A/N: Hello again! I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas, because I certainly did. Anyways, here's a holiday present from yours sincerely. Sorry it's so short, but I promise I'll have another one up and running A.S.A.P!

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, Sherlock, or Adventure Time. If I did, I would be so stinkin'rich!

Enjoy!

Chapter 4

For the Doctor and his companions, the ride on a magical dog was a bumpy one. While Finn was steadily holding on, his eyes glued forwards, his new friends were bouncing about. The Doctor was trying to find something to hold on to among the tufts of fur with his hands; Amy tried to keep herself balanced, but kept crashing back against Sherlock, who in turn, would have made John tumble to the ground if it wasn't for the army doctor's military experience which kept him on guard as he clutched on for dear life.

Pretty soon, a palace could be seen looming over the horizon. The group could see the towers peeking over a forest of pink, fluffy looking trees.

"Is that it?" Amy gasped. She heard a, "Yup," coming from in front of her as Jake approached the Candy Kingdom.

The dog paused in front of the drawbridge, and slowly began to shrink down to his normal size as the quintet on his back jumped down to the ground.

As the odd group approached the gate, two banana guards holding candy spears stepped in their path. They held up a hand, gesturing the newcomers to stop. "Halt!" one called out.

Finn knitted his eyebrows together and frowned, "'Sup guys. Is something wrong?"

"Not at all, Master Finn," one of the guards told him, "Just seeing that you brought these new people in, we are obligated to question their identities in the case of the very unlikely possibility of them posing a threat to our Kingdom."

Finn's frown deepened into one of confusion. Jake hurriedly replied, "It's okay, they're our friends."

"Yes, they're just giving us a tour of the-erm- Candy Kingdom!" the Doctor added with a grin. The guards looked at him quizzically.

"Right, yes! I'm the Doctor, just the Doctor, thank you very much. Here, we have my companions: Amy Pond, Sherlock Holmes, and John Watson!"

The banana guards seemed satisfied with the response. They stepped back into their positions, leaving the gateway open.

As the visitors strolled inside, the royal guards could hear the man who called himself the Doctor murmur, "You see, Amy? We must never underestimate the power of bananas."

As Finn led his friends through the streets of the Candy Kingdom, they marveled at their surroundings.

"Look! People! Made of Candy! Ooh, I do hope they have some Jammy Dodgers! Or Jelly Babies!"

"Sherlock! The sidewalk is pure candy! The sidewalk!"

"Doctor! The people here! They're real talking, walking, candy people!"

"For God's sake, Sherlock. Don't be so bitter; this is fantastic!"

Occasionally, Finn noticed that some of the passersby would stop and whisper to each other about the newcomers. And he couldn't exactly blame them. No one he knew had recently ever seen any other humans.

Before they knew it, the group was standing in front of the door to the Palace.

"So what? Do we knock?" Amy questioned.

"Well sometimes, we just walk in," Jake explained just as Finn rapped his knuckles on the door. "But I guess this time, we're knocking."

They heard a creak as someone opened the door. The newbies searched for that mysterious someone until their eyes fell to the floor. Standing there was a little peppermint dressed in a clean, crisp suit.

"Greetings, Master Finn. What a pleasure it is to see you this morning! May I ask who your friends are?"

"Just some people we met this morning."

"We're here to see the Princess," Jake told the Butler.

Peppermint Butler nodded, "Of course! Follow me."

Sherlock lagged behind the group. As the little peppermint led them down grand hallways that were bright with pastel colors, the detective looked all around with his usual calculating glare. So far, he was amazed at what he'd seen.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be true. But this is the impossible! Sherlock tried to keep his cool as he filed away every minor detail of this world., trying to figure out how it came to be.

Obviously, human civilization has fallen. There weren't any actual infrastructures with actual human beings among them. Somehow, the boy Finn was the last human on this Earth.

So how had this world come to be? How come there weren't any more people? War seemed to be the most likely answer, or some other political conflict.

All that was good and logical. However, the only thing that annoyed Sherlock the most were the aspects of this world that would only appear in a child's imagination. Talking magical dogs? Entire kingdoms made solely of sweets and sugar? Sherlock Holmes might as well be in an insane asylum. While John, Amy, and the Doctor were held in awe like idiots, he was trying to work out the logic behind it all.

It was all so fascinating before, but now he's just so confused. Was there a drug somewhere that was poisoning his mind, a drug similar to the one on the case in Baskerville?

This is a parallel universe, he reminded himself. Still, parallel or not, there was no logic anywhere!

The detective was broken out of his train of thought when the little Peppermint Butler announced, "We're here!"

The Butler knocked on the door once, twice, thrice, "Princess! You have visitors! Among them are Masters Finn and Jake!"

"Just a sec!" a female voice echoed from beyond the door.

"Brilliant!" the Doctor rubbed his hands together joyfully.

The door slowly opened and out stepped the Princess. Unlike the rest of the Candy People, her figure was completely humanoid. However, her skin was flushed a bright, pastel pink. She was clad in a pink dress that reached down to her toes and a golden crown sat atop her head, encrusted with a large blue jewel. Her hair was long and seemed to be made entirely out of bubblegum.

The Princess' gaze fell upon Finn and Jake, and relief spread quickly across her face.

"Finn! Jake! Thank goodness you're here!" she exclaimed.

"Hey, Peebles- is something wrong?" Finn asked.

"Oh, Finn," Bubblegum nodded, "I need your help! My people are mysteriously going missing!"

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