Chapter 2: A Land Without Magic
The Doctor practically danced around the TARDIS console pulling levers and pressing buttons as the time machine hurdled across the time vortex towards Cardiff carrying himself, Clara Oswald, Captain Hook, The Evil Queen, and Rumplestiltskin. They were in a rush to get to Cardiff and warn Torchwood of the approaching Daleks. Peter Pan had manipulated Jafar to into using dreamshade in the city of Agrabah to convince the Daleks to travel to Neverland and get more. All Pan revealed to the evil wizard was that he wanted a sort of partnership with the universe's best exterminators. Neverland is too far away for the the Daleks to reach, so they're planning on taking a shortcut through the Cardiff Rift. However, the Daleks can't open the rift, they need Torchwood to do it.
"Can you explain Torchwood again?" Hook asked the Doctor.
"Why don't you ask Regina?" The Doctor asked.
"Let it go." Regina said.
"You never did say why you went to Torchwood." Rumplestiltskin remarked to the Evil Queen.
"It's none of your buisness." Regina said. "We've got bigger problems to worry about."
"Is anyone going to explain Torchwood to me?" Hook asked.
"They're a secret organization." Clara said. "There's no magic on Earth. We don't have magical creatures like fairies or trolls, but sometimes they come to Earth either from space or through the rift. Torchwood was established to combat these creatures and to understand them."
"Good Clara." The Doctor said. "It's nice to know you've been listening."
Rumplestiltskin pulled Regina over to the side to talk to her in private.
"You went to a land without magic?" The Dark One asked.
"Yes," Regina said, "but the Cardiff Rift is special. When it's open, there is magic."
"I would be furious with you if we weren't on our way there right now." Rumplestiltskin said. "You know what this means don't you?"
"What?" Regina asked.
"I don't need you anymore." The Dark One said. "I don't need you to cast the curse if I can just go to a land without magic right now in the TARDIS."
"What about my revenge?" Regina asked.
"I don't care." Rumplestiltskin said.
The Dark One then started to think of how he could find his son, who had been lost in a land without magic some time ago.
"I know you." Regina said. "You're too dependent on magic. If you ever leave Cardiff, you won't have it and you'll be weak."
Rumplestiltskin hadn't considered this. He had outlined the curse to take him near wherever his son was. If Cardiff wasn't where Baelfire was, he'd almost surely never see him again and he'd be stuck in this land without any magic to get back to the Enchanted Forest.
"I suppose you're right." Rumplestiltskin said.
"Why are you even here?" Regina asked.
"Have you forgotten my deal with the Doctor?" Rumplestiltskin asked. "If I help the Doctor stop the Daleks, then he won't interfere with the Dark Curse."
"Are you two done over there?" The Doctor asked.
"I hope you're interrupting us to say we've arrived." Regina said.
"In fact I am." The Doctor said. "We need to hurry."
The Doctor was too eager to leave the TARDIS and talk to Torchwood. However, he stopped dead in his tracks when he opened the TARDIS doors and saw Rose Tyler sitting on a bench a few yards away.