I do not own Adventure Time. Never have, never will. Also, I'm willing to believe that our universe is part of the Multiverse. Well...on with the show!

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Chapter 10 - Blank Points Pt. 2

The moment they set foot on the portal, a blast of white light engulfed them both. Marceline shielded her eyes with her right hand and held Bonnie's hand on the other. She was very afraid that the Princess might wind up in some far-flung place so he continued to held on even though the white light already dissipated.

"Uh. Marceline? You're hurting me."

"Oh, sorry Bonnie!"

The candy monarch's attention was already on different matters but she muttered a quick reply. "It's fine. No need to fuss about it."

"Now, where are we?"

"Duh? Isn't it obvious? Where somewhere near this Time Room."

Marceline took a minute to assess their environment. They seemed to be standing on a rock formation somewhere in outer space, what with all the rocks and various debris floating in place and distant stars that dotted everywhere she looked. Well, that was what she thought. The debris seemed to float in place, but a blink later, they seemed to float away. She hefted her Bass Axe and played a tune. The sound reverberated, like it was supposed to, but stopped abruptly as if it met an invisible barrier. From what she knows, the outer space doesn't work that way.

"The curvature of time-space is rather erratic here." Bonnie looks like she was about to launch in one of her long-winded explanations. "And look at my watch."

"Let me guess, it's running backwards?"

"No, it's pink, ding-dong!" Bonnie glared at her as she broke into a laugh. She doesn't quite know if the Princess was serious or she was trying to crack a joke at her.

"C'mon, Bonnibel. We don't have all day."

"Pssh. We're not even sure if time has bearings here."

"Hush! Be calmed by my saliva." Marceline leaned and licked her left earlobe. She really digs this particular Jake's catchphrase.

"Marceline, that's to-"

"- distasteful. Yeah, right, don't be a hypocrite. C'mon, wrap your legs around me and-"

Bonnie grinned and became red in the face again. "Marceline? Here?"

"- I'll fly you through the gaps in the space rocks."

They stared at each other for a second. Then Marceline broke into a laugh that reverberated across the place and stopped abruptly. "Bonnie, what were you thinking? Oh my Glob, it's killing me...HAHAHA! You know what? You really got to move on. Man, the look on your face was priceless."

She immediately regretted her reaction as she saw the Princess' face. Bonnie looked really hurt. Marceline hovered then reached for Bonnie's hand and aided her in getting on her back. Sometimes, there are things better left unsaid. I might have been too tactless. Wasn't I in her place years ago?

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. You're absolutely correct. I should really move on."

As a result, they spent the rest of the flight in complete silence. Marceline can't afford the upset the Princess now, seeing that everything is about to get crazy. She lazily flew over boring rock formations and space whatnots while Bonnie gingerly clung on her shoulders. On the verge of complaining, Marceline finally caught sight of something that broke the monotony of the place.

"Marceline! That thing obviously looks like the Time Room."

She sped up and flew closer, earning a complete and unobstructed view of the Time Room. It looked like a large red cube with various holes that probably served as entrances. It looked underwhelming, alright. Marceline expected something more grandiose for a place located in the center of the Multiverse.

"It looks...quaint."

"Quasi-corporeal."

"Quasi-what, Bonnie?"

"Quasi-corporeal. I heard Booko say that the Time Room is quasi-corporeal. It just meant we could never be sure what it really looked like."

Marceline thought that maybe Bonnie's correct. She craved for something red presently, and it so happens that the Time Room was red in color. That couldn't be a coincidence. They flew closer and landed on of the holes in its faces. Setting her passenger down, Marceline readjusted her grip on her axe.

"What the nuts is going in here?"

Hearing Bonnie's reaction, she followed her gaze and saw a rectangular room with pink walls, floor, and ceiling. It was big enough to probably contain her house. What really caught the vampire's attention was the group of beings submerged on what appeared to be a yellow jacuzzi. The only one she recognized was the Cosmic Owl.

Suddenly, one of the beings - huge two-dimensional white shadow of what appeared to be a human - stared and spoke with an accent unknown to her. "Hey, you there with the red axe. I thought you already decided on your wish? I can't rebuke a person's wish, okay?"

"She's not the same Marceline, Prismo. This one belongs to the universe much closer to the Pristine one." The Cosmic Owl sounded excited for some reason she can't tell yet.

Marceline was confused. So that white shadow guy is Prismo? She wondered if he could really grant wishes, seeing that he can't even tell the who's who of the Multiverse. She looked at Bonnie beside her, who looked so much disturbed by the scene. I think I know what's eating her.

"Look, Prismo, dude. I don't really know you and I came here just to demand answers. Well, if you could really grant a wish, then I don't see what's wrong with that..."

Prismo looked at her thoughtfully, a smile on his face slowly showing. He was about to say something when the four-faced guy beside him spoke. "Maybe you should refrain from giving wishes for now."

"And why is that, Grod?"

What the Nightosphere? Grod? That thing over there is Grod?

The four-faced's head spun and showed a similar but different face and spoke with a different voice. "Because the Multiverse is in trouble, right? And if a new universe get created because of the wish, you'll just plunge it in to danger too. Kinda moot, right?"

"I see your point, Glob, but we can't just send these two away now, are we? And if her wish matched with an existing universe, I'll just transport her over there just like last time with the other Marceline."

"C'mon now Prismo - "

"STOP, YOU DUMMIES!"

Everyone stopped talking and looked at Bonnie, who was very silent up to now. She inhaled deeply and began to talk. "First, what you're saying about is impossible if I go by the Law of Physics and take into consideration the Quantum Suicide. Secondly, would you nutballs tell us what's happening first?"

"Huh. Another one of those know-it-all nerdy pink princesses. Why does every universe held at least one of you?" The guy who looked like a skeleton with elongated mouth and wore a simple gardener's outfit spoke for the first time. Marceline snickered at the being's response, earning a glare from Bonnie.

Prismo sighed for a long time, apparently tired of explaining things. "Girl, the Multiverse actually works much closer with the Copenhagen Interpretation. Secondly, why don't you two get down here so we could go to business?"

Bonnie just crossed her arms, apparently unsatisfied with Prismo's reply. Marceline doesn't really understand all their science junk that well, so she picked up Bonnie bridal-style and flew down near the beings. She noticed the numerous game boards that littered the floor near the jacuzzi, which made her smile. These dudes looked like they are beings of superpower and yet they amuse themselves with those things.

"Well, I guess it's time for us to go now, Pris. I'll never stand in the same room with that pinky over there."

"What, Death? Don't go. You've just arrived, we haven't even watched one of my new favorite universe yet!"

Marceline looked at the skeletal guy in awe. This dude is Death? Wow.

"I'll stop by next time, Pris." With that, Death disappeared in a shower of what appeared to be white cubes that disappeared as fast as they came.

"Yeah, us too Prismo, we couldn't really leave Mars for too long. That world is still on its knees after that incident."

"Okay, Glob, I understand."

Marceline watched in amazement as the being called Glob burst upward in a furious red aura and punched a hole in the ceiling, which disappeared instantly as she blinked. She never knew gods are so casual like this. Maybe, a Vampire Queen can hang out with them some time?

"Hey, Cosmic Owl where are you going?"

"I'll just go over my place, I forgot to bring my..." What the Cosmic Owl forgot was never heard because he was already outside the Time Room.

"Wow. I'm just alone here again all of a sudden."

Bonnie cleared her throat loudly and started to tap her foot impatiently. Marceline was having second thoughts in bringing the Princess with her by that time. She can be so annoying at times with her attitude that she failed to change throughout the years; she hates it when things go against what she firmly believed.

"Alright, alright, girl! Stop doing that and have a seat."

Suddenly, a white sofa appeared behind them and rushed forward, forcing them to sit on it. Marceline noticed that the sofa appeared to be a love seat, much to their horror. Both of them tried to create a space between them without much success.

"What? I thought the two of you are together? What's wrong?"

"Well, Prismo, we're not." Marceline knew this guy didn't want to provoke them but he got to have his facts straight.

"Oh, my bad. I just kinda mix up the universes sometimes, and most of them have you as couples."

Bonnie snapped in annoyance again. "Cut the graph, and start talking!"

"What do you even want to know? I'm not all knowing like the Cosmic Owl, you know."

Marceline stopped and thought for a moment. Temporarily forgetting what she came for because of those awesome dudes she met earlier. Before she could answer Prismo's question, Bonnie cut her off.

"Where's Finn and Jake?"

"Oh that...hehe." Prismo looked nervous all of a sudden. What happened? "Let me ask you first a question. How well do you know this place and the Multiverse?"

The candy monarch was taken aback by the query, but immediately launched into a series of explanations. "From what Booko said, the Multiverse is comprise of numerous universe in which some are linked either temporarily or permanently, and at the center of the Multiverse is a dimension called the Time Room , believed to be the quasi-corporeal dwelling place of the almighty Prismo . The Time Room is the single dimension that exists outside of time. The Time Room produces time waves that are experienced by other dimensions."

"What the hey, Bonnibel Bubblegum?! You actually understood and memorized Booko's speed-talked babble? That is insane! I only understood the part where he slowed down a bit..."

"His speed-talk was actually comprehensible, c'mon..."

"Excellent, Princess. So you do know that you're currently outside your own universe, correct?"

Both of them nodded.

"You see, whenever a dire decision was made, a separate universe will be created for that. Both universe will exist, but will never meet eye to eye with each other normally.

Marceline furrowed her brows. "What kind of decisions, Prismo?"

"Everything that will have a great impact on the outcome, like a prominent leader or hero dying, wars, and even marriages of certain people influential enough. Even something as finding a cursed crown, for that matter. Also, wishes granted by me."

Prismo stared at them as they absorbed the information. Bonnie spoke calmly for the first time since coming into the Time Room. "You seem to be implying something."

"Here, have a Slurpy." Suddenly, two cups of some beverage appeared on their armrest, one for each of them. Marceline looked at hers and saw that the so called Slurpy was a drink filled with crushed ice and some flavoring. Hers was a deep red.

"Thanks."

"When Finn and Jake came through here for the first time, they were just in time to witness the Lich make its wish. Its wish was to wipe all of existence, which I did."

"You, WHAT?!" Both of them exclaimed in shock.

"It just meant that the Lich was sent to a reality where nothing exists, even the Enchiridion. What it hoped to achieve by that is beyond me. Personified Nuclear bombs are really hard to get most of the time."

They visibly relaxed. Bonnie looked troubled though. "I was there when Finn and Jake entered the portal, but they really never told me what happened when they got back mere seconds later."

"I granted them a wish each. Finn, thinking the Lich just actually destroyed his universe, wished that the Lich never even existed. I transported him to a universe where the Lich never did exist, but the problem was...look, let's just watch it on my TV Wall."

Suddenly, the wall to their left turned into a giant TV screen. Their love seat rotated to face the giant monitor. "Prismo, you're instantly on my Top Three spot for my Cool Dudes list."

"Oh, stop it you. Hehe. Look, this TV can show various events from every universe, either it happened already or is currently happening. It can't see into the future though, you see."

"Of course, that is impossible."

"Bonnie, how could you explain Cosmic Owl then?"

"Cut it out girls, look!"

The TV showed what seemed to be a different looking Finn talking with an old lady inside a cave.

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From what Marceline understood in the clips they watched, Finn's wish landed him in a world where humans still lived normally. The war ended without the bomb going off, but instead got stopped by Simon with his mastery of ice. It killed him though because the bomb crushed him in its weight. She watched as her alternate self get old slowly beside the corpse of Simon.

I never became a vampire in that universe, huh. I wonder what is it like to get old while being solitary in a cave.

1000 years passed and the wishworld Finn, having financial troubles with his family, came across the Crown and stole it. Apparently, Junktown, the town where he lives, gets aggravated by the Destiny Gang frequently. In ensuing chaos, Finn's parents and sibling was trapped inside their burning house.

Marceline gasped in surprise as she watched Finn put the crown in his head to save his family and instantly made him crazy. He did defeated the Destiny Gang, but in doing so, he accidentally caused the nuclear weapon to go off, recreating the apocalypse and turning the normal dog, Jake, into the Lich anyways.

"That is where everything went nuts, girls. Your universe's Jake wished to changed the Lich's wish into wishing him and Finn to go back to Ooo, which I did."

"Then that means we are currently living in Jake's wishworld, right?" Bonnie looked fearful.

"That's right, Princess. With that wish, numerous paths were born. The Ice Prince here suffered for hundreds of years, while your Finn got back home."

"Then, everything's swell then?" Marceline asked hopefully. Then she realized something missing. "Wait, what happened to the Lich who wished for Finn and Jake to get back home? Don't tell me it's around here lurking somewhere?"

"Relax, I sent that Lich to the Crystal Citadel, the Multiverse's eternal prison for the worst beings that existed. Well, there was an exception there...but he kinda volunteered to remain in that prison...Wait, I'm babbling around now, am I?" Prismo laughed nervously, apparently he just said something important. Like a secret. Marceline ignored the last bit of his speech though.

"Then, I'm right. Everything's swell then."

"No. There is one more story behind this alternate universe, one that I did not chose to show to Jake during his first visit with his brother. I kinda regret that now." Prismo closed his eyes momentarily.

Bonnie looked impatient. She too was becoming impatient like Marceline. If what they saw earlier in Booko's map of the Multiverse, Finn and Jake are currently in trouble. She took a few seconds to rephrase what she wanted to say to Prismo. "Hey, dude, these alternate universe events are interesting and all, but we really don't have time to..."

"But you do have time. Look, you're in the Time Room. Time doesn't really work the way you are used to."

"Oh."

"Now let me tell you a beautiful tale involving a certain farmboy and a firefly..."

Bonnie smirked. "You could just let us watch it on your TV Wall."

Prismo looked at the Princess then at his TV Wall, and then back to Bonnie. "Oh, you're right."

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Hey you reader. I insist you search Crystal Citadel in Adventure Time Wiki. You'll be glad you did.

So much for a supposed three-part filler episode. A recap of sort, but I don't really know how to do a recap of the events of Tales of the Alternate Universe. I don't even know if I had to, but when I try to read this story while imagining I did not read the 'parent' stories, I find it kinda hard to follow. Wish people would say what they think.

Ooobserver: Hey, man. Can I ask you a favor? Remember the 'sword from Citadel of Truth' Choose Goose offered to Finn? I'm planning something quite plot-relevant with that. Nothing really big. I was hoping you'll let me continue referring to your Citadel more. And again, thanks for all the really awesome reviews and feedbacks!

Hey, I just got my 1000th view! Hurray! Hope I can upload the big fight right now instead of this crappy chapter, but I can't...