Love and Madness

Chapter 22 Dangers and Distress

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.

In the lab everyone was blinking their eyes as they took in Ricardio's new form. Ricardio was dressed in an outfit similar to Glob's outfit except the helmet was different. The spikes had turned and twisted, so they looked more like horns growing out of the side of Ricardio's head. The Sorcerer's Stone sat in the middle of Ricardio's forehead and glowed brightly. All the heroes stared at Ricardio in horror and awe, as some of the minions began to bow to their new god. Me-Mow stood next to Scorcher, who used his powers to melt himself free from the ice he was frozen in. The two assassins also looked at Ricardio in awe. The new god flexed his arms and his pecs.

"Oh this is magnificent! The power coursing through my veins is incredible! I feel like I have unlimited power!" Declared Ricardio.

Ricardio then looked up at the celling and pointed a hand up at it. There was a flash of bright light that flew from Ricardio's hand and the entire top of the mountain was vaporized in an instant. Everyone starred at the exposed sky in shock. Jake used his stretchy powers to shield Marceline as the minions whooped and praised their leader's display of power. The blast of light had been seen everywhere in Ooo and people were freaking out.

At the Candy Kingdom, people were freaking out, while the King of Ooo was ordering some of the candy people to load up a large amount of treasure into, his zeppelin. The corrupt ruler was more concerned with saving himself and taking as much treasure as he could with him, then worrying about his subjects.

At the Fire Kingdom, the people had been freaking out over the disappearance of their leader and the strange light that shot into the sky, made them freak out even more. This would unfortunately lead to some very bad choices in the kingdom. Cinnamon Bun, Flint, Randy, and Aunt Agnes were desperately trying to calm everyone down and regain order, but we're having very little luck. A random guard was bouncing on his feet chewing his fingers nervously, underneath the lantern that contained Flame King and Don John.

"Hey you, we can help with this situation." Said Flame King getting the guard's attention.

"Why...should I trust you two? You'll probably try to takeover the kingdom." Said the guard.

"Well I have magic and whatever the situation is my magic can help." Said Don John.

"Besides the Fire Kingdom is my home. It wouldn't exactly be smart of me to focus on conquering it, while the entire kingdom was threatened?" Said Flame King.

"Um...I guess that makes sense." Said the guard before he pushed the lever that lowered the lantern.

The guard opened the lantern and Flame King immediately punched the guard in the face knocking him out. Flame King then tossed the guard into the lantern as he and Don John turned to the others in the throne room. The two villains quickly went about grabbing Flint, Randy, Aunt Agnes, and Cinnamon Bun and locked them in the lantern. The lantern was raised back up and Flame King turned to Don John.

"Come on we have a kingdom to conquer and a crisis to deal with."

"What about your daughter? She could come back and ruin everything." Said Don John.

"Just focus on brainwashing a good precent of the masses. I want some of the people to actually think I'm a good leader." Said Flame King.

The two of them went about taking over the kingdom.

Back at the mountain, everybody was still starring at the sky in shock and awe. Finally Jake broke the heroes silence.

"OH MY GLOB, HE BLEW THE TOP OF A GLOBBING MOUNTAIN OFF!"

Simon took a shaky stepped forward.

"Ricardio what have you done?! The kind of power your messing with is dangerous and you could rupture the fabric of the universe! You have to stop this madness!"

"Oh silly Simon. I'm a god! I can do whatever I please! Who knows maybe I'll heal you so you can be around for the festivities of my new age or maybe I'll just let you die of natural causes. After all you probably only have less then a day to live at best." Said Ricardio with a grin.

Finn tried to take Ricardio by surprise by changing his thorn arm into a massive vine that shot at Ricardio, but the villain simply raised his hand and the vine just stopped in midair, before it changed back into the thorn arm.

"An amusing trick, but it won't help." Said Ricardio as he flicked his finger at Finn and a invisible force sent him flying and crashing into a wall.

Simon tried to hit Ricardio with a blast of lighting, but the villain just froze it in midair and calmly took it in his hands.

"Fear me mortals, for I am Ricardio lord of all!" Declared Ricardio as he rose into the air and hovered above the mountain.

Ricardio looked up at the sky and used his advanced eyesight to look at Mars. The villain grinned as he held the lightning bolt up and then he tossed it into the sky at Mars. The lighting bolt soared through space and right at Mars hitting the surface and destroying several buildings. The heroes were completely shocked by the display of insane power, while the assassins and minions ran out of the mountain to stand under their leader.

"Ah that was a nice little warmup, now I think I'll go to Mars and tell everybody whose in charge now, before I come back to Earth and start renovating the place." Said Ricardio as he prepared to fly into space.

"Oh great mighty one please bless us!" Called one of the minions from below.

"You know what your right. You do deserve a reward for all your hard work. I shall grant you great power, so that you may go forth and spread the word that this world has a new master." Said Ricardio as he looked down at the assembled minions.

The insane deity pointed his hand down and fired a bright beam of yellow light that transformed his minions. The minions bodies began to grow and swell with muscles that tore through their robes. Ricardio then turned to Me-Mow and Scorcher.

"You two shall serve as my generals of my forces, while I'm away. Do as you like and wreck as much havoc as you can. My only condition is that no harm comes to Bubblegum. She is my future queen and I would prefer she remained unharmed." Said Ricardio.

"You can count on us." Said Me-Mow with a salute.

"Excellent. Now if you excuse me I have a planet that I need to declare my dominance over." Said Ricardio, before he flew off.

Me-Mow chuckled as she jumped onto one minions shoulder and pointed North. All the minions and Scorcher marched off to wreck havoc.

Back in the mountain, Jake was helping Finn up, while Simon leaned against a wall looking incredibly pale, with Betty and Marceline tending to him.

"It's just like my brothers and the King of Mars said. A great evil is going to take the helmet and cause a heap of trouble for Mars and Earth." Mumbled Magic Man.

Bubblegum looked around the lab and saw Phoebe still trapped in the lantern. The former princess grabbed a rock and headed over to the lantern.

"Step back Phoebe, I'm getting you out of there." Said Bubblegum as she raised the rock up.

"Well this is certainly new, usually you want to lock me up, or is this all some crazy scheme to gain my trust again, so you can betray me hurt my kingdom again?" Said Phoebe as she stepped back and glared at Bubblegum.

Bubblegum smashed the glass and Phoebe walked out. The others headed over to them. Phoebe continued to glare at Bubblegum, who looked at the ground guiltily.

"So...is what Flame Princess said true?" Asked Jake.

"It...is...or at least the part of cooling the Fire Kingdom is. Bubblegum got the Ice King to help her do that. I believe, she promised him a kiss for his services." Said Simon before he broke out into a fit of coughing.

Marceline glared daggers at Bubblegum, before she went over and lifted her up by the front of her shirt. Bubblegum flenched under Marceline's gaze.

"You got Simon mixed up in your insane little plan to harm the Fire Kingdom?! Honestly Bonnibel, that's messed up! You used to be a nerd, but I considered you my friend, even after you went all full princess and paid more attention to your kingdom then anything else I would still call you my friend. Then I find out about this insane plan you had that made Simon hurt a lot of people! Then I hear you've been spying on everyone that is not cool! I don't even know who you are anymore, but your no friend of mine!" Snarled Marceline as she tossed Bubblegum to the ground.

The candy women just sat there staring at the ground. Finn turned to Phoebe.

"Flame Princess...I'm sorry what happened to you. What Bubblegum did was not ok." Said Finn.

"Um...thanks Finn, but right now I need to go to my kingdom and help prepare my people for the return of that Ricardio guy." Said Phoebe, before she took off into the sky.

All the remaining heroes looked at one another. Some had looks of concern on their faces, while Marceline just glared at Bubblegum. Things were looking dark, tension was high, and time was running out for Simon. It was truly a dark hour for Ooo.

To be continued.