Hello everyone! This is my first ever Fan Fiction and I hope you enjoy it.

CHAPTER 1

The boat moved through the clear, ocean water. Alice stood at the bow of the boat, letting her hair get tangled in the wind. "Gettin' bit breezy out here Miss," called out a sailor to her, "You better get inside. We are due to reach port by mornin'. You go rest up." Only a week into their journey to China and they hadn't even left the English coast. Their first stop was to get trading goods.

Alice walked down to her little room below deck feeling a little annoyed for being immediately recognized as a girl. She was wearing her new apprentice attire. She wore a gray travel suit with a blue neck tie. She looked over to the mirror on the wall. She burst out laughing at her appearance. She looked truly mad! Her blonde, curly hair was matted together with the salt spray, her eyes were wild with excitement of the journey and her face was full of colour.

"Madness," Alice chuckled to herself. Suddenly she felt sad. Madness: Hatter, March Hare, Mc Twisp, The Tweedles, White Queen and little Mally. She missed them all so much. "One day I'll go back there," thought Alice, "One day I'll see them again… I hope."

"'Allo Miss! Where you off to?" called out the sailor from the day before. "To the post office, to send a telegram," Alice called back. Alice had made a deal with her mother on leaving for the journey to send a telegram at every stop to notify her of their rout.

A little bell tinkled as Alice stepped into the post office. "Yes?" asked the woman behind the counter. She looked at Alice's outfit in disgust. "Um… may I please send a telegram?" "Who's it from?" She pulled a note pad from under the counter. "Miss Alice Kingsly,"

"Did you say, Alice Kingsly?" "Yes?" What a lot of questions! "A telegram came for you 5 minutes ago," she said as she placed a yellow card on the desk. She walked away before finishing the telegram.

"Curioser," thought Alice, "Mother knew I was arriving in port this morning… but why send a telegram so soon?"

Alice slowly unfolded the piece of paper. She felt calm, then fear. She read the card again but the words were the same. Not that she expected them to change; she just hoped it was her imagination. She kept on reading it over, tugging her emotions one way and the other. She sits down on the bench and a wave of sick engulfs her. "I'm going mad. I'm sure of it!"

Alice recalls the words of her father: "All the best people are." But it does nothing to ease her mind; it makes it feel more scared.

The card slowly slipped from her hand onto the floor.

Alice, Mother is very ill. Time is running out for her. Please come home for her sake.

From Your Loving Sister Margret

"STAYNE! IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK!" screamed out Iracebeth of Crim (but known to most as 'The Red Queen') Ilosovic Stayne was bashing his side of the shackle against a rock. "Oh, it will!" he said with a mad look in his eye. Sweat was pouring from his brow. They were now living in the Outlands after the Frabjous Day. Their extravagant clothes were now mere rags; they were also starving and sunburnt.

"IT…WILL…WORK!" he screamed as he hit it again. "NO, it won't Stayne,"argued the Queen, "My sister would make sure of it that we will hear forever. Besides you're jerking my arm around." "AAAARGH!" Stayne slammed his arm against the rock, turning his hand a shade of purple. 'CLINK' the shackle broke off and fell to the ground with a heavy thump. "Or maybe it will work!" she exclaimed.

"FREEDOM!" Stayne had leapt up and was running around, "I'm out of here!" "Not so fast! Come back here! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" ordered The Red Queen, forgetting herself and surroundings. Stayne stopped in his tracks and turned to face the woman. His face was of hatred and madness. "You don't have that power any more, my dear, YOU LOST IT TO A GIRL!" His eyes were like fire.

"Well, where do plan to go? We are banished from all of Underland." "To get revenge!" he starts shaking. "And how do you plan to do that?" "I…I…I don't know," Stayne starts to sob.

Iracebeth smiled to herself. She had been wearing him down and now he had finally cracked. She needed an ally for this to work and he was the only one that could help. And then and only then she could she could pay him pack for what he tried to do.

"I have a plan. Would you like to hear it?" she said sarcastically. Stayne looked over with a distressed look on his face. She returned the look with a sly grin. "Fine, I'll tell you anyway. Alice was the one who started all these problems and she will be the one to end them."

"And how is that going to happen?" "How did we get here Stayne?" she spoke to him as if he was a child, "How did we get banished to the Outlands?" "Alice beat your 'champion'. WELL, WHAT A CHAMPION HE WAS!" he screamed at her, "SHE KILLED YOUR 'JABBA-BABBY-WOKKY' AND TURNED ALL OF YOUR 'LOYAL SUBJECTS' AGAINST YOU! Now we are rotting in HELL!" "Yes, that is what happened," she said unfazed by his outburst, "So how do you think they will react if their 'champion'… disappeared?"

"But Alice is protected by everyone. We'd be dead before we could even catch a glimpse of her." "Not in Overworld. No one knows of her little trips down the 'rabbit hole'." "But how do we get to Overworld?" Stayne was starting to get interested with this plan. "With this," she presented a little cylinder with the contents of a map.

"W-where! How did you get that!" exclaimed Stain in disbelief. "Do you think I would ever leave my chamber without it? Now we can find the way out of here to Overworld! And get rid of Alice." said the Queen with a triumphant smile. "Gi'me it!" Stayne lunged for the vial in the Queen's hands. "Uh-uh! You will not get this unless you help me and do this my way" "How do you know that I won't just kill you now and leave with it?" Stayne eyed her in suspicion.

"You want power, I have power. To complete your plan you have to be feared, I am feared by everyone. If I die hear no one will ever take you seriously enough and you'll be sent right back hear. Your revenge will never happen without me," The Red Queen smiled with satisfaction, "The choice is yours, Stayne, all yours." Stayne stared cylinder. The content of the map was unknown to most. Many declared it a legend and were ignorant of the fact. With the map you could find the most hidden parts of the world. This was the key to their freedom and the start of a battle.

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