FINN MERTENS
I stayed on that hospital bed for what seemed like hours just talking and catching up with Jake.
I'd never have guessed how bad his side was as well, thank god Flame Princesses team came along.
"Bro I don't know why the other version of you was so cra-", a light beep cut off Jake.
My eyes looked down to a small watch on his left arm which was beeping continuously.
"Oh shit seems like we've got a meeting, speaking of which, I never told anyone you were awake".
"Meeting??".
"Yeah I woke up yesterday and talked to your mom and I'm meant to be assigned a team as soon as I recover".
"How'd you know I was awake anyways".
"Your bed monitors you really damn well and you can actually check with the watch".
"Plus it's been like two days since you came so I was getting kinda impatient".
"Two days?!", I bellowed.
"Yeah bro, from what I heard you had some crazy injuries".
"Damn, well I wanna go along with you".
"You sure you don't wanna rest??".
"Im good Jake", I said while wobbling up to my feet. "I wanna see everyone else".
"Hmmm", Jake hummed nervously before scanning round and grabbing a crutch at the far corner of the room.
"Use this at least", he said while gently giving me the aid.
"Let's get some pancakes after this", he muttered as we walked out.
I walked sluggishly behind Jake partially due to the pain from walking and due to me just checking out the hospital.
Instead of clones of my mom as I had expected, there were actually different people in their respective office clothes, Some candy men, some human.
I caught a few glances on my by some of the doctors but none of them said anything, Jake pulled back from his pace and tried to match mine.
"Bmo's been worried sick bro".
I let out a little laugh and asked, "Where is he??".
"I think he's at our new apartment".
"I'm glad he's safe, we've lost so many people already in this fiasco".
"Yeah, too many…", Jake trailed off awkwardly almost sadly before saying, "As long as we have each other, we'll be fine".
"Yeah", I said enthusiastically.
We reached the reception in no time, standing at the desk, a fine darkskinned lady.
"Hello, we need to go meet Miss. Minerva, we should be back in an hour", Jake said.
"Hmmm", the lady hummed for a few seconds seemingly contemplating whether I can be let out.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'm already feeling better".
"I'm only letting you go because it's for Miss. Minerva", she said finally.
With that me and Jake walked out the hospital, the scenery outside was simple for better words.
Tall buildings, small walk ways and roads. The buildings were rather congested that would obviously to account for the small surface area.
We walked through the town, seeing as the various citizens worked, they had managed to build a secure base town with a large defensive wall within eight months which is impressive in itself but they also seem to have a fully functioning economy too.
Eventually we reached a rather all building, even compared to the rest of them not quite as big as a skyscraper but definetly close.
We entered without any confrontation, walking through the reception without anyone stopping us then headed up through an elevator.
The headquarters felt too normal, kinda reminded me of Princess Bubblegums castle but without any candy.
We eventually made it to the front of a room, 'Meeting Room' plastered over the top of the door.
"So here??", I asked.
Jake looked down at his watched and said, "Seems so".
There was light chattered audible from beyond the door so we know people are inside at least, Jake opened the door and the noise seemed to cease immediately.
Eyes stared me down as soon as I entered some from the people I knew were good, some however gave off a hostile aura.
"Finn?!", a voice called out as I entered.
It came from my far left, Flame Princess leaned uncomfortably against the white wall. She seemed to have completely healed, no visible injuries from our battle, she also had a worried face plastered around her.
On the long couch infront of her Lemongrab sat still with his chest puffed up almost like a soldier, beside him T.V sat next to him, holding a funky device in his hand.
Then I noticed a man who looked just like the male version of Bubblegum, well he most likely is from the looks of it.
Not too far away from him-in her usual cocky purple self, lumpy space princess was hovering, shooting me an ugly grin.
Then sitting beside T.V was peppermint butler, he seemed to have aged in some way and now carried along a scar on his left eye.
A girl, blonde hair just like me, skin tone just like me-probably another version of me by all means, she was talking to someone I actually recognized, the other variant of me with the pointy nose.
Laying under seemingly taking a nap was a fat round cat, he white fur patterned beautifully with large golden spots.
Then I noticed another familiar face standing by the wall behind them, Sweet pie stood dwarfing every other person in the room, he looked older than the last time I saw him, even more serious. He also carried a cold blue sword on his back and he seemed to struggle to hold back a cute grin after seeing me.
Staring daggers at me though was Huntress Wizard, I suppose an ex of mine, if I can call her that. She stared blankly at me but when I looked forward at her, she turned her face away nervously.
Quacking around infront of me was a familiar penguin, Gunther who hadn't changed at all except now he wore what looked like heavy battle suits, hovering in the air to my right was someone who reminded me vaguely of Marceline.
He had black hair, brown skin and pointy canines. He hovered past me and said, "Take a seat pretty boy".
"Oh sure", I said before finally looking at the last person, an old friend of mine which I hadn't seen in some time.
It was Susan, she was as tall and big as ever if not bigger, she sat nervously on the chair to my far left, seeming almost disinterested in me.
I didn't let it way my mind though, i instead found a pocket of space in the couch beside a guy made of flames.
He carried himself with poise and pride, I could probably tell from afar that he felt he was important.
Jake sat beside me scanning the room once more, then i sighed tiredly. There was a heavy tension in the room like a fight could erupt any moment and for some reason, I felt it was because of me.
These guys had been out for a couple months at best and they seemed so focused, my thought was only magnified by their matching skin title battle suits which seemed vary from person to person.
The door opened up again and this time my mom entered the room, she quickly saw me and a smile flashed in her face but seemingly not wanting to disregard the meeting, she poised herself.
"Good afternoon all of you, thank you for making time to come, I know you all wanna go back to training but it's important we talk", she started.
"The fifteen", she coughed, looking at me and Jake before saying, "Seventeen of you are the strongest alive and found right now, you are the best bet at beating Yaeger and possibly reverting the damage done".
My mom opened a file while saying, "We need to see who will volunteer to scout for new people and who will look to find out more information about Yaeger".
"How about we just give the man what he wants?!", a voice said loudly, sharply, from beside me.
"…here he goes again…", a voice muttered off.
It was the Flame guy, he looked looked at me then back at my mom before saying, "We all know this Yaeger guy is stressing about this so called warrior Finn so let's just give it to him, you know try and negotiate".
"Flame Prince, what are you trying to say here?", my mom questioned.
"I am saying!", he bellowed before turning and pointing towards me. "Let's give the man the human he wants".
End Of Chapter 14