The elevator dinged and the mad, merry group stepped out. The Mad Hatter strolled out confidently with Alice on his right arm and Cheshi curled up to his right. The little blonde tart that had once been Susan Storm-Richards wore only her powder blue heels and the Hatter’s green coat, which had been placed around her shoulders. She giggled lightly knowing Johnny, Ben and Alicia would realize right away that she was nude, which appealed to the newly awakened exhibitionist side of her new kinkier personality. Cheshi flashed her wide, crazed smile and looked forward to what was about to happen, and had a powder blue box slung under her arm with a white ribbon tied to it.
Behind them was a muscular-looking male patron of the hookah bar, as well as one of the wait staff. They each had one of the the unconscious Reed Richards’s arms slung over their shoulders and were carrying the thin man. Trailing the group was the muscular patron’s girlfriend, who was giggling lightly to herself, and was pushing a cart that was covered in a sheet.
The crazed trio led the throng of revelers into the Baxter Building’s common area.
There they saw Ben sitting on an oversized chair on one side of the room with Alicia cuddled up to him on his lap. Johnny was laying out on the couch exactly where Susan had left him. The box of little cakes lay empty beneath him and his eyes were barely opened. All the while, the TV before them was playing an Alice in Wonderland film and all three pairs of eyes were locked on the screen. Every now and then the screen would flicker intermittently, and Jervis Tetch observed, to his absolute delight, that the flickering didn’t register with his three ever-so-captivated hosts.
He hugged Alice close and the crazed couple gazed lovingly at one another. The Mad Hatter’s mind control techniques were working like a charm on the three that had underestimated him so much when he had first arrived, and he was looking forward to seeing how far along in their own descent down the rabbit hole of madness they all were. Jervis delighted in the unhinged, utterly excited look Alice had in her own round, manic eyes and she silently begged him to announce their arrival. He held her attention like a thoroughly domesticated pet for a few seconds, but to the changed Susan Storm, it felt like an eternity. Finally, he grinned down at her and nodded his head.
Alice’s face lit up and she shouted out, “I’m home!”
Ben and Alicia both seemed to snap awake from their stupor of watching the subliminally-laced movie. Alicia, especially, seemed to be almost rejuvenated by the arrival of the strange trio and the group trailing them. She practically sprang off of Ben’s lap as she received an electric shock, and stood with her hands at her sides. It was as if she was standing at attention.
“Sue?” the blind woman called out in a far-away voice, “Is that you?”
The only response she received was a little tittering girlish giggle from the blonde they all knew as Susan Storm-Richards.
Johnny looked up at the bizarre scene and furrowed his brow for a moment. He looked back and forth from the TV to the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and Alice before him. Barely able to keep his eyes open, he reached for the remote control for the TV and began pressing buttons. Finally, he found the one that turned the TV off, but was surprised that the Wonderland characters still remained in the common room. A lazy smile began to form on his face, which was still covered in pastel-colored frosting from the cakes Susan had gifted him. He thought to himself that he must be dreaming.
Ben Grimm, meanwhile, looked over to Johnny with an angry look on his face. The lazy good-for nothing had just turned off his favorite movie that he had been watching with the love of his life. It then occurred to him that they had guests. His mind had been so frazzled lately, and he had been so enraptured with the movie that he had nearly forgotten why Alicia had jumped off his lap. The large rockman shook his head, as if to clear the cobwebs out and looked at the strange trio approaching them. At the center was their new friend, Mr. Hatter, and on either side were two women with wide, pleased grins on their faces. His vision was a little blurry, having stared at a TV screen for most of the day and he reached up and rubbed his baby blues in order to clear them. As his vision became clearer, he received a shock. The little blonde wearing Mr. Hatter’s green coat draped over her shoulders and a pair of blue high heels was none other than Susan!
“Shhh….Suzie?” Ben asked, his gruff voice was slowed and a little slurred. He looked down in panic and then over to Alicia, who was staring straight ahead and had an equally pleased smile on her face. The hero then looked over to Johnny for support but he was still laying on the couch and looked completely out of it. The Human Torch still had remnants of pastel-colored frosting covering his face from the cakes Susan had gifted him earlier. Finally, he looked back at Susan and asked, “What is happening? Where are your clothes?”
Johnny, too, managed to chimed in from his prone position on the couch. His drugged speech was very much slurred, “Thankssssss, Suuuuuuuue! Thankssss for the cakesssssss!
Cheshi pressed her curvaceous body against the Mad Hatter and burst out into a fit of giggles at the lost expression on the rocky face of one of the world’s most famous and revered heros. The Mad Hatter looked at her and tried his best to hold back his own laugh, but to see the state that Ben, Johnny and Alicia were all in was too much. He too couldn’t contain his mad laughter.
Alice gazed over at Cheshi, her frisky feline best friend and her dearest Jervis, who was the one who had shown her how to take the first of many steps along the merry road of mirth and madness. She was excited to see what other wacky wonders he had in store for her. An excited smile played on Alice’s pretty face and she finally addressed the confused group that she had until just recently known as her family.
“No, no, no, you silly billies! Why I’m much, much better than mousy old Susan! I’m Alice!” she declared, a crazed flair in her manic eyes. She then stripped off of the Hatter’s green coat and revelled in all her naked glory. She finally moaned out, running her hands down her tight little body, “THE Alice!”
As the former heroine and role model to women everywhere announced her new identity, the sexual arousal in her voice rose to the pinnacle of ecstasy and she shuddered out in orgasm in front of them all. As Alice came down, she shook her head slightly and flashed the Hatter and Cheshi a crazed smile, tittering out more girlish giggles.
“Pleased to meet you, Alice,” Alicia murmured, and curtsied to the strange newcomer.
Alice giggled in absolute insane delight that the blind woman had accepted her new identity just like that. Cheshi slinked her way over to her crazed bestie and the pair came together in a warm embrace. The feeling of Cheshi’s tight, tight latex on Alice’s bare skin drove the former heroine to higher and higher heights of pleasure. Alice couldn’t help herself, and pulled Cheshi in for a sweltering kiss.
The Mad Hatter looked over in approval, and began to stride forward towards Alicia Masters. It was clear that his constant bombardment of subliminal messaging had worked on the poor blind woman, and she was wide open to his influence.
The Thing, however, looked confused. He looked from Alicia, to the woman who he thought was Sue making out with the white-haired beauty and then questionably over to Mr. Hatter. He reached up and scratched his head in confusion at what was all happening. The hero then spotted his best friend, Reed Richards being carried into the common room by two complete strangers. The thin man was passed out.
“Unless my ever-lovin eyes are outta whack, you sure look a whole lot like Suzie-Q,” Ben said, looking down at Alice, who managed to tear herself away from Cheshi’s warm embrace, “And what the hell happened to Stretch?”
The mad villain burst out in a fit of laughter, like a kid on a sugar high as he turned from the trio before him and then faced his wild-eyes Alice. He then declared with fiendish glee, “You see, sweet Alice, they are all still so...so...ordinary,” Jervis said, making a disgusted face and he made a grand gesture of motioning to Alicia, Ben and Johnny, “Far too normal. Far too sane. I hate it.
“Oh, Mr. Hatter, sir, I fear you’re being far too hard on the poor dears. Take Ben here. His mind is much, much too blocky. Too rocky. Too…” Alice cooed out, mincing over to The Thing on her powder blue high heels. She finally finished her sentence by sliding her naked little body up and down her former friend and moaning out, “...rigid!”
Ben looked down at the woman he had practically viewed as a sister for all of these years and felt how she was sliding her nude form up and down his larger body and suddenly felt very conscious of the fact that she was naked.
“Um, Suzie, where are your clothes?” he grumbled.
“Ben, you’re being quite rude,” Alicia said in an annoyed tone, “Can’t you get it through that thick skull of yours that this is Alice!”
The Mad Hatter’s manic eyes fell on Alicia and he made his way over to the blind woman. His eyes narrowed and he studied her dulled, unseeing eyes, but noticed something that hadn’t been there days before. He reached up and gripped her chin in one hand. She offered zero resistance to this unexpected intrusion of personal space. She instead gazed up at him with an almost worshipful gleam to her eyes. A pleased grin formed on Jervis Tech’s thin lips. Part of his subliminal bombardment of the Fantastic Four was to have them all eventually view him as someone who could be trusted, and eventually someone to be followed without hesitation. It seemed as if dear Alicia was moving into the next phase of her conditioning. He continued to study Alicia’s face and saw that there was a spark of madness dancing in her sightless orbs. It was the same light of madness that he’d often seen in his own reflection, and also in the eyes of the former Invisible Woman and Black Cat.
“How do you feel, Alicia?” the Mad Hatter asked.
The blind woman’s brow furrowed slightly as her mad mentor’s words glided over her mind, and she answered without hesitation, “I must confess to feeling quite strange, Mr. Hatter, sir.”
As the villain listened, he nodded his head in agreement, as if the blind woman could see his deep attention. When he responded, his voice dripped with both concern and satirical mirth.
“That is that pesky sanity messing with your mind, I’m sorry to say,” the Mad Hatter explained, moving his hand up caress the side of Alicia’s face. She seemed to gladly accept his touch, “Sanity is nothing more than a barrier to true freedom. Just ask sweet Alice and dear, dear Cheshi. They will agree with me. I can help you rid yourself of your sanity forever, Alicia. It will truly be WONDERful!”
“Soooooo WONDERful!” Alice and Cheshi sang out in perfect unison. The mesmerized women then smiled like lunatics over to the Mad Hatter.
The rich, velvety voices of tMr. Hatter’s two ladies was like a siren’s song to Alicia’s confused mind. They were like a warm welcome of things to come, but not every part of the blind woman’s mind was fully onboard with what the Hatter was promising. The answer that Mr. Hatter had taken her by surprise. While it did sound absolutely WONDERful, it also made her feel...unsure. She furrowed her brow and her head swam.
“My sanity? Are...are you sure, Mr. Hatter?” Alicia asked.
“My dear, OF COURSE I’m sure!” Jervis exclaimed bombastically, “I know when someone is going mad. I am the Mad Hatter!”