I do not own 'The Hunger Games', 'Phineas and Ferb', 'Steven Universe', 'O.K. KO, Let's be heroes', Star vs, 'Adventure Time' or anything related.
Phineas picked up the remaining berries.
"Phineas, what are you doing?" Connie asked.
"Guys, I know what we're gonna do today. We're going to end the 74th games! I have a plan, but if only there was some way we could prevent the audience from knowing. You know, not to spoil them."
"In that case get close. My bubble is air tight!"
Steven activated his bubble around everyone.
"Huddle."
They huddled.
"Right. Here's the plan."
Wacko, intrigued, zoomed the camera close so that he could at least see their lips.
"Hmmm. I do want to know what they're planning. But on the other hand I don't want to get spoiled!"
"Right, everyone got the plan?"
They all nodded.
"Ok."
Steven brought down the bubble.
"Let's end the current games once and for all!"
It was later that day, after that declaration, after collecting supplies and going back to the base, that they set out again. This time they were tracking down the careers instead of avoiding them. When they came across Marco, Star and Rad, they were spotted.
"Get them!" Star cried out.
At once Steven activated his bubble around his friends and like a hamster ball they rolled for it. The career pack chased them all around for a while before the bubble crashed into a tree and burst.
The pack was huffing and puffing, exhausted from what felt like them chasing the other group all day. Steven, also exhausted, took out a bottle to drink.
"Nuh-uh-uh!"
Rad swiped it from his hand.
"Careers, first!"
And poured some of the liquid into his mouth before passing it over to Star.
"Here you go, Marco," Star offered after taking a gulp.
"No thanks I'm-"
Marco was distracted. By the purple liquid running down Star's mouth.
"Star? STAR!"
"What?"
They heard the sound of petrification. They looked around to see Rad turned to stone.
BOOM.
Star turned to look at Marco.
"Marco?"
Before turning to stone herself.
BOOM.
"STAR!"
Marco clutch Star's petrified form.
"Star, no Star! Star, no! It should have been me! It should have been- you should have-"
He broke down, still clutching Star's stone form. He then turned to look at the others, his tearful eyes full of rage. Phineas was already aiming a Yadda Yadda berry at him. At first Marco just stared at him. He let out a tortured screech as he lunged at him.
BOOM.
Steven had already stood between them with his shield up, but it was unnecessary. Marco's outstretched hands were inches away. The Yadda Yadda berry had reached its target in his mouth, turning him to stone like the others.
"Well, three down, one to go," Phineas stated.
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALCULATING?"
Phineas, shocked, turned to look at Steven, who was in tears.
"How can you be so calm, after what we just did? I thought you were like me, that you didn't want to hurt anybody, but we just did-"
"Steven! I didn't like it any more than you do, but there was no other way. You know that, right?"
"I do! It's just-"
He wiped the tears with his sleeve.
"From the way he reacted, the way he grieved, the way he was upset, he really cared for his fellow district tribute, like the rest of us!"
There was an uncomfortable silence.
"When I was with them," Connie started to explain, "I could tell that there was this sort of bond between the two. I mean I guess there's always some sort of bond between those who come from the same district, but this seemed stronger than usual! Like they were friends. No. Best friends, like me and Steven. But it was more than that. I think they had a crush on each other."
"No. It was more than a crush," Ferb added, "It was love."
"But Ferb, surely they would have known each other only for a couple of weeks, no one can fall in love that quickly!"
Phineas looked at the pair of statues. Another district pair that had a close bond pre-games.
"Steven."
He placed his hand on his ally's shoulder.
"There's nothing else we can do for them. The sooner we defeat Finn, the sooner we can end this."
"And what happens when there's only the four of us left?" Steven asked.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Taking once last look at the careers, the group moved on. A single tear trickled from Marco's petrified eye and dropped off.
Wacko poured himself a drink.
"This pond water comes straight from Planet X, your planet, I believe, Rad."
Dropping a worm from the same planet in his glass, he held it up at the screen.
"Farewell, Rad."
And drank it.
He poured himself a second drink.
"This Mewni pond water looks bright and sparkling, but it actually packs quite a punch! A lot like you."
Dropping a Mewni worm into the glass, he held it up.
"Farewell, Star Butterfly."
And drank it.
"As for you, Marco. Marco. You, whose complete lack of knowledge of actual karate is downright offensive to those who know those who actually practiced the martial art, this pond water here comes straight from your home town."
He picked up a worm.
"And this worm is the child of one worm native to America, the other from Mexico. So it's an American/Mexican hybrid. Kinda like yourself! Hmm. I'm beginning to think I'm putting a wee bit too much effort into these drinks. Ah, what the heck! Or I guess, the Underworld in your case!"
He held up the glass.
"Farewell, Marco Diaz."
And drank it.
"You know it's a really good thing I'm only drinking pond water right now, otherwise I'd be totally wasted!"
"Sir, I don't think you're allowed to say that word here," The professor, appearing on a screen, pointed out.
"Oh come on, they got away with it in Tiny Toons!"
"Yes, but that was back in the nineties. People's concepts of what's appropriate and sensitivities change over time. Also the episode was banned on Fox."
"Oh yes, why show an episode that teaches kids that drinking alcohol is bad for you?" Wacko muttered.
"Apparently there were worries that aspects of it would encourage children to drink despite the episode ending in the fiery demise of the affected characters."
"Does anyone get the feeling that the game makers are now driving the remaining tributes towards each other?" Connie suggested.
"Why do you say that?" Steven asked.
"From the way game and food has been getting scarce in places to streams drying up, to even terrain changing shape, it feels like they're pushing us in a direction. Probably to have a showdown with Finn."
Sure enough, they came across a forest where they also met up with Finn, who drew his sword. Steven activated his shield; Connie drew her sword; Phineas prepared his slingshot and Ferb took out a spanner.
"Wait a minute! You're all still alive?" Finn asked, incredulous, "I mean I expected the male 6 to be around, but I heard the canon go off three times and-"
Finn realised what had happened.
"Wait you mean- you all took out the others? How? HOW? Seriously, how? How did a bunch of wusses take out-?"
"Guys, look!"
Phineas pointed out to what was at the centre of their location.
It was a cemetery.
There were 24 graves, 5 of which were still open. Everyone walked towards it. On each of the gravestone was a number, ranging from 1 to 12, and whether they were male or female. Phineas understood who these were for; the fallen tributes. Even though their names weren't visible, he could imagine their faces on the stones. Hiro. Go-Go. Enid. Rad. Star. Marco. Dipper. Mabel. Mabel. Crying, Phineas walked towards Mabel's grave. He realised that he still had her grappling hook on him. He took it out.
"I'm sorry, Mabel. I'm sorry I couldn't save you."
He laid the grappling hook onto the grave. A hand burst out to grab it. The rest of Mabel followed. All the graves burst open, the fallen tributes crawling out to greet them with their unnaturally deep moans and groans. Zombies. Green, decaying, skeletal zombies with glowing eyes. Most of them gravitated towards Finn. It made sense. He had been part of the pack that had taken them down, and now they were back for their revenge beyond the grave.
"Stay back! STAY BACK!"
Finn backed away, sword up. He looked terrified.
"No, no!" Cried out the zombie Hiro, "Please don't kill me! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!"
Phineas recognised them as the last words Hiro said.
"I killed you once, I can kill you again!"
"Ninja slice!"
Randy's sword met Finn's. He was dressed as some kind of ninja.
"Ninja slice! Ninja slice!" He kept shouting, hacking at Finn, who kicked him away. He fought off the other zombies, hacking and slashing, but they kept on coming.
"Finn."
His fellow district tribute, who looked like a moving statue of mouldy old bubble gum, walked towards him.
"Finn!"
"PB, it's not my fault you couldn't cut it!"
Finn stabbed her. He tried to pull out his sword, but it was stuck. It wouldn't budge.
"It was before they changed the rules!"
Finn, surprisingly, was now crying.
"If I had known, if I had known back then-"
Giving up on the sword, he backed away. The zombie PB pulled out the sword with ease, and let out a low roar.
Other zombies (Marco, Star and Rad) stumbled towards Steven.
"I'm sorry."
Steven was crying.
"I'm so, so sorry. I didn't know. I didn't know you two were in love-"
"Hiya!"
The zombie Marco brought down a karate chop, but Connie sliced off the arm before it could impact.
"Steven, focus!" Connie shouted at him.
"But- but-" Steven stammered.
The zombie Star held up a wand.
"Narwhal blast."
And shot out a zombified narwhal. Steven brought up his shield in time, where the zombie narwhal exploded on impact.
The remaining zombies (Enid, Go-Go, and to Phineas' dismay, Dipper and Mabel), turned their attention to him.
"Woman up!"
Go-Go hurled one of her discusses at Phineas who ducked. He got back up again.
"Phineas, duck!"
Ferb landed on top of him to stop the returning discuss from hitting him. It returned to Go-Go. Mabel raised her arm.
"Grappling hook!"
And shot out the grappling hook. Once again. It just missed them, only to pull a tree that Go-Go had hit earlier towards them. A shield appeared to stop the tree from falling on them.
"Thanks, Steven!" Phineas thanked.
"Hey, what are allies for?" Steven called back, as the zombie Rad lunged at him.
"Ah!"
He materialised a shield in time to block him.
"Xorpf! Oh, really? Not even here can I escape that fad!"
"Aaaaah!" The zombie Dipper screamed as if in terror as he lunged at Phineas, pinning him to the ground. Ferb knocked him off.
"Grappling hook!"
Mabel raised her weapon again, but Ferb managed to yank it out of her hands and whacked her across the face with his spanner.
"Ferb, stop!" Phineas put his hand on Ferb shoulder, "You're hurting them!"
"It's not them, Phineas!" His brother told him, "It can't be them! Look at Marco! Look at Star! Look at Rad! Look at Go-Go, you know it can't be them!"
Phineas processed what Ferb had told him, knowing that he was right.
"But still.."
"They wouldn't have been buried in the Arena! They would have been sent home after being taken out of the Arena."
"Ferb is right, Phineas!" Connie agreed, fighting off the zombie Rad, "These are just mutts designed to look like them! Muttations, the genetic creations of the Capital, designed to kill the tributes, can-"
"Save the exposition for internal thought, Connie," Ferb told her, "Right now, let's focus getting out of this mess!"
The zombie Enid now attacked, screaming Enid's last words.
"Nothing, nothing! It wasn't me! Rad! RAD!"
"Darnit, if only I had a couple of stones for my slingshot, but all I've got is yadda yadda berries!"
"Grappling Hook!"
"Narwhal Blast!"
"Nina Slice!"
"BOOMERANG SHIELD!"
A shield ricocheted against the trees and zombies, knocking them all down.
"Let's get out of here, before they have a chance to get up!" Shouted Connie.
"But what about Finn?" Steven asked.
Finn, screaming, was already fleeing on his own.
"We can't just leave him to the zombies!"
"Are you kidding? There's no time, we need to roll!"
Steven created a bubble around all of them and they started to run away from the zombies.
"By the way, Steven, that was surprisingly violent of you the way you handled those zombies back there," Phineas remarked.
"Well it's not like zombies feel pain. Wait, you don't think they felt pain, do you?"
"I don't think that's the highest priority right now."
"Do you think we've lost them?"
"We must have. Zombies aren't well known for running fast-"
They heard the moans. Looking back, they saw the zombies were chasing after them.
"Then again these had to be the running type."
The zombie Randy swung through the trees, using his scarf to wrap around them, landing on the front of their bubble. Everyone screamed.
"Ninja sli-" Zombie Randy started to say before getting squashed under the rolling bubble, still stuck on as they rolled. Unable to see where they were going, the group ran into a rock wall, the bubble bursting.
"Ninja slice!"
Connie blocked the blows from Zombie Randy.
"Ninja slice! Ninja slice!"
Steven grabbed his scarf and threw him down a chasm below.
"Ninja sliiiiiiiiice!"
The rest of the zombies surrounded them. Everyone readied their weapons, but they all knew that it was hopeless.
"Steven, you can still get out of here!" Phineas told him, "You have leaping powers!"
"I can't just leave you all behind!" Steven protested.
"We'll be fine, Steven! Besides, someone needs to win the games!"
Steven and Connie looked at each other. There seemed to be some sort of recognition between them.
"Yes. You're right."
Steven placed a bubble around Phineas and Ferb.
"Steven, what are you doing?" Phineas asked.
"Phineas. Ferb."
Steven looked at them, knowing that they couldn't hear him, but hoping at least one of them could read lips.
"Win this thing. Win this thing for all of us."
And he kicked the bubble away into the air.
"STEVEN!" Phineas yelled, even though he couldn't hear him.
The zombies got closer.
"Connie, it's not too late, I can save you too!"
"No! I'm staying by your side. We do this together, even to the end. Besides, you know that only one District can win."
Steven knew that she was right. He activated a bubble around them before the zombies could get them. They were banging on it.
"How long will that bubble hold them?" Connie asked.
"I don't know."
Connie took out a bottle, while Steven took out a Yadda Yadda Berry.
"Remember, Steven. Swallow, don't chew, or it won't work."
"I know. Well, see you on the other side."
Smiling she held up her bottle. She drank it while Steven swallowed his berry.
BOOM.
BOOM.
The bubble burst, but the zombies moved on, revealing Steven and Connie's stoned forms.
P.S. I do not own 'Gravity Falls', 'Randy Cunningham: ninth grade ninja', 'Big Hero 6' or anything related either.
