Cake raises a confused eyebrow, her head slightly cocked, "And how exactly are you going to pull that off?"
Fionna gestures herself, "Well he wants me duh! What I'll do is I'll offer myself to him, decide that I finally agree to be with him. If he's anything like the old Ice Queen, then he'll likely take me to his evil lair! There, I'll lay the smack down on him, and bust Flame Prince free!" She stands tall and proud, a smug grin on her face as she closes her eyes and has her hands sit on her waist.
"But what if Flame Prince isn't there? What if Gumbolt tries to kill you? What about me? I doubt he'll bring me along." Cake inquires, her ears and the lions' twitching as they begin to hear a noise in the distance.
Fionna shrugs, "I'll say that the price of me coming is that you come along as well, that should also stop him from doing anything to you… as for Flame Prince. Well, I mean, Gumball leaves notes everywhere in his lab and bedroom, so steel butt would likely do the same, right? If he isn't there, then he would have where he's being held written down." Then she taps her damaged ice sword, "And if he tries to kill us, I will beat his butt!"
Cake sighs and shakes her head, "Alright fine, we'll go with it, but only because I'm too lazy to think of anything else!" She swiftly explains, jabbing a finger towards the heroine. Then the feline suddenly freezes up, and glances about.
She wasn't the only one as well, the lions all rise, snapping their heads about and releasing slight growls, much to the confusion of Fionna. Then she hears the light rumbles. It was a constant, never-ending drone that she honestly had no idea what it was, causing her to hum in worry and cautiously pull her blade free from her back. Gumbolt was up to something.
The heroine snaps to her sister, "We need to check that out! Who knows what it is with Gumball's mind!? It could be a bomb that's eating the earth! Or a massive awesome monster slowly rising that we need to kill! Or maybe it's him becoming a huge tower of elemental gum and turning everyone in AAA into happy brainless candy people!"
Cake gives her a confused glance at the last one, "Girl, think realistically." But then her expression hardens, "But you're right, we need to find out what Gumbolt is doing-"
Just as the words left her mouth, the place violently shook. The girls stumble for a second, yet just as quickly as it started it ended, causing them to flick their gaze about for answers. All they find are scared, worried lions as they growl, their fight or flight instincts activating, causing Fionna to sigh and swiftly stand and raise her arms pleadingly, "Easy! Easy! We'll find out what caused it! You guys just stay here for a bit!"
They don't, all swiftly standing and strolling up to her. She panics lightly, taking a step back as their combined heat rolls over her, yet they stop just before her and bow slightly, causing her to blink in shock. Then smirk. She raises her blade, "Who wants to stop an evil overlord!?"
They all immediately roar loudly, the flames on their bodies shooting up to become enormous burning pyres. The heroine grins, while Cake becomes a large quadruped herself, allowing her sister to hop on and swing her sword forward, "Then onwards! Let's stop whatever Gumbolt has in mind!" With that, the sisters launch themselves forward, and the fire cats bound after them.
The constant droning noise echoes out as the horde dashes forward, the group attempting to use it to hunt down the cause. Over time, the noise becomes louder and louder, and the ground begins to shake endlessly, even more than the small earthquake the group's pounding paws were causing.
Slowly, they approached their target, and discovered that whatever the noise was it was coming from the outside. They dash towards the largest cave exit, before finally bounding out into the world darkened by pollution. It takes less than a second to discover what was the cause, and it makes Cake skid to a halt as the sisters gape.
Before them was a mix between a massive drill and a thermal reactor, the massive machines drilling into the crust of the earth as the reactor was placed atop it. Where the drill was digging boiling hot lava spews up from the ground, a barely contained volcanic eruption wanting to escape. The thermal plant was then placed atop it, and they could hear the hiss of water being poured inside, a thermal reactor starting up. The steam inside turns the massive turbines, and begins creating power for the factories.
And there were a few already started up. Worse, they could simply feel the heat radiating off them as the sisters hung back by a long distance. Getting close could result in some serious burns, making destroying Gumball's power nearly impossible, especially since there were currently six large generators running. However. It wasn't too hot for beings of fire.
The lions continue their charge, roaring loudly like the ferocious beasts that they were as they charged the drill. Fionna regains her lost grin and aims her blade at the foreign machine while the giant cats stampede past her, "Bring it down!"
They leap atop the humming machine with fire spewing from their mouth, heating up the reactor. They bite into the metal and wires and begin ripping them out as sparks go flying, causing sirens to start blaring.
Immediately a black swarm suddenly exits the factory, and the sisters glare at the incoming forces as they shoot towards the lions. It was a mix of both air and land units, all varying in size and shapes, but the one that stood out the most was a black cloud.
They flew about like a flock of birds, bobbing and weaving around their robotic allies as they took the lead. They smother the reactor and the lions on it, who instantly leap off with roars of pain, flailing on the ground as other lions breathed flames upon them.
Fionna rushes to the down beasts just as the other machines arrive, causing Cake to dash off to intercept them. The human drags her gaze over their injured form, discovering small pieces of metal dotting their body. She grits her teeth in preparation for the incoming pain, and darts her hands at the metal to rip it off. Any pain is worth helping someone.
Yet when she pinches and rips her hand back, the metal yanks on the lion's fiery skin as it yells in pain, causing the heroine to let go. She blinks as she holds her suffering hand close to her chest, tears slightly in her eyes as she stares down in confusion. Then she realises, "Machine! The metal is your skin, they were turning you into a machine!"
She snaps up to the swarm of nano tech covering the reactor, repairing any damage they had done with ease. They had to disperse them somehow. She snaps her gaze about, but only finds a battlefield around her as fire lions and Cake clash with all sorts of unrelenting metal.
With no solution in hand, she had to wait till something presented itself to her, thus causing her to stand up and face the army. With a war cry, she rushes forward sword first, locking onto a small spider machine and plunging her blade into it before it could fire its laser.
She then swiftly boots its corpse into a goliath but the bulky machine tanks its death explosion uncaringly. She charges it and with a spin cut its arms clean off as it attempts to grab her, allowing her to then boot it backwards. It stumbles before falling over unbalanced, landing on a squad of more spider drones, crushing their tiny bodies beneath it.
They then promptly explode, the multiple violent forces of several dying at once launches the bulky drone up. It flies up into the air, rising above everyone's head as Fionna dashes underneath it, and holds her blade upwards.
Its body falls back onto her blade, impaling itself as it promptly dies, and the heroine grunts under its mass. She swiftly pulls her sword free of the drone while slipping free from underneath it, then hunts a new foe. Another spider droid was charging up its laser to cut a lion in half, and that she would not allow as she threw her damaged blade.
It shoots through the air and strikes its tail, severing it off as momentum carries it onwards, letting the sword embed into the ground. Fionna promptly jumps atop the injured robot to pin it, then rips her sword free from the ground to slash at it. She splits it in half, causing her to dash behind a goliath to use its body as a massive shield.
It ignores the explosion that rocks its form to instead attempt to grab her, causing her to grunt as she uses her thirteen year old muscles. She barely lifts the massive eight foot robot, then yells out, "CAKE!" The enlarged feline swiftly glances at her and swipes the drone from her arms, before promptly chucking it miles away.
Fionna then suddenly dashes to the side to evade a fire lion charging by her, letting it pounce at a goliath with a roar. It bites its heads clean off, spitting the disgusting metal out to instead swipe at another moving to rip it in half. The heroine glances for a new foe, and turns her eyes skywards, discovering the flying drones still causing hell for them.
They were swooping over the forces, hovering out of reach as they fired bursts of red lasers into the horde, a single blow ending a lion's life. They were small, purple compact rounded cubes with two large engines on the sides to allow it to hover and manoeuvrability. Fionna squints, then snaps to battle around her, watching a lion shred a goliath with its claws.
She rushes over to them just as the fiery beast leaps away, allowing her access to the metal remains. She swings her sword at its right arm, cutting it off half way before she reaches down and grabs the severed limb. With a grunt she spins and chucks the heavy piece in the air, watching it arc through the air before striking a flying drone.
It strikes the main body with a bunch of sparks of metal on metal impact, causing it to wobble in the air, before spinning to face the heroine. The laser charges up, and an endless burst of suppressive laser beams start landing around her, pounding the earth as she dives for safety.
She hits the ground and spots a scrap piece of metal, hurriedly snatching it up before scrambling to her feet. The flying drone takes aim just as she throws the small armoured plate, watching it spin in the air for a second before hitting the drone again. It hits the engines, where it promptly gets sucked inside, shredding and ruining the inside as it suddenly explodes.
A thick plume of smoke rises from the engine as the person sized drone spins in the air, falling to the ground while becoming a small fireball. It hits the earth and explodes, causing the heroine to watch in awe at her awesome aim.
Shaking her head, she watches as more help swarms out of the factory, causing her to bite her lip. She glances at the thermal reactor near her, then the nanobots, before thinking about what the lions had done when their friends were being injured. They breathed fire on them. She snaps to the lions, "We got to destroy the reactor! Try breathing fire on it!"
A few close to the massive humming and hissing machine flick their attention to her, then to their new target. They take a deep breath, then exhale an endless stream of flame from their mouths, the fires enveloping the machine. They keep it up for a few seconds before relenting, and discover that they have failed to destroy a single nanobot or even damage the reactor.
She grimaces at their rapid adaption, then searches for a new way to bring them down. She stares at the massive power line carrying the power generated back to the factory, and points her sword at them, "Bring them down!"
A few lions release a roar, and charge towards them, splintering off the fight to handle the objective. They ram head first into the massive metal towers, causing the wires about to release a quiet whipping noise as they stretch. They bite and claw, gnawing away with their incredibly hot bodies at the tall pole as it shakes and strains the wires.
Slowly, it begins to break, the tower of metal straining as its base melts away and massive chunks are pulled out. With a metal screech, the long pole tips over, screaming all the way as it tumbles to the ground, wire snapping echoing throughout the land. It lands with a heavy thump as the reactor generates energy for no reason, causing Fionna to fist pump in victory.
She eagerly scans the environment for their next target, and locks onto one a short distance away, thrusting her blade towards it, "Onwards!" However, none of the lions budge, still preoccupied with the war machines they were currently in battle with. Especially since reinforcements have arrived, the group from earlier arriving to overwhelm them all.
Cake was quickly on them however, growing her arms to become humongous swords, which she swung in a cross. They sweep over the forces as the cat screams a war cry, the blades digging into the weak ground as she mows the horde down.
Aerial units immediately shoot at the feline, their lasers blasting at the large target. Cake however had seen them coming, and at the last second rapidly shrunk herself to evade as the lasers screech over her head. She then suddenly bursts back up with fists flying, punching two from the air while the third takes aim and fires.
It hits the feline in the head, but she was large enough that it just hurt like hell instead of dealing any damage. Cake hisses and slams her hands together on it, crushing it between her palms and letting the burning wreckage fall to the ground. She then boots a bunch of goliaths creeping up on her while she wasn't looking, sending them arcing through the air.
She then blinks in shock at a realisation. They were all a distraction. All around her in the distance were spider drones, all their tail lasers aiming at her as the distance simply became red with charging up lasers. The feline gives a scream of terror as she hurriedly shrunk, and a thousand lasers lit up the sky where she just was.
She snaps her head to them as they cast the battlefield in an ominous red hue, "What the glob!? I thought they weren't meant to kill me or Fionna!?" She shakes her head, 'They must no longer be playing nice.' She snaps to the heroine to warn her of a possible development, yet notices the spider bots on the move again.
They shuffle position, and charge up their lasers again. The beams fire as they aim below them, crossing together in the sky. Then they start to lower. Cake goes wide eyed and screams in desperation, "CAVES! NOW! RUN!"
The lions waste no time, instantly turning tail and rushing away back towards the safety of their home as the lasers rapidly close. Fionna, however, doesn't. She stands her ground, glaring at all the machines with a gaze of pure hatred as the lasers close in. Cake goes to grab her to run, but struggles to move the determined heroine as the human exerts extreme stubbornness.
The lasers close in, and Cake truly panics as she drags Fionna towards the caves, yet she simply slams her sword down into the ground. The lasers were upon them. They suddenly shut off the ones about to hit the sisters while keeping the others, scorching the ground and cutting into the caves. The lions were luckily all safe and hiding at this point, yet when one pokes its head up it suddenly has to duck again as another beam sweeps at it.
The robot army that was there just seconds ago died, being sawed in half by the super deadly weapons. However, the nanobots dart away from the useless reactor to repair them, raising them from the dead as they patch the atoms back together.
Cake meanwhile wobbles before falling over onto the hot ground, her paws weakly gripping Fionna's legs, "Girl… I'm too old for that type of scare! We should have… ran to safety." She complains, trying to stop her thumping heart from exploding.
Fionna meanwhile just smirks at her, "Dude, you should have known that they would turn off, Robo Gumball wants me."
The cat glares in actual anger, "That's stupid! You're placing way too much trust in an evil dude!" She lectures, pulling herself up.
The heroine shakes her head, "Nah, everything came out fine anyway, so you shouldn't worry. Besides... we have a bunch of power lines to break!" She excitedly informs as she wears a massive grin, her gaze locked on the massive poles.
However, the nanobots were now done, and the army was rebuilt. Though now different. They all had some sort of different weapons instead of their arms or lasers, a much larger, thicker barrel replacing them. The nanobots suddenly shoot towards the sisters as Cake panics and makes her hands absolutely huge. She swiftly claps, and the impact releases a massive shockwave.
It sends the nanobots flying back yet they quickly recover, all the while the mixed ground and air assault rushes towards them. Fionna gives a loud scream of war as she holds her damaged blade high above her head, before sprinting forward with all her heart.
They raise their arms, and fire massive nets meant for people that all arc towards Fionna. She thrusts her sword forward to cut them down. And is buried, absolutely buried under a sea of nets to the point where she becomes a small hill, her voice becoming muffled. Cake goes wide eyed, and with a yell rushes forward as she rapidly grows, "Hold on Fionna! I'm coming!" She claps to send the charging nanobots flying again, though they recover even faster this time as she grimaces.
She pounces on Fionna and grows a bunch of sword arms to swiftly cut her free, the heroine eventually bursting out with gasps. Cake shrinks down and pulls her free of the small hole in the nets. Only for more nets to cover them both.
Cake suddenly explodes in size again, rage filling her face as she holds her sister in her hand. However the foreground becomes red with lasers once more before the red beams shoot through the air.
The feline shrinks while dashing backwards, evading the lasers and moving out of range of more nets in a single move. Fionna glares as she watches the army continue to head towards them, arms aimed and ready to net her again. She snaps to Cake in slight annoyance, "Suggestions!? I'm open to them!"
The feline sweeps her gaze across the battlefield, looking for anything that could help them. All they've got is a bunch of nanobots swarming towards them, an army marching towards them, flying drones coming towards them. And a whole bunch of rock. She grumbles, "Not sure Fionna, I'm not sure. I can't be big with those lasers, they may not want to hurt us but we better not test them."
Fionna blinks. "Well. We get rid of them. I mean, they scared off the lions and are stopping you from kicking everyone's butt, so we've got to destroy them." She says with a massive grin in anticipation for what they're about to do.
"How are we going to do that?" She inquires while clapping her hands, sending the nanobots only a short distance back, causing her to instead smack them out of the air. "There's a lot of them. And there's a massive army before us." She points out, the heroine flicking her attention back to them as they enter their range to attack.
Another sea of nets came flying towards them as they both immediately slashed their weapons. They still get covered, but had weakened enough that they were able to dig themselves free, yet more rain down. Fionna growls as she feels them grab the nets, and snaps to Cake, "DO SOMETHING BIG! JUST END THIS!"
Just as she yells this the nanobots come back again and Fionna immediately slashes at them with her damaged sword. They envelope it, sticking to the cold hard surface before crawling towards her hand, causing the heroine to panic and let go. It clangs to the floor, and then simply disappears as the small machines dismantle her weapon.
Fionna gives her sister a look of heartbreak and despair.
Cake wastes no time, and rapidly grows in size, all the while holding her arms high above her head. Fionna rides on her shoulder as the feline becomes bigger than she's ever been before, groaning and grunting as she goes past her limit. Her arms become a massive sledgehammer just as the spider drones aim their tails.
With a loud cry of rage, Cake slams her arms down, the massive weapon smashing into the crust. A massive wave of dust is flung up into the air as rock goes flying. An earthquake shakes the area as a shockwave knocks all the drones off their feet.
Cake suddenly yelps and stretches her arms back, revealing the crater she had made with her strike. It was filled with lava. Cracks snap out as the rock beneath their feet begins to boil and bubble, before suddenly dropping with a groan. Fionna would've yelled at how awesome it was to see the entire world around them suddenly dropped.
But she was too busy yelling at Cake to run.
The place begins to violently erupt as the incredibly thin earth was shattered by Cake's attack, and lava spews up everywhere. The area suddenly rapidly explodes as built up pressure from years of boiling rock roars free. The nanobots, the goliaths, the flying drones, all were incinerated by the molten hell unleashed upon the land.
The spider bots in the distance lose track of their targets thanks to the eruption happening before them, a wall of red and broken rock obscuring their view. Then the floor they were on collapses as well as a domino effect rocks the land, and everything begins to sink into the lava below. They had no time to compute a solution, before raining hellfire and melting heat claim them.
The fire giants may have kept the area superheated for fire people to live in, but it had considerable help from the environment itself. They simply kept the eruption going indefinitely. The thin crust was a volcano just waiting to happen, and that time was now as Cake and Fionna dive into the fire cats' caves. The environment shakes violently as they threaten to cave in, but it protects them from falling debris at the moment.
Burning rocks plummet to the earth like missiles, hitting the ground and exploding violently as the sisters watch in fear and awe. The factory and all the thermal generators are struck, and the generators receive critical damages to most systems. Yet, the factory suddenly pops up an energy dome, protecting it from anything else as it survives with minimal damages.
It begins to calm down, the tiny eruption not having much strength due to not being at popping point before being accidentally unleashed. The sisters cautiously pike their heads out as they watch the massive cloud of ash, dust, and whole fricking boulders fill the air. Fionna glances at the feline, "That was not what I meant."
Cake just wraps her up in her arms and grumbles as they leave the cave, cautiously scanning the ground for cracks and the sky for debris. They cautiously make their way around the burning, bubbling, smoke pumping pond of lava, and glance at what remains.
The thermal reactors were all gone, if they weren't struck and destroyed then their wire towers were, and the one that was somehow spared auto shut down at the sign of an eruption. The factory was alright, only one or two impacts to the facility as small fires were quickly put out, allowing for its shield to lower. They now had to conserve power.
The robot armies that were once where the molten rock is were now utterly gone, completely wiped out. Fionna grins, "Not going to lie. That was pretty cool."
Cake sighs, "Yeah. Yeah it was. I mean you don't get to cause an eruption every day, do you?" She glances at her own hands, and grimaces at the singes she had received, but ultimately shrugs them off for now. However Fionna suddenly snaps a finger to the sky, yet before she could say a word a massive shape strikes the ground before them.
They both grunt as they're sent flying backwards, tumbling to the ground before snapping to their feet, instantly checking on one another. Fionna shakes her head as she discovers her sister a ok, "Sorry, I tried to warn you about the rock."
Gumbolt spoke. "Sorry about that." The siblings go wide eyed and snap to the 'boulder' that had fallen from the sky, discovering the metal monarch's battle mech slowly rising up from where it had landed, "I had to get your attention somehow."
Fionna blinks, then stands up tall to the war waging handsome psychopath, scowling at the huge gun he was holding tightly, "What is your problem? I mean, war!? Why are you waging war? Why aren't you just talking it out with everyone?"
He huffs, "It doesn't work that way. Besides, it is more efficient this way, faster in getting what I want and what my people need."
She shakes her head, "No that's total skunk butt. That's not how this works at all, you need to work together and go higher with help!" She then stomps her foot down and stands defiantly, "Look, I'll be your knight."
He blinks in shock. "What?" He glares slightly, scanning her and Cake over for any secret weapon, "What's with the sudden swap?"
She shakes her head, "Because I swore to Finn that I would talk out problems in the future. You just told me that you're going to wage war. I can't stop you non-violently from miles away. So, I need to be there beside you, and persuade you constantly and beg you and annoy you and trick you until you finally give up and AAA can live in peace! Take me to the factory if you want me on your side."
He stares at her. "... Right... you're effective, and the candy people really like you... fine, seeing how you mean no harm for now..." He takes his gaze off the extremely proud girl to instead scan Cake, who was busy sighing at Fionna, "I know this is sudden, but I'm guessing you're coming with us?" He inquires, moving his gun to his war machine's back.
She raises an eyebrow at him, "Why do you care if I come or not? What have you got planned because we both know I'm not as… trusting as Fionna here." Her words get a 'hey!' from the insulted heroine.
Gumball chuckles, "Remember? I tell you the truth unlike Gumball. I'm keeping you with me as a way to persuade Fionna. If you got hurt because of me, she'll never forgive me, what leads to her not working for me. Keeping you alive, healthy, and happy is in my current interests, and I know Gumball has the same thoughts. He plays with everyone."
Cake huffs and rolls her eyes, but steps up to the mech, "Fine, but only because I'm allergic to dying and not a fan of being on my own. They're both deathly serious for me unfortunately."
He simply rolls his eyes, "Alright," His hands grab them both, "We're going back to the factory. I was quite busy there, you know. This light shower was really bothersome." He complains nonchalantly, actually sounding unbothered by the attack on his work and the shutdown of his thermal generators, making Fionna grimace slightly.
She gestures her head to his destroyed power supply, "So… that's done... nothing?" She inquires almost nervously.
He shakes his head, "Nope." He suddenly activates the jet on his mech's back and is catapulted forward towards the factory that already has its shields up again, "It was annoying, but that was about it. Besides, our army is already on the march towards the Breakfast Kingdom, so even if you shut down our power, it would have been too late to stop our plan."
She remains silent. That was not a good sign. "The army is already in the march? Is there... any way I can persuade you to stop them?"
He shrugs, "I highly doubt it Fi. I'm a machine, I've made hundreds of assessments already and have decided this to be the best course of action to achieve the best future for our people. But who knows, if anyone can do it, it is you, my queen. Now, as a follow up to that, we need to think of our plans. Battle plans, resources, dates, public appearances. I want to know if you're up to the task before I make any plans." He casually explains while rolling his hand, what ends up shaking Cake in his war suit's hand.
Fionna gives him a stern stare, "What if I say I'll leave you and bring you down if you go to war?" She warns, "Will that make you think twice?"
He bites his metal lip, "Kind of. But in the end, you will be mine… I may not be able to feel love, not like others, like you or Gumball fakes to do, but I do appreciate your company. You help keep my thoughts sane, you help me from becoming truly evil. And I know what you're about to say: This is evil! I know it is, but it is a required evil for my people. I'm talking about unnecessary evil, stuff like torture, cold murder, brutal executions. I don't want to go down that lane, and you'll stop me when I begin to. But for now, war to claim a better future is what I'm doing. I'm not evil. I'm making an evil choice for a good reason."
Cake squints at him in slight disgust and confusion, "No you're not. You're just taking everything for no other reason than paranoia!"
"That plays a part in my reasoning, but I am actually going off my calculations. From my research, empires fall over time. And it's when a new country takes their place, when an up starter wrestles out their might and destroys the original to take its place. It's why there's never been one number one strongest, most influential country through-out all of history."
Fionna shakes her head, "Gumbolt, this is just wrong-" They finally land right before the factory, the impact making Fionna grunt, "... No one will ever attack you! I bet your research is based on human history, isn't it? Extremely violent, backstabbing, always plotting pre-war human history?" She interrogates.
He just glances at her, "They're the strongest species the world ever saw."
"They are also all dead."
He shrugs, "They were in discord, not united under one flag and constantly at one another's throat. They had near civil wars over which incompetent leader to vote in. That won't be a problem in the new super kingdom we shall rule together. I'll watch over it for eternity, I will remove the threats before they can grow, I won't be bribed, or ignore a problem for money as my people are my priority." He strolls inside the energy bubble and enters the main entrance of the factory, the massive doors groaning wide as he carries the ladies inside the dark facility.
Cake glares at him, "So you're going full dictatorship, and want us to protect you while you do it? You want the people of AAA to have no voice?"
He shrugs, "Small price to pay for safety." He lets them go gently, placing them on the floor before strolling forward in his suit, attaching it to a massive metal claw. It grips the mech and plugs it in to charge, all the while he hops out and faces the disappointed sisters.
Fionna shakes her head, "No it's not. Besides, I've kept everyone safe so far without having to wage a war or being a dictator."
He raises an eyebrow, "You do realise you're pretty much a warlord, right? Sure, an incredibly nice one, but you do kinda fit the description of a warlord. And I don't think you've protected everyone in AAA, there's simply too many problems and you can't be everywhere at once." He steps up to her, and actually wraps her in a hug, "You've done an amazing job at being the hero of AAA, better than anyone else in history, and you're the best knight in my entire history. But some things can't be done. Some things are not meant to be done."
She pushes him off, "What's that supposed to mean?" She demands angrily, throwing her arms up.
He just stares at her, "There's no point in worrying about everyone in existence, because you can't save every-" He notices her angry stare, "... never mind, don't worry, I was just rambling." He sighs, "Come on, we need to head up to command." He explains, and begins to take some metal stairs up towards as the sisters follow suit.
Cake raises an eyebrow, "Why did you add stairs? You're a robot, can't you just transfer consciousness?"
He turns to face them, and focuses on Fionna, "I knew she would always come to my side eventually. I made them all accessible for her."
She blushes heavy, then glares at him, "Knock it off already you butt, I'm here to stop you, remember?"
He spins back around, "And you'll come to support me eventually. You will return to your prince so we may rule together."
She simply sighs in annoyance, getting a sympathetic pat on the back by Cake. She then stares at him again as the clanking, pounding, and groaning of a manufacturing process becomes louder and louder in her ears, "You're still making things? Even with the power out?"
He smirks a massive grin, "Yeah, I am. Our might won't be stopped by anything we encounter! Though it would be going a lot quicker if you let me have all the fire cats, and you know, didn't destroy all my thermal reactors." He semi complains as they finally reach the top of their stairs, and push open a black metal door revealing a room with a massive table in it, a map of the lands printed atop it.
Cake snorts, "What are you even doing with them!? Why are you imprisoning my family from another tree?"
He sighs, "I'll show you in a bit, trust me, but first, I need to discuss plans with Fionna. You may watch, or if you really want you can run away and await the inevitable back at home."
"There's no way in the night-o-sphere am I leaving her alone with you, you Judas!" She growls out angrily as she stands before her sister.
Gumbolt only rolls his eyes, "No need for the name calling, but my first target is Breakfast Kingdom. It is the closest to this factory, so if I don't deal with it now then I'll have a knife close to my throat when everyone tries to fight back. Plus, they're no small kingdom, with plenty of resources. By obliterating them, I can scare many into inaction." He points at the map, and instantly it lights up, glowing a red hue of war as a large cube slowly makes its way towards the home of living food.
Fionna fidgets nervously, "Oh Glob how do I actually do this?... Dude! You, erh, need to stop this now! This is evil! you're as bad as Ice Queen! I mean old Ice Queen!" She demands, stomping her foot down like an angry child.
The robotic prince stares down at her, "... No? There's literally no reason for me to stand down, I'll put myself and my people at too much risk. Because I don't know if you haven't already noticed, I'm already ruling the Candy Kingdom. I can't hesitate now, not with them at stake." He explains almost smugly, gesturing to their sweet home on the map.
She shakes her head, "Me bubble-brain! You lose me! I won't support you if you do this!" She explains. Again.
"As you've already said, but as much as I love you and you being a valuable asset for my people's defence, you're not critical." He steps up to her and grabs her hands, "I want you. I want you by my side for all of eternity. And before you ask, yes I have a plan to achieve that. But never ask a ruler how far they'll go for their people. Never underestimate what sacrifices we'll make so that the many will benefit. Please, don't force me to make a choice I don't like."
She stares into his metal, slightly glowing eyes, "I won't budge in this matter. You know I won't. I'm a hero, through and through, I will never break my will for good to replace it with something dumb like power or my own emotions." She backs off, "I won't back off my duty, even for those I love Gumbolt. I love Gumball, and you're not him. But there is still good within you! I can feel it! I know you can make the right choice and end this before you donk everything up! I know that even if Cake and Gumball say that you're evil, that you can be redeemed."
He merely shrugs, "Eh, who knows? Maybe you'll be able to do it, maybe not as we'll have to have a climactic battle to end it all. But for now, let's focus on our invasion!" He says full of excitement, gesturing to the large map.
Cake crosses her arms and squints angrily, "Your invasion, you mean? We want no part of this."
"Whatever, you're here, rule number one of being a hero is listening to the evil guy as he rants about his evil plan." He taps Breakfast Kingdom on the map with a single digit, "This is going to happen. I have a full army on the march towards it, with commanders with above average AI's within to navigate and command them all. They will hunt out, scan, and plan the best possible assault, then swiftly do it. I haven't quite finished my ultimate weapon yet, partly because it is illogical to use it right now. I need to make the other people of this world my servants first."
Fionna glares at him, "What do you have planned?" She demands, only to get a laugh and a rub on her head, much to her displeasure.
He smirks smugly at her flustered expression, "You'll find out in time, love, but first we need to finish our earlier conversation." He explains (or doesn't) while gesturing back to the map. Suddenly. Bunch of purple, small cubes dots the land, just waiting to be questioned.
Fionna bites, "What am I looking at? What are they doing?" She notices that they were all moving, "And where are they going?"
Gumbolt opens his arms wide, "To find me of course! Or well, the original me, Gumball. He's too much of a risk, plus, if he's gone then you can date me guilt free." Fionna scowls and rears her fist back before punching him straight in the face.
She had put so much strength behind it that his metal head actually implodes and his body goes flying back. She jolts her hand back to her chest in pain, clutching it with a slight hiss as she stares at his corpse. Not a second later the wall opens up to reveal Gumbolt sighing in annoyance, stepping out in his new body as the wall closes up behind him.
She simply glares at him, "You deserved it." He rolls his eyes.
He picks his old body up and whistles at his destroyed head, before chuckling it carelessly into a corner, "You've got a good punch, but please, don't do that again. It was bothersome. Now, as I was saying, they're hunting Gumball down, what is likely the Ice Kingdom seeing how it was Ice Queen's dragon that saved him."
He taps where they were, in the factory, and gestures to the whole environment, "I'm honestly surprised no one set up home here yet. Other than that bothersome Flame Prince and his pets. I mean, this area is mineral rich, and is the perfect opportunity for thermal energy to be gathered, it was like it was meant to be the perfect home for a high energy civilization. Thus, this is where my main base of operations will be, or at least the military side."
He points to the Candy Kingdom "Peace, farming, people care, politics, science, and other such things will happen here." He then shrugs, "But for that to become our priority, we need to deal with more pressing threats."
Fionna huffs angrily, glaring at the prince as she begins to tap her feet in annoyance, "They're not a threat. No one in all of AAA is! You're just a ding dong who thinks everything is out to get him! What kinda makes sense when you really think about it… you know, being new to the world and you're scared like a baby… but still! You need to calm down man!"
He shakes his head with a slight glare, "You've said those things a hundred times already, if they didn't work the first time, why would they work now?"
She snaps into anger, a massive blush filling her cheeks, "I'M NEW TO BE PEACEFUL!" She explains obviously flustered, before crossing her arms, "Cake, let's just go," She flicks her eyes to the metal man, "Or fight our way out. It's clear this isn't going to work."
Gumbolt hurriedly put up his hands, "Now hold on a second!" They both stare at him, "Alright, I shouldn't have mocked you, buuuut… I do have a point. I'm a machine. My view doesn't change unless new information is given to me, what is incredibly unlikely seeing as I have spies everywhere, more research than you, and calculate everything faster than you can blink." He says almost smugly, "Unfortunately, it is you who has to make a choice, heroes."
Cake creates swords with her arms, "And I think you know our choice, bolts for brains. We're heroes! Through and through!"
He however outstretched his arms like a hug, "But I haven't given my reasons, my persuasive argument, my facts on the situation at hand." He finally gestures to a wall, which suddenly transforms into an open door, "Please, follow."
Just as Cake was about to tell him to go do one, Fionna steps forward with a stern expression, "Show us what you've got."
He chuckles, "What we've got, you mean? After all, you'll be a queen soon, the one up on Finn you never had."
"Not likely" She responds bluntly, grinning at his slightly annoyed expression, "I'm loyal to Gumball, not a fake of him."
He just spins around and walks into the hole in the wall, the sisters cautiously following him as they keep their eyes open for traps. In hindsight, Fionna should've waited till after the tour to insult him. Still they follow him onto a metal cakewalk that forms as they walk on it, nanobots creating a path exactly to how their creator wants it to be.
They peer over the edge and discover a mess of machines constantly moving and shifting as they craft something below. It looked like a massive, black sea with how they moved, causing Fionna to snap her gaze back to Gumbolt like a magnet, her heart pumping that little bit harder. She clears her throat, "So, erh… how is everything still working? I mean, without power?"
He chuckles, "Well, I'll be the first to admit that you have damaged me slightly, but not in the way you think." He swings his right arm to the side, and the wall begins to melt away thanks to the nanobots, and reveal stars that went up to the next level. They all swiftly climb them, Cake panting slightly as she reaches the top, but she and Fionna remain in complete silence in what they saw before them. It was the fire cats. All captured in the glass lamps.
Their burning bodies were boiling a bunch of water all around them as they mewed in slight terror. The rising steam was powering the turbines above them, and thus generating energy for the whole factory.
Gumbolt wanted the fire lions to make them into living batteries.
He casually strolls past their shocked forms, "You stopping me from capturing the rest in the caves kind of hit my energy supply, what I tried to then solve with the thermal generators. What you then destroyed." He sighs, smirking at her, "A shame really. If you had been peaceful earlier, those generators would be up and running, and these guys? Well I would have to let them go, they would no longer be efficient for space."
Fionna balks, "I-... I messed up?" She blinks. She had failed to be peaceful the one time, and already it's coming to bite her. She glances at the poor animals caged in the glass lamps, "Let them go. Please."
He shakes his head, "Unfortunately, not for now. The volcanic area around has become unstable after you two made it erupt… I'm going to have to wait for it all to settle again to find the next best spots for more generators."
She looks down at the floor with a traumatised stare in her eyes, and finally the smile leaves his face to make way for a sigh, "Look, I shall be honest, you had no idea, so don't worry about it too hard-"
Cake snaps at him, "Or are you in the wrong for doing… THAT to living breathing creatures? Not going to take any blame?"
"... As I was saying, I'll make it up to you." He claps his hands, and a continuous drone fills the air. The sisters glance up to the ceiling, and not a second later a hole opens up to reveal a swarm of nanobots. The duo swiftly backup and Cake growls, but the tiny drones rush to Gumbolt as he holds his hand out expectantly. Not a second later, they deposit something long into his open palm, before shooting back up into the hole.
He spins around, and presents it to a gaping Fionna, "For you~" It was a new sword. A fully black, sharp, dangerous looking sword that just screamed levels of awesomeness that made the heroine tremble. She hurriedly reaches forward and snatches it from his hand, gawking at it as she swings it about for a few seconds, before doing a couple of slashes. He chuckles, "That is made of the highest, most resistant material I can make while keeping it light as well. You won't find anything better."
She barely listens to him, so transfixed on her new weapon as she watches light reflect off its super shiny surface, "So cool… thank you." She suddenly gets nudged by Cake, causing her to jump before shaking her head, "But it will take more than a cool new sword to persuade me to your side, or to make up for that!" She yells, pointing at the fire lions again.
He raises an eyebrow, "I wasn't expecting it to. Just my knight needs her own weapon forged in the style of the rest of my arsenal."
Cakes glances back down at the factory below, where more soldiers were being produced, "Your guys are bulky or super thin, depending if its those big guys or those little tiny spider things," She shivers, "When was any of them spiky aerodynamic like her sword, hmm?"
He grins at her, "Well, you haven't seen my full arsenal, have you?" The sisters freeze up for a second, before Fionna shakes her head with an expression of slight worry, "Well, you're going to have to wait a bit before I show you more of our forces. I honestly don't trust you just yet. And that's what this partly is:" He gestures to all around them as the nanobots create a protective path over the boiling water, "A test. I want to know if you're tough enough to make the hard choices."
"Not likely." She growls out, glaring at Gumbolt before turning a pitiful look to the lions again. Yet as their path begins to rise and the group continue on, her heart stops. In the distance, she discovers a massive glass lamp. And within, sat crumpled up with his knees to his chest sat Flame Prince. Her Phoebus, the little spark that kept her warm on cold nights.
Her breath gets caught in her throat as her legs fail to respond to anything her mind screamed as she simply stood there. The metal prince took note of her, and tracks her gaze, locking on the fellow royal himself, "Ah, I see you've noticed-"
"RELEASE HIM!" She snaps to the prince, anger flowing in her veins as she tightens her grip around her sword hilt.
He squints at her, "Unlikely. His unstable matrix provides a lot of energy, and is able to produce a lot more electricity more efficiently than the lions. He is needed for our army Fi, he will help us in producing a better future for the candy people."
Her response was to cut his head off.
She was going to wait until after seeing everything to rescue the lions, but she was ending the atrocity now. His corpse wobbles before flopping into the boiling water below as the fire lions and royal perks up at her. She quickly screams, "HOLD ON! I'LL FIND A WAY TO FREE YOU!" Before rushing to Cake, "We need to find a lever!"
Cake snaps about. To find nothing. She grimaces as she stares back at the panicking kid, "Erh, girl I think he did it with his mind."
She shakes her head, "No way, he said he had made this place with me in mind, and he would always add a manual way to do it! Like, like… what if his connection was severed, or he was locked in one and I needed to save him!? He must have made a way to release them all!" She practically begs, believing her own lies.
"Even if we release them here, they will be surrounded by water!" The feline reminds before she scans about again, still discovering nothing. "Sorry, but it looks like he didn't leave any possibility of them escaping unless he wanted them to."
They hear a bunch of clunks and a deep sigh come over a newly made intercom. Gumbolt utters, "Capture Fionna and Cake. Stockholm syndrome will handle the rest." Immediately nanobots and mechanical thumps echo throughout the factory.
Cake releases noises of worry and confusion as she attempts to figure out what to do, before spotting the metal structural skeleton. All the glass lamps were connected like a rack to a single grid of metal wires that were holding them in the water. She snaps her gaze to several support towers sticking out of the water, and swiftly grabs Fionna's bag.
Reaching inside, she rips out the girl's spare clothes, then stretches her arms to the hot metal. With a grunt she grabs hold using the clothes as a basic barrier against the heat, then rapidly grows as her sister hops on.
They explode out of the factory as Cake tears the massive rack of hundreds of fire cats free with a hiss. She stumbles back at its weight, before using the momentum to spin around and gently place them onto the ground with a light thump. The glass lamps remain intact, so the felines and the royal weren't shredded by a thousand shards as the sisters sigh in relief.
However, Gumbolt and his army were literally right behind them as Cake panics and turns her arm into a massive sword. With years of practice, she perfectly cuts all the lamp lids off in a single slash, causing the fiery cats to immediately flow free.
They all growl and rush to the heroes aid, protecting their back by spraying out a massive wall of fire. The nanobots and machine armies halt for a second, before the nanobots lunge for their larger comrades. They cover them completely like a suit, before the metal warriors unflinchingly storm forward towards the fire with net arms raised.
The tiny nanobots activate the code their fallen comrades had learnt earlier, and protect themselves from the fire. Since they were covering the mixed army of goliaths and spider drones, they too were protected as they nearly reached the lions. Of course, they hadn't learnt to defend against fire claws however as they started to slash with loud roars.
Then Flame Prince leapt into action. He dives in like an animal as Cake shrinks back down, hissing as he creates two flame swords in his hands. He sweeps his arms out, and two arcs of fire energy sweeps endlessly through the horde, cutting them all down. His attacks were burning way hotter than anything the lions were doing, causing the nanobots to have to adapt again for hotter heats. Until then, he was going to ballistic on them.
He slams his hands to the ground and immediately it superheats, before actually melting as the thin crust boils. It becomes lava as the machines sink into the liquid rock as if it was quick sand, their limbs reaching out for solid land to pull themselves free.
Eventually, they all sink away as Fionna and Cake stare at the unstable elemental, who's flames were burning incredibly bright. The heroine rushes to him, "Phoebus!" She cried, causing him to snap his head to her in a fiery, aggressive expression, hissing loudly like a cat. She freezes up for a second, then claps her hands, "Dude! Snap out of it!"
He returns back to normal at her slightly disappointed stare, rising off the ground, "Sorry. I'm… defensive? Don't like anyone near now." He explains in his broken English, a side effect of being raised by wild fire lions.
She simply shakes her head, "We've got to run! There's no idea what he's going to send after us next-" She snaps an arm up to point at the caves, "- And we need to get everyone out! We can't let him do this to anyone else!" She stands to the side, "And you're everyone's prince. Send them-... I don't know where, away!" She almost pleads.
He hurriedly nods, and snaps to felines before pointing to the horizon, "Run." They do as their prince commands, and rushes away, actually heading towards the Ice Kingdom, "Heard Gumbolt say you were there. We'll hide nearby, try to find us if you can." With that, he gets ready to rush to the caves to evacuate everyone, when the earth suddenly shakes.
Fionna and Cake are stumbled, snapping about in worry as the feline yells, "Another eruption!?"
The royal however only grunts as he shakes his head, "No, doesn't feel right, not from volcano." He explains, what does nothing to calm the sisters.
Fionna eventually taps the cat's arm, "Cake…" The feline turns to her, to discover her pointing to the distance.
There, shrouded by ash and dark clouds, came the Unwavering Guardians, barely seen through it all. Their steps shake the ground as a loud horn of foreboding terror roars across the lands. Fionna scramble to her sister as Cake screams, "SCRAMB!"
She hurriedly launches herself while carrying Fionna as one of the giant's eyes glow, all the while Flame Prince rockets away. A massive laser strikes just where they were, causing a miniature nuclear explosion as everyone is flung away through the air. The sisters give a cry of pain and terror as they soar through the air before hitting the ground hard.
They roll across the hard sharp ground before eventually coming to halt as they cringe. Their fur, hair, and even skin was singed slightly from being so close to the small fireball as they pant desperately for air. The human heroine of AAA ignores her pain first, lifting herself up as she grabs a stunned Cake, staring up at the giants in fear.
One switches its gaze to an equally stunned Phoebus, calculates his immunity to fire, and makes its way over to him. The royal stumbles to his feet, and takes to the air again, shooting towards the caves again and disappearing inside before the Unwavering Guardian could reach him. So it simply stands outside, and starts pounding atop where the cave was, attempting to crush him and the fire lions within.
Fionna grunts as she carries a rapidly recovering Cake towards the cave, preparing to save them all from their fate. When she realises the second one was still making its way towards her, its hands aims at her. Its fingertips flop open, revealing the massive digits were actually massive, motorised gas pipes as a white smoke pours from the tips.
Cake quickly scrambles out of her sister's grasp and wraps her arms around her before, hurriedly stretching her legs to raise them up. The black and gold giant releases a wave of gas across the volcanic land, letting it roll across every bump and hill. Luckily the heavy gas does not rise, making the feline now walking through it sigh as she stares down at the pure white that has enveloped her feet.
The Unwavering Guardian simply raises a leg up. Cake's eyes go wide. It stomps onto the ground, and an earthquake shakes the land as Cake stumbles with Fionna in hand. Thanks to her stilt like legs she easily tumbles over, causing her to scream as she falls towards the swirling gas.
She quickly stretches Fionna to some upper ground that was clear of the gas, just before falling into the stuff. Fionna gasps in terror at what just transpired, and grabs the now limp arms that were just holding her, grunting as she yanks on her sister. Luckily, she eventually appears, though unconscious, the white cloud turning out to be knockout gas.
Fionna gives her a despaired stare, before glancing about at her situation. She was on a small ledge, with her sister unconscious, and a Unwavering Guardian shifting to grab her. She hurriedly wraps her sister's arms around her chest, carrying her like a rucksack, before moving to the wall behind her.
With a grunt, she begins to scale it to avoid the hissing gas below, hoping to reach land where she can out run the massive giants. She has no idea how Flame Prince is doing, but she'll save him when she can, right now she needs to not be captured.
Cursing her low agility, she climbs the rock wall with her heavy and precious load, feeling the Unwavering Guardian approach her. Finally it stares at her, and reaches for her as she hurriedly panics. Grabbing Cake's super long legs, she swings them at the approaching fingers, her feet getting a hook.
Acting quickly she swings with Cake as if she was Tarzan, arcing through the air as her own feet glide through the knockout gas. She holds her breath until she starts to rise again, the Unwavering Guardian at this point lifting its arm so it may grab the swinging girl. As its other hand reaches for her, she jolts Cake's foot to unhook, letting them fall into its open palm.
Landing hard, she hurriedly drags Cake between its fingers as they move to close in, swinging onto the back of a digit. Grunting as she swings the long cat, she uses the momentum to send her and her sister flying off the hand.
Thanks to it raising its limbs earlier, she easily lands softly in some safe land, discovering it to be the top of a cliff edge. She hurriedly carries Cake with her as the Unwavering Guardian releases another horn of displeasure. Its hands rise and snap out for her, slamming into the ground all around her before it begins to lift.
Like scooping out a handful of water, the giant cups the hard rock she was standing on in its palms as she panics. If it lifts her too high, then the fall would be fatal for her and she would be forced to stay on it. They would be captured.
She bounds off the edge, diving off the hand held island before hitting the ground with a grunt. All the movement finally begins to awaken Cake, who groans as her eyes gently flutter open, only to be filled with the view of the Unwavering Guardian dropping an island.
She snaps her limbs back to their regular size as she screams, "Not my alarm clock! Don't want you as my alarm clock!" She discovers her arms were wrapped around a panicked Fionna, and immediately tightens her grip as she stretches away. They go flying away just as the hands build a cage where they just were, the massive giant staring at them as they move away.
The human taps her sister's shoulder, "Flame Prince!" She cries as she points at the second one pounding the cave area.
The cat snaps in that direction, then growls, "I just woke up… hold on girl! This is going to be hard for me now!" She groans as she increases her size completely, becoming larger and larger as she storms towards the Unwavering Guardian. It continues to pound the ground as the feline reaches half its size, pulling her fist back to punch it.
The one they were running from sends out a warning, and its comrade spins to face the sisters. It lifts its arms defensively to its chest, blocking the worst of the blow as it stumbles back, before suddenly snapping a hand out. It bitch slaps Cake as she yelps in pain and Fionna struggles to hold on at her collar bone, causing the feline to hiss.
It couldn't do too much damage to her thanks to Gumbolt wanting them alive, so she can easily go on the counter attack worry free. She slashes her massive claws at it, yet it does nothing but cause sparks against its reinforced chest armour.
He had learnt from the Ice Kingdom incident. This enhanced metal resists all her attacks with ease as she slightly panics, but wasn't out of ideas yet. With a scream of rage, she lunges both arms forward, causing it to put its arms defensively against its chest.
What only made it easier for her arms to wrap around the giant like a snake on a deer. Realising its mistake, it begins to struggle, wiggling and writhing to escape her grasp as she groans in effort. She attempts her best to make it pop like a spot, yet once again it doesn't cave in to her attacks, causing her to panic slightly.
She tries to let go to find another solution, but the first Unwavering Guardian from earlier grabs her from behind. She screams in fear as it wraps her in a tight bear hug and lifts her up with ease, the other one freeing itself from Cake's arms. It reaches for Fionna, the hand opening wide to snap her up.
Suddenly a fireball collides into the side of it.
It freezes up at the fire, and twists to face the arsonist, to discover Flame Prince flying in the air with a pair of oven mitts around his neck. His horde of fire lions were rushing away in the distance, getting to safety while the Unwavering Guardians were distracted. The royal growls out, "Stop! Hurting! My! Friends!" He rockets forward and slams into the giant reaching for Fionna in its face, causing it to stumble back.
He then promptly throws the mitts at Fionna, who catches it in slight confusion but swiftly puts them on. He then darts at them, "Cake! Shrink!" The feline does so instantly, popping free of the giant's grip as she grabs hold of Fionna's legs.
Flame Prince then swiftly swoops at the falling heroine's, and snappily grabs the hands of Fionna. The oven meats protect her from his heat as he hurriedly carries them away from the large giants, glancing back at them, "How do we beat?"
Fionna takes one glance at them as their dreadful horns go off again, eyes locked on the trio as their lasers charge up, "Run! We can only run!" He listens to her words of experience, and rockets forward as fast as he can, carrying the siblings away from the danger.
Very quickly, the war machines and the factory fade from view as the sisters sigh in relief, before Cake stares at Fionna, "Girl, that went south fast. Do us a favour, try not to be peaceful again. Finn's much older, he's had more time to practice it, leave him to do it while you do what you do best." The heroine only groans at her failure. Although she had saved Flame Prince and his friends, she failed to stop Gumbolt both violently and peacefully, not to mention practically letting the crazed robot claim FP's home.
She grimaces as they approach nicer lands, and the said royal lowers to let them go, only muttering two words to the girls, "Thank you."
Fionna's mind takes a moment. "... No problem." He places her down at the edge of the rock environment, the candy trees of the Candy Kingdom just ahead as she grimaces slightly, "Though we're still in danger here."
He quickly rubs the back of his head, "... You two are heavy. Not anything about your weight! Just that you're two people!"
Cake just gives him a stare with her hands on her hips, "Not helping, spark boy."
He shakes his head, "Doesn't matter, I can't carry you both, you're heavier than I thought you would be. We'll walk towards Ice Kingdom together. I can do a call to find my family, so that you know where we are hiding."
He starts to stroll forward, leaving no room for counter argument the sisters hurriedly follow the living torch, Cake inquiring, "So what are we going to do now? I mean, we know an army is about to attack Breakfast Kingdom, and that we need to warn them prompto, but what else can we do? I couldn't injure the Bubblegum Guardians!"
Fionna freezes up for a second, before turning her back to Cake, "Get the phone out and warn BF now!" The cat raids her bag, eventually whipping out the black telephone and immediately putting it against her ear.
A quick input of his number and a short wait later, the voice of Breakfast Prince speaks through, though slightly annoyed, "Hello, you've reached the Breakfast Kingdom, I'm very busy so make it quick."
"You're about to be attacked!" Cake screams down the phone, startling the royal on the other side.
"Wait what!? Cake?"
"Yeah it's me! Don't ask, but an evil robot Gumball has just sent an army of machines your way! Prepare for a fight, a really bad one! Use EVERYONE!" The line goes silent.
"... Right, GUARDS! TO ARMS!" He ends the call, causing the feline to sigh. Thank Glob he trusts them not to be lying.
Cake puts the phone away, before twisting a little to face Flame Prince, "We've got to stay clear of the Candy Kingdom, so take the long way around it."
He rolls his eyes, "I know, not dumb."
With that, he sprints forward as the heroines of AAA follow closely behind him, Fionna making a noise of worry, 'This is bad, this is so bad… what would Finn do?'
Meanwhile, Breakfast Kingdom wasn't the only kingdom in danger. Spiderbot scouts were scurrying across the land, watching the kingdoms of AAA from every possible angle. All the while Gumbolt sighs, "I will claim you all. I will protect you, my people. And I will have Fionna as my guard. She just needs time in a cell to change her mind."
Chapter end
Fionna got Flame Prince and his family of cats out of the cold grasp, however the danger was nowhere near gone. Breakfast Kingdom is about to be attacked, but the heroines are going to be worn out after the ordeal they've just been through. Will the kingdom of food be able to hold back the metal invasion?
Will probably do another Fionna and Cake focused chapter before switching back to Finn, Huntress, and Ice Queen again. There's so much to write for their different perspectives and ordeals.
Review response:
The Book of Eli, on FF, chapter 53:
Indeed, Gumbolt is a simple robot, his plans will be simple but effective. I'm glad you liked the action scenes with Fionna, and the little throwback to the training she did with Finn. She's at the age where hormones are indeed starting to play with her, and I think Cake's homemade videos will definitely not help them, that cat is going to have to hide them well. Cake would definitely do cover Fionna's eyes for her innocent little sister, definitely doesn't want her to see her brother do anything INTIMATE with Ice Queen. Holding hands. So intimate, so lewd...