Author's Note: Hey, it's me again. I'm going to try to juggle two stories at once. This one is a crossover with the Mysterious Benedict Society and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. So before we get started with the story, I might as well put the disclaimer up: I don't own the characters used in this story. If I'm off on a few things, let me know. I watched the movie a few times since the movie theater (thank goodness there's a netflix!) and I think I know how I can make this sound like a story that is being told by Mr. Benedict. If I'm off on quoting, let me know, will you? This story is rated PG for mild fantasy violence (most likely), scary moments (maybe) and a smoking butterfly. (Anyone who looked at the rating box on the back of the DVD at Walmart will know that it actually said smoking caterpillar, which gave me the idea to do that. LOL!) This is set some time after the events in the second book and a long time after the events in the movie. ON WITH THE STORY!

The members of the Mysterious Benedict Society were in London on a two week vacation. They had been through a lot recently and they needed to relax. Rhonda had filled a basket with food and they all went to a clearing so they could all have a little picnic.

Mr. Benedict had fallen asleep as usual and Kate was fiddling with something from her bucket.

"Ugh! I'm so bored," Constance groaned. It was hard to keep a three-year-old amused when there were no playground for miles.

"I'm not surprised," Sticky muttered to Reynie. Kate sighed, knowing that they were right: There was nothing to do, unless you wanted to try to wake Mr. Benedict up.

"The same thing happened to someone many years ago," #2 said, taking a big bite out of a sandwich.

"Who?" the four children asked at the same time, desperate to find anything to distract them.

"You might remember the story of a young girl who followed a white rabbit."

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Reynie said. "I remember that story. Miss Perumal and I discussed it a few years ago."

"When I was still with the circus, we acted out one of the scenes from the book," said Kate.

"Which scene?" Sticky asked.

"The tea party," Kate answered.

"I think I remember that part," Constance said. "'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Unless it's the fact that they both sound like there's an R at the beginning, I give up."

"Speaking of Alice in Wonderland," said Milligan, who was lying on the grass, "didn't you say that it happened many years ago, #2?"

"Yes I did," said #2.

"You mean there really was an Alice and there really was a Wonderland?" Kate asked, amazed.

"Yes, there was," Rhonda said, smiling.

Mr. Benedict woke up at that moment.

"Was I asleep for a long time?" he asked, yawning and running his fingers through his hair.

"Only for a few minutes, sir," #2 said.

"Good," he said. "Did anything happen?"

"We were just about to tell the children the story about Alice Kingsleigh slaying the Jabberwocky," Rhonda said. "Now you can tell them, too."

"Excellent," said Mr. Benedict. "Well, children, many years ago, a young woman named Alice Kingsleigh went to a tea party. She really didn't want to go, but her mother made her and she didn't have fun, especially when she found out that the purpose of the tea party was so that Hamish Ascot could propose to Alice under the gazebo, in front of everyone there."

"Alice wasn't in love with Hamish and it didn't help that she knew what to expect when the moment came," #2 said, taking another bite out of her sandwich.

"Everyone expected her to say yes and Alice was torn between doing what she wanted and pleasing her family. When the moment came, Alice hesitated. Then, she saw a white rabbit in a blue waist coat and a pocket watch, beckoning Alice to follow him. After saying she needed a moment to think, she ran after the rabbit.

"She found herself near a tree with a very large hole. Alice leaned forward, trying to see where it ended, but then she found herself falling. After she got through the tiny door that required the use of a potion to get through, she found some creatures waiting for her. They were arguing among themselves about whether or not the white rabbit had found the right Alice.

"Unable to figure it out themselves, they decided to bring Alice to Absolem, one of the wisest residents in Underland."

"Underland?" Constance said. "I thought the story was called 'Alice in Wonderland.' And who on earth is Absolem?"

"We'll get to the name of the odd world later. As to Absolem, he was one of the wisest residents as I had said. You know him in Lewis Carroll's book as the smoking caterpillar."

"Thought he sounded familer," Kate said. "Carroll forgot to give the caterpillar a gender, how rude." (AN: Yeah, I skimmed through the original book and the caterpillar is referred to as either "the caterpillar" or "it." Why Carroll forgot to give him a gender, I'll never know...)

"They reached the mushroom forest where Absolem dwelled and he showed them the Oraculum, a scroll that told everything that had happened, what will happen and what was happening at that moment from the very beginning of Underland. In the Oraculum, on the Frabjous Day, it showed a blonde haired girl with a sword fighting the Jabberwockey, a terrifying dragonlike creature.

"The girl was Alice. But Alice didn't think she could kill the Jabberwockey. So when the other creatures of Underland asked Absolem if she was the right Alice, the old caterpillar replied 'Not hardly,' and dissapeared behind the smoke from his hookah. Just as the creatures were deciding what to do with her, the Bandersnatch came and they fled in all directions, but most of them were captured. (AN: Uilleam {Dodo}, McTwisp {White Rabbit}and Tweedledee and Tweedledum.)

"Some time later, Alice found herself in the Tugley Wood, all alone with a painful scratch on her arm from the Bandersnatch that should have surely woken her up from this dream. And then the Cheshire Cat appeared and took Alice to a tea party. The Mad Hatter certainly thought she was Alice, and that she was the one to save Underland."

"And he asked the riddle that has no answer, what so ever," Constance muttered.

"Hang on," Kate said. "Why did Alice have to slay the Jabberwockey? Does it have to do with that queen that shouts 'Off with his head!' every time someone annoys her?"

"Yes," Mr. Benedict said. "There were two sisters, Iracebeth, the Red Queen and Mirana, the White Queen. Iracebeth was first in line for the throne but she was spoiled and had a very nasty temper so her parents gave the crown to her little sister, who was considerably nicer than her older sister and made a vow not to harm any living creature.

"Mirana ruled for a few happy years until the day the Jabberwocky attacked. Three things were lost that day: the crown, the Vorpal sword and the Mad Hatter's family."

"Poor Mad Hatter," Kate said.

"The Hatter was going to take Alice to the White Queen's castle, so they could come up with a plan to get the sword that Alice would need to kill the Jabberwockey, but they ran into a few complications. One of the White Queen's allys was a bloodhound named Bayard but apparently the Red Queen's Knave, Ilosovic Stayne, threatened to hurt Bayard's wife and puppies if he didn't help him."

"Remind us of someone?" Milligan said grimly. They all knew who Stayne reminded them of: One of Mr. Curtains Ten Men, McKracken.

"Bayard lied to Stayne at the tea table when he showed up but he was too concerned about his family to do it again. So, Tarrant threw his hat, with Alice hanging onto it for dear life-don't forget she shrunk and she shrunk a little more at the tea party-across the river they were at."

"Wait, who's Tarrant?" Sticky asked, confused. "I thought Alice was with the Mad Hatter."

"Tarrant is the Mad Hatter, George Washington!" Constance said, glaring at Sticky, who glared back at the use of his real name. "He can't just be known as the Mad Hatter forever."

"Anyway," said Reynie said hastily, before this turned into a fight, "what happened next, Mr. Benedict?"

"Alice watched the Hatter be dragged away by the Red Guards and so she crawled under his hat and fell asleep. Bayard found her in the morning and explained why he gave them up. Alice insisted that he take her to the Red Queen's castle so she could rescue Tarrant. Bayard took her to Salezum Grum and left her to tell the White Queen what had happened.

"Alice tried to free the Hatter but was forced to flee when the Knave found out she was Alice, and not 'Um.'"

"Did you forget what name she used, Mr. Benedict?" Sticky asked.

"No, that was who everyone thought she was: Um from Umbridge. The Red Queen wasn't entirely bright so it wasn't that difficult to pretend that that was her name. Alice escaped Salezum Grum, on the Bandersnath with the Vorpal Sword to Marmoreal. The next day, (AN: At least I think it was the next day.) Tarrant and his friends escaped Salezum Grum with the help of a certain grinning cat.

"Alice still had doubts about slaying the Jabberwockey, and whether or not the world she was in was real, so when the Frabjous day came, she burst into tears. Absolem was there, amost completely in his cocoon, when Alice had started crying. 'Nothing was ever acomplished by tears,' he said to her.

"Alice begged him to help her. 'I can't help you, stupid girl, you don't even know who you are,' he said. 'I'm not stupid.' Alice said. 'My name is Alice, I live in London, I have a mother named Helen and a sister named Margaret. My father's name was Charles Kingsleigh. I'm Alice Kingsleigh.' 'Alice at last,' Absolem said. 'You are just as stupid as you were last time, you called this place "Wonderland" as I recall.'

"And that was when Alice realized that everything that was happening to her was real, and that the dreams that had been haunting her for thirteen years were memories. Absolem told her to hold onto the sword when facing the Jabberwockey, before he dissapeared into his cocoon.
Alice then put on her armour and she and her friends went to the battlefield to defeat the Red Queen.

"The two queens brought their champions forward and Alice began fighting the Jabberwockey. And then Tarrant intervened when Alice fell down and the monster was about to take a bite out of her and everyone else began to fight to. And then after some minutes of fighting, Alice cried 'Off with your head!' and the Vorpal sword came down on the Jabberwockey's neck and the head tumbled down the stairs and landed right in front of the Red Queen.

"The fighting ceased as soon as everyone realized what had happened. The White Queen was ruler of Underland once again. Mirana banished her sister and the Knave to the Outlands where no one was to show them any kindness from then until the end of Underland. And then she gave Alice a vial full of the Jabberwockey's blood to send Alice back home if she so desired.

"Alice went back to her world to tell Hamish she couldn't marry him and decided to try to extend her father's business a little farther, With the promise that she would go back to Underland once everything was said and done." Mr. Benedict seemed to have finished the story.

"Did Alice go back to Underland like she promised?" Reynie asked.

"Well, as it turns out, two years after the story took place, Alice disappeared, with a note in her handwriting that said she was not going to come back but not to worry about her, so yes, I think she did return to Underland."

"Sharing your childish stories, Benedict?" They all looked around and to their horror, they saw none other than Mr. Benedict's brother, Ledroptha Curtain, with his henchman. "Get them," Mr. Curtain said smiling wickedly.

"RUN!" Milligan shouted, standing up and grabbing his tranquilliser that he had brought with him as a procaution. Kate grabbed her bucket and the four children started running as fast as they could. Where they were going, or whether their freinds were okay, they didn't know.

Author's Note: Cliffhanger. Please tell me what you think. Sorry the chapter was so short. In the next chapter, they'll go to Underland. BYE!