Family
Chapter 81 Getting Out
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
After the defeat of Alister and Don John things greatly calmed down in Ooo. Marceline felt like a huge weight had been lifted from her shoulders and she seemed much happier now that her most hated enemy was dead. One day Marceline decided to go visit the Candy Kingdom and to hang with Bubblegum. A guard told Marceline that Bubblegum was in her lab. The vampire flew down to the lower levels of the castle and entered a room with dim lighting. Marceline looked around and saw various machines and lab equipment laying about. Then she saw a figure with a lab coat sitting in a chair laying on top of a work table with a candy corn mouse sitting in a small cage. The figure laying on the desk was Bubblegum.
"Bonnibel...you ok?" Asked Marceline as she tapped the candy princess on the shoulder.
"Huh...? What...?" Said Bubblegum as her head shot up looking confused.
"Hey." Said Marceline getting Bubblegum's attention.
"Oh...hey Marceline I was just working on some ways to improve...the Candy Kingdom and its military defenses." Said Bubblegum with a yawn.
Marceline took a close at Bubblegum and saw that the normally clean and organized princess was a wreck. Bubblegum had bags under her eyes, her hair was a untidy mess, the lab coat had coffee stains on it, and Bubblegum smelled like she hadn't bathed or brush her teeth in awhile.
"How long have you been down here?" Asked Marceline.
"Oh...um...about two weeks." Said Bubblegum.
"Two weeks! Seriously Bonnibel you've been down here all alone working on a bunch of stuff with very little sleep for two whole weeks." Said Marceline looking at Bubblegum with disbelief.
"I wasn't alone. The servants dropped by to give me food and I had my pet Science keeping me company." Said Bubblegum as she indicated the candy corn mouse.
"That's not the point Bubblegum. Yore worrying to much about your kingdom and its zapping the life out of you! Remember the last time you spent several days without sleep working on a science project and it turned out to be disastrous?" Said Marceline.
"Which...project are you referring to?" Asked Bubblegum.
"Goliad. You were so concerned about creating an heir that you got very little sleep and rushed forward with your project. I never met Goliad, but I know from Finn and Jake, she turned out bad and tried to takeover your kingdom. The point I'm trying to make is that you need to take breaks and relax a little from your lab work and your princess duties." Said Marceline.
"I can't...take a break...I have to many responsibilities!" Argued Bubblegum.
"Bonnibel what your doing right now is irresponsible. Your exhausting yourself and the next big project you launch could turn out to be disastrous, with your mind exhausted and all. You need to take a break and relax." Said Marceline.
"What...your saying is logical." Said Bubblegum.
"It is. Look Bonnible, I'm your friend and I care about you. So right now you need to clean up and get some sleep. Then after you rest I want you to join me, my cousin, and LSP for a little date night." Said Marceline.
"Date night?! But Marceline...I don't have a boyfriend or a date!" Sputtered a freaked out Bubblegum.
"Relax, I'll find you one. Look you don't have to be to into the guy or kiss him, you just need to get out and have a little fun. It'll be good for you." Said Marceline.
"Alright I'll do it." Said Bubblegum.
"Awesome." Said Marceline.
Bubblegum was taken to her room and Marceline asked Peppermint Butler for all the information on all the single guys in the Candy Kingdom. Thirty minutes later Marceline was sitting outside a coffee shop with Lucinda and LSP looking at all the pictures of all the single guys, but they weren't having to much. LSP was usually the one who shot each of the boyfriend candidates down by their looks.
"To fat!"
"To skinny!"
"To short!"
"To tall!"
"To hairy!"
"To old!"
"To young!"
"To sweet!"
"To sour!"
A pile of discarded pictures sat next to LSP as the other girls went through the photos. After a few more minutes of searching Marceline found a picture that caught her interest. The vampire showed the picture to Lucinda and they both studied it.
"This guy could work." Said Lucinda.
"Let me see!" Said LSP as she grabbed the picture from Lucinda to look at it.
The picture showed a candy person with light yellow skin and light brown hair with sugar cubes in it, wearing a yellow t-shirt with a slight, thin line down the middle, brown pants, and black boots.
"His kinda cute, his certainly better then these other losers." Said LSP as she handed the picture to Marceline.
"This guy is named Braco and he doesn't live to faraway. Let's see if his interested." Said Marceline.
The three of them traveled towards the small house Braco lived and knocked at his door. The candy man opened his door and looked at the three girls in confusion.
"Can I help you ladies with something?"
"Actually you can. Can we talk inside?" Said Lucinda.
"Of course." Said Braco.
The girls entered the house. Braco's living room was decorated with old furniture and a few portraits that showed schematics of buildings, rocket ships, and other machines. Marceline and Lucinda exchanged a look and smiled. LSP just looked board. Braco faced his guest.
"So what do you need my help with?"
"Do you like machines Braco?" Asked Marceline.
"I do indeed mam. My grandfather was an engineer, who helped build the Candy Kingdom Railway and my father was an accurate. I'm a bit of a tinkerer myself." Said Braco with a smile.
"Nerd!" Coughed LSP.
Marceline slapped LSP in the back of the head making the purple princess yelp in pain. Lucinda shot LSP a glare before turning back to Braco.
"Well Braco, allow me to introduce ourselves. I'm Lucinda, that's my cousin Marceline, and that is Lumpy Space Princess." Said Lucinda as she introduced herself and the others.
"We're good friends of Princess Bubblegum and we were wondering if you would like to be Bubblegum's date for a little date night we have planned." Said Marceline.
"Your...asking me to be Bubblegum's date? I'd be honored to do that!" Said Braco said excitedly.
"That's great! Now you don't need to bring any gifts or anything and you can wear what your wearing now." Said Marceline.
"Alright." Said Braco.
"Just meet us at the Candy Kingdom castle in two days." Said Lucinda.
"I will and thank you for inviting me." Said Braco.
The girls left the house, while Braco giddily daydreamed about going on a date with Bubblegum. Two days later Marceline, Lucinda, LSP, Lance, Henry, and Braco were waiting outside the Candy Kingdom castle. The only people who were missing were Bubblegum and LSP's boyfriend Brad who was going to provide transport for the group.
"Brad's being annoying by trying to be like fashionably late!" Complained LSP.
The others looked at LSP. Most of the group except Braco knew that LSP had an odd relationship with her boyfriend. The two had broken up and then got back together nearly a hundred times. No one knew why the relationship was crazy and unstable. Finally Lucinda decided to ask LSP about her boyfriend.
"Hey LSP, you never told use why you broke up with Brad in the first place."
"Well...it's like this, we were totally solid with one another and things were going good, until Brad decided he wanted to...take things to the next level and he kissed me...on my lumpy lips! I totally wasn't ready for that, he never discussed it with me and he just lumpy did it! It's like he didn't lumpy care about what I thought! And ever sense that little lip action things...have never been the same between us." Explained LSP.
The others exchanged looks not sure what to really make of this information. At that moment everybody heard a honk from the sky and everyone turned to see a large blue lumpy cloud with wheels float down from the sky and land in front of the. The driver was none other then Brad. Brad was teal colored and roughly the same size as LSP. He was relatively smooth for a Lumpy Space Person as well, having only a few lumps on the back of his head and very small lumps under his arms.
"Hey." Greeted Brad with a board expression on his face.
"Ug there you go again Brad!" Screamed LSP as she stormed off into the courtyard leaving.
"Not again." Grumbled Brad as he kicked the dirt on the ground.
"Is she going to be ok?" Asked Lance.
"Yeah...just give her a few minutes and she'll calm down and be right back." Said Brad.
"I can't help, but notice that you don't seem to float like other Lumpy Space People." Pointed out Braco.
"It's because...I have emotional baggage weighing me down. LSP really knows how to lay it on a guy." Said Brad.
"What do you mean?" Asked Henry.
"Back, when we were solid, LSP talked about how we should take our relationship to the next level, she was so sure that we were ready and so I kissed her on the lips. LSP totally went nuts and said she wasn't ready. I told she told me she was ready and then LSP went on saying I was completely insensitive and I missed the whole point and she kept going and on. Her words weighed me down and I couldn't float anymore. We broke up then we got together several times. Now I'm hoping will either breakup again for good or will actual patch things up this time around." Said Brad.
Before anyone could say anything, Bubblegum came out of the castle wearing jeans and a pink long sleeved shirt.
"Hey everyone I'm ready to date guys and stuff!" Said the candy princess cheerfully.
Marceline starred at Bubblegum curiously and then glanced at Lance.
"I think the Bubblegum needs a little shock." Said Marceline.
Lance replied by raising his right hand and shooting a tiny burst of electricity at Bubblegum. The princess shook and sparked a little as her left eye became dull and her arms and legs twitched. Then Bubblegum broke out into a crazy dance and started speaking crazy.
"Stuff and guys date to ready...I'm everyone hey! Chaco Taco Tuesday! 000001110110011! Error! Error!" Sputtered Bubblegum before she fell face first into the ground and stopped moving.
Braco and the others starred down at Bubblegum, who turned out to be a robot. Marceline glared at the robot and headed towards the castle.
"I'll be right back."
Marceline stormed into the castle and made her way into the lab, where she found the real Bubblegum dressed in the same clothes the robot had been wearing working on a random machine. The candy princess heard Marceline coming and turned to face her with a guilty look on her face.
"Um...hey Marceline, you figured out that was a robot me I sent out to go on the date." Said Bubblegum looking a little nervous.
"That robot was way to perky to be you. I can't believe you tried to send a robot to take your place for the date, that's not cool Bonnibel! You promised me you would relax and hang with use, we even went through the trouble of finding a great guy you would like." Said Marceline.
"The robot was for...the sake of one of my projects. I'm creating robot duplicates of myself to protect me and go on diplomatic missions in places I could be assassinated at. I was just testing one to see how one of them would react at a social event around other people." Said Bubblegum trying to defend her actions.
"Bonnibel you can test your robot on other people, but not with us. Come on the others are waiting." Said Marceline.
Bubblegum sighed and followed Marceline out of the castle. Outside the castle they found the others waiting. Braco was squatting down next to the Bubblegum robot and had a panel on its back open and was studying the robot's inner workings.
"Hey guys were back." Said Marceline.
Braco stood up and closed the panel. He dusted himself off and smiled at Bubblegum.
"Greetings Princess Bubblegum. My name is Braco and it is an honor and privilege to meet you."
"Hello Braco it's nice...to meet you and I'm sorry for trying to send a robot out to take my place." Began Bubblegum, but Braco raised his hand and stopped her.
"Think nothing of it princess, it's not everyday you see a advance robot duplicate of a ruler. I'm a bit of a tinkerer and love seeing new machines in action and I got a glimpse of your brilliance in action. I even got to peak out your robots inner workings. So all in all I enjoyed that little experience and behalf of the Candy Kingdom and scientific community let me say that your work is inspiring and its good to know that someone like you is running and protecting our fair kingdom." Said Braco.
Bubblegum was completely stunned. This was not the reaction she had been expecting. Not only was Braco not angry, he seemed to have enjoyed that Bubblegum had tried to send a robot duplicate of herself on the date instead of going. Braco seemed to understand science and he seemed to actually like Bubblegum.
"Why...thank you Braco, that's really sweet of you." Said Bubblegum as her cheeks flushed a little.
Marceline smirked and floated next to Bubblegum.
"Told you we found you a great guy." She whispered.
At that moment LSP returned onto the scene.
"Alright I'm cool now." She said before she saw the Bubblegum robot laying on the ground. "Oh what lump did I miss?! This is totally all your fault Brad! I missed all of what happened here because of you!"
Brad just groaned and face palmed himself. The group loaded up into the car and headed out. The couples first had a nice dinner at the Wildberry Kingdom, then they saw a movie out doors, and then finally sat on a hill starring up at the stars. Braco impressed Bubblegum with his knowledge of astronomy and Brad actually became friends with the other guys on the date. Soon the group returned to the Candy Kingdom. Braco and Bubblegum were saying their goodbyes to one another.
"Well Braco it was nice meeting you and I really had a good time." Said Bubblegum.
"It was nice meeting you to princess and I had a swell time to." Said Braco.
"You can call me Bubblegum or Bonnibel and if you ever feel like it you can come visit the castle and see my lab." Said Bubblegum.
"I'd love that." Said Braco.
The two went their separate ways with smiles on their faces. Marceline and Lucinda smirked and fist bumped one another. LSP just looked enviously at Bubblegum and Braco before shooting a glare at Brad.
"We could have had a relationship like that if you didn't totally mess everything up!" Complained LSP.
Brad just groaned as he leaned his head against the car horn and made the horn go off in attempt to drown out LSP's nagging.
And thus ended date night.
To be continued.
