of the fellow greetings from many of the inhabitants of the Candy Kingdom. Every step or turn they took, there would always be someone who waved, greeted, or offered one of their freshly baked pastries. Technically everybody would stop their rushing and buzzing just for the two. You see, they were the heroes of the Land of Ooo, so their names were known across the land. Also being known for saving their kingdom countless times. And being the generous most patient people, they would take their time with each candy person. Well, at least one of them was patient.
"Finn! I'm tirrreed! Can we go home? What's PB need us for anyway? There aren't any more bad guys butts to kick!"
"Aw come on Jake. Don't be such a baby. I don't know what Peebubs needs us for but it did seem pretty important! See, it says so on this paper right here."
Reaching behind him to pull out a crumpled piece of paper from the side of his backpack, the boy, Finn was his name, un-crumpled the paper and did his best trying too smooth it out. It was written in a fancy font that looked more like an invitation to a royal ball. Well it used too. Now it was covered in wrinkles and there was even a tear at the top of the paper.
Dusting off the imaginary dust from the paper, Finn checked over shape it was in and nodded. Then finally he handed it to his brother companion Jake.
"Let me see that…"
Jake snatched the paper out of Finn's hand with a frown and read through it, his expression perking up with every word he read. Until he broke into a wide mischievous grin.
"Finn! It technically says I don't have to be here!"
"What? let me see that…" Taking the paper back, Finn read through it too. But instead, Finn kept a confused expression the whole time. "Where Jake? I don't see anything?" He looked back at his brother with an un-amused look.
Sweat-dropping, Jake looked to the side and back again. Continuously darting his eyes left and right. He seemed to be searching through his mind, trying to think of something. After a while, he gave a small gasp and his face lit up followed by him pointing his finger up and smiling.
"It's in a secret code Finn! PB hid it in case some bad guy steals it from us! Yeah you know Bubblegum! Always thinking ahead for us! Well that's that. Gotta go bye!" He came to a complete halt, turned around, then dashed away.
Jake could always count on his human brothers gullibility. Finn would believe anything. Most of the time.
Finn looked back at the paper and reread it again a couple of times.
"But Jake how does this… make…"
Turning his head to where his brother was supposedly standing, he realized he wasn't even next to him anymore. Turning his head left and right then finally turning fully around, he could make out a giant figure running in the distance, straight for a giant tree like house.
"Jake! Jake come back here! Bubblegum said it was important!"
But it was too late, the dog was already far from hearing range. Sighing, Finn continued his walking toward the castle, of course still stopping here and there to say 'hello'. Finally reaching the giant candy doors of the castle, he walked in without a problem with the guards. They trusted him enough and it didn't matter if they did or not anyway since they always seemed to be distracted with something stupid.
"Let's see… From the paper... Princess Bubblegum, said something about an experiment? Guess that means going to the lab then huh?"
Finn knew his way around the castle so he didn't need to ask for directions. He has the map of the place memorized from the back of his head. This surprises most of the workers there, since he surprisingly knows more about the castle than they do. That was all thanks to the countless times he had to rescue her from the Ice King. And also too his big curiosity of the kingdom.
After countless hallways and main rooms, he reached the door to the lab, Finn knocked for he knew that entering without permission was just plain rude. Exceptions to evil-doers. Also intruding into a girls room is way past rude. Well, the lab technically wasn't a girls room, but since Princess Bubblegum spends most of her time in there, it might as well be.
"Come on in!" He heard a light cheery voice. With that invitation being good enough for him, Finn opened the door and walked inside, careful not to trip on or mess up any of the papers and bottles lying around. It was dark in there except for a faint light coming from a mostly covered window.
"Hey Peebles!" He smiled and greeted the pink bubblegum princess, who seemed to be writing something on a piece of paper.
Dropping her pencil with a small thud, Princess Bubblegum stopped whatever she was doing and ran up to him to give him a light hug, hitting some of her empty test tubes lying around in the process. Normally, this would make Finn blush like mad, but for some reason he didn't.
"Hey Finn! Great for you to have made it!" She smiled and then turned her attention to each side of him "Say, where's Jake?"
"Oh he cracked your secret code and went home just in case of some bad guys."
Everything went quiet. The only sound you could hear would be the bubbling of the chemicals inside test tubes.
Princess Bubblegum stared at him with the most confused look ever. And Finn stared back at her with a confused look on why she looked confused. How could she forget what she put on the paper?
"What code…?"
With the most obvious tone he replied, "You know. The secret code you placed on your note paper just in case bad guys tried to steal it? Remember?"
"I didn't write a…" Sighing, she thought about it for a moment , then muttered "Jake..." under her breath and went back to her happy princess mood. Both from knowing there was nothing she could do about it now and from remembering what was so important she even needed them here for.
"It's fine. I believe i will only need one person to help me on my experiment."
"Speaking of which, what are we even doing? Some kind of quest you're going to put me on?"
Grinning by the thought, Finn grabbed his demon-blood sword and swished it around, also accidentally breaking a few bottles in the process causing glass to scatter all over the messy floor. Some of the substances even melting through the ground. When they completely melted through you would hear a faint 'Ah! My head!" or something along those lines.
"Oops sorry PB. But a quest? Will there be dangers and monster? Oh man that'd be so math! Will there be an evil creature that I have to defeat to restore the balance of the world? Will there be a time bomb where I have to cut one of those color strings or else it will explode? Will-"
"Time travel."
"What?"
"Time travel!"
His mood and head drooping from it NOT being an adventure, Finn looked at the mess he made on the ground. But after progressing what she just said, his face lighted up instantly causing him to shoot his head back up.
"Time Travel?! Wow really?!"
"Yes! Time Travel! You see, it seems I have created a time machine that can send you about 1000 years or so to the past. I have called Marceline to come here today because she's the only one who knows about the past. Well except for Ice King, but he doesn't remember. Anyway, she agreed and should be arriving here shortly. I needed you here because it takes two people to start the machine. Once Marceline enters the chamber you are to-"
CRACK! BOOM!
In the middle of Bubblegum's speech, the outer wall of the lab bursted open with extreme force sending piles of candy wall rubble to shoot across the room, also allowing extremely bright sunlight to enter. There standing in the middle of the busted wall was a darkly cloaked figure with an unidentifiable mask on, of course, making the person seem suspicious. Finn quickly readied his sword just in case. That is, until he heard a familiar feminine voice, making him put his sword back almost instantly.
"Whoa there Finn. No need to be pointing sharp objects at me now."
"Oh. Sorry Marcy, didn't know it was you!" He embarrassingly scratched the back of his head and looked to the side giving a small chuckle.
Marceline snickered, "I'm only teasing weenie!" She looked around the room a couple of times, "Dang this place is a mess! Look at all these candy walls everywhere!" then turned her attention to the supposed enraged princess. She smirked waved. "What's up!"
"Marceline! We have a door you know! In fact, we have a window! Well, HAD a window… That is until you busted it apart! Now look what you did! You covered all of my research and work with sticky candy walls! Do you know how long it will take trying to separate gooey substances from delicate paper?!"
She laughed at the princess's outburst and flew close to her face, giving another smirk.
"It's all about making an entrance Bonnie."
Groaning at her nickname, and at the stupidity of "making an entrance", Princess Bubblegum rubbed the bridge of her nose and sat down. "Marceline why can't you ever...! Ugh never mind..." Taking a few minutes to calm down, knowing how obnoxious and stubborn Marceline could be, she let it go, not wanted to start an argument. That wall would be easy to repair, right? And the papers? Only a couple of months. Not so bad! Princess Bubblegum's eye twitched. Then she sighed.
"Well now since you're here, how about we get started then? Well after I finish explaining what Finn was going to do BEFORE you rudely interrupted me."
Laughing once again, Marceline floated out the door for something, nobody bothered to ask about.
Watching her leave, Finn diverted his attention back to Princess Bubblegum.
"Sigh. As I was saying Finn, when Marceline enters the machine, you are to pull that lever over there." She pointed at a red lever that was so big you couldn't have missed it. "I'll be on the other side making sure everything goes smoothly. We are going to send Marceline back 1000 or so years to the past, in which I think she was about 1-3 years old? Yeah I think so. So that's really all you need to know."
"So all I have to do is pull that red lever?"
"Yes"
For some reason, The thought of only having to pull a lever was extremely nerve-racking
"What If I'm a second too late in pulling the lever? What if something gets jammed inside of it when I'm about to pull it? WHAT IF SOME EVIL MONSTER BARGES IN AND I CAN'T PULL THE LEVER BECAUSE I HAVE TO SAVE EVERYONE?!"
Easily detecting what Finn was thinking of from his focused, scared like expression, she giggled.
"Don't worry Finn. Nothing would happen if you don't pull it on time. The lever just turns on the machine. If anything, I'm the one who should be worried because I have to press buttons and such on time."
"Oh okay. Good." He was still a bit worried though.
After about five minutes after that little scene, Marceline reentered the room with a blanket. An unusually large and thick blanket. "Where do you even find those?" Finn wondered.
"I'm back!" She began hanging the blanket over the giant hole in the wall.
"Ah. That's better! Man if it wasn't for my vampire strength, that would probably be a pain to find and carry! Well, maybe. Probably not. Anyway this sunlight-protection was getting pretty heated up inside." She took off her cloak and mask and placed them on one of Princess Bubblegum's messy tables. Then she sat/floated in the air causing Princess Bubblegum to scoff.
"Well you wouldn't have had to find something to cover the wall if only you entered through the door now wouldn't you?!"
Marceline playfully stuck her tongue out at her.
"So when are we starting Peebles?" Finn was starting to get anxious and really wanted to start too see if it'd actually work and also just in case he forgets his mental notes later.
"Pull the lever when she enters. Pull the lever when she enters. Pull the lever when she enters. Pull the lever when she enters "
"Well, I guess we could start now? You ready Finn?"
"Shoosh Yeah!" Finn jumped on a table, looked up to the skies/roof, and fist bumped the air, with the most unnecessary hero face. earning another giggle from the candy princess.
"Ready Marceline?"
"Yeah I guess" Marceline replied with a way less enthusiastic tone than Finn's. And just merely put her hand behind her head and floated around, showing little interest.
"Right this way then!"
Leading them to the machine in the corner that looked way too complex to even think about. Poor Finn, he actually tried. It was covered in dials, bars, wires, time clocks, and whatever else you put on time machines. And of course, it was made of candy.
"Alright Finn, you stand near the lever. Yes like that. And you Marceline, step onto this platform."
Princess Bubblegum, pressed a blue button on the machine, and sure enough, a sliding door opened to reveal a silver colored platform.
"Ooo Fancy..."
"Thank you! I tried. Now Marceline stand on the platform like I said earlier and I will stand on this side of the machine. Okay you ready to go 1000 years into the past Marceline?!"
Princess Bubblegum is way too giddy about this. Or maybe she wasn't. It WAS time travel after all. But the happiness still seemed to creep Marceline out since she was just mad a second ago. The thought of this made her roll her eyes.
"As ready as I'll ever be."
"Great!" Bubblegum began putting on a pair of safety goggles and pressed the button to close the door, blocking off any view from the inside or the outside. She tilted her body to the side to see Finn on the other side of the machine "Are you ready Finn?"
"Wait. why don't I get goggles?"
"Cause I only have one pair. Now are you ready Finn?!"
He sighed. But dropped the subject, "One pair means one pair Finn! Don't be so greedy!" Since he actually was excited about this his faced formed a smile right after. "I guess so!"
"Okay, check the thermometer... check the pressure... check the graph... ALRIGHT THEN! Pull the lever Finn!"
Also taking notice at Princess Bubblegum's unusual behavior, he raised an eyebrow and did what he was told and pulled the lever. "Must be all that sugar" he answered himself.
The machine began to make a whole bunch of noise and pop and lock with its weird wires and dials moving here and there. It even shot out steam every so often. Taking a step back, Finn watched the machine bounce and puff. Then he tilted his body to the side and looked at what Princess Bubblegum was doing and listened to her talk to herself.
"Okay good, good! Now turn the purple dial. Next revolve the knob. Then check the pressure of the blah blah blah blah." Finn zoned out after some really long word that he didn't even bother to hear since he didn't want to listen to "scientific junk" as Jake called it. After what seemed like forever, Princess Bubblegum took a step back and watched the machine as well with a smile on her face. A couple or so minutes later the machine came to a complete stop making all the dials and charts go back to zero.
"Marceline has been sent 1000 years to the past! I'm a genius! The first ever time travel machine!"
Pressing the button to open the door, a whole bunch of steam blew out of the machine and into the room, blocking Finn and Princess Bubblegum's vision in the process. But of course, she was still smiling widely at her greatest achievement yet. And just like that, if it were even possible, her faced dropped into pure horror in less than a second from a simple sound.
"Gah!"
'Gah?'
Hai again guise. I decided to look it over for a while so I deleted it. But now it's back and hopefully better than before! Want to help me improve my writing? Tell me what you think. Want to ask a question? Go ahead! Want to insult my writing? Go ahead! It'd probably help me anyway.
Note Two: You're probably thinking, "No! The idea was an older Finn taking care of Marceline during the war!" Well yeah, it technically was but oh well! I like this idea too, and I hope you will too!
Addition Note: This is my first ever official fanfiction. Just in case you were wondering for some reason.