"-and that's the story of how Penn killed the Steel King!" Finn said finishing his story, he and Jake sitting at their dinner table.
Jake awkwardly spun some of his spaghetti around with his fork, glancing the other way.
"Finn, I know the Steel King was evil and all, but do you think it was really necessary for Penn to kill him?"
Finn looked at his brother curiously, "Of course it was! We kill evil monsters all the time."
Jake set down his fork, propping his elbows up on the table, "Finn, R.U.O.N. Doesn't care whether or not a King or Princess is evil. In their eyes, any monarch is evil."
Finn choked a bit on his spaghetti, "Jake, how could you say that? You should meet Penn, he's awesome! He only wants Ooo to have freedom!"
Jake slammed his fist onto the table, startling Finn, "Oh yeah?! HOW?! By murdering all royalty in Ooo?!"
Finn violently put down his fork, standing up, "Don't be so quick to judge, Jake."
The young hero then stood up, grabbing his backpack and sword and heading out the front door.
Jake grew 3 times his size in anger, his face a dark red, "Where do you think you're going?!"
"To my REAL brother." Finn said, slamming the door shut.
Penn lazily sat back at his desk, nonchalantly tossing knifes into target board from across the room.
After sticking a knife into the handle of another stuck in the centre, he heard his doors open. He looked over and saw a solider standing in the doorway, saluting.
"Sir." he said.
Penn took his feet off the desk, "At ease, solider. What do you need?"
"It's your little brother, sir. He wants to talk with you."
Penn's eyes widened a bit, but his composer remained unshaken, "Let him in."
"Yes sir." said the solider, exiting Penn's office.
Penn leaned back in his armchair, reaching into his shirt. He pulled out the three trinkets he wore around his neck, a pair of dog tags, the bullet that had penetrated his chest when he was 5,and a silver pendant. He gingerly flipped it open and, with a sigh, looked at the faded picture of him, his three month pregnant mother, and father. On the other side was a picture of him holding the recently born Finn.
"Penn?"
The young general looked up from the brooch to see his brother standing a the doorway, looking somewhat shaken.
"Finn! How are you doing? What did you want to talk about?"
Finn looked down at his feet, "Well... I've been thinking... I'd like to join you and all, but I've been hanging around princesses my entire life! I don't think I can betray them like that..."
Penn laughed, wrapping his arm around his brother's shoulder, "Finn, we don't just go blowing everyone who's ever put on a crown's brains out! We give them a chance to repent, to give up their evil ways."
Finn shifted awkwardly, "But... Princess Bubblegum's not evil..."
Penn frowned, unwrapping his arm from around his brother, "Oh, Finn... for how long has that bitch been brainwashing you..."
"What are you talking about, Penn?"
Penn suddenly looked slightly irked, "Of course she may not want you to THINK she's evil... tell me, do you remember the zombie outbreak that took place in the Candy Kingdom a few years back?"
"Of course! I was there."
"Now... would that would have happened if Bubblegum wasn't trying to play Glob and try to resurrect the dead?"
Finn scratched the back of his head, "No... I guess not..."
"What about the second time? Why would she be keeping a sample of the virus of she already developed a cure, which wasn't even a problem anymore?"
Finn looked down, cheeks flushing, "You're making sense..."
"Exactly. What about Goliad? An immortal physic? She thought she was so damned perfect that it would be perfectly safe to let a clone of herself with that much power run free. If it wasn't for YOUR clone sacrificing himself, do you think that Goliad would stop at the Candy Kingdom? She would have taken over all of Ooo!"
Finn's gut began to wrench, realization hitting him. Half of the creatures he had fought in the Candy Kingdom had been some kind of failed experiment of hers. What if he hadn't been there? Would Bubblegum have destroyed her own kingdom by now?
"Penn... I'm not sure about this..."
"Don't worry. You can come to the Ooo Royal Meeting with me, and then you can make up your mind."
