This is a fan-made interpretation of the events before the main events of the flash series "Alice is Dead". In no way do I own it in any way. Enjoy :)

June 12, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

Alice suggested I keep a journal to help my memory problems. I think it's safe to say she really knows me well if she knows about my memory problems. I haven't even talked to anyone about them, she just seemed to know. Well, in any case, I'm keeping it here to make sure I remember everything I write down.

The Mad Hatter has just walked in.

"Alice," he said, "I need to talk to you. It's about Mary Ann. She's going to break out, and we need you down there to assist her."

"I understand," said Alice, getting up from where she was sitting.

She walked away with the Hatter discussing the situation further.

Alice has just been assigned by the Hatter to aid Mary Ann in her prison break. I hope she succeeds. For some strange reason, we've lost a lot of friends, or whatever we can call them, and we need as much help as we can get. Now for me and this journal, it's a matter of starting from the beginning and putting everything together piece by piece…

September 14, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

This was the year before I had found this journal. One of the first things I can remember from this far back was that the Mad Hatter and I went to visit the Queen in his club. Biggest crime lord in the city, yet he came off as a Wonderland official, complete with his own police force.

"Rabbit, Hatter," said the Queen, applying white makeup to his face, "I'm sending you both out on missions today. However, these are both important missions, so I'll be paying you both double your normal share if you succeed."

"Double our share?" asked Hatter, "We are all going mad!"

"What's the job?" the Rabbit asked.

"Hatter," said the Queen, "You are to go out into the City of Oz and find someone by the name of Dr. Raymond Burr. Bring him here alive and in one piece."

"I thought we didn't like those Oz folks," wondered Hatter.

"We don't," replied the Queen, "Which is precisely why I need to bribe this gentleman with a large sum of money and prestige in order to bring him with us. Leave when you are ready."

"I'll get to that," said Hatter, taking his leave.

"Rabbit," the Queen said, looking into the White Rabbit's cold, killer eyes, "There is a special substance used to make invisible ink. Secret messages can have a powerful effect, and I should like to have the right ingredients to make the ink. Go to the forest by Wonderland Jail and find me some of this substance. It's green and acidy, so keep that in mind."

"Whatever," replied the Rabbit, "As long as you keep good on your promise to double our share."

The Queen took a large cigar from the pack sitting on the table next to him and took a smoke before grinning wickedly and saying, "Oh, Rabbit…when have you ever had reason to distrust me?"

At the time, there really was no reason to distrust him. But if I was being offered double my current salary, I wanted to make absolutely sure I got it good.

September 16, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

I didn't want the risk of being spotted, so I had to walk for two days in order to find the forest. Of course, if I had gotten there days earlier and been done with my mission, I would never have met her, and who knows where she could have ended up…

So far, the White Rabbit had no luck in finding any special substance for the invisible ink that the Queen desperately wanted. The only thing he gave the Rabbit were a bottle of some fancy drink served at his club and a slice of cake, neither of which made sense. He looked up and saw a bright hole up ahead where the sun shined much brighter than anywhere else in Wonderland. That was most likely because whatever was above that hole was part of the Above…a world completely separate from Wonderland…and it seemed as if someone was falling.

"What the…?" wondered the Rabbit.

A blonde haired girl in a blue dress was falling down the hole, and landed right on top of the Rabbit. His neatly ironed suit now had small dirt smudges on it.

"Can you kindly get off me?" growled the Rabbit.

"Well excuse me," said Alice, getting up, "That's terribly rude of you. It was just an accident. All I know is I see this hole…"

"Yeah, that's a nice story and all," said the Rabbit, "But I'm busy at the moment. Here, take this and shut up."

The White Rabbit threw her the bottle, which Alice caught with her hands. Her reflexes were very quick, much to the Rabbit's surprise. She drank whatever was in the bottle, and suddenly began to shrink.

"What the hell?" asked the Rabbit, "What has the Queen been doing?"

"What happened?" cried Alice, "I've shrunk to the size of a peanut!"

Wait a second, thought the Rabbit, if the drink shrinks a person, then maybe the cake…It's worth a shot.

"Eat this," said the Rabbit, taking off a few crumbs for the tiny Alice, "This might help you grow."

Alice took the crumbs from the Rabbit's paws, and ate them one by one, returning her to normal size.

"Well now that that mess is over and done with, I have a job to do," said the Rabbit, opening the chest nearby. He had come in from there, and the forest was inside that chest.

"Not so fast," said Alice, following him down the steps, "What is this peculiar place?"

"It's called Wonderland, doll, and it's not your kind of place, so you best go home," said the Rabbit, continuing the walk down.

"I can't go home because I fell down the hole!" whined Alice, "And I ran away from home to begin with!"

"Why would you do that?" asked the Rabbit, looking around inside tree trunks.

"My parents were going to marry me off to a French pussy, and I was not about to live a life of tea and crumpets," replied Alice.

"Hold that thought," said the Rabbit, holding his paw up and looking inside a tree trunk. There was definitely green acid in there, but was it the kind that could make secret ink?

"This will have to do," said the Rabbit, pulling out the extraction tube given to him by the Queen, and sucking in some of the acid.

From behind him, there was an ugly creature with three eyes and black fur creeping up behind them. It was about to strike the Rabbit down, and had Alice not been there, he would not live to see another day. To his amazement, when he turned around, she had sliced the creature's head off with a small knife concealed in her dress. She looked back at him with a minor grin and some of the creature's blood across her forehead, and said, "I spend a lot of time alone. I figured I'd learn something I like."

"Perhaps I've misjudged you," said the Rabbit, "What's your name?"

"Alice," she replied, holding out her hand.

The Rabbit shook her hand and replied, "I really don't have much of a real name, so people just call me the Rabbit, or White Rabbit."

"Well, pleasure to meet you Rabbit," said Alice, "But now I have nowhere to go."

"Not quite," said the Rabbit, "I may be able to find some work for you…if you're interested in using those knives for better uses…"

September 18, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

It took a little persuading, but after seeing Alice's skills with a knife, the Queen decided she would be an excellent addition to the team. Fortunately for me, the stuff I found was exactly what the Queen wanted, and true to his word, I received double payment. Right at that moment, the Mad Hatter came into the hideout with a strange man with glasses and a lab coat, accompanied by a little girl.

"I've brought Dr. Burr with me," said Hatter, "But on the condition that his daughter came along. He refused to leave without her."

"As long as she does not interfere with her father's…honorable work, she should be fine," said the Queen.

"I see we have a new arrival," said the Hatter, looking at Alice.

"Look who's talking," replied the Rabbit, referring to Dr. Burr and his daughter.

The girl had long blonde hair like Alice and a short red dress with bare feet. She held her father's hand with her right hand and was sucking her thumb with her left hand. She looked up at the Rabbit, but instead of being scared by him, she smiled at him, revealing one of two front teeth missing.

I don't get it. Why wasn't she afraid of me? Am I losing my edge? Am I not intimidating enough?

To be continued...

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