Author's Note: Here's the first chapter to my little story. Updates will definitely be random, but I'll try to do it every two weeks or so. Flame's appreciated, constructive critiscism also, tell me if I have any errors and I'd love to fix them. Also, Name has been changed to Four Years, due to relevance as the story progresses.

I do not own Adventure Time, but if I did, I'd keep Finn x Flame Princess.

Chapter 1: The Proposition

The sunset was beautiful, full of pinks and reds, like Pheeb's hair when she got wet, or got embarrassed. I might be a dense glob of meat, but I think my emotions have become a lot clearer since I accepted my 'Vault' as a part of me. Emotions suck, I probably should have taken that Comet's offer and given up my meat-bag of a body. Maybe it was just another day of fruitless search talking, but, ya know, whatevs'.

"Hey Dude!" Jake calls from the bottom of the tree. He uses his stretchy power to end up right next to me at my perch at the top of the Tree Fort. "Man, I know you're bummed out and all, but I need you to focus on the bright side," he says, "You're alive and all that junk, with all the stuff we've faced in the past three months looking across all of Ooo, we should be happy we survived, I mean, we barely survived the Wasteland again after the Goo Creature's tried to attack us in Bubblegum's machine." He stretched his arm down towards the window, grabbing a tub of Ice Cream from the fridge, pulling it back up along with a pair of spoons. "Well, I'm off with the Ice Cream to Ladies', spending the night there Bro," Jake says, quickly turning into his giant form and walking towards his Wife's house.

"Jake, you suck at this, bro," I say sighing, before looking next to me to see a small bowl of Ice Cream, a Spoon, and a note which read 'I Don't Suck' on it. I give it a sad smile, before I dig into it and watch the last of the sun's rays going down.

The Next Morning

I awoke after another random dream about a world full of pillows, before I get up to make myself breakfast, while BMO goes about doing his 'thing', whatever it was today. Slinging my sword, I start to make my way to the Candy Kingdom and PB's lab, but decided to take a turn to the forest instead, deciding to go scope out a new dungeon to raid later.


Walking into the deep, dark, unexplored part left in the Forest, he stumbles across the remains of an old rotted out tree of proportions much like his own Tree Fort, including what appeared to be the remains of a similar fort to his own. Wanting to look at the spot at a later date, he leaves a marker he knew wouldn't be disturbed. Suddenly he hears something from behind him. Turning he sees nothing but shadows and empty air, but he can't shake the feeling of being watched.

Gigging and laughing then exploded through the silence, sounding from all around the spot Finn is at, and he sees one of the shadows move outward and toward another clearing. Quickly following, he runs after it.


(Finn's PoV)

The insane laughing was beginning to bug me, and the shadow, a woman from what I could see of the dress, or perhaps robe, was all I could catch before my foot snagged on a root and I went tumbling down, hard. Instead of finding dirt and rock though, I went face first into a swirling portal.


Prismo's Room

Outside Time and Space

Feeling his surroundings, he noticed he was in a pile of pillows, and cracking his eyes open, he saw Prismo being cast on the wall across from him. "Hey, hey Finn, I can tell you are awake," he then tells the Human, "I'm sorry I had to bring you here like this, but unless I did what she asked, she would have killed me again, bro." At that, Finn finally realized the bed containing Prismo/Jake was placed below a giant sword floating in the air. Next to it was a woman with hair that looked like it was full of stars that reached to her stomach, with a midnight blue cloak that concealed her body and left her face in shadow, not showing any part of her face but the midnight black hair that flowed out the opening. Chuckling with an icy, echoing voice, the woman in question quickly took the sword in her hand, seemingly shrinking the sword to a more normal size.

"Why the heck did you bring me here lady?" Finn asks quickly, assuming a battle stance, and with nothing to wield, his sword seemingly gone from his side, his arm draws forth his Sword of Grass. Giggling again, she motions, and the Blade of Grass withers and dies.

"My, my, such temper for a young adult and hero such as yourself," she says, "Then again your world isn't known for being peaceable at this point in time, is it..." Trailing off the woman turns to Prismo. "You know our deal Prismo, tell him the Bargain, the conditions of my game, let him know what my wish was," she says, smirking beneath her shadowy face, "I have a lot to prepare for now..." Moving her hand in a motion, another portal opens, and she steps through it, leaving Prismo and Finn alone.

"Dude...what the heck is going on Prismo?" Finn asks the Wish Master, and Prismo looks nervous. Materializing a chair, Prismo tells Finn to sit.

"I'm sorry Finn, but I can't really tell you much about who she was except that she is known as the Cosmic Queen, a cosmic entity that travels through the Multiverse at large playing games with inhabitants of different dimensions, and I don't mean Parcheesi," Prismo continues, "It's said she has an endgame that connects all of the varying realities, that she is searching for something or someone lost to her in her original timeline." He materializes a jar of pickles and offers one to Finn. He chose to decline.

"Ok Primo, tell me what the heck she was talking about when she was leaving," Finn demands from his pink friend. Prismo visibly saddens at this, looks downcast, and then sighs.

"Ok Finn, she has a proposition for you," he says, "She has made a wish, she has changed reality itself, it's a new world out there if you were to return to it, and she wants you to see this new world and be its judge, jury, and possibly executioner, if you see fit to it." At this, a screen is shown across the room on another wall, of another Earth from space, though this time it was whole and not missing a chunk of the world. "She has traveled the Multiverse, and in her own views, has found a way to make the Earth survive the Catalyst Comet, push back the destruction a few years so the inhabitants of the world could prepare for the oncoming disaster." He sighs, and looks to the screen, pointing toward it.

From where Finn was seeing of the universe being played before him, he saw a blue Comet come towards the Earth, and then Finn realized this was the beginning of it all. The Catalyst Comet shown on the screen was the one that would become him, that would eventually become Finn the Human. Watching the Comet approach the Earth, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the world that was about to die and be reborn into the eventual world that came before Ooo.

A beam of pure white lashed out from the surface of the Earth, striking the Comet, causing it to be pushed back, further, further, until it had begun to leave the Planet's Orbit, the screen panning to follow the Comet as it then passes Mars, before settling into orbit around Jupiter, destroying and fragmenting the planet's natural moons into smaller spheres. It then pans back down to Earth, through the atmosphere, as the Beam ends, showing a good sized fragment of the Comet still is in orbit, and escaping destruction by whatever force tried to protect the planet, and it begins plummeting to the ground below.

Now showing a view from the surface, a blue skinned man with bird feet, reminiscent of the Ice King, and adorned with a Crown much like the Ice King's, collapsed to his knee's, unable to stand or protect the world after the expenditure of energy that kept the main body of the Comet from destroying and forever altering the planet. Behind him, a dino boy watches near his poppa's side, looking to the man who he idolized, as he realizes his master can do nothing but accept the comet's collision course. Struck with courage, the Dino boy takes the crown from his slumped master's head, and donning it, is instantly morphed into a new creature, turning more humanoid, retaining his scaly visage, and gaining a tinge of color more like a greenish blue.

Raising his hands, the creature used the same white power to move the comet, only to suddenly be struck in the side by another giant creature of stone, causing the first creature to miss the comet, the fragment, though was no longer a threat, enough of it was destroyed, though still heading for the castle of Ice. Unable to stop it from impacting with the Ice tower in time, or out run it, after freezing the giant, stone creature, he encases the old man that looks like Ice King and himself in a dome of Ice, along with the stone creature. And then there was nothing but a blue flash.

Finn had to nearly shield his eyes from the blast, and the screen nearly went white, but color began to fade back in, revealing nothing but a charred crater, which was quickly filling in from the melted Ice castle, though a single, mountainous island remained in the center, the ice barrier cracking and caving in to reveal an otherwise unharmed pair of wizards and an unconscious stone dog golem. Then the ground shook under them, the island began to crack, starting from underneath the stone giant, and spreading outwards. The Ice King figure took the lizard boy in his arms, made some gestures, and using his magic, took the child to the mainland. The last frame of the show, Finn saw the lake glow a brilliant blue, before settling on a lone dark shadow under the new waves.

Fading to the white of Prismo's room, Finn finally registered that whatever he was being shown was over for now. "Prismo, what the junk was that?" he asks the Wish Master.

"Exactly what it looked like Finn, the far past of your planet," Prismo replies, "A very, very long time ago by the standards of your planet's growth, but it was not the original event, it was changed by the Cosmic Queen." Moving his hand, he replays the last few moments of the event as it naturally occurred in Finn's own timeline, as well as showing the differences in not only the people involved and the circumstances, but that the Catalyst Comet itself was changed. In the original timeline, a Green Catalyst Comet, who would become the Lich by Finn's time, was replaced with the Blue Comet that was once Finn as well. "There were consequence's though Finn, in the way this new timeline handled the end of their world, their world was preserved for four years, but only four years," Prismo says, "I'd like to show you what happened next, but for now, I'll have to show you the start of altered future by your time."

Finn nodded, and he and Prismo once more turned to the wall that served as a viewing screen.