Wednesday, September 5, 2007

American McGee Alice by Rex (1st draft, incomplete)

Prologue
Two years after the adventure of Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Alice’s family was killed in a fire accident as she was the only survivor. She was arrested by the police as they suspects Alice is the prime suspect of the incident. The police starting to interrogate her intensely for several hours shortly after the arrest, but she remained silent throughout the interrogation. Unfortunately, the detective who is in charge with the investigation, Edward Atlas, find it difficult to believe her non involvement in the accident. Furthermore, he have discovered that Alice takes drugs for her long suffering schizophrenia; she also attempts to suicide during her time in the police cell room by cutting her own wrist with a piece of sharp metal she stole from a cellmate earlier. Therefore Atlas has no other choice but to hospitalise her in Rutledge asylum.

For five months in the Rutledge asylum, Alice has been treated in ways that can only be described as horrified; she gets her electric shock treatment every morning for two hours, followed by a six hours of solitary locked down completely with her hands tied up and blind folded to prevent her from trying to kill herself again.

At this stage, the staffs in Rutledge asylum as well as the police have listed Alice as an extremely dangerous person as she is emotionally and mentally unstable, not only she attempts to kill herself, but to kill anyone that is in contact with her. As for Alice herself, she is no longer the little charming and naive girl people previously known, her heart is now fully filled with vengeance and hatred towards the people who put her in this place. Moreover, she is now quick with knife plus all too eager to learn how to spread destruction as well as slay those who get in her way. But first thing is first, Alice needs to get out of Rutledge asylum alive!

Luckily for Alice, one of the security guard in the asylum called Thomas Spycer is obsessed with Alice’s physical appearance, and he is prepared to do anything to have sexual relationship with her. Unfortunately, Alice is fully aware of Spycer’s obsession towards her. In the following night, she seduced Spycer after he escorted Alice back to her cell room, with Spycer half-naked and his security equipments (including the stun gun) put aside, Alice strangled Spycer to death with her handcuff while he’s off guard. She slowly but carefully pushes the body off the bed, she then reaches for the key chain Spycer putted on the table beside the bed earlier and unlocked herself from the handcuff then head out the cell room. It is now twelve o’clock in midnight, the corridor is pitch black, with the darkness covering Alice’s movement, she arrives at the end of the corridor. Alice uses the key obtained from Spycer to unlock the door in front of her, which reveals a kitchen.

The kitchen is filled with insects crawling around on leftovers, a strong smell of rotten food in the air as well as raw meats scattered all over the table with blood dripping from the meats. But something has catch Alice’s attention, it is very large kitchen knife covered in blood, placed in the centre of the kitchen table. She move towards the table and pick up her first “weapon”, she then hears a familiar voice from behind.

Chapter One: Welcome to Wonderland
‘Your knife is sufficient but not always necessary, reject only when you must, and you may survive!”
Alice immediately turns around, and sees her old “companion”, the Cheshire Cat, sitting on the kitchen oven, with a grin on its face.
“Well, you certainly have changed quite a lot, cat.” said Alice.
“And you look a little bit out of shape too; I see you’ve been living quite a fascinating life in this place, enjoying your stay in Rutledge asylum?” the Cat reply.
“You won’t be pleased when you see how they are treating me here everyday. Alright, enough about this place, are you here to guide me to safety?” Alice asked.
“Unfortunately I am no tour guide my dear, especially when it comes to Rutledge asylum. However I do have a message from your old friend White Rabbit, as he would like you to return to Wonderland, and let me also remind you that you do need to make up your mind quickly as you don’t have a lot of time.” The Cat said.
“I don’t have a lot of time?” Alice asked.
Suddenly the alarms sounded. “Attention! We have an inmate on the run! Prisoner number 658300, white female, she is extremely dangerous! Use of deadly force is authorised!”
Alice can hear foot steps running outside the kitchen.
“Oh dear, that doesn’t sound too pleasant. So Alice my dear, if you decided to return to Wonderland, just head through the black door on your left. But if you choose otherwise, well then, I hope you enjoy the food they provide here in Rutledge asylum.” The Cat smiled, and then disappears.
With the sound of foot steps outside of the kitchen getting closer, Alice has no other choice but to enter the black door. She quickly approaches and opens the black door, but unable to see anything as red fogs inside the black door prevent her from seeing any further, and then she closes the door without second thoughts. However, as soon as Alice close the door, she is beginning to feel really painful with her whole body, almost like being shot by a thousand nails from a nail gun.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!……..this pain is excruciating !!!! Make it stop!!!!” Alice cried out.
She eventually passed out due to the extreme pain………

After a while, Alice slowly wakes up and becomes conscious, she looks around, and realise she is now in Wonderland. Only this time Wonderland is completely different compares with her previous visit here. The sky is covered by crimson clouds, rivers and lakes are filled with blood, human and animals nailed on a cross upside down with skin partly ripped off with organs clearly visible, ‘man’ with mechanic arms and little girl’s legs walking around the lakes.
“Please do hurry Alice, we are very late indeed!” The White Rabbit yelled.





3 comments:

Pear Jin said...

Rex, my man, you and your imagination do run wild. The wonderland in your narrative is not one i would like to go.

Bring on the gore, and make me squirm in my seat while I'm reading it.

However, I thought I'd like to see you to describe the suicide that Alice tried to do at the begininng of the story in more details?

I mean suicide and the wham bam, to the asylum.. well, it just seems too brief?

Maybe make it more convincing like what she tried to do to harm herself cause if it sounds too easy; lots of prisoners may 'pretend' to kill themselves thinking that will earn them the golden ticket to a mental institute then the jail?

Guo Fang said...

Wow, American McGee is ONE SICK PUPPY:

Alice gets schizophrenia.

Alice (is accused of) burning down the house, killing her parents.

Alice gets put in the mad house.

Alice gets electric shock treatment.

Alice seduces and kills Thomas Spycer the security guard. (Well done Alice, haha)

I'm loving it, LOL! Can't wait to see what happens next!

And to Pear Jin, from what I read, I don't think Alice was found gilty for burning down the house, it's just that the detective suspects it heavily. Plus, she went schizo before the death of her parents, so I don't think it's likely that she's faking being crazy to avoid jail.

And personally, I'd actually prefer jail to a mental institute (especially the one Alice is in, from what I read)...

Birdie said...

Definitely, you are the most violent one. You should to be the vampire slayer but not Buffy.

I really was a little bite upset by the story, even I am a feminist. Pear was right, you went too far, boy.