Family

Chapter 52 Giant Battle

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.

The Candy Kingdom defenders looked out at the enemy. Grand Master Wizard stared at his granddaughter Maja.

"Maja what kind of unholy terror have you unleashed now?" Demanded GMW.

"Behold grandfather, for I have awaken Darren the Sleeper! With his power by my side I will crush all who dare stand against me!" Laughed Maja.

The Grand Master Wizard and Huntress Wizard's faces paled at this information. Huntress Wizard glared angrily at Maja.

"You done some seriously messed up things in the past cousin, but you must truly be mad if you woke the Sleeper up! He will destroy everything!" Shouted Huntress Wizard.

"That's kind of the whole point, duh!" Said Maja.

"May we commence with the destruction?" Asked Darren.

"Just one thing first. Princess Bubblegum is you surrender your kingdom to use I promise not to gunk it up. So you could either surrender to me or you can all die painfully at Darren's hands, your choice." Said Maja.

Bubblegum appeared on the wall dressed in a pink tank top and blue jeans, she looked at her allies and the giant form of Darren.

"My answer is neither!"

"I was hoping you would say that!" Cheered Darren excitedly.

"Go forth my Gumball Guardians and defend the kingdom!" Ordered Bubblegum.

The two massive guardian robots rose and stepped over the castle wall to face the enemy. Darren just laughed as he raised his staff up high. There was a flash of white light that stuck the Gumball Guardians and they toppled over and laid on the ground. Bubblegum and the other defenders stared at the defeated robots in shock. The Candy Kingdom's strongest defenders had been taken down in mere seconds!

"Do not send mere creatures of metal against me! I demanded warriors of flesh and blood, so I may break their bones, bathe in their blood, and crush their spirits!" Roared Darren.

"I...don't understand. How could the Gumball Guardians be...defeated so quickly?" Said a stunned Bubblegum.

"I...have heard tales of the Sleeper, but I thought they were all...myths and legends. But considering what we just saw, I believe the stories of the Sleeper to be true." Said Gridface Princess.

"According to the legends the Sleeper was once a peaceful giant, until one day he encountered a evil being who tainted the Sleeper with a love for destruction." Said GMW.

"Is there anyway we can stop it?" Asked Phoebe.

"I brought a forcefield projector with me. We can use that to trap Darren and try to come up with a plan to defeat him." Said Gridface Princess.

"Ok we have a plan. Everybody who can fight head outside and help Gridface Princess set up the forcefield, my forces and I will provide cover fire." Said Bubblegum.

"We're on it!" Said Finn as he and the others headed down from the wall.

Stormo can rushing over to Finn and made a caw noise.

"You want to help to Stormo?" Asked Finn.

Stormo nodded his head.

"Good boy." Said Finn with a smile.

Phoebe studied the candy sphinx.

"Who's this?" She asked.

"This is Stirmo, his kind of like my son." Said Finn.

Phoebe starred at Finn in confusion.

"Bubblegum created him from some of my hairs." Explained the hero.

Phoebe nodded in understanding. The defenders headed to the main gate along with a few of Gridface Princess's servants and Root Beer Guy and marched out. Darren grinned down at them.

"At last a few brave warriors have shown up, now I have something worthwhile to destroy!"

"Kill them all!" Laughed Maja.

"Burn them to ashes!" Cheered Laser Wizard.

Bufo and Forest Wizard floated nearby as they stared at Laser Wizard with concern. It seemed that Laser Wizard was growing more bloodthirsty by the day and it made the other two wizards nervous. Bufo and Forest Wizard were concerned with their own safety in the organization. The two of them remembered glimpsing Ash strapped to a table being experimented on by Sylvester and the way Ash screamed sent shivers down the wizards's spines. Now they were going to war with a bunch of heroes things were getting crazy.

Miles away on a hill Pyro and Frost were sitting in a couple of lawn chairs and watching the battle that was about to unfold.

"So how big you think this battle is going to be?" Asked Frost.

"Oh it's going to be huge! Though there is one thing that dose bother me." Said Pyro.

"What's that?" Asked Frost.

"Well one of those defenders just happens to be my sister and I really want her to die by my hands not a giant tree's hands." Said Pyro.

"Why you want her to die by your hands?" Asked Frost.

"I was created from her DNA and I wish to prove that I'm better then the original, I also have some other reasons why I want to kill her." Said Pyro.

"Fair enough." Said Frost as they went back to watching the fight.

The defenders quickly set up a plan to attack Darren. Finn, Jake, Stormo, and Phoebe would keep Darren distracted, while Gridface Princess, her servants, and Root Beer Guy set up the forcefield. GMW, Huntress Wizard, Simon, and Betty would stand by and use their magic to defend the Candy Kingdom.

Finn leaped onto Stormo's back and charged at Darren. The giant saw the young hero charging at him on his stead and swung his staff down intending to crush them. Stormo dodged out of the way and used his psychic powers to levitate a boulder and hurled it at Darren. The tree man easily swatted the boulder away from himself. Darren opened his mouth and a energy began to glow from it, but before he could launch an attack a fireball slammed into, his head making him stop. Darren turned his head to see Phoebe flying by. The giant swung his hand at her, but the fire elemental managed to dodge the swing. Phoebe launched several more fireballs at Darren and hit his head and chest. Though the attacks hit, they seemed to do very little damage to the giant, but they appeared to greatly annoy him. Phoebe continued to fly around and launch her attack, while Stormo ran around on the ground and hurled boulders up at Darren.

Jake ran up to Darren and managed to get the attention of Maja and Laser Wizard.

"I bet you two dorks can't hit me!" Shouted Jake.

Maja and Laser Wizard began to fire lighting and lasers at Jake forcing him to dodge about. The magic dog taunted the magic users as he dodged their attacks making the villains even madder.

It was then that the troops of the Candy Kingdom decided to get involved. Colonel Candy Corn was having some troops load up a bunch of cannons and aimed them at Darren.

"Fire!" Ordered Colonel Candy Corn.

The cannons fired and the cannonballs soared through the air and smashed into Darren with a loud explosion! Darren was lost from view for a few seconds behind a smoke cloud, when it cleared everybody was shocked to see that Darren was still standing and he looked extremely annoyed. The giant let out a bellow and pointed his staff at the Candy Kingdom, but before he could launch an attack a boulder smashed into his chin knocking him back a few steps. Darren let out a growl as he looked down at Finn and Stormo.

"Take that you dork!" Called Finn.

"I will crush your very existence!" Snarled Darren as he stomped his foot down at the heroes.

Stormo quickly dodged out of the way, which seemed to anger Darren even angrier.

Elsewhere Maja and Laser Wizard were still shooting at Jake. Maja glanced to her right and saw Bufo and Forest Wizard just floating and watching.

"You two had better hep us!" She hissed.

Bufo and Forest Wizard were fixing to protest, but Crabbit flew over to them and pecked both of them on the back of the neck really hard forcing them to join in on the attack. Crabbit flew over to Maja's side, while the two wizards flew down towards Jake and fired bubbles and green beams of energy. Jake dodged the attack and knocked the two wizards to the ground with a giant fist. Bufo and Forest Wizard just laid on the ground.

"If we pretend to be unconscious nothing bad will happen to use." Whispered Bufo.

"I'm good with that plan." Whispered Forest Wizard.

"When things quit down, will fly and go someplace faraway from all this craziness." Said Bufo.

"Good with me." Said Forest Wizard.

Finn, Stormo, and Phoebe continued to attack and distract Darren, while Jake continued to dodge and distract Maja and Laser Wizard.

While this was going on Gridface Princess and her team were setting up the machines for the forcefield. They were just about done, when Darren noticed them. The giant turned away from the attacking heroes and faced the princess and her team.

"Trying to catch me off guard? I won't let you!" Shouted Darren as he opened his mouth wide for an attack.

Root Beer Guy quickly took action, he pulled out his candy gun and fired a candy ball at Darren's face. The candy ball struck Darren in the face and got his attention. The giant glared at Root Beer Guy, who shook in fright, but he held his weapon up ready to fight.

"Gridface Princess, hurry and get the forcefield up, I'll try to keep this guy distracted!" Called Root Beer Guy as he ran away from Gridface Princess and fired his weapon at Darren, drawing the giant's attention away from the group.

Gridface Princess went back to working on the machine, while Root Beer Guy and the others kept Darren and the other villains distracted. Root Beer Guy continued to fire his gun until it clipped empty. The candy officer looked at his now empty weapon and gulped. Darren looked down at the helpless candy and grinned evilly as he opened his mouth up for an energy attack. The other heroes tried to rush to Root Beer Guy's aid, but Darren swung his staff creating a massive gust of wind that sent them all flying back. Darren turned his attention back to Root Beer Guy and was fixing to finish him off. The candy officer closed his eyes and waited for the end. Darren fired a beam of energy from his mouth and just when it was about to hit Root Beer Guy a hole in the ground suddenly opened up behind him and two skeleton hands shot out and grabbed the back of Root Beer Guy's legs and dragged him into the hole. The energy beam stuck the ground, where Root Beer Guy had stood a few seconds ago scorching the earth. It seemed that Darren had annihilated the candy officer.

"Ha! The first kill of the day!" Laughed Darren in victory.

"Wrong!" Called a voice that seemed to be coming from underground.

Darren looked at the ground before him in confusion, suddenly the ground burst open and out flew Django! The undead musician pointed his mystic guitar at a shocked Darren and fired, hitting him in the mouth and making him shout in pain and surprise.

"You will do no killing, while I'm around." Said Django.

Root Beer Guy, suddenly popped out of the hole Django had come out of looking a little dazed, but unhurt. Gridface Princess finished working on her forcefield and called out to the others.

"It's ready!" She called out.

Finn, Stormo, and Phoebe quickly got away from Darren, as Jake used his stretching powers to knock Maja, Crabbit, and Laser Wizard next to Darren. Gridface Princess activated her machine and a orange pyramid shaped forcefield Rose out of the machines and surrounded the four villains.

"What the Glob is this?" Shouted Maja angrily as she blasted the forcefield with a blast of lighting.

"No prison can contain me!" Roared Darren as he slammed his staff into one of the forcefield walls.

Laser Wizard joined in on blasting the forcefield, while Crabbit transformed into his humanoid form and slammed his fist into the forcefield. Despite the beating it was getting the forcefield held strong. The defenders cheered as they were joined by Django. Marceline and Lucinda suddenly dropped in from the sky looking around.

"Did we miss the party?" Asked Lucinda.

"How de you guys get here?" Asked Jake.

"Oh Django saw that big guy over there marching towards the Candy Kingdom and figured it was something bad, so he called us on our phone and told us to come." Explained Marceline.

"Well we only trapped the invaders, but my forcefield won't hold them for long. We're going to need to come up with plan of attack." Said Gridface Princess.

"We got your plan of attack right here." Said Marceline and she and Lucinda hefted their weapons ready to fight.

"We just got to keep fighting, until we wear that giant dude out or figure out his weakness." Said Finn.

"Makes sense to me." Said Phoebe.

Gridface Princess, Root Beer Guy, and the servants went back to the Candy Kingdom, to help Bubblegum come up with a plan. On the castle wall, Crimson watched the battle in his butler disguise. The battle had settled down, but was far from over.

On the hill Pyro and Frost watched as Darren and the other trapped villains banged on the forcefield.

"You want to break them out and join in on the fun?" Asked Frost.

"Nah. This is Maja's plan. I'm sure she'll breakout on her own or some reinforcements from the organization will show up to help her out. Besides I want to wait for the rest of our team to be ready, before we attack my weak sister and her loser friends." Said Pyro.

Frost nodded as they continued to watch the villains try to breakout.

Miles away at the lair, Sylvester watched the battle on one of his monitors. It looked it was time to send some backup for Maja. The scientist went to his lab, where he was currently keeping Susan, Lighting, Hydro, and Ash. Susan, Lighting, and Hydro we're currently in sleep mode, while Ash was chained to a wall. The wizard's body was sixteen feet tall covered in muscles and scars, at the sight of Sylvester, Ash made a crazed animal scream of fear as he desperately pulled at the chains. The scientist just let out a cold laugh.

"Relax Ash, I'm not going to experiment on." Said Sylvester.

Ash seemed to relax at this news.

"I have a job for you and if you succeed I'll set you free and restore you to normal." Said Sylvester as he pushed a button that released Ash. "Your going to the Candy Kingdom to help some of my comrades out. Your going to help kill the people defending the castle, but if you fail you will be severely punished. Do you understand?"

Ash nodded his head.

"Good." Said Sylvester as he went over to Susan, Lightning and Hydro.

The scientist strapped a strange metal device with a tiny screen at the front onto the three mind controlled warriors before waking them up. Sylvester then walked over to a machine a pressed a button opening up a portal.

"Now go forth and aid the others in destroying the Candy Kingdom!" Ordered Sylvester.

The warriors raced through the portal and vanished. Sylvester went back to the monitoring room to watch the fight.

Back at the fight the villains were still trying to breakout of the forcefield, but we're having very little success. Darren decided to change strategy and raised his staff up high and began shouting.

"I call forth the Legion of Cadmus, the Dragon's Teeth!"

The sky grew dark with thunder clouds. Everybody starred up at the clouds wounding what was going to rain down, suddenly a bunch of seven foot tall eggs began raining down from the sky and landing near the forcefield. A few seconds after the eggs landed they began to hatch. Ten foot tall humanoid pink creatures known as spartoi hatched out the eggs and raced towards the forcefield planning to destroy the machines projecting it.

"Oh man that giant can use magic to summon a bunch of pink muscle men!" Shouted Jake.

"Relax man we can take them." Said Finn as he hopped off of Stormo to fight the rushing enemy.

"Yeah they're aren't that many of them, we can totally handle these guys!" Said Marceline as she charged forward swinging her ax.

Marceline chopped the head off a charging spartoi, but instead of falling over and dying the headless creature punched Marceline in the gut sending her flying a few yards back. The spartoi then reached down and put it's head back on, before continuing to charge forward.

"That is creepy!" Said Jake with his eyes wide in fright.

"Yeah these guys might be tougher then we thought." Said Marceline as she rubbed her bruised chest.

"Let me try something." Said Phoebe as she flew towards the enemy and began blasting one of the spartoi with a concentrated blast if fire.

The spartoi let out a roar of pain as the fire hit him. The monster headed towards Phoebe and attempted to stop her, but the fire attack was taking it's toll. The spartoi' skin turned a crispy black before collapsing to the ground. A few seconds later the monster's body crumbled into a pile of ash. Phoebe smirked with triumph as she turned to her friends.

"We need to completely destroy the bodies!" She called.

"Alright we know how to beat them now. Why to go Phoebe!" Cheered Finn.

"Thanks!" Called Phoebe with a smile.

Finn turned to the others.

"Ok here's the plan. We hack the monster's bodies up and then we let Phoebe and Django blast the pieces."

"Sounds good to me." Said Django as he readied his mystic guitar.

The defenders charged forward swing their weapons at the spartoi slicing them to bits. A few of the monster managed to get by the defenders and raced towards the machine, but a blast from the Candy Kingdom's cannons blew them to bits. Another few monsters managed to get by the defenders and race towards the machine. Colonel Candy Corn watched them and turned to his gunners, who were just standing by the cannons looking nervous and confused.

"What are you lot doing? Fire the cannons!" Shouted Colonel Candy Corn.

"We're out of ammo sir!" Cried the gunner.

"That's nonsense solider! We still have plenty of ammo right here." Declared Colonel Candy Corn.

The candy officer pulled out his saber and loaded himself into one of the cannons. The gunners stared at the colonel in shock at the absurd thing he was about to do. A few of the more crazier gunners pulled out their own swords and loaded themselves into the cannons.

"This is how you defend your kingdom you whips!" Shouted Colonel Candy Corn as he fired the cannon and sent himself flying to join the battle.

The gunners who had loaded themselves into the cannons fired a few seconds after the colonel. At the battlegrounds one of the spartoi was fixing to smash the forcefield machine, when it heard someone shouting from behind. The monster turned around just in time to see Colonel Candy Corn flying at him swinging his sword. The blow chopped the monster's head off. Colonel Candy Corn landed in a roll and then in a crouch position. The headless monster then tried to attack the candy officer with a lunge, but Colonel Candy Corn dodged out of the way and sliced the monster's legs off.

"Victory!" Cheered Colonel Candy Corn.

As soon as the colonel said that a blast of electricity shot the machine and the forcefield went down! The candy officer turned to see Susan, Ash, Lighting, and Hydro charging into the battlefield.

"Well that ain't good." Muttered Colonel Candy Corn.

The gunners who had fired themselves out of the cannons then crashed to the ground near Colonel Candy Corn moaning.

"That...was a bad idea." Moaned one of the gunners.

"I think I'll just walk to the battlefield instead of firing myself out of a cannon." Moaned another gunner.

Darren rose up and glanced down at the moaning gunners. The giant fired a blast at them they and quickly put them out of their misery.

"Noooo! They were so young! I'll shall avenge them!" Shouted Colonel Candy Corn as he angrily charged at Darren.

The giant just laughed and waved his staff creating a gust of wind that sent the candy officer flying and crashing a few hundred yards away. The colonel was unconscious. Darren then turned his attention back to the Candy Kingdom and marched towards it followed by Maja, Crabbit, and Laser Wizard.

The other heroes were finishing off the remaining spartoi and were fixing to go after Darren, when a blast of water knocked Phoebe to the ground. Finn and the others turned to see Ash, Susan, Lighting, and Hydro racing towards them.

"Oh nuts! More of them!" Said Finn.

Marceline studied the thing that had once been Ash with horror and pity.

"Ash...what have they done to you?" Said Marceline.

"Made...me into a monster. Promised to change...me back if I help destroy defenders and...Candy Kingdom." Growled Ash in a straggled voice.

"Sorry pal can't let you do that." Said Lucinda as he took up a fighting stance.

"I crush you all!" Roared Ash as he charged forward.

Ash slammed a fist into Marceline sending her flying a crashing a few yards away. Lucinda let out an animal like snarl as she leaped at Ash's exposed back, at the last second Ash swirled around and slammed Lucinda into the ground. The mutated wizard raised his fist prepared to bring it crashing down on Lucinda, but Marcline came flying in with a kick to the side knocking Ash away. Marceline then followed through with several punches to Ash's chest, after a few seconds the mutated wizard shot his hands out and caught both of Marceline's fist in his massive hands. Ash let out a cruel chuckle as he began to squeeze the vampire's hands. Marceline screamed in pain as she fell to her knees.

"I'm stronger then you! How's it feel to be the weak one now?" Laughed Ash.

"Let her go!" Roared Lucinda as she came flying in swinging her war hammer.

The blow caught Ash in the side of the head, making him release Marceline and sent him flying away to crash on the ground. Lucinda bent down to help Marceline up. Ash then stomped back up to his feet and glared murderously at the two cousins. He was fixing to charge at them, when Django suddenly steeped and stood in front of Ash. The undead musicians eyes glowing a fiery intense red.

"I won't stand for a man hitting a women. Marceline. Lucinda. You two rest. I'm teach this brute a little lesson." Said Django as he strapped his guitar to his back and faced the mutant wizard.

Marceline and Lucinda starred at Django in awe, they had never seen their undead friend so tense. Ash just laughed.

"You teach me a lesson? Your nothing but a bone head! I'll crush like a twig!" Said Ash as he charged forward slamming a fist down at Django.

Django dodged the blow and leaped up at Ash's face. The mutated wizard's eyes widened in shock as Django's glowing red eyes glared right at him. Django slammed his right fist into Ash's face! There was a loud popping sound as Ash's nose broke and blood rushed out of it! Ash screamed in pain and he angrily swung a fist at Django, but the undead musician dodged as he landed on the ground to deliver a powerful kick to Ash's shin. The wizard roared in pain as he fell onto his back clutching his leg. Django just stood there and watched. Ash stumbled to his feet and charged full force at Django.

"I'll rip you apart!" Roared Ash as he unleashed a fury of punches.

Django just simply dodged the punches with ease. Marceline and Lucinda just watched the fight in awe as Django dodged all the attacks gracefully. No matter how hard or fast Ash attacked Django, the undead musician would always seem to be out of the mutant wizard's grasp.

"His a leaf." Said Lucinda.

"What?" Asked Marceline.

"Django is a skeleton, so his incredibly light and that makes him incredibly agile. The force of Ash's blows are creating gust of wind that are allowing Django to dodge his attacks with ease. Django is dancing like a leaf." Said Lucinda.

"Awesome." Said Marceline with awe.

As Ash continued to try and hit Django, the musician would shot his claw hands out and strike the scars on Ash's body causing them to open up and bleed, but instead of normal blood coming out, a neon green substance came out. After a while the bleeding wounds started to take their tolls. Ash started to breath hard and become exhausted. Django decided to finish the fight and delivered a couple of powerful punches to Ash's chest knocking the wind out of him and caused him to fall to his knees.

Marceline and Lucinda walked over and stood next to Django as they looked down at the defeated Ash. The wizard looked up at the three musicians, with a pleading look in his eyes.

"Pleas finish...me off. I don't...want to live like this anymore." Said Ash.

"We don't kill people." Said Marceline.

"Do...I look like a normal person now! I'm a monster! A freak! If you don't finish me off the people who did this to...me will torture and punish me! I can't take anymore...of that!" Cried Ash before he burst into a coughing fit spitting out the strange green liquid.

Django studied Ash.

"Whatever those people did to Ash is killing him. He doesn't have that much time left. It's your call." Said Django as he glanced at Marceline.

The vampire starred at her ex boyfriend. She hated him for what he did, but just seeing him now in this pitiful state was saddening. Marceline sighed as she walked over to Ash with her as in hand. The vampire swung the ax and stabbed it into Ash's chest. Ash let out a groan as the ax struck his heart.

"Thanks Marcy...and I'm sorry for all that stuff...I did. You...were the best girlfriend...I ever had...and I Globed it all up." Whispered Ash.

"It's...ok you were...an ok...boyfriend for...the most part...now just sleep...ok." Said Marceline trying not to burst into tears.

"Thank...you." Said Ash as the life left his eyes.

Marceline pulled her ax out of Ash's chest as she starred at the ground in silence. The moment didn't last long, as Ash's eyes flashed bright neon green and he let out a twisted roar and sprang at Marceline! The vampire's eyes widened in shock as the caracas of her ex boyfriend closed in on her. Lucinda stepped in and swung her hammer striking the undead creature in the chest sending in flying back. The thing that had once been Ash let out an animalistic howl and charged at them.

"What's his deal?! I though he was dead!" Shouted Marceline as she and Lucinda flew back to put some distance between the crazed undead Ash.

Django leaped in front of the girls and pointed his guitar at the charging enemy.

"Ash is indeed dead, his soul is no longer in that body, but now something unholy and evil is controlling it!" Shouted Django as he unleashed a mighty energy blast at Ash's body.

The beam hit and the undead creature let out a roar of pain as it's body was engulfed by the attack. After a few seconds Django stopped the attack. All the flesh and muscle had been ripped from Ash's body leaving nothing, but a charred skeleton with glowing green eyes. The skeleton's teeth clattered as it shuffled towards the group. Django turned his guitar into a scythe and chopped the creature's head off. The body collapsed and the head rolled over to stop at Marceline's feet. The skull open and closed it's mouth as it starred up at Marceline. The vampire stood the head up with her boot then brought her ax down on it cutting it in two. The green lights in the skull's eyes went out as the halves fell to the ground.

"It's over." Said Marceline.

"Now let's deal with that giant." Said Django.

The cousins nodded as they raced off towards Darren, who was currently fighting Simon and the second group of defenders.

Bubblegum stood on the castle wall as she watched Darren engage Simon and the other wizards. The wizard's were firing blast of magic at Darren, while Simon and Betty began to freeze him from the ground up. Maja and Laser Wizard tried to fire their own magic at the defenders, but Huntress Wizard was keeping them distracted with her arrows. Bubblegum then glanced over and saw Marceline, Django, and Lucinda charging to join in on the fight, but where were Finn and the others? Bubblegum glanced off in the distance and saw the other heroes defending themselves against Susan, Lighting, and Hydro. The candy ruler had learned from her friends that the human and mutants were being mind controlled by cybernetic implants. Bubblegum saw that the heroes were reluctant to defend themselves and she couldn't blame them, after all their attackers were not in control of their actions. Bubblegum knew what she had to do, she grabbed a laptop computer with some special modifications and summoned her swan to carry her over to Finn and the others.

The swan flew towards the heroes, while Bubblegum worked on her laptop. Down below Finn, was dodging electricity blast from Lighting and Jake was dodging water blast from Hydro. Behind the two heroes was Stormo carrying the weakened form of Phoebe. Finn had loaded the injured fire elemental onto Stormo's back to protect her. The hero had asked the candy Sphinx to use his mental powers to try and knock the enemies out, but what ever was controlling them, was also protecting them from Stormo's powers. Finn was trying to figure out a new plan of attack, when Susan came charging at him swinging a fist. The young hero dodged out of the way barely avoiding the attack. Finn stood up and faced the larger human.

"I don't want to fight you Susan!" Shouted Finn.

Susan's response was to charge forward again and throw another punch forcing Finn to dodge again. Up above Bubblegum had used her laptop to hack into the cybernetic implants, using all her skills she managed to power them down. On the ground below Stormo tried to launch another mental attack and to his surprise he found the minds no longer protected. With a wave of mental energy Stormo knocked out Susan, Lighting, and Hydro. Finn starred down at the unconscious enemy in confusion. The little screen on the strange metal devices suddenly lit up displaying a timer that began to count down. The young hero sensed that wasn't a good sign. Bubblegum landed her swan near the group and hopped off.

"I managed to hack their cybernetic implants and lower their protective mental field." Said Bubblegum as she looked down at the unconscious human and mutants.

"That's good, but I think we have another problem." Said Finn as he pointed at the devices strapped to the three unconscious figures.

"Oh my Glob its some kind of bomb! It must have been triggered by us defeating the enemy." Said Bubblegum as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a screwdriver and some wire cutters.

Bubblegum managed to open the device on Susan's chest and began to look through it.

"Can't we simply take it off?" Asked Jake.

"It might be rigged to go off if we try to take it off. Let me check to see how it works." Said Bubblegum as she went through the wires and clipped a few.

Bubblegum removed the device from Susan and then went about removing the devices from Lighting and Hydro.

"I've managed to remove the bombs, but they could still go off." Said Bubblegum.

"Then let's use them against Darren." Said Finn.

"I guess, I'll take them. I can easily throw them away incase things get hairy." Said Jake as he took the bombs.

"I'll look after these three and I'll send word for my troops to come pick us up." Said Bubblegum.

"Alright sounds good." Said Finn as he turned to Phoebe. "You ok to fight?"

"I'm good." Said Phoebe as her flames lit up and she flew up into the air.

The heroes then raced off towards Darren, as Bubblegum looked after the unconscious forms of Susan, Lightning, and Hydro. Colonel Candy Corn came to and stumbled over to the princess's side to look after her.

At the secret lair, Sylvester starred at the monitor slightly annoyed, he had just lost three of his minions and one test subject. They were gone now, but a least he got some interesting data from the whole event. The scientist continued to watch the monitor.

On the battlefield Simon and Betty were freezing small sections of Darren's body, while the Grand Master Wizard and a few Wizard Police blasted Darren with magic and kept him busy. Huntress Wizard was engaged in a battle with Maja and Laser Wizard.

The Huntress Wizard fired a arrow at Laser Wizard, who fired a laser blast at it. The arrow exploded into a white smoke cloud blinding the evil wizard. The good wizard fired another arrow that turned into a bunch of chains that wrapped around Laser Wizard knocking him to the ground. Maja shouted angrily at Huntress Wizard and fired several more lighting blast at her forcing the good wizard to dodge about. Huntress Wizard fired a few arrows at Maja, but she knocked them out of the air with a blast of wind. While this was going on Crabbit in his humanoid form snuck up behind and attempted to grab Huntress Wizard. Betty saw this and told Simon. The ice wizard told Betty to go help saying he could handle Darren. Betty flew forward and fired a basketball size piece of ice at Crabbit hitting him in the head and knocking him out. Maja spun to face Betty.

"You and I have unfused business thief!" Snarled Maja as she fired a powerful blast of lighting at Betty.

Betty countered with her own lighting and the two of them were locked together in a power struggle. Maja slowly began to push Betty's attack back, but then Huntress Wizard fired an arrow that struck Maja's shoulder making her shout in pain and lose contraction. Betty's lighting slammed into Maja knocking her to the ground. The sky witch staggered to her feet as she glared at the two heroes clutching her wounded shoulder.

"This isn't over! You haven't beaten me and the Sleeper will destroy you all!" Snarled Maja as she took flight and hovered next to Darren.

Darren was growing tired with the wizard's attacks, he released an energy wave that knocked down GMW, Huntress Wizard, Betty, and the Wizard Police. The giant grinned in triumph as he moved closer to the Candy Kingdom, when Simon flew in front of him.

"You shall not pass!" Shouted Simon as he unleashed a powerful burst of mystical lighting that slammed into Darren's chest.

Darren shouted in pain as he was knocked back, he looked down at the large scorch mark on his chest and let out a snarl. Before he could retaliate, Marceline, Lucinda, and Django leaped in and attacked. The two cousins slammed their weapons onto the scorch mark, while Django fired a blast from his guitar. Darren snarled angrily as he swung his right arm hitting the three attackers and knocking them to the ground. The giant turned to Simon and fired a mouth blast at him. The wizard dodged the blast and landed on the ground to face Darren. The Sleeper swung his staff down at Simon, who quickly created a sphere of ice to protect himself. The blow bounced off the sphere angering Darren.

Finn was riding Stormo, when he saw Darren preparing for another swing.

"Send me flying Stormo!" Shouted Finn.

Stormo grabbed Finn with his mental powers and hurled him at Darren. Finn landed onto Darren's left arm and stabbed his sword into it. Darren cursed and shot his right hand to his left arm grabbing Finn. The giant glared at the young hero and tossed him at the ground. Simon saw this and quickly melted the ice sphere and created a pile of snow for Finn to land on. Finn landed on the snow with a thud groaning. Darren saw that Simon, was no longer protected by his ice sphere and swung his staff creating a gust of wind that slammed into the ice wizard and knocked him to the ground. The Sleeper then turned his attention to Finn.

"Rest easy child, for I will make your death swift!" Shouted Darren as he raised his staff up high to crush the human.

"Finn!" Cried Phoebe in fear.

The fire elemental glared at Darren and felt her anger begin to rise up. A massive wave of fire exited the young princess's body and began to take shape around her. In a few seconds the flames had shaped themselves into a giant fiery being. The fiery being flew at Darren swinging a flaming hand. The Sleeper saw the blow coming and tried to dodge out of the way. The blow missed Darren's main body, but it succeeded in cutting off his right arm off at the elbow.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Roared Darren in pain as he staggered back.

Everybody stared at the fiery giant in amazement. Bubblegum starred at the fiery giant in shock an image of the fiery being flashed through her mind and she let out a small gasp. Could this be a sign of a fiery doom for Ooo?

Miles away on a hill Pyro and Frost starred at the transformed Phoebe.

"Can you do that?" Asked Frost.

"No..but I'm going to figure out how to do it. I will not be surpassed by my weakling sister." Said Pyro as he clenched his fist.

The fiery giant looked down at Finn. The young hero looked up at his savior.

"Are you alright?" Asked the giant in Phoebe's voice.

"I am. Thanks to you. Is...that you Phoebe?" Said Finn.

"It is." Said Phoebe.

"You look awesome." Said Finn with a smile.

Phoebe smiled back as she turned to face Darren, who had recovered.

"I must admit, I didn't expect to encounter a warrior like you in this time. Your a special kind of fire elemental and that the fact that your here proves I've been asleep for a long time." Said Darren.

"What are you talking about?" Demanded Phoebe.

"Your people are far older then you think. Along time ago the Goddess of stars and light created your people and she would give her blessings to one fire elemental every one million years." Said Darren.

"So...I'm special and I have the blessings of a Goddess?" Asked Phoebe.

"You do, but it won't matter, your far to young and inexperienced to use your powers and I will kill you here and now!" Said Darren as he opened his mouth and unleashed a powerful mouth blast.

Phoebe countered with a blast of fire and the two of them were locked in a power struggle. Slowly Darren began to push Phoebe's energy back. Phoebe strained, but she couldn't push the Sleeper's energy back. Darren just laughed.

"I will extinguish you before you ignite your potential!" Said Darren as he continued to fire his mouth blast.

Finn felt his fist clenched in anger as he ran towards Darren and began to scale him. The young hero reached Darren's shoulder and charged towards his head shouting a battle cry. Finn jumped up and stabbed his sword into Darren's left eye! Darren shouted in pain as he shook his head around desperately trying to dislodge the hero. This distracted the Sleeper and allowed Phoebe to fire a fire blast into Darren's left shoulder burning a hole though it. Darren collapsed to his left knee as Finn yanked his sword out and fell into the snow that Simon had created earlier.

Maja starred at the beaten form of Darren in shock. This wasn't possible! She was supposed to win!

Phoebe flames shrunk down and she returned to her normal size and shape. Finn walked over to her and the fire elemental collapsed into his arms.

"Are you ok?" He asked.

"I'm...ok..just a little dizzy. Guess that power takes a lot out of me." Said Phoebe.

"You were awesome." Said Finn with a smile.

"We were both awesome." Said Phoebe as the two of them shared a kiss.

The tender moment was ruined by a growl from Darren. The giant staggered to his feet.

"I will not stand for this! I will not be beaten!" He roared.

"Hey special delivery!" Shouted Jake as he hurled the bombs he had been carrying at Darren.

Darren turned around just in time for the bombs to explode in his face knocking him to his knees. Maja was absolutely shocked and furious! Her victory had been taken away just when she was about to get it. The sky witch heard a tiny ringing sound and pulled out her communication crystal. A holographic image of Crimson appeared.

"I'm ordering you and what's left of your forces to retreat." Said Crimson.

"Yes sir." Said Maja in defeat as she pulled out a containment crystal and pointed it at Darren. "Come along Darren, will live to fight another day. Will get revenge for this I promise."

Darren nodded as his body was bathed in green light and he was teleported into the crystal. Maja then used her powers to teleport herself, Laser Wizard, and Crabbjt back to the secret lair.

A few miles away Bufo and Forest Wizard starred sadly at the burned remains of Ash. The two wizards then turned around and headed into the woods planning to go into hiding.

At the Candy Kingdom, the citizens had come out cheering as they lifted Finn and Phoebe over their heads declaring them the heroes of the day. There was also praise for the other defenders. The unconscious forms of Susan, Lighting, and Hydro were taken to the hospital.

Bubblegum watched as Finn and Phoebe were being carried around by a bunch of cheering Candy People. The candy princess starred at Phoebe for a little bit wondering if the dream she had about the giant fiery figure was just a coincidence or a possible vision of the future. Whatever it was the thought unnerve her.

Crimson watched Bubblegum with interest. He could tell that the princess was paranoid and that pleased him. Bubblegum would be incredibly easy to manipulate in the future if she was paranoid, after all it was paranoid leaders who made the biggest mistakes.

Crimson chuckled as he walked away. Let the heroes celebrate their victory, soon things would change and the universe would suffer.

To be continued.