Chapter 2
Despite the noise the fall didn't hurt Becher at all. He rubbed his
forehead. This all seemed vaguely familiar to him somehow but he couldn't quite
remember why. He noticed the rabbit running down a long hall but at this point
he didn't care anymore. He'd managed to escape from his pursuers and discover an
entirely new place. This would be great. Maybe he'd live here. As long as they
had plenty of food and drugs Becher would be set. Maybe he'd even meet a girl.
Becher began to explore.
* * *
Meanwhile back at Nathan's house Nick, Steve, Paul, Eric, and Holly were
trying to figure out what happened to Becher.
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have yelled at him," Steve said sobbing.
"Don't worry Steve. It's not your fault," Holly said trying to console
him.
He began crying harder.
"Uh maybe someone should go get Nate. This is his house," Paul said.
"Good thinkin'. Go get him Stretch," Nick said.
Paul walked back to the house and went inside.
"So Nick where do you think he went?" Eric asked Nick.
"I've already figured it out. He fell down that rabbit hole over there.
It's an Alice in Wonderland type thing," Nick said.
"Well if you figured it out why didn't you say anything?" Eric
asked.
"Think about it. Its freezing cold outside and Holly's not wearing a
jacket," Nick said.
Eric thought about it for a minute then he looked at Nick grinning.
"SCORE!" they both yelled high fiving each other.
"This place is great!" Becher said out loud.
He truly was having a good time. After a while of roaming around he had
managed to find his way to a garden of some sort with mushrooms as tall as him.
He'd never tried 'shrooms before but he figured now was as good a time as any to
start. He tore a chunk off the side of one and bit into it.
"Whoa," he thought, "I must be trippin'. It feels like I'm
shrinking."
But little did Becher know that these mushrooms weren't any type of
narcotic and that he actually was shrinking.
"And who are you?" someone asked.
Becher turned around and looked up. Sitting on top of a mushroom was a
large caterpillar smoking a hookah.
"Dude! This place is cool!" Becher yelled.
He took another bite of a mushroom, which returned him to his normal
size.
He
climbed on top of the caterpillars mushroom and yelled "Get outta here ya stupid
bug!"
With
that he kicked it as hard as he could in the side and sent it flying through the
air. He sat down on the mushroom and popped the end of the hookah in his
mouth.
"Yeah,
coming here was sure a great idea," Becher thought.
He
closed his eyes and lay down. He sure would love living here.
Nathan, Paul, Eric, Nick, Steve, Holly, and John were now sitting in
Nate's basement discussing what had happened.
"G, tell me again how this isn't a complete rip off of my story," Nick
said.
"John's in this. Therefore it's completely original," Paul replied.
"Fair enough. But anyway, what are we gonna do about Becher?" Nick
asked.
"We've got to go down there and get him! He is probably scared to death!"
Steve yelled.
"Steve keep your voice down. I don't want my mom to hear us," Nathan
said.
"Don't tell Steve what to do!" Holly yelled.
"Whoa. Relax. We're all men here. But I do agree with Steve. We've got to
go down the rabbit hole and get Becher. It's our only choice," Nick said.
"Nick's right. Who knows what kind of sick things Becher's exposing the
innocent people of Wonderland too. We've go to go down there for their sake if
or no other reason," Eric said.
"So then it's agreed. We go down the hole?" Paul asked.
"It's our only choice G. But ya know Wonderland's a big place. We should
split into two groups so we can cover more ground," said Nick.
"Good thinking. I get to go with Steve," Holly said.
"Fine then. Steve and Holly won't last long in a fight so I'll go with
them. Eric and Paul have bags off food packed already so we get Eric," Nick
said.
"OK then. Let's go," John said with a hint of fear in his voice.
Truth be told they were all a little scared. They'd all seen Becher fall
down a hole but Wonderland was just a guess. I mean how many people past the age
of three actually believe in Wonderland anyway? It could be something much worse
and no one was really anxious to throw their lives away for Becher. But still
there was also the sense of adventure no one could resist. So in the end they
all jumped down the rabbit hole.