Don't own anything, all rights and characters go to Disney. You know what I mean.
Author note: anything in bold is in the characters past, while there still planning the attack, while normal text is what is happening right now in the cave.
After walking through the tunnel, Regina, Emma, and Rumpelstiltskin came into a large cavern, it was a nice little place, a few fires, some beds, and a few tables, and it would be in a very nice place to stay if it wasn't for the army of lost boys they are and the giant shadow they assumed was Peter Pan looking down at them menacingly.
"Rumpelstiltskin," Peter Pan greeted, his voice sounded very far off, and then very close, like an echo, "it was so nice of you to come and join us, and you brought friends."
"Yes and it was so nice of you to invite us" Rumpelstiltskin said with a fake smile, "now tell me, I understand person of interest to me was going to be here, where is he, I won't be making too many deals with you until I know he's here and safe."
With that Peter Pan signaled some lost boys to bring Henry out.
When Henry woke up he found himself in a cage with some food and questionable water, after yelling for a minute things like "who are you" and "come on out and face me like a man", a lost boy came and told him to shut up, then a large black shadow came down with Greg and Tamara and said "Good your awake, do you know why you're here."
"No, but if you're smart you will let me go, you have no idea who my family and what they're capable of, and you if you do know who they are, then you're crazy for capturing me." Henry said, in truth try to convince himself more than them of the inevitability of his rescue.
The information did not exactly have the effect Henry was hoping for, instead of cowering in fear, opening up the cage, and begging him to leave so he could tell Rumpelstiltskin and his family not to slaughter them mercilessly, this shadow just laughed, "Yes I know who you are, yes I know you are the grandson of my brother Rumpelstiltskin, and yes I have already sensed him, and he is coming for you."
"What you mean by brother." was all Henry could think of besides 'oh great that didn't go according to plan and I hope Rumpelstiltskin can beat him'.
"Rumpelstiltskin contains last part of the original dark ones power, I intend on trading you for it, when he comes here, the deal can begin; until then, consider yourself our honored guest; and if you should try to escape, know that I will find you wherever you are."
As the shadow turned to leave with Greg and Tamara, "Wait, what's your name, and I was wondering if I could ask Greg and Tamara question." Henry asked.
"My name is Peter Pan, and yes you may ask them a question." Was Peter Pan's reply.
"If you guys were trying so hard to get rid of magic, why on earth would you side with him? Shouldn't he be worse than Storybroke; I mean considering the fact that he's been going back and forth between here and our land for such a long time." Was Henry's question.
"That's just it," Greg said, "he's been going back and forth for thousands of years looking for one boy."
"So when we met him, he was unlike any other magical being; while most of them had only a little bit of magic he had an extreme amount, he was completely unstoppable." Tamara said.
"So our bosses made a deal with him hundreds of years ago; in exchange for us helping him locate the one boy he was looking for, he would never take another boy except for that one again, and once he had him he would never come back to our land again." Greg said.
"So once we found you, our objective changed; it was no longer relevant whether or not we get rid Storybroke, what became more important was fulfilling our deal, thus saving hundreds of children, and ridding our land of his filth for all of time;" Tamara said, then looking up at Peter Pan "no offense."
"And so you think that with all of his power, especially the power will get from my grandfather, and he will keep his promise, and that he will not just kill you and your loved ones." Henry said.
"Considering the fact that he swore on some pretty heavy duty magical things, yes we think that he'll keep his word." Was Greg's reply.
After they left, Henry sat down to think, 'Well this is officially the worst day of my life; actually the second grade play might have been worse.' Henry shuddered, removing the time he had to dress-up as a pink bunny rabbit for the Peter rabbit play, why on earth that suit was pink Henry would never understand, and one of the worst things was that they added all sorts of lines to make it more of a moral story, cheesy things like "oh how I should listen to my mother, and not gone and stolen from Mr. McGregor, now I am stuck in this cold wet watering can, without my jacket, oh if only I had listened to her, and been obedient little bunny rabbit." It wouldn't have been so bad, if it hadn't been for the kindergartner who came up and gave him a pitying look saying "I feel so sorry for you." it's when the little kids know that a play is cheesy that you know you're in trouble.
When they saw Henry, it took all of Emma and Regina's willpower not to go up and hug him.
"Here he is." Said Peter Pan.
"Yes he is, now tell your men to get out from behind me, I want them in front of me before we begin." Said Rumpelstiltskin.
"And why would I do that."
"I dislike being outnumbered it makes for too much stupid, also when a person is behind you they usually get the stupid idea in their heads they can "get the drop on you" I believe is the appropriate term, and I don't think they want me to show them just how wrong they are if they were to act on that idea."
"Very well, everybody come and stand behind me." Peter Pan said.
After all lost boys came in and stood behind Peter Pan Rumpelstiltskin said, "Good now we can begin our deal. "
"Yes, now we both know what the other person wants, so is there really anything we must discuss." Said Peter Pan.
"Yes there is," Rumpelstiltskin sneered, "1: before we begin the power transfer, I want you to unbind Henry's life force; 2: I want to his mothers to be able to inspect him, to make sure you haven't done anything to him, or harm to him in any physical or magical way; 3: I want you to swear on the first magic itself, that you will a Lao anyone who came with me to leave, and that you will never harm a member of the Charming's family, Regina's family, Bell's family, or Hook's family; 4: and finally, that while the rest of the lands are yours for the taking, you will never enter fairytale land or earth, or send anyone or anything that is under your control, obligation, or orders, or allow anyone or anything under your control, obligation, or orders, to go there, or send anyone or anything there period, without getting permission from a member of Charming's direct line of descendents, telling them why it is you wish journey to either of those lands, exactly how long you intend to stay, and telling them anything you've done, taken, or anyone you spoke to, and you must get their permission to take anything or anyone, be they living or dead, with you when you leave, and you must do this after informing them exactly who you are, who they are, and if they're working for you, without the use of changing your or their appearance or anything else, and if you send anyone or anything," Said Rumpelstiltskin.
"And why would I agree to this." Said Peter Pan.
"Because you and I both know that while you might be strong, I'm a whole lot stronger, it doesn't matter how much power you've managed to amass, and you don't want to risk losing the fight to me" Rumpelstiltskin said in a very threatening manner, "also, the whole reason for this meeting is so that we can get Henry back unharmed, and while you and I both want to believe that this power transfer will work leaving us both relatively unharmed, we know this is not insured, and frankly it's very unlikely, so I want you to unbind Henry's life force to ensure that he will be unharmed by this process." Said Rumpelstiltskin's time is slightly more cheery way.
"Very well." Was Peter Pan's reply, and with a wave of his hand, they saw a stint purple line connecting him and Henry disappear, and then Henry ran over and hugged Emma and Regina.
Then suddenly Peter Pan yelled out in pain, and Henry saw an arrow sticking out of his side, the next thing he knew Regina grabbed his hand and started running towards the entrance of the cave.
"The plan is very simple," said Rumpelstiltskin, "Snow will take Robin Hood's bow" he said while causing the bow to appear out of purple smoke, "and shoot Peter Pan with this arrow that has been dipped in true love potion, you'll need to be up on one of the ledges, and you don't need to see him, just visualize hitting him in the bow will do the rest."
As Henry and Regina were running he saw a large purple and pink flash come from behind the cave.
"There'll be a few moments where everything will go to heck in a hand basket, I need Regina to grab Henry and keep running out of the cave as fast as she can; and Charming, I need you to throw this," he said having a small crystal ball appear, "I'll be busy trying to keep Peter Pan under control, so I need you to throw this as hard as you can have it hit the ground near him, once it breaks releases spell that's designed to counteract the life force binding curse, I'll make it so that all the lost boys are behind him so it should make the spell more effective, I need you to throw it as soon as the arrow hits him, the longer it takes for the curse be broken, the longer he'll have to drain life force from lost boys so that he can fight me."
After a few seconds of running, Henry saw Hook standing next to the entrance of the cave, holding a crystal ball in his hand, when they ran past him he threw it on the ground and suddenly an earthquake started.
"Now Hook, I need you to be waiting at the entrance to the cave, when you see Regina and Henry run by throw this at the ground, once it breaks you'll start to seal up the cave so no one can get out and follow." Rumpelstiltskin said giving him a crystal ball as well.
"But what about the people and that the cave." Hook asked.
"Once the ball is broken it will activate a spell in these two necklaces that will teleport them to the person that wearing it to a third one, Charming and Snow will each were one and Regina will were the third."
As they ran Henry realized that his grandparents were with him, Regina, and Hook; hence they kept running he noticed Hook really black diamond in the sand, but the question he was really wondering about was where was Emma and Rumpelstiltskin.
"Hook." Rumpelstiltskin said just before they were about to leave the boat, the others already waiting on the shore.
"Yes."
"I need you to take this" Rumpelstiltskin said handing him the trigger, "I need you to drop this in the sand while you and the others are running back to the boat."
"Why?"
"Assuming that I fail and die, Emma is planning to stay with me and attempt a backup plan, assuming though that it fails, this will be a plan of last resort; if Emma dies the curse will begin to unravel, when that happens the trigger will activate and begin to destroy whatever land it's in, if it destroys this one, Peter Pan will never be able to escape, then you get back to the boat they need to use this" he said handing him another crystal ball, "it contains the same enchantment that Cora used to protect a portion of our land from being affected by the curse, this will protect the ship from the effects of the trigger and will send you back to fairytale land where everyone else will be when the curse is finally destroyed completely; but be careful, only use it after it turns red, that will mean that Emma is dead."
After a few minutes they reach the boat, everybody panting from the hard run they just did. It took a few seconds to collect their thoughts, but after they did Henry asked "Where's Emma.".
It was then that Charming and Snow realized that she was not behind them, "she's still in the cave with Rumpelstiltskin." Said charming.
"But why would she still be there?" Snow asked.
"Because Rumpelstiltskin asked her to, he made a backup plan involved her having to stay to make sure that if he died she could do something that would let us escape, I'm not sure what it is though." They were all quite amazed to see that the answer came from Hook.
"And how do you know this!" Charming yelled at him.
"Because Rumpelstiltskin told me, he also told me to use the trigger for a plan of last resort, if Rumpelstiltskin and Emma both die, then this crystal ball will turn red" Hook said holding up the crystal ball which was still white, "and if that happened that I should break it so will all go back to the Enchanted Forest."
Three said this Charming felt an overwhelming urge to punch, "And you just went along with this."
"I didn't have a choice in the fact that Emma agree to the backup plan, I'm just here to make sure that if they both failed that we aren't stranded in a dark lifeless void with a power-mad shadow, who I might add, has all of eternity to make us suffer for tricking him." Hook said while backing up fearing that Charming would hit him.
"He's right" Snow said, "all we can do now is hope that ball doesn't turn red."
And so they waited, and as the minutes passed their hope that Emma and Rumpelstiltskin turn a lie got smaller and smaller and smaller, until finally around 10 minutes later they felt the boat jerk, and then suddenly they felt it moving out towards the sea. "Well this was a bit of a letdown" they herd Rumpelstiltskin's unmistakable voice say from above them, when they looked up they saw him and Emma floating above them, "I was expecting them to be in tears, mourning the loss of their two dear friends." Rumpelstiltskin said sarcastically, pretending like they hurt his feelings as he slowly lowered them down onto the ship.
"Mom!" Henry yelled as he ran up and to give her a hug, which was shortly followed by everyone but Regina, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hook giving her a hug.
"I am a big fan of the family reunited, but at the moment there are some slightly more pressing matters." Rumpelstiltskin said, this was actually the first time anyone really looked at him and they were amazed change, he glowed like an angel, radiating off more energy than before, it was slightly terrifying actually, them all suddenly realizing just how much more power he now had.
"And what might that be?" Asked Hook.
"Deciding the fate of our guests." Rumpelstiltskin said in a very devious smile, and then he motioned to the top of the ship, where the lost boys were being held in cages suspended from the mast, "then there are those that were captured by Peter Pan" he again motioned to the front of the ship where many young boys were lying unconscious, "and last but not least, we must decide the unfortunate fate of the ones who caused all this, and forced us to come here" he said looking quite murderous as he stepped aside, revealing Greg and Tamara, unconscious but alive.
I would like to thank all those who've been reading my story, and thinking about doing another one very soon involving Rumpelstiltskin and Bell, kind a little made-up back story, I'm not sure if you would call it AU or not, anyway, sorry about the delay, went on a trip and couldn't find time to write, and a big thank you to Ghostwriter and sbcarri for the review.
Now for something important, I wish to give you all a chance to help me decide the unfortunate fate of Greg and Tamara, I've let my darker side come up with a few things, but I want to see which one you guys like the best.
1). Rumpelstiltskin rips out Greg's and Tamara's hearts, forces Tamara to crush Greg's heart slowly, and then puts her in a cage on Neverland with only Greg's body for company, so she'll be forced to live with the fact that she killed him for all of eternity as revenge for shooting Bea.
2) Rumpelstiltskin rips out Greg's and Tamara's hearts, then locks both of them in a cage on Neverland, and then puts their hearts at the bottom of the ocean in a box attached to an anchor, so that the water pressure will crush the hearts just enough to leave them in eternal agony, but not enough to kill them.
3) Rumpelstiltskin rips out Greg's and Tamara's hearts, then locks both of them in a cage on Neverland, and has it so that each one is holding up a stone attached to a chain above the other person's heart, and has in a way that, should one of them let go of the chain, it will crush the other person's heart but pushes there's out of harm's way, so that they will be forced to live with the fact they failed the other person.
4) Emma goes and punches Tamara in the face then goes and beats her up for shooting Bea, while Regina goes and electrocutes Greg to near death for torturing her, then they abandon them in Neverland or let the mermaids take care of them.
5) They let them go with strict warning, (personally I don't think I'll do this one).
so review and tell me which one you want or make a suggestion of one you would like.