Three months had passed since Finn had heard the news from Bubblegum that she was pregnant. Keeping it secret so far had been easy to do, though the heroic boy had been thinking a lot over the time during adventures or not, wondering if it would all have to stop just so he could raise this child. He knew that if the child resembled him more he would take on the responsibility of handling raising it more, and remembered Princess Bubblegum would allow the child to be raised for royalty if it resembled her more,
Today, Finn was just resting at home playing with BMO, mainly lost in his thought while they played. BMO shut the game off, turning back to his original pixel face. "Finn. You don't look like you're having fun," BMO complained. The electronic device had been easily winning any matches they played. "Huh? ...oh, uh, yeah, BMO. Sorry, I'm just bored..." Finn lied, was mainly considering talking to his brother about what to do. Jake had experience with raising children since he had multiple, Finn knew he would probably be berated for it, but he was even more worried about messing up. He just thought he could talk to the princess about the suggestion.
"Finn, bro!" Jake called while rushing into the living room. Finn put down the controller and turned to him. "What's up?" Finn greeted, wondering what had him so excited. "I found something fun for us to do! Susan Strong said she'd like some help cleaning out a few monsters that have been springing up lately," the dog explained. His brother was ready to opt in happily before he caught himself having an odd thought in the back of his mind. What if he got badly hurt to where he couldn't recover. Finn was really noticing he couldn't get anything but the child off his mind, though he couldn't just ignore his friend Susan's need of assistance. "Yeah man. Let's go," he finally spoke before the brothers made their way to the treasure room to get ready.
Later that evening at the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum was in her laboratory, wearing her goggles and lab coat while she was working with chemicals. One big beaker had a strange green liquid in it. She was mixing in some red and purple liquids. So far her stomach was slightly bigger than before. It was barely noticeable, but she was not allowing the pregnancy to slow down her scientific research, though she did make sure to be very cautious with what she worked around. Suddenly, she heard a loud scream that made her drop the other chemicals into the beaker, resulting in the mixture becoming a light grey shade. "Darn it..." she growled while removing her lab coat and goggles, resting them nearby.
"What's going on?" Bubblegum called out while exiting into the hallway, only to see most of the room frozen, including multiple huge icicles on the ceiling. She found her guards and servants frozen stiff. "There you are, princess!" she heard the familiar voice that made her groan in frustration, seeing the big bearded man in blue himself, the Ice King, standing at the end of the hall. "I've been searching for you," he claimed with a grin, having come in an attempt to kidnap her and force her to marry him again like he had tried and failed at many times before. Bubblegum was more than ready to fight him, but before she could move much, the king shot out two beams of ice, freezing her feet together in a block of ice, and her hands together in another. "D-darn it...!" she mentally cursed herself for being so slow to react to his attack. She knew just how the rest of her afternoon was going to go.
Meanwhile at the Treefort, Finn was just arriving back home with Jake, both tired out of their skulls. "Oh, man... I don't even want to know how a fire serpent got down there..." he muttered while lying down on the couch. "Heh, yeah... but it wasn't that hard to fight," Jake joked, remembering how easy it was to handle the beast. He went to start making dinner when Finn heard the phone ringing. He picked it up and held it by his ear. "Hello?" he answered. "Finn? I'm glad I finally reached you!" it was Peppermint Butler, and he sounded panicked with a slight shiver to his tone. "What's going on, Peppermint Butler?" he asked, trying to get him to calm down and tell him what was wrong. "I-It's the Ice King! He's attacking again!" he told him. Finn went silent for a second. He didn't feel like it was a routine kidnapping. He felt very enraged, "I'll be there in a minute," he reassured before hanging up. Finn jumped off the couch with a burst of energy, and ran out of the room, and then the Treefort, immediately to get to the Candy Kingdom.
Finn had been in such of a hurry that he had forgotten to alert his brother to the situation, thinking he wouldn't have to worry about it. He was panting while he was beginning to come to the Cotton Candy Forest. As the candy kingdom came into sight, Finn started to slow down. At the front gate stood a golem made of ice, just by some of the frozen guards. "Glob... he sure has amped up his attacks..." he had to admit to himself, usually only seeing the ice monsters utilized in a more defensive style. He thought over how to handle the situation, remembering the weak points of theirs. He drew his golden sword off his back before beginning to charge at the creature.
The Ice Golem saw Finn sprinting toward the entrance. It threw its fist down on him, but he ran around it, letting the frozen fist dig into the ground, getting stuck. Once he was close enough, Finn threw his golden sword at the golem's left leg, hitting and shattering it into pieces, making it collapse to the ground and shattering the rest of its body. Finn hurriedly grabbed his sword, looking awkwardly at the two guards. "Sorry! I'll defrost y'all later!" he insisted just continuing past them. His priority still was the princess.
Upon entering the candy kingdom, Finn could see the well frozen houses around him. The ground even felt slippery, though he was reassured that he wasn't seeing many frozen candy citizens. He was presuming that most were hidden away inside of their homes. He saw the Candy Castle that seemed relatively unharmed, but it didn't stop him from barging inside the front door. Finn found the few servants and others frozen along with more of the guards. "Ice King, just let me go!" he heard the familiar voice echo. He began to walk toward the throne room, his anger boiling at this point, seeing the door partially frozen. His ear paid attention to the the voices inside.
"Not this time, Bubblegum! This time, we are going to get married!" The Ice King persisted. Finn just kicked in the door to the throne room, where the Ice King was holding the still bound Bubblegum. "Finn! Thank goodness," the princess sighed in relief before getting put down. "Wait here for a sec," the blue skinned man said, planning on just fighting the still steamed hero. The Ice King fired a few icicles at him from the palms of his hands, Finn reflecting most of them with his sword. His long nosed opponent shot out a wave of frost on the floor, freezing Finn's feet in place.
"I'm going to say this once... Ice King..." he grunted before stabbing the ice that encased his feet, shattering it and stomping out of it. He was just getting angrier and angrier. The Ice King just fired barrage of icicles at the ceiling, resulting in the huge icicles dangling from the ceiling falling down on Finn. He just dove out of the way, sliding on the frozen floor as the huge pieces of ice fell to the ground behind him. "I'm really... getting sick of this..." he continued while he was very close. The Ice King was about to attempt another frosted attack when Finn grabbed his blue clothing and punched him in the face, knocking him to the floor.
"W-wait, wait! I surrender! I surrender! J-just what do you want?" The Ice King pleaded. He knew this was nowhere near a winnable fight at this point. He didn't even know why his adversary was more angry than usual. "I want you to just stop. Full stop. Now get out of here," Finn demanded before throwing him aside. The Ice King didn't waste any time taking that offer and flying off to leave the Candy Kingdom.
"Wow! Finn... are you okay?" Princess Bubblegum questioned. She was noticing the change in his behavior and actions, and it was really worrying her. Finn approached her and began to cut away at the ice that was bounding her arms and legs together, seeming to ignore her question. "Are you okay?" Finn decided to ask instead. "Yes, I'm fine..." she answered for him. Usually the most damage she would sustain in a kidnapping from the Ice King was a slight case of frostbite. "Then I'm fine too. I'm sorry. I just... I couldn't see straight hearing him talk like that," he tried to explain that he had nearly been blinded by his anger to the point that it had taken over his mind first. "Now that that's out of the way, we really need to talk," he added, thinking maybe now was the best time to bring up a few thoughts he had going on in his head.