Fubblegum: The Gained Years
Chapter 1: Breaking Free
I do not happen to own Adventure Time. If I did, Flame Princess would keep her VoB design.
It was a peaceful morning in the Land of Ooo. Birds chirped softly as the animals of the forests woke, and the forests began to regain their daytime liveliness. In a large treehouse by a forest, an eighteen-year-old human jumped out of bed and slid down a long ladder to an open kitchen. Quickly cooking up a breakfast of pancakes and bacon, and gulped all of it down so quickly that a professional eater would be ashamed. Just as he finished and was about to return upstairs, a yellow dog woke up, and dryly stated, "What time is it right now, Finn?"
"Which answer do you want?"
"The truthful one."
"I'd say about six."
"Why in Glob's name are you waking up so early?"
"Oh, PB had some stuff to tell me."
"Still got a crush on her?"
"I'm eighteen, Jake!"
"And still single."
"Shut up."
Finn soon launched himself outside and burst at full speed to the Candy Kingdom. Just for fun, he decided to climb up the castle tower where Princess Bubblegum, rather than conventionally knocking and waiting to be let in. As usual, Princess Bubblegum was sitting on her bed reading a book.
"Hi, Finn!"
"Morning Peebles. I've got some bad news."
"I was going to tell you some good news fist, but that can wait. What's up?"
"I think Jake's gonna find out that we're dating soon."
"Not a problem. You remember the 'Reasons that our relationship might not work' list?"
"Yeah. 1: You can't leave the kingdom just for me, 2: I'm not immortal like you, 3: Jake."
"I've worked out 1 and 2."
Princess Bubblegum tied her hair in what she nicknamed her "Labcoat Cut"(Think "All Your Fault"), but what Finn liked to call the "Finn Cut" because it seemed that she had it whenever he was around, and he loved it. It wasn't too regal, unwieldy or long. Both of them knew that PB wanted to just drop the P sometimes and just be Bubblegum. The cut was just a casual thing, simple and sweet, both metaphorically and literally.
Whilst Finn was mindlessly smiling, Princess Bubblegum dragged him to a steel door.
"Finn, this is the solution to Problem 1."
"What is it?"
"It's a supercomputer designed to rule the kingdom on its own. I can veto anything though."
"What if you're possessed or something?"
"20 levels of security. One of these is guaranteed to catch someone out."
"What about 2?"
"Well, I recently found out a way to make telomerase from scratch with a miniature generator. Telomerase is an anti-aging chemical (true). I modified the generator to make chemicals that will still let hair grow, but still prevent body growth."
"So basically, I stay eighteen forever."
"Yup."
"How exactly are you trying to do this?"
"I'm working on it."
"OK."
"Anyway, what time is it?"
"Morning Make-Out time?"
"We know each other too well."
As soon as their lips met, Princess Bubblegum stabbed a syringe into Finn's arm.
"What…the…P-Bubs?"
"Anaesthetic. See you in 6 hours."
"I hope you know what you're do…" Said Finn as he drifted off.
"Don't worry, Finn. I do."
The Candy Kingdom's princess briskly plopped Finn on her bed, and inserted a small metal sphere into his mouth.
"Oh, Scheiße! I knew that I should have used conventional surgery. Now Finn's going to asphyxiate if I don't get this out!"
2 minutes later…
"It's in! Now to wait for him to wake up."
He's really cute when he's asleep. Oh, what am I saying? He's cute all the time. You know, seeing him asleep reminds me how tired I should be right now. Finn's in my bed, though. Ah, screw it. That bed's big enough. I'll sleep.
That evening…
"Ghn… What happened, PB?"
Finn turned his head around, and saw the sleeping form of his girlfriend peacefully sleeping next to him.
"How did I get here?"
Finn regained his bearings and looked at the clock.
"6:00! Jake's gonna flip if I'm not back by now!"
Just then, the sleeping mass of pink gum woke up.
"You'd better get going then."
"Yeah… By the way, now that we've worked out 1 and 2…"
Princess Bubblegum cut in.
"We can officially announce it in two weeks. We don't want to let the cat out of the bag too soon, did we?"
"Yeah, I guess. Anyway, bye Peeb… Your hand is stuck to mine!"
"Wait. Let me call Jake and tell him that you'll be a little late."
One phone call later…
"Alright Jake, I promise Finn'll be back soon."
Princess Bubblegum put down her candy phone and turned to Finn.
"We need to get detached in 30 minutes, or else Jake is going to find out before we announce us dating officially."
Princess Bubblegum first decided to lever them apart, but this failed horribly. Finn suggested that both of them run away from each other as fast as they could, but that just caused a lot of arm pains.
"Wait! I remember finding an old gum detachment solution in an old book. It's really easy to make. Come on!"
Princess Bubblegum rad the book and picked up her phone, hastily dialling.
"Peppy, I need you to get some stuff to my lab!"
(Making process cut out due to my lack of scientific knowledge in this field)
After a lot of confusion and kissing, Princess Bubblegum and Finn finished the solution.
"So, we just need to spray this on and… verschleiert! We're unstuck!"
"You know, it felt pretty good having your hand stuck to mine."
Princess Bubblegum chuckled a bit, and after a brief kiss, Finn climbed back down the tower and ran back to the Tree Fort, turning back to wave every few seconds.
Meanwhile, in the Candy Castle…
A stretchy yellow dog Angrily interrogated a large peppermint in a suit.
"Peppermint Butler! Where's Finn?"
"He was with Princess Bubblegum this morning. He stayed most of the day, I think."
"Was PB acting weird?"
"She did lock herself up in her room and lab all day. This morning, she was mumbling stuff about surgery and Finn dying."
"WHAT?"
"Then," continued the unfazed peppermint, "She asked me to bring soap, detergent and some dilute acid earlier."
"Surgery… cleaning stuff… acid… Finn dying!"
Jake propelled himself up the stairs quickly and smashed the Princess's door.
Inside her room, Princess Bubblegum blew a kiss to Finn as he ran out of eyeshot.
"Bye, Finn."
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO FINN? ANSWER ME!"
Jake punched Princess Bubblegum and wrestled her to the floor, where he repeatedly punched her with enlarged fists.
Finn, meanwhile, realised that he left his new sword behind, and sprinted back to the princess's tower at full speed. He scaled up the tower, and climbed through the window. What he saw inside was horrible. Princess Bubblegum was sprawled on the ground, partially squashed in several places, and red liquid pouring out of her mouth and oozing slowly out of the parts where she had been squashed. Looking up, he saw Jake sitting on her stomach, yelling at her.
"WHY? WHY DID YOU KILL FINN?"
Finn was, unsurprisingly, enraged. He rushed over to Jake and punched him in the face, then kicked him off Princess Bubblegum.
"She didn't! I'm here right now!"
"Do I look like I care, Finn? She still tried to kill you!"
"No, she didn't!"
"Surgery… BRAINWASHING!"
"No, Jake! I wasn't…"
"SHUT UP!"
"We've known PB for seven years, Jake! Why would you even consider that she would try to kill me?"
"She's used us as a tool to help run the kingdom ever since we met her! We're just toys for her in her game of ruling!"
"Her toy!? Her toy!? For all I know, I've been your toy ever since Dad died! You controlled my life. You tried to set me up with girls I didn't even like! You laid back and relaxed while I did the dirty work, only stepping in if I was near dying, or just for the fun of it!"
"That's it, Finn! I'm taking you back to the Tree Fort!"
"You just try!"
With that, Jake formed a rigid structure and charged at Finn, but the more agile human jumped out of the way as the dog ran through the wall and crashed onto the ground 30 feet below.
"P-Bubs! I'll get some first aid stuff!"
"Don't worry, I can handle it."
And with that, she ripped pieces of bubblegum out of a fallen cabinet and lazily slopped it on the bleeding areas. Within seconds, the gum merged with her body and smoothed out, as if nothing had happened. The only thing that gave her away was the translucent red liquid leaking out of the corner of her mouth.
"Wait, it seems weird to ask now, but you actually bleed?"
"Yeah."
"Actual blood?"
"Umm… No."
She leaned forwards, right next to his ear.
"Can you keep a secret?"
"Maybe."
She sighed. "It's actually strawberry sauce."
"I think that's kind of cute."
"Mph."
"Would you like me to lick it off?"
"Eew!"
"I like strawberry!"
"Fine, just don't lick it off from my face like I'm a sauce plate."
Finn simply nodded enthusiastically as Princess Bubblegum wiped the sauce/blood off he face with a finger and put it in front of Finn's mouth, letting the smell waft into his nose before she let him open his mouth.
After a bit of awkward sucking, Finn smiled mindlessly, the pure sweetness of both the sauce and the gesture putting him into a state of bliss, making him totally forget that his brother was most probably dead.