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Chapter 9- The Wonders of Wonderland

It was morning and the most of the crew were sitting around eating breakfast. Goofy was talking to Aeris, trying to get her to laugh.

"Ahyuk! So I said to Pete, I said- "

"Yuffie-chan appears!!" Yuffie popped out from nowhere at the breakfast table, scaring everyone present half to death.

"Yuffie!!!!" groaned everyone present.

Iji yawned as she came out from her room. "I'm hungry…" she moaned. She perked up when she saw Sora. "Good morning, Sora." She waved and gave him a smile.

Sora stared as he saw her. He gave a silly grin and weakly waved his hand back. She sure looked great with those clothes on and after she had had a bath…

"Um, Sora? You've got a bleeding nose…" Yuffie pointed out.

Sora yelped and ran out of the room. All the girls present raised an eyebrow in question. Leon put a hand on his face and shook his head in embarrassment.

*****

"Whoaaa!!" Sora marvelled over all the shiny buttons on the ship. He wanted to push them and see what they did.

"Oi! Oi! Oi!!" A small chipmunk jumped up and yelled at him.

Sora stumbled back. Another chipmunk with a red-nosed polished the control panel.

The first chipmunk continued to rave. "If me or Chip sees you go near any of those buttons you'll be dead meat!! And take your shoes off while you're in the cockpit too! They're dirty!!"

Sora cried silent tears as he was shoved out into the engine room to take his shoes off. He came back in wearing a pair of grey-ish hole-riddled socks that smelt like leftovers forgotten in the fridge. Everyone stared at them in disgust until Sora also took them off.

He wanted to change the subject, quickly. "So where are we going?"

"Wonderland!" growled Donald irritably. "I told you this morning, remember!"

"Oh… yeah."

"Hey, Dale! We're here!" The red-nosed chipmunk, Chip, danced. "We're here everybody!"

Sora's jaw dropped open. "Already?! But I just took my shoes off!!"

"Sucks to be you then." chuckled the first chipmunk, Dale.

Sora death-stared at the chipmunk and went over to Iji. "Ready?" he asked her. "I hope that my friends are down there."

Iji nodded nervously and placed her Star Cutters on her fingers. "Um, I guess. I hope we find your friends too."

"Okay, let's get going then!" said Sora eagerly, towing Iji out of the airlock along with Donald and Goofy.

They both looked down into a dark pit. "Aiieeee!" They screamed as they fell down.

"That was fun!" giggled Iji as she lightly landed on the tips of her toes. She spun around happily and stopped in shock. "Oh, are you guys okay?"

Sora, Donald and Goofy had landed in a big pile. Sora and Donald pushed at each other, trying to get away as swiftly as possible. Goofy lay on the floor, slightly concussed.

"Ahh! I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!!" A strange, crazed white rabbit rushed past them violently flailing his arms around.

"…" The group stared.

"Ahyuk! He said he was late for a date." Goofy grinned like an idiot.

"No, really?" Donald rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's follow him."

The four of them ran after the rabbit until they came into a squishy room. They could only gape as they saw a tiny rabbit run into a small doorway, which closed behind him.

Sora leaned down. "How'd he get so small?" he asked nobody in particular.

"The problem is, you're simply too big!" the Doorknob responded.

"Ahhh!!! Demon doorknob!!" screamed Sora and Donald.

"Afternoon, sir. Ahyuk." Goofy tipped his hat.

Iji just blinked.

The Doorknob gave Sora a death-stare. "Must you be so loud? Just go over and drink some of that medicine over there." The Doorknob yawned. "I really need to get some sleep…"

Sora inspected the bottle on the table. He popped open the top and took a swig. Suddenly everyone shrunk down to the size of ants.

"Now we can go through?" asked Iji happily. She went over to the door. "Oh dear, he's sleeping." Iji poked the napping Doorknob, and it gave a choked snore. Iji giggled and poked it again.

"I don' think he's going to wake up." Goofy poked it as well.

"Hey, I think I see a way through here!" shouted Donald from near a hole in the wall.

"Awesome!" Sora sprinted towards it.

"Watch out!" said Iji as a group of Heartless appeared.

"Attack!" yelled Sora and started to hack away at them. "Iji! Stay back, we'll protect you!"

"I want to help too though!" she shouted. She was ignored. She clenched her Star Cutters tightly, wanting to use them.

"Come on you guys!" Donald disappeared through the hole.

*****

A trumpet blasted throughout the garden courtyard.

"Court is now in session!" yelled the White Rabbit.

Sora and the others paused to stare. Sitting in the judge's seat was a very large ugly woman waving a heart on a short staff. Surrounding her were what looked to be man-sized playing cards. They held weapons and stood stiffly.

"This girl is the culprit, no doubt about it! And the reason is… because I say so!" The woman fanned herself with the heart.

Sora's eyes moved to the girl standing in the defendant's box. She had fluffy blonde hair and wore a blue dress with an apron on top.

"That is so unfair! I've done absolutely nothing wrong! I don't know if it is true that you're a Queen, but it doesn't give you the right to be, to be so rude!" the girl protested.

The Queen glared at the girl, fire burning in her eyes. "I find the defendant guilty, for the charge of trying to steal the Heart of the Queen! Off with her head!!"

The girl looked like she was going to cry.

"No!" Sora shouted as he ran forth.

"Whaaaat?!" Smoke literally poured out of the woman's ears. "How dare you interrupt the court!"

The Queen's card soldiers closed in around the group.

"But Your Majesty, she's not the one responsible! We know who the culprit really is!" Sora yelled.

"Ahyuk. It's the Heartl-" Donald clamped a hand over Goofy's mouth.

The Queen calmed down and spoke in a sneering tone. "Well, little boy, do you have any proof?"

"Erm… no, but we can get some." Sora scratched the back of his head.

"Fine then, you have one hour in which to prove Alice innocent. Now get going!" The Queen pointed her sceptre toward an exit in the hedge.

Sora and the others obeyed and ran.

"In yonder wood resides the Cheshire Cat! Seek and ask him where he thinks this proof is at!" Alice called after them as she was hoisted up into the air inside a cage and a curtain was closed.