What happened last:

Marceline and Finn were able to have another intimate moment together and Beemo wasn't able to completely ruin it this time. Also, they were able to talk about a lot of important things, mainly everything on Marcy's mind.

Note: If you look up a Binary to Text thing this chapter would be a bit more interesting although you're not missing out on anything if you don't. :p

As Marceline's daydream reached the current time she became aware of her surroundings once again.

She thought in her head that it was time to save Finn. She felt as if she put him in danger and it was her job to get him out of harm's way.

PB: "So Marcy, do you think you could hack the mainframe again the same way you did earlier?"

M: "Pfft! Can I hack the mainframe? That's funny." She was being cocky because she knew that the princess couldn't do this herself.

PB: "Yeah, yeah. Can you just do it?"

M: "Of course, Bonnie."

Marceline walked over and sat down in Bubblegum's chair. She looked around at the monitor for a second and clicked on a few things then got to work.

Marceline looked like a master at hacking because she was able to type really fast and everything on the screen looked different. She made it look easy and obviously knew what she was doing.

PB: "So, how are you gonna do it?" She was referring to Marceline hacking.

M: "Eh, I'll probably just do a simple man-in-the-middle attack. That usually works."

PB: "Ah, you're gonna use proxies. Nice."

F: "Proxies?"

PB: "Well Finn, a proxy server is a server that pretty much acts as an intermediary for requests from-"

M: "Uh, Bonnie…" Marceline interrupted, knowing that Finn and Jake would have no idea what she was talking about.

M: "Finn, a proxy is basically like a mailman, I guess. You tell him to send someone something and he does it and vice versa. And it's awesome because the "mailman" knows everything about both sides. He's like the middle man." She was sounding devious as she tried explaining the complex hacking procedure. Marcy really enjoys stuff like this, especially because she's good at it.

J: "I guess that's why it's called a "man-in-the-middle attack."

M: "Yup."

F: "Sounds pretty math."

M: "Yeah, it's pretty cool. Now… where were we?" She said as she got back to work.

PB: "You were about to-"

M: "Done."

As soon as Marceline was done hacking into the guild's mainframe a list of random binary codes showed up.

M: "And this is the annoying part…" She was obviously talking about all of the binary on the screen that she couldn't understand.

There was an insane amount of 0's and 1's on the screen. It was crazy to believe that it could translate into plain old English. Some of the information on the screen was just text; other things seemed to be links to programs and folders.

M: "Do you see the blacklist database in all this gronk, PB?"

PB: "Uhhh… scroll down." The princess was reading as quickly as she could, it was difficult but she was able to do it and that's all that mattered.

The princess was studying the data, deciding what needed to be looked at in more detail.

PB: "Click on that one." She said as she pointed at a file.

0101010001100001011100100110011101100101011101000010000001101100011010010111001101110100

It was a folder that seemed to be promising. It seemed to be something that they could use to find out more information.

PB: "Ok good…"

She kept analyzing the binary-encoded documents, searching for whatever it is she was looking for.

M: "What now?" She was completely lost still. She didn't understand anything that was showing up on the screen.

PB: "Hmmm… click on the first one." She was sounding concerned.

0011000100101110001000000100011001101001011011100110111000100000011101000110100001100101001000000100100001110101011011010110000101101110

The princess looked at the list of information that was showing on the screen. It was terrifying to say at the least. It was a list of information on Finn; where he lives, who his friends are, and some of the things that he's done in the past. Someone pays a lot of attention to this young hero boy…

She kept scanning down the screen until she came up on something.

She looked at it, rubbed her eyes and did a double take to make sure she was seeing what she was really seeing.

010101000110000101110010011001110110010101110100001000000110010001100101011100110110100101100111011011100110000101110100011011110111001000111010001000000100110101100001011100100110001101100101011011000110100101101110011001010010000001000001011000100110000101100100011001010110010101110010

PB: "What the…" She was paralyzed.

F: "What is it Prubz? Did you find out who wants to mess me up?" Finn was still sounding excited to find out the true enemy after the hopefully successful hacking attempt.

M: "Yeah, PB. Who is it?"

PB: "I'm still trying to figure it out. You boys should give me and Marceline some time to figure it out. We'll come get you when we're done." She said, trying to get everyone besides the vampire queen to leave. She was being very assertive out of nowhere and nobody besides the princess knew why.

J:"Uh ok… I guess we'll just do nothing then…" Jake said as they were all pushed out of the room.

The door slammed shut and the bolt to the lock loudly clicked when they exited.

J: "Wonder what's the rush?"

F: "Eh, smart people stuff I guess. Hey, shouldn't we have told them that Beemo can read that binary stuff pretty fast?"

J: "Nah, we'll let em' have this one." Jake said and the two brothers fist-bumped and went to go chill in another room with Beemo.

In the lab

PB: "Explain yourself!" The princess screamed in anger. She was on the verge of pulling out the knife that she kept strapped to her ankle if she needed it and she made sure to display her hostile intent.

M: "What are you ta-?"

PB: "Don't play dumb with me!"

M: "Bonnie, I really don't know what you're talking about!" She was completely confused.

M: "Glob, why is she acting like this?" She thought.

PB: "Your name… is listed as the "Target designator" for the hit on Finn." She said, trying to keep calm.

M: "W-w-what?! How is that possible? I would never do that! I mean… I've been with him the whole time, how could I even do that?" She was shocked to hear that SHE is apparently the one who wants Finn dead.

PB: "I don't know, Marceline… and sorry I overreacted for a second. I had to gauge your emotions to figure out if you were some sort of clone-impostor or something."

M: "Huh?"

PB: "Oh, it's just a little something I do to figure out if people are who they say they are. It works with lying too. It's a method of my own design that uses emotional lateralization to figure out what people are truly thinking or feeling."

M: "Uh… ok? Most people just use trust but whatevs..." She was used to the princess saying scientific things that she didn't understand, but it still caught her off guard from time to time.

PB: "So, first off… we need to find out how this happened…"

M: "And how do we do that?"

PB: "Why are you asking me? You should know. You're the expert here. How would YOU figure out how someone added Finn's name to the target list using your name?"

M: "Oh! That's too easy. First we hack back into the database and look at the designator for Finn. It will be my name of course but computers always leave tracking cookies for stuff like that so-"

PB: "Cookies?" She was almost amused by that term.

M: "Y-yeah, You know. They're the little data things that talk to servers and let them know that you've been on a website or something already."

PB: "Oh right, I knew that." She was beginning to think that she wasn't as good at computer stuff as she thought.

Honestly, using binary to beat Marceline in their cyber war competition was cheating.

..

"If you're not cheating than you're probably not trying hard enough and should just give up. Because I'm better than you."

~Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum

M: "Anyway, so as I was saying, we can use those tracking cookies to find out where the computer is that was used to initiate the attack on Finn." She sounded content with her full proof idea.

PB: "Awesome, so… when do we start?" The princess was starting to sound sleepy.

M: "Well, WE can work on this later. But for now, you should get some sleep. You look horrible." She said, making fun of the princess.

Bubblegum looked as if she hasn't slept in days, which is very possible for her because she does that all the time anyway. Her hair was all messy and she had bags under her eyes.

PB: "Nah man. What are you… *yawn* talking about?" The simple thought of the word sleep made her body instantly start shutting down. She was exhausted.

M: "See what I mean? When was the last time you went to sleep?"

PB: "Wha-? Sleep? I don't remember." Her eyes were beginning to close as she started to fall asleep standing.

M: "Ugh. That is soo typical you." She said jokingly as she floated towards the princess and picked her up.

PB: "N-nah… what are you… doing?" She was quickly falling asleep in Marceline's arms.

The vampire queen flew over to the door, unlocked it then opened it. She saw no sign of Finn or Jake so she quietly flew the princess to her bedroom and placed her on her bed and pulled a blanket over her.

The princess looked peaceful as she laid there in her extravagant bed. She didn't move much once Marcy set her down for a few seconds then she suddenly started thrashing about. It seemed as though she was having a nightmare; as if she was searching for something.

The vampire queen didn't know what was wrong or what needed to be done but she had an idea that might possibly help. Marcy looked around the room to find what she was looking for and after about a minute, she found it.

Bonnibel was missing the shirt that Marceline gave her. She usually wore it when she went to sleep but seeing as that she passed out before voluntarily going to sleep, she couldn't.

Almost as soon as Marceline placed the shirt in Bubblegum's arms, she calmed down. Her face went from distressed to content. She just laid there with the shirt tightly secured in her arms.

Marceline sat down on the bed next to the princess's head and whispered to herself.

M: "Oh Bonnie, what are we gonna do with you?" She said as she lightly brushed the princess's hair behind her ear.

Marceline didn't have any sort of romantic affection for Bonnie anymore but she always did little things that made the princess happy. She knows how much stress that being a princess puts on someone and knew that anything she could do to make Bonnibel's life easier would be the least that she could do.

She still loved her friend and likes keeping it that way.

After Marceline tucked the princess in bed, she got up and silently floated out of the room to go find Finn and Jake. She felt content with herself and felt like things were going to start looking up. She has hope that they will.

..

The room was pitch black after the vampire queen left. It was completely silent.

The princess was awake the entire time; she was just acting again to determine the true emotions of Marceline.

She didn't speak nor did she have any significant thoughts, just emotions. She clenched her eyes shut and tried to force herself asleep. A single tear came from one of her eyes and it rolled down her face. She fell asleep shortly after and slept the best she had in weeks.

Back to Finn and Jake

J: "So what do you think Marcy and PB are talkin' about?"

F: "I already told you man, I don't know. Why would Marcy tell me?"

J: "Really dude?" Jake gave him a dumb look.

F: "Ok, just cause we're kinda… we kinda like each other doesn't mean she tells me everything." He was getting flustered just talking about the vampire queen. He wasn't embarrassed by any means, he was just shy and bashful with things like this.

J: "Yeah I suppose you're right although I wouldn't just say kinda…" He raised an eyebrow with the last word in his sentence.

BMO: "Maybe they're making a pizza?! Or a surprise birthday party?!" Beemo was sounding very excited.

F: "Maybe Beemo… but nobody's birthday is anytime soon."

BMO: "Oh well. It's their loss."

F: "Uh… yeah, whatever you say Beemo." Beemo was being cute and oblivious as usual.

In the middle of the conversation, Marceline floated in.

F: "Hey Mar Mar, what's up?"

M: "Nothing really, PB fell asleep so I have to wait to do anything else…" She said as she sat down.

F: "Oh. Uh, did you know that Beemo-"

J: "So, what you and PB talking about?" Jake was painfully curious.

M: "We just talked about the whole hacking thing. There's something really confusing about it."

F: "Is it the binary thing? Cause Beemo-" He was interrupted again.

M: "No Finn… it's about who put the hit on you."

J: "Oh yeah? It was Maja wasn't it?" Jake said, making a fist.

M: "No… it was me."

F+J: "WHAT?!

They both shouted from fear and confusion. How and why would Marceline do this is all that was running through their minds.

F: "I-I don't understand, Marcy…" For a moment, Finn felt completely betrayed. He didn't know if he should be on his guard or attack seeing as that he was in the presence of the person that apparently wants him dead.

J: "You better start talking, Marceline…" Jake threatened as he formed a hammer and stake with his hands; a classic set of weapons to use against vampires.

M: "Guys! Calm down. I didn't do it." She raised her hands to show her passive demeanor.

F: "Then… who did?" Finn was bewildered by the uncertainty of who put the hit on his head.

M: "I don't know yet… but they're smart enough to not use their own name so it could be anybody."

F: "Dang…"

M: "I'm gonna need Beemo to translate the binary in a few minutes but for now… I need to go sit down and think…" She was thinking and realized that time was not on their side and she had to figure out a solution to their problem as soon as possible. The princess will just sit this one out.

J: "Wait… you knew that Beemo can translate that stuff?"

Finn felt a bit irritated because he was trying to tell Marcy that the whole time but kept getting interrupted.

M: "Duh." She said nonchalantly.

J: "Well then why didn't you…?"

M: "I wanted to let PB contribute at least something." She said, sounding conceited as ever.

J: "Ah… makes sense."

M: "Well, I'm gonna go. I'll see you guys in like five minutes."

F: "Ok Marcy." He didn't question her motives, he just let her go.

The vampire queen got up and flew back to the room that she's been staying in recently. The room was dark and she didn't bother to turn on any lights.

She sat down on the bed and began to think about the convoluted situation. It was mind-boggling and upsetting not knowing who wants Finn dead.

She couldn't clear her mind enough to have coherent thoughts and just sat there for a few minutes to regain her composure. She felt very worried about finding out who wants to kill the human boy. Her hands began to shake as if she was nervous or afraid of something. She contemplated on all of the possible suspects but she couldn't figure it out. Nobody but Maja made any sense.

Who would want Finn dead?

So, what did you guys think about chapter 30?

By the way the 3 binary codes are below in order of appearance if you guys didn't wanna look them up. :p
1. "Target list"
2. "1. Finn the Human"
3. "Target designator: Marceline Abadeer"