There's No Place Like Hotel Transylvania:
Portal to Another Realm…Maybe?
Present Day, in Storybrooke
Thunder was clapping as the time traveling portal kept running in the barn. Emma and Hook just arrived in front of the doors as the former hung up her phone.
"It's Zelena's time portal!" she shouted through all the noise. "I just got a message from David. Somehow she died and triggered it!" Her hands began to aim for the door, but Hook restrained her.
"Don't! We should get out of here!" he said.
"Not until we find a way to close it!" Emma said, struggling to get off the pirate's grasp.
"You got your magic back?"
"No."
"Well then, we're not bloody well messing with any of this! Let's go!"
Suddenly, the doors of the barn opened, dragging Emma and Hook towards the portal. Just in the nick of time, Hook managed to anchor his hook in the ground in order to keep himself from falling off into the vortex. He held on to Emma's hand at the same time.
"Hold on!" he told her.
"I can't!" she screamed. And she was correct, for her grip slipped and she fell through the portal, screaming.
Hook sighed in disbelief: "One of these days, I'm gonna stop chasing that woman!"
Right when the portal was about to close, he let go and went through it.
Somewhere at some time
They crash landed into a field of grass. The impact was hard enough to wake the two of them immediately. Hook was the first to get up while Emma was still having a hard time.
"Bloody hell, where are we?"
Emma looked around with Hook. They didn't seem to have traveled in the Enchanted Forest during the past, as Zelena had planned for the time portal to transport her. The duo landed in what appeared to be a mountain range with a diversity of trees and a range of grass.
"It doesn't look like the Enchanted Forest to me," Emma shrugged. She looked around until she saw what appeared to be a road. "Look, I think I see a road!"
They ran towards it, but to their surprise, they saw that it wasn't an old-fashioned dirt or stone road like in the old days. Instead, it was a concrete road like the ones in Storybrooke.
"Impossible!" Hook whispered. "Could it be that the blasted time portal didn't work?"
"I doubt it," Emma said. "See those mountains? We don't have any of these in Storybrooke. Maybe we traveled to another place but not at the same time."
"Yo, dudes!"
They turned to see who spoke to them. It was a young man who was walking from the other side of the road who spoke to them. He appeared to be in his early twenties and had messy red hair. His attire was that of a modern person with a yellow-and-green T-shirt over an orange shirt, light brown cargo shorts, and green sneakers. He had an enormous travelling backpack on him. Just by looking at him, he looked like a tourist.
"I confirm we are still in the 21st century," Emma whispered to Killian before addressing the young man. "Hi, could you tell us where we are? We… kind of forgot."
"Sure," the man said in a laid-back tone. "We're between the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. In other words, this is TRANSYLVANIA, dudes!"
"Swan, what's Transylvania?" Hook whispered to Emma.
"A Romanian region in Europe. Home to monster legends, Dracula, and all the folklore nonsense." Emma returned to the young man. "And the date?"
"Thursday, June 12th, 2013," the young man answered.
It was official: Hook and Emma did travel back in time. They traveled from December 10th, 2014 in Storybrooke, Maine, to June 12th, 2013, in Transylvania. So they went only one year ago, that's OK, but how to go back one year into the future? That was gonna be tough.
"Say, why don't you come along? You seem lost and I'm totally willing to buy you guys supplies when we head to town," the young man offered.
"You would willingly do that?" Hook frowned.
"Sure. Once, I travelled with this Brazilian dude and his bro in Costa Rica and he had zero cash on him. So I shared my cash with him and we had an epic beach party afterwards."
Hook gave a what-on-earth-is-he-babbling about look to Emma, but she ignored it and accepted their new friend's offer.
"Thanks for your help," she said as they shook hands. "I'm Emma and this…is Killian. But we call him Hook because he has an actual hook."
"Really? That's totally killing it! Oh, by the way, I'm Jonathan."
