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History[]
Alice was born alongside her sister, also named Alice, within the Abyss after their mother was dragged into the darkness of the Abyss by the Chains of Conviction for her sin of being born with the eyes of Ill Omen. Alice was then embraced by The Core of the Abyss, whom was friends with Lacie, and it held Alice and her sister, 'smiling' at them happily.
Alice's age accelerated within seconds, as did her sister's, skipping over 13 whole years because of the Abyss' time-warping abilities. The Core of the Abyss then accepted Alice's twin as its vessel, and so Alice simply retrieved one of the two black rabbit dolls nearby, who had a consciousness shared between the two 'bodies', exiting the Abyss of her own accord.
Alice emerged from the Door to the Abyss.
When she emerged from the Baskerville Clan's Door to the Abyss with her rabbit, she bit its ear. Levi and Oswald, (who happened to be Alice's father and uncle,) greeted Alice. Alice stated that her rabbit was awake, which Levi hadn't understood, being more baffled by Alice's resemblance to her mother. After telling Levi and Oswald her name, Alice was welcomed with open arms to the Baskerville Clan.
Levi and Oswald kept Alice in Lacie's old tower following this. Levi visited Alice one day and she showed him a drawing she had made of her rabbit, whom she named 'Os'. Levi soon realized that she had named the rabbit after her uncle Oswald, and so Levi corrected the spelling of the rabbit's name, changing it to 'Oz' for Alice. Alice was ecstatic, and for the first time, the black rabbit felt happiness because he had been given a name. Seeing how Levi had used 'ore' when referring to himself, Alice decided that she would do the same after looking it up in a book, despite this being a masculine pronoun.
Alice often visited a junction in existence between Earth and the Abyss, where she met with her sister, now The Intention of the Abyss. The Intention followed Oz's example and went to Earth by switching bodies with Alice temporarily, which Alice allowed. At an unknown point, Oswald also gave Alice a pet cat as companion for when she felt lonely in the tower, and so Alice named the cat Cheshire. However, Cheshire bonded with her sister and not Alice herself, ironically.
Alice is locked up in a tower by Glen.
One day, about a month after her arrival on the Baskerville estate, Oswald visited Alice with a picnic basket, asking if she was herself because Alice's sister was not fond of him. Alice confirmed this and stated that she and the Intention had switched because she had known Oswald was coming to see her. Oswald reminded Alice not to speak in a masculine manner, and in response, Alice told Oswald that she would stop when he decided to. Oswald didn't know what to say to this, so he simply revealed that he had brought food for Alice. Alice was overjoyed to see that Oswald had brought her meat, and so she and Oswald ate together. Following this, Oswald left to sit by a small pond not far from what was now Alice's tower.
Alice was playing with her dolls, Oz and Cheshire when suddenly she heard something from outside. She rushed to the window to find a man with blond hair in a long braid had fallen from the tree beside her tower, with Oswald standing close by. Alice asked who the man was, and so he introduced himself as Jack Vessalius.
Oswald asked what Levi had told Jack about Alice, and Jack explained that Levi hadn't told him much of anything and that he didn't even know Alice's name, although he would have liked to hear it from Oswald himself. Oswald reluctantly told Jack and Jack exclaimed, telling Alice that she had a cute name.
Hearing Jack's voice, the Intention delivered to Oz a piece of Lacie that she had saved from the darkness of the Abyss. She asked Oz to take it into his body and deliver it to Jack as she was sure that Lacie wanted him to see it. Oz did so, absorbing the tainted piece of Lacie in his body within the Abyss, delivering it to his body on Earth, in return for Lacie giving him life by bringing him into the Abyss. Jack had only recently been allowed into Alice's tower, and suddenly he saw Oz crumbling from afar. Jack picked up Oz, and on contact he received all of Lacie's thoughts and feelings for him immediately. Alice saw Oz being destroyed as she entered the room, and so she called out for him, tackling Jack to the ground and asking him what he had done to Oz.
Jack was in shock from seeing Lacie's memories, thoughts and emotions, crying on the floor with a furious Alice on top of him. Oswald arrived, taking Alice off of Jack and asking what he had seen. Jack explained that he'd seen Lacie before asking Oswald if Lacie was gone and really couldn't ever come back. Oswald confirmed this, before taking Alice away to calm her down.
Alice reveals to Jack about "another Alice" in Abyss and her connections with that "another Alice"
Over time, as Jack and Alice spent more and more time together, Jack noticed how different her personality was, seemingly mirroring itself on certain days. Alice would have favorite colors and books one day, but then change her mind to exactly the opposite another day, and Cheshire seemed to be as close as he could be to Alice some days, but others he couldn't distance himself enough from her. Jack had finally realized that they were different Alices, and so when Alice controlled her own body and ran to Jack to hug him, Jack asked if she was his Alice or the other Alice. This made Alice laugh, and so she explained to Jack how she wasn't his Alice, yet she too was Alice and that she had a linked soul with her sister, who often used this to come from the depths of the Abyss to Earth.
Jack continued to meet with the Intention of the Abyss, and so he used her in order to open the Door to the Abyss during the Succession Ceremony of Gilbert, who was meant to succeed Oswald. Alice heard the Door open, and noted that it was followed by an explosion and a continuous earthquake, and so she waited for Jack to come, putting on one of the Intention's dresses in order to fool Jack. When Jack finally came, Alice acted innocently, asking why he was covered in blood and why there was an earthquake. Jack immediately grabbed Alice and asked her to use her power to stop Oswald's Black Winged Chains, explaining that Oz did in fact succeed in severing the Chains of the world, however Oswald's 'vile' Chains were interfering and Oz didn't have enough power to sever the Chains once more. Jack continued to plead to Alice before addressing her as the Intention of the Abyss.
Alice bluntly states that she understood now what Jack had Oz do. Alice sneers at Jack's surprise and laughs as she states that Jack must not have expected her to put on one of her sister's white dresses and wait for Jack. Alice pushed away from Jack and stated that since her sister wouldn't answer her, she needed to ask Jack, and so Alice started crying as she asked Jack what he'd done to Oz. Alice asked how Jack could be so unaffected, asking if he couldn't see Oz crying and screaming through his tears. Alice covered her ears as Oz screamed that he didn't want to kill or destroy, asking Alice to save him.
Jack asked who would give a damn, tackling Alice to the floor and ordering her to switch places with the Intention because Alice was no good. Jack continued to call for the Intention through Alice, and Alice felt that the Intention had heard Jack's plea. Alice told her sister not to come, but Jack continues to yell over Alice, saying that he needed Alice's sister to stop the Black Winged Chains or give more power to Oz. Alice called Jack a bastard for thinking about making Oz go through all his pain once again. At their junction, the Intention asked Alice to step aside and let her come over to Earth, but Alice refused, which the Intention questioned, telling Alice that she was just being unfair and that if Alice didn't move aside, the Intention would just force her out of the way.
Alice's suicide
Alice worried as she could feel the danger of the situation sinking in, and so she grabbed a pair of scissors off of the table nearby, using them to stab Jack in the arm so that she could crawl away. Alice asked Jack if he was trying to destroy the world using Oz's power, calling him an idiot for trying it. Alice stated that she'd never let that happen, before realizing that if things continued like this, the Intention would break through and Jack would succeed to destroy the world, further hurting Oz at the same time. Alice looked directly at Oz, thanking him for always being by her side since the very beginning, telling him not to worry because even though she and her sister were both Alice, Oz belonged to her, not the Intention. Alice stated that she wouldn't let anyone take away what's hers and that she would protect Oz with her own hands. Suddenly Alice plunges the scissors into her neck, committing suicide to prevent the Intention from being able to take over her body and give Oz more power to destroy the world.
Alice fuses with the B-Rabbit.
Alice's soul goes to the junction, where the Intention cries and screams over her sister's dying soul. Alice was happy to see her sister, but the Intention stated that they hadn't spoken in a long time because Alice had been ignoring her voice lately. The Intention apologized to Alice, but Alice told her that it would be okay and that she would just disappear from there. The Intention told Alice that she couldn't leave, because even if Jack couldn't get to her through Alice anymore, she'd still have to grant any wish he had. The Intention apologized for losing her composure before requesting that Alice destroy her memories so that she couldn't grant Jack's wishes anymore. Alice went to object, however the Intention takes on an ethereal form, possessing Alice's dead body, making it grab Jack's arm so that she could approach Oz through Jack to destroy her memories. Alice decides against allowing such a thing to pass, as she didn't want to force Oz to destroy anything else. Alice also took on an ethereal form, getting ahead of her sister and entering into Oz's body. Oz transformed into Alice, who then introduced herself as Alice the B-Rabbit.
Plot[]
Coming of Age Ceremony Arc[]
Alice in her demon form known as B-rabbit
When The Baskervilles attack Oz at his Coming of Age Ceremony, she appears in her B-Rabbit form, though Oz sees her as just Alice. She claims that Oz is her property and that no one is to mess around with her property. This starts a fight between Fang, herself and another Baskerville. Though she fights back hard, Oz slashing his way through his best friend Gil after he protects the unknown Baskerville distracts her and so she is defeated and sent back into the Abyss, while the Baskervilles send Oz to the Abyss for existing.
Alice in the Abyss before she met Oz.
When Oz comes to the Abyss, Alice saves him from being devoured by a Trump Card. Oz recalls the few memories of Alice and calls her the "sexual harassment girl" which Alice responds to by kicking him. Alice and Oz go to the place where Alice spends most of her time, where she explains Chains to Oz and that she is, in fact, a Chain as well. When he asks her about when he first saw her, when she'd tried to kill him, she has no idea what he's talking about. This is because the Will of the Abyss attacked Oz disguised as Alice earlier that day.
Alice explains to Oz that the only way to escape the Abyss is to create a contract with a Chain, as well as how to do so. He reluctantly starts the Ceremony when he disappears. Alice tracks Oz down just as Oz discovers that who saved him wasn't Sharon Rainsworth, whom he met earlier that night, but in fact was another Chain, The Mad Baby. Alice once again saves Oz and allows herself to be swallowed by The Mad Baby, because she knows that Oz will Contract with her to "save her". She destroys The Mad Baby from the inside after Oz completes the first part of the Contract, and sucked some of the blood from the wound Mad Baby had given her earlier. Then she kisses him in order to force him to swallow her blood and complete the Contract. Alice takes over his body momentarily as she releases her power to get them out of the Abyss, through The Way and into Oz's World.
Alice possessing Oz's body
Oz wakes and discovers that he was saved by Pandora members, Xerxes Break, Sharon Rainsworth and Raven. They sit down and eat briefly, explaining to Oz what Pandora is and all that had occurred, before revealing to Oz that they were going to have to arrest him and bring him to Pandora's head quarters. Alice then takes over Oz's body again and grabs a nearby knife, which she uses to hold Sharon hostage when they reach the lower level of the Rainsworth mansion to protect Oz.
Break had expected that she would do something like that and so he casually uses his powers to throw Alice out of Oz. Break explains that she is different from other chains and has a personality, and then he uses
Break forces Alice out of Oz's body.
the sheath of his sword to push Alice against a wall and force her to tell them what her goal were now that she's escaped from the Abyss. And she tells them, her goal is to find her lost memories. Alice attacks again, but Break knocks her weapon out of her hand. As he goes to strike Alice, Oz defends her. Break was not expecting Oz to act this way, as then Oz agreed to cooperate with Break if Alice went unharmed, as she'd saved his life on several occasions.
Suddenly, a Trump Card breaks through The Way and into the humans' world. Break then asked Raven to release B-Rabbit's power so that Break could see it in full force. Alice takes the challenge and quickly kills the Trump. When Oz grabs the Pocket Watch, which had been floating upwards as Alice fought, flashed some of Alice's memories. Break sees Alice unable to stop crying, although she doesn't understand why.
Break later offers them a companionship with Sharon, Raven,and himself, stating it they could possibly find Alice's memories on the way. As they are thinking, they are distracted by the setting sun and overcome with nostalgia, and Alice decides that if her wish is granted she'd work with them.
Working With Pandora Arc[]
Alice, Oz and Raven are sent off on a mission regarding an illegal contractor by Break. Alice falls asleep and so Raven and Oz walk through town searching for the Chain and its Contractor, though unknown to them, The Chain had sensed Alice's powers and so was drawn to her location. Alice is attacked by the Chain at the hotel and as she runs she notices something about the Contractor's Incuse. Alice meets up with Oz and Raven when its revealed that the Illegal Contractor is the Flower Girl that Oz had met earlier that day and almost immediately the Incuse makes another rotation thus completing its cycle and so the Flower Girl and her Chain were dragged into the Abyss.
Oz, Raven and Alice are then in a carriage, heading back to the mansion which Oz's Coming of Age Ceremony was held at. Raven explains that for Oz's Incuse to be erased, Alice must either be killed or they must search for an another solution. Soon Alice falls asleep again, only to wake when they arrive at the mansion and Raven goes in to investigate. Oz was explaining his relationship with Gil to Alice when they both head gun fire coming from inside. Alice rushed in with Oz to find that Raven had killed all the Pandora members who were patrolling the mansion. The Baskerville Noise then used her Chain, Doldum, to control Raven and she reveals that he is in fact Gil and that 10 years have passed since Oz was cast into the Abyss.
Alice and white rabbit.
Alice is held down while Oz and Gil fight and eventually Gil breaks through Doldum's control and shoots Noise. Oz then runs after an ashamed Gilbert, leaving Alice alone in the mansion. Alice is then confronted by the Will of the Abyss, who begins talking down to Alice immediately, though she disappears when Oz reappears and Alice dubs it as a dream. Alice then pushes Oz down a flight of stairs and explains to him that as he is her manservant, he can not leave her alone like that.
When Gil Oz and Alice once again come together, someone tells Oz that the Will of the Abyss had been following them for some time, and suddenly, the three experience one of Alice's lost memories. They then fall into a reality where the Will rules and find Alice bound in chains by the Will. The Will questions as to why Oz would want Alice so much after she's killed all her previous Contractors. Oz still chooses Alice over The Will, and he shoots the form of The Will, breaking her control and sending Alice, Gil and Oz back into reality.
Cheshire Cat's Lair Arc[]
Following a scene in which Alice, Gilbert, and Oz get caught up in a arm wrestling match to regain Gilbert's hat, Alice for some reason runs away into an alley after seeing Oz and Gilbert reunited with Oscar. She is confronted by Break, and both are suddenly surrounded by darkness with a wide, eerie smile.
Break beside awake Alice at Cheshire's Dimension
Alice remembers a man from her memories, and how in her memories, she's always chasing him, but can't ever see his face. She screams for him not to leave her, only to be awakened in another dimension. Break explains that the Cheshire Cat kidnapped them and is holding them there because he is interested in Alice. Break wanted to information from the Cheshire Cat on the events of 100 years ago, so he used Alice as bait to meet the Cheshire Cat. Alice is angry about being used. Break says that Cheshire is trying to kill Alice in his own territory because of the Will's hate for Alice. Alice suddenly experiences a strange feeling, and senses that her memories are here.
Telepathy between Alice and The Intention in Cheshire's Dimension
The two go upstairs into a room with wide mirrors on the walls. Alice experiences another strange feeling, but notes that this is different from last time; before, she felt endless love, but now all she feels is fear. She asks herself why she's looking for her memories, and why she forgot in the first place. Alice hallucinates the room being covered with blood and her own copies of herself reaching out to her with twisted smiles on their faces. Alice screams and runs out of the room, to Break's surprise, but Break cannot follow her as he is drawn into a mirror by his past.
Alice wanders for a bit and encounters the memory of a black kitten in a hall. She remembers that the cat is her dear friend. She comes across the figure of the man she was chasing in her memories, but thinks that even though he is so close, she can't see his face. They hug each other, but then the figure of the man becomes twisted and Alice is enveloped into the power of the dimension.
Oz thinking about Alice.
A shard of the soul of the real man from Alice's memories - Jack Vessalius - helps Oz locate Alice because he says Alice is someone important to him. Oz explains to Jack why Alice is so important to him, and Jack sends him to where Alice is.
After finding Alice's dead body, Oz has a breakdown and once he recovers, he hears Alice's voice in his head, telling him she's scared. Oz asks her what she's afraid of, and tells her that he'll destroy whatever it is so she can smile. Alice tells him she's afraid of herself, so Oz offers to destroy her, so that once her existence has been erased, she'll have no need to suffer anymore. Oz almost kills her, but Gilbert slaps him and brings him back to his senses.
Oz accepts Alice.
Oz finds Alice wrapped up in chains at the top of a crumbling staircase in the dimension, but Alice is reluctant to wake up and wishes to sleep a little longer. Oz explains to Alice what makes Alice her, and Alice wakes up, surprised but happy to find Oz. She criesand calls him useless because he's so late. Oz is happy that this Alice is warm and Alice, unlike the cold, dead Alice he found at the top of the tower.
Cheshire then appears in his most grotesque form as the dimension destroys itself. Break appears to kill Cheshire and asks them to use Equus to leave. Before Cheshire is killed, he wretchedly calls out Alice's name, confusing her.
Equus arrives but only takes Oz and Alice, dumping them in the middle of a meeting between the four dukedoms and Pandora. Alice is in her giant rabbit form and they run away. Once surrounded by Pandora members waiting to arrest them, Jack takes over Oz's body, turns Alice back into her human form, and fixes the situation.
Lutwidge Academy Arc[]
At Lutwidge, she seems to sense the presence of the Baskerville's that's coming to get Oz as their hostage, and it says that Oz use her power, and breaks their contract without Gil's help for the second time after the first time at the Cheshire's Dimension.
Sablier Arc[]
At Sablier, she founds out that the tomb that they found at the place of Oz first-coming age of ceremony, belongs to Lacie, and after that, before she finished witnessing what was going on in her memory, she could hear Oz's sorrowful voice calling out to her, and before thinking twice, she left the occurrence of her memory and ran to Oz's place.
The Feast Arc[]
Here, with Oz , she was taken to be the hostage of the repeating the Tragedy Of Sablier, and here too, for the third time, Oz used her powers without her permission, while she kept crying from hearing Yura's words about her and her connection to Alice from the Sablier Tragedy that was dying on that day, and because of that, she discovered but can't seem to remember about her sorrowful memories about her "death" 100 years ago. When Oz comforts her and begins to destroy their surroundings to sand, she quickly headbutts him and scolded him for doing everything he wants without her permission. Alice tried to stop Jack who was using Oz's body to attack Yura but failed and in the end, he killed Yura using a sword. She stood still in front of the Sealing Stone when the Baskervilles attacked but she was pulled away by Oz and Dug destroyed the Seal. Oz temporarily fainted and Alice was the one who hold him.
When the group returned, Alice rested on Oz's back and confessed that she sensed Humpty Dumpty's scent oozing out of Elliot's body but failed to realize it sooner, she then asked Oz what he was thinking, he told her that the sky was beautiful even though terrible things have happened. Alice tried to cheer Oz up by biting his cheek, she ignored his advice not to do that to people easily.
Jack's Intention Arc[]
As she and Echo are fighting, Alice yells at Gil to follow Oz, to which Gil replies that he was going to do that anyway and asks her why she doesn't follow Oz. Alice replies that she needs to send Echo flying with a kick.
Alice becoming transparent.
Afterwards, at Pandora, Alice senses Leo and alerts Oz. Oz tells everyone else to head for the Sealing Stone, and that he will deal with Leo. Alice says that if she approaches the Sealing Stone, she won't be able to move, and decides to stay with Oz. Oz thanks her before apologizing and stealing her powers once again. Alice tries to stop him, but Echo intercepts her before she can. The two begin fighting again.
Alice then feels the hand on Oz's seal move, and pleads with Oz not to make it move again, as it's already turned half-way. As Echo runs towards her, she notices something strange: Alice's body is becoming transparent.
After Jack has taken over Oz's body, Alice, who has apparently managed to defeat Echo, appears and drop-kicks him, angrily telling him to get out of her manservant. She says that she can hear Oz's voice crying out to her, and that she is angry as she is the only one who can make Oz cry. Jack just laughs and tells her that B-Rabbit is his chain, and that Alice should be leaving Oz's body. Jack uses B-Rabbit's powers to launch chains at Alice, as Oz screams Alice's name.
Alice later finds Oz when Jack has relinquished control of his body and tells him not to make such weird faces. She later finds that her body is disappearing as Oz is the one who made her do so as not to hurt her anymore. Alice protests as her body disappears.
After that, Alice finds herself with the Intention of the Abyss, who gives her back her lost memories and Alice realizes why she lost her memories in the first place, because she and the Intention are connected. She then asks the Intention what that makes Oz.
She later returns to the human world crying and embracing Oz, calling him stupid for making her wait for so long. She, Oz, and Gil, hide out at Lutwidge Academy and plot to save Sharon, Break, and Sheryl.
Currently, she is with Oz and the others in Sablier, attempting to stop Glen.
Swan Song Arc[]
Upon arriving in Sablier, Alice is first seen running towards Oz along with Gilbert, yelling for them to not be left behind. Witnessing the state of Sablier and the feeling that it evokes in her, Alice is convinced that Glen will be there. As the party consisting of Oz, Gilbert, Break, Sharon and her descend into the city, she is caught in a tight hug from behind whenever Sharon is scared by sudden sounds like the clock tower ringing or Oz suddenly raising his voice. Oz' proposal of holding another tea party gains him approval as well as having his head pat by Gilbert, which is much envied by Alice. Her focus however, lies mostly in the prospect of being able to eat more of her beloved meat. Once the chatter dies down, Oz finds himself separated from the rest of the group.
Alice, together with Gilbert, reconvene with Oz (and Ada as well now) later on. As Gilbert pulls Oz into a hug upon their reunion, Alice keeps a grip on Gilbert's waist in an attempt to join in. Just when they wonder about the rest of the group, Break takes Oz' hand, and the others who clung onto him, from within the dimension that the juries created. Parting ways with Break, they proceed on to chase for Glen, when the path they follow starts to warp and crumble. They are caught up in a whirlpool of memories and cling to Gilbert to not get torn apart, as Alice hears someone calling out her name. In the midst of all, she sees the bright silhouette of The Intention of the Abyss. Alice reaches out to her and as she grabs her hand, the whole group is being pulled into a familiar scene: The Tragedy of Sablier.
Ada chokes upon witnessing the scene of the tragedy, which draws Alice' attention to the question of why Oz would take her with her in the first place. Oz explains why keeping her close is the safest option, before bringing up why they would be at the scene of the tragedy. Alice concludes that the reason they were led there by The Intention of the Abyss can only mean that Glen is also there. They leave Ada behind since she shouldn't be able to interact with anyone and thus could stay out of danger, unlike Alice and Oz. As they continue through the city, the group hears the familiar sound of Cheshire's bell and finally, encounter Glen as well as Cheshire.
A fight ensues between Oz and Glen, while Gilbert tends to the injured Vincent. In the mid of that, Alice calls out to Gilbert to catch her, followed by her jumping down to the lower area by using him as landing mat. A look at Glen calls forth a surge of memories of their time together. Jabberwocky spewing fire in retaliation to Cheshire forces her to distance herself from the brothers.
Glen eventually manages to corner Oz enough to deliver the final blow but sees Lacie standing protectively before Oz. He halts the blade just before he could slit through her neck and recognizes that the person he mixed up with Lacie standing before him was actually Alice, commanding him to lower his sword. Before Glen can comprehend his own actions, Cheshire Cat jumps at them, seemingly worried for Alice's safety. Much to Alice's confusion, he uses his shadows to flee from the scene while carrying her, only leaving her room to worriedly shout for Oz, whom she is forced to separate from. As they put distance between them and Glen, who tries to follow them, Alice demands Cheshire to put her down. Cheshire explains to her that now that she is the Alice he knows from a hundred years ago and not B-Rabbit which he mixed her up with at their last encounter due to Alice still possessing some of B-Rabbit's power, that his actions serve to not make The Intention of the Abyss sad due to Alice dissapearing. At the mention of Alice's twin sister, she violently grabs one of his ear and demands him to tell her what The Intention of The Abyss is trying to achieve.
Meanwhile, as the Jack of the past makes his way to the tower where Alice is isolated, it is also shown that Alice is currently there, freeing her hair after putting on her sister's white dress, with a resolute expression for what is to come. Glen finally manages to catch up to Alice and Cheshire Cat when they're right before that same tower, striking his back which leads to him letting go of Alice. As she gets up, Glen realizes that Cheshire is planning to contact The Intention of the Abyss through the Alice of the past that is inside the tower, remarking that it's the same idea that Jack had. And just as he alluded to him, the Jack of the past also shows up on the premise. A past scene of Jack encountering Oswald and using Oz to fight him takes place. Both Alice and Glen want to take action against Jack - the difference being that Glen wants to "kill" Jack in that moment, while Alice simply wants to "stop" him. In the same manner, they both realize that in doing so, they would change the past to the point where they might cease to exist and instead rush towards the tower. Cheshire jumps between Alice and Glen, which Alice interprets as supporting her ascent to the tower, therefore leaving it to him to stop Glen in his tracks (which, however, doesn't seem to have been Cheshire's intention). As Alice is about to enter the tower, the slashing sound behind her leads her to turn around one more time to witness Glen being gravely wounded. Shock is displayed on Alice's face upon seeing the person who raised her sink to the ground. She clenches her teeth and finally runs into the tower, cursing to herself. Memories of her life hundred years ago surge through her mind, calling her sister's name, as she hurries up the stairs. Jack's past self enters the tower as well - and as he notices that Oswald has made it as well despite his injuries, he deals the finishing blow by letting Oz rip Oswald's body apart. The Alice of the past that is sitting at the top of the tower, covering her ears and distressed by the tormented screams of Oz, who doesn't want to kill anymore. At that moment, the current Alice enters the chamber. She concludes that the Alice of the past couldn't see her, subsequently also concluding that the Core of the Abyss within that body can and calls out to it. The core responds by lifting her hands from her ears and directing her gaze at her. A flash of light emanates from the past Alice, signaling that the core is using it as proxy. Alice states her intention to save her twin sister and asks to speak with her sister. She announces that their aim is to free her sister from the core, or, to be exact, the will of the abyss.
Cracks spread in the floor from the core as it realises that this would mean to separate from the girl. Alice confirms this suspicion, explaining that her sister can't sustain the power of the core anymore. An earlier conversation with Cheshire shows the Intention's absent state, that Cheshire interpreted as her not caring for him anymore. Alice implores the core to fulfill the Intention's wish - "to free Alice". The wall behind her cracks and she is met with disbelief, but she assures that this was indeed her sister's wish. Earlier, after they rescued Break and the Rainsworth and brought them to the Lutwidge Academy, Sharon tells them of the wish that Break had been entrusted by the Intention of the Abyss. Alice tells the core that, in the sphere where only the twins could enter, she saw her sister crying. The core starts to yell - that the other Alice was a precious gift Lacie left behind and that it was protecting her all this time. Alice continues to persuade it to let go of her until another wave of cracks is sent through the entire room. As the core's cries turn more disturbed, uttering that it doesn't want to be left alone, its shape starts to warp. Alice backs away from the grotesque appearance the core has taken on until she bumps against the wall of the room with her back. Without lifting her shocked gaze from the creature before her, she slides down to the ground. Looking at the scared Alice, the transformed core takes a liking to the idea of taking her with it to cheer up the other Alice. Puppets start to fly towards Alice with their hands stretched out to pick her up, but are shot by Gilbert, who appears on the scene. Upon witnessing the core's distorted body, Gilbert demands an explanation as to what happened in this chamber. Alice, now clinging tightly to Gilbert's arm, clears up that she was simply trying to convince the core from taking them to the Intention of the Abyss. The core, audibly occupied with its previous idea keeps repeating Alice's name, followed by a ghastly scream to not interfere with it. This sends out another wave of cracks, big enough to not only be seen outside of the tower as well, but also to shatter the dimension. While the fight goes on on the outside of the tower, it is shown that the core has captured Alice with its chains inside of the chamber.