CHAPTER 4


Anna, Kristoff and Elsa sat in the back with Olaf perched on top of Elsa's lap because his body would have given the princess and ice harvester chills on their laps while the queen was immune to it. Henry rode shotgun while his mother drove obviously. In a couple of years from now, Henry would be old enough to learn how to drive, so until then, he sometimes observed how his two mothers or grandparents drove whenever he was the rider.

"How about some music?" Emma asked.

"This machine thing has music?" Anna asked.

"Yup." said Henry as he reached for the car radio and searched stations to find.

The royals were fascinated by the radio and what they heard from it.

"What is that thingamajig you're touching?" Olaf asked.

"It's called a radio. It plays music and news stories." said Henry.

Henry soon found a station that was playing a fast 1980's rock song. The Arendelle royals were confused by the music.

"That's more like it." said the teenage boy with a grin.

"What the heck is that?" Anna asked. Kristoff and Olaf shared her confusion. Elsa giggled at her sister's reaction. She heard this type of music before so she was no stranger to it.

"This is the music we play and hear in our world. It's called by several names like 'rock music', 'hard rock', 'rock n' roll' or 'heavy metal'." Henry explained.

"You listen to music named after rocks?" Kristoff asked in bewilderment of the music genre's name.

"No, that's just what it's called!" Henry said over the loud music.

"We don't have music like this back home! I like it!" Olaf said aloud.

"Well, this is one of the things we wanted to experience when we came here!" Elsa said over the tune.

Emma couldn't help but smile from their reactions to modern music.

The song ended.

"I can imagine what Arendelle's reaction to our music would be like if they heard it. I bet they'd freak out or something." Henry said humorously.

"Didn't you hear stuff like that last time, Elsa?" Anna asked.

"Yes and I actually find it quite entertaining. My reaction to it was similar to yours, but during my prolonged stay here, I adjusted to it." said Elsa.

"It's so loud and painful to my ears." said Anna. "If we had this music back in Arendelle when Hans was around, perhaps we could've locked him in a room and tortured him with it to make him go crazy." Anna said.

"What did you say you did to him again when you returned to Arendelle? Something about giving him a black eye?" Emma asked.

"Yep. I punched him in the face hard enough to make him cry like a baby afterwards and it was funny too!" Anna exclaimed.

"For a soft-minded princess, she sure can hit pretty hard." said Kristoff.

"I sure can. Wanna see?" Anna offered to Emma and Henry and aimed her fist at Kristoff in a teasing manner.

"Nah, maybe later but on someone else who deserves it." Emma said.

"Lucky you." Anna said to her husband in a mock-scary manner. Kristoff only chuckled lightly.

"Emma told me there are other types of music besides that rock music, but we can get to that later. For now, let's hear more." Elsa said and as if it heard her, the radio played another song, but this time from the 1990's and it sounded different from the other tune.

"Oh, I love this song!" Emma said and strummed her fingers on the steering wheel to the beat while Henry played air guitar, leaving the visitors baffled by their actions.

"It's how they enjoy music here." Elsa explained to her family. She saw this before.

Rather than driving to the apartment, Emma drove the car to her own home instead, the house she occupied when she was the Dark One. Despite her history there, she still bought the home with Henry's support. He had nothing against Emma for the bad deeds she committed as it was not her, but the darkness that plagued her mind. Henry knew Emma would never do things like those.

"I thought we were going to that place from before, Emma." Elsa said.

"We were, but I figured that since that's my parent's home, I wanted to bring you over to my home. What do you think?" Emma said and asked.

"It's lovely." said Elsa.

Everyone got out and Emma led them to the house.

The royals loved the modern decorations. They explored the home.

"Well, I have to return to my job. I'll be back at the end of the day. Henry here will keep you guys company." Emma said and walked out the door.

"See you later Emma!" Elsa called out. Emma entered her bug car and drove off.

Now they were left under her son's watch.

"So, what do you and your mother do for fun around here?" Anna asked.

"Well, there's television." Henry said.

"Tele-what?" Olaf asked.

"Television. It's a device we use for home entertainment or elsewhere." Henry explained and led them into the living room. He got the remote for the tv set and turned it on.

The tv showed a cartoon about magical fairies who work for a 10 year old boy. Right now, the characters were interacting with an evil, sadistic talking motorcycle.

"Oooohhhh . . ." Anna said hypnotically. She, Kristoff and Elsa watched the show together.

"Hi Superbike, meet Super Screwdriver!" said one of the show's fairies who was seen holding a large screwdriver.

"SUPERTOILET!" the evil bike said demonically, scaring the fairy into sucking his thumb like a baby.

"What's this?" Anna asked.

"It's a cartoon called 'The Fairly Oddparents'. It's about a boy who has magical fairy godparents who grant his every wish, whatever he asks for. Although most of the time, his wishes tend to backfire on him and he's tasked with fixing whatever damages his wishes causes. He can't tell anybody about their existence or else they'll go away forever." Henry explained.

Henry spotted the couch and allowed them to sit on it and they did.

When the show ended, Henry switched the channel to find others and he found a movie showing a man wearing a fedora hat, a jacket and holding a whip to swing around and fight enemies with.

"What's this cartoon about, Henry?" asked Kristoff.

"It's not a cartoon. It's a movie and this one's called 'Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade'."

"What's a movie?" Olaf asked.

"It's a . . . how to explain it to someone from a different realm . . . are there stage shows in Arendelle? You know, plays, dinner theater and that stuff?" Henry explained and asked to make an example.

"Yes. We perform them for certain days and celebrations." said Elsa.

"Well, that's kind of what a movie is like, but it's recorded so it can be seen by anyone over and over again and seen in private rather than on a stage and the actors don't have to perform their lines every time. Their actions and lines are recorded once and that's it." Henry said as best as possible. "As for the movie, it's about that guy who's name is Indiana Jones and he works in archaeology and searches for ancient artifacts that are said to have supernatural powers. Here, he and his father are looking for something called the Holy Grail before their enemies do and use it for world domination or worse. I'm not much into archaeology, but I still enjoy watching these films."

"There's more than one?" Elsa asked.

"Yes. Four to be exact and right now, this is the third movie." Henry said and all of them watched the movie together.

A scene played where the protagonist and his father were having a heated discussion after being surrounded by armed nazi soldiers ready to kill them.

"I came here to save you!"

"Oh yeah? And who's gonna save you, Junior?!"

"I told you . . .!"

The next scene showed gunfire and screaming, much to the shock of the guests who have never seen such a thing before.

" . . . don't call me 'Junior'!"

"Whoa, why did that Indiana Jones person kill those people with that loud thing?" Anna asked.

"Because they're the bad guys of the movie and they were about to kill them first and as for his weapon, it's called a gun."

"What's a gun?" Olaf asked.

"They're weapons that people in this world use and they're a lot more powerful than swords, knives or crossbows. There are all kinds of guns and the one he used is called a submachine gun." said Henry.

"It's one of those loud weapons I told you about before we came." Elsa told her sister.

"Oh, so that's what they are." Anna said.

"Why does he dislikes being called 'Junior'?" Kristoff asked.

"Because it annoys him. The reason his father calls him that is because he's named after his father. The old man's name is Henry Walton Jones and so is he, but he's mostly called 'Indiana' or 'Indy' for short. Let's say your father, be it troll or human, was also named 'Kristoff'. In your case, you'd be 'Kristoff Jr'."

They watched the movie to the end.

"Wow, these movies of yours are interesting." Olaf said.

"Hey, can I have a cup of water? I'm feeling thirsty." Kristoff said.

"Sure." said Henry. He got up from his seat and went into the kitchen to get Kristoff his water and handed him a cup.

"Here you are." he said.

"Thanks." said Kristoff and he drank it. "That's better."

When an uninteresting advertisement played on the television, Henry switched the channel and found one playing one of his favorite cartoons about people with yellow skin.

"What's this?" Elsa asked.

"It's another cartoon called 'The Simpsons'. It's about a typical, American family who goes through life with hilarious ups and downs. It's a very popular show worldwide." said Henry.

The Simpsons show played a scene where Homer Simpson was taunting the devil played by Ned Flanders as part of the episode's theme.

"I'm smarter than the devil! I'm smarter than the devil!" said Homer in a sing-songy voice.

Just then, Ned morphed into a large demon and shouted "YOU ARE NOT SMARTER THAN ME! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL YET, HOMER SIMPSON!" and he disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"Geez! Not a bright idea of that man to mock the demon guy." Kristoff said, giggling from the humorous scene.

The episode later showed Homer being force-fed donuts in hell after being sent there for a day after consuming his 'forbidden donut" and became obese and, despite that, he demanded more donuts which were shoved into his mouth, leaving his tormentor baffled.

"That odd man sure has an outlandish appetite even in a place of punishment." Elsa replied.

"Well, he's addicted to donuts as well as beer, so what you saw him go through in that scene is more like paradise to him rather than punishment." Henry joked.

Soon after the episode went to commercial break, an ad for a movie was played and Henry stared at the set with excited eyes. What he was seeing was an advertisement for a film called "Star Wars The Force Awakens".

"Whoo!" he cheered.

"What is that?" Anna asked about the commercial.

"It's about a new Star Wars movie that came out and I saw it not too long ago!" Henry said excitedly.

"What's 'Star Wars'?" Elsa asked.

Henry explained, leaving the royals confused about the sci fi mumbo jumbo.

"You'll have to watch the first six films to understand the story." Henry said, forgetting that his guests were from the fairy tale world.

"There's six of them? Like those Indiana Jones movies?" Anna asked.

"Yeah, well seven now. We have the other six on DVD. Wanna watch them?"

"Sure and what's a DVD by the way?" Anna asked.

Henry went to fetch his Star Wars movie collection and presented them to the royals.

"These are DVD's and these are the Star Wars movies we have." said Henry.

He selected "The Phantom Menace", because even though it was not the first film in the film storyline, it was chronologically the first chapter. He popped it into the DVD player and pressed "Play" and Henry, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Elsa all sat and watched.


Emma was back in the station filing out paperwork.

Suddenly, the telephone rang and she picked it up to answer.

She then hung up when the unnamed caller gave her a report of a portal opening in town, meaning someone from the other realm was coming to Storybrooke and she prepared to go and investigate.

Before returning after dropping her son and her friends from Arendelle off at her home, she had already explained to her family where she took their guests and they were fine with it.

As part of her job, she took a police car rather than her bug to drive herself to the scene.

When she arrived at the spot, she noticed a portal near the place where Elsa first created Marshmallow and stopped her car. To play it safe, she whipped out her handgun in case whoever or whatever stepped out of the portal showed hostility. She hoped the arrival wasn't Arthur trying to reconquer the town like last time.

She walked over cautiously and ducked behind a trash can and took a peek and from there, she saw two figures stepping out of the portal.

Out of that portal came two women wearing fairy tale themed clothes. Emma lowered her gun when she recognized one of these visitors. One of them was Merida, the arrow-shooting warrior queen of Dunbach and the other woman with her was an older-looking person Emma had never met before.

Now knowing who it was, Emma eased her grip on her pistol.

"Merida?" Emma said from her hiding place.

The two women searched for the voice and they spotted Emma Swan approaching them.

"Emma!" said Merida. Like with Elsa and her family, Emma and Merida embraced in a welcome hug.

"Thanks goodness I found you!" Merida said.

"Merida, who's this?" the other woman asked.

"Emma, this is my mother, Elinor, the former queen of Dunbach. Mother, this is Emma Swan, the savior of this town we're in." Merida said while introducing the two.

"Pleasure to meet you, Elinor." Emma said, holding out her hand. Elinor didn't take it because she didn't know what it meant.

"My daughter told me about you. Despite what you did to her, my anguish toward you vanished once she informed me what happened to you. I was kinda like that once when I was a bear." said Elinor.

That didn't surprise Emma because Merida once told her of the bear incident with her mother.

"What are you doing back here, Merida?" Emma asked.

"My mother has been stricken with an illness that nobody back home can treat, not even the old witch who once turned her into a bear, and I figured that this strange world of yours might be of better help and she sent us here for a solution." Merida explained.

Emma's eyes widened. "What kind of sickness does she have?"

"Like I said, I don't know. It's something we've never seen before. Do you have anything in this world of yours that can strip her of it before it kills her or worse?" Merida begged.

"Follow me. I'll drive you to the hospital." Emma offered and led them to her car.

"What's a hospital?" Elinor asked.

Merida shrugged in confusion, not knowing what it was.

"You'll find out." Emma told them.

When Merida saw Emma's police car, it reminded her of the time Emma strapped her to the yellow bug when Emma was evil. After Emma returned to her normal self and after she and her family and friends ventured to hell and back to retrieve Hook, Merida dropped her grudge against Emma after learning she was the town hero and they found a way to send Merida back to Dunbach and bid each other a fond farewell like how Emma did with Elsa.

Now Merida has returned to seek help for her mother and Emma wished to help them as her way of making up for what she did to the red-haired woman.

"Whatever happened to that yellow machine of yours?" asked Merida.

"My other car's parked somewhere else for the moment. This is a replacement which is part of my job around here." Emma explained.

"What's that thing there, lass?" Elinor asked when she saw the police cruiser.

"It's called a vehicle and it's the kind of transportation I and everybody in this world uses to get around. What you're looking at is called a police car. It's meant for local law enforcement and I'm one of them." Emma explained.

"Did you ride in that contraption before, Merida?" asked Elinor.

"No, but I did ride in her yellow-colored vehicle thing before." Merida said. "This realm has a lot of odd stuff we don't see everyday back home, I tell ya." said Merida.

The three women got in the car. Merida rode in the front seat and Elinor rode in the back.

"How does this device of yours work, Miss Swan? There are no horses to move it at all." asked Elinor.

"Believe me mother, these car things don't need horses to go." Merida told her with a slight hint of warning in her voice from remembering how fast and loud vehicles in Storybrooke were.

"Strap yourselves in, Your Majesties." Emma told them and buckled her seatbelt and the Dunbach royals copied her.

Elinor had trouble with her seatbelt and Emma helped her put it on properly.

"There, all done. Now then, here we go." Emma said and started the car and drove off.

"Good lord!" Elinor exclaimed from the sound and movement of Emma's car.

"Don't worry, mother. Emma knows how to work this car thing of hers." Merida assured her mother who was surprised by everything she saw outside.

Emma soon made it to the hospital and led the queens in.

"My, what a place!" Merida said from seeing the inside of the hospital. "Is this where sick or hurt people go to, Emma?"

"Yeah. Just sit anywhere you'd like and I'll handle it from here." Emma said and Merida and Elinor sat in the seats in the waiting room while they watched Emma do her thing.

Emma finished signing several documents and took a seat next to them. Having fun with Elsa was going to have to wait.

She wondered how Elsa and Merida were going to react when they see each other. They both dealt with magic and it turned out disastrous at first for both.

Getting the feeling that this was going to take long, Emma whipped out her cell phone and looked up her home number to contact Henry.

"What's that thing you got there, lass?" Merida asked when she saw Emma's phone.

"It's a cell phone. We use them to speak to people who are far away from our current location." she explained.

Emma dialed her home number and held the phone to her ear as Merida and Elinor watched.

"Henry, it's me. How are you doing with the others? Watching movies? Great. Listen, I'm calling because I'm dealing with a visitor from the other realm. It's Merida. She's back and she brought her mother with her because her mother has an disease that they believe our world can deal with, so I'll be at the hospital with them for a while since they need help with being in Storybrooke. Tell Regina and the others where I am if they ask. Okay, love you too. Bye."

She hung up.

"So that's what a cell phone does." said Merida.

"Yeah." said Emma.

"Who's Henry?" asked Elinor.

"He's my son."

Minutes later, Elinor's name was called by the receptionist and Emma guided her and Merida to the right direction.

Whatever her mother had, Merida hoped it wasn't fatal and so did Emma.


Well, I did it. I brought Merida back to Storybrooke and this time, she's not alone. As I said before, her reason for coming back was different from Elsa and Anna's and now you know what is is. What sort of illness does her mother have and can it be taken care of by modern medical science? Will it freak her out? Perhaps.

Henry's introducing the Arendelle family to one of the greatest franchises ever invented. I got the idea after seeing "Star Wars The Force Awakens", that and the Star Wars ringtone scene from one OUAT episode and other episodes with Star Wars references in them which are all possible due to Disney owning the rights to 'Star Wars'.

Is the story getting more interesting than the original? One familiar character is here with a guest and soon, another will appear. Will Merida freak out when she meets Elsa and later the other one when that person arrives? Keep on reading and find out!