Author Notes: If there were some good things from Tim Burton's own interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, it's the Jabberwocky in addition to the Bandersnatch, the Jub-Jub Bird and Time.

In this chapter, I'll be adding characters from both the original Lewis Carrol Books.

Chapter 11: Jabberwocky


Donald was still in a state of shock as Goofy waved his hand around him. Sora on the other hand, was more pressed for answers.

"Heart of Imagination?...What does that mean...?...What does that mean for her?," Sora asked the caterpillar.

"A-E-I-O-U...and Y at times..., but for the sake of clarity for you...it's A-E-I-O-U...," the caterpillar hummed to himself, ignoring Sora. The smoke from his mouth formed the letters he was humming about.

"Who are you...?," the caterpillar suddenly asked the boy as the smoke formed a monocle as if he finally was paying attention to him.

"Huh?...I'm Sora...I don't wanna know more about me- I know enough of what I need to know. And you better tell me more on Alice...because I think you're wrong about that...right?" Sora replied slightly annoyed and slightly confused.

"This all has a point to everything. Alice was unsure, but she knows deep down who she is and her role..., but you who claim to be the person you claim to be...haven't the slightest inkling...I-N-K-L-I-N-G...to put it bluntly, you're the one with a greater enigma than she." the caterpillar answered in a snide manner. Sora was forced to be breathe in the smoke letters of INKLING due to the blue bug blowing it directly into his face.

"That's fine and all, but tell the boy what the Heart of Imagination is- and what it entails-," inquired Alice's "sister". She was standing to the side, somewhat irked by the caterpillar's lost track of thought.

"How can I say it any other way? I'm Sora...I got a mom at home...before it was gone...and then dad's never home...," Sora answered, a bit more introspectively than usual.

"That is certainly true..., but there is far more than what you believe it to be...From where I stand...you are unaware of what lurks in your heart...who lurks within your heart...," the caterpillar explained.

"Who...lurks within...my heart?," Sora asked in confusion.

"What do you think lurks in there? Explain yourself?," the caterpillar asked Sora again.

"What kind of explanation? Like there's another person inside of me that's ready to jump outta me?," Sora replied.

"I do not accept that simple answer- your inner darkness emerging like some Heartless, Nobody, etc...it's not that you have darkness from the beginning that grows or recedes depending on what sort of person you are... as with all other things..., but rather your existence itself came forth from darkness uniting with light...and from the combination...the entity that you are came to be...," the caterpillar explained to Sora.

Dinah looked at the sky and hissed, which caused Alice's "sister" to stare above in order to see what was the matter.

"Mr. Caterpillar...I see something in the sky. Something dreadful. We need to leave," said Alice's "sister" with a slightly more emotional tone.

"...Does that mean my dad's a bad man...and my mom fell for his act...and I'm only here for a selfish reason that he wants me for?," Sora asked in a more dozed tone of voice, the questioning was breaking down his stubbornness.

"It is not that confusing. It is not union of matrimony that I speak of..., but a union of amalgamation of two different outlooks on perspective.," the caterpillar answered again.

"...," Sora paused before trying to walk away.

"Wait, I have important to say.," the caterpillar said with urgency.

This caused Sora to turn around in annoyance.

"Finally, tell him what the Heart is. Or at least the creature that's about to-," asked the dark haired woman before sighing at what would come next.

"Don't follow one path over the other. Follow both paths, even if you must make shortcuts in order to switch from one to another. Becoming too narrow-minded means you're blind to what you become and would then yearn for the path not taken. If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you- you will become apart of the abyss, even worse, accept the abyss as the norm if it is under the guise of good intentions. Stray into light and shadow, yin as well as yang, but never into the abyss that both are spawned from.," the caterpillar detailed to the boy.

"Oh bloody hell...," said Alice's "sister" as she face-palmed in disgust.

"...I choose my path and I'm sticking to it no matter what. There's no way that light's ever bad. It's only when you fall to darkness is when you're bad.," Sora replied.

"Then you are doomed!," the caterpillar yelled out as he went from teal to purple with yellow sclera eyes with red pupils as he transformed into a butterfly in a purple puff of smoke.

"What makes you so sure about that-," Sora asked in annoyance.

"Because it isn't that darkness by itself makes one evil. One's own choices leads to whether one makes one a good heart of one an evil heart, darkness and light both have positives and negatives!...Curious, I've not seen that sort of being in-," the caterpillar replied as he turnt entirely red, speaking for one last time before he was suddenly squashed under the heel of a blackish draconic figure.

Before Alice's "sister" and Dinah could even move, they were incinerated by purple, lightning like flames.

Sora gasped in horror as he realized their deaths the moment he saw their ashes.

"Curiosity killed the cat...or in this case, the caterpillar as it became a butterfly. And in doing so, a cat has also been done in by his own curiosity.," said the Cheshire Cat as he manifested on the branch of a blue tree near Sora.

"Cheshire Cat!," Sora yelled as he noticed the striped feline.

"Gosh. What is that?," asked Goofy as he took a battle stance.

The Cheshire Cat began to sway back and forth as he began to sing slowly and eerily.


Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Gyre and gimble in the wabe

And mimsy are the borogoves

And the Mome Raths outgrabe...

Beware the Jab-Jab-Jabberwock.

The Jubjub and the Bandersnatch

Oh manxome and so frumious

With the big claws that catch

Beware the Jab-Jab-Jabberwock

That burbles in the Tulgey Wood

With eyes of flame he whiffles up

Little girls who won't be good

He's here, he's there, he's everywhere

So don't go out so uffishly

Look out! He may be hiding there

Behind the Tumtum tree

He's in, he's out, he's all about

He'll get you if you don't look out

That whiffling, burbling Jabberwock

Beware the Jabberwock!

He's here, he's there, he's everywhere

So don't go out so uffishly

Look out! He may be hiding there

Behind the Tumtum tree

He's in, he's out, he's all about

He'll get you if you don't look out

That whiffling, burbling Jabberwock

Beware the Jabberwock!

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves,

Gyre and gimble in the wabe

And mimsy are the borogoves

And the Mome Raths outgrabe!


The creature then landed as two large beasts slowly began to materialize on its right and its left side.

"Out of the residents in Wonderland, they're the most mad in the most unfriendly way..the Queen made them disappear, but Alice made them com back here...I've said all I can...Ta ta...," said the Cheshire Cat as he vanished again.

On its right was a huge vulture-like bird with black-red-white-blue feathers, a gold-yellow beak, a blue tongue, multi-colored crest of reds as well as blues, and reddish feet with claws. On its left was a gigantic canine like beast with a barrel chest and fore-paws that looked dexterous. It was covered in pale, shaggy fur with dark gray spots and had a flat, pug dog like face, with a wide mouth that had multiple rows of teeth and a long tongue. It also had a long tail; white eyes with red-pink pupils, black mouth gums, and clawed feet.

The creature itself in the center was a slender, huge, dragon-like creature with black skin, large wings with clawed hands at its tips, a black-purple frill-crest, a spiked tail and solid red eyes. Its head was vaguely fish like with two facial tentacles sprouting from the sides of its upper jaw. It emitted black smoke from its body. Two individuals were riding on its back.

"Oh no! Not those three!," Donald shouted, having come to his senses.

"What are they're?!," asked Sora as he then noticed the creatures.

"The Jub-Jub Bird, the Bandersnatch and the Jabberwock. That dragon guy's the worse outta the three! How'd it come back! I thought they were gone forever when the Queen erased everything about their existence. How?!," Donald shouted in shock.

"There's something about true terror. Attempt to repress it as hard as you might, but a primal fear will always find a way to emerge from the shadows of the subconscious and become tangible under the right circumstances. And there's nothing more treacherous than when such nightmares emerge a mentally insane person trying to be sane.," said the voice of Doom as he got off the Jabberwock. Sora then noticed Alice riding on the back of the monster, but she had an odd, placid look on her face like a doll.

"What did you do to her?!," Sora asked furiously.

The weasels that accompanied him emerged from the trees closest to the three monsters.

"Good thinking boss. Why waste our alliance's goods when this world has its own personal monster making factory.," said the weasel in the pink suit.

"She's not that! She's just a girl!," shouted Sora in response.

"There's no need to provoke them, Lieutenant. We can return to our base, wait for a few days, and come back here...come back when this world is nothing, but barren land to build our enterprise and every trace of what was, has been annihilated from existence. Then we can use her to do the same with the remaining flawed worlds. By the hands of one of their own. I think these three might enjoy experiencing the End of Days for this Wackyland.," Judge Doom explained coldly as he turnt around his body around without stepping in an unnatural way.

"Wonderland! Get back here! You intruders are gonna be in trouble when the King is done with ya.," Donald shouted as he charged a fire spell.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. It seems swell to judge from your castle of glass ruled by a usurper whose only right to the throne is a lie. And he's no King. A king rules through genuine loyalty and respect of his people and that of his neighbors. Call him what he actually is- an Emperor whose Empire is formed from his brutes shanghaiing entire worlds into his territory to go to these worlds when he wants something and yet depends non-intervention from those he's obtained. Or does he not know and is blissfully unaware of the legacy of his father?," Judge Doom retorted with a deconstructive, snide tone.

This caused Donald to swear profusely, but to due to his speech impediment, Sora couldn't make out what Donald was saying.

"Were you really coming for help to stop us from getting what we wanted out of altruism that he pleads for? Or was it to gain the alliance of the Queen in order to get her into the fold- to subvert her way of thinking as she's assimilated into the countless like-minded individuals the compromise this alliance? Or was it to get what she has to leave her to her fate? Or deal with the unneeded element in his ideal utopia? Why are you here?," asked Judge Doom to Sora.

Sora clenched his fist and summoned his Keyblade.

"I didn't come here for whatever you're saying. I just want to stop you guys from making what you made me go through and get back my friends. Once I do that- if there's no way to bring back what I lost- then I'll help them out- it's the least I can do. The first thing is save Alice.," Sora replied.

"You're a true hero then...Tell them what happened to the last batch of heroes who came just before this Avalanche group came? So he can learn from their example," Judge Doom inquired the green suit wearing weasel.

"Muerte.," he said sinisterly, which caused Donald and Goofy to become oddly quiet.

"What heroes...?," asked Sora.

"Listen up bub. You're not the first schmuck to try and get everything pheasant and quiet. I even know which did it in order. Lemme see...," said the pink suit wearing weasel as he pulled out a list from his pocket as he began to read. The other weasels snickered quietly as he read aloud.

"Aladar- some thumb spike big lizard raised by a buncha vermin. Aladdin- some street rat trying to rise up the ranks through the right connections. Ace- some four-eyed chicken that's always lying about everything. John Smith- lover of Natives even though his people screws over those people. Florian- prince of being average who kisses a dead dame. Prince Charming- loves a dame for a shoe - he bribes horses with carrots and kisses sleeping dames. Li Shang- military guy with cross-dresser fetish. Flynn Rider- charismatic thief with odd nose. Naveen- smarmy frog prince out for money. Eric- forces a dame that already likes people's utensils to leave her life and home behind. Kristoff- weirdo talks to reindeer. Peter Pan- green tights wearing man-child that looks like a kid. Taran- annoying red head with a disproportionate ego complex. Milo- gullible nerd that's too trusting. Edward- typical prince that's outta his depth. Hercules- Hero to Zero. Marco Diaz- boy that likes to dress up like a princess. Flynn, Ferb and Perry- nerdy kids and a platypus spy. Ron- the doofus out of his league that's a monkey fist-er. Wander- friendly orange thing that likes everybody. Pines- weird con family that deal with the supernatural. Basil- too smart for his own good detective rat. Quasimodo- the unpopular hunchback. Phoebus- disgruntled war veteran. Max- the not so Goofy dumbass-," the weasel detailed until he was forced to dodge a flung shield in shock. Goofy was strangely less goofy, but more icy cold with a hint of an intense fury.

"90% of the worlds' heroes felt like it wasn't right to wait in hiding as we plundered the worlds and left them barren. So they attempted to assault Hollow Bastion. It ended with our victory- due to knowing their weaknesses to exploit. And to finish the deed, we had them killed in every way you can imagine. And to prevent a resurrection, we had their souls dipped, wiped out of existence via the Infinity Gauntlet, wished out of any plane of existence via genie wishes and magic ruby slippers- etc. etc. They couldn't go the discus. Some of them couldn't even prove their own worth on their own two feet.," the weasel continued.

Goofy's brow narrowed, his eye twitching as he grabbed his shield from the ground and slowly walked back.

"The apple didn't fall far off the tree. At least the sire doesn't pretend that he's anything than an idiot-," Judge Doom said in a mean-spirited tone before Goofy smacked him with the shield, but the former blocked it with his hand.

"I didn't see your King or any of you join them. You're just complicit to their untimely ends as they are. Letting your son go to his death without stopping him is truly a tragedy.," Doom said harshly.

"Its your fault things escalated to this. We woulda just rampage with Heartless and take what we wanted. Now we gotta do it all nasty like.," said the weasel in the pink suit.

"I ask you this- Can you bring yourself to kill an innocent with dangerous capabilities? More fallen heroes that die without dignity.," Doom questioned the trio cruelty.

"Who's Max?! There were heroes before me?! How's are ruby slippers able to kill people?! Dang it! Those guys are using Alice for evil! And Alice made these things appear?! I'm so confused!," Sora shouted as he scratched his head in bewilderment.

"Nothing else matters. Just take down these things. They're the only truly bad things that naturally exist in this world! We can take care of the intruders later.," Donald snapped at Sora.

As Sora, Donald and Goofy prepared to fight the three monsters, another portal of darkness opened. Instead of Doom, it was an obese, bull-dog like black cat with a cream shaven muzzle and a purple/red outfit that consisted of a shirt and suspenders with zippers.

"You guys were taking too long. I'm gonna find the Queen of the Hearts while you guys deal with the brat and his friends.," said the cat as he ran in the direction of the Queen of Hearts.

"More trouble. Gosh darn it! This is the worst!," Donald complained as Alice's eyes glowed.

Suddenly from the ground, emerged humanoid figures shaped like chess pieces that were red or white in color, an eggshell with a human face wearing clothes, an armored, anthropomorphic unicorn, an armored anthropomorphic lion; an anthropomorphic sheep wearing shopkeeper clothing; an anthropomorphic gnat wearing a suit; an anthropomorphic fawn girl in a white dress; a man covered in white paper as clothes; an anthropomorphic, bespectacled goat wearing a suit; a pair of frog and fish footmen; an anthropomorphic horse in business clothes; a beetle in business clothes; a massive black crow; a military suit wearing eaglet,; an anthropomorphic, suit wearing lory; an middle aged lady cook; a large headed duchess; a duck dressed as a monk; a piglet dressed a baby; an odd turtle like creature with the head, hind-legs and tail of a cow; and a Gryphon.

"Even more aid, truly a usual ability. No one can save you now.," Judge Doom declared until he saw a blue puff of smoke with pink outlines appear.

Sora stared in confusion at the sight until a figure emerged from the smoke. It was a tall muscular blue genie with pointy ears, a hooked nose, a curly black beard, thick black eyebrows, a black ponytail with a gold bead that held it, one earring, dark blue pants, a red waistband, and a pair of red Arab-style shoes.

"Seems somebody read up on some Charles Dodgson material. Good mathematician. Look at 'em 37. 3's a magic number. 7's a lucky number. Means a lucky, magical future is awaiting ya!," shouted the Genie.

Everyone was either staring in confusion or dread.

"Tough crowd...Guess nobody's hunting for the snark- or Boojum in the room. Really devoid of laughs. Let's be honest, you're more interested in the more mainstream Lewis Carroll side of his work, the Alice two parter. I mean who wanna read about a story about a butcher that likes to kill beavers when one of his crew is a beaver?." said the Genie as he turnt into a beaver version of himself.

This got a snicker out of the weasels.

"Who's this weirdo?," Sora whispered to

"He's a freelance Genie with semi-phenomenal cosmic power.," Donald explained before whacking Goofy on the back of the head.

"Don't be a sour puss. No sad faces!," Donald said to Goofy as he made a goofy face.

This caused Goofy to cheer up slightly.

The Genie's appearance caused Doom to open a portal of darkness for his minions to retreat, with Pete having long since left the general area.

"We can take care of Pete. You work with your new buddy. No complaining!," Donald said as he dragged Goofy in the direction where Pete was hiding.

"So you came here to help us? Because the King asked?," Sora inquired.

"...Sigh...I lost my home...no big deal...that's something I fix with some help..., but losing Al...that's a hard pill to swallow...the lil' guy didn't deserve what happened to him...," the Genie said in a more serious and saddened tone.

"I got it! If you're helping me to stop them from taking down worlds and people. Then I'm glad to have you on my side!," Sora said the Genie with a thumbs up.

The Genie did a thumbs up in return.

The two then faced the summoned creatures, with Alice looking emotionlessly at them.

"A Djinn and a Keyblade wielder...," the Jabberwock spoke in a deep voice, much to Sora's surprise.

"You can talk?," asked Sora in surprise.


Next Chapter: The Wonderland arc concludes with a surprising twist.