(Disney's) Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon a Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 1, Chapter 1


Tinker Bell and Disney Fairies and all related characters are the property of The Walt Disney Company. Tinker Bell originated by author J. M. Barrie.

Once Upon a Time and all related characters are the property of ABC Studios. Once Upon a Time created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.

This fan fiction is not for profit or monetary gain. It is intended only for the entertainment of its audience.

The intent of this fan fiction is to blend in an original story involving several of the characters from the Disney Fairies franchise into the ongoing narrative of the television show.

Notes:

1) Characters, places and events are from the Tinker Bell movie verse (Peter Pan; Tinker Bell; Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure; et al). Characters, places and events for the book verse will be noted within the chapter and the notes when they appear.

2) Mild Alternate / Divergent Universes for both franchises.

3) The Tinker Bell character which appears in this work of fan fiction is not the same Tinker Bell which appears in Season 3.

4) Plot summaries of each episode are included for the benefit of those who have not seen the television series. Some events that occur during the show will have an impact on the original narrative involving the Disney Fairies characters. I strongly encourage readers not familiar with the series to watch the show. It is an excellent entertainment and since it is a visual medium there is a great deal of background detail that will deepen the understanding and experience of the show's plot lines and characters. Previously aired episodes can be found on DVD / Blu-Ray, Netflix and Hulu Plus.

This originated in the section Movies - Tinker Bell. It has been moved to the crossover section beginning with chapter 30.


OUAT events occur during the first season episode titled "Pilot."


Once upon a time...

There was an enchanted island where lived
all the Never Fairies we know and love.

Or think we know.

One day they found themselves
trapped in a place where all their
happy endings were stolen.

Our world.

This is how it happened…

~O~

SNOW WHITE'S CASTLE, THE ENCHANTED FOREST

Grumpy the dwarf kept watch with one of his brothers from the parapet of the castle. He and his brother dwarves swore to help and protect Snow White and David, whom she had nicknamed "Prince Charming," at all costs against Queen Regina and her vow to steal all of their happy endings. When he looked out across the mountains, which were covered with lush, tall, green trees, he saw what he had been dreading for months. A large, billowing cloud. It was purple, spit ominous green lightning and rolled across the mountains and forests with incredible speed, swallowing the landscape acres at a time. This was it, the end of the Enchanted Forest, just as Rumpelstiltskin had predicted. Regina's curse had arrived and Grumpy had to inform his Prince and Princess.

"It's here!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. He then rang the large bell that served as the alarm and everyone in the castle now knew the time had come. They were all to be trapped in a prison. A prison of time for all eternity unless Snow White could enter the magical wardrobe that Geppetto and his son, Pinocchio had carved. It would whisk Snow and her unborn child to a safe place beyond the reaches of Regina's curse. Twenty eight years later, Snow and her child, a girl she had already named Emma, would seek out and defeat Regina, breaking the curse and setting everyone free.

But there was a complication, Snow White gave birth before the wardrobe was ready. It only had enough magic to transport one person. Emma was to be the one who would defeat Regina in the final battle so the child had to go through the wardrobe by herself. A helpless infant going to a strange land. Snow and Charming hoped that she would survive and return to set them all free. Snow wanted desperately to go with her newborn, but she could not. She felt sick because she was to abandon her baby, but it was the only way to ensure that all of the residents of the Enchanted Forest would be able to escape Regina's prison.

Having just given birth, Snow could not take the baby. So her loving and heroic husband Charming took the infant down the hallway to the nursery that was to have been Emma's. The couple had been designing and decorating the nursery until they found out what Regina had intended to do. The plans were abandoned and the room was turned into the workshop where the wardrobe was carved out of the last magical tree in the land. As he made his way down the hall with his newborn baby in one arm, Charming had to sword fight his way through several of Regina's men. He fought bravely, slaying many of the black clad knights. In the nursery the fighting continued until Charming could finally put the child in the wardrobe and closed its doors.

David fought nonstop to protect the wardrobe and Emma until she could be transported to the distant land where she, hopefully, would be safe, grow up and return to break Regina's curse. Charming was laying low Regina's knights until one finally stabbed him through the heart. He collapsed and watched helplessly as the dark warrior forced open the doors to the wardrobe. Had he failed? Would baby Emma still be in there to be plucked before she could be magically taken to safety?

When the doors were opened the wardrobe was empty. The baby was gone and David finally succumbed to his wounds secure in the knowledge that he had indeed completed his goal. He may die this day, but at least the residents of the Enchanted Forest and his beloved wife would be safe once Emma returned to break the evil spell. Snow White finally made her way to the nursery where she found her nearly dead husband lying on the ground, bleeding out. Regina entered the room triumphant. But she was informed that Emma was gone and Snow defiantly spat out that Regina would be fated to lose. Snow took great comfort in knowing this. But it did not matter to Regina, she would finally get her own happy ending, by robbing everyone else of theirs.

A terrible whirlwind appeared and tore the roof from the nursery. The curse began to pull them away.

"Where are we going?" Snow asked Regina, her step mother.

"Some place horrible," Regina replied happily, laughing as she and her step daughter, the person responsible for robbing Regina of her happily ever after, were pulled from the Enchanted Forest and taken, with the other residents of the land, to a distant realm. A place with no magic of its own. Our world.


PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND (the early Edwardian Era on the Mainland)

Clarion, queen of the never fairies, was looking at reports detailing the progress being made for the preparations for her wedding to her beloved Lord Milori She, Fairy Mary and the four ministers of the seasons had gathered near the border where the ceremony was to be held.

"We're behind schedule," Fairy Mary, the tinker overseer and project leader for the ceremony told Queen Clarion.

"Everything looks fine, Mary," Clarion replied with a bit of a laugh. Fairy Mary always said her charges were behind schedule, even when they weren't.

"Well I see it differently, Ree," Fairy Mary replied, "if I let those fairies think we're right on schedule or ahead they'll slack off, then we will most certainly fall behind. We won't be late on my watch. Not if I can help it."

The queen laughed at Mary's deadpan seriousness. Fairy Mary and Queen Clarion were old friends. They had known each other since Clarion was a princess and Mary was just a regular tinker, before she had ascended to guild supervisor of the Tinker Talents. Mary was one of the few fairies who could address the queen with the familiar "Ree" rather than the more formal Queen Clarion. It was a privilege Fairy Mary had earned over many centuries of loyal service and devoted friendship to the queen.

"You've never disappointed me, Mary, and you never will," the queen reassured her. "Everything looks perfect."

"Thank you, Your Highness. We will be ready on time," she replied.

"Excellent," Clarion said. "I will see you in the morning, Mary, I still have much work of my own to do." The beautiful queen of the never fairies, dressed in a shimmering gold dress and propelled by large monarch wings evaporated into three balls of glowing pixie dust and hastened back to the Pixie Dust Tree. The next morning she was to receive two surprises: one grand, the other terrifying.


THE ENCHANTED FOREST

The curse had taken the others. The Blue Fairy watched in horror as Snow White's castle was engulfed in the dark purple fog. The lightning it spit felt so evil that it scared even the most powerful fairy in all of the enchanted forest. She readied herself for the dark curse to take her when she noticed that Regina's magic was opening a portal to another realm. The evil queen wasn't just satisfied with taking the residents of this land, she was going to take residents of another world, too. Did her anger and hatred know no bounds? Blue deduced that Queen Regina was targeting anyone who had slighted her, or even those whom she suspected had slighted her.

She flew towards the portal to warn the residents there when she noticed that several portals had opened up. Which one? She could only travel through one of them. Once the dark magic made its way to the other realm there would be no coming back as there would be nothing to come back to. Flying near the opened doorways she felt the magic of each realm. One of them caught her attention. It felt familiar, but also different. Fairies? Blue thought. She hesitated, but decided to help save others of her own kind and went through.


NEVER LAND (Early Edwardian Era)

Once on the other side the Blue Fairy cast a shield spell to stop the progress of the dark magic, but it would not hold for long. At most it would last two full days, then her magic would run out and the curse would take anyone in its path. Blue could feel the magic in this realm. It was coming from an island in the midst of a vast body of water. She flew towards it and hoped she would could convince those who lived there to escape. But to where? she thought. Hopefully this wasn't a futile act.

During her flight towards the island she came to understand something terrifying. The reason that the magic felt familiar was that she could feel it in the dark curse. Something in Regina's black magic came from this place. Blue's heart sank, had she come to a place filled with Regina's accomplices? But then why did the curse open a portal to come here? The Blue Fairy would soon get her answers.

The sun had risen over the horizon. In the distance she could see streaks of golden magic coming from the sky towards the island. This gave Blue some comfort. Perhaps that was where the fairies who lived here could find shelter from the darkness that Regina had unleashed.

Flying towards the island she saw thousands of fairies flying around. They looked different from her own kind. Rather than dressing in opulent fineries these fairies dressed in clothes made from leaves of various colors. At the center of this place was a huge tree, a sprawling maple where glowing dust poured from its branches. This was the source of magic she had felt on the other side. How did Regina find a way to bring it from here? she asked herself. Perhaps these fairies could provide the answers.

"Halt!" a soft, but forceful female voice called to her. It was a young woman with blonde hair and dressed in bold colors. Perhaps she was a royal guard, someone who could take Blue directly to the ruler of this land. "State your name and purpose," the blonde fairy asked.

"I am the Blue Fairy from the Enchanted Forest, a distant realm and I come bearing unhappy tidings," she said. "I bring a warning to your ruler, a dark curse is coming and threatens to destroy your home. You and everyone who lives here must leave this place immediately."

"Follow me to the presence of Queen Clarion, ruler of the Never Fairies," the guard stated. She turned and flew towards the giant tree. Blue followed her into one of the many expertly cut holes in the bark of the magical tree.


BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 2011

Emma Swan met a good looking man at a nice restaurant. She had come across him on an internet dating site and was impressed that his internet photo wasn't a fake. Of course, she already knew who he was, a man who had embezzled money, got arrested, was bailed out by his wife and then ran from the law, leaving his wife and children behind to pick up the pieces of his crimes. Ms. Swan was a bail bonds woman who had been tracking this low life and found him when he had set up an account on that internet dating site.

When he found out who she really was he tried to run, overturning the table and spilling champagne all over her sexy, tight fitting, rose colored dress. "Seriously?" she said of his lame attempt to escape. Of course, she knew people and had arranged for a boot to be placed on his car so he couldn't get away.

Emma strode confidently in her dress and platform high heel shoes across the street to where the bail jumper was trying to get away in his car. She had no reason to run since the vehicle wasn't going anywhere (not that she could in those ridiculous heels and slinky dress). When she caught to him he tried to bribe her. Emma replied that he should give it to his family, especially since it was his wife who paid for his bail.

"What do you know about family?" he asked. He was probably giving her some indication of how much he disliked his home life. But Emma didn't see it that way. She had no family. She had been in and out of the foster care system throughout her childhood and it had been a nightmare. His comment cut her deeply. So she responded by grabbing his head and bashing it into the steering wheel.

"Nothing," she answered, speaking to the man's unconscious form as it lay against the steering wheel.

On her way home she decided to celebrate her 28th birthday with a cupcake. She was alone tonight. This wasn't unusual for Emma. Just another in a long string of lonely nights and lonely birthdays with no friends, family or even parents to help her celebrate or keep her company. She lit the candle on the cupcake and before blowing it out made a simple wish: to not be alone tonight. It was answered in a way she could never have imagined.

There was a knock on the door of her apartment. Emma looked through the peephole and saw no one. She took her sidearm and held it at the ready behind her back. Carefully she opened the door and was a greeted by a fresh faced boy who, after confirming she was indeed Emma Swan, announced that he was her son. The boy she had given up for adoption ten years ago when she was barely eighteen and in jail for trying to sell stolen property.

She wanted to send him back home with the police, but he had worked this out pretty good. If she called the police he would tell them that Emma had kidnapped him. And since she was his birthmother they would probably believe him. Finally, Emma offered to take him home herself. She asked where he lived.

"Storybrooke, Maine," the young Henry replied.

"Storybrooke? Really?" she asked in disbelief. Emma changed into something more comfortable and less revealing (and appropriate for a long drive with a ten year old boy). The two left in Emma's old, yellow Volkswagen Beetle headed for Maine, a four hour road trip.


PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND (Early Edwardian Era)

Viola, the summoner talent fairy, entered the queen's office at the Pixie Dust Tree.

"Yes, Viola," the queen said.

"Your Highness, there is a..., a rather unusual fairy who wishes to speak with you," she replied.

"Unusual? In what way?"

"She is dressed in blue and claims to come from another realm?"

"If you speak of a fairy from the Winter Woods, then this is not a funny joke," Clarion said, a tenseness in her voice.

"No, Your Highness," Viola said. "She says her name is the Blue Fairy and that she comes from a realm known as The Enchanted Forest."

"Very well, I will greet our visitor. Please summon the ministers, Viola." The queen stood from her desk and drifted into the audience chamber, donning her crown along the way, to properly receive her guest.

Viola entered the audience chamber ahead of Clarion and the four ministers of the seasons. She blew her summoner's trumpet and spoke. "Announcing Clarion, Queen of the Never Fairies and ruler of all Pixie Hollow."

When Queen Clarion entered the room she stopped cold, staring at the beautifully dressed fairy that fluttered directly in front of her. The visitor wore a delightful dress that flared out at the hips and featured streamers that hung from the hemline. She had brilliant diamonds set in a magnificent necklace and flowers punctuated her clothing. The visitors' wings were also stunning. She had four, long, full sized wings in the color of her dress. In one hand the visiting fairy carried a wand. Most unusual for fairies in this realm, but perhaps not for those in the realm where visitor originated.

~O~

The blue fairy stared back, amazed at the immaculately clothed regent. She wore a dress that appeared to be made of glowing fairy dust. It shimmered and the dust seemed to flow from the waist almost to the floor where it disappeared gracefully at the hemline. The visitor also was mesmerized by the towering, gold colored wings that looked like giant butterfly wings. They also glimmered as if made from fairy dust, or whatever these fairies called it. Within the wings were designs composed of swirls which added a lovely look and texture to the wondrous wings of the queen.

~O~

"Greetings weary traveler, please come forward and announce yourself," Clarion said, using the royal "we" in her salutation. "How may we assist you?"

The blue colored fairy bowed and then began to speak. "I bring a dire warning. The evil Queen Regina has unleashed a powerful dark curse which has destroyed my land and is presently invading your realm."

The four ministers gasped in horror.

"Why has this Queen Regina seen fit to destroy my world?" Clarion asked.

"She seeks revenge on all who have offended her. The dark spell will take any who are trapped by it and place them into a prison of time. All your futures will cease and your happy endings will never take place."

"No one here in Pixie Hollow has done anything to offend this Queen Regina," Clarion spoke. "None have even heard of the Enchanted Forest or Her Highness until today."

"Apparently someone has and the curse will find its way to your realm in two days' time. You should prepare to flee and find shelter," the fairy from the enchanted forest pleaded.

The four ministers quickly gathered around Queen Clarion to discuss their options.

"Should we believe her?" Hyacinth, the Minister of Spring asked. "Maybe she wants our home for herself and the others of her kind? This could all be a ruse."

"Don't be ridiculous," the Minister of Summer said, "why would they want our land? The pixie dust from our tree only works on fairies from Pixie Hollow. Did you not see her wand? She clearly has her own magic."

"Well I've certainly never seen her kind before," the Minister of Autumn said, "perhaps we should be cautious and wait."

"Wait for what?" Snowflake snapped. "For this curse to destroy us all?"

"Let us act prudently ministers," Clarion said.

The fairy queen turned to the enchanted fairy and said, "Thank you, Blue Fairy, you have served your purpose well. You may return to your home and we will take all appropriate action."

"I cannot return," she said. "A portal was needed to come to your realm which can only be made by an extremely rare magic. All magic there comes with a price. I knew my fate when I came here."

"Then you are truly brave," Clarion stated. Inwardly the queen was a bit worried. The Blue Fairy's statement that all magic comes at a price sounded vaguely familiar.

The enchanted fairy bowed and said, "Thank you, your highness. You are most kind and generous."

That is when the Hyacinth, the Minister of Spring, spoke up, "Can't you use your own magic to return to this Enchanted Forest?"

"I cannot," she said.

"Perhaps you can use some of our magic," Redleaf, the Minister of Autumn, suggested.

"Our magic and yours are not compatible," the Blue Fairy answered.

"Then how can this curse be of any threat to us in Pixie Hollow?" the Minister of Summer asked.

"Regina's magic is quite powerful," she said. "I feel within it the same magic that comes from this realm, this tree in fact"

"Yellow Pixie Dust?" Hyacinth chirped. "And how did she acquire it?"

"I do not know," she answered, "but my suspicions point to a creature known as The Dark One. Rumpelstiltskin."

The queen gasped in horror. "Please do not let this be true." Right then Clarion knew that her past sins had come back to haunt her. This meant that the threat was real and time was extremely short.

"Viola, summon all the guild supervisors to my presence immediately. We must plan our escape properly," Clarion directed. Immediately the summoner bowed and lit off to complete her mission.

"What?" the Minister of Spring asked rather startled. "You cannot possibly believe this nonsense."

"I know it to be true, do not ask me how, simply do as I say," the queen responded sharply.

"What shall we do your highness?" the Minister of Summer asked. "How can we all hope to escape in two days' time?"

"I can help," said a familiar, but not long heard voice. Into the audience chamber flew a tinker fairy not seen in Pixie Hollow for many seasons. Her one time romantic partner accompanied her. "Sorry, we were listening by the door."

"Tinker Bell," the queen said astonished. Finally my lost tinker has understood the folly of running away with Peter Pan and returned home. Oh, but what a horrible time you have chosen. Clarion then retracted her last thought realizing that Tinker Bell's return meant she could indeed help the fairies of Pixie Hollow escape such a horrid fate and that the little tinker would avoid her own imprisonment by the curse Queen Regina had unleashed.

~O~

The Blue Fairy recognized the name "Tinker Bell." So, Green, this is where you have come, she thought. Blue, however, was surprised to see another fairy flitter into the room, accompanied by a male of the species. The girl was dressed in a tiny green dress, possessed blonde hair which she kept up in a bun and had deep blue eyes. She was astonished that this fairy was so similar to her own Green Fairy who had taken the same name. This one, however, was different in some ways. She was younger looking, with an almost cherubic face.

"Hi," Tinker Bell greeted in a sweet voice.

"Hello," Blue answered. She stared disbelievingly at the little, green fairy and her companion. She wondered how two "Tinker Bells" could exist and why Regina was targeting these people.

~O~

"Can you build more balloon carriers?" the Queen Clarion asked.

"Of course," Tinker Bell said. "But I need to gather enough materials to carry what we need. And I'll need plenty of help."

"Then you shall have it," Clarion stated. "Ministers see to it that the guild supervisors send Tinker Bell whatever assistance she requires."

Then Clarion turned to the dust talent. "Terence, go to the Pixie Dust Depot and inform Fairy Gary to gather all the pixie dust into every empty container he can find, including all the remaining blue pixie dust from the Autumn Revelry that he can."

"Yes, your highness," the dust talent sparrow man said bowing. Terence then turned towards his ex-girlfriend and with a pensive tone in his voice said, "Fly with you later, Tink?"

"Fly with you later, Terence," she replied sadly before leaving for Tinker's Nook.

Clarion watched as Tinker Bell flitted off to her old work area, but she stopped and the queen knew why. The little fairy was watching as Terence made his way to the Pixie Dust Depot. Tinker Bell had left Pixie Hollow many seasons earlier after a long and public disintegration of her romantic relationship with Terence. She clearly still had feelings for him or the little tinker fairy would not have stopped in mid-flight to stare at her ex-boyfriend. It was obvious to the queen that Tinker Bell was pondering what was and what could have been.

Clarion turned back to her visitor to ask another question. "Can you help us, Blue Fairy?"

"I already have. Before coming to this island I cast a protection spell to prevent the curse from entering your realm. However, I must return to manage the spell or the curse will break through. I have enough magic to hold the spell in place for two days."

"Then we shall work tirelessly so your efforts will not be in vain," Clarion told Blue.

The Fairy Queen watched as her visitor flew off into the sky. Her eyes shifted from the visitor from another realm to the distant snowcapped mountains. Clarion's heart sunk. They had come so close, she and Lord Milori. They had been separated for such a long time before being reunited just a few years ago. She was so excited when Milori proposed to her. I don't want us to wait any longer, he told her. The announcement was met with great joy throughout the four seasons of Pixie Hollow.

The Blue Fairy's warning changed all of that. Once again duty to her people was going to keep her and Milori apart. After her meeting with the guild overseers Clarion would have to visit her lover and tell him the bad news. His heart was going to break. She knew this because her own heart was breaking, too.


I had this idea all the way back in Season 1 but never got around to posting any of it. Yes, I am well aware that a Tinker Bell character exists in the Once Upon a Time universe. This story was almost never posted because of it, but I decided "what the heck, do it anyway." So I guess this means that come season 3 there will be two Tinker Bell characters running around Storybrooke. That should be fun.

Tell me what you think of it so far. I'll try to get more posted soon. (As if I don't already have enough stories to work on.) As always, thank you for reading!