First I'll admit that this fic exists because I wanted a good excuse to design new outfits stuff and I was excited for the Alice Otherland shorts to come out next month. So my imagination went wild and….yeah….this happened. So have fun for extreme mental trauma! You can find the domain outfit designs on my tumblr, I'll put a link in my profile.

The breeze was pleasant, carrying a scent of fresh grass and water. The sun wasn't that bright and was resting at a three o clock position. Overall they were pleasant conditions that Yuma enjoyed when he wanted to nap outside, if it wasn't for the situation he was currently in. Loose dirt in a crater and his head pounding like crazy were dead give always that something happened. He eased himself up into a sitting position brushing the dirt out of his hair.

What happened? He wondered, The last thing that I remember was that I was at the café with Kotori.

Yuma stood up and took a good look at his surroundings, thoroughly confused with what he saw. Giant dominos were embedded into the ground, butterflies where flying around but seemed to have bodies made of bottles, there was a creek nearby but the origin of it seemed to be a statue of a girl crying.

"Did someone slip something into my drink?" Yuma wondered aloud. That's when he noticed something else was different, his clothes had changed. Gone were his favorite shirt and vest, in their place was a white dress shirt with rather baggy sleeves that were brought together in cuffs. A deep red vest was buttoned over that with black lapels and Yuma found a silver pocket watch in a pocket with a chain hooked to a button but the hands on the clock face were spinning like crazy. The pants were white like his usual but lacked designs and black dress shoes where the place of his sneakers. Thankfully, the Emperor's Key was still in its place around his neck.

"Well, this isn't creepy in the slightest. I wonder if Cathy has something to do with all of this. Kinda suits her too…" Yuma groaned thinking of the possible elaborate pranks that his friends may be playing on him.

"A trick you say, or is it just an excuse to conveniently forget the truth?"

Yuma spun around to face the new voice and took a step back in fright. There was a cat, or at least he hoped it was a cat yet it stood at about his height and looked horribly emaciated though it seemed to not care with that grin on its face that had what Yuma hoped wasn't dried blood on the teeth. Its gold eyes seemed to give him a good look over, "Strangers rarely pass through Wonderland, and its rulers don't take too kindly to trespassers."

"Look, I don't know what your problem is, but I have no idea how I got here….much less anything else that has happened today." Yuma could not believe that he was arguing with a talking cat, but then again consider what he's been through in the past few months, anything was possible.

"Oh really, because the mind has funny ways to forget the terrible things. Have you truly forgotten the circumstances that brought you here?" The cat asked.

"What do you…" Then it all came back to Yuma…

"Do we really have to meet here?" Yuma asked.

"You wanted help with homework but every place you suggested didn't work out." Kotori huffed at him.

"At least I didn't pick the cheesiest café in town," Yuma glanced around at all the pink and heart decorations, "Didn't they get the memo that Valentine's Day was over? This is a place that I expect Cathy to choose."

Kotori pouted upon hearing Cathy's name, "There you go again, mentioning Cathy comparing everything I do to her."

"I don't."

"You do! You're just being very ungrateful right now!" Kotori was getting mad.

"Why are you getting so upset!?" Yuma cried out.

"Well I'm not the one who's been moody for the past few weeks!" Kotori snapped.

"I am not moody."

"Yuma…" Kotori's tone changed to a gentler one, "Don't try to hide it, it's really obvious to all of us. Even Shark and Kaito have noticed. You're missing Astral."

"Of course I miss him. He went back to Astral World and hasn't sent a single message."Yuma sighed leaning against the table.

"I mean more than just missing missing…..you've been down more than usual. You don't eat as much and it's become harder to get you to leave your house to do anything. And don't say you haven't been like this all the time. You've just been doing this a lot more recently."

Yuma just started drawing circles with his finger on the table, "I don't know what you are talking about."Truthfully, there was one thing he didn't want her to find out. He had been having nightmares, almost every night now and it was the same thing every single time. He failed, he didn't save Astral, he didn't save any of his friends, and he lost to Don Thousand. It happened every night forcing him awake and couldn't fall back to sleep for hours. Before if he had a nightmare Astral would be there to help him calm down but was on his own now.

Kotori let a grunt, "Do we really need to do an intervention and get everyone here? Because we will!"

"You don't have to baby me!"

"We're not babying you! Seriously Yuma, we are all getting concerned."

Yuma groaned and leaned back in his chair, "I'm totally fine."

"You are just so….." Kotori stood up from her seat looking like she was ready to hit Yuma but paused when she looked at the mirror they were sitting next to, "Did you see that?"

"See what?" Yuma stood up and looked in the mirror as well grateful for whatever it was spared him from Kotori's wrath.

"I could off swear I saw the mirror ripple." Kotori tapped it a few times testing its surface "Must have been my….There it is again!"

Kotori was right, the mirror surface was rippling like it was water. But was shocked them most happened next, a red bloodied clawed hand shot out of the mirror grabbing Kotori's arm and pulled her in.

"KOTORI!" Yuma screamed and grabbed her ankle trying to pull her back but felt the floor give out from underneath him and was pulled in as well.

"Let go of me!" Kotori was doing her best to bash at the hand but to no avail as it kept its grip. Yuma's grip on the other hand was slipping, "Kotori, grab my hand!"

Kotori did her best to reach around and grab Yuma's outstretched hand only for a another claw hand to shoot out of nowhere grabbing Yuma's wrist with near breaking force and yanked him away from Kotori.

BEGONE BOY! SHE'S MINE!

A deranged voice echoed out from somewhere as the hand threw him in a direction sending Yuma tumbling to who knows where. All he could see where clocks, furniture, tea sets, toys, then…blackness.

"Oh no….Kotori!" Yuma started calling out to her, "Kotori! Where are you?!" He turned back to the cat, "Do you know something?!"

The cat just purred, "The queens are restless, regardless of who's in charge. One of them is responsible for your arrival, but which queen? Red or white? That is for you to decide." And right before Yuma's eyes, the cat vanished.

Yuma sighed and looked around, "Hold on Kotori….I'll figure this out." With that, he started to make is way down the path hopefully in the right direction.

Alice Liddle woke with a start, something happened. Ever since Wonderland fused with reality Alice had chosen to do nothing about it and instead focused on repairing the damage Bumby had caused. The process was slow but Alice was able for feel her control over Wonderland and her mind grow stronger as the years passed. But now…something was wrong. Something foreign was in her Wonderland. She grabbed the Vorpel Blade from her bedside, still sharp as the first day she used it, she wasn't going to have a repeat of what happened with Bumby. This time she was going to kill the weed at its root.