Alice struggled, bit, kicked, and clawed at her two obesely fat tormentors who dragged her ever closer to the Stygian Hell that she had fought so dearly to escape the last time. Unfortunately there was a cosmic injustice at work, where in Wonderland she had gained the strength to fight her oppressers, in the Earth she was a woman who spent the majority of her life comatose.

"Come now there Dearie! Don't you struggle or we'll have to HURT you...." The tiny bodied Theodore accented as he grabbed Alice by the hair and pulled hard, a locke of it coming out by it's roots.

"Girl nice...." Todd as the obesely fat Giant smelled Alice and she visibly wretched from the drunken stink of him.

Alice felt herself shoved into a straight jacket even as Theodore blocked a kick with his hand that would have sailed straight to his manhood. Nevertheless there was a painful look on his face that gave the Wonderland heroine a sense that she'd broken his hand.

"Bitch! You'll pay for that one! Todd hold her straight!" Theodore cringed as he pulled out something from his back pocket.

"I am not insane you bastards! Get your hands off me!" Alice knew it was futile to resist Todd's strength as he nearly crushed her in a hug. The stupid ox was just as strong as one but this time she wasn't dealing with the demons of the Red Queen and wasn't going to tolerate their loathesome touch anymore.

"Sure luv we hear that one all the time. Don't worry we've got an especially nice cocktail cooked up for you this time. We've missed ya but don't worry we haven't had too many between your leaving...." Alice heard Theodore's words as she saw the hypodermic needle that squeezed forth droplets of the hated chemicals which had kept her in the nightmare even at her strongest moments.

"NO!" Alice threw Todd over her shoulder with every ounce of strength in her body even as the needle sunk into her neck and she felt the chemicals start their rush through her body. Pulling back her hands for a punch to his face she felt her knees give out and her body collapse to the floor.

As blood poured out of the young woman's nose she could barely whisper a vow she had kept close to her heart since she had left the prison of her mind and had driven to the dark recesses of her soul. "I will kill you for this..."

As she fluttered her eyes and fell deep into the oblivion that engulfed her once again in her own personal Fairy Land.

***

Alice spun around clawing at the air when she felt the feeling return to her hands and her legs. She didn't want to think about what the twins were doing right now to her body but to concentrate on that sort of thing in the world she was dwelling in was to risk the insanity returning.

"That's assuming you were ever sane to begin with or that the men were. Perhaps those that embrace the fact that the world is utterly meaningless are the only one's who are in fact truly well," the voice came from behind her as she turned around and discovered she was in a duplicate of her old house. The house was twisted though like everything she encountered was. The books were blood splattered, the floors covered in marks from unmentionable creatures, and the flowers in the pots were dead. Sitting before a fireplace that contained a vertible inferno she saw a figure that she had never seen only once in her life before. He had been asleep underneath a tree and the warning given her wrung strongly in her mind.

'If ever he awakens then you would go out...like a candle..or a dream,' Alice took in a breath as the figure arose.

"I'm still alive though. You're the Red King." Alice said as she pulled out her vorpal sword and held it before him. He wasn't what she expected at all. The child underneath the tree dressed in adult's clothes was a baby fat innocent but the man before her was slick, haunted, and handsome in his own way. His robes were tattered and torn with the unmistakable smell of the grave about him. It was his eyes though that haunted Alice for they were so like her own.

"And you are the White Queen. I am not awake though Alice so your life has not yet ended. In Wonderland I dwell in an eternal slumber just as I dwell in the realm of man in an eternal dream. The only place I am awake Alice is in you," the Red King spoke as he opened his hand and pulled forth a red ruby locket with sparkling diamonds about it forming the chain.

Alice felt weak in the knees as the object was placed around her neck and felt like a weighty chain. Pulling her sword up she pressed it to Merriweather's heart and looked him in the eyes. "You killed my mother, you killed my father, and you've driven all those children mad. You drove me mad."

The Red King's grin was exactly like the Cheshire Cats and Alice felt very cold. "You are right. I did slay your parents and the parents of many others. I killed my own parents Alice when they drove me into a coma along with aunts, uncles, and even cousins. Who knows what my power is wrecking on now on the mortal world. A whore who hears the growling of the Cheshire Cat that enough is enough and stabs her pimp to the Prussian General will hear the voice of the Red Knight and decide that it is time to knock down the nobility that keeps him oppressed. As I grow older Alice my powers are growing stronger and my control weaker. Perhaps it will lead the entire world into complete and utter chaos eventually."

Alice spun around her vorpal sword to cut the mans head from his body.

"Take your vengeance Alice for my hands are not clean. You were stronger than I in escaping the torments of my demented mind, stronger than all the othes who were my playmates. Know this though before that I pass into the darkness that your fear, horror, and despair have sustained me for the way you have slain it has kept what little remains in me human," The Red King bore his neck to Alice.

'Kill him Alice,' The Cat's voice whispered in her ear.

'His death is too long coming!' The White Rabbit's spitting tone hissed in her other ear.

'OFF WITH HIS HEAD!' the Red Queen's screamed in her mind.

"AHHHH!" Alice slashed down the sword onto the nearest table where it split in half through the chessboard that rested on it. The white and red chess pieces scattered together on the ground while the young warrior woman struggled to regain her breath.

"We never truly escape the demons that are born from within us my Queen. Take note that if you think you can conquer the darkness of Wonderland from within you will be facing something you have no control over. The Demons that were born from the minds of the children in my kingdom and my own desire to torture and punish the thing that I most despise," The Red King did not have to tell Alice that it was himself, she knew the feeling well. Also how much hatred the unconcious could bear for a person that was only trying to help them.

"You do not deserve your self-pity," Alice whispered as she pushed him away with a punch of her hands nestled around the hilt of her blade.

"Nor do you deserve your molestation. Only one of us can do anything about the other's problem it seems," The Red King then snapped his fingers as Alice felt hot blinding pain like she was being ripped from her body into the Heavens.

***

Alice woke up with a start and stared into the eyes of Theodore who was undressing even as she got a glint in her eye that was inhuman, some darkness that dwelt inside her the touch of the dreamer had awoken. Ripping forth Theodore's belt from his waist Alice wrapped it around the Dwarf's belt and began to strangle him as she used him as a shield.

"To choke to death is one of the most most horrible ways to die Teddy. However I don't think you'll have to worry about people doing anything to you while you're dead," Alice spit through her teeth even as Todd stood in a stunned sight at the young woman's sudden vicious attack.

"One two, buckle my shoe...." Alice said as she reached down and ripped from her shoe, one of her buckles which broke off into a dangerous edge. Todd fell to the ground, his larnyx crushed by Alice's burst of strength even as Todd came barreling towards her, Tweedle Dumb lacking both finesse and grace in raw rage.

"I'll kill you!" were the only words to escape his lips as he ran his hands toward her throat.

"Three, four rock the door!" Alice shouted as she slit his throat and slammed his body against the cell entrance.

Alice dropped the bloody buckle then as sanity returned and she saw the two dead bodies on the ground. The scarlet fluid was pouring freely from Todd's body and she had to take a step backwards to avoid getting it on her shoes. These weren't dream images drawn from the madness of the Red King and her own nightmares, these were real people.

"I don't care. Hehehe," Alice chuckled to herself as she put her hand on her mouth and stifled a scream. It was liberating to know that they were dead and that she had done it, it felt good. In her heart her only regret was that she may be paying a price far dearer than her life for killing them.

"Run Alice, Run," The voice in her head was of her cat and she grabbed from her hands the keys from Todd's body and indeed ran as she could from the Asylum cell and towards the exit. Knowing she may have paid for her freedom with her life. Outside a terrible storm was brewing and it was filling the air with whispers and horrors that she had thought conquered but instead were merely sleeping.