I do not own Adventure Time, only my own ideas.

Title: Truly Alone?

This particular afternoon Finn and Jake had decided to go to the Ice Kingdom for some dungeon delving fun. Not too worried about the Ice King since he wasn't really that much of a threat to them, just an annoyance.

"So Finn why did we come here without coats again?" asked Jake has he morphed a coat for himself, which didn't help him too much since it 'was' him.

"Because that would mean we can't train for the cold, not to mention that would be admitting defeat to the cold!" Finn explained to his bro. "Look there's a cave!. Lets hope it's a dungeon this time. "

Heading inside they checked for any extra openings, secret switches, levers and the like. "Yo Finn I think I got something." Jake called as he started brushing the heavy frost from an odd looking structure in the corner.

"Doesn't look like a dungeon entrance, but it also don't seem natchy. What do you think Finn?" the magical dog asked his human companion with a puzzled expression.

"Dunno bro seems buried in there pretty deep, you wanna take it out and see what it is?" Finn replied rapping it with his knuckle, which resulted in a hollow metallic thunk.

The cave was fairly large so Jake grew in size and began pulling at the object stuck within the frigid walls. "I don't think it's working man, help me out. You got a torch in there or pickaxe?" referring the the Adventurer's Backpack that Finn always had with him.

Pulling out a torch and lighting it Finn moved over to the wall to shed more light on the object to see if it was stuck on something or just frozen." Looks like its just frozen Jake keep pulling and I'll melt around it."

A short while later Jake was laying against the opposite wall, exhausted with Finn whacking away at the wall trying to free the metal container. "Dang man it's really in there, you think it's worth it?" Jake commented as he tried to regain his breath.

"Of course Jake think of what might be in this. I bet the Ice King froze it here to hide it away. Dunno might have something super secret in it." Finn replied tirelessly hammering away with his sword now.

The object was about halfway uncovered at this point, and Jake noticed something on the top of the item in question when he came back over to help.

"Yo there's a picture on top of this. Kinda looks like Morrow, waddya think Finn?" Finn also stopped trying to wedge the sword into the ice and came over to look. "Kinda, what's up with the arrows and plants it is holding onto?" "Not sure man."

'CRUNCH' "Um Jake what was that?" 'RUMBLE' "That's our queue to go man, the cave is commin down!" Jake yelled running for the exit as Finn grabbed the sword and took off after his brother.

'SCREEECCH!' just moments after the two exited the dark entrance the whole cave collapsed. "Phew man that was close" 'rumble' "Spoke too soon Jake!" The young human was right, the cave in had started an avalanche.

Grabbing his brother and doing what Jake does he transformed himself into a giant sled. "HOLD ON!" then the torrential downpour of crystallized water smacked them from behind, taking them for a rough ride all the way down the mountain.

"WHOOOO!" yelled Finn as he surfed on Jake's back. Jake on the other hand groaned and shivered as the frigid ride came to a close. "Let's not do that again cold. ACHOOO!" 'sniffle' Jake complained.

"Ah c'mon man that was a mathematical ride, oh hey look at this." Finn said running over to the dark green box they had been trying to dig out earlier. "Let's see what's inside!" the young guy enthused.

Jake shuffled over still grumbling about being cold and wanting a sandwich. "I don't see a key hole or anything to lock it? Just this pad of numbers. Hm...there is words here."

Warriors are not always the fastest or the strongest.

Strength and speed can be developed through training.

Warriors are those who choose to stand between the enemy

and all that he loves and holds sacred.

"Maybe it opens with magic, ice magic!" Finn not really paying attention to what Jake just read. "I don't think so bro I think we should take this to PB. This looks like something she would make in her lab." "Oh OK" Finn said rather dejectedly, he was hoping to use magic.

"Oh heya Finn, Jake. What's up?" asked Princess Bubblegum when the duo arrived at the front door of her castle.

"Well we found this thing but we can't figure out how it opens. We were hoping that you could figure it out." replied Jake.

"Well ok then bring it to my lab then." she said heading back inside. Following closely Finn and Jake carried/dragged the quite heavy object up the stairs." Why does this thing have to be so heavy?! Better have something worthwhile in it." complained Jake.

"Just chill bro, Preebs will get it open in no time." came the ever optimistic reply. "Alright you two, put it up on that work bench." PB directed as she grabbed her lab coat from the corner.

Taking cursory glances around the box Bubblegum started taking notes on it's dimensions. "Height 36 inches, Length 96 inches, Width 42 inches. Coloration is a consistent olive green where the paint has not been removed naturally or otherwise. There is however a golden emblem on the top of the container though, depicting a flying bird holding arrows and a branch in its feet. While over its head there is a floating shield that is both striped and starred." PB said talking into a recorder for faster notes. "You guys can probably go home this will take a while. I must document everything about it before I can attempt to open it."

"AWWWW-" "Alright bro-man let's go. You will let us know when you're gonna open it though right we wanna be there for it." Jake said quickly interrupting Finn while dragging him out the door. " What the fudge Jake? Don't you want to know what's in there?"

"Of course I do man but you know Preebs, she gets so lost in the science stuff we would just get in her way. Besides she said she would let us know when she figured out how to open it."

"Well what should we do till then?"asked Finn "What about grabbing some grub at Tree Trunks'?" Jake suggested after a hefty growl from his stomach "YA rad idea man. Let's go I'm starving."

As the two left earshot Bubblegum started talking to herself more in between her notes. "The front has a numerical pad with a display the the left side, possibly a numerical code password." "But what purpose does this box serve?" " Underneath the insignia there is also wording..."

Continuing tests until the following morning, and not sleeping as usual, the gummy princess tried to solve the puzzle of the green box.

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````A/N: First attempt at writing fan-fiction, any and all reviews and constructive critics are welcome. I plan on this being a OC fic with the primary characters from the show being as much in the forefront of the story. The problem I am having right now is where in the show I want to integrate this story without just having the OC have a cliche "fall through a portal into Ooo" entrance. I do have a backstory all planned out, and will be willing to take any ideas readers may have if I think I can make them work. I also apologize for this being stupidly short . it's just a feeler to see if there would be interest.