Author Notes: This is an alternative take to the Wonderland being a dream take on the story. I hope you all like it.
It's going to take some elements from the 2010s movies and the original books for the next few chapters.
Chapter 10: Queen of Hearts
Queen's Court
"I'm too curious for my own good.," Alice sighed as she resigned herself to her fate.
Sora, Donald and Goofy arrived at the court house as the jury stand was now filled with lobsters, fish and birds wearing suits. and writing notes on chalkboard
Sora raised a confused eyebrow as he wondered,
Where'd these guys come from?
He then saw in the now gathered crowd several notable figures that stood out.
First was an obese dodo bird with white feathers, wearing a black hat, a white wig with a ponytail tied with a blue bow, and clad in a purple waistcoat with a blue vest smoked his pipe. He was accompanied by a green lizard wearing black pants, a brown shirt with black jacket, and a black hat; looking like a chimney sweep looked nervously at the blond girl as if she was someone he met before, but didn't know where.
Further into the back, a slender, buck-toothed hare with large black eyebrows, tan fur, a tuft of blond hair, a magenta nose, and a white cottontail protruding from the back end of his pants. He wore an red coat with an orange tie, dark red shirt, dull brown pants and large brown shoes. The hare stood on the right of a short, fair-skinned, big nosed man with a large head disproportionate to his shorter body; he was half bald with bushy white hair, and buck-toothed. He wore a green coat, a dark green vest, a lighter green pair of pants, light blue socks, and green shoes. He notably wore a green top hat with placard with the writing 10/6 placed on the left side of the hat. Both he and the hare had raised white collars. The two were busy sipping tea, uncaring of the trial.
Even further back was a pair of fat, half bald, red haired, twins with pink noses, wearing school boy uniforms with yellow shirts with red pants, blue bowties,and white bibs, red propeller caps with tiny flagpoles and flags on them, and lastly black shoes. The two danced a merry jig to pass the time.
Furtherest back, was an obese, anthropomorphic walrus with light brown skin, a thickly mustached and green iris eyes. He wore a green vest, blue bowtie, a navy coat and top hat, dark grey pants and brown shoes. He carried around a cane in a casual manner. On his left was a a slender man with red hair and brown eyes. He wore a white cap, light blue shirt, white apron, gray pants and brown shoes. He carried around a hammer with a tight grip.
Lastly, by the Queen's side was a dwarfish man with fair skin, curled orange hair, a dual-pointed gold beard, black mustachioed, with a red robe attire and wearing a giant gold crown on his head.
"One minute I was swimming in nasty stuff. Then I'm nothing and now I'm back- fit as a fiddle. It makes me so mad..I'm not inviting them ever again.," said the green hatted man with a lisp.
"Oh heheh...I have a second chance...for the time has now come...," the walrus said as he guiltily looked at the little oyster humanoid children wearing blue gowns looking cross at him.
"Oh poor Bill.," the White Rabbit remarked with a tear looking at the lizard, as if he were a lost friend.
"Now presenting the Queen of Hearts.," declared the White Rabbit with thunderous applause.
"And the King.," added the White Rabbit with less enthusiasm, but stared in bewilderment at the sight.
"Hooray.," cheered a single unseen voice.
Donald, Alice and the card guards by extension were all shocked to see these individuals around.
Goofy was too ditzy to realize the significance and Sora was confused at the sight.
"Maybe they went on a vacation or something?," Goofy asked.
"They're supposed to be-," Donald told Goofy with a slit throat gesture that went past Goofy's understanding.
"They're the ones who vanished?! Why are they back? Are they ghosts? What's going on?," Sora asked aloud.
"I accuse you girl of causing me to lose my dear husband, the King. So off with your head.," said the Queen in a weeping tone as she bawled.
"It's truly a tragedy my Queen.," said the King to comfort the Queen.
"SO THAT'S WHAT'S THIS IS ABOUT?! HE's NOT DEAD! HE'S RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!," yelled Donald as he pointed out the king.
"I can still hear his voice...," the Queen cried before noticing the king.
"You're here...," Queen said with a sigh of relief.
"Guess everything's settled-," Sora said optimistic as Donald facepalmed behind him.
"You must have done something to make him disappear regardless. Off with your head!," shouted the Queen.
Sora spoke up, unintentionally pulling out the glass eye he grabbed on the ground.
"I get it now! This must come from that guy who made them disappear and that girl got framed for it! She's innocent!," Sora yelled in realization.
"What's your proof?," the Queen asked as the White Rabbit then raced down to grab the eye from Sora.
"Hey!," Sora snapped.
"Looks like evidence.," the King remarked as he observed the eye in the Rabbit's hands
"It does indeed...," the Queen said suspiciously as she observed the eye.
"Evidence of what?," Sora asked.
"That you are a criminal and you two are abetting him! Off with their heads!," answered the Queen, this time with her head having a redder hue and smiling sinisterly.
"But, we even showed you! This doesn't make sense!," Sora yelled out.
"It was gonna happen from anyway. This was a kangaroo case from the start! All ways are her ways," Donald shouted.
"Does Kanga have anything against us too? Even Roo?!," asked Goofy, which annoyed Donald.
"No! They don't know much about other worlds, let alone travel to one," replied Donald while bonking Goofy on the back of the head.
"Who's Kanga and Roo?!," shouted Sora in confusion as the card guards cornered the trio.
"I was only curious to follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole! I didn't know it would lead here! i don't want to be here anymore. This place is mad," Alice pleaded.
"Enough! We found the culprits...," said a red rose that looked like a humanoid, grandmotherly figure as she dragged Judge Doom and his flunkies towards the podium. Oddly, Doom was covering one of his eyes as if he had suffered an injury after the incident in the woods.
"Tch, all the hard work all gone down the dame...Is that ace in the hole in case we're busted ready yet?," the pink suit wearing weasel muttered as he saw the hat wearing man and the tan hare.
"Drain...," Donald corrected.
"A loyal red rose...you serve your queen well.," the Queen said with satisfaction as the flowers bowed.
"See! we weren't lying after all.," Sora said as the Queen looked shocked at the large Heartless with astonishment.
"What are these things?!," the Queen shouted, but Doom noticed a subtle clue in her expression that she was lying as she looked away from the sight to avoid any suspicions towards herself.
"Don't try act so ignorant. Being a Queen of Heats, you must know of its inherent opposite. Especially, since you participated in that War...," Doom said undeterred as the cards held spears at his throat.
"Silence. Article 29: Anyone who defies the Queen is guilty. You've been trying to undermine me, the ruler of Wonderland by trying to execute my subjects...only I can do that. ," the Queen said to change the subject.
"You're unfit to make laws for allowing insanity to run rampant. For I will hold the true key that will ensure this world will be rebuilt with order from the ground up,. This was just a setback in my plans." Doom said as the weasel in the straight jacket cut through the roots with his razor. The others were freed in an instant.
"I'm gonna get her...Hee Hee..," said the weasel as he grabbed the containment holding Alice and tossed it to one of the large Heartless.
"Take care of them...," the judge ordered the Heartless, he bumped into the Whtie Rabbit and was gone.
They all retreated once they got Alice. One of the larger Heartless began to rampage in the area, causing the majority of the gathered people to flee.
"You ruined his unbirthday party.," said the hatter as he pointed to a small, dormouse with gray fur, a dark magenta nose, half-awake blue iris eyes, a pink coat and loose bow tie, a purple vest, white unfastened collar, and purple shoes sleeping in a yellow teacup.
"I was looking forward to it too...," said the dormouse as Goofy hit the large Heartless in the back.
"These guys are weak from behind. You gotta hit them there.," Goofy explained, making Sora follow suit as he lunged at the Heartless.
The large Heatless then bounced at Sora, hitting him straight with its belly, sending him backwards.
As the Heartless was about to finish off Sora, the card soldiers stabbed the giant in the back until it was stunned.
Sora then issued the finishing blow to destroy the Heartless. However, the slash was shallow, forcing a surprise assist from a pink hedgehog projected by the King wielding a flamingo like a croquet mallet. The creature then vanished.
"Hooray for the King for once!," the Rabbit declared that made the King blush.
"...And the boy.," the Rabbit added dully, much to Sora's annoyance.
"Dang it...," Sora said in irritation.
"Where are they taking her?! She has a trial to undergo still!," the Queen shouted.
"This way? That way? It doesn't matter...He already has another one to play...That was just the prologue...now for the opening act.," said the Cheshire Cat as he manifested himself.
Suddenly, landing from the sky above. was an unusual Heartless that Sora had never seen before.
It was a towering humanoid with long, spindly legs resembling scissor jacks, arms that appeared and sounded like they're made of paper, and a head that was made of several segments balanced on top of each other. Each of these segments sported its own face; although all of the faces had the same glowing yellow eyes and jagged mouths; they alternated in color from red to black. Its arms were black and it was juggling clubs with zig-zagging, purple and lavender stripes on them. It wore black armor with large, red shoulder pads, a black codpiece, and has a very thin and small red body. The upper halves of its legs were red, while their lower halves were black. Its feet ere black, flat, and curl at the tips. Much of its upper body and head sported gold highlights.
"A Trickmaster!," the King shouted as the Hearless did a somersault to attack Donald with flaming clubs that fired flame like projectiles.
Goofy and the card guards struck its legs to make it fall down.
However, it then stood on its hands and kicked the attackers away.
"Off with its head...Er heads...Off with them!," the Queen declared aloud.
"Blizzard.," Donald shouted as he froze a large portion of the Heartless to stun it.
Sora lunged forward, striking it at its chest, which made it shriek in pain.
"So that's its weak point...Thunder...," Sora said as he fired a lightning spell at the Heartless to further injure it. Donald watched in astonishment while Goofy wasn't surprised.
The Heartless reacted by proceeding to kick Sora directly in the gut, causing him to spit blood. Sora landed on the ground in pain.
"His Majesty taught you that?! How?!," Donald said as he ran towards Sora to heal him.
"It...It was during training, I had to learn magic as well. I also learnt a lot more, but I'm going to show more of it as we get into the harder fights.," Sora answered cheekily.
As he said this, the Trickmaster began to spin around, making itself a fiery cyclone, hitting both the nearby Sora and Donald.
Sora looked up as he saw it toss Goofy aside like he was nothing with ease.
Suddenly, the Queen leapt up and slammed the Heartless, flattening it completely with her Heart shaped fan.
She proceeded to rid off its head from its body, causing the creature to evaporate into a heart that floated away.
"It returns to the Kingdom of Hearts where it will rest until it returns once more...in another form...Though it better not come here or else it loses its head, whoever it will be. If only that sweet child understood her destiny," the Queen explained in an oddly profound manner.
"Kingdom Hearts...Anyway...What was that?...Where are they going?," Sora asked wearily.
"To uncover the secret of this world...in order to erase one of the cornerstones keeping that sealed...though he might have his own agenda.," answered the Cheshire Cat casually as it vanished.
"What does that mean?," Sora asked.
"Oh dear...who are you?," asked a woman who appeared behind Sora. She seemed more sane than the people he had met so far in this world.
"Who are you? You seem like that dear...," the Queen asked the woman.
"I thought she was making this up...This is all her doing..Alice's imagination ran too wild.," the woman sighed.
"Indeed...," said a large anthropomorphic caterpillar that appeared out nowhere from a puff of purple smoke.
"Time for your un-birthday!," the Mad Hatter shouted to the Dormouse as the residents including the queen began to gather at a table with increasingly bizarre tea pots, plates, knives, forks, etc manifested.
"Oh brother, let's go somewhere else that we can talk privately.," explained the woman to the trio.
Entrance Room to Wonderland
Alice was brought in front of the sentient doorknob by the large Heartless as a bluish gray weasel blew smoke in her face and the striped shirt weasel laughed; the other Heartless and weasels stood guard. Judge Doom loomed over her menacingly. He glared at the striped shirt wearing weasel to get him to stop laughing.
After he pressed on the side of his face that he was previously covering. With a pop, he stopped covering the eye and he was back to his normal placid look.
"I was told you were a vital aspect of this world...It's time you did your obligation.," said Judge Doom with an unnerving smile of confidence.
"What obligation?," Alice asked the air around her.
"It's simple, really...ever since that incident, this world was been your home...the "real world" that you believe is your home is one to convince yourself you had a morale higher ground due to claiming you're more mature and sane than the residents. It once existed and it's gone through your actions..," the bodiless voice replied as a grinning mouth manifested.
"No! This is a dream. My sister and Dinah are waiting for me...I want to go home...," Alice yelled aloud.
"Oh that...you've experiencing a deja vu- a repetitive simulation in which you believe you left home to enter Wonderland...when in you're the creative dreamer who made this world a reality in the first place,"the judge exclaimed as he dramatically waved his arms.. "And you've been repeating your adventures for eons with the belief that it's always your first time being here and the world and memory relapses.
"Eons? That's impossible! This is the first time I've been to Wonderland. You're lying.," Alice replied.
"This is the case of most of the worlds that focus on a story. A never-ending repetition of adventure without progression. Those exist naturally, but you created this world on your own...it's your power...as a Lady of the Heart.," Judge Doom explained.
'I'm what?' said Alice.
"It will take too long to get my Dip before reinforcements arrive. So I want you to conjure up something that will eradicate the population of lunatics once and for all. And then you're going to help me open this door so I can rearrange the contents of this world," the judge explained to the girl in a cold-hearted tone of voice.
"I don't like it here...I wouldn't go killing them...Wait, murder? You're murderers?! Help! Someone help!,"
Judge Doom signaled the weasels to close their eyes.
He slowly removed one of his black gloves as a golden flash of light began to illuminate the room.
Tulgey Woods
"What I tell you is something I don't want to spread...," the woman said to the trio as Goofy played with the kitten.
"Cute little fella...," Sora cooed.
"Dinah is a girl.," the woman corrected.
"Cute little girl...," Sora cooed again.
"Sigh...Alice in spite of her claims of sanity, was always odd. She would daydream, tell unusual stories, have a strange view on the world and draw bizarre things like butter-butterflies and rocking-horse flies. She then began telling me about Wonderland in increasing detail as if she was visiting it for the first time. At first, she would involuntarily fall asleep in class for minutes, then hours, then days and finally...she disappeared before our eyes and hasn't been seen since.," the woman explained.
"And oddly, it's become apparent that our country is slowly turning into what Alice's Wonderland. I went to the rabbit hole location that she would go often about in order to find her hiding like a child, but it was a large, deep crevasse at that point and I fell gently down the rabbit hole. I brought Dinah along with me to get her to come home since she adores him.," she added.
"So she created this place? Seems like a place a kid would make. A really weird kid," Donald said with a mocking laugh.
"Impossible...I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E...You're the creations...Not you, duck, dog man or boy...this madam and her kitten...," argued the caterpillar as he briefly turnt a red hue before returning to his usual shade He was a slightly overweight teal colored caterpillar, an aqua colored face and belly; a blue nose, 3 pairs of hot pink hands, 3 pairs of hot pink legs with gold shoes, and a big blue bottom. As he enunciated each letter, he breathed out smoke to form each letter.
"Stop doing that-Wha?," Donald said as he pushed the smoke away before gasping.
"You and that kitten, that world...they're constructs using the power of the Heart of Imagination. I found it hard to recognize the heir to the Queen of Hearts would act so immaturely...I-M-M-A-T-U-R-E-L-Y. That's why I asked her who she was because she can't recognize herself...Wonderland always needs a Queen. She is the true heart of this world.," the caterpillar explained.
"Wha?!," shouted Donald as if he had been told that he was going to die tomorrow.
Next Chapter: Judge Doom using Alice, has conjured up a major threat to fight Sora and co.