For this chapter till' the end Bae refers to the younger Bae the douple ganger trapped in Neverland and Neal refers to the Neal Cassidy Emma met. Hope that makes sense.

Chapter 12: Puppets

"You were Pans mentor?" Emma looked at Gold.

"Yes."

"You! Why you slimy crocodile! You're the reason for all of this?!"

Gold glared at Hook.

"I was looking for my son," he gestured to Neal. "I didn't care what I had to do. Eventually I gained control of a wraith that took me to and from realms I ended up in Kensington Gardens in London, where I met Peter. I taught him magic and learned he had two great powers. One was to locate lost children and the other was a potential to travel through time. So I took an opportunity. I thought that someone looking down on me had given me a second chance. I thought that if I were to teach Pan magic he could either take me back to the day that I lost Bae or could find him in the present day. So I taught him what he knew, but I didn't see until it was to late that his intentions were all but pure. Before I could stop him he stole his parents shadows and went to Neverland. I tried to convince him to stop, but He left me in England and that's when I'm guessing he discovered his shadow could travel through time. So he sent it back in time and stole Bae away to Neverland to get revenge on me for trying to go against him.

"Wait! Your the reason I was kidnapped from The Darling family?!" Neal squacked.

"Bae I'm, I'm sorry." Gold said.

"Whatever its not important anymore." Neal dismissed it. "At least you were looking for me."

"Henry, are you okay?" Worried Regina

"Yeah, I'm okay." Henry assured her.

"What happened to you?" Charming asked. "Tell us everything that happened."

"Well, after Greg and Tamara took me we ended up in a big stone room. The took me to Peter Pan and then through me in a locked room. The door was just made out of wood and it was easy to get out of, but it wasn't to long before some guards came back for me so I didn't have enough time to get away. The threw me in the cavern of a day and a night. When I finally thought to use my scarf to scale the wall it was the next day. I got past the guards and found my way around. They were looking for me all night, I looked for an exit all night long I kept looking around, but still couldn't find one. They finally tracked me down the next morning, but they didn't catch me again until late last night."

Bae spoke up then. "That was right before they caught. Right after I was thrown back in a cavern, Henry showed up."

"They took my scarf and other belongings. That was a few hours ago. Then you showed up. How did you get here?"

"Hook came back with the bean he stole, and we came through the portal on the Jolly Roger." Neal explained.

"Henry, can you tell us much about this place? What do you remember seeing? Where can we go from here."

Henry looked around until he found a stick, he knelt on the ground, cleared some pebbles out of his way and began drawing on the sand that covered the cavern floor.

"Here's the main entrance" He drew an outline of the island, "Here's the Native Camp and next to the camp there's a cave. That's where I came in through the portal and almost escaped the next day, but there were to many guards, so I went another way."

There's a tunnel here, here and here. This one," He gestured to the one on the far right " Leads to the caverns we're in now, this on runs to an empty room with some furs and an opening to some kind of laundry shoot that goes up and this one runs to a clearing completely closed in by rock,. That's where the boys being held prisoner, we have to help them, This one leads to a bunch of weapons enough for about twenty people, I stole a sword earlier, but they stole it back."

"How many boys are being held, Henry?" Snow asked.

"A lot, maybe thirty or more."

"Okay, stop, stop we aren't helping all those lost boys, because there a lost cause." Hook claimed.

"We have to help them we can't just leave them here." Charming said.

"Actually, I agree with the pirate," Bae said. "Those boys aren't boys anymore, those are the ones that survived having there souls stolen. That's the puppet yard, it's where Pan keep's the bodies of the shadows he's stolen. There all part of his army, they'd sooner kill us then help us."

"Yeah, I remember that. I was almost put in the puppet yard."Neal whisper with a far away look in his eye.

Bae nodded and remarked "Right, I was, but Peter decided to keep us around, said we're-"

"Special." They both said at the same time.

"There must be somthing we can do." Emma stated.

"I tried once." Hook began. "I was able to get most all of them away from Pan because at the time he held them above ground. Never found Pan just the lost boys. We went through a portal and a lot of us ended up in the enchanted forest."

"Not me, I and some of the others went to other realms. That's how I ended up back on... Earth." Neal stated.

"I was wondering where you went. The point is Baelf- I mean, Neal and I, were able to get the shadows back to the bodies once, but how did we do it?"

"I can't remember." Neal and Hook concentrated hard.

"Okay, so we help the lost boys, but what do we do once we get them all out of here, with their shadows back in there bodies?" Gold asked.

"Bae and I already have that part worked out. We have three friends who are going to help us. One has the transportation out of here, another has a way to lead the shadows back into there rightful owners and the other will help us out of the cavern."

"Who's going to do all that, Henry." Regina inquired curiously.

"Tinkerbell, Lancelot and Captain Hook."

"Lancelot? He's here, but Mulan told me HE died too?!" Snow exclaimed.

"Henry,what do you mean?" Emma asked.

"You really , didn't read it did you Emma?" Henry accused. "Before Lancelot was knight of the round table he was a lost boy. Rufio." He gestured to the guard who had his back to them. Rufio looked back over his shoulder and gave a nod. Felix the other had vanished. "He got caught in the time loop and his douple-ganger is as nice as the original. He's on our side."

"Tinkerbell is a friend of mine." Bae explained. "She knew my father." He said eyeing Gold longingly. Wanting desperately to hug his papa, but remembering he wasn't truly his father.

"That's right," Gold remembered. "Miss Bell came to me in the Enchanted Forest when I first became the Dark One, she wanted to be a fairy, some childhood dream or somthing. She gave me the wand the Robin Hood once tried to steal. The price she paid was her family they cast her out and she ended up in another realm, which I'm guessing is here in Neverland."

"Yes, I've been friends with Tinkerbell since she told me about the deal she made with you." Bae confirmed.

"What about Captain Hook, my other half might not be too keen on help you, given our past." Hook said skeptically.

"He's already agreed to help us, I spoke with Tinkerbell almost an hour ago she went to talk to Hook about the infi-loop. It's a horrible thing to know your caught in an infinite loop, but Henry convinced me its a worse thing to never know and live eternity having everyday be like the one before. We douple-gangers may all be stuck in the infi-loop, but you can still move , we've got nothing else to do." He ended with a smile.

"Alright then, what's then plan." Said Hook throwing his hands up.