As the dormouse sat in his cage, listening to the singing of the hatter beside him; the urge to kill her increased.
"We are all insane here, here in the wonderful twisted bloody wonderland! When are you coming for my head Alice~! Because I'm coming for yours!" she sung.
"Can you sing anything other than that!" Gaara's growled dangerously.
'Put on your war paint
Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies
Silver clouds with grey lining
So we can take the world back from a heart attack
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart'
She sung happily causing the red head companion to flinch.
"My, my Hatter! You seem to be in a good mood! How about I wipe that fucking smug grin from your face you bloody monster!"
'Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me'
She sung raising to her feet just to mock her even more, grin widening.
The grey nun roared as she desperately tried to reach her hand through the steel bars to claw at the mad woman before her.
"You're going to have to come in here to catch me!" she warned smiling at her.
"DEMON! YOU FUCKING DEMON! WHY WON'T YOU SNAP? WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SMILING! Please! Please just cry and stop smiling, beg for help or something, please!" the Alice begged crying towards the end.
The sadistic eye glimmered at its prey as it curled into a fetal position sobbing and mumbling words to herself.
"What's~~~ wrong~~ Alice~~! Can't even win at your own game? So~ Sad~~!" the cheerful twisted woman with uneven locks grinned.
Grey Alice peered up to her only to cower away from her merciless eye, even as the dead eye with multiple holes placed in it radiated of the never ending smirk that never disappeared no matter what was thrown at her.
"Mon-monster!"
Hatter mouthed out 'oh' before the devilish laughter erupted from her. Oh how she loved converting people into insanity, of course sing was her favourite way.
'I'm here to collect your hearts
It's the only reason that I sing
I don't believe a word you say but I can't stop listening
This is the story of how they met
Her picture was on the back of a pack of cigarettes
When she touched him he turned ruby red
A story that they'll never forget
Never forget
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Whoa, where did the party go?
We're ending it on the phone
I'm not gonna go home alone
Oh, where did the party go?'
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! STOP IT! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! STOP IT, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE! GO TO HELL! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" Alice screamed causing Shukaku and Gaara to eye the victim with heartless eyes that only wished to cause her the most pain possible.
As she caught the demon duo eyes from the single boy, she ran out of the room shivering and screaming.
"My, my! She didn't have to wet herself over it! Such a pitiful creature!" Hatter smirked.
"You mind not singing for a while?" Shukaku smirked.
"In exchange for a story, yes! And I mean a decent, long story!" she smirked.
Two months has now past, Urahara somehow made a connection to Ichigo's hollow's power and now made a steady connection to him.
Their location, now within their grasp. He even hacked into the satellite station in that world and pulled photos off from the data base.
But Urahara was in a situation, he couldn't rely on the 13 court guard squad for help.
First problem was 12 captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, he would just end up dissecting everyone because they are from another world.
Second is that the head captain wouldn't send anyone to save Ichigo a lowly substitute soul reaper, let alone a couple of hundred insane people from another world. As far as the head captain is concerned, something not under his jurisdictions isn't his concern.
Third is they won't be able to save everyone.
But of course the Joker came up with a solution, apparently Ichigo made two friends. One is the leader of a military dedicated village, they can all fight and would defiantly want their commander back.
So Urahara meet up with a strange girl with four pigtails with a giant fan, after assessing her fighting capabilities got her to round up a couple of squads for a mass scale rescue mission.
"Hay Urahara!" the said female called out after coming through a gate Urahara made so she could come and go as she pleases to discuss the mission.
"Oi! So this is the man that knows where Gaara is? Rather funny looking ha Temari?" her younger brother by the name of Kankuro with brown hair smirked.
With a swift elbow to the gut he shut up.
"I have organised all squads and they are ready, how is your end?"
"I have successfully completed the gate to rescue your brother and friend, I also have organised a hospital to take in them."
"No telling what they did to Gaara and Naruto!" Kankuro growled.
"I actually do know the state they are both in, well contact with the one that does!" he warned the two shinobi.
"Who!?"
"That would be me!"
"YOU! YOUR THAT THING THAT APPROCHED US BEFORE WARNING US ABOUT GAARA!"
"Stop yelling please! You're lucky Dormouse!"
"Gaara!" Temari reminded the figure,
"…Gaara is being protected by Hatter, but he isn't sane anymore. Don't be surprised if he doesn't remember you anymore!" it warned seriously.
"What about Shukaku? I mean he hasn't killed anyone right!" Kankuro interrogated.
"Shukaku took Hatter's warning to heart, it doesn't matter if Shukaku likes Gaara in general or not. They both feel the same pain, and the both have to deal with this regardless if they like it or not."
"But he not playing up, right?" Temari said trying to reassure herself.
"Gaara has a split persona, he is bipolar. One wants to protect and is kind, the other one wants to slaughter everything. They are both getting along despite which extreme Gaara is on!"
As they all made up the plan of attack things weren't going so well with a little rabbit in his white cell.
"Let me out! Cheshire! Oi answer me!" the orange haired male roared.
"No! You'll only make things worse" the white male yelled kicking the boy to the ground.
"I need to save Dormouse!"
"HOW!? You can't even save yourself!"
Ichigo whimpered in the harsh tone in the demon's voice, he curled into himself at the hopeless situation he was in.
Ichigo didn't actually want to leave his mind scape, he liked it. And Zangetsu disappeared completely so he only had Cheshire to talk to.
The endless feeling of losing Dormouse was the only thing that caused him to want to leave his inner world, but then he really wished Cheshire would save him in his place.
"Cheshire!" they heard Alice call out.
"What~!" he mimicked her childishly happy tone.
"I wanna talk! By the way! When is March coming back? I miss him!"
This caused Ichigo in his inner world who was over hearing the conversation, grip onto Shiro's leg and curl into it, as he was only half in the real world.
"I'm sorry! But thanks to your treatment I got a little better! March no longer exists!" he warned grinning to her.
"Oh? But he was the first one to arrive! So shouldn't he?"
"No, I've always had a split personality and you fixed it!"
He could watch the scowled and hear her growling as he mimicked her, he could see why Hatter was always speaking like Alice, it pisses them off.
"Well it's time for your treatment!" she growled dropping her sing song voice.
"Oh? But I think your lovely friend wants to talk to you first!" he grinned watching as she opened the door, and watched as the monster known as Gluttony by the three demons held within the bodies of humans, stand behind the white nun.
Gluttony was quite amusing to witness, he had a humanoid shape with multiple mouths positioned all over his body, one on top of his bold head. He had almost short elf ears but it had a natural v leaving a chunk on the side of his ears missing.
The skin had the slightest tint of green with… glowing red eyes with black slits. Again, the same with the three phantom monsters that lurk within hell's mother.
The mouth that is where all human mouths (and demons in this case) was stitched; he didn't have arms but long tentacles.
The black tentacle elegantly entangled itself around all her limbs, with a swift yank they all detached itself from the body.
"Nice to see you again, Gluttony!" the cat smirked.
"You too Cheshire, I have a message from Hatter!"
"Oh? What is it?"
"Urahara is prepared and ready to save you along with everyone else, they will start moving tomorrow!"
"Why not today?"
"The squad needs to ready their weapons, the hospital is still making room for everyone!"
"So tomorrow?"
"Yes, it will be all over by tomorrow. Good night Cheshire"
"Night" he replied watching the figure disappear.
Author Notes:
Songs in Italic are from Fall Out Boy. The Phoenix and Where did the party go are the songs. Urahara along with the shinobi are ready to move, but will the make it in time to save them.
