"There's gotta be someone that can help us." Estelle said.
They passed a house that had music on.
"How very curious..." Alice looked thoughtful again.
There was a whimsical tune with teapots and tea cups that seemed to bounce to the beat.
"Let's see what's going on." Vulpix said.
They looked to the garden of the house and saw a human male with a large green hat in an orange suit with a brown hare that had a flock of yellow hair while in a red suit. They had several tea pots and tea cups. It was a little hard to see with all the steam and the hare and man started to sing a tune together that sounded quite familiar. It must have been a birthday party.
"We should see who's birthday it is." Teddy whispered.
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare sang to each other, unaware that they had company.
'What could they be singing about?' Vulpix thought to himself.
The Mad Hatter and March Hare sang about birthdays, which made the others conclude it had to be a birthday party.
Once they finished, the others clapped and cheered for their song.
"That was wonderful." Larvitar smiled.
The March Hare and Mad Hatter then saw that they had company. "No room, no room, no room, no room!" they yelled at the uninvited guests.
"But we thought there was plenty of room..." Alice informed, gesturing to the several empty chairs around the table.
"Ah, but it's very rude sitting down without being invited." the March Hare scolded.
"I'll say it's rude," the Mad Hatter spoke up with a laugh. "It's very very rude, indeed!"
"Very, very, very rude indeed..." a weary mouse inside one of the teapots added.
"Ooh, mouse." Dinah said, sounding hungry.
"We are sorry for interrupting, but we liked your singing, so-" Felicity started to explain.
That caught the March Hare's attention. "You enjoyed OUR singing?"
"Oh, what a delightful child!" the Mad Hatter chuckled. "I'm so excited, we never get compliments, you must have a cup of tea!"
"Well, I guess we could stay for a little bit." Vincent smiled.
The March Hare then poured from a teapot, making a plate and cup come down with the warm liquid that was enjoyed by many.
"That would be very nice," Alice agreed. "We're sorry we interrupted your birthday party-"
"Birthday?" the March Hare chuckled. "My dear children, this is not a birthday party."
"Of course not!" the Mad Hatter added. "This is an 'unbirthday party'."
"An unbirthday party?" Estelle said, confused.
"It's very simple," the March Hare tried to explain. "Now, thirty days have Sept-No..." he then scratched his head with his ear trying to put it into words for those who didn't know. "When… an unbirthday, if you have a birthday then you," he then laughed a little, shaking his head. "They don't know what an unbirthday is!"
"How silly!" the Mad Hatter laughed himself.
"Is this an American custom?" Felicity's mind was a blank.
"I don't think so." Akito said.
The Mad Hatter cleared his throat. "Don't fret, children, I shall elucidate," he then was now ready to explain. "Now statistics prove, prove that you've one birthday."
"Imagine, just one birthday every year!" the March Hare exclaimed like it was a heinous crime.
"Ahhh, but there are 364 unbirthdays!" the Mad Hatter then informed, showing that every day that wasn't one's birthday would be celebrated.
"Precisely why we're gathered here to cheer!" the March Hare then cheered to prove his point.
"So then that means that today is our unbirthday too." Vincent said.
"It is!?" the March Hare sounded delighted.
Akito and Estelle knew it wasn't their birthday, it wasn't Vincent or Alice's either...
"Is it your birthday?" Alice asked.
"I don't think so..." Felicity shrugged, she didn't seem to know her own birthday. "Let's celebrate though!"
"Oh, what a small world." the Mad Hatter smiled to their new friends.
"Sure is." Larvitar smiled.
"Well, in that case!" the March Hare smiled.
The mouse then peacefully landed in his teapot.
"That was amazing, right, Dinah?" Larvitar asked before seeing Dinah wasn't next to him. "Where'd Dinah go?"
The other Pokemon then tried to look for the cat. The kids praised the March Hare and Mad Hatter for their little song number.
"Now, uh, you all were saying you would like to seek?" the Mad Hatter asked the kids. "You were seeking some information of some kind?"
"Oh, yes, you see, we're looking for a-" Alice tried to explain.
"Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down! Move down! Move down!" Mad Hatter called out.
"But we haven't used our cups!" Estelle rebutted.
The March Hare and Mad Hatter ignored that and they still had to move down the table.
"This place has a lot of strange rules." Vulpix commented.
"You got that right." Teddy said.
"Now then, would you all like a little more tea?" the Mad Hatter offered.
"Well, we haven't had any tea, so we can't take anymore..." Vincent said as he tried to pour a cup, but he had a teapot that had no spout somehow.
"And besides, we're looking for a way back home." Akito said.
"Oh, is that what's troubling you?" the Mad Hatter asked. "Uh, won't you tell us all about it?"
"Start at the beginning." the March Hare instructed.
"Yes, yes, and when you come to the end, stop!" the Mad Hatter laughed a little.
"Well, okay then." Vincent said.
"Well, it all started when we were sitting on the riverbank with Dinah, Teddyursa, Larvitar, Vulpix, and Midreavus..." Alice started.
"Very interesting," The March Hare said before finding the feline's name attractive. "Who's Dinah?"
"Why, Dinah is my cat, you see..." Alice started to explain.
"Cat?" the mouse poked his head out, then saw Dinah looked hungry and started to chase him out of his teapot. "CAT!"
"Oh, there's Dinah." Larvitar smiled.
"Come here, I just wanna talk to you!" Dinah called as she chased after the dormouse.
The March Hare and Mad Hatter tried to chase after their mouse friend who was now shell shocked and terrified.
"Dinah, stop chasing after the dormouse this instant!" Alice told the cat.
Dinah had fun, but she stopped when she was told. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter caught their mouse friend and spread jam on his nose to calm him down.
"Whew, thank goodness, he calmed down now." Akito sighed.
"Sorry..." Dinah scooted backward.
Alice then took Dinah in her arms securely, giving her a firm look to warn her, but did not scold or harm her pet.
"Oh, my goodness, those are the things that worry me!" the Mad Hatter sighed.
"See all the trouble you started?" the March Hare scolded.
"But, we didn't think that-" Akito said.
"Ah, but that's the point!" the Mad Hatter defended. "If you don't think, you shouldn't talk!"
Alice frowned, she was about to drink the tea she was given, until...
"Clean cup, clean cup, move down, move down, move down!" the Mad Hatter called then.
"But we haven't even had a cup of tea!" Estelle told him.
"Move down, move down, move down, move down!" the Mad Hatter told her.
The kids sighed, but they moved down then as instructed and expected of them.
"And now, you children were saying?" the Mad Hatter prompted to get the story back on track.
"Oh, right, you were telling them about Dinah before the trouble happened." Larvitar said.
"Oh, yes..." Alice remembered then. "We were sitting on the riverbank with their Pokemon, and my, well... You know who..."
"I do?" the Mad Hatter asked with a chuckle.
"I mean my... C-A-T." Alice spelled it out so she wouldn't frighten the dormouse again.
"Tea?!" The Mad Hatter asked out of happiness.
"Just half a cup if you don't mind." the March Hare smirked, taking out a cup and cutting it in half with a knife.
The Mad Hatter poured him a cup, filling it, despite the cup being split in half now.
"We're very fond of tea, but-" Felicity spoke up.
"If you don't care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation!" the March Hare scolded slightly.
"Oh, for the love of peat!" Akito groaned.
"We've been trying to ask you-" Alice spoke again.
"I have an excellent idea, let's change the subject." the March Hare proposed before bonking the Mad Hatter on the head with a hammer like a judge's gavel.
The Mad Hatter then shook his dizzy spell. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Riddles? Um, why is a raven like a writing desk?" Estelle repeated of what he asked.
"I beg your pardon?" the Mad Hatter asked her.
"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Estelle repeated yet again.
"What is WHAT!?" the Mad Hatter gawked at her.
"She's stark raving mad!" the March Hare hid behind the Mad Hatter, pointing to Estelle while shivering.
"What are you talking about?! I was just repeating of what you asked." Estelle said to the Mad Hatter.
The Mad Hatter and March Hare backed up, finding Estelle to be rather threatening now.
"H-How about a nice cup of tea?" the March Hare offered, shaking nervously.
"A nice cup of tea indeed!" Estelle scoffed.
"We're sorry, but we don't have time." Akito added to defend his sister.
"The time! The time!" the March Hare called. "Who's got the time!?"
"No, no, no, no!" the familiar voice of the white rabbit returned as he stumbled into the mad tea party. "No time, no time, no time, hello, goodbye, I'm late, I'm late!"
"Okay, is this guy now just appearing wherever we go?" Vincent asked.
"Looks like it..." Vulpix agreed that it was strange.
"Oh, I'm so late!" the white rabbit sighed in despair. "I'm so very, very late!"
"Well, no wonder you're late," the Mad Hatter pulled on the clock around the white rabbit's neck. "Why, this clock is exactly two days slow!"
"Two days slow?" Estelle asked.
"Of course you're late," the Mad Hatter said to the white rabbit before dipping the watch into a teapot and slammed it on the table, removing the face. "Let's have a look!" he then used table salt as a microscope and pulled out the gears with a fork. "This watch is full of wheels!"
The white rabbit looked rather horrified. "Oh, my good watch, my springs!"
"Um, sir, maybe you shouldn't be messing around with that watch." Vincent said.
"Oh, nonsense, I'm a professional!" the Mad Hatter insisted. "Now, what do I need now?"
"But- but- but- but, but- but- but…" the white rabbit stuttered, anxious about his prized watch.
"Butter!" the Mad Hatter realized then. "Of course, we need some butter! Butter!"
"BUTTER!" the March Hare yelled in the white rabbit's shorter ear.
"Oh, butter." The white rabbit said, giving him a bar of butter.
"Thank you, butter, yes, that's fine!" the Mad Hatter chuckled, spreading the butter.
"Oh, no!" the white rabbit panicked. "You'll get crumbs in it!"
"Oh, this is the very best butter, what are you talking about?" the Mad Hatter scoffed.
"Okay, this guy is just crazy." Vincent said.
"I guess that's why they call him 'Mad Hatter'." Felicity replied.
"Tea?" the March Hare offered.
"Tea!" the Mad Hatter smiled as he then poured tea into the watch. "Oh, I never thought of tea, of course!"
"No, no, not tea!" the white rabbit protested.
"Okay, that's it... STOP!" Akito yelled.
"Sugar?" the March Hare then offered.
"Two spoons, thank you, yes, sugar!" the Mad Hatter, of course, agreed. He then took two forks of the sugar and included them in the watch mess.
"Oh, please, be careful!" the white rabbit grew overwhelmed.
"Knock it off!" Misdreavus glared at the Mad Hatter.
"Jam?" the March Hare now offered.
"STOP!" Estelle screamed and where everything seemed to stop in place.
Teddy clung onto Estelle as always. And where to their surprise, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare were the only ones that were frozen stiff as if they were frozen in time.
"Uhh... What just happened?" Estelle wondered as she held Teddy in her arms a little and he held onto her shoulders.
Teddy waved his paw up and down in front of the March Hare and the Mad Hatter, but they did not respond. This seemed like Estelle's opportunity to fix the watch with magic and hopefully the white rabbit would tell them where he was headed.
"What are you doing, dear?" The white rabbit asked.
"Fixing your watch for you," Estelle offered a smile. "It seems really important and special to you."
"Oh, indeed it is..." the white rabbit sighed a little, wiping a small tear from his eye.
"Well then, maybe after fixing your watch, you can tell us where you're headed while we walk with you or in this case, run." Estelle said, using her magic to clean and fix the watch.
"Oh, I don't know if I have time to explain..." the white rabbit sounded rushed again then.
"You can explain while we run, so then, you're not late," Estelle said as she was now finished fixing the watch with her magic. "Okay, it's fixed."
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, a thousand times-" the white rabbit smiled, then looked to his watch. "Oh, I'm late!" he then ran off.
"HEY, WAIT!" Estelle tried to stop him.
But unfortunately, he didn't stop.
"You're welcome!" Estelle called out. She then sighed that she didn't get to find out.
"Of all the silly nonsense, this is the stupidest tea party I've ever been to in all my life." Alice muttered.
"Shall we go after him?" Dinah asked.
"Oh, I don't care anymore, Dinah..." Alice sighed. "I think we should just go home."
"Yes, straight home." Estelle nodded.
The moment they left the Mad Hare and the March Hare were unfrozen. Once the March Hare and Mad Hatter unfroze, they then shrugged and continued to have their unbirthday celebration and mad tea party.