Chapter 1: Acceptance
Unknown Location, 1999
The last few weeks have been fantastic for the Ice King. His dream of becoming a famous show creator was closer than ever since the CBN offered him the position. At first he was really confused why the Christian Broadcasting Network wanted to offer him a job, but he decided to go with it - mostly because of his wife. It was after he signed the papers he realized that it was the other CBN (the Creative Broadcasting Network) that offered him the job. Still, the pay was decent and he recieved far more creative freedom that he dreamt of so he went with that as well.
"We reached your destination, sir." said the taxi driver, interrupting the Ice King's internal monologue about the recent events and bringing him back to Earth.
"Oh, Yeah." he replied startled, before energetically throwing a bunch of money at the driver and jumping out of the cab. "Keep the change!" The Ice King happily shouted "I'm rich now!" he added before laughing to himself and turning towards the office building.
"Whatever." the cab driver replied while counting the excessive amount of money he recieved.
While the cab driver was getting ready to depart, the Ice King greeted the lady at the reception. "Good morning, sir." she greeted him.
"Certainly good!" he joyfully replied "I'm here for my first day of work."
"That's great, sir. I just need to see your id."
"Oh, sure." Steven replied as he was reaching for his bag. As soon as he reached the place where his bag was supposed to be a sense of dread overcame him. "Oh, no." It wasn't there...