The group of pirates silently followed Black Alice out of the labs, plans and strategies for the upcoming battle coming and going faster than the wind, the consensus achieved between all of us was: we are screwed.

"I really enjoyed your adventures, you know? Ever since you took my toy from me" Black Alice once again looked at our Spider Princess and smiled, sending shivers to the arachnid "I've watched your group with vested interest, and i must say, it's the luck of the devil that protected you from being zapped by Ilias fufufu~"

"Yup, I'm the luckiest guy in the world, after all I got the love of my life on the very first day I exploded between dimensions to end up here" Roman head pat the mini Lime in his pocket earning a mew of happiness. "Also first come first get little lady, my cute little Hime isn't your toy, as we came and made friends out of her first."

"Fufufu, and what friendship it was, beating your future friends into submission, how hilarious! You truly understand monster culture fufufu" Black Alice's smile got bigger and more sadistic, "But tell me, do you think your methods will work against me?"

"Maybe?" Roman had no illusions of their main schtick working with the psychopathic womanchild.

"Do your best then Jiggly pirates, and maybe you'll have a place in my future~" with a snap of her fingers' space distorted and we all ended up in a Wonderland caricature.

Watching everything from the cameras, Promestein wished luck to her new colleague, even if she considered it unscientific, they needed all the luck in the world to come back in one piece.

"Welcome to my Tea Party of Madness, let's sit down, eat cakes, share stories and make friends at the end~" Black Alice's eyes flashed and the entire party toppled to the floor.

"Have nice dreams fufufu, now let's see what secrets you hide in this head, little Roman~"


A floating ball of fire found itself drifting aimlessly in the dark.

thud

(Ouch) The flame hurt itself against a chair, then began complaining at whoever left all this junk on its way, so lost in its rant they didn't notice this dreary place lighting up.

"The movie will begin soon, please sit down or suffer the consequences~" the girly announcer threatened, the flame flickered not wanting anything to do with that and quickly found a non destroyed chair to sit on.

(It's been a long time since I've gone to movies, I wonder what they'll show).

The entire room darkened once again, with only the projector being a source of light, it took no time for the film roll to begin its countdown, 10… 9… 8…

(Would you look at that, it's gonna be one of the classics) The flame got itself comfy on its chair, or as comfy a disembodied flame could get.

Name, Alice begins playing .

(Beginning with such a sad melody, damn).

"In the tranquility of wonderland they spent everyday at peace."

(This is so familiar, I wonder why?) Roman's disembodied voice was full of questions as the narration kept going. Unseen eyes and mouths appeared in the dark giggling and muttering.

"It was nice to drink fancy tea and fun to think up elaborate poems and jokes. But more than anything, he delighted in neverending fairy tales. Time passed and soon began their tea party for 3."

(I feel so uncomfortable) a buzzing noise began inside its mind.

"Not a day passed without a tea party, always the same. Ever so curious little Alice, Sharp-Tongued Black Rabbit, And newcomer Roman".

(I don't know a Black Rabbit, was there a Black Rabbit?!) The illusion Black Alice put on the man was pervasive, trying to mold his mind into a new toy.

(Fufufu, what wonderful things you locked in your memories Roman, truly you were made for Alice) the sneering mouths chattered and giggled, unheard by the flame.

"The men could never agree on anything, and their arguments soon turned into quarrels, but as time passed their quarrels bloomed into a deep understanding and friendship."

(Ah yes, friendship through battle, finally something familiar, Black Rabbit, how I missed you my brother, I missed, You?) A wet noise began splashing in his mind.

"Wonderland was not without those who would come to threaten it, like wicked Jabberwock and the tyrannical Red Queen. But together the 3 weathered the storm."

(Evil people threatening our happiness must be beat down!) Roman's mind kept sinking on the illusion, accepting his part as an actor.

"It was a wondrous dream to be continued forevermore, but he and she fell in love."

(Love, love, I remember I had someone dear to me, who was it?) A ripple inside his mind came and went.

"Even if i disappeared far away would you come to find me?" The little girl asked.

"Of course, it's a promise." the man cried out romance, earning giggles from his dearest little Alice.

(Must protect the little girl, ahh i remember now, my love was Alice all along!) a stronger ripple shook his mind giving the man a nasty migraine.

(Yes, yes, you must find your Alice fufufu, go to Alice dear Roman~).

"In the moonlit library the two changed the kisses of promise, unbeknownst to them, the Black Rabbit saw it all from behind a shelf."

"This man chooses to keep Alice all to himself. Oh God, I have but one wish" He prayed, and by the time he realized the tea party would never happen again, it was already far too late.

"This god will fulfill your wish, traitorous little rabbit~" a high pitched childish voice spoke filled with smugness and venom.

The imagery cuts to a bloodied table, the corpse of the dearest little girl unrecognizable as if someone passed it through a blender, the almost dead rabbit shedding tears of regret, and an insane Roman crying for Alice as madness regresses him into a rabid animal.

THE END

(That ending was too cruel!) The flame complained at the sucker punch ending (What a sad tale, but at least I have Alice… Alice? no i didn't love Alice? Who I loved anyways?) The ripples in his mind increased, the flame jumped from his sitting place and looked around, the fog in the room dispersing as the nightmarish scenery revealed itself, all those eyes focused on him now, and the laughter was infernal.

splish splosh splish splash

The wet noise got the upper hand over the buzzing one inside his mind.

drip drip drip

An innocent and jiggly feeling encompassed his brain.

"It's Lime you silly! Don't you dare fall for the wiles of that homewrecker Roman!"

(That's damn right! You evil woman, how dare you try to break my love for Lime, Black Alice!) With a jolt the flame remembered what he was, finally remembering why this place felt so familiar, and it sickened him.

If you think I'll suffer what Grimm suffered and turn this happy go lucky story into a tragedy you're very wrong Black Alice! The man summoned his blade to his side, and releasing the final seal Micaela placed on it he shattered the Nightmare "Romaaaaaaaance!".

The scenery flashed white and the man achieved freedom.


"Welcome back~ Did you enjoy the little tale I've crafted for you? It's a shame you broke it so soon, I even prepared all those girls to be with you." Black Alice sat at the head of the table enjoying her cake, Roman looked around and found out Hime and Erubetie in their own chairs, still out of comission their expressions telling everything he needed to know.

"You think you're Mary Sue?! Sorry, but your reference to that story was in bad taste, and how the hell did you even know of it?" Roman thanked the piece of Lime she left in his brain for waking him up as he looked down at his pocket Lime and she was still out, the smile in her face at least assured him she wasn't locked in a nightmare.

"Fufufu a wizard never reveals their secrets~" Black Alice smirked with amusement, after reading his mind, she changed her original plans, deciding to bring that world to life, it would be the greatest tea party.

"My strength is my party, taking them away from me, now that's very unladylike of you little girl, I dare say you're a real meanie" Roman got up and quickly backpedaled away from the table readying himself for an impossible fight, and to avoid having his still unconscious friends be in the line of fire.

(Well, if I die, depending on how angry Lime and Erubetie get, the explosion from both slime queens surely will force Ilias to rewind, as half the world will become a blasted wasteland, taking Luka with them.) Roman hoped it didn't come to that though, because Ilias would surely take notice and preemptively deal with us after the rewind.

"Isn't that so, let us wait and share more stories of that world while they take their time to wake up, my beloved Grimm." Black Alice had an evil smile, ready to force more information out of him when.

"Roman would never do that!" Lime woke up and bombarded the place Black Alice was, getting the old monster lord by surprise and earning first blood.

"There you have it, now the two lovers can fight for their lives against the main villain, isn't that romantic~" the gothic lolita wiped off the blood before throwing Teddy at them.

The little stuffed animal opened up into a maw of tentacles and teeth, their one desire to eat Roman, but Teddy at the end of the day was just a familiar, with a swipe of his blade the stuffed toy was bisected. Both parts harmlessly fell to the ground before being chopped up more for safety and blasted away by a very angry Lime.

"Stealing my toys and now breaking them, you need to be taught some manners."

Putting on her wizard hat and calling her staff, Black Alice began to fire a barrage of spells at the couple, who did their best to avoid the massacre, to little success as they kept accumulating damage.

"Being defensive isn't working, we need to attack!"

"But how? She doesn't have any openings! Black Alice is a mean cheater!"

"The time has come to release the seal Lime, even if Ilias notices us…" Roman was deep in thought remembering the consequences.

Back at Enrika when Micaela crafted our weapons after acquiring the knowledge of synthesis, she made damn sure to hammer in our heads how releasing the holy power could end up with our ashes to the wind, because Ilias would notice the spike of energy and deliver punishment instantly, my only hope of using them without her gaze upon us was during the angel invasion when holy energy would be all over the world, or when Luka was at the end of his main journey as Ilias would be too focused on the MLC to care, but alas this situation was die or die.

Lime sent an army of her clones as cannon fodder to our advance upon the mage, while her main body tightly enveloped mine to act as my armor, Black Alice favored fire spells which Lime resisted better than electric so that was our silver lining.

"Now"

We got as close as possible before releasing the seal in our weapons and attacking the old monster lord, hoping that elemental infused weapons would work as good as an hero with the spirits by their side we struck true, Lime's boomerangs parted itself once again for each element infused into it and barraged Black Alice from every angle like a flock of murderous birds, making the goth lolita have to switch her focus to take them down as the damage to her first form piled up. Too bothered with the queen monster attack to care for the weak human, the lolita had her fate sealed, my sword made rainbow afterimages as I swiped her belly, splattering blood to the ground.

"Fufufu, you didn't disappoint in the least, it seems it's time for me to get serious then" Black Alice innards bubbled out as she began her transformation to her second form.

(Fuck fuck fuck, we aren't in any condition to endure a multi stage boss rush, think Roman think! What could possibly stop this womanchild from decorating her table with our remains!)

"Huff puff N-No it isn't!" Roman was breathless already from dealing with BA stage 1, Lime not faring any better after losing so many clones and taking the brunt of the damage during their last rush.

"Hmm, and why do you say that~" Black Alice showed interest but didn't stop her transformation.

(I could use that, yes, that surely will work, hopefully…)

"Because we aren't heroes challenging you to a fight," The man hoped he could twist her sick values in his favor "We acted in self defense to a perceived threat you posed by locking us away inside a nightmarish illusion." Black Alice paused, her smile slowly thinning into a line.

"And for a lady who prizes herself in throwing nice tea parties, you were a horrible host treating your guests like you did! We are offended at our treatment and demand reparations." This gave the monster lord pause her roleplay as Alice was being called out and put at stake, the bubbling flesh stopped and reversed back inside her dress.

"Fufufu, indeed we can't have the host attacking their guests after inviting them, forgive this little lady for her bad manners my Grimm~" Black Alice did a curtsy in apologies, she could just ignore him, drop all pretenses and end everyone here, but where would be the fun in doing that?

"Letting my anger for my toys being stolen take over me after inviting you to this delightful tea party was unbecoming, you even kept your decorum after waking up from my nice gift making me the one at fault for being the aggressor, truly this Alice is a bad little girl deserving punishment, would you like to lock up your dearest Alice girl inside a dungeon and force her to proclaim her love as you forcefully take her? fufufu~"

Roman cringed inside, if paradox happened this world would end up in the worst possible scenario, no one would ever want a crossover with the tragedy that is Black Souls.

Black Alice snapped her fingers and her Teddy Bear was back to her side. "Bearie is also sorry~" the stuffed bear bowed silently to the couple.

Looking back at the table and seeing neither Erubetie and Hime were waking up Roman asked "What about them?" With a snap of her fingers both women woke up startled and jumped towards their mates, ready to fight against the tyrant womanchild.

"There you go, it was a fun tea party, sadly we can't continue, as I can already feel Ilias calling for me, tch" Roman and Lime sealed again the holy component of their weapons, but never let their guard down.

"Do your best to survive jiggly pirates, i hope we can have another tea party~" Space twisted again and they were spat out to the front of Promestein's lab, the redhead quickly came to the group, using her equipment to check up her new associates for any nasty gifts the tyrant could leave them with.

"I must say you had the luck of the devil, how unscientific but a nice surprise" Promestein gave a genuine smile towards him, a smile that said how much she wanted to dissect him and find his secrets.

"It was all thanks to love" Roman looked at his girl "Love for my dearest little girl, and trusting her enough to have a piece of her inside my brain to wake me up from mental attacks" His words surprised Erubetie and Hime, they'd never know he would risk himself this much, but the gambit worked.

"And this is how a slime girl and human truly make a bond, Erubetie" Roman gloated to the slime queen.

"Symbiosis instead of parasitism and melting them from the insides, hmm once we go back to the slime spring i'll spread the word."

"Interesting, to think that could be achieved without side effects, such as loss of intelligence or organ and motor failure" Promestein's glasses glinted as she took notes for a new avenue of research in front of her.

"I've prepared the first batch of monster serums" Promestein took out a bloodlike vial "Considering racial similarities, the best choice for now is turning you into a vampire, as they are the closest to humans from the list you gave me."

"Did you test it, to see if it works?"

"Considering your dislike of my use of unwilling subjects before, no, you'll be subject no.0 as per our written agreement."

The scientist smiled, either way this would advance her research and she was far enough in cloning research to try and build a new him from the remains of a horrible failure, the scientist wasn't one to hope, but she hoped he wouldn't end up as a pile of goop, not until she found out all his secrets anyways.

(Lobotomy is out too with a queen class monster living inside his brain, she could very well be a kill switch) Promestein looked at the harmless looking slime girl knowing that behind that foolish expression was a predator.

"So be it, gimme the shot" Roman accepted his destiny, but before anything else he spoke something that stopped all of Promestein's future plans for him in their tracks.

"Lime, Erubetie, in case everything goes wrong, you are allowed to go nuclear and wipe out the entire north half of this planet, Ilias will make sure to rewind us and undo the damage if we kill Luka, so do it without remorse!" Roman smiled at Promestein increasingly unnerved expression before jabbing the syringe on his neck.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" The pain was impossible to describe as his flesh bubbled and melted into pink goo, the man's body became a foul smelling puddle on the floor.

"Well the prototype was a bust… dammit…" Promestein regretted her life choices as both slime queens went nuclear and wiped half of the world's life in a glorious flash of white.


"FUFUFU HAHAHAHA I knew you would be nice toys but I didn't expect this level of amusement!" Black Alice laughed madly from her pocket dimension seeing the massacre, she too would soon be rewound in time, still she prayed she would keep even a figment of the show she was seeing in her memories, to give her something to laugh during her boredom working for Ilias.

"Rewinding time to help your chosen hero, keep playing with higher powers without a care you wench soon it will be your undoing…" Black Alice sneered with hatred.


At the golden region after finally recruiting Salamander, Luka was enthusiastic that the end of his journey was at hand.

"Now all that remains is defeating the monster lord!" Finally out of the volcano, Luka spoke in high spirits before remembering who the monster lord was, "Sorry Alice, I didn't mean..." Not hearing any noise from his girlfriend he asked "Alice, what's wrong?"

As the hero got unnerved by the frozen expression of the monster lord, he directed his gaze to the place she was looking, an increasing expression of horror formed on the hero's face as the white dome increased in size, and heat waves higher than those inside of the volcano buffeted his face.

"It's gone… Dammit Erubetie!" And then their vision went white.

On that day Ilias, in all of her rage for her plans being screwed up, decided to destroy the remaining half of the world, great seal of the first be damned, a horrible battle for survival between Heaven and and the Ancestors soon followed leaving no survivors.


In the void of a dead world, a white and a black monster floated with a flickering soul between both.

"I admit Roman, it was funny seeing Promestein's expression, but your choices were moronic, using paradox crafting in the original world was a stretch already, but race changing only existed because of Ilias job system and Luka's existence as a singularity making all of his party be touched by chaos."

A white rabbit monster with purple hair, a mini top hat and a white cape full of zippers intervened to save the outsider since Ilias soul return network was no more "Yeah, this ending was bad, we can't have this happy story go on like this."

"I say we dispose of him and let the true story follow as intended" Spoke the black rabbit monster with a giant scythe and a cloak that seemed made of tar held up a flickering soul in her hand.

"But where's the fun in that? Letting this interloper come here gave us a real chance to prevent the mess that is paradox from ever happening" White Rabbit intervened defending her chosen piece.

"Yet the ideas he gave to Black Alice when she read his mind could turn Paradox into world RJ237469 and that is the worst case scenario" The Black Rabbit spoke the cruel truth of the matter.

"The most Black Alice could to is ask for a collab, as not even she can breach the walls between worlds willy nilly without repercussions, EMMM would never let it happen as RJ237469 is a closed off world for now, different from worlds RJ209839, RJ241533, RJ137267, RJ176518, RJ026617 and RJ181931 whose arbiters let mingle with ours because it seemed interesting."

Speaking her piece, the White Rabbit yoinked Roman's soul from the thoughtful Reaper.

"Also I wanna see him bring a mech to our story and run Ilias over with a flying battleship, as payback for all the times she turned me into ashes, and messed up my domain" White Rabbit usual happy go lucky speech turned venomous.

"Luka will still be still mine at the end, never forget it" Reaper didn't want paradox to happen as much as WR did, but her Luka was paradox Luka, not OG story.

"And he will be, my cute aloof sister" WR patted Reaper on her shoulders before refocusing on Roman's soul "And you, greedy boy, you'll be getting what you want, but be ready to live with the consequences of it, ta taa~"


Roman jabbed the syringe on his neck and plunged its contents in expecting the worst to happen. He screamed as he closed his eyes "AAAHHHH!"

Seconds passed and seeing that no horrible pain was coming he opened his eyes to a surprised group and gone "Oh".

thump thump thump

His heart rate accelerated as the man clenched it with pain before stopping altogether "Roman!" Lime screamed and got ready to go nuclear before the man raised his hand stopping her, he didn't die, in fact he felt more alive than ever.

"I'm fine, Lime, in fact I'm feeling great! But damn I'm parched, blood blood!" Roman's eyes became red as he looked around and considering his options, he jumped at Hime's nape biting it, the fluid of life energizing him to greater heights, and giving the spider princess immense pleasure in exchange.

"Ahn~ not here my beloved, control yourself~" Even without a pulse per se, his organs kept working as intended and the combination of male and monster pleasure made the man have the greatest orgasm of the last few days, a machine quickly scooped it to analyze the changes.

"It seems the racial change was a success, as expected from my scientific genius" Prommie took a breath of relief now that the risk of getting front row seats to two nuclear explosions has passed.

"Vampiric traits, and keeping his male functions, when past stories of men being monsterized had them becoming females or dying from incompatibility this is an unprecedented development."

The scientist quickly jotted down notes for future research, looking at the man's apparent sanity and preserved biological functions "Penis working as intended so he can keep feeding his group as usual." Promestein looked at the semen sample and whistled at the quality.

"Huff puff… Sorry Hime, your neck just seemed so tantalizing…" The man's eyes turned normal again as his bout of blood induced insanity was dispelled.

(A queen class monster blood is so tasty, hmm I feel I won't need a new sip for a long time after this dose.)

"Hmm you paid me with a nice orgasm so all is forgiven my master~" Hime rubbed the 2 holes his fangs left on her neck and squirmed (So dominating~).

"Roman became a Vampire pirate, so cool~"

"Isn't it Lime? Let's go train this new body of mine, I feel strong but also so weakened, what a contradiction"

"It's expected, as of now you're at the very bottom of the vampire species, you need to work hard before you're able to take the next shot, now get out of my lab, I have things to do and ideas to discuss with my colleagues." Promestein pressed a button and ejected everyone out as she walked on the remains of the syringe and analyzed the last droplet remaining in the vial. "Strange, the serum was changed, how?"

"ARRRRGHHHHHHH!" outside the lab it was still day, and Roman began burning all over from the exposure to the sun, Lime quickly brought him inside and applied her healing slime all over.

"What happened!" Lime asked with worry now that she stabilized her husband.

"It seems I've got a vampiric weakness to light…" Roman looked at his badly burnt body being slowly healed by Lime and made sure to powerlevel back at Enrika until he became a superior vampire and left this horrible weakness behind.

"But no vampire has that?" Erubetie and Hime, who were more in the know about vampires being offshoots of Succubi, questioned the man.

"Vampires from my world do, at least when they're first born, let's go back to the castle. I need to defeat many monsters in battle until I can climb up the ranks of my species, and being fed by stronger monsters will be helpful in the long run…" Roman remembered that Luka was close to finishing his journey, so he had to make do with MLC girls.

(Being a vampire and fighting the holy angels invading the castle will suck so much…) The man complained to himself as the group quickly left.

"Enjoy the consequences Roman, greedy boy who wanted more power, now you must face the downsides of each evolution you achieved, and they will stack" White Rabbit and Reaper nodded to one another, before disappearing.