Author's note: Hey everyone. So I've been wanting to write another HNKNA story for awhile now, especially since I've been stuck on my old one (and lost the motivation for it tbh.) I was going to make another OC...but then this brilliant idea struck me and it's been in my head since.

What if the world of HNKNA and Alice Madness Returns collided?

I wanted to venture that ground and that's how this story has come to be. If you know the video game 'Alice Madness Returns' by American McGee, you guys are in for a treat! It's my favorite video game and I thought it would be perfect to have a HNKNA and AMR crossover. There might be some slight OOCness, just a heads up. I hope you all enjoy!

WARNING: Dark themes & Triggers. Read at your own risk!

- Jamie

Heart no Kuni No Alice © Quinrose

Alice Madness Returns © American McGee


"Hey, did you know?

Games always have rules

Rules that are meant to be broken

There are rules for those who don't play the game too

It's decided from the very beginning

You knew that, right?

I await your participation. You can't refuse."


The Other Alice

Chapter 1: The Different Wonderland

The year was 1875 and Alice was currently working her job at the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth. It was an orphanage for 'unfortunate children' as they would say. Alice grimaced, finding it all rather ridiculous. It's not like they needed their pity or anything. They didn't ask to be put in these circumstances and left to be utterly dependent upon adults.

It shouldn't bother Alice much however. She was only 19 years old, still a new young adult, and she was the maid of the establishment nonetheless. Ignoring the other children and getting back to her duties, she couldn't help but think over her current therapy session with Dr. Bumby.

It had been a year since she got out of the asylum, but Alice was still experiencing...problems.

Dr. Bumby swung the familiar key back and forth in front of her. A clock was ticking away in the background. It was all part of his hypnotic therapy. Giving into the sounds, Alice closed her eyes and focused.

"Come now Alice, it's only a dream." He told her.

"It's not a dream. It's a memory...and it makes me sick!" Alice began to feel herself dwell deeper and deeper into her Wonderland. All her memories with her friends.

"Now, focus. Wait...you're floating again. Weightless. A cipher. Relax."

Images of war came before her mind. "Fire! I'm in Hell!"

"Forget it!" Dr. Bumby told her. "Abandon that memory. It's unproductive...go to Wonderland."

"I can't...I'm trapped in my past." She began to recall her younger self standing outside as she saw her family burning alive in their house, hanging onto her rabbit doll snuggly.

"No, Alice! Discard that delusion. Forget it! Go to Wonderland!"

Suddenly the calm and peaceful Wonderland came to her mind, but she knew better than to venture to it. "I'd rather not, Doctor. My Wonderland's shattered. It's dead to me."

"Your preference doesn't signify, girl! Now Alice, where are you?" He asked.

Alice saw herself sitting on a leaf, drinking tea with the White Rabbit. "I'm sailing with a friend." She felt a peace, seeing a butterfly fly up to her. "Hmm. It's different somehow. Things have changed." She declared happily.

"Change is good. It's the first link in the chain of forgetting."

For some reason the White Rabbit began to twitch and Alice felt a bad feeling come over her. "What's happening? Are you mad?"

"I'm not mad." Dr. Bumby said, confused.

"Rabbit..."

"That's not right. What is he doing here?"

Blood began to seep from the White Rabbit's mouth. "There's something wrong..." Alice spoke.

The Rabbit's eye exploded as blood continued to seep from his mouth. "Something wrong...?" He managed to say before exploding right in front of Alice.

"NO, NOT THAT!" Alice shouted, horrified. Suddenly the peaceful and sunny Wonderland began to change before her, becoming something from a nightmare. The river she was sailing on turned into blood and baby doll heads and body parts spilled everywhere.

"Don't struggle, Alice. Let the new Wonderland emerge."

"Pollution. Corruption." They all began to claw at her face, ripping the very skin from it. It was trying to consume her. Destroy her. "It's killing me! My Wonderland is destroyed! My mind is in ruins!"

"Forget it, Alice. Block that dream. Wake at the sound." She felt it take her under before she started waking back up in his office.

"There, Alice. Better now, aren't we?" Bumby asked.

Alice sat up in the couch, rather annoyed and disturbed. No, she wasn't better at all. "My head's exploded and there's a steam hammer in my chest."

"Yes, well...the cost of forgetting is high." Dr. Bumby reminded her.

"My memories make me vomit! What can I-"

"Remember other things."

"I want to forget!" Alice choked out. "Who would choose to be alone, imprisoned by their broken memories?" She said, bitterly.

Bumby walked over to the window behind her, looking out. "I'll set you free, Alice. Memory is a curse, more often than a blessing."

"So you've said, many times."

He went to sit down in front of her. "And I will say again, the past must be paid for. Now, before our next session, collect those pills from our high street chemist."

Alice sighed. "Very well, Doctor."

At first Bumby's hypnotic thearpy was working and helping her repress everything. But she still couldn't forget. For some reason, something wouldn't let her. All she wanted was to forget.

Finishing her chores, Alice began to make her way outside the orphanage and into the dirty streets of London. Walking past some prostitutes and people of all different sorts, that was when she saw it. A white rabbit standing in one of the alleyways and it was wearing a red waistcoat. What was it doing here of all places?

Without giving it a second thought, she knew she had to save it or else one of the butchers would make it their dinner. Alice chased after it, recalling how similar this situation was. When she was little she imagined chasing after a similar rabbit, which lead her to Wonderland.

That was the first time Wonderland came to be a part of her world. Then again, those were good times before the incident. When she was so young and naive and still had a future ahead of her and a family. Granted, she had her aunt who was a prostitute, but it would never replace the hole left by her family.

"Mr. Rabbit, where did you go?" Alice said, looking around the alleyways. She was well away from the people in the main town. Turning a corner, she found him looking back at her before taking off again.

It was a game of a chase until Alice ended up coming across a man wearing the same red-waist coat and rabbit ears on his head. He looked like the White Rabbit...but human?! Alice blinked, confused. "Have you happened to see a White Rabbit come this way?"

"My dear Alice, that rabbit is me!" He announced happily. Taking her into an embrace, which greatly shocked her, he threw her over his shoulder and began taking off.

"Put me down, you creep!" Alice yelled at the top of her lungs, trying to take a swipe at him.

"Do not worry my dear, all your problems will disappear real soon."

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This had to be some fucking joke!

She already knew her mind was in ruins, but this beyond what she would have thought even possible. This wasn't her Wonderland! What exactly was going on?

First the rabbit took on a human form. Second he's kissing her, declaring his love and forcing some god awful kind of drug down her mouth. And third, he's telling her this is Wonderland! Something was off here and now she was probably going to die from that drug she swallowed.

"You're insane!" Alice barked at him.

"Insane for you and only you, my dear." Peter White stated happily. It didn't even offended him.

Alice looked down at her dress and noticed her usual black and white stripped dress with the apron had become a blue one instead. She even picked at her now long black hair. It was just like how she imagined herself in Wonderland.

Maybe...

No, she wasn't going to give into the thought. First, she must investigate the area and see if she could find any of her friends. Ignoring the rabbit man, Alice began to walk off and up the stairs of the tower. Admiring the building, she was amazed such a place could exist. Not to mention the fact that it wasn't ruined or anything. It was perfectly intact.

"Alice, my dear, where are you going?" Peter called out, following after her.

"I'm trying to find the others, what does it look like?" Alice barked, continuing her way up the stairs. How long did these stairs go up, exactly?

"But wouldn't you rather hang with me?" Peter asked her, causing Alice to stop in her tracks, recalling her memory.

"Rabbit..."

"I told you to call me Peter, darling."

Alice sighed, annoyed with the affectionate titles he kept giving her. "Peter...are you okay?"

Peter was shocked she was asking, heck even over the top happy she was concerned about him. "I'm better now that you're here!" He went to take her into another hug as she dodged. "Why do you ask?"

She was asking mostly to make sure he wasn't going to literally explode on her. If this was Wonderland and he was the White Rabbit like he said, Alice wanted to make sure her nightmare wouldn't come true. In fact, Wonderland seemed a little too quiet.

Finally reaching the top of the stairs, Alice spotted a door and walked through it.

"Who are you?" The man behind it asked. He was taken by surprise, working away at a desk. He had long dark blue-purple hair, tied in a low ponytail. His eyes were slightly narrowed at her. Clocks seemed to be surrounded around him.

"I think I should be asking that question."

"You're the one who barged into my tower! You first!" The man demanded.

She sighed, replying. "Alice Liddell."

The man looked at her, highly confused. He began comparing her to a blonde girl and he just couldn't understand it. "No, you can't be?"

Peter had finally made it to her, running inside the room. "Alice, my darling!" It suddenly became tense as he noticed the clockmaker. "Oh, it's you."

The man stood up from his desk, yelling at the rabbit. "You idiot, this is the wrong Alice!"

The Alice currently in front of them looked at them, confused. "What do you mean, the wrong Alice? You speak as if there is another version of me running along somewhere?" Their quiet looks confirmed her suspicions. "You're kidding?"

"No, we're not. We were looking for a girl with the same name as you. She used to be an outsider here until recently deciding to go back to her own world. Peter was sent to get her and bring her back, but somehow ended up with you." The man looked to the rabbit with a narrow-eyed look. "You made her drink the potion, didn't you?"

The rabbit nodded. "Yeah."

The man sighed, facepalming himself. "Since the deed is done, we have no other choice now. She must play the game."

Alice gave a dumbfounded look. "What are you two talking about?" This made no sense at all. It was just nonsense.

"I'm Julius Monrey, the clockmaker of this tower." He said, introducing himself. "Didn't this rabbit explain the rules to you?"

Alice looked over to Peter who immediately changed his demenaor from cold to warm in a second. "Of course I did! Right my dear?"

The girl just sighed, waving it off. "Yeah, he mentioned about how everyone will fall in love with me and in order to get back, I have to fill this stupid vile, right?"

Julius looked at her, rather surprised she seemed unwavered by all of this. Normally outsiders would freak out about this, especially the other Alice she shared the same name with reacted with shock, not wishing to be a part of it. This Alice however, seemed to not really care. "Y-Yeah..."

"This place is far different from my Wonderland...thats for sure." Alice commented, eyeing Peter and Julius.

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