Part of Your World (Alice version)

It was a small cavern of human objects. There were thousands of human objects everywhere!

"Alice, are you okay?" Cody asked.

"Tell us what is wrong." Edmond said, "And why do you look so sad?"

Alice was lying on a rock in the center of the room, frowning, and turning the dinglehopper around in her hands.

"If only I could make him understand." she said sadly, "I just don't see things the way he does."

Timon covered his mouth to prevent himself from screaming, or maybe from fainting. No, he still felt like fainting. His eyes grew wider every second he listened to the private conversation. He and, well, every other fish in the sea knew about the little mermaid's fascination with humans but he didn't expect it to go to this level of obsession.

"I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things - could be bad." Alice went on.

Timon quickly reined in his shock as he peered around a harp ready to give that girl a talking to as she began to sing.

Alice: *Look at this stuff*
*Isn't it neat?*
*Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?*

She put her dinglehopper in a candlestick holder and began to look around her cave.

Alice: *Wouldn't you think I'm the girl?*
*The girl who has everything?*
*Look at this trove*
*Treasures untold*
*How many wonders can one cavern hold?*
*Lookin' around here you'd think*
*Sure, she's got everything*

She swam up a bit to one of the clock pendants and swung them.

Alice: *I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty*
*I've got whozits and whatzits galore*

Timon looked through a pair of glasses. He thought they were weird. Alice got a little box of more treasures and showed them to Cody and Edmond.

Alice: *You want thingamabobs?*
*I got twenty*

She set the box aside and put her forehead down on another rock.

Alice: *But who cares?*
*No big deal*
*I want more*

Timon looked at her in confusion. What more could she possibly want? Hasn't she had enough this...whatever stuff she has in her cave? Alice sighed as she looked at a music box of a human couple dancing.

Alice: *I wanna be where the people are*
*I wanna see*
*Wanna see 'em dancin'*
*Walkin' around on those-*
*Whad'ya call 'em? Oh, feet*

Edmond giggled when Alice tickled his fins. Timon just simply rolled his eyes. "Humph! Girls!"

Alice, Cody, and Edmond swam around the grotto.

Alice: *Flippin' your fins you don't get too far*
*Legs are required for jumpin', dancin'*
*Strollin' along down a-*
*What's that word again? Street*

Alice, Cody, and Edmond swam up further north toward the grotto.

Alice: *Up where they walk*
*Up where they run*
*Up where they stay all day in the sun*
*Wanderin' free*
*Wish I could be*
*Part of that world*

Timon saw his exaggerated reflection in a glass object. He yelped and jumped into a lantern, shutting him in it.

Alice: *What would I give*
*If I could live*
*Out of these waters?*

Alice floated back onto the bottom of the grotto and laid there. So did Cody and Edmond.

Alice: *What would I pay*
*To spend a day*
*Warm on the sand?*
*Betcha on land*
*They understand*
*Bet they don't reprimand their nieces*
*Bright young women*
*Sick of swimmin'*
*Ready to stand?*

Alice swam up again and came upon one of the shelves, containing her treasures. She pulled out a thick book and flipped through the pages. Timon panicked as he rolled around in a lantern.

Alice: *And ready to know what the people know?*
*Ask 'em my questions*
*And get some answers*
*What's a fire and why does it-*
*What's the word? Burn*

Alice swam up to the top of her grotto. She stretched her hand out as if she was reaching for the sky. Saddened, she slowly sank down to the ground. Cody and Edmond looked at her sympathetically. They all looked up toward the top of the grotto.

Alice: *When's it my turn?*
*Wouldn't I love*
*Love to explore that shore above?*
*Out of the sea*
*Wish I could be*
*Part of that world*

Alice sighed. If only she could live up there, in the world above!

Meanwhile, Timon had still been rolling inside the lantern. Off the edge, it shattered, and Timon flew out and fell on top of a jack-in-the-box. Grabbing vainly for something to stop his fall, his hands caught a sheet, and he pulled it and all the other items stacked on in down. Cody and Edmond hid in an old knight's helmet startled at the sudden noise, and Alice gasped. "Timon!" she exclaimed.

The meerkat's scowl somehow got deeper as he was all tangled up in Alice's human junk. There was a teapot on his back, a pipe in his mouth, and he was on top of an accordion and all wrapped up in necklaces. He angrily spat out the pipe and fell off the squeaking instrument, dislodging most of the things from his back.

"Alice! What, are you mad? How could you - what is all this?" he asked, throwing the human stuff off him.

"It, err, it's just my - collection." said Alice.

Timon smiled warmly. "Oh. I see. Your collection. Hmmm." he said.

Then, he got angry again and tossed two last human objects off his neck, shouting, "IF YOUR UNCLE KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE HE'D -"

"You're not gonna tell him, are you?" Cody cut him off.

"He'll just get angry again." added Edmond.

The boy and the kitten believed she couldn't take Dijon's yelling anymore!

"Oh, please, Timon," Alice begged. "He would never understand."

Timon calmed down a bit and smiled again.

"Alice." he said, "You're under a lot of pressure down here. Come with me, I'll take you home and get you something warm to drink."