"It freaked out again! It must be the drone leader!" Backfire noted. The drone Headmaster was then fired upon by the neighbour squad as it dodged their bullets. It then acrobatically climbs up the elevator shaft and disappears. "Brains?! They were using brains?!" Jake said in surprise. "No, those drone back there didn't have any melon when we bashed them. I think Lockdown's using a brain for the drone leader 'cause they're smarter or something." Finn suggested.
"If it's smarts they're looking for, they won't find it in this brain." Simons said as he showed the team Al's brain. "That's Mister Monk's brain!" Nancy said as she read the plaque on the jar. "We need to get these head noodles outta here!" Finn commanded his team. Suddenly, the ground started to quake beneath them. "Earthquake!" Jake screamed. "Of course, we're in San Francisco!" Simon added.
Jake stretches himself into a ball around the others to protect them from the quake. After a while, the quake stops. "That was quick." Finn said. Jake stretches back into dog form to let everyone go. "Is it safe?" Susan wondered.
The ceiling above the elevator shaft is punched through by a giant metal hand for the others to become alert. A hook emerges from the hole and tears the ceiling apart, revealing Lockdown staring down at them. "Lockdown!" Finn exclaimed in disdain. "Finn the Human, of course you're here." Lockdown said. "You're gonna make these brains into drones, aren't you?!" Backfire accused Lockdown.
"My current drone general has been glitching lately, so I went and looked for some new brains." Lockdown monologued. "We're not letting you take them!" Jake insisted. More drones punched holes into the concrete walls of the vaults and secure the stored brains. "At this point, I think you will." Lockdown said. He backs away from the roof as the entire room starts shifting backwards.
"Weren't we underground?!" Frieda screamed. They look up and find that they are inside the cargo hold of a space ship flying through the sky. The room is being pushed by drones out of the cargo bay and is sent falling through the sky. "Hold tight, everyone!" Jake alerted everyone before stretching into a ball again to hold them. The room crumbles apart as it falls through the air when Lockdown's ship flies away.
"Are we gonna make it?!" Butch screamed. "I sure hope so!" Nancy yelled. Not even a minute after falling, they feel like they land on something. "We… landed?" Frieda said in surprise. Jake stretches back into a dog and reveals that everyone landed on a cloud. "We landed on a cloud?!" Nancy said in surprise.
"This is pretty normal for us, actually." Jake said. "How are we gonna catch up to that ship? We're on a cloud and are basically stranded!" Frieda wondered. They then hear a loud horn blaring in the horizon. "Was that a ship horn?" Susan wondered. Emerging from the clouds is a very familiar white battleship marked with The Voyagers insignia.
"It's Ursa Kildare!" Finn said as the battleship approaches them slowly. Upon a closer inspection, the ship is propelled by thrusters on the bottom of the hull and at the back. Ursa Kildare stops at the side of the cloud for a boarding ramp to deploy from the side. Disembarking from the ship is one of the prototype Minervabots. "Mom, thank Glob you're here! Those brains, Lockdown has them!" Finn informed the Minervabot.
"That's why I had Ursa Kildare in the air. I was keeping an eye on a space ship that's been in this area." Minerva told Finn. "We gotta hurry! Before he leaves Earth!" Simon told Minerva. "Everyone, get on board!" Jake commanded. The neighbours, and Frieda and Minerva start to board the ship quickly. "We'll see you later, Sharon!" Finn told Sharon before boarding with the rest of his team.
The boarding ramp retracts when everyone is on board and Ursa Kildare continues its course towards Lockdown's ship. Sharon waves as the ship flies past her cloud. On board the ship already are multiple Minervabots working on several parts of the ship from patrol to maintenance on deck. "Uh, why do you have ten moms?" Nancy asked Finn in confusion. "They're robots. It's a long story." Finn answered.
"Full speed ahead!" Minerva shouted to the Minervabots in the bridge piloting the ship. Ursa Kildare increases its thrusters' firepower and accelerates towards Lockdown's ship. Soon enough, they approach the behind of his crimson ship. "We're coming for you, Lockdown!" Finn declared. "So, do you have a plan this time?" Hank asked Finn. "Uh, yeah. Board that ship!" Finn answered confidently.
In Lockdown's ship bridge, dozens of drones are working on several terminals and consoles as Lockdown entered to meet the drone leader. "Fuel cells are at eighty-five percent charge, captain." the leader addressed Lockdown with a very robotic voice, even for Cybertronian standards. "We will leave for Nebulos as soon as we escape from this planet's atmosphere." Lockdown told the leader. They feel a tremor beneath their feet and almost fall down. "Hostiles on the starboard side!" the leader informed Lockdown.
Lockdown swipes his hook hand up to bring up a hologram screen displaying the flying battleship firing at Lockdown's ship's hull with its twin-barrel front naval artillery and missiles from stern-mounted launcher. "Those humans are resilient, I'll give 'em that. Activate Samus Blasters!" Lockdown commanded his crew. In defence, Lockdown's ship deploys smaller blasters on the right side of the ship that begin firing upon Ursa Kildare. The prototype Minervabot splits open her cranium, exposing the inner blue robotic brain, and projects a shield bubble around the ship. "This is getting weird." Hank said as the blue bubble enclosed the ship.
"Activate the Vandar shields!" Lockdown commanded his crew. The starboard side of Lockdown's ship was shielded by a red hologram shield that blocked the artillery fire. The ships continued exchanging blows on each other, all the while Finn and Jake have taken Springer to fly to the stern of Lockdown's ship. "Over there, at the cargo ramp!" Finn told Springer as he pointed to the closed ramp. Springer flies in closer and transforms into robot mode, using electromagnets on his palms to stick to the hull.
"Now, how do you suppose we get in? It'll take forever to bust through this thing, even for me." Springer asked Finn. "Leave that to me!" Jake told Springer. He stretches his way out of Springer's cockpit-chest and flattens himself to slip through the not-yet-pressurised gaps in the ramp. He enters the dark cargo hold and pulls on the Cybertronian-sized lever on the side of the ramp to open it. "Alright, we're in!" Finn said excitedly.
Springer climbs into the cargo hold and lets Finn out. Lockdown is then alerted to the three trespassing and views them through security footage. "It's a diversion! They're already in!" Lockdown realized before running to the cargo bay. "Where are those brains?" Finn wondered as he, Jake, and Springer search the cargo hold. Jake stretches to Cybertronian size to open large metal crates in search of the brains.
They soon find a crate with cold vapour seeping out of the top. "I think that's a cryogenic freezer! They've gotta be in there!" Springer told Finn and Jake. Springer opens up the crate and confirms its contents as frozen brains. "Let's get them home!" Springer declared as he closed the lid. As he transforms into vehicle mode, Lockdown blasts him in the chest with a laser blast.
"You people are a real pain, you know that?" Lockdown said as the drone leader walked to his side. Springer retaliates with blasts from chest-mounted guns. As the two fought, Jake dragged the crate towards the open ramp with large hands when the drone leader spots them before going over to stop them. "We've got incoming!" Finn warned Jake. Popping out of the back of Springer is Backfire in vehicle mode to rush to defend Finn and Jake.
As the drone leader swung its hook-hand at Finn, Backfire fired upon it with his rifles. "Not so fast, buddy boy!" Backfire sassed the leader. The drone leader locks its optics at Backfire and freezes up, playing his words over and over in its head like a broken record. It then recalls a blurred memory of those same words spoken by Backfire, only in a much happier tone. It suffers another headache and screams as Backfire looks in horror.
The drone leader tears its head off and throws it towards Lockdown, causing him to stumble over. "What are you doing?! As the humans would say; get your head in the game!" Lockdown scolded the drone leader as its head transformed slowly into Headmaster mode. "Springer, transform and get the cranium raisins outta here!" Jake commanded Springer. "Aye-aye!" Springer acknowledged before transforming into helicopter mode. He clamps his magnets onto the top of the freezer and flies it towards the exit.
Jake lifts Finn and Backfire into Springer as he flies out of the ship. "No, they're getting away!" Lockdown screamed as they escaped. He runs to the cargo bay and screams "Nooo!" as loud as he can. "Mom, we have the brains. Move on to the next part of the plan." Finn told Minerva through Springer's communicators. "Understood." Minerva acknowledged as she stood in the bridge with everyone else gathered.
"Initiate transformation sequence." Minerva commanded her Minervabots. Ursa Kildare transforms into its gigantic robot mode as it hovers in the sky. It turns to Lockdown's ship and karate chops its hull apart before transforming back into ship mode to let Springer back. Everyone soon witnesses Lockdown's ship falling from the sky, engulfed in fire. "Mission accomplished!" Finn declared as he touched down on the helipad.
Later in the Hub Dome's underground labs, Minerva has prepared dozens of cloud chambers for uploading the brains. The Voyagers, the neighbours, and Susan and Frieda witness the even as Al's brain was last to be placed. "Initiating cloud upload." Minerva announced. The chambers close and compress on the brains before multiple holographic screens come to life, displaying people long-passed and confused to their situation. The last to awaken was a bald, middle-aged black man, also confused.
"Where am I? Is this the future?" the man wondered with a raspy hood accent. "Al!" Simon called out to the holographic screen. "Simon? Izzat you?" the man wondered as the screen floated closer to Simon. "Al, you're alive!" Simon told Al. "Simon, whuh happened? I can't feel anything. We both dead?!" Al panicked.
"No, we're both in the future. I rescued you and some of the other brains from Cephalon with the help of my friends." Simon told Al. "How far into tha future? Three years? Ya look the same since last time I saw ya." Al wondered. "One thousand years, approximately." Minerva told the other intelligences. "One-thousand years?!" the collective intelligences screamed in surprise. "Please do not worry. I will keep Cephalon's promise to cure your terminal ailments and provide you new bodies in time. In exchange, you will help to provide knowledge on the old world, no matter how insignificant." Minerva told them.
"Simon, what kinda stuff have you been gettin' youself into?" Al asked Simon. "It's a looong story." Simon told Al. The two started talking as Finn conversed with his team. "Too bad we didn't find the riddle guy. "Maybe he'll send another one and lead us to other clues. Who knows?" Jake suggested.
Meanwhile in the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum was pacing around her lab in stress. "It's almost time… what could she want with me? Could I have started a war?" Princess Bubblegum wondered worriedly. Suddenly, a shape flies past her face and embedded itself into the wall beside her. It was another plain white envelope addressed to The Voyagers. "What the…" Princess Bubblegum muttered as she looked to the window from where the envelope flew from and sees a single thin slot that the envelope cut through.
THE END