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Emmett rounded up his groomsmen inside the Solid Rock Church of Hope. Emmett himself, Jake and Ghost wore tuxes of differing colors: Emmett's green, Jake's dark blue, and Ghost's yellow (which startled everyone accustomed to seeing him in black all the time). Bat-Bat was in superhero attire as usual, and Joel Finney was looking sharp (thanks mainly to his mother) in his Boy Scout uniform with all 23 merit badges.

Every member of the male contingent was wearing cowboy boots, as planned. Also, if Bat-Bat's special defense equipment counted, every one of them was packing heat. Emmett had with him the pump gun which had felled Ardwin; Jake had his twin revolvers; Ghost had twin .45 semiautomatics--AND Trinity's Mac-10's, for which there was no hiding place inside Trinity's form-fitting gown, but Ghost could pass them to her later for the anticipated celebratory shooting in the air. Even Joel had his bolt-action .22 rifle, with which he had earned one of his merit badges. Parson Finney, who had lived for a long time around firearms owners, was not worried; every one of these men, the 11-year-old Joel included, was an expert in gun safety, much less likely to have a shooting accident than the average motorist was to have a car accident.

Titus Finney joined the other five men for a prayer before the service. "Dear Heavenly Father," he led off, "we thank You for the gift of love, which is not enslavement but is commitment. May this wedding, and the life that Emmett and Queenie will live together, inspire others to wish to practice love in Your way. In Jesus' name, amen."

Louise Finney also prayed with the women where they were gathered in readiness. "Almighty Lord, please let nothing take away from the pure and rightful joy that now belongs to Your child Queenie. Let her be a brimming reservoir of Your love and grace--for her husband first, for the children to come if this be Your will, and for everyone she meets. In Jesus' name, amen."
 
At some time before the disruptions Valteesha had brought into his life, Copperfox had found that Queenie's old association with snow brought a favorite old hymn to his mind. It was his recorded vocal rendition of that hymn which he had gotten into Bat-Bat's hands in time for it to be used this day. Bat-Bat had arranged for it to be heard as guests were taking their seats. The hymn was "JESUS PAID IT ALL."



I hear the Savior say, "Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray; find in Me thine all in all."

Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow.

Now, Lord, indeed I find Thy power, and Thine alone,
Can cleanse a leper's skin, and melt a heart of stone.

Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow.

And when before the throne I stand in Him complete,
"Jesus died to save my soul" my lips will still repeat.

Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow.
 
Confederate Cavalry Colonel Beauregard T. Beauregard, whose middle initial stood for "Beauregard," was the chief usher. He soon gave up on dividing the seating into bride's side and groom's side, since--if any distinction were to be made of "his" friends and "her" friends, Emmett simply had more friends than Queenie, because it was only very recently that anyone had begun to have any cause to LIKE her. But Wonderland characters could be counted as being "with" Queenie, and this included her faithful Skua, who was pleased to have the wedding occur in winter. To relieve crowding, the Antarctic bird agreed to perch on a hymnal shelf to one side of the sanctuary.

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Meanwhile, Copperfox himself in the form of Grey Eagle had almost made it as far as Horse-With-No-Name-Ville. His increased haste since receiving information from Smerdyakov caused many a scare to his passenger as they flew along the tunnel with solid rock never more than three meters away from them above, below or alongside. But the superhero's accelerated reflexes prevented any collisions with the occasional protruding objects on the way.

"What did he tell you?" Valteesha shouted in his ear more than once. But while not rebuking her for asking, he did not answer either. She hoped that his not dumping her off indicated that he did not blame her for whatever now had him worried.
 
Josh disguised himself as a waiter, at the restaruant Emment and Queenie made reservations for. "I hope this goes well." he thought.
 
At the bride and groom's request, Lady Inkling had been asked to sing at the wedding. Her last few week had been spent in England, following the source of the disturbance in Wonderland back to Oxford, where she'd needed, for the sake of the cause, to journey up to the Trout (a famous Alice-in-Wonderland landmark just outside of Oxford). After untangling the problem, her friend had begged her to fill in at the Royal Opera House in London for a time.

Now, wearing a gown which, though elegant, would not compete in the slightest with the bride herself, she enters the room. Softly, she begins to sing a Hebrew love song, translated into English for the guests, of course. Her cadences float and fall, rising above the crowd.
 
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Emmett and Jake, with their Messianic Jewish heritage, were in ecstasy hearing the song Lady Inkling had chosen.

Meanwhile, since the restaurant scheduled for the reception was none other than Emmett's own, where every waiter was known, Josh soon found himself looking at the twin muzzles of a Remington twelve-gauge double-barrelled shotgun, held steadily by Rosita--while another steakhouse employee was phoning the sheriff's police.

Soon Josh found himself on a long ride to the county slammer. There he was questioned and released--but not for several hours, as a result of which he had no way to get back to Horse-With-No-Name-Ville while the wedding itself was in progress. [He would still be able, though, to come back during the reception; only, no one would be fooled by a waiter masquerade.]
 
Ba-Bat of course had thoroughly scanned the five-mile-apart homes that Emmett and Queenie will share after their wedding;) to make sure there would be no unpleasant surprises of any kind for his friends. He wanted them to enjoy a great honeymoon, even with mod cams constantly on. The only strange thing the mods noticed was that in between the two homes, there was another, nicer and bigger than those other two. But this home looked strangely quiet as if no one lived there, but it was well taken care of, with new paint and new furniture, and not one of the mods knew how all that could be possible.
 
Wonderful though the Hebrew love song was, it would not be all there was. This was a warmup to the bridal processional, in which the music would be the triumphant passage from Camille Saint-Saens' Third Symphony (heard by modern audiences chiefly through the movie "Babe"). Inkling would sing again after the whole bridal party was in place.

Gladys, Queenie's hostess--or ex-hostess as of today--whispered to the nearby Colonel Beauregard, "Is it true what I hear, that that lovely young woman has performed for the British Royal Opera?"

"I honestly don't know, ma'am," the Colonel whispered back. "But she certainly is worthy of it, both in vocal and physical beauty." The Rebel veteran sighed. "You know what they say: the good ones are always taken already."
 
Outdoors in the cold air, four or five diehard 13-year-old girls were out on their horses, cantering back and forth, each one still trying to make the whole story be about herself. Each girl figured that, if she could ride faster than the others, with a more dramatic expression on her face, while imagining the coolest soundtrack music, then the competing girls AND the wedding of Queenie and Emmett would fade into insignificance. Then this would once again be The Tale of Whichever Princess and Her Solitary Quest that No One Else Understood.
 
The door opens and the first lady to appear was Alice who looked beautiful in her white bridesmaids dress. She was carrying flowers. Right after her Lady Trinity appeared dressed in the same kinda dress and she also was carrying flowers. Then Abby followed with flowers in her hands and Nessa was next carrying of course flowers as well. Then everybody looked because now it would be time for the Bride to show up and there she was............a stunning beautiful Queenie dressed in a very gorgeous dress. She was wearing white satin handgloves and she was carrying a gorgeous bucket of flowers. Not only roses but a mixture of flowers. Her blond hair was tied up and her big blue eyes were shining. She had already tears in her eyes because she couldn't believe it finally happened. Today she would become Mrs Frankl, the wife of Emmett. On her head she was carrying a small tiara made of gold. This was something she never wore since her parents gave it to her when she became 16 years old but now for this special day she wanted to carry it and it would also give her a feeling her parents were there with her.
 
Emmett's eyes were fixed unwaveringly on his true love as she advanced to the glorious music of Camille Saint-Saens. He saw her tiara, of whose existence Queenie had told him before. He knew what age the young Lind had been when given that gift. Emmett remembered Aslan telling him that, in the hour when this marriage would be consummated, Queenie would once again become a 16-year-old girl as far as aging and life expectancy were concerned.

"Aslan has crowned you, my love," the rugged gunslinger thought silently. And upon the heels of this thought, it surprised him that he had a concept for-- a _poem_ about his bride! But later would be time enough to work on that; his bride herself was there, eye to eye and heart to heart with him.

"Who gives this woman to be married to this man?" asked Parson Finney, looking straight at Queenie's armored escort, who resembled a more muscular and less insane Don Quixote.

"I, the Chief White Knight of the White Chess Kingdom of Wonderland, bring this worthy bride to her worthy groom!" Those who were acquainted with the White Knight were briefly afraid that he would make a long speech, but he did not.

Recollecting his sermon about the Book of Ruth which had so moved Queenie on her first attending this church, Parson Finney spoke of Ruth again--this time emphasizing that the Biblical Ruth, like Queenie, had taken initiative in seeking to marry the man she desired, and that God had blessed this. To lighten the moment, he added, "Of course, with Louise and me, it still was I who chased her."

After the short message, Parson Finney announced "believer's communion," to be taken by all who had a committed faith in Jesus Christ, also known as Aslan. Emmett and Queenie knelt close together, and their attendants followed suit. The elements were served first to the wedding party, and then to all others who desired to partake.




OOC: Inkling, are you going to post that you sing again? If you're not on, I'm going to assume that you do sing during the communion, as was done in real life at my own first wedding.
 
While everyone on board the Starship Enterprise was sitting and enjoying their popcorn and getting ready to watch the ensuing fight, Bill suddenly turned to Ted and asked him if he knew what time it was. Ted replied that it was two o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. Bond who had a clock on his computer told them it was actually four o'clock. Bill and Ted suddenly realized that they were going to be late for Emmett and Queenie's wedding rehearsal so they yelled over the Enterprise's loudspeaker at Wonder Woman to finish her fight so that they could travel back in time to remind themselves about Emmett and Queenie's wedding rehearsal. Suddenly a big flash of light appeared in the middle of the Enterprise's deck and everyone on board looked to see a phone booth sitting there. Bill and Ted walked out of the phone booth and reminded the original Bill and Ted that Emmett and Queenie's wedding rehearsal was in two hours and they needed to remember to fix Ted's watch since it was slow. The original Bill and Ted told the other Bill and Ted that they has apparently forgotten to fix Ted's watch since they had still arrived two hours late to remind them. So the new Bill and Ted reminded themselves to remind themselves to remind the original Bill and Ted to fix Ted's watch.
 
Whichever Bill and Ted were the primary Bill and Ted, their time-jump enabled them to witness, at the door of the bed-and-breakfast, the last goodnight exchanged by Emmett and Queenie as two single people. Simply standing upright in their clothes and coats, hugging and kissing and squeezing tightly together and kissing some more, the lovers generated so much heat that all the snow within a fifty-foot radius of them sublimated into steam.

When Bill and Ted caught up chronologically with everyone else in the thread, they heard Emmett speaking his vows to Queenie, as follows:


"Queenie, darlin', I'm plumb amazed every time I look at you, talk with you, touch you, or think about you. Time was when y'all frankly deserved nothin' kinder than a bullet between the eyes; but I don't press that point, seein' as I once fell into cattle-rustlin' as a kid and only God's mercy kept me from swingin' on a rope. Now I see them same two sky-blue eyes of yours fulla so much love an' goodness, that it makes you the very embodiment of the Scripture that anyone in Christ is a NEW CREATION. Beloved, you're newer than new, cleaner than clean, sweeter than sweet, an' better than best! I see in you the perfect grace of God the Father, played out by the action of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

"I can only ask the Lord Jesus, also known to some of us here as Aslan, to make me worthy of bein' loved by the woman you are now. I'm askin' Him to make me strong for your benefit, wise for your benefit, courageous for your benefit, hardworkin' for your benefit, patient for your benefit, honest for your benefit, resolute for your benefit, just an' fair for your benefit, forgivin' for your benefit, an' loyal for your benefit. Reason why I didn't ask Him to make me lovin' for your benefit, is 'cause I already love you so much, if the Lord crammed any MORE love for you into me, I'd outright explode!

"Long as both of us're breathin', sweetheart, there won't be no other woman for me nohow. Under God, you are henceforth what I exist for. Even if, God forbid, you should ever lose your exterior-type good looks, I'll still love you like nothin' changed at all. Everything I got is yours, except maybe my Swiss Army knife an' my new Bowie knife that Jake's givin' me. (Sorry, Jake, I peeked.) Queenie, my darlin' love, you can always tell me what you feel an' what you want; and if in some all-fired extreme circumstance I'm ever obliged to do anythin' contrary to your desires, you'll know, or should know, that it gives me NO pleasure to deny you anything, and I'm only acting in conscience, with full consideration of your welfare an' dignity.

"Therefore, Queenie Lind, I'm takin' you as my first and only lover and lawful wife, an' I'm seekin' to love you the way Christ loved the church an' gave His own self for her. God helpin' me, I'll never fail you. If y'all go Further Up an' Further In first, I'll be doin' all I can for you up to your last breath; and if I get rounded up first, I'll ask the good Lord to let me swing by for you myself when it comes your time. Heart of my heart, I am yours, now an' forever."

 
Just about this time, Grey Eagle and Valteesha arrived at a sort of tunnel terminus, which Valteesha assured him was directly under Horse-With-No-Name-Ville. "The only openings to the surface from here that I know of were into the Caricature and Acquiescence churches. But those buildings both collapsed when Ardwin died, so unless we find another way up, you'll need to use your super-powers to get us to the surface."

"What's in those rooms?" Grey Eagle asked her, looking at four locked doors at various points in the walls.

"Equipment for the experiments Lilac LaRue was conducting in making technology absorb the advantages of magic." Pointing to one door, Valteesha added, "That room should be the most interesting to you; it contains a lot of the hardware for 'Materialist Magic,' as you put it."

Finding this door locked, Grey Eagle attacked it telekinetically, until the locks broke apart and the door could be opened. "Where's the light switch?" he asked; he had his infra-red vision, but that did not always give the details he wanted. It did at least show that no living thing was in the room.

"Ardwin didn't need lights," Valteesha explained; "he was able to see in the dark. But I think there are a couple of emergency flashlights on a stand inside the room." The superhero entered the room...and heard a sound like a dozen computers powering up at the same time. Now a ceiling light fixture DID come one, by no doing of his.

What had seemed like large inert pieces of miscellaneous electronic equipment were now revealed as ROBOTS. They were in various shapes; but all of them displayed some kind of weapons, including machine guns on several specimens.

And two of them had moved behind him to block the door against escape.

Valteesha's voice, humble and pleading for so many hours, was now harsh and mocking once more. "Not much use in super-speed when there's no place to go, is there?"
 
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Queenie her eyes filled with tears and then she was speaking her vows to Emmett.

" Emmett my darling, my lover, my everything, the first time I saw you it was when you rescued the hockeycouple. I saw you through my snowglobe and I didn't know then what I do know now. I was starting to fall in love for the first time in my life.

All those years I left a life on my own. Evil, miserable and not able to give any kind of love and I didn't receive love in return. What else would you expect from people if you give them nothing than pain, misery and cold the whole time? But then I found you. My one and only true love.

I hurt you, humiliate you and your brother and even tried to kill you. But then my first meeting with pure Love happened. This old lady who rescued you and your brother was the first sign the good will always overtake the bad. Then Aslan Himself showed up and I thought I was dead. I feared Him but then He told me He gave me a second chance. And this second chance is something I will always be grateful about. Slowly my cold heart began to melt and love was coming in. I desired you even more than I did before. I followed you and came here.

My Life here started as a celebrity. How I hated this life. It was giving me attention but my innerself was not happy. I still didn't find what I was looking for. Then Aslan came into my Life again and this time He showed me the way to reach you. When we met you were of course not positive but also not negative towards me. You listened to me and you forgave me. This my lover, I will always be thankful for. Since this day I knew you and I were ment to be together.

I will dedicate my whole life to you. I will happy to be your wife through all times. No matter if it's good or bad, I will always stand beside you and love you, support you and try to give advice to you. My love will be unconditionally with only one exception.......the next time we are going on a fishing trip again you will teach me how to catch a big fish!
I love you Emmett Frankl and I will always do. There is no end in my love for you. It will reach eternity".
 
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Emmett and Jake, with their Messianic Jewish heritage, were in ecstasy hearing the song Lady Inkling had chosen.

meanwhile, since the restaurant scheduled for the reception was none other than Emmett's own, where every waiter was known, Josh soon found himself looking at the twin muzzles of a Remington twelve-gauge double-barrelled shotgun, held steadily by Rosita--while another steakhouse employee was phoning the sheriff's police.

Soon Josh found himself on a long ride to the county slammer. There he was questioned and released--but not for several hours, as a result of which he had no way to get back to Horse-With-No-Name-Ville while the wedding itself was in progress. [He would still be able, though, to come back during the reception; only, no one would be fooled by a waiter masquerade.]
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Fortunatly for Josh, he was able to hitch a ride to the wedding on a super evil Dragon.

He barged in the doors. "STOP THE WEDDING!!!!! QUEENIE PLEASE DON'T marry this Man! I know we had some problems, but that didnt mean you had to DIVORCE me!!"

ooc: ooooh!
 
Bat-Bat quickly spoke up:

"I can read that man's voicewave patterns. He's lying."

Emmett whipped up his pump gun, whose first shell was a solid-rubber slug, such as many police departments use for non-lethal riot control. Firing this shell into the obnoxious stranger's chest, Emmett sent him flying out the door. Colonel Beauregard then sprang up with drawn saber to warn the troublemaker to get out and stay out.

"Let's proceed with the exchanging of rings," Parson Finney said calmly.
 
But Josh pulled out his gun and shot the Parson KILLING HIM!!!

He then ran up to the altar and stole the wedding rings.
 
"Sorry I'm late!" Smerdyakov came riding in on a server-killing gremlin. He crawls through the legs of guests and sits on the altar.
"What'd I miss, and when do I get to eat? I really tried to make it on time...and I've even put on a tie!" (He's wearing a polka-dotted organge tie)
 
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