I do not own Disney Epic Mickey. If I did I would have immediately released the second game for it right at E3 2012. XD Or the Nintendo Wii.

Epic mickey (c) Disney interactive Studios

Nintendo Wii (c) Nintendo

Amanda, Kasey, and Hannah (c) Me.

Hello. I'm Hannah. You must be wondering why I'm here. It's a long story, but I'll make it to just before this whole mess happened.

June 1st, 12:00 a.m.

The first day of summer. School just got out, and I was at my friend Kasey's house. Kasey and about 5 others were here. I won't bore you with each of their names and things like that, except for my best friend, Amanda. She's in this crazy thing with me. Anyway, our friends decided to have a sleepover to mark the last school day and the first day of summer. It's midnight. Amanda and I were the only ones still wide awake from the 3 bags of Sour Patch kids we ate. Our friends were a floor below us sleeping while we were still playing games in Kasey's game room. We decided to go nuts and play Disney Epic Mickey. Apparently, somebody added a tweak patch on it where 2 people can play, as there were 2 boxes on the screen that appeared: 1 Player and 2 Player. "So wait… Kasey got this game with a tweak on it?" I asked Amanda as we stared at the screen prompt. She shrugged. "I'm not even sure she knows it's a tweak. She said she got it used at GameStop."

I don't know why I didn't take that as a red flag.

I shrugged and laughed. "Well, to heck with it, let's just play it and see how it goes." Amanda nodded and grabbed her Wii Remote. I, being the first of us to activate my remote, selected 'Two Player' and it took us to another screen. This time it had three boxes. The order from top to bottom was Easy Mode, Normal Mode, and Intense Mode. "Screw it, let's play Intense," I said with a devious smirk on my face. Amanda wasn't as excited, but nodded hesitantly. "That's cool with me… I've played the game before. Haven't beat it yet, but Intense mode sounds more entertaining," She said. I haven't played it, but it seemed easy enough. But then again, I have no common sense when I'm on a sugar high. Selecting intense Mode, it then did the splatter paint animation for the menu screen. Pressing 'A', it played music. "That's normal…" Amanda said. Being the lazy person I am, I didn't bother figuring out a new save file. "Manda, you do it," I muttered as I handed my remote over to Amanda. Amanda rolled her eyes. "You can't even make a new save file for your life!" She said and did what I didn't feel like doing.

We went through the beginning level. I was Mickey Mouse and Amanda ended up being the Gremlin that seems to guide Mickey around the worlds, er, projection screens. Amanda grumbled about it, but I thought the Gremlins were kinda cute. They reminded me of those floating creatures in Kingdom Hearts. I couldn't remember the word for them though. Amanda couldn't really play until I freed her. "It's how it goes in the first level," Amanda said, seeing my questioning look.

After we got past the mad scientist level, we went to the next projector screen worlds. Up to the little ride where you had to jump off spinning rafters and try not to get sucked into the whirlpools of Paint Thinner. At first I was really questioning why Paint and Thinner were so harmful and why a paintbrush was considered a weapon. I decided to go with it, ignoring the questions rising in my head. I kept losing that level. I tried again. Following my button pushing and joystick-tilting, Mickey would act accordingly and jumped over the wooden platform that was continuously spinning around. After many more of those along with Blotlings in little outfits, I reached an island of sorts. It was a Blotling, and the shape of a mop. Amanda, controlling the Gremlin Gus, simply remained next to me. I think she served as a shield of sorts. As the Blotling threw globs of Thinner, I tried spraying it with thinner myself. It did little good, so I decided to rush in with a spin attack. Mickey spun too late, and was knocked into the whirlpool of thinner.

That was the twentieth loss. It was now 3:30 a.m. No progress on this level. Maybe Intense mode was a bad idea, but it proved to be more immersing than Normal mode. Brushing aside that notion, I sighed in frustration. Going through the process again, Amanda suggested that she could take a hit while I rush the Blotling from behind. Humoring her, I nodded once and said, "Do it." Gremlin Gus then seemed to have done a little kick, which made the inky mop jump, as if startled that the Gremlin could even attack in the first place. It's expression changed into anger as it threw globs of thinner at Gus, while I made Mickey sail over and behind the Blotling. Shaking the remote, I had managed to get Mickey to knock the living mop into the whirlpool. High-fiving Amanda, we returned to our supposed winning streak. But then the screen that was currently displaying our level had changed to something else. It switched to Mickey Mouse whistling a familiar tune while steering a ship. Amanda and I both knew this wasn't right. A clip that was usually seen before a film of some sorts would never be put in a videogame. Something didn't settle with me, which only made the feeling stronger as the lit lamp behind us flickered off. The lights in the hall turned off too. Aside from the black-and-white clip of Mickey whistling, we were sitting in total darkness. Amanda shifted her gaze at me, the white light eerily reflecting off of her face. "What was that?" She said in a shaky voice. I was too shocked to say anything. Finding the tune that Mickey was whistling comforting, we sat there for a few seconds before the screen got brighter and brighter somehow. Then the clip of Mickey was distorting and swirling like a whirlpool, the music remained intact. Then a 'boom' erupted from the TV as the screen turned to black. The air was pregnant with silence as we stared at the now dead television. But the screen lit back up with the same clip we were looking at for the past three minutes. Amanda glanced at the Wii. The green light that would've been there was gone. Not even the red light was lit in its place.

Okay, this was getting seriously weird.

"What? How could this thing be on if the TV's dead, and the Wii isn't even functioning!" I asked in a frustrated tone. I just wanted to play a freaking video game, not break my friend's expensive flat-screen TV!

Amanda didn't answer, but she reached out towards the screen. I grabbed her wrist reflexively, afraid she might get electrocuted or something even worse. Even then, her fingers barely touched the surface. The clip seemed to ripple, like when you plop a pebble into a pond. "What in the world?" I asked, completely dumbstruck. As if instantly, the screen lit up pure white as our hair seemed to be pulled into the screen by a strong vacuum.

Okay, TVs do NOT do that.

"OMGWHATTHEHECKISGOINGON-" We both screamed as we flailed about to grab onto something sturdy as the wind sucking us inward seemed to grow stronger. Was this screen trying to suck us into the TV? I couldn't think straight as my ears popped and started ringing. The lamp I was gripping was nearly ripped from my hands. Amanda was being dragged into the screen. Her nails dug into the carpet for dear life, leaving uprooted marks on the flooring. Instinctively I grabbed onto Amanda's wrists with both of my hands. "I'm not letting go!" I grit my teeth as I felt myself move closer to the TV screen. Amanda was screaming her head off. Why was nobody running down the stairs? Why hasn't anyone woken up already? By the time I finished thinking my third question, Amanda as already sucked into the TV up to her shoulders. The wind dragging us grew exponentially strong and immediately sucked us into the rippling screen. We were falling through black. Were we going to die? Flailing around, Amanda was now yelling. "AAAAAAAAAH!" We both yelled as we neared a light and it split into two paths of light. I was being pulled to the left, while Amanda was sucked into the right. She made one last attempt to grab my hand as she was fully pulled into the portal. I reached out too, but I was too late. Her hand disappeared into the other brightly shining portal as all the air was being sucked out of my lungs. My vision swam as the black I saw was replaced with white and I lost consciousness.

A/N: Oh. My. Bajeezus. This took sooo long to write! XD Playing Epic Mickey is a good source to find wild plot bunnies. *Holds up one in a cage* 1,482 words. Phew. I hope I churn these out more often! Until then, ladies and gentleman, this Mad Hatter's tale has ended for this night. *takes off hat and bows as the curtain closes to Mickey Mouse's whistling tune*