(Hi! I am back with another chapter and this is totally a very intense one. I know it is a little bigger than usual, but I didn't think it made a lot of sense to divide the battle in two chapters, so here is the whole thing. I hope it isn't too confusing, but if you think it is you can just tell me, and I will try my best to make it understandable. Keep telling me your thoughts about this, because your comments really do mean a lot to me)
Regina took a few steps forward, passing on the message she was the one leading the heroes' team. "It has really come to this?" she asked, looking slightly at Robin. It broke her heart even more seeing him standing next to those terrible people. Then, she looked at Zelena and became even more disappointed. Robin may have had an excuse for betraying her, Adda put a spell on him, but Zelena in the other hand, didn't. "What the hell do you hope to get out of this, Adda?"
Adda continued to smirk as Regina started stepping forward. That woman really had some bravery inside her. He wasn't one for secrecy, and he didn't really care if the heroes knew about his plan, since there was nothing they could do to stop him, so he started telling them the juice of it. "You see, Regina, as I already told all of you" he said starting to walk towards them, "I have spent most of my life trapped away. I feel like my story never had the chance to play out, just like those people from the Land of Untold Stories, so what I am doing is just making sure everyone knows my name, that everyone recognizes my face. And I can't very well do that just by being like everyone else. No. Which is why, I am going to take over everything. Starting with this little town."
Emma stepped forward and joined Regina. "Wait, everything? You mean every world?"
"I knew you were a smart girl, savior." Adda said as he started looking at the people behind him, everyone eager to take action, especially Cruella. "Let's just get over with this, shall we?" They started walking towards the heroes, and that was how the battle officially began.
Back in the hero's team, since they already knew who was going to be on Adda's side (they were hoping there wouldn't be any more surprises, and there weren't in fact), each of them already knew exactly who their adversary would be. Six against five seemed like good odds to them, but what they didn't know was that number would come down before the sun rose again.
Hook started walking towards Cruella, and on the way, he gave Emma a wink, trying to soothe her, but the thing was that he was very agitated himself. He was trying his best not to show it, especially around Emma, but after knowing what a happy beginning looked like, all he wanted was to get back to it. But of course, the new/old villains didn't give them a choice. "Hello, darling" Hook said, mocking Cruella.
Cruella sighed and rolled her eyes. Like the heroes, the villains knew who they should face, and Cruella's opponent was not Hook. "Oh, just get out of my way. I have better things to do."
"Why don't you make me?" he asked smirking as he grabbed his sword, ready for anything that might happen.
"Gladly!" Cruella hadn't planned that, but she didn't mind a little fun before actually doing what she was there to do. She took a deep breath, and started doing what she did best: animal control.
Meanwhile, after seeing Hook walk by in front of her, and smiling at him, Emma looked at Regina, nodded, trying to say she knew what she had to do, and ran towards Zelena, before she could pick any other target. Regina wanted to be the one to fight her sister, but Emma didn't allow it, because she might have not been strong enough if real action needed to be taken. "Zelena, please. You don't have to do this. You've changed. This isn't who you are anymore." Emma didn't know if Zelena had her magic or not, but she was convinced she did. If Adda was powerful enough to bring back the dead, then returning Zelena's magic should be a piece of cake.
"I'm afraid I do, Emma" Zelena didn't want to do any harm to any of them, especially not to Regina, but she had no choice. Adda made sure of it. She looked at Emma with a certain amount of pity, as she ignited a fireball.
Regina looked back at Rumple, and he started walking to her. Rumple had a feeling Adda would be coming for him, so once he got to Regina's side, he didn't move, just waited for the new genius mastermind to go to him. And he did in fact. "Two against one." Adda said, not surprised at all "doesn't seem very fair, does it?"
"Neither does raising a dead army. And yet, here we are." Seeing Regina's hands were already brighting red, Rumple decided to also prepare for attack. They both looked decisively at Adda, as he opened his arms, ready for anything they might throw at him.
Spotting Robin was, as expected, walking towards Regina, David ran to him, standing in his way, always with the sword on his hand. "I'm afraid I can't let you go any further." Hurting Robin was the last thing David wanted to do, but maybe there would come a moment where he would have no other option. He knew Regina wouldn't exactly be mad at him if he was forced to kill him, but he wanted her to, like everyone, have her happy beginning and live the rest of her life with someone she loved. And he knew that someone was Robin.
Just like David, Robin didn't want to hurt his friend either. He may have been under the spell of shattered sight, but that didn't affect much more than his former love for Regina. He may have not had many great bonding moments with David, but he knew they were friends once, and Robin respected him. "Mate, just get out of my way. I don't want to have to do anything to you."
David sighed. Of course, Robin wouldn't back down. Deep down, he always knew that. But it was still very sad he had to fight one of his friends. David raised his sword, and started preparing for anything Robin might do.
With everyone else busy, Snow grabbed her sword and checked the bow and arrows she had on her back one last time, before starting to walk towards Lily. Snow knew of course, that she ruined that girl's life, and the last thing she wanted was to hurt her even more. The sword and the arrows she had, were just for protection.
Lily, on the other hand, had every intention of hurting Snow. She may have stepped away from the revenge path for a little while, but her father put her right back on it. She truly hated Snow and David, like she never hated anyone before, and act on her anger was exactly what she intended to do. When Adda told her his plan, she loved it immediately. She walked to Snow with a very evil smile on her face, one which would most likely make her father very proud, and her eyes began to glow of how excited she was.
"Lily, please! I don't want to hurt you." Even though Snow meant it, that would be the only time she would say it. She knew she would have to protect herself from Lily, and despite her plan wasn't killing her, she would if she had to.
"Oh, but I wanna hurt you." Lily said as her evil smile grew. Snow lift her sword and started to swing it, but Lily didn't even dodge it. Leaving Snow speechless for a little less than a second, Lily turned her hand into a dragon claw, and simply grabbed the sword by its edge. Snow tried to pull the sword back, but after realizing she couldn't, she just let go of it and grabbed her bow and an arrow, pointing it at Lily. She could have just shot it, wounding Lily, and maybe even killing her, but she hesitated. And that was when Lily started walking towards her.
Not everyone can say they were attacked by a mob of angry birds, but on that dark night, Hook could have definitely said it, because it'd be true. Who would have guessed birds were such a formidable foe? They scratched him in any way they could, while Hook could do nothing but swing his sword and hope he was hitting a few birds. "Are you such a coward you need someone to do your dirty work?" he asked, hoping that would make Cruella fight him herself.
Cruella could have of course summoned a much bigger and deadly animal, which would just finish Hook off, but she knew she couldn't do it, because what was in store for the pirate was a far worse fate. As she looked around, she realized that, even though it had just begun, it wouldn't take much longer for the battle to finish, since the villains were there with specific goals. And once those goals were accomplished, they would just head back. She called out the birds and grabbed a sword she had taken with her. She was probably not the best sword-fighter, but she could manage Hook for a few minutes, and that was all it would take. "If you want to fight me so badly, let's just go for it, pirate." She said, raising her sword and smirking.
Hook raised his sword too, ready to return Cruella back to where Adda fetched her, when he heard the scream.
As Zelena threw her fireball, Emma threw one of her own. The two balls hit each other, blasting the two witches away. Emma quickly got up, starting to regret her decision. She wanted to be the one to fight Zelena because she thought she could put aside her feelings and kill her if necessary, but right then she was thinking maybe that wasn't true. She wasn't even sure if she could kill Zelena to save herself. All she kept thinking about was baby Robin, and how she would get her father back, only to lose her mother right after. There had to be another way. A way in which Zelena would come to her senses and join them again.
Like Emma, Zelena got up as fast as she could, only to realize what Adda wanted was about to happen. She could, not only feel it, but see it too. Could she stop that from happening? She certainly could, but she knew she wouldn't. Whether she liked it or not, she was a part of Adda's team, and there was nothing she could change about it. Not without paying a high price, one she wasn't willing to pay. Not again. Before she could try anything else with Emma, the actual chaos of that battle started.
Regina nodded at Rumple as they both started blasting Adda with everything they had, but the new villain didn't even move. Not at all. Instead, he started laughing at them. "Is this really all you've got? This is going to be so much easier than I thought." He blasted both of them with magic, making them hit a wall, and then he started chocking Regina, holding her in the air. "You're lucky my plan isn't to kill you right now, because otherwise you'd be dead already." He put her down, as she reached out of her neck, trying to get every bit of air she could get. When Adda heard David's screams, anyone could have seen the victory in his smile.
David used his sword to protect himself from Robin. He had put aside his weapon of choice (his bow), because that didn't really do the trick in a face-to-face battle like that one. He was then also using a sword. It was after David pulled back a little, trying to catch his breath, when he felt one of the worst pains of his life. He felt his heart literally break in half, as something which seemed like a sword ran through it. He screamed with pain and fell to his knees. He looked at his chest, ready to look at the last thing he would ever see, when he saw the unexpected: there was nothing in his chest. No sword, no knife, not even blood.
A few seconds later, after the pain started to fade, David looked around, trying to understand what had happened, and that was when he saw it. Right next to Lily, he saw Snow's body lying on the ground, with a sword through her chest. He immediately started running to her and yelling her name, totally forgetting where he was and what was going on. When he got to her, she was still alive, but barely. He put her head on his knees as tears started to fall down his face, just like waterfalls. David could see Snow wanted to say something, but she simply couldn't. He looked into her eyes, those eyes he had gazed upon so many times, those eyes he knew all too well, and he knew exactly what she wanted to say. 'I love you David. Take care of Emma'. After that, her eyes kept opened, but they were not sending any messages anymore. The person inside that body was gone.
As she heard her father calling out to Snow, Emma turned around and saw what happened. She started running to the both of them, hoping she would get there in time to heal her mother, when she felt something on her arm. She put her hand around it and found a needle. She looked back to see who put it there, and she saw Cruella smirking back at her. "That's for killing me, darling." Emma tried raise her hand, ready to blast her with magic, but her arm didn't obey. It just stood exactly where it was. She started feeling dizzy, and her father's cries and yells seemed to be farther and farther away. She was starting to feel sleepy, but she didn't want to close her eyes. She tried to fight it for as long as she could, and it can totally be said that in her head, that war lasted a lot more than one second, but not in reality. She only managed to hear someone yell "Swan!" as she started to fade away and fall to the ground.
Like everyone else, Hook turned away from his opponent when he heard David call out for his wife. It was in one of those seconds of distraction, that Cruella managed to enact her plan, putting the enchanted needle on Emma. Hook turned his attention to his wife and saw she was starting to fall. "Swan!", he screamed. He got on his knees and opened his arms ready to catch her, but right before he had the chance to, she disappeared in a cloud of smoke. After the trying to understand what had just happened (and failing) Hook looked up and his eyes met Cruella's. "What the hell did you do to her?"
Cruella laughed as she looked back at him. Her eyes were full of happiness, twisted happiness actually, and all of that because she finally gave the payback she always wanted to give. "I don't think I should spoil this ending. But good luck getting her back." She said as she disappeared in a cloud of black smoke. Hook looked around and saw that all of the people in Adda's team had disappeared, leaving behind a confused Hook, a dead Snow, a desperate and wiping David, and a very confused Rumple and a Regina who was still trying to catch her breath.