Author's Note: Hey guys. I know, I did some changes to the last chapter. I was gonna add in a new class, but I decided: "Nah." I wanna go ahead and progress with the story and the adventure. Anyways, thanks so much to the ones who've read this story. Enjoy this next chapter and don't forget to review!

When Brooke talks during her narration, I added single quotation marks so I wouldn't confuse anyone.

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Alfea

The Jabberwock pawed at the protective barrier, and in response to his touch, the barrier rippled. It hissed at it and stalked away from the school. There we no use. It couldn't get past the shield. At least, not now. The beast snarled and expanded its wings. It could come back later when the school was drained of more power. It was about to take off back to Cloud Tower, but something caught its attention.

It flared its nostrils as a powerful-smelling aroma filled its nose and fueled its body. What was this power it was sensing? The beast looked back at the pink school protected by the protective field. It cocked its head curiously. This odd power was emerging from the school and somehow slipping through its barrier.

It chirped in awe. This was dark power it was sensing. But how was it coming from a school of the good arts? The beast's eyes widened. This dark magic…it smelt like Wonderland, its precious homeland. But how? All the portals to Wonderland had been closed right before the Jabberwock had been sealed away into its prison in the Uni Carn.

Wait? Could it be…?

The Wonderland curse! It was somehow flowing out of Alfea. But, wouldn't that mean…? The school somehow had a working portal leading to Wonderland. And some of the curse of Wonderland had managed to pour out of it. The Jabberwock snarled again. This was perfect. The beast belonged in Wonderland. It needed to be there. And it was going to get there.

Once the pesky shields went down, he was going to desolate Alfea until he could find its Wonderlandian portal.

But until then, he was going to use its new power to create a new Wonderland.

The Jabberwock hissed admiringly at its cleverness. And with that, he leaped off the ground and flew towards Cloud Tower.


Wonderland High

"I'll never get used to this," groaned Stella as she held her aching head. "This school seriously needs to invest in stairs or something." She stood up and looked around. "Where are we now?" The group was standing in a dark room.

Lizzie straightened herself up. "There. A doorway," she said, pointing at an illuminated doorway not far from them. She proceeded towards it, but walked into an invisible wall. "Huh?" Confused, Lizzie stepped back as the light turned on, revealing them to be trapped inside of a transparent box.

"This is our next class?" asked Nex as an audio of a crowd cheering began to play. "This is Teatime 101? Not exactly what I expected."

Tecna nodded. "What's the objective here? I don't under-"

"Haha, welcome class! I see you're ready," announced a March hare, appearing outside the box. "Teatime has commenced!" He hopped over to a pull-down lever and the box the gang was trapped in immediately began to spew a liquid out of its drain.

"What is this? What's going on?" meowed Kitty in distress as the liquid completely covered the floor.

"This is never how teatime works!" cried out Lizzie as the red liquid came up to their knees.

"Where are all the bred and butterflies?" asked Maddie, looking uncharacteristically worried. "And there are no chairs to switch places!"

"It's confirmed: I officially hate school in Wonderland," said Stella as the tea began to rise higher.

"It's too much tea—how do we make it stop?" panicked Raven.

Maddie walked over to the edge of the box and knocked on the glass. "Excuse me, Mister March Hare?" she spoke up. The March Hare walked over. "Um, a little help please?"

"Look at me, hahahaha," joked the March Hare as the tea rose on the other side of the glass rose to a height above his head, "I'm standing three feet below tea level, haha." A device attached to a cord dropped down from the ceiling and the March Hare pressed a button on it that let out hysterical laughter to his queer joke.

"Riaow!" meowed Kitty, panting. "What are we supposed to do?" The rising tea level began to carry them up towards the top of the box.

"We're almost at the top, think fast everyone!" exclaimed Apple, placing her hands against the ceiling. "Before we run out of time!"

"Oh, it's too hard to think in here," frowned Raven, "I wish we could, I don't know, think out there instead." And with that statement, Raven poofed out of the box, appearing on top of it. "Whoa!" she exclaimed, looking down at her friends, who remained inside the box.

"Raven! How did you do that?" asked Apple as hers and her friends' heads hit the ceiling. It wouldn't be long before the tea came up over the mouths.

"I don't know….I guess I just thought outside the box!"

Tecna gasped, catching on. "Raven, that's genius! It appears everything here is taken literally, so the expression 'think outside the box' literally applies to our situation!" Tecna closed her eyes and furrowed her brows, appearing to be thinking hard about something. She immediately transported outside the box, beside Raven. One by one, the others followed her example and transported out of the deathtrap.

"Well, here goes nothing!" said Apple. She took a deep breath and sunk to the bottom, only to appear outside with everyone else. "We…we did it!" she exclaimed.

"And just in time, too. You never wanna let your tea steep for too long," joked Maddie, making Apple and Raven laugh. The March Hare's laughing audio sounded around them as well.

"Let's never do that again," shivered Bloom as tea dripped down their faces and off their clothes.

"Looks like it's time for a little power of the shining sun," commented Stella, snapping her fingers. Warming heat rays encircled their bodies, completely drying them of the chilly red liquid. "There we go. All nice and dry."

"You've passed, hahahaha," chuckled the March Hare, pushing the audio button which released a sound of cheering. "I'm off to find a cup of sugar for my cube of tea," he joked whimsically, motioning towards the huge box of tea. And with that, he pressed a button, making the group disappear.

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They reappeared in the hallway. "Yikes! Watch out!" exclaimed Bloom immediately as a giant heel nearly stepped on them.

"We've shrunk!" said Apple as they jumped out of the way.

"Or the school's grown huge!" considered Raven.

"Yes, sometimes it's hard to tell—ah!" Lizzie squeaked as the ground shook, the result of another huge student walking by. She winced. "That's it! I, for one, have had quite enough! It's high time we see the vice principal!"

""But, uhm, how do we get to the office?" asked Briar with a shrug.

"And how do we grow bigger to our regular size?" added Nex, "or make the school shrink down back to normal?"

"This is the only door we can reach," announced Maddie, walking over to a red door craved into the baseboard, "so it's clearly the right one to use." She held the door open for her friends.

"I'll never get used to Wonderland logic," chuckled Raven. The door led them into a narrow hallway, whose walls were aligned with fancy, odd-shaped mirrors. The further they proceeded down it, the lower the ceilings seemed to get. Eventually, they found themselves crawling.

Lizzie, who was leading the party, guided them towards a small red door at the end of the corridor. She crawled through it, finding a pendulum and a higher-up sitting at their desk. She stood up, realizing their surroundings were once again at their regular size.

"Vice principal, glad I caught you," she began, walking up to the desk. Someone was sitting in a tall red chair on the other side, their face towards the window and back facing Lizzie. "I acquire a word. My name is Lizzie Hearts, daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and my friends and I need your help." She gestured towards her friends who were crawling into the room.

"We need to graduate, but our classes keep changing," informed Raven. The others nodded in unison.

"The classes are getting dangerous!" meowed Kitty.

"And they're getting harder and harder to pass," added Bloom.

"We nearly drowned a few minutes ago," remarked Stella, putting a hand on her hips.

"Oh, that sounds simply dreadful," cackled a familiar voice. The chair swiveled around, revealing Courtly Jester. Everyone gasped.

"Courtly? But I thought she was the president of the student council," recalled Nex.

Courtly scoffed. "If you ever bothered reading the school's bylaws, you'd know! That as a student council president, I am also the acting vice principal. And as vice principal, I am also principal. See? It's a matter of principle."

"But then you can help us!" exclaimed Apple, "Okay, Lizzie's mom is in danger-"

"Oh, and you really want to get to her birthday party by teatime," finished Courtly, "or she'll never hear about the plot to kick her off the throne! Ah, what a shame school isn't over with." She kneeled on her desk and continued playing with her pendulum.

"You're the vice principal! You can release us," pointed out Tecna, "things might be different here in Wonderland, but I'm sure you still hold authority like regular principals."

"Oh, but look!" Courtly gestured towards a giant, flashing clock on their right. "It's only eleven o'clock in the morning! School never lets out at eleven."

"Eleven o'clock?" repeated Stella, her mouth dropping open.

"Time is going backwards? But that's impossible!" cried out Apple.

"Forget the clock! As your future queen, I, Lizzie Hearts, command you to release us at once," demanded Lizzie firmly.

"Command, do you?" said Courtly, standing up and starting over to the clock. "Well, my clocks are what count in my school, and this one says it will never be three o'clock!" She cackled and pulled a lever underneath the clock, sending it spinning out of control.

"That's cheating!" meowed Kitty in distress.

"My mother will hear of this," assured Lizzie angrily.

"Ha! Your mother? What'll I care about your mother?" Courtly cartwheeled onto her desk. "She won't be queen for much longer."

Maddie made her statement happily. "Why, it's-" She shook her head. "It's as if you almost want the plan to overthrow her mother to succeed."

Courtly blinked at Maddie's obviousness. "OF COURSE I DO!" she shouted, angrily stomping her foot on her desk. "Because it's mine!" Everyone gasped.

"You—you're the traitor?!" Even Lizzie seemed shocked.

"You think you're so special 'cause you were born to become a queen!" said Courtly, cartwheeling down to Lizzie. "But, you forget! A joker can be anything she wants! Hahaha!" She cartwheeled over to the girls and Nex. "A joker becomes a queen! It happens all the time! The joker becomes the queen! It happens all the time!" she sang. Seeing the non Wonderlandians were clueless, she asked in disgust: "Ah, don't you ever play cards?"

Lizzie became enraged. Ooh…OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!" she shouted, storming over to Courtly.

"SECURITY CARDS!" shouted Courtly, holding Lizzie back. Immediately, card soldiers appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the girls and Nex. "Escort these students back to their classes, where they will spend the rest of their lives!" The jester began to cackle sinisterly.

"And I seriously thought the Trix were bad," said Stella, shaking her head and putting a hand on her hip.

"Courtly Jester! You may be a joker, but this isn't funny! You'll pay for this!" promised Lizzie, hissing helplessly at the joker. Although she wanted to claw the joker's eyes out, she couldn't move due to the two card soldiers blocking her way with their swords.

"Hoh! Not when I am the new queen!" countered Courtly, poking Lizzie's nose.

"That's not gotta happen, Courtly," assured Nex determinedly.

"We'll never let you become the queen," added Apple with a nod.

"Oh really? This is my school, and we follow my rules, and I can do whatever I want! If you really want to graduate to leave here…" She snickered and began whispered, "It's easy." She pulled a lever and a long pink scroll rolled down from the ceiling, stopping at Lizzie's feet. "This contract stipulates that you've signed over all your rights as the heiress to the Queen of Hearts's throne...to me," she explained to Lizzie quickly, smiling.

"Never!"

"It's a simple choice, Lizzie Hearts," said Courtly calmly, taking out a pen. "You—and your friends—can spend the rest of your lives here at school, or! Voluntarily, sign on the dotted line." She handed Lizzie the pen and paper.

"I—but—my friends will be free?" asked Lizzie uncertainly.

"Woah! Don't do it Lizzie!" said Maddie worriedly.

"Guys, we have magic! Can't we just stop Courtly like we do the Trix?" whispered Stella to Bloom and Tecna. "It should be easy since she doesn't have magic, right?"

Bloom shook her head. "We can't risk Lizzie's life," she replied lowly, bobbing her head towards the animate cards guarding the Princess of Hearts.

"Lizzie, you can't let Courtly win! She'll become queen of Wonderland!" pointed out Tecna calmly.

"But Tecna, she'll let us go. If we stay here, we're doomed anyway," said Lizzie slowly, looking at the contract.

"Lizzie, listen to me," began Raven, "you have to be the Queen of Hearts! It's…your destiny!"

"Raven?!" Apple's eyes widened in amazement.

"I know, I've never been really big on destiny. But look, sometimes following your heart, and following your destiny are the same thing! Your heart has always been set on being the next queen, Lizzie. You can't give up on it now!"

"How heartfelt," said Courtly, glaring at Raven. She then frowned harshly at Lizzie. "Just. Sign. The contract!"

"I…I won't!" said Lizzie, once again finding her voice. She threw the scroll onto the ground and snapped the pen in half.

Courtly hissed. "Then, you are condemned to detention!" she shouted angrily. "You're making the wrong decision, Lizzie Hearts! You could've just peacefully signed over your birthright and then you and your friends would be set free. But now, you have detention and I'll still become queen!"

"Detention?" repeated Nex, "that's it?"

The White Rabbit appeared to the heroes' rescue. "Uh...uh, vice principal," he spoke up shakily but boldly, "Wonderland school rules say you cannot give them detention without a—uh..." He trailed off as Courtly inched towards him, forcing him into a corner.

"Without a what?" Courtly narrowed her eyes at the rabbit, daring him to continue.

"Without a... A disciplinary trial. At the school court," said the White Rabbit, shaking frantically.

Courtly began laughing hysterically. "Why'd I permit that?"

"Actually, it's…your rule."

Courtly stopped short. "Is it? Then it must be followed! A trial would be a fun way to find you guilty! Summon the witnesses! Prepare the court." She snapped her fingers and the door opened behind the heroes.

"This…isn't going to end well," groaned Tecna as the card guards led them out of the office.

"Raow, quit shoving!" hissed Kitty at one of the guards.


Ever After High

"Ugh, they have to be around here somewhere," said Bunny as she and Alistair ascended the staircase leading into one of Ever After High's tall towers.

"There is no more 'around here somewhere'," said Alistair with a frown, looking out of the window that overlooked the rest of the campus. "We searched the entire school."

Bunny sat down on an old trunk. "Well," she smiled, patting the trunk. "We didn't search this-" She exclaimed in surprise and jumped up as the trunk began to move and shout.

"Hello! In here!" shouted the voice.

"Maddie? Lizzie?" Bunny bent down and unlocked the trunk to see Dexter Charming cramped up inside it.

"Ah, no. It's kinda only me, Dexter. I was looking for my sister, Darling, and I sorta fell in there," explained Dexter as Bunny helped him out of the trunk.

"Wait, Darling disappeared too?" asked Alistair.

"She never showed up for lunch. Daring and I have been searching for her ever since."

"We saw her in the Study Hall, just before Raven, Apple, Briar, Kitty, and Maddie all disappeared," informed Bunny.

"Wait, R-Raven's missing too?" asked Dexter with concern, becoming very worried.

Outside the tower, a dragon suddenly flew by. "Yo, little bro!" called Daring Charming as he and his dragon, Legend, appeared outside the window. "Good news! I've guessed where Darling is! Climb on!" He was seated on Legend's head, holding on to his pointy horns.

"Ah, I don't know Daring," said Dexter nervously, pointing at Legend. "You just got your license to fly one of those."

"Oh, come on, you only live once upon a time!" exclaimed Daring with a regal chuckle. Dexter, Alistair, and Bunny exchanged glances. Did they really have a choice? Bunny climbed up onto the windowsill and boarded Legend, Alistair and Dexter right behind her. Soon enough, they were sailing above campus on dragon back.

"The way I see it, Darling just ran off to the... wait for it... library!" declared Daring like he had just solved an extremely difficult math problem.

"She has been doing an awful lot of research lately," nodded Dexter, who was holding on to Legend's back nervously.

Daring chuckled to himself. "Bookworm Darling and klutzy Dexter. Ah-haha! It's hard to believe how you two are my siblings sometimes." He was too busy talking, he steered Legend straight into Ever After High. They all screamed as they fell from downward through the building.

"I knew this wasn't safe!" cried out Dexter as Legend flew through a wall and out into the front campus. They landed on the ground, where a cop was already waiting for them, ready to press charges.

"Um, you all go in without me," chuckled Daring nervously as the cop began to scribble something on his notepad.


Wonderland High

"I have been appointed as your defense counselor for school court," explained the White Rabbit as he, the guards, and the heroes proceeded through the checked halls of Wonderland High. "Now please, hop along! We're late!" He hopped ahead of them, looking at his pocket watch nervously.

"You've gotta let us go!" pleaded Raven, looking up at the card solider beside her, "please, have a heart."

"Can't have a heart. I'm diamonds," replied the animate playing card, pointing at the red diamond in his center.

"If this is anything like the trials of justice on the other planets, we might have a shot at winning this," said Tecna hopefully, "all we need are trustworthy witnesses and a fair judge. When it's our turn to state our case, all we have to do is answer truthfully and everything should play out as long as no one says or does anything stupid."

"Why do I feel like that's pointed at me?" asked Nex dully, raising an eyebrow.

"Shuffle along now; keep your face down, play your cards right, and maybe they'll catch you a deal," said one of the cards to Lizzie quietly as they entered the courtroom. The guards stopped at the entrance as the heroes proceeded forward.

The courtroom was designed just like the rest of the school, and to both sides were crowds of students and teachers sitting higher up, looking down at the heroes distastefully. As the group neared the giant podium towering above them, a fence suddenly enclosed them and the portion of the floor they were standing on elevated.

A huge caterpillar appeared at the top of the podium. "Who are you?" he asked slowly, frowning down at the girls and Nex.

"I am Lizzie Hearts! Daughter of the Queen of Hearts," declared Lizzie loudly. She pointed at the judge. "And you are in a lot of trouble."

The crowd and students simply laughed at her remark. "If we were in trouble, it stands to reason that we would be the ones on trial," said the caterpillar judge with a smirk, "and yet, there you are. Therefore, it follows that you, not we, are the ones in trouble. That's logic."

"Oh, makes sense to me," giggled Maddie.

"Whose side are you on?" demanded Lizzie, putting her hands on her hips.

"Let me handle this," spoke up Stella, stepping in front of the others. "I have a way with people." She cleared her throat and declared, "Your Honorable, this is all a misunderstanding!"

"And what don't you understand?" asked the judge.

"What? No, not us! You! You all are the ones who misunderstand."

"See, we came to this school by accident," explained Raven quickly, gently pushing Stella aside.

"And we aren't being allowed to graduate," added Bloom.

"Why should you graduate when you're misunderstanding? Understanding is the point of education! And, you've said yourselves you've missed it," countered the judge matter-of-factly. Tecna facepalmed and shook her head.

"No! You're twisting our words!" cried out Apple, "this is all happening because of that-that-that horrible Courtly Jester!" The crowd gasped at Apple's declaration and then silenced as the entrance flew open.

"What was that about us not saying anything stupid?" asked Nex sarcastically as Courtly appeared in the doorway.

"All rise for her prosecutorial excellence, Courtly Jester!" announced the White Rabbit, his ears drooping.

"Oh no," groaned Bloom as the jester made her dramatic entrance.

"No need to rise on my account. I am but a humble public servant!" said Courtly calmly and innocently, jumping over to the public seating. She took a small bow and added, "With vast powers over each and every one of you." Using the support of a staff member's head, she cartwheeled over onto the judge's desk. "So, where were we?" she asked, poking his nose.

"They've plead their case, I'm not convinced."

"What, we hardly said anything!" grumbled Nex.

"You are our counselor," pointed out Raven, looking over the railing and down at the White Rabbit. "Aren't you supposed to be helping us?"

"Yes. In time," responded the White Rabbit, looking at his watch.

"Time? For what?" asked Apple.

"Time to read the charges!" exclaimed Courtly, lightly cartwheeling down onto the floor in front of them. "We, and—by we I mean I—the vice-principal and future queen of Wonderland, hereby charge these six girls with: unruliness!" The crowd gasped. "If found innocent. Yeah, no way, won't happen. They will be allowed to graduate, when guilty." She began cartwheeling all over the courtroom. "Then it's detention for life. Or, off with their heads!"

She startled the judge by appearing beside him. "Whichever comes first," she giggled, "once I am queen I'm never gonna get tired of saying that!" And with that, she began to cackle wickedly.


Ever After High

'And so, the friends back at Ever After searched in vain for the missing girls. Oh, if only I could tell them! But they can't hear the narrator.'

"Ugh, it looks like they aren't here either," said Bunny disappointedly as she, Alistair, and Dexter regrouped in the center of the library.

"Oh, Raven!" Dexter perked up and ran up to a pile of books covering up a stranger's face who looked uncannily similar to Raven. He swiped the pile of books but found Duchess Swan instead.

"As if," scoffed the swan princess, who had a phone pressed against her ear. "And like, no talking in the library!" Dexter groaned and ironically, Duchess went back to talking on the phone with someone. "So anyway, she was like 'yes way'…"

"I just don't understand," sighed Alistair.

"They're not here," frowned Dexter, rejoining his friends.

Duchess stood up and scowled. "Excuse me! This is a library! Some people are trying to study here. And into her phone, she said, "What? No, not me!"

"Shhhh," hissed the Evil Step Librarians.

'Oh - that got everybody's attention! Hey, wait a page, if the Evil Queen can push a book off a shelf from inside her mirror, perhaps this narrator can-' Brooke, the disembodied narrator, tried to interact with the objects in the library. To her success, a book fell of a shelf. 'Yes, it worked! Oh, if only I could use it to tell Bunny and the others where their friends are! But how...?'


Wonderland High

"Disorder! Disorder! Disorder!" shouted the judge, using his multiple hands to pound multiple gravels on the podium in an attempt to calm the shouting crowds. Once everyone calmed down, he declared, "I call the first witness!"

The girls gasped as the Red Knight dutifully walked past them, taking his position at the lower podium beside the judge's tall one. "So, Chase Redford the Red Knight," began Courtly, pacing in front of him. "from what I understand, you caught these students sneaking onto school properly!" She cartwheeled over to the heroes.

"Not fair! We weren't even students here," argued Stella.

"But of course you were students here, because you were on my school grounds. Isn't that the rule?" asked Courtly slyly.

"It is," nodded Chase, "and I am duty-bound to follow it. Rules are rules."

"When they received their class assignments, what did they do?" asked Courtly, folding her arms across her chest.

"I guess they sort of sped off down the hallway," responded Chase.

"So you might say they were running in the halls?" The staff gasped at Courtly.

"Technically…..yes?"

"That's ridiculous!" protested Lizzie, "the halls were running! We were just standing on them!"

With a fake gasp, Courtly said, "You naughty, sassy girl! Now you're talking back!" She jumped atop the judge's podium and pointed down at them. "These people first sneaked onto school grounds, and then were seen running in the hallways! And now, they're talking back! One rule! Heedlessly broken after another - can there be any doubt? They're unruly!" The crowd began to murmur amongst themselves.

"Quiet in the court!" declared the judge, pounding his gravels against the podium. "How do you plead? Guilty, or extremely guilty?"

"What? Guilty?" repeated the White Rabbit, gasping frantically.

"Very well then. Guilty as charged!"

"What? That's not what I meant!"

"Eternal detention for life!" shouted the judge, rising from his seat.

Kitty, who was overwhelmed, shouted out at Courtly. "You'll have a hard time taking over Lizzie's destiny without the Storybook of Legends! And my mom, the Cheshire Cat, has it. So there!" She then covered her mouth and gasped.

"The Storybook of Legends? Here? In Wonderland?" repeated Courtly, becoming interested. "Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, how the plot thickens... Sorry Lizzie, the deal is off. I don't need you to sign the contract. I just need to sign your page in the Storybook of Legends and your destiny is mine!"

And with that, the judge declared the trail over.