Underneath their feet, Regina was still fighting against the Diamond.
The sound of magical electricity crackling echoed off the tunnel walls.
She looked up to see Henry, Emma, Mary-Margaret and David running toward her.
"What are you doing here?"
"You were willing to die to save us. That makes you a hero. And now we're gonna be heroes" Henry told her
"We're gonna open a portal, throw this thing into a void" David explained
"No" said Regina forcefully "You don't know that it'll work"
"We have to try" Mary-Margaret stated with determined eyes
Emma took the leather pouch from her father.
"Everybody, step aside" he said as Emma dug around with her fingers, trying to find the Bean...which turned out not to be there.
"Emma?"
She turned to look at Regina and her family with sad wide eyes "It's empty"
After a moment her eyes turned angry as everything suddenly made sense "Hook"
Elsewhere, just off Storybrookes Docks, Hook stared down to the Bean he held in his good hand and then out to the open ocean as he steered the Jolly Roger with his hook.
He had the Bean and was away scot-free...so why did all this now feel so...wrong.
"Now that we know everything's going to be fine, why are you panicking to get to the Docks?" Happy questioned Watcher.
All the Dwarfs were piled into the truck and speeding down the main street, avoiding as much of the killer foliage as they could.
"There's more reason behind what these two idiotic morons are doing. The problem is they don't know their employer or that reason. But I do and I intend on stopping it all before anything more happens" she told him "They're hurting my family and that includes you guys"
The dwarfs were chuffed by this statement and Bashful became bright red in the face.
"Hold on!" screamed Grumpy.
The truck hit a pothole and went skidding out of control coming to a stop just before it hit a tree. Thankfully it hadn't flipped and no-one was hurt.
Watcher jumped from the truck.
"I'll go alone from here. Be safe"
"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Grumpy called
"I'll be fine. We all will"
She ran off down the street in the direction of the ocean doing her best to avoid the oncoming throng of people and growing trees.
Within the tunnels of the Mine, Henry moved to his mothers side.
Regina was crying heavily and beginning to sob as she began to speak to her son.
"I love you, Henry. I only wish I was strong enough to stop all this" She broke as Henry embraced her lovingly "I'm just not"
She only wished she'd had a similar opportunity and conversation with her sister.
The crackling sound increased in volume around them. The Diamond had almost completed its task.
Emma moved away from her parents to stand in front of Regina, an idea having struck her in the heat of the moment.
"You may not be strong enough, but maybe we are"
The Charming pair and Henry moved away from the other two to gain some sort of protection in a corner.
Regina looked at Emma with determined eyes and silently asked whether this was something she really wanted to try.
Emma placed her hands around the Diamonds energy and immediately the Diamond latched on to hers, the sound in the tunnel becoming louder.
Regina smiled as she felt the increase of magic against it.
'This may actually work'
She smiled and shared a look with Emma.
But then she felt it, the power was increasing too quickly...it was going to overload.
There was a boom of sound and the energy of the Diamond fizzed out through a pulsing explosion, causing the Diamond and everyone in the tunnel to be either thrown or drop to the floor, knocking them all into unconsciousness.
On the main street, the Dwarfs watched as the trees and foliage receded into nothingness, where it had originated.
"She was right"
Watcher watched as the trees around the Docks began to vanish back into the ground and she nodded to herself in approval.
But then turned quickly back to the task at hand.
She didn't know where she was supposed to be going, so she was power walking along the Docks until she saw something.
It wouldn't be long now, she could feel it. They would make their appearance soon.
And she didn't know how right she was, because she started to run.
(Minutes before)
Those in the tunnel picked themselves up off the dusty floor breathing heavily.
"We're alive" David stated happily as he chuckled
"Emma! Oh god!"
David and Mary-Margaret helped their daughter to her feet as Regina picked up the now inactive, unusable, Diamond Trigger.
"We did it!" Stated Emma
Regina exhaled as she answered "Yes, we did"
"Got to hand it to Henry, he's right about a lot of things" said David with admiration.
"Yes he is" said Emma "Isn't that right kid"
She looked around for her son, as did the others, but they all came to the conclusion that he wasn't in the tunnel anymore.
"Henry?" she called.
She called again but there was still no answer.
She switched on her flash light and run down the tunnels calling and found his shoulder bag not all that far away.
She ran forward to investigate.
"Emma, what is it?" Mary-Margaret asked
Noticing that the strap had been torn, she showed it to the others, foul work obviously at play.
"They took him"
She heard it not all that far away and she knew she was in the right place.
"Relax, kid. We're not gonna hurt you"
'Tamara' she seethed
"Just everyone I love? You tried to blow up Storybrooke"
"True. But that was never the point"
"It wasn't?" Henry questioned
"See, we came here to destroy magic, Henry. But then we found something more important. Something that changed everything" She heard Owen tell the kid "You"
She bolted after them "Henry!"
"Watcher!"
The other two looked to her and then each grabbed one of Henry's arms, hoisting him off the ground enough to carry him at a run.
Tamara being the only one with a free hand reached for her gun and fired it uncaringly behind her trying to slow the girl down.
Watcher did have to duck behind some conveniently placed barrels and thankfully wasn't hit.
The shots stopped and Watcher ran from her hiding spot, they were a distance away from her now, but she was determined to end this now before it got any worse.
"You don't know what you're doing!" she called
"Believe me when I say we do, Sadie!" Owen called over his shoulder
"Emma, you don't even know where you're going!" Watcher heard Mary-Margaret say
"Doesn't matter, I have to find him. I'll track them down in Hell if I have to"
Watcher was within touching distance when Owen threw the bean and jumped into the portal with Tamara and Henry.
"The last bean" she heard her sister say "They've opened a portal"
Watcher was about ready to jump in after them when the others called for Henry but was grabbed around the middle by two sets of arms.
Much like Emma, who was panicking.
"We have to follow them there has to be a way!
"Not only do we not know where they went, but Hook stole the last Bean" Regina said, channelling her anger and panic into her logic and trying to restrain her sister.
"I don't care!" screamed Emma
"I was supposed to stop it. Why couldn't I stop it? What's slowing me down?" Watcher questioned herself.
Regina released Watcher.
"Without it, there's no way to follow" Watcher heard her sister say
"There has to be. We can't let them just take Henry!"
"Watcher" Mary-Margaret whispered "You travel between worlds right? You can get us to Henry"
"Even if I could, I'd need to know where they went" she replied just as quietly, but Regina had heard.
"What do you mean 'Even if you could'? You can take us to Henry, can't you?" she looked at her sister expectantly and turned David and Gold's attention to them.
'When did Gold and Belle turn up? It doesn't matter! Even though I know where they went, there's too many same dimensions to navigate!' Watcher thought
"Oh, don't tell me. It's A Watcher thing. Only Watchers can help other Watchers move through worlds. Or is it because you're not a Watcher anymore that you can't?" Regina accused.
Watcher remained quiet, her anger bubbling beneath the surface. She had caused so much to go wrong these past few months and she was so pissed with herself right now that she had reached her max.
"What, nothing to say? Or are you choosing now not to interfere?"
"You don't even know what you're talking about so just shut up!" she finally snapped, surprising everyone around her.
"No, Regina's right" Emma stated "You've been interfering with everything since you got here! Why don't you interfere when it's actually required, like now! You can take us to Henry, so do it!"
"I can't! And not because I don't want to! So just get off my back!"
Watcher ran, she didn't care where she was going she just ran.
She couldn't handle all this right now.
She was broken enough as it was.
