The sisters rush forward as fast as they can, their gaze locked onto the machines defiling the land. Massive drills were plunging into the ground, ripping it up as boiling lava squirts and explodes out. Humongous factories pump out an endless stream of black smoke, the world darkening as sunlight is gradually diluted. Thousands of machines crawl across the land, the once nicely heated, natural rock was replaced with merciless metal. The heroine was not impressed.
She screams a war cry as she rushes towards it all as her sister backs her up, the feline forming two massive daystars out of her paws. They charge down the black mountain as Fionna rips her ice sword free, locking onto the first and closest robot foe. It was a goliath, the massive black and purple bulky machine twisting to face the hazard with a robotic grumble. It however does not engage them, even as they rapidly approach it with Cake raising her hands high.
Fionna slows down, as does time itself for her as her memories flash into her mind. Finn's voice echoes into her thoughts, a message from the past as she remembers her sworn promise. She was meant to be peaceful, like Finn, she was meant to be a better hero! Like Finn. But these guys were donking up Flame Prince's stuff! She can't really… do nothing, can she? She can't have a friendly chat while he's under attack, can she?
Her steps begin to slow, and she snaps to her sister just as she was just about to smash her morning star arms atop the machine, "Cake wait!" The feline jolts to a halt, her weapons just inches from the robot's six eyed head, not that it reacts at all.
Cake twists around to face her sister with a stare of pure confusion, "What?" She inquires, not moving her limbs away from the machine, causing Fionna to groan and rip them away as they slowly become surrounded.
The heroine holds Cake's arms by her sides as she stares at the robots closing in, "Erm, I swore that I would be peaceful-" Cake instantly stretches her hand up to face palm, earning a scowl from the nervous girl, "... And, er, I was wondering if I could talk to your leader! You know… Robot Gumball!"
The machines stare, before gradually parting a pathway through them all, triggering the girl to think she should head down them, only to spot the fake royal himself approaching. He was in his massive mech, grinning stupidly as he strolls up to her with an electric field around him, casually placing his humongous gun onto his back. She holds her ground, unafraid of his gradual approach as Cake watches their back with weapons at the ready.
Finally, Gumbolt arrives, kneeling down his mech as he hops out of its cockpit, landing smoothly before her while using his momentum to bow before her, grabbing a hand and promptly kissing it with his hard metal skin, "My lady~"
Her face becomes as red as a tomato as she simply stares, her jaw slightly slacked as her thoughts become scrambled, "Err… hi? I mean nice to meet you! M-my prince! Ah! I mean, what are you doing here!? Attacking everyone?" She eventually demands, causing him to be unable but to chuckle at her antics, her blush only worsening.
He straightens up, his hands holding both of her own as he stands tall over the heroine, her heart pumping in her chest as she stares up at the more dominant, active Gumball, "Here? Well, I was just collecting some resources for us~" He leans down and kisses her on the lips, causing her to completely freeze up as she feels his metal press up against her, the metal man squeezing her hands comforting as she becomes overloaded with thoughts.
Cake swoops in to the rescue, harshly pushing Gumbolt back as he stumbles slightly, Fionna swaying behind the feline as she scowls at the heartless robot, "Stop doing that! She's taken by the real you! You know, the one you tried to kill!?" Her tail swishes behind her as she creates a massive sword and jousts it towards his face, "Now! Where's Flame Prince!? We know you attacked him, we received his call for help!" She demands, much to robo Gumball's displeasure.
Fionna finally snaps out of it, swiftly adding a nod as she stands beside Cake, yet gently pushes her sword arm down, "Yeah! Answer!"
He merely chuckles, "Come on you two, you know me! He's fine! I've simply relocated him away from here."
Cake growls, "Yeah right, you're are correct, we know you who you were based on, but not you. Now, what did you do to FP!?"
He simply shakes his head, "Look, let me explain, I mean there's a reason why you haven't attacked yet, isn't there?" He asks, shooting Fionna a wink as she becomes flustered once more, though she quickly recovers by shaking her head.
She aims her sword to the ground, "Well, I'm doing what I promised Finn: I want to be a better hero! I want to be peaceful… I want to talk this out." She says full of pride, as Cake and Gumbolt stare at her with slight confliction.
Her sister speaks up first, "Erh, girl, I think it's too late for that, I mean: he tried to kill Gumball, he's taken over the Candy Kingdom, he's attacked Flame Prince…" She gestures to the factories pumping out huge plumes of smoke, "... And he's destroying the environment! I mean, male Huntress Wizard wouldn't like that, do you want to ruin a possible future?" She inquires, hoping to prod the special spot the heroine had for love.
Gumball raises an eyebrow, "What about her and male Huntress Wizard?" 'Preparing to send hunters to kill…-
Fionna immediately snaps to him, "Huntress Wizard is a good friend to Finn! She's helped him out a lot. I don't want to have to work through things alone, especially magic related things, so… I kinda need his wizard expertise." She hurriedly makes up.
Gumball raises an eyebrow, "Hmm, interesting then." 'Cancel hunter orders, watch cautiously, capture when possible.'
The heroine sighs and faces her sister again, "And what do you mean it's 'too late'? Didn't Finn get a peace business on with us even when we tried to kill him several times and sent the Bubblegum Guardians to attack the Ice Kingdom?"
Cake glances at Gumbolt, then stretches her lips up to Fionna's ears, whispering, "Yeah but this is different. He was proving his innocence, this guy is just evil." She warns, lifting her arm up again to point her arm turned sword at his face again.
Robo Gumball quickly smirks however, "I'm not evil! I'm just doing whatever is good for my people! I don't want to hurt anyone, but by glob I'll go any distance for my people. Besides, if your hits and flirts with Marshall were any hints, you wouldn't mind a bad boy~" He pushes Cake's weapon aside to step up to the now flustered heroine, "Come, be my knight- no." He towers over her, staring deep into her eyes with a ferocious gaze, "Be my queen! Because unlike my nervous master…" His hand gently brushes her cheek, "You are my focus, I'll priorities you over everything else."
She blushes hard and bits her lip for a split second, then hurriedly shakes her head, "No. I swore to Gumball-"
"But I am him!" He tempts, leaning back down for another kiss, "I am him. But better~ Better fighter, planner, scientists, lover…"
Cake wraps her arms around the robot and flings him away as Fionna sighs in slight gratitude, "Thanks sis," She glances at Robo Gumball, who landed a short distance away, "Look, stop hitting on me. I'm with Gumball. End of that, but not other things! Like a peace talk! Come on, we can like, work something out, right? How hard can it be for two Gumballs to work something out together?"
Gumbolt groans as he runs a hand against his face, creating a flinch worthy screech of metal on metal, "Hard. Trust me, it will be very hard. You see, he doesn't like someone that could be a rival to his power. I am someone that can compete against him with ease. Therefore, he wants me wiped from the land of AAA. He's the problem, he's the one that wants violence, he's evil." He leans in close, this time slipping behind her and hugging her as he rests his chin atop her head, "I mean, think about it, how does he act about you? How evil he is. He makes a little girl rush off to dangerous fights, awards you with tiny if any rewards, then the rest of the time ignores you."
She shakes her head, "No he doesn't! He is always thinking about me! I knew he had feelings for me, that he always wanted to say something, yet never could find the nerves to! He literally has pictures of me, I've seen them as he tried to hide them away." She recalls the memory with a blush, then focuses back on the topic, "He doesn't use me. He's just letting me be me." Her words get a nod of approval from Cake, who spins to face the approaching machines.
Gumbolt snorts however, "Yeah right, I have his memories! I know what he thinks without stupid emotions getting in the way." He backs away from her, "He doesn't love you, he's using you! He's playing your heart strings to make you stay, so you can risk your life fighting the threats to the Candy Kingdom. He cares more about Cinnamon Bunnie than he does about you. His people are always his priority. He'll lie and scheme to keep you as his slave."
She glares at him, "And what about you? You're him after all! And you've already asked me to defend your kingdom. Why would I leave him to join you?"
He opens his arms to her, "Because I can please you better, and because I told you all that. I won't lie to you."
She scowls, "No you butt, you're going down." She warns, clenching her fist with teeth bared, a slight grin for the upcoming challenge.
Gumbolt sighs, "That's a shame, I had hoped you would come willingly to protect the candy peeps, or achieve your dream of marrying me, in becoming a queen, something greater than what Finn is. To finally be better than him. But oh well. Time alone between us will allow me to persuade you to protect my people. Machines! Capture but do not harm!"
They all release a robotic groan as the army of heavy units approach the duo, while Robo Gumball slips away to his heavy mech, suiting up. Cake immediately lunges for him as Fionna blinks, 'Oh. I was meant to do this peacefully… well I failed, again, as usual.' She stares downwards glumly, yet is snapped out of the failure of a broken promise by Cake slamming down before her.
Her fur was lightly charred, causing the heroine to snap to Gumbolt as his electric defences around him power down with a smirk. He reaches for her as she draws her sword, Cake hurriedly getting up herself as she watches the army of machines close in.
They all suddenly rush in, attempting to grab and snatch the duo up as they scream out war cries, slashing in every direction. Robo Gumball moves in to grab his soon to be lover, yet freezes up as he receives some scan results. A certain fire boy was still being a whole lot of trouble. He curses, then swiftly activates his jet and catapults away from the sisters.
Of course, Fionna notices this and makes a quick note of his direction, then continues her life or death fight. You know, the usual. She wears a massive grin as adrenaline pumps through her veins, raising her sword high above her head and slamming it down. It crashes into the head of a goliath just as it was about to grab her with a beat hug, splitting it in half.
One down, one thousand to go.
While the human eagerly gets to work, slicing off the limb of one machine and booting it to stumble the others, Cake was not so sure. She stretches her tail, wrapping it around the heroine behind her while she suddenly stretches her limbs. She shoots away just as they overrun their position, landing a bit away as Fionna groans in disappointment.
They glance about as a whole army sweeps over the rocky land towards them, attempting to find some escape. Only to find more machines. In every direction there were machines, swarming in to grab the duo as Cake panics. She grabs Fionna tightly, and grows rapidly, rushing towards the direction of the Ice Kingdom, "Come on girl, let's forget about Flame boy! It's way too dangerous!"
The heroine's response was to slip free of the cat's grip, landing on the floor behind her as she snaps her head to Cake, "No! I'm not leaving him! A hero never abandons someone in need!" With that, she picks herself up, and charges forward full speed to the army.
Cake groans, but rushes after her, covering her massive self in spikes as she cannon bombs into the sea of metal. As she crushes swaths of them, Fionna screams as she leaps into the air, rears her arm back, and plunges her blade into the head of goliath. It tumbles down as she rides its eight foot corpse to the ground, then leaps up to the next.
She becomes a little blender as she starts doing massive, rapid arcs before her, cutting down everything before the heroine. Humongous decapitated parts of the machine fall down around her as her slaughter never stops, until they start to learn. Just like before with Gumball, the AI's were adapting to her tactics, and were beginning to counter.
They do a claw manoeuvre, flanking around her as she panics momentarily, before the arena flashes back in her mind. Copying how Finn dealt with a swarm of them, she screams as she points her sword straight forward and charges. Her blade pierces into the mechanical gut of a goliath yet she continues to move forward, while it uncaringly continues to grab her.
It takes hold of her chest with both hands, causing her to snap her spare hand up and grab its face. Then with all her might she begins to rip it off. Yanking the metal apart with a screech as bolts snap, she lobs it behind her for it to bounce off another. The dead machine now rides her blade as she continues to sprint a path, weighing her down as fatigue kicks in.
She slows to halt, and with a sluggish tug rips her weapon free, now discovering herself completely surrounded. Cake sweeps in to the rescue, landing beside her while spinning like a fan, her hands that were now great swords mowing a circle around them.
With more room and the split second to recover her breath, Fionna puts her back against a now still Cake as everything closes in. Fionna pre-emptively swings her sword as the stupid computers just keep marching on, earning a goliath to be cut down. The one right behind it lunges for her. She ducks just as Cake swings her great sword arms back.
The massive machine is impaled on the limbs turned weapons, and the feline grunts as she swings both arms forward. She slams her weapons and body onto two giants before her, obliterating them in an explosion of broken parts.
She then suddenly stretches her head, rocketing it into another as attempts to climb over their friends remains. It sends them both stumbling back as Cake hisses in pain, rubbing the spot where she whacked her head on hard metal. The others move in, hoping to grab the cat while she is injured, but she quickly covers herself in spikes.
They pierce themselves on her body, yet they don't stop, ignoring their wounds as they relentlessly wrap the struggling feline in a hug. She explodes her limbs out in every direction, the sudden growth launching the machines flying. They arc through the air before coming crashing down on their comrades, crushing a bunch beneath their bodies. Cake pants as she hurriedly starts swinging at the foes that can't feel pain, turning her claws into massive scythes.
As she sweeps through her foes, Fionna was going ballistic in an attempt to hold her side back. The only thing going for her were their large bulky sizes, only allowing for one to reach her at a time. She targets their heads, slicing and dicing as she builds up a pile of corpses before her, forcing her to eventually begin to climb them.
She gains the high ground as she sweeps her blade downwards, her blade becoming a blur as it cuts one after another down. Of course, there was an army before her. She admittedly begins to panic as her arms tire.
There were so many of them, and she has no idea how to deal with them, especially with them completely surrounded. She boots one back with a yell, causing it to tumble down and knock over the next few behind it as she glances at Cake, "How big can you get?"
The feline snaps up to her as her massive arms create a wall and hold everything back, "You know how big girl! Want me to rampage?" At the heroine's desperate nod, the cat suddenly grows, rapidly increasing in size and becoming a towering giant.
She smirks at the machines below her, and lifts her foot up, before stomping it down on one of their giants. The shaking it causes stumbles Fionna, who gives a cry as she falls into the swarm of troops, making her snap up her sword arm. It plunges into the gut of one of the giants as she rides its body to the ground, before she hurriedly scrambles up.
Now finding herself completely surrounded as they all lunge for her, she hurriedly uses her small stature to her advantage. She dives between the machines. They all clash and crash into one another behind her while she crawls and darts between their legs.
The goliaths all try to reach down to grab her, yet there was no space thanks to them all being huddled together. Fionna laughs as she stabs her sword upwards through their bodies with immense strength, ending them as they fall to the ground dead behind her. This was too easy! She cockily climbs up one's body, and begins running atop the crowd, slicing off heads as she went as they attempted to reach for her.
Cake meanwhile thumps her massive limbs about, smashing and crushing the metal machines around her with a mix of smirks and grimaces. She was wiping the robots out, but it felt like she was stepping on Lego as she stomps on them. Still she presses on, sweeping her right arm out in an arc before her, sending the machines flying in a show of debris.
They of course cause a domino effect, their forms slamming into the ones behind them as they all tumble down in a wave. The feline swiftly creates an effective circle of death around her, her tail becoming a huge sword that constantly sweeps behind her.
She claps her hands together and crushes a whole bunch as their parts explode out like a popped zit, raining down around her. She then swiftly snaps her hands apart, backhand smacking a whole bunch and sending them sprawling. A few land in a clumped up pile, and are still alive as they move to untangle themselves, the feline taking note of them.
She raises her arms up, forms them into a massive hammer, and smashes it down with an earth shaking thump. In the time it took for her to do that, a bunch of them lunge onto her back, attempting to weigh her down. She simply rolls forward, crushing them and the ones before her under her spinning body, before leaping to her feet.
She glances up to see a wave of machines climbing atop one another surging towards her. She stretches her legs to an insane length and quickly backpedals to evade, letting them crash down in front her. Her legs snap back up to her mid air, and she falls back down as a massive spikey ball, crashing into the ground with a shockwave of debris as rock and metal go flying.
Fionna meanwhile was still using her small agile stature to her advantage as she constantly slips between all of their grip. She leaps atop a random robot's head, then sits for just a moment as all the others pounce for her. She jumps up into the air at the last moment, letting them all pile up in a nasty crash beneath her.
She falls back down sword first as she stabs the mountain of machines and ends them all, then holds her ground atop their corpses. She spins in a circle with her sword held away from her, slicing their heads clean off, then stumbles to a halt. She quickly recovers and begins rushing atop the army again, hopping from foe to foe like a rabbit.
When she lands on them, she swiftly stabs her blade harshly down, piercing inside their bodies and destroying everything important inside. Every single little jump she makes, another robot in the massive army falls. They start to learn however, backing up and creating space as they become less crowded, and have more room to move.
She now has to start doing pounces, lunging over gaps as she struggles to avoid their limbs. One hand grabs her arm, and holds its tight as she releases a gasp of pain, her bones feeling like they were about to explode. The robot throws her on the ground while still keeping its grip, the impacts so strong she bounces a little. Others swarm to pin her down, yet she recovers quickly as she swings her blade at the one holding her.
She cuts its arm clean off, then flicks her legs up, booting it in the face with all her might as it stumbles back. She scrambles up onto her feet and quickly spins with her sword, forcing all the drones to back up and give her space. Then she rushes forward sword first, stabbing a robot in the face and ripping its head off.
Pulling it off, she kicks it at another's face to stun it for a sec, before pushing forward with her sword swinging. She was simply going to cut her way to a better position. Parts go flying as she yells war cries, sweeping her blade down through one's gut, then upper cutting the one behind it. Slowly she moves towards a cave system in the rocks.
With a yell she leaps into one, crawling inside a small, and very tight hole as the goliath's attempt to reach for her. Their arms were too big. She suddenly pops out another hole and stabs her blade into the face of a drone, then darts back inside. The machines claw and grasp at where she just was, only for her to dart out somewhere else and cut two down in one swipe.
A dangerous game of whack-a-mole begins as the machines attempt to get a hold of the smirking girl. She meanwhile was crawling through the spider web of caves connecting all the holes together. It seems that the younger flame cats that live with Flame Prince had dug them out to play in, leaving her plenty of room to maneuverer. She can't help but feel smug as she pokes her head out, stare up at the metal rear of a goliath, and stick her long hard sword into it.
While she was having fun, Cake was still trying to hold the army off by herself, yet was fairing alright as she sent them flying. She even sits down, crushing a bunch beneath her as she snatches two up in her paws, and smashes them together. She sweeps her gaze over the endless march of the machines, and discovers reinforcements weren't actually coming. New troops were being pumped out of the factories in the droves, yet they were all marching away in different directions.
This was a distraction from Gumbolt's real invasion.
She hisses, and stretches both arms out to an insane length, wrapping around a whole bunch around her like a lasso. Then she stands up and crushes them in her arms, parts exploding out in a crunch and screech of bending metal. Then holding the compacted remains, she bowls them into the horde, crushing droves under the spinning remains.
More suddenly charge at her from the side, tackling into her legs and attempting to bring her to her knees. She simply flips into a handstand, her legs high above her as she suddenly spins them like a propeller. The machines on her limbs are flung off at high speed, smashing around in the area like rockets.
However, they were now grabbing onto her head much to her distaste as she attempted to shake them off. She fails, causing her to swiftly swing back onto her legs, slap them all off, then jump towards a cliff face of hard rock. She lunges onto the side of it, and hangs with her nails clinging into the hard stone, leaving only her tail free.
She immediately shifts it into a massive morning star and starts slamming it about, smashing everything beneath her as she sits just out of their reach. The massive bulky troops start to pile atop one another, lunging at her tail weapon whenever they could.
Every time they get pierced in its spike, yet that only means they are blocking it up for the next one. The spikes of the feline's morning star swiftly vanish, causing her to panic as they climb atop their comrades corpses. She shifts her tail back to normal to make all the bodies fall off, yet even then they use this to their advantage. Her now no longer dangerous tail is hurriedly scaled, where they simply sit and hug onto her body.
Their heavy metal bodies add more and more weight as she groans to hold on, her claws slowly being pulled free. Then she hears a bunch of scuttling, and glances up to discover some small multi legged drones with tail lasers. They were right above her, sitting on the cliff edge she was hanging on, and they leap off and onto her, raining down upon her.
She begins to lose her grip as they cover her form, so she throws herself away as far as she can, limbs snapping to her chest as she cannon balls. She smashes into the sea of robots, creating a crater as broken rock is sent flying in every direction. She snaps up and growls at the army still around her, only to discover only a small amount remains.
She grins smugly as she unsheathes her claws to an insane length, staring at the small army around her, "Here comes the pain, bolt heads!"
Fionna meanwhile was still dealing with her own swarm, the majority with her since she was the priority target. She was poking her head out of the holes, cutting down anything in range before disappearing back inside. However, she huffs in boredom, 'This adventure so far blows!' So with a massive grin, she leaps out of a hole completely.
She jumps onto the back of one of the machines as they all go to reach for her, and she carefully aims her sword. Targeting the head of the one she was on, she slashes at its eyes to cut the six glowing parts off. It spasms, yet because she hadn't damaged the processing chip within the head, it was still functioning, and it attempted to reach for her.
She whoops as she jumps off it, all the while it flails about in an attempt to grab. It starts punching, knocking over, stomping on all its comrades as it goes on an unintentional rampage. The bunny girl meanwhile starts stabbing everything around her as the army begins to rapidly thin out. She laughs in excitement as she leaps from foe to foe, cutting heads off and striking their power cores located in their chests.
She suddenly dives to her side to evade massive grabs from in front, landing on the ground with an oof, yet scrambles back to her feet. Only to get wrapped in a bear hug. She groans and struggles against the thick arms constricting her, while the robot simply spins around and begins to walk away with her.
Only to get whacked by the eyeless rampaging goliath from earlier. Fionna and her capturer go tumbling to the ground as the blind robot trips on its comrades body, falling atop it. The impact of such heavy weight moves the arms holding her down a tad, just enough for her to slip free like a slippery eel. She laughs at the situation and cuts the head off her kidnapper, sending it flying off as it dies.
The last few close in, and she snaps to the one she had blinded, now pushing itself up from its friend's dead body. She lunges onto it, scrambling with some effort as she moves to sit atop it much to its confusion. It spins its arm about in an attempt to grab whatever was on it, yet it uppercuts an ally goliath.
Fionna jabs a finger at one right before them both, "Onward to victory!" It rushes forward as she laughs, holding on as it charges into a former ally and sending it flying in a rain of broken metal. "Left!" It spins as it follows audible orders, a backup feature in case Gumbolt was working with a blinded unit, and starts wildly grabbing.
Its arms catch a goliath just as it reaches for Fionna, causing the heroine to smirk as she jabs her blade into its head. As it flops dead in her ride's arms, it doesn't notice and turns around to walk towards robot Gumball's location. It thinks it has its target.
The girl doesn't even think about using it to track down Gumbolt, never bothering to make a plan. She yells at it while facing the last three behind them, "Hey! Drop!" It lets go, and she clicks her fingers, "Turn around dude and start swinging!" It immediately does so, slowly strolling towards their former comrades as their AI finally updates to recognise it as a threat.
Of course Fionna gets too bored sitting on the hard metal and leaps at them before they could destroy the rogue machine. She yells a war cry as she pounces at the closest one, cutting its arms off before slicing it in half, back stepping to avoid its falling corpse.
Another one meanwhile attempts to fight the blind machine, leaving a single drone left to face the eager heroine. She stands there, waiting for it as it approaches, Finn's old sword lesson echoing in her head. Just as it reaches her it swings, causing her to side steps while slashing her blade upwards, 'disarming' her opponent.
She swiftly follows up the upward motion by bringing her sword back down onto its head, guillotining it off before the severed arm could even hit the floor. Then, she spins around to face the two goliaths wrestling with one another, and charges them with her sword held forward at her hip. She runs her blade through them, her sword piercing through the back of one of them and into the chest of the other.
As the last two drones collapse to the floor with heavy thumps, she eagerly spins around for more, yet discovers emptiness. Debris and other metal parts litter the area as all of the army of machines had fallen to her and her sister, like so many before her. She pants with a massive smirk while she watches Cake come strolling over, smashing two final robots together in her hands before chucking them aside.
She throws up her hands, still short on breath, "That!... Was awesome!" She glances about, scanning the battlefield, "Hmm… though no... mathematical loot." She shrugs as Cake shrinks down to her size and puts an arm around the heroine then pulls herself up to sit atop her head, doing a circle before lying down.
She lazily replies, "Well duh, we're not dealing with the boss rooms yet, are we? And on that note…" Her smaller than usual paw pats the heroine in the face as she flinches, "No more deals with bosses! Gumbolt is a rogue robot dude! Haven't you seen any horror movies, girl!? AI take over!? They can never be trusted you doof! Especially the hot dudes!"
Fionna shrinks into herself a little, "Erm… I haven't seen any actually… they're all eighteen and above so you and Gumball don't let me watch them… so hah! Now I get to watch eighteen things-"
The paw swats her again. "No! You're not watching adult stuff… there's stuff in them that I don't want to discuss with you yet…"
Fionna whines, "Oh come on! It's for my life apparently as it could have helped us just then! I mean, let's start with the ones you keep in that box you made with Lord Monochromicorn-"
Cake panics atop her head, "NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! DON'T WATCH THOSE TRUST ME THERE'S THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE EVER!" Desperate to change the topic she whacks Fionna again, "But still ignore anything Gumbolt says! Seriously, letting him smooch and flirt with you, that's something you shouldn't allow."
Fionna rubs her neck as she strolls towards a bunch of caves in the rocks around them, "Sorry, I'm just so not used to handling this sort of stuff. I'm used to guys hitting on me constantly, and honestly liking it from Gumball, Flame Prince, and Marshall for so long that I stopped trying to stop them… because I like them all back, and just wanted one of them to make a move."
Cake groans, "Girl, that's no excuse, stop trying to find some when it comes with relationships as it will only lead to a break up. Next time you see Gumbolt, stick your sword in him."
The heroine fidgets unsurely as she steps inside a cave, "That'll… be hard. I mean he looks like Gumball! Minus the bolt joints and cold metal! Not something I can easily deal with!"
Cake hums, "Girl, don't you remember when you were ten? That adventure into the super trippy cave? Where we had to kill the copies of ourselves? You didn't have a problem offing yourself, how's Gumball any worse?"
She shrugs, "I'm fully prepared to die as a hero! But I can't kill someone else who I think is an innocent man."
"But steel butt isn't good!"
She shakes her head, "You try telling my head that! It's really stupid like that." She explains, crossing her arms as the feline sighs.
Finally the heroine glances about in the cave they were in, discovering multiple large paths in every direction, causing her to hum, "If you were a fake, metal Gumball, where would you be?" She inquires, trying to reinforce the mentality of Gumbolt being evil into her stupid little brain.
Cake shrugs, "Where Flame Prince is of course! He's obviously here after him, and as you saw he had to rush off somewhere. Only fire boy could cause a big enough of a hazard to call him away."
Fionna stomps her foot down, "Hey he's not a hazard! He's just… wild. But yeah, that's obviously where he went. I swear to Glob, if he hurt him…"
Cake groans atop her head, "Don't tell me you still like him!? He's way too dangerous for you! A single touch burns your skin girl! You should stay away from that candle boy! Seriously, him and Marshall get your heart pumpin'? I have serious questions about your kinks woman."
Fionna grunts in confusion, "My kinks?"
"Don't worry about that! Now, I'm guessing we'll have to explore these caves for a bit, search a way through it all."
Fionna takes a left, "No need. I… remember the path to his personal chamber. I've memorised the caves."
Cake stares down at her, "... How often do you see him?" The question gets ignored as they march through the twisting tunnels, eyes scanning for any unusual movement, may it be friend or foe. Fionna groans and hums in slight worry, glancing down paths and tunnels for signs of life, only to find them all void of anything. There was nothing left in these caves.
Fionna whines, "I don't like this! Where's the fire cats!? Where FP!? They had toys, items, fuel for their fires and stuff man! Where did it all go!"
Cake hops off her head finally, "If I had to say girl, they may have been… extinguished. I mean, there's no way he would keep a bunch of hazards about, especially near some important factors that could explode if something reactive is lit… let's just go, before we find something we don't like." She grabs Fionna's hand and tugs to pull her away. Only for the heroine to uncaringly push forward, dragging the cat behind as she still marches on, though an expression of pure unadulterated rage sits on her face.
The feline just sighs. There's no way she can persuade Fionna out of this now. She hurriedly walks beside her sister, shifting her hands into swords in preparation while her ears twitch. She listens closely, before suddenly pointing in a direction, "That way! I can hear fighting!"
Fionna was practically charging towards it before the feline could even finish her sentence, sword held out to her side. Cake rushes after her, attempting to keep up with the heroine who actually knows the way through the stone cave maze.
Rapidly the sounds of a fire lions yelps, roars, and hisses fill their ears as Fionna gasps in fear. She bursts forward with such a speed seemingly out of nowhere that she leaves her sister completely in her dust. She rockets into a small chamber, and nearly slams into a massive glass lamp as she skids to a halt.
She snaps about, and discovers what was going on. In the corner the fire lion swipes and claws at ten goliath machines as they attempt to grab it, the drones being the only ones big enough to actually be able to wrestle with the beasts. All around laid the destroyed remains of previous endeavours and scorch marks of struggles.
Fionna wastes no time of any further analysis and rushes towards the mechs, thrusting her blade into its spine. It drops dead, and the others snap to her to scan the new threat, allowing the cornered lion freedom to attack. It pounces on the back of another and immediately begins ripping it to shred with its mighty paws as metal goes flying.
Cake joins in, leaping into the air and stretching her legs out in a split, booting the face of two goliaths at the same time. They stumble back, allowing her to leap at one to her left and slash her arm sword up only to skim its chest. The wound wasn't deep enough to cause any serious damage, allowing the metal giant to rocket its fist forward.
She gets punched in the face, sending her flying backwards into another, who grabs her by her arm and flicks her above its head. Then smashes her back down, slamming her into the ground hard enough to leave a small imprint, as she lays stunned.
It lifts its massive heavy foot up to stomp her head in, when Fionna suddenly slices the limb off, leaving it hopping. She then boots it with a yell, sending it tumbling back and into a comrade, bringing them both to the ground as Fionna jumps atop them. She plunges her blade deep into their cheats, piercing and killing them both, before twisting to face the one Cake injured.
Only to find the feline back on her feet and already engaging it, wrapping her entire body around it and crushing it like a snake. She therefore spins to engage one attempting to sneak up on her, and slices its head off with a small show of sparks.
The fire lion meanwhile was pouncing on another drone, holding its legs down with its paws while biting at its top half. With a muffled roar it rips it in half and violently shakes it about, before spitting it out and growling at the remaining three robots. They push forward unrelentingly, the trio throwing out punches at the beast as it scrambles back to evade.
Their aggressive punches slam into the ground, cracking it beneath their might, yet the heroes of AAA were not deterred. Both Cake and Fionna charge in from either side of the robot trio, shoulder charging to slam them together. The robots were momentarily stunned as they untangled themselves, and Cake leapt at Fionna while they did so.
Grabbing her sister's tail, Fionna swings her above head just as she becomes a massive morning star, and brings her down. The three eight foot drones are smashed beneath the massive weapon as Fionna is even lifted into the air by the impact.
The human pants at the wreckage before her, and lets go of the feline to fist pump the air, "That was awesome!" She laughs a little, and Cake returns back to her normal self, climbing out of the remains as she brushes some broken metal off her body. Yet the small feline suddenly freezes up as the burning lion strolls up to her, stoically glancing down at her while keeping its head high.
The woman shivers, "Oh my. So, erh, you alright?..." Silence. "What were they trying to do to you?" Silence. She huffs and folds her arms, spinning to face Fionna as she watches with a small smirk and a raised eyebrow, "This cat is stupid."
The heroine shakes her head as she steps up to the massive burning lion, "You alright?" It mews and nods its head, "What were they trying to do?" It strolls up to the lamp and sits inside, all the while Cake mutters angrily. The heroine grins at her, "You just weren't as good of a friend to him than I am." She glances back at the lion inquisitively however, "They wanted to put you in there? Why?" It shrugs its front shoulders and strolls out of the glass lamp.
Cake hums, "Well, they were obviously trying to capture them for some reason… but that doesn't matter!" She stands before Fionna and grabs her arms with an excited beaming smile, "Because they are capturing them! Not killing them! That means there's likely more! Including Flame Prince!"
Fionna blinks, then eagerly spins to face the cat, "WELL!? CAN YOU FIND FP!?" It hops up, and glances about as its sniffs the air and its ears twitch atop its head, before darting towards a cave path. The sisters were right behind it as it led the way, its flaming form lighting the tunnels up for the duo as ahead they caught movement.
Small hand sized spider drones were crawling about, who all immediately stopped upon detecting them. They snapped their tail lasers up at them as their weapons charged up, aimed at the charging group with no cover. The lion yelps and dives out of the way in fear, yet the sisters rush forward as Fionna yells a war cry. They fire their lasers and sweep them through the tunnel horizontally, causing the sister to skid under them.
After their deadly game of limbo, Fionna jumps to her feet and stabs the closest one straight through the middle. It catches ablaze, and she panics back as it explodes, sending shrapnel flying everywhere, including into the girl herself. She doesn't even notice her small time wounds as she charges towards the next as blood leaks out of her skin.
She cuts its tail off just as it charges up to cut her in half, then stomps on its body to pin it under her foot. Cake suddenly swoops in to deal with the final drone next to her as its laser just begins to sweep towards the heroine. She boots its tail to aim upwards so it is no longer a threat, then smashes it beneath her giant fists as it shatters and breaks with metal crunches.
Fionna nods in appreciation as the cat jumps back to avoid its small explosion, the drone exploding as Fionna rears her sword back. She promptly stabs the robot beneath her, then boots its fizzling body away down the cave as it explodes into a small fireball.
Cake stands next to her, scratching her head as the scared lion finally comes out, "Strange how they and the previous guys tried killing us, and that fire boy there is scared of them. I mean, what's up with that?"
Fionna makes a raspberry as she shrugs, "No idea! Perhaps steel butt is finally showing his true colours!"
Cake hums, "Doubt so…" She glances around at the caves, then suddenly points up, "Look!"
The girl glances up at the ceiling expecting some massive reveal that will unravel years of plots and organised crime… instead she only saw nothing but rock. "... Am I meant to be seeing something? Or is something only your cat eyes see?"
The feline shakes her head, "No, there's small dents! They're the same shape as the drones feet, and loads of them." She gestures to the fire cat, "They've got to be scouts, they search the cats out then call in the big guys to capture! That's why hot boy here is scared of them, they've probably ratted him and his friends out several times already."
She then elaborates, "And it's also probably why they're trying to kill us, it's the caves girl. They block out all calls, so they likely didn't get the orders for your capture. Trust me, I know from how many times a dungeon stopped a call with my Lord."
Fionna slams her fist into her open palm, "That's why! Good detective work, but…" She twists her head, "... How does that help us?"
Cake shrugs, "Well, we now know the fire lions will probably not help while those things are around, and that we're in the most danger when we're in these caves. So we better not stay here for too long, girl. We need to leave the caves." She practically orders.
Fionna suddenly freezes up, "Wait. If those things call in the big guys, does that mean-" As if it was a cartoon, as soon as she mentions it heavy duty footsteps come marching from down the cave system, echoing as they approach.
Cake gives her a dead stare, then gestures for her to move behind her, the heroine swift doing so. Cake rears her fist back and face dead ahead, staring at the corridor where she believes they were coming from. Like rolling thunder, the footsteps become louder and louder, echoing dishearteningly in their ears as the war machine approaches.
A massive group of ten appear from around the corner, and Cake rockets her fist forward as it grows humongous. The limb smashes into them, crushing them into the cave wall directly behind them as metal parts go flying.
Unfortunately the tunnel system they were in groans and shakes, pebbles falling from the ceiling as the sister grimaced. The shaking eventually stops, and Fionna begins to give the feline a disappointed stare, to which she merely shrugs at, her limb coming back to her, "Hey, maybe you shouldn't break the jinx rule next time, and I wouldn't have to punch everything so hard. I just told you we shouldn't spend long down here, so I was merely speeding everything up."
Fionna huffs angrily, "Yeah, speeding up our end! You should remember from the Night-o-sphere on how scary it is in these caves."
Cake's arms shoot up to wrap around the heroine's neck and begin attempting to plant a kiss on her cheek, "Aw, what's the matter~? Is someone scared~? You can hold my hand if you want!"
Fionna pushes her head back as she laughs, trying to stop her lips from touching her skin, "Stop! I'm no baby!"
The feline then suddenly pulls back as the lion suddenly growls at the same time, "Fighting!" Cake swiftly says, pointing to their left, "I hear more fighting!" The heroine rushes forward as the cat duo become her side wings, following closely behind.
They encounter more spider drones walking away from them. If they were Finn, they would simply wait to avoid unnecessary danger and fighting by letting them pass into another tunnel.
Fionna lobs her ice blade into one of them, piercing into it and destroying it as the others spin around to face them. The dead drone explodes, sending Fionna's sword spinning through the air where she promptly grabs it, and lands slamming it into another.
The other five robots take aim, yet Cake was upon them by belly flopping into two of them covered in spikes. Her bloated body bounced so she could avoid the explosions as the drones become small tiny fire balls with bangs. Fire balls that the lion charges through unbothered, descending upon another and swiftly biting into it with a growl, facing its fear like... A lion.
It explodes in its mouth, yet it doesn't seem to be bothered by it while Fionna handles one that fires its laser. The beam sweeps through the cave as Cake shrinks and the massive burning feline panics, unable to escape. Fionna cuts the laser tail off, then stomps on its head, grabbing it by its base and groaning in effort.
A moment later it splits apart as she tears the drone in half, then hurriedly gets away from its remains as they explode. She wipes her head with a pleased sigh, and spins around while gesturing to the others to follow, still running forward "Come on! We need to save your-"
She runs face first into the metal chassis of more goliaths, banging her head as she falls over backwards. Landing on her ass, she stares up with her view blurred to see the double of the robot, who promptly lifts both hands up to crush her.
Cake suddenly wraps her arms around the heroine's shoulders and yanks her to safety while the lion bounds forward. It head-butt charges into them, sending it and the nine other goliaths behind it tumbling down as Fionna scrambles out of Cake's grasp. Holding her sword high above her head, she screams a war cry as she rushes towards the downed foes.
She brings her blade down, and cuts one in half and bite harshly into the one underneath, the girl having to tug her weapon free. She then returns to brutally hacking away at the limbs as the still learning machines struggle to get up. Their arms and legs flail as they struggle to get up, causing the heroine to swiftly cut them down to size.
In the end, all that remained was sparking remains of disassembled war machines as she pants, the girl cautiously glancing at her blade. It was now slightly damaged after all its been through, yet she simply shakes her head and rushes forward.
Once more the sounds of a fire cat fighting Gumbolt's evil creations fill the air as the one following the sister mews in worry. Fionna simply holds her blade close to her chest. They burst into the room, and Fionna wastes no time on locking onto the closest drone that was facing away from her. She cuts it in half, causing the others to halt and stare at her as they stop shoving an unconscious lion into a lamp.
Fionna growls, "Leave them be!" She rushes forward, swiftly jumping up and booting one in the chest to stumble it back, then stab her sword upwards through its head. One comes from the side swinging, yet she hurriedly yanks her blade free and angles it to reflect the attack.
The punch hits the hard angled surface and slides off, punching an ally in the chest as Fionna's arms are thrown down by the force of the attack. She swings it back up, cutting the second goliath's head in half before using the momentum to swing it back down on the first's face. She then smoothly spins and ducks as another pounces for her, the heroine stabbing her sword into its gut.
As she rips her blade upwards to dissect the drone, Cake creates two massive scythes out of her arms and runs straight at some before her. She drags her arms out behind her, angling the blades outwards as she darts between her foes. Her scythes swiftly cut their legs off, four drones tumbling to the ground behind her as she smirks.
Jumping in the air, she spins around with her scythes and swings them above her head, locking onto the closest drone. Falling, she slams her weapons down as her blades pierces into the machines, ending them instantly.
She rips her arms up and swung at the next as it crawled towards her, sweeping through it as metal went flying. Then she raises the scythes high above her head before plunging them into the back of the next drone. With a grunt she tugs her arms apart and rips the robot in half, then boots a part at the final one still crawling.
The fire lion meanwhile bounds for its unconscious friend, opening its jaw wide to release a short burst of flame. The ball of fire slams into three drones around it as they uncaringly move towards the charging beasts, slowly melting. Fionna coughs as she swiftly backs away, the fire sucking the air away from her to burn as the drones become metal slop.
The lion steps on their liquid remains and growls at everything else as it positions itself over its downed ally. Cake sighs in relief as she no longer needs to glance at the unconscious lion, and focus completely on clean up duty. She yells a war cry while she turns her arms into morning stars and swings them at the two drones before her.
They adapt, and catch her weapons mid air in their massive hands, then yank her towards them. The feline simply stretches her arms so she doesn't move an inch, before growing two massive spikes from her belly that pierce into them.
Fionna meanwhile leaps onto one, stabbing it in the head with her damaged sword, before leaping off while shoving its body. It falls backwards into another which promptly catches it, then throws its dead comrade back at her. She sidesteps to the right while darting forward, speeding past it as she swings her sword in a massive sweep to her left.
She cuts into the bulky waist of the giant as she skids behind it and spins around to thrust her blade into its back. She pierces through its chest, then with a groan she lifts its heavy body up, twisting to face the final few that Cake was facing.
With a yell she flings her blade forward, throwing the body free of her sword as it hits the ground and skids. It slides just before a charging goliath that was rushing to strike Cake from behind, tripping it up as it hits the floor hard. The feline glances at it behind her while wrestling with another, then raises her tail up and shifts it into a clenched fist, before promptly smashing it.
As its parts go flying, Fionna rushes to the one her sister's arms were locked with and slashes at its limbs. They are severed completely off, allowing Cake to then slam the limbs back into its head to stumble it back. Then she follows it up by swiping with an enlarged claw, fatally ripping three claw lines through its body.
Fionna swiftly scans around for more, and discovers that the fight was over, causing her to glance at the lions. They were still in a massive pile of fire and melted metal, though the conscious one didn't seem overly bothered by it as it mews at her. She approaches, but then swiftly backs up as the fire's heat and the oxygen it was stealing proved too dangerous.
Cake huffs and makes a megaphone with her hands so as to not have to use the effort of shouting, "Are they alright?"
It simply huffs, and knocks the glass lamp over to make it shatter against the floor, before grabbing its friend by the tuff of its neck. Then, it drags it over to them, bringing them both out of the fire for the sister to check on its health. Of course, they can't get close without being burnt alive.
Eventually the lion has to result in simply licking its friend's face for a bit, the fire beast twitching in its unwilling slumber until finally it begins to groan. Its eyes open weakly, and the first lion instantly goes to support it in getting up into its feet as Fionna clenches her fists in anger, watching the near limp lion get up. She snaps to her feet, and storms around the now dying fire that was shot out earlier, strolling deeper into the cave system as she twitches in anger.
Cake merely sighs and rushes after her sister, taking a quick glance at the lions behind them as they wobble along before stretching a hand to tap the heroine's shoulder, "Girl they need to stay somewhere, all of them. We can't take them wherever we go, they'll just get…" She doesn't finish her sentence.
Fionna shakes her head, "Well, take them somewhere! And somewhere safe so you can bring more to them, because I'm going to give Gumbolt a little visit." She explains full of venom, causing the feline to suddenly lunge onto her and slam her into the cave wall, shoving their faces together.
She yells, "Are you crazy!" She tightens her grip on the girl, "That is the stupidest idea ever, I'm usually with you especially on crushing evil dudes, but that was a bad idea! He'll just kill you! Or worse keep you imprisoned forever!" She pulls back shaking her head, "You heard him, he wants you to be his wife, he's like the male version of the old Ice Queen! Totes whack out of his mind! And you also expect me to just simply sit by and let you do that alone!?"
Fionna uses her strength to simply push off the wall and continue to stroll forward, glaring at the cat just centimetres from her face, "He's hurting everyone! And there's still no sign of Flame Prince! He's obviously got to him, I've got to rescue him! Besides," She gestures to the injured felines, "Someone has to help them! If I can't do it because I'm fighting steel butt, then it has got to be you!" She explains in extreme annoyance, all the while the lions stroll past them.
Cake shakes her head in disappointment, "Girl, how are you even going to get close to him!? You think you can just walk up to him and fight him!? Especially when he has an ARMY around him!? You need a better plan."
The heroine smirks, "But I do have a plan."
Cake squints, "Then what is it?"
Fionna opens her mouth to respond, yet the loud roar from the healthy fire lion makes them both jolt and snap to it. It gestures its head to the path ahead before promptly setting off on it, the sisters staring puzzled before curiously following the strolling beast. It suddenly roars again as Cake panics slightly, "Hey fire boy! Knock it off or the robots will hear us!"
It gives her a dead stare. She shivers and it focuses back on the path ahead, just in time to hear a second roar responding to the first, and a whole bunch of steps. The fire duo push forward as fast as they can, twisting around corners and splitting paths that they know off by heart until they suddenly enter a large room. Fionna suddenly snaps her fingers, "The main chamber! Of course!"
Cake spins around, staring at the huge open area of dark red rock with multiple support beams around, and the tiny caves dotting the walls with some fire cats sleeping within, "Looks cosy, but what is this place?" She suddenly notices the dead drones sitting around the room, lamps shattered and smashed, "And how long can these boys hold out here?"
Fionna shrugs before rushing forward to see all the cats with a grin, discovering the majority of them all right and healthy as they purr at the sight of her, "They dug this out long ago and made it home. Phoebus showed it to me after a while." She shakes her head with a grin, "But this means they're fine! The two we saw must have not been able to get back here in time and were cut off, however with all of them here," She gestures to the cats lying about lazily, only a few actually guarding, "They'll be able to torch any nasty thing Gumbolt sends!"
Cake nods, "Yeah… yeah they'll be alright I guess, but what if he sends something bigger?"
"Well, he won't be able to if we wreck his factory." Fionna smirks, "Hey Cake, want to break something big?"
The feline smashes two enlarged fists together while yelling, "You bet! But how are we going to get to him? If we fight through his army, he'll likely run, and we both know we can't sneak because you're terrible at it, you'll never be silent! If it isn't any of those, then what was your old plan?"
Fionna grin only grows, "That his robo dudes will take us to him. And he'll have his arms open wide to greet us."
Chapter end
This is how AAA is going. And we'll see what Fionna has planned in the next chapter.
Review response:
FinalKingdomHearts, on FF, chapter 52:
I hope you are!
The Book of Eli, on FF, chapter 52:
Indeed, we learn a bit more about the elusive Huntress Wizard, or more accurately why she chose that name and when she first used magic, but there is more to be shared later (This story arc was not meant to go on for so long, Jesus Christ). Finn is definitely worried about his dad, despite all the evil his done to him Finn will never give up on the chance to redeem him, he knows there is good within that man. Yeah, characters need to be constantly learning and changing to be interesting. Fionna and Cake have it ewsy for a moment, what with Gumbolt simply wanting to kidnap Fionna, not kill her. The other kingdoms however… they won't get any mercy.
fresiak, on ao3, Chapter 52:
I'm glad you liked it! Yeah, to be a wizard you have to be 'mad and sad', so they'll definitely not have a pleasant backstory, nor can they wait around and have a friendly chat in a place like this. The royal's wounds are pretty bad, despite the healing she's received, so she'll definitely be wounded for a while.