Heroes Adventure in Wonderland
Hello everyone this is my first MHA fanfic so please forgive if some of the characters aren't totally on point with the anime/manga. Just as a heads up this Alice in Wonderland style story has a much darker theme then the original book/movies. And has many mature themes such as mental physical and psychological abuse, blood/gore, extreme violence/murder, cursing, and so forth. Warnings will be given before each chapter for reader. If you don't like these themes DON'T READ! Anything said in this story is simply for entertainment and doesn't express my own opinions, and as such should be treated as a story! I've taken many different sources for my inspiration in this story and my Alice inspired OC. The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, by: Lewis Carroll, The two films by Disney made in 1951 and 2010. Along with an inspired game called Alice Madness Returns made by: American McGee. As usual I don't own MHA or any of its characters, themes, settings, or anything related to it as this is a work of fiction. All rights go to Kohei Horikoshi, please support his work. I only own the story plot line and my OC. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1: Izuku and the White Rabbit.
Third Person
A young 8 yr old Izuku Midoriya sat atop of one of the many benches scattered around the park. Tears pooling in his large green eyes and falling down in large droplets off his freckled checks. He wailed loudly as he sat, his cry's reaching all corners of the small park, though no one was around to hear him weep and no one would've care either. For in a world where people have incredible abilities known as quirks, who would want to pay mind to someone who doesn't have one?
Izuku has just finished a fight only moments ago, and obviously lost, as he tried to defend another child from his best friend turned bully, Bakugou Katsuki. Apparently the boy said something that set Bakugou off and Izuku tried his best to defend him from his ex friend and his two cronies. The end result was a very injured Izuku covered in cuts, bruises, scorch marks, along with dirt and grass blood all over his tattered clothing and body. While on the other end, with the boy Izuku tried to protect, he made a mad dash for an exit with not so much as a helping hand or a thank you, and he most certainly wouldn't be getting one later.
Meanwhile Izuku still crying his eyes out from not only his injuries, and failure but also his broken feelings. He didn't want to go home and see the worried and pitiful face of his mother, he didn't want to go to school and face Kachan again with his rude and threatening behavior, he didn't want to be quirkless! He just wanted things to go to the way they were before; Kachan being his friend and not his tormentor, his mother not alway looking at him with pity every time he fanboyed about heroes, for the time before he found out he was quirkless.
However the world isn't anything like a fairytale, and never will be. You can't just fix your problems by simply waving a magic wand and saying a magic word. You can't get a fairy god mother to grant all your wishes. You can't get a magic apple to help you fall in love. And you certainly can't live happily ever after, the world doesn't work like that, never has, and never will.
That is what a young Izuku Midoriya thought was true until on that very day, something quite magical happened that would not only change the coarse his life but also change his state of mind.
As he sat on the rough hard wood bench continually crying his eyes out and letting every last pent up emotion he held since he was only 4 yrs old, a very unusual feeling struck him in his very being almost as if something..supernatural was amist?
Then not too far from where he sat the bush began to stir and before he could even blink a flash of pure white dashed out from the bushes. Izuku subconsciously shut his eyes from whatever was moving so fast, the object even created a heavy air current that blew very hard for a brief moment. When he peeked one eye open he saw a very unusual sight, an above average size white rabbit with sky blue eyes bounding about in a circle, like it was lost or disoriented. However that was not the most unusual thing about this adorable pink nosed creature, it was actually wearing clothes! And to be accurate a cherry red waistcoat with a fluffy acoustic and a golden pocket watch dangling from a chain connected to one of the coats pockets.
Izuku looked on in amazement at the unusual creature and its attire, at first he didn't know wether to make heads or tails of what he was was seeing? He had heard that U.A had a principal who was an animal with a quirk, so maybe this was another case or maybe it was a really small person with rabbit quirk, so it had to be one of the two?
Meanwhile the white rabbit stopped frantically running around in circles and stopped only a dozen yards from where Izuku was sitting perfectly still entranced by the creature. It rested up on its hind legs like it was looking for something and then it grabbed the golden watch with its front paws and took a posture like a human, he flipped open the watch and immediately a look of pure fear consumed its tiny face! It then started to jump around sporadically while shouting in worried fear, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I'm late! I'm late! I'm very very late!"
Izuku was completely flabbergasted by the rabbits sudden human like mannerisms, speech, and British accent! He wanted to know more about this rabbit, who he is, where he came from, how can he speak, and what he was late for! He immediately hopped off the bench and began chasing the rabbit as it dashed away into the thickit, "Usagi-san! Wait a minute! Where are you going? What are you late for?", he called out to the rabbit, but got no response.
As the little creature frantically scurried about desperately looking around for something it was searching for, Izuku continued to run after the distressed creature as best as his small and mostly uncoordinated legs could while still calling out to it, with still no response to be heard. Suddenly the creature spotted a large grove of trees with a particularly large and ancient looking tree in the center of them all. The frantic animal made a mad dash for the grove while almost leaving poor Izuku eating its dust trail. Izuku followed as best he could until he saw the little animal dash around the large old tree and disappeared from sight. He followed around where the animal had ran to, but when he came to the other side he found that the white rabbit had vanished? He looked around for any clue as to where it could have gone, certainly a creature of its size couldn't just vanish? And even if it was moving fast Izuku could've seen it make a U-turn around the tree or saw a trail of disturbed soil, and it was certainly making a lot of noise particularly yelling 'I'm late!' over and over? So where could the white rabbit have gone?
He looked around for a bit, but like with a children gave up quickly, until his eyes fell upon a very large hole snug in between two of the large trees many thick roots. He walked over to the hole and standing just at its edge he peeked into it to see that the width of it was rather enormous! Izuku wondered if the white rabbit went down this large hole? But it could've have, could it? The hole was so large in fact it could easily fit a person not an above average sized rabbit! Though it definitely looked like a rabbit hole with the edges and body of the hole dug with claws and a rather uneven opening, not only that it was extremely deep! So deep that no light could reach the bottom to see it!
As carefully as he could Izuku bent over the edge and with his hands cupped around his mouth he shouted into the hole, "Hello!?"
'Hello Hello Hello?!', the hole echoed.
"Usagi-san?", he called again.
'Usagi-san Usagi-san Usagi-san?', echoes the hole.
"You down there?", he called once more.
'You down their You down their You down their?', echoes the hole once more. But no one answered his call.
Izuku knew when I give up and when he's had more than enough excitement for one day, and also knew standing at the edge of a dark hole was not a good idea! So with a dissatisfied sigh he turned around to shovel himself back home before his mother became too worried. Though before he could take one step forward he immediately felt the ground underneath him begin to shift! Izuku tried to react before he fell, but it was too late. The moment his muscles tents is when the edge broke apart and Izuku felt himself fall and let out a small scream!
Thought by some form of pure instinct the green haired boy reached out in a last ditch effort to stop his descent and grabbed hold of some of the grass in his small hands. However his hold only lasted a few seconds longer and the ground gave out on him once more sending him falling down the rabbit's hole!
The last thing to be heard was the echoes of the young green haired boy screaming, "MOMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
Izuku tumbled through the air as he descended deeper and deeper into the hole, he couldn't see anything, he couldn't feel anything, and the only thing he could hear were the sounds of his own terrified blood curdling screams! He continued his screaming as he continued his seemingly never ending descent into the deep dark rabbits hole! He twisted and twirled and swirled through the air like a rag doll with the agonizing feeling of an abrupt and painful stop zooming all throughout young Izuku's little body!
After what felt like an eternity of none stop screaming and falling, slowly but surely Izuku stopped his screaming and slowly began to open his eyes to see what was going on? Was he still falling, has he stopped, is he dead, was he daydreaming, is this some kind of dream? The answers to that are yes, no, definitely no, no, and most certainly no! When he finally opened both eyes fully he saw that he was still falling and the urge to scream in terror struck him like a truck, but immediately stopped when he began a coughing fit from all his prior screaming!
When he stopped he noticed that he had somehow stabilized during his decent and was now positioned belly down as he fell at an unprecedented speed! He looked up only to see darkness, when he looked down he only saw darkness, but when he looked at himself he could very clearly see himself like there was light coming from somewhere? He looked down a second time and actually started to see some kind of light radiating from below. Though that can't be right, you see light up when you fall down? Not the other way around, unless he was falling up? But that made even less sense?
Though Izuku didn't have time to figure this out as the light was getting bigger and bigger, and closer and closer. He truly didn't know how fast he was falling until he finally reached to source of the light, and he was moving fast! Because all around him was an entire plethora of different furniture imbedded in the walls of the tunnel! Tables and chairs, nightstands with lamps that glowed bright, shelves brining with books, dressers with clothing spilling out of them, paintings and other wall scoundings, instruments off all sorts like a piano that fell past Izuku at a faster rate than him, and assortments of other lights that seemed to turn on and off without warning, mirrors of all kinds that would seem to reflect him normally or anything from upside down sideways or inside out! Clocks of all shapes and sizes that all unrhythmically ticked all at once and struck different hours sounding off loud bells!
Between the lights, sounds, the weightless feeling of dread engulfing him, and zooming images of everything else all ramming into his tiny senses all at once incoherently, for a young Izuku it was absolutely terrifying in the most crippling way unimaginable! Izuku though he was in a nightmare, no way some torture hole like this could be anything but a fever dream! His big wet green eyes darted around crazily trying to find something that wasn't over flowing his senses to keep him at least semi-calm! But nothing did, it was like everything around him was trying to drive him to tears and more screaming! And that's just what it did!
Izuku covered his eyes as best he could and began to scream and cry as he tumbled through the air once more! "IT'S NOT REAL! IT'S NOT REAL! IT'S NOT REAL!", he screamed to himself as if trying to wake up from this horrible nightmare!
He screamed even louder with seemingly no end to his decent or waking up from this maddening experience! For whatever reason Izuku peaked through his eyes and in his already dilbilated state of mind thought he saw what looked like the bottom! Thinking this was it he shut eyes tight, braces for impact, and screamed his lungs out until everything around him went dark!
Izuku shifted around in a very comfortable position unwilling to move, it almost felt like he was laying on top of a really big, warm, extra soft marshmallow. The young boy slowly opened his heavy eyelids only to find that he was in a bed, but it wasn't his bed. It wasn't his normal child sized bed with all might sheets, sleeping with his all might action figure, and onesie! He was in a different bed altogether!
The bed itself was many times larger than his(especially for an 8 yr old), the frame was all metal curved into an old Victorian style frame. The mattress itself was an uncomfortable old spring mattress, but the many white, fluffy, and coushiny sheets, that Izuku slept on top of, were so thick it made it super comfortable and squishy. It was placed on the inside of what seemed to be a giant fireplace, why anyone would be a bed in a fireplace was beyond crazy?
Izuku slowly lifted himself off the fluffy white sheets and took in his current surroundings; he saw a tile floor with carpeting laying on top, the walls were made of dirt with the tile floor appearing to follow upwards until it hit a point were it was nothing but dirt, with certain articles and furniture imbedded into the walls.
One thing was certain in Izuku's mind, him falling down that rabbits hole was no dream! He knew full well he was awake, there was no denying that now. Then how did he survive? He looked around to see that the bed encompassed most of the fire place, and he was laying on top of the sheets, so he must've fell on the bed when he blacked out.
Young Izuku was grateful that he wasn't injured or worse, shaken up and exhausted by the experience but unharmed. The young body couldn't stay here for long, as inviting as the bed was, he had to find a way out of this hole and back home! He lifted his exhausted body up and carefully climbed to the side of the bed as it seemed to suck him in with its soft surface, he came to the corner and noticed the bed was set up much higher then he anticipated. He swung his legs over the side and tried to slide down but failed and fell on his butt! "Ouch.", he said rubbing the pain away.
He got up on his wobbly legs and began to look around for any sign of escape, but only found a little chair and glass tea table sitting in the open, along with a….DOOR! A DOOR! A WAY OUT! he thought to himself with glee!
When he actually got to the door he immediately flung it open only to find another door, only this one was a bit smaller. He flung that door open only to find another smaller door. At this point Izuku was getting a bit upset by this elaborate and annoying prank or design flaw. He kept flinging open door after door with each one only getting smaller and smaller, to the point where he thought he came to the final door!
However he failed to notice one crucial thing about it, it was only half his height if that. He might be able to fit through it, in theory, if he crawled?
The green haired boy reached for the handle but suddenly a loud yawn came out of nowhere! He jumped in place nervously looking around for who made that yawn, but then heard a voice, "Oh dear I must've dozed off again. What time is it?"
"Who said that?", Izuku asked?
"Down hear.", yawned the voice in a thick British accent.
Izuku looked down to the door to now notice it had a face! Two screws being the eyes, the key hole as the mouth, and the handle as the nose! "You talked!", exclaimed Izuku in bewilderment!
"Of course I can talk!", he spat back insulted! "Otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell such funny jokes. Wanna hear one?", it asked quickly changing temperament.
Before he even had the chance to reply the door began, "What's the difference between a giatur and a fish?", Izuku didn't have a chance to open his mouth before the door finished, "You can't tuna giatur!", he made a face like he was expecting heavy laughter, but Izuku only looked at him confused.
"What do you call an alligator in a vest?", Woody asked. "An investi-gator.", he made a face like he was expecting laughter, but only got silence from Izuku.
He tried again and asked, "What do you call a pile of cats? A meowtain.", again no laughter from Izuku.
"Did you hear about the hungry clock? It went back four seconds!", Izuku still stayed in uncomfortable silence and made a plain expression.
The door made a hissing sound sucking in air and said, "Yikes, tuff crowd."
"Can you please help me Mr. Door?", Izuku asked changing topics.
"Well that depends entirely in what it is lad, and call me Woody.", Woody replied.
"Do you know how I can get out of here Woody?"
"Well lad I'm afraid there are only two ways; you either go up the way you came or go through me. And you don't look to be able to go back up so I guess you'll have to settle for the ladder.", Woody answered.
Izuku looked up and saw that the top of the tunnel was enveloped in darkness, and there was no way of him getting back up! He turned back to Woody and asked, "Isn't there any other way?"
Woody shook his head( or whatever you would call it) and replied, "It's what I've told you or you stay right where you are and listen to my jokes for the rest of your life, particularly I preferred you take the ladder.", he said hopefully.
"Okay can you please open up please?", Izuku asked?
Woody sighed and grumbled something about not being appreciated and replied, "I can but first you gonna have to get smaller to walk through me."
Izuku was baffled by his statement and asked, "How do I do that?"
"Simple, all ya have to do is take a swig of that bottle on the tea table behind ya.", Woody answered simply.
Izuku looked at the tea table and chair behind him but saw no bottle on the top of it. "What bottle?", he asked?
"The one right there.", he replied and motioned back over to the table. Izuku looked back to the tea table and suddenly a little glass bottle appeared out of nowhere! The young boy left the door and went to the table and picked up the bottle to examine it, it was big as two shot glasses and had a flower engraved on the front with a cork sealing it shut, it was filled a strange purple liquid that almost seemed to glow a little, along with the cork was tag tied to it that read 'Drink Me'.
Izuku was almost ready to pop the cork and take a drink when he stopped and asked the door, "What if I want to be big again?"
"Well that's simple, all you have to do is eat one of the cakes next to you.", he answered like it was obvious.
Suddenly a little wooden box appeared next to Izuku who opened it to find some kind of oval crackers filling the inside, each one was a different color with writing on all of them that read, 'Eat Me'.
"Just remember, a little goes a long way.", Woody warned.
Izuku turned back to the door and asked, "How do I know this is safe for me?"
"Don't you trust me lad?", Woody asked, to which Izuku shook his head no. Woody groaned and rolled his eyes before saying, "Well you should! After all I am a Doc-door."
Izuku ultimately decided it was a bad idea to be eating and drinking things he didn't know what they were, especially if it was recommended by a talking door with a bad sense of humor. He left the table and moved back to the door asking, "Can't I just crawl through you?"
Woody scrunched up his face in deep thought and replied, "Well I suppose you can, you are small enough to do so, but first you have to unlock me with the key."
"What key?"
"The one behind you."
Izuku looked back to the tea table to see a little golden key glimmering on top. At this point Izuku was beginning to sense a pattern, that or Woody was just trying to mess with him. He huffed angrily stamping his feet on the ground and complained to the door, "I wish you had told me that a bit earlier.", he stomped over to the table grabbed it and stomped back to woody, but realizing how he was going to unlock him?
Woody must've saw this and reassured him saying, "Don't get cold feet now lad. Just pop the key into me hole and twist.", Wood then stood still with his keyhole mouth in the right position.
Izuku then popped the key in twisted it to the left and the door slid right open. The green haired boy got on all fours and began to crawl through the opening, almost immediately after a few second of crawling he could see light on the other side along with new sounds. Suddenly Woody called out from behind him, "Good luck out their son! You're going to need it!"
Suddenly the sound of a slamming door could be heard, Izuku looked behind him and saw nothing but a dirt dead end. 'No use in turning back now?", he thought to himself.
He then continued to the other side and what he found took his breath away!
Izuku crawled out of the hole and saw a scenery so beautiful, unique, and awe inspiring that it in the simplest of words possible, it stole his breath away! It was something of a cross between a forest and a valley; with tree, bushes, flowers, and mushrooms so large that it made Izuku feel like he had shrunken! Clear blue skies above with fluffy white and pink cloud that looked like cotton candy, crystal clear streams that trickled down rhythmically, it was all so surreal! The plants were also very unusual as not just for their size, but they looked very different; they were still green like anyone plant but their shapes all looked made up? Like something out of a child's mind, even the flowers and mushrooms colors looked like something had just decided to throw random colors together. Though in spite of all that they were still gorgeous without a doubt.
Soon Izuku began to think he was no longer in Japan anymore. As he continued to admire everything he saw a hole host of things that just didn't look natural; like enormous toys and game pieces that looked like they were apart of the environment, different kinds of sweets and baked goods were littered all around, some even growing from the ground. Drinks seemed to flow never ending from their respective containers and either pooling on the ground, forming a small pond or streaming down into a river, and some were pouring into their appropriate cups and never seeming to fully fill up. It was all so strange to young Izuku, like it was straight out of pure imagination or a fantasy story.
Even the animals looked completely made up; the birds, the bugs, the fish, even the little creature that ran on the ground! Some looked like relatively normal animals with different colors, some were too big or too small for what they were, some looked like a two or even three way cross of different species! Though the sounds and smells of this place made it feel like a perfect, serene, peaceful, paradise of imagination!
However reality jump started back into young Izuku's brain, and when he was done admiring everything around him he realized that he had no idea where he was or how to even get home from wherever here was? Now he no longer had a feeling of wonder, now dread and fear slowly started to creep its long clawed fingers up his body and into every fiber of his being! The awe inspiring area around no longer felt peaceful and serene, now it only felt creepy and ominous.
Izuku gulped at the thoughts and feelings rushing through his mind and body, though one thing remains true in his fear stricken mind, he had to find his way home and fast! The question was how to get out of here? He decided to just keep walking forward and follow the dirt road hoping to find somewhere or someone for directions.
And he did just that and he walked, and walked, and walked, and walked for what seemed like hours on end! At times he would come to a fork in the road or a sign with gibberish written all over it that seemed to point in every which direction. Though no matter what road he took what sign he followed or short cut he took through the forest, he alway seemed to be find himself in an all too familiar location every time. Seeing the same post signs, the same trees, the same roads, it was like he was going around in one giant loops!
Eventually he came to an all too familiar fork in the road and stopped when he got to the sign that hung in the twisted tree in between the forked road. He looked at the sign only to see the same exact gibberish that he saw the last 100 times. At this point Izuku was exhausted, scared, and on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
In his young mind he only saw one option remaining before he broke down and hoping someone would save him, and as loud as he could in a shaking voice he called out, "Mommy?! Kachan?! Anyone?! Help!"
But no one and no thing replied back it was just quite. Realizing no one was around Izuku slumped down on the old twisted tree and hugging his face into his knee he began to softly weep. He only got the chance to weep for a few moments before a voice called out saying, "So, you really can talk, hm? And here I thought you couldn't speak to begin with? But I really shouldn't be one to talk about talking, since I alway steal everyone tongue from their mouths."
Izuku's head shot up and he frantically looked around for the source of the voice! After finding no one around him he shouted nervously, "W-Who's their? W-Where are y-you?"
"Up here on the tree behind you.", said the mysterious voice.
Izuku looked up to the tree but only saw…..a tree, he looked to the left and the voice said, "Cold.", he continued to look to the left, "Still cold.", he looked to the right, "Warmer.", he continued to look to the right, "Warmer!", he then looked above the spot and the voice called out with glee, "Hot, you're on fire!"
When he came to the spot in the tree there was nothing their expect a very slight and thin warp in the trees branches. Izuku squinted at the spot and without warning a large toothy smile appeared!
"A talking mouth!", Izuku stated flabbergasted!
"Well of course a mouth can talk all mouths talk, just in different ways.", the mouth explained with a hint of malice in its voice.
"Then a floating mouth?", Izuku questioned?
"Have you ever heard the term, things aren't all that they seem to be? Well same goes here. Nothing is ever truly discounted, everything is connected to something no matter how big or small. And I'm certainly an exception to that. After all I'm not just some random floating mouth.", the mouth said as a pair of yellow eyes and dark grey stripes appeared out of the air! Then the rest of the creature filled in to reveal a very very unusual and unsettling looking cat that seemed to grin menacingly from ear to ear(looks exactly like the cat from Alice Madness Returns)!
"A talking Neko.", Izuku said in bewilderment!
"Neko?", the strange cat questioned? "If memory serves then that's one of the Asian words for 'Cat', and Neko hails from the island of Japan. So if I'm not mistaken you are Japanese are you not?", questioned the cat?
Izuku was a little unsure of the cats unusual speech and replied too quickly, "No. I-I mean yes! Yes I am.", he corrected himself.
The cat narrowed its eyes and replied in a scolding tone, "Think before you speak boy, otherwise you'll sound illiterate and uneducated."
"I'm sorry.", Izuku half mumbled in embarrassment.
"Now then, what's your name boy?", asked the cat?
"What you're name?", Izuku rebounded.
The cat put on a smile but his eyes showed annoyance as he replied strictly, "It's impolite to asked for someone's name when you've been asked first."
"I-I'm Midoriya Izuku.", Izuku replied in shuddered embarrassment.
"If my memory still serves, you Japanese folk use you last name in place of your first name for introduction. Am I wrong?", asked the cat?
"N-No. I-I mean yes!", he corrected himself. The cat seemed to smile menacing at his obvious distress. "Who are you?", the young boy asked?
"My apologies, allow me to properly introduce myself, I am the Cheshire Cat or Cheshire Puss as my given name. You can call me whatever works for you.", the cat introduced himself.
"Mr. Cheshire Neko, can you tell me where I am?", Izuku asked?
"Why, you're here of course.", he said with a devilish grin.
"No I mean where am I, what is this place, and how do I get out of this forest? I keep going in a circle? I want to go home!", Izuku said with tears welling up in his big green eyes.
"Finding your way home is something you'll have to figure out on your own. The reason you're lost is because you don't know you're way around, and no one has given you direction you haven't asked for.", replied the cat.
"I guess that makes sense, will you give me direction out of here?", Izuku asked?
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.", said the cat.
"Nowhere in particular-.", Izuku began until the cat cut him off, "Well then it doesn't matter where you go so long as you walk long enough to get somewhere."
"No! I mean I want to get out of wherever here is and to get out of this forest!", Izuku shouted!
"Well I can give you direction out of here , if that's what you're asking of me?", questioned the cat? Izuku rapidly nodded his head! "And as for this 'forest' as you call it, it's called The Vale of Tears.", explains the cat.
"The Vale of Tears?"
"Yes, The Vale of Tears.", sighs the cat. "Such sweet sours that wash away the salt of despair and bloom forth the growth of new emotions to take root.", the cat explained like a riddle. Izuku was mostly confused by his wording?
"As for where you are I can tell you quite simply.", spoke the cat in a menacing tone with a dramatic pause. "However it is not a matter of where or when you are, but rather why?", Izuku was still confused. "The world that you are in does indeed have a name. And it's name is Wonderland.", grinded the cat.