At our camp, Emma was showing Aurora a photo of Henry after we'd learned she'd seen him in her nightmares.
"The boy you saw in your dream, is that him?"
"Yes, it's Henry," Aurora told us.
"That's impossible," Mary Margaret gasped.
"That's impossible. It was a dream. How could you dream of my son?" Emma asked him
"I have no idea," she said.
"Maybe it wasn't a dream," Mary Margaret suggested.
"How could it not be a dream?" I asked her.
"That room - I've been there," Mary Margaret told us.
"When I told you about it, you didn't say anything," Aurora mentioned.
"You were terrified. I didn't wanna make things worse by telling you I thought, it might be real," Mary Margaret explained.
"A room in a dream is real?" Mulan asked confused.
"The Sleeping Curse," Mary Margaret concluded. "It has to be. I went through it, Aurora went through it..."
"Henry's been through it because I wouldn't believe him," Emma said looking down.
"Emma," Mary Margaret sighed.
"What else did you lie about?" Aurora asked angrily.
"She wasn't lying," I told her. "She was protecting you, as any parent would."
"I'm not her child."
"No, but she is a mother," I reminded her. "We lie to protect the people we care about all the time."
"What did he say? Henry. In the dream?" Emma asked her.
"He just said his name. And then I woke up. I'm sorry," Aurora told her.
"Emma, it's going to be okay," Mary Margaret tried reassuring her.
"We are so far from okay," Emma said.
"No, we have a way home now."
"Correction," I said. "We have a compass. The wardrobe ashes are still with Cora."
"Any attempt to steal from her would be just suicide," Mulan reminded us.
"Not anymore. We can stop her," Mary Margaret told us.
"How?" Mulan asked confused.
"I don't know. But I know someone who does. Rumplestiltskin. He'll know a way," Mary Margaret told us.
"But he's back home," I reminded her. "We have no way of getting him here."
"Henry," Emma said. "We can talk to him. Now we can communicate."
"Wait. Wait," Aurora finally realized what Mary Margaret was saying.
"Oh yeah, Princess," Emma said. You're going back to sleep."
Mary Margaret, Emma and I were standing a little behind where Aurora was sleeping with Mulan watching over her.
"Hey," Mary Margaret said getting an anxious Emma's attention. "It'll be okay. You'll see Henry again. This will work." We all looked up and away from each other when we heard twigs snapping.
"What was that?" Emma asked looking back at Mulan. She shook her head and stood over Aurora's sleeping form, her sword drawn. Out of nowhere, people started attacking us.
"These are people from the camp!" Mulan said recognizing her fallen friends.
"The ones with their hearts ripped out by Cora?" I asked and she nodded.
"Then we know who's behind this," Mary Margaret told us. Mulan bent down and shook Aurora awake as the three of us protected them. One of the zombies swung at me with a sword and I dodged before I hit him with a stick.
"Emma, watch out." I turned in time to see Emma get tackled by one of the zombies.
"Emma!" I ran to her before one of the zombies grabbed me.
"The COMPASS!" I headbutted the zombie behind me before punching it in the face. "You know how to kill these things?"
"You wanna try what they do to zombies in the movies?" I asked her and she gave me a look.
"No," Mary Margaret shouted. "Mulan! Mulan!"
"Where is she?" Emma asked. I looked at where Aurora should have been but saw nothing.
"Emma, Sophia! We gotta run away!" We grabbed our weapons before running away.
"You're still in one piece?" Emma shouted back at us.
"Yeah, pretty much," I told her as we stopped running.
"We all okay?" Mary Margaret asked looking the two of us over. We both nodded before we heard somone running in the bushes. Mary Margaret prepared her bow before Mulan ran into view.
"They took her. Aurora's gone!"
SCENE: The Enchanted Forest. Present day. Emma, Mulan, Mary Margaret traveling.
We continued traveling through the forest looking for where Aurora could have been taken when a raven landed on Mary Margaret's shoulder. Mulan pulled out a dagger to attack the bird when Mary Margaret stopped her.
"Wait." The raven cawed a few more times before flying away.
"What the hell was that?" Emma asked.
"Cora. We have until sundown to bring her the compass. If we don't, she'll kill Aurora," Mary Margaret told us. Emma looked at the compass in her hand and Mulan immediately was going for it.
"Give it to me."
"Hold on, Mulan. Just give us a minute to consider," Emma told her.
"Is there really something to consider with a girl's life on the line?" I asked them.
"A compass is not worth Aurora's life," Mulan told her.
"We need a plan to get Aurora back and keep the compass," Mary Margaret said trying to be the middle man between the three of us.
"My vow to Phillip was to protect Aurora. That promise is all that is left of him, so it shall be done," Mulan told us reaching for the compass again.
"Hey! Hey, I climbed a beanstalk for this. You go get your own," Emma ordered.
"Give it to me," Mulan growled.
"Mulan! Mulan!" Mary Margaret and I pulled the pair apart. "Give us a few hours, please. If we haven't defeated Cora by then, you can have the compass."
"You can't hope to defeat her. We no longer have access to the Dark One's assistance," she reminded us.
"Yes, we do," Mary Margaret said seeming to grow nervous.
"How?" Mulan asked her. "Aurora's gone."
"Aurora isn't the only one who's been under a Sleeping Curse. I can go back to that Netherworld," Mary Margaret told us.
"The door to that place is closed. You said it yourself," Mulan reminded her.
"There may be a way. A way for me to go back into a deep slumber that can provide me access to it again," Mary Margaret explained.
"Another sleeping curse?" Emma asked her confused.
"She's already been under a sleeping curse," I said.
"I need to go into a sleep where my natural defenses slip away, where my mind stops protecting me," Mary Margaret explained.
"How?" Emma asked when I remembered something.
"Your sleeping powder," I said to Mulan remembering what had happened to Tiny. "If Mary Margaret inhales it..."
"...I will fall into a deep enough sleep that I should be able to do this."
"I spent the last of it on the giant," Mulan told us.
"Then make some more," Mary Margaret ordered.
"The poppy plant is extremely rare in this kingdom," Mulan explained. "But I know of a place that may grow some more. It's a bit of a journey from here."
"Can we make it by sundown?" Mary Margaret asked. Mulan nodded after a brief pause.
"We must hurry."
As we traveled, Mulan had to use her sword to cut our way through the tall grass.
"Once we've crossed this ridge we'll be near the woods of the dead. The last poppies in this realm have taken seed there," Mulan explained to us.
"You okay?" Emma asked as we followed Mulan.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Mary Margaret said passing her. I stopped her from walking when she tried to pass me.
"You look nervous," I pointed out.
"This Netherworld - how bad is it? What's it like?" Emma asked her.
"It's like you're lost," Mary Margaret told us. "drifting in the dark. No one to talk to, nothing to do, except think of all the people you love and that you'll never see them again."
"Henry was lost in that dark, too, because of me," Emma blamed herself.
"What are you talking about?" Mary Margaret asked her confused.
"He tried so hard to convince me I was the Savior..."
"Stop it. Nobody would have believed Henry's stories," Mary Margaret tried reassuring her.
"Nobody believed him," I pointed out. "We can all play the blame game on that one.
"His mother should have," Emma said.
"Okay, you wanna play the blame game?" Mary Margaret asked. "If I hadn't told Cora about Regina's true love, Cora never would have killed him. Regina wouldn't have vowed revenge. The curse never would have happened. We can spend all day trying to figure out why each of us should feel guilty, but it will not help us get home."
"You really think we're gonna make it back?" Emma asked her.
"If there's one thing your father's taught me it's not to give up," Mary Margaret told us. "Now, it's time for me to go back to sleep." We started walking again when Emma stopped us.
"It's Regina."
"What?" Mary Margaret asked her confused.
"Regina. That's who we should blame," Emma told us.
"If you want to go down that road we should blame her mother," I told her. "So it's Cora we should blame."
"It's beautiful," Mary Margaret said looking down at the red flower in front of us.
"I'll use my dagger to crush the seeds," Mulan told us pulling out her dagger. "We're doing this the old-fashioned way." She cut the plants stem and we waited for her to finish her work.
"The powder's nearly ready," Mulan told us after around 30 minutes.
"How long will the effects last?" Mary Margaret asked her.
"It's difficult to say. Maybe an hour. Or much less," Mulan told her.
"Well, I shouldn't need much time as long as Henry's in there when I am." Mary Margaret got comfortable on the tree trunk and Emma and I offered her a supportive hand.
"We'll be right here. Say hi to my son for me." Mulan moved to us and gently blew the powder into Mary Margaret's face.
Emma and I waited in silence while we waited for Mary Margaret slept. When she started to wake, she still seemed slightly dazed.
"Hey..." Emma said sitting up next to her. "Hey, you okay? What happened?" Mary Margaret suddenly spazzed out.
"What's wrong?" I asked her as she started looking around quickly.
"I'm looking for more powder," Mary Margaret ran to the rock Mulan had ground the powder.
"I'm pretty sure we're out of that. What happened?" Emma asked her.
"I have to go back there. He's all alone!"
"Henry?" Emma asked, her face falling in concern and fear. "Is he okay?"
"No, David. He went under a sleeping spell so he can see me. Thought that my kiss would wake him, but it didn't and now he's trapped!"
"Okay. Slow down. David is trapped in there?" Emma asked.
"I have to get back. There's only one way to help him," Mary Margaret told us.
"True love's kiss."
"Yes, but it won't work in there. We have to get back. If we don't..."
"Mary Margaret, take a deep breath," I told her.
"We will make it back," Emma tried reassuring her.
"You're so sure?" Mary Margaret asked.
"Yes," Emma told her calmly. "You told us to have faith and now I'm telling you; we will make it back. Okay? Did you get the information?"
"It's Rumplestiltskin," Mary Margaret told us with a nod. "He said the key to stopping her is in his jail cell."
"Okay, then let's go get it. Come on, get your stuff. Come on." We gathered our weapons when Emma started to look around worried. "No!"
"What?"
"The compass is gone and so is Mulan," Emma told us.
"Three guesses where she went."
When we finally caught up to Mulan, Mary Margaret shot an arrow after her hitting a tree close by.
"That was a warning shot. Try to run, and I promise the next one won't be," Mary Margaret told her as we walked up to her.
"How did you find me?" Mulan asked.
"I know the things you do about tracking."
"All we want is the compass," Emma told her.
"Very well." Mulan turned to us slowly. She began to draw her sword, but Mary Margaret tackled her first. None of us had noticed her pulling out an arrow until it was at Mulan's neck.
"GIVE ME THE COMPASS!" Mary Margaret ordered.
"And seal Aurora's fate?" Mulan asked her.
"We've learned how to overpower Cora. Once we get what we need we'll be able to defeat her. And Aurora will be free," Mary Margaret told her calmly.
"Another journey," Mulan complained. "Just as I predicted there would be. Our best chance to save Aurora is to make that trade now."
"Not going to happen. Without that compass, we can't get home," Mary Margaret reminded her.
"Then I'll hope you're prepared to use that arrow," Mulan told her. I saw Mary Margaret struggle with Mulan's words. Mary Margaret suddenly pulled back the arrow and was about to stab Mulan when...
"STOP!" We all looked up in surprise to see Aurora run towards us.
"Okay. Don't take this the wrong way, but how the hell are you getting here?" Emma asked confused.
"Let Mulan go!" Aurora ordered moving towards Mary Margaret and Mulan. "I said: Let her go!" Mary Margaret got off her and Aurora helped Mulan up.
"Were you followed?" Mulan asked as she rose to her feet.
"I don't think so. Cora may know I'm gone, but she didn't see me escape," Aurora told us.
"How did you escape?" Emma asked her.
"It was Hook. He let me go." I looked at her confused.
"Hook?" I asked her. "Why would he help you?"
"Because of you," Aurora told us. Mary Margaret and Emma looked at me confused and I shrugged my shoulders at them. "He said he wanted to prove to you that you should have trusted him. That if you have trusted him you could have defeated Cora together. That the two of you could have gotten the remains of the wardrobe. Without him, you'll have to go up against her all by yourself. He only wants to help I think he might care for you."
"What happened on top of that beanstalk?" Emma asked me.
"Don't ask me," I told her. "All I did was chain him up and have a giant watch him for as long as he could."
"You must have done something to get his attention," Mary Margaret said.
"Maybe chaining him up is a turn on for him." They both gave me a look and I shrugged my shoulders at them.
"Did you find a way to stop Cora?" Aurora asked us.
"Yes," Emma told her giving us a look.
"Where are we going?"
"Rumplestiltskin's cell."
"Great. Then lead the way," The five of us turned and began our new journey.
