Love and Madness
Chapter 18 Fires of Hate
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
Ricardio entered, his mountain carrying Bubblegum and an unconscious Finn. The criminal mastermind was met with Scorcher, Me-Mow, and several of his followers. Bubblegum glanced around the lair trying to come up with a plan to help her and Finn escape, when her eyes landed on a cell that had a beaten and bruised Lemongrab inside of it. The former princess gasped at the sight of the badly beaten lemon candy.
"Why is...Lemongrab here and why are you hurting him?" Asked Bubblegum.
"That annoying lemon came into our mountain and destroyed Matthew and our way of life with his stupid candy!" Snarled one of the followers.
One of the followers spotted Finn and pointed at him.
"Hey that's the guy, who rescued the lemon, from us after we attempted to beat him up!"
The followers were fixing to attack the unconscious Finn, but Ricardio raised a hand and stopped them.
"Patience my followers. I need this boy and his sweat to complete my ascension to godhood, but don't you worry, once I'm done with him, you can do whatever you want with him."
The followers smiled wickedly as they stepped aside. Ricardio turned to Scorcher and Me-Mow.
"We got the princess and we got her in your machine." Said Me-Mow.
"Excellent work." Said Ricardio as he carried Bubblegum and Finn into his lab.
Bubblegum looked around the lab and saw a machine that looked similar to the one she and Magic Man had been constructing and in the center of the machine was a large lantern that contained an unconscious Flame Princess. Ricardio set his prisoners on the ground as he grabbed some rope. The villain then tied Finn up and placed him in the glass chamber on the left side.
"You know Princess, I have you to thank for all of this." Said Ricardio as he turned to face Bubblegum.
"What do you mean?" Asked Bubblegum.
"Well during our last encounter you told me all the flaws I had in my last body, so I decided to make some vast improvements to my new body. As you can see my new body is quit a work of art and is very efficient. I then began to think about how I can improve myself even further and I can up with the best conclusion. Anyone can be a man, but only a few can truly rise to godhood. It was then that I started to do some research and I found out about that fool Magic Man's little escapade with the helmet of Glob and his attempt to become a god. I stole Glob's helmet and decided that I would become a god." Said Ricardio.
Bubblegum paled at this new. Ricardio was completely insane and he was on the verge of becoming a god. The villain studied Bubblegum and let out a chuckle.
"Do not worry princess, I have no intention of harming you. I plan to make you my queen of both this world and the planet Mars. I also have use for you in getting my machine started." Said Ricardio.
"Why...do you need me for that?" Asked Bubblegum as she eyed the machine.
"You see Princess, I plan to harness the fiery heat from the young Flame Princess. The fire she has will greatly increase the power of Sorcerer's Stone I plan to create. The fire I plan to harness will be from hatred. That is where you come in my dear Bubblegum. Flame Princess has a lot of hate towards you, after all it was you who had her locked up for a majority of her life in a lantern and let's not forget about the little stunt you pulled with cooling down her kingdom and destroying nearly all the Sleeping Fire Giants. Once the Flame Princess wakes and sees herself in a lantern and you standing nearby, she will be filled with utter hatred and I will use her heat to creat a Sorcerer's Stone and become a god!" Declared Ricardio.
"I...can reason with her and calm her down." Said Bubblegum trying to sound confident.
"Oh please Princess, if you were in Flame Princess position and had all those horrible things happen to you, would you truly trust someone who has lied and betrayed their trust or would you distrust that person and show them the hate they deserve?" Said Ricardio.
Bubblegum didn't know how to reply. Ricardio was right, Bubblegum had done some incredibly bad things to Flame Princess, sure she kind of forgave her for the cooler incident, but Flame Princess had still called Bubblegum a bad person and there still seem to be some resentment in the younger princess. Flame Princess had every right to be made at Bubblegum and now Bubblegum's actions were going to lead to the rise of a psychotic god ruling the planet.
"Your silence is the only answer I need." Chuckled Ricardio.
Flame Princess was still unconscious, but it would only be a matter of time, before she woke up and the flames of hatred rose up.
To be continued.