Race Through Time:
Reminder Of The Past
Midnight Sparkle yelped in pain when Killian managed to strike her severely on her left shoulder. Her hands let go of Fidget in order to defend herself from the pirate; the Batrishan fell on the deck, prompting Emma to kick the barrels of her and rush to aid the Batrishan, who was still traumatized from Midnight's lustful kisses. While she held him by one arm, she used the spare one to summon a ball of light magic and held it up in the air.
"We're warning you!" Emma told Midnight. "If you dare to make another move..."
"You're not going to warn me anything!" Midnight spat as she sprouted her dark feathered wings open and used her hands to summon a large cloud of smoke full of eight-pointed stars and purple cosmos that filled the deck. While Killian and Emma were busy coughing and covering their eyes from the cloud, Midnight took the opportunity to fly into the dark sky.
"Don't think this is over, Fitzgerald!" she shouted. "I will have your heart!"
The next day
The heroes went to see Fidget while Dr. Whale was healing him in the morning. Killian spent the entire night in the hospital room where they kept his old friend, watching as his friend was put in a temporary coma. There was no doubt that he was sincerely concerned about the fate of Batrishan.
"I gave him a pill that should wake him anytime soon," Dr. Whale said when Emma, David, and Mr. Gold came to check up on Killian and Fidget while Anubis, Marion, and their hounds went scouting in the hopes of finding Midnight and perhaps Rosie as well.
"Thanks, Doctor," Killian said gratefully. The doctor nodded and left the room.
"Wow, you...really care about Fidget, don't you?" David said as soon as Dr. Whale had closed the door.
"Why wouldn't I?" Killian said. "He was the closest thing to a best friend and brother I had other than my own brother Liam. We've both endured similar situations..."
"You mean such as losing the love of your lives, getting severely handicapped, and seeking eternal youth just for the sake of revenge?" Mr. Gold pointed out. "Because believe me, he did a lot worse than you have, pirate. When it came to immortality, he took an option that cost him whatever humanity and love he had, and has for invincibility, he made deals with five immortals, two of them being me and Cora."
Emma cringed at the thought of their first conflict against Fidget: he had claimed to have been Cora's apprentice and learned magic from her for five years and from what he did using his powers ever since he put his foot and peg leg in Storybrooke, Emma could tell that he had learned well. But what really haunted the Savior was when he had ripped out Henry's heart and forced him to injure Emma in order to obtain her blood. Back then, she was defenseless, no matter what the Batrishan did. She couldn't even protect her own son from him.
She was cut away from her thoughts when David asked out loud: "So does anyone have any idea of what kind of villain Midnight Sparkle is? Gold, don't you know anything?"
"Well, I've heard of stories back in the Enchanted Forest about an alicorn living in a cave who 'led men to their dooms should they ever step in it'," Mr. Gold said. "Frankly, I myself never dared to find out if whether or not it was true. So when the Batrishan and I made a deal involving him capturing 100 villains and locking them within Pandora's Box, I was surprised to find out that his claim of capturing that alicorn was real."
"What's an alicorn?" Emma asked.
"A hybrid between unicorn and pegasus. Very hard to find and known to have strong magical abilities."
"And apparently it's got a crush on Fidget. Wonder what..."
A large cough came out of Fidget's mouth. The heroes turned to see him sit up on his hospital bed, gagging and coughing as if he had laughed evilly too often. He looked around and then stared at the heroes.
"Trapped in a bed?" he snorted. "Totally déjà vu."
"Want a glass of water, mate?" Killian offered before the Batrishan snapped his fingers and a glass full of water appeared in his hands.
"Thank you for mentioning." He began taking a large sip from the glass. "And we're not mates. I thought the Savior was your mate."
Killian and Emma blushed at his snarky joke while David and Mr. Gold literally bursted into laughter.
"Ok, you gotta admit that this was a pretty good one!" David said through a couple of chuckles.
"Dad!" Emma said in disbelief.
"Thank you very for the charming compliment, Your Highness," Fidget continued joking around, which only resulted with David laughing even more.
"Fitzgerald, are you trying to be actually funny or to distract us from what's really important?" Killian asked seriously.
"Both," the Batrishan said smugly as he got out of bed and examined his hospital robe. He made a triangular gesture with his hands, summoning a dark purple smoke to go over him from head to toe. At first, the heroes assumed that he was going to teleport himself away, but when the smoke dissolved, they saw that he did not disappear, but instead changed his clothing from a dark purple bomber jacket, black leather pants, and black classic men's boots. His dark hair was tied back in a ponytail and his skin was well groomed.
"Seriously?" Emma arched an eyebrow. "Now's the time for you to get a makeover?"
"I don't do makeup," Fidget said sarcastically as he summoned a hand mirror to check himself out. "Although you should try to use some for those wrinkles on your forehead. How often have you been frowning?" Emma put a hand on her forehead, trying to feel any wrinkles.
"Before the Impossible Deadpan Snarker continues to insult my daughter, can we know what's your deal with Midnight Sparkle?" David said coldly as he pulled out his gun and aimed it at Fidget. The Batrishan hardly flinched.
"What's so hard to understand?" He said. "I go to this small town in the Enchanted Forest." He walked towards David. "I hear rumors of an evil alicorn terrorizing the local men and tell myself that she would be a good villain to put in Pandora's Box." He was now facing David just by a few inches, which surprised the prince. "I join a hunting group to enter her cave and I'm the only one who survived." He yanked David's gun off and took it for himself, examining it. "She instantly has a crush on me and keeps begging that I become her mate despite my numerous rebuffs." With his spare arm, he held out the mirror he had used previously. "Finally, as last resort, I end up charming her so I could get her close enough..." He threw the mirror in the air. "...To trap her in Pandora's Box." He shot at the mirror with the gun, causing glass shards to fall onto the floor. Hook covered Emma in order to make sure that any shard didn't hit her.
"Well, one thing's certain," Mr. Gold said as he walked towards the area on the ground full of shards and delicately picked one up, "is that what you did to this mirror reflects exactly the pain you caused her heart to endure."
"What, like it's my fault I have non-human good looks that she was so attracted to and could take 'no' for an answer even though I kept telling her I preferred someone else?" Fidget made a disgusted face and instantly tossed David's gun halfway across the room until it landed into a trashcan. He then clenched his fist. A metallic noise was heard and the heroes turned to see the trashcan bin being compressed like crunched paper until Fidget let his fist go loose and blinked. The compressed trashcan bin then turned into a live fly, which flew around in zigzags.
"You just...threw a gun in a trashcan and turned it into a fly?" Killian asked curiously as he watched the fly flutter towards Fidget and land on his left shoulder. The Batrishan watched calmly as the bug rested on his shoulder. At first, it seemed to the humans like he wouldn't harm it until they saw him instantly grab the fly with his thumb and index finger and squish it to literal dust.
"And now my gun's gone," David said sourly and crossed his arms.
"You look better without it," Fidget said as he flickered away the remaining dust. "Honestly, I've never been a fan gunpowder warfare."
"It's not as great as the classic swords and magic tricks, aye?" Killian chuckled.
"You might not want to chuckle, codfish, I knew an Aldoradian veteran who nearly lost half of his body from being near cannons too often," Fidget said sourly before straightening himself up. "So, who wants to discuss sending Midnight Sparkle back to the Box?"
"That's what I'd like to discuss," Emma said. "You managed to capture her once. Maybe you can capture her again?"
"I'd rather poison myself with Dreamshade than repeat my technique on Midnight again!" Fidget spat. "I nearly disgraced myself and Isabella's memory!"
"Why? What did you do?"