Chapter 4: Ripping the Sawdust From My Teddy Bear.
Scene: Wonderland Forest
They all run for cover behind some very large trees and bushes then crouch down very low to hide from the ferocious beast chasing them.
Castiel: "I'll hold him off!"
Dean: "What!"
Dean stares at the caterpillar bewildered by his bravery.
Castiel the caterpillar crawls up a nearby tree and starts breaking off branches with his many legs and throwing them down on top of the beast's head.
Sam: "What the hell is that thing!"
The Mad Hatter whispers at them.
The Mad Hatter: "Quiet! Keep your voices down. It's the Bandersnatch.'
Dean: "The Bander-what? It looks like a giant pissed of teddy bear."
The Mad Hatter: "It's much bigger than a bear, and a far more dangerous creature. He's been sent here to kill us all."
Dean: "By who?"
The Mad Hatter: "The Bandersnatch is the Queen's personal hunting devil dog!"
Dean looks worried and wishes he had some weapons to kill it with.
The Bandersnatch sniffs the ground closing in on their hideout behind the bushes.
The Mad Hatter pulls out a couple of teabags from his pocket rips them open and quickly creates a circle around all of them.
Sam: "What are you doing?"
The Mad Hatter: "My boy you've never heard of a tea ring before?"
Sam looks at Dean confused.
Dean shrugs he's never seen one either. They both just stare at him.
The Mad Hatter shakes his hat in disbelief.
The Mad Hatter: "Man you two are daft! You must be Tweedles."
Dean: "No, we're Winchesters and who the hell are you?"
The Mad Hatter: "I'm a hatter; people around here call me the Mad Hatter."
Dean frowns at him like he's crazy and weird.
Sam: "So will the tea ring protect us?"
The Mad Hatter: "Of course it will! The Bandersnatch is a demonic cruel beast, but he has terrible eye sight. The tea covers up our smell so if we stay still and quiet he should pass right by us."
Dean whispers at him.
Dean: "We usually use salt for that not tea!"
The Mad Hatter: "Salt? Well how silly that's just an old wives' tale everyone in Wonderland knows tea bags protect you from evil not salt!"
The Marsh Hare nods in agreement that it's absolutely ridiculous to use salt at a time like this.
Dean rolls his eyes at them both since obviously things are different here than what he's use to and he really just hope the tea works.
Alice grabs onto Sam's waist as they sit in the dirt and holds onto him in fear.
Alice: "Sam, I'm scared."
Sam pats her shoulder.
Sam: "Shhhh it'll be okay."
Alice presses her face against his coat in fear praying the Bandersnatch doesn't attack them.
Dean gives Sam a puzzled 'who the hell' is she look. Sam notices Dean staring so he answers him without Dean even having to ask.
Sam: "This is Alice, we've been traveling together. Alice, this is my brother Dean."
Alice looks at Dean then frowns at him.
Alice: "Oh so you're the one who got Sam into this mess?"
Dean: "Well no I mean I didn't mean to."
Alice: "And now look what you've done you've brought that thing here to eat us!"
Alice sticks her tongue out at Dean.
Dean frowns back at her still confused by all that's happening around him.
Sam: "Where have you been Dean?"
Dean: "Looking for you! This place is a goddamn nightmare! You wouldn't believe the things I've seen and been through so far."
Sam: "Yeah I know it's been crazy for us too, but Dean you won't believe who we ran into. We saw."
Castiel crawls through the tree branches to alert them that the Bandersnatch is getting closer.
Castiel: "He's coming!"
Dean: "That caterpillar sounds familiar. Who is it?"
Sam: "It's Castiel."
Dean opens his mouth in shock to hear that Castiel is the caterpillar.
Dean: "What happened to him?"
Sam shrugs not sure how to explain it.
The Bandersnatch jumps up and bites off the branch Castiel is on and he goes flying off it into the forest out of sight.
Sam and Dean freak out when he sees the caterpillar disappear mid air.
Dean: "Cas!"
Sam: "Where'd he go?"
The Marsh Hare: "Will you all please shut up before the Bandersnatch hears you and kills us all!"
The Bandersnatch continues sniffing around the forest around them, but can't sense their smell because of the tea. They all try to remain very still and quiet as he sniffs around them, but can't pick up their scent.
The Dormouse sniffs some of the tea on the ground and it makes the inside of her nose tickle quite a bit.
The Mad Hatter frowns at her for messing with the tea.
The Mad Hatter: "Stop that!"
The Dormouse suddenly feels the urge to sneeze when some of the tea gets inside her nose.
The Mad Hatter: 'Oh No! Don't!"
The Mad Hatter tries to cover the Dormouse's face, but its too late she sneezes really loudly and the Bandersnatch hears it.
The Marsh Hare: "Holy shit! Run!"
Alice shrieks, Sam grabs her hand.
They all run out of the circle and further into the forest as Bandersnatch snarls loudly and chases after them.
Dean sees a small cave at the edge of the forest and dodges left towards it.
Dean then yells at the others to follow. .
Dean: "Quick in here!"
Everyone runs for the cave and gets inside
Bandersnatch tries to attack them, but its huge body is too big to fit through the mouth of the cave.
Bandersnatch roars and growls at them as they make their way further towards the back of the cave.
Alice begins to cry. Sam holds her close to keep her calm.
The Mad Hatter: "See what you've done you stupid mouse!"
Dormouse steps on the Mad Hatters foot.
The Mad Hatter: "Ow! Why you little….!"
The Mad Hatter holds his foot and hops around in pain getting madder by the second.
Dormouse: "Hey, I'm not the one who got us trapped in this cave and brought that thing here to kill us!"
Dormouse steps on Dean's foot.
Dean: "Son of a Bitch!"
Dean glares down at the mouse
Dormouse: "Dummy this is all your fault!"
Dean: "Hey look I didn't even want to come here!"
The Mad Hatter: "Suck it up earthling just tell us what is your escape plan?"
Dean stares at him puzzled not sure what to do in this situation.
Dean: "I. I. uh um."
The Marsh Hare folds his arms and taps his foot.
The Marsh Hare: "Well?"
Dean: "I'm thinking give me a minute!"
The Marsh Hare: "Oh he's thinking well don't strain that little brain too much wouldn't' want you to go mad too."
Dean balls up his fist ready to punch them in their smug faces.
Sam steps in front of Dean and puts his hand out at the others.
Sam: "Okay enough! Dean come on lets just scout ahead see if maybe there's another exit out the back here."
Dean: "Fine, anything to get away from these clowns!"
Alice: "Wait! I want to go with you Sam!"
Sam turns around then leans down to talk to her.
Sam: "Alice you need to stay here with them it's safer that way. That thing outside can't get in here so just sit still and my brother and I will be back just as soon as we find a safer way out of here okay."
Alice looks down at the ground sadly and she wipes the tears from her eyes.
Alice: "Okay."
Sam straightens back up and looks at the Mad Hatter with a stern you better not let anything bad happen to this little girl while I'm gone look.
The Mad Hatter just nods.
Alice backs up against the cave wall and tries to calm down.
Sam: "So you wouldn't happen to have any matches would ya?"
The Mad Hatter goes into his deep pockets on his pants to pull out some matches. He holds them out at Sam.
Sam takes two of them and hands one to Dean.
The Marsh Hare grabs some rocks and dead weeds growing in the cave
Sam lights the weeds on fire so they others can keep warm.
Dean searches around and finds a long sturdy stick lying on the ground. He takes off shirt and wraps it around the stick tightly then lights it on fire.
Dean: "You ready Sam? Let's go!"
Sam nods at him then looks back at Alice one more time.
Alice: "You promise you'll come back right?"
Sam: "Yes, I promise I'll be back for you don't worry."
Alice quickly smiles walks over plants a kiss on Sam's left cheek.
Alice: "You'd better be!"
Sam smiles at her one final time to reassure her then turns around and follows Dean into the dark cave to search for away out.
Once they are deep into the cave and far enough away from the others Dean starts asking questions as they walk down the tunnel
Dean: "Sam, what the hell is going on here?"
Sam: "We're in Wonderland Dean."
Dean: "No shit Sherlock! I know that, but why?"
Sam: "Because apparently our lives suck."
Dean frowns
Dean: "Sam!"
Sam sighs
Sam: "Look, I don't know why Dean, all I know is that I ran into mom and she"
Dean stops walking and interrupts Sam.
Dean: "Wait you saw Mom?"
Sam nods
Dean: "Well how'd she look? Was she okay?"
Sam smiles
Sam: "She's beautiful Dean, she's a white rose the most amazing flower I've ever seen."
Dean stares in shock to hear even more insanity.
Dean: "Mom's a flower?"
Sam nods again.
Sam: "Yes and she told me Lucifer is disguised as himself as the Queen of Hearts. She says I have to kill some beast in order to escape. But, Dean I have no idea how I'm going to do this."
Dean: "Lucifer of course he's behind this! He's got us trapped in his little twisted sandbox. I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!"
Sam: "Well you can't. Not here anyway we have to get out of Wonderland first to stop Lucifer and the only way I know how to do that is to kill the Jabberwocky and find Cas so we can answer his riddle."
Dean: "What riddle?"
Sam: "He didn't get a chance to tell me."
Dean: "We have to find him Sam! He could be hurt or worse."
Sam nods.
Sam: "Lets keep moving then."
Sam and Dean continue walking down the dark cave until the fire almost totally burns out.
Dean frowns as he looks at the stick knowing they'll be completely lost in the dark once the fire goes out.
Dean: "Sam, do you have another match?"
Sam frowns
Sam: "No that was the last one."
Dean: "We are so screwed!"
Sam: "Wait I think I heard something on the other side of this wall."
Sam starts digging his hands into the dirty rocky cave wall.
Dean: "What is it Sammy?"
Sam: "I'm not sure yet."
Sam keeps digging until his nail beds are totally covered in dirt and his fingers start to bleed.
The wall starts to cave in from the whole Sam's created and dust flies everywhere.
Dean: "Sam that's enough!"
Sam: "No, just a little more I've almost got it!"
The wind flowing through the holes in the wall blows out the last of the fire light so now it's totally pitch black in the cave.
Dean: "Sam!"
Sam doesn't answer him.
Dean frowns and covers his face from all the flying debris in the air. He yells again.
Dean: "SAM!"
The wall completely caves it revealing another much shorter tunnel. At the end of that tunnel is light leading to the outside of the cave.
Dean looks down the tunnel and sees Sam is almost out of the cave. Sam looks back and motions for Dean to follow him.
Dean quickly crawls through the large gaping hole and into the new tunnel then rushes out to meet Sam outside.
Scene: Back near the front of the cave.
Alice sits on the ground and starts to feel sleepy again.
The Mad Hatter frowns and goes over to sit beside her.
The Mad Hatter: "Oh no miss! You can't go to sleep now they could be back any minute. We must all stay awake as long as possible. The Queen's guards are surely out there looking for us."
Alice: "But, I'm just so"
Alice lets out a big yawn.
Alice: "Tired."
The Mad Hatter: "It's from drinking that tea. I know what to do we'll sing you a rock song to keep you awake."
The Marsh Hare: "Oh yes lets!"
Alice: "What is a rock song?"
The Mad Hatter: "We'll show you. It's Awesome!"
The Mad Hatter jumps up and huddles together with the Marsh Hare and the Dormouse.
Alice stares at them while they whisper amongst themselves.
The Mad Hatter turns back around to look at Alice.
The Mad Hatter begins to sing to her.
"You're so darn pretty girl Oh look at you over there
Well I think you know it you was you
On Monday morning putting back yakity yak
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
Yeah now look at you over there
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
The Marsh Hare starts to sing the second chorus. "You can take the pebbles from the babies rattle Yeah now look at you over there
You make Santa's reindeer look like cattle
You can take Tinkerbelle's rust
And turn it into sawdust
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
Yeah look at you over there
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
The Mad Hatter sings: You got your crust
Turning my daydreams into dust
They all start to sing it together: Yeah now look at you over there
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
Yeah now look at you over there
Ripping the sawdust from my teddy bear
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Yeah look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there
Look at you over there"
The Dormouse finishes the song off
"Over there, over there, over there, over there
My poor teddy bear, teddy bear, teddy bear, teddy bear"
Alice claps for them and smiles.
The Bandersnatch has already given up trying to get into the cave but waits outside pacing in case they try to run out.
Alice: "Oh that was lovely, do you know another?"
The Mad Hatter: "Of course we do my dear what would you like to hear?"
Alice: "Sing me one about Wonderland?"
The Mad Hatter: "How about I sing one about how I came to live here."
Alice smiles.
Alice: "Okay. Go ahead."
The Marsh Hare: "And a one and a two and."
The Mad Hatter begins to sing.
"I wanna tell you a story
It happened long ago
About a redneck boy named Johnny
Down from Kentucky
He had the slick black hair
He played a rock guitar
He liked to shake my hips, man
But Then Johnny went too far
He made a deal with the devil
Killed them all with a shovel
Killed on pills and woke in this disgraceland
Dis-Grace-Land
Dis-Grace-Land
Wonder-Land
He had a lot of girls
He had a lot of guns
When they found me dead
The whole world was stunned
Went to the pearly gates
Said, "I'm the hippest thing"
And Peter said "Well son,
We already got ourselves a king"
He lived on southern deep-fried spam
But you don't belong here no siree I was in a jam
Killed on pills and woke in a disgraceland
Dis-Grace-Land
Dis-Grace-Land
Wonder-Land
He finished his short life,
Sweaty and bloated and stoned
(A-Hey-Hey)
He ruled his domain and he died on the throne
No "Yes-Men", no colonel, he went...
...all alone...
(Hey, man, that looks like me down there on the floor)
I heard the devil cry out
Real loud and clear
"You were the big man, there
You're just a sideman here
Well, I know your face
And I've heard your name
Looks like heaven's loss
Is gonna be my gain"
I've got plans for you, man)
He ate his weight in country ham
Killed on pills and woke in disgrace land
Dis-Grace-Land
Dis-Grace-Land
Wonder-Land
Dis-Grace-Land
Dis-Grace-Land
Well, I woke up, right here In Wonderland."
Alice: "Wow! That was great."
The Mad Hatter takes a bow and tips his hat to her.
The Mad Hatter: "Thank ya! Thank ya very much truth be told that one was from the great Alice Cooper himself."
Alice: "Alice Cooper? Who is that?"
The Mad Hatter: "Why he's a rock legend around here, but unfortunately the wicked Queen has him all caged up and will likely feed Mr. Cooper to the Jabberwocky."
Alice gasps in fear as she stares past him.
The Mad Hatter: "I know it's terrible isn't it!"
Alice: "No, its worse look!"
Alice points out towards the entrance of the cave and there staring at them is The Knave of Hearts.
The Knave cruelly smirks at them.
The Knave of Hearts: "Hello, Alice. I believe I have someone here that you've been looking for?"
The Knave of Hearts motions at two card guards to come closer. They drag into the cave with them Alice's friend Lewis Carroll.
Alice perks up upon seeing her missing writer friend.
Alice: "Lewis!"
Lewis Carroll is very weak from being badly beaten by the Knave. He looks up at her slowly and whispers.
Lewis Carroll: "Alice?"
Alice scared he's going to die yells at them.
Alice: "Let him go!"
The Mad Hatter steps in front of her to keep her from getting too close. He knows all very well how cruel the Knave of Hearts can be and he doesn't want him to attack her. Instead he tries to distract the Knave with a question.
The Mad Hatter: "Tell me Knave do you know why a raven is like a riding desk?'
The Knave of Hearts angrily frowns at him.
The Knave of Hearts: 'What a stupid question! You've gone totally mad.
The Mad Hatter: "Oh no I'm only half mad you just wait till I go totally mad. One day I'll rip you and that beast apart."
The Knave chuckles in disbelief.
The Knave of Hearts: "Seize them!"
The Marsh Hare fearing for his own life tries to make a run for it, but the Knave of Hearts pulls out his sword swirls around and stabs the poor hare in the foot.
The Marsh Hare screams a bloody cry that can be heard throughout most of the forest.
Birds begin flying off in fear, other bunnies hopping near by quickly race into their holes.
Sam and Dean hear the scream as well. Sam immediately fears for little Alice's safety.