Love and Madness
Chapter 21 Scramble
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
Deep within the mountain the heroes were prepared to leap into action. Simon looked at the others in the group and then to Marceline and Betty.
"I'm going to get Ricardio and his minions attention. Marceline I need you to get that Sorcerer's stone and give it Betty so she can use her magic to get it far away from here." Said Simon.
"What should the rest of use do?" Asked Jake.
"Get ready to move on and rescue the others. We're going to need all the help we can get." Said Simon.
Everyone nodded and Marceline went invisible. Simon took a deep breath, put the crown on, and stepped into the lab getting all the villains attention.
"Hello Ricardio it's been awhile." Said Simon.
Ricardio turned away from the stone to look at Simon with a look of surprise, which turned into a big grin.
"Well isn't this a pleasant surprise. It's good to see you've managed to survive my little burial and regain your sanity. Though if I call correctly the power of the crown that kept you from aging is gone now. You only have a few hours before the aging kicks in and your body begins to fail. On the bright side, you'll at least see me rise to godhood before you die or I can simply put you out of your misery before that happens." Said Ricardio.
"I survived your little burial and regained my sanity thanks to the good people in my life the very ones you tried to kill and I'm here to put a stop to your insane plan. It's true I feel my body aging, but I will do everything in my power to put an end to you. I brought you into this world Ricardio and I'm going to take you out of it one way or another." Said Simon.
"Bold words from a foolish dying old man. Tell me Simon, why do you care about this world? The one you remembered is long gone and you have no place you truly belong in this one. True you have a couple of people you care about, but besides them you have nothing." Said Ricardio.
"I'll admit this world is different and strange from the one I grew up in and I only have a couple of people I care about, but I still have hope for this world and everything living on it. This world is alive and I will protect it." Said Simon with determination.
As Simon and Ricardio talked an invisible Marceline had flown up behind Bubblegum and cut through her restraints.
"Just play it cool and continue to pretend your still tied up." Whispered Marceline.
"Thanks Marcy." Whispered Bubblegum.
"I'm only doing this now so we don't have to worry about rescuing you later. Also what you did to that other princess is not ok and I'm not thrilled about the whole spying on everything biz either." Said Marceline with a growl, before she started to make her way to the Sorcerer's Stone.
While this was going on a incredibly tiny Jake was making his way towards the glass chamber that held Finn. Marceline reached out and grabbed the Sorcerer's Stone, when suddenly Ricardio spun around and shot a hand out grabbing Marceline by the throat. The vampire gasped in shock as she became visible and dangled from Ricardio's hand.
"Marceline!" Cried Simon in fear.
"Very clever Simon, you almost managed to get my stone, but you forget I used to be a part of you so I know how you think. I know about Marceline's little tricks and I also know you won't try anything rash against me, while I holding your little girl in front of me." Said Ricardio as he turned to face Simon holding Marceline in front of him.
Simon just glared at the villain not sure what to do. Ricardio just grinned as he reached out with his free hand and pried Marceline's hands open to get the stone. The vampire was still weak from the Black Ice Cave collapse, so she couldn't put up much resistance against Ricardio. The villain grinned in triumph as he held the stone up high. The tiny Jake saw what was going on and quickly went into action. The magical dog grew to his normal, made his arms large to rip off the door to the glass chamber holding Finn, and then he tossed the door at Ricardio. The door slammed into Ricardio's back making him let go of both the stone and Marceline as he fell to the ground. Marceline fell to the ground as the stone went flying into the air and everyone looked up at it. Jake quickly shot a stretchy arm up and caught it. The other members of Simon's group rushed into the lab to help out.
"Yeah I got it!" Shouted Jake.
"Get me my stone!" Roared Ricardio as he shot to his feet.
Me-Mow leaped onto Jake's arm and ran up it towards the stone. Jake freaked out and quickly tossed the stone to Peppermint Butler, who was tackled by one Ricardio's servants who snatched the stone away from the candy man. The servant started to run towards Ricardio, but Lemongrab snatched it from his hands and smirked. The lemon's victory was short lived as three servants angrily tackled him and began to pummel him. The stone rolled away and Me-Mow ran by and picked it up. The tiny cat tried to run away with it, but Magic Man stood in her way. The martian grinned down at the cat thinking it would be easy to deal with her. Me-Mow hissed as she wrapped her tail around the stone and leaped at Magic Man's face claws extended. Magic Man screamed as the tiny cat clawed his face and he fell to the ground rolling in pain. Before Me-Mow could move on Betty snatched the stone from her.
"I'm getting you out of here." Said Betty.
But before the magic women could do anything Scorcher suddenly appeared behind in a cloud of smoke and chopped the back of her neck with a hand. Betty fell to the ground and Scorcher grabbed the stone and handed it over to one of the servants. The assassin was fixing to go finish Betty off, when a freeze blast from Simon froze him in a block of ice. Simon stumbled over to Betty and knelt down next to her.
"You ok?" He asked.
"I have...a pain in my neck, but I'm fine." Groaned Betty.
Simon let out a sigh of relief. Bubblegum meanwhile had untied Finn's bonds. The candy princess looked at the human, who gave a look that told her that he was still mad at her for what she did. Bubblegum looked at the ground sadly. Finn looked past the princess and noticed Ricardio making his way towards the servant with the stone. The young hero ran forward and kick Ricardio in the back causing him to stumble. The teen then ran past the villain and towards the servant, who tried to get away, but Finn tackled him and wrestled him to the ground, before taking the stone away from him. Ricardio then rushed at Finn and snatched the stone from the boy's hand as he raced towards the helmet of Glob. Marceline came to and tried to get the stone away from Ricardio, but the villain was quicker then the weakened vampire and knocked her to the side. Jake tried to come to Marceline's aid, but a bunch of servants jumped on top of him. Ricardio continued to race towards the helmet and Bubblegum tried to get in his way, which only made the villain grin as he knocked the candy princess to her rear with a flick of his finger. The mad villain then reached the helmet of Glob and put it on his head sideways so it looked like he had red spikes growing out of the side of his head. Then he held the Sorcerer's Stone and pressed it to his forehead.
"Look out universe, because there's a new god on the block!" Exclaimed Ricardio as he felt power surging through his body.
Everyone starred at Ricardio. The heroes gasped and the minions cheered. There was a blinding flash of light followed by some powerful evil laughter. A maniac had just obtained god level powers.
To be continued.