Chapter 4: Tea Party part 1

"This is the entrance to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party Maze." Said the March Hare. "This maze is... it's larger than I thought." I said. "Indeed. The visual impact exerts a very demoralizing effect." Said Fu Hua. "It's alright, subject: (Y/N). We can still leave. The door's still open." Said Bronya. "Why did you say that? That's a cue for something terrible to happen when you say something too soon." Boom! A massive stone door closed with a resounding boom and sealed the way out. "......" "It's alright, subject: (Y/N). We can still go forward." Said Bronya. "Let's go, (Y/N)." Said Fu Hua. "Ok..." 'This is something Kirito would do. Just keep going.'

"Bronya? Aren't you good at smashing things?" I asked. "Da. Bronya is the only demolisher in the party." Answered Bronya. 'I would of liked to try smashing it myself with my earth power but I don't think I would be strong enough since I don't have Drago's Herrscher powers with me. I'm just gonna let the girls do it.' I told myself in my mind. But then Fu Hua came in. "I will try something else. Ki Avalanche!" "And then she focused all her Ki into a single blow." I said. Fu Hua's blow created a small crack on the stone door. The crack spread quickly and reduced the stone to a pile of rubble. "*cough* Is it done?" I asked. "It is done." Answered Fu Hua. "Subject Patrick, are we leaving?" Asked Bronya. "No. We can simply use the Sage's rock blasting skills and destroy this maze. But it would be considered cheating." I answered. "...you did not make this statement earlier." Said Bronya.

All of a sudden, something was coming. "Halt! Who goes there?" Shouted the March Hare but then I halted her. "Wait... that..." "Could it be?" "The Devine Key: Oath of Judah?" "Why would the Principle's Devine Key weapon be here?" Asked Fu Hua. "Quiet. I think it's trying to tell us something." I said. "What? You can actually hear the voice of the Devine Key?" Asked Fu Hua. "Hush..." "What did it say?" Asked Bronya. ""Twists and turns. Bounce and chum." That's what it said." I answered. "...... The Bronya believes subject Patrick made that up." "Its the truth! There was a voice speaking directly into my mind... it's gone..." "When was that?" "Watch out!" Fu Hua warned us. BOOM! Several massive stone doors closed with a resounding boom and sealed off all exits. "Great. Now we're really trapped in a room. What should we do?" I asked.

Bronya went to the stone door behind the Oath of Judah. "This stone door looks similar to the one before... but the Bronya thinks it is indestructible." Said Bronya. "Indeed, but nothing can stand before power uber-whelming. Ki Avalanche!" Shouted Fu Hua attempting to smash the stone door. But the stone door absorbed that disintegrating blow like a sponge. "This mystery door managed to absorb my hit and dissipated the DMG through the earth." Said Fu Hua. "Though we can break rocks, the earth remains eternal... this stone door is indeed indestructible." I said. "The Bronya said that at the beginning. We should disable some mechanism here..." "Bronya, do you think there's a mechanism here?" Fu Hua interrupted Bronya. "Well, it's pretty standard for Escape the Room games... There is definitely a solution to this puzzle. It would've boring if none of the guests made it to the party." I said. "Initiating search." Said Bronya. "Understood. We'll check these walls first." We began to examine the walls to find a mechanism.

We came up to another sign. "Every Green Snowperson has a story behind it. "Only the sincere person may pass." This is extra, super, duper, mega, ultra important." "I know every word on this road sign, but it makes no sense to me." I said.

We first checked the wall on the right. "No mechanism detected on this wall. Project Bunny, Fire!" Bronya used her Project Bunny and blew up the rock wall. The rock wall was reduced to a pile of rubble. "......and people say there's no shortcuts in RPG's. Well sometimes there are shortcuts. But still, smashing through things would be cheating and hacking." I said. "When the going gets tough, the Bronya gets going." Said Bronya. "......" I said nothing. We went up to the portal that was behind the wall. "Never expected the portal be hidden behind this wall." I said. "An exit that is too obvious will be a trap. Proceed with caution, subject Patrick." Said Bronya. I stepped on the portal but it didn't work.

"Hey, this portal did not activate when I stepped on it." I said. "......" Bronya said nothing. "Bronya... maybe you broke the portal when you destroyed the wall..." "......" Bronya rushed away. "Hey, come back here!"

We then checked the wall on the left. "No mechanism detected on this wall either. Project Bunny, Fire!" Bronya was going to use her Project Bunny again but then I stopped her. "Hold! Bronya, you could destroy the portal behind this!" "Hnnggh... subject Patrick keeps correcting the Bronya. The Bronya is upset." This made me feel bad for Bronya. "More like you're getting jealous of me. Perhaps we should look beyond the walls. Perhaps the mechanisms are on the floor." VWOMM... The wall opened. "Wow. It's open." Fu Hua was surprised. "See." I said. "Hnnggh......" It felt like Bronya was getting angry and envious of me. 'Now Bronya is really getting upset and jealous of me. I don't know what to do. Without Drago, I don't know what to do to ease Bronya. For now we must keep moving. Maybe her jealousy will ease as we keep going.' I spoke to myself before moving forward with the others following me.

We stepped on the portal then teleported to another spot. We found some treasure along the way and it seemed to ease Bronya's jealousy. What eased her more was another portal she found. "Another portal array, Subject Patrick." Said Bronya. I suddenly noticed that Fu Hua wasn't feeling good. "Bronya, I need a break. I feel nauseous." Said Fu Hua. "I got it. "Twists and turns. Bounce and churn." Portal jumps would be key in this maze." I said. "So... we'd be teleporting to random places first..." Said Bronya. "Exactly. I really want to tests this theory out, but look at Fu Hua... she's in terrible shape. We should take a break." "BLEGH~~~" Fu Hua threw up. We settled down for a break. I took out my journal to write another entry in.

Personal Journal: We figured out that we were in the story of "Alice in Wonderland" only in an RPG video game style. Most of us have been given roles of the characters from the story like in "Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle" where the main characters became their chosen characters in the game when they got sucked into Jumanji. And kind of like in season 4 episode 6 of "My Liitle Pony: Friendship is Magic" when the main six became the Power Ponies and Spike became Humdrum. Going through with getting sucked into a video game brings me back memories when I watched "Spy Kids 3-D" with red and blue 3D glasses and when I watched the first and second seasons of "Sword Art Online." I also still have memories of watching the original "Jumanji" with Robin Williams. When I first came to St. Freya High, Bronya challenged me to some Video Games and Bronya made me her rival after thinking that I'm worthy at being her rival in Video Games.

Later: After Fu Hua was finally feeling better, we went through the portal array that Bronya found and got to another location. There we found a chest. "Chest located." Said Bronya. "Hmm... this seems like somebody's signature." I said. "And since it's kept in a chest, it should be something of value." Said Fu Hua. "Subject Patrick, we should bring it along." Said Bronya. "Received: [Red Queen's Signature] x1." The system spoke. We took another portal platform and ended up back where we started. Then we came up to a Rhyming Tree with a red star on top. "What... what are you holding?" Asked the Rhyming Tree. "Someone's signature, obviously." I said. "It's the Red Queen's signature! KYAAA! Oh, I'm dead." Then the tree dispersed into nothingness. "The Red Queen put her signature on this. Nobody should be a stupid fan like this, everyone. This should serve as a warning not as an item belonging to someone famous or infamous." I said.

A portal platform was revealed behind the tree after it dispersed. We stepped on it and it took us to another location. "BLEGH~~~" Fu Hua threw up again from teleporting so many times. "Huh? Where is this place?" Asked Bronya. "Strange. I thought we reached the end point." I said. "We made so many jumps already. We should be close enough. Let's continue." Said Bronya before Fu Hua threw up yet again. "BLEGH~~~" 'Fu Hua can't handle teleportations. She should take something to help her not get sick from going through teleportations.' I told myself in my mind.

We defeated a few monsters that came out way then got an item from a chest called Password Scroll. We defeated more monsters then after finding another chest we came across a green HOMU Snowperson. Fu Hua charged in then unleashed a storm of punches while saying Jotaro's "Ora." "ORARARARARARARARA!!!" But had no effect. "Dumb girl. Your Onslaught won't work on me." Said the HOMU Snowperson. "Then how about this?" I went up next and fired a flamethrower of fire at full power but the HOMU Snowperson didn't melt at all. "Ha! Your fire won't melt me dumb boy." The HOMU Snowperson insulted me. "Fu Hua's Shi-Ki Onslaught isn't denying that thing. Nor are my flames. This totally doesn't make sense. What the h***." I said. "Hah! I'll tell you something. I have transformed into something else." Said the HOMU Snowperson.

"I guess the Snowperson has gained immunity to our attacks, but..." "But?" I asked. "Snowpersons will give way to a BBQ roast. We just need to find a fire." Answered Fu Hua. "Still doesn't explain why my flames didn't work." "Probably because it's also immune to fire coming from humans." "Guess that might explain why. Did we find any torch along the way?" "No, but we can try finding it now." We stepped onto a portal tile that was nearby and teleported to another location. We came to a stone door that could only be unlocked with a spell.

"A stone door that can only be unlocked with a spell?" Asked Fu Hua. "Patrick, that scroll we received should be of use. Try reading it." Said Bronya. "Ok Bronya. I'll recite the magic spell from the scroll." I said before taking out the scroll and reading it out loud. "May reality shatter! May your mind scatter! Thus spake the Mad Hatter! Undo the seal!" VWOMM... The stone wall disappeared like magic. Then we went in and found a torch. "Received item: [Torch] x1." The system spoke. Now that we had a torch, we can now go and teach that Snowperson a real lesson.

But before we did, we noticed that we were beyond the stone wall that blocked our way before. "Isn't this the first stone wall that blocked our way?" Asked Fu Hua. "It would seem like it." I answered. "Never expected the portal to the next area to be right behind that wall." Said Bronya. "I knew it. The host of the Tea Party is made of evil." I said. The wall disappeared then we went through the portal back to the HOMU Snowperson.

"What are you holding?" Asked the HOMU Snowperson. "A torch." I answered. "C***... I'm not afraid of you! I'm immune to that ORARARA thing!" "Oh really?" "I'll not complain about the time when you smashed my head with the Hammer of Truth." "Great." "Hey, don't come any closer! I'm powerful you know!" "Are you done yet?" "No." "I guess we can have a BBQ going." "Hey, what are you doing? AARRGH!" The Snowperson melted away instantly. Then we came up to get another stone wall.

"There's some treasure behind this wall." Said Fu Hua. "How would you know?" I asked. "Because I AM a Sage." "...this has gotta be the most useful role. And you can sense from long distances like I can but I can only sense living things and energy sources from long distances. But since I don't have Drago with me, I can't. What else lies beyond this wall?" "My Physical DMG spells wont bring this wall down." "Which means... opening this wall is another-item related quest." "Well, this riddle is this: "Only the sincere person may pass." Place your hand on this wall, and recite this in your heart..." "Alright. What should I recite?" "Phoenix is the hottest thing there is." "Ok I'll do it." I placed my hand on the wall and recited. "Phoenix is the hottest thing there is." VWOMM... The wall collapsed into a heap of unbelief. "......" "This is willpower."

We came to a portal that no longer works. "Hmm... I'm afraid the portal broke again." Said Fu Hua. "The Bronya refuses to be blamed for portal vulnerability to external trauma..." Said Bronya. "I need to punch a wall." I said. We noticed a person up ahead. "There's someone up ahead. Let's go ask. Greetings..." "I have been waiting for you. Sanada Yukimura, at your service." Greeted the person named Sanada Yukimura. "Ok. Let's do this. I am Patrick Ewing, freelance Knight from North America."

After fighting:
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"Ugh. I've been defeated. You can do whatever you want with me." Said Sanada Yukimura. "You're the one who started this fight. I was trying to ask for directions." I said. "I must revive my clan! I must recruit ten great warriors to oppose the Tokugawa army! I'm sorry, father. Your daughter Yukimura has failed you..." "What? Sanada? What are you doing here? What about the takeaway order?" The March Hare came up and asked Courier Sanada. "I have decided to stay put and seek the away of Truth..." "you got lost, right?" "For a month? I guess the takeaway is super moldy right now. So why work as a delivery girl if you're fighting against the Tokugawa army?" I asked. "I was trying to recruit the shop keeper to my banner." Answered Courier Sanada.

"I refuse. I am no samurai. I swing my blade in my Sword Pilgrimage for Better Desserts." Said the March Hare. "The delivery samurai-girl looks like a total fail. I should ask someone who won't be lost for a month." I said. "Hold. You are an impressive one to behold. Please let me join my blade with yours." Said Sanada Yukimura. "You can also say: Please take me out of this maze. But ok. You can come with us." I said. "[Courier Sanada] the hopelessly lost has joined your party." The system spoke. After recruiting another companion, we found 3 chests which gave us more treasure then we headed to the exit that was revealed and finally exited the floor to the next floor.

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