Warning! I changed my writing style a bit.
Disclaimer - I don't own Adventure Time nor create it. Pen Ward created it, but does he own it? Maybe it's owned by Fredarator Studios or Cartoon Network
Water, just water. All around them, no buildings, no islands, nothing.
"You have reached your destination." the car's GPS said.
It was a miracle that after a thousand years the old piece of technology still worked and got signal. Phoebe piloted the amphibious car, just behind the mercenaries' car. The water was gently rocking the car, making everyone drowsy to a point where the two humans fell asleep. Her eyes slowly began to close. A crackle was heard from the radio, waking her up.
"So Pax, where's this four star hotel of yours." Rilis asked, making sure everyone heard.
"Well, it was here." she implied, "Before someone made it a hole and melted the ice caps."
It was apparent that they were going through a crater caused by a nuke. They kept on moving through the endless waters.
Half an hour passed before Rilis suddenly stood up from his seat. He going through the sunroof and took out his binoculars. The green light emitted from the binoculars reflected off his eyes. It showed a small grey patch of cement, just barely visible through the night. This was solid ground, somewhere where they could stay for the night.
"Land ho!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, laughing at the sight of actual solid ground.
Pax took the binoculars and looked at his discovery, "Rilis, that's the roof of the mall." she said, "But it'll do." She continued to look at the lone structure, wondering why it hasn't been destroyed.
The roof was the only visible structure for miles. Around it, more water and the occasional piece of floating debris. The two cars extended their wheels and drove up a ramp, onto what used to be a car park. Someone had made it into a camp, but it was obviously abandoned, probably has been for a thousand years. The two cars stopped, side by side. On the roof there was some skylights, a part of the original building. There was also the remnants of multiple tents and an old campfire. The occupants of the cars exited, stretching their arms and legs.
"Damn, changed so much." Pax stated, looking through the skylight, "Looks all futuristic now." She looked back up at everyone else, "Well, I'm exploring." She went back to the car to take out her backpack, from it taking her two Five-SeveNs.
"Hey Pax, can I come?" it was Rilis. Before she could answer back, he was already beside her, with his 93 R in his holster.
"Anyone else want to join?" Pax asked, holstering her two pistols and preparing a rappelling kit.
Finn raised his hand, "Yeah, I want to see what it was like before the war."
He stood up, pulling a pistol from his holster. It was an involuntary action of course, he didn't have a pistol. Looking down he grumbled. Adira stood up from an old metal chair, worn down by its exposed state. She handed Finn a pistol. It wasn't the original Jericho 941 FR, specially modified in the Fire Kingdom. It was plain black, with a polymer frame, firing a more common .40 S&W round.
"Here, take it." she said letting go of the pistol.
"But don't you need it?" Finn asked.
"Nah, whenever I pull it out of my holster a new one appears for some reason." she said showing him a new pistol, exactly the same as his. She looked back down at the holster, "Oh for fuck's sake, I don't need all these pistols!" she screamed, throwing the one in her hand into the water. It landed with a splash and sank down to the floor. "That's why I use a Kopis."
Finn walked back to the group that was going down to the mall. The group consisted of Pax, Rilis, Fionna and Finn. Apparently she wanted to go exploring as well. Finn walked into a conversation between Rilis and Fionna.
"So, how'd you come across a set of R1 Lorica Segmentata Type VI armour?" Rilis asked.
"Well I found it beside this dead guy on the street." Fionna replied.
"Ahh, yeah Rudy. Dumbfuck stole Gladii's can of beans. So while he was asleep, she literally emptied his guts. He was all over the ground, you know."
"Well, that explains the kidney I found."
"Kidney? Damn, she went deep."
They shared a laugh. Well, not really sharing a laugh. More of Fionna was laughing at what happened and Rilis was nervously following along.
Finn witnessed the conversation, he thought about what was happening, 'Yeah sure, I like a bit of pain now and then, but she sure is one crazy, sadistic bit-'
His thought was cut short by Pax calling them over to the window. She had a rope attached to an air-conditioning unit and a heavy metal ball on the other end. She flailed the rope and ball above her head, then swung down. The ball hit the glass, expecting glass to be hailing down they ducked. No glass came, still lucky they ducked since the ball bounced off and came back, hitting the a/c unit.
"Alright, glass is stronger than I remembered."
Pax got another device, a glass cutter. She set it to its maximum setting, it was able to cut bear-proof glass 18 centimetres thick. She placed it on the sheet of glass and turned it on. Looking at the screen it said, 'ETA 00:59:59'
"Ugh one hour." she complained before lying down on the concrete, "Might as well get comfy."
'ETA 00:55:47'
It's been four minutes and all four of them were bored. There was Pax and Rilis, looking at the sky. In the sky were stars. Looking at the stars took their mind off things, being city kids, they never saw the stars often. Even when they were in the military and eventually the private mercenary company, they never stopped to just look at the stars. Rilis looked over to Pax, her eyes were twinkling at the sight.
"You're eyes are more beautiful than the stars."
Pax giggled at his comment, also blushing at how romantic the childish man could be. It reminded her of the time when they first met, after being conscripted into the military at 16.
"You look more beautiful now than when you were pissed off." Rilis added.
She tried not to laugh, she really did. But she couldn't hold it, she was laughing at his ridiculous comment.
"You started off great Rilis, keep trying. We're not teens anymore."
She stood up and walked over to the glass cutter. Looking at its status.
"I messed up again." Rilis told himself before laying back down to watch the stars.
'ETA 00:50:24'
Ignis walked over to the other end of the building. Ever since Solar Power became a cheap and efficient power source, more and more people decided to use them. He looked at the monitor of the inverter. It was black and dirty, as to be expected from being out here for a thousand years. He came here to inspect the solar panels, to see if they had any power and to see if it still worked. That's what he told Adira anyway. Actually he came here to get away from the Fire Elementals. He couldn't resist staring at them, no, not at them, at the fire. He had to work on not becoming completely entranced by staring at the fire. Just thinking about it made his head hurt. He decided to not think of it anymore and look at the inverter instead. He flicked up an unmarked switch, not knowing what it might do. Suddenly lights came from the skylight. The switch turned on the power.
He ran back to Pax, she was puzzled at why the lights suddenly turned on. She saw Ignis running to her.
"Ignis, sitrep."
"I just turned the power on. The building's in lockdown, something about someone trying to enter through the roof."
He looked behind her to see the glass cutter at work. He nodded at his self explained explanation.
"Okay then, just look for the security room and deactivate lockdown. The password's probably in the Chief of Security's locker."
Pax nodded at his plan and the both of them continued with their own business.
Ignis walked back to the makeshift camp, beside the two cars.
"Hey Ignis!" Adira called, "There's a thing in your pack that's been buzzing for a bit now."
He looked in his pack and pulled out the buzzing tablet.
"Oh yeah, my old Asus ROG Transformer Pad . Just the way I left it before I, umm... died."
He sat down and logged into the tablet. Aiden and Brandon were curious as to what he was doing. They walked up behind him
"Before I died I was... kicked off a CS: GO Comp Match for being AFK. Well, no shit, I was dead." Ignis said to himself before putting it back into its pouch.
He turned around, "Holy Shit! Don't walk up on me like that."
The two Fire Elementals backed off.
He didn't pay attention but Adira and Verec could be heard, laughing at what just happened.
'ETA 00:46:48'
Finn was laying on the ground facing up. Someone could've mistaken him for looking up at the sky as well, but only because his new pistol blended so well with the colour of the night. He couldn't see it very well but from what he could feel, it felt very different from his original, the one that was pretty much Adira herself. It could be said that Adira felt better to hold than this new pistol. Although not liking the new polymer feel, it did have its advantages. Being black, it didn't stand out at night, nor reflect any light. The finger grooves also fitted his hand perfectly and there was a thumb rest moulded to the side. It was also lighter than his old one, considerably lighter.
Finn heard someone walk up beside him. He quickly rushed back and stood up aiming the pistol at the figure.
"Relax Finn, it's only me." It was Fionna, she sat down where I used to be and looked at the sky.
"What do you want Fionna?" he asked.
"Now or later?"
Finn didn't know what she meant by later, so he asked her about it first.
"What I want later, is find out who the actual Prin- serial killer is." she replied calmly.
'Still sticking to she didn't do it, huh?' Finn thought. 'All the evidence leads to her, but why do I keep thinking it's not her.'
"Alright what about now?" Finn asked her.
"Now? I want you." she said, "Look what I found." she continued to say in a sing-song voice.
She took from its sheath, a massive combat knife. It shined in the moonlight like a mirror.
"Umm... Umm..." Finn was lost for words.
His dark sadistic side started to take over, he smiled and looked around for Phoebe. No one, everyone was somewhere else. Fionna started to remove her armour seeing Finn's arousal. Suddenly, Ignis cursed from the other side of the roof. A loud 'Holy Shit!' Finn woke up from the trance, realising what just happened.
"You crazy sadistic bitch!" Finn said before running away.
"You can't really say that! You're sadistic as well!" Fionna told the running Finn.
She groaned at the situation, "Ugh, got all turned on for no reason."
She sat back down and looked at the knife, then at her exposed skin.
"Well, might as well use it." she grabbed her skirt.
'ETA 00:42:11'
Pax and Rilis came back to camp to get some food. However, Finn and Fionna weren't there. This worried no one, they could take care of themselves. They gathered around a newly made campfire, it was warming up a can of beans. Phoebe went up to Pax, she was curious about their names.
"So Pax, how did you all get these names?" she asked.
"Um, well, we studied each other's personalities and modified the Latin translation. For me, the word didn't get changed. The Latin word Pax, meaning peaceful. I don't really know if I should've stuck with it since now, I'm really not, but everyone's used to it. Then there's Rilis-" she was cut off by Ignis, whose mouth was full of beans
"Rilis, you're special man-child."
Rilis didn't like being called 'man-child' but unfortunately it was true.
Pax continued, "Yes, Rilis, I forgot what word that came from but it meant childish and the word was really long."
"I know something else that's really long and it's going in you soon." Rilis added. Making Aiden, Brandon, Ignis and Verec snicker at the immature humour.
"You see what I mean Phoebe? Anyway, Ignis, Latin for fire. Some would argue it's because he's an ordnance specialist taking care of all the explosives. Others would say it's because he's a pyromaniac."
"He is, I've been inside his mind." Adira said, "It's like a Michael Bay movie. Boom, boom, boom, doesn't matter what we're doing. Probably also why he's been staring at you three." She pointed at the three Fire Elementals and looked back at Ignis, "He's doing it right now." She stood up and smacked him in the back of the head. He broke out of the trance and this time concentrated on Adira. He looked at her, trying not to look at any fire. Eyes of deep brown, armour, orange like a flame. Not knowing it he was in a trance again but Pax continued.
"And finally Verec. Latin word was Verecundus, literally shy, only thing to deal with it was talk about cars. We don't talk about the dead."
Finn came running back to the camp, he was sweating and his face was red.
"Hey Finn is everything alright? Where's Fionna?" Phoebe was pelting him with questions.
Finn chose to lie, although not yet revoked in the Fire Kingdom, they were not in the Fire Kingdom. It wasn't even a lie, just stretching the truth.
"Everything's alright, just took a run. But I don't know where Fionna is." Finn replied.
"I'm right here." Fionna said behind him. She didn't look like she was horny, disappointed or angry. She just looked normal, happy even.
'Her mood keeps on changing.' Finn thought, 'Maybe this is what PB calls a period.'
She sat down and started eating beans, without a care in the world.
'Too happy? She somehow had a good time without me or anyone else.'
'ETA 00:33:29'
Pax and Rilis came to check up on the glass cutter. She crouched down to check the small screen.
"Hmph, still on 33 minutes and 20 seconds." she said.
"Pax, I just wanted to apologise," Rilis started but didn't finish.
"I know, it's to make the guys laugh."
Rilis looked down, he was disappointed at himself.
"How can I make it up to you?" he asked.
A thought crossed through Pax's mind. She put her hand on his chest.
"Well, there's a Victoria's Secret store down there."
Rilis was confused at what she was saying.
"How about, you show me that thing, longer than a certain Latin word."
Pax smiled deviously and winked at him
Meanwhile at campsite, Brandon and Verec were discussing things about their current group. Not really discussing, more of Brandon talking and Verec nodding along. But more specifically, they discussed who would pair up with who. This conversation wasn't anything like 'who was good friends with who', this was 'which of these people would fuck each other.' After a while of Brandon talking they had the conclusion. Finn and Phoebe, Ignis and Adira, Rilis and Pax, Aiden and his wife and finally Brandon and his girlfriend. That left Verec, all alone no one to be with. He sighed.
"I don't have a girl, not then, not now. I'm just... it's so hard to talk to them."
Brandon wasn't much of a comforter, but now, he had to. And he had just the perfect set of words.
"When you find the right girl, it won't be hard to talk to them." he said.
Verec looked up at the last person he would have thought to be caring. Brandon wasn't finished, he had a great idea.
"Hey man, when we get back to Ooo, we'll find you a girl eh?"
Suddenly, Rilis ran towards them. He had never looked so desperate to talk to someone in his life.
"Verec, grab the XM109, quickly!" he said.
As asked, Verec did, but he looked uncertain of his intentions.
"I don't know why I take orders from a private." he muttered to himself.
They ran back to the skylight, where Pax, Finn and Fionna were waiting for him. Pax looked at Rilis, then at Verec, then back to Rilis.
"You must really want to go in huh?"
Without thinking twice it Rilis took the large anti-material rifle. The small screen said, 'ETA 00:25:39' It may have only been 25 minutes but he couldn't wait. Now to Rilis, knowing what'll happen later, it felt like a lifetime. He pointed the rifle at the window and pulled the trigger. 'BANG' The 20mm round was near deafening, it pierced partway through the glass making a large crack. He pushed the rifle back to Verec and grabbed the rappel rope and jump onto the window. It shattered instantly, making shards of glass go everywhere and he dropped down into the mall. Next, Pax grabbed the rope and jumped down after him. Fionna then grabbed the rope.
"Hey Finn! What time is it?"
He didn't answer. He was still confused about Fionna's mood swings not knowing what might set her off. At least he now knew one of the things that pisses her off. Silent Treatment. Fionna dropped the rope and marched up to Finn, grabbing his neck.
"I asked what time is it?" she said angrily.
"Adventure Time." he managed to get out.
"Good, let's go then." Fionna was now happy and jumped down. So did Finn.
That left Verec, thinking about what just happened.
'Hmm... Adventure Time?'