Wonderland

### Battle Theme(s)

To Our Surprise (Forest and Entrance)Beware the Jabberwock (boss battle with the Jabberwocky, Jubjub Bird and  Bandersnatch's Heartless forms)
 Who's Been Painting My Roses Red? (Castle)

**Wonderland** is a Victorian England-styled world that seems to have a dreamlike quality and is full of nonsensical characters. This is the first Disney world from the original *Kingdom Hearts* game as well as the first *Heart of the Keybearer* game, and is one of two worlds unlocked after completing the first visit to Traverse Town, alongside Twilight Bark, in the latter. The Keyhole for this world is the Doorknob when he yawns.

## Setting

### Entrance

The party begins when they fall down the **Rabbit Hole,** where they meet the White Rabbit himself as he runs off to his very important date. Through the triple doors is the **Bizarre Room,** a room that is at first dark except for a few areas, including the door containing the Doorknob. Using the bottle with Drink Me Potion and the gold tin full of Eat Me Biscuits, Carl is able to unlock Doorknob with the key he summoned and the crew enters the world of Wonderland itself. The Bizarre Room will later feature the boss of the world, the Trickmaster. The party first swims through the sea of tears and winds up on the **Seashore,** in which they meet Alice doing the caucus race with several sea creatures and Heartless, as well as meeting the Cheshire Cat, who will become their cryptic ally through this chaos.

### Wonder Woods

Past the shore is the **Forest Path,** where the crew meets the Tweedle Brothers who tell them the story of *The Walrus and the Carpenter,* which the party enters into the painting of the **Oyster Beach** to see the story. After the poem is done, Alice leads her new friends to the **Forest Campsite,** where she teaches them about camping and cooking. The campsite leads to the **White Rabbit's House,** which is the home of said Rabbit.

After eating a carrot from the Rabbit's patch, the party shrinks down to as small as it gets, entering the **Lotus Forest,** a tiny forest full of living flowers who have several strange properties. Following the smoke from yonder, they arrive at the **Mushroom Patch,** where they meet the Blue Caterpillar who tells them to use the mushroom to change sizes.

### Sign Trees

Now that the gang is their normal size again, they enter the **Lost Forest,** which lead to many different areas, most of which will mislead them and send them back to the entrance. The trick is to listen to the music near each path entrance; the correct ones will be loud. Heading left, right, right, straight, left and then left, they will end up in the **Tea Party Garden,** where the Mad Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse hold a never-ending un-birthday tea party for anyone who enters. Going right, right, straight, left, right, left and straight, however, will lead to the dark and spooky **Tulgey Wood,** wherein live several peculiar creatures, most famously the three whom Cheshire Cat was trying to warn them about, those being the Jabberwocky, whose eyes light up the night (and becomes the ally for this world), the Jubjub Bird, a vulture-like bird who can steal things in the blink of an eye, and the Bandersnatch, a goofy creature with a large net for a tail, all of whom are possessed by the Heartless. Once the path has been swept up, it creates the **Tulgey Wood Campsite,** where the group rests before Cheshire Cat wakes them up the next morning.

### Castle of Hearts

As the Cat opens the shortcut, the group enters the **Hedgemaze Entrance,** which is the bridge between the maze, the Bizarre Room (a shortcut is provided) and the Tulgey Wood Campsite. Ahead lies the **Red Rose Hedgemaze,** a winding maze full of Heartless and Card Soldiers who paint the white roses red. At the end of the maze is the **Queen's Court,** a court where the Queen of Hearts holds her pointless trials and croquet games if anyone challenges her.

## Story

### Kingdom Hearts: Heart of the Keybearer (Our First New World)

Akira, Skye and Harlynn arrive in their first new world after the counsel of King Mickey and Master Aqua implore them to find the Keyholes to destroy the Heartless. They fall down the Rabbit Hole and meet the White Rabbit running off in a hurry, following him to a door guarded by the Doorknob. Akira manages to use the key to unlock him via the Drink Me Potion and Eat Me Biscuits, then shrinks himself and the trio to go through the door. Doorknob recalls that a girl cried so hard she created an ocean, which the crew swims headfirst into and wind up meeting Mr. Dodo Bird, who stands on a rock while several sea creatures and a little girl are running and hiding from Heartless. Once they dispose of the monsters, the girl decides to join them, introducing herself as Alice Kingsleigh, and that she also happens to be running from the Heartless in fear that she may be a Princess of Heart. Mr. Dodo Bird has them run around in circles with the sea creatures to keep dry, calling it the *Caucus Race.* After a bit of racing, Skye drags her brother, boyfriend and new friend away from them and into the forest. Before they enter, a Cheshire Cat appears before their eyes and warns them of the shadows ahead, including the Jabberwocky he sings about. He gives them support by handing them the Blizzard spell.

The gang is soon stopped by the Tweedle Brothers, Dee and Dum, who show them the sad story of the curious little oysters through the song *The Walrus and the Carpenter,* which the gang enters the painting to see and help tell the story. The walrus and carpenter are pleased that they were able to come and see their show, so they hand the gang a section of their cookbook and cooking set as a reward. Alice, having enjoyed the show, begins to yawn as night falls, so she sets up a place to camp past the painting. As they arrive, Alice shows them what they can do at a campsite, including cooking, which they do to make the dinner and pudding she picks out: fish and chips with mushy peas for dinner and treacle tart for pudding. They then tuck in for the night.

The next morning, Alice wakes Akira up in their tent so they can proceed down the road. The crew finally reaches the White Rabbit's house, the latter of whom mistakes Alice for his maid Mary Ann. She eats another biscuit against Akira's wishes, and thus is stuck in the house, so the rabbit calls Mr. Dodo Bird to get the "monster" out. To make matters worse, a group of Creeper Plants and Shadows show up, so the trio kills them to save Alice. The White Rabbit thanks them for vanquishing the Heartless, but is still worried about Alice being stuck in his house. Fortunately, she picks up a carrot from his patch, but she shrinks to three inches tall. The trio decide to do the same so they don't smash her.

Once the gang is as small as it gets, they travel through the Lotus Forest and meet a group of flowers who help them via cryptic information as they give them items. However, they consider humans weeds, so they have to be careful. Akira notices vowel smoke in the air after the counsel with the flowers, and they follow it, revealing it is a blue caterpillar by the name of Absolem. Absolem instructs Alice to recite a poem, but do it incorrectly from the book, and when she does he tells her and her friends the cryptic information "One side makes you larger and one side makes you small" of their mushroom (to which Akira adds "And those that mother gives you don't do anything at all.") Akira and Alice each try the right side of the mushroom, and while the latter grows huge, the former's *neck* grows out of proportion, causing a bird in the tree to consider him a serpent.

With the right combination of mushroom, the gang is able to return to their normal size. They soon come to a forest full of signs, which the Cheshire Cat gives them a clue on how to navigate the Lost Forest: listen for the music. Going one way, they end up at the Tea Party Garden to celebrate their unbirthdays with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Doormouse via a song. Following this tea party, Hatter teaches Skye the Mad Tea Cups Attraction and they go on their way. Going the other way, they find themselves in the Tulgey Wood, where they hear a song singing by someone other than the Cheshire Cat. It is revealed to be a Jabberwocky, a creature whose eyes burn in the night, and he is possessed by the Heartless alongside his friends the Jubjub Bird and the Bandersnatch. Following their defeat, Jabberwocky becomes their friend as Alice sees how silly he really looks.

As they reach the end of the Tulgey Wood, the path starts to become swept away by a broom dog, and Alice becomes worried she'll never find a way back as they set up the campsite and she sings a song that her new friends help her sing. They decide to have some dinner and shuteye to help calm Alice's nerves. However, in the middle of the night, the Cheshire Cat sings the Jabberwocky song, thus restoring her calm, and informs them to find the Queen of Hearts to find their way back. He reveals a shortcut to the castle as the gang goes through.

Once in the hedgemaze, they hear three card soldiers singing a song about painting the roses red, which they join in until the Queen of Hearts arrives. She sentences them to execution for planting white roses and painting them red due to a botched paint job. Alice is then put on trial for supposed theft of her heart, but her friends say otherwise and present their evidence. Enraged by this, the Queen orders them to be seized along with Alice, so they rush back to the Bizarre Room, where it is revealed that the Trickmaster was behind the attempted theft as it kidnaps Alice. After defeating the deranged Heartless, the Queen declares Alice innocent as the Doorknob yawns, revealing the Keyhole inside of him. Akira seals it with his Keyblade as a Navi-G falls out of it. Suddenly, Alice's sister Margaret and her kitten Dinah catch up to her, thanking Akira, Skye and Harlynn for protecting her. The trio then leave as the Cheshire Cat hands them a new Keychain.

During the end credits, Alice, Margaret and Dinah have tea at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party Garden with their new friends, including the Queen.

## Trivia

* As part of their cover for this world, Akira, Skye and Harlynn wear Victorian-style outfits themed around card suits, those being clubs, spades and diamonds respectively.
* In this series, Alice is not a Princess of Heart like she was in the original series; instead, this role has been given to Caitlin Sparkle.
	+ This is creator Mr. Wizard's decision.