A/N You want it? YOU GOT IT! Sal Here with the continuation. Enjoy the chapter, tell me how I did, and I'll see you guys later! Sal out!
Ch. 2 Distractions
At the Ooo drive-in theater that was now redesigned to have a roof in case of rain, the sounds of screaming could be heard from the screen as the movie of the night continued to play.
"Whatever you do," the female lead pleaded with some male who looked like a jock. "Do not open that door!"
"Why," The oblivious man asked as he moved to the door. He should have listened. The crowd's reaction to the gruesomeness of the scene with the sounds of frantic blood curtailing screaming was of shock, awe, and fear.
But it would get even more terrifying as the monster approached the female lead, an army of demonic looking animals covered in what looked like blood burst through the screen and chased the helpless moviegoers out of the theater. They were led by two cackling black cloaked figures riding two possessed looking wolves. As the terrified attendant ran home with pants full of urine, the animals ceased their chase and instead just sort of lounged around harmlessly. The two cloaked figures then began to laugh hard as they removed their masks to show Finn and Marceline.
"Did you see their faces?!" Finn asked as he bent over laughing.
"I wonder how many wet themselves!" Marceline shouted as she floated around holding her sides as she remembered one of the moviegoers hosing his pants before actually running. "Bonus points if you think there's luggage in the trunk!" Finn began to laugh harder at their prank while all the animals that Marceline made to look vicious but were actually quite tame, including the wolves, just sort of lounged around or went back where they came from.
A bunny hopped over to Marceline which she picked up. The bunny looked bloody and had false teeth in to look like fangs.
"Who's a little fluff ball of death?" Marceline said as she pet the small animal.
"Getting soft, are we?" Finn teased.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Marceline asked rather slyly.
Once Finn and Marceline made their remarks towards one another, the duo slightly chuckled at their cheesy lines. Finn, for his part, was starting to feel a little better; it wasn't much, but at least he was able to crack a smile for a chance, something Marceline noted.
"Looks like you've loosened up a bit finally."
"Yeah Marcy, I actually have. Still though, I don't feel like heading back to the Tree Fort." said Finn.
In response, the vampire pondered for a moment, thinking on what she and her friend could do next. Then, an idea hit her on the head.
"Here's what I got..." Marceline began, before she whispered her idea in Finn's ear. After a minute or so, the teenager slowly smiled, thrilled what he just heard.
*A short time later*
LSP was sitting around a campfire she made at her current campsite singing about her lumps while roasting some marshmallows she got from her mother.
While LSP continue to sang and eat her marshmallows all at the same time, Finn, Marceline and BMO looked on from behind the bushes, amused by LSP vain attempt in singing about her lumps.
"Ready guys?" Marceline asked quietly.
"I am ready." BMO announced as quietly as it could.
"Same here." With everyone ready and in position, Marceline gave the signal for Finn to go. Finn picked up a rock on the ground and chucked it at a pile of cans that LSP had set up.
LSP became startled by this, demanding to know who's there, though is a bit freaked out.
"W-who's there?! S-show yourself!" LSP nervously demanded. Suddenly, Marceline began to shake some branches while staying out of sight by using a very thin rope that LSP wouldn't be able to see from her campsite.
"W-who's ever there," LSP tried to sound brave but couldn't hide the fear. "Just lumping quit!" Finn presses play on BMO as it starts to play scary sounds that Marceline and Finn recorded earlier.
LSP is now totally terrified by this point, floating nervously and looking around her surroundings, wondering what will happen next. But then, LSP felt a breeze right behind her and before she knew, a certain vampire uttered one single word.
"Boo." Marceline said just loud enough for her to hear.
Startled by this, LSP gave out the loudest scream for all of Ooo to hear, before she fainted to the ground, as Finn and BMO joined up with Marceline to laugh together at their success.
"Oh... that was funny!" Marceline said as she inspected their handy work while cradling BMO. "What do you think, BMO?"
"I think we may have over done it..." BMO noted as it looked at LSP on the ground.
"Eh," Finn shrugged after calming down. "She'll be fine." Marceline would be lying if she said she wasn't happy to see Finn back to normal. Though now that she had this momentum, they needed to keep it rolling... and she knew exactly how.
"Hey Finn," Marceline said as she floated over to him. "I know exactly what we can do for a finale!" She began to whisper in his ear before a devious grin came to his face.
It took them a long while, but Finn, Marceline and BMO eventually made their way to Ash's house. The moment they spotted the building, bitterness and anger boiled over them, especially for the vampire queen. She still hated the jerk-off for what he did, who even tried to make her into his eternal servant. Thankfully for her, she did manage to kick him in his pride and beat him up, before heading home. Still, she wants to make him suffer and this should be the perfect opportunity to do so.
Finn reached into his bag and pulled out a special powder that Marceline had gotten from her house.
"So this will allow us to mess with his dreams, right?" Finn asked as he held the bag.
"That's what my dad told me," Marceline raised her head out of the bush to see if he was still awake. "He may lie a lot but he actually taught me how to use this stuff so we should be fine."
"Well if you say so." Finn and BMO both peeped out of the bush and waited.
After waiting for what felt like forever, Ash finally went to sleep, giving the trio an opportunity, as Marceline grabbed Finn, along with BMO and floated towards the window, they smiled deviously at the thought of the many pranks they intended to pull on him.
Marceline opened the window and floated Finn and BMO inside so they wouldn't make any noise and then floated the two over to the bed.
"Alright you guys, do you know what to do?" asked Marceline.
"Sure, we know what to do." Finn replied.
"Ditto." BMO added.
Satisfied by this, Marceline allows Finn to make his way to Ash, as the teenager blew some powder at his face and soon enough, their mischievous prank can begin.
Ash was relaxing on what appeared to be a beach, surrounded by beautiful women, drinking a tropical drink and living in a beautiful beach house.
"Ah this is the life…" Ash spoke to himself. As Ash was minding his own business and relaxing in the sun, all of a sudden, one of the coconuts snapped and landed right on top of his face, smashing into several pieces and breaking his nose in the process.
"OW!" Ash moaned, before the women around him suddenly fled from him.
"Hey! Come back! Who's going to make me a sandwich?!" Ash complained.
"WHY DON'T YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF?!" Said a booming demonic voice that Ash couldn't recognize. Suddenly, giant sandwich ingredients fell from the sky and almost crushed Ash. Turkey, tomato, also pickles.
Startled by this, Ash quickly head to the nearest cave for cover, all the while trying to figure out what was going on all of a sudden.
"That was totally weird just now." he muttered to himself. "Why was it raining turkey and vegetables all of a sudden?"
"TOMATOES ARE ACTUALLY FRUIT!" And out of nowhere, all the tomatoes grew in size along with sprouting arms and legs. "AND NOW THEY'RE GONNA KILL YOU! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Ash is startled by this and ran from the killer tomatoes, all the while screaming like a little girl.
Back in the real world, Finn, Marceline and BMO are laughing their heads off, amazed to hear such a girly scream out of him.
"Oh man, I can't believe Ash actually sounds like that." Finn commented, trying to hold down his laughter.
"I know, Finn..." Marceline agreed with her friend. "What a dork."
"Think he's had enough?" Finn asked, knowing the answer anyway.
"Hell no! Let's see how long we can drag this out..." Marceline said deviously as he took the microphone.
So for the next several minutes, Finn and Marceline continued to torture Ash as much as they can, from stripping him down to his underwear:
"What happened to my pants?!" Ash said as he ran towards his beach house in his underwear.
To his beach house suddenly becoming alive and attempting to pulverize him like mincemeat:
"MUST SQUASH ASH!" The now sentient house shouted.
In a state of panicked, Ash ran from the living beach house as fast as he can, all the while avoiding the oncoming fist.
"Aw man, this can't be happening to me! I swear things can't get any worse!" Ash shouted. He dove into the water hoping they couldn't get him out there which he was relieved to see that he was right. "Hahahaha! Losers!"
He swam around only to come face to face with sharks. But not just any sharks; sandwich sharks.
"I knew this was too good to be true!" Ash expressed his disbelief, before he swam back to the island as fast as he can. He swam with such energy and need that he swam through the sand before climbing up a palm tree. "I should be safe up he-" Suddenly, lightning struck the palm tree and caused it to come crashing down conveniently in front of all the things trying to "kill" him.
"Please just let it end." Marceline thought about it before sitting back to what Ash get "eaten" by the killer tomatoes and sandwich sharks. "OH MY GLOB! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAA!"
"Now he has enough." Marceline nonchalantly said.
"Let's get out of here," Finn said stretching as they walked (or in Marceline's case floated) to the door to leave. "Before he figures out it was us and comes for revenge. I'd rather not have to deal with that guy again."
"Here here." Marceline agreed as she picked up Finn from under his arms and floated away from Ash's as he woke up.
After what felt like forever, Marceline finally brought Finn and BMO back to their tree fort, dropping them gently to the ground, as Finn and BMO faced the vampire.
"Thanks for the entertainment, Marceline!" Finn said genuinely.
"Thank you for bringing me along!" BMO added.
"It's all good, you guys. I was just happy that everything went according to plan." Marceline assured the two. "Anyway, I have to get going now. The sun is about to rise." Marceline pointed to the horizon where a faint light could be seen. The sun still had a ways to go but dawn was approaching fast. "Later guys!"
Finn and BMO said their goodbyes to Marceline as she floated away before the two went inside, determined to get some sleep after staying up for so long.
"So Finn, how are you feeling?" BMO asked as they walked in.
"I feel pretty good thanks to Marceline. Maybe we should hang out more often." BMO had a sly look on his electronic face that Finn doesn't really see as he climbed up the ladder. Finn puts on his red pajamas before just landing lazily on his bed.
Finn closed his eyes, taking a long sleep. But then, he felt something that caused him to wake up and is surprised to find himself floating in nothingness.
"What the-?" Finn asked no one in particular. "What is this place?! It's kinda freaking me out here." It wasn't like those dreams where you saw the cosmic owl; oh no. It was nothing but pure blackness with Finn being the only thing illuminated. As Finn looked around, trying to figure out where he is, he spotted what appeared to be a red-orange glow. Before long, the glow kept getting brighter, until it finally stopped dead in its track and to Finn's shock, the glow revealed the last person he ever expected.
"F-Flame Princess, is that you?" he asked, his voice croaked with uneasiness. He suddenly felt a solid ground form beneath him.
"Yes Finn. I'm back!" Flame Princess said with a smile. But that smile felt... wrong. Instead of being happy to see her... all the sadness that had engulfed Finn the past week had returned... full force.
"Flame Princess, I'm so sorry I didn't save you back then. But I swear, I can make it up to you somehow." Finn pleaded with the princess.
"Thank you Finn but I'm sorry I can't stay here much longer. I have to go; it was good seeing your face again." Flame Princess stated, before she suddenly got extremely far in a very short time.
"Flame Princess, please don't go!" Finn pleaded, as he desperately chased after her. But it was in vain. No matter how fast Finn ran, Flame Princess got farther and farther away. After her glow was finally gone, Finn collapsed to his knees before breaking down again.
"I was so close, I was really close." Finn muttered, lamenting that he wasn't able to reach Flame Princess.
But then, the teenager sensed an unseen force, prompting to look up and spot a door that he didn't recall seeing there before.
"What the math is this?" Finn asked, before he opened the door and soon, light began to envelop the stunned teenager.
Finn's eyes opened wide and quickly got up from his bed, his head sweating like mad, before he looked around, realizing that he's back in the real world.
BMO was in standby mode so he really wasn't aware of anything. Finn looked at the clock to see that it was now around noon; a full six hours later from when he went to bed. Finn groaned as he laid back down and lamented to himself that he had to have such an awful dream.
"Well I think I've gotten enough sleep for now," Finn said as he got out of bed. "Might as well go do something."
Finn looked at Jake's bed and saw he wasn't there so he figured he was either downstairs or at Lady's house. Well after combing the entirety of the tree fort and not finding Jake, it became pretty obvious where he was.
It took at least an hour for Finn but he finally arrived at Lady's house. As he knocked on the door, he was hoping his brother was there and he could at least apologize to him for his behavior. Jake opened the door and immediately started to grin as he hugged his brother.
"Finn! You're out of bed!" Jake said ecstatically.
"Yes I am Jake and I felt a little better right now." Finn assured his brother.
"It's good to see you back your old self." said Jake, before he took sniff at Finn and plugged his nose. "But first, you need to take a shower. Seriously, you're going to attract the undead in that state."
"Well... true." Considering the night he had, a lot of things could be put up for debate with that line.
"Shower's upstairs," Jake said as they both stepped inside. The house didn't look any different from the last time Finn was there for when he and Finn had that argument over the "Jake Suit". He really needed to visit more... or they need to redecorate.
Finn made his way up the stairs and went into the bathroom. He got undressed and turned the water on before stepping in. After several minutes, Finn stepped out to see clean clothes sitting next to the sink. Finn got dressed before heading back down stairs.
"So how's everything turning out Finn?" Jake asked his brother. "What finally persuaded you to get out of bed?"
"...Let's just say that someone showed up and showed me a good time." Finn half-heartedly replied. Jake just stood there with his mouth slightly ajar as he tried to come up with a response. Eventually he just gave up and resorted to the only thing he could think of:
"What to go on an adventure?" Jake asked to break the awkward silence.
"Where?" Finn smiled but really had no idea where they could go adventuring.
"Who cares? If we have to we can always just mess with Ice King."
"Sure man, anything just to start the day off." Finn agreed with his brother.
"So it's settled..." Jake began. "It's time to drop by to the Ice Kingdom." He smiled evilly while rubbing his hands together just as evilly.
With that, the two bumped fists before setting off, determined to have a good time for a change.