A/N: Well, this should be interesting...

Once upon a time, there was another world. Only a few had seen it, like Snow White from her kingdom, through a magic mirror, an inverse of their own. A dark place where greed and corruption thrive. It must be kept hidden. If the wrong forces discover this world, it would mean war. A black-haired woman was in a black dress with very fair skin that looked almost as white as snow was shown to be running as a pair of kids were shown to be running as well out of a cottage that was on fire. The woman soon saw the two children and looked concerned for them.

"There's another home that's come and gone." The girl pouted to her brother.

"I'm so sorry." The boy frowned before he hugged her as they were homeless now.

The woman soon hurried to the children as she was going to take them with her into her castle. The two kids looked up to the woman as she helped them out.

"This is no place for small children to be," The woman told the kids. "I'll take you home with me."

"You... You're Princess Snow White." The girl recognized.

"Yes, I am," Snow White nodded. "Come along, children, I'll keep you safe."

The two kids soon nodded back as they followed her to her castle.

"Hopefully those warmongers won't find you in here." Snow White told the kids as she brought them to the safety of her castle.

The children stepped inside and looked around.

"Mirror, Mirror, where is the king?" Snow White soon asked as she came to a mirror which was a magic mirror as she looked very terrified and worried about what had become of her home. "Is he leading the defense of the castle?"

Villagers were shown to be coming through the kingdom in the mirror.

"Oh, lord! They're coming through the gate!" Snow White panicked. "Why have our people turned against us?! Who's leading this rebellion?!"

The magic mirror soon showed only her reflection.

"Oh, Snow?~" A male voice smirked.

The kids looked a bit worried about the voice.

"Rumplestiltskin." Snow White glared at the source of the voice.

The man smirked as he arrived and bowed loyally as a group of others joined his sides.

"I should've known it was you who brought this darkness upon us." Snow White continued firmly.

Growling was heard as a man was shown coming in and where he is known as The Wolf. The kids felt a bit startled by the man as they hid behind the thrones in the room.

"I wouldn't move if I were you." Rumplestiltskin advised Snow White.

"How dare you corrupt members of my royal guard with your black arts!" Snow White glowered. "You realize you've angered all of the kingdoms of this land with your pointless war. Even as we speak, the others are coming."

"Princesses?" Rumplestiltskin asked, unimpressed.

The Wolf even snarled in mockery as the children hid away, feeling scared of the man who was more of a beast than a human.

"Even if you managed to kill me, they will stop you." Snow White glared as she made sure the kids were hidden.

"Kill you?" Rumplestiltskin repeated as he advanced forward. "I need you! I'm here with a deal."

"Where is the king?" Snow White demanded.

"I will leave this squalid little pile of cobblestones you call a kingdom if you do something for me." Rumplestiltskin ignored her question as he made it up, standing face-to-face with Snow White.

"Where is the king?!" Snow White asked him firmly.

Rumplestiltskin soon grabbed Snow White, nearly choking her at the throat as she groaned in pain. "The mirror can be used as a gateway to another world: a world without magic," he then said to her. "A place where I could live like a god."

The kids kept hiding as they feared Rumplestiltskin.

"Send me there and I will take my men and leave," Rumplestiltskin whispered eagerly. "Whatya say?"

"WHERE IS MY HUSBAND?!" Snow White snarled impatiently.

Rumplestiltskin soon shoved her to the floor while the kids hid away as he smirked. "Snow White... Fairest in all the land, all that power and what do you do with it?" he then asked in mockery.

"I protect it." Snow White glared from the floor.

"Not very well," Rumplestiltskin mocked. "I've also heard of two children who have special abilities beyond human understanding and I thought maybe I could take them with me to avoid being a burden to the people of our world."

The boy soon held his sister protectively even if he was scared. The Wolf snarled before he grabbed a bag and threw it out in the middle of the floor before a crown rolled out.

"Y-You killed him!" Snow White gasped in fright and anger.

"I had to," Rumplestiltskin smirked. "I knew you wouldn't listen unless I stack the deck in my favor. There's power in the king's death."

Snow White simply looked devastated.

"As it happens, enough to make your army mine in a single stroke," Rumplestiltskin continued. "Of all the times we've done this, your choice has never been easier. Open the portal, let me take the children, and you'll never see me or my army again. Refuse and you'll die."

The children began to feel terrible as Rumplestiltskin was after them before they looked at the mirror as their way out. Snow White stared off in the distance as tears rolled down her face.

"You'll never get a better deal than that." Rumplestiltskin told her fiendishly.

Snow White soon seemed to give in as the mirror glowed bright and some sort of magic came out from it.

"An entire world with no magic!" Rumplestiltskin grinned. "Now to find those children who have no idea what they are capable of."

"Children, run." Snow White muttered.

The children soon ran to the mirror and where as if by magic, they vanished.

"Was that them then?" Rumplestiltskin wondered.

Snow White didn't answer the question, but sneered a bit as she made an icicle appear in her hands.

"We have a deal!" Rumplestiltskin reminded.

Snow White then brought out her ice shard and aimed for his neck.

"If you kill me, The Wolf will kill you!" Rumplestiltskin reminded firmly.

"No life is worth a kingdom." Snow White said before backing away into the magic mirror with him.

Rumplestiltskin soon looked down to the throne and put his foot on one of the armrests and soon flung himself and Snow White right through the mirror as they both fell in backwards. The Wolf growled before he wondered what to do next as war broke out even worse as it was getting dark in the village.

Three women were soon coming into the throne room as it was dark as night and no one was there.

"Are we too late?" The blonde woman asked.

"This way, come on." The very long brown-haired woman replied as she walked the other two women down through the room.

"There's nobody here." The blonde woman frowned.

"Oh, no! Look, it's the king!" The long brown-haired woman alerted once she saw the crown on the floor. She soon saw the magic mirror as if she knew it had been used.

"Oh, dear lord." The dark-haired woman frowned as she followed the other two women.

"The magic mirror," The long brown-haired woman shook her head. "If the Queen has gone through, then our only choice is to follow her."

Someone was about to go and grab the dark-haired woman in the back before falling on the floor as they seemed to be targeted.

"You missed one." A new woman's voice remarked.

"I could've cured him!" The dark-haired woman glared as the woman came by to get an arrow as she wore a red cloak with a hood over her head.

"Or he could have killed you," The woman with a red cloak said as she took the arrow out of the man. "The Wolf is here. Trust me, you let your guard down like that again and he'll kill all of you, princess powers or not."

"It's such a beautiful chamber." The long brown-haired woman said as she looked around.

The red-cloaked woman decided to leave, but before she could...

"Red, wait," The dark-haired girl said, stopping her. "We can help each other. This affects all of us."

"I'm here for one reason: to kill The Wolf," Red told the dark-haired woman. "I got you this far. Your little mission is just that. Yours."

"Time is swiftly on the other side," The long brown-haired woman told the blonde woman. "The longer we linger, the more time has gone by

"Well, then I guess we should hurry." The blonde woman said.

"You think your home is the only thing destroyed by this war?" The dark-haired woman asked Red. "We've lost kingdoms!"

"I was busy fighting thralls while you were marrying into the life of luxury," Red retorted. "Don't lecture me about war."

"Don't you understand?" The dark-haired woman frowned. "If we kill Rumplestiltskin, all his thralls will be released."

"But The Wolf will go free!" Red defended before smirking as she went to walk away. "Royals... You brought this on yourselves."

"How do we find the queen?" The blonde woman asked.

"Ask the mirror." The dark-haired woman said as she made her way over to the two women.

"Mirror, Mirror, on the wall... Show us Snow White!" The blonde woman demanded.

The mirror soon glowed from her commands.

"Now what?" The dark-haired woman asked.

"Dead or alive, we find the Queen," The long-haired woman spoke up. "Wherever she is, we rescue her if we have to, and we kill Rumplestiltskin and we end this mess. We have to be prepared for anything."

"Brave little pigs!" The Wolf glared as he had Red in his hands.

"Red!" The dark-haired woman cried out.

"Step away from the mirror or she does." The Wolf threatened.

"He'll kill her either way!" The blonde woman warned her fellow princesses.

Red soon brought out a stake to stab in The Wolf's thigh and broke free as he growled while trying to keep a hold of her before she ended up going in through the mirror. The Wolf then let out a strong and powerful howl.

"Cherry... Cherry... Cherry?!" A voice called.

"Huh? What?" Cherry blinked as she was in her school's cafeteria with a book called "Once Upon a Time by Henry Daniel Swan-Mills", showing the main world in The Justiceverse as it was called.

"Aren't you too old for fairy tales?" Atticus playfully asked.

"Very funny." Cherry rolled her eyes before sighing softly as her mind was elsewhere before he sat down across her.

"You miss Lionel?" Atticus guessed.

"Uh, yeah..." Cherry admitted. "It's just not like him to leave without telling me or Aunt Selina."

"Well, anyways, how was the story?" Atticus asked.

"Just typical stuff, I guess," Cherry shrugged. "Cinderella goes to the ball before midnight, Rapunzel lets down her long hair, Little Red Riding Hood goes to Granny's house, Sleeping Beauty falls asleep for 100 years until Prince Charming saves her."

"So why read them if they're the same old thing?" Atticus smiled politely to keep her company and her mind off of Lionel's sudden disappearance.

"I guess they just remind me of a simpler time." Cherry replied.

Thor sighed as he was soon coming by with his own lunch to sit with them.

Atticus looked between Cherry and Thor, feeling bad that they both looked pretty sad before stopping to think. "How about we go to the Spellman's house for dinner?" he then suggested to them. "That house feels like a second home to all of us. I could call Hilda and Zelda before our next class."

"I go there for dinner all the time with my uncle." Thor reminded.

"Yes, but we should all go for dinner," Atticus suggested. "It might bring us all some comfort!"

"Yeah, I guess," Cherry shrugged. "And you can invite Mo too who should be coming over right about now."

"Oh, there she is," Atticus smiled before waving at the tomboy to have her sit with them. "Over here, Mo!"

Mo smiled once she saw her friends and came to sit down with them before looking at Cherry and Thor. "Whoa, who put a dark raincloud over your heads?" he then asked.

"You noticed that, huh?" Thor sighed as a literal dark raincloud hung over his head. "Hopefully no one else sees..."

"Lionel's gone somewhere," Atticus whispered to Mo. "I'm trying to help cheer them up."

"Ohh," Mo whispered back before seeing Cherry's book. "You like to read fairy tales, Cherry?"

"I guess it just reminds me of a simpler time," Cherry replied. "This Henry Swan-Mills guy really knows his fairy tales."

"Swan-Mills," Mo chuckled. "That's an interesting name."

"Yeah, it is," Cherry had to admit. "I think my favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast though."

"I like Little Red Riding Hood myself." Mo smiled.

"Mine is Sleeping Beauty." Thor smiled back.

"Really!" Mo smiled. "I never would've guessed that."

"I've been quite partial to Cinderella myself," Atticus remarked. "As well as maybe The Little Mermaid."

"Too bad fairy tales aren't real though." Cherry shrugged.

The group soon continued to eat their lunch and Atticus made a call to Hilda and Zelda about maybe coming over to dinner as the two women always told them that their home was welcome to them if they ever wanted to come by for a visit. After a few rings, Hilda answered.

"Hello, Ms. Spellman?" Atticus responded.

"Atticus, you don't have to be so formal," Hilda replied. "You can call me Hilda if you want."

"Heh, sorry," Atticus smiled bashfully. "Erm... Do you and Zelda have dinner plans tonight?"

"I don't think so," Hilda replied. "Why?"

"I was just wondering if the others and I could come by for dinner tonight," Atticus said. "We could all use a little cheering up."

"Well, we'd be happy to have you and your friends over," Hilda smiled. "But shouldn't you let your parents know?"

Atticus looked bashful.

"I think you should talk with them first, but you're welcome to come by." Hilda then said.

"Uh, right." Atticus chuckled sheepishly.

Both sides of the phone soon hung up. Hilda then went back to doing what she was doing.

"Hilda, we have a visitor from upstairs!" Zelda's voice called out.

"Tell Drell I'll see him in a minute!" Hilda called back. "I've got to get these dishes done!"

"Uh, it's not Drell!" Zelda's voice replied which made Hilda grow wide-eyed.

Atticus then went to call his parents next about going over to the Spellman house for dinner. After a few rings, he soon got an answer.

"Atticus?" Clark's voice replied. "Is there an emergency in school?"

"No, of course not," Atticus smiled as he called Clark first as he knew him as his father longer. "I was just wondering if my friends and I could have dinner with the Spellman family. My friends have just been feeling a little down lately and I thought I'd help make it up to them."

"That's very nice of you," Clark approved of Atticus's decision. "You may go, but I think you should also do your homework and take out the garbage if you come back over tonight."

"Alright and how are Mom and Dad and Jessica doing at home with Patch?" Atticus asked.

"They seem to be adjusting very well," Clark smiled. "It feels good to be back home for all of them, especially your sister."

"Yeah, I can tell she missed Mom and Dad a whole lot," Atticus replied. "Jessica also mentioned an Aunt Delilah who helped teach her some special skills before I was born."

"Well, hopefully I can meet this Aunt Delilah someday." Clark smiled.

"Same here." Atticus smiled back.

Eventually, Atticus got all the contacts out that he needed to and his friends soon did the same and it looked like they were all set to visiting the Spellman house after school for dinner.