"We gotta go get some 'Coalescent Goo', 'Guardians Blood'... what is all this junk?!"

Jake turns the list this way and that in confusion.

"You said Ice King gave us this list of ingredients to bring Fiona back right?" Finn sits about a little glumly on the dumb rock above their father's dungeon, "Aw, bonkers, this is impossible, Jake. Let's bail."

"What? The Finn I know never turns his back on adventure! Plus, don't you wanna see Fiona again?"

"Dude, I told you. Whatever was between us... How do I even make sense of it?"

"Well, you can't make sense of it if you don't see her again. Let's go see Bubblegum. Maybe she can help with this shopping list."

"Jake!" Lady calls as she lands, flustered, "좀 이상한 사람 이 등장 하고 그는 나에게 다음과 같은 되었습니다!"

"What?! Where is he?!" Jake looks about, a tough look on his face, "Don't worry honey, if he thinks he's gonna-"

At that moment, a black steed with a long, slender body like Rainicorn's descends before them. It has a gray mane encircling a white horn with little rings and hooves, unlike Rainicorn's appendages. Upon landing, he clicks and paws the ground repeatedly.

"Huh?" Finn gets a little closer, "This the guy, Lady?"

"네! 첫째, 그는 지붕을 통해 떨어졌다. 신 아무것도 파산 하지 감사합니다. 그는 단지 그가 원했던 것처럼 제스처를 만들기 시작했다-"

"Hey!" Jake growls, "What're you doing, getting a jump on my girlfriend?!"

The odd beast does not speak, only pawing and clip-clopping impatiently.

"Grr, Why you-!" Jake curls a big fist, ready to strike.

"Wait!"

"Huh?" They turn to see Cat frantically running up to them. She slows down and walks towards them, catching her breath.

"Just … Just thought I'd – ugh, gimme a sec, phew," She points at the dark horse, "This is Sir Monochromicorn."

"Cake, did you follow us?"

"Yeah. I gotta be there for Fiona, y'know," Cake takes a deep breath, "So yeah, you guys don't hear a word he's saying?"

"No. Is he saying anything?"

Monochromicorn clicks his left hoof and paws. Finn and Jake look at Cake, puzzled.

"What? You guys don't get it? He just said 'nice to meet you'."

"오 그 어떤 의미가 있습니다."

"What'd she say?"

"Ok, ok," Jake shrugs, "Looks like we're at an impasse here."

"What..." Finn struggles to keep up.

"We can't understand the guy, and she can't understand Lady. We'll just have to go with it."

"So, what are we looking for?"

"Buncha weird stuff. Here, have a look," Jake hands Cake the list, "Can't make heads or tails."

Cake scratches her head and takes the list from Jake, turning it this way and that. She looks back at the boys, puzzled.

"Yep, like I said, impasse," Jake forms a chair out of his own tush and sits, "Maybe we should just go ask the Life Magus."

"The weirdo who turned my hat evil … I dunno," Finn envisions an evil Fiona as a result of the Magus' unstable powers, "I mean, maybe he's gotten better. But Ice King said he couldn't help."

"Wait … If Ice King found the spell to do this whole biz in his place to begin with," Jake perks up, "What the heck are we doing runnin' our butts off on a grocery errand?!"

"These are ingredients, right? So, maybe a potion or something..."

"You know that Ice King. He's all jeffrey'd up in the noodle. We gotta take this investigation into our own hands! And I know how!" Jake's noggin flesh shapes into a deerstalker and jumps onto Lady's back, "C'mon, Finn! What time is it?"

Finn flutters his lips slightly and says, unenthusiastic, "Adventure Time."

Cake hops on Sir's back, "You guys take the lead. It's been a while, gorgeous."

Finn settles uncomfortably behind Sherlock Jake. The way Cake and Sir Monochromicorn were acting is parallel to Jake and Lady's relationship. Does that mean that Fiona's got the same feelings he has … for all those Princess- I mean, Princes? It didn't work out between him and Bubblegum. Fire Princess was his girlfriend. Was she still seeing a Flame Prince? Or had she moved one, like him? Finn shakes the muddled thoughts out of his knotted head. Come on, focus. Just bring her back first, then you can ask her yourself.

…

"Das gibt dochs nichts!"

Bubblegum throws up her arms in disbelief. Fanfiction?! Magic?! No, it was definitely an inter-dimensional rift that tore open, depositing all these alternate reality selves here. No way a bumble-brain like the Ice King and the incompetent LSP could ever have orchestrated something so grand like this...! She turns to Marceline.

"So they all came out of a book then?"

"Yeah, I was there when he was telling his stories. I even told one myself about..." Marceline looks sideways at Marshall, who's chasing Chocoberry, "...him."

"Well, this can't all just be ink and paper. I ran tests and they have the same structure as us, but with some gender anomalies, of course. This stuff is way beyond crazy mumbo-jumbo, Marceline," PB declares dramatically, "I think someone must've been messing around in my lab and accidentally cloned us all."

"Riiiiiight," Marceline scoffs casually. Marshall now is harassing Gumball, "Did you pick anything else up on these 'clones'?"

"A molecular peculiarity, now that you mention it. It was straight down to the subatomic level. Rifts … or seams, of some kind, that exist between the bonds of their subatomic particles. In other words," She pulls the Queen close enough to whisper, "They have unstable structures. Like a bomb."

This surprised Marceline. What was Simon thinking? She trusts Bonnie, but the fact that any of these clones might be unstable and explode …

"Then should we keep them locked up or..."

"I'm working on a solution. Perhaps I could reverse engineer a portal. Just the other day, my globbzinger picked up crazy babblobo readings from the atmosphere. I analyzed the waves and vestigial particles, and I think that's where they came from."

"Then you focus on that. I'll go find the Ice King."

Marceline zips away from PB and out the window above the entryway before the Princess can protest. She then zips back briefly and pokes just her head in.

"Watch the crazy Queen. And him too 'kay, Peebs?"

And she's gone again, leaving the Princess to fume over all the foisted burdens. What was she supposed to do with this obnoxious vampire?

…

"Oh! Finn! Jake! How nice of you to come!"

The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving graciously welcomes the group into his snug, earthen abode. Everything is made of dirt, since his home is built into a hillside. Little Dude, Finn's former hat, perks up from his nap on the dirt couch and runs up to his former owner enthusiastically, jumping up to lick his face.

"Weird. I've never met a Dirt Wizard before..." Cake and Sir look about suspiciously.

"Aw, no. He's cool. See? He's got his mitts on," Finn points at the Magus' covered hands, "So, how's life treatin' ya, man?"

"Oh, you know, this and that. Who's the lady friend, Jake?" The Magus pokes at Jake while looking at Cake, much to Lady's annoyance, "And I see your horses also are in a date? What about you, Finn?"

"제이크 는 내 -!"

"A-Actually, we came to ask … how do you bring back a dead person?"

"What an odd question! That is, well … possibly one of the first things I tried giving life to..." The magus sniffles, "Sorry... It's just, death reminds me of when ... You know what I did when my mother croaked? I curled next to her grave and-"

"Alright alright, just tell us how you bring back a dead person!" Jake yells impatiently and adds surreptitiously, "...made of paper."

"I dunno fellas. If I could I might have bought back my mom myself … Thing is," He awkwardly scratches the flower atop his head, "Revival of the dead is forbidden by Wizard Law. We made a pact with Death and all-"

"But Fiona wasn't-" Finn bites his own tongue. Cake and Sir Monochromicorn and Fiona … were they actually living things? He remembered what the Princess said about their scans and all, but … Ice King made them from magic. So would it still count?

"What if it was something made by magic?"

"You mean like … a Golem? Or a magic manservant?" The thought dawns on the magus and he rubs his chin in thought, "Huh. Never thought about that. I mean, these things I give life to pretty much become golems. Hmm... Ice King makes ice beings all the time and they're golems because they are made for and have only one purpose and no mind of their own..."

The Magus begins muttering syllogisms. Finn and company take their leave and he doesn't even notice. Little Dude waves good-bye.

"Sheesh," Jake peers at the muttering magus one last time before closing the door behind him, "The dude's still weird."

"We might be messing with the wrong side here, Jake. What if this is dark magic or something? Then we'll lose our souls and, and..." Finn wasn't hysterical. But some part of him still didn't seem to want to see Fiona again. For fear of what Ice King had said about making her. She's in love with Ice King.

"Pull yourself together!" Cake hisses, "Who's afraid of a little dark arts? Can't be all bad. And we don't know if we'll need it anyway!"

"Cake is right. And besides, who said we need magic? Let's go see Peebles. Maybe a little science is all we need," Jake hops on Rainicorn and gestures for Finn to follow suit, "To the Candy Kingdom!"

…

"Haha! Is that right?" Hunson jovially slaps his knee in laughter, "Twins of everyone?"

"I'd appreciate it if you'd keep this professional, Hunson," Peppermint Butler says, a little uptight, "I'm surprised you haven't encountered yours; nor I, mine. But anyway, I sensed the queerest energy in them."

"Tell me again about this 'Marshall Lee.' He look anything like my little monster?"

"Sir! They are – ugh, no, in fact, your daughter dumped him here for the princess to take care of. She doesn't seem to like him. Anyway, what I saw-"

"Ha HA!" Hunson bursts out boisterously, "She doesn't like him probably because she sees herself in him … what do you think?"

"I THINK..." Peppermint Butler balls his little gloved hands in quiet rage at this dismissive lord, "We should be worrying about whether these entities will tear our universe apart!"

"Huh? Whoa, chill. What are you getting at?"

"You haven't seen them yet, but I did! Their auras indicate they do not belong in this plane! Much less this universe! If the forces greater than us, the Owl, Wish maker … They could well erase us all as an abnormality!"

"Pfft. That's old governance, Peps," Hunson flutters his lips nonchalantly, "Those old coots rather pay around in a hot tub really than even glance at the world. Just look at how I rule."

Pep But sighs in defeat. Hunson was clearly too amused to even think of a threat these inverted clowns might bring. He closes the portal on Hunson without warning. It was true he had no proof other than what he saw with his magic vision. To test it would likely be dangerous. As he contemplates in his little tree hollow, the familiar face of Jake the dog pops up at the hole, startling him.

"Yo Peppermint! The Guardians said I could find you here," He hoists himself up slowly, bringing along Finn and Cake. He pokes his head outside where Sir and Lady hover about, "You should take this dude to the Princess, Lady, we'll be a while."

He narrows his eyes at the black rainicorn, "And you keep your hooves off my girl!"

"Jake!" Finn hollers as the two ribbon-like creatures leave, "I thought you said we were consulting science!"

"Oh, well, Manfried said she'd be a while, so I thought, 'hey, Peps has a lab!'"

"A poison lab!"

"How may I help you gentlemen," The butler ignores their squabbling. He gives Cake a quick judgmental look, "...and you, lady Cake?"

"Remember Fiona, Finn's, erm, girl? She croaked, like, turned into paper. We're looking for a revive spell."

"Well, that'll be easy. She turned to paper, you say? Do you have the compiled manuscript?"

"Oh, snap!" Finn jumps to his feet, "We gotta get 'em from Ice King!"

"Thanks, Pep! We'll be back with the papers!"

"Take your time, dudes," Peppermint Butler waves goodbye as the brothers hop out of the tree trunk and gallop away. He turns around to see Cake, "Oh, you're still here..."

"I'm watchin' you," Cake points two fingers at her eyes toward him.

"... Well, I do require some assistance now that you mention it, Miss Cake," Peppermint Butler cracks his knuckles and smiles to himself, "Yes, a very important part for you to play."