Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, between episodes 7 and 8

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Vidia could not believe her eyes. Periwinkle was here in Storybrooke. She was about to point this out to someone, but thought better of it. Whenever she had recognized someone from Pixie Hollow everyone looked at her like she was crazy. Not this time. She kept to her own counsel this time. Instead, upon being let out of the jail cell, Vidia waited as Queen Clarion, Emma and Lyria began to confer. Then she walked over to the opposite cell and spoke directly to Tink's sister.

"Hey, what's your name?" she whispered.

"What's it to you?" the girl asked.

"Because you're Tink's sis-, uh, because I think you look like my sister," Vidia said, correcting herself mid-sentence. Way back when they first met in Butterfly Cove, Vidia had noticed how similar the two girls looked. "She is about as tall as you, blonde hair, blue eyes, likes to fix things."

"Tina? You're Tina's sister?"

"Yeah. So what's your name?"

"Penny. Penny Steveston."

"My name is Vi-, Valerie." Vidia spoke quickly asking her why she was in confinement. Penny told her she was trying to recover this lost files that had been erased from the hospital's NAS. She had been drilling through the heavy encryption and overwriting and was only a day away from getting to the data when Deputy Swan arrived claiming she had received an anonymous tip implicating her as the hacker who erased the data in the first place.

Then both went to Penny's house and somehow the hospital's entire database was found on her home network file storage system. At that moment Penny was arrested for the cyber-attack and for interfering with a police investigation. Hardly any of this made any bit of sense to Vidia, but she did her best to cope.

"So all these files were in your house?" she asked Periwinkle.

"Yeah, and I don't know how it got there," Peri answered. "My network is the best protected in the entire town."

"Uh…, maybe whoever put them there came in through the door?" Vidia suggested trying to be helpful.

"I don't see how, all of my doors have electronic passcode locks, not deadbolts. You need the combination to get in."

"Hey, you can't talk to the prisoner without my permission," Deputy Swan yelled.

"Oh, right. Sorry," Vidia said to the law enforcement officer. "Thanks," she whispered to Periwinkle, walking away from her.

~O~

During the conference, Deputy Swan indicated to Lydia the situation with Valerie. "Ever since the accident, Valerie thinks she is a fairy tale character from some movies about Tinker Bell," Swan told her.

Claire nodded. "She thinks I'm this regal fairy queen, her sister Tina is Tinker Bell and this man I'm seeing she believes is the Lord of the Winter Forest or something like that."

"And she keeps telling me I'm some kind of gardening fairy," Desiree added. "I don't do mud."

"I have the movies if you need to watch them for reference," Deputy Swan offered.

"It's okay," Lydia answered. "You probably got them from my store anyway. Now that I know what to look for I can do some research this afternoon."

Lydia then addressed Claire. "Has Valerie displayed any violent, anti-social or hostile behavior?"

"No. In fact she is the complete opposite of what she was before the accident," Claire replied. "Val…, well now she calls herself Vidia, Valerie has been a model daughter."

"Okay, thank you. I'll call you later to prepare for the hearing."

Claire thanked Desiree once again. "If you need any work done on your home-."

"Oh I'm the one who is paying you back," Desiree replied. "Think nothing of it."

Claire and Valerie left. From there they went home for a quick lunch and then on to the Town Hall to finish work alongside Paul and Ben.

PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND (The Mid Georgian Period on the Mainland)

Wisp had no sense of restraint. Having fun and flying as fast as she could was all that mattered. Vidia may have been just as obsessed with speed, but at least she had the common sense to stay out of sight. She worried about the young fast flyer. Wisp was going to do something awfully stupid one of these days and get herself caught or hurt. It was something she tried repeatedly to impress upon the young protégé, but Wisp refused to listen. Instead she turned everything into a competition between her and Vidia.

"You're just mad because I'm better than you," Wisp would often say. Those words continually drove Vidia to prove her wrong. Now if only she could teach that loudmouthed imp a lesson, as well.

~O~

Leaves went flying before floating delicately back to the ground. Vidia had kicked the colorful orange and yellow leaves in frustration after another failed attempt to complete The Kessel Run. She yelled at the top of her lungs. "YEEAAAHHHHHGGGG! HOW DOES SHE DO IT?!"

"Hello?" a timid male voice asked. "Is someone there?"

"Go away!" Vidia yelled back. A large and dimwitted looking sparrow man in green descended from the air, alighting next to her. It was the tinker known as Clank. Vidia tugged on the hem of her short, form fitting dress. When she first arrived in Pixie Hollow, Vidia couldn't decide on a proper style of clothing for herself. She first wore a fluttery dress of the kind Rosetta wore, but found that it slowed her down at higher speeds. She had then decided to switch to a form fitting dress that helped her cut through the air with less drag. She liked it, but the hem was rather short and Vidia often had to tug downward on it when in the company of sparrow men. She wanted to be known as fast in the air, not in the other way.

"What do you want?"

"I heard you yell," Clank said. "I thought you might need assistance."

Vidia turned her back to him and crossed her arms. "Hmph, I don't need help from anyone. Especially a smelly Tinker."

"Smelly? I'm not smelly! I took a bath just this week."

Vidia just rolled her eyes at this dullard.

"If you have a problem, let me help. I am a tinker, after all. Solving problems is what I do."

"Can you help me finish The Kessel Run without crashing through Death Row?" she asked him derisively, knowing full well he couldn't possibly have an answer.

Clank stopped to think for a moment. He flew up to the branches and zipped through the gates, stopping to make each turn. Then he turned and looked back on the path he had taken and scratched his head thoughtfully.

Vidia waited impatiently for him to return. When he did, Clank squatted on the ground and looked at her legs. Then he reached out touched them with his big, dirty palms.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing, you pervert?" she yelled at him.

"Are you still trying to beat Wisp?" he asked her.

"Yes. And how does that give you carte blanche to paw at my legs?"

"You should do what Wisp does," he announced standing upright again.

"GUGH! Do what she does?" Vidia asked, she was both confounded and insulted by his statement.

"Have you ever stopped to watch the birdies fly?" he asked in return.

Vidia looked totally perplexed now. This idiot wanted her to watch birds fly? He really was a dimwit. "No, why should I?" she replied arrogantly.

"Birdies have tail feathers, see?" he explained. "They give them lift and help them make hard turns." To illustrate his point, Clank bent over and twisted his bum left and right, up and down and all around. To Vidia he looked like the airheaded idiot she had always suspected. "It's how Wisp can outfly you up there in those trees."

"What?" Vidia was stunned by this news. "How? Where? I mean, I don't see any kind of rudder feathers on her anywhere?"

"It's the fern leaves she has wrapped around her legs," he illuminated. When in flight they would fan out, essentially acting as rudders like the tail feathers of a bird. Clank suggested she put the same things on her legs to match Wisp. "A little practice and you'll be a better fast flyer than she is."

Vidia was dumbstruck by his suggestion. She couldn't believe it. The answer had been right in front of her the whole time. Worse yet, Wisp was cheating. Well, two could play at that game. "Quick, let's go to the dressmaking fairies," Vidia announced. "I need your help making an outfit with those rudder things."

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

After a quick bite to eat and a change of clothing, Vidia was back at the Town Hall with Clank and Bobble (Ben and Paul as they preferred to be called in this human world). Renovating the old structure was moving along quickly with the extra hands and Queen Clarion repeatedly complimented them on their quality of work. She also gratefully acknowledge Vidia for recommending them.

While removing more of the older structure, aged wiring was revealed underneath. According to Queen Clarion this was Knob and Tube electrical wiring. "It's old and outdated for modern use," she said. "We need to install ROMEX to bring this old building up to code. It is part of the contract I signed with the city."

"We can do that!" Bobble said excitedly.

"Yes, Paul here is an excellent electrician," Clank enthused.

The pair explained that Paul (Bobble) had been an electrician's apprentice who worked directly under the city's licensed Master Electrician before the drinking incident. Bennie (Clank) was certified on heavy equipment as well as on forklifts. Both had already shown they were excellent at construction.

"It's how we got started," Bobble admitted. "We both took construction jobs with city and eventually worked our way up. We used the city's compensation program to learn new skills."

"Once we install this new wiring, you just need a Master Electrician to review the work and make sure it is up to city code," Clank added.

"And I know that like the back of me hand," Bobble said putting up his hand to illustrate his point.

"Okay, what do you need?" Clarion replied, sounding quite relieved.

Vidia hit upon something. The word electricity and electronics seemed very similar. She pulled aside Clank and asked if he knew anything about electronic door locks that don't use keys.

"Of course," he answered. "Paul here installed one on a home for little girl who lived all alone. Sad really, parents never understood her."

"Quick, do you remember who that girl was?" she asked him.

Unfortunately, Clank refused to offer that information claiming customer privacy. It didn't matter, that was enough for Vidia. "How do those work?" she asked him. Electronic locks with numeric keypads use a number code rather than a physical key. The one Paul installed was one of the very best and was extremely difficult to defeat.

"What would be the easiest way to break into a home with that kind of lock?" she asked.

"Break a window?"

"I mean through the door! With that lock!"

"Well, you would need the number code programmed into it, but no one would be dumb enough to give it away. It would defeat the purpose of having one."

But what if someone watched it from far away? Vidia asked herself. Maybe with a spyglass? Suddenly, she had an idea how someone might have gotten into Periwinkle's home. Vidia demanded that Queen Clarion take her to Deputy Swan.

"What? You want to go back to the Sheriff's station? Sweetie, we need to keep on schedule or I'll get fired," the queen answered. "We all will."

"Well, how do I talk to her on that phone thing from the house?" Vidia asked.

Clarion removed a small device, handing it to her. "Here."

"What do I do with this?"

Clarion sighed, apparently remembering that Vidia did not recall how to use these devices. She took the thing away from her, opened it, pressed some buttons and handed it back. Vidia just stood there looking at it, utterly perplexed.

"Put this end up to your ear and the other near your mouth," Clarion helpfully advised, pointing to the top and bottom of the tiny phone.

Vidia did as instructed. There was a ringing sound, then Deputy Swan's voice said, "Hello?"

"Deputy, it wasn't Periwinkle's fault. Someone watched her push the buttons to get into her house. Clank and Bobble told me how they did it!"

"Valerie, not now I'm busy!" Emma replied sharply.

~O~

She wouldn't stop. Valerie kept talking and did so frantically. It was a long winded explanation, using nonsense names like Clank, Bobble and Periwinkle, but eventually she got around to her point. That someone must have been watching from afar when Periwinkle was pushing numbers on her door.

Emma was at Penny Steveston's home. The deputy had trouble believing that somebody somehow just happened to know that Penny was responsible and just happened to call the Sheriff's Office when it was at the most convenient time. Right before the hearing. Despite all of this, Emma was not receptive to Valerie's wild eyed delusions. At least not until she saw something that clicked with her.

Deputy Swan was searching Penny's house looking for how someone might have gained entry into the little girl's home. Every outer door was solid core with no windows and had an electronic passcode lock. Each window had security bars and the shades were drawn to prevent anyone from seeing inside. While speaking with Valerie, an exasperated Emma Swan put her hand to her face and cocked her head up, letting out a big sigh. She was about to tell the delusional young woman to leave her alone when she spied a darkened bubble hanging from the ceiling of the front porch.

The bubble, which housed a security camera, was hanging just over the main entrance. No doubt this was for security purposes, but it gave Emma an idea. One that Valerie had hinted at. The camera was positioned to watch the street, front yard and porch. But it could easily be turned to view the front door and keypad. This was the modern version of Valerie's spyglass.

After learning which company provided the security services for Penny's home, Emma drove to the business site and demanded to see the their video logs for that house. A review showed that several hours of footage had been deleted. "Where is your computer specialist?" she demanded.

In a windowless room, isolated from everyone else was a skinny man in his mid-thirties. He was dressed in jeans, a t-shirt and a pair of Crocs and was as pale as can be. He was typing on multiple keyboards, muttering computer jargon to himself. Her entrance went unnoticed by the computer nerd. Before saying anything, Emma took in her environment, noting the servers, wires and multiple computer systems in the room.

She also saw a laptop on his desk. On the laptop screen was a computer desktop, but it struck Emma as strange because the background wallpaper had the hospital's logo, just like all of their computers and servers did. Deputy Swan wasn't a computer expert by any means, but she knew enough to know he was using software to monitor the servers at the hospital.

"Ahem!" she said, getting his attention. She flashed her badge.

"Oh crap!" He bolted out the door, knocking her over and taking his laptop with him.

"STOP!" she shouted. Emma was quick to her feet and gave pursuit. The scrawny nerd pushed over or aside everyone who got in his way. He proceeded to turn over anything that could slow Emma down. It hardly worked as Deputy Swan hurdled or bypassed all the obstacles he put into her path.

"FREEZE!" she yelled again. "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST."

Her suspect was out the front door and running down the sidewalk. For a scrawny and pale little nerd he was fast. Emma didn't let up, racing out the door and staying on his heels. He glanced over his shoulder and saw her. Surprised at how close she was, he picked up speed while keeping his eyes on her. The man ran passed the corner of the building and into the street.

"Stop!" she yelled again. "You're going into a-." SCREEEEE! THUMP!

It was too late. A large delivery truck for the local cannery had slammed into him. The driver jumped out and ran to the man's crumpled body. "I'm sorry. I didn't see him," the driver pleaded with Emma. He was panicky and rambled. "He just shot out into the street. He wasn't even looking!"

"It's okay. I know, I know."

Emma called in an ambulance, but her suspect was dead before the EMT's arrived. About the only bit of solace Emma Swan could take from this was that the little girl she had arrested earlier that day was innocent. Now she had to get Penny back to the hospital and hope she could unearth those files in time for the hearing. Valerie's future hinged on those digital MRI files.

Okay, we are now getting much closer to the hearing and episode 8. The next chapter is going to bring a whole bunch of awesome. Thanks for reading and as always, your reviews are greatly appreciated.