"Sorry a night at your friend's house had to be interrupted, Kitten." Catwoman softly told her niece.
"That's okay, Auntie," Cherry reassured. "I should've known that crime wouldn't take a holiday just for me to have some fun with my friends."
"Well, like Batman says crime never takes a holiday." Catwoman said.
"It's true, I've said that." Batman nodded.
"Aww... You guys are having the same thoughts," Cherry cooed. "When's the wedding?"
Batman gave her a sharp look.
"...I'm just gonna sit down now." Cherry said bashfully as she shuffled over to her chair.
"Okay, so how exactly are these fairy tale characters real?" Flash asked.
The group soon looked over at Drell, Hilda, and Zelda to explain that.
"Please, allow us to explain," Zelda said. "They don't come from this Mortal Realm."
"Then where do they come from?" Green Lantern asked. "We weren't totally sure about magic up until we met you guys when Zatanna decided to tutor your niece for magic and superpowers."
"Well, they come from The Fairy Tale Realm," Hilda informed. "It's a realm where the fairy tale characters live as a society among each other and not in a way you would probably know like with Little Red Riding Hood visiting her grandmother with a Big Bad Wolf after her or Jack and Jill simply going up a hill for some water and that sort of thing."
"We all also have our own very special abilities," Snow White added before she held out her hand. "For example..." she then said before she made an icicle appear in her hand.
"Whoa... Cool." Green Lantern smirked with a pun.
"I can tell you're the comedian of the group." Snow White remarked.
"He tries to be anyway." Cherry smirked.
Zatanna soon poked her head out as everybody else met the fairy tale characters up close as they showed what they could do, being both unlike normal civilians or strangers to the city as well as this unique realm.
"So, we need your help to stop Rumplestiltskin after he came to this world and broke the mirror that became mine after the defeat of my step-mother, Queen Regina." Snow White said to the Justice League members.
"Yeah, but that could be hard unless we can find someone who has information where we can find him." Superman said.
"Maybe that one guy we met before Snow White came with her car." Drell suggested.
"Which guy?" Superman asked.
"He seemed to know about Snow White before we found her," Drell replied. "He seemed to know more than what he was saying while in the alley. He says 'You don't look for Snow, Snow looks for you'."
"Oh, I think that guy's name is Mack or something," Superman said. "Perhaps you could go talk with him."
"Actually, it's Jack." Snow White said.
"Well, that's going to be confusing." Jack said.
"Anyway, if he knows Snow White, he might be able to help." Drell said.
"Great, so you guys find him and we'll wait for you here." Green Lantern replied.
"...Sure, GL," Cherry said before facing the twins. "Maybe you should go by different names for the time being."
"We just can't let Rumplestiltskin find us," Jill said. "He'll probably drain our abilities for himself."
"Knowing Rumplestiltskin most likely." Drell said.
"He seems like that kind of guy to do that." Jack said.
"That's why I protected you two," Snow White said to them. "In my home and sending you in through the mirror."
"All right, so what do we call ourselves?" Jill asked.
"I dunno, Steven and Nora?" Cherry shrugged as that felt like a sudden thought to think over. "You can pretend to be our cousins or whatever."
"Cool." Jack smiled.
"So, where do we find Jack?" Thor asked Snow White. "And I mean the one that might have information on where Rumplestiltskin is."
"He usually hangs around in the alleys," Snow White replied as she crossed her arms. "He has a lot of friends down there."
"Ooh, chummy," Cherry replied. "He sounds like a troublemaker if you ask me."
"And no doubt he won't exactly be happy when we come., Drell said. "The way he said Snow White finds someone made it sound like Snow White was bad news."
"I can be if you cross me," Snow White smirked. "Remember how I took down Regina?"
"You know what I mean," Drell smirked back before facing Hilda and Zelda. "So, you wanna help out, huh?"
"Why not?" Zelda replied. "We try our best to help out the kids, especially Sabrina. By the way, how's her training going over here?" she then asked.
"She's been working so hard." Hilda added.
"She's still working pretty hard," Wonder Woman said. "Especially with Zatanna, she and Salem stayed for dinner, though I think Salem stayed for more than just food or watching Sabrina's superhero training."
"Yeah, that sounds like Salem." Patch nodded.
Sabrina soon came out with Zatanna.
"Ah! Sabrina! My favorite niece!" Drell beamed.
"...I'm not your niece." Sabrina blinked.
"You will be someday!" Drell grinned. "You can help us help the Fairy Tale Princesses stop Rumplestiltskin!"
Sabrina looked wide-eyed before backing up nervously as she thought Drell had gone crazy.
"No, Sabrina, he hasn't gone crazy." Hilda said, already knowing what her niece was thinking.
"Then what is he talking about?" Sabrina asked.
Drell sighed sharply. "Well, all right, but pay attention 'cuz I'm only gonna say this once." he then told her.
And so, everything was explained about what was going on up until now which often sounded too good to be true.
"I see..." Sabrina said. "You sure this wasn't caused by that one villain I heard about from Zatanna?"
"Which villain?" Zelda asked.
"The Queen of Fables." Sabrina said.
"Ohh, I remember her," Salem then said before shivering. "Guh... But no, Sabrina, I know exactly what they're talking about." he then said to the teenage witch.
"You do?" Sabrina asked the cursed warlock.
"Yep, I sure do." Salem nodded.
"So what do we do?" Sabrina asked.
"First, we find the Jack that Snow White is after," Drell replied. "Justice League, stay on standby while I take my nephew and his friends to the man she's interested in."
"Works for us," Batman said. "We'll catch up with you eventually."
Drell, the princesses, Jack, Jill, the Spellman sisters, Sabrina, Salem, and the adventure group soon took off.
"Ya know, The Queen of Fables being behind this would make a lot of sense." Green Lantern said to the others.
"Not now." Wonder Woman scolded.
"So, where do you think this Jack might be, Snow White?" Cherry asked.
"If I know Jack, he'll be in the alley making up a poor man's Las Vegas." Snow White replied.
"Sounds like someone who's trying to make a quick buck." Sabrina said.
"You bet," Snow White replied. "So, you're a witch? I hope you're not related to Elphaba and Evanora."
"I promise you, she's not," Drell told Snow White. "Sabrina wasn't even born in Oz."
"Let's try to keep it that way." Snow White replied.
And so...
"Find the jack! Find the jack! Come on, sir, you can find the jack!" The sleazy man smirked as he played with his cards with a customer who came to see him to win big, but he wouldn't. "Where is he? You ready?"
The man soon picked the card in the middle after the cards were all shuffled.
"This one? Are you sure? This is the one you want? The center one? Alright, here we go!" Jack replied before checking the card and shaking his head. "Ah, that's the queen! That's not it, that's not the one."
"Aw, man! My mom's gonna kill me." The customer complained before walking off.
"This is the poor man's Vegas, but you can get rich by playing the poor man's Vegas," Jack smirked. "It's the magical moment! I can feel it. I can feel it in the air-"
Snow White and the others soon came to see him.
"Aw, come on, Snow!" Jack complained to the black-haired woman.
"Hello, Jack." Drell said as he grabbed Jack by the throat and lifted him a few inches off of the ground as he looked pretty steamed.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," Jack said. "What's the big deal?"
"We need to talk with you about something." Drell smirked a bit as he kept his grip, nearly choking Jack.
"I don't want any trouble, alright?" Jack choked. "Can someone call off Tiny here so I don't turn blue?!"
"All right, Drell, let him go." Hilda suggested.
"All right... If that'll make you happy." Drell said to her before lowering Jack back down on the ground.
"Thanks!" Jack said once he was finally able to breathe.
"Now talk." Snow White demanded.
"I told you last time, Snow; I don't want any problems with the Mayor." Jack said as he caught his breath.
"Just wanna know what you've been hearing, Jack," Snow White demanded.
"That's what you said before," Jack retorted before looking nervous from the woman's sharp gaze. "I-I don't know, okay?"
Snow White just kept giving him a rather fierce look.
"Look, maybe... Maybe I heard about a bar... Got tore up last night, okay?" Jack soon revealed.
"See how easy." Snow White said.
"But you didn't hear that from me." Jack told her.
"Then who did we hear it from?" Thor asked out of confusion.
"I'll tell you about that later." Cherry rolled her eyes.
The princesses soon walked off with their new allies after getting information out of Jack, though he looked curious as he saw the twin orphans as they went to visit a local tavern.
"Well, this place seems interesting." Hilda said.
"I dunno if we can go in there," Cherry said. "We're waaaay under 21... Well, not way, but-"
"Oh, just get in here," Drell told her. "If anybody tries to stop you guys, I'll clobber 'em."
"I see you still got it too." Snow White smirked at Drell's brute force.
"I use brute force whenever the situation needs it." Drell said.
"Sometimes I do too!" Thor piped up before narrowing his eyes in a bit of a scary way. "You don't wanna mess with me... I will destroy you if you belittle me..." he then said in a scary voice.
The group stepped away nervously as an angry Thor was a very frightening Thor.
The princesses explored the tavern curiously.
"Why would she come here?" Cinderella wondered.
"You're surprised?" Sleeping Beauty scoffed as she crossed her arms.
"Hey! Pay attention." Rapunzel scolded.
Snow White was seen talking with someone who told her who saw Red last as he pointed to a man. The widowed princess soon walked over to the man with a bottle of booze at hand. The man soon looked up as he saw her looking at him.
"Hey," Snow White said to him. "I heard you got a story to tell."
The man soon took Snow White and the other princesses over to the bar as Drell decided to play some pool to pass the time, though glared at the men who tried to snatch away Hilda and Zelda as they found them to be very attractive.
"Last I heard, Iron John's got her," The man soon told Snow White about what happened to Red. "But, s-she didn't kill those men. No, it was him, it was him, it was him, it was him-"
"All right, take it easy, ya broken record." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"The guy who cut my neck," The man soon continued. "Scariest damn thing ever to happen to me."
Snow White soon slapped money down onto the bar table. "Thanks for sharing." she then said once they got the information that they needed.
"Now, do you need anything else?" Sabrina asked the man.
The man looked over before grinning towards Sleeping Beauty and Hilda. "How 'bout a kiss from one of each?" he then suggested hopefully.
"You do it, you die!" Drell threatened from the pool table.
"It's okay, I got this." Sleeping Beauty said before uses her princess power to put the man to sleep.
Drell nodded sharply before he shot the next ball which made the other balls follow the white ball into the pockets. The man he was playing against looked wide-eyed and jaw-dropped.
"I call that my 'Follow the Leader' shot," Drell smirked. "Child's play, my friend, child's play."
"So Snow, do you know where Iron John would be?" Thor asked.
"If Iron John's got Red, then I know where she is." Snow White nodded.
"So you do know?" Thor asked.
"Yes, I just hope that we're not too late." Snow White replied.
"Iron John... I don't think I know that fairy tale well." Cherry commented.
"We'll explain later." Hilda said as Cherry looked down to the fairy tale collection book she had in her grip.
"I just hope some friends like Alice will be safe." Jack said to Jill.
"Especially from The Hatter." Jill replied.
"Yeah, that guy has a few screws loose." Drell said.
They soon made their way out of the bar.
"Alice and the Hatter?" Cherry asked.
"I'll tell you later." Drell replied on the way out.
"I just hope wherever Red, she'll be okay." Jill frowned.
"Let's hope we find her before Rumplestiltskin does." Atticus said.
"That's the best shot we got and if anything major happens, you kids can call The Justice League." Hilda said.
"Yes, they seem protective of you and very helpful," Zelda added. "Cherry, it also seems that your aunt has decided to join The League."
"Uh, yeah," Cherry replied before smirking. "She has her personal reasons for that."
"Ooh." Hilda smiled.
Meanwhile with Red...
The red hooded girl was shown to be walking about with some men by her side, looking stern and fierce as always.
"Hey, John!" One man called out as they came to a man who appeared to be hard at work as he brought out a quiver. "Present for ya!"
"Well, it's about time!" The man who was named John replied as he stepped out of the shadows to see the other men with Red by their sides. He soon approached the red hooded girl and grabbed her by her face as he saw scars on her face. "Who did this to you? My boys?"
Red shook her head a bit as she got herself free and just glared at John in cold, dead silence.
"Explain." John said firmly as he held an arrow in front of Red.
Red smirked a bit cockily from that. "It's called an arrow." she then told him like he was an idiot.
"Uh-huh..." John glowered before whacking her with the arrow, but didn't stab her. "This was sticking out of the back of my favorite bar. WHY?!"
"I missed." Red replied darkly.
"Missed who?" John glared.
"The guy who really killed your men." Red firmly explained.
One of the men simply scoffed, not believing her.
"I'm a man who appreciates order," John firmly told Red. "You upset that order, we got cops sniffing around here. That would be bad. You say didn't do it, prove it. Who did?" he then demanded as he got up in her face.
"It's a monster in the skin of a man and the longer you keep me here, the more of your men he will kill." Red warned.
This just caused all of John's men to laugh, still not believing a word she was saying.
"Anything else?" John asked Red.
"Yeah," Red replied confidently. "I'm gonna kill him."
John soon laughed at that. "How are you gonna do that?" he then asked with a smirk.
Red smirked back before she soon grabbed onto his shoulders and flung herself right over his head while in the air and pulled him down by his chain necklace which made some of the men look startled that she was more capable than they thought. "Like this." she then told him with a grin as she held the necklace close around his throat, nearly choking him.
John soon grunted as he got the chain off and she soon took that time to run off into the shadows. "OPEN FIRE!" he then told his men.
John's men began to start shooting at Red only to miss her as she used a table to as her shield. Red soon came up from the table as the men got ready to reshoot with new ammo, though she brought out an arrow with a firework attached to it. She then shot it to the sky before it shot one of the men and hit his forehead, though there was a plunger stuck to it, so it didn't stab him. The firework soon exploded and they were all surrounded by smoke and began to cough.
"Where is she?!" One of the men glared as Red seemed to be gone.
"There she is!" Another man called out as Red soon began to run off and so they chased after her. "Go! Get her! Go, go, go!"
As they went after Red all of them were encountered by the police.
"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!" An officer snapped as he held his gun high. "ALL OF YOU!"
Red soon felt trapped as the men behind her put their hands up in defeat and she now had no way out.
Meanwhile with Rumplestiltskin...
"She's no princess, but she could be used as a bargaining chip," Rumplestiltskin said as he was on the phone. "Yeah. Alright. Keep her there, 'til I arrive."
Maven walked with Rumplestiltskin until she gasped and saw something overwhelming. "Oh! Sir!"
"Stay back!" A police officer called out as he brought out his gun as they faced a certain man.
The Wolf was soon shown as he growled at the police officer and began to attack him as Rumplestiltskin smirked at what he was seeing.
"Sh-Sh-Should call security, sir?" Maven asked Rumplestiltskin.
"No, wouldn't matter if you did," Rumplestiltskin smirked as The Wolf walked over to them. "Good to see you, my friend."
"I didn't come alone." Wolf growled as he actually talked that time.
"Believe me, I know," Rumplestiltskin said to him. "I was just on my way to question the red one."
"She's got a piece of the mirror fragment." Wolf informed.
"You don't say?" Rumplestiltskin asked before picking up the police officer's gun as he cocked it. "Your timing couldn't be better. Public office can be so... Boring..."
"Your Honor! Please!" The fallen officer cried out as he crawled across the floor in fear and agony.
"I'm not one for subtly," Rumplestiltskin told him coldly. "I prefer... A grand gesture. Maven will arrange for a car to take you to the den," he then told The Wolf. "You do whatever you want with your little Red plaything. Bring me the mirror. My army awaits." he then demanded. He then took out the gun and shot the officer right in the head, killing him instantly.
The three adults then walked off together to get back to work.
