Asylum Escape:
The hatter first drew some lines on Gwen's neck and face as if mapping the parts of her body he's gonna tamper with! He even secured her head to stop her from moving too much.
Gwen was terrified beyond belief! She doesn't know what to do ,that she began to cry and her tears stained the lines and her bloody blue gown!
"Found it!" Mad Hatter yelled gleefully looking at the sharp object in his hand. It was a very rusty and bloody scalpel. "I missed you old friend!" the Hatter whispered to the scalpel and everyone just looked at him like he was insane. He then raised the sharp tool and bringing it ever so closely to Gwen's throat.
She closed her eyes tightly not wanting to see the horror the hatter will inflict on her.
Both Robert and Dorian looked shockingly at the hatter as he slowly trying to slice open her neck without killing her.
Dorian then…
COUGH! COUGH!
The Dormouse let out a violent cough with some blood coming out, making the Mad Hatter jump and look behind him to see his "patient" coughing.
"OH NO! Dormy! Don't tell me you have a cold! I can't let any of my patients to get sick!" Markus said anxiously as he raced out of his lab to get something.
Gwen sighed in relief! She was one step away of death or just really horrendous torture ,but she certainly dodged that bullet, thanks to Dormy.
"I need to do something before he comes back!" she thought looking around to see if there was a switch or button or any sharp object that can undo these restraints.
"OH! Cody where are you when I need you!?" she thought in terror as she remembered the Cheshire Cat that resembled her male brunette friend.
She closed her eyes in defeat. She just didn't know what to do. What will happen to her once the mad hatter returns? She might be turned into a disturbing, beastly clockwork cyborg like Robert and Dorian ,and they are barely alive! The two probably have lost the will to live after the Hatter's experimentations on them as they seem to be ok with the mad man's tortures.
"I should've listened to Jack!" the goth girl whispered regretfully.
"Yes you should've." Gwen heard a familiar voice close to her.
She opened her eyes to see a very familiar toothy smile!
"Jack!" She almost yelled in astonishment.
Jack was floating in front of Gwen ,grinning with his usual terrifying grin.
"Please Jack! I need your help! Undo these restraints!" Gwen begged with her eyes pleading.
"Sorry Gwenny ,but I'm not allowed to offer you any assistance. Besides you can do it on your own. Just figure out the second part on my riddle." He whispered the last part and disappeared.
Gwen was at a loss. She doesn't remember the riddle completely. Only that Jack seemed to giggle while he said it.
"What did he say!?" Gwen pondered. She really should pay more attention to that Cat. She was treating him like the real Cody. She never really listened to anything Cody ever said even when it's important. Maybe that's why the cat boy resembled her friend ,but he wasn't as cynical and sadistic as the real Cody. The only thing she knew about Cody is that he was really nice and if she knew any better she would've thought that he was masochistic. He was ok with being treated like dirt by his teammates, which kinda made the goth girl suspect him of being a masochist.
Putting all those thoughts aside Gwen tried to remember the riddle Cheshire Cat had given her.
She then looked at Robert and Dormy who were really weak and tired. Dormy was especially exhausted. Every time he closed his eyes he would be electrocuted, which seemed to be pretty painful. Because of the bad treatment he received, he had begun to hallucinate. All he could say something about the Mad Hatter's uselessness and madness, then began reciting a poem that didn't make sense at all.
Then Gwen remembered something! The Cheshire Cat said something about the dormouse.
"OH! Scare the hell out of Dormy! It's always such fun, for me!" the goth girl then remembered the second part of the riddle! At first she thought that the Cheshire Cat just wanted a good a laugh, but if this is supposed to save her then what the heck? She then started to think of a way to scare the very disfigured dormouse. Gwen barely knew the rodent boy ,then again she doesn't even know Noah that well either, how was she supposed to scare him if she has no idea what are his fears and they only just met!?
Jack was still there, but was invisible. He wanted to see how Gwen will react in this situation. Besides, even if the riddle is supposed to save the stupid pale girl he's always up for a laugh.
Gwen was having a hell of a hard time figuring out a way to scare Dorian.
"How is scaring this stupid mouse is gonna help me!?" she yelled in her mind, she was very frustrated that she was still pulling her restraints to escape.
"Give it up, miss." The March Hare said. "Your restraints can't be broken with your own flesh. You must have a mechanical one in order to break it." he explained with sadness.
It was true Gwen's restraints weren't as tight or hard like Dorian and Robert's. Theirs seemed to be reinforced with some kind of metallic substance to keep them from breaking it ,since they are cyborgs ,hence they are physically stronger than her.
"At least I have to try before that mad man comes back! And who knows what he'll do!" Gwen shouted out in fear.
"He's probably gonna get us some tea…. I wish he'd give me some chamomile. *yawn* It always relaxes me." The dormouse said in a very sleepy voice and his eyes began to shut slowly only to get electrocuted. "Then again I don't mind if he brings coffee instead. His drugs and medications always make me drowsy,"
Jack was becoming bored with Gwen's idiocy and lack of thinking. Seriously she was using her physical strength to open the restraints but it's no use ,and worse she didn't get help from the March Hare or the Dormouse while she was making small talk with the two half rodents.
The Cody look alike appeared next to the trapped sleepy mouse, smiling widely at Gwen in front of him.
Gwen saw the Cat boy next to the Mouse boy.
"Jack!" she yelled somewhat happily, when she saw him again, thinking he will save her. "Please help me you stupid cat!"
"Cat!? ..." The dormouse asked frightfully with his eyes bulged and looked on his right to see…
"Meow.." the cat said teasingly, then began vanishing leaving his sharp toothy smile to scare the rodent.
"CAT!" the mouse yelled as realization hit him and began struggling violently, then finally broke his restraints. His teeth were automatically rattling, making him chew anything in his path as he started jumping and running while repeating "cat" with a scared tone.
"OH NO! Look what you've done!?" Robert said nervous as always.
Gwen's eyes were wide as saucers as she saw the once exhausted mouse pounce vigorously around the lab, while chewing random objects in his way. His teeth were very strong as they were made of metal like most of his body.
"Please chew my restraints!" Gwen yelled at the leaping mouse.
The dormouse heeded no attention to her as he pouncing in random directions not knowing where he's heading.
Then suddenly the buck toothed creature leaps next to the gurney next to Gwen and chews on the table that was next to her, making his way towards her restraints.
Gwen was finally free and was extremely happy!
"Thanks…" Gwen then saw the mouse boy was still chewing on the gurney she was strapped in and he almost bit her hand!
"Stop this!" Gwen said as the rodent didn't listen to her making her back away from him.
"Dorian is afraid of cats." Robert said ,stating the obvious.
"No! Really!? I didn't know that!" Gwen said sarcastically.
"Please miss! Undo my restraints! I can calm Dormy down. Please! Before the Hatter comes back!" Robert begged shaking violently.
*Clank*
All three of them heard a loud clank coming out of the laboratory ,which caused them to flinch out of fear, especially Gwen. The goth girl knew it was the Mad Hatter, so thinking fast she looked around for a way out. She then saw a very dirty window which was hard to see due to the dirt stains and ran to it.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" the long-eared rabbit boy yelled in disbelief. "You can't leave us here all alone!"
Gwen paid no attention to him and concentrated on opening the window which slowly began to open and climbed out to the Hatter's garden.
"Come back, you coward! Please! Help us!" Robert yelled, almost in tears.
Dorian was trying to set his friend free ,but like mentioned before their restraints are stronger and chewing them was very painful and hard.
The door slammed open by the person that caused them all this suffering and torment. The Mad Hatter.
The hat wearing man looked at his former friends with wide eyes as he never thought they could break their restraints. But putting all those thoughts aside he took out a remote from his pocket and pressed one of the buttons.
Suddenly the dormouse was jolting! The rodent then stopped and fell on the ground losing consciousness.
"You do NOT defy me, my friends!" he said sinisterly but still a somewhat sincere about it.
"I guess my new patient is gone…" Markus said disappointedly. "Oh well!.. It's her loss. If she doesn't want to be a perfect being."
The hatter then began to strap the unconscious mouse in to his dissection table and began to tinker with his mechanical limbs.
Robert was glaring hardly at his "friend". "Perfection is your flaw, Hatter!" he thought.
With Gwen:
Gwen ran as far away and as fast as her legs can carry her. She then stopped to realize that she couldn't see the Hatter's house or garden from this far.
"*Sigh*!" Gwen sighed as she leaned on to a tree and slumped on to the ground.
"That was close!" the goth girl whispered burying her head in her hands. "Too close!"
"You're right and if it weren't for Dorian and Robert you would've sliced and diced." A familiar voice said.
"Yeah! If it weren't for them ,then… Hey!" realization hit Gwen when she heard that voice. She looked around to see a mouth floating about.
"Jack!" Gwen yelled as the Cody look alike began to appear.
"You know you're a coward." The cat boy said nonchalantly as he began to descend to the ground.
Gwen glared at him. No one has ever called her that or insulted her like that except Heather and Courtney, but she already knew that they were like this, but she never expected Cody to insult her. Then again she remembered the first riddle the Cheshire Cat told her. The riddle said that in this world, everyone that Gwen knows will turn against her and that she must learn her mistakes before it's too late.
"How am I a coward!?" Gwen retaliated still glaring at the half cat. She was no coward, is she?
"You left Robert and Dorian to suffer at the hands of the Hatter and you saw what he did to them." Jack explained.
Gwen looked away from him, but still furious. She didn't know how to retaliate to his explanation. She knew she was a coward for abandoning the rodent boys to suffer at the hands of the Mad Hatter, when they helped her escape.
"Well then why didn't you help them!?" she yelled at him.
"I did." He replied nonchalantly.
"How!?" Gwen asked with shock.
"I scared Dormy so he could free you and you could free Robby. I know he's afraid of cats." Cheshire said, earning a look of amazement from the goth girl. "I helped you when I'm not allowed to assist you in anything except by giving you hints… With an attitude like that you'll never return home."
Gwen looked at the ground in shame. She abandoned her saviors in a pit of turmoil and despair so she could live. That was very selfish of her!
"Well I'm gone." The girl heard the cat boy say as he began to disappear.
"No! Don't go! Please!" Gwen called out, pleadingly.
"Oh! There you are." The cat boy mocked as his eyes and mouth appeared next to Gwen startling her.
"Would you stop scaring me! I'm scared enough as it is!" Gwen yelled.
"AHA! So you admit that you're scared!" Jack said smiling sinisterly as the rest of his body began to reappear.
Gwen's eyes bulged in realization! She never admitted to anyone that she was afraid, except for that time in season one when everyone was admitting what their worst fears were. Her worst fear was being buried alive, which is an understandable phobia since it's a dangerous thing, but now that she is in her element ,she shouldn't be afraid, should she? Gwen loved the dark and twisted, and she never thought that she could be afraid of anything related to it, cause she saw a lot of gory horror movies, but still most of them were never real and she never lived them to understand and know the true terrors that lied behind the cinematic exterior.
Gwen's eyes watered. She was really tearing up inside. She was terrified beyond belief! She was in a demented world, with danger is lurking at every corner! Of course she should be afraid! She's alone! She's lost! And she's in a world for bloody sadists!
The goth girl then began sobbing and grabbed the cat boy ,pulling him in to a hug, which was out of character for her.
Jack just let her cry as much as she wants, and put his large clawed paws around her ,thus comforting her, but he still had that sinister smile of his plastered on his face.
"That's better." Jack said. "Let it all out. You will have bigger and much difficult hardships later on. So try to forget self-pity and sadness." Jack said as sinister as ever.