"Where's Iron Man?" Finn asks, at the outskirts of the Slime Kingdom, preparing for the takeover.
"He may be busy, you know. It has been a thousand years and he's alive again, he's a scientist, of course, he will want to take in everything around him." Jake replied, overseeing the Slime Kingdom with his binoculars.
Slalin walked towards them, two Slime guards flanking him. "We are ready to go."
"I thought we have the support of the people, why do we only have soldiers?"
"This is a military takeover. Enough dancing, it's time for action."
"This is not how it is supposed to work! We need the support of the people if you are going to run the state soon!"
"Slime People only need their disco. Just build them more disco complexes and upgrade the current ones. Remember, Slime Kingdom is the most militarized of all kingdoms, we must win over the military first. It will be easier, compared to many dying in the streets from the explosive rounds of tanks."
Finn sighed, and turned to face him. "You're going to be the one to run this state, do a good job."
"Of course, comrade." Slalin saluted, and turned around, he and his men preparing for the takeover.
"I have a feeling that Slalin is going to be a lot of trouble in the future."
"Doesn't matter. Being a criminal also doesn't appease people, but I did it anyway, for the revolution."
"After we seize the Slime Kingdom, we shall form the USSO, and finish the rest of the kingdoms. I worry about Hunson Abadeer, if he knows we kidnapped Marceline, we are all dead."
"I believe the two are having fun in their bedroom." Jake snickered.
"Don't mock them comrade. They used to be our leaders, respect them."
"You really have grown a lot."
"Maybe I have. Witnessing the deaths of many before my eyes. Has changed me."
"Enough talk, let's get to work." Wrotsky walked in, announcing.
"What has the leaders contributed?"
"More than what they had said in the meeting, although some did exactly what they had declared. We should be ok, Finn, should you still don the Farl Merx gear and show the world your true identity?"
"It's too early. There are still many kingdoms." Finn acknowledged, putting on his gear. Cuffing his arms with his hidden blades, his robe and finally the mask of revolution, the representative of the people.
Iron Man touched down, observing the island as he got closer and closer. He saw buildings made out of metal glaring due to the sunlight bouncing off the metal. There was a something spooky and eerie about the place, it was empty. There was no one to be found. He sees a ship, a cargo ship, meant to ferry oil. As he got closer and closer, he sees robots lining the boat, fixing it, scraping the mutant barnacles off it, and polishing it.
"If we had this technology, we might as well let robots fight the war for us. This is stupid! Why am I even thinking about this? It's my own stupidity! To build the stupid bomb that killed all of us! And now, all of us are dead." Warning! Warning! Parts overheating, parts malfunctioning! Warning was flashed over the screens of his robot eyes. Mayday! Mayday!
"I'm Belinsky Yefim Aleskeevich! If there is anyone there, please help me!" Iron Man sent out signals, hoping that anyone would pick up. As he began his descent onto the ground, he closed his eyes, and see his life flash across him. He was farming grain for the state, which forced them into collectivization. He had great times there, working with his comrades for the good of his state. He was respected there, the state finding out about his genius and his loyalty, offering him an education, which he took up, just like his father and mother. At the age of eighteen, he received news that his father was dead. When he went back home, his mother told him the truth, the state took him away and shot him dead. They blamed it on him for always questioning the state and its ideals. When he asked the state, the state denied all of her claims, claiming that his father shot himself. He believed the state, influenced by propaganda, and spent some time away grieving for his father. His mother was taken away by the state a few days, and she stopped mentioning the incident, he realized that she changed. He graduated from university, top in class, and was offered to work for the state in their top and secret research departments. Working in its nuclear project, one time, the state actually proposed to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon to test it in space. Everyone was running out of options but luckily, no one did even though the research potential was enormous. The scientist knew that the idea was ridiculous and hence luckily it was not carried out. He was a pro supporter, and that was one of the times that research took over him. Smash! He blacked out, he's system damaged from the impact.
"We should bomb the heck out of Slime Kingdom with Starchy's planes and Wildberry State shall provide cannons to blast the remaining forces to submission." Starchy explained, pointing and moving figures on the mock war table with figurines of units.
"The most important is taking out of the head, Slime Princess." Finn pointed out, putting a mini figurine of him nearby the model of the castle.
"What about Blargetha? We let Toast Princess escaped, we must not let that happen again." Wrotsky reminded.
"I shall handle her." Jake smiled, with his criminal smile and answered with the confidence of a mob boss.
"Wait, before we even get in this siege. Who's going to handle the running Toast Princess?" Trump Wizard demanded.
"Yeah, what do you think smartass?" Bao Ze Dong sarcastically remarked, disliking Trump Wizard's behaviour.
"Well bread, any idea?" Trump Wizard shot back.
"I shall handle it. My gang is hunting her down, Tiffany is leading it." Jake laid back attitude calmed everyone in the room.
"We're done, right? Let's take action." Slalin affirmed.
"Uhh… where am I?" Iron Man wakes up, seeing bright lights flashing in front of him.
"Shh… calm down, we still fixing you, you close your robot eyes little robot. We are helping you." A voice calmed.
"I'm not a robot! I'm Belinsky Yefim Aleskeevich!"
"You're lucky centuries have passed and we decided to forgive you. Be lucky that your genius hasn't killed you already, we have lived so long, garnered so much wisdom that all wars mean little to us now. Now go to sleep little genius."
"What?" Iron Man shouted out before a circuit was broken and darkness enveloped him
"Squadron Bomber, ready?"
"Ready. Taking off, fully loaded, in good condition. The weather is perfect."
"Boom Division ready?"
"Cannons loaded and ready. Waiting orders."
"Wait for the roar of the plane engines, then fire."
"Yes, sir."
Finn stood by the slime ground, in a position that looked like he was going to pounce on his prey. "Don't rush in too early, you may suffer from friendly fire."
"Noted, comrade. We must sneak past the fighting and head for the castle, catch the princesses off guard."
Boom! The cannons fired, sending hard wildberries into the kingdom, blowing up roads, buildings and shops. The bombers let loose, sending candy hell from above, decimating everything around them. The two were ordered to not hit the disco, the only bargaining chip Slalin can use to secure power. "Well, it's princess hunting." Jake smirked hopping off to the rooftops. Finn followed suit, jumping in the other direction, they both planned a pincer movement, Jake coming from the right, while Finn comes in left. Jake stretches from rooftop to rooftop, the mob boss coat flapping in the wind. Finn leaped from rooftop to rooftop, sliding on the clothesline and dodging the archers from the castle noticing their presence. Finn leaped behind a chimney for it to take an arrow before continuing, leaping to the side as an arrow whirled past him. Jake just activated a shield around him, using his stretchy power to take the arrows, feeling needles pressed on him but he carried on, feeling worse pain than this once.
"Princess, we have a revolt going on."
"Nonsense. We got the best disco in all of OOO, the people will never revolt."
"It's the military, they are revolting."
"Then… we have already lost."
"Princess, we are still loyal to you, but to save our slime, we shall not capture you, we shall leave you to your preparations." The soldier bowed and saluted, and turned, expecting to never see her again. Slime Princess stood there, shocked that her world was falling apart. Her kingdom, her people, the military, which she knew was too powerful, had seized the opportunity. She sat on her throne, waiting for her assailant.
Meanwhile, Blargetha was scheming to take back her kingdom from her sister, ill-informed of what was going on outside. The soldiers secretly hated her, and they took their opportunity for revenge. The door was busted open and soldiers flanked her. "What is the meaning of this?" Blargetha demanded.
"A military coup, led by Farl Merx." The soldier punched her in the jaw, which sent her reeling to the ground, and the slime soldiers continued to bully her.
Finn reached the castle, the archers left their positions, seemingly fled their positions and joined the rebellion, now firing arrows at the castle. "When at most desperate, they will change allegiances." Finn reflected, seeing the balcony as he was on the rooftop nearest to the castle. He leaps for it, stretching his grass arm as a grappling hook, hooking onto the balcony and let the arm do the rest of the work, pulling him up. He leaped onto the balcony midway and sees Slime Princess sitting on her throne, aimlessly staring into blank space.
"Slime Princess, will you surrender peacefully or must I use force?"
"You're the one they call Farl Merx? You have won, I know, the Slime Military turning on me is the worst possible scenario, and the chances of me winning is impossible. I surrender Farl Merx, whoever you are."
"Declare it to your people, and tell them all that the kingdom has fallen into the hands of Slalin, their new president."
"Before I do that for you, you must do something for me. Who are you exactly? Are you really Finn?"
"What happens if I say yes or no? Does it matter, just announce it already."
"Very well Finn." Slime Princess pressed some buttons by her throne and a microphone popped out. "Citizens of the Slime Kingdom, I, your princess, announce the surrender of the Slime Kingdom to the Slime State. I shall resign and Slalin shall take over my position, becoming the first president of the Slime State." "Now, your identity?"
"Very well, Slime Princess." Finn removed his mask and showed Slime Princess who he was. He quickly cuffed her with handcuffs he got from a rattleball officer of the Candy State, who suggested that these were much better than tying up the prisoner with rope. He grabbed Slime Princess and escorted her to her new home.
"So Blargetha, taste my fists!" Jake shouted, charging into the room before realising that the slime soldiers had immobilized her. Not only knocking her out but injuring her badly.
"We have taken care of it, comrade Jake."
"Uhh… well, good job!" Jake flashed a smile and walked away, glad that the seizure of the kingdom was completed, hearing the announcement.
"Comrades, the union of socialist states of OOO has been formed! USSO shall mark the beginning of the improvement of people's rights throughout OOO!" Wrotsky announced, the leaders of the revolution signing the document.
Farl Merx, the one who started it all, Starchy, leader of the Candy State, Flambo, leader of the Fire State, Bao Ze Dong, leader of the Breakfast State, Slalin, leader of the Slime State, and finally, last but not least, Wrotsky, leader of the Wildberry State, signed the document with smiles and all shook hands together. USSO is formed and the other kingdoms are wary of the new alliance and the new political turmoil the revolution has brought into OOO.
Note: Part one of the story has ended, a long part indeed, forty thousand plus words. That is, even more, I need to write for my school composition, lol. Seriously, I only need to write like four hundred words. This has been a long journey indeed, and I'm excited about part two of the story starting from chapter twenty-two. I guess this is some break time for those who just found the story and is beginning to read through it slowly but surely. Candy Empire and Down to Monarchy worlds might meet with one another, who knows?