Wally's Wonderland

Chapter 6

Liv wakes up, buried in a pile of wood. She gets up, feeling pain all over her body, but relieved that she's still alive. She then remembers the gasoline cans she brought with her, and searches through the rubble, realizing that she lost them while being chased by Ozzie.

Now she just wonders what she's going to do.

While trying to figure that out, Liv looks around her surroundings. She's in a hallway surrounded by mirrors of all shapes and sizes. The blue lights on the ceiling flicker like strobes. Smoke fills the area. Liv takes a few steps around the place, trying to find an exit. But with all the mirrors around her, some having warped reflections, it would be impossible to find one. And sure enough, her search becomes rather difficult.

Liv begins to feel a little uneased by the atmosphere of the hallway, afraid if something might come out and get her. When she turns to her left, she sees, from the reflections of mirrors, what appears to be a tall rabbit standing behind her. She immediately turns, but nothing's there. She then hears the sounds of mechanical footsteps. She looks everywhere, trying to find where they're coming from. But there's still nothing. Just the countless reflections of herself.

Liv is scared shitless. Even though she knows what she's dealing with, it's still terrifying to know that she's got another danger out to get her. The footsteps start to sound like they're running up the ceiling above her. She looks up, and another animatronic drops down right in front of her.

She's a 6 foot tall lagomorph whose appearance can be best described as Lola Bunny if she was a magician. An hour-glass body covered in brown fur, large hippety-hoppity feet, long floppy ears, emerald-green eyes, and wearing a black leotard underneath a gold corset and white collar shirt, a crimson tailcoat, a black bowtie, white gloves, and a black top hat with a red stripe.

Her name is Rebecca Rabbit.

"Greetings. Care for a little walk around my funhouse?" She asks in an English accent and sultry tone.

"Uh... not tonight fuzz-face!" Liv shouts, raising her fist to punch Rebecca, but the hare cartwheels away before she could get hit, going out of Liv's sight. Liv tries to look for her. Footsteps run around her again, echoing through the misty void. Rebecca suddenly pops up again behind her.

"Aww, how cute. A scared and helpless little girl." The bunny says, folding her hands against her cheeks, and unnervingly widening her glistening eyes. "Don't tell me you're afraid of Rebecca Rabbit, are you my dear?"

She snickers maliciously. Liv can't handle this and tries to punch her again, but Rebecca jumps high, disappearing out of view once more. Liv looks around desperately. She hears the mad footsteps again. She could also see Rebecca running around from the reflection of the mirrors, but whenever she turns, the rabbit's not there.

And in case that hasn't driven her insane yet, Rebecca starts singing tauntingly:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are...

Liv searches frantically for the bunny. The footsteps and singing get louder and louder. Rebecca appears again and again and again on the mirrors, but is still not there in reality.

Liv's starting to lose her mind.

...Up above the world so high,

Like a sharp knife through the eye!

Liv suddenly gets grabbed by the throat, and she comes face to face with Rebecca again. The hare cackles as Liv lets out a bloodcurdling scream.

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The janitor arrives over at the funhouse. The place has a black, blue, and red color palette to it, decorated everywhere with stars, magic wands, poker cards, and other things relating to magic. Next to the entrance is a poster of Rebecca Rabbit.

The janitor, mop in hand, opens the red door and enters the lobby of the house. The walls are covered with black curtains. The floor has a red carpet all over it. Two blue doors leading to the house's devices. And a small stage where a specific animatronic is supposed to be standing on, is at the middle of the front wall.

All's quiet.

The Janitor's eyes scan the room. No signs of anything suspicious. That is until he hears a scream, and he sees that it came from one of the doors.

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Liv rushes into another room after escaping Rebecca, and finds a spinning barrel of fun. It's lit up with neon reds and blues. She stands there trying to figure out how to go through this without falling down. But then she hears the rabbit coming close, so she jumps in immediately, resulting in her tripping and flailing about inside the barrel. Rebecca arrives, looking upon the situation here.

"Silly little thing you are." She says. "Poppets your age are truly pathetic."

The bunny walks closer to the barrel, and right when she steps in it, she ends up rolling around alongside Liv.

Thankfully for Liv, she manages to advance forward and finally out of the spinning barrel, leaving the hare to get a serious headache.

Liv sees a door at the very end of the room, and immediately rushes to it. Before she could reach it, the door opens, and she ends up flying into the lobby and landing on the floor.

Liv rolls onto her back, coughing and gasping. She looks up. The janitor is staring her down. He was the one that opened the door for her.

"Oh hi!" She exclaims, getting up. "I didn't know they hired another guy like you. Thank god you're still alive. You have no idea what kind of shit I've gone through in there—"

The janitor doesn't let her finish and walks towards the exit and out of the funhouse.

"Hey! Hey wait!" She calls out, chasing after him.

The silent man heads back to Wally's Circus Show to continue his cleaning, but Liv yanks his arm to make him stop.

"Listen, you are in terrible danger." She explains. "You and... me now that I'm here... are gonna get killed by these monsters!"

The janitor ignores her and enters the tent.

"Oh for fuck's sakes!" She shouts, and then enters it as well.

Here she finds the man cleaning up the rest of the seats, as though nothing bad had happened. Wally and his mates have gone stationary again.

"Look pal, I don't think you understand. This is not a normal theme park." Liv tells him. She points to the puppets onstage. "Those dick-heads are going to kill us if we don't get out of here. And this place should be burned down because of them."

The janitor ignores her again and keeps cleaning.

"Hello! Do you not speak English?!" She shouts.

Still no response.

Liv groans, then looks back at the animatronics. She's expecting them to move, but they remain motionless.