Ice King bolted towards Marceline's cave, full of excitement and the Gem of Chronomancy within his fist.

Ice King arrived in a mere ten minutes. He landed once he reached the entrance of the cave, he walked towards her house, the lights were off and the door was locked. Ice King tried to look for ways in and he remembered something. Marceline forgot to close her window when Ice King came in awhile ago. He giggled silently and looked for the window that led to her kitchen. He sneaked to the back of the house and to none of his surprise, the window was open. Ice King mouth curled to a mischievous grin. He silently crept inside the window and slowly crept inside her house, trying hard not to make a noise.

The lights were on and the Ice King could see the ladder going to her room. He climbed up and was on the second floor now, where Marceline's room was. She was sleeping while floating in mid-air with her Axe-Bass underneath her. She was wearing her tank top with jeans. She slept facing the entrance of the ladder, Ice King thought she noticed him until his eyes adapted to the dark and saw her eyes closed.

He then made his hand glow with ice magic and the slight blue light wasn't enough to wake Marceline. He quietly crept closer to Marceline until she was within reach of Ice King's hand. He was filled with excitement, he thinks that he will be able to find all these childish secrets about her.

He was wrong…

Ice King placed the gem on her forehead, the gem glowed purple brightly in the dark. He closed his eyes, he felt weakness and numbness once more. He started to lose control of his body until he drifted into an unconscious sleep.

Ice King woke up, the dimmer sunlight was enough to penetrate his eyes. He got up his feet and he could feel dry ground as he stood up. His eyes were still a bit dim, the landscape seemed to be yellow and he could see structures. The vision became clearer and he quickly widened his eyes in beholding

Ice King was standing in the middle of a barren urban wasteland. Broken cars, shattered buildings and the polluted sky was in front of him. There was smoke and fire, the roads and highways were curled or destroyed, power lines were cut off and the smell of the air was metallic and chemical.

He never saw such a sight, he would usually encounter modern technology and design but never at this degree or state. He looked in awe, he never wondered what the world would look like if it had ended and now he could see it right in front of his eyes.

This scenario is not what he expected.

Ice King flapped his beard and flied to get a better look at the city. The whole place was barren and deserted, it was an apocalyptic dystopia. People were gone yet there were no corpses, kingdoms were nowhere in sight,it was just a huge destroyed city. Ice King behold such sight, it was depressing to look at, he was lucky that he came from the future, not the past, for he was glad that this kind of thing was finished and gone.

Ice King continued to fly around the city, dodging skyscraper to skyscraper, he would sometimes have to fly through narrow holes and tight passes. He kept flying through this dramatic place until he saw two figures which seem to be conversing. Ice King hid behind a huge peeled road which was an old highway and started eavesdrop their conversation. He got a better look at the two figures, one seemed to be a little girl and another seemed to be the girl's father. He started to listen carefully to their conversation.

"It's ok honey, I'm going to come back after you soon" The man seemed to explain, his voice was deep yet with this slight sound of glee, he had this slight inflection in his voice which Ice King could sense, the man was lying.

"But Dad..." A child's voice arose, she sounded so pitiful yet she will be left so cruelly.

The big figure left and walked away out of her sight and went inside a red portal, there was regret on the man's face, it was clear that the man won't come back.

Ice King looked back to the girl and noticed that the little girl was very familiar. "Marceline?" Ice King thought, he looked closer, it was Marceline, the bluish pale skin and black hair resembled present Marceline.

Ice King waited for hours, just staring and observing the girl. She seemed so alone and abandoned, even by her own father. She didn't move from her location, she just stayed there waiting for her father or anyone at all. After a few more hours, young Marcy started to cry, she sobbed and the numerous tears rolled down her cheek. She felt abandoned and forgotten.

Ice King was about to go help her but a new figure in a suit with a big hiker's backpack came in, he looked nothing like her father. Ice King noticed that he looked much like him, the white hair, the long nose and the bluish skin and especially the hanging golden crown from his belt resembled Ice King a lot. Ice King noticed his backpack, it was something he found while he was scavenging through Ooo, he found that backpack and took the contents placed it in his "The Past Room".

The man placed his backpack on the ground and ran toward young Marceline, he leaned towards her and wiped the tears off her face without a word, he felt pity for her. Marcy was surprised of the man's sudden appearance and how he looked like. He went to a broken toy shop and grabbed a red teddy bear and gave it to the little girl, she hugged it tight. She immediately stopped crying and she smiled to the man. "Thank you, what's your name?" Marcy asked happily.

"I'm Simon, what's your name and why are you standing here all alone?" Simon asked curiously, it was a one-in-a-thousand odd that he could encounter a small crying girl in the confusion of a huge barren city.

"I'm Marceline but you can call me Marcy. My dad said he will be back but he never returned" Marcy answered sadly as she looked to were her dad left off. Simon took pity, how could her own father leave her in this dangerous ruin?

"It wont be nice here, do you want to go with me?" Simon offered, he didn't want this girl to die lonely, not less, die in this wasteland.

"Please, let me come with you" Marcy pleaded happily, Simon smiled and took her hand.

"Come on, we got a whole world ahead of us, Marcy" Simon jokingly remarked.

Marcy giggled and looked at him. "Yeah, right, Simon" Marcy remarked, they both laughed.

Simon picked up his backpack and they went on their way, holding each other's hands.

Ice King was a bit affected because of this encounter. What he found strange is that Simon had the exact same crown of Ice King and nonetheless looks as him, he began to wonder if that was him in this part of Marceline's timeline. He started to want to finding out more about his "past" of Marceline.

Ice King was now more inclined to continue following this strange duo.