Emma stood dumbfounded at Elsa as Ingrid disappeared around a corner. What did she mean they would love her for real. Emma looked to her ribbon again and then to Elsa.
"We need to get these things off." Emma said.
"Yes," Elsa said, tugging at the ribbon on her wrist, even though it was pointless, "we do."
Emma stopped and then looked at Elsa, "Gold," she said with hope, "He has an entire shop of magical things, surely something can cut these off."
"It's worth a try," Elsa said, following as Emma began to job to Gold's shop.
Emma barged into Gold's shop, "Gold?" Emma called through the shop, but no one answered as she looked around to see the shop empty, "Belle?" She called through the shop again, "You in here?!" She shouted, standing at the counter. Emma sighed and turned to Elsa. "They're gone." She said as she looked around defeated.
"Then what do we do?" Elsa said, throwing her hands down to her sides.
Emma looked around, "We do it ourselves." Emma walked around the shop looking at all of the artifacts and trinkets until she came to a knife. She picked it up. "Here goes nothing." She put the knife under the ribbon and grunted loudly as the ribbon withstood the knife. She sighed and threw the knife on the floor, "Yup… there went nothing."
"Maybe it's just not the right magical item?" Elsa said, picking up another sharp knife and attempting to cut her ribbon to no prevail, "Or that one." She said mimicking Emma's actions and throwing the knife to the floor. Emma scanned for more objects and came to a horn like object.
Sticking it under the ribbon she held her breath and then… snap!
"I give up," Emma said, "it's useless. The magic protecting this ribbon it's... just too… powerful." She said rubbing at the raw skin of her wrist where the objects had dug into her skin.
"I guess the Snow Queen really meant what she said about her love." Elsa said to Emma.
"I'm sorry," Emma said, "I was too busy thinking of ways to punch her to retain that." She said straightening the objects on the case.
"She said, the love flowing through our ribbons was without equal." She said, holding her ribbon up and looking at Emma."
Emma lifted her wrist and looked at the ribbon, "Maybe without equal, but not without an opposite that's equally strong."
"What?" Elsa asked.
Emma held her wrist out to Elsa, "If her amplified love put these ribbons on our wrists, then maybe what we need is someone's equally amplified hatred to get them off."
Elsa looked down, "Emma, you're a bit prickly, but you're certainly not hateable." Elsa said to Emma.
"Tell that to Regina," Emma said, a wave of realization came across her face, "I'm prickly?" She said, slightly surprised.
"If you let Regina out while she's under the influence of the Snow Queen's curse, she'll kill you… or kill your baby."
Emma paused, her hand going to her abdomen as she looked down. She looked up to Elsa, a look of determination in her eyes, "She'll try, but right now, it's…"
"A theory," Elsa cut in.
"The best chance we have." Emma said, looking Elsa in the eye. Elsa looked to Emma warily. "If Strorybrooke wants to survive, Regina needs to hate me like she's never hated me before."
"Ok, fine, if you want to risk it then we need to go now," Elsa said looking at her wrist, then Emma's, and came full circle back to Emma's eyes, "What's the plan?"
"Follow me," Emma said going around the display case and going to walk out the door, "We're going to go piss off the Evil Queen." Elsa followed quickly as they headed out of Gold's shop.
Elsa caught up to Emma, who was now speed walking, "How exactly are we going to piss Regina off?" She asked as they turned down a street heading for a graveyard.
"I brought a woman here from the past that was supposed to die and she turned out to be Regina's true love's dead wife." Emma said, looking at Elsa matter-of-factly.
"O-oh," Elsa said as they entered the graveyard and came across a crypt.
Emma and Elsa walked up to the vault and Emma stepped forward, putting her hands up.
"Ok, stand back," Emma said, picking up a rock and throwing it at the vault. A force field shimmered in the moonlight, vibrating and cracking from the force of the rock. Emma watched as she rubbed her hands together, 'Containment spell… okay… Here goes." Emma closed her eyes and focused all of her energy on the force field surrounding the vault. She raised her hands and… nothing. Emma looked up, confused.
Elsa walked behind her and put her hand on Emma's shoulder, "You can do this."
Emma grunted as she shook her hands, jumping up and down as she warmed up to try again.
"Okay," She whispered, breathing heavily, closing her eyes once more and focusing her energy on the vault once more. This time, that familiar, warm, crackling feeling of power and magic flowed through her body and exited through her hands. A whoosh sound filled the air as the containment spell was taken down. Elsa chuckled behind her, "Well, I'm still getting used to the whole controlling magic thing, but for us, the next part should be easy for me."
"What's that? Be prickly?" Elsa said, following Emma as she opened the vault doors.
"Something like that," Emma said peering into the dark vault. Emma descended the stairs two at a time, coming to the bottom of the stairs fast and finding a very eccentrically dress Regina sitting in the vault. "Woah, a little late for Halloween," Emma said to Regina.
Regina glared at Emma with an evil grin," You." She said standing up slowly and menacingly.
"How do you walk in that thing?" Emma asked Regina looking her up and down.
"With the poise and composure of a queen." Regina said running her hand down her body. "Perfect timing, Ms. Swan. I was just reading up on how to turn you into a garden topiary." Emma had to admit that hurt a little, cut proceeded with the sense to know that Regina didn't mean it. "What's she doing here?" Regina said, snarling at Elsa.
"I wanted to see your face when you learned the truth." Elsa said improvising.
"The truth about what?" Regina asked, her hand on her hip.
"I lied to you, Regina," Emma said, "about Marian. I knew all along, I brought her here on purpose."
The rage in Regina's eyes grew with every word, "Tell me something I don't know," Regina spat at Emma.
"What you don't know is why," Emma said feeling the hatred being thrown her way, "Not only did I want to break your heart, I wanted you to see me and Hook together, see the happiness you could never have, and ruin it again just like my mother did. And that's not even the best part, I'm pregnant with Killian's baby, and we are so happy." Emma's hand went to her abdomen as she looked at the enraged woman in front of her.
"I've been waiting a long time for this." Regina said, her voice shaking with anger as she conjured a fireball in her hands. Emma grabbed Elsa's ribbon hand with her own and thrust them upward, the fireball Regina had thrown incinerating the ribbons. Emma released Elsa and thrust magic towards Regina, sending her flying through the air and landing hard on the cement floor.
"Let's go," Emma said, running up the stairs as fast as she could, Elsa close behind. As they got out of the vault, they both looked at each other as they rubbed their wrists, which were now free of the binding ribbons.
"Now let's go get the Snow Queen." Emma said, continuing to run.
"SWAN!" Emma heard Regina yell from her vault, but Emma was already getting as far away as she could with Elsa in tow.