Fionna—is a 13-year-old adventurer and Cake's adoptive sister. While usually appearing as black dots, her eyes are seen as blue when enlarged. She wears a rabbit-themed hat (similar to Finn's bear-themed hat) with exposed locks of blonde hair. Unlike Finn, her neck is shown. Her outfit includes a teal blue shirt with elbow-length sleeves, a dark blue skirt, and knee-high socks with two thin horizontal stripes at the top. Fionna is heavier set than. She has a green backpack (similar to Finn's) and Mary Jane shoes. Her name was officially changed from "Fiona" to "Fionna," presumably to make it more similar to Finn's name. The pronunciation, however, has remained unchanged. Like Finn and his crush on Princess Bubblegum, it is revealed in many portraits posted that Fionna has a crush on Prince Gumball. Fionna has buck teeth like a rabbit. Fionna, like Finn, is Cake's adoptive sister.
Cake—Fionna's best friend/adoptive sister and Mo-Chro's girlfriend. She doesn't look much like Jake aside from their body proportions. She has white eyes in which the black pupils become circular if surprised, excited, shocked, or scared. She has a cat muzzle and a small nose (compared to Jake's), cat ears, white fur with many coffee colored spots, and a large bushy tail. Cake may know Morse code in order to speak to Lord Monochromicorn, similar to how Jake knows Korean in order to speak to Lady Rainicorn. Cake plays a hammered dulcimer, as opposed to a viola. Her tail "frizzes out" if it is agitated or worried. As a Lumpy Space 'cat', she is a light color of maroon with large spots of fuchsia to match her coffee-colored spots. Her tail is now lumpy and more beaver-tail-like.
BEEMO—it isn't necessarily gender-swapped. I mean, can you really tell if it's a boy or a girl?
Snoozey Sami-a toad creature and the final boss of Protectors of the Sun. Her main attack is capturing prey with her tongue, chewing them, and spitting them up in pieces. She has 8-bit animation, with yellow-spotted green skin and bulging yellow eyes.
Whirly Wasp-the first enemy in Protectors of the Sun. She is an 8-bit wasp with deep orange skin and silver black. She can use her stingers to shoot her prey.
Gummy Bunny-the second enemy in Protectors of the Sun. She is an 8-bit rabbit with grey fur made of a gummy substance that she can use to trap her prey.
PROTECTORS OF THE SUN
Title Card
PROTECTORS OF SUNSHINE *PRESS START*
LEVEL-1
"Time to protect the sun!" cried Fionna.
The 8-bit female heroine, with blond hair and a blue body suit, began to move into the dark tunnel.
"Yeah, she knows how to get things started!" put in Cake.
"Spike pit number one." Fionna said aloud. She and Cake were sitting together on the sofa, Fionna in her red wool pajamas. Fionna had a crumb-covered, blue-green-and-pink quilt thrown over her legs, which Cake sat on top of. A few bottles of soda and an empty bag of chips were squished into the soda next to Fionna. A video game joystick and button were in Fionna's hands. "Easy peasy, lemon squeezy."
The 8-bit heroine jumped across the spike-filled pit in a single leap.
"You wonder why they evern put it there."
"Probably a computle gleech."
Fionna laughed.
"Now comes some real trouble," Cake said, shifting on the blanket, "It's Whirly Wasp! She'll get that sun, Fifi."
Fionna scoffed. "Puh-lease."
The heroine approached the large, spiky wasp buzzing before her. In a single jump-and-kick, the wasp vanished, leaving nothing but 500 in her place.
"I had my eyes closed on that one," Fionna said truthfully. Whirly Wasp was, very obviously, the easiest 'boss' in the game. Cake chuckled.
The heroine came to two more spike-pits. She jumped over them and touched the rings in the air above, making them disappear with little blinks.
"Go back, Fifi, you missed one," Cake told her.
"I'm not in it for any cash. I'm in it to destroy the enemies of the sun," said Fionna. On the screen, a big splotch of slime dripped down from the ceiling, and from it formed a 'giant' shape. "Like this goob right here."
"Gummy Bunny!"
"Gummy Bunny, don't you ever learn? I've always got Hammy."
A silvery gold hammer appeared in the heroine's hands. Hitting it on the ground over and over, the heroine walked up to Gummy Bunny. With a blink, it disappeared, leaving behind 850.
"You are hot tonight, girl," Cake said as she lightly slapped Fionna's arm. She then got excited and started pulling on her sleeve. "Can you do it tonight? Can you defeat Snoozey Sami?"
"Oh, I surely can."
"Remember to use the combo move!" Cake giggled as her tail began to flick with excitement.
After two more lavapits, the heroine came to a large toad with bulging yellow eyes and a slimey green body.
Fionna took a deep breath. Her heart was already beginning to beat harder. "OK, here goes..."
She and Cake began to talk at the same time.
"Down
Up
Right right
Left left
Up
Jump
Up
Down
Right."
"C'mon, Fifi girl, faster!" Cake urged her human sister, who was fighting to keep her sweaty grip on the joystick. "Down, left-"
Snoozey Sami's tongue shot out and touched the heroine. The heroine disappeared into the toad's mouth, and a few seconds later, Snoozey Sami spat her back out in a spray of digital pixels.
GAME OVER
Fionna threw her head back with a groan. "Every time! She gets me every time!" with a huff, Fionna threw the joystick at the innocent game console. "Beema, this game is the worst." Fionna turned to Cake. "If we were really inside that game, we would pound Snoozey Sami. Greezily."
"Oh, no, no, no!" Beema shook her screen frantically, its joystick rattling. "It's far too dangerous!"
Fionna and Cake gasped. Cake scooted closer to the video game consol. "Beema, can be get into the game for realsies?"
"Of course, Cake," the video game console said. It flipped open a square of material around its main button, revealing a yellow-and-black-striped switch. "If I flip this switch-"
Cake's paw dove for the switch. She flipped it over and over, but nothing happened. Beema, with an annoyed look on its screen, pushed her paw away. "If I flip this switch, you would both be taken into my database, where you will be broken down into pixels until you reached the game. But it is far too dangerous."
Fionna and Cake were so surprised, excited, and in awe, that they had begun to shiver all over, fidgeting on the sofa. "Oh man, oh man, oh man!" Fionna cried over and over. "Beema, you have to let us in that game!"
"No," Beema insisted with a frown, "Even if your pixels were to make it into the game, it would be far too dangerous. And that is final."
Fionna stared at the console for a long moment before her face became blank and ominous. "Oh. OK, Beema. Whelp, time for bed!" she sprung to her feet enthusiastically, despite the fact they were almost asleep.
Cake was appalled by her sister's reaction. "Fifi-?"
Fionna nudged her sister with a weird, creepy smile. "Time for bed, Cupcake."
It took Cake a moment to catch on. When she did, she smiled creepily at Beema. "That's right. Time for bed."
As the two girls climbed up the ladder, with cartoonish, gigantic smiles, Beema frowned after them.
Fionna and Cake waited an hour or so before climbing back down the ladder again. Fionna held a lantern in one hand and climbed with the other. They stepped into the living room, being careful not to make any squeaks on the floorboards or to brush into anything loud. When they came to the recharging video game console resting on the sofa, Fionna set the lantern down on the floor. Cake gently removed the blue blanket from the recharging electronic and flipped open the little piece of material. The switch was bright in the lantern's light.
Fionna poked the switch. Beema, in her recharging state, swatted her hand away with a groan. Fionna poked it again, and Beema slapped her away, groaning louder. Fionna poked the switch once more, and Beema's little hand slammed down, flipping the switch.
All that Fionna and Cake could make out in the next few moments was a flash of green light, electricity pounding through their very being, and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Fionna and Cake gasped as they looked around them.
Everything was cubed. The rocks, the trees, the very clouds were made of little cubes joined together. Everything had simple colors and wasn't very realistic.
"We're in the game!" Fionna gasped. She, too, was now cubed. Her head was cubed, her arms and legs were cubed, even the ears from her hat were cubed.
Cake lifted her digital eyes to the bright, cubed sun above their heads, sending out cubed light. "That must be the sun we gotta protect." she then turned to the gaping hole behind her. "And that must be the entrance to the tunnel!" Cake was cubed, too. Her eyes, tail, and body were all in cubed pieces joined together. She then turned to her digitized sister. "And there's you!...Doing whatever you're doing..."
Fionna was staring at her cubed arm as if it were made of gold or silver. "I'm looking at my pixels! My arm is totally mathematical!" as she stared at her arm, she could make out '01000110 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100001 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01101101' flying by.
Cake sighed as she felt the sunshine fall down on her. It felt like fluffy honey being dripped all over her skin, warm and bright and soft. "That sunshine feels good all over. Like I'm being covered in sunny syrup."
"No wonder the bosses in this game want the sun," Fionna said aloud as she, too, felt the sun beat down on her. She punched and kicked the air. "Let's go kick some digital butts!"
The two girls walked away, giggling at their animation.
As they entered the entrance to the tunnel, they began to do a little song.
Fionna: We are in the video game.
Let's just hope it's not too lame.
Cake: As virtual heroines, it's just you and me.
Fionna: We can dance and sing, we can defeat Snoozey Sami.
Cake stopped singing. She looked around them with wide, digital eyes. "Isn't this where we're supposed to jump over the-?"
"-spike pit." Fionna said in shocked awe, pointing ahead.
The spike pit, instead of being a foot wide as they had always thought, stretched twenty feet in front of them, filled with hundreds of razor-sharp spikes, ready to stab them into digital pixels.
"It looked a huck of a lot smaller when we were outside the game..." Fionna said, staring at the spike-filled pit with worried (digital) eyes.
"This is the easiest part of the game, Fifi," Cake assured her sister. "We can jump this thing backwards. See?" Turning her back to the pit, Cake jumped backwards...
...and fell right down into the spikes.
Cake screamed as she fell to the spikes. In the blink of an digital eye, there was nothing left of Cake but little cubes that flickered away.
Dun-dun-da-doon.
"CUPCAAAAAAAAKE!" shrieked Fionna.
Boo-boo-ba-boop!
"What's the matter?"
Fionna whirled around to see Cake, looking at her with her cubed paws on her virtual sides.
Fionna looked flabbergasted. "What the chank?"
"It's alright, Fifi. See?"
Cake pointed a digital paw to the top of the screen. Fionna looked up. There were three icons of her, and two of Cake. Both of them had '00000' next to them.
"Extra lives," Cake stated smugly.
Fionna was still staring at Cake's icons. "You still have two left."
With a mad giggle, Cake hurled herself into the pit again. She screamed yet laughed as she hit the spikes, her lifeless pixels scattering everywhere.
Dun-dun-da-doon.
Fionna glared at the vanishing pixels of her feline sister. "CUPCAKE!"
Boo-boo-ba-boop!
Cake appeared behind her, singing to the chime that signified her reincarnation. "INFINITE RESPAWNATION!"
Fionna stopped her sister before she could jumped into the pit again. "Cupcake, what if losing all your lives in here makes you die in real life? Or worse?!"
Cake paused before her digital eyes turned guilty. She sat down, saying, "Now I feel stanky."
"Don't worry your little virtual head about it," Fionna said. "We'll cross this pit with real world tactics."
As Cake front paws touched the other side of the pit, Fionna stepped off of the cat's body. Cake looked up at her sister. "This game is really intense, Fifi."
"WE'RE really intense, Cupcake." Fionna said, and patted her sister on the back.
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIZZZZZZZZZZZ
Cake's digital ears pricked at the unusual sound surrounding them. "What's that noise?"
"It sounds like-"
"-WHIRLY WASP!" the two girls cried as they whirled around. Whirly Wasp stood before them, her body the size of a car, her spikes the size of razor-sharp beachballs. With a creepy smile on her face, she flew at the two heroines.
The two girls dodged the attack. Fionna turned to the digital feline next to her. "You ready to beat this digital wasp's stingers in?"
"Let's do it." Cake nodded.
10 SECONDS LATER
Fionna screamed horribly as Whirly Wasp shot stinger after stinger at her. Every time a stinger hit her cubed body, that part of her would vanish. Cake could do nothing but scream in horror as he sister was being attacked. A few seconds later, nothing remained of Fionna but a bunch of pixels on the ground.
Dun-dun-da-doon.
Whirly Wasp 'whirled' to Cake. Cake let out a cry of surprise and darted deeper into the tunnel, her breathing hard and heavy and her digital heart pounding like a gigantic drum. As began running slower and slower, "Fifi...dead..." she fell to her knees, virtual tears falling from her eyes to little pixels on the ground. "Oh, Fifi, why?" She tossed her head back, letting out a heart-wrenching scream, "NOOOOOOOOOO!" her voice echoed off the digital walls.
"CURSE THIS DIGITAL REALM!" Cake picked up a cubed rock and threw it angrily at the wall. It exploded into pixels. Cake then fall back to her knees, sobbing with anguish.
Boo-boo-ba-boop!
Cake didn't even hear the chime. "Oh, Fifi."
"Whaddup?"
Cake whirled around in joyous surprise. Fionna was standing right behind her, a smile on her digital face.
Cake threw her digitized body against Fionna's, hugging her tightly. "Fifi! You're alive!"
"Yeah," Fionna gave Cake a inquiring smirk. "Extra lives, remember?"
"Oh, Fifi," Cake buried her muzzle into Fionna's virtual shirt. "Let's never die again. Nothing is more precious than a life." after a moment of sitting still, Cake turned around. "Fifi, rings!"
Three large, soccerball-sized rings hovered before them, golden and blinking.
"Sweet paninis!" Cake leaped from Fionna's arms, causing the human girl to stumble back. Cake ran up to the rings and picked one from the air. She hugged it to her chest. "These rings are heavy! Let's take them back to the real world! We'll be filthy stankin' rich!"
Fionna and Cake laughed as they picked out the other two rings from the air.
A rubbery, mushy roar interrupted them. "GHURAGBLEUARG!"
Fionna and Cake span around. "GUMMY BUNNY!"
The giant, gummy rabbit brought a thick, rubbery paw down at their feet. Fionna and Cake were launched into the air. As they landed on their backs, the rings fell from Cake's paws, blinking away. All 500 points Cake had vanished. "NOOOOOOOO!"
"It's time to bring out Hammy!" Fionna held out her digital arms. "Come to me, Hammy."
Nothing happened.
Frowning, Fionna looked up at the top of the screen. "Hammy?" The hammer's digital icon remained, unaffected. Fionna sighed. "Oh, Hammy. Without the controller, I can't select you."
Gummy Bunny let out a warning snarl.
"Let's get out of here, Fifi," Cake said to her sister, clutching the last remaining coin to her chest.
Fionna was appalled. "We NEVER run away from Gummy Bunny!"
However, as Gummy Bunny roared and brought her paw down. Fionna and Cake dodged it and ran away from the digital monster.
"Whirly Wasp, Gummy Bunny; they're supposed to be the easy parts!" Fionna gave something between a huff and a sigh. "But they were grade-A bad gals! Snoozey Sami is going to be a top-rank buttknocker."
"Fifi, the most important thing to remember...is that I still have one giant ring," Cake sighed and held up the golden ring.
"Get a hold of your brains, Cupcake," scoffed Fionna, "We need to keep an eye out for Snoozey Sami."
Cake stopped in her tracks and pointed straight ahead. "That's her right there."
Fionna froze and looked ahead. A beachball-sized form, green and spotted with yellow-cubed spots. The form's back was turned to them, and it showed no signs of acknowledging their existence.
"Get down," Fionna put a hand on the top of her sister's cubed head, and pushed both of them to the ground. "What's she doing?"
Snoozey Sami didn't move an inch.
"I think she's trying to psych us." Fionna said. With a deep breath, she pressed her body to the ground and began to crawl towards the sami-famous toad. "I will crush you, Snoozey Sami. When I'm done with you, they'll call you Stupid Sami. Stanky, stupid toad."
Snoozey Sami flicked her tongue.
Glaring, Fionna pushed herself up on her feet. Inching towards the toad, she raised her fist.
Suddenly, Snoozey Sami whirled around and leaped at Fionna, squarely hitting her stomach.
Fionna felt the wind woosh out of her. She tumbled back and landed right next to Cake. "I wasn't fast enough," she groaned as she lifted herself up on one elbow. She then snarled and yelled, "HELP ME KILL HER!"
"LET'S DO IT!" Cake picked her sister up around the waist and threw her with full-force at Snoozey Sami. Fionna let out a battle cry as she raised a fist-
Snoozey Sami flicked its tongue around Fionna's waist. It pulled her into its mouth and chewed. A moment later, it spat up a number of Fionna-colored pixels.
Dun-dun-da-doon.
Boo-boo-ba-boop!
Fionna appeared behind Cake, looked surprised and confused.
Snoozey Sami flicked her tongue at Cake, but the cat dodged. Jumping into her sister's arms, Cake yelled, "Let's get outta here, Fifi!" Snoozey Sami jumped towards them. "WE'RE GONNA DIE!"
And so, the two girls ran. They came across Gummy Bunny, who snarled at them and tried to take a swipe at them. The two girls ran past it, and they now had both Gummy Bunny and Snoozey Sami chasing them now.
They then came to the spike-pit again. Cake picked up Fionna and quickly jumped over. Gummy Bunny and Snoozey Sami fell into the pit, only to be caught by Whirly Wasp. Whirly Wasp flew after the two girls, with Snoozey Sami and Gummy Bunny riding her.
"I can see the sunlight! Hurry!" Fionna cried. The two girls burst from the tunnel's entrance. They didn't even marvel at the wonderful feeling the sunlight gave them. They continued running, but suddenly, they ran into an invisible wall.
"Oh no," Fionna pressed her hand against the invisible wall. Tiny, almost invisible waves of purple came from her palm. "It's the edge of the screen! We're done for!"
"Wait, Fifi," Cake put a paw on her sister's shoulder. Her eyes were on the top of the screen. "Hammy."
"I can't get him without the controller, remember?" Fionna cried as she pressed her body against the screen's edge.
"Hold on," Cake said, dropping her ring and stretching her virtual body to the top of the screen. She stood before Hammy's icon, staring at it intently.
"Cupcake?" Fionna called. "Cupcake!"
"Maybe if I..." Cake's voice trailed off as she put her paws on the edges of Hammy's icon.
"CUPCAKE! THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!" Fionna yelled out.
Cake pulled on the icon with all her digital might. A loud, beeping, warning siren blared throughout the game, making her virtual ears close in on themselves. The word 'ERROR' appeared on the screen, and a deep female voice repeated it over and over.
"CUPCAKE! LET GO!" Fionna yelled frantically.
"BUT WE NEED HAMMY!" Cake pulled until her digitized muscle strained, and finally, the icon was pulled from the top of the screen.
The minute Cake's digital back hit the ground, a loud , thin sound screamed around them, like the sound of an unavailable TV channel. Bolts of digital light flashed from the gaping hole of Hammy's icon, unnameable colors. Suddenly, a bolt of light hit Fionna, and she exploded into digital pixels.
"FIFI!" Cake cried out just before a bolt of lightning hit her and the ring. All of their pixels darted into the gaping hole, sending them through the depths of the digital world.
Beema awoke to a fiery, screaming pain tearing through its body. As a video game console, she wasn't supposed to feel pain, unless she was being shorted out. But being shorted out only felt like being pricked by needles, and this felt like it was exploding into fire.
In an explosion of sparks, Fionna and Cake burst from the console's body. They both hit the wall and landed on the floor in unison, no longer cubed or digital, but normal and alive.
"SWEET MOTHER OF MATH!" Fionna yelled out in relieved awe. "CUPCAKE, THAT WAS CRAZY!"
"Yeah, and I still got my ring." Cake held up the huge, gold-colored ring. Her tail puffed out in anger. "WHA-? IT'S MADE OF PLASTIC?"
"Augh..."
Cake whirled around with a gasp. "Beema!"
Fionna and Cake ran over to the poor console. It was on its side, sparks flying from the gaping hole in its material. Its screen blinked and whirred in pain. It was letting out pitiful moans and gasps of pain that mixed with the horrible sounds coming from its mechanisms.
"Oh, no!" Cake gasped. Carefully, she lifted the computer into a sitting position, but it still sent pain surging through its body. "Are you alright, baby cakes?"
"Y-yyyyyou have tttttto-" Beema let out a cry of agonizing pain. "NO!" Sparks began to shoot like fireworks from her body. "RUN!"
Fionna and Cake let out cries of horror as a large form began to sprout from the console. They ran for the door, and flung themselves outside (Cake was so freaked out she threw herself through the window), their hearts heavy in pity for the poor console.
It was no use. With the exploding sound of splintering wood, Fionna and Cake felt themselves being caught in a sticky embrace.
Fionna and Cake screamed. Gummy Bunny (who held them), Snoozey Sami, and Whirly Wasp all glared down at them, ready to kill them that instant. Whirly Wasp loaded itself with stingers, ready to fire.
"NO!" "DON'T KILL US!" "WE DON'T HAVE EXTRA LIVES!" "PLEASE!"
"Hold on," Snoozey Sami spoke up. Her voice was very feminine and lovely for a disgusting toad. "There's sunshine here!"
They all let out sighs of pleasure as sunlight covered their virtual-turned-real bodies. They let out murmurs of pleasure.
"Thanks, guys," Gummy Bunny said (in a surprisingly sweet voice), letting Fionna and Cake go from her sticky grasp. She and Whirly Wasp hopped/flew away.
"That's it?" Fionna asked in surprise. "You're not going to kill us?"
"That's it," chuckled Snoozey Sami, "The game's over. We won! All we wanted was the sunshine!"
Fionna and Cake smiled in relief.
"...And to kill the computer that's been imprisoning us for the past so-and-so years."
Fionna swore she heard a record scratch. "What?!"
"HELP!" Beema's screaming voice called out to them. Gummy Bunny had her in her gummy grip, keeping its arms pinned to its sides and its gaping wound covered in gummy substance. Whirly Wasp buzzed over Beema, its stingers cocked and loaded.
"BEEMA!" Fionna and Cake gasped.
"Oh, yeah, it's dangerous," said Snoozey Sami. "If it presses its button again, back we go."
"BEEMA!" cried Fionna. "QUICK, HIT YOUR BUTTON!"
"I CAN'T!" Beema cried. It flinched as Whirly Wasp cocked another stinger. "I'M STUCK!"
"YOU WANT US TO GO BACK?" Snoozey Sami shrieked. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!"
Snoozey Sami pounced on Cake, flicking her tongue across her body in attempt to eat her. As Cake held her back, she cried, "WE'LL SAVE YOU, BEEMA! HURRY, FIFI!"
"THEY'RE TOO STRONG, FIONNA!" Beema cried before the human girl could move. "USE THE COMBO MOVE! USE THE-" It was cut off by a cascade of gummy liquid covering her.
"But it never works!" Fionna said to herself.
"You can do this, Fifi!" Cake yelled as Snoozey Sami pulled her into her mouth. "You g-" she was cut off by Snoozey Sami engulfing her. She popped out of her mouth again. "YOU GOT THIS!" She was engulfed once more.
"You got this, Fionna." Fionna told herself solidly. "You got this." She took a deep breath."
"Down,
Up,
Right,
Right,
Left,
Left."
Fionna began to glow with power.
"Up,
Turn,
Up,
Down,
Right,
Left,
Right,
Up,
Turn,
Down,
Up,
Jump!"
Snoozey Sami, Whirly Wasp, and Gummy Bunny exploded into sparks like fireworks. Cake jumped into her sister's arms. "I knew you could do it! Right, Beema?"
Beema didn't answer. It only moaned in pain as puffs of smoke rose from the gaping hole in its body.
"Beema!" Fionna and Cake rushed over to it. Fionna lifted it rightside-up, carefully.
Beema glared through her screen. "FIONNA, I TOLD YOU HOW DANGEROUS IT WAS TO PASS TO THE DIGITAL WORLD! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! OUR HOUSE IS WRECKED AND I LOOK LIKE CRUD!"
"I know, and I'm really sorry..." Fionna smirked. "But now that we know what to expect, we can do it again!"
"Yeah!" Cake agreed excitedly. "How 'bout it, Beema?"
"Down,
Up,
Right,
Right,
Left,
Left."
"BEEMA, NO!"
TRIVIA
When Fionna looks at her arm and exclaims "My arm is totally mathematical!," we see it's made of binary code that spell out 'Fionna's arm.'