"Put it in Chamber 665".
Marshall's eyes widened from the sound of a guard's voice followed by footprints followed by animalistic growls of resistance.
Turning over on his side, Marshall lifted his heavy body, weak from drugs injected into his neck through syringe to keep him from struggling and acting out while being signed in for detainment. His muscles had felt the weakest they had ever felt, as if a bolder that weighed half of him had been crushing against him for hours. Simple movement like running a single hand through his dark hair or itching the red jumpsuit against his skin made his arms sore. Across from him, the transparent barrier of the cell began to open horizontally. Marshall watched as a disturbing creature was being forced into the cell by four guards. It was faceless with needle-like teeth and from its horrific mouth can an ear screeching howl. Marshall studied it, seeing its 8 spider-like legs step back and forward as it tried to escape from being put into the cell. After minutes of force, finally the chamber cell wall was closed. The sounds of the beast howling and trying to bash its head against the wall could not be heard, as if a creature like that had never existed in the cell. Despite it's grotesque look, Marshall continued to stare at it while resting on his floating top cot.
"You're a creepy fucker," He stated, watching its mouth open wide as if it was screaming from frustration.
Marshall perched himself onto his right shoulder and faced the titanium chamber wall with his nail that he expanded to sharpen her started to carve into the wall…continuing to add music notes to a row of other symbols carved into the metal. Marshall sighed as he constructed his musical piece of caveman-like art. It was now his only way to music. His eyes widened as a sound broke the silence in the room and distracted him from the melody he was conducting in his head. It was the sound of the cell door opening, a short beep that usually sounded for a millisecond…but this time…there were two that sounded.
The pitter patter of quick moving tips against the ground left an uneasy feeling in the pit of Marshall's stomach. Carefully and quickly he began to slowly look over his shoulder to notice the origin of the noise. The turn of his head allowed his eyes to barely scan the room behind him before a shriek that stung his eyes and a harsh clamp to his shoulder followed by a burning sting forced him off his bunk and onto the floor like a heavy potato sack. A howl of pain escaped Marshall's lips as he shut his eyes tight for a millisecond before immediately opening them to another horrific howl from the eight-legged monster hovering over him, baring its needlelike teeth.
With a yelp he forced his body to roll over while it's larger unhinged jaw swooped down at marshall, missing him by a hair. Marshall removed his hand from his shoulder to see his palm covered in a mixture of his blood and yellow slime that stung him like a hot iron to the skin. With another helpless yelp he stretched out his arm and with little strength, reached out towards the titanium bunkbed. Once gripping the support bar of the bed and ripping it apart to cause the collapse of the bed while bringing it closer to him as a weapon. The creature howled again and stretched it's throat wide as he aimed to bite off Marshall's head. The titanium bar thrusted into its mouth to prevent from shutting forced it to try and shape free from the obstacle preventing it from devouring Marshall. The demon attempted to scoot away with his free hand and his legs, moving slightly across the floor. The monster fought with he bar in it's jaw like a dog trying to shake a blanket off it's head. Marshall pressed his back against the wall of his cell, watching in horror. His free hand and shoulder clenched as he tried to transform into anything that could defend himself. With heavy anxiety and fear he looked at his limb seeing part of body start to shift but revert to normal from the substances still in his body.
"FUCK"! He called out
Drool from the creature's strained mouth fell to the floor as its jaw shook, forcing a loud break of the titanium that clanked to the floor. Pressing his back against the wall, Marshall held onto his injured shoulder. He shut his eyes for a moment and in the background of the horrific screeches and growls from the creature..he could hear a faint voice…Fionna's voice calling his name. with eyes wide and now darted, he faced the creature.
If he was about to die, he wasn't about to cower after all he Ben and Fionna had faced together, this was no skin off his nose.
With his back against the wall, he lifted himself up by his legs, feeling the harsh cold titanium brush harshly against his red prison jumpsuit. With dark red beaming eyes, he glared at the creature. Darkness clouded over half of his face, shading over his eyes in attempt to intimidate the monster. It seemed to startle it for a moment, but not a moment long enough. Marshall hissed and produced a demonic howl himself as the creature matched it with its own scream and started to charge at him. It's spider legs rapidly sped across the floor while its jaw stretched outward and upward with plans to engulf marshall whole. Its jaw hung over his head like an umbrella, shading him like one too and began to clamp down. Just before Marshall could live through the horror of being eaten alive, he noticed the creature stopped and he was just left still alive under the hood of its mouth and the stench of its rotten breath in it's grotesque dark wet throat.
Silence filled the room for only a second before another sound made Marshall's heart race than the anxiety of his near-death experience.
"Hey dude, hope you don't mind I dropped in past visiting hours".
The demon's eyes nearly watered as the sound echoed in his voice as he pushed the creature's body aside and out of his way, ferociously forcing it to fall.
He immediately grew disheartened seeing no one there but feeling a present. As his eyes grew sad and drawn to the floor, he noticed a pair on sneakers attached to a pair of legs wearing skinny jeans still before him. His eyes averted upward to see more. A pair of female hips, an upper body and a face that he thought he'd never see again stand right there. The tremble of his lower lip prevented him from speaking as he threw himself into Fionna, releasing a yelp of relief and surprise as he hugged her so tight, he cracked her back.
"Fionna"! He called out, loosing control of himself as his hand swung over her backside and picked her up by her butt holding her tight despite his aching shoulder.
Fionna ran her hands through Marshall's dark hair, kissing his head tenderly and brushing into his hair like he was a soft pillow as she wrapped her legs around him while he held her.
"Marshall". Fionna whispered as she wrapped her arms around his neck, taking in his scent.
Marshall grabbed onto her tighter, his body shaking slightly as he rocked her in his arms. Fionna continued to remain lifted with her legs still around him. Fionna's head bowed as Marshall's lifted, allowing their lips to touch and electricity to flow through their veins. Fionna massaged the feel of Marshall's cold lips against her warm mouth and felt butterflies in her stomach hearing him moan lovingly with bliss.
Her fingers felt like heaven caressing against the skin on his cheek, a feeling he thought that he would only relive through memory during his moment of death.
Marshall groaned forcing himself to break away from her soft yet cracked lips
"What the hell are you doing here"?! Marshall called out during their joyous reunion.
Fionna laughed.
"Hey man I missed you too". She laughed, despite Marshall's lack of amusement.
His eyes were wide with concern and confusion as he started to put his lower down. Despite bringing her feet to the floor, he wouldn't take his hands off her. His palms slid up her body from her hips to cup her face with both hands as he pressed his nose against hers. Fionna kept her eyes on him, looking into his dark red eyes, standing a foot shorter than the demon.
"Babe, you gotta bounce out of here it's,"
"Let me guess, no place for a human", Fionna remarked with a smirk.
Marshall grabbed onto Fionna's shoulders and gripped her jaw forcing her to look deep into his eyes.
"DUDE…you can't be here"!
"Mar-,"
"FIONNA! You need to leave, I sacrificed for you so you can live now stop fucking fighting me," Marshall called out as his loving touch on Fionna diminished and he grabbed her, pulling her towards the opened chamber entrance, noticing something.
It was unharmed, opened, both chamber cells of his and the creatures as if on purpose. He paused for a moment to make the connection between the two cells. Then he turned his body to notice the creature laying on the floor, frozen as if incased in ice.
"What…did you do to it"? Marshall asked, unable to take his eyes off the creature whole jaw was as long as him while unhinged.
"We got friends in high cosmic places" Fionna said, twirling a small ring around her finger with a small timer attached.
Marshall turned his attention to the item Fionna was fiddling with.
"What is that"? He asked,
Fionna tossed it up in the air catching it with her fingers, its small form slipped for a moment in her hand, causing her thumb to press a buton she didn't want to. A breath of a panic along with the howl of the creature nearly sent Marshall into a heart attack as he turned to see the creature active again. It looked back and forth puzzled before eying him once again and opening it's jaw wider.
"SHIT SHIT'! Fionna freaked out, clicking the same button as the creature went motionless once more.
Marshall turned to her with panic, clutching his heart in his chest that he thought was about to fall out from his ass.
"Girl"! He called out panting, running a hand through his hair.
Fionna grit her teeth sheepishly with a laugh.
"Well, at least it's self-explanatory what it does". She said with a shrug.
Marshall sighed and bowed his head, attacking her with a nothing tight hug, careful not to touch that device.
"Gob damn Fi". Marshall muttered into Fionna's blonde hair, taking a moment to hold her tight following his second panic attack.
"Yea it's pretty rad right"?
"Yea…in a way of…fuck it up and you might shit yourself kind of way". Marshall muttered as her dug his fingers into her hair.
Fionna could hear his heartbeat very loudly and feel pound into her own chest.
"Ready to go home"?
"What are you talking about"? Marshall spoke into her hair still huffing breaths of panic.
"Well, what do you think I came here for? The bacon pancakes"? Fionna asked.
Marshall took her by the face again, his fingers trapping strands of her hair and pressing them into her skin.
"There's no way out of here babe". Marshall said, his eyes still full of stress and panic.
Fionna rolled her eyes and pulled something pocket sized out her pants. She tossed it to the floor and allowed it to generate to its true form.
"Oh look there's one," Fionna said sarcastically with a smirk referring to the transporter that would take the crew to and from Aaa and Ooo.
Marshall looked at the device that could travel through both time and space and bit his lip while still holding onto Fionna.
"Yea one problem blondie, they'll be on a galactic hunt for me," Marshall reminded,
His eyes grew wide as he felt a sting to his forearm as if something very sharp had scratched him. Marshall called out in pain seeing his arm start to bleed out.
"Ow, what the crease, Fi"? Marshall asked, examing his wound and noticing that Fionna had skinned a piece of his flesh.
"Sorry dude". Fionna apologized as she got down on one knee and pulled out a jar of white looking goop out of her backpack.
"What is that"? Marshall asked, still holding his bleeding arm.
"It's your freedom". Fionna replied as she unscrewed the jaw.
Carefully she reached in grabbing a scoop of it with her fingers and then lathering over the bit of flesh she cut from Marshall's body. Before leaving for the grim row chambers, prismo had given Fionna some Guardian's Blood. The white gloop had special healing properties that Finn at one time had used on his dad when breaking him out of the citidal. Both Fionna and Marshall watched as the white looking substance glowed on the ground, covered over the bit of flesh as it expanded and grew. Bones and veins and muscles protruded from the bit of skin, forming into a limb.
"Gross", Marshall muttered as he stared down at a disembodied version of his arm.
Fionna smiled and picked it up.
"So now it'll look like you were a snack," Fionna stated messing with Marshall by hitting hit lightly with the arm
Marshall scoffed with a laugh as he swatted the limb away playfully.
"Psh babe, I coulda told you I was a snack before," He said with a wink.
Fionna rolled her eyes, placing the arm next to the creature.
Marshall looked over her shoulder from a distance at the scene they were attempting to make.
"Shouldn't it ya know..have a little juice coming out of it if we're going to make it look like I was homeboy's happy meal"? Marshall asked.
Fionna scratched her head, realizing that Marshall had a point. Suddenly an idea came to mind. Holding up her hand she noticed the ruby ring given to her on her wedding day and the same ring that began the daggar that ended her in another life. Marshall shivered looking at the thing. Fionna took it off her finger and transformed it. For a second she studied the brilliant daggar with its bright red streak of demon blood infused inside of it. Fionna stared at her reflection in it for just a moment as if to get one last look at one of her prized possessions. Marshall came behind her and allowed his reflection to be mirrored in the daggar.
"Can I do the honors"? He asked lowly.
Fionna looked over her shoulder to Marshall who stared down at the daggar with disgust. It was clear to her that he had distain for that weapon. For him it was more than distain, he despised that artifact that had caused so many problems. In his mind he thought that destroying it would at least lay to rest a problem that would never circulate to hurt them again. Fionna handed the dagger to Marshall. His fingers gripped around it as he stared into his reflection. The blade felt cold in his hands and reminded him of the cold ground he and Ben had to put Fionna in because of this weapon. With that thought in mind, Marshall felt his strength finally return to him. With dark red eyes and hands growing large and animal-like, the pressure of his demonic strength forced the dagger to crack in two. The demon blood dripped onto the fake limb, festering inside of it and out and around it like an actual disembodied arm. Marshall looked at his dagger in and noticed it crackle into black dust before disappearing in the air. At that moment, the guilt he had held on his shoulders had disappeared just like that weapon into thin air. Fionna rested a hand on Marshall's shoulder, rubbing it gently.
"Let's go home". Fionna said gently.
Marshall took a moment before nodding and brought himself to his feet. As they both stepped onto the transporter, the demon held Fionna's hand tight. A blue light enclosing them while they stood on the transporter surrounded them as they were preparing to leave the cell. Fionna met Marshall's eyes whom she noticed as staring at her lovingly.
"What's up, dude"?
With a smile, Marshall wrapped his arm around Fionna, pulling the back of her head closer to his lips. He planted a kiss on her forward lovingly and brushed back her hair with his thumb.
"Thanks for saving me, hero", he said with a smirk.
Fionna blushed and gave his arm a small playful punch before wrapping her arms around him.
"Thanks for saving me in another alternate universe," Fionna joked.
Marshall smiled, caressing her warm cheek.
"I don't ever want to live in one without you again". Marshall said softly as he wrapped his arms around his human girl, pressing his forehead against hers as they disappeared from the cell.
A few hours after Marshall's return to Aaa, the sun had finally set over the silent land.
"So I guess this means that I need to be one of Hudson's groomsmen when he gets hitched to my mom," Marshall muttered as he Ben and Fionna laid on a picnic blanket in the garden, watching the stars.
"It could be worse; he could make you call him dad", mentioned Gumball.
Fionna lightly chuckled.
"Or daddy", She commented with a laugh
She yelped regretting that comment feeling Marshall poke at her side and then felt Ben also tickle her.
"Alright! Uncalled for I get it"! She laughed, covering herself as Ben and Marshall chuckled.
Both boys snuggled closer to her, lifting her body so they could both rest one of their arms behind her neck. Fionna took each of their free hands with both of hers and squeezed them tight until they decided to cuddle her on their sides and continue to watch the stars.
"So, are you ok with changing your last name"? Fionna asked.
Marshall took a moment to answer and huffed a sigh.
"Honestly…..I was never a fan of Abadeer…too gothic, ya know"? Marshall said as Ben and Fionna muffled a laugh.
Fionna's wish from Prismo had been the time stopping timer that helped Marshall escape from jail, but there was a catch to it. Once Marshall was freed, his name needed to be changed to ensure that he couldn't be tracked. Lucky for him, he acquired quite a few fangirls from his music from over the years who named their kids Marshall Lee. If his last name was gotten rid of, he couldn't be tracked. At this point, he was already pronounced dead by the galactic commission.
"So, what's it going to be"? Fionna asked.
"Marshall Lee Marshall? Marshall Lee Lee"?
"Lee Lee"? Marshall asked with disgust.
"I bet there was someone who had that name at one time," stated Fionna.
"It's more of a full name than I have". Gumball pointed out.
"Gumball is a lot better of a name than Gumball Lee, or even Gumlee", Marshall noted.
Ben raised an eyebrow at the thought.
"I totally bet that people used to ship you guys together before I came along with the name Gumlee". Fionna noted.
Gumball thought hard for a moment.
"There's that word again…ship…used as a verb but also as modern term….what does it mean exactly? Ship…like a package"? Gumball asked.
"Don't hurt yourself bubble butt it's just a term that puts the names of two people in a relationship together.
"Intriguing". Ben muttered.
"What do you think they call the trio in Aaa"?
"Right now…Probably pregnant..Marceline just texted me a little while ago. Finn knocked her up".
Ben and Fionna rejoiced in unison. While doing so..the sound of a beeper from Gumball's pocket went off.
"Pardon me, guys". He said as he removed his arm from over Fionna's belly to reach for his communicator.
Marshall and Fionna watched his eyes dart from side to side to read it.
"Looks like Bonnie is now expecting too".
"No wayyy! Yo that's crazy son"! Marshall exclaimed with a laugh.
"Damn…..who knew Finn had the stamina"! He announced.
Ben and Fionna laughed along as well.
"Speaking of babies, has anyone checked on ours in the last hour"? Fionna asked as she slowly brought herself up from between her two men and walked over to her backpack where the baby monitor rested.
Ben and Marshall brought themselves upon their arms and watched as Fionna checked on the boys. They looked at each other for a moment with her back turned to them.
"So Fi..question for ya"
"Answer". Fionna replied, checking the rooms of both boys.
"Do you like your last name? Because You know you could've just gotten rid of it after you married Ben and became Princess Fionna Gumball.
Fionna shrugged.
"I mean I'm only a princess by title I was born with the name Mertins, plus it's cool that me and my dad are the last two to have the name". Fionna said.
PG swallowed.
"Well, what if we told you that there could be two people with that family name"? He asked.
Fionna put the monitor down and turned around confused to see the two men standing in front of her with warm smiles. The human girl blushed a little confused.
"What gummy is trying to say is…what if Ben and I wanted to take your name"? Marshall asked.
Fionna's lips parted a bit, unsure of what to say. Both Ben and Marshall took one of her hands, caressing the top of them with their thumbs.
"Would you be cool with that"? Marshall asked with a dashing smile and Ben with a gentle one.
Fionna smirked.
"I just have one condition".
Ben and Marshall took a moment to look at each other before averting their attention back to Fionna lovingly. With their hands each clasping both of hers, Fionna took to one knee as their eyes continued to connect with hers. With a smile and a straightening of her voice, she began to speak.
"Marshall Lee Abadeer and King Benjamin Gumball, will you bros make me the happiest woman in the world and marry me"? Fionna asked.
A smirk and another glance between Ben and Marshall were exchanged before they answered. Marshall grinned and licked his lips as he turned his gaze back to Fionna
"You know we can't say no to you when you're on your knees". Marshall joked and laughed along with Ben as Fionna's jaw dropped while also laughing along.
"You jerk"! She called out, punching at Marshall's shoulder.
With the drugs still in his system from injection at Grim Row, Marshall's body was still weak and was forced backward's from Fionna's hit.
While he fell, Fionna felt her weight also pulled and soon she could feel a splash of water on her before being completely drenched in water from the fountain that she and Marshall and half of Gumball's body fell into.
"Oh honestly, guys"! Ben complained as Fionna and Marshall howled with laughter splashing each other and Gumball.
"Get in here, Gumwad"! Marshall called out, pulling Ben into the large fountain with water that came up to their waist.
Fionna continued to laugh, splashing at the boys.
"So, does this mean, we're getting married"? Fionna asked.
A yelp escaped from her throat as Marshall picked up her damp body. Ben joined in as well, wrapping her legs around both boys as they held her up between her legs. Fionna's arms wrapped over the shoulders of both her lovers and exchanged loving glances between the two of them. The boys held onto her tighter, forming a tight bond between the three of them while they still stood in the water of the fountain.
"It means that we'll be stuck with each other forever"! Marshall exclaimed.
"I'm totally ok with that", noted Fionna.
"As am I". stated Gumball as the three held each other tight in that fountain and all throughout the rest of the night.