Disclaimer: I do not own Bentley, Qwark, Tess, Ms. Decibel, or any characters from American McGee's Alice.
Taylor's First Decision
Taylor thought and selected the Key Symbol.
Taylor saw the Dark Diamond glow and a shadow popped up, and went straight to Taylor, and grabbed. Taylor closed her eyes, she then opened them and there was only darkness, but soon she herd a sound of a clock. Soon out of the darkness she saw a key, the same key that matches the symbol. The key was moving sideways with the sound of a clock, as if it was meant to hypnotize her. Soon the key stopped moving, and more keys started to drop, and were on chains identical to the first one. Soon pocket watches showed up ticking around. Taylor soon heard a voice of a man.
The voice said, "Come now Alice, it's only a dream." Taylor soon heard another voice, it was a female's voice.
The female voice said, "It's not a dream, it's ... a memory. And it makes me sick!" Taylor soon saw table with a woman sitting on the left and a tall man with a tall hat sitting on the right. The woman was getting some tea from a bipedal teapot, while she pulled a knife under the table. The man pulled a lever with his right hand, and a saw blade appeared and was coming to the woman's seat.
The man's voice replied, "Now, focus. Wait. . . You're floating, again. Weightless ... a cipher ... relax," while he says that, Taylor sees fish swimming, and soon saw playing cards, one of them was the Queen of Hearts, the it had the face of the woman.
Taylor saw what looked like a battle, men fighting, she also heard the female's voice, she said, "Fire! I'm in heck!" Taylor soon saw an inferno, and it was behind a throne with a heart shape on top and pillars.
The pillars fell, and Taylor saw a hideous demon with horns, but the man's replied, "Forget it! Abandon that memory. It's unproductive. Go ... to Wonderland." While the man was talking, the demon opened its mouth, Taylor got zoomed in to see the face of the tall man, and he opened his mouth and saw face of the woman, but her mouth was opened, and her face in fright, scaring Taylor.
Taylor saw a spotlight, then a doll in a wheelchair appeared, being pushed by a centaur. She soon heard the female's voice again, she said, "I can't. I'm trapped ... in my past." While she said that, the doll went on fire for no reason, and Taylor soon saw a girl holding a stuffed bunny, and was scared, looking at a blaze, and people.
Taylor heard more voices, the first one said, "Sergeant, this girl is badly burnt."
The second one said, "Call for a doctor!"
The third said, "Will she be alright?"
Taylor saw the people, but soon past them she soon sees what looks like a Minotaur, and a man with a watch for a head. Then a house on fire, and three figures waving as if to saying goodbye. A face of an ugly creature appeared, and blasted out in a blinding light, then suddenly, a wave of water came as in to put out the fire, and a river was forming, and a forest, and while that was happening, the man's voice said, "No, Alice! Discard that delusion. Forget it. Go to Wonderland."
The woman's voice replied, "I'd rather not, Doctor. My Wonderland's shattered. It's dead to me."
The man's voice replied back, "Your preference doesn't signify, girl. Now, Alice, where are you?" While he said that, Taylor sees the woman again, having tea with a rabbit, on a lily pad.
The woman's voice replied again, "I am sailing, with a friend! Hmmm. It's different, somehow. Things have changed." Taylor also sees a metal nut, with blue butterfly wings, it went to the woman, and touched her nose, surprising her.
The woman wiped her nose, but stopped and tilted her head, while the man's voice said, "Change is good. It's the first link in the chain of forgetting."
The rabbit was starting to twitch, while the woman's voice said, "What's happening? Are you mad?"
The man's voice replied, but in an echoing voice, "I'm not mad."
The woman's voice said, as if she was the woman who was concerned, "Rabbit?"
The man's voice said in confusion, while the rabbit was continue twitching, and blood was coming out from the bottom of his head, and opened mouth, "That's not right. What's he doing here?"
The woman asked the rabbit, while it's eye popped out, "Is something wrong?"
The rabbit replied, but in a voice scaring Taylor, "Something wrong? Raaaaaather..."
The rabbit's head popped strait out, gushing blood, scaring Taylor, and the woman, whom the blood covered her face. The woman's voice said, "Oh no, not that!"
Soon after blood, some black liquid came out of the rabbit's decapitated body, and the river became as black as the liquid, even scaring Taylor more. The man's voice echoes, "Don't struggle, Alice. Let the new Wonderland emerge." While he said that, the now black river is flowing with parts and faces of baby dolls, frightening Taylor even more.
The women's voice soon is exclaiming, "Pollution. Corruption. It's killing me. Wonderland is destroyed! My mind is in ruins!" While she is saying that, the arms of the baby dolls were surrounding the woman.
The man's voices echoes, "Forget it, Alice. Block that dream. Awake at the sound." While he was talking the arms began scratching the woman's face, revealing a face with a scream scaring Taylor, but the face soon disappears in the black river, causing Taylor to close her eyes.
Taylor opens her eyes, and sees an office where a man kneeling on a desk, and a woman, lying on a therapy chair with her eyes closed. The man said, "There, Alice. Better now, aren't we?"
The woman, who is Alice replied, "My head's exploded and there's a steam hammer in my chest."
The man replied, "Yes, well, the cost of forgetting is high."
Alice told the man in disgust, "My memories make me vomit. What can I..."
The man cut her off and said, "Remember other things!"
Taylor was feeling sorry for Alice, she must've had a bad experience. The man was walking and looking at a grandfather clock, while Alice said, "I want to forget! Who could choose to be alone, imprisoned by their broken memories?"
The man replied to Alice, "I'll set you free, Alice. Memory is a curse more often than a blessing."
The man turned back to Alice, and she replied, "So you've said. Many times. And..."
The man interrupted Alice again, finishing her sentence, "And I say again: the past must be paid for. Now before our next session, collect those pills from our High Street chemist."
Alice replied, "Very well, Doctor."
Alice got up, but then the Doctor said, "Oh and tell my next patient after you, I will be there in a minute, I need a moment for myself." Alice went to the door opened it and saw a little boy.
The boy said, "It's my turn to forget, Alice!"
Alice replied, "Hold on, Charlie, the Doctor needs a moment for himself." Alice then went out of the room, with the Doctor all alone, besides Taylor, who she thinks he can't see her, or so it seems.
The doctor, said in the room, at first he was talking to her, but he wasn't, "You are getting a bit reluctant with your hypnotism, Ms. Decibel." Taylor saw an anthropomorphic elephant, the same one from the newspaper Tess was reading, coming out of a closet.
The elephant, Ms. Decibel, replied, "Well what do you expect, I was enjoying prison, teaching music lessons to my fellow inmates, being good, and found out I will have an early parole in a few weeks, when a giant floating man blasted me and six other inmates out of prison, and then blasted them all and me, into some different world's, and putting the trumpet back in my trunk," Taylor looked at Ms. Decibel, she is not happy, while also showing her trunk, which shows a trumpet lodged in it. She continued to protest, "I never wanted to be going back into the criminal ways, I learned my lesson when I was left by Cyrille after I failed, Angus Bumby."
Doctor Bumby replied, "Well my leader thinks you and the others can be useful in case someone was after us, anyway hide I think I delayed my next patient long enough." went back in to the closet, Dr. Bumby went to the door, looked at Charlie, and said, "Sorry about that. Now, Charlie. Your Pa was hung for killing your Ma, who beat you. Let's forget that, shall we? The Past is dead, Charlie." Taylor soon sees the shadow again, it went and grabbed her, causing her to once again close her eyes.
Taylor opened her eyes, and saw Bentley, Tess, and Qwark, looking at her on the floor. Taylor sat up, and looked around and found out she was back at the hideout. Bentley said, "What happened Taylor, when that shadow appeared and grabbed you, you fainted, and was cringing in fear."
Taylor told her friends what she saw, and were surprised, Tess said, "This is not good, that break in in Heathrow Penitentiary was something to do with the Nightmare Eight, and I think that doctor is the first member."
Qwark then said, "Then what are we waiting for, let's stop that doctor and Ms Decibel, before the patients are forced into forgetting more." Taylor knew Qwark was right, for the first world will be the start of not only a long journey, but a dangerous adventure.
I know this might be a bit scary for my first fanfic, but due to limitations, I will continue this part in a fanfic called Taylor Fearbrave in Alice: Madness Returns, hope you like it.