Evil Wizard Uses Kids’ Minds to Unleash Hell on all the Worlds

 

In a children's internment camp, the wristbands  of many youngsters begin to beep, telling them   to prepare for experiments that involve using  their minds to try to collapse a giant tower   at the center of the universe. Meanwhile in New  York, eleven-year-old Jake wakes up after having   nightmares, discovering that there has been  an earthquake in the city. Jake often draws   his dreams and among them are scenes of tortured  children, wastelands and some humanoid figures.   His parents send him to the shrink, complaining  that there has not been much progress in the   sessions. A classmate bothers Jake at school  by taking his sketchbook, and Jake lunges at   him without a second thought, separated by a  teacher. Jake talks to the student counselor,   who tells him that he can't tell the difference  between reality and dreams. The boy insists   that they are not dreams and that a man in black  tortures children to bring down a tower along with   beings in fake human skins.

According to Jake, if  the tower collapses the world will be plunged into   darkness and fire, but the counselor thinks these  outbursts are due to the loss of his biological   father over a fire saving people as a fireman.  On the streets Jake notices a passerby whose   face looks droopy as if he is wearing a mask, but  before he can see any further a homeless man warns   him that people are looking for special children  like him for dark experiments. Jake manages to get   on a bus and rides away only to meet his friend  and neighbor Timmy. They go to Jake's apartment   and find his mother and stepfather arguing about  him and his attitude at school. They suggest to   Jake the idea of going to a psychiatric boarding  clinic for young people, something that upsets   the boy.

At night Jake remembers the brave  sacrifice his father made as a firefighter,   and decides to put aside the nightmares issue. He  puts away his drawings and goes to sleep and then   enters the dream world, where he continues to have  visions of the man in black. At the same time,   two Gunslingers try to confront the man in black,  but one of them falls. The younger one, Roland,   is able to suppress the Man in Black's magic but  is still no match for him. Jake wakes up and tells   Timmy about the Gunslinger and how there’s  a residence in New York that has something   to do with him, but his friend doesn't believe  him and leaves him to confront a social worker   at the psychiatric clinic in his living room.  Jake notices something strange and realizes   that both the woman and her driver have markings  similar to the fake creatures in the dream world,   so he asks his mother to help him pack in  private.

 He unsuccessfully comments to her   about the bad people, but neither his mother nor  his stepfather believe him. Just before leaving,   he manages to see that on the internet someone  tells him the address of the possible home of the   Gunslinger’s house, so Jake agrees to cooperate  with the situation. He asks those present for a   few seconds to look for his toothbrush but takes  advantage of this to escape through the window.   The driver chases him across the rooftops of  the buildings, but Jake manages to make a fast   forward and go down to the subway, losing sight of  them. Jake talks to his mom on the phone and tells   her he has things to do, until he arrives at the  supposed house of the Gunslinger. Upon entering   Jake manages to see some sort of gate with a  control panel, he enters the same number he always   dreams of, "1919" and the computer tells him the  destination will now be Mid-World.

A portal opens   next to Jake, and just before he steps through it,  the floor of the house crushes away from itself   and traps him. To free himself, Jake manages to  enter the portal and reaches a desert world with   no civilizations around, and with peculiarly  shaped hurricanes in the distance. The man in   black arrives at his facility and his workers tell  him that there has been unauthorized access at one   of the portals, being from the same boy they are  trying to capture. Jake spends all night walking   in the desert until he finds a small light in the  distance, and when he arrives he finds an unlit   campfire along with some water. As Jake drinks it,  the Gunslinger appears from behind and points a   gun at him, scaring the kid. Jake explains that  he has dreamed about him, and although he tries   to persuade him, the Gunslinger has no time for  his explanations and leaves. When Jake mentions   the Man in Black, Roland almost throws him off a  cliff, thinking it is a trap. Jake explains that   he knows his name is Roland and that he does not  know the whereabouts of the Man in Black.

Roland   believes him and explains to Jake that the Man  in Black is a sorcerer and that his real name is   Walter. The Man in Black goes to the human world  and sees that the demon house has been destroyed   by a powerful psychic. When he seeks answers  from one of his henchmen, they tell him that   only a human kid with a powerful Shine could have  dealt with the house, something that leaves Walter   perplexed. Roland and Jake make their way to a  forest where they see the remains of an abandoned   amusement park. They encounter a group of Taheens  in the distance, who are Walter's henchmen,   so they hide and go for a safer place to stay.  Roland manages to prepare dinner and tells Jake   that he doesn't know what the facilities around  them are all about, with the boy explaining that   they are themed parks.

 They talk more about the  confrontations Roland and Walter have had in the   past, and how the last one they had involved  the loss of Roland’s father. Walter goes to   the workers of the so-called psychiatric clinic,  berating them for losing Jake. He then instructs   them to destroy each other and walks away, leaving  his workers struggling in the street because   of his magic. Jake draws a map where the dark  tower is located in the center of the universe,   surrounded by thousands of worlds. Roland explains  that the tower is the only thing protecting the   universe from infinite darkness and monsters, with  Walter wanting to destroy it so he can rule in the   new dark world. Jake proposes they work together  to stop Walter, but Roland is reluctant to have a   partner.

 In the middle of the night they see a  beam of light head towards the tower, with one   of the children being used in Walter's facility.  A voice calls Jake as he sleeps, causing him to   march into the forest where he finds his father.  Roland runs to save him knowing that it is a trap,   and when Jake touches his father, a dark wall  appears and tries to unleash a monster. Roland   confronts it and stands up to it, but the wall  takes on the appearance of his own father. Still   Roland lunges at it and the wall disappears. The  gunslinger tells Jake that it is a sign of the   darkness that Walter is trying to pass into that  world, and that their fathers were never really   there with them. Believing themselves safe, they  encounter a new dark creature, which manages to   subdue Roland easily.

Jake takes the beast to the  amusement park, trying to distract it while Roland   manages to escape and lashes out at the creature  and destroys it. Roland praises Jake's bravery,   but Jake only notices how Roland is injured.  Walter sneaks into Jake's house, and manages to   control his parents to tell him where the drawings  are, reproaching them for their poor treatment   of the boy. Roland and Jake arrive in a village,  where Roland's wounds are treated and they tells   them about Jake's visions. There they mention  how Jake's Shine is unique and very powerful,   even able to read other people's minds. The seer  Arra manages to make a connection with Jake,   seeing that Walter's lair is in the northern  wastelands, nearly six months' journey away.   Jake mentions how the portals can get them there  faster since Walter's minions are always looking   for children from other worlds with them. They  demand to use the village portal and although   some object, they say that the law is to never  oppose a gunslinger, so they decide to help them.   Arra reveals that Roland's soul is actually in  Walter's possession and that he can no longer   be classified as a gunslinger. Roland confesses  that even though everything is true, they must   still try to defend the tower at all costs.

 He  leaves the place and notices that his wounds are   getting worse and worse. Jake in turn tells the  people that Roland is a good person and should   still be treated as a Gunslinger. Although the  technology is old, the portal seems to work well,   so they both get ready to go. Just before that the  town begins to be attacked by Walter's henchmen,   who set fire to and destroy everything around.  Jake helps a girl escape from the henchmen,   while Roland defends the rest of the town  but has complications from his injuries.   Arra rescues him but they lose track of Jake, so  Roland takes a slight break in the middle of town,   to reflect on his feet. Arra doesn't understand  what's going on, but after a few moments Roland   shoots into the distance, managing to hit the guy  who was kidnapping Jake. Roland tells them not to   worry about them, as the longer Jake is there,  the more danger they will be in, so the pair   pass through the portal to Jake’s Earth.

Roland  feels overwhelmed by everything around him, and   Jake tells him that they should get him medical  help immediately. However things are complicated   by Roland's inexperience in the human world, as  the doctors tell him that he actually suffers   from too many ailments to let him go. They still  leave, and Jake gives Roland painkillers and soda   to make it better, with Roland saying he hasn't  felt this good in years. Walter appears to Arra,   manipulating her to tell her where Roland and  Jake are, so he decides to go to Keystone Earth   to follow them. Jake has the idea to ask the  homeless man from earlier about the situation,   but the man tells him that he lost his Shine  years ago, so Jake must use his powers to read the   man's memories. They decide to go all the way to  Jake's house, but there they find his stepfather   unconscious on the floor and a black burnt stain  in the boy's room, thinking his mother perished   to the man in black.

This is for Jake to use his  Shine so they can track him, so Roland tells him   he should close his mind and let the pain flow. On  the terrace Roland promises the boy that he will   personally take care of Walter himself as revenge  for the two of them. He tells him that he hasn't   recited Gunslinger's Creed in years, and teaches  it to him as they practice aiming with tin cans.   They go to an armory store and get their hands  on enough materials, but Walter separates them,   leaving Roland trapped in the store with him  while Jake flees from his henchmen. Walter   insults and annoys Roland by telling him that  no matter how hard he tries, everyone who walks   by him will perish.

 Jake is kidnapped, but  uses his Shine to communicate with Roland.   They blindfold the boy so he won't reveal the  location, but Roland still manages to find him,   eliminating those in his path. They open a new  portal to Walter and Roland's world, and Roland   sees how the man in black has the boy subdued.  Despite being surrounded by dozens of members, the   Gunslinger manages to break through against them  all. Walter and Jake go through the portal and   Jake is forced to settle into the mind-draining  machine, knowing that he alone has the power to   bring down the dark tower with no trouble. The  gunslinger uses all his weaponry to break through,   regardless of the minions being armed and coming  out all over the place. He uses all the weaponry   he managed to take from the store and manages  to shoot straight at everyone present. With the   help of gas canisters, he causes an explosion  that buys him some time. The computer indicates   that there are problems with Jake's power as he  is resisting and holding back, and Walter takes   it upon himself to discourage him from losing  his spirit, claiming that the gunslinger only   cares about Jake so he can confront his nemesis.  The boy is upset at the loss of his mom, and it's   enough to trigger the light beam to the tower.

 Roland confronts one of Walter's closest henchmen,   and ends up on the streets watching the sky turn  red and the earthquakes begin. A car takes out   Walter's henchman and Roland is free to go with  Jake. Seeing that Jake now has more power than   ever to destroy the tower, Walter decides to buy  time by confronting Roland. The man in black uses   his powers to confront Roland, even driving a  piece of glass into one of his hands and leaving   the Gunslinger with only one hand available.  Still Roland puts up a fight against Walter,   with the villain managing to clip all of his  bullets out of the air. Jake attempts to contact   Roland mentally before Walter delivers the coup  de grace, reciting the Gunslinger's Creed. Roland   manages to launch two bullets that cross paths,  changing direction just in time for one to hit   Walter's heart. The Gunslinger manages to rescue  Jake and destroys the machine, saving not only the   tower but the entire universe.

 They both see the  city trying to cope with the recent catastrophes,   with newscasts mentioning how everything is  slowly returning to normal. They share some   hot dogs and the Gunslinger asks Jake if he  wants to go with him to his world, as there   is nothing left for him there. The boy is thrilled  and says yes, now being the Gunslinger's new ward.

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Assassin Turns Scrap into a High-End Sniper Equipped

 

In the snowy hills of Sweden, former assassin Jack  is spending time with his girlfriend Ingrid while   trying to keep his old life behind, which Ingrid  doesn't know about. One morning, they go out for   a walk and find footprints in the snow. Ingrid  thinks it may be hunters, but Jack knows better   and gets suspicious, so he drags Ingrid into a  hiding spot just in time before someone begins   shooting at them from the woods. Jack shocks  Ingrid by revealing he has a gun and uses it to   kill the attacker with one accurate shot. The body  falls in front of them and Jack begins searching   it while telling Ingrid to go to the house to call  the police. As soon as Ingrid turns around though,   Jack kills her too because he knows his identity  has been compromised.

 Nearby, there's a car with   another assassin waiting for his partner,  but Jack finds him and kills too. Afterward,   Jack hurries to leave the country and makes  his way to Rome, Italy, where he meets with his   handler Pavel. Jack explains he was found by the  Swedes and that Ingrid had nothing to do with it,   but Pavel still believes she could've set him  up and reminds Jack he shouldn't make friends   in this line of work. Pavel will take care  of the people that found Jack, but meanwhile   he can't stay in such a big city, so he's made  arrangements for Jack to stay in Castelvecchio,   a very small town on the map. Using the car Pavel  prepared for him, Jack travels to Castelvecchio,   but he hates it as soon as he arrives for being  so small and boring. Jack decides to turn the car   around, throw away the phone Pavel got him, and  go to Castel del Monte, a more active town.

 Here   he rents a very humble apartment and adopts  the name Edward, but most of the neighbors   call him "The American". Jack starts a daily  routine of exercise, visiting the local café,   and bringing his camera to natural places because  he's pretending to be a photographer. Although   he's living a peaceful life now, Jack still keeps  an eye out for any danger that may follow him,   using binoculars to watch Castelvecchio in case  anyone is looking for him. This constant alert   means Jack can't help but be startled whenever the  neighbor's scooter makes a gunshot-like sound. One   morning, Jack's having trouble using a vending  machine and is approached by Father Benedetto,   who helps him out after Jack says he isn't good  with machines. Benedetto asks a bunch of questions   to get to know him better and invites him to  drink wine at his house later, Jack tries to   turn him down but Benedetto reminds him priests  see everything.

 Afterward, Jack uses a payphone   to finally call Pavel, who is furious with him for  ditching the cell phone. Pavel still offers Jack   a job, which would consist of making a custom  fit for a fellow assassin, meaning Jack won't   have to kill anyone. Jack promises to think about  it. In the evening, Jack goes to see Benedetto   for that drink. Benedetto is surprised that if  Jack is photographing Italy he isn't learning   about the country's history, then he points out  it's probably his American nature that makes him   think he can escape history and only live in the  present. Sometime later, Jack drives to Sulmona,   where he does some shopping and watches Mathilde  from afar. When she sits at a café, Jack takes the   table next to her and picks up her newspaper when  she drops it as a sign he's the gunsmith she's   looking for. Mathilde gives Jack all the details  she needs for her weapon and Jack accepts the job,   he also points out there's been a guy watching  them, but Mathilde swears she's working alone. 

Later when Jack returns home, he thinks he sees  the same guy in town and does his best to avoid   him. At night, Jack begins having trouble  sleeping, reacting to any noise he hears by   taking out his gun. A few days later, Jack goes to  the post office to pick up a very special package,   it's the pieces he needs to start working on the  weapon. The first half of the assembly goes well,   but he's going to need some extra things to build  a silencer. When night falls, he decides to visit   a bawdy house and meets Clara, a call girl  that rocks his world. Sometime later, Jack   helps Benedetto fix his car when it breaks down in  the middle of the road. The priest thanks him by   inviting him to dinner at his house, and Jack gets  to hear Benedetto's stories about his relationship   with the townspeople. He has a picture of Fabio,  the local mechanic, who Benedetto worries about   because he's a good man but he may be involved  in some illegal things.

 Jack wonders if Benedetto   ever wanted to be anything other than a priest,  and Benedetto sarcastically wonders if Jack ever   was something other than a photographer. Jack had  told him he wasn't good with machines yet he fixed   Benedetto's car with ease, not to mention he can  tell Jack has more money than a journalist should   make, but Jack doesn't raise to the bait. The next  day, Jack breaks his car on purpose and takes it   to Fabio's garage. Fabio at first doesn't want  to help a mysterious foreigner, but he changes   his mind when Jack mentions he's a friend of  Benedetto. Jack explains cars are a hobby for him   and wonders if he could get some pieces to fix a  broken drive shaft, and Fabio accepts to give them   to him for free.

 While Jack looks around to find  what he needs to make the silencer, he discovers   Fabio has a copy of the same photograph Benedetto  had. On his way home, Jack sees Clara going to   church and can't help sharing a flirty look  with her. As soon as he gets to his apartment,   Jack begins working on the weapon again, finishing  the silencer successfully by the time night falls.   The next day he takes the rifle to the woods  and tests it to confirm it works perfectly.   Later Jack goes to the bawdy house to celebrate,  but Clara isn't working today and Jack decides to   leave instead of choosing a different girl. In the  evening, Jack goes to a café and notices the same   guy is still watching him. The clerk brings Jack  an envelope someone left for him, and inside Jack   finds a newspaper clip talking about the bodies he  left in Sweden. When he returns to his apartment,   he decides to take a different road just in case  and keeps his gun extra close when he goes to bed. 

 Sometime later, Jack goes to the train station to  pick up Mathilde, who is wearing a different wig   to protect her identity from curious eyes. Then  he drives her to a secret spot in the forest near   the river that he's sure only he knows of, but  Mathilde still wants to walk around and check   there aren't any footprints or tire tracks before  they get to work. Afterward Jack puts down a   picnic blanket to use as a cover in case the cops  investigate the area later and shows Mathilde the   rifle he's made. Mathilde puts it together like  an expert and places an order for special rounds   made with mercury. She's brought her own target  to test the rifle, which she does with no trouble,   then she asks Jack to shoot at the flowers next  to her from a fair distance. Jack is surprised   that she trusts him enough not to kill her and  shoots the flowers without even making her flinch,   impressing Mathilde with the silencer he made  because she couldn't tell where the bullet came   from. Once they're done, Mathilde asks for  some last adjustments and for the delivery   to be made by the first of next month as she  pays the first half of the money.

The bullet   cases are thrown in the river, and Jack throws  some wine on the grass as part of the cover,   he even took the time to chill it because  that's how it's drunk here. At that moment,   a butterfly lands on Mathilde's arm, and Jack  tells her some cool facts about that specific   type. This makes Mathilde call him "Mr. Butterfly"  and asks if Jack ever brought a woman here before,   which he denies. In the evening, Jack goes stops  by the bawdy house to have some fun with Clara,   who also calls him "Mr. Butterfly" because of  his tattoo. Clara can tell Jack has something   in his mind, but Jack doesn't think her worry is  sincere and explains she doesn't have to act for   him as she does for other clients. He also tips  generously, and when Clara points out she makes   more with him than all the other girls together,  he confesses he doesn't see the other girls.

 Jack   continues to work on the modifications for  the rifle and the bullets with mercury, but   he also takes breaks at the café. One afternoon,  he comes across Clara, who is going to the movies   with her girlfriend. They do some chitchatting  and Clara points out she's free on Wednesday,   so Jack says they can meet at the usual place.  Clara tries to get him to mention what the "usual   place" is, and when he doesn't dare to mention  the bawdy house in front of her girlfriend,   Clara takes advantage of this and asks him to meet  her at a restaurant. After the ladies are gone,   Jack opens the newspaper and worries when he reads  about call girls getting killed. Later that night,   Jack is making his way home and notices  the usual guy isn't just watching anymore,   he's now actually following him. Jack hides in an  alley and takes off his shoes while waiting for   the guy to pass by, then he starts following him  with his gun out.

His intention is to kill him,   but his plan is interrupted by the sudden arrival  of the neighbor on his scooter, alerting the guy   of their presence. The assassin immediately reacts  by shooting the driver and running away in his   car, so Jack takes the keys from the body and  uses the scooter to follow him. A chase begins   throughout town as Jack tries to kill this man,  but he keeps failing his shots. When they make it   to the road outside town, Jack finally manages to  hit a tire and make the car crash. Then Jack comes   closer to kill him by hand and takes away his  gun. Afterward, Jack calls Pavel and tells him the   Swedes have found him again, but Pavel tells him  to stay put and finish the job.

 Jack wants to know   how he's been found and Pavel just responds Jack  is losing his edge. That night, Jack has trouble   sleeping because the guilt of killing Ingrid keeps  haunting his dreams. He decides to go for a walk   even if the sun is barely out and bumps into  Benedetto, who likes to take morning early walks   to thank God for everything and ask him to look  after those who are sinners. Jack points out all   men are sinners, prompting Benedetto to explain  those who seek peace are much sinning in history,   and that Jack has done lots of sinning. Benedetto  heard about the death that happened nearby last   night and wonders if Jack needs confession,  but Jack turns him down and taunts him back   by confessing he can tell Fabio is Benedetto's  secret son. Benedetto admits he made a mistake in   the past, but at least he has someone in his life,  unlike Jack. In the evening, Jack meets with Clara   at the restaurant.

 He's very impressed by how she  handles the waiter when he tries to take the order   from Jack instead of Clara because of her gender,  and when a flower boy comes by, Jack buys her a   flower. Clara protests because the seller thinks  they're a couple, but since Jack buys it anyway,   she sees it as a good sign. She can tell Jack  has some sort of secret, but Jack denies being   married, so that's good enough for her. After  dinner, they go to Clara's apartment and spend   the night together. The next morning while Clara  showers, Jack snoops around and finds a gun inside   Clara's purse, making him suspicious. Later that  day, he finishes the order and buys a suitcase   together with a bunch of office supplies to hide  the rifle properly. Now that his job is done he   can go out and follow Clara around to make sure  she isn't a spy. He does see her with some men,   but he can't tell if they're clients or criminals. 

 The following day, Jack calls Pavel and asks for   two more days before making the drop, which Pavel  grants. In the afternoon, Jack takes Clara to   the secret spot in the forest for a picnic. As  soon as Clara sees the river, she takes off her   clothes to go swimming, but Jack doesn't join her.  Clara also finds the bullet cases in the water,   but she blames them on hunters and Jack just  throws them back. While they enjoy the picnic,   Clara reaches into her purse, causing Jack to  tense and grab his gun to defend himself. It turns   out Clara was just grabbing her sunscreen, but  his reaction triggers an argument anyway. Clara   explains she has a gun to protect herself because  there's a killer going after call girls, and Jack   accepts to trust that explanation.

Then Clara  asks him to come with her to the town procession   tomorrow, and when Jack says he'll think about it,  Clara wonders if they can start going on dates all   the time. Jack immediately shuts down the idea  explaining he can't stay forever, prompting Clara   to kiss him and beg him to stay. Jack can't stop  thinking about Clara's request when he goes home   and decides to call Pavel to inform him that after  he does the delivery, he's out. Pavel seemingly   accepts this with no trouble, but after Jack hangs  up, Pavel calls Mathilde with a special request.   The next day, Jack drives to a café by the road  to meet with Mathilde, who is wearing a different   wig again. He hands her the mercury bullets in a  special can, and Mathilde grabs the suitcase too   while excusing herself to go the bathroom, where  she prepares an extra gun she brought with her. 

 Jack notices Mathilde is taking too long and  the other clients have left, so he's anxious   and alone. With the gun ready in his pocket, Jack  decides to wait outside just in case, and Mathilde   brings him the rest of the money. It looks like  she's got more to say, but at that moment a bus   full of children arrives, and Mathilde leaves  before they can be noticed. Jack drives back   to town and Mathilde follows him while talking on  the phone to Pavel, who wants her to kill Jack as   soon as possible. Back in town, the procession  is keeping the streets crowded, thus it's easy   for Mathilde to sneak inside a house, kill the  owners, and find a spot on their roof to keep   an eye on Jack while Pavel also arrives in the  area. Jack meets with Clara and asks her to run   away with him, Clara obviously accepts and they  confess their love for each other. At that moment,   Mathilde gets ready to shoot Jack, but her weapon  backfires and kills her because Jack had rigged it   in advance.

 Jack sees this and understands they're  after him, so he hands Clara the money and tells   her to wait for him at the secret spot in the  forest. Then Jack goes to check on Mathilde to ask   her who sent her, Mathilde confesses it was Pavel  before she dies. Suddenly Benedetto arrives to see   what's going and Jack points his gun at him, but  he's learned his lesson with Ingrid and doesn't   shoot. After apologizing to the priest, Jack goes  looking for Pavel, entering an empty alley on   purpose so he'll be followed. Pavel falls for the  bait and comes closer, but when he raises his fun,   Jack turns around and shoots until he kills him.  Afterward, Jack takes his car to go to the forest,   but he starts feeling unwell when he realizes  Pavel did hit him and now he's slowly bleeding   to death. Jack still tries his best to reach  the forest and sees Mathilde waiting for him,   causing him to desperately reach out for  her but dying before he can say good bye.

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Unknown Substance Turns an Ordinary Girl Into a God

 

In the city of Taipei, Taiwan; exchange student Lucy is arguing with her boyfriend Richard, who she's been seeing for only a week. Richard wants her to finish a job for her, which consists of entering a fancy hotel and handing a suitcase to Mr. Jang. Lucy doesn't understand why Richard can't do it if it's so easy, but Richard refuses to explain or tell her what's in the suitcase. He admits he'll be paid well for this and offers to share the money with her, but Lucy gets suspicious something so silly could pay so much and tries to leave. Desperate, Richard handcuffs Lucy to the suitcase and tells her Mr. Jang is the only one with the key, so she must do the delivery. Nervous and scared, Lucy enters the hotel and asks for Mr. Jang while Richard watches from outside. The receptionist calls the room and begins to look worried as he tells Lucy to wait right there.

Suddenly, a bunch of Korean henchmen show up in the lobby while Richard gets shot on the street. Lucy is terrified but she can't do anything because the henchmen pay off the receptionist then drag Lucy into the elevator, ignoring her begging and her tears. When they make it to the room, Lucy sees the men hiding Richard's body and it makes her throw up. Afterward, Mr. Jang finally shows up, and after washing the blood off his hands, he calls a hotel employee so he can translate for him. Lucy explains that she doesn't know anything, and after lots of her crying, Jang writes down the suitcase's lock combination and leaves to hide behind the door. All his henchmen protect him with shields and Lucy is scared of opening the suitcase, but she's threatened until she accepts. Fortunately when she finally gets it open, nothing explodes: there only are four bags of a strange blue powder.

 Jang is pleased to see the bags and makes his men bring an addicted hobo to use as a tester. The man takes the powder and starts shaking before freezing for a few seconds, only to then start laughing like a maniac. The weird sounds he makes cause the henchmen to chuckle too, which makes Jang shoot the hobo on the spot. Afterward Jang offers Lucy a job, and when she turns it down, a henchman knocks her out. Meanwhile in Paris, Professor Norman is giving a lecture about the use humans give to the brain. Most animal species only use 3 to 5% of their cerebral capacity, while humans use 10. This has allowed us to evolve and do science. The only animal that uses more is the dolphin, who with 20% has developed abilities like an echolocation system. It seems humans are more concentrated on gaining time through immortality or reproduction to pass down the knowledge to the next generation.

 Norman thinks that if humans would learn to use more of their brains, they could access lots of external information and develop control of others, perhaps even control of matter. Back to Lucy, she wakes up inside a hotel room and discovers a surgical scar on her stomach plus medical tools on the night table. The henchmen make her dress up and take her to see Jang again, who now has a British assistant with him that does all the talking. The man explains the blue powder she saw earlier is called CPH4, and that they put a bag inside her belly for her to smuggle it into another country. At that moment, three more mules arrive, and everyone is given fake passports with plane tickets that include a return trip in 24hrs. The assistant tells them one of their people will be waiting for them at their airports to take the powder, and if the mules try to throw it away or go to the police, the henchmen will hurt their loved ones. While he speaks, Jang shares a drink with Lucy as if saying "good luck".

Then the mules are taken away with bags over their heads. Lucy can tell she's put inside a car because of the lights, and when they remove the bag moments later, she finds herself inside a concrete room. Two thugs are watching over her and one of them gets a bit handsy, so Lucy pushes his naughty hand away. The guy gets offended by this and punches her before he starts kicking her in the stomach. As his partner takes him away, Lucy cries in pain because the kick broke the CPH4 bag, and now the powder is entering her system. Lucy's body starts going through convulsions and the powder changes the wiring of her brain, causing her to develop new abilities as her body mysteriously slides up the wall and across the ceiling. Going near the lights makes the bulbs spark, and she even manages to float in the middle of the room while the chains keep her from drifting away. Lucy falls unconscious for a few seconds, and when she wakes up, she feels like a whole new person.

 Uncharacteristically calm, she sits back on the chair and analyzes her situation. One of the thugs comes to check on her, and Lucy opens her legs to distract him. The man believes her invitation and when he comes closer, Lucy beats him up in seconds, then she uses his belt to drag the table where the man left his gun and the keys, which she uses to escape. Afterward Lucy finds the rest of the thugs having lunch in another room, so she immediately shoots them all before sitting to have a bite too. It isn't until she's done eating that she notices a bloodstain on her shoulder, meaning one of the guys managed to shoot her before dying. Lucy inserts her fingers in the wound and removes the bullet without feeling any pain.

Then she puts as many weapons as possible in a bag, steals a jacket, and leaves the building to find a taxi. She shoots a driver to show she means business and makes the other guy take her to the hospital. On her way there, Lucy is shocked by how clearly she can hear random conversations on the street. When they make it to the hospital, Lucy sneaks inside with a gun in hand. She bursts into a surgery room and looks at the patient's X-rays, realizing she can perfectly understand them, then she pushes the patient off the operation table. As she explains he couldn't be saved because the tumor was on his spine, Lucy threatens the doctors into operating on her to remove the powder bag, turning down anesthetic because she doesn't need it. The doctor begins the procedure and Lucy isn't bothered by the knife, in fact she takes the surgeon's phone to call her mother while she's being operated on as if it was just a casual chore.

Fortunately the thugs didn't reach her mom yet, and Lucy tells her she can feel everything, from people's vibrations to the rotation of the Earth. She also remembers clear memories from when she was a baby, including tasting her mother's milk for the first time. Before hanging up, she tells her parents that she loves them and she's thankful for everything they did for her. At that moment, the surgeon removes the bag and they discover there are about 500 grams of powder left. Lucy tells the doctor this is CPH4, and while the surgeon adds new stitches, he explains CPH4 is what pregnant women make during the sixth week of pregnancy in tiny quantities to help the fetus form the bones. For a baby, it's almost like an atomic bomb, so it's a miracle Lucy is alive after consuming half a bag. Lucy wonders if she'll be alive for long before leaving.

 Outside, Lucy notices she can see a tree's inner lines of life. Moments later, Lucy arrives back at the hotel and kills every single henchman in her way. Jang doesn't hear anything because he has headphones on, so Lucy takes the chance to stab both his hands into the armrests of his couch. Then she gives a speech on how she has access to all her brain and that makes her understand how primitive humans really are. She asks Jang about the other mules, and when he refuses to answer, she touches his forehead to revisit the memory of the assistant handing out the passports. Now she can see the mules were sent to Berlin, Paris, and Rome. Leaving Jang with his hands stuck to the couch, Lucy returns to her apartment and her roommate receives her with a hug, which allows her to feel her life system as well. Lucy grabs a computer and begins doing research at an insane speed while ignoring her roommate's babbling because Lucy can already predict what she's going to say. The online research tells Lucy about Norman's knowledge of the subject of the brain, so she decides to call him.

 She tells him she's already read every single word he's written, and to prove how far her own brain has gone, she suddenly appears on all the screens around him, from the tv to the cellphone. Lucy tells Norman about the CPH4 and confirms his theories are real, she's unlocked powers thanks to using her whole brain and her mind is still developing. She thinks she may die in 24hrs and that she doesn't feel human anymore because she doesn't feel things like pain or desire. Lucy doesn't know what to do with all the knowledge she's accumulating in her brain, and Norman advises her to pass it on, thus they agree to meet in twelve hours. Before leaving, Lucy prints a prescription in Chinese for her roommate because she's detected she has liver failure.

 Moments later, Lucy's face appears all over the news because she was caught by the hospital's security cameras. Since now she can control every single cell of her body at will, Lucy changes her hair to go unnoticed. Then she calls a police station in France and tells Captain Del Rio all about the mules that are about to arrive in Europe so the powders can be retrieved before they're sold off. Afterward Lucy goes to the airport, and when a dog gets suspicious of her, she keeps it back with just a look. Meanwhile Del Rio follows Lucy's information and arrests the mule arriving in France. A few cops also arrest the guy arriving in Berlin, and in Italy the mule tries to escape, but he's caught anyway. When all three arrests are done, Del Rio communicates with his foreign counterparts to organize a transfer. Back to Lucy, she's spending her trip working on two computers at the same time at a crazy speed.

 When the stewardess tries to remind her she should turn off her computers, Lucy makes her nose bleed to send her away and asks for a glass of champagne. A different steward brings her the drink and as soon as Lucy takes a sip, she discovers her teeth are coming off and her cells are destabilizing because alcohol is technically poison. Her body starts to disintegrate to achieve a safer form that could assure survival, so a panicking Lucy runs into the bathroom and consumes the rest of her powder bag. Her cells start coming back together, only for her body to suddenly explode in a bright light. Moments later, the plane lands and the police take over Lucy's case. A doctor tells Del Rio that the sedative he gave Lucy should keep her unconscious for a whole day, but actually it takes only a few hours for Lucy to wake up in the police station. She immediately dresses up and leaves the room, only to find herself surrounded by armed cops. With just a movement of her hand, Lucy knocks them all out except for Del Rio, although she does make all the bullets drop from his gun.

Del Rio confirms he has all mules with the bags of powder, and Lucy announces she'll take them. Nearby, Jang's henchmen discover all the mules are being taken to the hospital to remove the bags. Del Rio takes Lucy in his car, and as they cross Paris, Lucy continues to discover how her brain keeps on developing. Now she can see all the phone lines in the air and even manages to touch them until she finds the conversation between Jang's henchmen. Using the car's radio, she gets all the details even though they're in Korean, yet she doesn't explain anything to Del Rio. Jang's henchmen enter the hospital and kill the doctors before they start working on extracting the bags from the mules. When one of the guys tries to leave, he just gets shot on the spot. Back to Lucy, she uses her powers to push Del Rio into the passenger's seat and takes over the car. Although she's never driven before, she does it expertly now, going at an insane speed as she moves some cars with her mind but also causes a bunch of crashes. The police soon begin chasing them, but Lucy just uses her powers to make them crash as well. Moments later, Lucy and Del Rio arrive at the hospital just in time to see a cop looking for the mules and getting shot for it. The leader of the henchman tries to leave with the powder bags, but Lucy creates an invisible wall that blocks his way.

 Then she uses her powers to disarm all the men and send them floating against the ceiling before taking the suitcase from the leader and leaving him frozen on the spot. The suitcase only has two bags in it, so Lucy finds the third mule and tears the bag from his stomach before leaving. Del Rio doesn't understand why she needs a normal human like him around and Lucy answers by kissing him before explaining he helps her remember what being human is like. As more cops arrive at the hospital, Lucy and Del Rio escape in his car, unaware that Jang is parked nearby and orders his men to follow them. Lucy calls Norman and guesses he's at the university before he even mentions it, thus she shows up there with Del Rio to meet Norman's colleagues. The scientists are skeptical of Lucy's powers, so in order to prove it, she touches one of them and reveals all the details of his life by just reading his mind. Outside, Jang meets with his team leader, who tells him he doesn't have many men left and that Lucy is a witch.

Jang decides he'll have to kill Lucy himself. Inside the university, Lucy can detect that the criminals are coming and asks Del Rio to secure the area. Then she tells the scientists about everything she's learned as she modifies her body and a pen at will, explaining people invented the concept of "uniqueness" because we codified our existence to bring it down to human size to make it comprehensible. Mathematical laws are fake, the only true unit of measure and proof of existence is time. At that moment, Jang's henchmen enter the university and begin shooting people. Del Rio informs Lucy he won't be able to hold the room for long, so Lucy asks the scientists to make a fluid with the powder and inject it directly into her veins. As Del Rio gathers a few cops to start a gunfight with the henchmen, Lucy absorbs all the bags of CPH4 and suddenly begins expelling a beam of light from her mouth.

 Then, Lucy's body begins transforming into a black substance that absorbs every machine in the room in an attempt to become the next-generation supercomputer. The scientists watch the room become a white empty space as the henchmen's leader fires a rocket launcher to defeat the police at the same time Lucy's brain finally reaches true 100% usage. Now Lucy's mind can travel through space and time, allowing her to see every single moment in humanity's history, including the big bang, the dinosaurs, and the first evolved primate, which scientists have also named Lucy. As the entire universe presents its existence to Lucy, Jang begins to slowly approach her from behind.

Lucy's body finishes its transformation and she suddenly disappears from her chair, leaving Jang shooting at the air. Jang tries to shoot the doctors to demand answers, but Del Rio shows up and shoots him first. The scientists turn around to discover the supercomputer vibrating as it hands Norman a USB stick that has a vision of space on its plastic. Then the supercomputer disintegrates and disappears, leaving Del Rio wondering where Lucy is. At that moment, he gets a message on his phone saying "I am everywhere".

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Farmer Goes Against an Army of 100,000 Orcs to Rescue His Kidnapped Wife

 

In the kingdom of Ehb, mage Gallian visits  Muriella to spend some time together. Muriella   loves kissing Gallian because she believes  there's love between them, but Gallian is   actually absorbing the magic that runs in her  mage bloodline. As they keep on kissing, nature   outside is ruined by the dark forces of Gallian's  ritual. Muriella's father Merick is in the area   and senses this energy, so he goes to investigate  and discovers Gallian is using magic to control an   army of beasts known as krugs. Meanwhile an orphan  known as Farmer works hard on the land. He lives   happily with his son Zeph and his wife Solana, who  Farmer hasn't told "I love you" to yet. They're   often visited by Farmer's best friend Norick, who  informs Farmer that the king's army is recruiting   men and pays well. Farmer turns the offer down  because he prefers a boring life if it means   staying with family.

At the royal castle, King  Konreid receives news of the krugs killing people   all over the place, including a royal guard.  Konreid's nephew Fallow fights the concept of such   peaceful beasts attacking ridiculous, but Konreid  believes dark sorcery is involved. The next day,   Solana and Zeph go to visit Solana's parents  and her brother Bastian at the village while   Farmer stays at home to work. He suddenly  feels a weird presence in the area, and a   quick investigation reveals a bunch of krugs are  invading. Farmer reveals to have secret fighting   techniques that he uses to quickly defeat all the  beasts before the runs to check on Norick, who is   also under attack while his barn burns. Together  the two friends fight and defeat all the enemies,   but unfortunately there's no saving the barn.  Afterward Farmer asks Norick for a horse because   he fears more krugs may be going to the village. 

Back in the royal castle, Muriella is taking sword   lessons with Commander Tarish. He respects  Muriella's skill with the sword, but he can't   accept her into his army because she's a woman.  Their training is interrupted by Fallow, who tells   Tarish to prepare his soldiers because the krugs  are ransacking the land. It's clear that Tarish   dislikes Fallow for being a good-for-nothing,  but he has no choice but to obey. In the village,   Solana is hanging out with her dad and son in  the tower, when she suddenly sees the krugs   coming. She immediately asks her father to take  Zeph to a safe place while she rings the bell to   raise the alarm. The villagers panic and run as  the krugs begin destroying everything in their   path. At that moment, Farmer and Norick  arrive at the village and join the fight,   killing as many krugs as they can. Farmer is  desperate to find Solana and hears from her family   that she's still at the bell tower, so Norick and  Bastian help him find her while Zeph stays with   his grandparents. Meanwhile the krugs reach the  tower and kidnap Solana.

 In his fortress, Gallian   is using his magic to control the krugs. He sends  backup in the form of dark knights that serve as   his avatar and allow him to see what's going on.  When Farmer approaches the tower, he finds it on   fire and assumes Solana's already dead. Gallian  sends a dark knight after Farmer and to his shock,   Farmer fights the dark knight without issues  and even manages to kill him. However Gallian   doesn't give up and gains control of a second  knight that he sends to Solana's house to kill   her parents. When Farmer arrives, he immediately  starts another fight against more incoming krugs   while the knight finds Zeph hiding in the closet.  Zeph quickly runs away and the knight follows him   so that Gallian can have the pleasure of killing  him. While Bastian gets home and is devastated   to find his dead parents, Farmer finds Zeph and  cries for his loss. After Gallian makes his army   retreat with a bunch of prisoners, Farmer  and Bastian bury Zeph and his grandparents.   Norick points out they didn't find Solana's body,  so she could still be alive. At the royal castle,   Fallow meets with Gallian to remind him they had  a deal to take over the throne together. Fallow   doesn't think Gallian's working fast enough, but  Gallian's too worried about Farmer and his ability   to strike dark knights. Some hours later, King  Konreid and his group arrive looking for people   who want to join the royal army. Farmer turns  them down, saying the king has plenty of soldiers   and walls to protect him. Norick and Bastian agree  with him and accept to join his search for Solana,   but they're suddenly intercepted by Merick, who  thinks Norick and Farmer look familiar. Merick   tries to explain to Farmer that the king needs  him more than they know, but Farmer dismisses   him. After a few hours of riding, Farmer, Norick,  and Bastian reach a broken bridge above a cliff.   They send the horses back and then cross the  gap by sliding down a rope with their belts.

 Farmer reaches the other end safely, but Norick  and Bastian fall into the water. Thankfully they   don't get hurt in the process. Meanwhile the king  and his men return to the castle and find only one   guard sleeping at the entrance. To make matters  worse, Fallow is using the throne to get frisky   with a woman. Konreid scolds him for his behavior,  then he makes Tarish take Fallow away. This causes   Fallow to slap Tarish for touching him, but Tarish  can't respond because Fallow is still royalty.   Afterward, Fallow goes to Gallian to demand an  acceleration of the plan. Gallian needs more power   for that, so he visits Muriella, who tells him  her father considers Gallian an enemy of the king.   Gallian dismisses that comment as Merick just  being too judgemental, but since Muriella won't   drop the subject, Gallian gets furious and yells  at her.

 This scares Muriella and causes her to   kick him out. The next morning, Fallow apologizes  to Konreid and promises to do better, so Konreid   allows him to share his breakfast. Afterward,  Konreid discusses with Tarish the strange behavior   the krugs are showing and how they should attack.  Muriella takes the chance to speak to Konreid to   ask what's going on because nobody tells her  anything. Konreid is about to explain the krug   problem but he suddenly starts feeling dizzy and  he passes out. Merick senses his king is in danger   and begins making his way back to the castle while  Fallow goes to see Gallian because he feels sick   as well. Gallian reveals that he poisoned the  king's breakfast and that he has the antidote,   which he gives to Fallow only after making him beg  and reminding him who is really in charge. Moments   later, Merick arrives and uses his magic to start  working on the poison in the king's system.

 Tarish   informs him Fallow has fled the castle and took  two full legions with him, which may indicate he   did the poisoning but also Gallian's help. When  Tarish wonders how Gallian got so much power,   Merick gets suspicious and visits Muriella,  who confirms she had been getting close to   Gallian. Merick explains to her that she had  been used and her bad decisions are bringing   chaos to the kingdom, which causes Muriella  to have a breakdown. Outside the royal estate,   Fallow tells the soldiers to follow him, and when  one man wonders why Tarish isn't with them, Fallow   kills him. Then he threatens to kill anyone who  doesn't follow him because it would technically   be treason. Meanwhile, Farmer, Bastian, and  Norick get lost in the forest. They feel a   weird presence surrounding them and suddenly, a  bunch of plants grab them by their feet and hang   them upside down. This is a trap from nymphs,  who don't want warriors in their forest.

 Farmer   uses his weapons to free himself and swears they  mean no harm, so the nymphs let them go on the   condition they get out of the woods immediately.  The guys admit they're lost and the nymphs accept   to guide them to the edge of the forest while  explaining they don't get involved in humans'   problems. The trio makes it out of the woods at  night and finds the krugs that are transporting   the carts with the prisoners to their lair. One of  the beasts tries to attack them, but they quickly   kill it and Norick takes its helmet, getting an  idea. He and Bastian dress up as krugs and pretend   to bring Farmer as a prisoner, giving him the  chance to look for Solana. Unfortunately Bastian   and Norick are recognized as humans and captured  anyway.

 Farmer finds Solana in one of the cages,   but a dark knight knocks him out from behind  before he can rescue her. Back at the castle,   Konreid wakes up and Merick informs him of  Fallow's doings. Konreid orders Tarish to get   the army ready to attack and he'll come along  instead of resting. On a road not far away,   Solana wakes up and discovers Norick and Bastian  are with her. She breaks down when they tell her   about her parents and Zeph, but Norick promises  Farmer will come for her. In the meantime,   Farmer wakes up to find himself tied to a tree.  There's a dark knight next to him that Gallian   uses to communicate, admitting he's curious about  Farmer because he can't read him like he does with   other normal humans. Gallian wants to know what  Farmer is, but since Farmer doesn't have answers,   Gallian pulls the rope to try to kill him.

However  Farmer moves quickly and kicks the knight to kill   him with his own weapon, then he cuts the rope  to save himself. Nearby, Merick senses Gallian's   magic and rushes to find Farmer barely alive, so  he helps him by sharing some magic medicine. At   the castle, Muriella deals with her feelings of  guilt over having given her magic to Gallian. She   considers ending things, but her best friend comes  to stop her, pointing out that would only make   matters worse. Muriella decides she wants to make  up for her mistakes and make her father proud,   so she puts on armor and leaves the castle to join  the fight. Moments later, Fallow makes his army   join a krug camp, saying they're part of his army  too. This isn't liked by the soldiers. Meanwhile   Merick brings Farmer to the king's camp to  introduce him to Konreid, because he has big news:   Farmer is the king's lost son.

He's sure of this  because Norick used to tend the queen's horses,   and after the massacre at Oxley Pass, Norick found  a little boy wandering around. There was only one   child at Oxley Pass back then, the prince. Farmer  refuses to believe this and leaves the tent. While   he searches for a horse to go back to look for his  wife, Merick approaches him to ask him to join the   army again. Farmer refuses, so Merick points  out there's no point in saving Solana if the   king doesn't win the war because then Merick  won't have a place to live. A moment later,   Tarish approaches Fallow to try to solve this  without a fight. He calls him a traitor and   announces any soldier under his command will be  considered one as well. Fallow laughs because he   believes himself to be the new king and nothing  can be done against him, but at that moment   Konreid shows up to prove he's still alive.

 The  soldiers that followed Fallow immediately return   to their king's side and get ready for battle,  Tarish is shocked to see Farmer joining them as   well. Suddenly Fallow's krug army arrives. The  king's archers deal with the first wave, then   the sword wielders come through to start a fierce  battle. Gallian uses his magic to send some krugs   underground, allowing them to grab the soldiers by  surprise from below. The humans are good fighters   and manage to keep up their defenses, but things  get more complicated when Gallian sends some dark   knights and catapults that shoot rocks and even  krugs themselves on fire. While the archers find   a safe spot to bring down the krugs in charge of  the catapults, the king also joins the fight, so   the dark knights try going after him. The soldiers  can't stop them no matter how much they attack,   but Farmer knows he's special and opens the path  to reach the knights and quickly kill them.

 This   distraction is used by Fallow to shoot Konreid in  the chest. The king doesn't give up and continues   fighting, but Merick orders the guards to take  him away. Fallow immediately rides away and Farmer   tries to catch him, but another dark knight gets  in his way and Farmer has to stay to fight him. By   holding onto the knight's horse, Farmer manages to  reach the knight and kill him too. The king's army   wins the battle, but Gallian thinks they're just  buying time. Nearby, Muriella uses her special   senses to understand what direction she needs to  take and discovers there's a dark knight following   her, so she rides away into the woods. Moments  later, Fallow and the few men he has left show up   in the forest with the intention of returning to  the castle because it's empty and up for taking.   They suddenly stop when they find a dark knight  hanging from a tree, and just a little further in,   Muriella is waiting.

 Fallow thinks he's found  the perfect victim to kidnap, but at that moment   the plants start moving: it turns out this is a  trap and the nymphs now capture all the soldiers.   Scared, Fallow grabs his sword and tries to  kill Muriella, who quickly defends herself.   A nymph on a vine jumps in to take Muriella away  and Fallow tries to escape, but he finds himself   blocked by the bodies of his own soldiers. The  vines capture Fallow and Muriella announces he's   coming with her. At Gallian's fortress, the krugs  arrive with all the prisoners and as soon as they   open the cages, Bastian and Norick start a fight.  Solana gets to run away with another prisoner,   but unfortunately Norick dies in battle. Bastian  joins the girls in the corridor trying to find a   way out, but the krugs find them and re-capture  them. In the king's camp, Konreid isn't well,   so Merick calls Farmer to make him face his  father's last wishes.

 Konreid uses a quote   about bravery and hard work that Farmer heard  before, and this proves he's his son because   Konreid only said that to the prince. The king  thinks that Farmer's skills in battle prove he   shall be a worthy leader, but also reveals he  knows a lot about other subjects like plants   and animals because he cares about his kingdom  and what's going on in it. Farmer is impressed   and holds Konreid's hand as he accepts his dream  of peace right before the king dies. Outside,   Tarish welcomes Muriella and sees her bring  Fallow with her. Tarish immediately frees Fallow   from the vines and challenges him to a duel for  the king's honor. Fallow accepts and begins the   fight by attacking Tarish from behind, but Tarish  quickly recovers and shows off his skills, easily   overpowering Fallow. At that moment, a soldier  brings the announcement of Konreid's death,   and Fallow laughs because that means he's the  new king and they can't hurt him.

He tries to   order the soldiers around, but he's interrupted  by Merick, who introduces everyone to Farmer,   explaining he's Konreid's son and therefore  the new king. Merick accuses Fallow of killing   Kinreid, and while a soldier finally arrests  Fallow, everyone kneels to Farmer as their new   king. At his fortress, Gallian learns that Solana  is among the prisoners and wants to use her to   make Farmer come to him. He touches her creepily  and using his magic, Gallian discovers that Solana   is pregnant. Back at the royal camp, the army  says goodbye to Konreid with a proper funeral   before making battle plans. Muriella tries to  join the army again and this time Farmer accepts   her as a soldier. She also knows of other people  that want to help and takes Farmer to the woods,   surprising him with the presence of the  nymphs. They usually don't want to fight,   but they've changed their mind because the krugs  are now attacking their forest too. Moments later,   Farmer takes his army to Gallian's fortress, where  the mage summons a storm to make the battle harder   for the humans.

As a fierce battle begins between  krugs and the royal guards plus the nymphs,   Merick takes Farmer around the mountain to  show him a secret entrance to Gallian's lair.   Then Merick teleports inside to confront Gallian  directly, since they used to be friends before   Gallian fell into the darkness. The last existing  mages in the kingdom start a fight by controlling   swords with their magic, and Gallian uses all the  power he's stolen from Muriella to stab Merick,   leaving him to die alone. Outside, a nymph helps  Farmer use a rope to jump over a cliff and gain   access to the secret entrance. Muriella senses  her father's death and teleports into the fortress   to say goodbye to him. Before dying, Merick gives  his daughter the last of his magic. In the caves,   Bastian manages to get the chains off the walls  and gathers some of the prisoners to fight the   krugs while the others take the chance to escape.

  Farmer sneaks inside the fortress until he finds   Solana, but Gallian is waiting for him. Solana  tries to run away, but Gallian hits her with   magic to make her stay. Then Gallian grabs a sword  to fight Farmer, and as soon as he realizes Farmer   has better skills, he begins using magic to toss  tables at him and float away from Farmer's hits.   While Tarish and the nymphs have trouble against  the dark knights that join the krugs in battle,   Farmer manages to disarm Gallian and wound his  head. Gallian responds by capturing Farmer in a   magic hurricane of books and retrieves his sword  to kill him, only to be interrupted by Muriella,   who uses her magic to save Farmer and freeze  Gallian. Solana sees the opportunity and with   Farmer's sword, she stabs Gallian to  get revenge for her son. Now free,   Farmer comes forward and finishes Gallian once  and for all.

The death of the mage causes all   the dark knights to disappear and krugs to  calm down and leave because they aren't under   his control anymore. The prisoners and the  army take a breath as they realize they won.   Farmer and Solana celebrate their victory with a  kiss, and Farmer finally tells her he loves her.

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Saboteurs Must Blow Up a Bridge Inside Enemy Territory

 

When World War II breaks out, Norway declares itself neutral. However the small town of Narvik is the main source of iron ore for Germany, and Great Britain considers it important to stop the ore transportation. In April 1940, the British marine force arrives at Norwegian waters, so a troop of Norwegian soldiers are sent to Narvik as neutrality guards, unaware of the fact that Norway's neutrality has already been breached. Among these soldiers is Tofte, who is delighted to go back to his hometown and see his family again. When they arrive at Narvik, soldiers are disappointed to hear their day off has been canceled, so Tofte asks for a special permission because it's his son's birthday. The permission is granted but he has to come back before midnight. Tofte rushes to visit his wife Ingrid, who works as a waitress in a hotel and sometimes helps as an interpreter because she knows German.

Today there's a meeting with the town mayor, discussing the possibility of an agreement over the ore with British consul Ross and German consul Fritz. Tofte reunites with Ingrid, then goes outside to spend time with his son Ole and his father Aslak while he waits for his wife to finish working. When the meeting ends, Ross asks Ingrid if Fritz gave any kind of opinion when he called her over to translate, but Ingrid has no information to share. Afterward the family has dinner together, and after Aslak and Ole go to bed, Tofte and Ingrid get frisky together. Tofte ends up falling asleep by mistake, and he's woken up by the sound of explosions in the area. Once Ingrid has said goodbye to him, Tofte rushes out and sees fire at the coast. He meets with his colonel, who explains their ships have been sunk by the Germans and now marines are scattered all over the harbor.

Tofte rejoins his companions to defend the town, but the colonel goes to talk to the German leader and hears his army has taken over the rest of Norway, so they don't stand a chance. The colonel decides to surrender to avoid more death and tells his men to let the German soldiers pass. Now the Norwegian soldiers must travel to a new meeting point because returning to the base is begging to be captured. The next morning, Ingrid goes to work and finds Ross' assistant sneaking inside through the employee door, explaining it's a matter of life or death. When Ingrid reaches the reception, she discovers the German army has taken over the hotel as a base, and Fritz asks her to be their translator, he also requires all the room keys. Ingrid can tell they'll shoot if she doesn't obey, so she gives them the keys and asks about her husband.

 Fritz promises they let the Norwegian tropes leave in peace. Meanwhile Tofte's group is leaving town, and the Germans try to stop them, but the colonel ignores them and they keep on marching. Back in the hotel, a few German soldiers arrive through the back door and Ingrid distracts them with breakfast to give her friend and coworker Bjorg the chance to help Ross and his assistant escape. Before they leave, Ross asks Ingrid for a place to hide, but Ingrid doesn't want to take them home because of her son. Instead, she tells them of a cabin in the mountains and sends Bjorg to guide them there. When Ingrid goes home after work, Aslak tells her they should leave town. Ingrid worries about Tofte, but Aslak points out the soldiers left and they won't be able to come back as long as the Germans are here. They go to the harbor, where they find the waters filled with dead Norwegian marines, and they discover the ferry isn't available, so they'll have to take the train.

 Tofte and his team are currently marching along the train tracks. The major discovers this section of the bridge was supposed to be blown up but they can't find the dynamite, so he asks Tofte for help because he used to work for the train station with his dad before he joined the neutrality watch. Tofte doesn't know anything about the dynamite and calls his dad for help, Aslak tells him the location of the dynamite but also warns him there's a train coming and Ingrid and Ole are in it. Tofte passes this information to his superiors and requests to blow up the bridge after letting the train pass, but the major refuses because the entire point is to stop the train from bringing the ore to German hands. Suddenly they hear some noises in the tunnel and the soldiers get ready to shoot, but it turns out they're the civilians that couldn't catch the train because the Germans stopped it.

 Tofte quickly says hi to his family before sending them to hide in the other tunnel, then he helps his fellow soldiers set up the dynamite, which means he has to climb up the beams that hold the bridge. Inside the tunnel, most of the civilians keep moving, but Ole makes her mother stay back to wait for Tofte. At that moment, the Germans arrive and open fire, killing various Norwegian soldiers. The major orders the detonation of the explosives before Tofte can climb down, so he has to jump and land on the snow before he's hit by the explosion too. Moments later, the Germans find Ingrid and Ole and since she speaks their language, she's saved instead of captured. On her way back to town, Ingrid discovers that the Germans captured a few Norwegian soldiers as prisoners of war, including Tofte. When they return to town, Ingrid leaves Ole with Aslak before she's taken to see Fritz, who requires her help with translation to talk to the mayor again.

 Fritz knows the mayor telegraphed someone and wants to know why, thus the mayor explains he tried to warn the British about the invasion, but he never got to because the Germans caught him first. Since Fritz clarifies the British won't come as long as the Germans are here, the mayor wants to evacuate the remaining civilians, but Fritz won't let him do that either. The mayor leaves furious and promises to take over the pedestrian tunnel to use as a shelter. Then Ingrid begins cleaning up and accidentally breaks a glass. Fritz wonders why she's so nervous, and Ingrid explains she's worried about Tofte, so Fritz promises he'll see what he can do about it. Sometime later, Bjorg shows up at Ingrid's home, saying Ross wants tobacco and specifically asked for her. Ingrid doesn't want to go, but she accepts when Bjorg points out that she can't do everything alone.

 Ingrid goes to the cabin in the mountains and after she hands in the tobacco, Ross asks her to spy for them. At first she refuses, but then Ross implies he will tell the Germans that she's hiding him, so she has no choice but to accept. Ross knows his ships are the best, but he needs her to find out how the Germans would protect the city against a land attack. The next time Ingrid is serving coffee to Fritz and his men, she pays attention to the drawer where they put away their maps and plans. Suddenly an explosion can be heard from the harbor, and Ingrid looks through the window to discover the British are attacking. She rushes out of the hotel and meets with Aslak and Ole to hide in a basement with the rest of the neighbors. By the time the battle ends, night has fallen.

Ingrid returns to the hotel where she learns that the British sunk all the German ships but they haven't come ashore yet, she guesses they're waiting for her intel. She helps take care of the wounded soldiers, and when she sees Fritz, she asks for any news on Tofte. Unfortunately Fritz explains things are too tense now to ask for favors regarding the soldiers the blew up the bridge and ruined things for the Germans. Since Frit won't help her, Ingrid decides to take advantage of everyone being distracted to sneak into the office and steal the maps and plans. Afterward, she takes them to Ross, who makes a copy and makes his assistant send the information to the British forces. Ingrid returns to town with the originals and is stopped by the German soldiers on guard, luckily as a hotel worker she has the papers that allow her to transit freely. The soldiers let her pass, but when Ingrid is about to enter her home, there's an explosion in town that pushes her back: the British are already using her intel to attack. Ingrid's house is now in ruins and she rushes inside to search for her family.

 Sadly Aslak has died under the debris, while Ole is alive but heavily wounded. Four weeks later, the Germans have established an iron ring around Narvik. French and Polish troops have disembarked to attack from the north and south, but first the Norwegians must neutralize the German positions in the mountains. In Roasme, Tofte and the other Norwegian prisoners are being slaved by the Germans to make them work in the sheer cold, to the point one of them passes out. It worries Tofte that they may kill them if they don't help, so he makes his friend stand up again by reminding him Bjorg is waiting for him to return. The Norwegian soldiers are sent to the trenches and when the French suddenly attack, the Norwegians are put in charge of the wounded.

 Tofte takes the chance to steal some food and overhears others talking about the attack on Narvik, which sadly allows him to learn that his father is dead. Tofte wants to know if Ole also died, but everyone gets distracted by the enemy fire, and the Norwegians take the chance to escape. The Germans notice this and try to stop them, but at that moment the French get close enough to kill the captors and rescue the Norwegians. Tofte is quickly handed a gun and he helps the French kill all the Germans on their way until they finally get to leave the trenches, then Tofte discovers his old team and his mayor are there working with the French as well. He learns they'll eventually return to Narvik, but first they have to finish killing all the Germans in the area.

 One week later, civilians are caught in the crossfire between German positions and British ships, so they're all staying in the shelters, where Ingrid continues to take care of Ole's wounds. One afternoon, Bjorg informs her the Germans are going from door to door looking for the people that are hiding the English, they're also asking for Ingrid. After leaving Ole with Bjorg, Ingrid goes to translate for another meeting between Fritz and the mayor. Fritz wants to know where Ross is and doesn't believe the mayor when he says he doesn't know, thus the mayor gets arrested. At that moment a small explosion hits the side of the hotel, but they ignore it because it's routine by now. Fritz invites Ingrid to stay with him in the hotel, but she prefers to be with her son. Later in the evening, Ingrid is devastated to discover Ole's unconscious and burning with fever because his wound got infected.

 Ingrid immediately takes him to the hotel and asks Fritz for a doctor, but Fritz turns her request down, explaining the soldiers are their priority. Desperate, Ingrid offers to tell him Ross' location in exchange for help for her son. Moments later, a doctor is taking care of Ole's wound, which was infected because a little piece of metal got caught in it. Bjorg shows up to warn Ingrid that the Germans caught Ross, but as soon as she sees a doctor with Ole, she realizes what Ingrid did. To calm her down, Ingrid assures her she never mentioned her. Two weeks later, Norwegian and French soldiers attack the Germans in Rombaks Fjord, their last stop before Narvik. They think that thanks to Ingrid's intel they'll do fine, but now the Germans are waiting for them and immediately open fire. Tofte has to help his friend get to a safe spot, and the group notices they're at a great disadvantage so they try to leave. However the major shoots at the sky and threatens to kill anyone that dares behave like a coward. The key is destroying the cannons, prompting Tofte to take two men and go up the hill through a hidden road at the back. After killing the guards, they enter a tunnel, where Germans open fire at them again. The Norwegians exchanged a few shots before throwing a grenade to kill most of the enemies. Then they shoot the survivors directly before putting a bomb inside the cannon to destroy it as well.

Afterward the trio goes back outside to announce the cannon is down, now their team can advance and finally win the battle. In Narvik, the Germans begin getting ready to leave and Fritz asks Ingrid to come with him to Berlin, warning her that the Germans will retaliate later with brutal air raids. Ingrid turns him down, reminding him she has a husband, causing Fritz to shows her the prisoners list to reveal their Norwegian slaves were lost in action. Devastated, Ingrid runs to her son and is found by her boss, who comforts her and gives her all her pay so she can leave Narvik with Ole. Meanwhile Norwegian and French soldiers celebrate their victory, which is considered Hitler's first loss in World War II. Sometime later, the group finally makes it back to Narvik, and all the citizens receive them with pride. Tofte is shocked to see Ingrid isn't there to welcome him too, and when he asks Bjorg, she explains it's been hard for Ingrid after dealing with the Germans.

Tofte goes to his old house and is hurt to find it in ruins, but inside he's relieved to see Ingrid and Ole. The family reunites with hugs and kisses, but Ingrid quickly reminds them they need to leave. Tofte demands an explanation, and Ingrid confesses what she had to do to save her child. She doesn't feel guilty because it was a British grenade that hurt Ole and killed Aslak, but Tofte is still furious and calls her a traitor since she betrayed the people that protected the town. Ingrid reminds him that nobody was here protecting Ole, and when Tofte points out that people just die during the war, Ingrid says it would've been better if he never came back. Ingrid tries to leave with Ole alone, but at that moment, German planes begin bombing the area. Tofte rushes to drag his wife and kid behind a wall for safety and tells Ingrid this is her fault. Some screaming can be heard outside and when Tofte goes to check, he's distressed to discover his best friend is dead.

 The mayor shows up with the rest of the soldiers to discuss new tactics, but Tofte only has eyes for Ingrid, who is leaving with Ole. At the harbor, all the citizens are trying to leave on the next boat. Because they heard rumors about Ingrid's betrayal, they push her out of the way and don't help her when she falls. Ingrid begins picking up her things thinking she'll forever be alone, but suddenly a pair of hands appear to help: it's Tofte, who has quit the mission to be with his family. Fortunately there are enough fishing boats to take all the civilians away before German bombers leave the city in ruins. The recapture of Narvik is considered Hitler's first defeat in World War II, but the victory was brief. Without informing Norway, Great Britain and France ordered a full withdrawal. Norwegian forces were left alone and forced to lay down their weapons. The battle of Narvik is the largest battle on Norwegian soil.

 

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Girl Fell in a World That is HELL For Humans

 

The year is 2009, and young Alice works as a judo teacher in the city. One of her students is Jack, who also happens to be her boyfriend. Today Alice will introduce Jack to her mother Carol, who is all the family she has left. Her father left when she was ten and Alice has been looking for him since then. On his way to Alice's place, Jack can't help feeling like he's being followed, but he decides to ignore it. The dinner goes well, and after Carol goes to bed, Jack receives a message that says "run". Nervous, Jack asks Alice if she'd like to meet his family, which she finds very sudden. Then he gives her a little box with a beautiful ring that Jack's family has had for a long time, but Alice doesn't like it. She thinks Jack is moving too fast, so she's gonna need some time to think about this. Jack hugs her before leaving. After Jack's gone, Alice discovers that when he hugged her, he put the box in her pocket. When she runs out of the building to follow him, she discovers some men in black suits are taking Jack away in a van.

 At that moment, Alice is approached by the White Rabbit, who claims to be a friend of Jack's. He explains Jack stole the ring and was arrested for it, and now he wants the ring. Alice hides the box behind her back and takes out the ring before attacking Rabbit, but the man pushes her away and makes her drop the box. Rabbit grabs the box and runs to the back of an alley where he jumps into a mirror. Alice does the same, which makes her fall through a tunnel that drops her inside an abandoned building. She sees Rabbit run out of the building and goes after him, but she freezes when she finds herself on the edge of the floor. The city she is in seems to be old and abandoned, almost post-apocalyptic. Alice continues to follow Rabbit and sees him enter a different building with the rabbit logo, the men in black are taking Jack there as well. Suddenly an aircraft begins flying over the area, and when its light touches Alice's arm, it makes a tattoo appear.

Scared, Alice enters the building, where she finds a little bottle on a table that says "curiosity killed the cat". There are two bean slots on the walls, and when Alice looks through them, she notices a bunch of people inside boxes with similar tattoos on their bodies. At that moment the walls start closing around Alice and Rabbit talks through her to the slot, calling her an "oyster" before sending her away. The room begins moving because it's become a box, and the aircraft takes away all the people Alice saw in the room, herself included. Alice notices the base of the box is a hatch, so she uses her hair pain to get it open and falls into the river. She swims back to the city, where the Ratcatcher tries to rob her, but he steps back when he sees the tattoo.

 Apparently helping the oysters may get you in trouble, but he changes his mind when he hears her name, thinking she's the "Alice of legend". Ratcatcher covers the tattoo on Alice's arm with an old rag and makes her follow him to the Teahouse, a shop where people pay lots  of money for teas that  provide instant gratification in the form of positive emotions. At the front there's the Dormouse, who announces where new teas come in. However Ratcacher grabs Alice and takes her through the back door to meet the real boss behind this, the Hatter, who pays Ratcher with some tea to make him leave. Hatter explains that this is Wonderland, and that the Alice from the story was here 150 years ago.

Only people from Alice's world can become oysters, and the men in black, called the Suits, bring them over through the Looking Glass to drain their emotions at the casino, which is under the control of the White Rabbit organization. These emotions are what make the teas, so while usually entering the casino would be dangerous, Hatter has some contacts that can allow him to take Alice there to find Jack. They leave through a back door that comes out on another high edge, which makes Alice nervous because she's afraid of heights. Hatter helps her move by holding her hand. Meanwhile White Rabbit goes to the casino, where all the oysters are connected to the floor. Every time they have a good emotion thanks to the casino's entertainment, it's sent to the underground lab where Carpenter and Walrus make the teas. Whenever an oyster begins to remember their real life, the Suits take them away to a waiting room to be reprogrammed.

 Rabbit takes the box to the King and Queen of Hearts, who had taken control of Wonderland with their White Rabbit company and brought ruin to the land with their obsession with instant gratification. When they open the box and find the ring isn't there, the Queen becomes furious and fires White Rabbit after he explains Alice is on the loose. Then she asks the Suits to get the Mad March, her favorite assassin who lost his head. Carpenter isn't done fixing him yet, but since the Queen wants him now, he improvises by using a cookie jar shaped like a hare as the new head. Carpenter presents the Mad March, who immediately asks him to capture Alice. Back to Alice, Hatter makes her take a special elevator that carries them to the Great Library, where they keep all the history and art of Wonderland so that the Queen won't burn it.

 They also give home to refugees who value wisdom over the Queen's quick fix. An old couple receives them at gunpoint, but they allow them to pass when they realize who Hatter is and he pays them with cheese. Hatter and Alice go to see Dodo, the man in charge of the library, to ask for his help finding Jack. Hatter thinks Alice can pay with her ring, and when she shows it to Dodo he freaks out. That's the Stone of Wonderland, which controls the Looking Glass and could help them bring the Queen down. Dodo tries to take it by force, and when Hatter tries to defend Alice, Dodo shoots him. Scared, Alice pushes Dodo off and runs back to the elevator. Hatter suddenly stands up, revealing he's fine, and he starts a fight with Dodo as they go after Alice.

 Alice rushes to their side and with her judo skills, she beats Dodo up, then she drags Hatter into the elevator to escape. She discovers Hatter wears body armor under his clothes and yells at him for trying to sell her ring. Hatter wants to send Alice back to her world through the mirror, but Alice still wants to save Jack and perhaps buy his freedom with the ring. They try to return to the Teahouse only to  find Mad March and the  Suits there, who immediately begin chasing them. Hatter takes Alice to the river and they escape on a boat. Once they're far enough, Hatter confesses that now his shop has been ransacked, he's homeless and wants to leave for her world. Suddenly an aircraft begins following them, thus Hatter stops at the nearest shore and hides the boat under plants.

 Hatter wants to lead their pursuers into a trap, so he runs through the woods to get the attention of a Jabberwock. When the beast shows up, Hatter and Aliev begin running and accidentally fall into a trap full of spikes. The Jabberwock tries to eat them but it can't get close enough because of those spikes, thus it leaves. A moment later, a man shows up to insult them: it's Charlie the White Knight, who put up that trap to catch the Jabberwock. However Charlie becomes more friendly when he hears Alice's name and sees the ring. While the Mad March begins tracking them through the forest, Charlie takes Hatter and Alice to the old Kingdom of Knights. Nowadays it's abandoned because the Queen wiped off all the knights years ago, and Charlie is the only one left. He still takes care of the throne with the skeleton of the old king. Seeing all this makes Hatter change his mind, he'll help Alice go home but he won't leave with her because he must fight for his home. The next morning, Alice's shocked to find her cat Dinah, who died when she was ten. Dinah begins running, and Alice follows her to find a door on an old tree stump. When she enters it, Dinah smiles at her with a creepy grin and the door closes; then Alice discovers she's become her younger self and the room became her old house. Alice begins looking for her father and finds the original Wonderland book on the floor before waking up, finding herself on the tree where she fell asleep last night. Moments later, Hatter and Charlie wake up to find Alice gone, so they go looking for her. Meanwhile Alice walks into an open area on purpose in order for Mad March to catch her. They take her to see the Queen and Alice explains she's hidden the ring, but she'll give it to the Queen if she frees Jack and sends them both home.

 The Queen calls for Jack, and when he shows up, Alice's shocked to discover Jack is the Queen's son. Jack says that Alice means nothing to her and that she stole the ring. Even worse, in this world Jack has a fianceé known as the Duchess, who comes to meet Alice too and immediately gets jealous. Jack takes Alice to the side and apologizes for everything before putting something in her hands and kissing her temple to whisper "he's here". Then Jack leaves, and when the Duchess shows her jealousy, he asks her to get him out of here. Duchess refuses to help him leave, but she takes him to their room to make him drink Honesty Tea. Jack mentions he needed Alice, but when the Duchess is about to ask what for, she's called by the Queen, who is furious because she doesn't have the intel yet. If the Duchess wants to stay, she has until morning to make Jack talk. In the meantime, Alice opens her hands and discovers that Jack gave her her dad's watch. The Suits take Alice to the Truth Room, handled by the twin doctors.

The twins hypnotize Alice to make her think she's a kid at home again and they guide her through the illusion, which causes her to find a pig in her dad's studio. Then they make the floor disappear and leave Alice hanging on a wooden plank, which is slowly disappearing too. Alice's fear of heights makes her accept to share the location of the ring, but she asks for some paper to draw a map. Outside the casino, Hatter and Charlie are pretending to be entertainers asking for a job, but the guard doesn't believe them so Hatter knocks him out. Then Charlie uses his mystical powers to find the Truth Room, and with the door open, Alice jumps over the hole and is safely caught by Hatter. As Suits begin chasing them, the trio runs to the elevator and reaches the roof, where there are more agents waiting for them.

 Charlie isn't a good fighter, but Hatter and Alice manage to beat them up. There are more coming though, thus they take the flamingo hovercrafts to escape. Alice is terrified, but Hatter makes her ride with him. As they fly away, Jack sees them through the window. The Suits have hovercrafts too and go after the trio, shooting at their rides to make them fall in the water. Back in the casino, Jack  pretends to be unconscious,  and when a guard and Duchess find him, he knocks out the guard and ties up the Duchess in order to escape. The twins take the map to the Queen and she reads it to find an address on Earth. The guards also bring the news of Jack's escape, so the King sends everyone available to find both Alice and Jack. Moments later, Alice and Hatter reach a beach and begin looking for Charlie, who got separated by the current.

Alice tells Hatter that Jack isn't actually bad and something fishy is going on, because thanks to him she knows her dad is here in Wonderland. However Hatter thinks Jack's lying to set up a trap. After they bump into Charlie, Alice admits she wants to go back to the casino, but Hatter wants her to help the resistance. Dodo had been bad but he's only a sub-boss, the real head of the organization is Caterpillar, who will help for sure. Alice decides to give them a chance, so Hatter takes the boat back to the city to send a message. He finds Dormouse and asks him to get in contact with Caterpillar, saying they're ready to make a deal. Back in the forest, Alice and Charlie make camp. Charlie praises Alice for how brave she's been and confesses he's only alive because when the Queen showed up to kill the knights, he had only been a squire and he ran away to hide.

The next day he took the White Knight's Armor and wished for a second chance, which he thinks is Alice's mission. Moments later, Hatter comes back and tells Alice Caterpillar will soon send an agent to meet with them. The two of them have a sweet moment together,  and when they're about to  kiss, they're interrupted by Jack. It turns out Jack has been working undercover for the resistance all along because he also hates what the Queen's doing to Wonderland. He stole the ring from his mother to instigate a coup, but it didn't work out, and he lied in front of the Queen to protect Alice. He's the agent Caterpillar sent and he can take Alice to see her dad, so Alice finally reveals she left the ring in the hand of the skeleton king. After taking the ring, Jack wants to take Alice away but he refuses to bring Hatter too, but Hatter doesn't want to come anyway.

After riding for a while, Alice and Jack stop to rest, and Alice asks about the Duchess. Jack explains he feels nothing for her, she's just his mother's pawn to control him. He also swears his heart belongs to Alice. Then Jack urges Alice to keep going because he heard something, it turns out Hatter and Charlie are following them in secret. Once they reach the city, Jack and Alice enter the Hospital of Dreams, where they finally meet with Caterpillar. He explains how the emotions of oysters greatly hurt Wonderland, showing her some examples of people who couldn't handle the mix of good and bad feelings. They need to send all the oysters back to Earth, and the only one that can do it is Alice's dad. Unfortunately he's currently an amnesiac, that's why Jack went looking for Alice, the resistance thinks she can make her dad see reason. Now Alice thinks her relationship with Jack had been a lie, but she still wants to see her dad. Caterpillar reveals his agents managed to find him, and when he presses a button, Alice's dad shows up: it turns out he's the Carpenter.

 He doesn't remember Alice, he only remembers fake memories the Queen put in him to make him work under her command. This makes Alice cry, which causes Carpenter to call her "jellybean", her childhood nickname. Feeling some hope, Alice shares childhood anecdotes while putting the watch on Carpenter's wrist, but at that moment, Mad March and the Suits show up. Caterpillar disappears by eating a mushroom, but everyone else gets arrested. When they leave the building, they're seen by Hatter and Charlie. Hatter wants to help and asks Charlie to join him in a surprise attack, but Charlie gets scared and runs away, leaving Hatter to get arrested as well. Moments later, the Queen receives the ring and is told about Jack's plan. To be sure she won't be betrayed again, the Queen tells Carpenter that she'll kill Alice, but Carpenter doesn't care, which hurts Alice deeply. Seeing he doesn't remember anything, the Queen sends Carpenter back to his lab. Jack asks the Queen to let Alice return to her world, pointing out that if she gets killed the shock may awaken Carpenter's memories. The King doesn't like it, but Queen accepts: Alice will be thrown in the mirror and Jack will be punished with death.

Meanwhile Charlie is overwhelmed with guilt, but seeing the skeleton of his king inspires him with a plan. Hatter is in the Truth Room, where the twins are trying to make him confess the location of the Great Library. Since they're unsuccessful, Mad March takes over, and when he comes closer Hatter uses the chance to fight him. Exchanging a few hits allows Hatter to also break the illusion wall. Alice is taken to the mirror, which is being used with the ring to bring oysters from her world. While the Suits come by to take the ring back to the Queen, Alice sees how kids are being brought as well, and it makes her so angry that she begins fighting the Suits. After pushing them all away, she runs to the roof, where she pushes another man off to get access to the hovercraft. Alice fights her fears and flies away to go after the guys with the ring, hiding in the forest when they try to shoot her down.

 Moments later, the Queen receives the ring but also a warning: the casino is under attack. They think there's an army outside, but it's actually Charlie, who has brought all the skeletons over as a distraction. The Queen sends the Suits to attack and Charlie defends himself the best he can with a giant crossbow, but it isn't long until he's knocked out. With everyone distracted, Alice re-enters the casino with no issues. Meanwhile Jack is being kept at the Truth Room, but the Duchess shows up to rescue him because she has fallen for him for real and only worked for the Queen to survive. At that moment the Suits find Alice, so she hides in the main casino room. There are guards there too, but Hatter arrives to knock them out. After they hug, they block the doors and proceed with an idea Alice got from Caterpillar's comment about mixing good and bad emotions. Alice gets on the stage and begins telling everyone to wake up because they need to remember their old lives and families. Her speech makes everyone slowly start to remember, and when Carpenter sees this on the security cameras, his memory is triggered as well. Carpenter leaves the lab and Walrus tries to stop him, so Carpenter fights him.

 In the struggle, Walrus is shot by his own gun. Alice continues to talk to everyone to make them upset with the situation, these negative emotions are transported to the lab too. Suddenly the Suits finally push the door open and start to fire, but Carpenter arrives to stop them. Alice doesn't trust him, thus Carpenter begins sharing some of their memories together and convinces her he's fine now. Father and daughter reunite with a hug, but at that moment, Walrus reveals he's alive and comes to shoot Alice. Carpenter sees him and gets in the way of the bullet to save his daughter. Hatter shoots Walrus before he can try again, and all this death causes the lab to start shaking the entire building. The oysters run away, and Carpenter says goodbye to Alice so that Hatter can drag her away too. The Queen wants to evacuate too, but the King decides to stay because he's tired of working hard for her when she'll never return his love. Duchess and Jack manage to run outside too, and when Charlie wakes up, he shoots one last arrow. When the building finally explodes, he thinks he hit it.

The Queen tries to order his men to catch Alice, but Alice points out she doesn't have power anymore, and nobody listens to her anymore. Then Alice asks for the ring, and Hatter threatens to cut it off if necessary. The Queen surrenders and returns the ring, causing everyone to celebrate. Moments later, the resistance activates the mirror to help all the oysters go home. Alice says goodbye to Charlie, and when Jack comes over to ask her to stay as his queen, she turns him down. They say goodbye with a hug, and when the Hatter notices, he thinks he's lost his chance with Alice. Hatter decides to stay in Wonderland and tells Alice she should go back, which breaks her heart. Then Alice crosses the mirror and falls back on Earth, losing consciousness on the streets. When she wakes up, she's in the hospital with Carol and learns she was only missing for an hour. When they return home, Alice throws away all the tools she had been using to look for her dad, since she doesn't need them anymore. Suddenly someone rings the bell: it's Hatter, who decided to come after all. Alice receives him with a hug and the two of them finally kiss.

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