(Note: The final part to this arc. I enjoyed writing this arc and hope you guys enjoyed reading it.)
The monstrous bat tackles the Guardian, knocking it to the ground with an earthshaking slam. Marceline screeches at the giant gumball machine, ready for a fight. The Guardian gets up and shakes its head before looking at the giant bat; it gets into a fighting position and charges at her. Marceline grapples with the Guardian doing everything in her power to keep it away from the castle and her team. She sprouts wings and takes the giant machine into the air with her; she spins it around then throws it, causing it to crash outside of the Kingdom, hoping this will keep the civilians safe as well.
"Did you know that she could do that?" Tom asks both Skips and Lapis, still surprised by what he witnessed. "You're not the only one buddy," Lapis replies, who is just as surprised. "I didn't see that coming."
"Focus you two," Skips orders. "We need to figure out how this thing works," the yeti states still holding onto the wand examining it to learn how to operate it. "How about waving it around until something happens." Tom suggests. Skips looks at the demon. "We don't know what this wand is capable of," he states. "Doing that could make things worse, or blow us up. Or maybe do both." Suddenly, they hear footsteps in the distance. "This way, they're down here." One of the candy guards shouts, as a small group makes their way down. "We won't be able to do anything if we don't deal with them first." Lapis pitches in about the oncoming soldiers. Skips takes the wand, "You two keep them busy, I'll figure out how this works." As the guards get closer, Lapis summons her water wings and Tom ignites the fire in his hands. "Let's roast some marshmallows."
"Really, that's the best you could come up with." Lapis says with a deadpan expression.
Outside of the Kingdom, the battle between the two giants continues; the Guardian punches Marceline in the gut forcing her back. "I am not going down to you." The giant bat states as she charges at the Guardian once more, she tackles it to the ground and punches its face several times, before it throws her off and she slams into nearby woods, hurting her a bit, but she gets up and shrugs off the pain. The Guardian blasts a beam of energy at the vampire knocking her back even further, burning her sensitive flesh. She lets out a battle cry as she flies at break-neck speed to the giant gumball machine.
Lapis grabs two of the assaulting soldiers with giant water-hands shapeshifted from her wings, and throws slams them on the wall knocking them out. Tom continues to hurl balls of fires at the soldiers forcing them to back off. However, their numbers just keep growing; soon the Gem and the Demon will not be able to hold them off for much longer. "Any luck with that wand Skips?" Tom asks the yeti. "I think I got it." Skips states, as he is finally able to make the red stone within the wand glow, and have bright red electricity surround it. "Let's see if this works." Skips takes a deep breath and waves the wand around causing the stone to glow even brighter, he points the wand at the statues of the prisoners, then a red light emits from the wand that engulfs the whole dungeon.
The light fades, and the prisoners return to normal, gasping for air. "We're alive," one of the prisoners' states joyously free from his stone prison. All of the prisoners begin cheering, for their freedom returned. One of the prisoners notices Skips holding the wand. "Thank you for helping us." The prisoner states gratuitously. "You're welcome, now we need your help," the yeti states. "Is there someone here named Bonnibel Bubblegum?"
"Right here, I'm Bonnibel!" A tall, pink-skinned woman with long, flowing pink hair states as she steps forward. "A friend of yours is in danger, we need your help."
"Alright," the princess answers. "Let's get some weapons first."
"No problem." Lapis states knocking out two more guards, she uses her water wings to grab their weapons and tosses them to the prisoners, who catch them. Now that they have weapons, they charge to aid her and Tom against the soldiers, "Charge!"
Marceline continues to battle against the Guardian, but as she gets even more exhausted, she is unable to block the Guardians attacks. The giant gumball machine eventually uppercuts the vampire knocking her down. The Guardian charges its blast for one last attack that will destroy Marceline. Suddenly, the Guardian just stops moving, Marceline looked up and realizes that the giant machine was deactivated the only one who can neutralize the Guardian is Candy-Kingdom royalty. "They did it." Marceline smiles to herself realizing Skips and the others have found Princess Bubblegum.
Tom, Skips and Lapis aid the escaped, armed prisoners, in retaking the castle, they storm up every tower, every room, up and down each of the stone stairwells. Knocking guards aside that stood in their way, within a few minutes, the battle was over. They reclaimed the Candy-Kingdom, though they could not find Lemongrab anywhere.
Marceline flies into the castle, where her team greets her. "Hey guys, we did it."
"You got that right." Tom states giving the vampire a fist bump, which she accepts. Marceline looks over Tom's shoulder and sees Bonnie waiting for her. Marceline flies over to the candy-princess and gives her a hug. "Thank Gob you're alright."
"Missed you too Marcie." Bonnie says hugging the vampire. "Your yeti friend explained to me what happened, and that you're all from different universes, within the multiverse. I have to say, that is amazing. And my land was one of infinite, you didn't have to, but you saved my kingdom."
"Of course you big nerd." Marceline tells the princess. "It's still the Candy-Kingdom no matter what."
"If there is anything we could do to repay you for this." Bonnie states, Marceline then quickly answers why they were here in the first place. "Our ship, the one that allows us to jump multiverses, needs some repair and we were wondering if you have anything that could help out with that?"
"Consider it done." Bonnie says to her friend. "I'll send some of my engineers with you, for now I need to stay here and find where that snake Lemongrab is hiding. He's not getting away without punishment."
"Then I guess this is goodbye, for now." Marceline states, as she and the princess give each other a hug, before departing.
The four of them head back to the ship, with the engineers, where both Ford and Peridot greet them. "Hey guys!" Peridot shouts seeing her friends again. "Hey Peri, we found some help." Lapis shouts greeting the small green gem. Ford steps forward, "So these are the people that are going to help I take it?" Ford asks the group. "That's right." Marceline answers the older man's question. Ford tells the engineers what he needs help with and gives them directions around the ship, with luck the ship should be up and able within an hour and should not crash a third time.
The team then tells Ford and Peridot what happened in the Candy-Kingdom, about Lemongrab and his wand. "We still have it here." Skips states, still with the weapon in his possession, "I figure that we should study it and find out what it is exactly, and who we are up against."
"I agree." Ford nods in agreement. Then one of the engineers arrives before the group, informing them that the engines are at one hundred percent and ready to make another jump.
The team heads to the control room and strap themselves in prepared to jump to their next adventure.
A fleeing Lemongrab makes his way to a secret, underground tunnel where he hides from the angry candy people. He looks around but then notices everything around him turn black and white, with time stopping for everything except him. "No." The cowardly man says to himself, knowing what is coming for him.
"You've failed me!" An ominous voice echoes throughout. "I shared with you my power, and you lost it to some B grade 'heroes'"
"Master, please forgive me." The cowardly man begs, afraid for his life. Suddenly, a large, glowing, humanoid red monster, taller than an average human, with bright yellow eyes, and red electricity surrounding its whole body, appears before him. The monster grabs Lemongrab by his neck. "No!" the creature answers, before turning the candy-human to stone and smashing him to rubble. "I guess it's time these 'heroes' know who they are dealing with