Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 9, Chapter 7

FAIRY HAVEN, NEVER LAND (The Book Verse)

Rumpelstiltskin and Jefferson approached an open field. In the middle of this field was a large stone. Impaled into the stone was a spike which held a long and sturdy gold chain. The chain was attached to a specially made collar which itself was wrapped around the neck of a dragon. A dragon named Kyto.

Long ago, the fairies of Fairy Haven had captured it and placed it inside a cave prison. When it finally escaped, Kyto tried to destroy Fairy Haven and all of Never Land. With the help of Gwendolyn Carlisle, a descendent of Wendy Darling, the current fairies of Fairy Haven recaptured it, though at the cost of several of their own kind.

Kyto lay on the ground, unable to enjoy the gold in his chains or the hoard of treasure that sat next to him. Vidia, the fast flyer, had fallen in love with Kyto because his breath could make her fly faster than ever. She enjoyed it beyond all measure. That is, until she found a natural formation where the winds swept through daily. Now she could achieve far greater speeds than Kyto could ever provide, so she abandoned him.

Never before had Kyto felt so empty of heart. His greatest desire had always been to destroy the Never Fairies and the island of Never Land itself. Now all that changed. Watching Vidia fly with his breath gave him such pleasure of a kind he never knew. He had fallen in love with her just as she had with him. However, while hers was fleeting, his was not. Kyto ached for his purple clad flyer to return. Now instead of an intimidating dragon that belched smoke and fire, he was forlorn and depressed. If he could not have his love, he wanted to be alone in his grief.

That is when the two strangers approached him.

"Leave me or I will crisp you," the dragon halfheartedly threatened.

"Oh, not yet," Rumpelstiltskin replied. "You see, I have a deal to offer you."

"I do not make deals," Kyto answered back. "Particularly with wretches like you."

"Oh you'll want to make a deal with me, Dearie, because I can grant you your freedom," Rumpel said.

This piqued the dragon's interest. "What do you want me to do?" Kyto asked.

Rumpelstiltskin presented him with an image of a blue orb. Its surface was artfully designed to resemble the moon. "This is a special stone. There are many in a faraway land. I want you collect them for me. All, except one."

"Why?"

"That is for me to know," Rumpel answered with his giddy laugh. "But do this for me and you can be free to have anything you want."

"I will do this for you," Kyto replied. "On one condition."

"I've already given you my condition," The Dark One responded.

"I want to spend the rest of my life with the one I love most. Vidia," Kyto demanded.

"Is that all? Unrequited love? Well in that case: Done."

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Tina and Clarence were downstairs studying Geometry. The deed had been done. The two looked at each other with odd glances. "I'm sorry for fumbling around with your bra, but those things are hard to undo."

"It's okay. The first time can be a bit jittery," Tina replied. "I'm sorry for screaming so loud into your ear. Are you going to be okay?"

"Don't worry about it," Clarence told her. "I'll just take it as a compliment."

Tina give him a friendly shove with her shoulder and the two laughed.

"That was kind of fun," she said. "Y'know, after we got over the awkward feelings of seeing each other naked."

"It wasn't awkward," Clarence told her. "I thought you looked wonderful."

"Really?"

"Yeah. You're pretty beautiful without clothes," he said. Now he felt awkward. "I don't mean you aren't beautiful with clothes, but you're both. Beautiful with and without clothes, I mean."

"I know what you mean," she said with a grin.

"Maybe…, maybe we can do it again sometime," Clarence suggested. "It will go much smoother and it won't be so nerve wracking."

"I'd like that," she told him. "But let's wait. I don't want to spoil the fun by doing it too often."

"Sure," he said. "Whenever you feel ready."

Clarence then reached over and gave her a tenderly affectionate kiss on her forehead. Tina smiled and put her head on his shoulder. He put his arm around her and they cuddled up together while reading the Geometry textbook.

~O~

While exiting Granny's Diner, Hartley Winter and Claire continued to chat as they stood between their respective work vehicles. Claire blushed often as he spoke to her such kind and lovely things as to fill her heart with romance and joy.

Vidia could barely watch.

She disliked eavesdropping on them and stood aside from the two lovebirds. Instead, Vidia's head was consumed with the incredible image she had seen in the restaurant. She had read that book thoroughly and that single page was not there. For it to suddenly appear, with the correct story of Tinker Bell, the Tinker Bell she knew, was magical if not impossible. Yet there it was.

Now she had a focal point. The person responsible for her dilemma, Regina, the mayor of Storybrooke. The very woman who tried to run her and her queen out of town. Suddenly it made sense. If Regina is the evil queen, and this curse keeps each person from remembering their true selves, then someone who has been freed from that curse would be a formidable threat. Regina had to be rid of them. Rid of her.

Vidia, however, would not concede. Several of her questions now had answers. Who and how. And now she had an ally, as well. Two in fact: Henry and Emma. Henry, though, informed her that Emma did not believe in the stories. She thought that fairy tales were just that: stories of fantasy to entertain children. Not the reality of a faraway realm.

"Emma was sent here when she was just a baby," Henry told her while they were in the diner. "She grew up in this world, never realizing who she was or who her parents were. She was raised not to believe. We have to change that."

"How?" Vidia asked the boy.

"Operation Cobra." Henry detailed his cunning plan, to identify every storybook character in town and match them with who they were in the book. Vidia was already doing the same with her own people. Now she had been drafted into "Operation Cobra" and would assist Henry in his quest. Neither Vidia nor Henry could stand against Regina. Only Emma could undo the curse, so it was important that she be made to believe.

Vidia felt inspired. She had a purpose, a villain and an endgame.

~O~

FAIRY HAVEN, NEVER LAND (The Book Verse)

Rumpelstiltskin giggled. He so loved it when a deal was struck. Especially when it was in his favor, which it always was. Rumpelstiltskin produced a parchment with the agreement. All that was needed was Kyto's signature. With that done the Dark One proceeded with his plan. "Now let's free you of this nasty chain, shall we?"

With a flash of The Dark One's wrist Kyto was released from his bonds. Yet what he had not asked, and thus did not bargain for, was that he was changed. Altered from a fearsome dragon into a puny sparrow man.

"What have you done to me?" Kyto roared. "This was not part of our agreement."

"Oh, but I never said it wasn't," Rumpelstiltskin answered. "Do not worry, you will have your love soon enough. And she will find you all the more appealing in this form."

"What about my hoard?" Kyto asked pointing to the pile of treasure near him.

"What about it?"

"I want to take it with me," the dragon blustered.

"Now, now, you'll have more than your share of treasure when you've been reunited with your 'one true love.' But now, on to the distant land."

Jefferson twirled his hat upon the ground. It absorbed the ambient magic and grew. It grew into a portal that temporarily joined two realms. Two dimensions. Two universes which were similar, but different. Parallel worlds.

"Why are we back here?" Jefferson asked. They had returned to the Never Land from which they had recently departed. Rumpelstiltskin then plucked one of the blue stones from the ground and showed it to Kyto.

"This is what you are after. The locals call it a moonstone," he directed the dragon turned fairy. "There are ten here in this realm. Collect nine, leave this one to me. When you are done, you will wait. Your patience will be rewarded and your love shall be near you."

"How shall I fly?" Kyto asked. "These fairies require dust which comes from Mother Dove. How will I be able to acquire it without raising suspicion?"

"Oh, in this Never Land there is no molting bird. A tree provides the dust," Rumpelstiltskin informed him. "Kyto the Dragon never existed here, either, so they will not know who you really are. But if you must choose a new name, may I suggest Mr. Kyle."

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE (the past)

It is the year 1983. Ronald Reagan is president. The Soviet Union is viewed as a global threat. The relief found in a recovering economy is tempered by constant threat of nuclear annihilation. The United States is exiting from a long recession, but is still basking in the glow of an improbable win in the 1980 Winter Olympics when the United States Hockey team upset the heavily favored Soviet hockey team and then went on to win the gold medal. Oil prices are falling and the long gasoline lines of the 1970's have disappeared under new policies.

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers are the dominant forces in basketball. The Dallas Cowboys, though still strong are slowly fading while the San Francisco Forty-Niners are rising under the leadership of head coach Bill Walsh and quarterback Joe Montana. In baseball pitchers have become the dominant force with such players as Fernando Valenzuela and Nolan Ryan making names for themselves. A work stoppage in 1981, though, left the sport reeling which would eventually allow football to overtake baseball as America's pastime.

Musically, artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Marvin Gaye, Donna Summer, Billy Joel and Rick Springfield were in top form. Similarly, bands such as Duran Duran, Styx, Hall & Oates, Eurythmics, Culture Club, and Dexy's Midnight Runners were getting heavy rotation on the radio. Some of the best new cars debuting in 1983 were the Pontiac 6000STE, the Toyota Celica Supra and the Ford Mustang GT 5.0. On television The A-Team was picked up for broadcast while perennial favorite M*A*S*H ended its incredible eleven year run with the most watched finale at the time. The mini series V exploded onto television screens while at the movies the eagerly anticipated Star Wars: Return of the Jedi completed George Lucas' space fantasy trilogy in a most satisfying way even as other threequels such as Jaws 3-D and Superman III were panned both by critics and audiences alike.

The town of Storybrooke has recently arrived via the curse. It sits on the coast of Maine nestled among the woods in a remote part of the state. No one knows it is there except the residents of this sleepy town. They drive aging vehicles produced from the 1950's to 1970's. Payphones are on every corner. Cable television is viewed as a luxury and is rather expensive.

Sony's Betamax VCR is losing market share to the now dominant VHS format. Big hair, parachute pants for men and skin tight dance wear with leg warmers for women are the major fashion crazes of the day. Mrs. Kensington is front and center in this trend wearing pink leotards, leg warmers and high heel shoes along with her big hair and glittery lipstick, much to the embarrassment of her youngest, sixteen year old Tina.

While Tina studies her geometry homework, Valerie Kensington has gotten into another fight with her mother, Claire. They are at odds once again over Valerie's desire to fly. Valerie has ridden off on her motorcycle in anger. Desperate for comfort she seeks it in her secret boyfriend, Kyle Lindwurm, a young man who reads The Wall Street Journal daily and keeps track of trends in the marketplace. He is an investor and has done very well for himself.

Valerie comes to him without Claire's knowledge. She loves him and he loves her, though not as much as he loves his bank account. They plan to run away together one day, hoping to start a new life far away from her mother. Though what she plans to do for a living she does not know, only that it should involve flying.

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE (the present)

Vidia is waiting for Claire and Hartley to bid their goodbyes when a good looking young man approaches her. He sees her and rushes to her side.

"Valerie, I heard what happened," he tells her. "Are you okay?"

"Who are you?" she asks him. "And my name is Vidia."

"Who am I? I'm Kyle, your boyfriend," he tells her.

She quirks a suspicious eyebrow at him. "Are you nuts? Get away from me. I don't have a boyfriend and it certainly wouldn't be with some pretty boy like you."

Kyle quickly became enraged. "I waited for you," he said. "I waited and packed up my computers and gear. Then you ran off without me. Do you know how much money I lost because of you?"

Kyle was buying and selling stocks when he became distracted by Valerie's injuries. He forgot to unpack his computer gear and missed several trading deadlines. Instead of selling for profit, he wound up selling at a loss. A significant loss that left him with only one eighth of his accumulated savings.

"You owe me!" he yelled at her. "You owe me five hundred thousand dollars, woman!"

"I don't know who you are and I certainly don't owe you anything," Vidia sneered. "Whatever you did is your own fault."

That's when he slapped her. Vidia was about to punch him in the face when Hartley intervened.

"Now see here, young man. That is uncalled for."

"Stay out of this grandpa!" Kyle bellowed angrily.

Hartley grabbed the young man by the scruff of his neck and pulled him up. Kyle was left stumbling on his toes. "You do not strike a woman," Hartley admonished. "Now apologize."

"She owes me!"

"This young woman owes you nothing," Hartley said. "She is absolutely correct when she says that your actions are your own responsibility. Now apologize."

"I'm sorry," Kyle finally answered. Hartley released him. Then Kyle added, "I'm sorry I ever trusted a piece of trash like you."

Hartley Winter tried to grab him again, but Kyle Lindwurm responded by taking a swing at the older gentleman. Mr. Winter responded by connecting where Kyle had missed. It wasn't a particularly hard punch, but it was enough to get the point across. Lindwurm picked himself off the ground and ran.

"I'm not finished with you, Valerie," he yelled as he ran back to his car. "I'll get that money from you one way or another. You hear me?"

"I should have given that scoundrel a sound thrashing," Hartley said.

"Don't worry, he's gone," Claire told him. "Thank you again for coming to our rescue."

"It's the least I could do for such a lovely young lady," he replied with a loving smile. Claire blushed once more. He kissed before they said their goodbyes and parted ways. Claire was on cloud nine all the way home. Vidia was now left with another mystery. Who was Kyle Lindwurm?

So who is Kyle Lindwurm? Kyto the Dragon from the Book Verse. Lindwurm is a German word meaning "Dragon." (See, I told you there was a clue in his name.)

Why does Rumpelstiltskin want the Moonstones? Stick around and find out in later chapters.

I also hope you liked the brief visit to the 1980's. If anyone out there remembers that decade, it should be a walk down memory lane.