Akito came from behind bushes and looked around. "Now where did that rabbit go? Hmm... Better fly up and find out where he went." he then said before flying up into the air.
The others caught up into the forest, also unable to find the white rabbit.
"Do you suppose he could be hiding?" Dinah wondered.
Vulpix and Teddyursa started to sniff around to catch the white rabbit's scent. The kids looked through the bushes. Misdreavus looked between trees and nearly shrieked.
Felicity flinched. "Misdreavus, what is it!?"
Misdreavus flew into her arms. "Stranger Danger!"
"Strangers?" Larvitar asked. "Where?"
Alice and Dinah were looking through a hollow log together. Misdreavus pointed to behind the trees. There were indeed two figures watching them.
"Where's Akito when you need him?" Vincent asked.
"He must be flying, trying to find the white rabbit." Estelle said.
"Okay, what's going on here?" Vulpix demanded. "I want answers!"
"I don't even know who these two figures are." Larvitar said.
Alice came to them, they looked like clones of sorts as they looked exactly alike, but had different names. "Tweedledee and Tweedledum..."
"If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay, you know!" Tweedledee said to her, honking the one next to him.
"Contrariwise, if you think we're alive, you ought to speak to us!" Tweedledum added, also honking.
"Wow, that's something you don't see everyday." Teddyursa said.
"That's logic!" Dee and Dum said at the same time.
"Uhhh..." Felicity felt her head snap on the inside.
"Well, it's been nice meeting you..." Alice backed up with her friends. "Goodbye!"
"You're beginning backwards!" Tweedledee grabbed her.
"How is saying goodbye before leaving starting backwards?" Dinah asked.
"We haven't been properly introduced." Tweedledum replied.
The Tweedle twins then shared a greeting song to show them how it was done.
"Oh, brother, I wish that Papa could freeze these two right now." Larvitar whispered to Vulpix.
Vulpix nodded in agreement, looking rather long-suffering. And where to there luck, Akito came flying back to them.
"Okay, first, I found out where he is and second, who are these two and why are they singing?" Akito asked.
"They are very much annoying..." Felicity was crouched down on the ground with her hands over her ears.
"Well, they can finish their song without company because we need to go and continue to go after the white rabbit." Akito said.
"Did you see him anywhere?" Estelle asked her twin.
"I thought I did for a sec, but he must've gotten away again..." Akito groaned in frustration.
"Then we better catch up with him." Vincent said.
"Or maybe we should mind our own business and leave the white rabbit alone?" Felicity suggested.
"Felicity, we are not going to be killed." Estelle assured her.
"Sorry, that expression frightens me..." Felicity said softly.
"It's okay." Misdreavus said.
Felicity nuzzled against her ghost Pokemon.
"That's manners." Tweedledee and Tweedledum concluded after showing them some 'manners'.
"Really?" Alice asked. "Well, my name is Alice, these are my friends, Felicity, Estelle, Akito, and Vincent, this is my kitten, Dinah, and their Pokemon, Vulpix, Misdreavus, Lavitar, and Teddyursa, and we're following a white rabbit, so-"
"You can't go yet." Dum told her.
"Yeah, the visit hasn't even started yet." Dee added.
"Well, we're sorry, but this visit is being cut short because we really need to follow a white rabbit, so if you'll excuse us." Akito said.
"Do you like to play hide and seek?" Tweedledee asked as he and his twin appeared in several different places of the forest.
"Non..." Felicity sounded impatient.
Tweedledum then came in front of the Pokemon with a button. "Or 'Button, Button, Who's Got the Button'?"
"No, thank you." the Pokemon replied, sounding impatient as well.
"Why?" Tweedledee and Tweedledum asked.
"Because we're following a white rabbit." Alice reminded them.
"Yeah and we really must be going now, so if you'll excuse us." Estelle said.
"If you stay long, we might have a battle." Tweedledum offered.
This excited the Pokemon, but they became annoyed once Tweedledee and Tweedledum started to hit each other and not battle the Pokemon like they were bred to do.
"That's very kind of you, but we must get going." Alice still ignored them. "We have to find that white rabbit, we're very curious of where he is going."
"Ohhhh... They're curious..." Tweedledee said to his twin, shaking his head in shame.
"The oysters were curious too, weren't they?" Tweedledum asked.
"Oysters?" Felicity asked.
"Yeah, and you wonder what happened to 'em..." Tweedledee sounded sad.
"Poor things!" Tweedledum sniffled.
"Why?" Alice rushed to them. "What happened to the oysters?"
"Oh, neither of you would be interested..." Tweedledee said as he and Tweedledum started to walk away in sorrow.
"Oh, but we are." Estelle said.
"Oh, no, you're all in too much of a hurry..." Tweedledum shook his head.
"Well, maybe we could just stay for one story." Akito said.
"You could?" Tweedledee and Tweedledum grew excited, looking back to them. "Well..." they then sat their guests down on a log, but had their pets sit by their feet.
Tweedledee cleared his throat. "The Walrus and the Carpenter!"
"Or, the Story of the Curious Oysters." Tweedledum added.
They both then started to honk again and introduced the story to the guests.
"This should be entertaining." Larvitar said.
The scene then changes to a beach with night and day up at the same time and then shows a walrus and a carpenter walking by the beach.
"Work!?" the Walrus coughed on his cigar. "Uh, the time has come..."
"To talk of many things," the Walrus continued. "Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings. Calloo, callay, no work today! We're cabbages and kings!" He gets the carpenter out of the sand by pulling his head out with a hammer and letting him land somewhere close to the ocean.
The carpenter looked down to the water and saw several oyster shells. He pulled himself free and whistled to the walrus to get his attention. The walrus came right over. The carpenter looked hungry as he was about to go into the water with a hammer. But before he could the walrus pulled him back by the neck and then hit the carpenter with his cane and made a gesture, telling him that the walrus would handle it from there. The carpenter waited above the shore while the walrus walked down.
When the walrus made it to the oyster bed he knocked on the mother's shell, waking her up.
"Oh, uh, Oysters," the walrus greeted like a gentleman. "Come and walk with us. The day is warm and bright! A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk would be a sheer delight."
"Yeah, and should we get 'ungry on the way," the carpenter somehow breathed underwater and poked his head through the water. "We'll stop and have a bite!"
The walrus glared at him and started to hurt him for interrupting.
"Yes, yes, of course! But, haha!" the Walrus agreed, but closed the mother oyster's shell to shut her out and still convince the young oysters to come with him for a walk on the beach.
He then pinched a young oyster's cheek which made her giggle and blush a little before he lured them out of the ocean and whistled a tune, making them follow him, outside of the safety of their salty sea home.
While the walrus was luring the oysters out of the ocean, the carpenter was getting started on building a house, so then they could eat in private. The Walrus kept leading the oysters as the carpenter built. As soon as the Carpenter was done, he rushed the oysters inside. Soon, the Walrus and the oysters were sitting at a table together.
"Well, now, let me see." Walrus said after tying napkin around his neck.
The Carpenter hopped over, dangling his tongue out hungrily like a dog and had a fork and knife ready.
The Walrus flinched at him, but then smiled. "Ah, a loaf of bread is what we cheerful need!"
The Carpenter nodded and rushed into the kitchen to get a loaf of bread for them. The Walrus then grinned, grabbing a handful of the oysters and looked like he wanted to eat them.
"And how about some pepper salt and vinegar, eh?" The carpenter asked from the kitchen.
"Oh, yes, yes, splendid idea, very good indeed!" The Walrus agreed with a forced chuckle.
The Carpenter nodded and dashed back into the kitchen.
"Now, if you're ready, oysters, dears..." the Walrus smiled evilly as he set a menu down with them being mentioned as a special in the little diner. "We can begin the feed."
"FEED!?" the oysters cried in fear.
"Oh, yes! The time has come, my little friends, all the food of things." The Walrus said evilly, bringing all of the oysters close to him to eat.
In the kitchen, the Carpenter was singing to himself as he prepared the appetizer.
The Carpenter balanced the appetizer on his head as he walked out, giving the plate out on the table, but the oysters were not there and there was only the Walrus.
"I, uh, I weep for you, *hic!* oh, excuse me, I deeply sympathize for I have enjoyed your company much more then you realize." The walrus said while rubbing his stomach.
"Little Oysters?" The Carpenter called as he looked for them. "Little Oysters!" He then looked over the menu and his eyes widened in horror as he saw empty shells with a messy pile of table salt.
The Walrus began to get nervous as the carpenter was angry with him for eating all of the oysters without him.
"The time has come!" The Walrus exclaimed before running straight through the door.
The Carpenter then chased him down with a hammer.
"With cabbages and kings!~" Tweedledee and Tweedledum finished the story and jumped down in front of their new friends. "The end!"
Alice was in tears. "That was a very sad story."
"Truly..." Dinah agreed with her mistress.
"How could he have eaten all those poor oysters?" Teddiursa asked.
"Selfish to eat some shellfish?" Felicity said, then laughed out loud. "Get it? I have made a joke! It's funny because... Because..." she then saw her cousins and the Pokemon looking firmly to her, that was a terrible joke and too soon. "I... I will be quiet now." she then cleared her throat sheepishly.
Estelle hugged her Teddiursa in comfort. "It's okay, Teddy... Still, such a sad story."
"Yeah, and there's a moral to it." Tweedledum told them.
"Oh, yes, a very good moral if you happen to be an oyster." Akito said.
"Well," Alice got up, carrying Dinah in her arms. "It's been a very nice visit..."
"Another recitation." Tweedledee got in their way again.
"We have to go, guys." Estelle told the twins.
"It's titled 'Father William'." Tweedledum ignored that.
"Quick, while they're talking, let's sneak away." Vincent whispered.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum were doing Father William as the others agreed to Vincent's suggestion and they got away without even being noticed. They were still determined to find and track down the white rabbit.
"Is it okay if I don't like those guys since they're annoying, because, I do..." Misdreavus said as she floated beside Felicity.
"I cannot blame you." Felicity sympathized.
"I don't think any of us would blame you for hating them." Larvitar said.
"Now, where could the rabbit be?" Akito asked himself as he looked around.