Jake stands slowly, trying his best to shield his nose and eyes against the burning air. He majorly screwed up. That sandwich just damned his friend and their entire universe, and he was beginning to feel pretty guilty for enjoying it so much.

He looked around for any sign of life, past the lakes of radioactive goo, the fires, and the pillars of toxic gas crowding the sky. His first instinct was to avoid the hotbed where the main explosion had been, but then he heard what he'd been listening for:

Finns frightened shrieks were just barely audible: "Jake? Jaaaaake? Jake!"

Jake gasped, and blew into a dog the size of the house, galumphing towards the sound. "I'm coming, buddy, just hold on!"

Just as Jake feared, the screams were coming right from the source of the bomb clouds in the sky. He shrunk down and crawled into the murky scene. The air stung his eyes so much he could barely see and his breathing was becoming shallow and labored.

Jake wiped his eyes and looked to see Finn crawling backwards, his eyes filled with terror. "Jake? Jake, what are you doing? BACK OFF MY CROWN, JAKE! I WARN YOU!"

Pursuing him was a monster that looked a lot like Jake himself did in Zombie form, dripping in an eerie green liquid. The creature was had glowing eyes and snarled maliciously as foam frothed around his mouth.

"Aww, sick man! Yo, Finn, that's not me!" yelled Jake as he crawled over.

The Jake monster grew bigger and Finn shot streams of ice at him. These were deflected like insects. Towering over Finn with a mighty roar, the creature's skin dripped off its skull and turned into the face of the Lich!

The creature snapped Finn up and crashed him into the wall. Without thinking, Jake flattened himself into a gigantic blanket and wrapped himself around the Jake-Lich's entire body. With one twist of his flesh wrapped around the creature's skull, the head snapped off of the monster in a stream of blood.

Jake looked down in shock at the creature before him and the blood matting in his fur. "Holy stuff! I'm the Lich in this world? What the heck?" Then, in a few seconds, a slight smile parted his mouth, "Holy stuff, I just killed the Lich! Yeah, buddy, gimme five, Finn!"

He whirled around to see Finn lying unconscious on the ground, a large bump forming where the creature smashed him.

"Oh, geez, Finn!" Jake ran over to him and cradled his injured brother in his arms. He whispered reassurances frantically, "It's all good, bro. I killed him. I'm going to make you better. We're going to get that crown off you."

Jake's moment of reunion of Finn was interrupted with an irregular scraping sound behind them. He turned to see one of the most horrific things of his life.

Slowly but surely, the Lich's eyes had lit up again, and his head was dragging itself back to its body.

"Yo, me-Lich, that is creepy!" shouted Jake. He had no idea how to kill it if decapitating it didn't work and he didn't have the strength to try. He hoisted Finn on his back and whispered "We better get outta here, buddy."

Jake carried his friend to an abandoned house. He tried not to think of what must of happened to the people who left in such a hurry. The pantry was well stocked with food, and Jake was pretty happy that he found ingredients to make bacon pancakes. He wasn't hungry again, but Finn looked like he could use several good meals. Before starting to cook he tried to yank the crown off his head, but it had stubbornly affixed itself to its new master. Still, though, his body pumped with optimistic adrenaline that they had managed to live as long as they had.

"Finn, this reality won't be so bad as long as we're together!" Jake looked briefly over at Finn and then turned back to flipping the pancakes. "We went through messed up junk in Ooo, too, like Mom and Dad dying, and PB rejecting you so many times, and all the times our bods got wicked junked up in battles. We're gonna pull through this fine and when you wake up, we're gonna figure out how to get that crown off you."

At Jake's last sentence, a frantic buzzing hummed from the crown on Finn's head. Jake eyed the crown warily, but in a flash Finn's arm bolted up and encased his lower body in a stream of ice.

"You want to take my crown, dog?!" shouted Finn in a rushed, delirious voice while bolting out of bed. He advanced towards Jake with wide, glazed over eyes.

"Finn!" Jake grunted feebly to get out of the ice, "Stop, this isn't you, dude. It's me, Jake!"

Suddenly, Finn's eyes turned human looking again and his voice lost its shrill madness, "Jake? But you turned into a monster and…" Finn thought hard while he looked at Jake before looking suspicious. "You're not Jake! Dogs can't even talk! I guess I really am going crazy."

"No, it is me! I've always been able to talk, but the crown's powers are just allowing you to hear me!" He thought this unstable version of Finn would buy this explanation more than 'I'm Jake from an alternate universe.'

Finn glared, "Alright, if you're Jake, then I'll ask you something only the real Jake would know!"

"Whatevs, go for it, dude! I know everything about you!" Jake said, rolling his eyes with overconfidence.

"How did I lose my arm?"

Jake's face suddenly fell. He had not thought this through; of course he knew nothing about the past of this alternate Finn. He felt a sudden pang in his chest as all the memories he had with his human brother flashed through his mind. How is one supposed to mourn the loss of a past that isn't even real?

The dog looked through hooded eyes and slumped his shoulders in defeat, "I don't know, Finn. Look, just let me tell you-"

"Fair enough, you were just a puppy then;" reasoned Finn, "What's my last name?"

"Ummm," thought Jake desperately, "'the human?'"

"LIAR!" shouted Finn in his once again shaky, ravenous voice, "You're just a demon who looks like a talking dog! A demon who wants my CROWN!" Finn eyes turned into glassy, blue orbs and he ascended into the air with a few flaps of his wild, blond hair.

Jake, petrified in fear and unable to move out of the ice, could do nothing but stare into Finn's distant eyes. "I'm sorry, buddy," he muttered in a barely audible voice. He knew that he was about to die, but Finn looked much more unfortunate than himself.

Suddenly, Finn lowered his arms and looked thoughtfully at Jake. He flew down and circled the dog, observing him from all angles, "You're a demon, but I can rebirth you! You can be the new Jake when I rebirth you with ICE AND SNOW! AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!"

"Finn, what are-"

"SILENCE, DEMON!" Finn shouted, coating Jake's entire body in a thick layer of ice.

Finn stared for a long time at Jake's terrified face under the layer of clean, smooth, cold ice. A frantic laughter built up in his chest with excitement. "That is right, sleep Ice Child! Soon the cold will cause your heart rate to slow until you are in a perpetual state just below death. Then, I will resurrect you into a new age- an age of perfect, clean, white snow and ice!"

With that, Finn picked up Jake and blasted a hole deep into the earth with a torrent of wind and snow. He placed Jake gingerly into his quickly made Ice cave.

"Stay there! I need another! Another Ice Child!" Finn thought, pacing back and forth. Soon, a wide grin distorted his boyish features. "The infant! The infant with the couple I sent away on that mule! I must retrieve it! Then, the child and the dog can go on adventures together throughout the land! It will be wonderful- like none of this ever happened. Then maybe, someday, I can be friends with them and forget all this!"

Finn left Jake and flew off to get the baby that he no longer consciously remembered was his younger sibling.