A/N: Hey guys! Thanks to anyone who read this, followed, or favorited! *Big hugs to you all* I have decided to update every week on Monday. Sorry if I kept you waiting, though now you know why I didn't post until today.
Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own Wicked or Once Upon A Time; nor the characters or any dialogue you may recognize.
"I can't imagine- Look we got em!" Emma sounded excited. A figure was creeping towards the back of the house, dressed in black, hooded. As Regina and Emma opened their doors, the figure looked back at the car. The person seemed to consider their options, before spinning and running back the way they came.
"They are getting away! Regina!" Emma looked at Regina as they sprinted after the perpetrator. "Do something!" She shouted desperately. Just as the person they were chasing was about to round a corner, Regina sent out a burst of purple magic and the hooded person fell to the ground with only a slight thump. As they scrabbled to get away, Emma pounced on them. She turned the person over and gasped in shock.
"What? Emma, who is it?" Regina panted as she came up behind Emma and gasped also. Then she started laughing.
"It makes sense our villain would be the Wicked Witch!" She spat. Emma glanced at Regina before yanking down the hood of what appeared to be a cloak. Emerald green skin glowed in the moonlight. The face of a surprisingly beautiful and young girl glared back at them.
"I'm not Wicked!" She hissed the word, sounding angry and sad at the same time. "And I can explain!"
"Ha! The Wicked Witch, explain to us?" Regina looked skeptical.
"Let her at least talk, Regina." Emma said grudgingly.
"But everything makes sense! The wicked, stupid witch gets her revenge for being supposedly melted. Like me, she gets a city to live normally and quietly in a new land. Well, everything makes sense."
"Regina!" Emma glared.
"Fine!" She huffed, pushing her black hair out of her eyes. The green girl cleared her throat. Emma nodded at her.
"My actual name is Elphaba, and I when I heard about your remembering potion, I saw my chance. I have no idea who the heck most of these people are or where I am. The entire past year is blacked out for me, and I want to know what happened. And how do you know who I am? You certainly don't look like any Ozian's I've seen before."
"So you are the Wicked Witch!"
"It's what I'm called. People don't know why I'm called that, they just follow the rabble mindlessly." She sounded resigned.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard rushing toward them, and Regina and Emma looked up in time to see a man hurtling around the corner.
"Get off of her!" He lunged at Emma, knocking her off Elphaba. They tussled for a moment before Elphaba scrambled up. Regina moved to stop her, but at the same moment Elphaba yelled,
"Fiyero! Stop it!" She hooked her arms around his waist and pulled him off of Emma. Regina was please to see his nose was dripping blood. The man apparently called Fiyero turned to Elphaba and hugged her, panting heavily.
"I knew something like this would happen. I came after you to make sure you were alright, and I heard voices over here. I ran. Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, thank you Yero. Now I have to deal with this." She disentangled herself from him, and turned to face Regina and Emma who was now standing with only a few bruises.
"Explain yourself Witch." Regina stepped forward threateningly. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the handsome man bristle.
"You say it like its a bad thing. Aren't you one too?" Regina rolled her eyes.
"Explain yourself." Emma snapped.
"I already did. But I'll elaborate. This is Fiyero, my, err, my... boyfriend." Fiyero smiled brilliantly. "We are from Oz, I am- was the daughter of Frexapar, Governor of Munchkinland and accused Wicked Witch, Savior of Animals. Fiyero was the Prince of the Winkies and Captain of the Gale Force."
"Savior of animals?" Emma looked skeptical and glanced warily at Regina. It sounded absurd.
"Talking Animals. The Wizard was persecuting them."
"Right. None of your story makes sense." Elphaba sighed and ran a hand through her long hair.
"Why would I tell you anything but the truth? It's a long story; if you want to hear it, we should sit down." Unexpectedly Fiyero gasped and pointed behind them. Regina and Emma turned to see a silhouette in the window of Regina's office. They glanced at each other before Emma barked out,
"If we can trust you, stay here and don't move." Then she ran, and Regina yelled at her,
"Shouldn't we restrain them?"
"No time! Come on!" Emma shouted over her shoulder. Regina shot on last glance at the green girl and Fireyo before taking off after Emma.
A few minutes later Emma and Regina arrived back at the corner looking confused and shaken. Fiyero was leaning against the wall, and Elphaba was leaning against him, wrapped up in his arms. When they caught sight of the two, the odd pair straightened up.
"Did you catch them?!" Fiyero asked hopefully, not really believing they had.
"Of course not, Yero, or they would have someone with them. What happened?" Elphaba's eyes were curious, this mattered to them just as much as it did to the mayor and sheriff.
"That is none of your business. And I'm surprised you stuck around. Why?" Regina was now curious more than suspicious, though she was still wary.
"I told you it would work." Emma told Regina smugly. The Queen just ignored her. "Fine. Come with us. It's too late to go to Granny's, so we can just go to Regina's office." Regina glanced at the blonde woman sharply, but then relented.
Elphaba crossed her arms, not very happy with the arrangement.
"Why should we come with you? We don't even know your names!" Her usually soft brown eyes were glittering with mistrust and something that looked like anxiousness.
"I'm Emma. This is Regina. Now come on." Fiyero shook his head.
"We would prefer something more...public."
"You have got no choice. If you have nothing to hide, you won't mind." Elphaba sighed, realizing this was the only thing they could do.
"Come on Fiyero." They grudgingly followed, Elphaba running over spells in her mind in case someone who she now recognized as her sister decided not to let them leave.
When they had gotten situated in the elegant office, Emma wasn't sure where to start. The green girl and the admittedly dashing guy (though not as dashing as Hook, her mind teased) sat at the desk, with Regina sitting across from them and Emma choosing to stand. She decided with the most obvious, and in her opinion, disturbing question.
"Why the hell are you green?" Fiyero glared at her as if to say, "That was rude" Thankfully, he kept his mouth shut. Elphaba sighed, looking almost bored with the question.
"I was born this way because my mother drank a green potion given to her by her... lover." She cringed at that, looking disgusted.
"Can potions do that?" Emma asked Regina.
"I haven't seen it put to affect, but I'm sure they can." Regina seemed intrigued.
"How old are you?" Emma thought they looked very young, younger than her. The two looked like they had been through a lot.
"I'm twenty five. Wait no, twenty-six because of the missing year. And Fiyero is twenty-eight."
"How did you get here?" Fiyero didn't stay quiet on this one.
"We have as much as an idea as you! One moment we were running from the Gale Force, the next we're here!" Elphaba nodded her head.
"What's the Gale Force? You know what, don't answer that. Just start from the very beginning."
Fiyero and Elphaba looked at each other, before he nodded at her. Regina, despite herself, was starting to like the girl. Her sharp mind and witty personality were oddly endearing. She seemed fiercely loyal to the boy. She was beautiful, and her emerald skin exotic.
Elphaba took a deep breath and started the long tale. She started from when she was three and Nessa was born, and her mother supposedly died. When Regina asked what she meant, Elphaba didn't reply. She talked a bit about the years before Shiz, playing down her basic servitude to Nessa and her father; and didn't even mention the abuse. Emma narrowed her eyes, but didn't say anything.
Elphaba told all about her first and only year at Shiz with interjections from Fiyero. She talked adamantly about her sweet blonde friend Galinda. She told how she hated Galinda and Fiyero at first, and how they grew together. She told of her magic lessons and her letter from the Wizard. Here, she paused, her eyes growing dark.
"He was an awful man, I found out. Nothing like the role model I had dreamed of, nor a good leader. He was corrupt and petty, a coward." Elphaba's voice was bitter. She breathed out her nose and continued.
She went on to tell of her and the now changed Glinda's visit to the Emerald City and what happened with the Wizard and Morrible, the Grimmerie and the flying monkeys. Fiyero interjected here, spitting about what a fraud the Wizard was, and how Elphaba defied him and paid the price.
"The Wizard turned me into the enemy, blaming me for torturing the monkeys, saying how I was wrong to be saving the Animals. He turned me into the Wicked Witch, someone to be feared throughout Oz. You know, though, I never hurt anyone. Every Animal rescue, every raid, no matter who attacked me; the worst of it was a simple sleeping spell. Though for some reason, every one still thought I was Wicked." Fiyero looked angry at the very mention of how people treated Elphaba.
Elphaba laid a hand on his arm, then continued. She said she had been on the run for three years, and Elphaba never talked about what had happened. She described her meeting with the bitter Nessa, and how she gave her the ability to walk. She briefly told of Boq's unfortunate transformation to tin.
Fiyero then told his part about becoming Captain of the Gale Force, and Glinda becoming the Good Witch. He talked of his time 'hunting' Elphaba, how he always tried to steer his men away from her; though sometimes confrontations were inevitable. He reluctantly talked about his relationship with Glinda, and how he found Elphaba after she had rescued the monkeys in the Emerald City
Elphaba and Fiyero looked at each other, Fiyero grinning and Elphaba blushing. The two silently communicated, and decided not to tell about their night in the forest after they escaped. That was something special and private.
Elphaba was surprised, but grateful, that neither of the two woman had interrupted. She talked in a choking voice about Nessa's death and her fight with Glinda. Then she nearly broke down from guilt when she told Emma and Regina of Fiyero being taken and tortured. She told them how she didn't know if he was alive, and she cast a spell so he wouldn't die.
"It turned him into a scarecrow, which I didn't know about until I was with Glinda,telling her I was giving up. I had just gotten a message from Fiyero of a admittedly brilliant plan for our escape." Elphaba remembered how she almost broke down from relief when she heard he was alive.
"I let the little bra- ahem, girl 'melt' me. Then Fiyero, now a scarecrow, and I ran. We had been trekking for about three weeks when we ran into the Gale Force. We were outnumbered ten to one. Fiyero wasn't harmed, him being a scarecrow and all, but I was. A man smashed his gun into my leg, breaking it, and created a deep gash with the bayonet. I created a portal with a very dangerous and complicated spell from the Grimmerie to escape. Next thing we know, we are here; Fiyero a human, and only a scar on my leg."
They sat in silence for a few minutes as Emma and Regina processed the story. Finally, Emma broke the silence. She had sat down on the desk about half way through.
"That was... That is insane. I almost don't want to believe you. But you both were so in sync with each other, and it was so detailed I know you can't have made it up."
Regina didn't appear convinced. Her eyes bored into the the Ozian's, suspicion evident on her beautiful features.
"I agree for once with Emma, the story is insane. I don't believe you though. Why won't you tell us about your mother?" Elphaba suddenly looked nervous, and she cast her eyes down in thought for a moment.
"I wanted to wait until the end to tell you." She said slowly. Emma cut in impatiently.
"Tell us what?!" Elphaba sighed,
"I'm getting there. She discovered a spell that could take her to a different land, but no time would pass in her own. The spell was her escape. It was very risky, she could have killed herself and altered the Enchanted Forest forever, but she pulled it off." The green witch's words were directed at Regina.
"Well Cora came to Oz, where she met Frexapar. Naturally, his position of power attracted her. She married him rather quickly, and then met Oscar Diggs, a mysterious man from a different land; a land without magic. She had a brief week stand with him, where she got pregnant with me and drank a potion he gave her. That is what turned me green." Regina was sitting in shock, and Elphaba wasn't done.
"I was absolutely livid when I learned The Wizard was my father. I've gotten over it though. Cora never told Frex about Oscar, pretending Frex was my father. She hated me for being green. It soiled her reputation. She stuck with me three more years until she got pregnant with Nessa. Cora ate milk flowers constantly to ensure Nessa didn't end up green, causing the early birth and Nessa's disability. Cora faked her death to get back to the Enchanted Forest. The time is odd, maybe the spell only stopped it for as long as the user was in the land. The time went normally for the separate lands after she left. You were 14 when Cora passed through Oz. I never knew about any of this until later."
Regina looked absolutely livid.
"She never told me! Mother never told me about any of this!"
"Well she never came back for Nessa and I so... You do realize what this means, don't you?" Regina was still stewing over the fact of Cora's secrecy. Emma couldn't stay silent any longer, even though she knew this was a family thing.
"It means you and Regina are sisters!" Regina had stood up, looking very preoccupied.
"Let's go tell the others about our findings." Fiyero spoke then.
"Doesn't this mean anything to you?!"
"Of course, but I have more pressing matters to deal with." Emma shot them a apologetic look, then wrote down the address to Granny's for them to meet up tomorrow. Then she left with Regina.
Regina couldn't think about her supposed sister right now, she wanted to see Henry. It was a start, but it hurt. It hurt her worse than almost anything she had endured, and she wished with all her being he remembered his mother. David(he would always be Charming) and Hook walked in, interrupting her thoughts.
"We need to talk." David said urgently. Emma turned to look at Henry on the couch playing his game, then back to the group.
"Outside." She commanded. They all shuffled out the door quietly, then grouped in a circle. David have a briefing, and after that Mary Margret whispered incredulously,
"They're being turned into flying monkeys?" Emma and Regina shot each other a glance, but decided to remain silent for the time being.
"Yes." Hook answered somberly. "He took on primate form with the added bonus of wings."
"Do you think that's what happened to the missing dwarves too?" Mary Margret asked quickly.
"Uh, that would explain why we haven't found any trace of them." David said worriedly, hands on his hips.
"And Neal?" Emma asked. Despite their problems, he had still been her first love and her son's father; she had the right to ask.
"No sign of him either. So, yeah, it's possible." David answered. Emma quirked her eyebrows in a odd expression, saying to herself sarcastically,
"Wouldn't be the first flying monkey I've dated." Mary Margret looked at her daughter, alarmed; but Regina cut her off.
"The person who escaped our trap disappeared in a cloud of green smoke. And now there are flying monkeys in this town? I think we know exactly who cursed us."
"The Wicked Witch of the West? We met her, she didn't do it!" Regina shook her head.
"She is called wicked for a reason!"
"Which we heard!" Emma shot back.
"Wait, wait! Slow down. What do you mean you met the Wicked Witch of the West?" David asked, confused. Emma and Regina quickly filled in the group of their meeting with Elphaba and Fiyero.
"She says she is my sister." Regina finished.
"WHAT? The Wicked Witch of the West, your sister? She is younger than you, how can you never have met her?" Mary Margret asked.
"Actually, it makes sense someone like the Wicked Witch is Cora's daughter and Regina's sister." David told her.
"Watch it." Regina growled, obviously angry at the statement.
"What about the age thing?" The pregnant woman asked again. Emma answered for Regina.
"Apparently, Cora used a spell to get to Oz, and long story short it messed with time, stopping it in the Enchanted Forest. Regina was 14."
"Okay. So, how do we go about this." Hook was now used to this sort of add stuff happening around these people, he just went with it.
"I don't get it." Emma said, thoroughly confused. "It's not like we're in Kansas. Why would the Wicked Witch of the West want to come to Storybrooke?"
"I don't know." Regina answered, obviously thinking. "Why would she feed us that story?"
"I still think parts of it are true. The sister thing isn't something she would lie about."
"We have to confront her. We can do it together. She must be powerful." David said.
"I never saw her use magic, even in the desperate situation she was in with us."
"Maybe it was a trick." David suggested. Regina raised an eyebrow elegantly.
"Either way, you are right. We have to go see her."
"I gave her Granny's address and told her to meet us for lunch tomorrow. We can do it then, she won't know what hit her."
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed that! Sorry if I forgot anything glaringly obvious in the Wicked plot, that is for those who have not seen the Musical in a long time or at all. Pleas, tell me what you thought in a review! Thanks! 3
