"Bubba why do you care? She's gone, you should be happy!"

"I know Marcy, but something doesn't seem right, Marshall is very concerned."

"But this isn't our problem! Who cares!"

"I do, and I have to do something..."

Bubba and Marcy were currently in bubba's lab, Marcy was watching bubba frantically go through his notes on ice magic.

"You don't have to...your going to be a father...isn't THAT more important?"

He stopped.

"Yeah, your right...it's just-"

"Nothing bubba, it's nothing." She crossed her arms.

He sighed, "Marcy, you've always told me you trust me more than anyone, please trust that my intentions are for the best..."

"But this is ICE QUEEN we're talking about! She's been nothing but a huge pain to us!"

"Marcy, isn't it concerning that we don't know where she is? Or what she's doing? It makes me worried..."

Marceline bit her lip, he had a point.

"Bubba...I just want you to be okay..."

"And I WILL be okay...for our wedding, and our little girl."

"But you don't know anything! Your going into this blind!"

"Marcy, I have others out looking for her...it's not just me..."

"But-"

He kissed her forehead.

"It's gonna be fine...I promise."

"You're an idiot..." She pulled him into a hug.

"I know..." he hugged her back.

"Bubba, what if she left cause I scared her off?"

"It hasn't worked before, and I doubt she'd leave her penguins because of that, even fionna doesn't scare her..."

He held her close, "I'll be fine, I'm doing this for our future. "

Marcy chuckled, "Guess it's a little better knowing she won't sneak her way in here.."

"That's why we need to find her, soon, it's already been too long."

He went back to his notes.

Marceline huffed. "Not long enough..."

"So, how's bonnie doing?"

"Eh, she's fine and dandy...sent Finn an' Jake to go to my old house to check the place for some of my clothes...I've been missing some of them an awful lot lately and I want to know if I may of left them there..."

"So you have them pretty much just nack clothes from your own home?"

"It's MY house, no one takes my property without my permission. The boys keep an eye on the place too"

"Understood."

Bubba finished sorting through his files, he had many of the study of ice magic.

Knowing her magic was helpful for the future.

He knew ice queen quite well, spending so much time in her ice dungeon and hearing her ramble on did a lot for him.

Being frightened off wasn't something she'd do, and it was incredibly odd that she'd disappear for so long, stay away from her prince and her precious kingdom.

There was something up, and he needed to find it out before something went wrong.

He wasn't going to let ice queen do anymore damage, not to his baby, not to Marceline.

He had to find her, and soon.

They ignored this for too long.

They needed to find her before something went wrong...

Even bonnie was keeping her eye out.

She doubted IQ had used the portal, but she'd believe anything at this point.

The scientists knew she couldn't be dead, otherwise the kingdom would no longer be standing.

She had to be out there somewhere.

Marshall theorized that she might be hypnotized by the same villains who took him, but there was no telling that they could even MANAGE to brainwash someone as already magically corrupted as her.

Plus, with ice queen at their control, they would have noticed her immediately.

Fionna was on Marceline's side, she's been gone for forever, if she wanted to strike, she would've done so already...

She wasn't bothering anybody...

There was nothing to worry about...

But the less he knew, the more it worried him.

He kept expecting ice queen to just burst through one of his windows and try to kidnap him again.

He hated to admit it, but he was worried about her.

He just needed a sign, any sign.

Something to help him right now.

The phone rang.

He picked it up immediately.

"Hello Bonnibel?"

"Nah it's Finn."

"Finn? Why are you calling?"

"Well, me an' Jake were helping out Marcy, but her house is completely frozen over.."

"It's WHAT?"

"We can't get inside..."

"Hold on a sec..."

He looked at Marceline, "Your house is frozen..."

She snarled, "That little..."

"Hey, calm calm...alright? We still have no evidence that was her..."

Marceline huffed, "Fine...whatever.."

"Listen finn, is there any evidence that ice queen or somebody was there?"

"Well I don't - YYYEEAARRRGGHH"

The phone went dead.

"Finn?" Gumball asked, now feeling awful. "Finn!"

He hung up and immediately called princess bubblegum.

"Bubba...what's going on?" Marceline asked

"Something's wrong, I'm heading out to your cave..." He grabbed a back pack hanging on a hook and grabbed some weapons.

"Well, I'm coming with you..."

"No Marcy, I'm sorry...".

"Yes I am, that's MY house their at."

"Marcy, the baby comes first. I'll call bonnie, fionna, and cake and we'll handle it ourselves..."

She stood up defiantly.

"I'm going..."

"Marcy.."

He placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Please stay here..."

She hugged him.

"And what if you don't come back?" She was trying not to cry, but it was getting to be too much for her. "What if you stinking die out there and leave me here?"

"Marcy, I'll be just fine." He kissed her, "I promise..."

He cupped her face and wiped away the stray tears. "I've have years of training in combat, I'll be just fine...and then when I get back, we can talk about how stupid I was all we want..."

She sighed, "Ugh, j- just make it back in one piece okay?"

He gave her one last peck on the lips and headed out the door.

"I will, I love you!"

She stood there, holding herself.

"Love ya too..."

-

"Any sign of the boys?'

"No, it's too dark in here."

"OW! Fi you stepped on my tail!"

"Sorry Cakey."

Four figures were now inside Marceline's old cave, searching for any signs of Finn and Jake.

Gumball took a flashlight out of his backpack, "There that should help."

"How come we didn't bring Marshall?" PB asked, "He has a cave just like this and could help."

"Listen..." Gumball spoke softly for her ears only, "If Marshall knows about this, he'll freak out."

"What do you mean?"

"Ice queen may have targeted a friend's home, do we really want another repeat of the ' Marceline/Ice Queen ' incident?"

"Er, good point."

"If ice queen is involved, I don't want anyone to get hurt. Fionna and cake have handled her before..."

PB patted his shoulder, "You're brave y'know? Doing this..."

"I'd do anything for my family and friends."

She grinned.

"You'll be a wonderful father bubba, that little girl is lucky to have you."

He grinned, "I can't wait to meet her..."

"I think she makes us all pretty excited..."

"It's hard not to get excited over the first gummy-vampire child in existence."

"True."

PG flickered his light a little, taking a good look at his surroundings.

"I never thought I'd ever come back here in a long time."

"Been awhile huh?"

"No need to come here if Marceline lives with me..."

He flashed the light all around, there was ice everywhere, on the ceiling and on the walls of the cave.

And when they reached house, or was it her house? It was covered with so much snow and ice it was hard to distinguish.

Her garden, her basketball court, it was all frozen over.

"Oh man." Fionna said, A little freaked out.

"Ice queen went all nutso on this place." Cake noted, "What's her deal?'

"She hates Marcy.." Gumball grumbled, "She really does..."

"But to freeze her old home for THIS long?"

"Maybe she's inside..."

The four stood at what they thought was the door.

Fionna wished she had brought flame prince to this, he could've melted all this snow and allowed them to continue.

But no, it was up to her and her friends this time.

"Sooo, how do we get in?"

"Easy." Gumball removed his pack and took some equipment out. "We melt it."

"How?"

"We use this!"

He held out a device similar to a torch.

"A...Torch?" The adventuress looked at it in confusion.

"It has an eternal flame emboweled in it" Gumball explained, "It never goes out..."

"So we're gonna melt the ice with it?"

"That's the plan."

The prince spoke some words to the object and it immediately sprung to life.

Blazing as if it had been going on forever.

"Bubba, how did you find such an object?" PB asked.

"Anniversary present from flame princess."

"She got you that?"

"She's a very nice girl, thought I'd find it useful for stuff like this, and Marceline would use it to roast marshmallows or something."

"Huh..."

The prince held it up to the door.

The snow immediately melted, like magic.

"How-?" PB started.

"It's magic snow, this thing can repel ice magic."

"AWESOME!" Fi cried in fascination, "FP 2 is the bomb."

"So that means..."

"Yeah bon, this was the work of ice magic."

They all looked at the door nervously, not sure what to expect when they opened it.

Cake stretched out and grabbed the handle, turning slowly.

Everyone prepared themselves.

The door opened.

"Woah..."

Oddly the inside as relatively fine, it was cold yes, but it looked normal.

"FINN? JAKE?" PB called out for her friends.

"HERE!"

The group rushed up to the ladder that lead to the top part of the house.

Fionna went first, followed by cake.

When everyone got up the ladder they found the two adventure's trapped in ice, head exposed but otherwise completely stuck.

"GUYS!"

Gumball rushed over with his torch and the ice melted away quickly.

"What happened?"

"Ice queen moved in..."

"Yeah man, it was creepy! She had ice trolls outside and was wearing Marcy's clothes an-" Jake rambled on

"She WHAT?" Gumball asked, a little too loudly.

"Where is she?" Fionna demanded

"I don't know man, she left awhile ago..."

PB looked around the room, it was quite empty since Marcy removed the furniture and moved it to her room in gumball's castle.

But there was some evidence of blankets and snack wrappers on the floor.

And even old clothes of Marceline's.

"What IS this?" PB asked.

"She's trying to be Marceline..." PG mumbled

"Wha?"

"Look at this, she's doing anything she can to be her. These are RED snacks..."

"Creepy..."

"She must've nicked these clothes from Marceline's private room."

"But why?"

"She's trying to be her, the girl I love."

"What a slimeball." Fionna said.

"Where do you think she went?" PB asked.

"I don't know, she's got quite a bit of stuff an-"

He stopped, if ice queen was stealing Marceline's possessions from the castle...

"We gotta go back!"

"What? What's wrong bubba?"

"I Left Marceline and the baby there! At my home! Alone!"

He panicked at the idea of marcy no longer having any strength to fight.

"Call marcy now!"

PB took a phone from her pack and called.

"Marceline?"

Seconds passed and gumball was assuming the worst before pb received an answer on the other line.

"Speeeaaakk."

"Marcy? It's me bonnie, listen we think ice queen gonna go to you.."

"What?"

"We can't be sure but if she is, please just go somewhere safe."

"You mean HIDE? Why should I hide from her?!"

"You're having a baby Marcy, keep her safe."

"Fine..."

She hung up.

"This isn't good..."

"No, it's not, it feels like a trap."

PB suddenly became nervous.

"What if it is?"

"Hmm?"

"Think about it, she lured us here by capturing Finn and Jake, knowing Marcy wouldn't be able to come with us..."

"Are you saying-?"

"She going to go after Marceline..." PB said, "With all of us here, there isn't much left to defend her..."

"And she's vulnerable..." Gumball felt his heart drop into his stomach.

He grabbed his things, "C'mon we gotta find her NOW!"

Everyone made their way downstairs.

"The door's frozen shut!" Jake shouted.

"Gumball get that torch out NOW!" PB shouted.

Bubba didn't hesitate to acquire his torch and use it.

Opening the door, they were greeted by an unpleasant sight.

Ice trolls...

Obviously sent by ice queen to keep them from leaving

Finn and Fionna drawled their swords, ready for battle.

Gumball held his torch out in front of him, mostly as a sign of defense.

The humans and animals lunged at the creatures, attacking them.

The trolls breathed ice at the heroes, freezing them for a short time.

One blast hit Fionna's sword, causing it to fall to the ground.

"Dah!" She dropped it and proceeded to attack without it.

She tackled one troll to the ground and cake followed after her.

PB took out a small weapon from her bag.

"I got your back bubba."

Bubba used his torch to protect them.

The trolls melted everytime they got too close.

"Guys just go!" Finn shouted

"No, we came all they way here to help you, we're not leaving without you!" Bubba shouted back.

Jake grew large to attack, causing the royals to stand back a little.

Jake's transformation allowed for Finn, Fionna, and Cake to rush over to the entrance of the cave where the royals were waiting.

"JAKE! C'mon man we gotta get going..."

Jake quickly pushed them back and ran towards his friends.

"C'mon, we gotta get to the portal.." Jake immediately grew large enough to ride on.

Everyone climbed on Jake's back.

Jake rushed his way to the candy kingdom.

"This is bad...this is really bad.." Fionna said.

Gumball was holding his head in panic, "Oh god...Marceline."

"It's okay bubba, she'll be fine..."

"She's all alone...I left her all alone..."

"Maybe the gumball guardians will handle it..."

"And what if they don't? What if I just made the biggest mistake of my life? What if that was the last time I'd ever see her alive?"

"Marcy's smart, you know she won't go down easy. We're almost there, we'll stop IQ okay? She won't lay a hand on Marcy..."

"Okay, okay..." Bubba took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.

Jake reached the kingdom gates, and everyone got off.

"C'mon, let's go!"

Some candy citizens ran up to them in fear.

"Princess! We-"

"Later, I have to do something real quick..."

"But-"

"I'll be back soon okay?"

"But the lab is wreaked!"

"What?!" She turned around, now even more panicked.

"Someone burst through the window and destroyed it."

PB stopped in her tracks, before rushing to her lab in the upper floors of the castle.

Everyone followed behind soon enough, to see the princess hunched down on the floor, staring at the damage done to her precious lab.

"Years of research...my inventions...the portal..."

It was all busted, the lab was in a horrible state.

invention parts scattered on the floor, papers ripped to shreds, even science the rat was out, running to her owner and setting on her shoulder.

There was even glass from where the person had gone through the window.

But worst of all, the clear pieces of the portal were scattered everywhere, clearly destroyed to the point of no repair.

"Without the portal...there's no way back bubba..." She wept, "I don't even know how long it'll take to rebuild it..."

"I'm so sorry..." Tears were forming and she now covered them with her arms, "I should've protected this place better...I should've never allowed this to happen..."

"Bonnie..." Bubba started, "Please don't cry, we- we can try something, anything!"

"No we can't...all my notes have been destroyed, there's no way we can get back..."

Everyone huddled around her, and gave her one big group hug.

"She wreaked it...she wreaked it..."

"We'll think of something...have faith in us..."