"Okay, so which way should we go?" Larvitar asked.
"'Tugly Wood'..." Alice read a sign.
The others looked around and there was a pair of eyes staring right at them.
"We've never seen that sign before." Akito said.
"I don't remember it." Estelle agreed.
Vulpix sniffed the ground to find a trail. The eyes came down on Alice's face, revealing to be a pair of glasses with legs as she passed a bird that had a reflecting mirror for eyes.
"Um, Alice, you have something on your, um, eyes." Akito said.
Alice removed the glasses and shook her head, she really had enough nonsense for one day.
"I'm having trouble finding a way out..." Vulpix said as he kept searching.
"This isn't good, I think we might be lost." Vincent said.
"I don't like being lost..." Felicity sounded depressed now.
There was a strange purple bird with a golden honk that had babies which honked angrily at them since one of them accidentally stepped on her and her babies.
"We are so sorry, ma'am." Larvitar said.
Two frogs that were a drum and cymbal were then crashing against each other as they hopped away.
"Goodness..." Alice was surprised.
"Maman should write a book about this... If we do get home that is..." Felicity was amazed and scared at the same time.
"Yeah, I think this is a story Aunt Cherry would write about." Estelle said.
The umbrella vultures then glared to all of them like they were nuisances.
"This is getting intense..." Vincent didn't like how these creatures were looking at them.
"Um, we'll just go." Vulpix said.
"Oh, dear, it's getting dreadfully dark..." Alice sounded hopeless. "And nothing looks familiar... I shall be certainly glad to get out of..." she then accidentally bumped into a cat that had a bird cage for a stomach.
The cage door opened and two birds tweeted as they flew out to freedom. The cat then jumped and chased after them until he caught them in his mouth and trapped them again.
"Weird." Vincent said.
"Yuck!" Dinah shuddered.
An owl flew by, making music since it had an accordion neck.
"It would be nice if something made sense for a change!" Felicity cried in anguish. "What kind of world is this anyway!?"
"A strange world." Akito said.
A couple of birds were together. One had a pencil beak and the other a hammer as they made a sign together.
"'Don't step on the momerathes'..." Akito and Estelle read.
"What the heck is a momerath!?" Larvitar asked.
"What momerathes?" Vincent asked.
There were multi-colored creatures with fuzz on their heads and were scampering around together. They formed into an arrow however and were pointing to a path surprisingly enough.
"Oh, a path!" Alice grew delighted.
"Thank you, momerathes." Larvitar smiled.
"Come on, I bet we can make it in time for tea!" Dinah purred in delight as she ran off first.
The kids and their friends then ran off down the path to make it down the path to find a way home. This was the best thing to have happen to them.
"Nothing could possibly ruin this moment." Akito smiled.
"I bet Grandma could make us a great lunch to welcome us back!" Vulpix giggled in excitement.
"Yeah!" Larvitar added in.
The group kept running, but stopped in shock and sadness. There was a dog with a broom face that was sweeping up the path and they were lost and stuck once more.
"Oh, come on!" Teddy groaned.
"Oh, dear..." Alice grew emotional. "Now we shall never get out..."
"This is terrible." Estelle said sadly.
"What do we do now?" Vincent frowned.
"Well, wh-when one's lost, I-I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you..." Alice said, then sadly looked around the forest. "But... Who'd think to look for us here? Good advice..." she then sniffled. "If I had listened earlier, we wouldn't be here!"
Estelle sat next to Alice and started to comfort her.
"But that's just the trouble with me, I give myself very good advice..." Alice sniffled.
Dinah frowned, she quietly purred and nuzzled against Alice's leg to also comfort her. Alice then held Dinah in her arms as she lamented on this devastating situation. Her song seemed to catch all of the animals in the woods attention. The kids and Pokemon stayed with Alice, sharing and feeling her pain. Each of the animals become sad, feeling sorry for them. Alice then began to cry and the animals started to cry with her before they randomly disappeared.
It truly looked like they would be stuck in this world for the rest of their lives. The chorus repeated as Alice cried her eyes out. There was a half moon now above them. And where it now seemed to move around while a familiar voice was singing a familiar song. The others looked around and the half moon revealed to be a grin.
"Oh, Cheshire Cat, it's you!" Dinah sounded relieved.
"Whom did you expect?" the Cheshire Cat smirked. "The white rabbit perhaps?"
"No, we're done with him." Akito said.
"We just want to go home, but we can't find our way." Alice added.
"Naturally," the Cheshire Cat seemed to anticipate that. "That's because you have no way. All ways here you see, are the queen's ways."
"But, I've never met any queens." Alice defended.
"And neither have we." Estelle said.
Felicity raised her hand. "I grew up with one... Though, she is only a queen by marriage..."
"You all haven't met this queen?" the Cheshire Cat chuckled. "Oh, but you must, she'll be mad about you! Simply mad!" he then laughed as he started to disappear.
"Please, please!" Akito called to stop him. "Maybe you know how we can find her?"
"Well," the Chesire Cat said, not disappearing completely then. "Some go this way..." he pointed left. "Some go that way." He pointed the right. "But as for me, myself, personally...I prefer the shortcut." the mystical cat then pulled a branch down opening a hidden door on a tree that was a shortcut to the queen's castle.
"Wow, that's cool." Larvitar smiled.
The kids, cat, and Pokemon then went through the secret door.
"Thank you!" Estelle smiled and hugged the Cheshire Cat.
"Oh, it was my pleasure, dear." Cheshire Cat smiled.
Estelle then put him back so she could go with the others to meet this so-called queen. After they left, the Cheshire Cat smiled as always and faded away.
"I sure hope this queen is nice." Teddy said.
"Like Belle..." Felicity smiled.