Chapter 30: Bad to the Circuit
She had come back and kicked Finn and Jake out. BMO was okay with this. He considered himself a go-with-the flow kind of robot. He could remember way, way back when he and the floating lady lived in the tree together with no animals. The animals were afraid of her. He had been very okay with the floating lady. She had bought him his little skateboard right before she left, and treated him very well. Then she was just gone, and he was left in the big tree alone. She had told him he was the only one guaranteed to stay for a long, long time. She never said she would do the same.
By the time she came back, he was an expert at the skateboard.
He walked down into the main room only to find her floating there munching on some strawberries. He emoted, and went ahead and smiled, letting out the exclamation of "Floating lady! Ave you come back to stake claim on the tree? But then…where are Finn and Jake?"
Marceline looked over and smiled her toothy smile. "BMO! Hey, baby; how've you been?" She swooped down and picked him up, placing him at eye-level on the table in front of her. "I am indeed back to stake claim. Finn and Jake left to find a new place."
BMO supposed they had forgotten to take him along. It seems whenever the two went out, they forgot to take him along. "Do they forget me because I am not a real boy?" He asked the floating lady, who happened to e floating in a sitting position above the couch.
He watched as the floating lady became pensive. "Y'know what? I think they could think you're part of the house. I mean…before them, you were with me. And then they found the house and there you were. They don't take into account your feelings." She nodded.
The floating lady had never done that. She had taken him to soccer and played every new game he developed with him (not on him) and taught him to secret attack. She would tuck him in at night when he went into sleep mode and do many nice things Finn and Jake did not. The floating lady kept him safe. "But…I am a robot. I do not feel."
The floating lady laughed. "BMO, you feel more than any other robot device I have ever met."
He took this as a great compliment, and they played video games together. Then, she left and Finn and Jake came back. He missed the floating lady.
The next time he saw the floating lady, he had wanted to ask how she could float, as it was against the laws of physics, and therefore evil. He could not think of the floating lady as evil, as she always said hello to him when she decided to show up for the movie night. Finn and Jake began to use him as a camera as the big warning had deterred them from watching pre-recorded movies. The floating lady never cared about the big warning, and BMO thought himself all the more daring and bad-to-the-circuit for all the lawless behavior the two of them had partaken in together. He felt much cooler with the floating lady.
After an incredibly unproductive and argument-prone filming process in which Finn and Jake put too much pressure on his internal hard-drive, he put together a compilation he had made of the two of them getting along. He sang a song and made a small joke at the end of it. After, the floating lady had come up to him.
"You did a very good job with that movie, BMO."
He clapped and jumped a couple times. "Thank you, floating lady. Finn and Jake were doing the fighting, and it was making me overheat, but then I figured out a movie of my own, and sang a song, and everything was hunky-dory."
Marceline smiled at the little robot. "That's right, BMO. You saved the day!" And she was gone again. No one made him smile like the floating lady did.
He decided that whether floating was evil or not, he would like the floating lady.
It was a long time before he saw the floating lady again, and it was under very sad circumstances involving a yellow thief-man. His favorite controller had been taken, and the yellow thief-man had gone through the floating lady's house. She followed them out to the big face door.
BMO like the floating lady, and he like Princess Bubblegum. He did not like them so much when they were together. There was much fighting, arguing, and mysterious glancing between the two. BMO had his suspicions about the two of them as a unit, but he kept to himself. They fought like Finn and Jake fought only there was a certain more-ness about it. It made him sad that the floating lady and Princess did not get along like two pretty ladies should. But maybe it was that the floating lady wasn't so much lady-like as the Princess.
He glowed at his amount of insight, and thought he should be a detective.
Then the Princess took his face off, not knowing how ticklish his circuits could be, and the floating lady sang a very sad song. Or was it a very angry song? BMO sometimes had trouble distinguishing those two emotions. And he was never very good at knowing what the floating lady was thinking. Heck, she had never told him her name, and though Finn and Jake often called her 'Marceline,' she would always to him be the floating lady.
To break tension, Finn suggested noodles, and the floating lady brought back a portable stove to cook them on. BMO didn't get food, but it seemed as though Finn eating the brick of noodles was odd in some way.
"Come here, baby," she said to him. He walked over and she plugged in her stove to him as he began to heat it up. No one seemed to notice she had called him 'baby,' but that was fine as the floating lady always made him smile. He was glad he was self-recharging as the water boiled and noodles cooked.
After, the princess tried to calculate a song on him, and it didn't go so well. Floating lady, Jake, and Princess all left, after the floating lady spit on the princess. BMO deduced some understanding that they had been close, very close at one point or another.
Finn's song didn't include him.
When he got his controller back, he did a little cowboy thing that made the floating lady smile. When the Princess got her shirt back, the floating lady blushed. Finn and Jake did not seem to pick up on the intimacy of the exchange. He wondered how something could be so stupid. He could not gather why the floating lady had followed them, as she had not been missing anything he could see, however, she chased them all away. BMO began to walk home after everyone had dashed far too quickly for his little legs into the surrounding areas.
But the floating lady came back.
She smiled at him and picked him up, placing him on her shoulder as she began to fly him home. "I'm glad you got your controller back, BMO."
He hugged it tight to his body. "I am glad you did not forget about me, floating lady. It is a long way to walk."
He never understood why Finn and Jake did not believe him when he said the Princess and the floating lady were in love. He could not compute certain things, but that thing was as plain as a nose on a face.
BMO was hearing strange noises in the tree. Noises he normally did not hear unless Jake and Lady were alone, or if it was just Finn alone with Bubblegum's hair. But both Finn and Jake were gone, and no one was in the house. He squinted his eyes and slowly climbed up the ladder to Finn's room. Peeking over, he saw the princess and the floating lady canoodling. He blushed.
"Marceline what if Finn comes back?" The princess breathed.
"You're the one who was getting handsy on the way back to the Candy Kingdom."
BMO knew where this was going. They were going to bed wrestle. He went outside to kick his soccer ball, giving tem privacy. He knew it was not okay to stay as the floating lady had told him bed wrestling was for two people to do alone. The floating lady had taught him a lot of things without being mean, even though he had watched when her and Ash had been bed wrestling. Ash wanted to make him explode, but floating lady sat him down and explained to him it was private. Ash was a real patoot.
BMO had been right all along. The floating lady was nice and the Princess was nice and they were nice together. Silly brained Finn and Jake were just too loopy to see it. He smiled, happy that the floating lady wasn't so sad any more. She was very good to him.