Sky Witch

Synopsis
Marceline is on a top-secret mission tracking Maja the Sky Witch. But when she loses the witch's trail, Marceline turns to Princess Bubblegum for help.

Plot
The episode starts with Princess Bubblegum being woken up from a cat attached to an alarm clock. She then sits up and sniffs the shirt she is wearing multiple times. She goes to a closet, opens it and puts on a jacket over the rock shirt. She meets Finn, Jake, Pepperment Butler, Cinnamon Bun and two banana guards in a different room. She tells them that they are advancing the Candy Kingdom defences and tries to train them to overcome sleep gas. When they are put to the test, everyone except Cinnamon Bun falls asleep. Marceline comes in through the window and tells PB that she wants to hang out with her, but PB sees through the ruse and Marceline asks her to help her track down Maja the Sky Witch because it is "really, really, really, really, really, really, really really important to [her]".

When they get to a large bush, Marceline finds it hard to get through and thinks they should "blow it up". PB analizes it and says that they need to take "the path of least resistence". PB says to relax to get thru. She makes it thru easily while Marceline has trouble. She gives marceline a cup of tea, which Marceline drinks the red out of. This lets her through. While inside, they notice that there is serious witchery among them. Marceline and PB discover Familiar which flies away. While moving along, Marceline and PB see Hambo, which Marceline reveals is the reason they came there. She tries to grab it but PB realizes its a trap. Upset, Marceline tries to find Maja by going through a path of broken branches which Familiar left behind. PB is unable to see Marceline and tries to find her. She swims through a pond, which takes her to Maja's house. After analyzing multiple doors and hallways, she chooses a passage above a chandelier.

While in the passageway, she is trying to find Hambo and searches through all of Maja's things and finds the receipt that Ash gave her after selling her Hambo. Maja sees PB and gets angry and already knows about Marceline. Meanwhile, Marceline somehow got to the house and searches for Hambo. Familiar finds her and attacks her. PB realizes that she has to respect legal transactions. But still doesn't accept it personally. While Marceline is finished fighting with Familiar, PB comes to her with Hambo and she is overjoyed. They leave with Marceline wondering how she got him back. It is revealed that Maja traded Hambo to PB for her rock shirt that Marceline gave her. She throws into a brew of some sort. Familiar, now in a metamorphic and beat up state, crawls its way into the room and tells Maja that he wants to be a dancer. Maja gets frustrated and repeadetly attacks Familiar with lightning attacks and the episode ends.

Major Characters

 * Marceline
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Maja
 * Maja's Crabbit Familiar

Minor Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Peppermint Butler
 * Cinnamon Bun
 * Hambo
 * Manfried
 * Ash (mentioned)
 * Raggedy Princess (mentioned)
 * Gumball Guardians
 * Banana Guard
 * Science
 * Snail

Trivia

 * This is the first time since "What Was Missing" that Marceline and Princess Bubblegum interact with each other.
 * Princess Bubblegum is seen wearing earrings in the episode.
 * There is a black totem can shaped liked Finn's hat. There is also a totem which resembles Gork.
 * Finn was not able to fight the sleep gas even though he can fight mind control.
 * This episode is the third episode where Jeremy Shada had not had a voice role (besides Pilot amd Bad Little Boy).
 * When Princess Bubblegum opened her closet a picture of her and Marceline together.
 * Princess Bubblegum doesn't know why Hambo is so important to Marceline, which most likely means she doesn't know about Marceline's history with the Ice King.

Cultural references

 * Bubblegum's final words against the tear gas "Do not go on gentle into that good night" are that of a villanelle written by the poet Dylan Thomas in 1951.

Episode connections

 * Princess Bubblegum is seen wearing the shirt Marceline gave to her (from "What Was Missing") as her pajamas at the beginning.
 * The monster from The Creeps can be seen on a picture frame in Maja's House.
 * This episode completes Marceline's saga of reclaiming her toy Hambo; she orignally received it from Simon Petrikov as revealed in "I Remember You", but it was sold off in the past by Ash as revealed in "Memory of a Memory".