Baby Tooth sped to the other Guardians, quickly followed by the other mini fairies. Baby Tooth went straight to Jack.
"Hey Baby Tooth, what's up?" Jack gave the mini-fairy a smile, but he soon grew serious as he saw the tears in her eyes. "Where's Tooth?"
Baby Tooth and the mini fairies spelled out everything they could.
"Pitch has her?" Jack gasped, wide eyed as he looked at the other guardians. "What are we going to do."
"Isn't it obvious," Bunnymund spoke up. "We've got to figure out a way to save her," he folded his arms and Sandy pounded his fists together.
"Yeah, but how, exactly, do we do that?" Jack questioned him. "We obviously can't just charge at the BOOGIE MAN, who, I might add, is willing to do anything to get what he wants, which is most likely REVENGE," Jack and Bunny glared at one another for a bit until North broke the ice.
"Might be trap," North muttered as he began to pace. "We must think."
Sandy nodded his head in agreement to North.
"How smart you boys are, aren't you?" Pitch's voice echoed through the workshop. "It probably is." The Boogie man appeared on the globe. "Of course, I'm not going to give out such a spoiler."
"You!" Bunnymund growled, grabbing his boomerang.
"Uh, uh, uh," Pitch shook his head at the bunny."I wouldn't if I were you."
"And WHY, is that?" Bunnymund kept his eyes glaring daggers at Pitch as the boogie man twisted his nightmare-ish sand into a ball with the image of an unconscious, chained up, Toothiana reflecting in it. "Tooth," Bunny muttered in horror and worry.
"Yes, Tooth," Pitch laughed menacingly. "What would happen to HER if you tried anything on ME? Oh, I know exactly what would happen, but, Do you? I mean, I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise."
Bunnymund's grip on his boomerang tightened. "What have you done to her," he grimaced.
"Nothing as of yet, but go ahead, test me," Pitch told him.
"Bunny, enough," Jack spoke out. It gave Bunny a bit of a déjà vu feeling of when Jack was being recruited into Guardianship. Bunnymund lowered his arm and stepped back.
"My, my, my, it seems someone has become Jack Frost's new pet," Pitch antagonized the Easter Bunny.
"I am NOONE'S pet!" Bunnymund snapped and swung his boomerang into Pitch's gut.
"No!" Jack and North shouted as Pitch disappeared into his black sand. Bunny was still fuming as the boomerang returned.
"No," Jack was distraught.
"Bunny, oh Bunny, what have you done?" North shook his head. Even Sandy looked at Bunnymund with a disapproving look.
Guilt filled Bunnymund's heart as he realized he may have placed Tooth in even more danger with his actions. He looked away from the others as he hopped away.
Pitch laughed as he used his nightmares to observe them.
"Such fools," the boogie man grinned to himself. "They've begun to fall for my plan."
"What are you talking about?" Tooth spoke groggily as she had just awakened from her undesired slumber.
"Ah," Pitch turned towards her. "Welcome to the world of the conscious, princess," he mocked her.
"What plan," she ignored his teasing.
"A plan of Divide and conquer," he revealed. "I am dividing the guardians and then I will crush them, including you, of course."
"Do you really think you will get away with any of this?" she questioned him.
"I've already begun to do just that," Pitch informed her.
"But the Man in the Moon will," Tooth began.
"Will do nothing!" Pitch cut her off. "He will do absolutely nothing."
Tooth wanted to disagree, but, somehow, she couldn't find the words. She wasn't sure of what The Man in the Moon WOULD actually do. She could only hope.
"must you act this way?" Tooth asked. "Must you make yourself into such a villain?"
"That's not going to work," Pitch retorted. "you can't manipulate me into letting you go. Not yet."
"Why?" she asked. "Why'd you take me?"
"Because I've got a plan, and you are a big part of it," he told her as he turned away to continue observing the other guardians.
Jack was now chasing after Bunnymund.
"Wait," Jack called.
"What?" Bunny angrily turned to Jack, revealing that he was near tears. "Do you want?" the Easter Bunny added as he calmed down a bit.
"You can't just run off like that," Jack said. "Not now."
"That's rich, coming from you," Bunnymund spoke sarcastically.
"Yeah, I know," Jack sighed. "But I've learned from my mistakes, you know. I know when it's time to be serious. Like right now, for example."
"I am serious," Bunny grumbled.
"I know," Jack snapped.
'Guys, Don't fight! Please,' a voice echoed in the distance. 'please, you've got to stick together!'
"Tooth," Bunnymund and Jack gasped in unison.
Toothiana had called out to them, causing Pitch to stop observing the scene out of anger. He was filled with rage.
"Do you ever know when to keep your mouth shut?" the boogie man snapped at the Tooth Fairy.
Tooth stood her ground. "I do, but I choose not to." She said sternly.
"Such a tough girl," Pitch growled sarcastically.
"Such a foolish man," she mocked him in response.
Pitch wanted to kill her right then and there; but he managed to restrain himself. "You best be glad that I need you ALIVE." He hissed at her.
"And you best be glad I'm chained up in a cage," she snapped back as she entered into a glaring war with the boogie man.
Bunny and Jack could no longer hear Tooth's voice.
"You, uh, heard that too, right?" Bunnymund asked. "I'm not losing my mind, am I?"
"If you're talking about the voice, then, yeah," Jack replied. "But about you losing your mind; I never knew you could lose something you never had."
Bunnymund had no words to say, all he did was stomp on Frost's foot. Jack winced in pain, making Bunny smile in pride.
They had made up. That was far from what Pitch desired. "This is your fault!" Pitch yelled at Tooth. "Do you even realize your situation?" His breath was heavy.
"That's not the question you should be asking," she told him.
"Is it? What question should I ask then?"
"Do I care about the situation I'm in," she told him.
"Do you?" he asked.
"Not in the slightest," she answered.
"Well then," he grinned. "You should," he said as he blew his nightmare sand into her face.
North, Bunnymund, Sandy, and Jack sat silently.
"He's playing with us," Jack said.
"Obviously," Bunnymund grunted.
"Tooth may already be dead for all we know," Frost began to ponder.
"There's no way!" Bunnymund shouted as he jumped to his feet in a fret. "She's alive. She has to be!"
The other three guardians stared at him in shock.
"Bunny, do you…" Jack began but trailed off.
"Do I what?" the rabbit snapped.
Jack took in a deep breath. "Do you, uh, have FEELINGS for Tooth?"
"What? No," the flustered Easter Bunny stuttered. "Where? Where did that come from?" his breath became panicked as no one spoke.
There was no way that Bunnymund had feelings for Toothiana. Well, he did have brotherly feelings for her. She was like a sister, but nothing else. Besides, she loved Jack. She'd never see E. Aster Bunnymund in such a light as she sees Jack Frost. He's alright with everything like that. His pained chest wasn't from Tooth loving someone else more than him, right? RIGHT?
