The Pool of Tears (Sally Acorn, Amy Rose, and Cosmo the Seedrian version)

Sally, Amy, and Cosmo continued to fall, but they began to float down. As they floated downward, they sighed in relief.

"Well, after this, we shall not think of anything but fa-" Cosmo began, before part of her dress covered her mouth and she pushed it away, and she finished, "of falling downstairs."

"Oh, Cosmo!" said Sally, "You worry too much."

"Besides, we're floating slowly." added Amy.

Cosmo nodded. Then the sisters saw a lamp attached to the side of the hole, and Sally turned it on. The rabbit hole suddenly was bathed in green. The girls were surprised to find that they were floating down a strange room. As they floated downward, they looked surprised to see that their reflections were upside down. They saw three books float past them, so they picked them up and looked through them and saw that each book was nothing but pictures, so they placed the books in a stack and set the stack on a floating table.

Suddenly, they heard loud chiming noises and saw a grandfather clock attached to the wall. As they continued to float down, the room's light became red, and she floated into three rocking chairs. They sighed as they relaxed, but then, they went back too far and fell out and continued to float downward.

"Goodness," Sally said. "What if we should fall right through the center of the EAARRTH...?" She said, before she and her younger sisters floated down fast and went through a tight space in the hole. "... and come out of the other side, where people walk upside down?" asked Amy. She, her older sister, and her younger sister turned upside down as she said this. "But that's ridiculous." said Cosmo, "No one..."

But then she got cut off when the sisters got caught on something. They then saw Bushroot run down a weird hallway. They were upside down, and their legs were hanging from a bar. They righted themselves and resumed the chase. "Oh, Mister Bushroot!" Sally called, as she and her younger sisters chased after him.

"Wait!" called Amy.

"Please!" added Cosmo.

They ran into a room and heard a door close. They ran to the door and opened it, only to find a smaller door. They continued opening doors until they reached the last door, which was about a foot high. They squeezed through it and crawled into a very large empty room.

"Curiouser and curiouser," Cosmo commented.

She and her older sisters saw a small pair of curtains close, and they ran up to them, and Sally opened them up. There was small door about six inches high, with an Indian python with golden yellow skin, yellow eyes, and golden brown spots on his coils. His name was Kaa. She began to open the door, and the snake let out a yelp of pain.

"Oh!" Sally said. "Oh, I beg your pardon. My name is Princess Sally Acorn."

"Mine's Amy Rose." said Amy.

"And I'm Cosmo the Seedrian." Cosmo finished.

"Oh, oh. Quite alright." the snake said. "My name is Kaa the Python. You can call me Kaa. But you did give me quite a turn!"

"You see, we were following-" Amy began.

"Rather good, what?" Kaa said. "Doorknob, turn?"

"Please, sir," Cosmo said.

"Well, one good turn deserves another," Kaa said. "What can I do for you three ladies?"

"Well, we're looking for a green plant-duck." Sally said.

"So, uh, if you don't mind..." said Amy.

"Uh? Oh!" Kaa said before he revealed an image, and Sally, Amy, and Cosmo peeked in to see Bushroot running away.

"There he is!" Cosmo said. "We simply must get through."

Kaa shook his head and said, "Sorry, you three are much too big. Simply impassible."

"You mean impossible?" asked Sally.

"No, impassible," Kaa said. "Nothing's impossible. Why don't you try the bottles on the table?"

"Table?" Amy said before a table appeared out of nowhere with three small bottles on it, and they ran to it. "Oh!"

"Read the directions," Kaa said with a laugh, "and directly, you'll be directed in the right direction."

The sisters read the tag hanging from each bottle. "DRINK ME," Cosmo read, before Amy said, "Hmm, better look first."

"Good idea." said Cosmo.

Sally began to read the instructions, "For if one drinks much from a bottle marked 'poison', it's almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later."

"Beg your pardon?" Kaa asked.

The sisters laughed, and Sally said, "We were just giving ourselves some good advice. But..."

The three girls drank some of the bottles and licked their lips. "Mm!" said Sally, "Tastes like, uh... cherry tart."

"Mine tastes like watermelon." said Amy.

"And mine tastes like toasted marshmallows." said Cosmo.

Suddenly, they shrunk a couple inches.

"...custard..." Sally said.

"...hot chocolate..." Amy said.

"...cotton candy..." Cosmo said, as she and her sisters shrunk some more.

"...pineapple..." Sally said.

"...lime sherbet..." Amy said.

"...peppermint..." Cosmo said, as they shrunk to four inches in height.

"...roast turkey!" Sally said.

"...smoked salmon!" Amy said.

"...buttered toast..." Cosmo said before the bottles suddenly collapsed on them. "Goodness!" all three girls said before they put the bottles next to them on the floor. "What did we do?" Amy asked.

Kaa laughed and said, "You three almost went out like candles!"

"But look!" Sally said, as she and her sisters ran up to Kaa. "We're just the right sizes!"

"Oh, no use," Kaa said, as he laughed again. "I forgot to tell you, ho-ho-ho-ho! I'm locked!"

"Oh, no," Cosmo groaned, as she put her hand on her forehead, looking like she was about to cry.

"Ha-ha-ha, but, of course, uh, you've got the key, so..." Kaa began.

"What key?" Amy asked

"Now, don't tell me you've left it up there," Kaa said, as he glanced up at the table, and the key appeared.

"Oh dear!" Sally said. Cosmo tried climbing on the glass table's leg, but it was too slippery. She slid down to the floor and then sat down with her legs close to her body and put her hand on her face. "What ever will I do?" she said.

"Not to worry, Cosmo." said Sally, "I'm sure we'll think of something."

"That's right," said Amy. "It's not like it's the end of the world."

Kaa laughed and said to Cosmo, "Try the box, naturally."

"Oh," Cosmo said, as a small box appeared in front of her. She opened it up, and inside of the box were a bunch of cookies with words on them. "Eat me," Cosmo read. She picked up a pink cookie with EAT ME written in blue frosting. "Alright. But goodness know what this will do," Cosmo said.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Cosmo." Sally warned her.

"Yeah," Amy agreed. "Remember what Mom and Dad said, these cookies might make you grow if you eat one of them."

But it was too late! Cosmo had already taken a bite. She suddenly started to have a series of rapid growth spurts. "Wow, wow, wow, wow!" Cosmo yelled, as she grew bigger. Kaa's mouth was covered by Cosmo's giant foot. "Oh!" she said, as she bumped her head on the ceiling.

She was about 70 ft. tall and barely fit in the room.

"We warned you!" said Sally.

"Thanks a lot, sis!" added Amy.

"Whtwhsthswwdthdwd!" Kaa mumbled behind Cosmo's slipper.

"What did you say?" The giant Cosmo asked, moving her foot aside.

"I said, 'A little of that went a long way!'" Kaa said, and he began laughing.

Cosmo sniffled, looking close to tears again.

"Well, I don't think it's so funny," Cosmo said.

“Uh-Oh!” Said Amy and Sally.

Then Cosmo teared up and started crying. "Now-N, Now I shall never get home!" she sobbed.

A giant tear fell onto the ground in front of Kaa.

"Oh, come on, now," Kaa said. "Crying won't help."

"I know, but..." Cosmo sobbed. "I-I-I… I just can't help myself!"

She began crying like crazy, and the massive tears began to flood the room.

"Oh no!" exclaimed Amy.

"Take cover!" hollered Sally.

"Hey! This won’t do. Bwbwlwbbwlwbl!" Kaa said, as he swallowed some water. "Say, this won't do at all! Glpglgpggglgp. (Coughs). You, you up there, stop! Stop, I say!" Cosmo didn't listen, as she continued to cry her eyes out. Sally, Amy, and Kaa noticed Cosmo's bottle floating in the water. "Oh, look! The bottle! THE BOT-Bwbwblwbbwlwbl!" he shouted.

"Grab the bot-Bwbwlwbbwlwbl!" cried Sally.

"There's still some liquid lef-Bwbwlwbbwlwbl!" added Amy.

Cosmo picked up the tiny bottle and drank the last of it. She shrunk to 2 inches and fell into the bottle as Sally and Amy climbed inside.

"Are you all right?" Sally asked her sister.

"Oh dear," Cosmo said, "I do wish I hadn't cried so much."

"That's OK," said Amy. "We'll find a way out of this mysterious place."

"Glpglpglp," Kaa said, as he swallowed the water, and Sally, Amy, Cosmo, and the bottle floated into the keyhole.