Hey guys! It's been a really long time since I've written any fanfiction for a while so I'm saying sorry in advanced. Anyways, I'm sort of back to level 1 here so be cool, okay?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Adventure Time, although I seriously wish I did. This disclaimer will stand for the entire story.
Chapter 1: Program
It was late in the evening, there was a cool breeze outside and all was silent in the land of Ooo. It was the perfect night to get a good night's sleep but many of the land's inhabitants were wide awake. They were busy preparing for a long trip that would take place early the next morning. Not all were that excited to go but many were thrilled to gain a new experience.
Princess Bubblegum had received a letter addressed to all the inhabitants of Ooo. The letter was from the Cosmic Owl, it was an invitation to be able to participate in an inter-dimensional educational program along with another land. It was to take place in the land where all dimensions supposedly meet. The program will supposedly simulate the ways of schooling before the Mushroom War, it was known as high school. Naturally, Princess Bubblegum grabbed at the rare opportunity. She gathered all the inhabitants of Ooo at the Candy Kingdom and shared the announcement. A lot of people applied but many were also reluctant to go for it.
At some time after midnight, most of the people who opted to go were ready and just catching some sleep before the trip. Marceline the Vampire Queen was not one of them.
"Stupid school, stupid trip, stupid packing, aargh!" she yelled as she poured the contents of her duffel bag on her bed for the nth time. She had literally no idea what to bring. She hadn't even bothered what the program was about besides it being a school.
Marceline didn't really want to go to the school; she didn't even know what it was called. In her mind, more than a thousand years of life experience was all the education she would need. Even when the whole gang begged her to go, she still didn't want to attend the program. She only took it seriously when Finn brought up the fact that she would mostly be alone during the time they were gone. She knew it would be really long too.
"I wonder if the others are done with packing their stuff?" she thought aloud as she walked to the phone.
She was about to call Bubblegum but it crossed her mind that the royal might just laugh and annoy her about her lack of knowledge concerning school. She dialled Finn & Jake's number instead and waited for one of them to pick up.
"Yellow, who's there?" it was Finn, and by the sound of it he seemed to be wide awake.
"Hey, Finn, it's Marceline. Are you guys still up?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, Jake and I are too pumped up to sleep, man. What's up?" There was a loud bang on his end of the line and Marceline heard Jake say 'I'm okay, dude!'
"Say hi to Jake for me too. Yeah, I just called to ask what junk we're supposed to bring and stuff."
"Don't you know about school, Marcy? Peebles said they had that kind of stuff around your time."
"My time? Finn, my time is the one where I am as long as I live. I'm immortal, remember? Anyway, I heard about it a long time ago but I don't really remember anything. I don't think I ever really got a chance to go, so I don't really know what to bring."
"Oh, ok. Well, Bubblegum just told me to bring clothes, basic junk and technically whatever I want. The school is supposed to provide whatever else we need, we're pretty much covered, I guess."
"That's great. Thanks Finn, see you tomorrow then." said Marceline.
"Yeah, see ya. Bye Marcy!" Finn said as he hung up.
Marceline was back on her own staring at the mess she just made on her bed. She packed the right stuff after all. She grunted as she made her way to repack all of her important belongings. Aside from what Finn said, the vampire queen decided to bring her axe bass along and put it on top of her green duffel bag.
It was too late, or rather too early, to go to sleep by the time she finished. Their group was supposed to meet at the Candy Kingdom at a new train station that will lead to their schools. They were supposed to meet two hours from now so Marceline decided to go their early. She wore her usual day outfit since the sun would be up before they would leave, a red tank top, jeans, long gloves and a large sunhat. The sky was slowly turning pink as she flew over the trees and reached the walls of the Candy Kingdom.
The train of the first group of students was scheduled to leave at six early the next morning. The first group consisted of Ooo's royals along with some chosen companions. Among these were Princess Bubblegum, Finn, Jake, Lady Rainicorn, Marceline the Vampire Queen and Lumpy Space Princess.
The second train would contain the others, consisting of the Candy people and other inhabitants of Ooo who were willing to attend. Two train rides were scheduled because of the number of applicants for the trip.
Marceline sat on a rock near the gate since it was near where they would be meeting. She also had a good view of who was on their way. There was only half an hour left when she noticed she had just been staring at nothing. She played a few songs on her bass to pass the time that was left when she saw three figures appear on the edge of a small hill nearby.
"Hey Marcy, GOOD MORNING!" yelled the leftmost figure as it grew two times as big as a tree while waving its arms. It was Jake.
He was with Finn and LSP, judging from what she saw to be a mass of floating lumps beside Finn. They hurried toward her as she waved back. Jake was only bringing a small sack of his belongings, Finn had his usual green backpack and an extra black bag, LSP was falling behind while she was lagging a big purple suitcase and a basket of sandwiches.
"You're late," she sighed as they finally reached her, "Haha, I thought you guys would be here earlier."
"We're not freaking late, Marceline." LSP replied, "Oh my glob, did you know how, like, heavy the stuff I had to bring was? It was like totally-""
"Hey Marcy," Finn interrupted before LSP could ramble on about how her luggage was so heavy, thank glob. "We're not late, Marceline, we still have 15 minutes to go until our train even gets here."
Marceline and Jake were eyeing LSP who was now busy eating the sandwiches she brought along with her. Lumpy Space Princess caught sight of this and pulled the sandwich basket closer to her. Jake's gut made a grumbling sound and LSP stuck her tongue out at him.
"Come on, LSP, just one sandwich? I didn't eat enough breakfast cause Finn said we would eat on the train later, man." Jake mumbled, looking at LSP with huge puppy dog eyes.
"Ugh, no way, dog. My mom made these awesome sandwiches for me! Like, go make your own." LSP said while her mouth was still stuffed with food. Finn laughed at the weird display.
It wasn't until that time that Marceline realized she hadn't had breakfast or any reds either that morning. She reached into her duffel bag and pulled out a couple of apples from a plastic container. She sucked the red out of one and held the other to Jake.
"Here, Jake, you can have one of my apples." She said as Jake took it for her hand.
"Thanks Marcy." He said while munching on the apple.
"Hey, where are the others? There's only five minutes left until the train arrives. I thought Bonnibel would be here earlier, brain lord and all." Marceline wondered.
"Oh, Lady Rainicorn called Jake last night and told us that all the princesses who would be going with us were sleeping over at the Candy Kingdom. PB thought it would be easier than gathering them all up." Finn replied.
"A sleepover and I wasn't invited? What the glob is wrong with them? I'll like, totally make sure that they'll regret that. Oh my glob, there they are now!"
Lumpy Space Princess was pointing to the gate at the Candy Castle wall. Princess Bubblegum was leading a group of Ooo's other royals out. Along with her were Breakfast Princess, Muscle Princess, and other royals as well who were holding their luggage with them. It seemed that Peppermint Butler and Doctor Princess was coming along as well as they were walking beside Lady Rainicorn.
Princess Bubblegum waved as she approached the four of them. She gestured for the other royals to walk faster since the train would be there soon. Bubblegum was wearing her pink hoodie with simple white shorts.
"Hey guys, we're here. Sorry if we took a bit long." said PB as the others also nodded their apology.
"Sure took you long enough. Thought you would be here first, we could've been left by the train you know?" Marceline rolled her eyes at the pink girl.
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum were in a hostile type of relationship not long ago. Finn and Jake got them together one time to work out their differences. Fortunately, it ended well. They were back to being friends with each other and the whole group was even more tight knit than ever. Although they were casually friendly with each other now, they sometimes just couldn't help poking fun or brewing up small but joking arguments with each other.
"I said we were sorry. Some of the others took some time in preparing their stuff all over again this morning. Anyway, the train should be here in a minute." Bubblegum checked her watch as the group walked toward the nearby station.
"Hey, guys! The train is here! Dude, it looks awesome! It's huge and it's flying with wings, man." Jake grew big and hoisted Finn up on his shoulder to see the train approach.
"By the way, are we riding with some other people from that second dimension place, Bonnibel?" Marceline asked.
"I think so, Marceline. Since there only are two trains, I think we will pick up the first group from their dimension before we go to our destination. They might, however, be in a different part of the train than ours."
"Good, then. I'm not up to making all friendly with them yet." said Marceline as she hovered above them, carrying her duffel bag while her axe bass was slung on her shoulder.
Princess Bubblegum stood on top of a platform as the train landed. She clapped to get the other's attention while they were picking up their stuff.
"Okay, is everyone ready?" she asked as the people nodded. "Good, please go to your respective compartments in an orderly fashion and please keep an eye on all of your belongings. Have a great ride, thank you."
Bubblegum finished as she stepped off the platform and approached Finn, Jake, Marceline, LSP and Lady Rainicorn. They were ready to go so Bubblegum handed them their tickets as she hadn't been able to give since they were not at the Candy Kingdom yesterday.
"We have the first few compartments. This is going to be great!" said Bubblegum.
"Mathematical!" Finn & Jake chimed.
"Oh my glob, we're actually going!" said LSP as they were filing up.
Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn went inside their compartment on the right side of the train while Finn & Jake occupied the left. Marceline realized she was going to be stuck with Lumpy Space Princess the whole trip as they took the compartment behind Finn and Jake's. She didn't bother the curtains since they were on the side that wasn't facing the sun.
"What the hell? Why is it, like, so freaking dark in here? Oh my glob, I'm stuck with you! We are going to have so much fun..."
Lumpy Space Princess drabbled on while Marceline set her hat down beside her and stared outside the window and sighed. The train rumbled, sprouted its wings and took flight once again, heading north. LSP complained but Marceline just sat down and tuned her out, she was used to flying anyway.
'This is going to be a long, long ride,' she thought, 'I hope this thing's gonna be worth it.'
I hoped you liked it. I've sorta been out of touch lately. I'll try to update as soon as I can so just chill, if ever. The next chapter will cover how the characters from the Land of Aaa prepared.
REVIEWS ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED. If you didn't like it, I'm sorry, but I'll try to improve. If you have any criticism you can message me if you want, it would really help me out.
Any suggestions are accepted, just don't go overboard.
Don't be a hater, just give me a hug 0-(^.^)-0