MARIANETTE POV

To say that the realm of Wonderland is insane is a massive understatement. It's downright psychotic. And by the way, the whole rabbit hole mumbo jumbo isn't a thing. "Alice" slipped into an underwater cave. How she got there, we(meaning Grimm) don't really know. But she did, hit her head, and came up with this psychotic story.

I have to take the hard way down. I used the Ather.

Now some of you may be confused, because before I said Ether, but bear with me, because I can explain that. The Ether is kind of parallel to the space time vortex, which is where our workshop is. The Ather is a whole different story. You see, the Ather is more like the mind scape of every living thing. It's like a big field, but it's sectioned off at certain points.

But anyway, back to the hard way down: I had to scale the humongous cliff that the author created. The cliff represents the insanity level; the steeper and longer the cliff, the more insane the story gets. But climbing is so boring, so I improvised.

I pretty much glided to the bottom. Dangerous and risky, I know, but it gets the job done quicker. I just can't tell Grimm about it, or else he will flip.

HALF AN HOUR LATER

Wonderland is just how I remember it; huge mushrooms, small trees, life sized flowers, and insane animals ready to rip your arms off. I had to be careful, or else I would end up just like Aesop. The only thing that I have to do is switch out the red roses with white ones, convince the Mad Hatter to have a tea party, and piss off the Red Queen. How hard could that be?

Very hard. Very hard indeed.

Well, first on the list is the Mad Hatter. He should be easy, because he's crazy enough that this might actually work. But it's getting to him that I'm concerned about. I memorized the layout of this Wonderland, and it's very much like the original. I just need to stick to the mushrooms, and once I come upon Caterpillar Grove, I need to run through the jungle.

I started to walk, my determination propelling me forward. This was it. I needed to do this, for the author, for the readers, and for myself. I will get my revenge on Wonderland, I swear it. But now's not the time.

My boots barely made a sound as I swiftly walked through the huge fungi, pausing once or twice to check out the colors and the height of the sun in the sky. It wasn't very eventful, until I was at Caterpillar grove. What I saw was horrific, amazing, and inexplicable.

There was a person lying on the ground. A vulnerable person in a land of monsters, just lying on the ground and looking at the sky. He looked fairly ordinary, his red hair on the longer side, and his clear blue eyes reflected the sky above him. In fact, if it wasn't for his arm, I might've mistaken Wonderland for Earth.

Hi arm was bloody ribbons, too horrific to describe. Carnage lay on the ground everywhere, and as the azure sky turned a blood red, I knew I had to get him to higher ground. What I didn't expect was for him to calmly pick himself up off of the ground and walk away. Towards the jungle.

I started after him, but he was fast. Even though he was walking and I was jogging, he stayed far ahead of me. The scarier thing was, even the trees shied away from him. Whoever he was, he was bad news.

And I'm following him.

As I was lost in thought, the colorful trees and flowers gave way to an emerald green plain, with a crooked house looming in the distance. A large table stretched across the plain, with tea cups, pots, plates, food, tea, and I knew I was in the right place.

What I didn't expect was for the bloody man to pick up a hat, and a door mouse to call him Lewis. I recognized him, and I felt my knees buckle. I swiftly ran back into the thick trees, and set up a camp. I then took out the communicator Grimm made me carry, and called to tell him the news. I was in deeper shit than I thought.