On the other side of the screen, the newly digitized trio found themselves in a dust free version of the arcade basement.
"What just happened?" Finn openly asked looking around the room.
"I don't know man." Jake says. "Maybe that laser did something to us!"
"Not just us, look at the room. Wasn't it dustier than Dust Princesses house a minute ago, and where did the laser go?" PB ask more to herself than to Finn and Jake as she stood from the pristine leather chair.
Princess Bubblegum reexamined the room for a few moments before a light flashed across the window that was near the ceiling. PB bolted for the door.
"Banana Guards, which one of you is misusing the excavation equipment!" Princess Bubblegum shouted as she practically sprinted up the stairs.
"Wait, PB!" Finn shouted as he pulled his trusty gold sword and ran after her.
A moment later Finn, Jake, and PB all burst out of the front door to a very different world then the one they had left.
"Whoa, what happened out here?" Jake asked with confusion. "Everything is so sleek, and kinda creepy."
"Banana Guards!" PB called out for her banana men, but none appeared.
Looking around they saw massive buildings that touched the sky and buildings on a ground-like sky that touched the ground. Everything seemed to have glowing lines of various colors that raced across them.
They're amazement was cut short by a far-off noise above them, a noise that had been growing dangerously close to them.
Finn instantly went into battle mode and readied his sword. Jake gave himself large muscular arms and got ready to punch some evil. PB drew a small blaster and tried to figure out where they were.
About 10 yards from them a strange vehicle slowed to a stop and seemed to fade away, leaving a man in white armor behind. Finn was surprised to see what the driver of the now seemingly none existing vehicle looked like.
"You're human?" The driver seems confused and at Finn's words.
"Nobody has ever asked me if I'm human. Why do you ask?" Said the now curious but still nameless person.
"Because you look human, and I kind of want to know where we are on top of that." Finn said.
The man's eyes grow as wide as dinner plates as he ran up and grabbed Finn to pull him into a hug, one filled with joy, pain, and relief.
"How long has it been? Is the war over? How many humans survived?" the man asked franticly.
"Hold on, first off, answer my question. Are you human?" Finn said as he pulled himself free of the man's embrace.
"Yes, I am human. My name's Sam, Sam Flynn." said Sam
"Now it's your turn to answer my questions. We've locked ourselves in here after the war broke out to survive. We'd hoped that one day someone would find their way in so we could go home." Sam said.
Finn was in awe, this was a human from before the war.
"Well I'm not quite sure when the war ended but it happened about a thousand years, and there's a lot of humans out on an island in the ocean." Finn responded. Sam let out a sign of relief.
"I heard about that when it was still being planned, didn't actually think that it would be ready in time. Glad to see I was wrong. So, how's the world looking after nuclear war?"
"I can show you that." PB stated as she pulled a small holo-display out of her pocket and pulled up an image of Earth with a massive crater scaring its surface.
"Oh my god, we really did a number on Earth!" Sam said horrified by the image he was seeing.
"Well during the war, the mother of all bombs was dropped over some part of the world. It completely vaporized everything for hundreds of miles in every direction bringing a swift end to the Mushroom War but…" Princess Bubblegum's expression darkened considerably.
"Even with the war over, the damage had been done, billions died. There hadn't been a human seen in Ooo in over 300 years before Finn was found as a baby." PB ran through her explanation as she got up close to Sam and studied him from up-close.
Sam slowly processed the information he had been given.
"Alright, it's something I kind of expected. Once the first bombs dropped, we knew it wasn't going to stop until one side was wiped out. It's why we got as many people as we could and got them here. We even fortified the building above to help ensure the machine would survive longer. Backup power cells, a lot of different power generation methods. We did everything to ensure we'd keep going as long as possible." Sam's voice starts to break about halfway through as tears start to roll down his face.
"It's probably a good time to get going. Everyone else will want to know what's happened out there." Sam said as he pulled a baton from a holster on his leg.
Sam pulled the baton apart and from it a machine began to appear. When it was done he motioned for them to climb aboard.
Sam operated the controls and the object lifted from the ground and headed towards a large tower in the distance.
"Hey kid!" Sam shouted.
"Yeah Sam?" Finn shouted back.
"What exactly are your two buddies? One looks like a dog and the other one looks like she's made of gum."
"I can answer that!" PB interjected.
"I'm living candy, my name is Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum. The dog is magical and his name is Jake."
"Alright, good enough explanation for now, but it might be a good idea to give us all a run-down of what we'll be seeing out there when we make it to the tower."
On and on they flew, toward the vibrant tower that seemed to be the center of it all.
