Finn
Finn stumbled through the cotton candy forest, not really knowing what he was gonna do. Guess he just wanted to clear his mind from flame princess, or something. The boy was never really good at coping with heavy emotional stuff… normally he would just put it in the vault, then don't think about it. But this was different, he couldn't just forget this, it had too much of an impact on his life and not even mindless trampling pink fluffy plants seemed to help.
Step by step the forest became denser… the wind started to catch up and tiny webs of the candy cotton floated through the air past Finn's face, some getting stuck on his bear hat. He grabbed one and let the smooth silky texture slide in between his fingers. Not able to leave it in his hands, the fluff was quickly devoured by a now slightly smiling young adventurer. The sweet threads whipped around his tongue as they slowly started to dissolve, breaking apart in his mouth, deteriorating to sugar covering the entire inside of his mouth. He quickly ate and swallowed the candy cotton and grabbed some new pieces from the trees… maybe the sugar rush would power up his vault… being able to just shove all of his memories of flame princess down there and never ever relive those memories
Finn just yanked another piece of the sugary fibres when a female voice was heard by him. He dropped the cotton candy and softly landed on his knees to hide in the bushes. Peeking out of the bushes he listened…
"I… I… I don't know if that's even possible… heck I don't know if it has ever been tried before. I can do a lot, contact aliens from outer space, and yes also with some effort visit them. But rip apart space time to get to another dimension… no, I just don't think that's possible… you would need negative matter. As in matter with a negative mass. I cannot see how I can create such exotic matter. Sorry Marceline… I cannot prove or find out if there are any parallel dimensions other than the nightosphere. Can I ask why you want to know this?"
"Uuh yeah no I was just interested Bonni… sorry… I was just wondering what if you use moose milk instead of bug milk. Yknow is there also a day-o-sphere or a twilightosphere… yeah I don't really know anything more…"
"Is there anything else Marceline?"
"What's negative matter?"
"Marcy…. you could have just told me you wanted to chit chat… because then I would have actually had a chance to make time… I'm sorry… I have to get back."
"Yeah…okay I understand… th-… thanks for making time…" Marceline stumbled, trying to keep her tears inside.
Princess Bubblegum quickly wandered off, obviously because she didn't know how to handle a crying woman. She left Marceline standing there alone in the windy forest. Her steps crackled off into the candy forest when the tears really started to flow over Marceline's cheeks. The otherwise so super mighty vampiric demon stood there weak and alone… alone… a word she repeated over her breath, as she stared at the ground not really knowing what to do or what to say to herself other than screaming below her skin from the intense cold depression drowning her in the forest.
Finn could literally do nothing more than just staring at Marceline. Is she crying? Actually crying? He held his breath and tried to creep closer when he heard her sing.
"You've been left here all alooone…
All your friends have goooone…
See no one cares after all,
Nobody ever notices your tears…
If only you were here…"
"Mom…." she whispered as her shoulders shocked from the crying. With long black hair shielding her face from the outside, a wide sombrero casting her in shadows as Marceline made her way back home through the forest.
Finn walked back out of the bushes, out of the forest and back to the tree house. Silently he climbed up the ladder and sat on the sofa in the living room… he took one deep sigh, and during the exhale let some whimpers fly out. Then he grabbed his sword, faked a smile on his face and came giggling into the kitchen where Jake was making bacon pancakes with Bmo providing the beat.
"BEEMO PANCAKES BEEMO BEEMO PANCAKES" Bmo yelled at Finn when he walked in.
"Yes master, Nept-r is making pies! Oh ooh" Nept-r blasted out a pie narrowly missing Finn but blasting Bmo of the table who was laughing about Bacon pancakes.
"Wohey buddy, how was your adventure to self enrichment?" Jake asked…
"I don't really know, I think I feel reasonable… my good old melon heart says so… I guess I'm okay then?"
"Yeah man… always trust your melon heart… melon heart knows the best, take that from uncle Jakey!"
"Yeah man… you're the best Jake… " Finn stumbled
"Sssh, I know mwehehehe… now eat up, I have some bacon panCAAAAKES!" Jake giggled
Bmo started yelling.
"BACON PANCAAAAAAKES"
Marceline
A thunder ruffled through the cave, the rain spattered on the ground outside and the soft beats of an axe base scattered off the rocky walls. With her long slender fingers Marceline flicked the strings one by one, yet every time slightly louder and louder. A deep waving melancholy filled the cave as she played more and more aggressive, inner rage flowing out setting the bass in flames. The notes became harder and sharper, slicing away inch by inch her whole life, her entire body away painless… she was engulfed in flames when suddenly she just couldn't continue.
Long grey arms reaching out to Hambo. Slowly he was pulled towards the shivering and crying girl
Her arms wrapped around the red fabric and holding onto it for dear life. Tears rolled down her cheeks even more, yet also she was happy to at least have one person or well… one thing left.
"You won't leave me… right?"
"…"
"I mean, you will forever keep me company, no matter how bad it goes… right Hambo?"
"…"
"You aren't like Simon… you aren't like my dad or well… you aren't like Ash, no… you would never sell my most precious item… because you are the most precious thing in my life…"
"…"
"Bonnibel… well… maybe it never would have become something… but you will stay with me through bitter or worse"
"…"
"or… mom…"
She closed her eyes and shoved away Hambo…
"Dammit, look at me talking to a dead piece of fabric. You can't even speak… can you?… NO! Of course you can't. Another pawn in the game of life"
She reached out to Hambo, picked him up and dangled him in front of her face. Marceline wiped some hairs out of her face and stared angrily to the weird mythical animal.
"I don't know why I'm talking to you… you're useless anyway, I DONT NEED YOU, I DONT NEED ANYONE!" she screeched as she threw Hambo away and into the wall of her small coastline cave cottage.
"…Hambo… are… are you okay…?"
"…"
"Oh glob… what did i do…"
Marceline jumped towards Hambo and she started to hug him while crying big tears.
"I didn't mean to pour that all onto you baby… I'm sorry, you aren't useless. Everything i said were lies. I love you Hambo you are all I live for…"
Suddenly it almost looked like Hambo was smiling… although very small and barely noticeable and perhaps just a figment of Marceline's mind… it was enough to make her happy. And that was all Marceline needed now, a warm smile and someone who really loved her for who she is.
Princess Bubblegum
Yet she always looked like a cold machine to the outside world… She actually did care, she actually really loved her candy people… and in a way yes, she also still loved Marceline.
Rain streamed against the window looking down on all the candy people passing by through the rain. Making calculations for herself.. cause she did care, and she was actually trying to open a rip in space-time so Marcy could do whatever she wanted to do. Maybe that will show her how much she cared! Yes, it was a perfect idea, show her what she felt…
But should she do this… what if Marceline grew over her… that she still loved her vampire, didn't mean the vampire loved her Bonni.
The feelings she had… was it actual love, and was it actual love for Marcy, or was it just the need for a lover, a one night stand. A spark to ignite her life… or did she need an ever burning flame like Marcy who always flared her up with her witty remarks, her sarcasm and her gorgeous body. Oh she longed… but she shouldn't…
"Don't focus on emotional personal matters. What is important now is the wormhole… I should actually try… might even work who knows, I can baffle everyone here if I take Marceline through the portal and show her what she wants. Maybe I will be awarded for best Queen, best ruler of the kingdom… even though I am the only leader so yeah I'll always be the number one… Uuuugh i let my mind run wild again… Fooooocus focus on the task at hand Bonni B!" she mumbled to herself.
"Okay… negative matter… What could it be, Tachyons maybe. A particle not yet discovered. It's supposed to go only faster than the speed of light. Does that mean it has negative mass? And if so, how do I produce them? "
Her eyes glimmered as she thought of something…
"Large Candyron Collider! I actually have a legitimate reason of spending billions on a scientific machine that might as well destroy the world… oooooh momma… yes!"
She started drooling and she grabbed the nearest pencil. She drew all over the wall… particle injection shute, oh yes… to her this beats literally everything, this is better than even the best feelings in life can ever get.
Then she screamed
"OOOOOOOH YES! The energy in the particle collider should in theory add up to open a black hole. Yet it's so small and it will evaporate. What if I made a way to capture and enlarge it… but first let's get this party started."
She put on a welding mask and screamed once again.
"PEPPERMINT BUTLER BRING ME SOME OF YOUR FINEST NEODYMIUM MAGNETS PRONTO!"
Quick footsteps and a small red and white guy ran into the lab and flagged the gumball guardians to bring in tons of magnets… then he was lifted up by Bubblegum who kissed him on the forehead and thanked him.
A few days later, the gumball guardians dug a trench and the long circular tube was installed all around the candy castle in the ground. The massive scientific machine had to stay a secret so the candy people would not be afraid of living on a machine that produces black holes that could potentially destroy the world. So the Princess told all the candy citizens that it was in fact a sewage system and that no worries were needed. No worries for the fusion reactor being installed underneath the palace to supply the massive amounts of power.
"no worries my candy citizens… the new sewage system is almost installed. And so is the uuuh… waste treatment facility underneath my palace. It is in fact all going to plan, and soon there should be no problems with the sewers!"
"But Princess… we don't have any problems with our sewers!"
"oh i knew I forgot something… uhhh gumball guardians, can you please blow open the sewer system underneath the town square?" Bubblegum whispered in her headset
A massive bang erupted from the town square and brown pink goo sprayed over the crowd. Peppermint butler quickly opened an umbrella over the princess.
"see… see our faulty sewer network. This is why we are gonna run a new sewer system." PB yelled over the screaming candy people.
"pssst gumball guardians… please fix the pipe again" she whispered again
"okay princess" 2 voices sounded as the sewage spraying was reduced
"so what do you say my people… LETS MAKE A NEW SEWER SYSTEM"
"Yeaaaah WE LOVE YOU PRINCESS, LETS GET A NEW SEWER SYSTEM" The crowd cheered and started to run all around the kingdom.
"yeah sewer system!" Ice king yelled in a blackened robe
Finn
Finn was nervously hopping from one leg to another in the tree house. He hadn't spoken Marceline since he saw her in the woods with Princess Bubblegum 5 days ago and he was kinda worried. But also he didn't really dare to go, he didn't want Jake to find out he had been spying on Marceline, and especially not the spying on his crush Bubblegum. So he waited around till Jake left, and then he will go to Marceline to see what's going on there.
He knew Jake was gonna leave any minute, he already packed everything, including his violin to go out with lady Rainycorn.
"Now okay Finn? You watch the house when I go out with my lady… don't want ol' ice king to snoop around the property!"
"Yeah yeah Jake of course, I uuuh… will watch the house! You go have fun with Lady!"
"Ok… byeee" Jake said as he wandered out the door.
Finn made sure he saw Jake walking away, then he quickly and silently jumped over Bmo who was doing a software update. He grabbed the sword that was still on the couch and packed some leftover bacon pancakes in his backpack.
Already he sent a letter to flame princess yesterday. Or well, he dressed Nept-r in a Günther costume and made him deliver the letter.
Dear Phoebe (hihi what a name)
You are an insult to this world… no wonder everyone thinks your fire jets are weak. YOU SMELL LIKE OLD MAN BUTTS
With love
Ice king and definitely not Finn
In the far out ice lands he saw an eerie orange glow. So at least he knew Ice king was busy, so he could not snoop around their property.
The fuzzy warm sun hit him straight in the face. The sound of bees and the splashing of a frog in the pond filled the air. The clouds streaked across the sky, as Finn set off towards the cave of Marceline.
When he arrived there… it was eerily silent… normally you heard her play her bass, or doing whatever, working on the house or singing, trying out new basketball moves or hissing at the bats that riddled the ceiling of the cave. No, there was nothing. The house was there, yet there was nothing that showed that there lived anyone. The house was dark and it smelled musty…
Finn stepped into the shadows… all the sounds from outside the cave dimmed… the warm sunshine was changed out by a cold yet damp and heavy breeze coming in across the sea. It was almost like the cave was alive and breathing. A thundering noise came from outside the cave, it was probably the sea hammering against the cliffs…
Just when he accommodated from the bright outside to the dense and dark environment in the cave, he saw a note on the door. Written in red ink, that's her style Finn chuckled.
It wasn't long… only a few lines of text.
To whoever reads this…
To whoever cares about me…
I've left to Princess Bubblegum.
She said she did something, I dunno, it sounded pretty interesting. So yeah, hope you also like the first few lines of my new song "message sent". Anyways I'm gonna go now see whatever crazy P bubs did.
I dunno what I need to say tho… goodbye? Seeya?
No…
Gütentag (learned that from her)
Marcy
Finn sat down and looked out of the cave into the sunny world. He could never make it to the castle and back home before Jake was home. So better go back and we'll see what happens on another day.
Marceline
Marceline woke up in dry pale blue sand. It slided in between her fingers as she listened to the sea rushing in the background. She turned her face so her cheek touched the warm sand, and opened her eyes. Sand into infinity and beyond underneath a dark sky…
She rubbed her face and sat up, a sea with thousands of stars lighting the way. Mysterious colourful slithers of interstellar nebulae wrapped around the sky enlightened by the tiny specks of bright light blasting red blue yellow or green through the dust clouds. Normal planetary clouds swooped by the sky casting smoky mystical shadow shapes on the sand.
With the sea gushing over the sand in front of her she stood up on both her legs. Her gaze flew across the starlight reflecting of the dark water when the realization came there was also a world opposite of the sea, so she turned around and before her eyes there was a massive field of grass… tall grass for as far as the eye can see, except for a small piece of rubble. Grey bricks rose from the field in quite a mess. No neatly stacked platform, more a lump of dirt and bricks.
When Marceline's eyes actually adjusted to the dark she saw a very gloomy woman standing on top of the small hill. But she was barely visible… medium length dark brown hair and a long black overcoat bulging up in the wind whispering through the grass. Black eyes shimmered due to the stars and dark brown skin absorbed the light and a faint smile broke through her face.
She mumbled something… Like a sigh or even more soft than that. It was carried by the wind towards Marceline…
"Marceline… Marceline… mommy's baby… how are you honey… come here… come here sweety…"
It blew past Marceline into the ocean… she still didn't realize what was happening until she saw the sky filling up with bright lights. The wind picked up, the long strands in the field started to swoop from side to side, grass flew through the air and the sea turned into a mind bogglingly loud thundering. The woman started screaming as her coat and hair waved along her body and face.
"MARCELIIIINE… MARCELIIIINE… PLEASE COME TO ME, PLEASE BABY!…"
Before she was actually able to walk, or move towards the woman the white light engulfed her and her world was torn to shreds with a horrible shrieking static blasting her ears. She abruptly woke up in a warm and sweaty bed. Princess Bubblegum stood at the end of her bed and watched Marceline come back to consciousness in the Candy Castle infirmary. She smiled…
After a few seconds the gusts of wind stopped and the bright light faded as Marcy came back to the location she actually was. With the fresh and cold wind gone she no longer felt cold… she felt warm, really warm, rather she felt very hot. Her insides were boiling and her eyes were burning with pain. Tears grew as she stared at the Princess…
"Hi…" Bonni said
Marceline said nothing in return. She still didn't know where she really was… and what happened. Was it her mum she just saw there… and Bubblegum woke her up… she revived her, preventing Marcy from staying an infinite time together with her mom… she had the chance to meet up, but they didn't because Bubblegum…
The vampire lunged at the candy princess and clawed her face while screaming from intense anger and agony… Banana guards rushed in and pulled Marceline off Bubblegum and pressed her on the bed. She ripped the chest of one of the guards but more came in to restrain her. Bubblegum was screaming but Marceline was deafened… Everything sounded like she was under water, and her vision was hypersensitive like a wolf. She kept clawing into the guards and screaming her lungs out in the large hall. Meanwhile PB held one hand in front of her face to stop the bleeding while moaning and swearing in pain but with her other hand she jabbed the feral beast with a syringe filled with Sodium Thiopental and Marceline felt weak… her limbs dropped down, her muscles felt warm and fuzzy and her vision blurred as her eyes closed and finally she sank into the deep dark.
Princess Bubblegum
Having already called Marceline to come to the candy kingdom, she made some final adjustments to the particle accelerator. She didn't even know if it might work, or if ice king was able to keep his frost beam all around the tube to cool the superconducting magnets. But she was too excited for the possibility it might work that she had to call Marceline… luckily ice king also really helped by getting a room in the sweet dreams hotel for a few days and help with the cooling… for some reason he really wanted to leave the ice kingdom.
A crowd was gathering around the large console to see the new "sewer system" in action and there was an all around happy mood. There were food stalls and special sewage souvenirs. Colonel candy corn was dressed in full suit and decorated with his medal overseeing the banana guards guarding the whole festivity and the gumball guardians like always were blowing bubbles whilst sitting on the walls around the kingdom.
The Princess did have a lot of trouble getting the needed Tritium and Deuterium for the fusion reactor, but anything can be bought on the black market. Especially, Peppermint butler knew where to get everything for a very affordable price. So with the help of the trusty butler the fusion reactor was running at 100% expected efficiency so the black holes can actually be made.
What Bonnibel also didn't forget was a massive matter condenser that could compress hundreds of metric tonnes of matter into the space of a single hydrogen atom. That machine could in theory feed the black hole with matter so it grows to macroscopic sizes without evaporating, then she had a theoretical temperature extrapolizer who cools to black hole to 0 Kelvin so its stable and can be used safely without infinitely growing sucking up the universe… As at 0 Kelvin the black hole will be stuck in space time.
Just as she wanted to make a test run of the magnets she heard Marceline yell for her…
"BOOOONNIE! I'm HEE-EERE! " Marcy yelled
"oh crud… well then without a test run…" PB whispered
"heeeey Marceline… welcome! How are you!?"
"you know me… I survive, I guess…"
"yeah… ok…" Bubblegum already didn't really know what to say.
"So… what's up with this… machine" Marceline tried to break the silence
"I… well… I tried to make a black hole machine so you can visit your alternate dimensions OKAY ACHTUNG!"
PB pulled the lever before Marcy had the chance to respond.
Power started flowing and the machine started to make a terribly loud whirring noise as the electromagnets started up.
The Princess started switching all kinds of small switches, levers , and buttons and the machine started to become even louder. She kept cranking up the machine till the beam had a total power of 20 TeV and then she flipped another switch to fire up the counter beam going in a separate looping tube. That loop also started whirring extremely loud and when both beams were just a slither away from light speed the console lit up and she pressed a button to combine the beams and let them smack into each other in front of the matter condenser.
An extremely loud noise came from that part of the tube and the air around it started to ripple. The candy grass started to smoke and actually be lit on fire because of the massive radiation.
Marceline who wasn't even over the fact Bubblegum build all of this just stared in awe when she was pulled behind a lead shield by peppermint butler and Bonni. Through a thick piece of leaded glass you could see the tube glowing white hot even though Ice King kept blasting the area with his frost beams. When the collisions where over Bubblegum hopped back to her console and pressed a button which blasted open the tube. An immensely bright light shone from the now open tube but it deteriorated quickly so she immediately flipped a few switches and the matter condenser started to convert 20 square mile of forestland into raw matter and it was blasted into the white hot glowing orb.
Suddenly the light deteriorated even faster and it actually started to absorb light and suck it up from the environment. Soon a murky smudge started to grow rapidly when the final pieces of land were shoved into the black hole.
"ICE KING! NOOOOOOW!"PB yelled in her headset when Marceline stepped away from the shield to see it in full amazingness.
Ice king winked and shot his ice beam into the theoretical temperature extrapolizer who was then turned on by Bubblegum. The machine started to whine and beep and the freeze rays shot into the black hole which stopped absorbing light… because the light around it stopped… everything stopped around the black hole.
Bonnibel turned to Marceline who still had her mouth open. And she started to fistpump. But just when her fist hit the air, the console gave out a critical error. The black hole was evaporating but it couldn't dump the energy. Yet it also couldn't keep it.
Ice king flew away back to the ice kingdom screaming because he couldn't control the pulsating Quasar throbbing with energy. Bubblegum tried to pull Marceline behind the lead shield when the black hole fired a massive Gamma Ray Burst which hit Marceline in the chest. She flew backwards without even knowing what happened. About 50 metres further she was blasted into the ground and the high energy gamma radiation beam blasted out into outer space, dumping the energy of the black hole and making it evaporate completely.
Marceline
Marceline entered the filled ballroom wearing a long slim fit black dress… her face was stunning, rich red lipstick and beautiful eye shadow… in the ballroom it was a mingling ocean of candy people… the rich and posh, or the middle class, everyone was here.
One moment a tall pale man came walking by in a long slender black suit who was quite similar to Marcy, he stared at her, visually confused.
But she kept on silently treading deeper and deeper into the crowd. A distant band was playing cold and sorrowful overtures and everyone moved rhythmically to the music, like it was one hive mind controlled by the violins. Yet the music who so controlled every part of this reality, it was barely loud enough to get over the trashing of the hundreds of different voices. So many persons in such a large hollow room… it was like a buzzing.
It was actually really cold she just noticed. Not even the temperature but the atmosphere… everyone was talking and it seemed to be a happy bunch, but everyone was just talking… just talking and just smiling yet not truly smiling. They were talking about nothing. And laughing about nothing, laughing like they didn't mean to laugh. Laughing because you had to according to social etiquette and talking with the people next to you because you had to talk because just being silent was unacceptable.
Even if it was unacceptable to not talk, no one spoke to Marceline, no one laughed towards her or told her any so called hilarious anecdotes. Like she wasn't real, but why did that other man see her… but just when she was thinking this through she felt someone looking… she stopped mindlessly walking and absorb the surroundings. She turned around to see a man… a pink man with a wonderful deep red hair.
As soon as their eyes met the man blushed and looked away. Marceline raised her hand a bit and she walked towards him. He took off into the crowd to get Marceline off his back. But she followed him into the cold and deep blue, white and black mass of people sheepishly laughing about unheard jokes. Because of his pink attire he was easy to follow… but he had the crowd on his side. The maniacal laughter became louder, the freezing voices more intense and the party became denser and denser till she almost drowned.
Then she remembered… she was a vampire, why not just hover over the crowd. She wanted to take off but she couldn't. The energy was flowing and her body burning like every skin cell was being pulled into the air. But she couldn't lift up. She became bedazzled, was this all a dream? She shook her head and sighed air out of her lungs. Seeing the little cloud form when the warm air condensed in the cold climate…
When she came back to her senses she felt the same eyes stare at her from behind. When she turned around the crowd behind her was gone… disembodied voices echoed through the empty ballroom. She swiftly turned around another 180 degrees where the crowd just was. But it wasn't empty like what she just saw behind her… there was no mass of cackling people… the stage was empty except for violins and stands with booklets of sheet music. The instruments there on the ground and a vague distant music reflected off the walls.
But the pink man was there, ballroom dancing. It seemed like he had someone to dance with, but they were gone… so he was just dancing there by himself as if he danced with a partner. In between the other voices he was humming eerily alongside the music played by the nonexistent band. But when she walked towards him the area became grey and fog appeared. She was in a white surrounding… the light was too bright to see anything…
Finn
Finn received a horrible gritty phone call on his portable from princess Bubblegum and the only thing he heard was that Marceline was in danger and that she didn't know the vampire will survive. So the first thing he did was sprint to Lady Rainycorns barn to get Jake.
His side felt like he was stabbed and salt poured in the wound. But he just let out a scream to deal with the pain and he kept running and running. The sun was draining the liquids from him, sweat flowed richly as he was blasted with the ethereal heat. Trees shot past him and the buzzing of the bees following him around like they knew something was going down.
Suddenly the heat got worse behind his back, warm needles stung him in the neck and he was airlifted by the collar of his shirt.
"I guess you wanted to get Jake? I saw him when I followed Ice king… He is at Lady's Barn!" Flame princess exclaimed.
"Hhhhh… Mar… Marceline… Hhhhhh Shes in… hhhh danger!…" Finn screeched in between his panting.
"Yes I know… I saw it happen actually when I was hiding to get a hit on Ice king… I guess that's also why I'm flying you to Jake so you all can go to the candy kingdom…"
Finn couldn't say anything because he almost had to vomit due to his intense panting and since he was still out of breath, it wasn't gonna stop soon.
"I really don't know what happened though… I thought Bubblegum didn't know love, maybe that's what scared the most out of me. Seeing her flip the flop out over Marcy laying there in the scorched grass. She was actually crying, like wow the machine actually cares"
"… Hhhhh… I think the prince… ess pfffff… does care tho HHhhh… though… she always makes sure were safe…" Finn finally caught his breath again
"Yeah okay but she always seems such a machine… I can't imagine her having fun, and I also couldn't imagine her having any emotions, but I guess that's debunked now."
"She is really fun to hang out with though pffff… and hey, Marceline is injured, not PB so I don't really think we should be blaming her for everything… lets now get Jake and worry about Marceline" Finn said kinda angry.
Flame princess was obviously a little bit shocked by Finn but luckily they arrived at the barn. So they didn't have to talk about this. But just when they were about to land Lady Rainycorn, Jake and Bmo came flying back from the treehouse, apparently they heard the explosion and informed what was going on.
"FIIIINN!" Jake yelled as he pointed to the candy kingdom "Something seriously went wrong there!"
Lady flew under Finn and Flame princess dropped the boy on Lady's back because she didn't know how much heat his shirt could take, as there was already a black smudge burned in there. FP flew alongside the group and Bmo waved at her so happily. Jake then signalled to flame princess that she should be silent about all of this to the little console. They all didn't wanna worry it, plus they all could use a good dose of positivity, and Bmo was overflowing with positivity.
"우리는 곧 도착해야!" Lady told the bunch sitting on her back. "난 정말 그녀가 괜찮 희망"
"Yeah yeah I'm sure she is, shes in good hands with Princess Bubblegum" Jake answered as he saw FP and Finn look to eachother in horror because they couldn't understand Lady.
About one minute later they arrived at the Candy Kingdom and they saw the burned open tube and scorchmarks in the grass. A giant cube shaped crater with candy people running around in the grass fields screaming about the sewer system from hell. A tent was set up in a blackened crater about 400 metres from the square crater and an ambulance was parked with its backdoors sticking into the tent. Nurse Pound cake came running towards the tent pushing a cart with more medical supplies. Dr Ice Cream waved her to be quick and from the tent Princess Bubblegum could be heard screeching at Dr. Donut to bring the crash cart.
Princess Bubblegum and Finn
A few days later Bubblegum sat down in the family room with Finn, Jake, Lady, and Flame princess after she got the stitches and bandaids on her face.
The group stared at her face covered in scars and blooded band aids.
"Yeah so… I think we have her stable but her body sustained major damage. Dr Donut is now taking care of her and keeping her asleep till we know what's wrong. I have the lab check her blood for abnormalities and we have an IV drip add brilliant red colouring into her bloodstream. So at least we do have her eating and getting all the nutrients. Her blood pressure is low but that is a side effect from the sedation so it should be over soon when we have her on different medication to keep her asleep. So that's all I can say now"
"Princess… what the glob happened to your face? Did she do that?" Finn asked
"yes… but I have to say it is my fault as we woke her up too soon and too rapidly…"she sighed
"And… and what are you gonna do with her?" Jake asked.
"yeah are you gonna keep her asleep forever, and is there risk of permanent damage?" Finn added.
"I just don't know… I don't know what the future holds…"
"Why did the machine hurt her? Why, and what happened actually?… she was my friend… she is my friend but will she ever be better?" Finn softly sobbed out.
Jake wrapped an arm around Finn and Lady joined in with the warm hug. Flame princess walked out the door… she couldn't handle her ex lover crying, it made it all a little bit awkward. It was hard for her to see so many emotions… so she just left and let the rest sit there trying to comfort Finn.
"I don't know… I don't know Finn… I'm sorry I just wanted to help her, she wanted this whole thing and… I guess I couldn't make the machine work, I couldn't make Marcy's dreams come true." Princess Bubblegum stumbled…
Marceline
Marceline woke up with the fresh sun shining in her face in a large king-size bed… She pulled up the blanket, this his was a marvellous bed. It was so soft and it smelled sweet… after a few moments of looking into the blinding outside, she heard someone snoring behind her… was she sleeping together? It vaguely reminded her of the few sparse nights she spent with Bonni… but this snore was a little deeper. But also smoother and much slower. Not the weird high pitched grunting she made, it sounded so different yet also the same, but more manly… slowly she turned around and saw a pink man with deep red hair sleeping bare chested next to her.
Fleeting memories of the ball room dancing with the man. Running through a field with the same man, him carrying her in his arms which quickly turned into her carrying him and flying up through the clouds. His sparkly purple eyes in the moonlight above the clouds… drinking wine on the balcony of an unknown castle. It felt like dreams but it also seemed so real.
When her mind arrived back into the bed she was sleeping in, she saw the man's eyes open up. A smile popped on his face and he looked towards Marceline. His eyes sparkled again but now in the incoming sunlight. He scratched his chest and then softly wrapped an arm around her.
"Good morning babe…" he told her in a raspy morning 'just woke up' voice "How are you?"
"uhhhh… good-morning? I think… I slept well?" Marceline answered while trying to keep up with the game.
Even though she barely knew the guy, he was still familiar to her, but in a weird way. Like she met him in a previous life, but no matter what, she could never point out the feeling she felt when seeing him.
"good… very good" he said her with a sincere smile on his face.
The pink man slided closer to Marceline and wrapped his arms around here even tighter and pressed his chest into her breasts and gave a small peck on her cheeks. Normally this would freak her out. But it also felt good, like this happened a lot and she was together with him for a long time.
Her mind wanted to scream out, but her body kept pushing her closer and eventually forced her to brush her hand through his hair. Again it felt weird, but also good as the flaring in her mind calmed down. She began to feel comfortable laying in bed with what seemed to be a complete stranger yet also someone she was together with for multiple years.
Suddenly her mind sparked, and her face moved closer to the sweet pink man and she kissed him. She could taste his sweet mouth and feel the butterflies take off in her belly. Her hand slided along his back and he pressed his warm body strongly against her. She softly rubbed his chest and gently pushed out of the kiss. He smiled, gave a comforting moan and looked at her with such passion and adoration.
"I love you…" he whispered in a very warm and comforting voice.
"I love you too…" Marceline answered, even though it still felt a little bit weird
But she did feel so much love… like she loved this man with such devotion for years and that it was all condensed in the 15 minutes she was here, or at least the 15 minutes that she remembered.
Marceline again rubbed his chest and kissed him passionately with the love physically burning in her body. His hands slided under her shirt and cupped around her breasts, she moaned in pleasure and kissed deeper when suddenly he and the entire room dissolved into the ever so black abyss with only his pleasing moan and gorgeous voice echoing in the distance saying he loved her…
Blackness… a beep, another beep, another beep, a constant array of beeps. Her lungs filled with air and she started to think if this was all real. She slightly opened her left eye and took in the quite bright room. White lights dangling from the ceiling reflecting light off the crème white walls. She then also slightly opened her right eye and tried to get used to the brightness.
A long and thin red tube stuck out from her wrist and connected to a satchel with a red liquid and a satchel with a clear liquid hanging above her bed. With a shock of pain she pulled the IV needle out of her arm and sat up on the bed when footsteps sounded behind her.
Princess Bubblegum walked in with scars across her face and rubbed Marceline's back…
"Hi…"
Marceline didn't answer and just sniffed in some air.
"I'm glad you're back… are you okay?" she asked
"Yeah… "
"Good…"
"But… where was I and WOW what the glob happened to your face!?"
"Well Dr. Donut took care of you… he got you better while you were sleeping here. So you stayed here in this bed all along"
"yeah okay… but I wanted to know what happened all before I got here. The last thing I remember was seeing you and Simon around a sewer system of sorts… and I ask again, what happened to your face?"
Bubblegum stepped around Marceline and sat on the bed…
"well… I will tell you a story… a long story…"
Bubblegum
The infirmary door closed and Princess Bubblegum walked to the family room. Jake was sitting on the couch with Lady giving each other small pecks on the lips, and Finn sat on the other site playing a game on Bmo.
She rasped her throat once and everyone turned around and sat on the couch she was standing in front of
"so I've called you all here because after about one week of sleep Marceline started to show signs of waking up."
"well? What happened, did she wake up?" Finn asked.
PB smiled… her cheeks turned a little red and a dimple of joy formed in both her cheeks
"I am glad to tell you, Marceline Abbadeer has woken up and is back under the living if I can call it that because technically she is a vampire and really dead so sh-"
Finn jumped around Bubblegums neck, he didn't listen to the whole dead story, just hearing she woke up was enough to make him happy. Jake danced around with Lady while she was giggling and yelling of joy.
"네, 그녀는 잘 , 감사합니다! 오 남자 메신저 행복!" She exclaimed
Meanwhile Bmo was running around screaming its speakers to shreads with WOOHOO's while waving around a controller.
"now now people calm down… she really needs her rest and I told her to lay down and sleep. So I want to ask you to be sile-"
BAM
The door slammed open
"WOOOOOOO I'm back y'all! Did you miss me!?"
"why do I even bother if no one listens to me" Bubblegum whispered to herself while the rest was screaming around Marceline who blew the door of its hinges.
She sadly walked out the doors of the hospital and made her way through the kingdom towards her tower where her mood really started to play up. A table flew out through an open window and all the schematics of the particle accelerator flew out the window and landed scattered across the cotton candy forest.
She was happy that Marceline was awake but she couldn't live with the fact she almost killed her… it was supposed to work and she was supposed to help her but with this whole black hole collapsing in on itself and blasting Marcy to the heavens and back to the land of Ooo.
PB sighed and walked out her room towards the storage cabinet where she pulled out a new table and dragged it towards her room. She sat on a chair, pulled out more paper and Peppermint butler who noticed all the happenings came in with a plate with 2 cups of tea.
"hello Princess… I couldn't help but noticing your table fell out of the window… what's the matter?"
"Ooooh Peppermint butler… this situation is so horrible…"
"Why? I thought you were happy Marceline is awake again"
"Yeah I am… I guess… but this has been my fault in the first place. If I never tried to 'help' her… if I never was so egocentric to prove to everyone I am so smart and I can make this machine. Then this would have never happened. Then I would have never accidently almost killed her."
"But your highness… you did try to help her, isn't that what counts?"
" I almost killed a vampire, that's something man, I hurt her good. What if this happened to Finn, he could die…"
"So what are you gonna do now if I may ask?"
"Build a new way to contact other dimensions heck yeah!"
"aahhh… that's how I know you Princess… should I bring more tea? Or you want company?"
"Just bring me a cup of tea every hour or so… and remind me to sleep every once in a while."
"ah yes okay… I will do that. Should I also take care that no visitors come for you?"
"yes please… and thanks"
"It's okay… good luck princess"
So Bubblegum set off on a scientific journey to open a dimensional hole.
5 tables through the window later, Peppermint butler took action and dragged Princess Bubblegum out her room and tugged her through the entire city to put her outside the walls and take a refreshing walk. Maybe that would cool her aggressive behaviour to the tables down.
So PB strolled through the fields, went into the forest to eat some cotton candy and just laid down in the grass to stare at the clouds illuminated by the shining sun. Insects buzzed around here while the soft breezing of the wind through the trees emptied her mind. It really was a nice day, so warm but not too warm, and the grass was so soft. It obviously didn't take long for her to fall asleep.
When she woke up a few hours later, the sun lowered itself and the sky was a myriad of colours. Purple, pink, orange, yellow, and some hints of blue. The low sun shone a blanket over the forest, covering everything in a warm hue, the pink of the trees was more reddish and the white stems shimmered a deep orange colour.
The bees were all gone to their hives, at least she didn't see any of them flying around. But how peculiar, the buzzing was still there. PB sat up and looked around the fields. There was nothing that could do that… well the remnants of the particle accelerator was still there. Same as a half rusted and broken theoretical temperature extrapolizer and the matter condenser. She walked towards the 2 massive machines to see if they were the cause of the buzzing. Also because the sound seemed to come from there.
When she treaded on the scorched soil, the pungent smell of burnt sugar filled her nose.
"puh… Burned candy soil…" she whispered
But when she searched between the blackened earth she saw something shiny. She picked it up, it was a bit heavier than you would expect but it wasn't unbearably heavy.
It seemed to be a black crystalline solid. It has a reasonable density, she averaged it to be about 20 grams/cm
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so it's not denser than osmium. But it did look weird, there were tiny white shiny specks in it, swaying from side to side. She slided the gem in one of her pockets of her lab coat, and made her way back to the gate. It was getting awfully cold and the sun had less and less illuminating power over the landscape. Peppermint butler was awaiting her at the door of the tower…
"Hello Princess… how was your walk?"
" refreshing…" she said
"I assume that's good right?"
"yeah… it was good, thanks for the tip. Now treat yourself to some tea or chocolate milk or whatever hot beverage and take some rest."
"are you sure your highness?"
"yeah… you did good, you deserve some time off" PB smiled
Marceline
Dreams of the pink man laying next to her in bed, reliving that moment she was in bed with the gorgeous yet mysterious stranger. She didn't dream anything else, all day she was wondering who he was. Was he real?
Mindless jamming with Hambo at her side, trying to write a song about him, eat some apples and then go to sleep again to dream the same dream, the ball room and the bedroom were there, he always said the same and it always ended in pure romance fizzing. Shorting out her brain and making her wake up to start jamming and reliving the memories…
But now… she woke up in what seemed to be the ball room, but it was dark… normal daylight came through the windows but it was raining. No music and no random crowd talking about nothing and laughing purely for the fact a laugh looked good according to social and posh standards. There was no music and the stage was empty with just a few chairs and sheets of music. The only thing she heard was rain tapping against the window and branches of trees rubbing against the gritty woodwork of the outside.
The branches made a game of shadows on the floor, it looked like they were dancing intimately. The atmosphere was cold and lonely and it felt dark… the air was depressing and heavy, pressing down in Marceline's lungs and locking her feet down to the ground. But in the gloomy light she felt someone looking at her from inside the ball room. She turned around and saw her mum.
She looked at the floor… depressed and in pain
"hello…"Marceline said as the word whispered through the empty room… and while the word was casted back and forth between the walls, the voices of any other people echoed with it, like the voices in the ball room dream.
"Hello Marceline…" her mum spoke
"is it really you mum? I've only seen you on one picture and I don't know…"
"yes it's me, of course it's me."
"where were you mum… where were you all my life?"
Marceline started sobbing
"sorry… I have never seen you that I can remember and what I can remember happened so long ago I'm doubting if it's even real. And my first question is bluntly asking you where you was. I don't wanna blame you for my pain!"
"no, it's okay to ask me. I should have been there for you to see you live but I couldn't… and that hurts me too, that I never got to see you."
Marceline's mum came closer and rubbed Marcy's arm.
"we were living together… I left your dad because I couldn't live with such a monster… so we lived together in the middle of nowhere, every day I was with you, and every night I went to the closest 24 hour store and worked there, to get just enough food for us, and when you would wake up I would be there. It was hard, but we were happy… I cared for you when you had nightmares and…"
"I don't remember… why do I not remember!" Marceline yelled and started to hit herself in the head while repeating the words remember over her breath.
Her mom grabbed Marceline's arms and held them tightly down.
"you don't remember because it was so long ago. It was thousands of years ago… I cared for you till the day the insects came… men with gasmasks and buglike eyes… dark and shiny, staring at you without emotions… we were told to leave our house at once when the sirens howled. They took you away, they had orders to take people out of the area but they separated us… from that day on you were gone, and when the bombs fell and I could feel the death and devastation in the air. I always hoped you didn't feel pain."
She started crying and Marceline wrapped around her mum. In between the sobs she kept on talking.
"I was horrified by the fact you were gone, I just hoped they would be nice to you. They certainly weren't nice to us. The military treated us like cattle, but they got paid back."
Her mum coughed and wiped away tears before resuming
"Our camp was hit by acid rain… the clouds of the bombs gassed the clouds above us filling them with evil. I was among the lucky ones to be inside, most of our party were outside and well… it wasn't nice… people died, but I survived. And most of the soldiers died. Their respirators filled up with acid and… I saw them begging for mercy, dying off like grass hoppers in pesticides. It was horrible… monsters…
They were shooting at survivors, glob knows why… and when they couldn't handle the pain they committed suicide… cowards they were… but again, I survived. Stayed inside with 6 other people… 3 women and 3 men… later we were able to pull one of the women outside into our shelter. She was in constant pain and died a few days later due to acid burns. But I think we helped her… we comforted her when she needed and we promised to look for her children."
"I kept my hope up you were still out there safe and well. I didn't know if you were in a colony… or on your own. At least not with the insect warriors."
Marceline hugged her mum once more… she couldn't get any air and she sat down on the wooden ballroom floor. Marceline dropped down next to her and softly whispered.
"It's okay mum… I don't know what happened… just… I woke up on top of a crashed down mall… I walked down and searched for you… but after 4 days I found Simon… Simon looked out for me…"
"So you found someone who took care for you?"
"yes… I did…"
"oh glob… thanks… I'm so happy you had someone…"
Marceline's mum broke down again and she started crying even louder. But she kept on talking.
"I spent my last days worrying about you. And worrying about our group. One man stepped outside to investigate but never returned… we were afraid, we had no food and well…"
She couldn't talk anymore, neither could Marceline. Both were sobbing in each other's arms
"It didn't end well for us…" that was the last thing she could say
Her mum softly whimpered and kept praying Marceline would be okay… she grew colder, she shivered up and turned into dust while her voice kept lingering into the air.
Marceline laid down on the hard floor of the ball room trying to grasp everything she just heard, when she heard footsteps coming towards her. The pink man stood there, looking down on her. But then he sat down and laid next to her… he wrapped his warm and soft arm around her and pecked her cheek.
She started crying…
"it's okay" he said "it's okay… I'm here, and I will always love you and care for you… Marceline, you have been through some pretty rough stuff, but I'm here for you."
"but I don't even know your name!"
"You will find out in time…"
Time… it faded away as the room went darker and darker when suddenly she woke up in her bedroom.
Bubblegum
The dark crystal was laying on her desk…the crystal, to say it easy was odd. It attracted light and it would morph things that came close to it like it had some sort of gravity, but it wasn't heavy. It was, well heavier than it seemed, but not more than maybe half a kilo. But she didn't really know what it was, like what kind of material it was.
To solve that mystery, she chopped off a tiny slither of the crystal, not weighing more than 100 miligrammes… she put it through the spectrum analyzer, made an NMR scan and in the end destructively measured its element content.
All that came out was 30% silicon 45% carbon 5% Neodymium and 20% of unknown matter but the most interesting fact about the crystal was when she took a better look at it.
Firstly she just used a magnifying glass on the crystal. It looked weird, to say the least. It was completely black, only some tiny white specks that almost seemed to glow on its own. The tiny luminescent dots moved around in harmony inside the crystal, very slowly orbiting each other and sliding through the crystal in 3 dimensional movement, that meaning they also moved up or down, left and right and forwards and backwards no matter how you would orientate the gem.
Even furiously shaking the grim crystal would not knock the tiny specks out of orbit.
Actually what was interesting that she managed to chip another bit of the main parent crystal. She managed to trap one white speck in the chipped off fragment and she wanted to see what it would do… but instead it did nothing, it just stayed where it was and it didn't move anymore as it had no companion to orbit around.
Bubblegum then placed the tiny fragment under her microscope she uses to study minerals. She focused the lens system at the white dot a little off to the side in the small fragment. Firstly at 50x enlargement… nothing really happened, just the dot was a bit bigger and it became a bit blurry… not really spectacular.
At 100x enlargement the dot was actually not a circular speck, but it was ever so slightly elliptical. It also seemed that the dot, now covering about the size of the tip of her pinky finger, had a slightly brighter centre. Like the outside was a bit fuzzier and the more you got to the centre the brighter it became. It also may be an optical illusion, but the dot seemed to spin, it almost looked like a miniature galaxy spiralling in miniature space.
She turned to the next enlargement which is 400x… now it became apparent it was actually a miniature galaxy… there were tiny spiral arms visible, and reddish glowing clouds towards the bright centre. Wow, she never would have thought this was possible. Quickly the Princess grabbed her notebook and eagerly started to write her thoughts and observations about the crystal containing the tiny galaxy. She weighed the shred, measured its volume and drew schematics of how big the galaxy was in micrometres. She took pictures and printed them out and stuck them all in her notebook.
Did she dare to go one step further? She rotated the revolver of the microscope to the 1000x enlargement… the biggest magnification she could reach on her microscope.
An immensely intricate galaxy appeared. The spiral arms rotating around the radiant centre. Bright nebulae swirling around the colossal arms. Now she could almost see the individual stars blasting their light into their universe, and then into the universe Bubblegum and the whole land of Ooo was in. but in perspective the stars moved too fast to be pinpointed by the microscope, so it was a continuous waterfall of hundreds of thousands dots moving by.
The waves became denser when one of the major spiral arms was in focus, and it would fade again when the galaxy spun around till the next arm will be in focus. In total she counted 8 arms and she extrapolated and guessed there must be billions of stars in the galaxy.
She took the tiny fragment from under her microscope and took it carefully down into the depths of the candy castle's dungeons… she knew somewhere in this dusty cupboard there would be an electron microscope… she can clearly remember buying one at the international science fair. Now it just had to be found it under all the cobwebs.
Marceline
Hiding under the cover of her big sombrero Marceline flew towards the tree house. The heat radiated through the abnormally large headgear, even the wind brushing against her skin was warm. But no matter how much the birds darted through the sky or the bees buzzing through the field of flowers or how much the warmth flowed through her body. The depression was still there… the feeling of being alone, as her mum died thousands of years ago, and Bonni didn't speak to her lately. Plus the pink man, was he even real or just a messed up way of her brain telling her she is alone and she will only ever be together in her dreams.
But before she could sink even deeper Finn spotted her while he was laying lazily in the sun in the boat at the top of the tree. He jumped up and waved while calling Jake or something? She was too far away but assumed he was calling Jake because he suddenly stretched out through one of the open windows while also starting to wave.
"Marceliiine Marceliiiine!" Finn yelled
"hi…" she awkwardly said while gracefully landing in the boat. "what's up y'all?"
"shouldn't we be asking you that?" Jake asked
"yeah why are you here, didn't Peebs say you needed to take rest?"
"psssh… yeah you know me, ill rest when I'm dead … no time like the present, plus I wanted to see how my favourite duo wa-"
"TRIOOO! We're a trio! The mighty heroes who fight the land and get money and blow up evil wizards! Don't forget me guys!" Bmo called through the open window.
"hehehe… yeah okay I wanted to say how my favourite trio was doing!" Marceline corrected herself while hearing Bmo giggle in the background.
"I dunno… its warm and lazy weather so I guess we are very lazy… but Marcy?" Finn returned with an ask.
"yeah…?"
"I'm glad you're back… is there something you need?'
"not really no… I just felt kinda lonely so I wanted to just meet up with some peeps, and since peebs doesn't answer… I naturally thought of you guys"
"aaaaaahw that's so sweet!" Finn said while blushing
"and to drink the red from your filled cheeks" She added while winking and sticking her tongue out.
"Heey hey no don't go insult my brother, I know you're a feral beast but that doesn't give you the right to threaten him" Jake said while giggling
"or maybe drink the red out of your orangey colour Jake… will also taste great" she said while licking her lips
Finn chuckled "hey why don't we go inside… ill pour out some ice tea and a strawberry juice for m'lady"
"Sounds good!" she said while grabbing both Finn and Jake and lifting them into the air to fly them in through the window. "and finally I can take this thing off"
She dropped the sombrero and closed the blinds on the window that poured sunlight over the sofa. Finn just poured in some ice cold ice tea for him and Jake and a tall glass with deep red strawberry juice for Marceline.
"any of you guys want something to eat?" Jake asked "I'm sorry though Marceline… we only have red cherries, that's all"
"nah I'm good with the strawberry juice" Marcy answered
"you Finn?"
"eeh… ill take a handful of those cherries…"
When everyone was seated on the sofa and Bmo was running through the tree house playing cops and robbers on its own Finn asked what happened to Marcy.
"Well, I had the most messed up cray cray dream…" she said while telling them about the meet up with her mum.
Princess Bubblegum
After a few hours of tinkering Princess bubblegum dragged an electron microscope into her science room and plugged it into the power network. The ominous gem looked over her mucking with the machine, it stared like a dark and powerful being. The blackness making the room appear darker and its groaning vibrating the table ever so slightly like it wanted to prove its presence in the room.
But bubblegum did not care and she kept on working on the intricate machine. And about half an hour later it was ready for use. She flipped a few switches and the machine started to hum while the console came online. She opened the scanning room and placed the tiny fragment in there. Then she closed the door again and sealed it shut.
With a camera attached to the electron emitter she targeted the tiny black fragment so it was in the middle. She zoomed in and accurately aimed the reticle at the spaces the arms were moving through, slightly off the centre of the galaxy and pressed another button. The machine started to whirr and tick rhythmically as the chamber was slowly sucked under a more and more complete vacuum. And after about 10 minutes it gave off a little ding that the room was empty enough for the scanning to start.
She pressed a button and a small buzzer went off for about 10 seconds. Then she pressed again and after 10 seconds again and again and again till she had all the raw data she needed. It was all copied on a usb stick and she took it to her computer to analyze the results. Thinking of zooming into this world made her more and more excited already.
But the processing of the data took longer than expected. Many rounds she walked around the castle to pass the time, she skidded rocks across the small stream running through the candy kindom.
"Dammit… I wish Marceline was here… then there always happened the most exciting things, or going on an adventure with Finn and Jake… but noo" She yawned "oooh pff… no I have to finish my research… there is no time for faffing around"
So she started guessing the weight of a rock, calculated the optimal angle and speed so the stone shard could bounce the furthest distance over the water. Some basic physics should give her some form of entertainment. But after the 56th skidded over the river she did start to get a bit bored. So she dragged herself back to the tower to find her computer done.
But she wasn't looking at that at all. What she was looking at, was the massive black cloud lingering around the crystal that still was on the table. It shot out lightning bolts and rumbled, yet the bolts were black, blasting the darkness further into the room. The world around the crystal started to blur and deform and between the rumbling rolling up and down, she could hear the monotone growling erupting from the gem as more and more black clouds were given off.
She quickly took some pictures and jolted to her computer to check the data of the electron microscope experiment. It looked black… she could faintly see the silicon and carbon structural web interlinked with neodymium nodes. But the stars in the galaxy, they were too powerful. The electron beam was warped around the star so all she saw was a missing hole in the middle with the structure around it deformed due to the bending of the colliding electrons. She could not make a good picture with the electron microscope. And the further she scrolled through the pictures, the more disturbed it became.
Random orbs of light and static. Warped structures and the silicon carbon neodymium mesh destroyed and taken over by what looked like nothingness. Empty space breaking down the crystal structure and freeing the stars from their bound state in the gem.
"OH CRUD!" she yelled out as she saw her electron microscope from the corner of her eye…
Black smoke blasted out it and it shook up and down as the small crystal inside thumped up and down. The vacuum chamber started to glow and crackle while slowly imploding on itself until the steel walls gave in. Bubblegum could dive behind her office chair just in time when shards of white hot metal blasted through the room when the chamber gave in with a bang.
When she stood up after the explosion she yanked the emergency cord to evacuate the palace and put on a hazard suit that was hanging in the corner of the room. With massive tungsten pliers she grabbed the crystal and ran out of her room to the containment area. She once designed a stasis field to keep radioactive elements from decaying. Maybe it will also stop the mysterious gem from doing whatever the hell it's doing.
With all her force she jabbed the pliers into the stasis field with the gem still clenched in between the 2 blades. It immediately stopped belching out black fumes and radiation and the thundering also halted. It looked pretty harmless now… Just a small black shard, it could just as well coal or obsidian or the richest onyx…
Finn, Marceline and Jake
"So your mother died in your arms in an empty ballroom? Wow, that's really… dark… how did you dream that?" Finn asked.
"Well it started when I was hit by whatever the thing blasted out, the weird trans dimensional thinga-majigga Bonni made. I dreamt about my mother, that's all I can remember my mom from, I vaguely remember seeing pictures of her in my scrapbook, but they weren't really good or detailed. Guess the amount of energy hitting me dislodged my brain, like the vault was opened and the deep dark memories that were buried long ago trickled out. Spilling itself and poisoning my brain. It was really weird… I never remembered how my mum looked in real life, but now I had this dream, I can remember vague pieces of us living together in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere." Marceline answered
"So what happened catalyzed the remembering of memories locked away?" Jake said "and now its invading your dreams"
"yeah kinda, I think that sums it all up Jake…"
"But okay let's get back… you saw the pink man with red hair, d-"
"now that I think of it, it was more purple…" Marcy interrupted Finn
"Okay, so you saw the pink man with the red purple hair… do you recognize him?"
"no… I never saw him, but in my dreams it felt like I have known him for years and we were superduper close. It seems weird, I thought you can only dream people you saw before in your life, your brain can't just make up faces."
"yeah I was about to say that too… Do you know anything about this Jake? How can she make up people and why does she keep dreaming this… you are the more intelligent one when it comes to the mind and emotions"
"I think she didn't make it up Finn… this pink man… he seems like a male Princess Bubblegum, so I think if we want answers we should ask her about this Prince Bubblegum or whatever."
"yeah I have been meaning to talk to her, but the pesky peppermint butler keeps pushing me away. I haven't seen her in ages…" Marceline sighed.
But literally just as she sighed her phone rang… Bonnibel Bubblegum
Princess Bubblegum
She knew she actually was the biggest genius mind who ever lived in this universe. She used her teleporting portal, which she had only finished one of because they were just too darn expensive. But okay, the portal relied on a sample of crystallized quantum matter. It was supposed to be quantum entangled with another quantum matter crystal. But she never got around to make another one.
But what PB did, was replace the quantum matter with the dark gem which she dubbed aetherium. The shiny titanium ring quickly turned a dull black, and small dark sparks came off the crystal container and the blackened almost infested looking ring.
She modified a gene encoder and some spare parts of the other half build portal to make a quantum entangler based on DNA. So basically when the object was powered by quantum matter and a gene sample was dropped in. It will search the mini universe for the exact sample of DNA… so you could in theory search up everyone in the other universe, so see for example if there is another Finn or Jake.
When everything was installed she called Marcy to please come over. Before she had any chance to accept or decline the offer PB already hung up so she had to come.
Marceline, Finn, Jake, Bmo and Princess Bubblegum
"Okay people… I called you all here for a mindboggling experiment…."
"It isn't gonna end with me nearly dying right?"Marceline teased PB
"In theory no… but your near death experience did leave me with something special. In the crater where the black hole exploded-"
"Hang on… wasn't it a sewer system?" Bmo asked.
"No Bmo… it was actually a machine to bombard fundamental particles into one another and scavenge the remains for black holes and then grow one to macroscopic sizes so Marceline could do whatever she want in another universe." Bubblegum quickly rambled
"oh okay… do carry on princess" Bmo said
"ok… so in the crater I found a special and weird gem… it was black with white revolving specks, and not too heavy but get this… it was actually a universe contained in our universe… yeah! Let that sink in"
The crowd looked a bit bored, but when they saw her enthusiasm they all gasped for air to make her feel better. She obviously was going completely bonkers…
"So I used the crystal, which I dubbed aetherium, into my unfinished portal. I fidgeted with some wires and connected a few bits and bobs and well… basically I can take any gene sample and look for your counterpart in this other universe."
The crowd still didn't look too impressed…
"ugh I can obviously see you don't believe me, but wait till I open the portal… I will be the first person to contact another UNIVERSE! HAhAHAhahaHAHa!" she screamed
"she is going coo coo…" Jake whispered to Finn, Marceline and Bmo
"Princess… did you get enough sleep" Finn then carefully asked PB
"of course I didn't… but this is too important!" she said "and now if you are all ready… CONTACT!"
She yelled when she yanked a large lever. Sparks flew off and a dark energy curtain filled the inner space of the ring, black energized smoke blew off causing the lights to flicker a few times before they got back on again.
"okay… now look on this screen… and Marceline, can you donate a hair to me?"
"sure I can." Marcy said as she lifted her shirt and pulled a black hair from her belly button. She held it towards Bubblegum who awkwardly stared at the curly hair.
"uuuh… why don't you throw it in yourself… there in that little glowing hollow cube"
"okay, whatever you want Peebles" Marcy said while dropping the hair in the receptacle.
the screen started to filled up with thousands of A's C's T's and G's as her DNA was unravelled. Until after about 10 seconds the screen said LOCK FOUND. It was showing 2 atoms being linked when suddenly a video feed came online… supposedly of the 'anti Marceline'
but what showed… was a clownfish…
"nonono… this can't be true" Bubblegum whispered while the rest started giggling.
She fidgeted with the controls till it deleted the video feed and the screen said 'Gene sample discarded! Please insert new sample'
"The machine obviously can't handle demon vampire DNA… " PB tried to talk over the giggling "I'll try my DNA now!"
She gargled and gagged and spat into the receptacle… the same thing happened, it showed the code made of many eithe or G's. Again it found a lock, and the video feed came online…
It showed a toad catching a fly and when the fly was caught, video connection ceased.
"NONONONO THIS CANT BE HAPPENING! It was supposed to work" Bubblegum cried "but this is the exact opposite…"
"now c'mon Princess… it still looked beautiful, and we had fun. No matter if it did the opposite…" Finn tried to calm her down
"Hang on… opposite… the universe, what if it IS a counter universe to our universe… that would mean the nucleobases will be the exact opposite… G becomes A, and C becomes T… yes yes yes… I'm gonna try this!"
She gagged again and spat in the square hole. But when it finished reading the genes, she stopped the program and replaced all G's with A's, all C's into T's and vice versa. Then she ran the program again and it gave a LOCK FOUND… it connected and Marceline screamed.
"OHMYGLOB I THINK I'm GONNA GO MAD… THAT IS THE PINK MAN I SAW!"
She started to run closer to the screen while dancing
"BONNI BONNI BONNIIII CAN WE CONTACT HIM?!"
Everyone just stared at a quite normal looking pink man baking a pie… but they gotta admit, he did look quite the same as Princess Bubblegum.
"Okay opening portal… NOW!"
But just when she yelled NOW, a massive furry black monster appeared in the camera feed. A massive roar sounded and the black vertical pool began to vibrate and ripple. The pink man ran away, out of the camera feed, and they all saw 2 red eyes staring into the camera while the beast screeched one more time.
Giant leathery textured claws blasted through the portal and slammed into the floor, ripping metal plates off. Finn yelled and pulled his sword and started to chop the giant claw reaching out. A maniacal laughter came through the portal and the claw turned into a normal sized grey arm. A boy floated through the portal, the same skin colour like Marceline and also bearing the same vampire teeth. A red plaid shirt wrapped around his slender body and medium length black hair rose up from around his face.
"mwuhehehehe I got you there guys…" He said while chuckling
"who… are… you… you, MONSTER!" Bubblegum screamed while recovering from the anxiety attack. "YOU GAVE ME HALF A HEART ATTACK"
"I am… whoever you want me to be sugar" he said while blowing a kiss to her.
"okay dude… seriously not cool dude!" Finn told him
"Oh I'm sorry… I didn't know you were such a pussycat… meow meow" the boy answered while imitating a cat licking its paws.
"OKAY OKAY KNOCK IT OFF MAN! YOU'RE NOT FUNNY! WHO ARE YOU!" Jake boomed
"hehehe… you really expect me to answer that?"
Jake roared and leaped towards the boy. But he quickly turned into the demon they saw on the screen. He punted Jake to the ground and wrestled on top of him. He tried to bite Jake when suddenly Marceline jumped up after standing there looking… staring at what happened. She jumped up and turned into a massive wolf and grabbed the 4 legged batlike creature by the throat and wrecked him into the wall!
"WHO… ARE… YOU…!" she roared in a disturbing deep grunt while choking him against the marble walls.
The monster quickly whined and turned back into the boy.
"okay okay I'm sorry… I'm Marshall Lee… I didn't mean to hurt you, I just wanted some fun"
Marceline turned back into herself, while still keeping a stern look at this Marshall Lee.
"but we weren't looking for you… we were more interested in the pink man… do you know him?"
"ahahah yeah… that's my ex Bubba Gumball. We used to be together but yeah, he didn't want my cock up his ass… so I ended it" Marshall said while getting red from laughter.
Finn covered up Bmo's microphone so it didn't hear this language…
"yikes… what the glob is wrong with you" Marceline asked irritated
"a lot baby… hang on I'll be right back!" he said while flying towards the portal.
"Now Bubba… I'm gonna get yah! I'm not gonna go easy on you!" he yelled as he went in the portal.
"Marshall? MARSHALL NO! NO NO NO! I DON'T WANT TO… I don't like strange dark portals… don't get me through, I'm happy here! I HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETY! DON'T, YOU'RE INVADING MY PRIVATE SPACE!" a voice was heard echoing through the portal
Pots and pans could be heard flying and clanging into the wall and the man begging for mercy. But suddenly Bubba came through the portal, or he was thrown through the portal in foetus position by Marshall.
"Don't whine Bubba… they were looking for you, she seemed really interested in you" he said while pointing at Marceline.
Bubba shivered and slowly crawled towards Marceline and started to whimper at her feet.
"sorry… this usually happens… I don't like new people and new places…" he whimpered "wha- wha- what is it you need ma'am?"
Marceline hissed at Marshall and she screeched
"WHY DO THIS TO THIS POOR POOR MAN!"
She threw the closest Erlenmeyer flask at Marshall's face and bowed down to Bubba. She pecked his cheek and wrapped around him.
"it's okay Bubba… it's okay"
She lifted the crying man in her arms and with one hand yanked Marshall into the portal…
"you're coming with me" she hissed
But just when they went through, the portal closed… and the group was left with an open mouth.
Epilogue
Bubblegum restarted the portal and made it functional so everyone could go between worlds… but Marceline was happy to be with her lover… she was here for a couple of years now. They installed an UV filter on all windows, so she didn't need to shelter herself in the palace.
And on one morning she woke up in the sunshine while laying in Bubba's bed… wow, it was a really marvellous bed… it smelled sweet and felt warm and soft… she heard the familiar snoring of her boyfriend behind her back, and turned around to realize… has she been through this before?
