"Ms. Maven!" Cherry frowned in worry for her aunt's best friend.
"Rumplestiltskin must have found out she wasn't under his control anymore and did this to her." Atticus said.
"Why do I get the feeling he's about to walk up to us from behind?" Sabrina asked.
And where she was right as they heard the elevator behind them.
"...I hate this feeling so much." Cherry narrowed her eyes.
"Me too, but at least when it happens nowadays, you just sock the guy into submission as well as Batman would!" Lionel grinned.
Snow White morphed a couple of icicle daggers as she soon stormed up towards Rumplestiltskin, looking very angered and ready to stab him only for Rumplestiltskin to grin and shoot her with a jolt of electricity.
"Snow White!" Jack and Jill cried out.
"Ha!" Rumplestiltskin smirked before he saw Lionel, Jack, and Jill free. "How did you three get free?"
"Nun of ya bizness!~" Lionel replied in a sassy voice.
"Careful now," Rumplestiltskin smirked before he showed the mirror shard. "If you don't like it, Bug-Mite, maybe you should try to do something."
"It's Bat-Mite, and I would if I had my powers," Lionel glared before snapping. "And I know that you took them! SO GIVE 'EM BACK!" he then cried out.
"No, I don't think I will, I think you should play with a new friend." Rumplestiltskin smirked before he soon began to whistle.
"We're not of afraid of Wolf." Atticus glared.
"And that whistling is just a sign telling us that Wolf is close by." Thor said.
"I'm still not afraid." Atticus glared.
"How and why do you have Lionel?" Cherry sneered. "What did he do to you?"
"He threatened me with a fate worse than death." Lionel pouted as he stared at his hands.
Wolf soon growled and snuck up behind Sleeping Beauty, Mo, Cherry, and Sabrina, grabbing them tightly as they struggled to get free, though they were weak compared to his strength.
"Good thing one of us has magic." Sabrina glared while struggling to get free.
"Then how about using your magic on this guy and turn him into something we can fight back against?" Cherry asked.
"I'd have to think of a spell," Sabrina groaned. "I wish I had one of Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda's books."
"Sabrina, you can make up your own spell if you want." Thor advised.
"I can?" Sabrina asked.
"Yeah! Just make sure it rhymes!" Thor replied.
"Sure, just try telling that to Rosina Leckermaul," Rumplestiltskin smirked. "Maybe I could resurrect her with both of your powers, teenage witches."
"Sabrina, just be creative and make up a spell!" Cherry told the witchling.
"You got it." Sabrina nodded.
"Any time now!" Mo replied.
"You really can't stay away, can you?" Rumplestiltskin grinned darkly.
"Though this wolf is big and strong like a beast, Make him into something that's timid and weak at the least!" Sabrina soon recited a spell.
Wolf soon glared before looking wide-eyed as he suddenly seemed to disappear, dropping the girls right in the middle of the floor with Sleeping Beauty. The others looked around before they soon looked to see that Sabrina had changed Wolf into a mere mouse.
"Yes! It worked!" Sabrina cheered.
"Not so tough now." Thor smirked down at Wolf.
Wolf looked up and began to run before he suddenly ended up in a jar, getting stuck with his tail sticking out.
"Uh-oh~... Got the mousey~" Patch taunted as he picked up the new mouse by his tail while he was trapped in the jar.
Rumplestiltskin didn't let that stop him as he took that time to escape with Snow White.
"Aw, great!" Cherry groaned. "Now that jerk's gone with the ice princess!"
"Well, we're not going to just let him get away." Thor said.
"Let's go after him." Jack said.
And so, they went off as Patch put the jar away right now before smirking at Wolf's new mousy demise as he balanced the jar on his back.
"Alpha Brigade, move out!" Lionel proclaimed.
"You think Iron John is still mad?" Sabrina asked the others.
"If anyone, he's probably mad at me." Mo replied.
"But he's closing the portal." Thor said.
Rapunzel was soon moving a goon out of the way who she had tied up with her hair.
"Rapunzel, you wanna tell us what's going on?" Cherry asked. "I feel like the world's gonna explode with this guy using his muscles."
"He's trying to help us!" Rapunzel told her. "Get out while you still can before he ends up hurting you by accident!"
Cherry soon saw Iron John doing his best to close the portal the only way that it could be closed. "If he keeps going the way he is, I don't know if he'll make it out." she then said.
"Iron John! Stop!" Thor cried out.
Iron John just kept on going and going.
"Oh, man." Cherry gulped nervously.
Cinderella was then shown to still be fighting Red.
"Uh, are we interrupting something?" Sabrina asked as she and Thor appeared by magic.
The two continued to fight.
"I think that's a yes, Cous." Thor said to Sabrina.
"You guys shouldn't be here." Cinderella warned as she clutched Red's cloak and wrapped it around the other girl's arms and began to punch her rapidly.
"Hmm... I wonder if our Elements or a made-up spell could free Red?" Sabrina said.
"Yeah, like when we used the Elements to free Lionel, Jack, and Jill or when you made up a spell, turning Wolf into a mouse." Thor said.
The two paused thoughtfully as Cinderella and Red kept fighting each other.
"Who else is gonna kill the wolf?!" Cinderella cried out to Red.
Red screamed as he looked ready to lunge out at Cinderella and soon went to try that only to get frozen in mid-air. Sabrina and Thor both used their magic to stop Red from hurting Cinderella before she looked over and noticed that the two used their magic.
"Alright, time to break Red free from this thrall for good." Sabrina said.
"I couldn't agree more," Thor said. "One thrall banishing out of a body spell coming up. Wow, that's a mouth full."
"Yeah, it kinda is," Sabrina replied. "Do you have one in mind?"
"I might have something, just repeat after me." Thor said to her.
Sabrina nodded.
"'Thralls, thralls, thralls, many thralls'." Thor began.
"'Thralls, thralls, thralls, many thralls'." Sabrina repeated, though raised an eyebrow at how unoriginal that sounded at first.
"'Let's get rid of them, make them fall, rid of them all'." Thor added.
"'Let's get rid of them, make them fall, rid of them all'." Sabrina added.
"'But for right now, start with Red so she won't maul'."
"'But for right now, start with Red so she won't maul'."
And so, a magical surge shot through and hit Red before she hit the ground and had her cloak over her head which made Cinderella concerned.
"Please work, please work, please work." Sabrina prayed.
Red began to get up with a groan as her eyes looked better than before showing she was free from the thrall.
"Yes!" Thor beamed as he pulled Sabrina in for a hug as they jumped up together.
"Whoa! Easy, Thor!" Sabrina cried out.
"Sorry." Thor grinned bashfully.
"Ugh... What happened?" Red groaned as she rubbed her head. "Cinderella?"
"It's gonna be okay, Red," Cinderella smiled. "These kids helped save you."
"Yep and it's all thanks to magic." Thor smiled back.
"Anyway, we have to hurry; Rumplestiltskin has the mirror fragment and Snow White," Sabrina said. "Jack, Jill, and Lionel are already free from a tank that was draining Lionel of his powers."
"Ugh... All right," Red said as she groaned slightly. "Let's go."
"Don't worry, your headache should be gone pretty soon." Thor smiled.
Red gave a small smile back as Cinderella helped her up before they all ran off together.
Iron John was still crashing and smashing around, but Rapunzel luckily got everyone else out in time before it looked like all the debris and the rubble was coming to crash down on him.
"The portal's closed now thanks to him." Cherry said softly.
"Though... It was quite a sacrifice." Sabrina replied.
"Yeah," Cherry nodded. "...It'll be okay... No more thralls will get in now."
Drell, Hilda, and Zelda soon came by as Sabrina and Thor bowed their heads, so they comforted the teenagers as Iron John was gone with the portal and where this didn't go unnoticed by Rumplestiltskin as he had the mirror fragment in his hand.
"John..." The impish man said with a sigh. "Well, the portal's closed."
Snow White simply looked up at him.
"You do realize I can just open another one, right?" Rumplestiltskin then stated.
Snow White just kept her hateful stare before she sat up.
"If it gets one degree colder in here," Rumplestiltskin began to threaten before he set the mirror shard down on the couch and smirked as she struggled to get free. "Well... We'll just have to warm things up ourselves, won't we?" he then smirked as he stroked her face and hair before sitting next to her. "You remind me very much of an old friend... A lovely lady I once helped after her selfish father made a deal with an old king."
Snow White just kept staring, silently disgusted with his company.
"Do you really think it made a difference having all your little friends here?" Rumplestiltskin then asked. "I mean, we could have avoided all of this, if you had just given me what I wanted. You realize, I always get what I want. Your husband gave me what I wanted. Why won't you? That old friend of mine could've given me what I wanted... But she just had to make a selfish choice to save herself and her loved ones. Lucky for you, I'm in the mood to make a deal," he then said before he stood up. "Here are my terms: I just open another portal and if any of the little princesses are still alive, they can leave. You can just call them off and I'll let them go. Then the little princesses and your little men, they can put your kingdom back together, but you... You and the orphans stay here and become my queen and we'll decide what to do with those children after."
"Or I can just kill you." Snow White said firmly as she stood up and was about to strike him down with an icicle.
Rumplestiltskin soon grabbed the icicle and restrained her with a coy smirk. "You can try again," he then said as he tossed away the icicle which shattered once it fell before he threw her down on his ottoman. "If I was you... I would take me up on my offer..." he then said as he leaned over her as she groaned and struggled. "It's the best deal your little princesses and friends are ever gonna get."
Snow White chuckled bravely. "You're afraid they're coming for you."
"Afraid?" Rumplestiltskin smirked.
"Mm-hmm." Snow White smirked back.
"I have the leverage..." Rumplestiltskin grinned as he began to attempt to do something heinous to her.
Meanwhile...
"Well, hello little piggy~" Drell smirked as he dangled Wolf by his mouse tail in the jar. "Whose idea was this?"
"Erm, it was mine," Sabrina said bashfully. "I had to stop him from hurting Sleeping Beauty."
"Huh, clever." Red smirked.
"Now that all of us are together, let's go find Rumplestiltskin and save Snow White." Atticus said.
"Right!" The others agreed.
Drell soon put the jar in his pocket and walked off together.
"We'll be with Snow White soon," Patch smiled at Jack and Jill. "I can tell she means a lot to you."
"Yes, she really does," Jill replied. "Especially when we had to protect ourselves during the war back in the Fairy Tale Realm."
"If you don't mind us asking, what happened to your parents during the war?" Thor asked before getting whacked on the back of the head by Cherry. "What? Just curious."
"You don't ask someone that!" Cherry whispered sharply.
"It's okay, I guess we can tell you while we still have time." Jack said as they sat down.
Drell, Hilda, and Zelda went silent as they let Jack and Jill tell the group what happened.
"I'm sure you know the story about Rumplestiltskin since our stories were made into bedtime stories for people in this realm somehow, I guess because the man called Henry Mills was the author when he was a boy in a town called Storybrooke, Maine." Jack said softly.
"Well, yeah," Cherry shrugged before taking out the fairy tale book as she turned the page to Rumplestiltskin's story. "In order to appear superior, a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he lock her in the dungeon forever. When she has given up all hope, an imp-like creature, Rumplestiltskin, appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace."
"Yes, Rumplestiltskin is a man who likes deals," Jack nodded. "But what you probably don't know is that the miller's daughter's name was Hope."
"Well, my book doesn't mention her name, but what does that have to do with anything?" Cherry replied.
"Our mother's name was Hope." Jill piped up.
"Wait, what?" The adventure group asked out of surprise.
"But then, wouldn't that make you two royalty too with of how the storybook says your mother guessed his name right on like the third night?" Thor asked.
Jack and Jill looked soft.
"Sorry, I'm interrupting, tell us more." Thor then said as he got comfortable while Lionel sat on his shoulder.
"Our mother was about to marry the king after he talked her into it... But she refused..." Jack explained. "Then one night, something happened that changed her... We don't know much about the details of how and what exactly happened, but she soon came back after a personal night out even if the king wanted her to stay where she was, someone helped her come out on some nights."
"When she came back, she was thought to had come down with a terrible flu and it was then realized she was pregnant," Jill added. "When Rumplestiltskin came back, of course demanding that we be taken away from her if he couldn't guess her name right, though she had friends who told her so she could keep us. Then... The war was beginning to strike when we were three-years-old."
"Homes were burned... Lives were lost... She kept us locked up in her wardrobe to keep us safe and she left a note for us... Then when it was quiet and we came back out, we couldn't find our mother or anybody," Jack added. "We then checked out the note to see that it told us to go to Queen Snow White and King Charles Charming III. She looked after us like a godmother and always made sure that we were safe and told us to stay as far away from Rumplestiltskin as possible because he wants to drain our powers out of us to claim them as his own."
"We always tries to come and get us," Jill frowned. "We've lived on our own because we thought we'd be a bother to the King and Queen, so we tried to take care of ourselves, but Queen Snow White always tried to find ways to protect us and keep us safe. She was like another mother to us. King Charming was like a father to us too, especially since we never knew or even met our father."
"Whoa." Lionel said.
"And so that's about it." Jack said.
"Did you know about this?" Sabrina asked her aunts.
"Of course we did," Zelda replied. "We've even tried to track down Jack and Jill's parents for such a long time before we came back into this realm."
"It just broke my heart to know that I couldn't help those poor dears," Hilda frowned as she hugged herself. "We did all that we could, really, and they're just lucky they didn't face the ugly end of The Ogre Wars."
"I'm just surprised that they have shape-shifting powers," Drell said. "Usually that would only happen if either parent was close to nature and the animals."
"Sounds a little like my family." Mo smiled softly.
"Yeah?" Atticus asked her.
"Gloriosa and Timber usually told me stories about how Mom and Dad loved animals and would do anything to help them, even taking them home to nurse them back to health if they were sick," Mo nodded as she smiled sadly while talking about her parents. "They were more nature and nurture, unlike Uncle Chuck's scientific thinking, though Timber seems to have an interest in science himself."
"Nice to hear about your 'rents." Lionel commented to Mo.
"Now that we're all caught up with Jack and Jill's past, are we ready to go and save Snow White?" Drell asked.
"Yes, sir." The adventure group said.
"Then let's go," Drell said. "Be careful around Rumplestiltskin... He can easily trick you and make your life a living Hell if you aren't too careful."
"Personal experience?" Cherry asked once they stood up together.
"You bet," Drell replied. "He found a way to beat me in a personal bet and I ended up giving him ownership to The Witch's Council and he made all of us his personal servants," he then said, gesturing to himself, Hilda, and Zelda. "We got very lucky to find a loophole in his contract."
"What was the loophole?" Lionel asked.
"I'll tell you about that later." Drell said before they went to go off after Snow White and Rumplestiltskin.
"Fair enough." Lionel said as they went to save Snow White and defeat Rumplestiltskin.
"We have him outnumbered and we have the Elements on our side; there's no way he'll be able to beat us." Sabrina said.
"Your aunts and I beat him once before, we could do it again easily." Drell replied sharply.
"When we're done, I would like to have Wolf back," Red narrowed her eyes. "If that's okay."
"We'll see about that." Atticus said to her.
The Justice League soon finished off the army of thralls downtown as the innocent citizens cheered thankfully.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna take a break." Wonder Woman said to the other heroes.
"Seems to be a good idea," Catwoman smirked. "Kitten and her friends can take it from here."
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Batman said.
"So we're going back to what we were usually doing?" Flash asked.
"Let's go then," Batman said. "Our work is done here."
The citizens cheered and thanked the Justice League as they left the city for another day.
"John, I wish you could see this." Zatanna smiled at herself as she left with them.
Meanwhile, the group stormed together with firm looks on their faces as they looked like they were ready to kick major butt and take names as they took the elevator and began to work their way up to Rumplestiltskin as Jack and Jill also looked as brave and aggressive as they could. Once they made it in the room that Snow White and Rumplestiltskin were in, they looked ready to kill him.
"Let her go now, Rumplestiltskin!" Jack glared.
"Time's up," Rumplestiltskin chuckled at Snow White before he lifted her off of the ottoman as he held the mirror shard close to her throat. "You said no life is worth a kingdom. What about yours?"
The group got ready to attack Rumplestiltskin with everything they had.
"I'll make this really easy on you little girls." Rumplestiltskin told the princesses.
"KILL HIM!" Snow White called out.
"One more step and she dies!" Rumplestiltskin threatened.
"What's the play?" Red asked while aiming her arrow at Rumplestiltskin.
"I'm gonna offer you the deal of a lifetime." Rumplestiltskin said before he used the mirror fragment to open a portal.
"I don't trust a word this Gold Gremlin says." Cherry glowered.
"And I want my powers back!" Lionel added sharply. "I don't want a repeat of Emperor Joker!"
"Then listen up," Rumplestiltskin smirked. "The princesses will leave! Go now and I will let her live and I'll keep an eye on the twins! GO!"
The princesses refused to move.
"I'll kill her and smash the mirror and you'll never see your precious kingdom again!" Rumplestiltskin told them. "TAKE THE DEAL!"
"I think it's time you had a taste of the Elements." Thor glared at Rumplestiltskin.
"What are you talking about?" Rumplestiltskin glared back.
"Looks like someone is about to learn a new lesson." Sabrina glared.
Rumplestiltskin laughed. "You people of this realm think you can stop me?" he then asked them. "I'd love to see you try!"
Drell gave the kids a "gentle push" to make them face Rumplestiltskin before they soon joined hands to show him what they meant.
"I really hope you kids know what you're doing." Snow White said to them.
Atticus, Mo, Cherry, Thor, Sabrina, and Patch soon joined hands and paws together with Lionel included as they soon began to glow and float in the air and where the former 5th-Dimensional resident soon felt his powers returning as they floated in the air.
"No, it's not possible." Rumplestiltskin glared.
"I'm afraid it is this time," Drell glared back. "And you won't take my heart with you this time like you tried to save your own skin against Hades."
"I'll be back, Big Boy, no matter what they do!" Rumplestiltskin sneered.
"Tuck and roll, Princess Snow White!" Jack and Jill piled up.
Snow White soon tucked and rolled away from Rumplestiltskin's grip as a rainbow-colored blast shot from the adventure group and hit him instantly and he fell to the floor, dropping the mirror shard, luckily not shattering as it slid across the floor and in front of Sleeping Beauty.
"It worked." Drell smiled.
"Is he dead?" Hilda asked, referring to Rumplestiltskin.
"Miss." Rumplestiltskin smirked as his eyes glowed before he looked ready to go through the portal.
"Don't let him escape!" Snow White cried out.
"I got him!" Rapunzel called out as she tossed out her hair like a lasso and it latched onto Rumplestiltskin and she began to pull him far away from the portal with some help from Red as she grabbed the hair rope.
Cinderella soon joined in and so did Snow White and Jack and Jill so then Rumplestiltskin would be pulled in away from the portal.
"We can't let the portal close with him on the other side!" Snow White cried out.
"Keep it open!" Cinderella yelped.
"I don't know how!" Sleeping Beauty panicked. "Last time I couldn't control it!"
Rumplestiltskin was closer and closer to the portal as everyone tried to pull him out of the portal as Sleeping Beauty stared at the mirror shard on the floor.
"He's getting away!" Red cried out.
Sleeping Beauty soon stared at the mirror shard and stomped on it as she had an idea. This closed the portal and with Rumplestiltskin still have half through the portal that killed him as the princesses and Jack and Jill fell back.
And where this soon freed everyone that had been turned into thralls in the city. One of them was shown to be a woodsman who looked confused of where he was right now.
A car pulled up to show another man as he rolled down the window with a small smirk. "Hey, buddy! You're in the wrong part of town to be dressed like that." he then teased the woodsman.
Officer Laguardia walked to one police car and soon slammed it shut with another officer in the backseat, locking him inside.
"HEY!" The other officer cried out. "Hey, you son of a bitch! Don't you walk away from me! Laguardia, please, come on! Lemme out of here!"