Family
Chapter 49 Tension and Discussions
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
A few days after the missile incident Finn decided to go see Simon and tell him about the green flames Pyro had used at the Fire Kingdom. Finn made some calls to Marceline, Lucinda, Django and the Peace Protecters telling them to meet at the Ice Kingdom to discuss all the incidents that had been happening lately. A few hours later Finn and Jake were entering the Ice Kingdom, they made their way to Simon's castle and entered.
The living room had been converted into a meeting room with a bunch of chairs. Simon, Betty, and Phoebe there. Finn looked over at Phoebe who had a depressed look on her face. The young hero went over to his girlfriend and kissed her on the cheek. Phoebe smiled at Finn.
"Everything is going to be alright. Will stop Pyro, Crimson, and anyone else that's working with them." Assured Finn as he sat next to his girlfriend.
"Thanks." Said Phoebe.
The next people to arrive were Huntress Wizard and Tobe. Finn glanced at Simon for an explanation.
"Artemis wants to figure out what's going on and put a stop to it. I invited her and I asked her to track down Tobe and bring him here." Explained Simon.
Finn nodded in understanding. Thirty minutes later the others showed up. The Peace Protecters looked a little beat up especially Drake who had his left arm in a sling. Soon it was time for the meeting to begin. Simon pushed out a rolling board and pulled out some markers, before he began to speak.
"Thank you all for coming. As you all know the land of Ooo has recently been plagued by a series of attacks and incidents caused by a person called Crimson. Crimson first appeared about eight years ago and caused Phoebe to lose control of her powers and nearly destroyed the Candy Kingdom, but Marceline and I managed to prevent that from happening. Though we succeeded in preventing the destruction of the Candy Kingdom, I believe there was an alternative motive. I think Crimson didn't want Phoebe roaming free for some reason." Said Simon.
Phoebe stood up to address everyone.
"I don't know why Crimson tried to get me to destroy the Candy Kingdom or why he had me locked up by Bubblegum. I do know that after I was born, he killed my mother...and he took some of my blood to create Pyro." Said Phoebe.
Simon scratched his beard.
"Well that would explain why I found you in the woods as a baby. Either you escaped somehow or Crimson left you in the woods to die, after he took your blood."
"I tell you what, Pyro is dangerous. He sent Flame King and the Peace Protecters crashing to the ground with some kind of green flames, that totally looked like the Lich's flames." Said Finn.
Simon and Marceline exchanged a look. Simon went to the board and wrote Crimson's name in the center.
"We know that Crimson is a powerful magic user and a skilled fighter. We know that several powerful people are working with him, including a scientist. Crimson seems to be in league with Maja the Sky Witch, Pyro the Flame Prince, Sylvester the Science Cat, Alister the Vampire King, and many others. Over the past few months Crimson has launched several attacks on the Candy Kingdom, Wizard City, the Fire Kingdom, and including my own kingdom." Said Simon as he wrote the other villains names on the board.
"When did that happen?" Asked Jake.
"It happened around the time Betty returned from the dead. We were attacked by a Fruit Witch and a possessed penguin using a demonic wishing eye. Though Crimson wasn't there I had a feeling he was behind the attack." Said Simon.
"Our enemy is a cunning foe. They want to eliminate those they consider a threat to their plans." Said Tobe.
"That's makes sense." Said Gearga.
"Ever sense Phoebe and I started to date, Crimson has been trying to start a war between the Fire Kingdom and the Candy Kingdom." Said Finn.
"Starting a war seems to be Crimson and his allies goal, but the question is why?" Said Betty.
"I guess they're trying to get rid of all the powerful kingdoms in Ooo first, before they come in with whatever army they have and takeover." Said Django.
"That could...be it, but I fear Crimson and his group might be planning something even bigger." Said Simon.
"Man I wish we knew what Crimson looks like behind that mask. If we knew what kind of race he was we could figure out where he is." Said Jake.
"Yeah man. Ever since we took down the Lich, things have just been getting tougher lately." Said Finn.
"Finn...when you said that Pyro used green flames like the Lich, were they exactly like his?" Said Simon.
"Yeah the flames were green and they gave off these wicked evil feelings." Said Finn as he looked at Simon.
A grim expression came onto Simon's face.
"I know...this may sound far fetched everyone, but...what if the Lich is the one behind all of this?"
"What are you talking about Simon? We destroyed the Lich's body and then we kicked it's spirit or whatever out of Bubblegum's body. I'm...pretty sure it's dead." Said Finn looking confused.
"I know it seems like we killed the Lich, but I thought the same thing to after I first fought him and collapsed an entire building on him. The Lich survived and showed up years later and attacked me, Betty, and Marceline." Said Simon.
Betty and Marceline winced at the unpleasant memory.
"So your saying the Lich is still around after that huge fight and his the one behind...all that's been going on lately?" Asked Finn.
"The Lich is possible the strangest and most evil creature I've ever encountered. I've walked this world for over a thousand years and I've encounter all manners of strange beings and creatures, but the Lich is something entirely different. The Lich is a creature, who is shrouded in mystery. We know very little about about him or his abilities, except he wants end all life." Said Simon.
Everyone was silent for several minutes as they digested this information. Finally Finn spoke.
"When we defeated Bella Noche, he mentioned that something about a great darkness coming and annihilating everything, the only being...who has that I can think who possess that kind...of power is the Lich."
"Well we think the Lich is still around, but do we know if...his the one behind all of this?" Asked Jake.
"I honestly don't know." Admitted Simon.
The group stared at one another not sure what to do. Finn shot to his feet with a determined look in his eyes.
"So what if the Lich is still around and his the one behind all this craziness? Will just find and finish him off for good this time around!" Declared Finn.
"The Peace Protecters will aid you." Said Gearga as she and her team stood up.
One by one the others stood up.
"Count me in brow! You have my awesome shapeshifting powers!" Said Jake.
"You have my swords." Said Tobe.
"You have my mystical guitar." Said Django.
"My ax and vampire powers." Said Marceline.
"My hammer and werewolf powers." Said Lucinda.
"My bow." Said Huntress Wizard.
"Our magic, knowledge, and medical skills are with you." Said Simon as he and Betty stood side by side.
"You have my flames Finn and also my love." Said Phoebe as she stood, went over to Finn and kissed him on the cheek.
Finn blushed as most of the others cheered. It was a joyous moment.
However there were some uninvited guest. A few dozen micro mosquito robots had flown into the room and had collected a DNA sample from everyone. They took a bone fragment from Django and a blood sample from everyone else. The mosquitos took the DNA and flew out of the castle.
Hours later the mosquitos arrived at the secret lair and went into Sylvester's lab. The science cat grinned with excitement as the tiny robots land on a DNA machine and deposited the DNA they collected. Sylvester looked at the DNA with interest and then he called upon Shark and Blastronaut. The two of them immediately appeared before him.
"We're going to Alpha Lab 0013. I've already had the Slippy Sam, Hunny Bunny, Bouncy Bee, and Ash transported there." Said Sylvester as he grabbed a container that contained the DNA samples and pressed some buttons on his wrist computer and they all teleported away.
Lab 0013 was the size of a medium size castle located near a desert. The building was dome shaped and was hidden by a cloaking device. Sylvester, Shark, and Blastronaut appeared in a large lab filled with several robots and other machines under construction.
"It's good to be back." Said Sylvester as he took a deep breath.
"Welcome back Sylvester." Said a voice from the shadows.
A short robot with a silver oval shaped body riding on one wheel came forward. The robot had two arms with three fingers, one red eye, a triangular shaped red mouth with white squares inside and an antenna on top of it.
"Hello Ultrabot 2000." Greeted Sylvester.
(Author's Note: that's right folks I brought in Ultrabot 2000 from Dexter's Laboratory. His the first of many Cartoon Networks characters, I'll be bringing into this story.)
"Hello Sylvester, I see that you brought some work with you, might I ask what your currently working on?" Asked Ultrabot.
"Just some DNA samples that I'm going to use to create some interesting creatures. Tell me how are the ones I teleported here earlier doing?" Said Sylvester.
"Three of them have been taking to the cybernetic chamber to be enhanced and the one know as Ash is being injected with nano machines to help his body adjust to the serum injections." Said Ultrabot.
"Good. Now if you excuse me I need to go see my masterpiece." Said Sylvester as he walked away.
Shark and Blastronaut walked away, while Ultrabot followed Sylvester.
"Sir, you've been working on this masterpiece of yours for quit some time, you've never shown anyone what it is and I'm curious as to what it is. You built me and put me in charge of this whole facility, but you forbidden me from entering the room where your keeping the masterpiece. Have I not proven my loyalty and trustworthiness to you sir?" Said Ultrabot.
"Ultrabot you are a unique robot that I have programmed with a free will and an amazing intellect. The reason why I have forbidden you from entering the room where my masterpiece is being kept is for your own good. If I allowed you to enter the room the masterpiece would possible consider you a threat and wipe your circuits out completely and delete your mind. Then I would have to build another robot to run this facility." Said Sylvester as he walked up to a huge door and scanner.
Sylvester put his hand to the scanner and the door opened. The scientist turned back to his creation.
"I'm glad we had this talk. Don't worry you'll meet my masterpiece soon enough."
The doors closed leaving Ultrabot alone. The robot clenched his fist.
"One of these days it will be me giving the orders, you miserable flash sack." Thought Ultrabot as he rolled away.
Sylvester stood in a large room filled with TV screens that displayed tons and tons of data, in the center of the screens there was one screen that had a strange symbol on it. The symbol was a dot surrounded by a circle, that was surrounded by a big circle with three line at the bottom and one line at the top. The symbol resembled an eye.
"Hello Xana, we have many glorious things to do today. We going to master and fuse DNA to create some very special creatures." Said Sylvester as he loaded the DNA into a slot on the machine.
A few words appeared on a nearby screen.
"What is the name of this project?"
"We shall call it Project Destroyer." Said Sylvester.
More words appeared on the screen.
"When this project is over I wish to began creating a project of my own."
"Very well I'll let you create a few robots and send them out to explore the world. Once you have a better understanding of the world you will be able to create something truly special." Said Sylvester.
A single more word appeared on the screen.
"Acceptable."
"Alright let's get started." Said Sylvester as he began to get to work on the computer.
(Author's Note: Yes I did bring Xana from Code Lyoko into this story. After watching a few Avengers 2 trailers I became inspired to throw a couple of robots and an evil AI into this story.)
Days later after the destruction caused to the Candy Kingdom, there was a call to all royals and leaders to meet in Grand Meeting Hall at the center of Ooo. The recent hostile takeover of the Fire Kingdom and the destruction of a part of the Candy Kingdom had really shook things up and people from other kingdoms and villages were demanding to know what was going on.
At Castle Lemongrab, King received a mysterious package and a phone call from the mysterious person that helped him get his kingdom.
"Greetings King of Ooo. As you are well aware there was an incident at the Candy Kingdom that caused a bunch of destruction to the kingdom. Bubblegum will try to use this incident to gain the sympathy if the other kingdoms, she will try to increase her own authority over Ooo, by saying she is a trustworthy person. I've sent you a file with something dangerous Bubblegum kept from the public. With this information at your despoil you will show the people of Ooo how untrustworthily Bubblegum is." Said the voice before the phone call ended.
King opened the file and looked inside. A look of shock appeared on his face, that slowly turned into a grin. King knew what he had to do.
The Grand Meeting Hall was an extremely large building that had once been used as a convention center back in the old days, but now served as a meeting place for all the royals and village leaders to meet. There was a large stage with a screen behind it. Bubblegum stood at a podium facing a massive audience of royals and village leaders. To Bubblegum's right sat Flame King, Phoebe, Simon, Betty, Marceline, Lucinda, and Finn's who new title allowed him to attend the meeting. They were all there to support the candy princess. Bubblegum glanced at the crowd who looked at her. There was a lot of tension in the air. Finally Bubblegum spoke.
"Thank you all for coming. I know that there has never been a gathering of this size in any of our lifetimes. It is truly a sight and I wish circumstances were better for this gathering. Let me begin by saying that yes the Fire Kingdom was taken over by an evil force that has yet to be identified and they did launch attack onto my kingdom causing a massive amount of destruction." Said Bubblegum.
There was muttering and shouting from the crowd, some people were accusing others of attempting to takeover Ooo. Bubblegum tried to get them to calm down, but they wouldn't listen. Finally Flame King took charge.
"SILENCE!" He roared as his flames rose up to the celling.
The crowd immediately went silent. Flame King's flames died down.
"Thank you Flame King. Anyhow there is no need to panic. The Fire Kingdom was taken back thanks to the aid of Finn, Phoebe, and the Peace Protecters. I know it's hard to believe that a kingdom as powerful as the Fire Kingdom was taken over, but it's true. We dealing with an unknown enemy that threatens all of Ooo. We need to unite and work together to combat this evil force." Said Bubblegum.
"Under your rule I suppose?" Said a new voice.
Everybody turned to see King walking up to the stage, with Lemongrab and Cookie behind him.
"What are you doing?" Demanded Bubblegum.
"I'm a royal and I was invited, as to what I'm doing, I'm exposing you my dear." Said King with a smirk as he pulled out a remote and pressed a button.
The room went dark and a image of the Lich in his amber prison appeared on the screen next to a image of the Candy Kingdom. Bubblegum paled as there was a bunch of whispering from the audience.
"People of Ooo, though Princess Bubblegum is a good leader, she is also good at keeping information away from the rest of us. You all remembered the Lich and what a huge threat he was. Billy and the Candy Kingdom defeated and captured him. Then they told us all that the Lich was being kept in a super secure dungeon, but in reality he was being kept in the castle at the Candy Kingdom. Now the question you should be asking yourselves is why would Bubblegum lie to everyone here about the Lich's location, don't we have a right to know we're the most dangerous being in all of Ooo was being kept? I think Bubblegum was keeping the Lich in her castle, so that she could one day use him against all of us!" Said King.
"That's absurd! I would never do anything like that!" Shouted Bubblegum.
"Maybe, but you are indeed one of the smartest beings in Ooo, who's to say you couldn't figure out a way to control the Lich somehow and then you would be tempted by that power and use it for your own selfish desires. The fact is Bubblegum that you lied to everyone here about the Lich, and let's not forget that your were possessed by the Lich for a little bit." Said King as he pressed another button on the remote.
An image of a mutated Bubblegum appeared on the screen. The crowd began to shout and argue.
"Whose to say that your not under the influence of the Lich right now." Said King as he turned to the crowd. "People do you honestly want to follow someone who lied to you and at one point was possessed by the most evil being in our world? If you don't you can join me or go your separate way."
There were many different kind of shouts from the crowd.
"Bubblegum's a liar!"
"Bubblegum is being framed!"
"King is the man we can trust!"
"This is all a scam!"
"Every kingdom for themselves!"
King turned to Bubblegum.
"The people have spoken." He said as he turned to walk away followed by Lemongrab and Cookie who gave Bubblegum a sad glance before walking away.
Fights and arguments broke out among the crowd. Bubblegum and her friends tried to regain order, but it was hopeless. The land of Ooo was greatly divided that day and soon things would fall into chaos.
To be continued.
