"I'm here just in time!"
Jake made a catapult with his hand, launching Finn in the air towards the dragon that had been terrorizing the candy people. He sliced it in half, allowing the eaten candy people to pour out unharmed.
Finn landed gracefully beside Jake, who slapped his shoulder proudly.
"Don't let the dragon drag on, man."
"Haha, you need better puns."
The candy people rushed Finn.
"Sign my rock!"
"FINN! HAVE DINNER WITH ME! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! FINN!"
Finn waved his hands in front of himself awkwardly.
"Sure, man. Yeah. Sure, sometime."
"How about... EVERY NIGHT! THIS WEEK!"
"Well, maybe one night."
"C'mon, man! Every night!"
Another candy person punched him right in front of Finn.
"No, man! You get out of here!"
"Woah, wait! Don't fight!"
More candy people began fighting for attention so the three quickly ran home.
"HAVE DINNER WITH ME! HAVE DINNER! I WANT DINNER! FINN!"
"NO!"
They slammed the door and locked it, listening to the fists banging on the door. They were still yelling for Finn.
"You've been extremely popular, Finn. At this rate we may have to hire bouncers for our lawn."
Finn sighed.
"I hope this group goes home soon. I'm getting tired of being chased around all the time."
A few ours later Jake and Melissa were making lunch.
"Finn, can you get us some wood for the stove? We're out again."
"Yeah, one second."
Finn opened the door and then slammed it shut again.
"FINN! DINNER! COME ON!"
He looked at them exasperated.
"They were asleep on the lawn!"
Jake marched outside, irritated.
"ALRIGHT! TIME TO LEAVE, PACK UP PEOPLE!"
BMO tugged on Finn's shorts.
"Finn, can't go outside today?"
"I guess I could. I just don't want to deal with those guys right now."
"Ooooohhhhhh... Deal with me!"
He put on a black mask.
"Let's play Cops and Robbers! Give me your bank account! Bang! Bang!"
BMO tripped and fell over, still pointing his finger at Finn like a gun.
"Reach for the roof and give me all your gold bricks."
"Ah, okay, okay, don't hurt me!"
"Don't worry, Finn. It's only me, BMO! I'm wearing a disguise!"
"Hmm…"
Finn vanished upstairs while Melissa finished up lunch. Jake was still outside trying to convince everyone to leave. She could hear their voices echoing down the passage.
"Your beauty's destroyed!"
"BMO, how do I look?"
"LIKE THE DEVIL!"
She could hear footsteps as she loaded some BBQ chicken on the platter.
"Hey Mel, how do I look?"
She turned around and screamed, dropping the platter and stumbling backwards.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!"
Jake rushed inside after hearing the scream and spotted Finn.
"Intruder! Finn! There's an intruder in here!"
"No! It's me! It's Finn! This is my alter-ego...Davey Johnson!"
They all stared at him in shock. He had shaved off a good majority of his hair, giving himself one of those old man balding spots. Some of it was glued to his upper lip like a mustache and somehow he had dyed it brown.
"I'll dress up like this so no one bothers me about being Finn."
"Do you think that'll going to do the trick?"
Melissa, who was picking up the soiled food with BMO, looked up at him.
"Won't it be suspicious since you didn't change your clothes?"
Finn ignored her and strolled out of the house. She turned to Jake with a worried glance, but he just shrugged.
Finn didn't come home until late. When he walked in Melissa and Jake were playing Adventure Dungeon on BMO.
"Man, today was awesome. Just normal, y'know? Just like a normal day. No drama or any of that. Just super normal. Man it was great."
"That's cool."
Jake yawned.
"Ready for bed, Finn?"
"I'm Davey."
"Haha! Yeah…Come on man."
They all went to bed after that. The next morning Melissa was awoken by Jake, who was shaking her violently.
"I need your help man! Finn has LOST IT."
He dragged her outside where she found Finn chopping wood next to the beginnings on what looked like a log cabin.
"…Finn?"
"Oh, heya, ma'am, thanks for putting me up last night. I'm just chopping some wood so's I can build a little log cabin to live in."
She pinched herself to make sure she wasn't still asleep while one of the candy people (since they had remained outside the house all that time) approached him.
"Hey, I'm Randy."
"Randy, wanna get dinner tonight?"
"Nah, I'm busy. I like to wonder at night. What's your name?"
"I'm Davey."
Flabbergasted Melissa finally found her voice again.
"Finn, what's going on?"
"You gotta start calling me Davey, ma'am. Because that's my name!"
"Have you lost your mind?!"
"Ma'am, I don't know nothing about that. I'm just a working Joe... trying to stake my claim... under the sun... and look out on the beautiful green fields called... life!"
Melissa turned to Jake.
"Was he like this earlier too?"
He nodded, still in shock. Randy and "Davey" went back to working on the cabin.
"Jake, we have to figure out a way to get Finn to act normal."
"Hmm…"
"Pew pew pew pew!"
They watched BMO running around playing Cops and Robbers with few candy people and a light bulb went off.
Jake changed into a costume and Melissa put on a mop and a tablecloth, pulling off a granny look. He menacingly approached her with his hand morphed into a hook.
"Ah! Give me the purse or feel my claw! The purse, now!"
"Oh! If only there was someone heroic to save this dear little defenseless old lady!"
"I'm a robber and I'm gonna rob this old lady's life! And there's nobody who can stop me. Unless there's a hero around here. Like there's someone here who is actually a hero in disguise. They can probably stop me."
Melissa whispered loudly to Finn.
"Come on, be a hero."
Finn disappeared into the log cabin and reappeared again soon after just the way he was before.
"I called the police."
"Wait, what?"
Banana Guards rushing in, cuffing Jake and hauling him off. Melissa frantically tried to stop them.
"Guys, it's not what it looks like! That guy isn't really named Davey. It's Finn! He brainwashed himself to become Davey and we were just trying to inspire him to go back to being Finn."
"Yeah, yeah. We heard that one before. Go back to the old folk's home."
She stared in disbelief as they carried him off muttering something about senile old women. Jake shouted back at Finn.
"Finn, don't let the dragon drag on, man. Don't let the dragon drag on!"
"Don't let the dragon... Jake!"
Finn jumped up and removed his mustache, holding it in his hand and talking to it.
"No more Davey."
"But you love being Davey."
"I do love being Davey, but being Davey caused Jake to get arrested."
"But remember that time when Davey sat in the park and saw some people walking around?"
"Yeah, that was nice."
"And remember that time when Davey swept the floors?"
"Yeah, that was great, too."
Melissa grabbed his shoulders, shaking him slightly.
"Finn PLEASE. You have to stop acting crazy! Jake needs you!"
"But do I really want to go back to being a famous hero? Why not just be Davey? A simple man... with simple goals and simple problems. I can just blend in and live the simple life."
"But you aren't Davey! You're Finn, and I know being a hero is hard but you're amazing at it. Do you remember what you told me after we buried my father? You said I don't have to face everything alone and to let my friends be there for me sometimes. We're here for you, Finn. We always will be. You don't need to hide from anything as long you have us to support you!"
"Melissa…"
Finn gently took her hands off of his shoulders.
"It's time for Davey to make his last appearance. Let's save Jake!"
Sticking his mustache back on they hurried to the Candy Kingdom. Melissa was instructed to wait outside in disguise in case he needed help while he grabbed Jake. A few minutes later a horse went galloping by, Finn's mustache on its butt and the guards in hot pursuit. Melissa face palmed. They were lucky the Banana Guards weren't too bright.
"Mel!"
Turning around she found Finn dressed normally.
"Where is?..."
He opened his shirt pocket.
"Oh. Hey, Jake. Welcome back."
Finn looked at Melissa gratefully.
"Thanks for what you said back there, Mel. I don't know what would have happened if I didn't have you."
She felt her heart rate quicken and tried not to show it.