Before Robin's funeral, Emma stands at Hook's grave & cries, trying to cope with the fact that he's truly gone now & suddenly, a wave of magic flies through the air, causing her to stumble. She hears her name called from behind her & turns around &'s shocked to see him She happily embraces Hook, who tells her Zeus sent him back as a reward for stopping Hades. After informing him that Robin's gone, she decides to break the news about Hook's return to Regina as delicately as possible. However, when an earthquake occurs, he rushes to see if Emma's okay. It turns out the earthquake's caused by Mr. Gold tethering magic to the Olympian Crystal fragment. Emma works with Regina to find it, only to later've him explain that Henry used his Author power to steal the crystal to destroy magic again. Both follow Henry to New York, where it turns out Gold got the crystal back. At the same time, Hook, David, Snow & Zelena're accidentally sucked into another realm, which they'd become trapped in without any magic in the Real World. Henry succeeds in destroying magic, only to be later convinced by the Dragon to get enough belief to recharge the crystal. It works & everyone's brought home. Once back in Storybrooke, Emma shares a passionate kiss with Hook. Meanwhile, in the past, Aladdin, a 'Savior', is taunted by Jafar over the inevitable downfall of all Saviors. In Storybrooke, refugees arrive from the Land of Untold Stories. Emma experiences tremors & visions; an arrested Hyde helps her receive an oracle's vision of a hooded figure killing her. Guided by Morpheus, Gold enters Belle's dreams to lift the sleeping curse; he tries to renew their love but she rejects him. "Morpheus" reveals he's really their unborn son & desired this outcome. Emma's death visions trouble her, as it puts her future with Killian in doubt, & after seeing him entertain Ashley's daughter, asks him to move in with her. Later, Emma discovers the sword can kill the Evil Queen without hurting Regina. The Queen steals the lamp & wishes Emma to an alternate reality where she's never the Savior; Regina follows her. In the 'wish realm', Emma lives as a princess until Regina traumatically restores her memory. Regina frees Rumplestiltskin in exchange for a magic bean, but the portal to Storybrooke closes while she's distracted by the appearance of Robin Hood. Meanwhile, in 1990 Minnesota, a young Emma's told by a teenager that she's the power to change her fate. In the present day, after they miss their way out of the Wish realm, Emma & Regina find another option for escape when they come across August, who agrees to help create a new portal. Emma discovers that August's the teenager she met back in Minnesota & inspires him to complete the portal. She, Regina, & Robin return to Storybrooke, where Gideon explains to Gold & Belle his intention to kill Emma so that he can acquire her savior powers & kill the Black Fairy, a move that's David furious & Belle concerned. Emma & Gideon finally meet for the battle, but she survives, choosing her own fate. He retreats, proclaiming this far from over. Gold & Belle decide to work together for the good of the son. Meanwhile, in the past, Snow makes a wish that grants the entire Enchanted Forest to use the gift of Song to defeat Regina, which also spreads to Oz as well. When Regina also becomes affected by the wish she finds a way to end it before the 1st curse takes place but the Blue Fairy, who granted Snow the wish, tells Snow & David that the wish'll be part of Emma's destiny. In Emma's past, her chance to make use of her talent's held back by being told she'll be alone. This'd come back to taunt Emma in the present day, as Fiona returns to use that weakness to take her heart before she unleashes a new curse on her wedding, with unlikely help from Gold by freezing her family. When Henry discovers the page in the book that reveals Emma's heart'll make her stronger, not only does it embolden her, it stopped Fiona from crushing it but Fiona still tells her the battle is still on. On the wedding day, Emma & Hook finally marry just in time for the dark clouds to release a new curse that'll set a final battle.


Fiona's curse wipes Emma's memory & places her in a mental institution, where she & the rest of the town, believes that Henry's Fiona's rightfully adopted son & all the fairytale stories're untrue. Henry, after several instances, tries to get her to believe the truth, but she rebuffs him & moves back to Boston. Meanwhile, the rest of the characters're trapped in the Enchanted Forest as it & all the other realms crumble as a consequence of Emma's refusal to believe. However, Emma, inspired by a book Henry'd created detailing her journey, returns to Storybrooke & chooses to believe him. Rumple successfully kills Fiona, which restores Emma's belief & transports the other characters back to Storybrooke. She fights Gideon, still under Fiona's lasting control, but ultimately chooses to sacrifice herself. Henry brings her back with True Love's Kiss & Gideon turns back into a baby, allowing Rumple & Belle a 2nd chance. Emma & Regina're shown to drop Henry off at his bus stop, & Emma later makes Hook deputy sheriff. All the characters're later gathered at Granny's for dinner as the book ends with the words "& they all lived happily ever after." Sometime after, Emma's shown to share her concerns with Hook about Henry growing up while contemplating having another child. Later, Henry chooses to go to other realms in search of his story & meets another version of Cinderella, whom he falls in love with. At that time, Emma becomes pregnant with her 2nd child & goes to answer Henry's distress call along with Killian & Regina, with the former insisting she rests. Wish Hook, however, shows up & knocks out Hook, taking his place in hopes of traveling to Storybrooke with Emma & finding a cure for his poisoned heart. Hook manages to recover & fights Wish Hook, until the latter accidentally stabs himself with a dagger. As he lies dying, he admits to having a daughter & that he's searching for her. However, Emma manages to heal him & convinces him to travel with Henry in search of both their happy endings. She later leaves with her husband back to Storybrooke.


Concurrent to a graduation trip that she & Regina take Henry on, the older Henry & the others manage to foil a plot by Wish Rumple to wreak havoc on all the realms & end up bringing them all to Storybrooke. Once they're brought back to the present, Emma gives birth to a baby girl named Hope &, along with Hook, attends Regina's coronation where she's crowned "The Good Queen" of all the realms. After that God realizes he's given Kara rightful happy ending but later Michael Morningstar decides he wants to screw with the Kryptonian so he gets help from Evil Shrek. Later on, once Evil Shrek finds Kara Alura/Emma Swan's place he sits & waits for the opportunity to knock her out; once she arrives he does so, after that he drags her to a portal & throws her in it whereupon she ends up someplace else & she's never heard from again.