Hello, everyone! Author Rinny here, with a big surprise for all of you! I'm not the only person writing this! For the first time ever, in my short time as a fanfiction author, I'm teaming up with someone! And not just any someone!

ChaosHasCome!

Yes, her, and all of her amazing awesomeness. Just, you guys wouldn't believe my excitement when she suggested we should write this together. She's just awesome. If some of you guys don't know her, she's a great author for Metal Fight Beyblade, and the writer of some good titles, like The Flip Side of Perfection, The Other Side, Ask Madoka and some cool one-shots. Check her out, it'll be sooo worth your while.

Also, if ya have the time, check out our forum she made. It's called Masters of Metal and we welcome all.

Okay, so this story is an "Alice in Wonderland"/ Cardverse AU of Metal Fight Beyblade, starring Madoka as center role—'Alice'. This idea sprouted from a dream I have a while back, obviously the result of drinking soda before bed, and thus this was born from the minds of Chaos and I.

As it stands now, we're still developing the plot, but we got some killer ideas and plot bunnies. We'll be alternating the chapters, meaning I wrote this one and Chaos is currently working on the second chapter. I'll be posting all of the chapters here, so I don't confuse anyone. I adore this idea, and so does she. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we do writing it!

Since the original summary written by Chaos didn't fit, I pulled the one that's up outta me mind. I still like hers better.

"Madoka never expected to meet familiar rabbits or fall down any holes when she decided to take a hike through the woods. She most certainly did not expect jealous queens, plotting kings, or grinning Egyptians. And she never expected to fall in love. After all, it was only a forest. Right?"

(The ideas and the plot formed in this fiction are property of ChaosHasCome and RinnyEjito12. The idea of the Alternate Universe 'Cardverse' is not, however, only limited to us. Metal Fight Beyblade and Alice in Wonderland belong to their respective owners. The fan character used in this fiction remains property of RinnyEjito12.)

This is an AU, meaning it strays from the plot of the show, the manga, and other storylines in Metal Fight Beyblade.

~Like Broken Clockwork

"M-Madoka, three more beys came in for a cleaning, a-and we need a Spin Track 100, a Performance Tip RF and an extra Storm Fusion Wheel!"

The brunette mechanic twitched slightly in her desk chair at her work station. Her laptop was opening, her microscope held two different Spin Tracks and three beys, green, blue and purple were held in a single hand. Various bey parts were carelessly spread around her in no hopes of organization and her brush was tucked haphazardly behind her ear. Red-hot anger tried to inch its way through her veins, as she heard the voices of children, young adults and others upstairs.

"I'm working as fast as I can! Tell 'em to back off!"

Two sets of footsteps were heard at the top of the stairs.

"Madoka! This kid is crying for a Semi-Flat Performance Tip and you ran out of those yesterday! What do I do?"

"A-ah... 5 m-more people want maintenance done... The store's becoming very c-crowded..."

Madoka turned slightly to catch the gazes of her two friends, one pale and the other brown, both wide and they were slightly panting from running all around the store. Madoka sunk into her chair a bit and chose to sigh loudly.

Tournament days...

A year or so after Big Bang Bladers, Metal City, the place to be for bladers everywhere, flourished and many bladers had migrated here, for rumors of battling the greatest blader in the world and such...

Madoka was ecstatic at first, more bladers meant more customers, more beys to clean and fix up, more data to collect. To keep up with the flush of bladers, the WBBA began hosting Tournaments maybe two or three times a month.

Where else to prepare for a tournament than B-Pit, the shop of the mechanic of Gan Gan Galaxy?

Tournament days...

What scared her the most was tomorrow, because everyone would want their beys repaired after the beating they'd get from her friends, and then she had her friends' beys to worry about...

Her logical mind ran through many actions, and predicted the consequences of each. The chattering from upstairs grew louder and louder until a small ache and a rage flowed into her small body. with gritted teeth, and a fire now in her cerulean eyes, she stomped up the stairs to see various kids climbing onto her counter, her two friends sweating and panicking to keep them back.

"Ma-Madoka! Do... Do you have the parts?"

"Did you finish that Gemios bey? This kid needs it now!"

The crowd had parted in two, and one half began to crowd around her. The intangible voices raised the throbbing in her head and she rubbed her temples to calm herself down.

This was all in vain when a kid ended up throwing his bey at her head.

Flames seemed to engulf the mechanic, her two friends saw this coming and ducked for cover. The rest watched in annoyance, wonder, and the smart ones, in fear.

"ALL OF YOU BE QUIET! STARTING NOW...! WE'RE CLOSED!"

A resounding wave jabbed her shrieking into everyone's ears, and the sound wave frightened her customers, as most of them ran and huddled to flee the store. The few brave—better yet, idiotic—ones took one glance at her raging pools of blue eyes and disappeared within seconds.

The aftermath had left her with multiple beys and parts scattered across the floor, two friends—one her age and female, the other male and a few years younger—huddling in the corner, and a much more painful headache.

Man, did that feel good.

"Madoka...?"

The young green-haired boy drew enough courage to call out to his friend, and the one next to him picked up her head in curiosity.

The brunette mechanic had slumped against the wall of B-Pit and stared at her friends in apology. None was needed, the two stood and walked over to her. The dark-haired female smiled gently as the green-haired boy grinned.

"You gonna be okay?"

"You... should rest a while..."

The mechanic nodded, staring at the ceiling.

"I'd love to, but this place makes me think of beyblade too much."

The two friends glanced at each other—she didn't want to think of beyblade?—and then back to Madoka. They guessed they understood, she seemed far too overworked. Soon enough, an idea popped into the young boy's head.

"Hey Madoka, why don't ya go relax around the forest around Metal City? I don't really think you can't not think of Beyblade here."

She honestly thought it was a good idea, and ran down the stairs to grab her laptop, and packed a few things she would need from a short day trip. When she got back upstairs, her friends were beginning to clean up, stating that they would take care of it for her, and that the former sub member for Gan Gan Galaxy would come and help soon. She would've hugged them both tight if the pale-eyed girl wasn't reading as she cleaned and if the brown-eyed boy wasn't holding 10 beys in his small hands.

Before she could reach the door after saying good-bye, the girl stopped her.

"If you find yourself out of o-options, Madoka... You should read. I-it's one of my favorites. Hope you like it."

An old fairytale book, green with silver words marking them. She flipped through the yellowed pages a bit, and then smiled. She thanked her and promised her she would.

Though she honestly preferred reading digitally, she took the book along with her on her hike.

Lucky for her, her father's store wasn't so far from the exit to the city and the entrance of the forests. She had been here many times, whether as a small child wanting to research beys on her own, or with friends, looking for the now champion after another one of his destructive battles.

The lush green leaves and tall wood trunks greeted her in kindness when she walked closer. Soft sounds of birds chirping and a light waterfall nearby instantly rang in her eardrums. A sweet, welcome change from the loud noises of the bustling city.

She walked and walked, step after step, deeper and deeper into the woods. She walked around a lot when traveling, and she had been able to go farther than she could before without getting tired. However, she was only herself, and fatigue crept in as her legs grew sore. Madoka couldn't help but wonder how long she had been walking, as the sunlight was still as bright as it was when she had entered, which she found odd.

Soon, her pack was dropped unceremoniously on a root of a tree and she seated herself on a sturdy rock next to it. Trying to ignore the soreness, she dug into her bag to find her laptop. Pressing a few buttons on the keyboard, and she opened documents on various beys she had scanned. She laughed when in part of her notes she ranted about how careless one of her friends, one of the more prideful and wild ones, was about his bey with its 145WB Spin Track and Performance Tip. The Wide Ball Tip was very fragile in battle, and he sprang into battle, throwing around these wild moves left and right. She knew better now, it was his style, and though she didn't like it as much, he cared for his bey and the beast inside was more than happy to grow stronger alongside him.

She read through more of her notes during Big Bang Bladers, it was like re-living every moment, every battle. Her red-head friend, now the Champion, and how he pulled off a great save with a new special move created by noticing the new power in his Rubber Flat Tip.

Madoka found herself shaking her head furiously and shutting her laptop quickly with a little too much force.

Didn't she come here to avoid Beyblade, if only for a day?

Trying to find something to distract herself, she dug into her pack and fished out a relatively light book. She thought she wasn't going to read it, but it was still something to do. A bookmark was placed in the middle of it, so she started there. The mechanic read the title out loud.

"Alice in Wonderland..."

She sunk herself deeper against the trunk of the tree and began reading with no vigor to really understand the words on the page. She turned the yellowed pages, one after the other, until she finished. She didn't expect the story to be so long, and there were elements she was sure weren't in the fairytale before. When she shut the book, and looked to the sky, she was even more surprised to notice that the sky hadn't darkened, it was still the same bright blue peeking through the leaves as it was before. Madoka huffed, realizing the day hadn't been dented by any of her actions, and she knew she couldn't stand it if she returned before at least sunset.

So she stood, packing her laptop and the book, and tugged the bag on her shoulders. Walking more could further clear her mind. Three steps were taken before Madoka heard a soft 'clink' behind her. She turned to see her Gasher had fallen through an open pocket.

Though she herself rarely battled, she still secretly carried her bey everywhere. She loved her friend as much as the blader members of Gan Gan Galaxy did their's, her bond with her bey was just more quiet, and less-noticed.

Picking up her bey quickly, she observed for any cracks or dirt. When all seemed fairly okay, she went to put her friend back in her pocket. Instead, she felt the metal and plastic that was her launcher and pull cord. Pulling them out as well, she stared at the objects in her hand for a few seconds before quickly assembling them together.

On a complete whim, she assumed the stance of many of her friends before her and began a countdown.

"Let it rip!"

As Gasher began a steady rotation on the ground in front of her, she smiled at the decent launch she performed. She sat again and pointed her laptop at the spinning bey, measuring Gasher's stamina and speed. She was happily analyzing, perfectly fine that it's stamina wasn't as long as the prodigy's or the green-haired boy's, that her strength was as powerful as the prideful one or the Champion's. It didn't matter to her at all that her speed was nowhere near the silver-haired member of the WBBA...

A flash of silver-white appeared in her peripheral vision and Madoka snapped her head up. A figure flashed past her and large eyes struggled to follow it. She then turned to watch her Gasher, only to see what she thought was a leg lash out and strike the still spinning bey. She gasped, and watched in horror as her bey crashed into a tree, its momentum allowing it to bounce and then hurl into another tree, then another, until it was too weak and stuck firmly—harshly—into a crevice in a tree's trunk some ways away.

The figure responsible was now visible, and she saw flowing silver hair, tied at the bottom, conjoined with the silhouette running to the tree her bey landed in.

Anger filled her before anything else. How could ANYONE be so inconsiderate? Not just to her, but to her poor bey as well!

"Tsubasa?"

Standing to race after the culprit, she gasped when as she grew near, the figure disappeared. Gone. No trace in this silent cathedral of wilderness. Her feet skidded to a stop and Madoka looked from side to side, desperately trying to find the person to lash out at. Her search was in vain, when she realized she was alone once again.

Was her mind playing tricks on her? Was that really her older blader friend running through these forests? Madoka huffed, blowing at her bangs slightly and ignored the questions in her head when she saw her poor bey still unmoving in that crevice. She walked near the tree and looked up, now noticing her bey was pretty high up there. Not wanting to climb just yet, she stood on the edge of her toes and swayed gently trying to reach the Fusion Wheel to grab. In her haste to snatch it, and in her instability, she didn't notice the large hole near her feet, and that with her next step, she would be sent plummeting head-first.

...0o0o0o0...

Two young boys held fast to each other's hand as they navigated the familiar land of their home. Seeing the wilderness of the neighboring kingdom inch closer was frightening, they never had stepped foot off of their kingdom's soil. Friends had come and go visiting from the woods, but they never followed. Well, that could change today. One brother looked to the other, soft brown meeting excited green, as the Clock Tower loomed over the trees in the corners of their eyes. It was said to be pointed right smack in the middle of all four kingdoms, maybe they could also go visit...

A figure rushed past them, leaving them with a glance of tanned skin and silver-white hair. The long ears protruding from the figure's head swayed as the silhouette disappeared into the woods of that kingdom.

A few more steps, the two brothers stepped off the soil of their home and stopped.

"I could've sworn I heard "Gotta hurry!", right?"

"I heard "I'm late!", didn't you?"

...0o0o0o0...

In a garden not far from this way or that way, decorated with lotus flowers and hedges growing around a simple house standing in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, a table stood proudly.

Setting the table, was a strange trio of maybe-friends. One, the bigger of the tree, was gleefully tipping his wild hat and setting out chairs for guests that were sure to come. Another, a dark-skinned male, was setting plates and silverware for each seat. The last, the smallest and the only female shouldered the messenger bag she held and yawned as she served snacks and poured tea into each cup. All three spun around the table at their own tempo, humming the same song in a similar way. As the song came to a close, all three friends bumped into one another, and nearly fell over. They all glanced at one another and threw a fit of laughs and giggles.

Suddenly, a figure rushed past the garden, leaving them with only a glance of long hair and a gleaming pocket watch.

"Is he always in such a rush? The dark-skinned one asked, long ears falling against his shoulders, as the larger one tipped in hat in a nod, confirming the answer. The smallest yawned quietly, a small flush over her face as her mouse ears pulled back.

'Was he very late...? H-How tiring...'

...0o0o0o0...

As he lounged on the tall hedge, the first of the many that went on forever in this Maze of Roses, he noted the location. Not too far from that way but surely a day's walk from this way. Neither here nor there, in the place it always had been, right here. He had sensed it just as much as his king did, someone new would come right here, and soon.

One ear propped up as a new noise was heard, and he sat himself up, now allowing his body visibility as he appeared above the entrance of this Maze. His striped tail moved gracefully as he grinned that grin his friends knew him for.

Golden eyes met his as the person they belonged to rushed towards the entrance. A slight nod was sent his way and he sent one back, lying again on the branches of the hedge as boots ran into the maze and away, already knowing the familiar path when he called, "A tad late, aren't we?"

So, haha, this is my part! I wanted to make it a tad longer, but I love it as it is! I'm a bit anxious... Okay, very anxious, but I have confidence in this.

Hehe, can you all guess who's who? More characters are to come, Wonderland's a big place on its own!

Also, since Chaos and I love this couple so much, there will be KyouMado in this fic. Because we said so. Other pairings are still to be decided, but that one's set in stone.

So, I'll end this here, as I wait excitedly for Chaos' part! My only bragging right is that I'll be able to read it before you guys~! X3 (Just kidding~!)

Chaos did leave you guys with a little blurb from her part. Check out it's awesomeness!:

"Madoka was forced to acknowledge that the fall would logically end in her death. She was also forced to acknowledge that she had been falling for an unreasonably long time already, as if time itself had stilled and she was rushing through a black vortex, frozen infinitely. A cold fear slithered up her spine at the thought that perhaps she would continue to fall forever, suspended eternally in one small loop of time, bound to replay over and over."

Phew! Lookit! Look how amazing! It gets me pumped for the next bit! :D

So yeah, thanks for reading!

~RinnyEjito12/Diana