"You?" I asked her.
"Yes, Me." The pink princess said with a smile.
"But, Bonnie, you'll stretch out 'n shit..." Marceline said, still holding on to me.
"I know, but I want to try to see if I can do this. It will be a fun way to test out science. Besides, I'm half gum. I can just push myself back to normal." Bubblegum said to us.
I looked at Marceline, who nodded to me, and I said, "Are you completely sure?" I asked her.
"Yes. I want to do this." She told me.
"Alright. I trust you." I said to her.
"The same goes Double for me." Marcy said, keeping her seat beside me.
"Alright. Now, Marceline, I will need your help in this. I need you to place the embryos in me during the procedure. I would ask Michael to do this, due to the dexterity and grace of his fingers, but..." PB said, twirling her fingers around.
"Ah. I understand that. So, when are we going to do this?" Marceline asked her.
"Right as soon as the rest of the candy people can sterilize the procedure room." Bonnibel said, leading us out of the room. We waited in this one room nearby the room, as we saw multiple people pastries walking into the room, obviously sterilizing everything. After about five minutes, they all walked out, and this one peppermint dressed in a suit said, "It's all ready for you, Princess."
"Thanks, Peppermint Butler." Bubblegum said. She picked up Marceline's hand, and led her into the room. I looked around the room, now completely unsure as to what to do now. I initially started out browsing some of the magazines in here, but they were all about candy, which caused me to feel hungry, so I put that down. I then started to pace around the room, but after a while, I felt my skin start to burn. I looked up to see that I was under a skylight, and I had been out of the cream for a while. After heading to the bathroom and reapplying the cream, I went back to the room, keeping my distance from the skylight, and just stood in the corner, and shoved my hands in my pockets.
"Hm?" I said, pulling out what my right hand bumped into when I shoved it in. When the black box and the white cable coming from the side of it. "My phone!" I said to myself, tapping the lock button at the top. The screen lit up, showing the time of what it would be in my world, and the date. I saw that the time would be around noon, in the year 5121. "Damn. Time moves a lot differently here than it does there." I said. I pulled my ear buds, which were on the cable attached to my iPhone, and started to play the first song that came up: Kamehameha by S3RL.
"Michael?" I heard after a while. I removed my left ear bud, which was my default to remove whenever I was listening to my music, and looked up, to see Marceline in scrubs, with her gloves off. I paused the song I was listening to, Rock and Roll(Will Take You To The Mountain) by Skrillex, and stood up.
"Marceline. Did everything go okay?" I asked her, walking close to her, trying to figure out the situation.
"Why don't you ask Bonnie?" She asked, holding out her hand, just as Princess Bubblegum was wheeled by on a gurney, which she made stop for us.
"Well, Science has just been set in motion." She said, rubbing her stomach through the patient's robe. I chuckled, and gave Marceline a hug, which she graciously returned. We then watched as PB was wheeled into the Post-OP room.
Three Months Later
After a few months of hopping around, we were called back to the Candy Kingdom. As soon as we walked through the front doors, we were greeted by the very large stomached Princess.
"Bonnibel! Look at what's happened! How fast have they grown?" I asked, placing my hand on her stomach.
"Really fast, but there is a problem... Could the both of you come into the lab please?" She asked, with a weak tone of voice. I looked at Marceline, who also shared the concerned look on her face, and we followed her, floating after her. Once we were in the lab, she turned to us, and said, "I'm sure that you guys can tell that I'm not at my best..."
"Yeah... Your skin's, like, ten shades lighter than it normally is. What's going on?" Marceline asked.
"I..I think it's the babies. I just don't know what's going on in there. I've been eating as much as I can, but I can never get full..." She explained, rubbing her enlarged belly.
"What, Pickles and Ice Cream hasn't been doing you any good?" I asked her, jokingly.
"No. it hasn't. And this color drain from me, that's another thing. I think that the babies are draining me of all pigment." She responded.
"Yeah. That shouldn't be happening. At least, from all of the human kids that I've seen..." I said, putting my hand up to my chin, trying to think. The Princess mumbled something, so I said, "Thought of something, Princess?"
"What? Oh, it's nothing. Just a random idea that I had." She said.
"Well, some random ideas can prove to be the best. So, what is it?" Marceline asked.
"Well, what if I drank blood?" She said. My eyes widened, and I looked at Marceline, who had my similar look in her beautiful eyes.
"That...might work..." I said, turning back to the pale Princess.
She looked at me in amazement, then said, "But, How can I do that? All of the Candy People's teeth are flat. We aren't capable of biting and puncturing flesh!"
"I have an idea to fix that. Come." I said, beckoning for her to follow. She did, but only after I held out my hand and Marceline aided me in carrying her back to the complex. Once we were on the ground floor, I lead them to the 23rd Door on the right, where I opened the thick bank vault lock on the door. Upon opening it, we were hit by a massive rush of cold air. "Here. I've managed to gain blood from every single type of creature in Ooo, and synthesize enough to last me five lifetimes. Often, whenever I'm stuck in here with Vampire Hunters outside, I go to here to feast." I explained.
"Wow... So, what do we do?" Marceline asked. I walked to the dispensary, and collected eight bags of blood, then walked back over to the Princess.
"Which would you prefer for your first meal? A+? B+? AB+? O+? A-? B-? AB-? O-? I've got them all." I asked her, counting out her options.
"Oh...um..." The Princess shyly started to say.
"Take your time. I'll just go back to listening to my music." I said, pulling out my ear bud, and placing it in my default ear.
"Wait, what is that?" Bubblegum asked.
"What, this old thing? It's something trivial, from my world. It's how I can listen to music without everyone else hearing it. It's actually connected to my phone, right now." I explained, pulling out my black iPhone.
"Phone? We haven't even seen one of those since The Mushroom War..." PB said.
"The Mushroom War?" I asked, curious.
"Guys, can we just continue to do what we originally came here to do?" Marceline asked, handing Bonnibel a bag of AB+. "Here honey, it tastes better than the others." She said during the handoff.
"Oh...okay. Well, here goes nothing." PB said, pulling the tab off of the top of the blood bag, raising it to her lips, and started to chug it. Once she completely sucked it dry, she gasped for air, and wiped her mouth, a small bit of blood still there. "Finally...," She said, walking over to the Biohazard bin that I kept in the room, and dropping the bag in.
"Well, it looks like we've solved another problem together." I said, raising my hand, which Marceline responded with a high five.
"Yes. I must put this into my books once I get home." She said, the color returning to her face, when she suddenly cried out in pain.
"Princess!" I yelled.
"Bonnie!" Marceline yelled as well, meeting me at the Princess's side.
"T..The kids...They're...They're..." She started saying. I looked at Marceline, who nodded at me. I ran to one of the spare rooms, and pulled off the sheets from the beds.
After three hours of listening to Bubblegum's cries of pain, and Marceline aiding her, the world was greeted by two new faces. One was a boy, with black hair, but red streaks at the ends. The other was a girl, who had her mother's beautiful blue eyes, but my pure black hair. Her skin, however, was not as gray as her brother's: it had a few hints of Pink. "My guess is that they gained some qualities from me." PB said, finally able to relax after the ordeal of birth. I smirked, and held my son, who looked at me with light blue eyes.
A week later
"So, what are we going to name these little devils?" I asked Marceline.
"I dunno. I kinda want to name this one after my mother, Kassandra." She said, holding our daughter.
"Cool. I want to name this little guy Shadow. He reminds me of this one person from my world who also had red streaks on his hair." I said. "However, I would like to nickname our daughter 'Little Asskicker'." I included, rocking Shadow in my arms.
"Yes on the first request, and hell fuck no on the second." She responded, glaring at me.
"Alright. Anyway, How would you like that name? Hm? Would you like to be called, 'Shadow Simon Tyler'?" I asked my son, who smiled. "Well, there's one name down." I said, looking at Marceline, who was rocking our daughter.
"Really? You'd name your son after Simon? That's sweet." Marceline said, kissing me on the lips. Around that time, we heard some banging on the hatch over the entrance tube. I walked over to the wall with the video camera monitor, and tapped the button. When the screen revealed the face of the person knocking, it showed to be Simon himself.
"Hey, Marceline? Michael? Is this where you guys live?" He asked, awaiting a response.
"Yeah, this is it. Come on in, stranger. We've currently got our hands full at the moment." I said, knowing that the camera wasn't a two way.
"Alright. I'm coming down." He said, opening the hatch. As soon as he got down to our level, he looked at us, and the two bundles in our arms. "Are those...What I think they are?" He asked.
"Yep. Say hello to little Shadow Simon Tyler." I said, bringing my son over to him, the little guy being fast asleep in my arms.
"Oh, I see he has my name as his middle. Thank you." He said.
"Welcome. And he's not the only new face here." I said. Marceline walked up to him, our daughter in her arms.
"Her name is Kassandra Alicia Tyler." Marceline said, smiling at me. I smiled back, and leaned in to give her a peck on the lips.
"How cute. Who's the Godparents?" Simon asked us.
"Oh!" I said, looking at Marceline, who also had a shocked look on her beautiful, gray skin.
"Well, I think, since She helped give birth to them, Princess Bubblegum is one, and I'd probably put Finn as the other." Marceline said, looking back at Simon, who now had a frowning face on him.
"Hey, cheer up, man. Do you really think that this is how you should be acting in front of your niece and nephew?" I asked him. He immediately sprang up in happiness after this.
"Really?" He asked, as if not believing what we had just told him.
"Yes, really. You honestly thought that we would leave you out of the loop?" I asked him.
"Oh, goodness! Can I?" He asked, holding out his arms, and somehow, moving his beard as well. I looked at Marceline, who shrugged, and so we handed the little bundles of joy off to their Uncle, who managed to hold them with his beard as if they were another pair of arms. I chuckled, and just shook my head.
"Hey, Simon. Would you mind watching the kids for a little bit?" I asked him, wrapping my arm around Marceline.
"Oh... Sure. Take all the time you need." Simon said, turning around and going into one of the spare rooms. Marceline and I took this opportunity and we immediately dashed into our room.