story summary - minnie in wonderland
Looking back on some of my story ideas, I thought of a ‘sequel’ of sorts to my Oz story, as seen here. Skip forward a few months, and it turns out Minnie is forgetting her time in Oz, which upsets her greatly. For unknown reasons, every day it gets harder to remember names, places, and events that happened in that magical land. As she laments her woes, watching her school’s soccer game, the game suddenly gets interrupted as a handsome mouse boy dressed in white zooms right by everyone. Vaguely recognizing him, Minnie and Pluto take after the boy, who keeps shouting how late he is. They chase him until they suddenly find themselves falling down a rabbit hole, landing (and shrunk!) on a table.
The boy seemed completely oblivious to the upset he was causing, zig-zagging past players and plowing through the marked grass. He only looked ahead, feet moving faster with each passing second, although he did take a momentary glance at the large pocket-watch to his side. Even then, he did not stop, zooming around the agitated goalie, and hopping on the bleachers to get by. His attire hardly seemed fit for this self-marathon, a bright blinding white that was being coated with grass and dirt. With light shades of blue and ruffles adorning his wear, he looked more like he belonged at a royal ball than interrupting a soccer game.
Next to the table is a mirror, where Minnie’s own reflection has a life of her own. Mirror!Minnie says she’ll explain exactly what happened if Minnie ‘comes inside’. Minnie manages to step inside ‘the looking glass’, but Mirror!Minnie doesn’t keep her promise, and instead locks Minnie inside the new world, running off and planning to take over Minnie’s life. Then the all in white mouse boy runs by once more, and so Minnie and Pluto give chase again, until they find up inside of a vast forest. She bumps into a well-dressed dog, Goofy, and, vaguely remembering him as well, asks him for help in finding the boy. He agrees, but when they separate, she runs into Goofy again… who is now dressed in a different outfit, and claims to have never met her before.
"What is over there?" She asked, cautious, one hand resting on Pluto's head in an effort to keep him from growling.
"Answers to your questions." The other her replied cheerfully, hands behind her back, leaning forward. "And questions to your answers. What is here is everything and nothing, anything and something. Come over here, and I'll tell you what you want to be told. It's not like you have much choice else!" Laughing, she twirled a few times, ignoring the annoyed expression on her counterpart.
He agrees to help her, again, and when they separate, she finds him again, dressed as he did the first time! Much to her surprise, a second Goofy comes out - in short, there are two Goofys, twins! They are Tweedledee and Tweedledum, part of a traveling group of actors. They are headed toward the Tournament of Queens, hoping to perform and please the next upcoming Queen of Wonderland. It turns out there were originally only two queens of Wonderland, Red and White, but family feuds over the years led to all kinds of Queens - Red, White, Black, Hearts, Clovers, Spades, and Diamonds. Every year, they have a tournament, and the winner of the tournament is Queen of all of Wonderland for that year.
"I was helping the little lady look for the White Rabbit." Said the Goofy to the left, tipping his hat and twirling his arm.
"The White Rabbit is what the little lady was looking for when I was helping." Said the Goofy to the right, twirling his hat and tipping his arm.
Minnie's head was spinning, and she had to lean on Pluto for support. "Uh... yes...? You were? I mean... Oh, goodness, I don't even know anymore!"
"Aw, that's all right." Said the Left Goofy, giving a bow.
"We don't know nothin' either." Said the Right Goofy, saluting in support.
Learning that the ‘White Rabbit’, Mickey, is part of the tournament, Minnie and Pluto join the group to see the tournament. As she goes through the props, she finds the magical shoes from her adventures in Oz, and, upon wearing them, has her magic powers again! This greatly surprises the other actors, as only royalty can use magic. They arrive at the tournament, just in time to see the White Rabbit arrive as well, who explains to the attending audience how the brackets of the tournament will be broken up, and the rules - only one on one fights, use any magic you want, and whoever can knock off the crown of their opponent first wins and gets to proceed to the next round. The current ruler of Wonderland is the Queen of Hearts, Daisy, and she’ll be fighting to keep her position. The other contestants are Magica (Black), Morgana (White),Clarabelle (Hearts), Peg (Clovers), Drizella(Spades), and Cruella(Diamonds)[these are subject to change if I get better ideas for who suits them].
As Mickey continued to speak of the rules and brackets, Minnie continued to wrack her brain. Where had she seen him before? It was in a place far, far away, this she knew of... and she had the same feeling for Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and for the Red Queen... but none of it made any sense. Sighing sadly, she kept her eyes trained on Mickey, wishing her memories would work. But to anyone watching her, she appeared more as a wistful lover gazing upon her crush.
Then comes another shocker - the winner of the tournament will marry Mickey! As the Tweedles explain, every year a single White Rabbit is born, and they are the most powerful magic users in all the land. The winner of every tournament marries the White Rabbit who is of age that year. Daisy married the last White Rabbit, Gladstone, and is allowed to have as many husbands as she can win! This is also why the traveling actors are here. Their leaders, Jessica and Roger Rabbit, want to make the next Queen happy and try and convince them not to force the next White Rabbit to marry anyone, as Roger is the next one in line, and he doesn’t want to marry anyone but Jessica.
"But that means she'd have more then one husband!" Minnie pointed out, looking flabbergasted by such an idea. "Isn't that illegal?"
Jessica twirled the smoke leaving her pipe, sighing heavily. "So what? The Queens can have as many husbands as they want. I once heard that a former Diamond Queen had thirty-seven husbands." Forlorn, she placed a hand between Roger's ears, stroking him lovingly on the head. "Whereas I'd give anything for just this one. No one's ever refused the marriage, so we're working on a real miracle."
Minnie manages to sneak into Mickey’s place that night, and while he admits he doesn’t exactly recognize her, there is something familiar about her, and they become friends. He also admits he isn’t looking forward to marrying someone he doesn’t love, and wishes the entire system was done away with. The following day, everyone is shocked to find an extra name has been added to the roster! The Goofy Twins had signed Minnie up, saying that since she can use magic, she should be allowed to enter and become Queen. The other Queens are furious, but when Minnie shows that she can use magic, she’s entered in as the Queen of Mice. She becomes determined to win the tournament, so she can change the laws to help her new friends.
"We'll be rooting for you all the way!" Tweedledum grabbed Minnie's left hand, and shook it vigorously. Tweedledee grabbed Minnie's right hand, and did much the same. "All the way, you'll get rooted by us!" Then both boys lifted her up onto their shoulders, presenting her to the cheering crowd. She felt her cheeks flush at the sudden rush of adoration, but couldn't help smiling. If that many people believed in her, how could she fail? She came here looking for old friends... and was now in an entire world of new ones.
As days pass and the tournament progresses, Minnie becomes friends with a former servant of Daisy’s, Donald. He is the Mad Hatter, and worked under Daisy as her professional Hatter. He fell deeply in love with her, and asked for her hand in marriage, and she said she’d agree to it only if he solved a riddle. “How is a raven like a writing desk?” Alas, Donald couldn’t figure it out, though he tried every single day. When she married Gladstone, Gladstone kicked him out of the castle for good. Now he spends his days trying to solve the riddle, and Minnie decides that if she becomes the winner, she’ll use all of her resources to find the answer for him.
"That's an easy answer." Tweedledum patted his brother on the shoulder, who replied in turn. "We got it right away."
Mouse and Duck stared, looked at each other, then stared again. "You really did?" Donald asked, hope rising in his voice. "Then tell me! How is a raven like a writing desk?"
The twins shook hands, and then stretched out their arms, wiggling their fingers in their dynamic presentation. "It isn't!"
The silence reigned for only the briefest of seconds, before Donald yelled in sheer anger, and began to chase after the twins, yelling profanity that Minnie assumed made sense in Wonderland terminology.
Other characters come into play - Mortimer as the March Hare, an ex-boyfriend of Jessica who sets his sights on Minnie, and Pete as the Cheshire Cat who uses his invisibility to try and cheat in the tournament to help Peg win. Mickey isn’t allowed to have favorites, but naturally, Minnie keeps winning him over. She makes it to the semi-finals, but that fight is interrupted by the return of Mirror!Minnie, who says that the ‘real’ world is boring, and wants to take over Wonderland. The two girls fight, but its only when Minnie accepts all of her flaws that Mirror!Minnie is defeated and vanishes for good. She then wins the next fight, and in doing so is qualified for the finals. It’s Minnie vs. Daisy!
"How is this happening?" Daisy asked frantically, fanning herself in her worry. "What do we do?" When she didn't get an answer, she looked to Mickey, who still had a hand to his head, looking in a daze. "I said, what do we do? You're the Tournament Master, White Rabbit!"
He appeared to snap out of his trance, blinking several times. "Huh? ... Oh, sorry... I saw two Minnies, and... I thought I was having that dream from last Thursday... It was a very happy dream..." That awarded him a smack upside the head via fan.
Ran out of ideas at this point, but it was fun to come up with. I do so love Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass.
The boy seemed completely oblivious to the upset he was causing, zig-zagging past players and plowing through the marked grass. He only looked ahead, feet moving faster with each passing second, although he did take a momentary glance at the large pocket-watch to his side. Even then, he did not stop, zooming around the agitated goalie, and hopping on the bleachers to get by. His attire hardly seemed fit for this self-marathon, a bright blinding white that was being coated with grass and dirt. With light shades of blue and ruffles adorning his wear, he looked more like he belonged at a royal ball than interrupting a soccer game.
Next to the table is a mirror, where Minnie’s own reflection has a life of her own. Mirror!Minnie says she’ll explain exactly what happened if Minnie ‘comes inside’. Minnie manages to step inside ‘the looking glass’, but Mirror!Minnie doesn’t keep her promise, and instead locks Minnie inside the new world, running off and planning to take over Minnie’s life. Then the all in white mouse boy runs by once more, and so Minnie and Pluto give chase again, until they find up inside of a vast forest. She bumps into a well-dressed dog, Goofy, and, vaguely remembering him as well, asks him for help in finding the boy. He agrees, but when they separate, she runs into Goofy again… who is now dressed in a different outfit, and claims to have never met her before.
"What is over there?" She asked, cautious, one hand resting on Pluto's head in an effort to keep him from growling.
"Answers to your questions." The other her replied cheerfully, hands behind her back, leaning forward. "And questions to your answers. What is here is everything and nothing, anything and something. Come over here, and I'll tell you what you want to be told. It's not like you have much choice else!" Laughing, she twirled a few times, ignoring the annoyed expression on her counterpart.
He agrees to help her, again, and when they separate, she finds him again, dressed as he did the first time! Much to her surprise, a second Goofy comes out - in short, there are two Goofys, twins! They are Tweedledee and Tweedledum, part of a traveling group of actors. They are headed toward the Tournament of Queens, hoping to perform and please the next upcoming Queen of Wonderland. It turns out there were originally only two queens of Wonderland, Red and White, but family feuds over the years led to all kinds of Queens - Red, White, Black, Hearts, Clovers, Spades, and Diamonds. Every year, they have a tournament, and the winner of the tournament is Queen of all of Wonderland for that year.
"I was helping the little lady look for the White Rabbit." Said the Goofy to the left, tipping his hat and twirling his arm.
"The White Rabbit is what the little lady was looking for when I was helping." Said the Goofy to the right, twirling his hat and tipping his arm.
Minnie's head was spinning, and she had to lean on Pluto for support. "Uh... yes...? You were? I mean... Oh, goodness, I don't even know anymore!"
"Aw, that's all right." Said the Left Goofy, giving a bow.
"We don't know nothin' either." Said the Right Goofy, saluting in support.
Learning that the ‘White Rabbit’, Mickey, is part of the tournament, Minnie and Pluto join the group to see the tournament. As she goes through the props, she finds the magical shoes from her adventures in Oz, and, upon wearing them, has her magic powers again! This greatly surprises the other actors, as only royalty can use magic. They arrive at the tournament, just in time to see the White Rabbit arrive as well, who explains to the attending audience how the brackets of the tournament will be broken up, and the rules - only one on one fights, use any magic you want, and whoever can knock off the crown of their opponent first wins and gets to proceed to the next round. The current ruler of Wonderland is the Queen of Hearts, Daisy, and she’ll be fighting to keep her position. The other contestants are Magica (Black), Morgana (White),Clarabelle (Hearts), Peg (Clovers), Drizella(Spades), and Cruella(Diamonds)[these are subject to change if I get better ideas for who suits them].
As Mickey continued to speak of the rules and brackets, Minnie continued to wrack her brain. Where had she seen him before? It was in a place far, far away, this she knew of... and she had the same feeling for Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and for the Red Queen... but none of it made any sense. Sighing sadly, she kept her eyes trained on Mickey, wishing her memories would work. But to anyone watching her, she appeared more as a wistful lover gazing upon her crush.
Then comes another shocker - the winner of the tournament will marry Mickey! As the Tweedles explain, every year a single White Rabbit is born, and they are the most powerful magic users in all the land. The winner of every tournament marries the White Rabbit who is of age that year. Daisy married the last White Rabbit, Gladstone, and is allowed to have as many husbands as she can win! This is also why the traveling actors are here. Their leaders, Jessica and Roger Rabbit, want to make the next Queen happy and try and convince them not to force the next White Rabbit to marry anyone, as Roger is the next one in line, and he doesn’t want to marry anyone but Jessica.
"But that means she'd have more then one husband!" Minnie pointed out, looking flabbergasted by such an idea. "Isn't that illegal?"
Jessica twirled the smoke leaving her pipe, sighing heavily. "So what? The Queens can have as many husbands as they want. I once heard that a former Diamond Queen had thirty-seven husbands." Forlorn, she placed a hand between Roger's ears, stroking him lovingly on the head. "Whereas I'd give anything for just this one. No one's ever refused the marriage, so we're working on a real miracle."
Minnie manages to sneak into Mickey’s place that night, and while he admits he doesn’t exactly recognize her, there is something familiar about her, and they become friends. He also admits he isn’t looking forward to marrying someone he doesn’t love, and wishes the entire system was done away with. The following day, everyone is shocked to find an extra name has been added to the roster! The Goofy Twins had signed Minnie up, saying that since she can use magic, she should be allowed to enter and become Queen. The other Queens are furious, but when Minnie shows that she can use magic, she’s entered in as the Queen of Mice. She becomes determined to win the tournament, so she can change the laws to help her new friends.
"We'll be rooting for you all the way!" Tweedledum grabbed Minnie's left hand, and shook it vigorously. Tweedledee grabbed Minnie's right hand, and did much the same. "All the way, you'll get rooted by us!" Then both boys lifted her up onto their shoulders, presenting her to the cheering crowd. She felt her cheeks flush at the sudden rush of adoration, but couldn't help smiling. If that many people believed in her, how could she fail? She came here looking for old friends... and was now in an entire world of new ones.
As days pass and the tournament progresses, Minnie becomes friends with a former servant of Daisy’s, Donald. He is the Mad Hatter, and worked under Daisy as her professional Hatter. He fell deeply in love with her, and asked for her hand in marriage, and she said she’d agree to it only if he solved a riddle. “How is a raven like a writing desk?” Alas, Donald couldn’t figure it out, though he tried every single day. When she married Gladstone, Gladstone kicked him out of the castle for good. Now he spends his days trying to solve the riddle, and Minnie decides that if she becomes the winner, she’ll use all of her resources to find the answer for him.
"That's an easy answer." Tweedledum patted his brother on the shoulder, who replied in turn. "We got it right away."
Mouse and Duck stared, looked at each other, then stared again. "You really did?" Donald asked, hope rising in his voice. "Then tell me! How is a raven like a writing desk?"
The twins shook hands, and then stretched out their arms, wiggling their fingers in their dynamic presentation. "It isn't!"
The silence reigned for only the briefest of seconds, before Donald yelled in sheer anger, and began to chase after the twins, yelling profanity that Minnie assumed made sense in Wonderland terminology.
Other characters come into play - Mortimer as the March Hare, an ex-boyfriend of Jessica who sets his sights on Minnie, and Pete as the Cheshire Cat who uses his invisibility to try and cheat in the tournament to help Peg win. Mickey isn’t allowed to have favorites, but naturally, Minnie keeps winning him over. She makes it to the semi-finals, but that fight is interrupted by the return of Mirror!Minnie, who says that the ‘real’ world is boring, and wants to take over Wonderland. The two girls fight, but its only when Minnie accepts all of her flaws that Mirror!Minnie is defeated and vanishes for good. She then wins the next fight, and in doing so is qualified for the finals. It’s Minnie vs. Daisy!
"How is this happening?" Daisy asked frantically, fanning herself in her worry. "What do we do?" When she didn't get an answer, she looked to Mickey, who still had a hand to his head, looking in a daze. "I said, what do we do? You're the Tournament Master, White Rabbit!"
He appeared to snap out of his trance, blinking several times. "Huh? ... Oh, sorry... I saw two Minnies, and... I thought I was having that dream from last Thursday... It was a very happy dream..." That awarded him a smack upside the head via fan.
Ran out of ideas at this point, but it was fun to come up with. I do so love Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass.