Chapter 2: A new Hero
As the sun's rays entered the Tree Fort, Finn's eyes slowly opened. He blinked twice as he got up from his bed, stretched his aching bod and changed into his casual clothing. He scratched his back as he climbed down the ladder to make some delicious bacon pancakes. He reached for the cabinet for a frying pan when he heard a loud sound resenting from the living room. Finn, ever vigilant, ran down towards the living area and stumbled upon a strange sight. There was the stranger standing over the little robot that everyone loves. Bmo was in sleep mode as the guy stood over him, looking like he was contemplating if he should touch the little machine. BMO suddenly woke up and screamed. The stranger flew backwards and behind the couch, clutching something in his hand.
"BMO, stop! He's nice! He's nice!" Finn screamed.
"Oh. I am sorry, Finn. He looked like a bad guy to me." BMO explained.
"Are you ok, guy." Finn asked.
The stranger's arm shot thumbs up from behind the couch. He hopped up from behind the couch onto the cushions. He held his hand out to BMO and BMO reached out to him too. He gave BMO a firm handshake and a wave to say hello. BMO waved back and giggled.
"He's funny, Finn." BMO said.
"What'cha got there." Finn asked. He pointed at the stranger's hand.
The stranger held up the universal translator.
"What do you need with that old thing? It only has 3 voices on it and its for translating anyways. You speak my language," Finn said.
The stranger put it on and moved the switch to a new setting, "Robot". He tested it out. It sounded like Lady Rainicorn, but beckoning. The stranger gave the translator a hard smack, which set it to "Robot".
"How does this sounds, friend." The stranger spoke in a robotic voice.
"That sounds great, guy." Finn replied.
The stranger drew a smile using the light he used to make the viola last night. He even drew eyes and spoke and made the face move as he spoke.
"Hey, we should show you around. Let's wake Jake up," Finn said.
The stranger flipped a switch on the translator and called Jake down.
"Jake! Come on! Let's go," he spoke in auto tune.
"I'm coming," Jake yelled.
The stranger made a light come from his hands and it was shaped like a keytar. He began to play synthesizer music while he waited. When Jake finally came downstairs, he made it vanish.
"Hey, you should probably change your clothes, new guy." Jake said. "Make a good impression, you know."
"Good idea, Jake." the stranger replied.
The stranger made a light come out of his hands. Finn and Jake saw a red bar with a heart by it along with a list of things.
"Whoa. What's that," Finn asked.
"It's my hub. I use this if I want to change my gear or if I want to see how I am or how someone else is," the stranger replied.
Finn blinked and saw that the stranger looked different. His clothes when from a jacket and pants to a long sleeved black shirt, untucked at the bottom. His pants changed to black jeans. His reflective headgear changed to a different look. It looked like he was wearing shades. His chain remained the same.
"Wow. You look good," Finn said.
"Thanks. Where do you want to go first," the stranger asked.
"Well, before we leave, we need to give you a name," Jake said.
Everyone began to think of ideas for the new guy.
"Micheal?"
"No."
"Seth?"
"Nope."
"Derek?"
"Nada."
After an hour, they couldn't think of a name for him.
"Let's go to Marceline's house. She's good with music," Finn said.
"Sounds fun," the stranger said.
"Until I get a real name, how about you call me X?"
"Better than calling you new guy," Jake said.
Finn and Jake started walking. They noticed that X started hovering.
"Whoa, you can fly?" Finn asked.
"I have telekinesis. I can move things with my mind. So I can lift myself too," X replied.
"Cool," Jake said. "Marceline can fly too. She's a vampire.", Finn said.
After some talking, they made it to Marceline's cave. X noted that the cave had a weird mildew smell to it. Finn walked up to the porch and knocked on the door. Jake started to laugh. Finn turned around to see X doing a dance on the roof of the cave. Finn joined in on the laughter. Marceline opened the door to see Finn and Jake on the verge of happy tears. She looked up to see someone dancing on the ceiling.
"What are you doing?! Kill that thing!" Marceline screamed.
When X heard the word "kill", he dropped from the ceiling, chain twirling in the air. He pushed Finn and Jake behind him.
"Marceline! Wait! He's good," Finn screamed.
"Oh. Is he new here?" she said.
"Yeah. He doesn't have a name so he wants to be called X," Jake said.
"Sorry, X. I'm Marceline, the vampire queen," she said. She held out her hand for a handshake.
X looked at her hand and was shown to be intensely nervous as he tried to figure out the foreign gesture. He hesitated as he attempted to poke the vampire's hand with his index finger. Marceline looked at him with a bewildered look as he twirled the chain back onto his right arm.
"We brought him here because he can play music," Finn said.
"Hmm. Let's see what you can do then," Marceline said.
"What instrument do you want me to play?" X asked.
"Hmm. Can you play a guitar?" she asked.
He crafted the balls of light again. Its shape was that of a guitar.
"Does this answer your question," X asked.
He played a loud and complicated solo on his guitar. He finished it off with a fast paced ending and struck a power chord and held it. He took a bow. Marceline
"Not bad at all," she said.
"Well, he doesn't have a place to live and he doesn't have a name either. We were hoping you could help us." Finn said.
"Hmm. I can think of a few good names. He can crash here for a while. As long as he can help around the house." she said.
X shouted with glee. He noticed Marceline's axe bass.
"Hey, is that bass ax thing yours?" X asked.
"Yeah. Why do you ask," Marceline questioned.
"Can I draw it?" X asked.
"I don't care. Just don't touch it. Cause if you do, I'm gonna have me some medium rare meat tonight." she said.
After about 10 minutes, X returned with a very accurate drawing of the axe bass. He crafted the balls of light again. This time, it shaped itself into Marceline's axe bass. He played a chord and played a few notes on it. He put the balls of light away after that.
"How can you do that?" Marceline asked.
"That's very easy, first you imagine the shape of what your drawi-"
"No dummy, that weird light magic."
"My powers are fueled by music. The more I can do with it, the more powerful I become," he replied.
"What kinds of instruments can you play," Marceline asked.
"Any kind. Just ask and I'll play it." X replied.
"Hey man! Let's get going! We got to show you the rest of Ooo," Finn said.
"Alright then," X replied.
X pulled out his hub again and made some marks on it. Finn, Jake, and Marceline realized it was a map. X pulled out a house pin.
"This pin's been collecting…pixels for a while now. Now I can use it," he said.
He placed the pin on Marceline's house. As they left, X yelled to Marceline that he'd be back later. Marceline waved goodbye. The trio began to walk to their next location: The Candy Kingdom.
"Marceline likes you. That's good. And she said you can sleep there for a while," Finn said.
"I was paying attention, Finn" X replied and began to laugh.
They made it to the kingdom in no time flat, due to X flying everyone there. X checked his hub. The hub said it was about 1 in the afternoon. He put it away. Finn pointed at the castle and X gave them a lift to the top. Princess Bubblegum was in her lab when they shown up.
"Whoa, how did you get in here" she asked.
"The new guy can fly. He has telakindis," Finn said.
"Telekinesis," X corrected.
"He's a good guy, like us" Finn said pointing at himself and Jake.
