Family

Chapter 121 Candy and Monsters

By: Major144

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

In the Candy Kingdom, Bubblegum and Braco were down in the lab looking at eight metal pods. Bubblegum was looking at some readings on a machine.

"The new elite forces I have created to protect the Candy Kingdom, should be ready soon." Said Bubblegum.

"Honey are you sure about this? I understand your desire to protect our kingdom and our people, but these new forces your creating, seem a tad extreme." Said Braco.

"Perhaps, but we live in some troubling times. There's King and his army of criminals and then there's the Lich and Crimson's forces to deal with. Our current forces can't handle all these threats and we can't rely on Finn or any other heroes to come to our rescue every time. We need to make our kingdom's defenses stronger." Said Bubblegum.

"I suppose you make a good point, but are your sure these new forces will be stable and won't go out of control?" Asked Braco.

"Don't worry they'll be stable. I've learned from my past mistakes and I assure you these new forces will cause no problems." Said Bubblegum.

"Alright, I'll take your word for it." Said Braco as he kissed Bubblegum on the cheek.

Braco cast a look around the lab. In one corner there was Ultrabot's old battle robot body that Bubblegum was turning into a mech suit, on a table there were plans to create a massive new robot called the Prizeball Guardian, blueprints to create some robotic tanks, and blueprints for a massive air carrier called the Cake Carrier. Braco then glanced at a workbench and saw a metal gauntlet that resembled the Gauntlet of the Hero. Bubblegum was trying to recreate the ancient weapon to hand out to her forces. The sight of the weaponry made Braco frown a little. The candy king could understand the desire to improve the kingdom's defenses, but all these new weapons made it seem like Bubblegum was planning for a war. Braco decided to speak about this later with Bubblegum as he left the lab.

Bubblegum cleaned up the lab and left it. The candy queen went to the throne room, where she was greeted by Peppermint Butler.

"My queen, a Mr. Greg is here to speak with you." Said Peppermint Butler.

"Thank you Peppermint Butler, you may send him in." Said Bubblegum as she took a seat on her throne.

Greg the gingerbread man walked into the throne room and bowed before Bubblegum.

"Greetings Queen Bubblegum and thanks for letting me come speak to you." Said Greg as he looked up and faced Bubblegum.

"Greetings Greg and I'm happy to speak to you. Your company Ginco is one of the most successful businesses in all of Ooo and you provide plenty of jobs for the candy people." Said Bubblegum.

"Thanks you for the compliments your majesty, I greatly appreciate them." Said Greg.

"Now tell me what you want to talk about." Said Bubblegum.

"Well your majesty, I can't but help notice that our kingdom is facing several grave threats and that our current forces aren't quit up for the task of dealing with these threats. Our army lacks the numbers and the skills to deal with these new threats. However I think my company can help with these problems." Said Greg.

"What do you have in mind?" Asked Bubblegum.

"Well reconfiguring some of the machines in my factory I was able to make a machine that could mass produce gingerbread men. My machine could produce nearly five hundred gingerbread men in an hour and thanks to some special all natural ingredients and a few chemicals all of the gingerbread men that come out of my machine are smart and skilled in combat. I also have a machine that produces armor and various weapons for them. However I doubt any weapons I create will pale in comparison compared to anything you create." Said Greg.

"Interesting. May I see some of these gingerbread men you have created?" Asked Bubblegum.

Greg turned to the entrance to the throne room and waved. Two taller gingerbread entered the throne room. The gingerbread men were wearing waffle cone armor with pink lines of frosting, on their heads were waffle cone helmets. One gingerbread man held a lollipop spear while the other held a strange kind of gun.

"We have your standard spear weapon and we have a weapon I like to call the froster. The froster fires cake frosting and hardens in a matter of seconds, fully capable of incapacitate and restraining people." Explained Greg.

"I have to say I'm greatly impressed by what you have so far." Said Bubblegum.

"So will you allow me and my company to produce soldiers and weapons for the kingdom?" Asked Greg.

"I will allow it. The Candy Kingdom needs all the soldiers and weapons it can get." Said Bubblegum.

"Thank you Queen Bubblegum. You will not regret this." Said Greg with a bow before he and the other gingerbread men left the throne room.

On the way out of the castle Greg passed Peppermint Butler and the two of them shared a little grin and a wink, before Greg left the palace.

Bubblegum went to the family study, where she found Braco looking over some papers and letters from citizens.

"Well I have good news. Greg from Ginco has just offered to create an army of well trained gingerbread men to help protect the kingdom." Said Bubblegum.

"The owner of a big company just simply offered to create an army for us. Bonnibel, don't you find this a little odd?" Said Braco.

"What do you mean?" Asked Bubblegum.

"Well it seems to be a little to convenient, for someone to offer to create an army for us, when we need to increase our defenses." Said Braco.

"Maybe, but it could all be just a concerned citizen offering to help his kingdom." Said Bubblegum.

"I suppose, but we should be weary." Said Braco.

"Do not worry yourself Braco. The welfare of our family and our kingdom are my main concern." Said Bubblegum before she left the study.

Braco looked through some more letters before calling it a day. The king went to his son's room and spent a little quality time with Neddy playing with a train set. Soon it was time for Neddy to go to bed. Neddy got into the bed and Braco tucked him in.

"Is something bad going to happen to our kingdom?" Asked Neddy.

"Well son there are some really bad people out there who would want to hurt our kingdom, but there's no need to worry, because we have a lot of good friends who are willing to help us and your mom is super smart. I promise you nothing bad will happen to us or the kingdom." Said Braco.

"Ok daddy." Said Neddy with a smile.

Braco leaned forward and kissed his son on the forehead wishing him a goodnight, before he left Neddy's room.

A few days later the streets of the Candy Kingdom were now being patrolled by Greg's gingerbread men troops. The gingerbread men patrolled the streets alongside the banana guards and gumball robots. At the courtyard, Bubblegum was ready to unveil her new elite troops. Bubblegum stood on a stage with a large curtain behind her.

"People of the Candy Kingdom, allow me to introduce you to our new Protecters the Excellent Eight!" Said Bubblegum as the curtain opened up to reveal the elite forces.

The first was a massive bear made out of bread with tiny black eyes and teeth and claws made out of chocolate.

"The first is Bear Claw!" Said Bubblegum before she went on to the next elite.

The next figure was the biggest of the elite forces. A giant humanoid being made out of a mix of red, blue, and green rock candy.

"Rocky!" Said Bubblegum before she moved on to the next one.

The next elite was a large orange jawbreaker wearing red shorts, with two massive arms.

"Breaker!" Said Bubblegum moving on.

The next two were a Red Hot wearing a welders mask and a blue and red slushie wearing a parka. Both elites were carrying strange high tech looking guns.

"Hot and Slush!" Said Bubblegum.

The next two elites were the strangest looking ones in the group. The first was a humanoid, whose skin was mainly pink, but there seemed to be various bean shaped colors mixed in with the pink. The second one appeared to be a humanoid made entirely out of sugar cubes.

"Beans and Cubby!" Said Bubblegum.

The last elite was a tall humanoid with purple skin, dressed in a purple trench coat, purple pants, purple shirt, and black shoes. The last elite also had a pink afro and mustache, along with with some stylish purple sunglasses and he carried a samurai sword.

"Cotton!" Said Bubblegum.

The candy people cheered for their new champions, who waved at the crowd.

In the far off Dream Kingdom, a huge army of monsters had gathered together drawn by a dark energy. There were goo zombies, sign zombies, pale creatures called Chuds, battle cubes, demonic eye creatures, snake runners, monster worms, and various other monsters. Kee-Oth had been attracted to the dark energy along with Evil Monster, Hotdog Monster, and Hamburger Monster. The dark energy seemed to grow stronger by the day and it produced a great storm of darkness that was slowly getting larger. Kee-Oth sensed that the dark energy seemed to be coming from the top of the old castle and went inside to check it out. The demon followed his senses to the throne room and found Nightmare Princess sitting on the floor with her knees to her chest and a look of utter misery on her face. Floating above the girl was a black cloud with a single red eye and two bat wings sticking out of it. Kee-Oth starred at the girl and the cloud in awe, before the cloud began looking at him. The demon was unnerved by the eye and quickly left the throne room. Nightmare Princess sighed and the cloud seemed to grow larger.

Below the castle, the eyes of the statue of GOLB glowed brightly as it sensed all the dark energy caused by Nightmare Princess. Soon a bunch of forces from both good and evil would head to the Dream Kingdom to investigate the strange disturbance.

To be continued.