"No Ordinary Fairy Tale"
Michael Chicklis: "Previously on No Ordinary Family"…
After seemingly defeating the last supervillain on the list, the Powells plan to go after Helen Burton and her shapeshifting accomplice, Victoria.
(Clips are replayed of the family battling the supervillains.)
Helen Burton has a mysterious phone conversation with none other than Mr. Gold aka Rumplestiltskin.
(A clip is replayed of Mrs. X/Helen Burton talking to Mr. Gold on the phone. )
Helen and Victoria head off to Storybrooke.
At the lair…
"Did you find anything yet, George?" Jim asked, worriedly.
"As a matter of fact, I did." George said, "The tracker I placed on Burton's car stopped right here. As soon as I get the coordinates…"
"Don't have to," JJ said, "Supergenius, remember?"
"Just do your thing, Smart Boy!" George retorted.
"Helen Burton is hiding out in a place called…Storybrooke, Maine." JJ said.
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LAIR
"Jim, I'm the fastest," Stephanie said, "I'll run over there and put an end to this woman once and for all."
"No, Steph," Jim said, "It's too dangerous. We've all seen what this woman can do. With the trillsettum formula in her system, there's no telling what she's capable of now."
"You're right," Stephanie said, "we'll have to go together!"
"Uh, guys?" George said, "I hate to break up this heroic family moment, but did y'all forget: we've got one last super out there, unaccounted for."
"We'll have to figure out a way to defeat him and then head off this Storybrooke town for the final battle." Jim said, "And bring Globaltech's illustrious CEO to justice…once and for all!"
"That may be easier said than done," George said, "I've looked at all commutes to and from the town. Only two people have been to Storybrooke, and only one person has ever left and come back."
"Well, can you get a trace on the people?" Jim asked.
"Checking," George said, typing away at his computer. "One Emma Swan. A bail-bonds agent from Boston. She accompanied a boy named Henry Mills over to Storybrooke, and hasn't returned since." "Who is this boy?" Stephanie asked.
"He appears to be her son," George said, "I'm pulling up a copy of the town's newspaper, The Daily Mirror, and it says she gave her son up for adoption. Guess who adopted him? Storybrooke's mayor, Regina Mills."
"George, you said there was another person who entered the town and didn't come out…" Jim said.
"Yeah," George said, "some guy who was calling himself August W. Booth. Seems like a bum to me. His record shows he spent some brief time in Juvie when he was boy. Other than that, I got nothing on him, no birth certificate, medical bills, nothing. All the guy had on him was a motorcycle and a typewriter."
"That's just great, George," Jim said, "but how does this all connect to Helen and the supervillains?"
"Well, in recent months satellites have detected a cloud of mystical properties hovering over and around Storybrooke, enveloping the town and all inside in an impenetrable prison." George said.
"So how did Helen and the supervillains get in?" Jim asked.
"Maybe the particular effects of their powers, extenuated by the trillsettum, could cause the subjects to have the ability to override force fields and destroy barriers." Stephanie hypothesized, "The only question is, how do we override the barrier? Any ideas, J.J.?"
The family all turned towards their genius son and brother, who was contemplating the overwhelming situation.
"This barrier that surrounds the town," JJ said, "It's unlike anything currently known to science. It's almost like…magic. And maybe the trilsetum can neutralize magic in a way."
"Let's get down there and find out" Jim said, "Kids, you stay here with George."
"Dad, you'll need our help," Daphne pleaded.
"No Daphne," Jim protested, "it's too dangerous, we'll call you if we need backup, but you two kids are our last resort. Stay safe."
With that, Jim and Stephanie Powell kissed their children goodbye as they quickly proceeded to the strange little town of Storybrooke, Maine.
Meanwhile, in Storybrooke…
With the curse being broken, everyone was now aware of who they were.
At Mary Margaret's/Snow White's house…
"Henry, what does this magic mean?" Emma asked her son.
"I don't know," Henry said, "I didn't even know about Rumplestiltskin."
"Rumplestiltskin is the most dangerous man in all the realms." Prince James said, "We can't let him go on like this."
"At least we have our daughter back," Snow said, hugging Emma.
"I can't believe it," Emma said, "but I do. My mother actually is Snow White and she's my age."
"I know," Snow said, "I'm glad you found us, Emma. We need to work together to defeat Regina once and for all."
"Regina's running scared, isn't she?" Emma asked. "She's lost everything."
"Maybe not," Prince Charming said, "Magic has been brought to this land."
"That must mean it will work out in the Queen's favor," Snow said, "Regina is powerful once again, but she still can be stopped."
"So that means that if the Evil Queen has magic again," Henry thought aloud, "then so does Rumplestiltskin."
In Mr. Gold's pawn shop…
Rumple, formerly known as Mr. Gold, talked to Belle.
"I knew that Regina was lying to me, Belle." Rumple said, "That witch will pay. All magic comes with a price."
"I know, Rumplestiltskin," Belle said, "you must choose between me and your magic. You can't have both."
"But Dearie, I get everything I want. I'm going to have you and my son Bae along with my power, while I watch Regina suffer. I will make Regina suffer." Rumple said.
"I love you, Rumple," Belle said with a sigh, "but you don't need to have your power to happy. You can have love, you can have your family, and still be happy."
"Yes, Dearie," Rumple said, "but as I've said, magic is power. I'm a coward without magic, magic is evil, and I need this power in order to beat Regina."
"How did you acquire this power?" Belle asked.
"With this dagger," Rumple said, holding up the dagger with his name inscribed on it. "If someone kills me with it, they get my power. Bae wanted to find another way."
"And that other way was my kiss," Belle said, "The kiss of true love that would free you from this dark bondage."
"Yes, but you understand I need my power—"
"To vanquish Regina, I know. What's wrong with you, Rumplestiltskin? Why can't you just accept the love Bae had for you, the love I have for you? This power is blinding you, it's keeping you prisoner. This power struggle you have with Regina needs to end. We can beat her, without magic powers, and you can be courageous and brave, I know you can." Belle said.
She leans forward to kiss him.
"Stop, Dearie." Rumple said, holding the dagger between them.
"Rumple, you could've cut me!" Belle said, as she slapped his hand away, which caused him to drop the dagger and cut his hand.
"But you cut me, Dearie." Rumple said.
Suddenly, a magical energy poured out from the wound, and engulfed Rumple's body.
"What's happening?" Belle asked.
As the magical mist cleared, Rumplestiltskin emerged in his full fairy tale impish form.
He let out his signature giggle.
"Now there's no way for the Queenie to beat me now," Rumple said in his impish voice.
Later, in a secret unground location, Regina pondered her fate.
She was in her chamber of hearts trying to develop her magic powers when she heard a loud rumbling from above her.
She rushed out of the chamber to find Prince Charming, Emma, and Snow facing off against a hulking brute with some type of superpowers.
"Emma! Snow! Get out of here!" Charming yelled, "I'll handle this brute!"
"You think you can stop me?" the man yelled, "I'm invincible!"
He clapped his massive hands, sending out shock waves of kinetic energy, which caused the Prince to fly backward.
"Hey!" Charming yelled, as he threw his sword straight at the villain in question.
The man simply swat the sword aside. He rushed toward Charming, but was hit from the side by an arrow.
Snow fired arrows at the evildoer. Emma was shooting at him with a gun, to learn to her dismay that he was impervious to bullets.
He rushed toward the ladies, when a man leapt in front of them. It was Jim Powell.
"Get of here!" Jim yelled, "we'll handle this!"
Stephanie grabbed Charming and rushed him over to Snow & Emma. They quickly retreated back inside Snow's apartment, while Jim handled the villain.
"I told you before, Powell!" he yelled, "You can't stop me!"
"Oh yeah?" Jim said, "we'll just see about that! Stephanie, now!"
Stephanie rushed at the villain from behind, but he backhanded her.
"Steph!" Jim shouted, "Nobody hurts my wife!"
Jim leapt on top of his foe, sending him toppling down upon impact.
Jim started punching him.
The villain got the upper-hand and strangled Jim. Stephanie recovered, and saw Charming's sword. She grabbed it and cut an electrical wire. She wrapped the severed wire around their foe, shocking their enemy into unconsciousness.
Stephanie panted from the adrenaline rush.
"Good work, Steph," Jim said.
"Yes, good work indeed." a female voice said. It was Regina! "My name is Regina Mills, I'm the mayor of this town. Welcome to Storybrooke."
"Hello, Mayor Mills." Jim said, shaking her hand, "I'm Jim Powell, and this is my wife, Stephanie."
"Well, thank you for saving our town from this menace, Mr. and Mrs. Powell." Regina said, smiling.
"She's the real menace!" Emma shouted from a distance.
"Aren't you, your majesty?" Snow asked.
"What are they talking about?" Stephanie asked.
"She's an Evil Queen who banished us to this land," Snow shouted, "taking away all our memories, ripping us apart from our true loves!"
"She has to be stopped," Charming said.
"Not today," Regina scowled, as she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"What just happened?" Stephanie asked.
"Sounds like you need a debriefing," Emma said.
Later, at Snow's apartment…
"So this town is full of exiled fairy tale characters and we're sitting here talking with Snow White and Prince Charming?" Stephanie asked.
"And their daughter," Emma said, "I had a tough time believing all this at first too, but my son, Henry, convinced me otherwise."
"Hi, I'm Henry." Henry said, "I'm Snow White's grandson."
"Nice to meet you," Stephanie said.
"He was adopted by Regina," Emma said, "but we freed him from that sociopath. So tell us your story. How did you guys get superpowers?"
"Well, it all started when we took a family trip to the Amazon," Jim said, "our plane crashed and we got superpowers, us and our two children who are at home."
"Apparently there was a chemical called trilsetum in the river, which gave us permanent superpowers," Stephanie said, "I'm a scientist. I worked for a company called Globaltech."
"Yeah, I think I've heard of it," Emma said, "they do environmental projects and stuff, right?"
"Yes, but there is tons of other research as well," Stephanie said, "we soon realized that my boss, Dr. King, was giving the trilsetum formula to criminals giving them temporary superpowers with each injection."
"Anyway, to make a long story short," Jim said, "King was taking the formula too, to prevent his cancer that he had from killing him. It gave him superpowers, but in the end, we defeated him."
"King's supervisor is a ruthless woman named Helen Burton. She kidnapped our son and threatened us all with death unless we revealed the secret to our permanent superpowers," Stephanie said, "she put 80 criminals on a plane carrying trilsetum, and had it crash, giving 80 criminals permanent super abilities."
"We've had to hunt down and defeat these criminals, but our friend George, was on the plane too, and he gained some superpowers of his own." Jim said, "We defeated the last of them, but Helen Burton and her accomplice, Victoria Morrow, a shapeshifter, are still at large."
"Wow," Emma said, "the only superpower I have is I can tell when someone's lying, and you certainly aren't."
"What's with this force, this…magic?" Stephanie asked.
"As soon as I broke the Queen's curse, someone unleashed magic on Storybrooke," Emma said, "we still don't know what it does, but apparently Regina has powers now."
"Then you'll need us to stop her," Jim said. "We're in."
Meanwhile, Regina was in her old office.
She was shuffling through papers.
"Such a lovely office," a female voice, with a hint of a British accent, said from a distance. Helen Burton appeared from the shadows. "It looks fit for a Queen. Too bad the citizens of this town want your head on platter."
"Who are you?" Regina asked.
"The bigger question is, who are you, your majesty?" Helen asked, raising an eyebrow.
Regina gasped.
"Yes, I know all about you, Ms. Mills." Helen said, "My company has had this town under surveillance for months. My name is Helen Burton. I'm the CEO of a major company known as Globaltech. Help me, and I shall see to it that you remain on the throne of power forever."
"I don't need your help," Regina sneered, "I have magic again, so I am powerful. No one can touch me."
"Is that so?" Helen asked, "I have a few people I'd like to introduce you to."
"Wait," Regina said, "First I have a question for you. How did you get here? Who are these people, the Powells, and why do they have so-called 'superpowers'? "
"It seems as though the magic barrier in this town is not as strong as you may have thought it." Helen said.
"I didn't bring magic here." Regina says, "This was all Rumplestiltskin. That twisted imp! He will pay."
"And I can see to it that you get the revenge you want," Helen said, "I don't suppose I have to introduce him to you, do I?"
Archie Hopper stepped out of the shadows.
"Dr. Hopper!" Regina exclaimed, "I—"
"Save it, your majesty," Hopper said.
"I went to visit Dr. Hopper's office earlier today, and look who I found," Helen Burton said, as she held up a jar that contained Jiminy Cricket. Jiminy pounded on the glass as he screamed, "let me go" in a muffled voice.
"But Dr. Hopper is Jiminy Cricket!" Regina said.
"Exactly," Helen said. "I'd like to introduce you to former Detective O'Bannon of the Pacific Bay Police Department."
"Actually, I come from your world, my Queen." O'Bannon said, "My parents were thieves and conned a vendor who was selling magic beans. Jiminy and I are twin brothers, I got a hold of one of the beans and it created a vortex that sent me to this world. I became a detective, but I wanted to get rich so I tried to knock off the DA after killing a prominent member of the force. All I remember is giving my gun to a teenaged girl and going to jail in handcuffs. Now I think she must've placed some sort of mental suggestion in my mind. "
"So that's the connection," Regina said, "that's why these superpowered people were able to come through to Storybrooke."
"Well, that could be one of the reasons. Speaking of superpowers," Helen said, as she turned her head to the shadows, "Come here, dear!"
Regina stood face to face with herself. She gasped in shock.
"Hello, your majesty," the Regina impersonator said, as she transformed into Victoria, "it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Victoria."
"Victoria is a shapeshifter," Helen said, "she can be quite handy to our cause, wouldn't you agree?"
"Of course," Regina said.
"However, every Queen needs an army," Helen said, "and it seems that is something which you appear to be lacking. And so, Regina, I'd like to introduce you to your personal royal guard. Gentlemen?"
Roy Minor, Lucas Winnick, and Ben, the electrical villain came out of the shadows.
"Show Her Majesty what you can do." Helen said.
They each displayed their powers.
"An excellent demonstration," Regina said, "but you have no idea what I'm capable of!"
She used her magical energy to pin the three supervillains against the wall.
"I am Queen," Regina sneered, "you will obey me, or you will be destroyed."
She let them down with one wave of her hand.
"Time for a wardrobe change," she said, as she proceeded to engulf herself in a magical cloud of purple smoke. When the smoke cleared, she emerged wearing her Queenly raiment that she wore when she talked to Rumplestiltskin about Belle.
"Come," Regina said, "I have need of your services."
"In the meantime, 'Detective'", Helen said, "I think it would behoove you to get back to Dr. Hopper's office."
"Right," O'Bannon said.
"Come Victoria," Helen said, "I've always wanted to see what's it's like to burn a cricket."
She held up the glass jar that contained a worried Jiminy and smiled wickedly.