Adventures Against Evil

Chapter 1: Come Along With Me

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters mentioned within. Adventure Time is owned by Cartoon Network, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil is owned by Disney

I thought sleep portals were a thing of the past. Guess not. As if dealing with rampant teenage jealousy, getting my soul sucked out of me, and not having faced Tom since telling him I kissed Star, I didn't think this week could get worse.

River sent Star and I back to my parents' house while the castle was rebuilt. Star hadn't thought of that before surrendering her wand, but I digress. My parents were more than thrilled to see me, but Star...Star was still pretty messed up. She didn't want to talk about it after everything that happened, so I gave her some space. She passed out on the couch pretty quick, unable to make a new room without her wand. I was pretty exhausted too, so it didn't take long for me to fall asleep either.

I was woken a few hours later to the familiar sound of portals, and a glowing light filling the whole house. I knew what it was. My eyes shot open, I hastily grabbed my closest hoodie and charged down the stairs.

It never ceases to amaze me, seeing Star turn into this six-armed butterfly...thing. But as she was hurtling towards the portal above my couch, I snapped out of it, hit the floor running, and was able to snatch her left foot. But she's pretty strong in this form, and we both got sucked into the portal. Didn't think that one through, Diaz.

The Gumbald War was over. At least, that's probably what they'll call all that bliz.

Not without loss though. I squeeze my eyes shut. I don't want to think about it. I just lived it.

"Hey, buddy...you okay?"

I looked down. Jake grabbed my metal hand out of worry, but he can't hide his own worries. Seeing my bro like this maths up my brain.

Brave face, Finn. You're a buff, bionic, baby. I look up. Lady Rainicorn is bawling over Jake Jr.'s body, surrounded by the other Rainicorn pups.

"Yeah man. Go...go be with your family." I give him a thumbs up.

He doesn't object, and stretches over to his girlfriend without another word.

I look down. I'm still standing over what's left of Fern.

"I wish...it didn't have to go down like this." I mumble.

I don't know how I pulled off taking him and Gumbald down. When they took down Jake I just...snapped.

I jump as a hand lands on my shoulder. "AH! Oh. Hey Peebs."

"Hey Finn...can you...can you get your sword out of my uncle's head?" Princess Bubblegum had a smile on, but it was one of those empty ones. Like when I put stuff in The Vault.

"Wow. THAT'S an uncomfortable question. Sure."

I retrieve my sword, and walk back over to Bubblegum, trying my hardest to not look around me.

"So...now what?" I asked.

She turned her back to me. "I'll have Pep But and Starchy clean this up. I'll probably do a ceremony...bologna...blah blah blee bloo. I dunno. Just...you can go."

I looked around. Jake and Lady, and the rest of the kids had taken Jake Jr. and left. I didn't need to see that Bubblegum was looking across the field at what remained of Marceline, or how hard she was trying not to cry.

I took off running. There was someone I had lost track of, someone I needed to find.

"Huntress Wizard!" I yelled, looking around frantically, "HUNTRESS WIZARD?!"

"Finn?""

I heard her voice, weakly coming from somewhere around. "H.W., where are you?!"

"Right here, ya dork." I heard her push some rubble off of herself, and I whipped around to see she got buried under some rubble. I ran to her and helped her out.

"Are you okay, are you hurt?" I asked.

She coughed and shakily stood up. "My legs got busted up pretty bad. I've been here using all my arrows and some sticks and grass to magic them back to normal though."

I sighed and pulled her into a tight hug. I could see her turning red as I pulled her in, but she didn't fight it, and hugged me back. "Sounds like we won?"

I pulled back and shrugged. "Yeah. Doesn't feel like it."

She frowned, looking around the grasslands with me, taking in the scene. "Let's...let's go home Finn."

"Yeah...the treehouse isn't too far."

I grabbed her hand, probably more for my benefit than hers, and we began the walk back.

I think this is too big for The Vault.

SPLOOSH!

Star and I landed in some filthy pond, and I only had a second to get my wits about me, as Star's unconscious body tumbled into mine. I grabbed her under my arm and began pulling us back to the surface. I inhaled the night air sharply, making sure I hoisted Star's head above the surface, and swam us to the shore. It was a tiny pond, but it sure was deep. I almost thought I saw...something down there.

I pulled both of us to the grass, and looked up at a giant tree, towering over the two of us.

I sat up. Star was still asleep, somehow. But she had gone back to her normal, adorable, wonderful - get a grip Marco - self. Nothing had woken her up...so...why here? Why bring us here? This didn't look like that realm of magic place. Was this Mewni?

"Don't move, or these arrows are going up your nose." A voice said from over my head. I looked up to see some...weird...monster girl, with leaves for hair, standing over me. And sure enough an arrow was floating above me, and one above Star.

Before I could say anything, some weird, human-like person was walking up to her, in some red footie pajamas. "Easy, H.W.," he said. He looked down at me. "What's your name, guy?"

I scrambled up to my feet and held my hands up to show I wasn't armed. These two were weird. The pajama kid looked vaguely human, but his face was really different. Not only that, he had a metal arm. And the arrow-leaf-woman didn't look like any human, mewman, or monster I had ever seen.

"Do you speak my language, buddy?" The pajama man asked.

They don't seem hostile, at least. "Yeah, sorry...I'm Marco. Marco Diaz."

He extended a fist to me, so I hesitantly returned his fist pound. "Finn Mertens, man. This is Huntress Wizard."

Before I could stop myself, I raised an eyebrow and asked, "Your name is...Huntress Wizard?"

"It's more of a title." She replied, almost proud.

"So M-Daz, what're you and your friend doing? Swimming with our water nymphs?" Finn asked, as if late night trespassers was totally normal for him.

"Is she okay?" Huntress Wizard asked.

"I...water nymphs? What? No, I..." I started to breathe faster and panic, and before I knew it, was just spluttering out, "Star transformed and she opened this portal, and she hasn't done that in forever and now we're here and I don't know where we are and -"

Abruptly, Finn put his index finger on my mouth. It smelled like a mixture of mud and candy. "Shhhhhh. Easy there, guy."

"What...?" Was all I managed to answer.

"I take it Star is your friend, and you guys just kinda ended up here? I caught that much." Huntress Wizard added.

I took a deep breath. "Yes. And can we get her inside? I'm worried."

Finn shrugged and gave a small smile. "Sure thing man."

I was a bit surprised. This guy is waaaaaaay too agreeable. Hasn't he heard of stranger danger?

He knelt down and scooped Star over his shoulder with his metal arm. "We got couches out the bizonk, man, you guys can crash here."

He turned and walked towards the tree, and I realized it had a massive house built into it. I looked at Huntress Wizard, and she just shrugged at me, gave a small smile, and said, "That's Finn, for you. Like a nurturing, sexy wolf mama."

"...what?" I whispered to myself as I followed them inside.

Speaking of inside, this treehouse cool as heck. The front room was pretty deserted, but as I followed them up a ladder, we came out into a massive log cabin type room, with wooden stoves, couches, tables. He laid down Star on a couch and scratched his head. "Alright, what did Jake always say about guests...?" Then he snapped his metal fingers, "Right, sorry, you guys want anything to drink or anything?"

"Uh...no...I'm okay, thank you."

Huntress Wizard glanced at another set of ladders behind Finn. "You got this handled, babe? Mama needs shut eye keep meat hard."

He smiled. "Yeah, I couldn't sleep anyway. Plus, you turn into a log when you sleep, so falling asleep after you is weird."

What did I just walk in to...?

She gave him a peck on the cheek and climbed up into a different part of the tree house. "Night, boys!"

Once she was gone, Finn turned to me. "So, what's your deal, M.D.? Are you guys from Wizard City? Some sort of Portal Kingdom?"

I tilted my head. "What? No, I'm human. And Star here is the princess of Mewni. She's magic."

""WHOA!" Finn breathed, "You're human?! So you guys came from the island? Wait...no..." He scratched his chin, "Mom never mentioned a Mewni...Does that mean human's are on other parts of Ooo?"

"Ooo?" I asked. "What's Ooo?"

Finn's eyes widened. "Oh wow. You're...really not from around here. Ooo is the planet, pretty much. It's a bunch of magical kingdoms and stuff. There's the Candy Kingdom, Slime Kingdom, Hot Dog Kingdom, Fire Kingdom, Lumpy Space, Wildberry Kingdo - Hey, you okay Marco?"

I was frantically digging through my pockets for my dimensional scissors. Wherever Star had taken us was WAY weird. Not the weirdest place, but now that some of the shock had worn off, I needed to get her back before my parents noticed she was gone.

"Sorry, just looking for something," I sighed, defeated. They were in my jeans, which were on my dresser. I was still in my pajama pants. Star would have to get us out of here, whenever that happened. "I'm pretty sure we're in another dimension."

"Oh, like the farm one?" Finn asked.

"...no." I answered. At least this guy seemed with it, and not freaked out by all this.

"Well, once morning comes we can probably ask Princess Bubblegum, she's super smart. She can probably science you up some sort of portal," Finn explained. "Probably want your friend to wake up though." He looked over my shoulder. "Hey, does she usually turn into a big old butterfly?"

"What?!" I yelled, whipping around to see Star, once again sleep transformed...lightly bumping into the window. Why she wasn't using a portal was beyond me.

She bumped the window once more, and shelf above the window collapsed, dropping a large book on Star's head. She instantly reverted back to normal, dropped back to the ground, and screamed, "MOM!"

"Star!" I ran over to her, as Finn clasped his hands to his cheeks and inhaled sharply.

"Ah, I thought Jake fixed that shelf. My bad."

I put an arm under Star as she rolled over. "Oww... Marco?"

Star sprang up, and automatically reached for her wand to point at Finn, but it was gone... "Where are we?"

Finn waved nonchalantly. "Sup. I'm Finn, this is me and my brother Jake's treehouse. Where'd you put the rest of your arms?"

Star turned slowly to me wide-eyed. "Marco, what happened?"

I sighed and rubbed the bridge of my nose with my thumb and finger. "You sleep portaled again. We're here. Some placed called Ooo. I left my dimensional scissors in my other pants. And this is Finn."

Finn waved again. "Sup."

Star reverted back to her usual self. "Oh, I love your footie pajamas!"

"Ha, thanks, it's toasty on my hams." Finn smiled and gave a thumbs up as he said this. Talk about a chill guy.

Star turned, again, and grabbed me by the shoulders, shaking me. "MARCO! I had a dream! About Mom!"

I gently took her hands off my shoulders. "Okay, what happened?"

"It was after I went to look for her in the Realm of Magic...we got zapped away by a unicorn...but I don't know where she went. But she was in my dream...I think I was chasing after her!"

"And you chased your mom here?" I asked, incredulously. "HERE?!"

"This sounds serious. I'm gonna make tea," Finn said to neither of us in particular, "Tea usually helps. I'll uh...find where Jake keeps it."

"Marco, if I didn't try to portal out of here when I turned all golden again, this HAS to be the place!" There was no mistaking the look of conviction on her face: she wasn't going to leave until she had found her mom.

"Alright, that's fine, we can look here," I reassured her, "but first, we should get out of our pajamas, get my dimensional scissors, and at least let my parents know where we are. We kind of just straight up disappeared in the middle of the night. I don't think my super pregnant mom needs that kind of shock right now."

Star smiled and ruffled my hair. "That's a good squire. Always thinking ahead. I'll be right back."

Before I could form the word, "wait," she turned back into her golden butterfly mode, opened a portal and popped through it. Finn was watching from the stove.

"Hey, should I still pour her some tea?" He asked, "Also, how's she doing that? She a witch? Also also, you want sugar? Also also also, it's coffee. Couldn't find tea."

"Uhhhh...sure, please. And yeah, she'll be back soon. I hope." I answered. "And she's not a witch. I mean, maybe kind of? She uses magic and has...had a wand and stuff. But she's the princess of the place we're from. I probably wouldn't call her a witch."

"Right on, MarcDaz," Finn said, "you do any cool magic biz too?"

I scratched the back of my head. "Nah...just a normal human. I do karate and punch monsters with her sometimes."

Finn laughed, "Yeah man, fighting bad dudes is right in my element. Check my cool Nightosphere sword."

He pulled a sword off the fireplace mantle and showed it to me. It was incredibly cold to the touch, and I shivered and pulled away as I touched the hilt. "Why does it give me chills and fill me with dread?"

"Yeah, that's the dark Nightosphere magic. Sorry." Finn said, putting the sword away, and poured some coffee.

Abruptly, a portal ripped through the room, and Star re-emerged, holding my dimensional scissors and my pants. She immediately threw the pants at my face. "Get dressed Maro, we're - Oh, thank you Finn," She paused and sipped the coffee Finn just handed to her, and he handed a steaming mug to me as well, "Get dressed Marco, we're going to go find my mom!"

"You might want to wait until morning," Finn said, pointing to the window. "It's the middle of the night. It's also kinda messed up outside."

"Messed up?" Star asked, bouncing up and down. She was anxious to get out of here.

Finn looked down but didn't break his tone. "There was...a war. The battlefield is still being taken care of...it was bad news."

He shifted, uneasily. "In the morning we can visit Princess Bubblegum. She's the smartest person in Ooo, probably. She can probably help."

"Princess Bubblegum?" Star raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, check it out," Finn waved us over to the table. Walking over, we saw a big, colorful map spread across it, with various coffee stains and food grease. "We're here, in the Grasslands. And right next to us is the Candy Kingdom. Princess Bubblegum is in charge, and she's super into sciencey stuff. She can totally help you find your mom and stuff. Maybe."

"THERE'S A WHOLE KINGDOM MADE OF CANDY?!" Star yelled, excitedly.

I shushed her, "Stop! Finn's girlfriend is sleeping!"

"There's a whole kingdom made of candy?!" Star whisper-screamed.

He shook his head. "Huntress Wizard can sleep through anything. One time B-Mo went banaynays and donked up the whole bedroom in a fight with N.E.P.T.R., woke up our neighbor Banana Man and everything. I think it's because she turns into a log."

"Don't you mean...sleeps like a log?" I asked.

"No." Finn shook his head. "Turns into a log. I woke up one day spooning a hunk of wood. Got splinters. It was bunk."

"Less logs. Tell me about the candy." Star interrupted, deadly serious.

"Yeah, it's where all the candy people live." He paused. "Don't eat them. You can eat the sidewalk though. And some of the walls, if Bubblegum ain't looking."

Star turned, and grabbed my hands excitedly. "Marco, let's just live here. Let's move Mewni here and live with the candy people. Just you and me!" She looked down at what she was doing, and pulled her hands away, both of us turning red. "A-and Tom. Of course."

Finn seemed to pick up on our embarrassment. "Well anyway," he chugged his coffee down, "I'm-a leave you guys to it. We'll leave in the morning. You guys will love my bro, Jake. Feel free to crash on any of these rad couches."

"How can you sleep after drinking coffee?" I asked.

"It was sleepy time coffee. It worked on Star."

I looked to see Star had already laid down on the couch beside the table. I sat down next to her and felt a bit drowsy myself.

"Oh...thanks Finn." I said.

"No probs, Mac-D. Night."

I slid down into a slumped position and let my eyelids slide shut. Whatever this adventure was, was going to be...different. That's for sure.

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