A/N: Gonna try a little experimental spin-off idea based on my Justiceverse fanfics.
This story opens up on three silhouettes before three spotlights shined down on the trio who began the story. They were all dressed nicely as best as they could for the holidays, wearing coats over their suits and dress and they were none other than Cherry Butler of course along with Thor Moltenscar and Lionel Schwartz. They seemed to be getting ready to go somewhere, but they first had an announcement to share with the readers at home and yes, that means you reading this story right now. You can't hide behind the fourth wall forever you know.
"Say, what's taking Bruce and Selina so long?" Thor asked as he began to pace around while struggling in his seat. "They said that they would be here soon."
"Don't worry, buddy," Lionel replied. "They should be coming along very soon."
"I'm just glad this evening's not just another night at the opera," Cherry remarked. "The less of those for me the better honestly." she then added with a small smirk.
"Yeah, right." Lionel agreed.
"So where are they now?" Thor asked.
"Hey! We're right here!" Bruce called as he and Selina stood at the top of the steps, also dressed very nicely.
Soon, the three looked up at the top of the steps to see the two on their way down the steps and over to the coat rack.
"Well, it's about time!" Thor said in relief once he saw the two stepping down. "What took you two so long?"
"Oh... Uh... Well, you know..." Bruce smiled bashfully.
"Adult stuff we're too young to understand? Got it." Cherry smirked slyly.
"Oh, it's nothing like that or anything you all need to worry about, Kitten," Selina smirked back at her niece a little bit. "Your Uncle Bruce just needed help with his bow-tie."
"Uh-huh. Sure." Cherry kept smirking as she seemed to have something else on her mind about the subject.
"Good thing Selina is an expert with helping me out with getting ready for important evenings." Bruce chuckled as they soon reached the bottom of the steps and he decided to help Selina into her coat.
"Ya don't say." Cherry smirked.
"I'll have to keep that in mind for the future." Lionel whispered to himself.
Soon, a certain someone came into the room and cleared his throat so that all eyes would be on him. "Shall we head out to the car, Master Bruce?" he then asked the younger man in the room.
"Yes, Alfred, of course," Bruce nodded. "And hopefully the younger ones behave themselves tonight."
"No promises." Lionel replied with a rather crafty smirk.
"Yeah, no promises," Thor added before beaming. "But thanks for letting me come out with you guys! Merry Christmas!"
"And a very Merry Christmas to you, Master Moltenscar. I'm sure that Master Bruce and Miss Kyle enjoy your company for tonight," Alfred said as he bowed at the warlock teen. "I trust that Miss Cherry and Master Lionel will enjoy your company as well."
"Great!" Thor beamed as he followed them out into the limo.
"Perfect." Cherry said with a small smirk.
Soon, they all left the mansion and came into the limo as it was gently snowing outside on their way to the car. However, once they got into the car, everything seemed to freeze in place, turning black and white, aside from maybe Cherry, Lionel, and Thor.
"Hey, there, Toonsters!" Lionel said to the fourth wall.
"Different franchise, Lionel." Cherry pointed out.
"Meh, doesn't matter, but as I was saying... Hey there, Toonsters!" Lionel shrugged before looking back at the fourth wall again as he repeated himself so that he could continue with what he was originally going to say. "Your favorite members of The Toon Force here."
"You probably say the title of the story about this year's Christmas special in this universe we call The Justiceverse," Cherry then added as she also looked into the fourth wall. "Some of you might remember when we met The Avengers Grimm and their own journey into our world away from their fairy tale world of Once Upon a Time. Ya know... Snow White going through a magic mirror against that creep Rumplestiltskin after he killed her husband, King Charming, and then the other princesses-"
"And Red Riding Hood." Thor piped up in the background then.
"And Red Riding Hood," Cherry repeated before continuing. "Or that time when they had to travel back in time to stop the one called Magda the Mad so that she could get King Charming to marry her and conquer the world for the glory of Atlantis."
"And there was also that time that Alice from Alice in Wonderland created an organization called Looking Glass and made her own 'Sinister Squad'," Lionel added with a smirk. "Which may or may not be Suicide Squad with the serial numbers filed off." he then added as his eyes darted around a bit.
"This is going to be a very special story." Thor said.
"And why is it so special you might be wondering." Cherry added.
"I'm not wearing any pants!" Wakko Warner spoke up in a random cameo of lifting his shirt over his legs to show that he was not wearing pants.
"And you're probably wondering why we're reminding you of these crime-fighting fairy tale characters," Thor soon said. "Well, that's because PerkyGoth14 is going to be trying soemthing new in the form of what she calls a spin-off."
"Yes! Centered all around The Avengers Grimm because for whatever reason, she enjoys their stories even if they're knock-off of other stories," Lionel said before shrugging. "She has some kinda unironic guilty pleasure for movies made by The Asylum after all, but I'd rather not insult her otherwsie I might disappear forever from this or any other universe that she writes about!"
"Exactly," Cherry nodded. "So as you can see, that's why today's story is so special."
"A Christmas special," Lionel added. "But not just any ordinary Christmas special."
"Yep! Welcome to The Avengers Grimm Christmas Special," Thor smiled. "You might see us around occasionally, but if you see Avengers Grimm in the title, it'll just be about someone else for a change."
"PerkyGoth14 just hopes that you enjoy it and get ready to see plenty more of The Avengers Grimm in the future," Cherry added. "Enjoy this special and we'll see you in the next adventure if we can help it!"
"Happy Holidays!" Lionel and Thor soon called out and soon, everything around them began to move again.
The limo then drove off down the street, passing by a sign that said "Next exit: Entryway into Fabletown". As they left, the reader was probably wondering what Fabletown was.
Well, like Cherry, Lionel, and Thor just said in the beginning, this was about the stories of The Avengers Grimm who became their own branch along with The Justice League, Teen Titans, or The Powerpuff Girls Z as well as The Toon Force. Due to what happened between Snow White and Rumplestiltskin before his death and ruling over The Underworld with Gelda who was known as The Queen of Hearts from Wonderland, Alice's sworn enemy as they broke the mirror, sending them into a land without magic until Snow White's fellow princesses: Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty as well as Red Riding Hood, came to the rescue to restore their world. However, the mirror split into different fragments before it would be properly fixed and it split into other fairy tale realms such as The Land of Oz or Neverland, though there were plenty more where those came from. Also, due to what happened with Snow White, Alice and Hatter left Wonderland along with Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Alice founded Looking Glass as its own organization to protect the world from fairy tale threats from the likes of Bluebeard, The Big Bad Wolf, and even Carabosse.
Coming with them were also Piper and Goldilocks and Alice hoped to bring out more so that they could find a way back home and live happily ever after where they belonged, though they adapted to their new surroundings overtime. Snow White and her beloved Charles Charming III AKA King Charming ruled over Fabletown as they were in charge back home in the land of Once Upon a Time with their twin children who were young helpers and recruits for The Avengers Grimm in Looking Glass. They were adopted by the couple sometime after their old friend Hope had gone missing a very long time ago and often helped out as much as they could behind their home tutoring as they were children and still had to learn, especially keeping in tune with their powers similar to Johan and Johanna who were best known as The Wonder Twins in The Justice League.
The Avengers Grimm often tried everything in their power to find more pieces of the mirror fragment destroyed by Snow White and Rumplestiltskin back in their world and sent into a new world without fairy tale magic and often attempted to adapt into their new surroundings while meeting other fairy tale friends on the way such as Goldie who once lived with three bears and Piper who had amazing abilities with his prized flute and the two were very close and partners since they first met by accident when Goldie had broken into Piper's house for food and water until he realized she was homeless and that they could work together someday which led to Alice creating her very own Sinister Squad not too dissimiliar from Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad. However, today was going to be a very different day for The Avengers Grimm, espcially with a certain founder of Looking Glass as she had made a certain discovery.
"Hmm... Well, this is definitely interesting..." Alice smirked as she looked at something through her computer screens that caught her attention.
"Tea, my dear Alice?" Hatter offered as he walked by with a teatray to share with the woman he was close with. "It's my mother's recipe I learned for Christmastime, especially outside of Wonderland for the holiday season."
"That sounds lovely, Hatter, but I've made a personal discovery." Alice informed him.
"Oh? And what would that be?" Hatter asked as he came to sit down next to Alice to see what she saw.
"It appears that another piece of the magic mirror shattered by Rumplestiltskin and Queen Snow White has been uncovered," Alice replied. "You see, I've been very much missing our home during this holiday season, especially with what happened and how we all got here in the first place."
"Yes, yes, I remember, but luckily Fabletown isn't too much different from home," Hatter replied before pouring a couple of cups of tea. "...Even if this world is very strange compared to our own and I used to have my own garden of talking and singing flowers."
"That may be true, Hatter, but you know as well as I do that home is where the heart is as long as Gelda doesn't control it," Alice retorted. "I've found this mirror fragment that leads to somewhere back home in The Fairy Tale Realm."
"Like that time we sent Jack and Jill to Neverland to recruit Peter Pan to find out his destiny against Blackbeard and meeting Tinkerbell?" Hatter guessed.
"The very same, but of course to a different world," Alice said with a nod. "Come over and take a look for yourself."
Hatter soon stood up and came over to examine the mirror fragment and see where its coordinates were set with the help of the computer before seeing a very rich looking mansion from what looked like The Victorian era as it began to snow over there, symbolizing the beginning of the Christmas season. "That's a very lovely looking home, Alice," he then noted. "Is that where you lived before you ended up in Wonderland?"
"As a matter of fact, it is," Alice nodded. "My sister and I lived in that house together until she met a man by the name of Benjamin Stahlbaum and I, well, you know what happened to me all those years ago."
"It's very nice, Alice," Hatter told the woman. "Are you going to go there?"
"Yes, I believe I should go home for the holidays, but I'll have to come back of course," Alice replied. "Someone needs to look after Looking Glass after all, especially Tweedledee and Tweedledum."
Hatter gave Alice a long look, looking like he was going to miss Alice very much. "...Will you go alone?" he then asked softly, almost sounding sad if he would be snubbed out somehow.
"I don't know about going alone... But... I don't know who I would take with me." Alice said as she looked at him calmly.
"Well... If you wouldn't mind... Perhaps I could go along with you...?" Hatter soon asked rather shyly.
"Hatter... Are you wanting to go along with me to see my family?" Alice asked softly as she clutched her heart, looking a little bashful in response.
"...Well, if you wouldn't mind, like I've said..." Hatter shrugged. "Unless... You want to make this an Avengers Grimm family trip."
"Hm... Now there's an interesting idea," Alice smirked almost slyly. "And what? Get the children involved?"
"Get the children involved with what?" A voice soon asked.
Alice and Hatter nearly jumped out of their seats before looking over to see a certain young boy in the room with them. He startled them a bit, but they didn't jump too badly or even yelped.
"Jack... Why aren't you in school with your sister?" Alice asked, almost sounding cross with the boy.
"Uh... Duh! It's December," Jack defended with a shrug and laugh. "It's almost Christmas. Kids don't go to school on Christmas."
"Ebeneezer Scrooge did." Hatter murmured to himself slightly.
"Very amusing, young Jack," Alice smirked a little to her godson. "Well, since you and your sister have some more free time, you can do something for your dear Auntie Alice~"
"Aw, man..." Jack groaned a bit. "Do we have to do chores now? Just because you and Uncle Hatter are our godparents doesn't mean you have to give us chores like regular parents... Even if we ARE a prince and a princess now." he then began to protest.
"No, no, my dear Jack, there won't be any chores," Alice shook her head with a small, half-smile. "You and your sister are going to be apart of something very special."
"Oh, yeah? What's that?" Jack asked then.
"Where's your sister? You should both hear this." Alice replied.
"Oh, she wanted to check out some kinda ballet school or something like that," Jack said with a small shrug. "Guess she was gonna see if she could be a dancer."
"How perfectly fitting," Alice grinned. "Listen, why don't you go and get your sister in town and bring her back here? This will give me enough time to round up the others as well." she then suggested.
"Round the others up for what?" Jack asked as he stepped forward hopefully. "You gotta tell me."
"Sorry, dear, Jack, but no spoilers," Alice tutted as she wagged her finger. "Do what Auntie Alice asks and you shall receive what you ask for as well. We wouldn't want to be worse than a Jabberwock, now would we?"
"No, Aunt Alice," Jack sighed and slumped down his shoulders. "Oh, all right. I'll go get Jill."
"That's a good boy," Alice nodded. "I promise that your patience will be rewarded as long as you keep to it."
"Yes, Aunt Alice." Jack replied before he soon set his backpack down and went to go into town like Alice had asked him to.
Alice nodded before smiling quite warmly as she sat next to Hatter.
"So tea then, my dear Alice?" Hatter then offered.
"That would be splendid, Hatter," Alice nodded as she held out a cup for him to pour from the teapot. "And don't be stingy with the cream and sugar."
"Never, Alice." Hatter shook his head as he smiled at her while giving her the desired tea.
Soon, downtown in Fabletown, Jill was shown to be looking in through the glass window of a place called The Red Shoes' Dance Academy. It was owned and hosted by a woman named Karen who was known back in the land of Once Upon a Time as the girl with the red shoes that brought her into a nearly eternal dance number, but she now had ballet students who were doing their stretches and warm-ups, preparing for a future show where they would dance in front of a crowd with a story in their dancing. Jill just sighed as she watched them at work and seemed to be trying to copy their movements even if she couldn't hear the music from inside the dance studio. Eventually, after a few moments, a woman stepped outside and looked down to see what Jill was doing before the girl twirled one too many times and soon got very dizzy and fell backwards into the woman.
"Whoa! Careful, my dear..." The woman chuckled and smiled, catching Jill in her arms before helping her back up on her feet. "You should try to be careful with the twirls. They can be rather tricky sometimes."
"Oh... Uh... S-S-Sorry, ma'am..." Jill said, blushing nervously before she stood up and backed away from the woman. "I didn't know anyone was watching me."
"It's no problem," The woman said with a small smile before looking at Jill rather curiously. "Say... You're the adoptive daughter of Queen Snow White and King Charles Charming, aren't you?"
"Oh, uh, yes," Jill blushed before nodding. "I guess that makes me Princess Jill."
"Right... Right... And don't you have a brother?" The woman then replied as she nodded once she realized who she was interacting with.
"Yes, Jack," Jill replied. "He's my twin brother and he's older by 10 minutes."
"Oh, I see," The woman smiled. "Say, you're a very lovely dancer."
"Thank you, ma'am," Jill said before blushing. "I guess it just came to me one day."
"Well, do you think you'd like to join The Red Shoes Dance Academy?" The woman soon offered as she gestured to the dance studio behind her. "We're always up and open for looking for new students and you seem to be very good and your brother can join you if you want. Ballet's not just for girls, you know."
"Oh... Well, I-" Jill smiled bashfully.
"Jill!" A voice soon called out.
"Huh?" Jill then blinked before looking over, then saw her twin brother rushing right over to her. "Jack? What're you doing here?"
"Never mind that. Aunt Alice wants to talk to us right away." Jack said before he took his sister's arm.
"Oh... Right now?" Jill replied with a small pout.
"Yes, right now, we can't waste any time." Jack told her before looking over at the woman.
The woman just stood there and blinked in slight confusion.
"Excuse us, ma'am, but my sister and I have some work to do now." Jack said as he continued to pull on Jill's arm before she would start moving.
"Ugh!" Jill groaned before looking over. "Excuse us, ma'am... We need to go right away."
"Oh, well, all right," The woman then said with a nod. "Just let me know if you change your mind. I'd love to hear from you, Jill."
"I'll see what I can do! See ya later, ma'am!" Jill called out before she couldn't take it anymore and soon just decided to run with her twin brother rather than fight him.
"See you later then!" The woman called back and waved goodbye.
Jill waved too before coming in front of a building on the other side of the street beside her brother. "Okay, Jack, what the heck was that all about?" she then asked. "Couldn't you have waited for me to finish my conversation?"
"Sorry, Jill, but Aunt Alice sounded urgent," Jack replied. "She's rounding up Mother, Father, and the princesses and Red anyway."
"Well, all right... This just better be good..." Jill said with a small pout.
"I'm sure that it will all be worth it once we're all together." Jack said with a small, hopeful smile.
"It better be or you owe me big just for taking me away like that." Jill said before narrowing her eyes at him slightly.
"Alright. Alright. I probably deserve that," Jack rolled his eyes with a sigh. "Let's just go to Looking Glass and get this over with." he then suggested.
"Fine by me." Jill replied before they rushed off together to go back to Looking Glass Headquarters.
The woman soon went to go back inside the dance studio as the twins went off to leave and go ask Alice what was going on.
Soon, nearly everybody had shown up at Looking Glass Headquarters, except for maybe one.
"All right, Alice, we're all here," Snow told the woman in charge. "What's going on?"
"Wait... There's still one missing," Alice replied as she took a look at her avengers. "Where is Briar?"
Everybody then took a look around to see that Sleeping Beauty was indeed missing.
"I think she was buying Christmas presents." Charles spoke up as he stood next to his queen, Snow.
"Yeah... For herself." Red rolled her eyes as they all knew how Sleeping Beauty could be sometimes.
"Sorry I'm late, everyone," The missing princess spoke up as she walked by with several shopping bags and boxes in her possession. "There was a special sale at The Little Piggy's Market."
"Figures." Goldie rolled her eyes as she stood with Piper.
"That's quite alright, Briar," Alice told the princess. "We were just waiting for you."
"Not like we had much of a choice," Piper said. "All right, Alice. We're all here. What's going on?" he then asked.
"Please, we'd like to know and quick," Rapunzel added. "Do we have to face someone like Jack Frost or The Snow Queen loose in our town?"
"No, no, no worries this Christmas season," Alice reassured as she shook her head with a small smile. "I just wanted to tell you that we can celebrate Christmas this year if you all wish to join me with a fragment of the mirror I was able to uncover."
The others then looked surprised and curious.
"Oh?" Cinderella asked. "What do you mean by that?"
"Viola!" Alice announced as she showed the mirror fragment that she had found. "This mirror fragment can lead me to my former home before staying in Wonderland with Hatter and the Tweedles when I ran away from home and ended up down the rabbit hole."
The others looked surprised again and wondered what this could mean.
"What does this mean, Aunt Alice?" Jack spoke up.
"Yeah! Tell us." Jill added.
"This means like you were able to meet young Peter Pan before his journey to Neverland, I will be able to go back home for the holidays," Alice informed with a small smile. "I can feel that it'll be more than just an ordinary Christmas visit however and it will be a brand new adventure."
The others then looked hopeful and excited for Alice.
"However, it will not last long and much like that mission you two were given, I will have to return back home," Alice then said. "Which is here in Fabletown, until we have all of the pieces of the mirror to go back to where we came from."
"Ohh..." The others then said in realization.
"So you're going away now then?" Snow asked.
"Yes, I will be going, as will you and your family, Your Majesty." Alice replied.
"Wait... What?" Snow asked with wide eyes.
"You mean... The two of us and the children?" Charles added.
"Precisely," Alice said. "You four have done a lot more for me than you realize, especially your darling children, so I thought I would bless you with the honor of coming with me to join me on the holiday adventure."
Jack and Jill then looked at each other before looking at their adoptive parents curiously.
"Well... I don't suppose we could say no to that," Snow replied. "We just need time to prepare and get ready."
"I understand," Alice nodded. "You have plenty of time to get ready because I will be here and you can retire to your castle to get ready for the trip. It would just mean a lot to me if you joined me to visit my sister's home and see her family, especially my nieces and nephew."
"Well, congratulations on being an aunt." Charles remarked.
"Thank you, my dear Charles," Alice smiled. "You are all dismissed and Hatter is in charge of Looking Glass until I get back."
The others looked at each other before they decided to get going, going more about their plans for the holidays this year since they were trapped in a world different from their own.
"Darling, do you think we should go?" Charles asked his queen. "I mean... We haven't experienced the holidays in this town."
"Yes, but we're also far from home so it might be good for the children to experience what Christmas looks like in a fantastical world," Snow replied. "So it might be nice, especially since Alice invited us."
Charles paused before looking down at the twins. "Well, what do you two think?" he then asked them. "Would you like to spend Christmas with Aunt Alice's family?"
Jack and Jill looked up at their parents and looked thoughtful about the idea on the way back home to get ready for a new Christmas experience.