"Gold? Where are you?" Regina called as she rushed into the pawn shop. "We need to talk. Now."

She could hear the heavy sigh as he came out from the back room, Belle following close behind. "What do you want, Regina?"

"It's about your son. He brought back Maleficent," she replied, the not-quite completely healed scar visible to his eye. "And used my blood to do it. But that's not what I'm here to tell you."

"Good, because Maleficent has already come by here. What are you here to tell me?" the man asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

She looked nervously over her shoulder and leaned in to them. "I think he's being controlled by someone. I asked him what his end game was – you know, like yours was to get back to him… and he asked me why I thought he was totally in control of his actions. You should have seen his face. He looked almost scared."

Rumplestiltskin frowned, fear and anger on his face. "Someone is controlling my son?"

Regina nodded slowly. "I believe so."

A growl escaped the former Dark One. "Then I need to find out who did it and why."

He said nothing more as he turned, heading back into the back room, leaving she and Belle alone.

"Is there anyone that you can think of that hates both of you that would be willing to control Neal like that?" Belle asked. "It might help Rumple pin down whoever did this."

Biting her lip, Regina closed her eyes, trying to think. "I'm sure there are many people that he and I had met throughout the years that we have wronged. People who would want to be against both of us. But that's the problem – Neal isn't just targeting me. He's threatened the secrets of every villain in this town, so whoever it is has to be someone who hates villains."

"Well, that's completely unhelpful."

She barely concealed the urge to roll her eyes. "I don't know who could do such a thing. Who close to us would know about Neal or want to control him? And why would they want to do such a thing if they knew it would hurt Henry?"

Belle closed her eyes, thinking. "Maybe it's not someone we know. Maybe it's someone else that came in with the second curse. Like Zelena, Aurora, Philip and Mulan did. Someone who has been biding their time since then."

"But why strike now?" Regina questioned.

"That's what we have to figure out. I'll call Will and Anastasia and Snow and David and have them meet us at the library. You should call Emma. Let her know what's going on with Neal."

Regina nodded, quickly pulling out her cell phone as she and Belle rushed out of the shop. God, she thought when her sister was defeated that life would finally calm down. But it didn't seem like that would ever be the case.

"Okay. So what do we do?" Anastasia asked, leaning against one of the library tables. "What are we looking for?"

"When we came back here after the second curse, Snow had everyone that was new fill out forms so we knew what was going on and who was in town. Granny also gave me a list of residents in the bed and breakfast. If we go through them, maybe we can find a name that could link up with a potential villain who could have an issue with the Dark One. I know it could take a while… which is why Belle asked all of you here," Regina said with a sigh. "The more hands and eyes the better."

Snow exhaled, bouncing little Leo in her arms as he began to fuss, sensing the tension in the room. "I hope this works, Regina. We need to stop this before it gets worse. People are starting to talk. I'm afraid they're going to start going after each other – or the villains in town – without provocation."

Regina understood immediately that she meant there was a chance she could be in the danger zone, and she wasn't exactly surprised to hear it. Though things had, for the most part, calmed down in terms of people viewing her as the Evil Queen, with the second round of the curse meant more people that she'd hurt in the past. More people that could be angry with her.

More people that could want to hurt her.

Anastasia shivered. "That's a fair point."

With that bit of worry in the room, the group sat down and began combing through the records.

The amount of silence in the room was unbearable, and so when someone finally spoke up, relief flooded the mayor.

"Princess Jasmine? Agrabah had Jafar, didn't they?" Belle suggested as she pointed to a name on the registry.

"Unless Jafar managed to get out of the genie lamp in Wonderland, I don't it's him controlling Neal," Will said. "He came to Wonderland after he was stopped in Agrabah. Alice managed to outwit him."

Anastasia nodded, shivering a little."It wouldn't be possible for him to escape. Not with Nyx guarding his lamp."

Regina couldn't help but wonder what the story behind that was.

"Okay… let's keep looking then," Snow said with a sigh, before grimacing as Leo began to fuss. "Oh – as soon as I change someone."

"Hey," Will joked as Snow stood to head to the bathroom. "Better him than you."

"Will, that's disgusting," Anastasia replied as she wrinkled her nose, pulling out a new file to look at.

A knock on the door startled the small group from their thoughts, and without warning, Mulan and Ruby came stumbling through, breathing heavily with wide eyes. Mulan had her sword pointed at the closed doors, tense.

"Ruby, Mulan! What's the matter?" Belle gasped, shooting out of her seat.

"Take a look out the window," the warrior replied. "We've never seen anything like it."

Everyone jumped out of their seats and ran to the window, staring out at the thing that was hanging over the town.

"Oh Neal, what did you do?" David whispered.

She didn't know where Neal was. The small group of their closest friends and family that had scattered around the town in an attempt to find him had come back with nothing. Emma wasn't sure what she and Regina would be able to tell Henry. She glanced wearily at the clock, noting the three o'clock hour. Henry would be getting out of school soon, and he'd been hoping that she would have news about Neal, but she didn't.

The phone ringing was a relief, really, giving her a distraction from her thoughts.

"Sheriff's office," Emma greeted, lifting the phone to her ear. She could hear the tell-tale sound of chaos in the background and sighed, hoping it didn't mean Neal was out causing trouble.

"S-sheriff Swan… t-this is Mr. Krzyszkowski. Please help me. There's a crazy woman here trying to break into my files! Sh-she's got magic. Please hurry!"

The line went dead as Emma reached for her car keys. She swiftly hung up the phone and ran out of the station, speeding to the offices. She didn't see an signs of damage outside – that was a good thing. Hand on her gun, she slowly made her way inside.

"Police! Put your hands up!" she shouted when she spotted the scattered papers and broken furniture in the wake of the woman that was in the room. She must have been the reason Emma had been called.

Instead, the woman whirled, staring at her with an intensity Emma had never seen on anyone. "Not until I find my daughter."

"Okay – it's okay… just calm down. I can help you find her. Who are you? What is her name?" Not that Emma didn't have a feeling she knew who the woman was.

"I am Maleficent. Her name is Lily. Now help me find her, since you are the one that killed me in that mine."

Of course.

Emma nodded. "Yeah… sorry about that. I needed to save my son and I thought that egg would help me. But let me make it up to you and help you find your daughter."

"Very well."

With a wave of her hand, Maleficent set everything that had been broken straight again, and made her way outside.

Emma looked over at the office manager that had called the station. "Mr. Krzyszkowski, are you okay?"

The man, still looking shaken, nodded. "Yes. Thank you Sheriff Swan. You'd better go before she destroys your car… or something else."

Emma nodded and hurried out the door, going over to the dragon who was standing by her car. "Okay Maleficent. Tell me what you know about your daughter. Does she have any identifying marks? I know the last time you saw her she was an infant but – "

"Her wrist. She has a star birthmark on her wrist. She was born under the first clear night of Spring. The birthmark reflects that."

Her grip tightened against her keys as she opened the passenger door for Maleficent to get in. It was the same Lily.

She took a deep breath as she walked around to the other side of the car and got in. "A star? Maleficent… I know exactly who your daughter is."

Maleficent's eyes widened. "You do? Where is she? Is she here in this town?"

Emma shook her head. "I… I haven't seen her since I was sixteen. But I'd recognize her if I saw a picture of her. Maybe she's in a newspaper somewhere. I'll take you back to the sheriff's station so I can look on my computer."

"I don't know what any of that means. But I appreciate your help," Maleficent said, wincing as they went over a pot hole. "Although I'm not so sure I like this carriage."

"Sorry. Regina will have to get that hole fixed," Emma replied, pulling up to the station and getting out of the car. "Come on. The computer is inside."

She sat down with a heavy sigh, pulling up some of the websites she'd used for her old job.

"So I'll just type in the information we know about her and… here we go. Looks like she's living in Massachusetts," Emma said, turning to Maleficent with a smile.

But instead of the dragon smiling, she found the woman standing at the window with a look of alarm on her face as she gazed outside.

"Sheriff Swan… is that normal in this world?" she asked.

Emma quickly joined her, feeling the color drain from her face.

"No," Emma said, already reaching for her phone, although she was certain her parents had already seen the massive thing in the sky.

A giant airship was slowly making its way through the air, heading toward the woods.

"You want to help me figure this out?" she asked the dragon.

"I can do you better. I'll fly up there and see who's inside it," Maleficent said, already making her way out the door.

"Uh – okay," Emma said, looking up into the sky as she put the phone to her ear as it rang. "Regina? Yeah I see it. It's going toward the woods in the direction of your sister's old farmhouse. Maleficent is going to see who's inside it. No – tell my mom to go home with the baby. We have Maleficent to help find them. I'll meet you there."

"You're leaving town, huh?" a voice said from behind her.

She could only exhale as she turned to face Neal.

"I am tomorrow. I'm going to find Maleficent's daughter," she said. "I presume the giant ship in the sky is your doing?"

"That's good. You'll be reuniting a mother and daughter that were unfairly ripped apart… like your family was," Neal said, following her gaze into the sky and sighing. "Yeah. That was my magic."

"Who's in it?"

"I can't say. I'm bound not to say anything about it," Neal replied. Emma could see the desperation in his face. She knew he wouldn't keep this secret. Not from her.

"What is your endgame here?" she asked. "All this is doing is hurting Henry."

"I don't want to hurt Henry. But he doesn't care about Henry so I have to do these things. Please Emma. I don't know how much more I can take of this. Find the dagger. When you do it'll be a start… but I know you can save me."

With that, he vanished before she could stop him.

"Neal…" she whispered into the Storybrooke streets as a crowd gathered to gossip about the sky ship. "I'll find you. I'll always find you."

She looked up into the sky and spotted Maleficent slowly circling around an area. The ship must have landed. Letting out a sigh, Emma ran off in the direction of the dragon.

"Let's see what hell the Dark One has wrought this time," she murmured to herself.

She could hear the panic before she saw anything. The cries of scared children, the shouts of angry men, and a chorus of nervous voices.

"HEY! EVERYONE PLEASE CALM DOWN!" she shouted. She couldn't exactly see how many people were there, but it seemed like a lot. "IS ANYONE HURT?!"

A hand went up immediately. "Please help! It's my daughter! She's badly injured!" a man called as Emma ran over to the pair, spotting the injured woman laying in the man's arms.

She looked awful, cuts and scrapes on all areas of her body, including a nasty looking gash on her head.

"What's her name? I'll get her to the hospital," Emma asked.

"Your car will take too long," Regina replied, running up behind her. "I'll take her. You take her father."

Emma nodded, realizing just how bad the woman was injured, and stepped aside as Regina gently took the woman into her arms and vanished with her.

"What's your daughter's name?" Emma asked. "Where are you people from?"

"Her name is Mary – Mary Lydgate. We're from a realm called the Land of Untold Stories."