A/N: Yeah, you got another update after only three days, yeah, I am that awesome, and that lazy with not doing my homework, I've been bsing everything for the past week :D little kiddies, do not follow my example, school is very important and you should always take it seriously MDR, Mourir De Rire, basically the French equivilent of the American LOL, yeah I was talking to a French exchange student today for like two hours today. Anyways, who's going to see Avatar tomorrow? I definitely am, woot, I've been wanting to see this since the first trailer started playing on tv.
EDIT: Sorry, I just realized, I didn't give any thanks to the people who reviewed/favorited/alerted, well, since it's only been three days, only one person has reviewed, and that is the ever faithful Jhinra, let's give her a round of applause(*super loud audience applause*) and guess what else, you get, a brand new virtual, CAR.
WARNING: ,it'savirtualcarit',.
Anyway, enough of me in real life, this is where you get to know some more about Hare, and OMUP(Oh My Ultimate Power), I cannot wait until chapter fourteen, because I just finished writing it and it is so intense, oh my gah, we learn something SUPER important about Cat there, and it's actually kinda sad what we learn, but it's so awesome in my opinion and it's just gah!(throttles imaginary stuffed toy) Ignore me and my spazattack, just read.
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"Cat!" Alice shouted, not quite knowing why she had decided to hug Cat or was so happy to see him, but she just knew she couldn't be any happier than she was now.
"Yes, it's wonderful to see you as well." Cat replied sarcastically while peeling her off of him, "But we need to get going." and he approached the cell door, kneeled a bit to examine the intricate lock for a moment before he stood back up, "Get out of the way." he told Hatter and Hare, who quickly moved to the side as Cat then kicked in the cell door, making it crash through the wall, where a very large hole now appeared, quite more than large enough for all of them to exit through, and a tree was conveniently located right outside it. "We have to get going, Aaron is coming for Alice, and if he sees the chance, then he will kill you two as well." Cat told them all, as he tried to get them out the hole as quickly as possible.
"It's a bit late for that, Cheshire Cat." a new voice interjected, that made fear rise in Alice's spine, she turned to see Aaron Earsten less than ten feet from where they already were, merely staring them down, "Now then, I could care less about you or the fugitives, but just hand over the Princess Alice and everything will be fine."
"Then she is the Princess?" Hatter asked, looking at Alice in a new light, and this notion rather confused Alice, sure she had come to the castle in the first place with intentions of finding if she was indeed the Queen's child or not, but it was still very confusing to hear this nonetheless.
"Of course, I wouldn't bring someone from a completely different world unless she was, and obviously, you already knew who she was, didn't you Cheshire Cat?" Aaron asked having now pulled out some gun like weapon made of the same material as the walls in the courtroom.
"Of course." Cat replied, "I wouldn't have been a very good guard if I couldn't recognize my charge after only ten years." and he flicked his wrists quickly and from somewhere in his sleeves emerged strange little circles with daggers all along the edges, along with a pressed down top hat, he tossed it to Hatter, "There you go, now if you might help by leading these two out." and with that he pushed Alice along towards Hatter and Hare, before suddenly flicking one of his chained circles in front of them, deflecting the bullet that had been aimed at Hare, "Are you really willing to kill your own cousin just to get the Princess?" Cat asked Aaron.
Aaron scoffed, "That sort of pathetic thing, can't possibly be related to someone as great as me; now give me the girl, or else I might be late for a very important date."
"You mean so you can hand her over to the Queen so she'll be killed?" Cat asked, deflecting another of Aaron's bullets, "Just like was planned that night so long ago?"
"Oh come now, you knew the plan too, if Justin Time had actually killed his brother like planned, then we wouldn't be having this problem, Mark would be dead, we'd have killed Alice, and the Queen would remain all powerful while the both of us had high positions in court." Aaron told him, and then turned to glare at Alice, "But instead, Mark had to stumble into the room, and you wanted to help him, so annoying you were, ordering us to help him." Aaron then turned his scowl back to Cat, who was still on the guard despite the fact that Aaron had his gun down, "And you, we could have gotten the job done and over with while we were there, but instead, you suddenly developed a conscience, in all the years that I had worked with you, you decided then to get one, whatever happened to the Cheshire Cat I knew, the one who could take down nine in one strike by the time he was six, what happened to him, what too good for mercenary work now?" he shot five or six shots at Cat, who was able to either dodge or deflect them all.
"Nope, just decided I didn't want to be like you." Cat replied, flicking one of his chained circles at Aaron, who easily dodged it.
"Hah, think you can beat me, really Cheshire Cat, I was the one who taught you how to use that, there isn't anything you know that I don't already." suddenly a sickle like weapon went straight at Aaron's head, if it wasn't for his quick reflexes, he would have gotten much more than a cut on his cheek.
"You might have taught him, but I bet you didn't even know I could fight." Hatter told Aaron, as the sickle like weapon came back into his top hat by a chain that connected the two.
"Hmph, I admit I did not know that, but I think I'll more than manage against you." and he shot the gun again, this time at Hare and Alice, both the sickle and Cat's dagger circles blocked the attacks, but Cat was wide open when another bullet came at him, he barely had enough time to move enough to protect his vital organs from being hit, but now he had one useless arm. "Well then, looks like your chances were just cut in half." Aaron told them, "But, if you hand over Alice, then I'll make sure to kill you quickly, it might be painful, but it's better than what the Queen would make you go through, well, what's your choice?"
Cat was glaring daggers at Aaron, when the white haired man suddenly fell forward, his face landing right on the ground with an ugly thump, behind Aaron stood, of all people, the King, with a gun not at all unlike Aaron's, although there was no wound anywhere on Aaron's back. The King looked down at Aaron for a while before turning back up to them and saying, "I've wanted to do that for longer than you could ever possibly imagine."
"Your Majesty, um, thank you." Cat replied, still on the guard, since he still wasn't sure of the King's plans.
"Well then, I suggest you take my daughter and get going, I'll cover up here." he replied, and then pulled Aaron up a bit and made him lean against the wall in a slouched position, after that he approached Cat, "Now, your weapon please, I need to make it look like I was helping him and not you lot." Cat nodded and instead stabbed the King in the shoulder for him, he grimaced in pain and he dropped the gun he had been holding, but said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Cat replied as he removed the weapon from the King's shoulder, the wound began to bleed heavily, and suddenly Alice stepped forward.
"Then, then I am your daughter?" Alice asked.
The King smiled sadly, "Yes, Alice Mary Elizabeth Heart, I knew it the moment I saw you, be thankful your mother cannot realize such things so easily." he patted the top of her head with his other hand and kissed her forehead. "Now go with them, be safe, because the day will come, when your mother falls from her throne, and you will have to become the new Queen of Hearts." he hugged her with one arm and Alice hugged him back fiercely, crying at the thought of having to leave this father, that she had just barely met, already, then he pushed her towards Cat, "If I find out that any harm has come to her, damn the consequences, I will kill you." he told Cat with a stern face.
"I do not doubt that." was Cat's reply, before pulling Alice on top of his good shoulder and then jumping out of the hole in the wall, Hatter and Hare followed after them, and once all four were down, Alice felt that familiar pulling and pushing sensation that she had only once before felt.
The group appeared at the clearing that Cat had taken her to before when escaping from the Jabberwocky, it was still full of green grass, the waterfall still fell upside down, and the same pretty flowers, were now singing a different song that Alice could not understand the words of.
"Well, now what?" Hatter asked Cat, who had approached the water and was now cleaning his wound.
Cat was still for a while, his tail swishing slowly before he answered, "I'm not very sure."
Hatter blinked at Cat, once, twice, three times before sighing and dropping his head into his hand, "You broke two fugitives out of their trial, you've re-kidnapped the Princess, we've attacked the Queen's esquire, you attacked the King, and now you've agreed to help him in his plan to overthrow the Queen and put Alice, who has no training to be a queen by the way, on the throne once her mother falls, and we have absolutely no plan; brilliant, abso-fucking-lutely brilliant, I suppose we should hide in a cave in the Volcanic Plains, now shouldn't we?"
"Hm, they would never think to look in the Volcanic Plains." Cat mused aloud in a voice that said he was seriously considering the idea; as he now wrapped his wound in gauze that he had in a small first aid kit that he carried with him.
"You do know I was joking, right?"
"Yes, but it was a good idea nonetheless."
Cat and Hatter continued to argue in this way, Hatter getting more and more fired up while Cat merely remained calm, and during this Hare and Alice were instead seated off to the side, watching the argument like a tennis match, even the flowers had stopped their singing to watch the fight. Alice yawned and Hare did as well, so they leaned on each other and fell asleep like that, somehow able to do so even with Hatter yelling loudly at Cat.
"You should be quiet, you'll wake them up." Cat told him, gesturing at Hare and Alice.
"Hare could sleep through a tornado, and he actually has, and if Alice hasn't woken up by now, then she's as heavy a sleeper as he is." Hatter replied, looking at Hare with soft eyes, he then sighed, "We need to at least find somewhere safe for them to sleep."
"Why do you think I brought us here, this place isn't even supposed to exist." Cat replied, "I mean we might be in Wonderland, but have you ever even heard of a green waterfall?"
"True, but where is this then?" Hatter asked, looking about himself suspiciously.
"This is one of the Princess's private play rooms, no one else but the King knows about them, and only people she trusts are allowed in them in the first place." Cat explained, "I'm still not very sure how it works, but that's as far as I've figured out."
"So what, we're going to live here for the rest of our lives or until the Queen finally dies?" Hatter asked.
"Of course not, once the search for us has cooled a little, then we're going to move." Cat replied, "We'll go to a small village I know of, it's about two weeks' travel from the castle, but much sooner if we can time our leaving right."
"What?"
"Well, this place isn't always in the same place, only the flowers know where we are all the time, and we have to wait until the flowers sing the right song before we can move." Cat explained further, "That's how Alice left this world."
"You mean, while you weren't paying attention, she left and somehow entered a completely different world?"
"Yes, and this place never stops in the same location twice, that's why we have to be very careful and always listen to the flowers, or we might miss our stop."
Hatter sighed, "Alright, but then, what do we do about food?" Cat then brought out a spare, long dagger, struck the water with it and brought out four fish stabbed on it, "Ok then, I guess I'll get started on a fire."
They then began to make the fire once Hatter had gotten enough sticks from the surrounding area and began cooking the fish once it had started, Hare and Alice woke up shortly before the fish had finished cooking.
They were all silent as they ate, before Hatter decided to break it, "Since when were you related to the White Rabbit?" he asked Hare.
Hare looked up, as though trying to recall before answering, "I should think, since I was born." this earned him a glare from Hatter, "Ok, well, I used to work with Aaron, after my parents died, but I was just a medic, I didn't actually fight, and I left him about a year or two before I met you." Cat nodded his head in agreement to Hare's story; although Cat had had no contact with Aaron or Hare before getting Hare and Hatter out of jail, for whatever reason, Hatter believed Cat when he nodded his head.
"Ok, I just feel sorry for you, having to be related to an ass like that." Hatter replied.
Hare stared at him, calmly eating his fish, before asking, "Are you sure you're ok?"
Hatter seemed to know exactly what Hare meant by that, because he replied, "My brother killed our parents, almost killed me, and stopped my sense of time, but he was still my brother." he was quiet a while longer before setting his fish to the side and walking off to lay against a tree and sleep, Hare then set his own food aside and sat next to Hatter, before again falling asleep on him.
Cat sighed and continued eating with Alice, who was finally feeling hungry for possibly the first time in her life, "And what about you?" Cat suddenly asked, making Alice jerk her head up to stare at him, "Are you, feeling ok?" he asked awkwardly.
"Well, I suppose I am." Alice replied, not quite sure what she should be feeling in the first place, in all of one day she had just helped catch a murderer, clear someone of kidnapping charges, saw a weapons fight, was almost killed, met her real father, who had apparently knocked out the person that planned to lead her to her death, found out her real mother wanted her dead, discovered she was really a princess from a completely different world, helped in the escape of two fugitives, was currently hiding from the law, and was extremely hungry at that point.
"Alright then." Cat replied, before suddenly standing up and climbing up a tree to either keep watch or fall asleep in the branches, Alice wasn't sure but for some reason felt it might have been the first excuse.
Alice too decided to try and sleep again as well, she hadn't been doing much of that as of late and really needed some more of it, so she settled next to the flowers, who started singing some lullaby, that although she had never heard it before, it felt extremely familiar to her ears and she fell sound asleep to the sound of it.
A/N: Yeah, I bet you people weren't expecting that from the King, now were you? If you were, please try to refrain from telling me and let me delude myself into thinking I'm a good writer. You know, I really love writing any arguments that Hatter and Cat have, they bicker so much and I love the way they do it, it's fun to write. Oh, also, some of you might still be confused about Hatter and Hare's relationship, so let me put it like this, they are in a relationship, so that does make Hatter a pedophile,since in Wonderland you're a minor until you're eighteen, although he's not a pediphile in the sense that he and Hare had any sexual relations, but you see, in Wonderland, you are convited for that crime so long as you have a relationship of any romantic sort with a minor. Thank gosh that since this Wonderland is a product of my imagination, I can make the laws and court work however I want, or else I would have had a load of trouble with that last chapter.
Anywa, glad you read this :D RER, Read, Enjoy, Review, see the review button is right there, just suggesting though, pushing you to click it or anything .