I do not own Once Upon a Time or Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, only this story and any original characters within it.
Hello there. This is a sequel to my first story "Crossing Worlds". I suggest that you read that story before continuing, but it is not strictly necessary as there will be brief summaries of previous events throughout this story. Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 1: The White Kingdom
Wonderland
Under the bright blue sky, along a yellow road passing through the colorful giant mushroom fields, four white horses pulled a white carriage, with the most powerful woman in Wonderland inside. She sat on the white cushions looking out the window at the various colors of each mushroom, admiring the beauty of her kingdom. She had long, blonde hair and wore a slim, white dress as well as a beautiful gold crown. Her name was Anastasia. During a period of darkness, despair, and inequality in Wonderland, she ruled as the Red Queen. She formed an alliance with the dark wizard Jafar to force a girl named Alice to use her three wishes so that her genie and future husband Cyrus would become Jafar's property, in addition to two other genies in his possession. Jafar would then be able to cast a spell with another sorcerer that would give him unlimited power. He had promised Anastasia that he would change the past so that she could reunite with her love Will Scarlet and try again with him romantically. However, Will was helping Alice stop herself and Jafar, until he was turned to stone and left in her maze. Jafar stole a magical item from Storybrooke that he thought would allow him to control Alice, but he accidentally took Emma Swan with him. Emma's parents, Snow White and Prince Charming, along with Captain Hook and the Evil Queen Regina came to Wonderland to retrieve her. They met Alice and their two goals became intertwined; to rescue Cyrus and Emma and stop Jafar.
However, as time progressed, Jafar betrayed Anastasia and sent a giant storm cloud to kill her. The Red Queen saw that she had to change sides and quickly aligned herself with Alice, Cyrus, and Will. Emma, her parents, and Regina all went back to Storybrooke, but Alice, Cyrus, Hook, Will, and Ana could not get back in time before Jafar's cloud arrived. The cloud wounded Will, but did not kill anyone. He was saved by the last genie's wish, which caused Hook to become the next genie after Cyrus was liberated and the bottle was transported to the Enchanted Forest. They needed to find the bottle before Jafar did, but the evil wizard kidnapped the White Rabbit and the recently returned Mad Hatter could not take them anywhere because his hat was out of magic. They needed Ana to supply the hat with magic so they could go to the Enchanted Forest. From this moment on, the Red Queen slowly was able to gain their favor again and allow everyone else to see her not as a villain, but as a hero.
Unfortunately, the Wicked Witch of the West, Zelena, found Hook's bottle. Jafar, Peter Pan, and the Jabberwocky formed an alliance to kill her and get the bottle, but Zelena was plenty powerful on her own. Regina and the others in the Enchanted Forest were powerless to stop Zelena, as she had control of the Dark One via his dagger. Eventually, Jafar killed Peter Pan in his massive floating prison in Wonderland and sent his body down into the abyss. He also pinned the Jabberwocky to the wall in his prison with the special blade. Jafar and Zelena then cast the spell together and achieved ultimate power. Zelena used it to go back in time, but she was followed by Regina, Anastasia, and some others from the Enchanted Forest, as well as Jafar. The evil wizard was knocked unconscious in Rumplestiltskin's dark vault and presumed to be dead. Regina was able to defeat Zelena and return everyone to the future except for Jafar, who was lying unconscious in the Dark One's vault. Regina removed Zelena's pendant and used the power within in to send everyone back from the Enchanted Forest to Storybrooke, where she could see her son Henry. Zelena was turned into a statue and kept in Regina's vault. All her important belongings (green pendant, magic slippers) were kept there as well.
Ana left Storybrooke to rule Wonderland as the White Queen. She thought white symbolized purity, happiness, and peace. Will Scarlet stayed in Storybrooke. He had not found his heart, meaning that he could not love Anastasia. So, they stayed apart until he found it. However, Anastasia discovered that Will's heart was in Wonderland and she had seen so busy reforming the kingdom that she forgot to tell the White Rabbit to bring it back to him.
Anastasia had done well as the White Queen. She listened to her subjects' troubles and worked to fix them. She used her magic to help crop production, which in turn helped the economy. She had done a lot to stop,Wonderland's crime problem. Hundreds of criminals had been taken into custody and were given fair trials (instead of the traditional beheadings). However, these criminals were thieves, assassins, and people who didn't pay taxes. Wonderland still had a problem in respect to organized crime, specifically the Caterpillar. The White Queen was now traveling through Wonderland to go to the Caterpillar's lair and warn him stop his nasty and illegal activities.
Eventually, the white carriage pulled up next to a tree with a door on it. The White Queen exited her carriage and opened the door by herself without and armed escort. She did not need protection. She was the most powerful person in Wonderland and could use magic to take care of herself. She walked down the stairs into what was essentially a large, underground bar. The room was crowded with murderers, thieves, and people with overall bad reputations. The Caterpillar sat in his throne at the far end of the room. The White Queen's presence silenced the room. People stopped their drinking and their socializing. The music was shut down. All stared at the Queen of Wonderland. While she had been fair to the common people, criminals had learned to fear her. She wanted to keep Wonderland safe and would take down any threat to its security. Anastasia stayed at the bottom of the steps and stared at the Caterpillar across the sea of frozen glances from Wonderland's most wanted.
"Good evening your majesty." The Caterpillar said. "How may I help you today?"
"I need to talk to you." The White Queen said. "Alone."
Anastasia then waved her hand and used her power to consume everyone in the room in a cloud of magic purple smoke, transporting them all away to the new massive jail that was built to house the worst of the worst, so that only the White Queen and the Caterpillar remained in the spacious room.
"Where have you taken my friends?" The Caterpillar asked with a chuckle.
"Prison." Ana replied as she strutted across the room to meet him face to face. "I have warrants for all of their arrests. They're not your friends. They fear you. They came here for protection."
"Why have you spared me your majesty?" He asked.
"Because you're different." She replied. "You have considerable influence in Wonderland. You always have. I'm giving you a choice. I want you to abandon this life of crime and killing. I've transformed Wonderland into a place where people like to live and I want to keep it that way. You can either do what I say, or I'll kill you myself. I have to send a message to my people. I will protect them from any threat, even you. You don't scare me anymore. Soon, you will learn to fear me like you once feared the Queen of Hearts. So I suggest you clean up your act. You have until tomorrow to tell me your decision. If you do not communicate with me, I'll assume you've chosen to continue this wretched life and I will send the full weight of Wonderland justice crashing down on you."
The White Queen then disappeared in a puff of magic smoke and reappeared outside, where she got back inside her white carriage and started on her way back to the royal castle. The Caterpillar was infuriated. He assumed the Queen would leave him alone. He assumed that she would be intimidated by his control of the Wonderland crime world. He refused to give into her ultimatum. He needed a way to remove her from power, but there was no force in Wonderland, except the Jabberwocky that could do it. The White Queen had taken measures to assure that the Jabberwocky could not be let free again. She remained pinned to the wall of Jafar's floating prison, while under heavy surveillance from soldiers that roamed the prison. The Caterpillar could not free her discretely. So, he set his sights to another land. He knew full well that there was someone who could depose the White Queen. All he had to do was go far away and find that person. All he had to do was go to a town called Storybrooke.