Marceline, carrying Finn and a shrunken Jake, was flying around the base of Ripper's Mountain. It was named so because of a reason anyone could guess; it was comprised of many sharp rocks, getting sharper and more plentiful the higher the mountain went, making any attempt to climb it suicide.

So naturally, she flew near the base. Finn pointed to a town made of sand rock ahead of them. "Hey Marcy, stop there. It's the town of the Spiky people, they will probably know where this guy is, and they still owe us a favour from that whole Gut-Grinder thing."

"The who-grinder?" asked the Vampire Queen.

"We'll tell you later." responded Jake.

As they landed in the village, The Spiky Mayor and a few of his guards approached them. "Ah, Finn, Jake, and an attractive young woman with an umbrella! How can I help you?"

Finn carefully shook the Spiky Mayor's hand. "Hey, Mayor. Me and my friends here are looking for some terrorists that go by the name of R.U.O.N. Do you have any idea of where they might be?"

The mayor looked absolutely furious. He threw his arms in the air, "TERRIORSTS? Those brave men put their lives on the line every day to give Ooo freedom, and that's what you call them? Do you even know what R.U.O.N.'s name stands for, you disrespectful little punk?"

"No." said Jake bluntly.

"It stands for The Republic of United Ooo Nations! That's what will be set up after those brave men tear down the evil's of monarch and set up an Electoral Government!"

"Hey, Marcy, what's an Electoral Government?" whispered Finn to the Marceline.

"It's complicated. I'll tell you later." she answered.

"Wait, don't you guy's have a Spiky King?" asked Jake.

The Mayor scoffed, "A King? We did once, but he was such an evil, brutal man we overthrew him and set up are fair, square electoral government. Where I was the leader. Of course, we learned all this from old books, so when R.U.O.N. Troops came to congratulate us for standing up to tyranny, they showed us how to properly run a government. Soon, there will be a presidential election, and I shall be a candidate!"

Finn looked confused, "What's a Preside-" Marceline shushed him, "I'll tell you later." she said.

Jake then grew larger in anger, "Listen up, I don't care about your election. Just tell us what we want to know, pinhead!"

The Mayor and his guards extended their spikes, "Who you callin' pinhead, mutt?" asked the Mayor.

Finn drew his sword, Jake grew his fists, and Marceline took out here bass. Right before the first blow was swung, a loud bang was heard. They looked to their side to see two humanoids, one holding a assault rifle in his arms, the other holding a shotgun in the air, barrel smoking. They both were dressed the same way, black military boots and gloves, navy blue military pants, and a thick, black vest with grenades strapped to them. Their navy blue sleeves had a black star on each forearm. They also both had what looked like skin-tight ski masks with the mouth covered. And since they both had red visors on, you couldn't see any part of their bodies.

The solider who fired the shot spoke up in a gruff voice, "If you morons are done, General Mertens would like to have a word with you, Finn."


The two soldiers led the trio to the side of the Ripper's Mountain, where their were another two soldiers standing outside of a huge, metal door. The soldiers saluted one another, and one of them typed a pass code on a small keypad on the door, causing the metallic door to open wide.

Finn stepped inside with the two soldiers, Jake and Marceline following behind them. Before they could step inside, the two soldiers guarding the entrance stepped in their way. "I'm sorry, only Finn is allowed in." one of the soldiers said.

Marceline put a hand on her axe-bass, but Finn stopped her, "Marceline, Jake, I know you guy's wanna come with me, but I think I should meet this Penn guy alone first."

"Alright, Finn." said Jake sadly before the door shut, separating Finn and his friends. One the soldiers motioned down the hall, "Your brother is down this way, sir."

As they walked down the hall, Finn noticed two things. One, they passed several soldiers dressed the exact same way as the last four he saw, so he figured that the uniforms must be standard issue. The second thing was that the hallways, ceiling, doors, and walls were all the same dull chrome.

They finally reached large, wooden double doors, which was a startling contrast to the chrome he was seeing surrounding it.

"General Mertens is behind this door, sir." said one the soldiers. Finn took a deep breath, gently pushed open the doors, and carefully stepped inside.

The room was... well, rather homely. It had a large oaken desk covered with files. The floors, walls and ceiling were all made of wood, the floor had a large bear-skin rug, and the walls were lined with various weapons, battle memorabilia, and bones of monsters.

All in all, it sort of reminded him of his tree house.

Then he saw him. Penn, his supposed brother, was sitting in a black leather chair. He gently stood, and slowly approached Finn, arms open, "Finn, it's been so long. I haven't seen you since I was 5! You probably don't remember me, do you?"

Finn backed away, not wanting any physical contact with the man.

"What's wrong?" Penn asked, a look of genuine hurt on his face.

"Before we go any further, I want to know." Finn said.

"Know what?"

"Everything. Who you are, if we're really brothers, who our parents were, and how you got involved with this terrorist crap."

Penn sighed, "You don't believe we're brothers? Alright then, we have a few places to visit."

Finn and his supposed brother sat in Dr. Princess' lobby in total silence, awaiting the test results. Jake, Marceline, and all their other friends had wished to go with them, but Finn made it clear that he had to figure this whole mess out on his own. Finn looked at his brother's side, admiring the amazing blade Penn had taken with him before they left. It's blade was completely blue, and it's cross guard was made of gold. The word 'Revaluation' was marked in the blade.

Finn tapped his foot and scrutinized Penn, who was sitting across from him and doing the exact the same thing.

Suddenly, Dr. Princess walked into the room, looking at a clipboard. She was smiling from ear to ear. "Finn, based on the DNA test you both took, you and Penn are indeed brothers. I'm so happy for you!" she said.

Penn smirked, and the now proven brothers stood up. "So, how about that hug?"

Finn grimaced, "Not until you tell me how we got separated and who our parents were."

The brothers stood outside a medium sized, two-story house overlooking a cliff. It was in decrepit condition, and the white paint that coated it's exterior was almost all nearly chipped off. "This was our house before... the incident." Penn said, now noticeably grimmer.

Finn looked at his brother, face filled with determination, "Penn, please tell me what happened here. Tell me about our parents."

Penn nodded solemnly, "For starters, both of our parents were human. Dad's name was Ben, and Mom's name was Judy. They used to be a circus attraction, before they managed to escape when they were both 15. Around 6 years later, I was born. Dad had become a mercenary to support us, but he was killed in action a month before you were born."

He motioned for his brother to come inside the house, and when they walked in Finn looked around, an expression of awe on his face. The house was in deprecate condition, but above the fireplace in the living room was a large painting of a small boy with a yellow sweater, blue shorts, and a bear hat that sort of resembled his. He was between a man in blue formal wear that looked remarkably like him and his brother, but his hair was brown. To the boy's other side was a woman with a white dress that had flowing blond hair.

"That's me and our parents before you born."

Finn felt his stomach curl up in knots when his brother grabbed his shoulder.

"Look, Finn, do you know why I joined R.U.O.N.?"

"No."

Penn opened up his vest and lifted up part of his shirt, showing Finn a white scar on the opposite side of his heart, "I'll always remember that day, and it this wound is my reminder."


Penn walked back into his house, bringing in as much firewood as his little arms could carry. He placed it by the fireplace and walked over to his mother, who busy at a sewing table.

"I brought in the firewood, Mommy!"

She embraced her son, "Oh Penn, you've been so helpful since your brother was born."

Penn giggled as he hugged her back, "What are you doing, anyway?"

Penn's mother ran a sewing needle threw a few more stitches through the small, white cloth in front of her. She held it up, it was a bear hat, much like his, but it had a small tag on the inside that read, 'Finn'.

" Let's go put this on your little brother."

Finn looked at his chubby little brother's sleeping form. His mother had carefully woken him up and put his bear hat on, causing him to uncontrollable giggle.

As Finn's mother picked the young baby up and wrapped him in a blanket, a loud crash came from downstairs.

She gingerly handed her youngest son to his older brother, and they both crept out of the room and into hers, where she picked up her deceased husband's sword, a three-foot silver blade with a decorative black, dragon handle.

She drew it out of it's sheath and strapped it on her back, "Stay in here with your little brother, honey."

Before she could leave, the door to the room was kicked open, and out stepped three orcs in dark purple body suits. They all wore red masks and had long, cattle prods-like weapons.

"There you humans are! Come with us, and we may not hurt you." said the one in the center.

"Well, not as much..." said the one on the left as he powered up his weapon.

The human woman lashed out against the left orc, who caught the blade with his prod. He pushed her back, but she re-balanced herself before the orc on the right thrust his prod at her, which she sidestepped.

The human mother then swung her sword around and decapitated the orc. The orc in the middle roared in anger and thrust his prod at her, stunning her and sending her to the ground.

The orc in the middle turned to his comrade, "You get the two rugrats. I'll get the mother."

Before the orc could pick her up, she thrust her sword inb etween his rib cage and into his heart, causing him to fall to the ground, dead.

The orc who was about to grab the two brothers turned around, only to have his prod chopped clean in half by the enraged mother. "Get out!" she spat at the monster, before he fled in fear.

She walked over to her two sons, who were cowering in the corner of the room, Finn crying loudly.

She sheathed her blade and took Finn from Penn. "Come on, let's go tell the authorities what happened."

As they went downstairs, four more orcs dressed the exact same way approached them. They ran out the side door, but there were three more orcs. The three orcs from inside came out and forced the mother and her two sons to the edge of the cliff behind of the house.

Forming a neat line of seven, an eighth orc came out from behind them. He was larger then the rest and had a pistol strapped to his side.

"Remember boys, take 'em alive." said the large orc, motioning towards them with his pistol.

The mother held both of her boys in each arm as the pig-like creatures drew closer.

Penn gulped and remembered something his father told him before his untimely death; it was to take care of his brother and mother if he ever died.

Penn swallowed his fear and drew a small knife from the back of his pocket.

He felt his mother pull him even closer as one of the orcs loomed over them, his prod sparking. Before the any one could react, Penn sprung forward, knife in hand, and stabbed the orc in the throat.

Penn pulled out the blade, the fatally injured orc dropping his prod and grasping at his neck.

"PENN, NO!" cried his mother, his little brother wailing loudly. But Penn didn't heed her warning and charged at the largest orc, which he presumed was the leader.

Seeing the little boy with a bloody blade charge at him, the orc lost his cool and and aimed his pistol, shooting Penn in the chest. The force knocked the poor, young human back into his mother and brother she was holding, causing them all to tumble off the edge of the cliff.