Through the Looking-Glass

by GhostAlleyCat

Alice and Cyrus are appointed to save their beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Duchess. It's a sequel to Return to Wonderland.

11. Chapter 11 - Liar

Chapter 11: Liar:

Cookie's POV:

The Bandersnatch and I were still looking for Cyrus in Time's castle. This place is nuts. The Minutes were trying to fix the clock, but then they became an hour. The Bandersnatch then starts clawing at a door and I opened it. "Cyrus," I asked.

"Cookie, Bandersnatch," says Cyrus, "am I glad to see you! We have to stop Pimlick's plan!"

"Pimlick," asks Cookie.

"Turns out, the Red Duchess is a pawn," says Cyrus, "and the Hatter's brother is a vengeful megalomaniac who doesn't even like making hats! It was a thing!"

Alice's POV:

We were all held captive by the Red Duchess. "And now that I have the Chronosphere," says the Red Duchess, "the time has come for me to go back in time and you, Sister, are coming with me! Also, I should warn you, the Chronosphere is a tight squeeze and... well... you know, head!"

"Well, thank you for that," says the White Queen.

She then activates it and forces the White Queen to go in with her and they disappear.

"This is all my fault," I said.

"Alice, you helped me find my family," says the Hatter, "it was the greatest thing anyone's ever done for me. Even greater than that stranger who introduced us to the concept of unbirthdays... wait... that stranger was Cyrus! Cyrus invented the unbirthdays!"

"How'bout that," I asked. I then thought about Cyrus, but then the veggie guards released us.

"She ate my schnozzle!"

"And my fingers!"

"And my elbow!"

"For the record," the Hatter says to the first one, "I think you look lovely without your schnozzle!"

"Time, you and Cyrus kept telling me to give the Chronosphere back," I said, "what was so important?"

"Ze Khronosphere powers ze Grent Klock! Vizzout it, ze klock vill schtop undt I vill schtop undt all uff Underlent vill be nein mor Naturlich!"

"Perhaps we could steal it back," the Hatter suggests.

The White Queen's POV:

We arrived and saw that incident. We then heard our mother. "Did you take the last tart, Mirana," asks our Mother.

"Did you Mirana," asks my sister.

Then both me and my younger self said "No."

My sister then crashes through the door. "LIAR!" Her younger self screamed, and they both turned to rust.

To Be Continued

In the next chapter, Alice has to save everything.