Love and Madness
Chapter 23 Past Mistakes
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
At the mountain, the heroes were trying to figure out what to do. Simon was sitting on a rock looking pale and seemed to be having a coughing fit every few minutes. Marceline and Betty sat next to Simon with looks of concern on their faces. Magic Man approached the little group.
"Betty I need you to teleport us back to my place and use the machine to give me my powers back." Said Magic Man.
"Oh so you can us your powers to flee, when Rucardio shows back?" Asked Marceline with a glare.
"No. Look I know you don't trust me and my work is pretty much as good as a stale bag of chips, but I need my powers, so I can go to Mars and help my people. I did a ton of bad stuff to my people and I need to make up for that, but to do that I need my powers." Said Magic Man.
"Fine, but no funny business." Said Betty.
"I'm coming to and if you try to pull something funny Magic Man, your going to be in a world of hurt." Said Marceline.
"I have no doubt about that." Said Magic Man.
"I'm...coming with you." Said Simon as he stumbled to his feet.
"Alright gather around." Said Betty.
They huddled together and in a flash of light and they vanished. The remaining heroes looked at one another. Finn walked over to Bubblegum.
"I...still can't believe...what you did to the entire Fire Kingdom. They were no threat to you and Flame Princess actually asked you for help, only to find out your were behind the problem and the only reason you wanted to get into the Fire Kingdom was to destroy some of their stuff! That was just underhanded and low! Your supposed to be the smart, kind, respectful ruler Bubblegum!" Said Finn pointing an accusing finger at Bubblegum.
"Your one to talk! You caused that fight between Flame Princess and Ice King and you were completely useless during the Flame King's uprising! I was trying to be logical with my actions and protect my people, while you were trying to see the rest of some strange dream and win Flame Princess back with your moves!" Shouted Bubblegum.
"Well I feel guilty about what I did and I want to make up for what happened. I didn't intend for anyone to get hurt. I just want to help everyone and make sure they're all happy." Said Finn with a sad look in his eyes.
Bubblegum looked at Finn and calmed down feeling guilty for what she said.
"Finn...I'm sorry. I have no right to judge your actions, after all the things I've done. I harmed the Fire Kingdom and betrayed Flame Princess's trust. I thought by destroying the Sleeping Giants my people would be safer, but my actions could have made things worse. I've lived for so and I've made several terrible mistakes and choices. I started a zombie apocalypse twice in my own kingdom, I created two heirs that ended up turning into horrible psychotic beings, I ignored my suitors, I endangered my friends with by beliefs about what magic is, and I caused a few of my subjects to be mutated into horrible disfigured beings. I'm full of hubris and that has blind me from my actions and made me lose touch with my people, which cost me my kingdom. I called Flame Princess a ding dong, but now I know that the real ding dong is me." Said Bubblegum as she looked at the ground.
Finn looked at Bubblegum and put a hand on her shoulder.
"We're both ding dongs. We know what we did was wrong and we have to fix it. I'll help you and you can help me. We not going to be able to fix anything by feeling sorry for ourselves, especially if Ricardio takes over." Said Finn.
"I guess your right. I suppose we need to alert the kingdom's of Ooo about what is happening. Will start with the Candy Kingdom." Said Bubblegum.
"Alright let's go! We have a world to save." Said Finn.
The group headed off towards the Candy Kingdom.
To be continued.