Hey chicas and chicos! I'm going to continue my Alice in Wonderland phase! So, I guess it's time to *disappear* and start this story...
Artemis's P.O.V.
I had about 2-3 hours until training so I decided to finally check out my room at the Cave. I only slept in here twice. After Kent Nelson's mission, and yesterday morning when I was exhausted after training. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what's in there.
"I guess I can pick my password…," I say looking at the touch screen Ipad type thing outside my room. I know the Justice League has a default code that works on each room, but they change it so often that Robin can't even figure it out. I put my hand on it to unlock it first.
"Artemis: B07," the computer monitor says. I push the settings button and go the password icon. "Please pick a password that's 6 letters or more. Most contain at least one number. Then press 'confirm'."
"Um…," I say thinking of a password. I don't want to do anything embarrassing so I write in 'username123'. Not 'password124', that's stupid.
"Password confirmed, please try it out," the computer says again. I try it again and it works fine. "Test: Success. Now eligible for this code. Thank you." I decide to mess around with it more.
"Hmm…security…," I smile. I decide that anytime someone puts the code wrong twice in a row a police siren goes off; also I had two security cameras showing the hallway from both ends. Then I put the Green Arrow icon on my door. I was looking at the rest of the settings when an icon called "Glass Display" intrigued me.
"What would you like to display in the glass chambers?" the computer ask as two parts of the wall surrounding the door start to move. Then a pull-out glass display comes out.
"Huh?" I ask looking at the. One was above the door and the other was at the side. "Um…arrows?"
"Arrows, confirmed," the computer said as a few arrows came out and were displayed.
"Arrows and a bow?" I ask as a bow gets placed at the top.
"Arrows and bow confirmed," the computer says.
"I'm going to have fun with this…," I smile.
A half-a-hour later, the displays are finished. An old bow like mine is put at the top with Green Arrow icons around it. The back of the wall has Newspaper articles or Green Arrow's and a few of my achievements.
As for the left side display; a selection of arrows is displayed. The Green Arrow icon is there too. Then my favorite, a medium-sized steel statue at the bottom. It shows Artemis the goddess with her bow and arrow ready.
"Yup, that's good," I say finally going into my room. As much as I want to look at all the buttons on the tech wall, I feel a bit too tired to. I remove my bow and pack of arrows from my bed and put them on a chair by my right nightstand. Then, still in my costume, lie on my bed and fall asleep.
M'gann's P.O.V.
"Wake up!" I say shaking Artemis. "We're going to be late for training!"
"What!" Artemis yells getting up but softens her tone looking at me. "Sorry, good dream."
"It's fine," I say grabbing her pack of arrows and bow. "But training's in a few minutes."
"What?" she says scratching her head. Her mask slide down and now it's a necklace for her neck, and her hair isn't in a ponytail but is scattered all over his face.
"It's 4:53!" I yell. "C'mon sleepy head!" She gets up and starts stretching
"Aw, I want to take a shower," she moaned.
"You should've token one before you took a nap," I say handing her the bow and arrows. We start walking down the hallway and into the training hall.
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Wally says looking at Artemis.
"Literally," she moaned.
"Alright, to start off training I'm going to give you a partner and then you're going to spar with them," Black Canary says. "M'gann with Superboy, Aqualad with Artemis, Wally with Robin. Begin." I walked over to the side with Superboy in front of me.
"Ready when you are," he says. I hide my blush and we start. He comes in for a punch but I phase out making the fist go through me. I use my telekinesis to lift him and throw him to the right. "Not bad." He gives a small smile and I blush deeply.
"Not bad to you too," I smile.
"Artemis switch with Wally, Wally switch with M'gann, M'gann go with Aqualad," Black Canary says. I switch over quickly.
"Good luck to you M'gann," Aqualad nodded to me.
"Same to you," I smile before dodging his water attack. I come up for a kick but he dodges it hitting my back with the water sending me washing away. I fly up and come hard at him for a kick. This continues for at least 15 more minutes.
"M'gann, Aqualad, work together to get Superboy. Wally, Robin, work together to get Artemis," Black Canary switches us around again. I sigh and run over to Superboy.
Dick's P.O.V.
"Nice K.F.," I high-five him when he's makes it over to Artemis and me.
"Good luck," Artemis says quickly shooting an arrow at us. We dodge but smoke comes out causing the side to get very foggy.
"Where is she?" Wally coughs somewhere near me. "Found her!" I run over to them and see them sparring, I come up behind her but she expects my attack, making her flip over me as I hit Wally in the jaw.
"Sorry," I say before running the other direction.
"Ow!" he yells before sprinting around the smoke stopping the fog. No Artemis in sight.
"Where is she?" I ask. Then I look up. Artemis is jumping down with an arrow at the ready. "Move Kid!" I flip over dodging the web arrow as she attempts to kick Wally in the side. He dodges and sprints to the left, confusing her. I use this to distract her on this side. She runs to me just as Wally is sprinting her way.
"Ow!" she yells getting a hit from Wally. She lands on her feet and kicks me in the side.
"Gah!" I yell being thrown back.
"Team, huddle in!" Black Canary yells as I sit up.
"Nice side attack and distraction," Artemis says giving me her hand. I pull myself up.
"Nice trickery with being on the ceiling ledges," I say.
"Thanks," she smiles and we walk towards Black Canary.
"Alright, you have two choices; weight-lifting class with Green Arrow or you get to the play with the test dummies outside?" she smiles. I have weight-lifting classes every night with Batman, yet the test dummies are horrible. Wally broke his leg last time. Basically it's a game of hide and seek; except if you get caught you get to face the test dummies, those horrible test dummies. There's this part of no trespassing forest we play in right by the edge of Happy Harbor.
"Test dummies?" Artemis asks.
"Hard-core hide and seek," I say.
"Sounds fun," she says. "I'm up for it."
"You never played it, I broke my leg last time," Wally said.
"So a game of stealth and getting the satisfaction of beating Baywatch without getting a scratch, let's play!" she smiles.
"Test dummies it is!" Black Canary smiles.
"Have fun Artemis," Green Arrow laughs a bit.
"To the playing field!"
Wally's P.O.V.
Oh great. Arty is making us play the "safe" version of the Hunger Games. Yippee.
"Alright, I'm going to pick teams," Black Canary smiled sending a video-message while we were in the bio-ship.
"Great," I mutter. Artemis hits me in the shoulder. "Can you please stop doing that!"
"Hmm…," Black Canary says noticing us. "Wally and Artemis, Team 1."
"God," I yell. Artemis hits me again. "Jeez woman!"
"Robin and M'gann, Team 2. And finally Superboy and Kaldur, Team 3. I wish the best of luck for you." And then the screen went blank.
"So what do we do?" Arty asks.
"Try to win, not die, that junk," I roll my eyes.
"Wally! Be nice," M'gann says.
"The objective is to hide and not be found by the test dummies: stealth machines," Aqualad says.
"You have to wear these sensor plates," Rob says. "On your shins, forearms, and your…chest." I laugh seeing him blush a bit.
"If the machines touch the sensors, you're out," M'gann says.
"They'll try anything," Superboy warned. Haven't heard him in a while.
"Sounds delightful," Arty says sarcastically.
"Just wait," I sigh. Soon we're there and we're putting on the sensors.
"As always," Black Canary appears on the screen. "You have fifteen minutes. Starting now!" The screen shuts off and I'm the only one left. Well Artemis is at the door, very angry.
"C'mon!" she yells grabbing my arm.
"I have to put them on my forearms!" I yell. I strap on the left one and now I'm reduced to trying to put the right one on.
"Oh my god! Come here," she straps the other one on quickly and then she runs out of the bio-ship.
"Wait up!" I yell. I sprint up and now I'm a few 100 feet ahead of her.
"Wally!" she yells. I stop and sigh. I sprint back and carry her bridal style. "Next time can you give me a warning!"
"Do you want me to drop you?" I say going over a few hills.
"Hmm…," she huffs. I carry on until I fall on something dropping her as we start falling down the steep hill. Trees are growing on the hill still so I get stopped when I land on the small V shaped support the trunk is giving. Artemis isn't that lucky.
"God!" I heard someone moans underneath. I sigh and look at her at the bottom of the hill. I walk down the hill and after a few minutes I'm there.
"You alright Arty?" I ask.
"No," she winces. I help her up and she's cut all around her arms and she's limping again on her ankle.
"I blame the rock," I say. She looks up at me and begins to limp off the other direction. "Where are you going?"
"I don't know," she mutters still continuing.
"You're just going to hurt your ankle more," I say walking a few feet behind.
"Then I'm screwed," she says still walking. I walk over to her and pick her up bridal style again. She doesn't resist by getting down, but by smacking me in the face.
"That's for falling," she says crossing her arms.
"Just don't get any blood on the uniform," I say. "Can you put my goggles on for me?"
"You're going to walk for a bit," she said.
"What?" I say. "We're trying to get away from the freaks!"
"Fine," she says. She limps off to a tree and grabs the bow from her back.
"What are you doing now?" I ask walking up to her. She shoots an arrow hitting a high branch on the tree with a rope on it. She ties the end of the rope she has on her utility belt and starts getting pulled to the top by a pulley system.
"Alright, I'm good," she yelled to me.
"What about me?" I yell.
"Fine," she hissed. I stand there for what seems an hour until I notice I'm caught in web.
"What the…," I say being pulled up the tree. "This isn't what I meant!"
"Stop complaining," she says as I finally get up there. I look down and shriek.
"Dang, we're high up!" I say fidgeting out of the web and grabbing a hold of the branch above us.
"We're only about ten feet up she says walking around and jumping on the other branches.
"Either way," I moan.
"So how long do these things go?" she asks.
"Until…," I'm interrupted by a loud bell. "That's the fifteen minute bell. They're coming now."
"Fun!" she smiles and sits down by my feet.
"Not fun," I moan already seeing a test dummy on the ground. I tap Artemis's shoulder and give her the "shh" sign with my fingers. She nods and gives me the thumbs up.
"Hey you!" she yells to the machine dropping down a branch. The test dummy turns and locks its eyes on us. Then it begins walking this way
"Are you mad!" I yell to her.
"Nope, curious," she says dropping to the ground.
"Artemis! Get back up here!" I yell. I face palm my forehead. Dear god.
"What the hell is that?" she asked looking at what the machine was holding.
Taser.
"Dear god!" I jump down. "Arty! Move!" She looks at me, and gives me this confused look. And the machine's taser lights up and is inches from her side. She smiles at me; a wicked smile before doing a flip and shooting an arrow at the machine. The arrow gives the machine an electric shock before it dies down.
"That's our plan," she says taking the arrow out of the machine.
"What?" I ask.
"The machine expected less of us because I was being careless," she said limping over to me.
"Go find another spot," she says.
"I'm going to have to use super speed," I say putting my goggles on.
"Just don't fall this time Baywatch," she says as I pick her up bridal style and start running off.
Superboy's P.O.V.
I hit the bark hard. But I regain my second wind with the anger I'm fuming. More like my eighth wind.
We've been sparring the machines for I don't know how long. And because my forte was super-human strength, it was hard to make contact without having them touch my sensors.
I've mostly threw large branches or rocks at them. Aqualad kept them mostly in control with the water. We're right next to a lake so he had enough.
"Superboy, we need to move closer to the lake!" Aqualad yelled.
"Alright," I yell jumping high over the trees. But then I hear a bolt; that bolt. While jumping I see one of Kaldur's sensor turn yellow.
"Run!" he yells having all of his sensors turn yellow. The machines pass over him and the bio-ship comes down and takes him away.
I needed to find M'gann.
"M'gann!" I yelled inside my head hoping the link would be up. It wasn't. I sighed and jumped over another set of machines.
Kaldur's P.O.V.
"Hmm…," I sigh taking off my shin sensors. I was hit when I was yelling to Superboy; I was foolish not to know my surroundings. I'll put in more sparring training tonight.
"Kaldur!" M'gann smiled at me.
"Miss Martian, you're already finished?" I asked.
"I was in camouflage mood guarding Robin when one snuck up on me from behind," she smiled slyly.
"At last, I underestimated the machines' stealth as well. Very good though," I smiled at her. "Did anyone else finish?"
"Nope, only you and me," she said.
"Nice job Kaldur," Black Canary says walking in.
"Thank you," I say.
"Both of you have managed an hour and a half," she said. "Only an hour and a half left coincidently."
"Only four left," M'gann smiled. "Who shall it be?"
Robin's P.O.V.
M'gann got out a few minutes ago when I was trying to hack an already fallen machine. Her scream warned me to get out of there, if not I was a mere moment away from getting out.
Now it was just me and the forest.
Our team earlier worked together with Superboy and Kaldur. But when Kaldur requested he needed water for his power to accomplish its full capacity (exactly what he said), they went on the lookout for the river that flows somewhere around here. I haven't seen K.F. or Arty either.
I was sitting in a tree scoping out for anyone. A few machines roamed underneath but they didn't bother me. The machines can climb trees but they don't do it without a reason; therefore if they know someone is in a tree, they shall climb. If they don't think someone is, they don't bother.
"I'm bored," I sighed. I was playing a game on a hologram coming from my watch. I had no idea what it was called, just a stupid game.
"C'mon Wally!" I heard someone yell. I looked up from my game and turned towards the ground. Sure enough, Wally and Artemis were down there fighting some of those machines.
I smile.
I close the hologram and jump down a few branches to get a better look.
"Hmm…," I say. Then something else surprises me.
Superboy is there too.
He's fighting them off side-by-side with Artemis and Wally. I sigh and jump down; I'm not going to let them have the most fun.
"Rob!" Wally smiles before sprinting next to me. "Ready to join?"
"Just hurry up and fight!" Artemis yells. I run up grabbing a staff from my utility belt and a few shuriken too. I run up and hit the first one with the staff in the neck area, a few sparks come up and it falls to the ground.
"Duck Robin!" Superboy yells. I duck and the tree comes over my head, killing a few that were running this way.
"Thanks!" I yell throwing two shuriken at one getting close to Artemis. She thanks me but hitting an arrow to the two behind me. It catches them in a web and they spark up and fall.
"Shit!" Artemis yells. "I'm out of arrows!" I sigh glad she wasn't yelling that her sensor got hit. I reach into my utility belt and throw a staff to her. She catches it quickly using it to block one coming at her.
"Hit their necks!" I yell bombing a few in front of me. I stop to catch my breath noticing I cleared all of them in my area. I look to the trees; so many are coming.
"Damn!" Wally yells. "I'm out guys!" I give him a thumbs-up. He does the same and then the bio-ship picks him up in lightning speed.
"Hmph!" Superboy yells. I look over to him and his sensors are glowing. The bio-ship comes over quickly and picks him up. Then it's just me and Artemis. I know she's going to attack so I keep a good distance.
"Robin, how many times have you played this game?" Artemis asks fighting off the last two machines near her. She hits them both in the neck and they fall. The rest of the machines by the trees stop for a moment.
"The team has played this seven times," I say.
"Who has won them?" she asks. The machines start slowly approaching again.
"Aqualad twice, M'gann twice, Wally once, Superboy twice," I say remembering. It's funny because last time Wally won and he was struggling with a broken leg the whole entire time.
"You never had?" she asks a look of confusion on her face.
"Nope," I sigh. Now she definitely was going to kill me.
"Ugh," she sighed and rolled her eyes. "After scoping tonight you owe me ice cream." And with that she ran to the machines.
"What are you doing?" I ask genuinely confused.
"I want a hot fudge sundae," she said before jumping in the rest of machines having all of her sensors go off. Then I realize what she's doing.
I smile.
The bio-ship comes completely down and all the machines get up and start leaving through the trees. The Team and Black Canary come out.
"That was very noble Artemis," Black Canary says.
"I just did for ice cream," she shrugged as we walked in.
"Congrats on winning bro," Wally says as we walk in.
"Yeah, I know," I smile but then frown. "But now I have to buy her ice cream."
"Hot fudge sundae with sprinkles," Arty says sitting down.
"Can you buy me ice cream too?" Wally asks. "I'll be your best friend."
"You already are my best friend," I roll my eyes.
"I want ice cream Man!" he whines.
"Dear god," I moan. I am not going to hear the end of this.
Wally's P.O.V.
I was on the roof of a building in Gotham. Robin is a few blocks away and Artemis is the closest being on the building next to me. We got a good view over everything; I got the view of most of downtown. Robin is near the downtown area by the Cave, and Artemis is the rest of downtown near the parks and pier.
"How long is this going to take?" I moan. Because Megan isn't here with us we're forced to use a communicator.
"Shut up Baywatch, we've only been here for fifteen minutes," Artemis's voice comes through.
"Everything's alright over here, thanks for asking," Robin's says annoyed.
Artemis's P.O.V.
I rolled my eyes, now Wally and Robin were arguing over video games. I looked to the right watching an old man taking a stroll. I watched him; he seemed perfectly harmless but I just wanted to make sure. I mean he wasn't the only one on the streets. A lot of people were walking around, going into stores, and of course driving. But this little old man with a cane in his hand kept my eye.
"I mean seriously, it's much better on Xbox then Play Station 3!" Wally's voice broke my trance. I decided to turn the communicator to a lower volume and kept on looking at the little old man.
He walked in a local jewelry store. I began thinking of assumptions; maybe he has a wife and this is his anniversary present? However the man came out a moment later waving to a sales lady as he walked; maybe he was visiting his granddaughter?
He continued his way. I checked around every-so-often making sure no trouble was going on around me. I kept looking at the man; I noticed his cane was white and he was wearing a grey hat on his head. I think he was wearing a suit; all I know it matched the same color of his hat. He stopped at a red light for a moment. I watched him then began to wobble over the street and onto the next one.
"You alright?" someone said behind me. I get an arrow at the ready and turn to my target. It's Baywatch.
"I'm fine," I say putting the arrow back in the pack and began to look again at the old man.
"Well you weren't answering," he said walking over. "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing," I saw keeping my gaze on the man.
"Really, what could be more amusing to look at instead of me?" he asks. I turn towards him.
"Well, if you must know…," I say looking back at the street. "Where'd he go?" I look frantically at the street. He was too faraway to go in a store with his speed.
"Seriously Arty, you're checking out dudes?" he scowls.
"No!" I shove him in the shoulder. "I was looking at an old man."
"You like old dudes?" he asks stepping back.
"Wally! I wasn't checking anyone out!" I yell turning to him. "I saw this little old man walking with a cane so I watched him walk around."
"Stalker-ish," he mumbled.
"I was just bored," I rolled my eyes.
"Well, what did the fellow look like?" he says looking at the street.
"It's not that important," I say. "It was just an old man."
"Anyway," he says walking away. "Keep your communicator on this time." Once he gets to his building again I turn the communicator to a higher volume.
"Found her?" Robin asks.
"I was just zoning out," I say looking again for the old man.
"Keep focus this time. Now Robin, the Xbox is so much better…," Wally began again. Dear God.
Little Old Man's P.O.V.
I could tell I had Alice's attention.
Well, apparently her name isn't Alice. But I call all my targets that. A girl: Alice. A boy: Alex. They both work out fine.
Cheshire was already at the Jewelry store in costume. I wasn't used to seeing her hair straight, but I didn't mind either. She played the part well; the wave was nice touch. I sigh and continue forward.
She's probably wondering how a little old man vanished is so little time. Yet I'm not a little old man. Sorta.
"Cheshire, in five minutes get the robbery started and run with Black Spider to the factory. Then you are dismissed," I say.
"Why are we dismissed?" Black Spider says.
"We have other matters to attend to," Cheshire says.
"With whom?" he asks again.
"With whom? Goddammit," Cheshire says her anger boiling. I smile; children's madness always enlightens my soul. "We have to see Him."
"Alright, I'm ready when you are," Black Spider said.
I smile and begin to put the very last touches on my "Art."
Cheshire's P.O.V.
I smiled and un-ruffled my skirt. It was the uniform I had to wear working here, Clara's Small Miracles. A black skirt, white blouse, black blazer, and black heels. I felt like straightening my hair too, don't know why, just did.
I had to make a deal with Klarion: I told him about Kent Nelson as long as he used his magic to take the prisoner out too. I owed the prisoner; he saved my life when I was 11. All that he did was be that regular man walking on the sidewalk. It was during training and Dad made one his friends spar with me…in the ally…alone while he was giving Artemis archery lessons.
I forgot who he was, the man fighting me. All I know is that he had a deep red scar on his left cheek. It ran all the way from the tip of his mouth to the corner of his eye. It scared me the moment I saw it. I was leaning against the wall, coughing up blood, and the man called me weak. He said exactly "Sportsmaster deserves a better daughter, all you are is weak."
That's when he arrived.
The man thought I was being raped or something; he started to fight the guy. The dude left after ejecting a small dose of poison in the noble man; he got sick. Very sick.
I remember carrying him to the hospital. I couldn't go in there because they would've taken notice of my health and rushed me in. So I left him at the front door and left. The next day I hacked the hospital's computer.
His name is Nigel Greene.
He was 32 at the time, married but no children. The computer said they got all of the poison out, but it messed with his mind. He was diagnosed being mentally retarded and got sent to a mental hospital. I felt so bad for him, but I couldn't do anything.
When I was 13, after I left home and did stuff on my own, I heard about it in the paper.
The headline was "Man Escaped from Mental Hospital". I read the article twenty times, still couldn't believe it.
Then I went down the hatch at that penitentiary, I crawled through the vents but accidentally fell, somehow managing to make it in his cell. I treated him like a target at first, threatening I'd kill him at any second. Then he started talking.
"You're that girl aren't you," he said stepping forward. I saw his appearance; he looked like the Joker but more crooked.
"What?" I ask keeping my guard up.
"You don't remember," he laughed. "My, have you grown since I last saw you, did that fellow stop hurting you?" I thought he meant Sportsmaster at first.
"Shut up and get to the wall!" I yelled.
"That man was very wrong about you, you know," he says staying put. "You're not weak at all."
That's when I knew it was him.
And now he asked me for a favor, saying that girl, Alice lied to him and he wanted payback. I knew who that girl was, he didn't. Yet he saved me, I had no choice but to be loyal and follow through.
I sighed and started to look at all the jewelry. Damn, it was pretty. But I don't usually specify in robberies. I'm an assassin, not a robber. And I'm an assassin not for pleasure, but for life. Without it I'd be dead on the spot, so I rather kill-then-be-killed.
I took a deep breath and remember I was playing a character. I was behind the counter watching the customers as they looked at the jewelry.
Then the siren rang.
Robin's P.O.V.
"Team! A robbery is being taken place at Clara's Small Miracles! Come quickly!" Artemis's voice flooded my head.
"Roger!" I say jumping from building to building. Soon I make it down to see Wally and Artemis fighting Black Spider holding a sack of jewelry or money.
"Got to go!" he runs. The lady at the store: young, black straight hair, starts running after him.
"That money belongs to this store!" she yells running after him.
"Don't interfere!" Wally yells as we run after him. Wally sprints ahead but he trips on a rock or something.
"C'mon!" Artemis yells running after them. I stop for a moment and help Wally up.
"Let's go K.F.! You're losing to a girl," I say running. He stays back for a moment before sprinting ahead. We turn a corner and see Black Spider and the lady running into a factory type thing by a pier. We catch up to Artemis.
We exchange nods and walk in. It's dark in here and a bunch of boxes are packed up on each other. I go one way, while they each go another.
"Someone help me!" I hear a girl screaming; it must be that lady. I run and turn the corner with a few shuriken in my hand. I see the lady crouching down on the ground.
"It's fine," I come up to her.
"Nope," she smiles getting up. "It isn't."
"What?" I say stepping back. She puts on a mask; Cheshire's mask.
"Sweet dreams," she says as she throws a smoke grenade my way. I try to run but a web catches my feet and I fall. Soon I'm coughing and everything is black.
Artemis's P.O.V.
I know this is stupid but I think I just saw a rabbit.
"Huh?" I say walking down the hall. The rabbit goes through this cracked open door. "Where ya going fuzzball?"
I walk in an almost pitch-black room. The only light is a few feet ahead and it's shining right over the rabbit. It is a rabbit! But then the rabbit moves.
It's not a rabbit.
"Alice, you're late," the transformed rabbit turns into The Mad Hatter.
"What?" I say. "My name isn't Alice!"
"I know," his face turns into red rage again. "You lied." His face morphs into a man's face, one with a large scar on his left check but he still has The Mad Hatter's body.
"Sportsmaster deserves a better daughter; all you are is weak," the man says. I gasp; Jade.
I remember her crying coming our room that day, she told me everything.
Everything.
I remember reading that article when I was ten too. Nigel, the picture of him looks so different now.
"Nigel, what happened to you?" I ask. I knew Nigel Greene when he wasn't…this. He gave me the newspaper every morning when I went to the newspaper stand.
"Why is a raven like a writing desk!" He screamed his normal Joker like voice gone mad and into a deeper, rash tone.
"I…I don't know," I say. I grab an arrow from my back and line it up with the bow. "I'm sorry Mr. Greene."
"No, I'm sorry," he said disappearing from in front of me but into the back. I gasp as he takes my bows and arrows and disappears again.
"How?" I say confused. He appears again when all the lights in the room turn on, revealing something horrifying.
Every damn box in that room was painted. Painted with scenes from Alice in Wonderland. And the scariest part was he was sitting on a high throne of boxes, each one with a picture of me on it.
"You're not Nigel," I say getting determined.
"Yet you fell for it when I was that little old man!" he laughed.
"That's impossible...," I mutter.
"The story begins with Alice being bored, sitting on the river bank with her sister. Then she sees a white rabbit with a watch hopping away, the girl chases it to a large rabbit hole," he says his voice coming from everywhere, not just the throne. The floor in front of me becames a huge hole.
"This is impossible!" I yell.
"Then," his gruff voice comes back. "She falls."
Ooh! Don't you just love this chapter? Very mysterious if you ask me... By the way, the next couple of missions are going to be against Clayface and then Bereft as they are in the show. I'm going to explain them more because the show didn't really.
Answer to last chapter: I'm not good at riddles so no thanks
Lucky question of the chapter: Favorite midnight snack?
Sincerely,
Royallynot ;)