♕1st Experiement [Action]
[Bonnibel had been walking for some time now. The sun was high and warm in the sky when she had started out, and now it had just slipped past the horizon. Her legs and feet were sore hours ago, and now she was also starting to get hungry
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"M-Marceline?! Marceline, is that you!? Where the nuts are we Marceline?!"
[Getting to her feet she quickly hobbled over to the Vampire Queen, wincing a little with each step of her right foot. She reached out to throw her arms around Marceline in a hug, but embarrasment won out and she turned away awkwardly when Fionna started talking. The girl could easily have been Finn's sister, but then again this was only the second human she had ever seen. Maybe they all looked like that!]
"It's a pleasure to meet you Fionna the Hero. I usually get called Princess Bubblegum, or PB, but I'm not really particular! You remind me quite a bit of someone I know, you know..."
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"H-hey! Yeah,you have the who right! The where, we can get into in a second if it's cool?"
┫For all the reasons to feel guilty why was she feeling so awful about being so gal pal with Fionna now that Bonnibel is here? Well, if that didn't sting being left hanging for a hug sure did! Arms falling to her sides Marceline gnaws on her bottom lip, eyes on the ground.┣
"Fi? Uh, Fionna. You know how I mentioned Princess Bubblegum? Yeah, this is her."
┫Why is this suddenly so awkward?! She turns to Bonni and nods in agreement, Fionna is really like a certain boy adventurer. Suddenly self conscious, and a lot colder due to the sudden snow, Marceline wrings her fingers. Silent a second she eventually snaps out of it.┣
"What're you doing here? Are you alright, Bonni?"
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"Yeah, Marceline was filling me in. There's a Finn where you guys are, right? Um...I'm not sure how this is, but my name's Fionna, and I live with Cake in the land of Ooo. So uh, I'm Fionna, and I'm supposed to protect you."
[Awkward, but true.]
"Soo...what do you want to know?"
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"Oh good Glob am I glad to see you, Marceline. It's been so totes creepy walking out here alone for ages."
[Bonni's face felt a little warm right then, either from her embarrasment, or the cold air nipping at it. She held back once, and it stung Marceline and herself, so she might as well just be forthright for this one little instance.]
"I had no idea there were other Humans anywhere in Ooo, Fionna! We so for realsies have to tell Finn about this later when we get back home, right Marceline? He gets all soul searchy sometimes about being 'the last member of his species' and all that junk.
[There was a pause, and then she caught herself.]
"Oh Glob, I'm so sorry Fionna! I shouldn't just make assumptions about your species like that! The Finn we know is human, and you look so similar I just assumed.."
[Bonnibel did actually feel quite a bit more reassured having both Marceline and a Lady-Finn here to protect her. There were a lot of dangerous roving bands of rocks around, just looking for a toe to stub!]
"I have no idea what in the name of every single serving of single serve ice cream I'm doing here Marcie! And yeah, well I'm hungry and cold as nuts and..."
[She tried on one of her nicknames for Marceline, and found it did clear a little of that awkwardness, at least on her own end. Bonni then lifted her right foot up, just a little, and wiggled her toes around.]
"...My foot and a rock got into a fight, and I think the rock had the upper hand. Or, really it just had the upper foot! But what about you Marceline, are you...Okay? And really where the lump are we?!"
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"I'm glad that you're alright, Princess. Although you being here isn't as cool as it seems.."
┫Marceline isn't sure if she should explain it or if she should let Fionna do the honors? It must feel craptacular being the odd woman out. Here she is with someone she knows when Fionna may never see her dudes again. Especially since if everything said so far is true, that there are no dudes period. Emotional and cold she has a bat nose moment, swabbing at it hard with the back of her wrist. She is sniffling because she is cold, yeah that's it!┣
"Your foot lost to a rock?! So you're hurt?"
┫She looks to Fionna, her expression both pleading and apologetic. It was Finn's job to protect Princess Bubblegum! But with Finn out of the picture, probably forever, the job and title would default to..her.┣
"Hey Fionna? Do you think you could lend Princess an arm or a leg since she busted her stems? If we find a place I can make a fire and get stuff for our stomachs...while you watch out for her? We can give her the deets then."
(OOC: Sorry, this new comment system is seriously messing me up. More so since my edit button mysterious ran the frick away..)
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"Yeah. We just got some papers and stuff about it. I talked to a bunch of girls here too, and they all come from these other places, same as us. The Queen that brought us here is totally whacked, something about fostering relationships or some biz. No one seems super happy about it."
[Say no more, Marceline. Fionna had been known to pull Prince Gumball out of a tight spot this way, and did the same with Princess Bubblegum: she picked her up bridal style, looking unperturbed, and started walking.]
"We're trying to get some food now though, and then we have to find out about magic dirt!"
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"Wait, so we've all been kidnapped by some butt queen, queen of being a butt, who wants us to 'foster our relationships' against our will? What the cabbage you guys, is she the Ice King's super perv sister or something?!"
[Something, however, was not right. Marceline had danced around explaining the situation, avoiding it every time even when directly asked. PB picked up on that right away, and figured that there had to have been some more bad news, and it was bad enough that Marceline didn't want to have to be the one to break it to her.]
"Hey you guys, is there something more you're not telling me? Like, how we're going to get away from the perv queen of being a butt, and get home? And, well rocks are made of harder stuff than gum, who knew riiiiiii-. Wh-hey it's just a stubbed toe, I think! I'll be okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Fionna!"
[Bonni squeaked and squaked as Fionna scooped her up and carried her. She really really hoped that Marceline wasn't looking this way, because her face might well have enough red to look appetizing. That was her story, and she was sticking to it, anyway. At least Fionna was warm, which was really quite comforting against the bitter air. And If only Bonni knew about Marceline's little fits of guilt, then they could share in them right about now. Bonni really wanted to launch a scientific inquiry into the properties of this magic dirt, and if it fit into the living earth hypothesis, but really all she managed to say was:]
"M-magic, what? Dirt?"
(OOC: I got you a paid account! Did that bring the prodigal edit button home? And sorry from me too, I had to delete to edit. Oop)
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"Yeah, what Fionna is saying is totally the truth. Yanked and ganked, Queen Butt took our stuff too. This is more than caggabe, Bonni! This is brussel sprouts! The Ice King could never pull off a stunt like this!"
┫If it were the Ice King they would be long out of this place! Which is really the reason why Marceline keeps avoiding talking about it. The Queen of Hearts is no poo brain and far more cunning than their usual foe. Just how do you tell a work-a-holic Princess that she may never see her kingdom again?┣
"I wanted to save it for when you were sitting, sheesh! But since Fionna has totally got this, I guess we might as well spill."
┫She takes a moment to apparently gather her thoughts and get her words into line. No, not really. She takes a moment to slap an icy hand over her mouth and do a poor job at not laughing! Bonni's discomfort and squeaking, they've always been the best ice breakers!┣
"Do I need to pronounce you two Princess and Knight?! Get a castle you two!"
┫Yeah, as soon as the words are out she knows that she'll regret them eventually. But now isn't eventually, thankfully! Oh yeah, Marceline is totally looking. The red makes her stomach gurgle mightily; however, she pushes onward. Finding a clearing to set up camp is the best idea.┣
"Fionna read more than I did, so she's totally the one to ask about the dirt. Apparently we're here to rebuild or some junk. Wait a second!"
┫With that she dashes forward, having found a small clearing between two rather large fruit trees! Perfect!┣
(OOC: Dude! Thank you so much! And yeah, it did! I owe you! With all this needing to edit and LJ being bonkers with getting posts out of place I think you might need a paid account yourself.)
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[Which made Fionna pout a little, apparently not noticing the language the other girls are talking for the moment. It still sucks, not having Cake here and having to read and adventure without her. They were a team. But she knew if Cake were watching, she'd want her to press on.]
"W-what the hay? I was just helping her out dude! I'm a hero, remember!"
[Oh yeah, the dirt.]
"It's at the edge of this garden: you're supposed to make it into whatever you want. I need to make the tree fort again. You guys can come if you want."
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"So what, this invisible, untouchable Perv Queen tries to get us 'together' just so she can watch the whole thing? That's so unbelievably gross and way creepy! And wait just a minute, you have an Ice Queen?! Where in Ooo do you live? The parallels are getting to be quite interesting!"
[Bonni shuddered just talking about it! This made the Ice King look like a sad and almost harmless old man! And wait, what was that about an Ice Queen? Curiouser and curiouser. Then, looking up to the sky Bonnibel called out as loud as she could without being a bother to Fionna, who was kind enough to tote her around.]
"Hey Queen Butt! You're hearing this right now, right? Why don't you go chew on a turnip and let us watch for a change! And then you can go GET LUMPED and send us all the LUMP home!"
[Lumpy Space vernacular is how you know someone is mad and means it! PB was actually rather happy that she was being carried right about now. She had an idea of what was lurking unsaid, and it would have taken her to her knees. While she herself may have been an easy kidnapping target, not just anyone can waltz in and steal up the queen of the vampires. If this Butt Queen was someone who could hold Marceline against her will, PB had to brace herself for the possibility that they may not be going home anytime soon. Or at all. That her kingdom might fall into the sour hands of Lemongrab, and that she might never even be able to say goodbye to her people, or to her friends. To Finn and Jake, and more than anyone to her best friend, Lady Rainicorn. Thankfully for her Marceline's teasing came along just at the right time.]
"MARCELINE! That's just... uncalled for! She's just.. Quiddit!"
[She flailed and kicked playfully in Fionna's arms, but she laughed too, and stuck her tongue out at Marceline, just to make sure she didn't rekindle the flames of awkward. All three of them were plucked up like that, all three of them had someone or something left behind. Bonni was just going to have to be strong for Fionna and Marceline, and try and keep their spirits high! Then she realized it. The Perv Queen did take their stuff. All of it! They were all wearing a simple white dress. Including Marceline. How in the lump did she not notice that sooner? Suddenly all of the awkward tension around Bonni was gone with a resounding laugh.]
"Pffffffbt! Nice dress there Marceline Monroe!"
[She thought that was the last name of the actress from The Seven Year Itch, one of the old movies they had watched at Movie Night, anyway.]
"Yeah, we need to find something that can give Marcie some shelter from the sun, right? And wait, what the cabbage you live in a tree fort too? You really are just like Finn! Next you're going to tell us that Cake is a magical dog, and your sister!"
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"I was told that even if you're careful this Queen will find a way to get you. I don't know what kind of kicks she is getting out of this but what I do know is that you have to wake up pretty early in the morning to pull one over on us girls from Ooo!"
┫Sneaking a quick glance over at Fionna and Bonnibel Marceline tilts her head. Here they are smiling, laughing and taunting their captors. It's like Finn is here, yet not. Lost in thought she finds her mind reeling: Marshall Lee, Ice Queen and Cake: Just what is Fionna feeling right now?
Those thoughts crash and burn thanks to Princess Bubblegum's screaming. Get lumped. Just a few hours ago Marceline thought she'd never hear that again!┣
"Yeah, yeah! I'm sorry you two! But if the image fits you have to admit!"
┫With a groan Marceline makes busy gathering up some wood, her face burning with a blush while her back was turned. These dresses do more than make you cold, they're embarrassing! She really, really, really needs to find her stuff! However, food and being warm are more important! All these things to get done and worry about and all before the sun comes up, ugh! ┣
"Fionna, didn't you say that there is a Prince Gumball too? You haven't said too much about where you're from outside of it being where we're from. As for me and the sun I'll cross that bridge when I find it!"
┫Vegatables, fruit and animals. Marceline can smell them all and is formulating a plan in her head to get food rich quick. For some reason she keeps thinking of birds, she was told something about birds.┣
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[Well, something about getting down with girls, a concept that Fionna just HAD to revisit and blushed accordingly. Man, who needed to go putting ideas like that in people's heads? It was as bad as that time with that ghost who caught the ball with his butt! Some things were just too strange to think about! For her, anyway.]
[Speaking of cold, Fionna did shiver slightly, but that was all they were going to get: she was an adventurer, they depended on her to be the strongest! She just made sure her hat stayed on tight, trying not to think of images.]
"The Ooo you guys keeps talking about is just like mine, but everybody that's a guy from your world is a girl in mine, and the same backwards! Prince Gumball is pretty flippin sweet, and is a great ruler. You guys ought to meet him someday."
[Happily, she's gotten over him, though only just. She looked at Princess Bubblegum, seeing the resemblance.
"Huh? No way dude, Cake is a cat. But she IS all that other stuff you said!"
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"You're darn right you have to get up early for that Marcie! The Queen of Butts will regret coming to Ooo for her little kidnapping pervy games when we're done raising the Nightosphere in this place!"
"And no way Marcie, I'm not admitting to anything unless you let me call Marceline Monroe some more! And hey you both talked to other girls being held here right? Are there any others from Ooo, or is the Queen of Butts finding some other place to pluck people from?"
[Prince..Gumball? This was weird. Way weird. Really way weird, in a really weird way. It really was like everything in Fionna's Ooo was the same as their Ooo, but with a few little differences like gender.]
"What the nuts, Prince Gumball?! Gumball, not Gumbald right? I had a great uncle named Gumbald. I wonder just how far this Mirror Ooo of yours goes. Lemme make a few scientific wild guesses and see how many stick! Prince Gumball has a servant named Peppermint Maid? And he's friends with Lord Rainicorn? And sometimes a weird floating guy called Lumpy Space Prince hangs around?"
[She laughed, and hoped it would be infectious. Fionna and Cake seemed a mirror of Finn and Jake in so many ways, and she knew that Finn would crumble to bits in days without Jake at his side. Fionna was probably missing Cake more than she wanted to think about.]
"The sun is absolutely not a bridge we're crossing when we get to it, Marceline! I've seen what happens when you get any sunlight on you, and we're not taking any of those kinds of risks! I just wish Science were here to help me engineer some lightproof junk."
[Bonni noticed Fionna's little shiver, and did what little she could to stay close to her and keep her warm, and really seriously hoped that doing so wouldn't garner any more teasing from Marceline. Really it was the least she could do for being kept off of her foot, and it wasn't like she wasn't feeling the cold either. And just what was the idea the Queen of Butts had with these little white dresses in this weather?! The least she could do was provide them with sweaters and some sleeping bags! Even the ICE KING had better kidnapping courtesy! Thinking about the cold, she couldn't help but to worry about how bad Marceline probably had it. She didn't produce the same amount of body heat, and didn't have someone who had carried her to provide some extra warmth. Then, she figured, it was time to go ahead and bite the gobstopper a little early, even if it was going to be embarrassing as math.]
"Hey Marceline, get over here for a sec before you go off to do that food finding stuff."
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"We may need all the power in the Nightosphere to get out of here, maybe even more! It is possible to go home, but only if the Queen get tired of you not playing nice and sends you back."
┫Turning around to face PB and Fionna again Marceline gives a dramatic, and looping, roll of her beady little eyes. Yeah, she is steadily getting back to being herself bit by bit. Enough so that once her eyes adjust to the dim light of the fire she is able to see the streak of red as it races across Fionna's cheeks: Which she'll get around to pointing out and calling the Adventurer on.┣
"Oh fine, Bonni! I'll give it a rest if you do? And I dunno, of all the talking heads we're the only ones from Ooo that I've seen."
"Fionna, what's with the red? Your head'll turn into a tomato if you keep it up! So you might as well tell!"
┫Well, she won't threaten to bite since: She wouldn't anyway and tomato gives her cabbage freaky dreams. Marceline picks up a twig and gives the fire a poke or two, keeping the flames rolling. As the smoke gives rise the scent is very clearly that of apple. Not just any apple, but wick. The wood really shouldn't smell this way, not in Winter at least. Shielding her eyes, purely out of habit, she looks up at the canopy over head. Sure enough, there is red in them thar leaves!┣
"Trust me, I know just how dirt balls it is when I'm in the sun. It is almost as dirt balls as standing around in the snow wearing this sheet! Right now Science can't do the work and I'll just improvise until something more permanent comes along. Like we find that sand or some junk."
┫Wait, did Fionna say that Cake is a cat? That is the total opposite of Jake the dog. Maybe it is the hunger and cold working together to make her brain run faster, but she is beginning to read between the lines. As Bonni pokes and prods Fionna for more information, in a purely scientific way of course, Marceline takes a few steps away from the fire--her bat nose wiggling as she tries to make out other scents in the air. Glob, being so hungry really isn't helping her senses.┣
"What's up, BonBon?"
┫Unable to catch more than the scent of the fire Marceline wanders back over to Fionna and Bonni, her head tilted. All this shivering and blushing can be hidden or gotten rid of by sitting by the fire, or at least that was part of Marceline's intent. A lot is going through The Vampire Queen's head right now, a fact that she is hiding with her usual carefree smile and occasional jabs. They are cold, hungry, hurt, alone and far from home. Sure, Fionna is an adventurer but this is too much for one set of shoulders to bare.┣
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"Prince Gumball is one of the nicest, smartest guys I know. He's the type of dude that would do anything for his people, and sometimes he gets flack for that. But so long as I'm there to make sure that he gets treated ok, nothing bad will happen to him...except that one thing with the Lickhkind. But that was the Ice Queen's fault anyway."
[Oh yeah, they were wearing weird clothes. She figures that was probably why she shivered a little while ago. Not that she was going to let THEM see her complaining.]
And its Lord Monichrome, actually. He is just cool looking, man. And I'm not a tomato! I just...its cold, yeah, that's it!"
[She shook her head]. "Whatevs. Let's go hunt for some chow. I can do the cleaning and junk."
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"So she sends people home that get under her skin? That's perfect you guys, we've already our daring escape plans written out! We get the Queen of Butts so flipped out that she can't stand us anymore, and pops us home like a great big..."
[She paused with a look of horror.]
"...What the nuts, you guys, talking heads?! Oh lemons Marceline, Fionna, do they decapitate people that don't play along here, and keep their heads alive as grim warnings?! Oh cabbages, oh cabbages, oh cabbaaaagggggeeeeeeesssss this is bad! This is brussel sprouts bad! Can I take back all that Queen of Butts stuff?"
[At the mention of Gumball's run in with the Lich Bonni put aside her panic attack long enough to turn to Marceline, a look of mild shock on her face. The parellels between the two Ooos went far, almost too much so. Prince Gumball fell victim to the Lich because of the Ice Queen? That was too similar to her own little incident. Then there was Lord Monochromicorn and Cake, who had more variables in them than just gender and name. PB, or really here without a kingdom, B decided to make another little scientific test by teasing, which was of course the best science. Besides, Marceline had already started on the teasing road with the tomato comment!]
"He sounds like an awesome prince, and I'm sure he appreciates all the stuff you do for him, Fionna. But I bet you really must like him a lot! to help him out so much!"
[You could actually hear the space between A and Lot when she said it. Proper spelling leads to proper dictation, that's what Peppermint Butler always said. And probably also what Peppermint Maid said, although that was a little scary to think about.]
[Bonni stood up from Fionna and tested her weight on her right foot. It still hurt a little, but it didn't seem to be broken or anything. With a little teeny bit of wincing she made her way over to the camp fire, and eagerly plopped herself down in front of it, enjoying its warmth. Then, turning to face Marceline she grasped firmly at a few locks of of the gum-hair tucked away by the side of her neck (someplace a little out of sight) and gave it a sharp tug. The glob of hair came free with a resonant snap, and she reached out to place the it in the palm of Marceline's hand. It was still a little warm, and brightly pink. Her face, however, was crimson enough to be an appetizer for this snack.]
"Eat this before you go out looking for food, okay? Then I'm totes helping when we look for the sand."
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