The Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin's Cell

Regina, Derek, and Emma appear in a cloud of purple smoke then suddenly, both Emma and Derek tumble to the ground.

Emma slowly gets up from the ground and feels a bit light-headed. "Ugh, why do I feel so weird."

Derek gets up from the ground. "You're telling me, try riding on a magic carpet."

"Magic carpet? What are you, Aladdin?"

Derek gives her a confused look. "Who's Aladdin?"

"Nevermind."

Regina is looking around the dusty old cell then starts to become frustrated. "It's not here."

Derek is standing next to her. "What were you looking for again?"

Regina stares at him. "Squid ink, it was supposed to stop someone like Cora."

Meanwhile, Emma is looking around then spots a piece of parchment on the ground with her name on it. "What the hell."

Regina goes to see what Emma has found. "Emma, what is it?" Emma gives her the parchment she examines it. "Looks like he knew about you all along."

"That is creepy."

Derek walks next to them. "May I see that." Regina gives him the parchment he takes a look at it for a moment then stares at Regina. "I believe we found our squid ink."

Regina gives him a questioning look. "How can you tell?"

"If you look very closely there is a glittery substance no ink has that."

Regina takes the parchment from him and examines it until she sees the glitter. "You're right it does." She smiles. "You are full of surprises."

Derek laughs a little as he runs his hand through his dark brown hair. "I tend to read a lot during my travels."

Regina walks closer to him. "Wait until you visit Storybrooke there's going to be a lot of books to read about."

Derek smiles. "Can't wait."

Emma decides to interrupt their moment. "Now that we have the squid ink. How are we going to use it on Cora?"

Regina stares at her. "We're going to trap her."

Storybrooke Sheriff's Department

Dark Regina and Graham watch David, Mary Margaret, and the dwarves walk out of the building. "I'm going to check on Henry." Dark Regina said as she heads towards Graham's office when she opens the door Henry is not there along with the bag of fairy dust. "No." Starts to panic as she turns to Graham. "He's gone!"

"What do you mean gone?" Graham said as he quickly heads to his office to see it empty. "Damn! He must have snuck out while we were arguing with David and Mary Margaret."

"And he took the bag."

"What do you think he's going to do with it? He doesn't even have magic."

"There are other ways to activate it." Suddenly she realizes that Henry might be heading to the wishing well. "I know where he's heading."

Meanwhile, Henry is running through the woods carrying the bag then stops as he sees the wishing well.

The Enchanted Forest

Regina is in the middle of a field waiting for Cora who appears in a cloud of smoke in front of her. "Hello, mother."

Cora smiles. "Have you finally come to your senses, my darling daughter."

Regina nods. "You were right, especially about the savior."

"Where is the savior?"

Regina gives her an evil smirk. "She's dead I manage to kill her while she slept." Regina waves her hand to materialize a bloody shirt that Emma had worn then hands it to Cora.

A shocked Cora takes it from her to examine it. "Regina…"

"Congratulations, you raised a murderer!" Regina glares at her then raises her hand as if she's about to choke Cora.

Cora suddenly starts to gasp for air. "...Regina!"

Regina continues to magically strangle her. "EMMA, NOW!"

Both Derek and Emma run towards Cora, Derek has his sword out just in case while Emma quickly slaps the parchment on the older woman's wrist as Regina stops strangling her mother the squid ink surrounds Cora paralyzing her.

"You tricked me!"

"I'm sorry, I can't risk you hurting my friends."

Cora laughs. "Oh, darling those aren't your friends they are leeches that attach to you until your dead."

Emma glares at the older woman, "Hey!"

Cora stares at Emma. "It's true once you go back home, your perfect parents will convince you to kill my daughter."

"It won't come to that."

Cora smirks. "What about your boyfriend...Or your precious son."

Both Emma and Regina's eyes widen in fear. "How in the hell..."

"The princess, that foolish girl told me everything just to be free."

Regina stares at Cora. "What did you do to her?"

"She's right here, love." The trio turns to see Hook who has Aurora at knifepoint.

Regina stares at Hook. "Hook? I should've known you were working with my mother."

"Heh, she offered me a great deal, now will you please." He nods to Cora giving Regina a hint to release her. He sees Derek about ready to charge so, he holds the knife closer to Aurora's neck. "Ah, I wouldn't do that if I were you mate."

Regina stares at Hook for a moment. "Hook, you don't need to do this."

Hook just shrugs. "Well, I could have sided with you that was before you decided to abandon me on the road."

"I wasn't thinking straight all I want is to be with my son."

"Ah, never knew the queen had a soft spot for children."

"Then you'll understand I can't allow Cora to enter Storybrooke."

Hook thinks for a moment. "Sorry, your majesty I can't risk losing my chance at having my revenge now release Cora or the princess is dead."

Storybrooke, The Wishing Well

Henry is near the well for a moment then closes his eyes. "Please, bring my mom home."

Dark Regina is slowly approaching him. "Henry."

Henry turns to see Dark Regina. "What do you want?"

"To make sure you are safe...Henry whatever you are planning to do it won't work."

"You don't know that!"

Gold appears. "She's right, Henry."

Dark Regina glares at him. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Gold stares at her. "Making sure you won't make a mistake."

"I have it under control now leave!"

Meanwhile, Henry decides to dump the bag of fairy dust in the well a magical portal burst through knocking him out.

Dark Regina runs towards Henry, who is lying on the ground unconscious. "Henry!"

While Dark Regina tries to wake Henry Gold approaches the portal then goes to wave a wand towards it.

"No! What are you doing?"

"Making sure Cora never comes here."

"What if it's Regina and Emma."

"I highly doubt it."

The Enchanted Forest

"Well, love we're waiting." Hook said as he takes the knife closer to Aurora's neck and she whimpers in pain.

Regina thinks for a moment then suddenly a portal appears out of nowhere knocking both Hook and Aurora to the ground. "What the…"

Emma stares at the portal then turns to Regina. "It's that a portal?"

"I don't know."

Derek approaches them."I've never seen a portal that looks like that."

"I have a feeling it's a death trap." Regina said knowing full well that Rumple has activated the death curse.

"Maybe I can help." They turn to Cora, who is still paralyzed by the squid ink. "Release me I'll counteract it."

Regina thinks for a moment then turns to her friends. "I have to release her."

Emma stares her. "Regina no there has to be another way."

"There is no other way the portal can be our only chance to go home."

Emma turns to Derek. "What do you think?"

Derek stares at Regina for a moment. "I'm with Regina it's a risk we'll have to take."

Emma sighs in frustration. "Alright then release her."

Regina hesitates for a moment, raises her hand to release Cora from the squid ink then suddenly Cora strikes Derek's chest, Emma tries to attack but the older woman quickly blasts her with magic.

Regina's eyes widen in fear as she watches Derek scream in pain. "Mother, stop!"

Cora continues to squeeze Derek's heart. "Oh, you foolish girl. Love is weakness."

Regina becomes very angry. "I said STOP!." Her eyes turn dark filled with rage she shoots a huge blast of red magic, it hits her mother, knocking out the older woman.

Regina snaps out of it then goes to check on Derek who is catching his breath. "Derek?"

Derek gives her a reassuring look. "...I'm okay thanks for saving my life."

"Of course you saved mine I'll save yours that's what friends do."

Storybrooke, The Wishing Well

Gold and Dark Regina are standing in front of the now-mortally dangerous well. "Think about it with Regina and Emma out of the way you can have Henry all to yourself."

Dark Regina stares at Henry who is still unconscious thinks about the times she had done to hurt him. "I can't do this anymore."

Gold gives her a confused look. "What are you talking about?"

Dark Regina gives him a look. "I don't want to be a villain, especially in my son's eyes." Goes to absorb the magic from the well.

The Enchanted Forest

Derek and Regina go to help Emma up then they notice the portal changing and it starts to shrink. "We have to go before it closes."

Emma stares at Aurora's unconscious body. "What about her?"

Regina stares at Aurora then to Emma. "She'll be fine...We need to hurry!" They quickly jump into the portal then it closes.

Storybrooke, The Wishing Well

Graham enters to see Dark Regina absorbing magic from the well then sees Henry lying on the ground. "Henry!" Tries to wake the boy but he's still out of it.

Dark Regina finishes absorbing the magic she leans against a tree to catch her breath then turns to Graham who is next Henry.

Graham glares at her "What did you do!"

"I tried to save them...I'm sorry." Dark Regina said as she disappears in a cloud of purple smoke.

It becomes quiet for a moment until Derek climbs out of the well he then helps Emma and Regina.

As Regina is out, she notices Henry on the ground. "Oh god, Henry!" Runs straight to him then goes to cradle him on her lap looks at Graham. "What happened!"

"I don't know, he was already on the ground when I came."

Gold approaches them. "The boy will be fine Regina, he just resting."

Regina scoffs. "And I suppose you had nothing to with this."

Gold shakes his head. "This was your boy's doing he decides to be a hero then got knocked out in the process."

After Gold walks away, Derek and Emma approach them Graham gets up to hug Emma. "Emma! I'm glad you're back."

Emma hugs him back. "Me too, you won't believe the crap we had to go through."

Graham laughs a little. "You can tell me later I think you should go see your parents ."

"They can wait." Emma said she turns to Regina. "Is he going to be ok?"

Regina nods as she's still holding on to Henry. "Yea, he'll wake up in a few hours besides Graham is right you need to see your parents let them know you are back."

Emma groans in annoyance. "Fine." To Graham. "You are coming with me."

Graham nods. "Of course." He remembers Dark Regina. "Uh, Regina what are we going to do about your other half?"

"I'll deal with her later."

Emma gives her a worried look. "Are you sure? What if she's planning something."

"Believe me she's not."

"Alright then." Emma stares at Henry for a moment. "Can you call me when he wakes up."

"Sure." As she watches them walk away Derek bends down next to her.

"Do you need help?"

Regina nods. "Yea, just grab him then I'll teleport us to my house."

"Wait, are you sure? I almost fell the last time."

Regina chuckles. "Don't worry I'll make sure you won't."

Regina's Vault

Dark Regina is in the room feeling sick after absorbing the dark energy from the well then looks up to see Regina in front of her. "...Welcome back."

Suddenly Regina quickly raises her hands towards Dark Regina her hands glow as dark energy exits out of Dark Regina it disappears.

Dark Regina stands up to face Regina staring at her with a confused look. "Why?"

"No one deserves to go through that suffering."

Dark Regina shakes her head. "No, I meant, why are you helping me?"

Regina stares at her for a moment. "Because I know you...I was you. You could have killed Mary Margaret and David, or put a curse on Henry convince him to love you. You had the chance to have everything, instead, you decided to help bring us home it made me realize you still have good you."

Dark Regina starts to become teary-eyed. "I'm sorry."

Regina is starting to fill a bit of sympathy towards her."When you first came here why didn't come to me instead of doing the evil queen act all over again."

"When I saw you, anger, jealousy, rage took over me because I assumed you had something to do with what had happened to me."

Regina laughs a little. "Are you serious? I don't have that kind of power to rewind time."

"Then explain to me how in the hell did all of this happen!"

For about an hour Regina told her other half about Gothel's curse, the new enchanted forest,Henry nearly dying and not remembering her or his family then getting stabbed by an alternate version of their son and meeting the angel of destiny.

Dark Regina tries to process all the information then stares at Regina. "You have been through hell and back."

"It's nothing compared to your precious happy ending now does it."

"No, it doesn't, again I'm sorry for what I did...Do you forgive me?"

"Yes and no."

Dark Regina gives her a confused. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"I mean if you want a second chance, you will have to prove to me by helping me save our town from Cora."

"So how do you plan on stopping her."

"We'll discuss that later I need to check on Henry, he should be up by now."

Mills Residence

In Henry's room, Regina is sitting near Henry's bed watching him as he starts to wake up she gently caresses his face. "Henry."

Henry opens his eyes to see Regina at first he seems confused. "Mom?" Regina gives him a huge smile his eyes widened realizing it's really her. "MOM!"

Regina laughs as Henry quickly gets up to hug her then hugs him back. "Missed you so much."

"I missed you!" Stares at her with tears in his eyes. "It sucks being here without you."

"I'm here now I'll never leave you again, I promise."

Henry smiles then he remembers Dark Regina. "So, what's going to happen to the evil queen."

Regina thinks for a moment. "I'm giving her a second chance."

Henry shrugs. "That's cool."

Regina seems surprised. "Really? You are not afraid of her."

"Well, I was before then after watching her trying to get you back I realized she wasn't that bad after all, there were moments I had thought she was going to revert though."

"Ok then explain to me why you ran away from her and stole a bag of fairy dust."

Henry winced, knowing full well he's in trouble. "I got scared I wanted you back.

"You know better to not go anywhere near magic related objects you could have gotten yourself killed."

Henry sadly looks down. "I know."

Regina gently lifts his chin then stares into his hazel colored eyes. "Sweetheart I'm not angry it scared me when I saw you on the ground...I would never forgive myself if something had happened to you."

"I'm sorry, mom."

"It's okay just promise me you will never do something like that again."

Henry nods. "I promise...Am I grounded?"

Regina sighs. "You're off the hook, for now, there's a bigger problem I need to deal with."

"What is it."

"I'll explain later, pack up your things I'm taking you somewhere safe." At first Henry seems confused then decides to listen to his mother he heads to his closet to start packing.