Family

Chapter 90 Face Off

By: Major144

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

At the Candy Kingdom, Bubblegum and Braco were working in the lab. Bubblegum actual enjoyed having Braco around in the lab, he was pleasant company and he proved to be a good lab assistant. It also helped that Braco had a good sense of time. Every few hours or so Braco would get Bubblegum to take a break or simply take her out to get some fresh air. This helped relax the princess's mind and keep stay in touch with her people.

Currently Bubblegum was working on a prototype power gauntlet that was to have the same powers as Billy's Gauntlet of the Hero. So far Bubblegum had only some minor success with the project. The princess couldn't duplicate the magic power of the original, since it was destroyed, so she was trying to create a gauntlet that would be close in power.

Braco was putting some chemicals in a small fridge, when he noticed a the container that had Goliad's third eye in it. The eye seemed to be staring Braco and that unnerved him a little and he quickly closed the fridge. Bubblegum was fixing to take a break from her project, when the video phone rang. The candy women answered it and frowned when she saw King's face on the screen.

"Hello Princess Bubblegum." Greeted King.

"What do you want King?" Asked Bubblegum.

"Well...I have a problem that involves dear Lemongrab and a few of my people. There was an incident and...now Lemongrab doesn't have a face anymore." Said King as he stepped out of the way to show Lemongrab, Gareth, and Smudge sitting on medical tables.

Bubblegum let out a gasp as she starred at the faceless trio.

"What...happened?" Asked Bubblegum.

"Well...their faces were stolen. Somehow Lemongrab and the others can still see and hear without their faces. Lemongrab wrote what happened and according to him a strange creature appeared and stole their faces." Said King.

"So you want me to come over to Castle Lemongrab and examine them?" Asked Bubblegum.

"Well that was the original idea, but according to one of my magic experts the only way to fix them is to find the creature responsible and slay it. I know you have a couple of good monster slayers on hand, who should be able to handle this. After all this creature could pose a huge threat to all of Ooo." Said King.

"Fine I'll get someone to deal with this." Muttered Bubblegum.

King smiled and the call ended.

Bubblegum was fixing to leave the lab with Braco, when a nervous Root Beer Guy walked into the lab.

"Um...Princess we have some visitors and they...really have a problem you should see." Said Root Beer Guy.

Bubblegum and Braco followed Root Beer Guy to the throne room where they saw LSP, Brad, Finn, Jake, and Martin. The princess saw that LSP, Jake, and Martin were all missing their faces. The face stealer had struck again! Finn headed over to Bubblegum.

"A monster stole my dad and my brothers face!" He exclaimed.

Bubblegum then told the others about the call see got from King and what happened to Lemongrab. Braco went over to talk to Brad to see how he was doing.

"You hanging in there man?" Asked Braco.

"I am. A part if me is sad about this, but...another part of me is happy! I can finally speak to LSP without her screaming and blowing things out of proportion. I'm going to use this opportunity to end our relationship." Said Brad.

"That's...seems a little cold hearted to do to your girlfriend after something like this. She could really use your support." Said Braco.

"I know, but seriously my girlfriend is crazy and a control freak, she is the reason I can't float!" Said Braco.

At that moment Marceline, Lucinda, Lance, and Henry entered the throne room. Apparently LSP had texted them and now they wanted to know what was going on. Bubblegum and Finn got them up to speed. Finn was fixing to suggest they should go out and hunt the monster, when Tobe and Doctor Princess came into the throne room carrying a medium size bag with them. Tobe and Doctor Princess examined Martin and the others and then Tobe turned to address everyone.

"This is the work of a face stealing demon a creature who collects the faces of others." Explained Tobe.

"So how do we deal with it?" Asked Henry.

"My master told me that face stealers could only steal a person's face while they were making an expression. Therefore the best way to protect yourselves from a face stealer is to wear a mask over your face." Said Tobe as he reached into the bag and pulled out a red Tengu mask with a black mustache and long red nose.

The ninja put the mask on and handed the bag to Finn. The teen looked inside and pulled out a white bear mask to put over his face before he handed the bag over to Marceline and Lucinda. Marceline put on a bat like mask and Lucinda took a wolf mask. Lance and Henry took the bag and Henry put on a black and blue mask, while Lance put on a black and white mask. The bag then was empty.

"These mask will protect us from the face stealer's powers. I've also enchanted these masks with extra protection, so they won't be easy to break." Explained Tobe.

"Alright we have a thief to catch and some faces to return. Don't worry dad and Jake will get your faces back." Said Finn as he looked over at Jake and Martin.

The two faceless beings gave Finn a thumbs up. LSP clapped her hands and everybody looked at her.

"Don't worry LSP will get your face back to." Said Marceline.

LSP seemed to relax a little. The six heroes headed to go hunting, leaving Bubblegum and the others to look after the faceless people. The six victims of Koh were currently each trying to wrap their minds about their current situation.

"I can't believe my beautiful face is gone, how am I supposed to get women to fall in love with me and trick them into giving me their belongings!" Thought Gareth.

"Well my face may be gone, but I can still be the muscles of a gang." Thought Smudge.

"I can't believe this is happening! What kind of King doesn't even have a face! This is UNACCEPTABLE! How can I show myself to my people! I'm freak! I don't have a food hole for food stuffs!" Thought Lemongrab.

"Man how can I be a dad and husband without a face? My kids would be terrified if they saw me like this!" Thought Jake as he tried to use his stretching powers to mold his skin into a face, but he wasn't having any luck.

"Man this is HORRIBLE, I can't show myself in public like this! Everyone will laugh and point at me! My popularity and social life are over! Next thing you know Brad will break up with me because of my hideousness!" Thought LSP.

"Well my face is gone and my son has gone out to get it back. Wait if my face is gone then nobody could see what I'm thinking! I have the ultimate poker face now! Time to cash in on this!" Thought Martin with glee.

Miles away Finn and the rest of the hunting party were looking some woods using some flashlights. They had just found a set of mysterious foot prints that lead deeper into the woods. The group followed them and came across a bear and an owl who were both missing their faces. They were definitely on the right track and Koh was closer then they thought. There was some rustling coming from the trees and the group turned to see a deer sticking it's face out of some bushes. The heroes relaxed a little, but then the rest of the deer came out of the bush revealing itself to be Koh. The Face Stealer's eyelid blinked turning into the Noh mask which had a nasty cruel smile on it. Koh looked at the heroes with interest.

"Well. Well. It appears that I have a little team of heroes hunting me and your wearing mask to protect your faces. Let me guess I stole some of your friends faces and now you want them back?"

"Your darn right creep! Now releases the faces or will put the hurt on you!" Said Finn.

"Oh quit a energetic young man, you must have a handsome face underneath that mask that probably has an angry look of determination. Makes me want to rip off that mask of yours and steal your face even more!" Said Koh with a grin as his eyelid blinked and Martin's face appeared in the eye.

Finn was taken aback by his father's face on Koh's body. It was a frightening sight to see the face of a family member on such a grotesque creature. The other heroes pulled out their weapons and faced the monster.

"Why are you stealing people's faces creep?" Demanded Lucinda.

"Why a face is a person's most precious thing they have. A face reflects the soul of a person and allows them to express emotions such as joy and sadness. Once I steal that away from them they have no way to express their emotions, the inner turmoil it causes them is just thrilling and I enjoy a good hunt and after I get what I want the victims are left with their own suffering. I just enjoy taking all the faces for myself." Said Koh as his eyelid blinked several times turning into Jake, a moose, a beautiful red haired women, Gareth, Lemongrab, and finally back to the Noh mask.

"Your just like all the other face stealers!" Said Tobe as he pointed a sword up at Kih.

"Oh please, I'm the original Face Stealer. I am Koh and everyone else that's come after me are just wannabes trying to claim my legacy. Faces are beautiful objects that need to be collected and savored. Their owners would have wasted them." Said Koh.

"Well we're going to make you give them back." Said Finn as he pointed his sword at the monster.

Koh just laughed as his eyelid blinked again changing into the face of a large bull with pointed horns. The monster then charged at the heroes and tried to impale them with his horns. Everybody quickly jumped to the side as Koh charged by and towards some trees. The Face Stealer swung his legs at a couple of the trees and sliced right through them causing them to fall towards the heroes. Finn yelped as he dove out of the way of one falling tree. Lance unleashed a bust of lighting and destroyed a tree that was falling towards him and Marceline. Tobe jumped onto one fallen tree and hurled some ninja stars at Koh burying into his side. The monster just hissed in pain as his eyelid blinked again and the face of a spider appeared. The spider opened it's mouth and fired a glob of webbing at Tobe that knocked him off the tree and to the ground. Koh then leaped onto a nearby tree and scaled it to get a better vantage point of his enemies. He saw Lucinda on the ground below and fired a web line at her hitting her on her right leg.

"What the?" Shouted Lucinda, before Koh yanked on the line and swung her into Marceling making them both crash to the ground.

Finn jumped up and swung his sword at Koh slicing the monster's side a little. Koh let out an angry roar as he swung one of his legs into Finn and sent him crashing into a nearby tree. Before the young hero could hit the ground Koh spat a glob of web at him that pinned him to the tree. Koh then leaped to the tree and leaned over Finn as his eyelid blinked and turned back into the Noh mask.

"Now it's time to take this silly mask off and add your face to the collection." Said Koh as the arms around his eyes closed in on Finn's mask and attempted to remove it.

But before he could Marceline and Lucinda flew in and kicked Koh from the side sending him flying away from Finn and crashing to the ground. Marceline cut Finn free with ax and helped him down. Koh was trying to get back up, but a blast of water and lighting from Henry and Lance slammed into him and knocked the monster into a large rock. Lance freed Tobe from the webbing and the heroes surrounded Koh, who was just getting back up.

"Ug...I must admit your...tougher then I thought, but it's not over yet!" Said Koh as he blinked his eyelid again and the face of a chameleon appeared.

The heroes watched in shock as Koh used the chameleon's powers to vanish out of sight. Lucinda tried to use her sense of smell to locate the monster, but Koh had quickly scaled the large rock and was scurrying away. The group realized that Koh had escaped and went about trying to find a trail that would help them find out where the Face Stealer went. Tobe eventually found some footprints that lead deeper into the woods. Finn and the others followed the footprints to continue the battle.

Back at the Candy Kingdom, Martin had asked Bubblegum, using notes to summon some guards and servants to play poker with him. Bubblegum had agreed and she had summoned Root Beer Guy, James the wafer, Starchie the chocolate malt ball, Cinnamon Buns, and a random Banana Guard to play cards Martin. Bubblegum thought it was an odd request, but she decided if it would help keep Martin calm it was ok. Close by Brad was fixing to have a serious talk with LSP.

"LSP I think it's you and me should start seeing other people. This relationship of ours isn't healthy and it's not going anywhere." Said Brad.

LSP pulled out her phone and started to type a message on it, before showing it to Brad.

"Your breaking up with me now! How could you Brad? I thought what we had was special!"

Brad took a deep breath and closed his eyes before he began talking.

"Look LSP what we had wasn't really special. It's been kind of a nightmare for me. Your constantly controlling everything and blowing every little minor thing out of proportion blaming me for random things. I know I'm not perfect, but you could at least be a little more tolerance and respectful. Your negativity has given me emotional baggage that's just simply weighing me down and I can't take it anymore! I'm ending this relationship for the both of us."

As Brad talked, his feet left the floor and he began to hover towards the celling, completely unaware about what was going on. Braco glanced up from a clipboard he was looking at and noticed that Brad was floating up towards the celling with his eyes closed.

"Brad your flying!" Exclaimed Braco.

Brad opened his eyes and looked down in confusion to see that his feet were no longer touching the ground. The lumpy space person let out a whoop and spun around in the air. The body of LSP just pointed it's faceless head at the ground as she realized that it was indeed her fault that Brad lost his ability to fly while they were dating and maybe it was for the best that they ended their relationship.

Miles away the heroes were following Koh's trail through the woods, until they exited it and came across a large group of mountains with a large boardwalk that went through them and lead up to a large mountain that had a large castle/mansion like building on top of it. The castle was large with a couple of towers on it and a observatory complete with a telescope on top.

(Author's Note: I'm using the Castle from the episode The Creeps.)

"We're tracking a face stealing monster and its lead us to a creepy mysterious castle. Yep this is feeling like a horror movie." Said Marceline.

The group made their way up to the castle and saw that the door had been forced open. The heroes had their weapons out as they made their way inside.

"We should split up into groups to cover more ground." Said Tobe.

"Seriously man that's a terrible idea. In every horror movie, when a group splits up to cover more ground the monster picks them off one by one. We're sticking together." Said Lucinda.

The others agreed and thus they began searching. The castle was well decorated with red rugs, fancy furniture, and paintings. The heroes made their way up a flight of stairs and down a hallway, where they entered a large ballroom with tables and chairs and a large chandelier. They were fixing to move on when a couple of the tables suddenly lifted up and hurled themselves at the heroes. Lucinda smashed one table with her hammer, while Tobe sliced the other in half. More tables and a few chairs were flung at the group forcing them to either dodge or destroy the projectiles. Wood flew everywhere as the furniture was destroyed. A tablecloth suddenly lifted itself in the air making itself look like a ghost and charged at Finn. The boy dodged out of the way and sliced at the cloth ripping a hole in it. As the the cloth prepared for another charge, Lucinda came in from the side and smashed it with her hammer and sent it crashing into a column. Tobe went and yanked the cloth up revealing Koh underneath still wearing the chameleon face.

"Give it up Koh, you can't beat us!" Said Tobe as he pointed his sword at the monster.

"Oh...I still have a few tricks left." Said Koh as his eyelid blinked and the face of a green dragon appeared.

The dragon opened his mouth and unleashed a blast of fire forcing Tobe to leap back. Koh got up and started to breath fire at the other heroes forcing them to back up from the flames. The monster stood in the center of the room underneath the chandelier. Tobe saw this and hurled a ninja star at the chandelier cutting it's chain and sending it crashing down onto Koh knocking him to the ground. The Face Stealer roared as he breathed more fire and began tugging at the chandelier yanking it off of him. Henry went about putting out the flames with his water as Finn tried to come up with an idea to beat Koh. Finn had a crazy idea and he needed Tobe's help. The boy explained his plan to Tobe, who nodded his head.

Koh stood up looking angry as he looked at the heroes, Finn began to approach the monster as he dropped his sword and reached up to his mask.

"You want my face then come get it!" Declared Finn as he yanked his mask off.

Koh grinned evilly as he blinked his eyelid and the eye appeared ready to fire his beam and steal Finn's face, but as the limbs around his eyelid grabbed Finn, he suddenly vanished in a poof of smoke. The Finn was a fake Tobe had made with his ninja magic. The Face Stealer was completely shocked by this, but before he could recover the real Finn charged at him and leaped into the eye beam getting sucked into Koh's body! The eyelid blinked and the dragon face appeared ready to fight.

"So...what's the plan?" Asked Henry.

"We keep Koh busy, while Finn defeats him from the inside." Explained Tobe.

The heroes nodded and grabbed their weapons to continue the fight.

Finn found himself deep within Koh's subconscious. The young hero found himself in a long white hallway with walls decorated with faces hanging from them like trophies. Finn looked at the faces with uneasiness as he made his way down the hallway. The boy looked at the walls, until by luck he saw Jake and Martin's faces hanging side by side. Finn smiled a little as he reached out and tried to yank the faces from the wall, but as soon as he touched them a part of the wall morphed into a large white arm and punched Finn away from the faces.

"I must say I'm impressed that you managed to trick me and get into my mind to look at my collection. You must think yourself pretty clever and lucky, but your luck ends here. This is my world and you will not be stealing anything from my collection!" Boomed Koh's voice.

The floor underneath Finn vanished and the boy fell through it and found himself in a dark room. Then he heard a whooshing sound and saw thousands of faces flying together to form a massive face that was hundreds of feet tall with red glowing eyes. Finn stepped back in awe at the weird sight.

"Now you will perish by the power of my collection!" Boomed the face in Koh's voice as it opened it's mouth wide and and fired a giant fireball at Finn!

Finn yelped and jumped out of the way as the fireball hit the ground and exploded. Koh laughed as he fired laser beams from his eye at the hero Finn got up and ran for it as the beams got closer and closer. The hero realized he couldn't keep running forever and turned around brandishing his sword as he reflected one of the beams back at the giant face. The beam struck making the face roar in pain as it fell to the ground. A couple of the faces fell off and landed on the ground near the giant face. The faces looked like mask laying on the ground. Finn rushed at the giant face, but as he got closer strange white clouds appeared underneath the separate faces and formed into bodies, with the faces serving as heads. The strange creatures charged at Finn, who sliced at a couple of them reducing them into smoke and a faces that clattered to the ground. Finn used one of the creature's faces as a springboard to leap onto the giant face.

"Get your feet off of my collection!" Boomed Koh as the giant red eyes glared up at Finn.

More of the faces popped out of the face forming smoke bodies as they rushed at Finn. The hero sliced at them and destroyed them, but the faces would just land on the giant face and simply reform. Finn realized he would eventually be taken down by the creatures and he needed to figure out how to end this battle quickly. It was then he noticed the Noh mask at the center of the giant face's forehead. The hero sliced his way through the creatures and ran towards the Noh mask. As he got closer more of the creatures appeared and attacked Finn. The boy leaped over them and continued onward, until he reached the Noh mask and began pulling at it.

"NO! STOP DONT TOUCH THAT! THAT THE VERY FIRST FACE I STOLE!" Roared Koh.

Finn ignored him and pulled with all his might, until the mask popped off. Koh screamed as the eyes of the giant face went out and the giant face crumpled to pieces, with Finn standing on top of them holding the Noh mask.

"Well that's done now what?" Thought Finn allowed.

The pile of faces started to shake as a giant eye rose up from them and hovered before Finn.

"Now I will destroy you!" Said Koh's voice coming from the eye as it fired a beam of light at him.

Finn screamed in pain as he fell to his knees. It felt like every fiber of his being was being ripped out of him. Koh just laughed.

"Once I destroy your body and take your face I will deal with those other nuisances and steal every face on this world. I will steal the faces of men, women, and children! Nothing will stand in my way!"

Finn gritted his teeth as he thought about the suffering he had seen from his dad and Jake, then he thought about all his other friends and all the people of Ooo. Each one of them was unique and this monster wanted to steal their faces and rob them of their joy and sense of expression! Finn would have none of that. Then the hero thought about Phoebe and about this horrible creature stealing her face. It was the last straw. Finn put his hands to the ground and pushed himself up to a standing position as he picked up his sword and started to walk through the beam towards Koh.

"What how is this possible?! You shouldn't be able to stand much less move!" Thought Koh as his eye widen in horror as he began to search Finn's very essence for an explanation. "Wait that fire and strong will to keep pressing on no matter the circumstances, I've seen this before! His human yet he has a bit of her spirit and power within himself and his somehow triggered it! No I will not lose to this child! His still young and he probably doesn't know who his mother is and what power he got from her. I can beat him!"

Koh intensified his beam and Finn staggered under it, but kept coming. The Face Stealer conjured up several spiky limbs around himself and tried to stab Finn, but the boy managed to just barely dodge them by mere nano inches and still the hero continued on towards the monster. Koh's eye widen in horror as Finn reached him. With a mighty yell Finn stabbed his sword into the eye!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Screamed Koh as the eye went dark and it slowly crumpled into dust.

Finn collapsed to his knees breathing hard as the world around him started to crumple. All the faces glowed white and they shot into the air. On the outside the others were still fighting Koh, when the dragon face suddenly glowed and flew out of his eyelid. Then the Face Stealer's body began to crack and the monster screamed in pain as thousands of balls of light exploded out of it's back and flew everywhere! The insect body of Koh crumbled to pieces and Finn sat in the middle of the pile looking exhausted.

"You did it!" Shouted Marceline and Lucinda as they took off their masks and helped Finn up.

"That boy is really something." Said Tobe with admiration.

All around Ooo all the people who had their faces stolen were getting their faces back. At Castle Lemongrab, Gareth was kissing his reflection in a mirror, Smudge was practicing looking tough, and Lemongrab was hugging it out with Cookie. At the Candy Kingdom, Jake was touching his face laughing, while Martin had a big gin on his face as he was collecting the last of his winnings from the poker game. The human had a pile of money along with Starchie's hat, Jame's wallet, and Root Beer Guy's tie and taser. LSP approached Brad.

"Hey Brad...I guess we're right, this relationship want really working out. So I guess can we just be friends or something?" Said LSP as she scratched the back of her head.

"Sure we can be friends." Said Brad.

LSP smiled a little.

At the castle the heroes were leaving unaware that they were being watched. In the secret lair the Lich watched Finn and the others with a crystal ball, somewhat impressed that the boy had defeated Koh. In another part of the lair Crimson and several of the other members watched the heroes. Nero smiled slightly at the image of Finn.

"This Finn person is quit amazing, he had a lot of potential to become something great. I'm going to have to keep an eye on him." Thought Nero.

At the castle, Dimentio appeared next to the remains of Koh and began to look through them, until he came across a black stone that resembled an eye and pocketed it. The jester chuckled as he vanished from the scene. Several minutes later Maja, Laser Wizard, and Crabbit walked into the castle looking around. Maja grinned evilly.

"Yes this place will make a nice new lair for me. Certainly a step up from my old lair. Just have to clean it up a little and it will be perfect." Said Maja as she and her minions went about gleaning the place.

At the Candy Kingdom the heroes arrived and Finn was incredibly happy to see that Jake and Martin had their faces back. Finn ran over to them and hugged them. Martin and Jake returned the hug as Finn told them about the battle. It was a joyous moment and despite the crazy adventure everything was back to normal. Soon everybody returned to their homes to rest after another successful adventure.

To be continued.