The adventurers ride on the Jakes as they follow the smell of exhaust from the escaped MorBot. "Guh, I really hope this thing is nearby." Jake said in disgust as he smelled at the ground with a gigantic nose. "What other adventures did you go on, Finn?" Finn asked Farmworld Finn. "Me and Jake went on a lot of them. There was one time I met Jake's long-lost brother. Ever since I brought him to Junktown he's just been wandering around getting pets." Farmworld Finn answered. "Was his name Germaine?" Finn asked. "Yeah, it is. I assume you met him before in your universe?" Farmworld Finn asked.
"Actually, Jake's family adopted me, so he's my brother. He's a bit of an artist." Finn answered. "Weird inverse, since my family adopted Jake's parents, then they gave birth to Jake." Farmworld Finn commented. "Did you meet anyone from the planet Mars?" Finn asked Farmworld Finn. "Just one. We don't really like talking about him, since he turned me into a giant hand." Farmworld Finn answered. "I got turned into a foot." Finn commented.
"Sounds rough." Farmworld Finn said. They soon cross an abandoned railway crossing and enter a derelict city. "I'd like to see your universe sometime." Farmworld Finn said. "Yeah, it's pretty great. It's got all sorts of crazy, with magic, advanced science, and all that jazz." Finn described. "Do you have any talking animals like your Jake?" Farmworld Finn asked Finn.
"Yeah, a lot of them make up the population of Ooo." Finn answered. "Ooo?" Farmworld Finn repeated. "It's the land Jake and I come from. It's a small island in the sea somewhere. Me, Jake, and other adventurers have been exploring the world, finding other humans in other countries." Finn explained. "The furthest I've travelled from Junktown is east, to this place called Nevada. There, I found a place called La Vega where there were a bunch of fancy-looking people." Farmworld Finn added. They enter the city and soon come across fresh tire tracks on the cracked asphalt.
Jake licks the asphalt and smacks his lips. "Still hot. It just got here." Jake observed. "That means it still might be around." Finn said. They then hear the sound of a Formula 1 engine echoing across the dead city. "Yep, it's still here." Farmworld Finn said as he exchanges his claw arm for his blade attachment.
They mount their respective Jakes and stretch through the roads, following the sound of the engine. They zip around the fallen towers, and bounce off the intersections filled with scavenged cars. They swiftly close in on the engine sounds when suddenly, the MorBot zips past them, covered in green goo. "There it is!" Finn pointed at the MorBot as he deploys his arm sword.
They chase after the MorBot, which upon closer inspection, was more damaged than when they last saw it. It was missing its rear wing, and its armour is partially melted, apparently having a tough time getting to the city from the desert. The Jakes stretch into catapults and fling their Finns onto the MorBot. Finn hangs onto the MorBot's airbox as he tries to climb into the cockpit to get the canister. The MorBot transforms into robot mode and throws the humans off before they can get to the canister.
The MorBot deploys its arm laser and aims for the Finns. They scatter before the MorBot could hit them, dodging the blasts from the drone. The Jakes come out of nowhere with enlarged heads and bits down on the MorBot's arms. "Pull, other me!" Jake instructed his counterpart, mumbling his words through his razor-sharp teeth. With two strong simultaneous tugs, the Jakes tears the MorBot in half down the middle, metal shards scattering and yellow energon splashing onto the road.
They drop the MorBot halves and spit out some metal shards. "Guh! Gross, it tastes like coins and really bad oil!" Jake said as he spits energon out of his mouth. Finn then picks up the energon canister and looks at it. "We have to get outta here, fast!" Finn said to his counterpart. As he places the canister into his backpack, a grappling hook grabs it and pulls it away from his hands.
"What the-" Finn yelped as the canister is pulled into a dark alleyway. "Who's there?!" Farmworld Finn shouted. Emerging from the alley is a tall white man with neatly-combed black short hair and a pencil moustache, wearing a dark grey waistcoat over a light grey long-sleeved shirt, grey trousers, black boots, and a monocle. "Impressive, for two children and their mutated mutts." the man said in an evil British accent as he held the canister. "I know that voice." Jake said in disdain.
"Doctor Morocco." Finn said. "Ah, you're educated! You're quite remarkable for a wastelander." Doctor Morocco mocked. "Give us back our energon!" Farmworld Finn demanded. "I believe you are mistaken. This is my synthetic energon." Doctor Morocco corrected as he showed them his logo on the cover. "See? That's my personal seal." Doctor Morocco continued.
"How are you still alive?" Jake asked. "You're assuming I'm human, which I am not." Doctor Morocco answered. His clothes and skin start to segment apart before inverting into his body, revealing a pseudo-skeletal robotic body with a face closely resembling his human face, only with robotic features such as red eyes. "He's a robot?" Farmworld Finn said in surprise. "A Pretender. We've met some before." Finn said.
"One of them hunted us through time, probably sent by M.E.C.H." Jake added. "You know of M.E.C.H.? You surprise me more and more." Doctor Morocco said. He then tosses them the canister. "Take it. I have what I need." Doctor Morocco told them as he transformed back into human mode. "What does that mean?" Farmworld Finn asked.
The energon canister starts glowing and heating up, causing Finn to drop it. The glow gets brighter and brighter as it melts the road below it. "Get down!" Jake screamed as he and his counterpart carries the Finns away before the canister explodes, taking out an entire city block. The Jakes carried the Finns away from the explosion, seeing nothing but a crater where the energon canister exploded, and Morocco nowhere in sight. "No! The energon!" Farmworld Finn screamed.
"He must've gotten the data in the energon." Finn suggested. "Whatever's in it must be dangerous, considering this is Doctor Morocco we're talking about." Jake added. "We need to find him and stop… whatever he's doing!" Farmworld Finn said. "We don't even know where he went." Finn said. "I would sniff him out, if I even sniffed him in the first place." Jake said.
Emerging from the shadows is yet another mysterious figure, shrouded in a green hood. "I know where he went." the figure said in a woman's voice. The adventurers look to the stranger in caution. "Who are you?" Finn asked the stranger. The stranger takes off her hood, revealing a familiar blue-haired woman.
"Aunt Gross?!" Farmworld Finn said in surprise. "Aunt?!" Finn and Jake said in confusion. Farmworld Finn runs to the woman and hugs her. "Finn, I haven't seen you since you had your first robot arm." Gross smiled. She then looks to Finn and Jake.
"We're not clones, by the way." Jake said. "We're from another universe. It's a long story." Finn said. "I thought you were kidnapped by bandits?" Farmworld Finn said to Gross. "Not quite bandits. I was taken by these people called M.E.C.H., and they forced me to work on cruel cyborg experiments. It was either me or Finn's mother." Gross explained as she looked to Farmworld Finn. "I couldn't bear the thought of a child growing up without their parents." Gross said sincerely.
"You were the one who did that to Doctor Morocco?" Finn asked. "Correct. I went through several designs before the final version you saw. I only just escaped today." Gross answered. "Does that mean you know where he's hiding out in?" Finn asked. "Yes, but I have to warn you; it's a dangerous place." Gross answered. "Show us the way, doc." Jake said.
They soon travel to the desert where they stop at a high dune. In the distance is a massive grassy hill surrounded by the sandy expanse. "That's it." Gross told them. "You wait here, Aunt Gross." Farmworld Finn instructed Gross. "Be careful. They have all sorts of security measures in there." Gross warned them.
The adventurers slide down the dune and walk towards the mysterious hill. Gross sat on the dune and held an umbrella to shield herself from the sun's rays. A figure then approaches Gross from behind, casting a shadow on her. She turns around and looks at the stranger. "Who are you?" she asked the stranger.
The adventurers reach the hill and find a metal vault door. Finn deploys his arm sword and cuts through it, carving out a large hole. They jump into the hole and find themselves in a dark metal corridor. They walk through the corridor with their weapons, getting ready for whatever comes at them. "I hope we finish this quick. This place is giving me the creeps." Farmworld Finn said.
The base's alarm sounds suddenly, caused by Jake accidentally tripping a laser tripwire. "My bad." he said. Tesla coils pop out of the ceilings and activate, blasting the area with lightning arcs. "Everyone, get behind me!" Farmworld Finn told his teammates. He holds his blade arm up as he runs through the corridor.
The blade absorbs the lightning arcs like a lightning rod, directing the electricity into Farmworld Finn's body while keeping the rest safe. "You have electricity immunity, too?" Finn asked Farmworld Finn. "It's a long story." Farmworld Finn answered. Alongside the tesla coils, laser turrets pop out from the walls. Finn leaps to the front and deploys a blue holographic shield.
Meanwhile in a lab deep in the base, Morocco observes the adventurers fighting his defences. "Curses! I haven't had problems with stubborn children since Cody Burns!" he said. He turns around and converses with none other Lockdown from Finn's universe, still in a massive MorBot body. "You have no idea." Lockdown said. "How are we progressing with refuelling?" Morocco asked Lockdown.
"It's almost complete." Lockdown answered. He then picks up a stasis pod containing another Pretender body. "It's been a pleasure doing business with you." Lockdown said to Morocco before disappearing into his own multiverse bridge. "The pleasure has been mine." Morocco said after Lockdown disappeared.
The lab door then blows open, revealing the four adventurers behind it. "Morocco!" Finn exclaimed. "What was in that energon?!" Jake screamed. "*SIGH* I might as well tell you. It's the patent on Kinetic Solutions Incorporated's hypno-transformation technology." Morocco answered. "What's hypno-transformation?" Farmworld Finn asked Finn.
"I's how our Morocco made his MorBots." Finn answered. "So that's why those MorBots transformed normally. Morocco didn't have the tech until he got his hands on that canister!" Jake said. "Correct! With that patent, I will rebuild my army of MorBots!" he exclaimed. "Not if we have anything to say about it!" Finn shouted before charging at Morocco.
A giant metal foot stomps in front of Finn before he could reach Morocco. He looks up and sees C.Y.L.A.S.' counterpart in this universe. He transforms into S.U.V. mode and opens his door to Morocco. "You really should shoot first and ask questions later. It's why I had the time to transfer the data." he said before entering C.Y.L.A.S. and driving away into a tunnel. "He's getting away!" Finn exclaimed.
"We've got a bigger problem." Jake said as he and the Farmworld adventurers look at a main computer. It displays a progress bar labelled "REFUELLING COMPLETE" as the base started to rumble and fall apart. "Let's get outta here!" Farmworld Finn exclaimed. The two Finns mount their Jakes and ride back to the exit. They rush out of the bunker just in time to witness the hill falling apart, revealing a massive roaring Combiner made from construction vehicles.
To be continued…