"Princess, Princess, how do you answer the incident last night, a large part of the grasslands were devastated. Many of the witnesses saw the Iron Princess, and the mysterious Phantom Nightingale battling there." One candy press said.
Princess Bubblegum and Finn sat at a table on the throne room. The candy press sat in front of them, two banana guards flank both sides of the table, ready to intervene when the press went bananas again.
Bonnibel leaned over to the microphone, "Well, the Iron Princess is just doing her job. There is nothing to worry about. In fact, the suspect and the perpetrator of the incident is already apprehended."
"The Phantom Nightingale?" the sound of flashing cameras, filled the room.
Bonnibel blinked her eyes a little, "Yes, the uncatchable Phantom Nightingale is now captured by the Iron Princess last night." She motioned her arm on her right, the following scene made the press made their jaws dropped. The Phantom Nightingale walks ever so sassily in front of the table pose a little, then went behind Finn.
"Now, now, you might realized that she is not bound, because the truth is the Phantom Nightingale is none other than..." she lift off the mask. "...Marceline the Vampire Queen"
It took a complete two seconds of silence before the noise and flashes boomed out again throughout the room. Marceline hissed in pain as the sudden barrage of flashes hit her eyes. She shut of the mask again. "Please, please calm down!" Bonnibel pleaded, several press tries to get closer but they were shove off by the Banana Guards.
Once every thing was back to normal, Bonnibel continued, "The Phantom Nightingale's identity is now revealed, the people of Ooo can rest easy." she said, Marceline just crossed her arms.
"What about the Iron Princess, when will she reveal her true self?"
At that Bonnibel, thought for a nanosecond disguising her thoughts about confessing. But that nanosecond is long enough for Finn and Marceline to notice. The vampire raised an eyebrow beneath her mask and the human look at her.
Eventually she smiled, "In time, she might reveal herself in time. Now if you excuse me people, we have work to do." She stood up and went out, immediately, the Banana guards formed a wall and Finn cleared a path for Bonnibel and Marceline.
When they reached the lab, Bonnibel removed her crown and sat in a nearby chair. "That was pretty intense." She said, Finn handed her a glass of water.
Marceline snorted and lifts her mask, "Apprehended eh? From my point of view I think, I caught you, if it wasn't for your sheer bloodlust that is."
The princess shot a glare at her, fortunately Finn saved the day. "Peebles..." he warned.
Bonnibel sighed, "Okay..." they shared a quick kiss.
"Get a room will you?" The vampire rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Actually all of you should get a room." Beemo suddenly interjected surprising the trio.
"Sorry Beemo, so are you finished the construction of the schematics?" Bonnibel asked.
"Yes, this time I got it right, ninety nine percent." He/she showed a holographic blueprint of the Nightingale. Marceline inspect it thoroughly, "hmm..."
"Well...?"
"Great, you finally got it Beemo." The vampire gave him/her thumbs up.
"Yeah Beemo!" the computer cheered.
"Well looks like you got what you need so, see you around eh?" Marceline immediately flew away.
When she was gone, Bonnibel let out a groan of relief, "Glad that she was gone."
Finn removes his hat and sat beside her, "You said it, listen since we are cleared maybe you and I go somewhere private." He said rather seductively, she must admit he was really getting good at this.
"That sounds like a plan but I would like you to help me first in making a design for the Mk VII. We must not stop innovating."
"Okay, okay, but you will be the host tonight."
She pouted "Aww no fair..." by now Finn hands manage grab her but cheeks.
"Hey I was the host for the last three weeks, it's your turn now."
"Okay, okay." She looked at Beemo, "Beemo bring up the diagnostics of the Phantom Nightingale, Mk IV and the Mk VI.
Three separate diagrams of the suits request appeared, Bonnibel look the three, Finn watched her.
"So what are planning next?"
"I was thinking a suit with the quick and manoeuvrability of the Nightingale, armor and power of the Mk VI and the overall balance of the Mk IV." She rubbed her chin.
"How about the delivery system of the suit; you forget that Princess" Beemo also brought up the diagram of Mk V and its folding pattern from a back pack into a suit.
"Right, we must be ready anytime." Finn agreed.
"Yes but I was thinking something better. Better than a back pack."
"Like what?" Finn peaked up his interest, sometime Bonnibel surprises him.
"Like an airplane."
"What!?" Finn and Beemo said simultaneously.
"Airplane, suit delivery via airplane." Bonnibel elaborated.
"Princess, we don't have enought resources to construct such machinery let alone a vast flat surface to serve as a runway."
Bonnibel laughed, "No not like that... listen hear me out and I'll draw it for you guys okay...? This is crazy but so crazy it might work..."
"I really love the way you think sometimes..." Finn complimented. Her reply was a quick but deep kiss on his lips.
"Get me a pen marker..."
"So why am I here again?" Blargetha asked the figure before her.
"So share a common goal: Revenge." The figure replied.
The slime woman glared, "Why don't you show you're face first, and then we will talk."
The figure revealed himself, he was wearing his usual attire, a white jumpsuit, yellow boots, his hands were wearing gauntlets, and was he wears eye glasses. Blargetha mentally snorted in disgust 'And I thought he was hot.' She thought.
"Yeah, yeah I know I'm not much of an appeal..." Broccoli shrugged.
Blargetha shrugged "I'm not saying anything."
"Can we just get back to where we are..?" Dr. Broccoli politely asked.
"Okay..."
"As I was saying, we both wanted revenge... so I was thinking that if we combined are effort we can have it." He crossed his arms behind his back.
"What's in it for me, am I going to get a boyfriend?"
Dr. Broccoli blushed, "Eh, yeah, yeah, you will but first help me destroy Princess Bubblegum and the Candy Kingdom. And I will help you remove your sister from the Slime Kingdom, and get you a boyfriend."
At his words, Blargetha eyes sparkled, 'guess his lack of looks is nothing compare to his knowledge. That's fine with me.' "Maybe just help me deal with my sister, I give you anything you want."
"Good, I heard you have good toys, shame that it was never used. Are they still intact?"
Blargetha nodded, "yes, but I don't have a crew to operate them all."
Dr Broccoli snapped his fingers, five robots immediately appeared behind him carrying each a small box. "This is my robotic minions; they came a long way from brussel spout drones. They will help you install what is in the box."
"What is in the box?" she raised an eyebrow.
"Computer chips, they are design to operate huge machines like your Slime tanks. Actually for some time I studying the schematics of the tanks you have. So I made these chips especially for the tanks." He motioned his arm to where the blueprints of the tanks were, Blargetha's eyes widen.
"How do you get these?" she asked.
"I had my sources." He smugly said.
"So you know about my plans and how I lost to my sister in the Love Games?"
"Yes, sorry about what happen to that jelly husband of yours... and I guess we had a common goal, take over Ooo."
"I thought this was only revenge?" she crossed her arms. She let go of Broccoli's first statement.
"Why stop there right?" he shrugged.
"Yeah, guess we had things in common." She blushed, the room suddenly became awkward. After a moment, Dr. Broccoli cleared his throat,
"Well since we know your toys, time to introduce mine. Follow me."
Then walked in a hallway until they reached a balcony, Broccoli opened the lights. The sight Blargetha sees makes her jaw dropped. In front of them stood at least five hundred to one thousand battle robots standing in attention, all ready for battle. Each was equipped with wrist mounted blasters on the right arm and retractable sword on the left.
"Behold! My army of robot minions! Told you they came a long way from brussel spouts." He smugly said, and then he added "With this and your tanks. We can crush our enemies easily and nothing can stop us!"
"Whoa, yes, yes your right." Blargetha was lost of words. Clearly Dr. Broccoli is doing his homework. Not bad for a nerd looking evil mastermind, who could have thought.
"But there is more, I been working on these, lately. And I want you to use it, consider it as a gift." He led her to another room. This time, it was smaller but still large enough to conceal a tank. But this was not just an ordinary tank, this was Dr. Broccoli's super tank. It carries two large cannons and a missile launcher on each side of the turret.
"But what about you? What will you use?"
Dr. Brocolli winked at her, "It's a surprise, you will see."
"Show me, please" she puts up her best cute expression, Broccoli immediately caught it.
"Alright..."
"Wait..."
"Huh?" he raised an eyebrow.
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
Dr. Broccoli blushed, "Eh? No, no, no..." he scratched the back of his head or rather his left head.
"You got one now...!" Blargetha gleefully said.
"What do-..." he was cut short when the slippery smooth slime lips crashed into his. His logical mind suddenly blankens and he felt he went dumb for a split second. He literally saw stars in his visions.
"Wow, that was... wow" he said, once they broke off... he was dazed out.
"There is more of that where it came from..." Blargetha seductively said, motioning her arms to come close to him.
Broccoli shook his head, "No, No we must prepare... we must-..." he again cut short by a kiss.
"There is a time for preparation, my dear. Right now, come and get it."
Finally he surrendered, "Okay, okay, you got me." They went back where they came from and close the door shut.
A minute later, Dr. Broccoli shouted behind the door, "cut it out that tickles!" then he laugh so does Blargetha.
Three days of peace, three days without trouble, the perfect calm before a great storm. At least what Bonnibel thought out, for the past three days, she didn't slept well. She worked on his Mk VII, Finn help her a lot, both in the lab, and in her bed chambers. All he can do was ease the tension that was within her, but she couldn't help it but think it out.
"Come on Bonnie, look on the bright side, at least no one is troublesome today. We can rest easy."
"Finn, no something is definitely wrong. I sense an odd smell in the air, and its not definitely your fart." She said as she dusted her new science suit.
Finn blushed lightly, "What no!"
Beemo interrupted with a sudden announcement, "Princess, Slime Princess I waiting at the lobby shall I call her to come to the lab?"
The couple look at each other for showing their secret to someone else. Finally they decided. "Yes" Bonnibel replied. Within minutes Slime Princess is now knocking at the door.
"It's open." Beemo opened the door.
"Finn, Princess Bubblegum we have a problem." Slime Princess said as she went through the door.
"What?" he gave a sighed of relief since Slime Princess didn't notice the Armors... yet.
"You remember my sister, Blargetha right?"
"Yeah"
"She is missing, three days ago, Elder Plops check her in her room. But now she was gone. Two days later the tanks were missing as well. Something is going to happen bad I can feel it."
Bonnibel suddenly inquire "Tanks? The Slime Kingdom has Tanks?"
"Yes, Blargetha plans to use them when she replaces me as the ruler of the kingdom, she plan to dominate Ooo by means of military force. Finn and I foiled her plan, through a series of love games."
"I see..." she shot Finn with a suspicious glare. Finn looked down blushing lightly, Slime Princess came in to clear things out.
"No, its not what you think, Finn and I participate only to foil my sister's plan. I'll admit, I like Finn back then but I'm not looking to settle things down with him."
Bonnibel nodded in understanding, "Okay... I told you something is definitely wrong."
Again, Beemo interrupted, "It's going to get even worst! Princess, I'm detecting a large number of unidentified objects heading towards the kingdom! Two to be exact, one is coming from the badlands to the south, the other is coming from the east. They will reach the kingdom is two days."
This made Slime Princess gasp in horror, "oh no"
"Magnifiy the satellite Beemo, focus on the badlands." Immediately the scree lit up seeing the satellite view of the badlands, they could see a large group of rectangular shaped objects running across the desert terrain, they are slow but they a look formidable. It was the Slime tanks they Slime Princess feared.
The screen focused on the east where they saw, at least ten platoons of marching robots, armed to the teeth. Judging by the size of it Finn must have wondered it to be in the thousands.
"We are not going to win against this force, even with the Iron Princess." Bonnibel suddenly covered her mouth and looked at Finn and Slime Princess in shock.
The slime person raised a brow, "How do you know about the Iron Princess?" then she looked to her left, her eyes widen at what she saw. "You, You are the Iron Princess?"
Bonnibel sighed in defeat, "Yes but keep it a secret okay, soon I'm planning to reveal them to the world on my terms."
Slime Princess was silent, "Okay... this is your deal so I won't get in the way."
"Still thought, this doesn't make sense, Blargetha manage to build those robots in two days?"
"I think not, it's impossible to anyone to build such an army in short amount of time. Whoever built them must have took forever to finish and to plot this scheme, I feel that someone else is also behind this as well not just Blargetha." Finn interjected.
"Who could that be? I never knew anyone who has a grudge against me."
Finn tapped his chin, "There is one guy can challenge you scientifically though, me and Jake fought him before."
"Who?"
"Dr. Broccoli"
Bonnibel close her eyes to think for a moment, Slime Princess kept looking at the screen, completely feeling a little out of place at the conversation. But still she kept listening, since this has something to do with her sister.
"Finn, I don't know any Dr. Broccoli, but from what he is doing, it is really sounded personal. What does he want from me when you fought him?"
"He wanted to destroy your Silly String Device to ruin your appearance at the science conference. He said he was your unknown rival or something like that."
"But the device was turned into four fireflies right, you told me then. Why you didn't mentioned this back then."
Finn shrugged "I thought it was not really important to tell you. But now it is."
"Guys, this Dr. Broccoli you're talking about my have a connection to my sister. Look from the looks of their attack, they are systematically pattern both are going to reached the grasslands in twenty four hours. Their combination is perfect, the tanks were going to the first to rolled in before the robots."
Finn and Bonnibel's jaw dropped. "How do you know all of these?"
Slime Princess Laugh nerviously, "I just read too much of my sister's writings, that's all."
"Okay enough of that, Finn I need you to call Jake and tell him to call for help. I will gather the entire force of the Kingdom to meet them in the grasslands. Slime Princess until this matter is over, you are but to stay here, help Peppermint Butler evacuate the citizens to the castle."
"Okay you got it, Peebles. Are you going to use the suits?"
"No, I will fight with my own fist this time, this is my kingdom we are talking about." She draws out her new retractable plasma edged - sword from her armory, she also slung her new Ball Blam buglerber rifle on her back. she then presses something on her science suit. Immediately the suit form metal plating on her arms, legs and her torso. Now she was battle ready.
"Let's do this." She said as she sheathed her sword. "Keep me posted Beemo." She went out Finn and Slime Princess followed her.
The computer monitored the satellite, it now show Bonnibel and Finn going out of the Kingdom followed by a large force of Banana guards, some were riding their jelly horses. Above them a fleet of Candy copters also armed to the teeth. Indeed the calm before the storm, a storm which they have to embrace.