*Today*

"So, Mr. Gold is going to make this...Pandora's Box look like Sydney's lamp and Jasmine is gonna trap him inside it?" Victor asked as they walked into Regina's old office.

"Yes, but first, we have to make sure Jafar has no idea what the plan is, so shh." Regina rolled her eyes when she began searching through her desk.

"I thought you moved all of your stuff out of here." Victor said, looking around the empty room.

"I did, but I left my secrets in here. Only I can find them." She smiled when she took out a small, wooden apple about the size of a golf ball.

"What the hell is that?" Victor asked.

"I have a safe in here and this is the key to open it." She said simply, lifting it up to examine it. When she found the small button on one side of it, she pushed it, causing the top half of the apple to separate from the bottom half.

Regina slowly removed the top of the apple and inside stood a small needle that pertruded from the center of it. Victor walked closer to get a better look while Regina grinned at her handy work.

"THAT'S the key?" The curious doctor asked. "How does it work?"

"It's a blood spell. Only I can open it." She smiled once more.

"How?"

"Like this." To demonstrate, Regina pricked her finger on the needle and when the blood began to make its way to the surface of her skin, she squeezed it and the blood dropped onto the flat of the apple that lay underneath the needle.

The second it hit, they heard a click in the wall ahead of them, revealing a small opening to the hidden safe. Victor followed Regina over to it and she opened the safe on the finger palate with her bleeding digit. When the door opened, it revealed Regina's significant morsels, such as her mother's book of magic, small potion bottles of squid ink and who knows what else. But inside, among her other possessions, was the genie's lamp that she kept for so many years. She kept it as a symbol of freedom and a reminder that she could control Sydney.

Regina reached in and took it before closing the safe and magicking the small apple back together and replacing it where she took it from her desk.

"Do you think you can handle it?" Regina asked her daughter when she told her the plan of switching the lamp with Pandora's Box. They stood in Gold's Shop before noon, wishing and hoping that the plan would work.

"I think so, yeah." Jasmine answered.

"Where's Olivia?" Mary Margaret asked, looking around the store to see if anyone had her.

"She's safe." Regina answered, not telling them that she had locked Granny and the baby in her mausoleum. She dared not say with Jafar out there somewhere.

"Shall we go over the plan one more time before we leave?" Rumple asked the group.

"I meet him with the lamp and when he's not paying attention, you perform that spell. What's it called? Follow the Lady?" Jasmine said.

"Yes. And it'll switch the lamp that you have with Pandora's Box in Belle's bag. All you have to do, is open it and it'll pull him in."

"How do I open it?"

"With magic. You just need to wave your hand over it, like this." The Dark One demonstrated it on the real lamp.

"I don't think I can. I've never used that kind of magic before."

Regina grabbed her shoulders from behind and turned her around to face her. She bent over slightly so she was at eye level with her daughter. "You have it in you. You can do it."

Jasmine thought for a moment, suddenly feeling extremely nervous and nauseous. "I don't know. This is a bad plan. I can't-"

"Yes you can."

"No, I can't. I don't know much about your kind of magic. All I have are these wishes I can make. I wasn't there for you to teach me. This plan's not gonna work."

Regina stood up straight again and looked at Gold as she thought for a moment. "Couldn't I do it?" She asked him.

"You'll be too far away from the box."

"I'll get closer." She said as if it were that simple. Rumple just looked at her as if she knew what he were thinking. "Look, I can magic myself behind him when he's looking at Jasmine and I'll open it then."

He thought for a moment. "Fine. But you only get one shot, dearie." He said as he handed the genie's lamp to Jasmine.

"It's 11:56. You almost didn't make it." Jafar said as if this were a game.

"Yeah. Well, we did." Regina sneered.

"Rumple, my old teacher. What do you think you're doing with these fools?" Jafar said friendly.

"None of your concern, Jafar."

"Huh. Well, it would be like you to-"

"We're not here for chitchat." Jasmine said, annoyed.

"Oh. I see someone's grown some courage in the last few days."

"Let's just get this over with." Regina said.

"Yes. Fine. Do you have what I need?"

"Yes, but first, you must never hurt anyone in this town again." Jasmine answered. "You may do whatever you want with me, but no one else."

"Well, then what's the point of having power? Hmm...Speaking of...I think it's too empty here. I think that the whole town should be here to see this so they can get to know their future ruler. Don't you?"

Jasmine's eyes widened. What did he mean by having power? He lifted his cobra walking stick high in the air before slamming it to the concrete road. Sparks of red magic flowing out from underneath it. When they looked around them, everyone in the town had been summoned to Main Street and they stood in a circle around the group.

Suddenly, Regina gasped. The Charmings, Victor, Jasmine, Aladdin, Rumple, and Belle all followed her eyes and saw that even Granny was summoned with Olivia in her carseat.

"There. Much better." Jafar smiled. "Now, where were we?" He turned to Jasmine who still had her eyes on her baby sister.

Jasmine looked at Gold who slightly nodded his head, telling her that he had completed the switch. She looked back at Jafar and began to hand him the lamp. Regina magicked herself behind him and waved her hand over the top of the box. It wasn't working.

"Did you really think that would work on me?" Jafar turned around and using his magic, threw Regina backwards and into a crowd of people on one side of the circle surrounding them. David, Snow, and Victor were the first ones to run to help her stand, followed by Jasmine, Aladdin, and Emma.

Jafar laughed. "Follow the Lady. Hmmm...Rumple, I remember when you stopped teaching me because you found a more, what did you call it? Ahh, 'suitable' student." He glared at Regina who had just finally stood back up. "Little did you know that I didn't need a teacher. I found myself learning more just from watching and reading and..." He stroked the cobra's head on his walking stick. "...Finding new sources of magic...such as this." He smiled at the cobra and suddenly, threw Belle and Rumple to the opposite side of the circle from Regina and the others.

"I learned Follow the Lady myself and when none of YOU were paying attention, I switched them back." He chuckled for a moment before giving Jasmine a wicked look. "I'm not leaving until I get what I came for."

He began to walk toward Jasmine, but David stepped in front of her.

"You're gonna have to go through me!" Charming yelled, receiving a look of surprise from both Jasmine and Regina.

Jafar slightly smiled. But he turned to Aladdin, who stood beside Jasmine holding her hand, and he began choking him with his magic. He lifted him in the air as he did so and brought him closer to him. They were now both in the very center of the town circle.

"Put him down!" Jasmine was about to move passed David when he wouldn't let her through. She tried pulling around is large muscles but he was too strong. "David! Let me go!"

"I'm not letting him take you."

"But David, he's got Aladdin! Please!"

He thought for a moment before moving, but he turned around to tell Jasmine to stay where she was. To everyone's surprise, Charming began to walk closer to Jafar.

"Put him down!" He yelled, pulling out his sword.

Impressed, Jafar smirked at the prince, but did not take his hand down from Aladdin.

"How about...No." The dark man waved his walking stick and Olivia's carseat sat right on the ground behind him.

Victor, David, and Regina began to run toward him and he pounded the wooden snake against the asphalt once more, creating a force field around Olivia in her carseat, Aladdin still in the air, and himself.

Victor, David, and Regina hit the force field and went flying back, hitting the ground harder than anticipated. No one could get in.

"Hahaha! There's no time for wasting. Either Jasmine and the lamp come with me...or these two die."

"Wait!" Jasmine yelled as she could tell Aladdin couldn't take anymore. "I'll go with you."

"Jasmine, no!" Regina yelled.

"It's okay. I can save Olivia. Just, let me go."

Regina's fear turned to rage, but she had no other option. Wait! She did. Magic. She turned her head from Jasmine and towards the force field. Lifting her hand, a ball of fire formed in it and she threw it at the circle, hoping it would be strong enough to knock down the invisible shield. But nothing happened. The transparent bubble absorbed the fireball and Jafar laughed once more, returning his attention to choking Aladdin.

"Stop! I'll go with you, just-Please. Let him go!" Jasmine tried to persuade.

He smiled. "Good." He threw Aladdin outside of the circle using his magic and transported Jasmine into it.

Seeing that Aladdin was able to leave, she tried to put a hand out of the circle, thinking that it only stopped people and magic from entering. But her hand was denied and she felt a sharp zap-like feeling go through her entire body as she attempted to step out.

"That won't work. The only way you get out is if you're a ball or stream of magic, or I let you out." Jafar chuckled. "Now, bring me my lamp."

"Only if you let Olivia out too." She retorted, finally turning around to face him, after seeing the angered look on her mother's face.

"No. I need her for leverage."

"Why?" Jasmine was cautious not to walk towards him just yet.

"Because you'll do what I say as long as I have your baby sister at my feet..." He turned his head and looked down at the baby behind him. "Literally."

"What do you want?" Jasmine said frustratedly.

"First, I want your father's lamp."

Jasmine looked down at the gold artifact in her hands. Knowing that her father was no longer in it, she hoped Jafar wouldn't know that, so she slowly walked to him and handed it over.

"Good. Now...You're half-genie, so I am now your master and you have to grant me three wishes."

"What?!" She didn't understand.

"Yes. You didn't think that I was that stupid to know that your father wasn't in there, did you? No, of course he's not. He's over there, in that group of hospital residents. Your mother had him locked up for the past two years. It's quite amusing actually. Your father's been here this whole time, yet your mother...Who claims to love you, denied your meeting him."

Jasmine looked at the group of patients that looked like they just got out of a torture house and she tried to spot her father or someone that looked like he could be her father, but did not see who it could be. She had never seen even a picture of him before, so she had no idea if he was even there.

"You're lying." She glared at Jafar.

"Am I? Ask your dear mother."

Jasmine looked over at Regina who tried to keep a straight face, but Jasmine saw right through it. It was true.

"Where is he?" She got no response from her, so she raised her voice. "Where is he?!"

"I'm right here." They heard a voice come from the group.

Jasmine turned her head and saw him step out of hiding. It was silent for a moment.

"Hello, Jasmine." The former genie said in a monotonous tone.

"Father?" She saw it now. He could definitely pass as her dad.

He nodded slowly and a tear ran down her cheek before she turned and looked at Regina.

"Forgive me." The former mayor said, seeing the hurt in Jasmine's eyes from being lied to.

Jasmine closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "It's okay." Everyone knew that by the tone of her voice that it wasn't though. "What matters now is that I save all of you. Let's get this over with, shall we?" She turned to Jafar.

"First, you must go into the bottle and I'll rub it when I want you to come out."

"How do I do that?"

"You're half-genie. You'll figure it out, just don't be too long."

She rolled her eyes at him before staring at the lamp, thinking of ways to go in. She closed them like she was gonna make a wish, because that's all she knew.

"Just touch it and think of going inside...It'll work." Sydney said from outside of the circle.

Jasmine opened her eyes and looked at him and he slowly nodded twice. She nodded back and put her hand on the bottle in Jafar's hands.

Suddenly, she was gone in a cloud of smoke.

"Now, that's more like it." Jafar said in an overly excited voice. "Now...It's time for you to come out." He said to the tiny person inside the lamp.

He rubbed it and she reappeared in a powder blue blanket of smoke. When the smoke cleared, everyone could see that she had two bracelets on her wrists...locked on till someone wished her free. She also had on a blue outfit she would've worn back in Agrabah.

"You look wonderful."

"Whatever." She rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips. "You're entitled to three wishes. No more, no less. But you must know that magic has its limits. You cannot wish for life nor death. You cannot wish for love. You cannot wish for more wishes. And once spoken, a wish cannot be undone, no matter what the consequences. So...what is your first wish?" After finishing her little introduction to him, she looked down, confused as to how she knew all of that. Must've been the magic of the bottle.

"I wish that we all...standing here right now...would return to the Enchanted Forest."

"Wish granted." She said frustratedly, before using her magic to make it come true.

"That's his first wish?" Regina thought out loud. "Why would that be-"

"Because..." Jafar answered her as a large cloud of smoke began to move over them. "Once we're there, I shall ask for power over everyone. Then I shall rule all the kingdoms, with my wife right beside me." He smiled at Jasmine and she gave him a look of disgust before the dust rolled over them all, and they vanished.