A/N: I'm REALLY sorry it took so long to update! I've been obsessing over Kingdom Hearts II so much lately, and that along with schoolwork has drastically reduced my computer time! Anyways, I really hope you like this chapter! xD For some reason, I laughed a lot at some of the stuff I wrote.
Sora: Beast Boy
Donald: Gizmo
Goofy: Cyborg
White Rabbit: Raven
Alice: Melvin
Queen of Hearts: Mother Mae Eye
Cheshire Cat: Larry
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Disney in any shape form or fashion, unless you count that twisted and disfigured area inside my head called my mind, where Axel and Sora are both bound by chains to the wall and are glomped by me constantly.
Soon, we see the all-too-familiar static, before the view comes into focus again. Our three heroes have just departed from the Gummi Ship, and are floating gently down to the latest world they've stumbled across. Upon closer view, we can see that this world looks anything but normal. Everything looks a bit… topsy-turvy.
The three's descent is so slow, that they actually seem to be enjoying how they're floating down. Finally, they reach the floor, Beast Boy and Gizmo both landing on their feet. Cyborg, on the other hand, is caught off guard, and lands with a THUD, right on his back.
He groans, shooting a glare at the camera. "Aw man! Why do I have to be Goofy?" he complains, standing back up and brushing himself off.
Hope snorts. "'Cause I said so."
Beast Boy and Gizmo have to stifle their own laughter due to Cyborg's ticked expression. Beast Boy is about to make a smart-alec comment, but stops as a rabbit comes into view. His mouth drops as he realizes the rabbit is Raven.
All three of them suddenly burst into laughter. "And I… and I thought… that I had it bad!" Cyborg manages to gasp out in between fits of hysterical laughter.
Raven glares fiercely. "WHY am I doing THIS?" she demands to know.
We can hear Hope whistling innocently from behind the camera for a moment. "Well… you were already turned into a rabbit once in that one episode, so I figured…"
Raven gives her a look that clearly states she'll murder Hope at the first opportunity, before moving along with this parody that you, dear reader, chose to read for reasons I am unaware of. "I'm late. Oh dear. I'm late, I'm late. I'm here, I should be there. The queen- she'll have my head for sure," she recites without enthusiasm.
There is a smacking sound from behind the camera. Apparently, Hope is smacking her forehead.
Raven smirks triumphantly before moving on, and exiting the room through a door.
The other three shrug and follow her, entering an even crazier room. They see Raven, now much smaller than she was a few seconds ago, run through an extremely small door and close it behind her.
The green teen scratches his head in confusion. "How did she get so small?" he questions.
The doorknob opens one eye sleepily. "No, you're simply too big," it remarks.
Cyborg's eyes widen. "Am I the only one who heard that? Or… did that thing just talk?" He looks around frantically, trying to figure out if he's gone crazy or not.
The door narrows its eyes. You may be asking: How on Earth can a doorknob have a face? Well, it's a clinically proven fact that Wonderland is a very, very, VERY strange world. "If you want to go through, try the bottle… over there." It motions with its eyes to the table in the center of the room, on which two bottles reside.
Beast Boy immediately rushes over to the table, grabbing the first bottle in sight.
Gizmo raises an eyebrow. "Hey, snot-muncher, I don't think that's…" he trails off as Beast Boy goes ahead and takes a sip from the bottle anyways. The changeling suddenly starts growing rapidly, until his head hits the ceiling.
The other two try desperately not to laugh, but end up failing and start snorting anyways.
"Aw, shut up." Beast Boy fumbles to grab the other bottle, which is somewhat of a challenge now that he has hands much larger than the bottle. Finally, he manages to get the bottle to his mouth again, and takes a sip so that he returns to his normal size. Then, all of them manage to get a sip in from the bottle, and sure enough shrink so that they're no bigger than the size of an action figure.
Gizmo and Beast Boy both run up to the doorknob. "Open up!" Gizmo demands. However, the door seems to have gone back to sleep by now.
Cyborg whistles shrilly to get their attention. "Hey, look over here!" he tells them, pointing to a hole in the wall. It seems just big enough for them to walk through.
After one more fruitless attempt to get the doorknob to open the door for them, they finally go through the hole in the wall instead. The scenery seems to have made another dramatic change. It now looks as though they're outside, with giant, trimmed hedges all around. Beast Boy looks around briefly. "Hey… we aren't really outside! Look!" He points in four different directions, and it's now noticeable that he's right. It isn't really the outdoors, but a room made to look like it.
The green teen mutters something under his breath about crazy places that insane people like Hope force him to visit against his will.
Eventually, his eyes move towards the center of the room… er… scenery. Whatever you want to call it. Apparently, there's some sort of commotion going on. Without giving it a second thought, Beast Boy hurriedly rushes over to see what's going on.
The other two exchange curious glances before rushing off to follow him.
In the center of the room, a young girl with blonde hair is visible. Apparently, it's Melvin! Since she's so young, it seems that she is one of the few characters who is not upset with Hope for their role in the fan fiction. She's surrounded by human-sized animated cards that have various weapons out, to make sure she doesn't make a break for it and run the other way.
Up on a raised chair, behind a desk, is a MUCH scarier sight. We are able to see Mother Mae Eye dressed in an outfit completely covered with hearts.
Raven is also visible once more, up on a platform beside Mother Mae Eye. She rolls her eyes in the manner of someone extremely bored, before moving on. "Her 'majesty', the Queen of Hearts, presiding," she half yawns.
Mother Mae Eye shoots the unenthusiastic teen a glare. "Was that a hint of sarcasm, I detected?" she growls, before looking back at Melvin.
Melvin looks up, eyes wide. "I'm on… I'm on…" She stops, looking at Hope fearfully, for it seems she can't quite figure what the word in her script is. After all, she's quite young.
"Trial!" Hope hisses to her.
"I'm on trial? But why?" Melvin asks, lip trembling.
Mother Mae Eye stares intently at Melvin. "There's no doubt, this girl is the culprit. And the reason is… because I say so, that's why!"
Melvin's expression changes from one of fear to one of extreme indignity. "I didn't do anything wrong! You may be a queen, but that doesn't give you the wight to be so… so mean!" she whines.
Beast Boy watches Melvin sympathetically. "We really should help her!" he chirps up to the other two.
Gizmo snorts, feeling no need to help anyone besides himself, obviously.
Cyborg raises an eyebrow. "We're outsiders though. That would be muddl… moddli…" He scowls as he realizes that thanks to the beauty of writer magic, he's not able to say the correct word.
"That would be 'meddling', you nimrod!" Gizmo half snaps.
Meanwhile, during the trial Mother Mae Eye slams her fist down on the desk. "You dare defy me? Oh, you've been a very naughty girl indeed, Melvin. There's no doubt she's the culprit! Off with her head, for the attempted theft of my heart!" she yells to her card minions. Heck, at least it's better than evil gingerbread men.
"Hold it right there!"
The camera shifts to see Beast Boy running directly into the middle of the trial, heeding no caution to Cyborg's warning.
Cyborg and Gizmo both grumble under their breath as they march off to join their 'little green pest'.
Mother Mae Eye stops for a minute. "Don't be so loud!" she instructs.
Hope speaks up from behind the camera. "Don't tell them what to do! That's my job!"
Beast Boy and the others narrow their eyes frustratedly.
"Who are you? How dare you interfere with my court?" Mother Mae Eye grumbles at the group.
"We know who the real culprit is!" Beast Boy beams proudly. "Hey, I'm finally getting this whole 'Keyblade Master' role right!" he remarks.
Hope snorts. "No one can do it better than Sora himself though!" she replies dreamily.
Gizmo scowls. "You do know that you're overly obsessive with him… right?"
"I am not! Just because I've put eight Kingdom Hearts-related plushies, a full-size steel model of a Keyblade, and the whole of Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II recorded on tape on my Christmas list does NOT mean I have an obsession!"
Everyone in the room—even Melvin—gives her a blank stare.
"She needs mental help," Cyborg whispers fearfully.
The others nod, before moving on with their scene.
"Yeah! She's not the villain! That would be the heartl-" Gizmo attempts to finish his sentence but is cut short as Cyborg slams his hand over Gizmo's mouth before he can blab anymore. Or rather, since Cyborg's hand is so big compared to Gizmo's being a midget, his hand really smacks the whole of Gizmo's face.
"OW!" Gizmo yelps behind the hand. "MMPH! MMBLRPH!" He yells indistinguishable things, but it's quite obvious that whatever he's saying isn't very polite.
Mother Mae Eye raises an eyebrow. "Oh you children certainly could use a mother…"
Hope clears her throat angrily. "NONE OF THAT, OR ELSE I'LL BE FEEDING YOU TO THOSE LARGE BODY HEARTLESS!" she yells, determined to move on with the fan fiction.
"Nonsense. Have you any proof?" Mother Mae Eye asks the three boys… well, the two boys who aren't screaming muffled things.
"Er…" Beast Boy's face goes blank, as he realizes he really has no way to prove it was the Heartless that committed the crime.
One of the cards scoops Melvin up instantly, and throws her into a cage.
"Bring me proof of Melvin's innocence. You can gather as much or as little as you'd like," Mother Mae Eye instructs.
Beast Boy snorts. "And what if I don't feel like it?"
"Then it's off with all of your heads."
Gizmo could've strangled Beast Boy. "Oh, great going snot-for-brains!" he snaps.
Cyborg sighs, dragging the other two by their shirt collars into another room, also designed to represent the outdoors. It was so like a forest, they all have to blink once or twice to find the corners of the room.
Out of nowhere, a familiar chibi-like figure comes into view, wearing a cat suit. Rather than be furious with his role, Larry actually seems to be enjoying his role as the Cheshire Cat. "Hey! This thing is comfy!" he replies happily.
The three stare at him blankly. "Okay… then…" Cyborg remarks confusedly.
"Who are you?" Beast Boy asks, eyebrows raised.
"Who indeed!" Larry laughs. "Poor Melvin, soon to lose her head, and she's not guilty of a thing!" He's moving about the whole time until… his head comes off. "OH MY GOD!" He lets out a girlish scream in fright.
Hope cackles giddily behind the camera for a minute before stopping. "Oh… uh… did I forget to mention the Cheshire Cat can do that a lot?" she replies innocently.
Larry is taking deep, slow breaths, before cautiously picking his head back up and placing it on top of his shoulders.
The three boys are staring, eyes wide and slack jawed.
"That was just… WHAT KIND OF A SENSE OF HUMOR DO YOU HAVE?" Gizmo shrieks at Hope.
"Eh, I dunno. I get asked that a lot!" she replies cheerfully.
They all look at her horrified for a minute. Beast Boy then clenches his fists as he looks at Larry, who's still patting his head tenderly to make sure it won't come off again. "Hey, if you know who the real culprit is, tell us!" the green teen yells.
Larry grins cockily, weaving about in the air. "Larry has all the answers—but doesn't always tell. The answer, the culprit, the cat suit all lie in darkness."
"Wait! Wait a minute you crud-munching freak!" Gizmo yells, making a grab to catch Larry.
However, Larry has already disappeared by the time Gizmo even gets remotely close. They could still hear him talk to them, though. "They've already left the forest. I won't tell which exit. There are four pieces of evidence in all. Three are a cinch to find. The fourth is tricky. Big reward if you find them all," he taunts them.
Gizmo crosses his arms. "Should we trust him?" he grumbles.
Larry laughs smugly. "To trust, or not to trust? I'll trust you to decide!" With that, his voice also disappears.
All of them set about to finding the evidence, looking in nooks and crannies of all sorts for boxes containing evidence.
After much searching, along with quite a few thorns becoming stuck in rear ends, the group finally finds four boxes of evidence.
"Well, look what you've found. Nice going." He bobbles up and down some more, looking gleeful as he turns himself upside down.
"Yeah! Now we can save Melvin!" Beast Boy looks proud at this statement.
"Don't be so sure!" Larry tells them, sticking his tongue out.
"What do you mean, "Don't be so sure"?" Cyborg growls. "WE WENT THROUGH ALL THAT STINKIN' TROUBLE TO FIND THOSE STUPID LITTLE BOXES OF EVIDENCE AND—" He is suddenly cut off in the middle of his sentence as Hope chucks her shoe at him. It's her way of telling him that that's not how Goofy acts, and so he needs to hush up now.
"She may be innocent, but what about you?" Larry smirks.
Beast Boy scratches his head. "What do you mean?" he whines.
The cat suit-wearing boy grins. "I won't tell."
"OH YES YOU WILL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU, YOU TOE-NAIL FLINGER!" Gizmo yells at Larry, shaking one fist angrily.
The half-robot frowns. "Hey, how come you didn't chuck a shoe at him?" he complains.
"Because he's actually pretty in-character!"
Cyborg glowers at Gizmo.
"But I'll give you something!" Larry adds this to his sentence hastily, seeing as Gizmo is looking angrier by the second.
The changeling glances around excitedly, always cheerful at the prospect of receiving something, but sighs as he sees nothing. He leans against his Keyblade exasperatedly, but suddenly trips as the Keyblade slides out from underneath him, shooting out a flurry of ice. Beast Boy blinks, and then starts laughing. "COOL!"
The other two exchange momentary looks. The idea of Beast Boy now having an ice spell, along with a fire spell that Gizmo had reluctantly been forced to give him back in Traverse Town was not a very pleasing one. In fact, it was actually somewhat terrifying.
Deciding they now have enough evidence, the group of three haul up the boxes, and go back to the other room where Mother Mae Eye is.
Mother Mae Eye raises an eyebrow as she sees them enter once more. "Well? Show me what you have found!" she commands.
"Don't boss us around!" Beast Boy retorts, but lays out the evidence all the same.
The would-be mother stares for a minute. "Well dearies, that's quite a lot of evidence…"
Cyborg looks hopeful. "So does that mean this stupid trial's over, you'll let Melvin go, and we can get on with our lives?" Gizmo and Beast Boy both nod their agreement.
Mother Mae Eye snorts. "Not a chance. I'm still not impressed!"
"WHAT?" the three boys shout simultaneously.
"Cards, bring forth my evidence!"
A card obediently steps forward and lays one other box of evidence. The green changeling's face falls as the boxes are suddenly lifted up into the air and scrambled around.
"Hmm… checking all five would only be a waste of time. All right, then. Choose the one you wish to present and I'll decide who's guilty based on that evidence," Mother Mae Eye says.
"After all the trouble of collecting it?" Beast Boy moans.
"Well if you'd rather lose your head now…" Mother Mae Eye grins wickedly.
Beast Boy swallows. "Er… right then." He opens one of the boxes, which gratefully opens to reveal a Soldier Heartless.
"What in the world was that?" Mother Mae Eye shrieks.
The green teen grins triumphantly. He sticks his tongue out for a minute, but meeps as a card holds out their spear as a warning. "That was your evidence! Melvin's innocent!"
"Rrrrrrrgh... Silence! I'm the law here! Article 29: Anyone who defies the queen is guilty!"
The midget-size genius's mouth drops. "You're insane!" he hollers.
One of the cards brings up a structure from the ground with a wheel on it, and turns it furiously so that the cage containing Melvin is raised up and out of reach. Then all of the cards rush forth to grab the three boys. However, the three aren't going down without a fight and battle against the cards while Beast Boy tries to destroy the structure.
All of a sudden, Hope screams bloody murder. "MY FOOT! HOLY CRAP! MY FREAKING FOOT!" she shouts at the top of her lungs. She falls and the camera cuts off.
When it comes back on, the battle is over, and the three boys are desperately trying not to laugh as they snicker and point at the camera. The camera shifts downward to reveal a clumsily bandaged foot. Hope grumbles something under her breath about dim-witted cards that trip and put spears in people's feet.
Beast Boy then runs over to the cage Melvin was in, and yanks it open. He whines as the cage reveals nothing in it.
Cyborg's jaw drops. "Wait a minute! You mean to tell me we did all of that… AND NOW SHE GOT FREAKING KIDNAPPED WHILE WE WERE FIGHTING?"
"Looks that way, dim-wad," Gizmo shrugs.
Mother Mae Eye rubs her temples for a minute before growling at her cards. "You fools! I don't care who's behind this now, just find that girl and whomever kidnapped her!"
The group proceeds back to the Lotus Forest so they don't have to hear anymore of 'her majesty's' griping.
Without warning, Larry appears from nowhere again.
"WOULD YOU QUIT DOING THAT?" Beast Boy yelps after jumping about three feet in the air and landing flat on his face.
"Have you seen Melvin?" Gizmo asks with his arms crossed.
Larry laughs. "Melvin, no. Shadows, yes!"
Cyborg snorts at Beast Boy. He then turns back to Larry. "Where did they go?" he inquires.
"This way? That way? Does it matter? Left, right, up, down—all mixed up thanks to the shadows!"
"Ugh… my brain hurts!" Beast Boy mumbles, making no effort to get up from his position.
"Steep deeper into the forest to the deserted garden. You might find shadows in the upside-down room." With this piece of advice given, Larry disappears.
All three of them let out a sigh, and hesitantly begin further exploring the forest. Eventually, they stumble upon a clearing in some of the bushes that leads them to a garden where a table is all set for tea, with a hut beside it.
"Dude… I'm hungry," Cyborg acknowledges. He makes a move to grab a pastry from the table, but Hope intervenes. "Stupid little camera-holding pain in the butt…" Cyborg is heard muttering under his breath as he and the other two step through the door in the hut.
"This looks familiar," the changeling remarks as they walk around for a minute. He glances upwards and screams. "GAH!"
Gizmo looks up as well. "We're… upside down?"
Larry taps on the green teen's shoulder. "Want to find the shadows? Try turning on the light."
Beast Boy's eyes shift towards a stand with a glass bulb on top of it. He hurriedly climbs the stand, and lifts his Keyblade, allowing a flame to fill the bulb. Spying another identical bulb, he jumps to the next stand, and also lights that one.
"You'll see the shadows soon! They'll arise in this room, but somewhere else!" Larry cackles. "Oh… and they might go after that doorknob too!"
The three of them ponder Larry's words for a minute. Hope is heard whistling the Jeopardy theme song as they try and figure out what he means.
All of them suddenly hop up at once and run as fast as they can to the Bizarre Room in its normal state as his riddle makes sense. They climb up to the table with the bottles on it and once again see Larry.
"The shadows should be here soon! Are you prepared for the worst? If not, too bad!"
A rumbling is heard for a minute, and a Heartless suddenly springs downward from the ceiling. Since the boys are still in their shrunken size, the Heartless appears to be humongous.
"LARRY!"
The three have no time to attempt to kill the cat suit-wearer, simply because the Heartless is attempting to kill them here and now. They battle the Heartless furiously, Beast Boy having to dip, duck, and dodge all the while. "You know, you could always help us!" the green teen yells to Hope and Larry angrily. It seems Hope has hung her camera somewhere on the wall so it can still record the battle, because we see her and Larry sitting on the floor with some cards spread out.
"Got any fours?" she asks Larry.
"Go fish."
"DARN IT!" she mutters, bitterly grabbing another card from the pile. Both of them stare at Beast Boy for a minute, and grin. "Nah, we're fine!"
After the battle is won, Hope and Larry end their Go Fish game, Larry being the victorious one, and watch the other three.
The doorknob suddenly opens one eye sleepily. "What a racket. How's a doorknob supposed to get any sleep?"
"Doorknobs shouldn't be SLEEPING at all," Gizmo grumbles.
The doorknob chooses to ignore this comment and slowly opens his mouth, allowing a huge yawn to pass. There's a flash of light, and all of a sudden a keyhole appears in the doorknob's mouth.
"Huh?" Beast Boy remarks in confusion. Before anyone can say anything else, the Keyblade in his hand suddenly yanks itself and his hand towards the keyhole, allowing a small stream of light to appear in the distance between. There is a clicking sound, as though something was locked, and the doorknob ends its yawn.
"Was it just me, or did it sound like something just locked?" Beast Boy asks with eyebrows raised.
Just then, a Gummi block falls from the doorknob, similar in configuration to the Gummi Ship.
Cyborg picks it up and examines it. "This Gummi ain't like any other, that's for sure. I'll just hang on to it until later."
"Okay, thanks Cy!" Beast Boy remarks cheerfully.
"Oh, I'm only holding onto it so you two nimrods don't break it."
Gizmo and Beast Boy both shoot Glares at Cyborg.
Larry appears in front of them yet again.
"AH!" they all scream, falling backwards.
"Splendid! You're quite the hero!" Larry smirks. "But if you're looking for Melvin, she's not here. Off with the shadows and into the darkness!"
Beast Boy's usual grin is replaced with a crestfallen one. "No…" he sighs.
"Hey, cheer up!" Cyborg tells him.
Gizmo nods. "Yeah, it's not as fun to be mean to you if you're already upset."
"Let's just head on back to the Gummi Ship. We might find her in another world," Cyborg assures Beast Boy.
Feeling that his burden is even heavier than before, Beast Boy joins the other two in heading back to the Gummi Ship.
A/N: Well, there's your newest chapter. x) Darn it, it was so much fun to write Larry's parts. I promise you all I'll try and update a lot faster next time!
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