sorry for the wait... Internet hates my guts. I'll tell you some news at the end of the chapter, because i'm sure you just want to get the reading, so here it is. btw I'm just gonna stop putting those "_ days until execution" thing cause i really have no idea how long i want a day to be, so just read on and forget that. i promise i'll try to make time go faster in the story so you guys can get to the long waited battle, so bear with me and if i make mistakes for some reason, just pretend like you don't notice and read on.

Chapter 13- Prepare for Battle

(Finn's POV)

"Fionna?" I said, snapping my fingers in front of the girl's face. "It's Fionna, right?"

After about the millionth snap, Marshall Lee came over from behind me and yelled, "HEY FIONNA ARE YOU DEAD?"

She shook her head, coming out of the shock. "Wha-? I'm not dead, Marshall. It's just- wow..."

"I hate to interrupt your fascination of there being other humans- and I know how it feels because the same thing happened to me- but we really need to get all the stuff together for the war." I said to Fionna. But then I realized...

"What war?"

The big question.

I had to answer, so I explained the situation for the kagillionth time. The thing I really didn't want to think about. "The Candy Kingdom has been taken over by this ugly butt named the Earl of Lemongrab and his army. They took Princess Bubblegum hostage, and forbid us from every entering the kingdom again. You see, I really like the princess and I don't want her to be killed by Lemongrab, and if we don't take back the kingdom soon she will be executed..."

"I understand, Finn. If you really want, I'll help you defeat Lemongrab with you and your friends." Fionna said softly, and I knew she meant what she said.

"Thanks." that's all I could say. "So," I regained myself and looked at Connor, "What's next?" I asked him because, well, to me he seems like the leader of all these humans. But that's my opinion, but if you ask me, I really don't think anyone is really 'leading' this thing. We just go with it. But I swear, if they think I'm the leader, I would pass it on to someone else. I'm more of the 'just go and do it and not think about it first' type of guy. Yes, I will plan sometimes, but I won't think of everything that could go wrong.

"Before we get into what we have to do, I would like you to meet some of my friends that will probably be of use making this operation a success." Connor said to me. Then he called out some names. "Aaron, Zak, and Dane. Actually, just call Dane 'Fuzz' if you want."

Three guys stepped out from the crowd. The first that stepped up to me said, "Hey, I'm Aaron. I'm 16 years old, if you're wondering, and I'll be your handy man. I'll probably fix that door over there after every one's here." I shook his hand. He was a couple inches taller than me, and wore a blue windbreaker with a white t-shirt underneath, gray sneakers, and a baseball cap. The cap was odd, it didn't say a thing or had a picture of anything on it. He also had brown hair and bright green eyes, which stood out the most to me. I sensed a good vibe coming off of him, I knew he would be a good friend not just to I, but everyone else too. "Oh," he started to say something, "I'm good with a bow and arrow... I can tell you like swords." he said, almost like he knew that all this time.

"How did you know?" I asked, astonished.

Aaron peered around my shoulder and pointed. "Well for one thing, there's a pretty freakin awesome root sword strapped to your pack there."

I laughed. "It was awesome meeting you, man."

"Same here." Then Aaron went back over to stand with Connor.

The next guy came over to me and said strait out, "The name's Zak. 18 years old. I'm a mechanic, I work on cars and some other machinery. I'm a expert on weapons too, I like to learn about that kind of stuff. So, I will adapt to any weapon I'm given to fight with really quickly. Nice to meet you, guy." Zak; how can I put this? Well for one thing, I thought he works out a lot more than normal. For 18, he's pretty muscular. The only bright thing he wore out of his black shirt, jeans, black hair and gray eyes were his new looking red Converse shoes. The color was more intense than Marshall Lee's shoes, which looked dull but surprisingly not as worn as I suspected. Probably because Marshall doesn't walk that much, but floats like Marcy does. Anyway, Zak did seem a little weird. Like he would talk to me, but I'm not sure if he completely trusts me yet. I bet he's one of those people who needs to get to know someone before they're actually going to trust them.

He put out his hand and I shook it. "Cool to meet you, too. I've never met a weapons expert before." I told Zak.

"Well now you have." he said before joining Connor and Aaron.

The oldest looking out of the three now stepped up to me. "Uh, I'm Dane, but you can call me Fuzz. I have no idea where the name came from, and I bet you were going to ask that, so I saved ya some breath. But anyway, I'll be your techman with all the computer junk and that stuff." I could tell this guy was REALLY awkward by the fast speed he talked at, but seemed really nice and smart. He had dirty blond hair and green eyes, and was quite tall (and inch taller than Connor, who which I remind you, is older than Fuzz) and skinny. He wore a black sweatshirt that has red sleeves, red workout shorts, and white sneakers. I admit I expected him to wear glasses, but he didn't. Maybe contacts, or he can see perfectly fine.

I said, "Well, nice to meet you, Fuzz. Alex has done some really great tech work over there, so I'm sure he'll make a great partner with the computer."

"Nice! Hey, Alex! Let's commence work!" Dane yelled over to Alex, and both started toward the huge monitor.

I saw Connor pacing the room. "Next," he looked down in thought, then finally said when he looked back up, "Aaron- I want you to work with Jake, the dog, to fix the door. I believe he's got things to replace it."

Aaron nodded and walked towards Jake who was looking at the huge opening where the door was, his paw on his chin, and eyebrows furrowed. Aaron said something, then they got into a big conversation about measurements and all that other construction talk. I was actually kind of glad to see Jake actually work and do equations instead of sit back on his lazy butt.

"Hey Hams!" called Connor over his shoulder. Alexa was talking to Marceline and Marshall Lee about whatever vampires talk about. Music, I guess?

"Yeah, man?" Hambo answered.

"Bring your fellow species over and watch the radar for more humans, would ya?"

"Yeah, sure, boss." Picking up rope and her new guitar, Hambo, followed by Marcy and Marshall, went over to the radar screen. I could see her glancing down at it time to time while she talked and tied the rope to the axe to make a strap, and slung it around her shoulder.

"And Zak, could you go over to that pile and write down all the weapons you see so we can assign each army member a primary and back up one?" Connor asked Zak, who had already started eagerly towards to pile. I assume he's really fascinated by weapons.

It was my turn to be assigned a job. But I already knew what I wanted to do. "Connor, I want to go back to the Candy Kingdom to talk to the princess."

"What? Are you crazy? There are guards everywhere, you're guaranteed to be seen!"

"I know a way to get there... undetected."

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hey! howda like it? here's your annual chapterly news: the votes are in! so if i do have a fourth story, it's gunna be (quote):

"A story in Finn's prospective where in each chapter, a day passes, and he can tell about what goes on with daily life now that peoples' lives are (usually) not in danger, PB is 13, and so on."

So yeah, that was you guys' vote. No more news that I know of exept: what's the title of the next story? It doesn't have to follow the "What Was _" pattern.

-Hambo