Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 10, Chapter 12

THE MAINLAND (The Late Victorian Era)

Periwinkle had planned to return to the border when the animals returned for the winter hibernation. However, she was still having so many problems with her shapes that it slipped her mind until long after the animals had bedded down for winter. She berated herself for missing such a golden opportunity. Now it would be an entire year before she could watch them return from the world of the winter fairies.

Despite her failure, Peri was still excited. When the animals started their hibernation it meant that winter would soon be upon the mainland. She and her friends were going to return once again to that magical land of the humans. Their celebrations, decorations, colors, music. It was intoxicating.

The small group of frost fairies did their job bringing their aspect of winter to the cities and countryside of the mainland. More than even her friends, Periwinkle reveled in it. It was her love of this land. Something that the others did not share. One evening she separated from her comrades to listen to a group of children led by an adult in a strange, dark uniform sang in front of an open door.

Silent night, holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Virgin Mother and Child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace.

It was the most beautiful song she had ever heard. Periwinkle knew it had something to do with the holiday season and the birth of the religious figure associated with it, but she didn't totally understand the meaning of the lyrics. However, it filled her with a kind of serenity she had never known. She sat near the choir as they sang many more songs. Some filled with awe and reverence, others joyful and wondrous. When the children had finished, the people listening at the door offered a handful of coins in thanks for the serenade.

The children and their caretaker moved to another house and began anew. The family inside listened intently to the songs before again offering currency in exchange. When Periwinkle rejoined her peers they were quite cross with her. "Where have you been?" Spike bellowed. "We've been worried sick about you."

"I just heard the most amazing music!" With great enthusiasm she related her experience to Spike, Gliss and Slush who had been helping them look for the wayward fairy.

"Those are carolers," Spike informed her. "They're probably kids who go to school at the Church. The woman in black was a nun. Now c'mon. We're behind schedule as it is."

"A nun? What's that?"

"Peri!"

"Okay. I'm coming."

Throughout the night the fairies worked feverishly to complete their task. None got sloppy or slipshod in their work. Their talent was their life, doing it poorly was a disgrace. By early morning they had finished their quota and rejoined the other winter fairies so they could retire to the nearby campsite. When the sun peaked out from across the waters, Peri and her friends were exhausted from their shift. They had all but forgotten about the carolers. Forgotten all about Dr. Griffiths and his daughter. And they had forgotten about something else.

"FALCON!" someone screamed.

The peregrine falcon had once more come to London in winter to feast. It was looking for other birds and small prey. It found the fairies of the Winter Woods and descended upon them with lightning speed.

The little fairies all dressed in whites and blues scattered away from the falcon as quick as they could. Snowflake gave the order for her charges to find shelter and wait for the all clear to be sounded.

"Winter will have to wait," the Minister of Winter lamented as she watched the peregrine falcon dive out of the sky like a shooting star. Once more Peri, Gliss and Spike found their way into a nearby building. They were joined by Slush who, as always, appeared to be unnaturally calm. Despite the horror that went on outside he was as serene as ever.

"It's nature, man," he suggested.

Spike answered with, "Yeah? Well nature can kiss my wings."

~O~

STORYBROOKE MAINE

"HOW DO I STOP THIS CRAZY THING!?" Vidia screamed. She careened down the street in a four wheeled contraption that Penny and Tina had built.

"You like to go fast, right?" Tina had asked her earlier.

"Yeah, of course. I'm a fast flying fairy," Vidia had replied with her usual snippy attitude. "Emphasis on fast."

"Great!" Penny chirped. "Then this will make your day."

The two girls unwrapped their contraption. They called it a downhill racer. It had no power except for a red cylinder on the back. "This is a fire extinguisher," Tina explained. "It has concentrated gases held under pressure inside. Grip the handle and they come out with great force."

"That force will act as a booster," Tina picked up from there. "The rider, that's you, will start out at the top of a hill. We push you down the hill and unleash the pent up gases inside this extinguisher. It will shove you down the hill faster than just the pull of gravity."

"Uh huh. You'll get to experience that grand feeling of moving very, very fast."

"Very, very, VERY fast!" Penny added to underscore the point.

Tina pointed to a pair of levers that stuck up from just in front of the seat. "You control the racer with these." Pulling on the stick on the right turned the racer to the right. Pulling on the stick on the left turned the racer on the left. Pulling up on a lever which was mounted next to the seat applied a brake. Squeezing a grip and pulling it to the second position unfurled a makeshift drag chute which would help slow the racer during its descent.

Then the two girls handed Vidia a helmet. "Here, you'll need this," Tina said.

"Why?"

"It's just a precaution," Penny advised. "You probably won't need it."

Vidia quirked a suspicious eyebrow. As a fast flyer she never needed any kind of head gear to protect herself. "What's this thing on the side of it?"

"That's a helmet cam," Penny answered. "A Midland XTC 1080p HD It will record your downhill ride for all of us to enjoy later."

"But it's so little," Vidia observed.

"It's the twenty first century," Penny replied. "Small is the new big."

"What does that even mean?"

"Just put on the helmet," Tina prodded. "Go ahead, you'll be fine."

"Yeah, and it'll be fun, too," Penny finished.

Vidia was highly suspicious, but somehow the desire to experience speed overwhelmed her better judgement. She had not enjoyed flying fast, or just being fast, since waking in this human world.

Clarence arrived in his Pontiac Aztek and transported the three girls and the home built racer to the top of a hill in their suburban neighborhood. Vidia sat at the ready. The girls pushed her off and released the fire extinguisher to give her a boost. It was exhilarating. Until it wasn't.

"Release the drag chute!" Tina yelled. The Aztek drove alongside the downhill racer. Tina and Penny yelled helpful suggestions from the passenger windows.

"Next to your seat!" Penny shouted.

The helmet Vidia wore impaired her hearing. She couldn't understand what they were saying.

"Pull up on the lever! The lever!" Penny demonstrated with her hand, making a gripping motion and pulling upward.

Vidia heard something about a lever and interpreted the motion to mean something completely different. Instead of pulling up on the brake, she tugged on the left steering post. The racer instantly veered left, almost into the Aztek. Clarence braked hard to avoid hitting the downhill racer and running over its rider.

Vidia yanked right and the racer careened to the right. Back and forth she went, the racer fishtailing before Vidia got it back under control. That is, if you call shooting down a hill as your life flashed before your eyes, "under control."

At an intersection, a car pulled out and into her path. The driver never saw her coming.

"GET OUT OF THE WAY! GET OUT OF THE WAY! GET OUT THE WA-AY!"

Vidia yanked hard on the steering and slipped behind the car, barely missed it. Vidia was so close to the rear bumper she could see her own reflection in it. Safely beyond the intersection she unleashed a few unsavory human curses. Including one that she learned from Ruby which insinuated that the driver's parents were never married.

At least, that was what Ruby said it meant.

Clarence had to slow down to avoid hitting the car. When the intersection was clear he sped up to catch Vidia. He was surprised at just how fast the engineless racer was going. "What did you two do to that thing?" he asked the two girls. "It's flying like a bat of hell!"

Penny and Tina turned to each other. "Thanks!" they both said to Clarence. "Jinx!"

"Uh, you might want to wait on that," he told them. Not far ahead, the street was coming to an end. There was a cul-de-sac with one outlet. A hard right turn. "She really needs to pull up on that break."

The Aztek sped up to catch the racer. The speedometer pushed passed 35 mph and was nearing forty.

Vidia kept trying to push down on the brake pedal just like in the family vehicle. But there wasn't one here. The house at the end of the street was a red brick house with dormers and an attached garage. A nice, shiny car sat in the driveway. The lawn was lush and immaculately kept. A garden of rose bush plants lined the front of the house.

She was going to crash into it. The only other option was to plow into the car. A Mercedes-Benz, if she remembered her car nameplates correctly. Expensive cars didn't hurt any less than cheap ones, she reasoned.

Then she remembered. The brake was on the side. A lever. She yanked up on it and held on for dear life. The rear wheels squealed as they instantly stopped turning. The racer continued down the hill towards the red brick house and perfect lawn. The back end of the small race car buffeted as the wheels bounced over the asphalt. Smoke came off the rubber tires from the intense friction.

"She did it!" Tina yelled happily.

Vidia kept pulling up on the brake lever, the vehicle didn't slow as much as Vidia wanted. The squeezed on the grip and pulled up again. This time the racer jerked as the drag chute opened. It was actually an old table cloth Claire was going to dispose of. It still worked, now she was slowing down substantially. With the brake and the chute working in conjunction Vidia was able to stop the racer just as she reached the curb. A hard tap informed Vidia that the racer

When the Aztek drove up both Tina and Penny bounded out of the SUV and ran to the girl in the racer.

"Valerie!" Tina called, still using the Storybrooke name. "Val, are you okay?"

Vidia removed the helmet and cleared the hair from her face. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Val, you did it!" Tina said excitedly.

"Yeah, it felt like I was flying again," she replied happily.

"No, you did more than that," Penny continued.

"Did what?"

The two young girls stared at each other with silly grins. Then together they said, "You proved the invention was idiot proof! Jinx!"

"Yeah, I know it was so easy to… wa-ait a minute! Idiot proof? As in I'm the idiot who provide it?" Vidia was clearly becoming angry. She hopped up out of the seat, but instead of taking after the two girls she looked past them. "Uh oh."

"What?"

Tina and Perry turned around. Two vehicles were approaching. One was the Sheriff's cruiser, the other was Claire's work truck.

Mrs. Kensington arrived first. She parked the truck and was out of the vehicle in one, seamless motion. "Are you girls alright?" she asked desperately.

"Yeah, were fine," Vidia replied.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I made it down just fine."

"THEN WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" Claire screamed, her tone instantly shifting from concern to anger. She tore into Tina and Penny for putting together this dangerous stunt. Then she yelled at Vidia for participating and encouraging them.

Sheriff Swan was just as mad. She learned of their little jaunt when a vehicle nearly collided with the racer. "He came out of that intersection up the hill and nearly crashed into you."

Claire became furious. "You were nearly killed? Are you mad? Valerie, you're an adult. You should know better."

Sheriff Swan impounded the downhill racer and had Clarence remove it to her office. Claire barked her own orders. "Tina, Valerie. Into the work truck. March! Penny. Clarence will take you home. From now on Tina you will not see Penny except under my supervision until you can prove to be more responsible."

It was an unhappy end to their collaboration. On the other hand, they did capture the images on Valerie's helmet cam. Something to relive again and again.

Okay, I know I promised just one more chapter, but it got too long so... just one more chapter.