As Henry sat in the silence the only thing that started to chat in his brain. He wanted to know why Alice just suddenly snapped all of a sudden at his questioning. She's never really shown anger much and if she ever did then she hid it too well. Deciding to get up himself to see where his fried is going Henry gets off of her bed and starts looking around the room. The room was plain in itself aside from a few knick knacks here and there. Opening up her closet Henry finds that there are an assortment of dresses there including the dress that she wore to Neal's birthday ball but instead of being ripped it was sewn up nicely. Thinking back to Alice's stitching it did make a lot of sense that she was good or at the very least decent at sewing. Considering her ability to fight with just using wrist-knife-cuffs most of the time she must get clothes ripped often.
Moving on to the dresser Henry once again finds nothing but feels his wound start flaring up again. "I thought it was a shallow wound!" The shirtless teen mumbled.
Going back to the bed he sprawls out onto it looking over the wrist cuff and being left alone to the world.
"I thought I told you to never come back," The Queen of Diamonds tells Alice her voice quiet as it always has been. It was harder for the girl to hear the woman due to the literal buzzing in her head. Ignoring it she replies with, "I know what you said but the King of Spades is attacking the Charming's castle. I need your help to save them." "Didn't I also tell you to not create any more ties with people that you have never met before?" She asks again. "I know but-" "And you lost your left cuff too. I told you not to lose even one of them or something bad will happen to you." "I know," Alice spits out her voice growing angry "I gave I to my friend who I basically dragged into all of this so least I could do is give him some protection!"
The large room grows silent at your emotional outburst. "Well it's worse than I thought it should ever be," The Queen of Diamonds says getting out of her throne and walks over to the teen whose clad in a blue dress and black heels whose basically having a meltdown. "How are the voices?" She asks putting her hands on the girls' shoulders. "They're buzzing. They want to come back," Alice mumbles. "You're willing to go back to that insanity for people? That's quite interesting," The Queen mused quietly.
"Very well I will send my army; if the King of Spades does have that Jabberwocky you do know that you're the only one that can use the Vorpal blade and not lose your sanity, correct?" The Queens words were met with a nod. The Vorpal blade has many secrets to it and just because it's a twisted old sword doesn't mean that I isn't dangerous. No one knows how it was created in the first place but killing a Jabberwocky is dangerous in itself but the blade puts pressure on the sanity of the user because of its deadly ability; essentially it could cause the user to kill more than just the Jabberwocky and itself.
"Fine I'll-I'll do it just help them," Alice urged. With a flick of her wrist the Queen of Diamonds sent her army off and out of Wonderland to the battlefield. "Join us when you are ready, just do not take more than a day." The Queen advised and left in a cloud of white.
Turning around herself Alice made her way out of the grand castle trying to just focus on getting back and apologizing to Henry. "Never thought that I'd have to apologize," She mumbles going back into the woods.
For the past few hours Henry himself was just looking at the cuff that his friend stuck on his wrist. Looking over every last detail of it. The cuff felt smooth on his wrist but on the outside it was slightly bumpy and Henry couldn't even find how to release the knife from the weapon. "How does she make this thing work?" He mumbled to himself. The entire time that he's alone it's just him making quiet mumbles every now and then from something that he figured out..
"Henry?" A female voice-Alice calls running through her house and bursts into the room. "Oh good you're still here," She sighs out. "Alice what's wrong?" He asks cooking up towards his friend. "Help is coming for your family," She says sounding off, unemotional. "That's good," He breathes out ignoring her oddness. "Umm Henry can I…" She trailed off leaving the unfinished question hanging in the air. "Oh…yeah," The boy said in understanding and slid off the wrist cuff and dropped it in Alice's hand. "Thanks," She says with a sigh of relief as she slides it back on her left wrist.
"Since there's a Jabberwocky there I'm going to have to head back to the battlefield,"
"Well I'm coming with you-"
"-Not possible it's too dangerous,"
"Then why are you going?" Henry argued; he saw the sadness and worry in his friends eyes and regretted his words that came out icy. "Look I'm sorry I just-" "I just worry about you Henry alright? Look I get I'm a little bit accident prone but trouble always comes to find you." She tried to reason. "I'm coming with you," He determines as if he was going to win this arguments. "But Henry-"
"-No buts let's go." So he did win the argument. "Fine just have you seen a twisted blade anywhere?"
"Yeah it's in the closet." Henry offers. He saw it in the closet while he was looking through it but the twisted old blade he had barely taken note of. Walking over to her closet Alice opens the door and takes out the blade her double swords no longer on her person. Along with the sword she grabbed a pair of new clothes and walked off into the other room in silence.
Henrys thoughts kept wurring in his head.
Minutes' later Alice walks back I the room with the Vorpal blade slid in another thick belt. Her long hair is pulled up into a braided bun with sharp metal bobby pins holding her dyed brown hair up. She's wearing pure black pants with one giant white diamond on her mid thigh; the boots she's wearing is the normal knee high black leather ones. Her top looked like leather and is also black but it had her left shoulder to her finger tips with silver armor.
"C'mon Henry," She says sighing throwing a T-shirt at Henry who quickly put it on and put back on his armor. "Ok so how are we going to get back?" He asked having a feeling that he already knew. "Like this," She answers grabbing her friends wrist and letting her own signature light blue cloud wrap around them. "And why were you wearing a dress earlier?" He asks slightly teasing her "I was at a tea party," She replies as the blue covers their vision.
The first thing that the duo hears is screaming and the unmistakable sound of the Jabberwocky. "Let's do this." The boy said with an air of confidence being replied with, "Just don't get yourself killed and we'll be fine." Being concerned with her friends side wound she was worried for him. The second they saw the battlefield hey split up, Henry trying to help fight off the Spade soldiers and Alice making her way to the monster.
"Hey Jabberwocky!" She yelled at the top of her lungs getting the monster to come for her swinging his claws down. Blocking with the Vorpal sword Alice became on the defensive instantly. Henry on the other hand immediately started fighting the Spade soldiers with people with the diamond symbol printed all over them started to fight. Some of the Diamond soldiers would help the fallen and pick up the deceased while most fought against the common enemy. "Henry!" Someone grabbed said boys wrist and brought him into an embrace. "Wha-mom?" The teen asked out of confusion. "It's me kid," Replied the blonde hitting the enemy soldier and knocking him down.
"Come on, let's get you back to the castle," Her response was a simple no. "And why not?" Emma demanded feeling her hair mat to her face from both sweat and blood. "Because when Alice kills the Jabberwocky this battle will be ov-" "-The battle may be done but the war is just starting and we don't know how many Jabberwockies there are!" Agued the older woman cutting off her son. She didn't just stop but continued with, "There isn't a when Henry she could leave in second in her puff of blue smoke and leave us all for dead the second she realizes the Jabberwocky can't be killed."
"She won't leave mom,"
"And how do you know that?"
"Because she hasn't left yet!" He shouted back on this battlefield. The male refused to give up on his friend and he is determined to not leave her behind by going back to the castle. The second the words left Henrys mouth a piercing screeched ripped through the air and all battle ceased with all eyes turned to the Jabberwocky and the sixteen year old on its back.