"This is very strange..." Felicity commented as her pigtails were floating too.
"You can say that again." Akito said.
Misdreavus then handed Dinah to Alice.
"Oh, Dinah, thank goodness you're okay..." Alice held her kitten close for comfort. "Well, I guess we could say, that after this, we shall think of not falling downstairs..." She saw a lamp on a table that was going up, she decided to turn it on and it made the hole into a green light.
A mirror was next to them and it showed their reflections upside down.
"Huh. Now that's something you don't see everyday." Estelle said.
"I'm not sure if I like this." Vincent said, feeling a little dizzy.
"This is getting confusing." Akito said.
"I wonder where we're going..." Estelle sighed.
Alice picked up a book, she opened it up and saw nothing but pictures, there were no words.
"Wow, it's just like what you said would be in your world, Alice." Estelle said.
They passed a ticking grandfather clock and a rocking chair. Vincent decided to sit down in the chair and took a stretch, but when he did, the chair made him fall right out, but luckily, he didn't fall far or hit the ground and hurt himself.
"Goodness..." Alice looked alarmed.
"How far is this going to go down?" Estelle asked.
"What if we fell through the center of the Earth or something?" Akito joked.
They all then went down one hole very quickly, making them all scream, but they went back to slowly falling down the rabbit hole.
"I WAS JOKING!" Akito cried out.
Suddenly, they were turned upside down next to a map of the world like in a high school geography class, but this made them crash down and the white rabbit was several inches away from them, still running off.
"There he goes!" Vincent pointed.
"After him!" Vulpix called, rearing himself up and started to chase the white rabbit.
The kids got out of their clutter and chased after the white rabbit.
"Mr. Rabbit!" Alice called as she held Dinah. "Wait, please!"
"Mr. Rabbit! Stop! Please!" Estelle called out.
"Monsieur Rabbit!" Felicity called too, very urgently and not even using the French word for rabbit due to how much her English improved during Loonatics missions.
They made it into another room, but couldn't find the white rabbit anywhere.
"There!" Misdreavus floated ahead more and pointed to a small door that had just closed.
"Alright, let's go." Larvitar said, walking to the door.
They came to the door which only appeared to be a foot high.
"Curiouser and curiouser..." Alice commented.
The kids bent down so they could get through the door. Akito opened the door for them and they all made it through. When they squeezed through, they came to another room with another door which looked even smaller than the last one.
The door only looked six inches high, there was no way any of them could make it through that one!
"He went through that door, but how?" Vincent asked.
Alice saw a pair of curtains over the door and moved them back to see the doorknob, wondering herself. She then tried to turn the knob to open the door and the doorknob groaned in sudden pain.
"Whoa!" Felicity jumped back in fright and surprise.
The doorknob grunted slightly, but looked at them, showing that it had eyes and a mouth.
"What the heck?!" Vincent asked.
The doorknob gave them a glare.
"Oh, we're so sorry." Estelle said before finding it weird.
"Oh, oh, that's quite alright," the doorknob replied, shocking them for a moment that it could speak. "But you did give me quite a turn."
Alice nodded. "You see, we were following-"
"Get it? Doorknob? Turn?" The Doorknob asked while laughing.
"Please, sir, we're kind of in a hurry..." Vincent spoke up, uneasily.
"Well, one good turn deserves another!" the doorknob laughed. "What can I do for you all?"
"Well, we're looking for a white rabbit, so if you don't mind-" Alice tried to explain.
The doorknob then suddenly opened his mouth wide to show the white rabbit was on the other side and still running.
"There he is, oh, we simply must go in there." Alice said.
"Sorry, you all are much too big," the doorknob replied. "Even those odd friends of yours. Simply impassible."
"You mean 'impossible'." Akito corrected.
"No, impassible," the doorknob replied simply. "Nothing's impossible! Why don't you try the bottle on the table?"
"Table?" the others asked, they turned one way and there was a table that they could had sworn was not there before.
"Read the directions." the doorknob told them.
"'Drink me'..." Alice read the bottle. "Hmm... Better look first," she advised. "For if one much better a bottle marked 'poison', it's almost certain to disagree with someone sooner or later."
"Pardon?" The Doorknob asked.
"I was just giving myself and my new friends some advice." Alice informed.
"Well, bottom's up, one at a time." Akito said.
"Don't take too big gulps so we can all have some." Alice reminded them.
With that, they all took a sip of the strange drink that might have been a potion. There was a mixture of odd flavors of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, and even roast turkey. They all fell to the floor, now all around six inches tall and finishing up the drink.
"I bet Maman would think of Ferngully if she were here..." Felicity commented about their size.
"Wow, we're small now." Estelle smiled.
"You all almost went out like a bunch of candles!" the doorknob laughed.
"But look!" Vincent rushed over to him. "We're just the right size!"
"Oh, no use," the doorknob chuckled. "I forgot to tell you, I'm locked!"
"Seriously?" Akito and Estelle deadpanned in unison.
"Oh, no!" Alice looked like she was about to cry.
"Oh, but of course, one of you's got the key, so..." the doorknob continued.
"Wait, key?" Vincent asked. "What key?"
"Now, don't tell me you've left it up there..." the doorknob looked up to the table.
The key was shown on the table. How could they had missed that?
"Oh, dear..." Alice frowned.
"Oh, come on!" Estelle groaned.
Alice tried to climb onto the table leg, but it was too slippery, so she slid right back down on the floor. "Whatever will we do?"
"Try the box, naturally." the doorknob informed.
Suddenly, there was a small box in front of them that was filled with cookies that said 'Eat me'.
"Hmm... Well, if it'll help." Akito said.
"Ooh, cookies..." Estelle picked one up that had purple and white icing, her two favorite colors.
"Okay, so how are these cookies going to help us?" Vincent asked the doorknob.
"They'll help make you grow like the drink makes you shrink!" the doorknob replied like it was obvious. "That sounds simple enough, doesn't it?"
"Yeah, I guess it does, but just to be safe, I think one of us should try them." Vincent suggested.
"Any volunteers?" Estelle asked.
Alice was already trying one of the cookies before anything else could be said or done.
"I guess Alice will be the one to try one of them." Akito said.
"Move!" Estelle told the others, having a feeling this would lead to some sort of disaster.
Alice did indeed grow in size and expanded nearly through the room and hit the ceiling, her left foot pressed against the doorknob.
"Sacre bleu!" Felicity gasped at Alice's grand size.
Before anything else happened, Akito pressed the red button on his bracelet and which let him have all his powers and where he then flew up to the bottle and brought it up to Alice. The doorknob said something, but it was muffled.
Alice removed her foot. "What did you say?"
"I said 'a little of that went a long way'!" the doorknob laughed at her.
"Well, I don't think it's very funny," Alice sniffled, feeling all hope for her and her friends was lost. "N-Now, we'll never get home!"
"It's okay, Alice, we'll be able to get out of here." Akito said before handing her the bottle.
Alice was unable to stop crying, she took the bottle though. Felicity, Estelle, and Vincent held each other as Alice's tears began to rise like flood waters and the doorknob was nearly drowning.
"Come on, drink the bottle!" Akito told her.
Alice took the bottle, drank it, and she shrunk into the tiny size again. Akito carried her in his arms so she wouldn't fall and get hurt. The water wasn't very big, but just big enough to be a river and then they all heard rushing water. The bottle landed in the water and turned over.
"Hmm..." Akito tried to think of a strategy so Alice wouldn't drown.
"Quick, let's all get inside the bottle!" Alice suggested.
The others looked to each other, shrugged, and they went into the bottle. They could all fit, including their Pokemon and kitten. The doorknob swallowed up some of the water which sucked them in through his keyhole and allowed them to the other side.
"Oh, dear," Alice frowned. "I do wish I hadn't cried so much..."
"It's okay, Alice, you were just worried that we wouldn't get back home." Vincent comforted her.