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Artemis in Wonderland

Down the Rabbit Hole

Artemis leaned back against the old oak tree she had found while wandering the local park in Gotham. She sighed, staring intensely at the book sitting in her lap. The hot sun beat down on her neck as she tried to read, she had hoped the tree would provide some shade from the unforgiving sun, it didn't. She huffed restlessly, turning the page and trying to focus, she had to read this book for school. Artemis had to read it quick too, and this was one of her few chances. Between the Young Justice and her other homework, she didn't have much time for reading.

Ugh, she yawned stretching out. The sun did make her rather drowsy, and maybe it wouldn't be a totally awful thing if she closed her eyes for just a few seconds…

"Ah!" Artemis gasped leaping forward, her eyes flying open looking around wildly. She had only closed her eyes for a few seconds, right? She looked around, she was in the exact same spot she was before…But something seemed off. Different, perhaps.

The colors seemed brighter, the park seemed a little more quiet, and she felt a little more…Weightless.

A voice broke through the silence, a cracked and frail high pitch voice. "Oh I'm late! I'm late for an important date!"

Artemis stumbled to her feet looking around for the source of the voice, "Hello?" She called out very quietly, her voice wavered. Something was giving her an uneasy feeling, her stomach clenched tightly with anxiousness.

"Late, late, late!" The voice continued, this time closer, Artemis caught a flash of white out of the corner of her eye and spun around to see Zatanna dressed in a loose white dress that went to her knees. Rabbit ears peeked out of her dark hair, they twitched slightly at the cool breeze. She tapped a gold pocket watch in her hand, "Late!" She squeaked again before turning on her heel and running off.

"Zatanna?" Artemis said aloud, staring dumbly after her, what the flying hell was going on? Without a second thought she ran after her team mate following her to a heavily wooded area atop a hill. It was late afternoon and only a weak amount of light streamed through the heavy canopy of trees, "Zatanna this isn't funny, where are you?"

"Oh, I must hurry! Or I'll be late!" Zatanna called out to Artemis's left.

"I've got you now," Artemis muttered, sprinting in the direction she had heard Zatanna's voice when suddenly the ground fell out from under her.

It took a minute to react, after all, Artemis had to process what was going first. And then she realized that, yes, she was in fact falling. She was…Falling?!

Artemis didn't even realize it but she was shrieking, and she had good reason to. She was falling for Christ's sake, could this day get any worse? These kind of things didn't happen every day, people didn't magically find themselves to be falling to their deaths, but of course if it was to happen, it would happen to Artemis.

Great.

She frantically looked around, searching for something that she could cling to. How long had she been falling anyways? Artemis had been bracing herself for impact for almost two minutes; strange, so strange…But not as strange as what had been going on with Zatanna. Zatanna! Yes, maybe she could help me! Artemis prayed that her friend would be able to hear her, despite the fact she was god knows where.

Down, down down. It wouldn't be long before Artemis would reach the bottom, this hole couldn't go on forever. "Zatanna!" She called out, her voice echoing through the large space; this would be her only chance for rescue, "ZATA-"

Thump. Artemis fell into a large heap of sticks and dried leaves and miraculously, she was not hurt one bit. "How…." Was all she could manage to say as she looked up at the hole she had just fell from though she could see nothing but darkness. Looking ahead there was a long corridor, and Zatanna was still in sight, hurrying down it and babbling about how late she was.

This is weird…But familiar. Artemis stood, brushing stray leaves off of herself and running after her friend, pushing back all thoughts of how impossible this was, and how strange. She could worry about that later.

"Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" Zatanna whined as she rounded a corner, Artemis was very close behind now, she followed the other girl into yet another hall, but Zatanna was nowhere in sight.

The hall was long and wide, lined by an array of different doors, all strange shapes and sizes. The space was lit by low hanging lamps. "This is impossible, she could've gone through any one of these doors." Artemis sighed and went to the door closest to her, trying to open it and finding it locked. She continued to do this with all of the doors, finding that none of them would budge. "Now how am I supposed to get out of here." She muttered, slumping against a wall. She looked around the room and spotted a small three legged table.

Artemis approached it wearily, her spirits brightening when she found a small key sitting atop it. Thinking that the key must fit one of the doors she took it and began to try the different locks, though sadly for poor Artemis the locks were either too big or too small for the key. Artemis slowly made her way to the last door, it was bright red and very thin, almost too narrow for Artemis to fit through if it were to open.

With the very last strand of hope left in her body, Artemis tried to unlock the door. It didn't open.

"Damn this piece of crap!" Artemis exclaimed furiously, kicking the door in frustration, "what use is a key if it doesn't unlock a damn thing!" She sighed rubbing her temples and slid down a wall, slumping onto the floor. How long had she been in this disorienting hall full of doors? Half an hour, or maybe a full hour? Would this madness ever end?

Something was digging itself into Artemis's back; she spun around in annoyance looking for the object that was causing the problem. There before her was a comically small door, not more than a foot tall. It couldn't be…Not even Zatanna, as fit as she was, could fit into that door. Still, it wouldn't hurt to try.

Letting out a shaky breath, Artemis fit the key into the lock and turned it. She heard a click, and with a squeak, the door swung open revealing a small passage. Artemis bent further over to peer through the opening, through the short passage she could see a very lovely garden. Perhaps one of the most beautiful gardens she had ever seen, she had a surprising longing to enter the passage, to leave the horrible dim hall she was in and wander through beds of brightly colored flowers in the sun.

But, in order to do that Artemis had to find a way to fit into the passage. Grumbling to herself Artemis stood, wandering back to the table with the small hope there might be something there to help her.

"Drink me?" Artemis repeated, reading the small sign on the bottle she held in her hand, she wasn't sure how much she trusted this bottle, for all she knew it could have been rat poison (though who would label rat poison with a drink me sign?). Artemis shrugged to herself and put the bottle to her lips, "bottoms up." She threw her head back and drank all of the bottle's contents, finding it rather nice.

A strange feeling went through Artemis's body, it was warm almost inviting. She wondered if this was what the effects of alcohol were like, though the bottles contents didn't seem like a sort of alcoholic drink. Nevertheless, Artemis felt strange, and the feeling continued, it grew and swelled till the point that Artemis was so full of emotion and a tingling feeling she thought she might explode. She shut her eyes and when the feeling finally subsided she opened them again to find that she was somewhere else entirely.

Except no, she wasn't somewhere else, she was in the same place except the room had grown larger, or I've shrunk, though that would be ridiculous, but thinking the room had grown was admittedly equally ridiculous. Either way it didn't matter, the whole chain of events leading up to where she was at that exact moment were all so strange, the thought of shrinking wasn't too ludicrous.

The small door came into view again, this time however, Artemis could easily step through the door and out into the garden. She looked around, her hands brushing over the dress she was wearing. The…Dress. Artemis wasn't wearing a dress earlier, she was in her school uniform and now, she found herself in a blue dress that looked freakishly familiar. The thought, whatever this all was, it was on the tip of her tongue but it was as if there was a block in her mind preventing her from remembering exactly what. It was killing her, but she couldn't continue to ponder, she had to find Zatanna.

And with that, Artemis wandered down a path with new determination.

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Hi! So, I hope you've enjoyed this chapter :D It would be very lovely if you could scroll down to the box below and write a quick review! I'd love you forever!

I'm trying to do a sort of combination between the books and the 2010 movie, since I love both!

So this is the story of Artemis's Adventure in Wonderland, there will be a colorful array of characters and if you think it would be too spoilery, just skip over this list, but here are the roles all the characters shall play, if you have any suggestions for new Young Justice characters to play Alice in Wonderland characters please leave them in the reviews! I'd be happy to oblige if it works with my story arc…I'll stop my babbling, here's the list:

March Hare: Wally

White Rabbit: Zatanna

King of Hearts: Sportsmaster

Cheshire Cat: Jade (Of course)

Tweedledee: Billy

Tweedledum: Gar

Mad Hatter: Robin

Alice: Artemis (Duh, haha)

The Caterpillar: Superboy (…Haha, I don't know…)

The Dormouse: Miss Martian

Mock Turtle: Aqualad (I don't know if this will stick, if you have better suggestions for him PLEASE SAY SO OMYGOD…I was having troubles, so yeah)

And no, they won't be actual animals, it will be more like they're in cosplay of the character they play so they will still be their attractive selves :)

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