A/N

Well if Zim isn't dead by now, he will be soon. We've got an angry Gaz on our hands, I repeat, an Angry Gaz! All members report to their battle stations!

Enjoy!

Never before had Zim seen the violet girl move as quickly as she did the moment he told her she was stuck, stuck in Wonderland. She shoved his comforting hands away, stood, and staggered backwards, all the while shaking her head. "I-I don't understand. What do you mean stuck?"

He brushed his hat to the side when he cupped his forehead in preparation. "Just what I said. You cannot return to Earth. At least, not yet."

"But how? How did this happen?"

A soft static cried out from the object he had dug out of his hat. The screen that had once displayed neon blue lettering now flashed a red warning across. The lights bounced off of her face like that of a siren, an ambulance arriving at the devastation.

"The object in your room, just beneath your bed, that is what allowed you to come into Wonderland in the first place. Something must have happened to it."

She shoved his hand down, removing the device from his view and replacing her twisted, bitter scowl in its absence. "Like what?"

He tapped a few buttons and a fuzzy image was displayed just before cutting off. "Like that." He whistled while Gaz froze. "I suppose your brother can cause you trouble even when you are not around." Just as Zim had said, the machine managed to portray the recording of its last sight before it was disturbed; Dib had mistakenly kicked the device, which was just barely scraping the edging of the bed skirt, and had managed to dislodge something within.

She noticed that he had been calling her name just before the transmission was cut. "He was looking for me," she thought aloud.

"Well back at home, you are nowhere to be found." The look of confusion crossing her face led him to explain further, "Before my creation was damaged, your body was still back on Earth, sleeping. That is why when you left for Wonderland the first time and woke to ask Dib what had happened, he saw nothing but you fast asleep in your room. To him, you had never left. True you were here with me, but all he saw was that of you sleeping peacefully. Now that this has happened, you are fully within Wonderland, your spirit and body. He will begin to wonder where you are because to him, you have vanished."

"I have to get back," she breathed. He strolled about carelessly, hands wrapped behind his back.

"I had intended on only keeping you here for a short period of time," he sighed, "but it would seem that the circumstances have changed without my saying so, or yours at that."

"The circumstances have changed? That is all you can say?"

"Well originally, the machine was designed to inject the serum into your body which would then allow you to go to Wonderland, but it also acted as the door entirely. But since Dib has jammed a main processor within the device, it has malfunctioned and no longer allows me to control it. Before, I could send you back at will. Now I can do nothing."

"Oh, no. You can do something." Her eyes were ablaze with such an insane amount of anger that he feared for the stability of the girl's mental health. "You can go through everything that you've put me through."

He backed away as she inched dangerously closer. Her footsteps pounded the helpless plants crying from the ground, their innards bursting out the sides. He frowned, his claws tapping against one another timidly.

"Now because of you, I am stuck in this messed up world! But what's your explanation? The circumstances have changed? Oh, well forgive me for passing up that excuse!" She pinned him against a tree and lifted a shaky finger up to his eyes. "You're going to pay for this, Zim. If I'm stuck here, then that means you're stuck with me."

"I believe you mean to call me Hatter," he corrected. She growled and his fear dispersed. "Really now, Gaz, what can you do to me?"

"You want to see?"

He grabbed her wrists and twisted her around, her back now hitting the tree. He bent down and hissed, "You seem to forget without me, you are stuck. And not just temporarily like you are now. You will be trapped here forever. So I would reconsider my plans if I were you."

She seized her hands away and, rubbing the flaming skin, asked, "Temporarily? How can you get us out of here? You saw what Dib did to the machine. Without it, we're stuck. You said so yourself."

"I said that it had changed my plans, not shattered them. We will simply go through with the original, intended plan."

"Which is?"

His eyes smirked. "You must finish this story."

She shook her head. "I'm not doing that."

"Then I suppose you are stuck here, aren't you?"

"You can't be serious." But his eyes told her he was. "Okay, so then what? What is the story? I don't even know where to go next."

"You read the novel, did you not? Just follow that. And you act as though you will go through this alone. That is where you are wrong, my dear. You have me."

"Oh, joy," she mocked.

"Unless you want me to abandon you and leave you with the Tweedledibs?" He glanced back at the table where the twins chortled, bouncing sugar cubes off of the other's nose. Cheshire had long fallen asleep in air.

Gaz frowned.

"So if I do this, if I finish this story, then I can go home?"

The Hatter nodded. "Like nothing ever happened."

"And you are sure this wasn't planned on your part?"

"How could I have figured that your brother would have kicked the machine, dislodging a cable within and leaving us stranded without another option?"

She folded her arms. "Then how did you program the machine ahead of time to have the ability to portray the rest of the story if you hadn't planned on me staying but for the beginning?"

"To be quite honest, at the very beginning I had wanted you to go through the whole story with me."

He strolled away from the table and she followed. "With you?"

"Who else? I was the creator of this realm, wasn't I?"

"But you seem so determined to get me and only me here."

They made their way into the forest.

He shrugged loosely, picking a flower from the ground. "Perhaps I wished to be alone with you. Here. Have this." He was about to hand her the flower when he pulled it back. "Oh, but that would be too cliché for my dear little Gaz, wouldn't it?" The flower was released and drifted to the ground. She eyed it before glancing up at him. "You interest me, greatly. I must admit, though this has been an unfortunate turn of events for you, I am thoroughly pleased with the outcome."

She stepped over to him casually, glaring at the ground. "And what outcome is that?"

"Being that much closer to you," his smile suggested.

Her face fell and she caught only a glimpse of his face as he turned and walked away tauntingly. When his back was turned, his face away from hers, only then did she pick up the flower.

A/N

Do I sense love in the air? As much as Gaz would hate to admit it, I think she likes being stuck in Wonderland with Zim. It certainly does act as an odd first date though O.O

I have all of the characters picked out for the ones coming your way and let me just say, they are the perfect choices! In a way, they each represent the real Alice in Wonderland characters perfectly, at least in my opinion they do.

Chapter 11 will be here soon! Wow, this story is going to be a lot longer than I had thought it to be. I hope you guys don't mind that lol!