Fionna ran into the Ice Kingdom with Cake behind her, trying to put on her little booties. Fionna not caring about the cold ran through the Ice Kingdom in her usual attire. Her short navy blue skirt and lighter blue shirt. Although she had changed her small little shoes to black boots that Gumball had given her. They helped with traction unlike her old shoes. Marshall Lee had given her some gloves to help her grip her weapons better as well. They were black, although her fingers came out he edges. Her backpack was the same, her hat as well, except with wearing the hat she allowed her golden hair to flow bellow her waist. This had grown to be her new favorite outfit, and wore it whenever she had the chance. She had grown up and was more mature than the small thirteen year old. She had changed over the years.
Her preens was always wanted by some prince, or king, in Aaa. Not always for rescuing, but just so they could attempt to flirt. Fionna, being so innocent, she rarely noticed when a prince, or king, started hitting on her, and the princes ate that up. Cake hated it, Fionna didn't notice, while it made Flame Prince, Marshall Lee and Gumball jealous.
They busted through one of Ice Queen's windows, splattering ice shards all over the floor. Cake came through minding the glass on the floor. Ice Queen was attempting to embrace Gumball who was struggling, yet had ice handcuffs on him.
"Dang it, Fionna!" yelled Ice Queen holding the relieved Gumball closer. "This is the 5th window of mine that you have broken! Where do you think ice comes from? The sky or something?"
"Well... technically, Ice Queen, ice comes from water when frozen at the right temperature, and water does come from the sky known in many forms," said Gumball in a matter-of-fact kind of tone. This caused Fionna and Cake to laugh.
"It doesn't matter! You owe me the repairs!" shouted Ice Queen.
"Just let Gumball go," sighed Fionna trying to change the subject. "He doesn't want to marry you or whatever. I don't want to fight you..." Ice Queen dropped Gumball and walked up to Fionna furiously.
"What would you know about love? You're just a... a kid!" yelled Ice Queen. "Go back to the tree house, Tomboy." She started laughing in Fionna's face, literally. After enough of Ice Queen's annoying laughter she spit in her eye.
"I'm not a kid!" said Fionna rising her sword. "I'm like, twenty something years old you, Snow Skank!" Ice Queen gasped, putting her hands over her mouth. "Capturing princes makes them automatically profile you as a psychotic bitch! No one wants to marry someone like that!"
"Gummy disagrees, don't you Gummy?" asked Ice Queen looking to Gumball who was still in the floor. To protect himself from further harassment he kept his mouth shut. She giggled, going to kiss Gumball.
"No, no, no, no!" shouted Gumball worriedly. Ice Queen hissed, at Fionna, holding Gumball tighter,
"You're poising his beautiful mind!" yelled Ice Queen. "Just leave the two of us alone!"
"Fucking drop him!" yelled Fionna harshly. Ice Queen tried throwing ice at Fionna desperately, trying to get her to shut up. She dogged all of them gracefully and easily. Light on her feet. Gumball closed his eyes, blushing. Adventuring in a short skirt did have its disadvantages. It wouldn't have been the first time one of Aaa's princes saw her 'powdered doughnut'.
"Why won't you just die already Tomboy?" moaned Ice Queen. "Can't we just make this easy? Let me kill you and we'll put all of this behind us. Okay?" Cake hissed, clawing at Ice Queen. She ran around the room screaming, trying to get Cake off her face. Fionna dashed to Gumball, trying to help him get the ice cuffs off his hands.
"Gumball you're hands are so cold," said Fionna as she tried to break away the ice. Other than Gumball's slight coldness, he was perfectly unharmed.
"Now listen, Tomboy, you stay away from my prince of I swear I'll-" Ice Queen was cut off by Fionna punching her square in the face.
"Don't call me Tomboy!" shouted Fionna. ""How many times do I have to tell you that! How would you like me to only call you as 'Snow Skank'? How would you like that?" Ice Queen, not willing to admit defeat, shot an ice-beam at Fionna, landing a rather nice hit, freezing her completely. Ice Queen looked at her hands and started laughing. She had actually mattered to freeze Fionna.
"Baby!" cried Cake running to a frozen Fionna. "Baby if you can hear me blink!" There was no response of any kind. "You old Hag!" Cake wrapped her arms around the ice block surrounding Fionna several times starting to cry.
"Old? Heh, I'm not old," said Ice Queen defensively. "Right Gummy? I'm not old." Again, to try to not upset the Ice Queen, Gumball remained silent. Not giving her a yes or a no.
"Gumball, will Fionna be okay?" asked Cake turning her face towards him.
"The longer she's in that ice the less of a chance she'll have for survival," said Gumball worriedly. "We should take her to Flame Prince's house. He'd be able to unfreeze her I believe."
"What about me?" whined Ice Queen. Cake swiped Gumball, held Fionna close, punched Ice Queen knocking off her crown and ran out of the Ice Kingdom. She didn't care if the ice surrounding Fionna was cold against her fur, in fact at the moment Cake didn't notice. Cake used a stretched key to unlock Gumball's cuffs, freeing his hands once again.
"Do you think we'll make it to Flame Prince in time?" asked Cake.
"I believe so, as long as we get therein under ten minutes and thirty seven seconds," said Gumball. "If she's frozen for too long she could die in there. But for the time being mold me something sharp enough to chip away some of that ice around Fionna, please." Cake stretched something that helped Gumball slowly chip away some Ice. It wasn't much progress, but it was better than anything else they had.
When they got to Flame Prince's house Gumball quickly banged on the door, throwing rocks, trying not to burn himself. There was no answer, no matter how loudly he yelled for Flame Prince to come out.
"Get your ass out here!" shouted Gumball. "This isn't for me! If you don't do this Fionna might not make it, Flame Prince! Do you want that?" Again, there was no response.
"Gumball, maybe he's just not home," said Cake. "He might not be the fondest of you, but he wouldn't let Fionna freeze to death."
"Or maybe he's just being a total jerk!" Gumball picked the biggest rock he could up and threw it at Flame Prince's house, causing one of the supports to come undone and the whole structure collapsed. This made Flambit come out from behind the broken down house.
"Gee whiz, what in Aaa was that for?" asked Flambit stretching out. "What do you got against the prince, Gumball?" Gumball put a hand to his face and pointed to Fionna.
"Can you unfreeze her?" asked Gumball. Flambit looked to Fionna and quickly ran over. She tapped the ice causing some of it to melt. She went into full on flame form zipping around the ice, carving small spirals in it, like a screw, until it was all melted down into water. Cake wrapped her arms around Fionna bringing her closer to herself in an attempt to warm her up.
"Thank you so much, Flambit," said Cake resting her head on Fionna's chest.
"Yeah, no prob' guys. I hope she's okay," said Flambit going to try to rebuild Flame Prince's house. Gumball climbs back onto Cake's back as they head to the Candy Kingdom.
"So she'll be okay now, right?" asked Cake. "We won't have to worry anymore?"
"I wouldn't say that. I need to run some tests on her, fix some things. Her heart rate is dangerously low, so there is still that matter of things, Cake. I don't know how all of this will have affected her, sadly," said Gumball.
"She'll still be Fionna when she wakes up, right?" asked Cake curiously.
"It's best we stick around her at all times, friends, you know?"
"Should we call Marshall Lee?" Gumball growled, he hated Marshall Lee near Fionna. He always hit on her in ways Fionna never understood yet she has always been attracted to. Unlike most of the other princes in Aaa, Marshall Lee was slowly able to lure Fionna into his 'domain'. When he calls, she goes out of her way to answer, and it was Marshall Lee's plan from the beginning.
"Gumball, what do you think?" asked Cake again.
"Oh, um, sure I guess, but I don't see what good having him around would do," said Gumball.
When they got to the Candy Kingdom Gumball instructed Cake to put Fionna on a bed in the Candy Hospital. When done with that Cake went to go call Marshall Lee, while Gumball started taking off her clothes so he could slip her into a light pink robe.
He felt so weird sliding off her skirt to see her 'well known' panties. Baby blue with navy blue lacing, then untying her boots before sliding those off then her knee high socks. He then took a deep breath before sliding off Fionna's shirt, a blue and white cami was pressed against her stomach tightly. He slowly crept the cami up before it was finally off her body. Then he saw her bra, which barely covered her breasts while the straps crept down her shoulders. He blushes, causing his face turns bright red. If it were any other circumstance he would have turned around pretending he didn't see anything, but this was different.
He goes and grabs a pink robe for him to tie around Fionna. If she were awake she'd protest the pink, begging for anything else. The robe quickly covers her body, and ties the small knots, double knotted. He takes off Fionna's gloves and hat, having her hair spill even more all over the floor. He goes first by attaching a heart monitor then an IV. He grabs some Human Biology books then some Candy Kingdom books he has on diseases. Looking up all cold related injuries and symptoms. Cake comes rushing back in announcing that Marshall Lee was on his way.
"What'd Marshall Lee say?" asked Gumball curiously.
"He said he would be here as soon as immortally possible," said Cake smiling. Gumball crossed his arms and rolls his eyes. "You know if he weren't here when she woke up here she'd ask for him, she's going to want to make sure Flame Prince is okay too. I tried to get a hold of him like twenty times in there, but he just wouldn't pick up. I even called the Fire Kingdom, he wasn't there either. I can't tell her I didn't try...It's just who she is. She'd be dying and care for others over herself, Gumball."
"Yeah, I know," said Gumball sighing. "It's my fault she's like this."
"No it's not, Prince," said Cake. "It's Ice Queen's fault, she's the one who froze her in ice."
"Well yeah, obviously when you put it like that you would see it as the Ice Queen's fault as well." Gumball dug his hands into his pockets. Cake stretches over to Gumball's eye level.
"You shut that pink face of yours; it's not your fault all."
"If I wasn't such a wimp Fionna wouldn't be like this. She wouldn't have had to save me, she wouldn't have had to face Ice Queen which means she wouldn't have been frozen if it weren't for me. If I wasn't such a wimp none of this would have happened," sighed Gumball.
"You're finally admitting it, huh?" asked Marshall Lee coming in the room. Gumball muttered something unacceptable under his breath. "So what's wrong with Fionna exactly?" He walked up to Fionna, running his fingers through her golden hair then to her cold, bright red cheeks.
"She was frozen by the Ice Queen, solid. During a death wish. We got Flambit to thaw her out, but she's still really cold if you haven't noticed yourself," said Cake. Fionna's skin was either bright red or a purple from the cold.
"Yeah, I've noticed," said Marshall Lee coldly. "When will she wake up?"
"Some time tomorrow, possibly a day more," said Gumball going up to Fionna as well. Marshall Lee floated above her, grabbing a blanket and pulling it over her, trying to provide some heat.
"Well, she could be worse, Bubba, give yourself that," said Marshall Lee smiling. "She's in order. Nothing's missing or broken, right?"
"I don't know yet, I've been testing the blood for a while to see what's wrong with her at the moment, broken bones would be considered minor for now," said Gumball. "What I'm worried about is her freezing or something huge. She was in that ice for some time, Marshall Lee. There was a lot of it too."
"Well, with someone like you behind all of the medical junk I be she'll turn out just fine," said Marshall Lee trying to cheer up Gumball. The only reason Marshall Lee was being particularly nice right now was because he was in charge of Fionna right now. Life and death rested on his knowledge of her health. He wouldn't have been able to do a good job if he was too bummed out.
Gumball got to work searching Fionna's whole body for anything that would be a problem, and almost nothing came up, other than some mild hypothermia. Thanks to Flambit they were able to get Fionna out of the ice before it became too serious. Other than that she was in remarkably good condition.
Marshall Lee refused to leave her bedside, along with Cake. While those two could sit there and do whatever they wanted Gumball did have a Kingdom to run. No matter how many times his mind went wandering off rather Fionna had woken up yet or not. Marshall Lee said he'd have Cake run upstairs if she did.
Cake and Marshall Lee got along for as long as they needed to. No fighting or rude comments. It was mostly quiet, unless talking about Fionna herself. Which wasn't uncommon for the two of them. They both had their share of awkward experiences. Which they weren't shy about telling either. It was one of the few times they were able to talk without Cake scratching at Marshall Lee's face while Marshall Lee hissed in Cake's face.
Then Fionna's eyes fluttered open, without much time to process what was going on Cake was scratching at Marshall Lee's face while he woke up wondering what was going on. Cake scattered out of the room on all fours headed up the stairs to see Gumball. Fionna sat up, looking around, but shivering.
"Hey, Blue, you're finally awake," said Marshall Lee smiling. "We've all been waiting on you."
"Where am I?" she asked looking around curelessly.
"Well, I guess I can't blame you for being completely clueless, you probably last remember the Ice Kingdom, huh? You're in the Candy Hospital, don't move too much, Bubba's got you hooked up to a bunch of stuff, so don't move too, too much," said Marshall Lee smiling.
"A hospital?" asked Fionna looking around. "So you must work here, huh?"
"What?"
