Chapter 3: Bug Battle!

As soon as Finn and Marceline left her father's home in the Nightosphere, they headed straight for Mushroom Village where Jake said the action was taking place. While on the way, Marceline began to speak to her boyfriend. "I do personally think that went well with my dad.", she said. Finn looked at her and responded by saying, "Oh, yeah. I think so too. I mean I was a little scared of being around him now that I'm dating you. Sometimes I think he would suck out my soul if he didn't approve of me.". "Don't overthink it, hun. I've told you before my dad likes you. I think he likes you even more now that we're dating.", Marcy said. "You think so? Although, he did bring up something to me that I think is quite ironic.", Finn said. "What's that?", she asked. "The fact that I am the hero of Ooo who fights all things evil, but yet I was trying to make a good impression on the Lord of Evil.", he said. "That is quite ironic. Especially because I know how much of a weenie you are when it comes to being associated with anything evil. I remember Jake telling me how messed up you became in Thief City after you stole something.", she said while having her signature smirk on her face. "Well, I know it's worth it to make nice with the father of the most mathematical girl there is which is you.", Finn told her. Marceline hid her face behind her long black hair so he wouldn't see her blushing. "Yeah, whatever.", she said. He wishes she wouldn't still occasionally hide her soft side just to keep up her bad girl image. But at the same time, that's just another thing he loves about her. Trying to change the subject, she asked, "So, Jake said there are monster bugs we have to fight?". "Yeah. He said a swarm of giant moths to be exact.", Finn said. "I hate moths. They've always grossed me out ever since I was a kid. Not to mention they are really ugly to look at. Butterflies are much prettier.", Marceline said. "Well, it is Summer. It's time for the bugs to come out.", Finn said. Eventually, they made their way to the sight of the attack where the two heroes saw the citizens of Mushroom Village running and screaming all over the place. They also saw what they came here to fight which were the giant moths flying and buzzing throughout the entire village. Some of the people's homes were missing part of their structures after the moths broke in because they were drawn to the light inside the houses. Jake was already at the scene and using his giant hands to swat away and squash the huge insects. "Eat giant swatter hand, you ugly freaks!", Jake said as he changed his hand into the shape of a fly swatter and killed a few of them under it. Jake then saw his brother and Marcy and went over to them. "Glad you guys are here. We gotta take these creepy crawlies out before the entire village is demolished!", the magical dog told them. "Let's do this!", Finn yelled with excitement as he took out his sword. "I eat bugs like these for breakfast! This should be a piece of cake!", Marcy said. The human, the dog, and the vampire then went to work as they started to be bug exterminators. Unbeknownst to them, a portal opened up in the woods nearby where Killer Moth fell out of it and landed on the ground. The minor villain was groaning and trying to regain his composure from what just happened. "What the hell just happened?", Moth said as he got back on his feet. He took off his helmet to get a better look at his new surroundings. He was incredibly confused as to what was going on seeing as how he was originally in a place where there were buildings everywhere and now he's in a forest. "Where am I? This isn't the city!", he said to himself. "This must be because of that crystal. It opened up a portal that took me to somewhere else.", he said. He heard commotion coming from outside of the wooded area and went to see what was going on. Walker looked towards the source of the noises and couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Holy shit!", he said to himself when he saw the giant insects fighting and spewing their acid at the boy with the sword, the shape-shifting dog, and the pale flying vampire lady slicing up the bugs with her axe base along with the mushroom people screaming and fleeing from the scene. Walker didn't want to draw attention in case the bugs would come after him, so he just stayed silent and watched the fight. Both Finn and his girlfriend were killing the monsters with their signature weapons while Jake was both swatting and squashing them with his giant hands. "Nothing like slicing and dicing! Right, Marcy?", Finn said. "It's the dream, Finn!", Marceline agreed with him after they sliced up half of the moths. The giant bugs were putting up a tough fight for quite a while before they eventually gave up and started to fly away when there were only a few of them left. After the last remaining moths were gone, the heroes high-fived and hugged each other in celebration of winning the fight. "Yeah, boi! We sent those flying creeps running home to their mamas!", Jake said. "Would've liked to take them all out before those last few got away.", Marcy said. "Well, the important thing is, we saved the day.", Finn said. Jake looked around and saw the mess they made and seeing all the bug guts all over the village. "Yeah, we did. But we did make quite a mess.", Jake said. The mushroom people started to come back once they saw the monsters were gone. "We're sorry about the mess, Mushroom dudes. We'll help clean up all these dead bugs.", Finn said. "We would definitely appreciate that, Finn. I must say this will be less pleasant than it was the last time a mess was made of our village since we cleaned up ice cream that time and not moth guts.", a mushroom citizen said as he brought up the time when those evil piglets attacked this village and used ice cream to stop them. "Yeah, this is gonna be gross.", Marcy said right before they got to work with cleaning up the mess. Meanwhile, Drury Walker was still trying to make sense of what he just saw. He came to realization that he was now in some kind of weird world with monsters and talking animals and inanimate objects. "This is all pretty messed up right here." the villain said. His mind was drawn back to the giant moths that flew off in defeat and thought it was fitting how he arrived at this strange place and saw giant monster moths right away seeing as how that's his gimmick. He always had been interested in all kinds of insects ever since he was a kid as he collected them as a hobby. He was also intrigued at how much a threat they posed to their attackers seeing as how fast, ferocious, and strong they were. The way they spit acid was quite a useful defense method. A wicked idea began to form in his head. Seeing as how he considered himself a moth too, he thought it would be perfect if he could somehow find the lair of those creatures and see if he could get them to follow him back to Gotham. Having those creatures at his side could definitely be what he would need for people in Gotham to take him seriously and so he can finally get the big score he's always wanted. Of course, he was aware if he would go through with that idea, they could easily tear him apart, but he was always willing to take risks. "It might be a long shot, but I think it's worth it to try to get those giant moths under my control and I can use them to show the people of Gotham I'm just as much of a threat as guys like the Joker, Scarecrow, and Penguin.", he said. He looked on the ground and noticed that the crystal that had teleported him here was still there. He picked it up, put it in his pocket, and said, "Gonna need this if I'm going to get back home.". He put his helmet back on and began to walk in the direction he saw the creatures fly off and remained unseen by the heroes who were cleaning up the destruction that was caused in Mushroom Village.