Episode 537.b Bubble Guppies: Molly in Wonderland! (Part 2)

Plot
Nineteen-year-old Molly returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end Hypletta the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Cast

 * Molly as (Alice Kingsleigh)
 * Gil as (Mad Hatter)
 * Hypletta as (The Red Queen)
 * Oona as (The White Queen)
 * Chuckolaptor as (Stayne the Knave of Hearts)
 * Pablo as (Tweedledee)
 * Brett as (Tweedledum)
 * Mr. Grouper as (The White Rabbit)
 * Nonny as (The Cheshire Cat)
 * Mr. Grumpfish as (The Blue Caterpillar)
 * Deema as (The Dormouse)
 * Goby as (The March Hare)
 * Bubble Puppy as (Bayard)
 * Mr. Gentilella as (Charles Kingsleigh)
 * Mr. Gordon as (Lord Ascot)
 * Mrs. Gentilella as (Helen Kingsleigh)
 * Mrs. Gordon as (Lady Ascot)
 * Hauntsworth as (Hamish)
 * Mrs. Daniels as (Aunt Imogene)
 * Ashlie as (Margaret Kingsleigh)
 * Tobias as (Lowell)
 * Dolly as (Faith Chattaway)
 * Lolly as (Fiona Chattaway)
 * Dragon as (The Jabberwocky)
 * Fish, Lobsters, and Crabs as (Other Characters)

Information

 * Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
 * Rating: PG. There is a bit of kissing and nudity, some violence, a bit of humor, a bit of smoking, and some scary scenes.
 * Type of film: Fantasy
 * Love Couples: Molly x Gil

Trivia

 * This is based on the 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland!" You can read about it on Wikipedia and IMDb.
 * There are both regular and fanon characters in the story.

Story
Start of Part 2.

(Scene: Round Hall)

(Finally, after what seems like hours, WHAM! She hits bottom, smacking her head on a wooden floor.)

Molly: Ah!

(Wind knocked out, she grasps for air, then she sits up, rubbing the bump on her forehead. She's in a round hall with many doors. She gets up and tries a door. It's locked. She tries another one and another. She knocks.)

Molly: Hello? Hello! Anyone there?

(No answer. She moves around the hall. Every door locked. She sees a three-legged glass table with a small key sitting on top. She picks up the key and tries it in a door. It's too small for the lock. She tries it in a few doors, too small. She comes upon a curtain and pulls it aside to reveal a little door about two feet high. She tries the key in the door. It fits. She opens the little door and bends down to look through to the other side. She sees a garden with a fountain. She tries to fit through the door, but her shoulders get stuck. She pulls back. Stumped, she goes back to the table and replaces the key. But now there's a bottle on the table. She looks for the person who put it there.)

Molly: Is someone here?

(She looks at a label. "DRINK ME." She sniffs the contents, recoils, then shrugs.)

Molly: It's only a dream.

(She takes a drink, shudders, gags and coughs from the taste. In a moment, she notices that the table is getting larger.)

Molly: That's curious.

(Molly shrinks to two feet high. The doos loom above her. She takes a step and trips on her now-oversized clothes. Dragging them behind, she tries to open the door. But it's still locked. She groans as she realizes what she's done. She goes back to the glass table where she can see the gold key sitting on top. We hear voices as they watch Molly through a keyhole.)

Voice 1: You'd think she would remember this from the first time.

Voice 2: You've brought the wrong Molly.

Voice 3: She's the right one. I'm certain of it.

(Molly attempts to climb the table leg, but gets tangled in her too-big clothes and slides off. She notices a little box under the table. She looks around for the unseen person.)

Molly: If this is some sort of prank, I am not amused!

(She opens the box. It's a cake with "EAT ME" written out in ornate icing. She considers, looks up at the key high above on the table. She takes a tiny taste of the cake. She takes another bite. WHOOSH! She shoots upwards rapidly. Her clothes fit again, but she keeps growing. Buttons pop, seams are strained and her skirt gets shorter. The ceiling gets closer... her head grazes it! She stops. Relieved, she bends down and picks up the gold key. Crouching, she goes to the little door and fits the key in the lock.)

Voice 2: She's the wrong Molly.

Voice 3: Give her a chance.

(She laughs at herself and goes back to the table. She picks up the little bottle and takes another swallow, shivers at the taste, then shrinks again to two feet high. Dragging her too-big clothes, she runs to the door, puts the key in the lock, opens it and steps through.)

(Scene: Garden In Underland)

(She enters a fantastical world. Underland is bizarre, illogical, often dangerous, absurd, and strangely beautiful. The garden is brown and tangled, its statues broken and overgrown. The mossy fountain is silent. Molly hears a bellow/sneezing sound as a green pig dashes past. The tall flowers have gaunt, haunted fish, crab, and lobster faces. Shabby, thin birds walk on stalk legs. Dragonflies, horseflies and enormous gnats do fierce battle in the sky above.)

Molly: Curiouser and curiouser.

Mr. Grouper: I told you she's the right Molly.

(She turns to see an Anteater with eye glasses and a walking stick, Mr. Grouper the Orange Goldfish, a young female girl, Deema, with mouse ears and huge, poofy, bright yellow 70's hair, and two orange hoop earrings, and two round boys with blue hair with their arms thrown over each others shoulders, Pablo and Brett are stitched on their collars.)

Deema: I am not convinced.

(Mr. Grouper throws up his hands.)

Mr. Grouper: How is that for gratitude? I've been up there for weeks trailing one Molly after the next! And I was almost eaten by other animals! Can you imagine? They go about entirely unclothed and they do their... shukm in public. I had to avert my eyes.

(The Flowers with Fish, Crab, and Lobster faces study Molly.)

Talking Flower Fish: She doesn't look anything like herself.

Deema: That's because she's the wrong Molly.

Pablo: And if she was, she might be.

Brett: But if she isn't, she ain't.

Pablo: But if she were so, she would be.

Brett: But she isn't. Nohow.

Molly: How can I be the "wrong Molly" when it's my dream? And who are you, if I may ask.

(Pablo shakes her hand, speaking very fast.)

Pablo: I'm Pablo, he's Brett.

Brett: Contrariwise. I'm Brett, he's Pablo.

Anteater: We should consult Mr. Grumpfish.

Talking Flower Crab: Exactly. Mr. Grumpfish will know who she is.

(Pablo puts out his arm to her.)

Pablo: I'll escort you.

(Brett pulls her away from Pablo.)

Brett: It's not being your turn.

(They tug her between them.)

Pablo: Leave off!

Brett: Let go!

Molly: Are they always this way?

Mr. Grouper: Family trait. (to Pablo and Brett) You can both escort her.

(Pablo takes one arm. Brett takes the other and Molly, Pablo, Brett, the Anteater, Mr. Grouper, and Deema start off. The fish, lobster, and crab-faced flowers gossip about Molly as they pass.)

Talking Fish, Lobster, and Crab Flowers: It can't be her. She looks nothing like Molly. She is not even wearing the right dress.

Molly: Who is this Mr. Grumpfish?

Mr. Grouper: He's wise. He's absolute.

Pablo and Brett: He's Mr. Grumpfish.

(Scene: Mushroom Forest)

(They enter a forest of tall mushrooms surrounded by mist.)

Grey Fish: Who are you?

(Molly can see a form ahead where the mist rises in a steady plume. It's coming from a hookah. There's a grey fish smoking it. Mr. Grouper pushes Molly toward him.)

Molly: Mr. Grumpfish?

Mr. Grumpfish: You're not Mr. Grumpfish. I'm Mr. Grumpfish. The question is... who are YOU?

(He blows smoke rings in her face. She coughs.)

Molly: Molly.

Mr. Grumpfish: We shall see.

Molly: What do you mean by that? I ought to know who I am!

Mr. Grumpfish: Yes, you ought. Stupid girl. Unroll the Oraculum.

(Mr. Grouper unrolls an ancient parchment lying on a toadstool.)

Mr. Grouper: "The Oraculum: Being a Calendrical Compendium of Underland."

(Molly looks. It's a timeline depicting the major events of each day.  Every day has a title and an illustration.)

Molly: It's a calendar.

Mr. Grumpfish: Compendium. It tells of each and every day since the Beginning.

Mr. Grouper: Today is Griblig day in the time of Hypletta the Red Queen.

(He points to the illustration. It shows all of them, including Molly, peering at the Oraculum, at that exact moment.)

Mr. Grumpfish: Show her the Frabjous day.

(Mr. Grouper turns the scroll further into the future.)

Pablo: Frabjous being the day you slay the Derp Dragon.

Molly: Sorry? Slay the... what?

(The illustration is animated. The Derp Dragon is tall as a dinosaur with reptilian wings, scales, long sharp claws, a pronged tail and a vest. It hisses! A Knight with long pink hair in chain mail fights him with a shining sword.)

Brett: That being you there with the Vorpal sword.

Pablo: No other swords can kill the Derp Dragon. Nohow.

Brett: If it ain't Vorpal, he ain't dead.

(As she swings the sword, she reveals her face to the readers. The girl is unmistakably Molly, with bloodlust in her eye. Molly backs away.)

Molly: That's not me.

Deema: I know!

Mr. Grouper: Resolve this for us, Mr. Grumpfish. Is she the right Molly?

(Mr. Grumpfish looks Molly in the eye.)

Mr. Grumpfish: Not Hardly.

(He blows smoke, obliterating himself from view.)

Deema: I told you!

Mr. Grouper: Oh dear!

Brett: I said so.

Pablo: No, I said so.

Brett: Contrariwise, you said she might be.

Pablo: No. You said she would be if she was.

Flower Lobster: Little imposter! Pretending to be Molly! She should be ashamed!

Mr. Grouper: I was so certain of you.

(They all glare at her as if it is somehow her fault.)

Molly: I'm sorry. I don't mean to be the wrong Molly. Wait, this is my dream. I'm going to wake up now and you'll all disappear.

(She closes her eyes and pinches herself. She opens them again. The animals are still there.)

Molly: That's curious.

(She pinches herself again. The animals just look at her.)

Molly: Pinching usually does the trick.

(Deema pulls a long sharp hat pin from her scabbard.)

Deema: I could stick you if that would help.

Molly: It might actually. Thank you.

Deema: My pleasure.

(She stabs her in the ankle with relish. Molly yelps. But instead of a small sound, a thunderous roar is heard and the Big Bad Wolf smashes through a high wall.)

Pablo: Big Bad Wolf!

(It has a huge furry body with the head of a rabid bulldog. Drool oozes from his squashed muzzle. His fur is caked with blood and filth. His teeth are shark like and broken, stained with blood. A foul stench emanates from him. Everyone scatters. But they're intercepted by red knights wearing Hypletta's crest: a heart in flames. The Knights capture the fleeing animals. A pig and a flamingo are caught and thrown into a caged wagon. The Anteater gets away. A Knight grabs Mr. Grouper by his leg, lifting him up.)

Mr. Grouper: Unhand me! I do not enjoy being...

(He's tossed into the caged wagon with the others.)

(Scene: Garden Path)

(Molly runs. The Big Bad Wolf thunders after her. She stops.)

Molly: Wait. It's only a dream. Nothing can hurt me.

(She turns around to face it. Deema watches from behind a tree.)

Deema: What is she doing?

(The Big Bad Wolf opens its drooling muzzle to eat Molly.)

Molly: Can't hurt me... can't hurt me.

Deema: Run, you great lug!

(Deema groans. She leaps onto the Big Bad Wolf, pulls herself up, hand-over-hand to its shoulder and drives her hatpin into its eye. It bellows! She tries to pull the hatpin out, but the whole eye pops out. The Big Bad Wolf howls and whips around raking Molly's arm with its long claws. She runs.)

(Scene: Mushroom Forest)

(A large hand with red birthmark reaches down and picks up the abandoned Oraculum. A boy with bright pink skin, black eyes with yellow pupils, and light pink spiky hair has a flaming red birth mark which covers half his face and hands. He looks through the scroll and sees something that alarms him. He tucks it into his saddle bag and rides away.)

(Scene: Crossling)

(Molly runs down the path, but it diverges in two directions. A road sign points south to "Snud" and east to "Queast.")

Brett: This way! East to Queast!

Pablo: No, south to Snud!

(He pulls her one way. Pablo pulls her the other. There's an ear-slitting screech. The enormous JubJub bird lands in front of them. It's part monkey-eating eagle and part ostrich. It makes a "jub'jub" sound as it snatches Pablo and Brett in its claws and takes flight. The JubJub flies over the barren red earth of Crims with Pablo and Brett in its claws toward Salazen Grum and the castle of Hypletta on the shore of the Crimsen sea. Her flag with the Heart in Flames flies atop the spires.)

(Scene: Hypletta the Red Queen's Great Hall)

(A long hall is lined with fish footmen with a crab butler. Hypletta's angry scream comes from behind closed doors. The doors bang open to reveal Hypletta the Red Queen. She has a huge oversized head, extremely large features, and bright red hair.)

Hypletta: Someone stole three of my tarts!

(She leans into the face of a fish.)

Hypletta: Did you steal them?

Footfish 1: No, your Majesty.

(She walks the row, studying the face of each fish. At the end, she whirls to leer into the face of one terrified fish.)

Hypletta: Did you steal my tarts?

Footfish 3: No, Your Majesty.

(She wipes a telltale bit of jam from the side of its mouth. She holds her finger up and sniffs the juice.)

Hypletta: Squimberry juice.

Footfish 3: I was so hungry!

Hypletta: Off with his head!

(Red Knights converge on the guilty Fish.)

Footfish 3: No! Please! I have little ones to look after!

(The Knights drag him out. Hypletta turns to the Fish Crab.)

Hypletta: Go to his house and collect the little ones. I love caviar on toast points almost as much as I love tadpoles.

(The crab butler suppresses his revulsion and anger.)

(Scene: Throne Room)

Pink spiky haired boy: Majesty?

(Hypletta's face lights up to see him. She turns flirty.)

Hypletta: Chuckolaptor Stayne... you knave, where have you been lurking?

(She holds out her hand. He kisses it, barely. She sighs.)

Chuckolaptor: Majesty, I found the Oraculum.

(He lays it on a table and rolls it out.)

Hypletta: That? It looks so ordinary for an oracle.

Chuckolaptor: Look here. On the Frabjous Day.

(This part is unfinished.)