In the queendom of Wonderland, Princess Alyss Heart is celebrating her seventh birthday with her mother, Queen Genevieve. The Diamond, Spade, and Club nobles have gathered with the rest of the people to watch the annual Inventors’ Parade, during which the queen selects the best inventions in Wonderland to go through the Heart Crystal to inspire the universe.

The Looking Glass Wars Begin

Suddenly, the queen’s evil sister Redd, who had been banished years before in a civil war after she succumbed to Black Imagination, reappears with an army of card soldiers. Redd kills her sister Genevieve and takes back the kingdom. The queen’s bodyguard Hatter Madigan grabs the young princess and drags her through the Pool of Tears into our world, where they get separated and Alyss finds herself alone in the strange city of London.

Alyss Becomes Alice and Meets Lewis Carroll

Alyss becomes friends with a group of street urchins and uses her powerful imagination to entertain the crowds and earn money. But the longer she’s away from Wonderland the more her imagination fades and the more she wonders if her memories are real.