CHARACTERS:
Cake—Fionna's best friend/adoptive sister and Mo-Chro's girlfriend. She doesn't look much like Jake aside from their body proportions. She has white eyes in which the black pupils become circular if surprised, excited, shocked, or scared. She has a cat muzzle and a small nose (compared to Jake's), cat ears, white fur with many coffee colored spots, and a large bushy tail. Cake may know Morse code in order to speak to Lord Monochromicorn, similar to how Jake knows Korean in order to speak to Lady Rainicorn. Cake plays a hammered dulcimer, as opposed to a viola. Her tail "frizzes out" if it is agitated or worried. As a Lumpy Space 'cat', she is a light color of maroon with large spots of fuchsia to match her coffee-colored spots. Her tail is now lumpy and more beaver-tail-like.
Fionna—is a 13-year-old adventurer and Cake's adoptive sister. While usually appearing as black dots, her eyes are seen as blue when enlarged. She wears a rabbit-themed hat (similar to Finn's bear-themed hat) with exposed locks of blonde hair. Unlike Finn, her neck is shown. Her outfit includes a teal blue shirt with elbow-length sleeves, a dark blue skirt, and knee-high socks with two thin horizontal stripes at the top. Fionna is heavier set than. She has a green backpack (similar to Finn's) and Mary Jane shoes. Her name was officially changed from "Fiona" to "Fionna," presumably to make it more similar to Finn's name. The pronunciation, however, has remained unchanged. Like Finn and his crush on Princess Bubblegum, it is revealed in many portraits posted that Fionna has a crush on Prince Gumball. Fionna has buck teeth like a rabbit. Fionna, like Finn, is Cake's adoptive sister. It is shown that as a Lumpy Space girl, she is about 3 feet tall. The top of her has two long white lumps like her hat. The bottom of her is the same as her skirt. She has a small mass of yellow for her small piece of hair.
Wizard-is an evil elderly man who strips Cake of her powers. He has pale skin, wide red eyes, and a long, greasy black beard. He wears a dirty gray cloak with sandals and carries around a silver cane. He may be crazy, because he talks to his plants and twitches when angry.
The Wizard's Garden
Title Card
Fionna tried with all of her might to push Cake into the river as Cake fought back, her dress muddy and torn. The Wizard twitched and laughed.
The female turtle uneasily glanced back at Fionna and Cake as they continued to follow her. The turtle clutched the silver tiara tighter.
"Fifi," Cake whispered, "How much longer are we going to follow this turtle?"
"I just want to see her put on that tiara."
The Turtle ran forward and slipped between the solid gold bars. Fionna looked up at the tall gates. There was no way she was going to get in through them. She looked around for another way in, but everything surrounding the gates was made of thick thorns.
She and Cake both looked through the gates. The tunnel inside was thorny and spiky and covered in bones. At the end of the tunnel, a light glowed. Oh, how they wanted to go to the light!
"Too bad we don't have the key," Fionna grumbled, gesturing to the basketball-sized, gold lock with the tiny keyhole.
"What are you talking about?" Cake pulled at her furry legs. "I got two keys right here."
Fionna laughed and hopped onto her sister's back. Her sister stretched both of them far over the thorny barrier and landed with a thud onto the grass.
"WHOA..."
The grass was an emerald green, literally sparkling in the sun. There was a ring of bushes, all forest green, the wood gold and pure. All of the bushes were covered in some kind of candy-from softy rich caramels to pink sugary gum. Butterflies and bees flew from treat to treat, sucking off the sugar and moving onto the next. It looked like a garden for Willy Wonka's factory.
"This place is sweet!" Cake cheered. "Literally."
Fionna walked over to a neon green bush with bronze branches. She furrowed her eyebrows in confusion at the treat on the bush. "What are these?"
"They look like lollipops." Cake said.
"What if they're POISONOUS lollipops?" Fionna gasped.
Cake tapped her chin and set her ear up against a red, heart-shaped lollipop. "Hmmm..."
"Yeah!" Fionna beamed. "Hear out that poison!"
"Hmmm...hmmmmm..." Cake turned the lollipop this way and that, fixing her ear into different angles. "Wait." She put her hands on her hips and faced Fionna. "I dunno what poison sounds like."
"HEY!"
Fionna and Cake both turned to see an old wizard with a long, greasy, black beard and wearing a gray cloak. He was limping slowly towards them, obviously depending on his silver cane to move. "TURNMAFO!"
One minute, Fionna and Cake were standing next to the lollipop-bush. The next minute, they were standing where the Wizard once stood. Fionna furrowed her eyebrows. She had her turn with magic, and you usually said stuff that rhymed, like "CAKE-SHAKE-LAKE." He said "TURNMAFO!" He was a different kind of Wizard.
"What gives?" Fionna asked.
"You ate one of my lollipops!" The Wizard cried.
"No I didn't, I just listened to it." Cake said confusedly.
The Wizard trembled with rage, shrieking and yelling. Fionna and Cake jumped.
"YOU'RE LYING!" The Wizard yelled. "The stink of dirty cat tongue is everywhere!"
"Holy snail, dude, calm down!" Fionna said.
"Listen, Mr. Wizard-" Cake began.
"I never married!"
"Well, I never ate your lollipop!"
"Y-You're eating one right now!"
"No, I'm not!" Cake looked down at her paw and jumped at the red, heart-shaped lollipop. "Whoa, daddy! That's odd. I don't even remember grabbing this. Oh, well. My subconscious must be hungry, eh? Meh." Cake shrugged and popped the rest of the lollipop into her mouth.
The Wizard trembled with white-hot rage. He held up his cane, which glowed a blood-red. "MAGICO-NOMORCO!"
"Uh-oh."
Fionna yelled at the flash of red that nearly blinded her. The light went away, and she looked down at Cake, who was trapped in a cloud of red smoke. "Cake! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so. I feel a little...AH!" Cake yelped when the smoke disappeared. Her once white-and-coffee-colored, furry body was now replaced with a humanoid little girl's from the neck-down. Instead of her coat of fur, Cake was now wearing a frilly pink dress.
The Wizard snickered.
"WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU?" Fionna screamed.
"I stripped her of her magical powers!" The Wizard laughed.
"FOR TAKING ONE OF YOUR BILLIONS OF LOLLIPOPS?"
"Yeah," Cake huffed, "It's not like I killed your wife or any-"
"I. AM. NOT. MARRIED."
"The thing is, you over-reacted." Fionna told him calmly.
"And what is this dress made out of?" Cake said, pulling at the him of her dress with her pudgy fingers. "Cause it keeps riding up!"
"The only way I will give back your powers is if you admit you stole my lollipop and say you're sorry!" The Wizard declared. "AND MEAN IT! Cos I can tell."
"Well, you can forget it!" Cake said. "Because you are KA-RAY-ZEE!" She frowned at turned to Fionna. "Right?"
"Total support, gal." Fionna said solemnly, placing her hand on Cake's pudgy, flabby arm.
The Wizard cried out in frustration and pointed his cane at them. "GOBACKOX FROMOX WHEREOX YOUOX CAMEOX!"
"Now you're just making these up!"
Fionna and Cake disappeared.
Twitching, the Wizard stroked a nearby treat on a bush. "It's okay, my sweet little treat. You're okay." He paused, examining the little treat. "Wait a minute...YOU'RE A COUGH-DROP!"
The cough-drop's form turned into a frilly pink dress.
"There's got to be a way to get your powers back!" Fionna muttered, pacing around the Treehouse, arms folded. She paused and faced Cake, who was strewn across the couch. "Where did they come from, anyway? Were you born with them? Or DID YOU HAVE A FREAK ACCIDENT?"
"That takes me back." Cake sighed. She frowned deeply and creased her forehead. "Let me just...remember..." She groaned, obviously trying her best. "I was just a kitty...I'm rolling around in a puddle...And...I love it...and..." She gasped and her arms went limp. "And then I got my powers, I guess. Remembering is hard work."
"Then our course is clear!" Fionna said. "We'll roll you in every puddle in Aaa until we find the one that will restore your powers!"
"That's nuts, Fifi. Do you have any idea of how many puddles are in Aaa? Four. Maybe even five."
"Cake, come on!" Fionna coaxed her sister. "Maybe the first puddle we find will be the right one!"
"Nonsense!" Cake smiled. "But I like it!"
"Let's go!" Fionna cried, and leaped out the window.
"Let's do it!" Cake leaped after her.
Fionna landed cat-like on the ground, on her legs, one fist on the ground.
Cake fell face-first next to her.
"Oh my glob!" Fionna gasped.
Cake groaned. "I forgot I don't have magic powers anymore. How do we search for the mud without my powers?"
"We run!" Fionna said, jogging around the cat in a circle. "We run like kids high on sugar!"
Cake frowned as she watched Fionna run down the hill energetically.
"This whole time I thought running was some kind of foot-magic."
She began to slowly jog about 1/100 miles per hour. She began to pant and sweat and soon collapsed by about three feet.
"Running...is...evil..."
"Come on, lazy-pants." Fionna coaxed, kneeling next to the fallen cat.
"Too...hard..."
"...I guess you could ride on my pack." Fionna said, leaning backward so that Cake could touch her green backpack.
"I can't reach." Cake moaned, groping for Fionna's backpack but not being able to touch it.
Fionna leaned back so that she almost fell over. Cake wrapped her fat arms around the human girl's neck, and Fionna gasped at the loss of air.
"Are you okay, Fifi?" Cake asked as Fionna began to numbly run.
"You're...urk...strangling me a little, is all."
The two girls eventually reached the desert-lands of Aaa. They came across a river floating with a garbage and junk and trash. Anything you could name was in there, muddy and dusty and grimy.
"Look!" Fionna pointed across the river at a large, foot-deep puddle of water. "A puddle!"
Cake set down on all-fours, as if about to pounce. "I'll stretch into...A BOAT!" She heaved forward with all her might, but only ended up toppling over. She sighed. "I really miss that power of mine."
"We can swim this river easy-peaky sugary-queasy." Fionna smiled, and leaping into the river, paddling across. "Come on, Cake!"
Cake sighed. "That looks exhausting."
"It is exhausting!"
Cake looked around until she saw a perfect image of herself sitting on one of the plush chairs in the river, except the image was her former self, fully-furry and tailed.
"What are you?"
"I am your subconscious!" The image said.
"Oh. Why are you hear?"
"I'm here to tell you that what you're feeling inside is true. It is way to hard to cross the river." Subconscious-Cake said, taking a large green hat out of the trash and walking across the river to Cake. "It's easier to have a hat. Here."
Cake chuckled and took the hat. "I'm glad I met you."
Fionna frowned and turned around at the bank of the river. Cake was talking, but no one was there. "Cake! Stop talking to yourself. Swim over already!"
"I can't swim that river, Fifi!" Cake called. "My subconscious says it's too hard! Check out this hat, though!"
Fionna growled and grit her teeth. "Then just wait for me!" she called before plunging deep into the river.
She rose at the bank next to Cake a few minutes later, an armful of junk in her arms.
"What cha workin' on, Fifi?" Cake asked.
The thing Fionna was building looked odd. She had two sturdy, large sticks lined up next to each other. She had a very large, car-sized rubber-band. The two end of the rubber band were tied around the two sticks. There was a small chair standing behind the sticks, and the rubber-band was set against the back of the chair.
Fionna huffed, turned to Cake, and gestured to the chair.
"Oh, you made me a chair?" Cake said, sitting down on the wooden, grimy chair.
Fionna picked the chair off of the ground and walked backward, pulling the chair with her. The rubber-bands seemed to about to snap.
Fionna let go of the chair. The chair shot forward, and Cake flew through the air, screaming.
Cake eventually landed in the puddle. The chair fell in the river.
"Did it work?" Fionna asked, running across the river as Cake rolled in the puddle.
"Yeah! It's working!" Cake beamed. "In fact, you should roll in the puddle with me! Then we can BOTH be magic!"
Fionna gave a whoop of excitement and leaped into the puddle. For the next five minutes, the two girls rolled and splashed in the puddle until the water turned muddy.
Fionna froze. "This isn't working at all."
"This isn't the right puddle." Cake said. "I was just hoping that this would be over and done."
Fionna sighed, trying to hold back her anger. "Okay. Let's go find another puddle."
"Actually," Cake laid down in the muddy water. "I'm feeling a little tired. Can we do this tomorrow?"
"This is stupid!" Fionna groaned. "Just go back to the Wizard to get your powers back!"
"Never! I'd rather be powerless forever than apologize! I'm lazy, but full of pride."
Fionna couldn't hold back her anger anymore. "YOU'RE NOT EVEN TRYING! FIRST YOU DON'T RUN, AND NOW YOU JUST WANT TO STAY IN A PUDDLE LIKE A BIG FAT LOG!"
"Adventuring is too much hard work for a cat without her powers."
"But you're an adventurer!" Fionna pleaded.
"Nah. From now on, I'm just a regular old cat." Cake said, plopping down in the mud. Fionna gawked. "It's ironic, giving my current girl-baby body."
Suddenly, the sun disappeared. Fionna and Cake both frowned and looked up at what was shadowing the sky. There seemed to be a giant, truck-sized ball of trash and grime. The ball exploded, and a figure emerged from it.
"Behold! Gretchen, the dashing merman of the river!" The figure said. The figure seemed to be a large skeleton with sunken white eyes. He had greasy black hair tied into a scraggly ponytail. He was UGLY. And creepy.
Fionna shivered in disgust.
"Which one of you mortal girls wants to mate with all this?" Gretchen asked seductively.
"Oh! Um..." Fionna paused as she looked at the ground. "How do I say 'you're the grossest thing ever!' without offending you?"
It already offended Gretchen. His bony hands burst into red flames, and he hissed like a snake.
"I'll scare him off, Fifi!" Cake said. She knelt down and screeched like a Halloween feline.
Fionna pushed Cake out of the way as Gretchen fired a flaming red fireball at them.
"How do we beat power like that?" Fionna wondered aloud.
"Fifi! I have an idea!"
"What is it?"
"Scratch behind my ear. I can't reach it."
Fionna hissed in anger and frustration. She grabbed a nearby, sharp stick and lunged at Gretchen.
Gretchen spat a blackish-blue goop at Fionna. Fionna fainted and collapsed.
"Fifi?" Cake inquired when she heard Gretchen's evil laughter.
Gretchen took Fionna's unconscious body in his teeth and flew away to a nearby, fifty-foot-tall tree with a eighteen-wheeler-sized nest at the top.
"FIFI! COME ON, FIFI! YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOURSELF!" Cake screeched, running on all-fours to the base of the tree.
Gretchen plopped Fionna's body between the three, car-sized eggs.
"Oh, gee wiz!" Cake gasped. "I'M BACK ON THE TEAM!" She attempted to climb up the trunk of the tree, but only ended up sinking to the ground. She tried again, but collapsed on her back. "I'LL SAVE YOU!"
"...C...Cake...?" Fionna muttered as sharp, black beaks began to break through the egg's shell.
Cake panted and sweated by the fifth try. "Hey, Fifi, can you help me to get up there?"
The beaks snapped their razor-sharp teeth, chanting, "Hungry! Hungry!"
"Oh, if only I had my powers back..." Cake moaned.
The only way I will give back your powers is if-
"I know!" Cake yelled. "I have to apologize to that Wizard."
As she ran, her subconscious told her, "It's too hard, Cake. Just wear this jacket instead-"
Cake slapped her. "AH!"
"Oh, you're doing so well," The Wizard cooed to a new gummy-bear bush as he planted it into the ground. "AND I HATE YOU SO MUCH!"
"Hey! Wizard!"
The Wizard frowned and turned to the gates to see Cake trying with all her might to squeeze through the bars, her dress covered with sweat stains. "Please! I need my powers! Now! I'm sorry! (Grunt) I am SO sorry I ate your stupid lollipop!"
"Hmmm..." The Wizard paused. "COMOCUS!"
Cake appeared next to him, still trying to heave through the-
"Oh." Cake set her foot down and pleaded, "CAN I PLEASE GET MY POWERS BACK NOW?"
"Hmmm..." The Wizard wryly smirked. "Apology denied."
"What?" Cake gasped. "WHY?"
"Because you took too long. Now you have to apologize while doing a variety of humiliating things."
"What? No way, Jose!"
"Come on, Cake." Her Subconscious said. "You have to do it for Fifi."
"Who is that?" The Wizard demanded.
"She's my subconscious."
"Oh. Then she has to do it, too."
"Dang it."
Later, as Cake and Subconscious-Cake slow-danced slowly, Cake said, "I, Cake the Cat, while slow-dancing with my Subconscious, with peanut butter in my dress, do humbly apologize-"
"Wait, wait. Start over." The Wizard said, taking out a video camera.
"You're recording this?" Cake exclaimed.
"It's for my website, ."
"No way!" Cake cried. "I have my dignity!"
"Then guess what, Cool-Cat? You can forget about getting your powers back."
As he left, Cake turned to her Subconscious. "What do we do now?"
Suddenly, Subconscious-Cake coughed groggily and toppled over. "I'm dyin', Cake."
"WHAT?"
"She said she's dying." The Wizard said casually, patting his gummy-worm bush. "Let that be a lesson to you, wormies."
"Why are you dying, sis?" Cake asked, taking her Subconscious in her arms.
"Because I'm the subconscious of your old magical self." Subconscious-Cake coughed again. "Goodbye, Cake." She went limp.
"No." Cake shook her back and forth. "No, no, NO! WHY?" Angrily, she turned to the Wizard. "You killed my Subconscious!"
"..."
"...Oh, who am I kidding?" Cake fell on her knees. "It was me who killed her. Me and my stupid pride." She sobbed hysterically.
"So I've finally broken you." The Wizard grinned.
Cake gasped in sorrow. "Y-yeah...If only (sob) I were a humbler gal...(sob)...my Subconscious would still be alive (sob) and my sister wouldn't be trapped in a merman's nest!"
"YES!" The Wizard cheered. "GLOAAAAAT! Okay. You've learned your lesson. I forgive you." He tapped Cake's head with his cane.
Cake's dress disappeared, and her furry body returned. She brightened and beamed. "My powers!" She rested her hand gratefully on the Wizard's arm. "How can I ever thank-"
She slapped the cane from his hand. "GOTCHER CANE!"
"MY BALANCE!" The Wizard fell over onto the grass.
Cake and Subconscious-Cake, alive and cheerful, both laughed. Cake grabbed a nearby lollipop and popped it into her mouth.
"WAIT!" The Wizard called. "HAVE YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON?"
"Nope!" Cake called as she and her Subconscious stretched away.
Fionna felt something warm drip onto her face. "Huh?"
She opened her eyes groggily.
"HUNGRY! HUNGRY!" The baby mermen cried.
Fionna screamed as they cornered her in the nest.
"WILLA! BILLA! SALLY!" Gretchen cried. "Devour the intruder! Remember to save the heart for desert."
Just as the mermen corned her, and Fionna closed her eyes, someone yelled, "HONEY! I'M HOME!"
"Why don't I give you a big kiss?" Cake asked Gretchen.
"What? Are you talking to me or-"
She stretched her lips into Gretchen's face, and Gretchen was pushed all the way back into the river, shrieking.
"Aw, you guys are so cute!" Cake cooed to the baby mermen. "I could just MAUL YOU TO DEATH!"
The mermen cried and flew from the nest.
"CAKE!" Fionna leapt onto the cat's face, hugging her muzzle. "I never should have doubted you!"
"I'm glad you learned your lesson." Cake chuckled as Fionna climbed onto her head. "In a crunch, there's nothing I wouldn't do for ya!"
"Is that how you got your powers back? By apologizing to the Wizard?"
"Uh...no...I uh...found the right puddle...heh-heh..." O_O;
The princes all laughed as they watched Cake dancing in the video on the computer. Prince Gumball snickered, LSP guffawed, and Wildberry Prince fell out of his seat.
Lord Monochromicorn hung his head. He scraped his foot on the ground once.
TRIVIA
Cake steals the Wizard's lollipop without realizing it, just as she did in the City of Thieves.
This is the first episode where the author used cut scenes from the storyboard.
The Wizard must be a different kind of wizard than the ones in the previous episodes, because he does not say rhyming words.
The River of Junk is shown beneath the ruins of a large freeway ramp, indicating perhaps that a landfill may have been situated nearby from before the Fungi War.
How do you like it? I got that extra stuff from the storyboard.
Please R&R!
Yours till the starry skies,
MOONSTAR