Grey stared at the enormous blades of grass now coming through Alice's window. He cleared his throat and breathed a sigh of relief she hadn't woken up to a giant caterpillar in her room like he had. "Grey, what's going on?" Alice repeated, looking from him to the window. Grey sighed and shook his head. "That's what Nightmare and I have been trying to figure out."
A few minutes later the tower residents crowed around Julius' work bench, Alice now dressed and quite a bit more calm. No one seemed to have an explaination and the only one seemingly unconcerned was Julius. Of course nothing had been creeping into his room when he woke up, and his lack of windows made it impossible for any of the oversized plants to get in. The room was so silent as Alice and the men were lost in their own thoughts, that the sound of the door banging open made them jump (Grey and Julius of course barely flinched). Ace came barging wildly into the room looking both amused and puzzled. "Hey Julius, hey Alice, did you guys see what's going on outside?" A big grin spread over his face and he looked as excited as a kid at Christmas. Julius sighed and looked up from his work. "Ace please shut up, you're distracting me." Ace pouted and turned to Alice. "Come on, don't you wanna see?" Grey made a disapproving noise in his throat and Nightmare rolled his silver eye. "Alice you go out with this idiot in a jungle like this and we won't see you again for years."
Alice grasped Ace's hand and he laughingly helped her over an enormous twig in the path. She had agreed wholeheartedly with Nightmare that Ace was definitely not the person to travel with, but her curiosity had started to get the better of her. So here she was, walking hand in hand with a psycho, with no familiar landmarks, and her body the size of an insect. Great, she thought maybe I really should've stayed at the tower. Presently though, she saw the familiar sight of the Hatter Mansion's gates. Did all of Wonderland shrink?
Meanwhile-
"What the hell is this?" The annoyed voice thundered through the large room, making several faceless in lab coats cringe. One of them suddenly spoke up, his body trembling from head to toe, not daring to lift his bowed head as he answered. "Mr. Jabberwock, sir, there seems to have been a malfunction with the experiment." Jabberwock narrowed his eyes and felt his nails cut into his palms as he fisted his hands. "I can see that," he hissed. The faceless cowered before him, not daring to make another sound. For a moment he contemplated shooting the useless fools, but his anger began to subside and he shrugged. Slowly, a terrible grin stretched over his lips. "Well fix it, now." He stalked away, letting the lab door slam shut behind him. Hmm… just maybe this could turn out to be interesting. His thoughts drifted to the foreigner who by now was sure to be palm sized. His clock sped up. Yes, very interesting.