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Ch.7 Wonderland
Once Sora, Donald, Goofy and I left traverse Town we did so through a large door. Suddenly there was a flash of light, and when it faded we were in the seats of huge spaceship. I blinked. "What the heck?" I asked. "Welcome to our Gummi Ship!" Donald announced. "We use this to travel through all the worlds. But the Heartless ships always give us a bad time," Goofy informed us. There was a bust of static, and a high-pitched squeaky voice said "That's right!" "Who's that?" Sora asked. "Hey there, my name's Chip, and this is Dale!" the voice answered. "We're the engineers and mechanics of the Gummi ship! Another voice, presumably Dale, added.
I looked around, trying to find them, and asked "Well, where are you?" "We're back in our world, Disney Castle. But we've camped ourselves in the Gummi ship launch room with enough acorns to last a year, so whenever you all need us we'll be right there at the radio!" Chip explained. Donald cleared his throat. "Ahem, thank you. But we have to get moving, got a lot of worlds to explore!" he said. "But wait, we didn't get to tell Sora and Dexal how to fly the shi-" Dale tried to say, but Donald turned off the radio before he could finish. "You don't need to worry about flying this thing; we and Goofy can take care of that," he said. I raised an eyebrow but shrugged, settling back in my seat while Donald turned on the ignition and flew us through the space between worlds.
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A while later, after watching Donald shoot his way through more Heartless ships than I could care to count, we arrived a world that I had never seen before. Sora beat me to the punch by saying "What world is this?" Goofy took a look at the navigation screen and said "A-hyuck! I've never seen it before, but it's called Wonderland!" "Huh, never heard of it," I commented. "Well then, let's go!" Sora said, already drawing his Keyblade. Donald shook his head in wonder at Sora's energy while I smiled, and he pressed a large green button on the control board.
Instantly we were enveloped in light and teleported, ending in a large hole, which we promptly fell through. "Aah! Donald!" I yelled. Said duck had the decency to look sheepish, while Sora and Goofy were silent. The hole seemed to have no bottom, and we kept falling... and falling... and falling. Goofy even put his arms behind his head and fell asleep, but not long after he did I saw a patch of red far below. It grew wider, until I realized that it was a tiled floor. Sora, Donald, and I landed on our feet while Goofy smacked down on the floor, his sleep coming to an abrupt end.
Before I could laugh however, I was distracted by one of the strangest things I had seen in all the worlds, which was saying something. A white rabbit wearing a suit of glasses, carrying a pocket-watch the size of his head, ran past us with an exhausted and terrified expression. "Oh my fur and whiskers, I'm late! I'm late! I'm late! Oh dear, I'm here, I should be there! Oh the queen, she'll have my head for sure!" he yelled, sprinting past us with the speed of, well, a rabbit. We stared after him, before I said "What was that all about?" "Let's follow him and find out!" Sora suggested.
Donald and Goofy nodded, and we walked through the hallway. At the end was a large gray door, which opened to reveal a smaller brown door, which in turn opened to show us a regular yellow door, which opened to the next room. We went through, ending in a room with a small table and chair, a reading chair and book table, bed, stove, and a tiny door with a large knob that the rabbit ran through. I blinked; did he get smaller? I looked at Sora and he nodded; he had noticed it too.
Sora walked towards the door and got on all fours, examining it. "How did he get so small?" he wondered. Then suddenly eyes opened on the doorknob, and in a rather nasal voice it said "No, you're just simply too big." "Waak! It talks!" Donald exclaimed. The doorknob yawned loudly. "Must you be so loud? You woke me up!' he told us. "Good morning!" Goofy said, and he replied "Good night! I need a bit more sleep." "So we've got a near-bottomless holes, an anthropomorphous rabbit, and a talking doorknob that needs to get some sleep. What's next?" I thought aloud. "Wait, what do we have to do to grown small?" Sora asked the doorknob.
"Why don't you try that bottle... over there?" he suggested, gesturing behind us. We turned and saw a blue and yellow bottle appear on the table out of a puff of smoke. The blue one had a picture of a small tree, with an arrow pointing to a smaller one, while the yellow bottle was the other way around. "Guess that answers my question," I noted. "Well come on, let's try it!" Sora said, grabbing the blue one. I stopped him and said "Wait! We don't know anything else that might happen if we drink this. I'll go first to make it's safe." He looked at and nodded, handing the bottle to me.
I placed it to my lips and drank, and smoke enveloped my body while everything around me suddenly grew to enormous proportions. "Hey, it worked!" Goofy said, and I covered my ears from the sudden magnitude of his voice. "Oww! Goofy, could you talk a little more quietly?!" I asked. Donald laughed. "Do have any idea how squeaky your voice sounds now?" he commented. I glared at him, and ran forward while summoning Stormfall. I charged my blade with a Fire spell until it was red-hot, and stabbed it into his foot. Donald shouted in pain and jumped up, holding his injured foot while hopping on the other.
"Ow, ow, it burns, it burns, it burns!" he yelled. "Not so funny now, huh? Now get your feathered behind down here. We have a King to find!" I called. "And my friends!" Sora added. Wincing at the volume of his voice as well, I nodded and summoned Stormfall back to my hand. Throughout the whole exchange Goofy merely laughed with a hand covering his mouth, and took a drink of the bottle before passing it Sora. He drank as well and Donald, grumbling and casting a Cure spell on his foot, went last. All three of them were covered in smoke, and when it faded they were the same size as me.
"Alright then, let's get through that door!" Goofy said. We agreed and went over to the doorknob, but by now he had fallen asleep. And despite our best efforts, he didn't wake up. "Now what do we do?" Donald asked. We all looked around the room, hoping to gain some clues, when I saw what might have been a doorway, only it was blocked by the bed. I pointed it out, and Sora asked "Does that mean we have to drink the other bottle just so we could push that out of the way?" "Not necessarily," I said, walking forward. "If we're in a world as wacked-out as this one, then it stands to reason that I could..." I began.
I moved into a battle pose and summoned my strength, calling "Do this! Brutal Blast!" and swinging Stormfall until it slammed into the bed. It slid into the wall with little resistance, becoming a mere side painting and revealing the other doorway. I dismissed Stormfall and said "After you." The moment I said that however a squad of Shadows, four in all, rose out of the ground. Shouting, I re-summoned my Keyblade while Sora drew his, and Donald and Goofy got their staff and shields. "Take this!" Sora called, swinging his Kingdom Key from around and into one of their stomachs.
Goofy ran forward and used his shield as battering ram, hitting the same one and destroying it. The death of one their brethren angered the Heartless, and while the other three lowered into the ground a trio of Red Nocturnes appeared. "Blizzard!" Donald called, and hit two of them with shards of ice. Being weak to ice they fell back, but then cast Fire and hit him in return. He frowned and cast Thunder, pelting them with bolts of lightning that destroyed the two of them. Sora jumped up and attacked the third, while Goofy and I attacked the three Shadows that rose out of the ground.
In a matter of minutes all the Heartless had fallen, and once they were one we walked through the doorway. To my surprise a huge hedged area was on the other side. Ahead was a throne, upon which sat a rather, er, "plush" woman with short black hair wearing a red and black dress. Soldiers that were actually living cards stood around the edge, while in the center stood a young girl. She had long blonde hair that reached her ankles with a headband, blue eyes and dress, black shoes and a white apron and stockings. The White Rabbit from before ran up a set of steps, before putting a trumpet to his lips and blowing. "Court is now in session!" he called.
"I'm on trial? But why?" the girl asked. The woman in the dress leaned forward, looking at her and saying "This girl is the culprit. There's no doubt about it. And the reason is... because I say so, that's why!" "That is totally unfair!" the girl protested. The Rabbit's eyes widened in alarm, and he covered his mouth to stifle a gasp. "You may be queen, but I'm afraid that doesn't give you the right to be so... so mean!" the girl said. "Silence!" the queen yelled. "You dare defy me?" I didn't like the way this was going, and neither did Sora. "Hey guys, we should help her out," he said. "Yeah, but the-" Donald began. "We're outsiders, so wouldn't that be muddling?" Goofy asked. "Meddling!" Donald corrected him. "Oh yeah. And that's against the rules," he reminded us.
"The court finds the defendant... guilty as charged!" the Queen announced. "For the crimes of assault, and attempted theft of my heart." At that both Sora and I gasped, realizing the truth. "Off with her head!" she ordered, and the cards stepped forward. "No! No! Oh please!" the girl pleaded. "Hold it right there!" Sora yelled, he and I running forward. "Who are you? Hold dare you interfere with my court?" she demanded. "This trial is a farce! We can tell you who the real culprit is!" I called. "Uh-huh. It's the Heartle-" Goofy began, but I placed a hand over his mouth. "Anyway, she's not the one you're looking for!" Sora told her.
"That's nonsense. Have you any proof?" the Queen asked. We hesitated, and she realized that we didn't have any. One of the guards pushed the girl into a bird cage and locked it, while another spun a wheel and it rose into the air. "Bring me proof of Alice's innocence, or it's off with all of your heads! Bring as much or as little evidence as you please. Report back here once you're ready," she instructed, before sitting back in her throne. I looked at the others. They shrugged; looks like we had no choice. But now just one question resided in my head: How were we going to find evidence?
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Well, there's the start of Wonderland, as large a mix of humorous and dangerous as they come. But will Dexal and they others find the evidence they need? And even then, can they save Alice?
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