Questioning the Caterpillar:

Gwen was disgusted by the dog's 'kind' gesture, but she shook it off.

"Umm.. Thanks." She said sarcastically.

"Hey it's the monster!" a flower yelled, pointing her leafy hand at the dog.

"It's just a dog. They're harmless… unless they are treated badly." Gwen explained and then dog just panted while eyeing her, which caught her attention. "What?" she asked.

The Chow Chow dog lowered its head and picked her up with its mouth!

"What the…! Hey put me down! WHAT ARE YOU… !? LET GO!" the goth girl yelled as the dog picked her up and threw her on to his back.

"Woof!" the canine barked happily and ran towards a path behind the flower garden with Gwen holding on tightly on to its fur.

The little dog ran very fast for a small being, but to Gwen it was like a speeding racecar! But then the dog suddenly stopped! The canine stopped at a city and a mountain in the middle with Koi pond and a Bonsai tree on top of it! Actually the place was very huge for Gwen. There were many Japanese and Chinese, basically Far Eastern, decorations littering the ground like boxes, games, toys, origami, etc., but the oddest thing about this place was a white smoke coming from the mountain… or was it mist or fog? Gwen didn't have the slightest idea.

She got off of the dog and eyed the odd place. It looked like a city! There was even a Tori gate with a Fu Dog statue guarding it. Only one Fu Dog…

Gwen was gawking at the city-like place that she didn't notice the Chow Chow pup was making its way towards the side of the Tori gate. Suddenly the dog turned in to stone with the same expression of the Fu Dog statue!

"What the Fuck!?" Gwen said as she just saw the dog's sudden transformation. She then looked back at the gate to see something that can turn you inside-out. There was a moth and bee ,hung by their necks ,on it! Gwen gasped at the morbid scene in front of her! The two insects' bodies were torn and bloodied that some of their limbs were missing!

Gwen then looked at the city behind the Tori gate, the place was also bloodied and burned as if it was just under attack. The goth girl cautiously approached the city. She noticed that some the houses were made from Chinese takeout boxes and the roofs were mushrooms and fungi.

"Where is everybody?" she asked herself, trying to find a living creature. "Hello!" she called out, only for an echo to answer her. She searched around the unusual area only to see that there wasn't anyone! All she could is more blood and more burnt houses. She wandered around and it felt like hours searching for anyone living in this creepy crawly city.

*Roar!*

Gwen heard a fearsome roar, coming from above. She looked upwards to see one of the dragon-esque dragonflies, she saw earlier, flying towards her!

"Crap!" she cursed and ran away as fast as she could. The monstrous insect was right on her tail, firing fireballs at her but missed. Gwen saw a path and took it only for it to be a dead end!

"Oh no!" Gwen shouted, which caught the dragonfly's attention, but suddenly an odd hand came from underground, grabbing Gwen's leg thus dragging her downwards!

"WHAO!" the goth girl screamed as someone or something dragged her down but it also caused her to faint in the process.

A few minutes later:

Gwen was starting to wake up and she could hear voices!

"Is she the chosen one?" an unknown voice asked.

"Our savior is here?" another voice asked.

"Ooh! My head." Gwen clutched her head in pain and her eyes began to adjust the figures that were forming around her. They weren't human!

"What the hell!?" Gwen yelled and backed away into the wall! The figures were truly not human! They were ants! Ants the size of an adult human! They wore traditional Far Eastern clothing and the place they live in looked like a shrine or a dojo.

"She's too scrawny to be of any help." A male ant said, examining Gwen's figure.

"Don't be rude! It's the caterpillar who foretold her arrival and only he can know." An elderly male ant said, approaching Gwen. "Miss, you must go see the Caterpillar."

"What?" Gwen asked, obviously confused. "Caterpillar!? Jack did say something about a caterpillar." Gwen remembered the cat telling her about the caterpillar and that he'll explain everything. "Not to be rude, but who the hell are you!?"

Her question/outburst made the elder ant back away. "Well you see miss… We need you." The elder bug said.

"Need me? For what? I can barely help myself in this nightmarish world!" Gwen explained and half of what she said was true.

"The caterpillar foretold your arrival and only he can know if you are the one or not." The elder said. "Even so, we can't go to the caterpillar's resting place."

"Why? What's wrong? I need to see this Caterpillar. Chess told me to see him!" Gwen insisted.

"We're sorry, miss. Our grove has been attacked by those monstrous dragonflies and the samurai wasps. If we as much set foot outside our hiding place they'll kill us mercilessly." A younger male ant explained to the goth girl.

"Can't you fight them!?" Gwen said.

"We're sorry, but we're pacifists which means we never fight." The same ant said once again. "Besides when the caterpillar created this mist nobody was able to attack us. The mist protected us, but now it's lifting."

Gwen just stared at the insects and started to absorb everything they said. They think she's some kind of a chosen one sent to save from a group of evil bugs and she needs them to see the caterpillar so she save herself from this horrendous world.

"I need to see the caterpillar." Gwen demanded with persistence.

"We would take you to him, but we can't leave, miss. You must unders…" the elder ant was then interrupted.

"But she's the only one who can leave." The younger male ant said.

"What do you mean?" the elder asked.

"Come with me." The ant signaled Gwen to follow him.

The two reached some kind of a stable. There were large grains and oats but they're obviously small for a normal horse to eat.

"Hello there." The ant greeted someone. Gwen then looked at him to see that he was petting a horsefly! It looked like the ones she saw in Tulgey Wood when she came.

"This horsefly shall take you to the caterpillar." The young ant said.

Gwen looked skeptical at his idea but was does she have to lose.

"Fine." She said.

"Okay, be careful of the wasps and the dragonflies. There were many insects in this grove but they have all died or were enslaved." The insect warned.

The goth girl rode on the horse-like insect. She was actually nervous since she never rode a horse that flies before.

"Okay, let's go!" Gwen said, the horsefly neighed and flew causing Gwen to scream a little from the sudden take off.

"Okay Gwen. Be confident, this is all just a dream! You can't get seriously injured in dreams." Gwen said, giving herself some pep talk. She adjusted herself on the horsefly's saddle and grabbed its bridle.

"Okay, take me to the caterpillar." Gwen commanded the equine-like insect.

The horsefly flew as fast as it could. Gwen was really amazed; she looked down to see the wondrous view under her. "This is amazing!" she said to herself.

*Droning Buzz*

She heard a loud buzzing sound from behind her. She looked to see a group of flying wasps, wearing masks and armors, and dragonflies chasing her.

"OH CRAP!" Gwen yelled. "COME ON! FASTER!" she yelled again and tried to make the horsefly fly faster.

"Rraaaah!" One of the archer wasps roared and began firing flaming arrows, even the dragonflies even shot fire at the girl and the horsefly. Fortunately for the two they managed to dodge every arrow and fireball, but the villainous bugs were still on their tail.

"PLEASE! GO FASTER!" Gwen pleaded, trying to encourage the equine-like bug to fly faster but with no avail as the insect was flying as fast as its wings can carry it.

"RRAAAAHH!" A loud roar came from in front of them! It was a large armored wasp, carrying a large, sharp naginata! The armored wasp readied his weapon to attack them!

Gwen noticed this and quickly grabbed the horsefly's bridle, pulling it to the left! Lucky for them the wasp missed.

"PHEW! That was close!" Gwen said in relief. "Whoa!" suddenly the horsefly flew to another direction. The equine was heading towards a small crack in the mountain and the wasps were still chasing after them!

The goth girl and horsefly managed to get inside the crack but the wasps were too big to fit in the narrow crack. Gwen could see a white light to where they were heading, it was getting brighter and brighter, till they reached it!

*NEIGH!*

The horsefly sent out a frightened neigh and suddenly stopped causing Gwen to fly off its back and on to the ground!

"OOOFF! OWWW!UGH!" Gwen yelped in pain as she rolled a few times on the ground. "OOH! Horsefly!?" the pale girl yelled at the insect, almost crying from the pain she just endured, her new bloodied dress was a little torn and covered in dirt. The girl started to get up only to notice that horsefly was acting… weird.

*NEIGH!**SNORT!*

The horse-like insect was neighing, snorting and kicking but he never moved an inch closer to the girl.

"Horsie! Come on! Let's go." The goth demanded but the horsefly didn't leave its post, still neighing and bucking. "What's wrong with you!?" she asked but the horse couldn't answer her if it wanted to. She looked behind her and saw large hanging cages with dead and live insects in them! "Oh. My. God." Gwen said monotonously, creeping closer to the grotesque cages. She mostly focused on a cage very close to the ground, there was a mantis inside! The green insect looked like it was praying. Sure it was a praying mantis, but this was chanting as well.

"Excuse me." Gwen said politely, not wanting to frighten the mantis.

"Hello." The green bug greeted monotonously with a frail voice.

"Hi, what is this place?" Gwen asked looking around this dreadful place.

"We were servants of the great Caterpillar. This was a shrine dedicated to him in order to pray for him and the marvelous deeds he did for our sake." The mantis explained with a sparkle in his eye but it suddenly turned dark. "But those awful monsters have taken over our garden and turned it into hell! It's bad enough they burned it down, abused and tortured us now they let their spawn feed on our rotting corpses!" the mantis pointed at some of the cages with dead insects and others had barely live ones. "If only caterpillar was still here!" the mantis wished, tears forming in his eyes.

The last part intrigued Gwen. "Excuse me, where is the caterpillar!? I need to speak to him!" the pale girl said.

"I don't think searching for him will do you any good. He abandoned us." The bug explained.

Gwen's eyes widened! Why would those ants send her here if the caterpillar is gone!? "That's impossible! The ants told me to come here." She explained.

"Those poor misguided insects. They still believe that the caterpillar is still in his shrine creating the mist that shall shroud our grove and protect us from any evil." Mantis said. "I'm sorry but the caterpillar is gone ever since the evil queen took control of Wonderland."

Gwen couldn't believe what she was hearing! She was shrunk into the size of an ant, then had to escape a monster flower, then was chased twice by wasps and dragonflies and all is just… lost!

"NO! TELL ME WHERE HE IS!" Gwen yelled as she lost all her coolness, but the mantis clamped her mouth, shushing her.

"Shush! You wanna get killed!?" the mantis whispered. "I'll tell you where he lived but I don't think it will help much… He lives a little far from the shrine in the north. You must climb up and go straight, and then you shall see glowing mushrooms. There you might find him." The mantis explained.

*STOMP!*

Something large suddenly landed behind them!

"OH NO!" the praying mantis yelled with his eyes widening in fear!

"You!" Gwen recognized who it is! It was the naginata-bearing wasp! The armored insect was carrying the horsefly's decapitated head, showing it to Gwen! "OH MY GOD!"

"RAAAHH!" the evil wasp roared ready to strike the frozen goth girl with his giant weapon.

"RUN!" the mantis yelled at Gwen, snapping her back to reality. The pale girl ran towards the cliff face and began to climb as fast as she could. Gwen reached the top only to see a group of archer wasps, following and firing at her!

"OH CRAP!" Gwen cursed as she ran for dear life! "WHERE THE HELL IS THAT CATERPILLAR!?" Gwen yelled in her mind, but then something caught her eye. Giant glowing mushrooms! "That must be it!" Gwen exclaimed, and made her way towards it, losing the insects that were chasing her. "So where's the caterpillar!?" asking herself looking around. She noticed that there were large cracks on the ground… with white smoke coming out of it?

*Crumble!*

"Huh?" Gwen looked down to see the ground was crumbling! "WHAO!" she fell in screaming! Fortunately she landed/tumbled on mushrooms that were in the hole.

"Ooh!... I wonder if this place will be easier on my ass." Gwen said to herself, rubbing her sore butt.

"Not hardly." A deep voice said, causing Gwen to jump.

"Who.. Who said that!?" Gwen interrogated, looking behind her to find a very large cocoon with a giant hookah next to it and an even larger mushroom under it. The goth girl looked at the cocoon curiously. "This place is getting curiouser and curiouser… If that's even a word." The girl muttered to herself, approaching the cocoon, carefully.

She noticed that there was a face under the cocoon's silk. The creature's eyes suddenly opened starling Gwen!

*Gasp!* the girl gasped as she saw the enormous being suddenly wake up! "Did.. you.. just… talk!?" Gwen asked/stuttered.

"Who would it be then, stupid girl?" The creature insulted.

"HEY!" the goth girl yelled. She would've retaliated but she noticed that the thing she was talking to was… "Are you the caterpillar?"

The giant being looked at her from under his silky cocoon, he noticed that she had gone through much since her bloody blue has been torn and covered in dirt. "Yes and no." the insect answered.

The girl stared at him, apparently his answer confused her. "What?"

"I already answered your question. Your other question is not clear." Caterpillar said.

"I meant what did you mean, by yes or no to my first question?" Gwen said until realization hit her. "What the hell did I just say!" she muttered, frustratingly. She had no idea what she just said.

"You?" Caterpillar asked, and suddenly his head was getting out of the cocoon, reveal only his face.

Gwen stared wide-eyed as she knew who it was! "CHRIS!?" (A/N Yeah, I know I wrote Geoff would be the caterpillar, but one of my buds told me to make it Chris since he and the caterpillar share some quality and are opposite in some. He's wearing the same costume he wore in TDWT in China.)

"Who are you?" he asked with colorful smoke coming from his mouth.

"*cough!**cough!*" Gwen coughed and tears came out of her eyes when the smoke hit her face. "Could you.. please.*Cough!* do that!" Gwen said, trying to inhale some air.

"Then answer." The bug said nonchalantly.

"I hardly know who I am after everything that happened. I don't know if I'm a friend or foe to anyone in the wretched world." Gwen explained.

"First you make your own path and now you allow others to make that path for you… This is not like you." The caterpillar said, sternly.

Gwen was puzzled; she didn't quite understand what he meant. First he asks her who she is and now he tells her how she did or should act!?

"Will you ever make sense!?" the girl yelled.

"Keep your temper." Caterpillar said calmly, angering Gwen in the process. "Maybe then you shall accept your mistakes."

"What mistakes!... Jack did say I made a mistake, but I haven't!" the goth girl defended.

"Everybody makes mistakes and you are no exception." The caterpillar said wisely. "You wouldn't be here if you hadn't committed any. You are here because you're hiding from them."

Gwen knew he was right, but she didn't want to admit it plus she didn't exactly know what mistakes she had made to be transported into this sick and twisted world.

"What did I do to deserve this!?" she asked.

"You must help Wonderland!" the caterpillar said.

"Please don't change the subject!" Gwen said, trying to keep her head on with this whole situation.

"I am not. Save wonderland and you shall save yourself." The wise insect said.

"How can I save this place if I can't save myself from it!?" the goth girl asked, nonsensically.

"You mustn't hide from the problems you've caused. Accepting it is the goal. Jack did say that to you and you didn't listen to him because he resembles someone you don't like in your world and I can see you're not trusting me since I resemble someone you despise." The Chris-like caterpillar said wisely. "And I bet you'll do the same to the queen."

What he said was true. She hated Chris but she was mostly annoyed with Cody.

"By the way, who is this queen, how can she rule this horrid place!?" Gwen asked, as she remembered the queen that was mention by practically everyone she encountered in this world.

"She was someone you once knew and loved." The bug explained, making Gwen look at him awkwardly.

*Rumble!*

"What the….!" Gwen yelled as she felt the earth shake.

"Well, I'm off to a new life." The caterpillar said, struggling to get out of his silky wrapping, causing the hole to shake.

The pale girl stared in amazement as the caterpillar, which is not a caterpillar anymore, emerged from the cocoon turning into a gigantic colorful butterfly with smoke flying all around him. The wise butterfly flew out of the hole in great speed and Gwen could hear his echoed words. "By the way, smoking stops your growth but the mushroom is what made me grow into this enormous size. One side will make you grow taller and the other shall make you grow shorter." The wise insect hinted and flew away.

The pale goth girl looked down at the glowing mushroom. "One side will make tall and the other will make me short, but… which is which?" asking herself, and took a piece from each side. "After all this I don't think I should… OH to hell with it!" and ate from the left piece.

WHAO!

Gwen screamed/roared as she ascended to the sky! "OH GREAT!" she roared, scaring some creatures in woods. Her dress was almost ripped but still was in one piece. She then took a bite out of the right one and she grew small very fast!

"Oh! I wonder if I will ever understand how these things works.

*Snap!*

Suddenly something sticky hit and pulled her somewhere!

"UGH! What's happening!?" she yelled, only for an echo to answer. She looked around to see darkness and….

"TEETH!? I'm in a mouth!" Gwen yelled, she still held on to the mushrooms and ran to the front of the mouth. "Okay let's try it one more time!" she encouraged herself and licked the left piece.

PTOOEY!

Gwen has been spat out and was covered in saliva, which disgusted her, but she shook it off as she saw who ate her.

"BILL!" Gwen yelled to see the lizard was here! Well I guess that's realistic since she sneezes him out of the rabbit's house.

The Tyler-like Lizard was gagging and choking when he spat out the growing girl. "Who… are.. you?" he asked choking a little.

"My name is Gwen. I met you when you were at the Rabbit's house." Gwen explained.

"Really?! I haven't seen you." Bill said.

"Well I was that monster." Gwen said.

A/N: Not one of my best chapters. I hated it. I was just trying to wrap it up. Please forgive me if it's not good.