Chapter 8:

Through the Rabbit Hole

(Real World: Briefing Room)

After watching Loki threaten the world, and other worlds at that, the President of the United States called for a meeting in the Situation room. Chief Knox, who was still in the Miami FBI HQ, was connected via webcam. He was called on since he was the first to respond to this threat, and he had an agent who was directly involved, who had mysteriously vanished through a portal on the interstate.

"Is there anything else you know?" asked the Vice President over the monitor.

"Unfortunately, Agent Ryder wasn't able to give anymore information regarding what has happened, but we assume that Doctor Drake Clithe is responsible for the device that brought Loki here" replied the Chief. "I believe that both he and Dr. Clithe are still on the other side of the portal, somewhere in... movie world I guess."

"Were you able to dig anything else on Dr. Clithe?" asked the Secretary of Homeland Security.

"We ransacked his home and found some blueprints to some very complex machinery. We sent a copy of them to both NASA and you to analyze. Some of his colleges confirmed that he was involved with an outlandish theory that fictional worlds are real."

"Well I guess he was right about this then?" asked the President rhetorically.

"Are we making any progress involving taking back Miami?" asked the Vice President to the Secretary of Defense.

"None. Those transformers and fighters keep knocking down any aircraft and ground crew we send in. The least we could get is satellite surveillance, so long as cloud cover remains zero."

"Do we at least have a location of Loki's machine?" asked the President.

"Yeah, it's located on top of the Four Season's hotel. We've tried to send in some tomahawks, but superman can see them coming a mile away and keeps knocking them down."

"Then what are our options?" asked the President.

Everyone looked to each other uneasily.

"Sir", started the Speaker of the House, "We have no options, unless a miracle happens."

Everyone sighed, except for Knox. The President dismissed the meeting until further notice, leaving Knox and Craig alone in the room.

"Sir, what about Agent Ryder?" asked Craig.

"We can't contact him, nor do we know where he is, but right now, I think he's our best hope..."

(Gotham: Bat-cave)

Before Deadpool could lead the group with recruiting, they first had to figure out who they would need, based on which world's they could get to the quickest, and who would be the most help in defeating Loki. In the Bat-cave, Clithe was giving the group the details on who exactly was in Loki's army...

"Raptors! He has freakin' velociraptors?!" exclaimed Jase. He had seen all three Jurassic Park movies, and he knew that they were formidable.

"You know what, bring it on!" said Deadpool. "Velociraptors just happen to be on my bucket "kill" list."

"OK, is that it Dr. Clithe?" asked Henry.

"Well, let's see, I covered all the storm troopers, and their vehicles. I got the Uri-Kai, the two T-rex and the endless supply of Decepticons, thanks to his allspark enhanced scepter. Their was Superman, Megatron, Starscream, Darth Vader, Thor, but his hammer is missing, I'm assuming he can't control it when he's not under his own free will."

"Ok, that makes sense, anyone else?" asked Mike.

"Ah, let's see... Oh, there was the girl from the Frozen movie. I didn't actually see it, so I don't know..."

"Elsa?" asked Jane. "She wear a blue dress, ice powers?"

"That's her."

"Well that's great, considering she could freeze over Miami with a thought" said Laura.

"That would actually be an improvement" said Mike, who always complained that Miami was too hot.

"So that's everyone?" asked Ryder.

"Yes, that was everyone he brought in before I took the generator, so he couldn't have brought anyone else in."

"Awesome, now let's start putting together our dream team!" said Deadpool. "Might I suggest anyone played by Jessica Alba?"

Everyone turned to glare at Deadpool. "What? I have a thing for blonds...and maybe brunettes, and the occasional redhead..."

"Deadpool! This is serious!" exclaimed Batman.

"I happen to be very serious! Do you know how hard it is to find love when you wear a mask 24/7?"

Everyone just glared at Deadpool. "Uh, fine!" he said, letting it go. Alfred soon walked in, pushing a mobile whiteboard.

"Here is the board master Michael requested" he said.

"Thank you Alfred, by the way, you're awesome!" thanked Mike as he dragged the board towards a wall.

"Why thank you master Michael. Master, Bruce, maybe you could learn some manners from this young man?" said Alfred jokingly as he went to lean against a wall. Batman just growled as he glared at Mike.

"Ok" continued Mike, picking up a marker and writing on the board. "We defiantly need the Autobots to fight those Decepticons..." he said as he wrote down 'Autobots' on the blackboard.

"We need the avengers too, they know Loki, and the Hulk can handle Superman" said Jase.

"We need some guys who are good in hand to hand to help us out with those troopers and the orcs" said Ryder

"What about some of those guys from the Lord of the Rings? Legolas, Aragorn and all them?" asked Jane

"Awesome" said Mike as he wrote the names down.

"...And what about Katnis Everdeen?" Asked Laura

"From the Hunger Games? are you sure..." asked Jase before being cut off.

"Yes! We defiantly need her. I vote for her!" yelled Mike.

"This wouldn't have anything to do with your crush on Jennifer Lawrence, does it?" asked Henry.

"What? No! Of course not!" he lied. He almost wrote down 'Jennifer', but quickly changed the 'Je' to a 'Ka'.

"Ok, and Peeta?" asked Jane. Everyone looked to each other, then laughed.

"Ha, good one!" said Deadpool.

"Ok, so we have Autobots, Avengers, and Je...Katniss. What about Jedi?" asked Mike

"I agree. Yoda is a must, especially if Vader is involved" said Jase.

"Ok, jedi it is..." said Mike.

"Can I suggest Spiderman?" asked Ryder.

"Ah, do I sense a fan-boy over here?" mocked Deadpool.

"What? No! I just saw the movie recently and noticed that he's pretty powerful."

"I agree, any superhero would be helpful" said Mike as he wrote his name down.

"Just please, for Stan Lee's sake, not the Sam Rami version!" exclaimed Deadpool.

"Oh, we would never even suggest that!" said Mike as he put 'Marc Webb' in parenthesis next to Spiderman.

"Alright, we have a good list so far, and we don't have much time to waste..." started Ryder, who was interrupted by Deadpool

"Actually, can I add two more to the list?"

"Who, and please don't tell me they're more mercenaries!"

"Relax! Besides, S.H.I.E.L.D. locked most of them up. Anyway, I was referring to two fellow fourth wall jumpers."

"Two jumpers, why do we need more?" asked Batman.

"Well, I've been looking at these names, and in order to all of them it would require coming all the way back to Gotham twice, probably taking all night. Two more jumpers would make things go by much more quickly."

"Fine, I guess we could benefit from the extra time. Who are they?"

"Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck."

Batman slapped his palm against his face. "Loony Tunes, really? Aren't there any others?"

"None that like me, and I refuse to work with that pony! You can't make me!" said Deadpool, waving his finger.

"Fine! Alfred, you, Dr. Clithe and I are going to the mansion, I told Fox to meet us there with the supplies. We won't be able to house some of our larger guests in here."

"Very good sir, Dr. Clithe, this way please" said Alfred as he led Dr. Clithe to the elevator. Batman turned to everyone else.

"Alright, everyone, I'll stay here with Dr. Clithe to aid in reconstruction of the device. Ryder, you're in charge."

"I wasn't going to ask for your permission, but OK. Alright Deadpool, What's are first stop?"

"That would be..." said Deadpool as he put his hand to his head "...the nearest golf course."

(Gotham: Happy Harry's miniature golf)

Using some civilian vehicles Batman had hidden in the above ground junkyard, the group drove to a nearby miniature gold course (While Hiccup and Toothless flew overhead. It was night, so no one was there to see them. Ryder walked up to the gates, seeing that they were locked. He took out a small tool from pocket and proceeded to unlock it, when Deadpool smashed it open with one of his Katana's

"Real covert of a merc" said Ryder sarcastically

"Hey, time is of the essence" replied Deadpool.

"Hey, how did you cut through..." asked Jane.

"Adamantium blades, baby!" he said as he put the blade back into his scabbard. He walked over into the golf course, eyeing the grounds.

"Well, where is it?" asked Ryder.

"Give me a minute, these are invisible doors to other dimensions we're talking about, it's not like...Ah ha, here it is!" exclaimed Deadpool as he ran over to a golf hole. "Ok, once I open this, it will remain open for a few minutes, easily allowing us all to enter.

Laura eyed the hole curiously. "Uh, Deadpool, we can't fit through that."

"Oh, that's because you're not thinking outside the fourth wall! Just do as I do and jump down the rabbit hole!" he said as he jumped up into the hole. Suddenly, his hole body seemed to squeeze into the hole, almost cartoonishly.

"Holy snot!" exclaimed Jase.

"How did he just..." asked Henry.

"I don't know, but we only have a minute, so let's see where it goes..." said Mike as he enthusiastically jumped in. Likewise, his body seemed to squeeze through the golf hole.

"Well, I've done some crazy things in my life, but I sure hope this one ends well" said Jase as he jumped through.

"Alright everyone, get going!" said Ryder as he motioned Henry, Jane, and Laura in. He then turned to Hiccup and Toothless.

"Are you coming?"

"Ah, I'm not sure if Toothless can fit down their..."

"You do realize that physically, none of us would be able to fit down there, right?"

"OK, OK. come on bud" said Hiccup as he climbed onto Toothless "how hard can this be?"

Toothless groaned in nervousness as he approached the hole. Using his wings, he lifted himself up and dove nose first into the hole. Like the others, he and Toothless somehow were able to squeeze through the hole. Once the last person went through, it was Ryder's turn.

"Never thought the agency would lead to this!" he said as he dove through...

(Down the Golf hole)

With Deadpool the furthest down, Everyone found themselves falling down a long, dark hole.

"AHHHH! screamed most as they fell down.

"Deadpool! What is this?" yelled Ryder, who had assumed sky-diving position.

"Don't worry, the laws of physics work differently down here! No need to worry!" said Deadpool, comfortably folding his hands behind his head as if he were lying in a hammock.

"I hope so, because falling to my death is no how I want to go!" screamed Jase as he spun out of control. Soon, they saw a round, gold-colored ground below.

"Deadpool! What is that!?" yelled Ryder.

As they fell further, they saw that is was a banner of the Warner Brothers logo. They fell into the banned, which stretched as they fell. Eventually, it gave away and they phased through.

They were now falling through open air as they saw an animated landscape below.

"Everyone, welcome to Looney Tune Land!" yelled Deadpool, who had his arms crossed as they approached the ground.

Surprisingly, none of them were injured when they hit the ground, but when they sat up, they saw that were little birds flying around their heads. Ryder swatted them away annoyingly.

"Next time, could you warn us?" he said angrily.

"Sorry, I like to surprise people."

"Wait, where's Hiccup and Toothless?" asked Ryder. Above them, Hiccup and Toothless gently glided down and landed next to them.

"Lucky" smirked Jane.

"So, where are they?" asked Henry. "I don't see anyone here."

"Huh" said Deadpool, scratching his chin. "They're usually around when a visitor arrives..."

"Maybe they're panicked from Loki's message?"

"Maybe. here, let me try my call..."

"You're what?..."asked Hiccup, afraid to ask.

"...Yodel-le-he hooooo!" Cried Deadpool, very loudly.

"OK, never do that again!" said Hiccup. Within seconds, two familiar characters zoomed up, almost instantaneously.

"Why Deadpool! Long time no see. How's life?" said Bugs Bunny. He extended his hand to shake the merc's hand.

"Life's great! Well, you know, minus the whole, Loki trying to control the fictional universe thing..."

"I knew it!" said Daffy Duck, spitting as he talked. "This is all your fault!" he said, pointing and accusing finger into Deadpool's chest, glaring into his eyes.

"Why does everyone automatically blame me when something goes wrong?" said Deadpool, looking at the audience. He grabbed Daffy by the neck. Daffy's Eyes widened comically as he did so. "Look here, duck, I'm actually here to help, so how about you listen up while I explain myself!"

"O...K...sir..." said Daffy, trying to breath.

"This is nuts!" whispered Jase to Mike.

"This is awesome!" responded Mike.

"Ok" Deadpool said as he dropped the duck. "So here's the brief overview: Me and my friends here need to collect a rag-tag team of movie characters to stop this guy, and I need your help!"

Bugs and Daffy glanced at their friends, realizing they are obviously not from here. Bug's greeted them;

"Oh, hello. I'm Bugs and this is laughing boy..." Daffy shot him a glare "...and who might you be?" asked Bugs politely. Daffy zipped in front of him, again pointing an accusing finger as Ryder.

"And where are you from, Hmmm?"

"Back off duck! I'm agent Ryder of the FBI..."

"Ooh, fancy" remarked Bugs.

"...and this is Henry, Mike, Jase, Laura, Jane, Hiccup and Toothless" he pointed to each of his friends. "...And we are from the real world, well, at least us six anyway..."

"The real world!" remarked Bugs. "I haven't seen one of you guys since Michael Jordon!"

"Wait, hold on!" screamed Jane. "You mean "Space Jam" was real!"

"Uh, yeah. Why do you think Michael went out of retirement?"

Everyone looked to themselves, finding this hard to believe. Then again, they had been questioning a lot of things lately.

"Alright, all sport news aside" said Ryder. "We need your help to get the help of other characters. Can you help us get to where we need to go?"

Bugs and Daffy looked at each other. "Well, we haven't been world hopping in a while, but I think it will come back to us..."

"Great, than let's get going!" said Deadpool, putting his figure to his head. "OK, since we have three jumpers, we can make three teams to save time."

"OK, let me see..." thought Ryder out loud. "We also someone battle ready in each team, just in-case. So Deadpool, you, Henry and Laura are team one..."

"Go team one, yeah!" said Deadpool as he grabbed his new teammates.

"...Daffy, you, Mike, Jane and myself will make up team two, and Bugs, you, Jase and Hiccup and Toothless will be team three."

"Alright. Bugs, go to the Transformers and Star Wars, I'll go to the Spiderman and Avenger worlds, and Daffy, think you can handle Panam and the Lord of the Rings worlds?" asked Deadpool.

"Are you suggesting I don't know my way around? I can handle those easy!" He said confidently, maybe over confidently, which made Ryder nervous.

"Alright, let's do this! To the golf course!" said Deadpool.

(Real World: Four Seasons Hotel, top floor)

"Just look at it Thor" said Loki as he looked out the window in the penthouse of the tower.

It was large, with large windows all around. The room was painted white, furnished with luxurious furniture, and had a panoramic view of Miami. Around him, within the room, were a few troopers, a pair of raptors, and Elsa, who was standing by a window, looking outside. Below, Loki's army surrounded the city. The military had given up attempts of reclaiming it, so it was calm as of now. Smoke and fires were scattered around, the results of the earlier skirmishes.

"Soon, I will claim not just this world, but our world, and all worlds."

"Our father will be pleased with you brother" said Thor, who was under Loki's influence. "You were truly meant to be king. You know, deep down, I never did want the burden. My place now lies with Jane Foster."

"And I'm happy for you brother" said Loki, smiling at the fact that Loki was in complete agreement with him, even if it was a lie. "And thank you brother for helping me accomplish what I was destined for."

"We may have had our disagreements before, but now, now we can fight once again, side-by-side, as brothers"

Loki frowned at that last sentence. He was reminded of the relationship he once had with Thor, but this wasn't it; it was a lie. "As you wish brother."

Loki looked out once more, then turned to Elsa.

"Snow Queen, would you please make a snow cloud around the building? I don't want anyone spying overhead."

"Elsa slowly turned and responded. "Yes sir, but remember, I can't remove it once it's formed. I haven't been able to thaw since joining your army."

"That's alright. My people are adapted to the cold anyway" Loki responded as Elsa walked out onto a balcony and flung her hands up, sending a blast of magic into the air, which turned into a massive cloud. It started to snow around the building, an odd sight in Miami.

(Looney Tune Land: miniature golf course)

"Why are you portals always located in golf course?" asked Laura.

"No idea" replied Daffy simply.

"OK, lets get going!" said Deadpool. He, Bugs, and Daffy, walked around, looking for their respected hole.

"No, not this one" "Uh uh" "Oh!... nope, wrong one" Bugs and Daffy quietly told themselves as they moved from one hole to the next. Finally, Bugs stopped...

"Ah ha! here we are! Transformers. Team Rabbit! Let's go!" he said as Jase, Hiccup, and Toothless followed. Bugs jumped up and made a swan dive into the hole. Just then, Deadpool and Daffy put there hands to their heads.

"Aw man, that's not good! Guys, follow him, hurry!" yelled Deadpool.

"What's going on?" asked Ryder.

"The portal is unstable, it's going to close fast! Run! Jump in!" he yelled. Immediately, Jase jumped in, followed by Toothless and Hiccup.

Deadpool and Daffy then looked to each other in confusion. The other's didn't know it, but Daffy and Deadpool, and probably Bugs on the other side, felt the portal close, permanently.

"Did that hole just, disappear?" asked Daffy, pointing at the hole.

"Oh man, that's not good!" said Deadpool.

"What? What's going on!" asked Jane, grabbing Deadpool by the shirt. "That was my brother you just sent in, what's wrong?!"

"Wow, easy! They're fine, but the hole became unstable just as Bugs opened it. This hasn't happened before!"

"But what does that mean?"

"It means, kid" cut in Daffy "That whatever that clown with the deer antlers did to talk to all the world's at once made the portals unstable. If that's the case, than we can't get back the way we came from because the portal has closed, permanently, finite, hasta la vista holey, good bye..." Deadpool put his hand over the duck's mouth.

"I think they get it!"

"Then how will they, or we get back?" asked Henry.

"Well, that's where it gets tricky. We would have to take the long way back to Gotham, through other worlds, world's that we weren't intending on visiting" said Deadpool.

"Yes, and we better get going now, before these portals start closing on their own" said Daffy. "So we have to get in and out fast, or we might get stuck in a world."

"Alright! You hear the duck, let's get going!" said Ryder "I can't believe I just said that."

"Remember everyone!" said Deadpool as he approached the hole to the Spiderman Universe. "You guys need to follow me really fast! OK?"

"Got it" replied Henry.

"Alright, oh, and I'm renaming our team. It is now, team Merc!..." screamed Deadpool as he jumped in. Henry grabbed Laura's hand and, together, they jumped in right after.

Daffy looked to Jane, Mike, and Ryder. "OK, are you men ready!" said Daffy, as if talking to troops.

"Uh, yes" said Mike.

"Alright, and since we are apparently renaming our teams, we are now, team Duck!" yelled Daffy, hitting his palm as if trying to make a point.

"Real original" said Mike.

"Then let's go!" Daffy as he jumped into the air, laughing his signature crazy laugh as he descended, only to miss and smash into the ground.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star!" he said as he got up, partially dazed and with stars flying around his head. He then stumbled and fell into the hole.

"We're doomed" said Jane as they immediately jumped in after Daffy.

(Team Rabbit: Transformers Universe; Chicago)

In an alley, Bugs, Jase, and Toothless and Hiccup came flying out of the wall, crashing into the adjacent wall. Bugs ended up being crushed by Toothless.

"Oh, sorry" said Hiccup as Toothless move away from the wall, revealing a pancaked rabbit.

"That's ok" said Bugs weakly, before peeling himself from the wall with his own hand, and flopping his body, which took its original shape.

"Man, I forgot you can do that" said Jase. Bugs ignored him as he walked back to the wall they came from, feeling it.

"Uh-oh" Bugs said.

"What?" asked Hiccup.

"Uh, I think the portal just closed, like, closed closed.

"Closed!" exclaimed Jase. "How can it be closed? I thought you could open portals?"

"I can, but this thing just closed, as if it were never here. I think mister "take-over-the-world" messed with the nature of the fourth wall when he projected his face across the skies. But don't worry, all we need do is to go home via another world. Wait, oh no! If this thing was unstable, that means, the others, oh no! They might all close soon!"

"What?!" exclaimed both Hiccup and Jase.

"Their going to close, and soon. We need to find these transformers guys and get out of here!" screamed Bugs as he ran down the Alley. He obviously didn't look both ways as he ran into the street, because he was hit by a yellow Camaro. Bugs got up, dizzy from the impact, as the yellow Camaro, which was followed by a large, red and blue truck with flame details, transformed into Bumblebee. Behind him, Optimus formed from the truck. Team Rabbit stared in awe as Optimus turned his attention to the to humans, a dragon, and the anthropomorphic rabbit.

"Who are you, and why are you here?" asked Optimus.

"Uh, hi" said Jase, clearly caught off by the giant robot. "We came here for your help, to fight Loki..."

"Loki, you mean that man who threatened our world with war in the sky last night?" asked Optimus.

"Uh, yeah. You see, I'm from the Real World, and we have a way to get back and stop him."

"And you need our help?" asked the last Prime.

"Yes, he's got Megatron and Starscream under his control..."

"Look, Mr. Prime" spoke up Bugs. "I would love to go over the details, but we need to get going now! The portals are closing, and we need to leave now!"

"Wait, Bugs, what about the other Autobots?"

"There isn't time! We might be lucky just to get home!" said Bugs as he ran down the street. "Come one! I feel a portal this way!"

"He's a fourth wall jumper?" asked Optimus, pointing at the rabbit.

"Yes, he is, and we need to get going!"

Optimus looked to Bumblebee, who nodded. He then put his hand to his ear.

"Ratchet, this is Optimus, I have found a way through the fourth wall to stop Loki. Time is of the essence, so I must regrettably leave with only Bumblebee. If we fail, and Loki invades Earth, you must take command!..."

OK, so as of right now, Batman, Deadpool, Hiccup and Toothless, Bugs and Daffy, and Optimus and Bumblebee are on the Fourth Wall League..

Wait, hold up, "Fourth wall league"? How did you come up with that?

I don't know, it just came to me...

And Team Chimichanga wasn't a good name?

Uh, not really no.

Well, I think that Fourth wall league is very corny!

So then what about "Justice" League?

I never said Justice League wasn't corny.

(Sigh) Yeah you're right, but it was the best I could come up with, so let's just go with it.

Fine! I still think Chimichanga is a better name though.

Tell me what you guys think of the name in a review.

...Which would prefer; the corny Fourth Wall League, or the awesome Team Chimighanga?