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It took a long time, but Fionna, Cake, and Flame Prince had done a massive curve around the Candy Kingdom territory, staying well clear of the enemy occupied land. They weren't going into any more fights anytime soon, and that was the truth. Both had injuries, mainly the burns they had suffered from the Unwavering Guardian's laser striking behind them, adrenaline now long since worn off. Cake's head was still a little fuzzy from the knockout gas as well, causing her sister to support her as they limped along. Healing can come once they are safe, much to Fionna's disdain. Right now, the Breakfast Kingdom was about to fall under siege. And here she was, not rushing to its aid.
The only good news was that the huge mountain of the Ice Kingdom was now before them as they begin to crunch on the cold white snow beneath them. Flame Prince grimaces, and takes to the air, hovering as best as he can above it all, biting his tongue at the insane cold of the freezing wind. However, the heroine of AAA twists to stare at him, "You can go if you want. You most probably want to check up on your fire lions… I was terrible at protecting them, let alone saving them…" She regretfully informs him. A whole lot died under her charge. 'Why can't I lead them as well as Finn led me and the others through the night-o-sphere?' She interrogates herself, but is brought out of it by the warmth of Flame Prince approaching.
He leans forward, and swiftly plants a painful, burning kiss on her cheek, causing her to blush in shock while Cake tries to swat him away, "She's taken, you torch!"
He ignores her, "Thank you for saving as many of us as you could. And don't blame yourself, we don't. Death is normal, we not bothered by it anymore." He then however gestures to the massive opening a long distance away, "But I can't leave, though you care is noted. You're both injured, I want to make sure you're safe there. Gumbolt mentioned spies here for Gumball, could still be around."
Fionna glances at the frozen fortress, "Huh, that's… a good point… and Cake is also right, I'm taken now, Gumball asked me our. You can't kiss me anymore, or anything else like that, like making the fire flowers, or the fire hearts…" She admits almost disappointingly, finding beauty in the creations of flame, however notices the royal's drop in fire levels and energy, simply floating along in an almost stunned state, "But we can still hang out and stuff! We can still talk and be friends and eat and watch movies together!" She hurriedly spurts out in desperation. She doesn't want the prince to leave her.
He merely shifts his head to stare ahead, "I know… me-… I was too slow, too nervous." He shrugs as nonchalantly as possible, "This is punishment for coward…" He remains close by her, yet she could tell he wanted to shoot off ahead and be away from a source of pain. He was keeping her injured body warm in the cold, he was remaining in pain for her sake.
She mumbles about her life and the lover problems she suffers from, before glancing back up at the prince, "Thank you for the heat… and I'm sorry, if it means anything."
He shrugs, "You can't control your heart, I know. You chose Gumball, I have to live with that..." They gradually make their way towards the large entrance, silence befalling them as no one dares continue a conversation, wanting to escape the awkwardness they had entered. Stepping inside the massive worker's entrance, Fionna's alarm bells immediately went off inside her head.
She snaps her arm in front of the other's to halt them, her gaze scanning the area, finding no movement. Phoebus cautiously inquires, "What's wrong?"
She squints, reaching for her new sword on her back, "I had guards here. They were Ice Queen's people, armed with whatever we had found, however…" She points at the shitty ice wall she had made for them, now without scared men behind it, "... They're missing."
The other duo instantly arm themselves, Cake transforming her right arm into a morning star while Flame Prince held a hand of burning fire. They cautiously step inside, practically back to back as they watch all angles for anything that may spring out at them.
Cake's ears twitch, "Girl, I hear nothing. If anyone's here, then they're nowhere nearby. I mean, I don't even hear the families and their crying kid, and they can be heard for miles." She warns, her hairs standing on end while she watches the heavens above for anything that shifts or drops down. Fionna hums in silent worry, 'Gumball!'
She snaps to Flame Prince, "Do you remember that old hide and seek game we played, where you cheated. You think you can cheat again?" He blinks at her, then perks up, "Oh! Right, sure give me a sec."
He hovers in the air, mutters a few words to summon a spell, then releases a wave of heat away from his body, washing over the environment and the sisters. Just like with the dungeon date of Flame Princess and Finn, he uses his heat sense in an attempt to locate any long lost secrets or anomalies.
He hovers for a second, taking everything in, "Well, it's hard to tell thanks to all this cold kinda weak my spell, buuut…" He remains silent, then opens his eyes to point up at the elevator, which was now destroyed, "I sense a lot of rubble. I'm guessing that's not meant to be broken?"
Fionna gawks, "No, not it's not! Glob how didn't we notice that Cake! We need to hurry, see if we can find anyone!" The feline wraps an arm around the heroine, and lifts her up to the second level to bypass walking up the ramp. Flame Prince shoots right after them, flames flaring for a fight.
They land between the short rows of houses, Fionna glancing at them, "... No sign of fighting, yet nothing was taken either… so they didn't leave." She hurriedly sprints forward, rushing down the ice road towards the now broken elevator, eyes locked on the rubble.
Or more accurately, the lack of it.
She blinks, slowing down as she finds random junk from the Ice Queen's home blockading the entrance, covering it up. She turns her eyes up to the damage they had seen from a distance, and being closer provided a new detail. It was broken not in the sense that it was smashed or hit by some spell, but melted by some pink goo that drips down before her. She continues to stare, "... What the Glob happened?"
She can't help but inquire, all the while the other two step up to her, Cake wrapping an arm about her and pointing up at the final security room, "I don't know girl, but whatever is going on is going on in there. I can hear whispers." So with one arm wrapped around the heroine, the cat's spare becomes a morning star once more as a precaution, and Phoebus' creates swords of pure roaring flame.
They shoot up, Cake carrying her sister as they head for the massive room far above them, rapidly reaching it. They shoot over the walls keeping everyone inside, and spot none other than all the ice people, Gumball, Butterscotch, and Stephen.
They all immediately snap whatever weapons they have at the group, but Butterscotch cautiously lowers her limbs, "You've made it back. Or have you? Prove to us you're Cake and Fionna." She demands, making Fionna stare stunned.
"... Erh… I mean, in the night-o-sphere we had to run through a cave-in... and you were separated with Cake earlier as well!… Is that good enough?" The butler nods, causing everyone to lower their weapons as the trio let themselves inside, Flame Prince discovering some tinfoil spread out on the floor for him. He quickly sits down on it, kneads on it with his hands, before laying down almost like a cat, causing Fionna to smirk a little. Still, she turns to face Gumball as he approaches her, nodding to the fire she just saved, "Where did you find that for him?"
He shrugs with a small, proud grin on his lips, "When we were raiding stuff to block up the elevator, we found Ice Queen's kitchen, so we laid some tinfoil out for him. We knew you would succeed in rescuing him, you've never let us down before."
She blushes heavily, and glances away, "Yeah, but I didn't win. I failed to persuade evil you to stop, I failed to kill evil you, I got several fire lions killed, and made Flame Prince and the fire lions lose their home. I donked it up something bad." She regretfully informs him, much to his slight worry.
"That's not a problem, we're just glad you came back alive with Phoebus, but, erh… what was that about the fire lions losing their home? Where are they now? They're not creating a massive forest fire right now, are they?"
She shakes her head, "No, they're somewhere near here. Not actually in the Ice Kingdom, because of the temperature… ok, this has been bothering me, why are we up here?"
He turns away from her, staring to her right, "Safety. The lower main level as you know has a security problem, mainly, the giant open door, and we couldn't move the guards in these security rooms down to there either. So, if we couldn't move them," He gestures to her right, and she stares at the three massive final guards on standby, "We went to them. As you've already encountered, we damaged the lift up so they can't easily get up here. Of course, there were those spider units, who may simply scale the mountain's walls, so we'll have to keep an eye open for them. But the rest?" He points to their left at the large doors that lead to the previous security room, "They'll have to take the long route."
Fionna nods, "Right, that makes sense. Man, you're smart." He blushes. "But how are we going to help people like this? You're not the only one who Gumbolt's attacking, he's going after Breakfast Kingdom as we speak!"
Her warning causes him to sigh, "Fi, we'll try to help as many as we can, OK? Cake can lift people up here, or maybe Phoebus can if they wear the oven mitts if she isn't here to help, and we can all hold out in this room until you thwart his evil plot. However… well, I doubt we can fit many people in here. If a Kingdom collapses, then there's no way we can hold them all here. They will have to stay down at the more dangerous level." He unfortunately informs her, putting a hand onto her own and giving them a squeeze, "You've got to stop him before he does any serious damage."
She grumbles, "I would, but Cake and Flame Prince ordered me to stay here to heal. They… were not budging on the topic the entire walk home." She shakes her head, "But all we need is some cyclops tears and we'll be good to go save everyone! Got any?"
Gumball shakes his head, "No, I don't…" He watches her expression dip, "And neither does Ice Queen. If Finn had a stockpile of them, surprisingly he kept them all at his home." He glances at Butterscotch, discovering her scanning Cake over, "Can you do anything?" He inquires, causing her to sigh.
"I can, yes, but it will take a while." She stands up, making her way over to Fionna, "I know a spell or two in case you ever got injured, or I ever got burned by demonic hellfire. I'll heal you first so you can set off with Phoebus… if he's recovered enough to do so, then Cake. By the time you two come back, your sister should be healed up enough to lift you up again no problem or being a hazard to her own health." The butler explains, giving a small lecturing glare at the cat currently nursing some sore parts of her body with an embarrassed blush.
Fionna smirks a little, shaking her head at them, yet notices something, "Hey, where's the other princes? You know, the ones who were frozen? Don't tell me…"
He sighs, "Yes, and I just realised myself. Gumbolt has several hostages in the Candy Castle we need saving." In their rush to get out alive, the royal and candy maid had forgotten to grab the princes still entombed in ice, still sitting in the open all the way back in the Candy Kingdom. Gumball groans as he runs a hand across his face, "This is not good. This is not good at all! What are the chances he's going to use them to blackmail their kingdoms into loyalty? Do as I say or I'll kill them?"
Cake perks up, "But he can't kill them, can he?"
The prince shakes his head, "No, but they don't know that-... But they can be told that! Fionna, pass me your phone, quickly!" One of the ice people, Billy the guard, rushes behind her and opens her back, leaving her to simply sit there and be healed. The trained officer used to doing searches swiftly finds the buried device and pulls it free, bringing it to the candy royal.
Grabbing it, Gumball swiftly starts calling numbers, "Muscle Kingdom! Your prince was frozen right!? Well there's a metal me going about attacking everyone and has taken over the Candy Kingdom! He might threaten to hurt your prince to make you do something or become an ally, ignore him! Your prince can't be injured! Don't ask questions, just believe me!" With that, he ends the call, before frantically calling the next royal, "Lizard Kingdom!..."
As he went to repeat his warning, Fionna finishes up on receiving her healing, standing tall and proud, flexing her body now healthy once more, "Thanks Butty…" She nods and begins to move away, yet Fionna sudden halts her, her voice now a whisper, "But I have a question… about Gumball."
The butler motions the girl to the side, away from the busy prince on the phone, then asks inquisitively and accusingly, "What is it you want to know of my master?"
Fionna snorts, "And my boyfriend. And it's about that… does Gumball actually… love me?... Or is he using me? Keeping me bound to him so I will continue to help the Candy Kingdom?"
She asks with some genuine pain in her voice the butler immediately realising the heroine wasn't playing some joke or suffering nerves as she leans forward, "What do you mean? Where did this come from?" She freezes up for a sec, then squints, "Gumbolt planted foul seeds in your mind, hasn't he? Ignore robot Gumball, he is telling lies to split us apart, to make you doubt. Remember, you're dealing with an incredibly smart, tactful, and merciless mind Fionna, he will play with your mind like a fiddle."
She groans, "I know," She sighs, pulling back, "But we haven't been on a date yet. We've only accidentally fallen asleep together in his lab, we didn't even plan to be together on that day. Not only that, but... Well, we were meant to have a date today, what we now obvious can't do anymore. And he didn't even seem really interested in doing a dungeon crawl either... I don't know what to do to keep him interested in me."
Butterscotch shakes her head, "You're definitely young. You've watched too many movies, for love is not spending every waking moment together, but being there for one another. It's not about grand adventures, it's calming, healing for the soul. Just because he's been busy lately doesn't mean he doesn't love you. He does love you, with as much of his heart as he can offer I can tell you that. I've listened to him ramble on and make plans, trust me. But… you two probably should do something together at some point. Give him a prod, yeah?" She winks, causing the heroine to sigh.
Fionna nods with a fire rebuilt within her, "Alright, I'll remind him."
The butler grins, "Remember, he's a prince, he has to look after his people, there's no if or buts about it. If you want to get close and to prepare to become royalty yourself, maybe you can do a date about ruling or helping the Candy Kingdom?" She suggests, before turning around and walking away.
Fionna blinks, "Huh. Not a bad idea actually… though it just sounds like more work." She glances at the prince, discovering him sighing as he begins to call up the next person, causing her to quickly announce "... I'm going to Breakfast Kingdom now that I'm healed! If I'm quick I can protect them!" The prince nods to her, and begins a call to another kingdom, causing Fionna to glance at Cake who was getting healed herself.
Butterscotch backs off for a moment as the feline grows an arm out to wrap around her sister's chest, before lifting her up and over the wall of the room. Slowly lowering her down, Cake eventually drops Fionna off on the bridge to the Ice Queen mansion, before letting her arm retreat. Fionna wastes no time, and rushes off towards the main hole, 'You know, Ice Queen should probably patch this up if she's going to constantly have adventures with Finn.' She notes, sprinting into the cold.
Meanwhile, back in another realm, Finn, Ice Queen, and Huntress rest in a small pile together, sleep blessing them with its restorative effects. In the pitch black of a station without power, a mighty chill has claimed the air of the Citadel thanks to no heaters or heat generating systems working. Thus, they were all huddled together, clothes stripped to share their warmth at the most effective and intimate level.
Limbs tangled, heads together, breaths in sync, the beat of their hearts in harmony, their minds pure and free of anything but bliss. Their clothes were layered atop their bodies as a makeshift form of a quilt, with their arms their pillows. Huntress laid spooning Finn from behind, nuzzling against the crook in his neck as she practically grinds against his body. Finn meanwhile had his arms around Ice Queen, foreheads against one another as the woman pressed her soft body against his, finding safety in his arm wrapped softly around her.
Of course, Huntress was first to stir into consciousness, silently opening her eyes as her senses awakened to the world, with the first thing to greet her was her Finn. His scent, his beautiful long golden hair, his slow calm breaths, his pleasant body warmth, all of it comforts her as she snuggles a little closer to her mate. Her hands felt up his chubby belly that was hiding his muscles, squeezing him into her like a massive teddy bear, an act that stirs the human.
He grumbles, and his own eyes sleepily widen to be filled with the view of Ice Queen, a grin instantly coming to his face. He cuddles the sweet smelling royal, earning a little coo of delight from the woman as he carefully attempts to glance over his shoulder. His entire view is Huntress's blushing, grinning face. He definitely does not mind as he leans forward and plants a tender kiss on her lips. She leans into it for a second, before backing off to glance about, "I want to cuddle more bear, but we better get going. Martin needs us."
The hero nods, and the wood nymph slips off him, arms unravelling unwillingly as she hurriedly grabs her clothes, leading to Finn to gently stir the sleeping beauty royal tangled in his own limbs. Huntress magic her clothes on and swiftly shoulders her quiver, before glancing about at their sleeping spot for any unwanted guests. They had discovered another engineering level to hide in thanks to her huntress vision allowing her to navigate them through the dark. It was small, cramped, allowed for no movement as they were all packed together like sardines in a can, yet she had to admit it was a very pleasant sleep.
She glances back at the duo, finding them sharing a quick smooch before they themselves begin their morning rituals of acquiring their clothes. All those years alone, spent cold and emotionless, and finally Huntress was privileged to the joy of love. She wears a massive smile as she stares at her mate bending down to grab his shirt, her eyes lingering on his behind for a little bit before approaching. Giving it a little tap to make him jolt, she smirks at his blushing shocked expression, "Where do we go from here? Are we back on the level with the security system?" She inquires nonchalantly.
He sighs and finishes in getting changed, "One sec." His arms slip through his sleeves, before raising his metal limb and activating the map. Only for everyone to grimace and snap their head away at the bright light in the darkness, groaning in pain. A few seconds later Finn forces his gaze back to the hologram, wincing as he stares at it, "... Surprisingly, yes, we're back on the level for the security room… though do we even need to go to it?" He asks, making Huntress blink.
"Oh right. Power is off, it's dead… so how do we get to Martin?"
Finn hums, "Well… no idea actually, not without a record of where the prisoners are, or otherwise it will take forever to explore all those mazes to find him."
Ice Queen hums as she brings a hand to her chin, "But where could we find that? The only place I can think of is a computer terminal at some important spot, but…"
She gestures to the world around them, making Finn grimace, "None of them are going to work without power." He regretfully finishes off, leaning back with a sigh.
Huntress leans forward curiously, "Well, is there anyway we can power one? Using magic or something?"
Ice Queen shakes her head, "Not unless you can make lightning, and keep it at a very low yet endless amount of it."
Huntress stares for a second, before getting up and returning to guarding the entrance up to the engineering level, casually speaking to them over her shoulder, "I am out of my element here. You guys brainstorm something."
Finn gives her a worried stare, "You don't have to go or anything, three heads are better than two even if you don't know anything about technology."
She grins at him, raising an eyebrow, "I wasn't insulted, just helping in the best way I can. You two can create a great plan, I know you can." Finn sighs and nods as the wood nymph returns to casually watching the ladder.
He focuses back on the map, scanning it over again, "... What place would still have power? I really doubt a place this big won't have some batteries lying about."
The blue royal nods in agreement, humming, "They would have something powered, that's for sure. If something major like this happened, then they would have definitely made some plans to actually repair the damage. And for that, they need power." She blinks at a realisation, then sighs, "So they are now likely using said power to repair the reactors. Which means to get the batteries now likely in use, we have to go back to a reactor that has melted down."
Finn groans, running a hand across his face, "That's… that's not good. Not to mention we have to find a way back down, since elevators now won't work either."
She grimaces, "So… new plan? There's no way we can use massive amounts of magic to punch holes through the floors, that might get Hekate's attention. That is, you know, if a station wide blackout hasn't already annoyed her."
Finn stops for a second, then stares at her, "That's a good point actually… why hasn't she done anything yet? Is she just… letting this all happen? Or is she doing stuff right now?" He suddenly pales, body going stiff, "What if- what if she's already gone? With Martin? What if we are too late?"
Ice Queen swiftly moves forward and puts her arms on his shoulders, the pink glow of the hologram lighting her up from underneath, "Don't go down that path. You can't doubt yourself, you can't give up, because there's a chance he isn't gone. I don't know the full story between him and you, but I can tell he means something to you, or at least to others you care about. What if we head home and he is still here? You would just abandon him."
Finn takes a deep breath before releasing it slowly, "Right, yeah, I can't falter." He shakes his head, "But I still can't help but worry. What is she up to? I mean, it could be possible she's trying to find us in this whole station due to it being so large?" He suggests his theory with trepidation, yet Ice Queen sighs.
"I doubt it, bear, she was able to track Martin across dimensions and times, I mean we saw how quickly she pops up when he was around, and we've been here hours sleeping. If I had to make a guess, she's likely at the reactor, repairing it so the station has power. It would not surprise me if someone like her had the power to rewind time or something."
Finn groans in frustration as he slams both hands to his face, "But that just leads us back to the start! If we definitely can't go to the reactor because she's there, then what can we do!? We have to find some way to power up a computer!"
Ice Queen remains silent, then glances at him, a small smile forming, "I think… I think we're thinking about this all wrong. We've been thinking like they have only one battery, and can only power one task at a time, say a bunch of machines to repair the reactors. I just realised, they likely have more than one 'battery' so that several parts of the station have power!" She gestures to the environment around them, "I mean oxygen systems still work, not to mention gravity!"
Finn freezes up for a second in thought, then suddenly beams in realisation, excitedly leaning forward as he scans his map again, "Yeah! That makes sense!... Though… we likely don't want to remove them. I like being able to breathe." He states, tugging nervously at the collar of his shirt.
Ice Queen smirks as she shakes her head, waving her hand dismissively, "Pfft! Oxygen is for losers! But seriously, that is a good point. We don't want to touch anything that will kill us, yet still be important enough to earn power."
They stare at the map, then in sync, lift their heads to stare in one another's eyes to say at the same time, "The security room."
Finn leans forward to more closely stare at it at the heart of the Citadel, "That would likely get power, and something we definitely don't mind being gone… if it is still working that is."
Ice Queen grunts in agreement, and promptly stands up, "Then we have a plan." She informs loudly, catching Huntress Wizard's attention as the wood nymph glances at her to continue, "The security room will likely still have emergency power. We can use it to either direct the power to a new console, or we can likely access one there. I mean, that's likely where they'll keep the details on the prisoners anyway, right? However, if it is still powered…"
Huntress nods in understanding, "It will likely try stopping us. Though it likely can't do much without the reactors, right?"
Finn gives her a small smile, "Yeah, it shouldn't have traps or an army around it. It will likely however have a bunch of straggler guards lingering about, trying to protect it with their now very limited number."
He finally deactivates the map, causing him and Ice Queen to fumble towards Huntress, seeking out her glowing eyes as the wood nymph swiftly grabs both their hands, "Alright you two," She tugs them towards the ladder, "Down you go." Before they could even move, she drops down first, simply falling down instead of using the ladder. She lands silently in a crouch, her head already up and scanning the corridor they were in.
It was clear.
She grins, and steps forward, leaving a gap for the other two to climb down, Finn going first. Ice Queen smirks as she deliberately climbs as closely as she can to him, "You better not look up Finn~" She teases, causing the hero, though unseen to her, to blush profusely and nearly freeze up on the ladder, but he recovers enough to step off it.
He quickly retorts, "Would you really mind?" She giggles, and steps off as well, putting her hands on his shoulders and staring down at his form in the pitch black,
"Who knows? How about you try so we'll find out~?"
Huntress faces the lovers and lectures, "Later, you two!" They part and shuffle towards her, causing the wood nymph to twist to face the end of the corridor, and begin to lead the other two down it, "We are not fucking in the Citadel."
Finn sighs with a smirk, "Aw…"
Ice Queen lifts a finger up like she has an idea, "What about in public? Can we fuck in public?" Finn staggers, stumbling as he nearly falls over as his mind fries, much to Ice Queen's amusement. Huntress does her best not to react, though a little stall in her walk was present, causing her to glance behind at the duo.
She discovers Ice Queen grinning madly at a severely blushing Finn, who's walk has just become a bit more funny, causing the wood nymph to join in on the fun, "Sure~ Just be sure to clean up and not to do it in front of any children! It may be a good way to persuade the princes you're no longer after them!"
Finn groans as he slouches, much to the royal's pleasure as she bursts out a laugh, "Ha! I will then! Glob I can't wait to see their faces!" She wasn't done yet though as she grins mischievously at the other woman, "And what a way to come out about our three way relationship as well! Think you'll peg him as he fucks me?" That gets them. Huntress freezes up so hard she stumbles backwards.
Though Finn's blush gets worse it is joined by a look of confusion, raising an eyebrow, "Pegging?" Ice Queen laughs, but does not respond, speeding up her steps as she drags a deer-in-the-headlights Huntress with her, "Sarah!? What's pegging!?" He desperately calls as he hurries after her.
Meanwhile, back in AAA Breakfast Prince paces about in worry, flicking his gaze to the line of syrup guards manning the walls with spears in hand. They had lost contact with the nearby smaller kingdom that Frozen Yogurt Prince owned. They had received the survivors and the royal himself a little while ago.
And the news that those injured people, who were smothered in black ash and smoke, covered in cuts and bruised to another colour, brought no good news. It seems Cake was not exaggerating when she said for him to get all his guards on the defensive. Frozen Yogurt Prince was an old friend to Breakfast Prince, and the royal knew he was not one for flights of fantasy, therefore, he took his description of what was to come to heart.
He spoke of flying war machines, and not any old flying war machines, human aircrafts, decked out in all their weapons. He spoke of an unrelenting army made of steel, wielding swords, immeasurable agility and unstoppable strength. He spoke of a rain of flame by a horizon of artillery, a barrage of exploding shells and depleted uranium in some areas. They had targeted the most vital parts of the kingdom, like the chilling machine used to make sure they don't melt, the most important part of their civilisation.
But worse of all was the description of some massive war machine. Gumball's 'pride' of his military, his wrath embodied. A massive six legged monstrosity with a massive - and apparently he really meant massive - cannon atop it. It was the size of his kingdom, with every stomp it took shook the land. Luckily, it never fired, a weapon of that calibre likely meant to wipe the kingdom off the face of the planet if they somehow ever repelled the main force. The sender of this force obviously can't use them as slaves or steal their belongings if the massive gun blows it all into smithereens.
Breakfast Prince releases a shaky breath, 'It seems that no matter what, this kingdom will fall… where's Fionna!? And Cake!? They called so they knew about the attack! Are they already engaging? Are they currently fighting off another attack at some other battlefield?' He sighs, and takes a glance at his syrup guards, 'I will have to do without them… though it seems I've become dependent on them…' He notes with strong distaste. Just a short time back he had called on Finn for help because his guards couldn't, and a bit further back he was still using Fionna as a crutch for his Kingdom's stability. And now it was biting him in the ass.
A sudden continues thump starts to echo throughout the land, causing him to grimace and shiver in fear, then hurry to see what he fears. Sure enough, far in the distance walked the massive war machine Frozen Yogurt Prince warned about, its massive weapon above it. You know it means business when its barrel is longer than his entire kingdom.
At its feet was a mass of black, the army of steel warriors, and above came roaring in the human aircraft. He wonders if they will drop mushroom bombs... of course they wouldn't, they could just use the giant walking gun. He released a shaky sigh, and twisted to the right, at the main gate to his home, the kingdom made by generations of living food.
His people and the Frozen Yogurt Prince's refugees were being evacuated, fleeing to the Ice Kingdom. It's the only place really cold enough for FYP's people to survive, plus both royals had recently had gracious assistance from the owner. She may be missing in some other dimension but they hope she won't mind them crashing.
With a heavy heart he watches the people he swore to rule over flee for their lives, dashing into the distance for salvation. The bright day begins to end as the cold of night approaches, a much nicer atmosphere for the refugees to travel in thanks to their anatomy, bringing a small smile to his face, "Good luck. I'll join you all when I can…"
He remains silent for a few more seconds, then spins on the spot, facing the door directly behind him and marching up to it. He takes a deep breath, and pushes it open to walk out onto his balcony, turning his gaze to the two hundred women gathered on the kingdom's walls before him, standing their ground.
He clears his throat, causing a few to glance at him, "My guards, don't fail me now, the future of our entire Kingdom depends on you right now." He grabs his sword, and hops over his balcony's wall and onto a roof, "I will admit, I have no speech ready right now. I did not have time to write one. But if the thought of our homes, our jobs, our family and friends all lying in rubble, burnt to the ground and smouldering does not make your heart roar to the defence of it all, I don't know what will."
He steps up to the wall, and is assisted up by one of the guards, standing side by side with his women, "So, in the light of what is to come, do not falter. They may rain fire upon us. They may charge at us with unnatural warriors of steel. They may end our lives. But know that in our final moments, we did not give in. We can never give in, never surrender to their advances, never surrender our freedom. We must strike out at what wishes to extinguish our civilisation!"
Gumbolt's army was nearly upon them. "... I will admit, our chances are slim, but we just have to hold out for only a bit. We have to hold out until everyone has ran away, until our family is safely in the distance. Glob is on our side! Our act of valour is righteous! We are defending the innocent! We are defending ourselves!" He raises his sword high, and the catapults behind him are loaded with massive chunks of stale bread, "We are defending the Breakfast Kingdom!"
The catapults launch their rock solid load, the massive food bits arcing through the air. They slam far into the distance, smashing into the front lines as multiple goliaths get crushed. Yet over their bodies the rest of the force came, and with it, another new unit. It was tall, slim, practically covered in spikes and their long double jointed legs allowed for high agility. They hop over their comrades' bodies beneath the slabs of rock solid bed, and raise up swords just like Fionna's.
They receive an input of data from secret spider drones already within the city. Despite Breakfast Prince's people fleeing and all the guards on high alert, not a single one of the drones have been spotted. Their primary targets were obvious: the cooking oil their kingdom depended on, the royal himself, the four fortified towers containing heavy duty ballista, and the huge baskets of boiling water ready to be poured onto the metal army.
The ballista towers were inside the Kingdom walls, as to help prevent them from being scaled. It also allowed them to shoot any robot that had scaled the main walls, causing the towers to become a priority. The men on the wall were also a priority of course, eliminating them as fast as possible was needed before they poured the boiling water on the drones. Then the important oil containers, the very ones Finn defended from being ransomed. Finally to end it off, Breakfast Prince had to die.
They had their targets, they had their list, now to attack. The army waves and splits, targeting the weakest areas of defences as Breakfast Kingdom's warriors readied their crossbows loaded with bread sticks. They fired, their rock solid food pinging off the metal armour in most cases thanks to the metal natural curve. A few do land though, piercing through their small heads and sending the front line goliaths tumbling down dead. They reload and fire again, raining an endless barrage onto the marching block of metal force.
Then they hear an electronic whine. Breakfast Prince spins around and discovers the small spider spy drones on the houses behind them. Their tails aimed at them and charged, before firing their red laser beams in massive sweeps. The royal ducks as his men spin around and fire their crossbows, though several are cut down by the beams of light.
The breadsticks pierce into the spider spies, ending the small drones as Breakfast Prince sighs and swiftly assesses the damage. All his men manning the boiling water were dead. Before more could take their places, hundreds of spider bots swarm at the wall. They grab one another, and form long massive ladders that reach the top of the pancake walls.
The new slim yet spiked soldiers swiftly climb up them like a ladder with swords in hands, leaping onto the wall. Crossbowmen fire desperately before being cut down, when food swordsmen leapt to action.
Wielding peeled and sharpened bananas, they thrust their blades at the warriors of steel, who simply raise their weapons defensively. They block the blows, before swiftly slashing their heads off and moving to the next one. Then the next, then the next one, then the next one. The hunters were eradicating their targets.
One leaps before Breakfast Prince who instantly swings his bacon sword at it as well. The robot counter swings with such ferocity that when their weapons clash, the royal's weapon gets sent flying. He stares at his missing weapon landing somewhere in his city, before snapping back to the metal warrior.
It slashes at the living food who attempts to back step, resulting in a slash against his chest. He cries out in pain, clutching his wound as five syrup guards rush to their leader's defence with fury in their eyes.
They all hold their weapons at hip level as they charge the hostile unit who merely stands there, and all stab at once. However, it springs into the air just as they attack, causing their banana swords to all slam into one another in a middle.
The robot comes back down from its high agility jump, descending on the star tangled weapons and smashing them all beneath it. It then spins in a circle just like Finn, decapitating them all around it as another guard grabs Breakfast Prince.
Quickly dragging him away, the female soldier yells at him, "Run, sir! Your death will only lead to a loss of morale!" She warns, leading him to gasp in pain while he clutches his syrup leaking wound before hurriedly moving away. He has no combat experience, he can't handle himself on a battlefield. He watches in horror behind him as the robot comes for him, yet it suddenly explodes as a massive baguette slams into it.
The massive projectile that obliterated the seven foot soldier came from one of massive tower's ballista, the only weapon really doing damage.
So naturally for Gumbolt, they had to go.
High above them came the roar of an engine, a massive flying fortress of death: the AC-130, the angel of death. Its side faces the foes far below, and with a barrage of its twenty five millimetre Gatling gun, forty millimetre Bofors cannon, and a one hundred and five millimetre howitzer, rains hell below.
The small bursts absolutely melt the towers where the ballistae stood, turning everything there into mist and rubble. Guards beneath the towers in the town scream as they rush from falling carnage, diving as massive food chunks and body parts land around them.
The ballistae were gone, and thus the main force on the walls easily moved forward unbothered. They cut down anything they encounter, causing a general retreat in the breakfast Kingdom's forces. They rush to the middle of the city where Breakfast Prince stood wounded, getting a quick pancake patch, holding his . He grimaces as he watches the AC-130 circles above them, 'Do it you bastard.'
Yet no lead rains down upon them, causing the royal to squint in confusion as all his women start to die around him. Then an iconic feminine cry fills the air. Fionna suddenly cuts a hunter in half, and clashes her blade with another, striking hard enough to stumble its defensive stance.
She swiftly cuts its head off, then yells to the prince, "Dude! Get everyone to safety! I got this!"
He blinks, then yells out angrily, "Are you crazy!? There's no way you can beat all of this! Let alone that behemoth!" He screams as he points as the super large canon on legs.
She stares at it, "... I'll beat the 'behemoth' from the inside! It has to have a big weakness! They always do! Besides!-" She stands directly in front of a hunter, arms and legs spread open like a starfish. And it does nothing but try to grab her. She leaps out of the way before booting it in the chest, making it stumble backwards before she slashes it in half, "... Gumbolt wants me alive!"
He stares at her explanation, watching as more don't try to kill her, just attempt to secure her. The AC-130 still hasn't attacked either. "... We're not leaving! We will fight until we can't anymore! Not while we're surrounded or while my citizens escape!" His people no doubt needed more time to run, they're not fit and were trying to hide their tracks.
Fionna grimaces as she spins another hunter and stabs it in the back, "Fine, then hold out somewhere better at least!" She shuffles as close as she can to the group of soldiers as the royal screams to retreat to a nearby warehouse. They won't use that big plane she saw if she is near them, they won't risk her getting hit in the collateral.
They all hurry towards the massive building with one large open door, all the while the robot army chases after them. Goliaths tear down the large main wall, creating a massive hole for the sea of hunters to enter as night begins to descend upon them. They all huddle together in the pitch black warehouse as the robots approach in the dark, the only light being their small glowing eyes.
Fionna stands front and centre, and gives a war cry as she holds her black sword high above her head. She brings it down just as one rushes her, swinging its blade up to counter her own.
A shower of sparks were the result of the two blades colliding as their weapons became locked together in a struggle of might. Fionna grunts and the hunter's motors whine as they push on another's blade, reinforcement coming from behind to secure her.
She swiftly lifts her sword up and spins to the side at the same time, momentum bringing her behind the drone with sword high. Since it wasn't expecting her to stop the muscle match, its weapon shot high above its head, and before it could recover, she struck. Slashing her blade down, she chops it in half diagonally, then faces the other hundred.
They just had to hold out until the army was all inside the city before making the rush to the main gates to escape. A goliath stands before her, already lunging for a bear hug to pin her. She easily cuts it in half, the early robots not as refined as later models as they clumsily attempt their objective.
A hunter suddenly lands behind her and grabs her sword arm by the wrists, tightening its grips as she grunts in pain. Syrup soldiers fearlessly rush to her aid, thrusting their banana swords at the metal warrior, only for it to snap its sword at them. It slices their weapons in half, then rears its arms back to hack them to pieces, when Fionna stomps on its leg right at the joint.
Its leg snaps in half as it does a backward kneel, allowing the heroine to grab its head and rip it off with a scream of rage. She lobs the head at another coming right behind her, aiming underneath its feet as it trips up on it. It face plants into the ground, but then uses the momentum to flip onto its feet again, succeeding in losing none of its momentum.
The heroine rips her sword arm free of the dead robot's grip, and slashes at the hostile's steel gut. At jumps backwards to evade, then dashes forward with a kick to send her sprawling into the guards behind her.
It leaps atop her and grabs both arms, before hurriedly dragging her away towards the sea of robots marching in. Breakfast Prince himself suddenly dives in. Since both of the robot's arms were gripping Fionna it could not stop the bacon sword piercing into its chest where its core was. The food prince rips Fionna from its dead grip as it flops over, hurriedly putting her over his shoulder and rushing back to his women.
The female syrup guards swiftly form a wall around the heroine as she struggles out of the royal's hold, snapping out, "Let me go! I'm not a damsel in distress!"
Breakfast Prince scoffs, "You have just been attempted to be kidnapped four times now! That last one was getting too close for my liking!" The guards surrounding her seem to agree, not letting her return to the front lines, "We don't have to attack, just create an impenetrable wall so they can't get in."
At his words the few remaining crossbow men attack the ceiling. It breaks, and tumbles down before everyone, even crushing a hunter unit that had stepped inside the warehouse. Robo Gumball's soldiers move to scale the small wall, but swords in waiting quickly repel them.
Suddenly a huge boom shakes the ground as everyone stumbles, Fionna snapping about in worry, "What was that!?" She screamed.
Breakfast Prince snarls, "I know… I know what that was. That was the oil tanks." The guards snap at him in despair and horror, the massive tanks necessary for their survival, the one that Finn had protected, were now gone.
A raging fire burns nearby, the results of Gumbolt's artillery who were waiting to shell the village on command. They had to wait until everything of value had been looted first of course.
The food royal growls, "... Fight! For just a bit longer! We can rebuild it another day but we have to survive until then! Fight!" Fionna growls in frustration as they all still hold her back, while the rest hold the makeshift wall.
Then the improvised barrier explodes. Goliaths charged their way through, and obliterating it just like they did to the towering main walls. The women behind it are crushed, trampled by their heavy bulky bodies as their gooey innards squirt out of their heads.
Everyone else dives out of the way, escaping the raging bull charge as they rush behind the squads of guards. They spin around and raise their massive limbs high above them, only for the soldiers to instantly cut their heads clean off. However, the damage was too late as the hostile forces swarmed through the open gap, screeching metal reaching out for them all.
Fionna breaks free of the guard's grips as she dives at the enemy, yelling a war cry as she hurls her sword. It heads for a hunter's head, only for the unit to deflect it with a single slash of its own blade. Her new sword gets lodged in the crumbled roof above, though the heroine doesn't hesitate.
She jumps onto a hunter who's arms snap out to grab her, but springs off its body, going straight up. She grabs her sword in the roof and dangles for a second, before flipping with a grunt of effort. She swings her whole body towards the hole in the ceiling the crossbowmen made, dislodging her sword at the same time. She flips atop the roof, where she then promptly jumps off with a scream, blade held above her head.
She slams down onto her hunter, who raises a sword in a defensive stance, yet it stood no match. She chopped through its sword and body with her momentum, sawing it in half like it was butter.
Its split body flops over as she gets up and rushes the army before her, quickly entering a spin as she holds her sword out. Like a saw, she becomes an endlessly spinning blade of destruction, forming a circle of death around her.
The machines, knowing they couldn't touch her at the second, focus on the guards. They stand row on row, crossbowmen firing desperately over their own troops to hit the towering units. The breadsticks take out about two out of the one hundred before them. Metal blades stabbed forward to clash with the banana swords, every warrior fighting to their last breath.
A spider bot crawls across the ground amidst the battlefield, darting towards Fionna still spinning and slashing in all directions. It leaps at the legs of the girl, pinning them together as she trips up with a scream of shock. She tumbles to the ground, where five hunters instantly grab her and pin her limbs together.
They all move in sync, picking her up and beginning to carry her away, causing the AC-130 above to prepare to fire at the warehouse. The crossbowmen rush to the rescue, slaughtering the two pinning her arms. She quickly swings her blade in a massive arc in front of her to end the ones carrying her, dropping her to the floor with a grunt.
She crawls backwards while swinging her sword, forcing the hunter units to retreat for their own safety. A goliath stomps towards her, arms reaching for her as she thrusts her blade towards its chest. It suddenly side steps, causing her sword to become lodged inside an arm instead, embedded to its hilt.
She pales and tries to rip her weapon free, but the goliath's other hand holds her arm still. Hunters grab her again, but she had scrawled back far enough earlier to be in range for the guards women. They scream a war cry as they rush forward, leaving their friends to die behind them as they save the heroine in trouble. Six swords lunge forward as the hunters let go and dart back to evade, causing Fionna to scramble to her feet.
She clenches her sword tightly as she hurriedly boots the goliath back, ripping her sword free. She finally fully retreats, sinking in lime with the rapidly dying guards. Breakfast Prince had two hundred guards before the battle.
He was down to twenty.
He grits his teeth, and prays that his breakfast people, Frozen Yogurt Prince, and his frozen people have enough time. With a bellowing cry he finally orders, "RETREAT! TO SALVATION!" He clutches his chest wound at the slight strain as the guards grimace at the situation. The building was now completely surrounded by robots, all routes blocked as Fionna snaps about for salvation.
She glances at the pancake wall far behind her at the other side of the warehouse, and yells to the food royal, "There can't be as many behind us, right!? Should be easier that way!" He nods, and together they rush to the wall, and stab their swords into it at the ground. With grunts, they lift their weapons, cutting a wide door together as the guards slowly back off towards them. Finally, it was done, and Fionna kicked it down with a yell.
It reveals more hunters as they had expected, Fionna suddenly becoming a blender as she wildly swings about. She begins sawing a path through the large army of metal, sweat covering her as she slashes again and again.
The drones continue to try not to hurt her as they grab some nearby pancakes, and all lunge together and place them on her blade. Her weapon becomes a kebab of sticky pancake as she stares in slight shock at it, allowing them to snap out for her. They all abandon the task however as a bunch of guards swing their swords at them, allowing her to yank the food off her weapon.
She re-joins the action to find three of the guards had died in her steed, vengeance roaring within her. She holds her sword forward before her, remembers Finn in the arena, and screams as she charges sword first. She rushes through everything, impaling them on her blade as everyone else follows closely behind, fighting off side attacks.
She begins to lose momentum with fatigue as she approaches the collapsed walls of the fallen city's walls. With a final heightened scream she skids to a halt, a hunter's corpse flying off her blade and into the soldiers before her. They slash their weapons and cut the body into pieces just before it could hit them, leading to it causing no damage to them.
They march towards her, lunging for her in the crowded environment of being in the middle of an army. However, she had predicted it all, and spins in a quick circle to create a small safe haven around her as they all evade.
The syrup guards use the small space to finish the charge, all screaming as they copy her and rush forward sword first. One gets cut down from the side but the rest are able to create a clear path to the kingdom's destroyed walls. Bursting out of the army everyone gives up on fighting and just books it, sprinting as fast as they can towards the horizon.
Gumbolt's forces begin to give pursuit, charging after them as the small group attempt to find a place to hide. So naturally, they rush into the nearby forest and start darting between the trees, trying to make their path as confusing as possible.
Surprisingly, it works, the AI struggling to navigate a chaotic place as a forest with its ability to proceed details. Constant bumps and dips, sudden roots and bushes are poorly recognised by the limited processing unit. Gumbolt had to cut corners to make room for more battle systems and stronger motors. In the end, the drones call themselves off, avoiding the forest to continue to loot and claim the forest. They can make a nice new factory where the Breakfast Kingdom once sat.
The group pant as they sprint as fast as they can through the forest, Breakfast Prince and his injured getting carried by Fionna in her ever helpful way. They eventually begin to slow, ending up resulting in them stopping completely to pant and recover their breath.
Fionna glances about and pales. Breakfast Kingdom's once grand force of two hundred guards was now down to ten. The rest lay dead. Gumbolt's army had just swept through everything they had done, and claimed the food kingdom as his own. She glances at Breakfast Prince, finding the once high and mighty, boastful and proud man sombre and broken, staring at the ground lifelessly as his hands rest on his knees for support. His own syrup blood drips on the ground, his crown long since gone, lost in the battle that he failed to win, a final mocking blow to the man.
He takes a deep breath and glances at what remains of his women he was once prideful of, a mighty force to be reckoned with. Now dead in their hometown. He shakes his head, "I'm proud of you girls, you held your own out there, and didn't run from your duty."
They don't respond.
He glances at the unstoppable heroine of AAA, "What will we do now?"
She takes a deep breath with her eyes closed, then points to the horizon, speaking with a toneless drone, "To the Ice Kingdom. That's where the rest of us are. It will give us a chance to check if the others made it."
She explains, earning a nod from the man as he pushes himself forward with a pained grunt, "Let's go. I need to see if I failed in another way as well…" The rest follow him, no high hope among them at all, Fionna gritting her teeth.
This is twice now she has failed to stop Gumbolt.
A few hours later, dawn begins to rise in the land of AAA, just as the squad arrives at the towering mountains of Ice Queen. All on autopilot, they trudge towards the massive open door, stepping inside to discover people sitting around almost lifelessly, their backs against the walls as they grip all they've got: each other. Cake was handing out what she could to the sudden amount of refugees that had arrived out of nowhere.
She was in the middle of grilling Frozen Yogurt Prince for information about what was going on when she had noticed the small group coming in. The feline rushes towards her sister, wrapping around the girl to give her a suffocating hug, the startled heroine stumbling back a few steps before weakly returning the hug. Cake pulls herself off and glances at the injured royal and his ten syrup guards as they sit down as well, causing the feline to snap back to her sister, "What the hay happened girl? Did… did you fail to stop Gumbolt's attack?" She inquires in worry, though already knows the answer as her ears droop and her tail lays still on the ground.
Fionna groans, "Yeah… yeah I failed. Again! This is twice now! I'm useless!" Cake swoops in to support her, but the heroine pushes her back, "I'm fine, just… take my up top to rest, then take care of everyone else."
Cake's expression was the definition of worry, yet still she gently came close and wrapped her up before making her way towards the upper security room, "Ok… just sleep. You're not a failure, you did what you could to save everyone."
Despite seeing the hundreds of civilians below her all safe and healthy, Fionna could not believe her sister's words.
Chapter end
If you can't tell by Ice Queen's tease, I'm still wondering how kinky to make this story at times.
Once again, Fionna has failed at stopping the war. Not the best for the heroine's morale.
Want another separate story sex scene?
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The Book of Eli, on FF, chapter 54:
Yep, Gumbolt destroying his foes with facts and logic, his brain is enormous! Eh, it would be a nice home for Flame Prince and cats with the new volcano, but there's currently a factory sitting atop it, that'll have to go first *fire burns intensely*. Yeah, a capture and torture situation will not be good for our heroine, she best avoid it at all costs (though, she has been failing a lot these last few fights).