Fiona nearly jumped out of her skin when there was a knock on the door. She and Cake were so lost in organizing their camping equipment that she nearly forgot about Marshall. Fiona jumped up and opened the door.

"Hey, you cool with spending the night in the desert?" Fiona asked the moment she saw Marshall, wearing plaid as usual, holding his umbrella and some other things. Marshall smirked and leaned closer.

"Do I get to share my tent with you?" He whispered gently into her ear. His breath tickled her neck just slightly.

"You butt!" She said backing up.

"Man, so touchy. Yeah, I could go desert camping." Marshall said, giving Fiona a real answer.

"What's up with him?" Cake asked.

"He's just got Mommy issues." Fiona said crossing her arms. Marshall hissed.

"Well, at least both of our parents are dead." He said floating inside the house.

"Fiona, where is Gumball?" Cake asked, she gave Marshall a disproving look. His face contorted into a scary Marshall vamp and Cake just stuck out her tongue. She could take Marshall any day.

"He's not coming, so we should get going." Fiona leaned over and gathered her tent in her arms. Marshall floated down just at bit, attempting to peek up that tiny skirt of hers. When Cake jumped in his view.

"Try anything on my Fiona, pretty boy and you'll have me to deal with." Cake growled. Marshall stood on his feet and lifted his hand up in a mock surrender.

"Ok, for this trip I'll be a good little boy. Cross my heart and hope to burn." Marshall said making a large X over his chest.

"Just hurry up you guys." Fiona said strapping on her backpack, when suddenly she stopped cold. "Marshall, how are you going to help when the sun will be out?"

"Don't worry. Gumball made some super strength sunscreen serum for me and I have this." He said holding up the other thing that was under his arm. "It's a tent, should block out some sun for me."

"Cool, Cake?"

"On it girl." Cake hoisted the rest of their supplies on her back and jumped out the door. Fiona followed and swung herself onto's Cake's back. Marshall floated behind them with his umbrella as Cake began to run. It wasn't long before they were back at the empty desert plain.

"Here we are." Cake said growing smaller. Fiona hopped off her back along with all their things.

"We should set up camp first." Marshall said.

"Good idea." Fiona replied.

"Just let me put up my tent first." He said. Fiona and Cake looked at each other but stepped back anyway.

He set down the big bag he brought with him and pulled out the long poles he had shown off earlier. As Marshall had said it was a tent, the kind people put up for barbecues to keep out flies, except the netting was pure black.

"This is a tent I brought back from the Night-o-sphere. If you don't mind setting up your tents in here. It's foolproof, will keep out almost every enemy guaranteed. The only two it can't keep out would be my Mother and the cosmic owl but we won't have to worry about them." Marshall said holding open the front curtains.

Fiona and Cake stepped inside and gasped. Inside looked like a tropical rain forest with a waterfall. If Fiona got close enough to the waterfall she could feel the spray of the water hitting off the rocks.

"Hot dang." Cake said.

"Marshall." Fiona said gently running her fingers over the wall. "This is amazing."

"Thanks. Although, this might not qualify as camping. It's no problem though, we can change the back grounds. I could switch it to look like Ahh, or a desert or a forest. Maybe even like your house, up to you guys." He shrugged.

"No, its beautiful." Fiona said. "Keep it just like this."

All three stepped outside, Marshall being last. He stepped very carefully out into the desert sun, without an umbrella. To everyone's surprise his skin didn't begin to bubble and boil over.

"Whoa!" Fiona said going up to him. She held his hand up to see what it felt like. Ice-cold and smooth as usual.

"Guess Gumball's science worked this time." Marshall said. He closed his hand around Fiona's and held it so Cake couldn't see.

"Marshall Lee!" Fiona whispered. "Let go!"

"Hey Cake, how about you pick the first digging spot?" Marshall said.

"Good idea. I'll be right back." Cake said before she ran off, being the slightly gullible cat she was.

"What the flip Marshall." Fiona said tugging on her hand.

"Sorry." Marshall let up his grip and Fiona's hand fell from his. Fiona felt herself just being the slightest bit disappointed before getting a hold of herself. "I just needed to talk to you for a second, alone."

"What is it?" Fiona asked. Her heart was beating fast and the hand that Marshall held was getting a bit sweaty. Fiona kept her voice even and normal though.

"I'll help you as much as I can but I don't want you to get down if we can't find it. I just, don't want to see you sad." Marshall looked into Fiona's eyes and it was like he held her under a spell. Fiona didn't know how she felt, excited, anxious, a little angry but at the same time, glad.

"Thanks for worrying about me Marshall." She said.

"It's just cause I didn't want you to get your girly feelings hurt." Marshall joked.

"Whatever." Fiona smiled.

"Guys over here!" Cake yelled.