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A Friend in Need

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As Finn and Marcy are flying towards the graveyard, she thinks back over the last hundred years.  This has been a very amazing time in her long life.  At the end of the previous hundred years, she met someone very special, a silly young boy that helped her realize that life, and unlife, are what you make of it.  He got her to admit her true physical age, and once he found out the truth, he eagerly chose to join her in the vampire world for eternity.  She had always liked him, but had never realized that he was the one; the one she had waited for over a thousand years of existence to meet.

The last hundred years have streaked by.  Finn and Marceline are notorious around the land of Ooo as elite pranksters, and once the candy citizens realized that Marceline was physically 15, and that she was hanging around with Finn the hero, who would also be 15 for eternity, they accepted them into their homes and hearts.

But it wasn’t always that way.  Princess Bubblegum was furious that Finn the Human had chosen to become a vampire.  She had found a way to greatly extend her lifespan, and at the time Finn was changed she was well over a hundred years old.  She liked Finn, and even though she rejected him over and over, she was just waiting for him to catch up to her physical age.  Then she wanted to date him for real, and use the same techniques on him to extend his age, and then she wanted to maybe, just maybe, have him rule the candy kingdom by her side.

The anger she felt knew no bounds.  She commanded the candy citizens to shun them, and at first, they obeyed her order.  Finn and Marcy found themselves alone and ignored day after day.  Even Finn’s brother, Jake the Dog, told them to stay away.  He was angry that Finn had not talked about it with him!  But their family bond was stronger than anything Finn could do, and eventually he became the first of the citizens of Ooo to accept the couple into his home and heart.  In fact, there was only one being in the land of Ooo that accepted them as they were unconditionally; BMO. 

As they land and look at the grave of Finn’s brother, Finn can’t control the tears that flow from his eyes.  Marceline puts her arm around his shoulders and leans on him.  She sheds a tear as well.  Once he accepted both of them back into his life, Jake became like a brother to her too!  It’s been 23 years since Jake passed on, and Finn still feels the loss just like it happened yesterday.  “That’s the part of living forever that sucks Finn.  Your mortal friends die, and you are left behind to deal with the loss.  It-it never gets easier.”  “How many for you Marcy?”  She replies, “Dozens, just dozens.”  She thinks about all of the good people she had met over the years, and how all of them are gone.

Except Finn.  It is a huge comfort in her mind to know that she won’t be alone any more.  She turns to Finn and holds him close.  He holds her with all the love he can muster, both of them sobbing for several minutes.  They get under control, and then Finn reaches into his backpack, the same one he has carried since he was a kid, and brings out the one being that loved them both no matter what; BMO.  He switches it on, and its screen crackles to life.  But it’s fuzzy and full of static, and BMO has a little trouble seeing through the interference.  BMO says in a voice that is hardly recognizable, “Finn?  Where are we?”  Finn smiles at the little robot and says, “We stopped to put some flowers on Jakey’s grave.”  BMO turns and sees the tombstone, and tears form on its video screen.  “I miss Jake.”  Finn looks at it and says, “We all do BMO.”  Lady Rainicorn had died a few years before Jake in a tragic accident, and when Jake was an old dog, he turned down the offer to become a vampire so he could be with her for eternity.

Marcy looks at BMO’s screen and is a bit startled.  “How are you doing BMO?”  BMO looks at Marcy and says, “I don’t feel so good Miss Marceline.”  Marcy holds back a tear and says, “Don’t you worry, we will fix you up as good as new!”  Then Finn looks at BMO and says, “OK, time to go back to sleep.”  BMO smiles meekly and closes its eyes.  Then Finn switches BMO off.  He looks at Marcy, “BMO looks worse; we need to find a new power cell fast!”  Marcy says, “We have one more stop before it’s time to go.”  Finn nods and they fly to the snowy mountains.  While they are flying there, Finn recalls the painful memory of BMO falling out of the tree house and cracking its case, and even worse, seeing its power supply fall out, only connected by a couple of wires!  They immediately flew down, and saw the power cell was badly damaged.  It only took a short while to realize that BMO was dying, and they needed to replace the power cell.

When they get there, they turn invisible and sneak into a familiar cave.  They see the Ice King at his drumset.  The penguins are all dancing, and from their faces it seems they weren’t given a choice!  Both of them snicker quietly, but Ice King hears something.  “Who’s that?  Is someone in the cave?”  He gets up and starts walking, and then he feels something touch his shoulder.  He turns quickly and sees Finn and Marcy there!  “BOO!”  Ice King is startled, but gets his composure back quickly; he is used to their antics!  He says, “So what brings you two here?”  Finn says, “Marcy and I dropped in to say hello.  We are going on a little journey and we won’t be stopping by for a while.”  Ice King frowns, “How long of a while?”  Marcy says, “A while.  We aren’t sure how long it will take, but it’s going to be… a while.”  Ice King says, “Well, don’t forget where I live.  It does an old man’s heart good to see you two drop by now and then.”  He looks at the ceiling and says, “Since you two will be gone a while, I think I’ll go visit with a friend.”  Both Finn and Marcy are surprised!  “Simon, you have friends other than us?”  He smirks and says, “Why do you insist on calling me Simon?  Anyway, yes I do, a lady friend at that!  But we are just friends, don’t you two read anything into this!”  Finn says, “OK Ice King, have fun, and you need to tell us more when we all get back!”

Finn and Marceline take off; they are heading towards the Acoustic Kingdom.  They are pretty sure that is where BMO was made.  They get there shortly before dawn and go to talk to one of the engineers there.  He tells them that BMO was manufactured there, and is the only one in existence.  The power cell was unique, and they don’t know how to make another.  Now Finn and Marcy are lost!  They figure they only have a couple of days to find a solution before BMO is lost forever.  They know that Princess Bubblegum won’t help them, and they found no answers at Braintown, where they had visited the night before.

They stop at the cave entrance to the Acoustic Kingdom and look at the sunlit ground.  They see a forest ahead, and pull out their umbrellas.  The sun is quite bright, and even with the umbrellas it is very painful for both of them.  They get to the forest and find a well shaded grove of trees.  They see the shore is close by, and they will go there in the evening to think out a plan.  Finn hides his backpack in the grove and both of the vampires change to bats and hang from the overhead tree to sleep.

Finn hears a rusting sound, and looks down.  He sees a pair of dwarf humanoids dragging his pack away from the tree!  He shakes Marcy, and then points at what is happening.  Both of them fly down behind the pair and change to their normal forms.  They bump into Finn’s legs, and turn to see what it is.  They both get a look of terror in their eyes!  Finn and Marcy both hiss and change onto wolves.  Then they growl at the pair.  “Um, d-does this b-belong to you?”  Finn nods his head and growls a little meaner.  Then the two humanoids run to the sunshine!  “You can’t catch us you mean old vampires!”  Finn and Marcy look at the pair running off feeling helpless – BMO is in the pack, along with their umbrellas!

As they watch the thieves run off with their friend, they don’t know what to do.  They see the humanoids get into a boat and float out into the water.  Without their umbrellas they don’t dare charge into the sunlight!  Finn feels as sad as he has felt in decades, and closes his eyes.

Suddenly the image of Dad forms in his mind.  “So, Finn, are you going to wuss out or are you going to go help your friend?”  Finn thinks, ‘Dad, I don’t know what to do!  I can’t go out in the sunlight anymore.’  “Dad sighs, “Finn, I thought you were more resourceful than that.  Grab your sword and think about armor.”  Finn isn’t sure what to do, but does know his dad has never led him astray.  He grabs the demon blood sword that has been in their family for generations, and thinks about armor and protection.  ‘Focus, boy, your friend is counting on you!’  He forces all other thoughts out of his mind, and all of a sudden a red glow surrounds his body!  He puts his hand into the sunlight, and it doesn’t burn!  Marceline sees him do this, and is absolutely stunned!  Finn grabs her around the waist, and she is covered by the red glow as well! “That’s the Finn I know.  Take care of your friend, and know I love you son, and if you need me I’ll always be there for you.”  Finn sheds a tear, and then smiles.  He takes off into the air, and both of them are in the sunlight.  It feels so good, even through the red glow.  Marceline gives out a whoop of joy!  This is the first time she has enjoyed the sun in centuries!

The humanoids are in the boat looking at their spoils.  They pull a few items out of the pack, and start throwing stuff they don’t want into the water.  Then they pull out BMO.  One of the humanoids shakes the robot and nothing happens.  He is about to throw it into the water, but changes his mind.  They probably have a few batteries on their island.  “I usually play Kompy’s castle on BMO.  I’m pretty good at it!”  The humanoid says, “Thanks!”  But then he sees a look of terror on his friend’s face.  He turns and sees Marceline the Vampire Queen, and she is angry!  She grabs BMO, then bites into the humanoids arm and drinks some of his blood!  His friend is scared to death!  After she has drawn a half pint or so, she drops him on the deck of the boat.  “Next time, you two will be snacks for both of us!”  She grabs the backpack and BMO, and Finn flies them into the air.  Even though the one is quite dizzy from blood loss, the two humanoids feel fortunate that they are both alive!

As Finn flies into the air, he realizes that he has lost his bearings.  He looks around and can’t see the shore!  Marcy says, “I’m not sure either Finn.  It looks like we are going to have to just fly and hope for the best.”  Finn flies them around, and while they are flying Marcy kisses Finn, and then gives up some of the blood she drank to him.  He enjoys the flavor thoroughly!  Blood is the best flavor ever for a vampire!  He gets rejuvenated and starts flying.

All of a sudden, a storm rises.  Clouds overcome the sunlight, and the winds start blowing furiously.  Then the rains start falling.  They both are utterly lost.  All they can see in any direction is water.  All of a sudden, they see a hill on the horizon!  Finn starts flying straight towards it and in about an hour they get there.  They see a forest, and head there.  Finn lies down exhausted, and the red glow fades from both of them.  Marcy is also exhausted, and she lies next to him to grab a little rest.

They both wake up startled!  How long have they been out?  They see the sun is setting, and Marcy grabs her umbrella and floats up above the hill.  She sees nothing but water, but then notices something strange…  Is that a face at the end of the island?  Then she sees a small blue dot, and it looks familiar.  She flies down and grabs Finn, who raises his umbrella too.  They fly towards the ‘face’ end of the island, and then they see the mouth moving; it’s talking!  They can’t make out the words, but they see the island is a lady, and she is talking to the blue dot, and as they get closer, both of them are stunned!  It’s Ice King!  They fly over to Simon and land next to him.  He glances over and says, “Oh, hi guys.”  And then he continues talking to the island.  Then he stops, turns, and says, “Did you follow me?  If you did I am really upset!”  Marceline says, “No, no, we were more or less shipwrecked, and this is the first land we saw!”  Ice King frowns and then he smiles.  He waves his hand at the mouth and says, “This is the lady I mentioned, Isla de Senorita.  And Isla, these are my friends Finn and Marcy.”  Isla smiles really big and says, “I’m very pleased to meet you, Ice King talks about you two all the time!”  Both Finn and Marcy smile and blush.  But then Finn gets a serious look on his face.  “We were trying to get help for our friend BMO.  It is dying, and we don’t know what to do.”  Marcy pulls BMO out of the pack, and Ice King is shocked at its condition.  About this time the sun finishes setting and Finn and Marcy close their umbrellas.

Isla says, “Wait, is that a ‘thing’ rather than a humanoid?”  Finn, Marcy and Ice King all nod.  “I think I may have an answer.”  She yells, “LIFE WIZARD!”  Suddenly the life wizard, the one that brought Finn’s hat to life a hundred years before, rises out of the sand.  He floats over to the group and says, “Hi Isla, what do you need?”  She smiles and says, “A favor.”  She looks at Ice King and says, “Life Wizard is the one that brought me to life.  He has stayed here ever since.  He says that some nerd got him angry and he left Ooo.”  Ice King gets nervous, he was the nerd!  Life Wizard looks at Ice King, but it’s obvious that he has forgotten and forgiven long ago.

Life Wizard says, “The Party God bet me during a big party that I couldn’t bring this island to life.  I took his challenge and as you can see, I succeeded!”  Now Isla is very upset.  Party God had her brought to life as ‘a party trick'?  Ice King says, “Don’t you fret any.  No matter why you were brought into this world, you are here and you are a great lady!”  Isla says, “Ohh, Ice King, you say the nicest things.”  Then Life Wizard says, “But I needed to stay, so she could stay alive.  She is too big; I need to refresh her life frequently.  The inevitable by-product of renewing her life is the big storms.”  Ice King glances at BMO and is shocked again!  “Any chance you can save our friend?"  Life Wizard sees the little robot, and says, “I have to improve my mood first.  And it needs to be switched on when I do it.”  Finn reaches into his pack and grabs a pen, and draws a face on one of his fingers.  He starts dancing it around and singing the ‘baloobalooba’.  Then Marceline starts dancing like an Egyptian behind them.  Ice King starts laughing out loud, and very quickly Life Wizard is laughing too! 

Finn stops and turns BMO on.  It takes almost a minute for its face to be visible under the static.  Marceline keeps dancing, and then BMO says, “I feel really bad Finn, I just want you to know I’ve really liked being your game console.”  Then its face starts shrinking.  But then, Life Wizard touches BMO.  A bright glow surrounds it, and then there is a flash of light!

All of them are stunned to see that BMO is a humanoid girl, about 14 years old with pale blue skin and bright blue hair!  And she is naked!  Ice King and Life Wizard both turn away, but Finn is stunned by what he sees and stares.  Then he hears Marceline growl, and he blushes really big and snaps out of it!  He turns his head too.  Marceline reaches into his pack and grabs a tank top and a pair of shorts she stores there, and puts them on BMO.  She lets everyone know they can look again.

But BMO isn’t moving.  She is just lying there.  Finn runs over and grabs his long time companion and holds her, he can feel the warmth of her body.  “Wake up Beemo!  We need you to be OK!”  Then BMO opens her eyes.  She looks around, and says, “What happened?”  She looks at her arms and her body, and screams!  She steps away from Finn and lifts her shirt up a bit, and then everyone sees the marks of her controller switches, looking like tatoos.  Finn says, “It looks like you got what you always wanted BMO.  You are really, really alive!”  She replies, “But, but… I thought I was a boy!”  Everyone starts laughing; BMO is most definitely not a boy!

They all sit down on Isla’s cheek and talk.  BMO is enjoying the ability to feel things immensely!  At one point Marceline has to take her into the woods to show her about peeing.  Finn looks at Ice King and says, “Simon, we are going to find a way to shrink Isla to your size.  It is so obvious you are the perfect companions, and then Life Wizard wouldn’t have to stay to keep her alive.  I’m not sure how we will do it, but we will find a way!”  Then he looks at Isla de Senorita and says, “I’m assuming that’s what you want too Isla!”  She agrees, she would really like to be able to move around, and spend time with her good friend Ice King.

Finn gets directions back to Ooo from Ice King, and then He, Marcy and Beemo bid farewell.  They fly off with Finn holding one of Beemo’s arms, and Marceline holding the other.  As they are flying back, Beemo says, “Even though I’m a girl, we are still buds, right?”  Finn smiles big!  “Of course Beemo.  You were there for Marceline and I when no one else was.  You have always been a great friend, it would not matter what your sex or shape or color ended up being, we would always have room for you in our hearts!”  Beemo smiles big and enjoys the feel of the breeze on her face.  “Can I become a vampire too?”  Finn and Marcy both laugh!  Marcy says, “Let’s take one thing at a time Beemo.  I need to get some clothes out of my closet for you to try on.  After you’ve been humanoid for a while, we can talk more about this.”

When the three of them get to the tree house, they see that the sun is rising.  Finn and Marcy climb under a blanket in the living room and snuggle up.  All of a sudden Beemo climbs under the blanket and starts tickling both of them!  Then they tickle back!  After a couple of minutes, Finn gets up and thinks.  He says, “Beemo, it looks like we need to make you a bedroom.”  He walks over to one of the spare rooms and makes a passable bed for her and says, “We’ll make you a real bedroom tomorrow, but for now, will this be OK?”  Beemo nods vigorously and climbs into the bed.  “Goodnight Finn!  Goodnight Miss Marceline!  I’m looking forward to tomorrow, my first whole day as a real girl!”  Finn smirks and thinks that she’s almost like a baby in a teenager’s body.  Well, he was like that too at one time.  A hundred years has changed a lot of things for him.  But the one thing that has never changed is that he will always be there for a friend in need.

Next: Another friend in need

The 15 year old vampire couple finds an old friend has a big need!

Wow, I was so inspired for this, but I hurt my back and was on pain pills, which really hurt my creativity. This is my 4th rewrite of this story, I hope you all like it!

This is a sequel to 'The Truth About Marcy' [link]
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