AN: Introducing: Zendaya (MCU Spiderman trilogy) as Mary Jane aka MJ.
Welcome to Season 5 of The Evil Queen's Black Widow
The group of hero's and villains were sent into a shocked silence as they stared at the Dark Ones dagger that etched 'Emma Swan' that lied in the middle of the road as the event of the last few seconds sunk in. Amelia kept a protective hand on her stomach as the pain ebbed away from her fall as her heart thudded in her chest at the quick turn of events as Regina took a step out of her arms staring blankly at the weapon.
"How could she be so stupid?!" Regina yelled out in frustration breaking the silence of the quiet night.
"Regina!" David scolded her as he held his wife in his arms.
"Well, there had to be another way" she argued to the Prince. All thought of her previous conversation with her soulmate forgotten now out of her mind was focused on Emma's sacrifice to save her life.
"There wasn't" Mary Margaret quickly tells her "That thing was going to kill you. She saved your life".
"Don't you think I know that?" the Queen huffed as Henry and Tom joined them in the street.
"And now she's the... Dark One" Henry glumly summarized having seen what had happened.
"Now she's a problem" Amelia spoke up for the first time wincing as she tried to hide the tabbing pain in her stomach"..for all of us".
"She is still good" Mary Margaret voiced to the assassin.
"I hope so. It's not like she rode off on a unicorn. She got sucked up by a vortex of evil!" Regina vented to the younger woman.
"The important question is here is where she is?" Amelia's rationale thinking spoke up gaining their attention with the exception of Hook who was still staring at the weapon "I don't sense her magic anymore. Not even the Dark One's" she informs them as Tom nods along with his mother's findings.
She must've felt the same pain that went though his head as his senses seemed to come alive all at once as the Darkness made it's way out of the pawnshop, but instead of alerting him it all seemed to end up as one sense. Pain.
He didn't know he was screaming it caught in his throat as he tried to tried best to escape David's strong hold on him to start chasing the Darkness out, handing him off Emma and Hook to take him to the back with the Apprentice, he heard every word of what the older man had said to them;
"Long before..your stories began..The sorcerer battled the darkness and it's maker. He was able to keep them from consuming the realms. He tethered the darkness to a human soul that could be controlled with a dagger...The maker...forever trapped in a weapon of it's own making, waiting for it's vessel to return..The sorcerer is the only one with the power to destroy the darkness and for all before it destroys everything. Find him. His name is...Merlin. You must..Stop..Juno...The darkness. Find...Merlin"
"It doesn't bloody well matter" Hook spoke up for the first time since his love disappeared stepping forward towards the dagger only for the red head to reach out to stop the pirate.
"Don't" she firmly tells him, only for him harshly push her off him.
"Get out of my way" he growled with a finger in her face, to be met with a face that would send any enemy of Amelia's to flee.
"Be my damn guest" she spat a him nodding her head towards the dagger.
Approaching the dagger, the pirate picks it up by it hilt "If I can't find her, I can damn well bring her to me" he tells them as Regina take's Amelia arm encouraging her back after her small spat with the hurt pirate "Dark One, with this dagger I command thee: Return!" he yells into the night. But nothing happened. Emma wasn't there anymore, or in this world at least.
"Dark One. Appear!" he tries again.
"Put that thing down before you hurt yourself, Guyliner" Regina steps up to the pirate "I thought you knew the dagger's rules?".
"With it, I can summon the Dark One from any corner of the world" he says turning back to see the former Queen there with the redhead behind her.
"Well, there's your answer" Amelia spoke up from behind the man "She's not in this world anymore".
With determined steps, Hook led the group of heroes and former villains with their sons down main street heading straight to Gold's pawn shop, where the Apprentice was resting after being attacked by darkness that Amelia had felt earlier. As the others rushed ahead following after the serious pirate she couldn't help but to slow down as her abdomen made the redhead wince out in pain, a shaky hand hovering over the area as she willed the pain to move on, taking in deep breath's of cold air after coming to a stop in the middle of the sidewalk.
Noticing the assassin's absence in group Mary Margaret stopped peering back to see the redhead with her eye's closed seemingly in pain as she held onto her stomach, the same way she was when she was pushed away by the web-like darkness that had a hold of the woman she loved.
"Are you okay?" the Princess asked the red head walking back to the woman in evident pain. Hearing the pixie haired woman's concerns, she pushes the pain aside to answer her friend.
"It's nothing I can't handle Snow" she told her as they see the other's enter Gold's shop in view.
But she wasn't buying her friends excuse, there was something more than the Assassin was letting on. She just had to try and get the woman to open up to her, even a little bit.
"You know you can tell me anything, right?".
"Snow" Amelia huffed at the unrelenting Princess pausing at the entrance of the shop to look back at the unrelenting questions.
"Right?" the princess lightly pressed her old friend.
"I…" she started, thinking she could tell the woman in front of her what was really going on, but they had more important things to think about right now "I just landed little harder that I thought. I'll be fine".
"Okay" she nodded in acceptance. Sensing Amelia still wasn't telling her everything she decided to let the subject go for now as they filtered into the pawn shop.
"Apprentice" Hook hotly addressed the sickly Apprentice as the rest filtered through "That monstrosity took Emma. Where did they go?".
"She is now where all darkness is born" he answered "In your realm".
"Then take us there" the pirate demanded out of the old man.
"I am too weak now, but this will help" The Apprentice tells them as he conjures a green wand with a vine's that encased the handle "It is a gift from the sorcerer, from Merlin, on the day I became his apprentice." he tells them as his eye's find's Amelia at the foot of his cot "The same day he told my dear friend, Altair, of a battle greater than ourselves. One that required him to create a Brotherhood to protect humanity from something truly dangerous. One I'm afraid you will have to face alone".
She couldn't help but feel a shiver of dread wash through her body at the man's words. He was afraid of what was coming. She and Regina had only just been speaking about it before they were interrupted. The stories of Altair Ibn-La'Ahad were true. Not that she should be surprised by now. But the conformation of the man's existence could only mean one thing. Romeo's warnings were very real. She had a bad feeling that it wouldn't end well for her.
"In it, is all the light magic" the Apprentice continued addressing the group of heroes and former villains.
"It can take us to our daughter?" Mary Margaret asked the man.
"Not on its own" he answered the former Princess "In order to cross realms, it must be wielded as it was forged, with both sides of the coin. Light. and… the dark" he tells them before the Apprentice closes his eyes and takes his final breath in this world, dropping the wand onto the floor.
"I guess that's my cue" the former Queen say's picking up the wand from the floor. Everyone watches as she lifts it into the air as waves it in circles until she gave the air an invisible tap to finish the spell off, only for nothing to happen. She tries finishing the spell again, for the same to happen. Nothing.
"Enough!" Hook speak's up to stop her tying again knowing it was pointless "You're going to embarrass yourself and waste our time".
"Watch it!" she angrily snaps at the pirate "I know what I'm doing".
"Well that's not enough. You heard the man, it needs darkness. You've gone soft" he points out to her.
"You wanna see soft? Why don't I use that hook to show you your intestines?" she threatens the man. Mary Margaret watches Amelia as the two clashed to see her pinch the top of her nose, annoyed by the whole exchange.
"Oh, you've got the fire love, but not the blackness, not anymore. How's this for irony? You've done too much good. No, we need someone wicked" he suggests to the woman.
"Fuck" they heard Amelia curse closing her eyes in frustration of needing the one person she didn't want to see any time soon.
"No. No. No. Not my sister. That witch is more than wicked, she's deranged" Regina argued with the others.
"For Emma, it's worth the risk. She sacrificed herself for you, Your Majesty" he reminded her "Because she believed that an evil queen could be good. Don't you think you owe it to her to repay the favor?".
Thankfully as the next morning came and went so did the pain as Amelia and Regina led Robin and Hook to the psych ward underneath Storybrooke General to speak to the woman that was currently their only hope of getting to Emma.
As much as she hated the idea. Killian was right about one thing. Her partner wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for Emma tethering the darkness to her. And so would she. It was coming for her first before Regina pushed her out of the way.
Walking downs the corridors of the hospital they came to a brief pause as they waited for Regina to enter the code to the floor before letting themselves in. The redhead seriously needed her partner to change the codes. She couldn't use Henry's birthday for everything now, especially now he had a partner in crime in Tom.
But that issue would have to put on a long list of things she was trying to get the former Queen to change as they walked down the stairs to the ward in the basement.
"So, this is where you put young Puck" Robin asked the redhead the couple led them down the corridor lined with door's.
"Yep" she confirmed to the thief.
"I never did trust that boy" he adds as they came to Zelena's door. Letting themselves into the cell without knocking the former Queen and her partner find the pregnant Wicked Witch sat crossed legged on her bed. Meditating.
Opening her eye she see's her sister enter with Amelia, Robin and Hook filtering into the small room, she instantly saw the annoyed looks on her sister's and her girlfriends faces of having to be there.
"Regina dear. Amelia, darling" she greeted her sister and former lover "I'm trying to meditate. It's good for the baby. Please go, you're ruining my Chi" she asks them only for the request to go ignored.
The pirate looked towards the assassin to start things off so to speak only to be met by her shaking head.
"Don't make me say it" she tells the man. she already felt nauseated being in the Wicked Witch's presence. But actually asking made her want to throw up there and then.
"We need your help" Hook tells the Wicked Witch straight to the point of the visit.
"Wow!" she exclaims with a delighted smile on her face at the man's request as she stood up from her bed to face her 'visitors' "You must be really desperate" she says ignoring Amelia's glare as she approached Robin as she goes to reach out to almost lovingly place her hand on the side of his face.
The assassin had to look away biting the inside of her cheek her hand itched for her to lash out at the woman that dared to touch her friend after everything she had out them through. She had to give it Robin for keeping his ground against the woman that impersonated his wife.
"Unless of course, someone was just looking for an excuse to come see me?" she Zelena goes to touch Robins face only for her sister to grab her arm away from her soulmates best friend.
"Careful" Regina warns her sister as Zelena turns her head to see the assassin stoically looking at her friends right side, blocking the only exit she had.
"What is it then?" Zelena asks snatching her arm back from the her sister.
"Something's happened to Emma" Robin answered for the others.
She let out the breathe she hadn't released she had been holding onto as she allowed the other's to inform Zelena in on what had happened on the surface while she had been safely locked away.
"Well, that is quite a mess" she comments to the whole situation the hero's and villains found themselves in.
"Help us" Robin pleads to her "We can rid the world of this darkness once and for all. Don't you want that for our child?".
"My child" she glances at Amelia slyly "And mine alone. I'm doing all the work. You were just an unwilling pawn in its creation" she argues.
"Quite unwilling" Robin retorted.
"If it makes you feel any better, I didn't enjoy it" she says before looking to Amelia "You know, I'm not sure what you saw in him".
"Something I don't think you could ever understand Lena" the assassin smoothly replied the Witch lifting her left arm up letting a hidden blade slip out of her leather gauntlet "And don't think I won't make on my earlier promise if you touch him again" the Witch simply held up her chin in clear defiance against the assassin's real threat.
"Enough of the family squabbling" Hook intervene's seeing the growing tension between the former assassin and her ex, pushing the assassin's forearm down "Are you going to help us find Emma or not?".
"Of course" Zelena sweetly answered the pirate.
"What?" both her sister and her love sharply replied in disbelief at the woman's willingness to help them.
"Well, pregnancy's changed me, dear. I'm going to do whatever I can to free Emma of the darkness. Just let me see that wand" she asks her sister holding out her hand to her sister.
Regina looks suspiciously at her sister while Amelia simply stared at the Witch trying to find her tell. Seeing the look on their faces the witch continues "Don't worry, this little love brace that you put on me neutralizes my magic" Zelena points out the wristband on her arm "I am powerless" she reminds them.
But her words didn't do anything to convince the assassin in the room of her handing over the Apprentice's wand over to her sister, the former Queen's movements were halted as she felt a slender hand push her arm back down.
"Hold that thought for a second sweetheart" Amelia says looking at Zelena with an equally sweet smile "I'm not buying into this sudden sense of philanthropy for a second. What the hell do you want?".
"Melia…" Regina warned the Assassin lowly, now wasn't the time to question her half-sister.
"No, no, no" the redhead tells her love "If your sister has really changed, she'll happily answer my question" the assassin in the cell tells her partner as she takes a step towards the Wicked Witch, putting herself in between her and the wand that would take them to Emma.
"My Uncle was the one to teach you everything right? But guess what? He taught me everything as well" she tells the Witch "Not magic per say but he taught me how to make a deal. When two people both want something the other has, a deal can always be struck. So, what do you want Zelena?".
"We don't have time for these games Assassin" Hook sighed at her from his place making her turn her head towards the man, only to snap back as she heard Zelena's answer.
"To watch my child grow up" Zelena answered the Assassin's question with her hands panting firmly on her bump "Something you've never been able to do, and never be able to again".
Her answer had hit a nerve with the assassin as she saw the corner of her eye twitch and the vein in her forehead as the woman's temper. silence drowned out the cell as men and woman behind her waited for her reaction, knowing it wouldn't be pretty.
"Remind me darling" Zelena continued to answer the assassin taking a dangerous step towards the assassin "How long was your dear Thomas was on Neverland for, while that dear little husband of yours searched for you, before nearly getting killed by your truelove, behind you?".
Her reaction wasn't as quick as the Wicked Witch had hoped for as a slow dark grin grew on the assassin's faces as a equally dark chuckle was heard coming from the assassin as it nearly drowned out the distinct sound of a hidden blade sliding out of her gauntlet that alerted those behind her, of what she had in mind of doing to the Witch that had dared to speak those words to her.
"I'm going to make this hurt" the redhead was quick to strike out at the Witch only for her blade to fall short of its intended target as a set of strong arms behind her hand wrapped around her stomach as Robin used all his strength to pick the woman up from the ground and take them out into the corridor as Regina and Hook could only watch as short tempered woman struggled to escape the thief's hold on her.
Once outside and out of reach of her target the thief finally dropped her onto the floor where she tried to march back into the cell only for the thief to pushed her back against the wall.
"Enough!" Robin yelled in her face as he managed to pin her against wall of the corridor as she continued to let out the boiling rage towards the woman in the cell as Zelena's laughter only made her fury intensify.
"Ti ammazzo cazzo, strega!" they all heard Amelia yell back at the Witch.
"Enough!" Robin yelled again managing to take a hold of her head and face. He didn't want to hurt her but this was the best way to get her to calm down making her green eye's meet his. The anger in her eyes made the thief flinch as it reminded him of the time he was once at the receiving end of one of her rage filled outburst. Pushing the memory aside the thief forced his forehead on her's as his woodsy scent that seemed to cling onto him as she let her anger filled eye's to close as she welcomed in his calming presence.
"You're better than this" he calming voice seemed to bring her out of the red haze that engulfed her vision as she feel's his hand slipped down to her waist. In panic the assassin quickly pushed her friend away from her before he could feel something that shouldn't be there and been trying to hide for so long.
A look of confusion came over the thief's face as he tried to understand why he was being pushed away, opening his mouth to question her only for the assassin to head down the way they came leaving the man to watch as she left the ward knowing he couldn't follow her.
A pair of footsteps leaving, was all Regina needed to know that she would have to deal with her sister by herself as Robin re-entered the cell.
"Quite a catch you've got yourself their sis" Zelena tells Regina with a smirk.
"You know that was low, even for you, sis" the former Queen hissed at her sister as she handed her the Apprentices wand.
Taking the wand into her hands, the Wicked Witch carefully handled the object in her hand " yes, so simple" she hums out inspecting the powerful object "You simply need an object that guides the portal to its destination. Something that belonged to Emma. Something meaningful to her" Zelena informs her remaining visitors.
"Fine" Regina says snatching the wand from her sister "That we can do" the former Queen goes to leave only get stopped.
"No, you can't" Zelena quickly tells her making the former Queen turn back o face her sister "Your magic isn't powerful enough".
"Can you make it work?" Hook asks the witch.
"I believe so" she tells the pirate "There's just a tiny something standing in my way" the Wicked adds holds up her arm with the magic-neutralizing brace on it.
"Never" Regina tells her sister without missing a beat before walking out to find her tempered Assassin, while Hook stayed behind.
"Well, she really holds a grudge, doesn't she" she tells the man "You know, you should talk to her, because I may be your only way to find Emma".
While the adults tried to find a way to get to Emma, the boys had been left at Granny's, unknowingly under the watchful eye of a certain blonde assassin at a red booth at her sister's request. Tom and Henry sat at the bar with a book each and giant cup of soda each waiting for either of their mother's to come back to get them with any good news of finding the blonde savior.
Finding the boys the one handed pirate quickly approached the pair "Henry. You can fix this" Hook started as he approached the two lads, standing in between them with a hand on Henry's shoulder and his hook on Tom's.
"You're the Author now. Use that pen and write the darkness out of Emma. Bring her back" he pleads to his love's son.
"I…broke it" he tells the pirate.
"You what?" Hook deadpanned in disbelief.
"It's too much power" Henry explains to a frustrated pirate "That's how the last Author got in trouble. He stopped recording history and started using magic to change it. My mom wouldn't want me to. She'd want me to be good"
"Ah, honour" he drawled out as he tried to think of any other way to get to Emma without Zelena's help. There was only one other object out there with the power they would need.
"What about the Apple?" he says looking towards the teenager "Where has your mother hidden it?".
"I-I don't know" he stammered out in surprise at the man's suggestion "I wouldn't know how to use it even if I could get to it" Tom tells the man "She doesn't want anyone getting their hands on it again".
"Aye" the man sighed out as he ran his hand through his hair an an idea came to him "She wouldn't want you to break any rules, then?" Hook says giving Henry and Tom a sly look "What if there was a way, a dangerous way, to help your mother? Something your other mothers wouldn't like?" he proposes to both the lads.
"We don't need their permission" Tom tells the pirate "We're not kids anymore" he add's looking to Henry next to him.
"Good, because our best bet is the person Regina and Amelia hates the most" Hook tells the pair.
"Zelena" Tom easily deduced.
"That's right. We're going to break out the Wicked Witch".
Anastasia watched as the boys left the diner with Hook hot on their heels as they went to break the Wicked Witch out of her jail cell. Taking her cell phone out she quickly sent a message to her sister before following the teens and the pirate out of the diner.
With their plan in motion Henry led Hook and Tom down the hospital corridors with their giant sodas is hand as they reached the employee only door that led them down to the not-so-secret psych ward easily punching in the code to gain entry to the basement.
"Well done, lad" Hook complimented Henry as they descended the stairs down to the ward "How'd you know the code?".
"My mom's good with magic. Not so much with passwords" Henry tells the pirate "She uses my birthday for everything. You'd think she'd change it after a bank statement or two? Or at least get Lia to change them all" Henry say's making Tom laughed behind Hook as the three of them make it to the bottom of the stairs to the door that would take them straight into the 'secret' ward.
"So what's the plan now? How do we get to her? The old Wookie prisoner gag?" Hook suggested thinking back to the trick they used to break Emma out of the tower.
"Nah" Tom said from behind the pirate making him look back at the fledgling Assassin "Mom told me never use the same trick twice. We've got another idea" the teenager pointed between him and Henry.
With Hook ready and waiting Henry and Tom entered the ward and headed for the small reception desk where the nurse stayed with their giant sodas in hand.
"Hey Miss Ratched" Tom greets the nurse with a smile with Henry beside him "Are our moms here?" her as Henry stumbles and spills his drink all over her and the paperwork.
"Thomas! Henry!" the nurse exclaims as she jumps from her seat as the sticky drink soaks into her uniform.
"Oh! Um..." the pair stammer in shock as the nurse looks towards the patient that silently mopped the floor each day.
"You! With the mop! A little help" at the nurses demands the patient slowly complying with her demand.
"I'm- I'm- I'm so sorry" Henry stutter's as he tries to help as Tom takes the opportunity as Henry distracts the nurse, to sneak over to the hook that held the keys to the cells as Hook sneaks into the ward.
Taking the key's off the hook, the teen throws them into the air, towards the pirate who catches them with his hook, all while the silent patient saw the whole exchange.
"It was an accident" Henry tells the nurse as Tom goes back to helping his cousin as Hook sends the patient/janitor a wink before finishing Zelena's cell.
Finding her cell, the pirate lets himself in seeing the Witch sat on her bed
"What do you want?" Zelena sighed standing from her bed ready to face whatever he was there for.
"I want your help with the wand" Hook tells the Wicked Witch.
"Ah, so this is a rogue mission? I like it" she says holding out her arm with the magic neutralizing band to the one-handed pirate. Go on then, take it off".
"Well, I'm going to need some assurances first, that you're not going to do anything... unexpected".
"On my unborn child's life" she vows placing her hands on her growing stomach.
"Afraid I'm going to need some real assurance" Hooks tells her taking out a glass vial from his pocket.
"What's that?".
"This is a potion your sister and your ex gave me a long time ago" he tells her pouring it over his hook making it glow with magic slowly approaching the Wicked Witch.
"To do what?" she anxiously asks the pirate.
"To rip out a heart" he answers her.
"Why would they give you that?".
"Because they wanted me to take your mother's heart" he informs her "You can't be surprised your family's troubled. Now then, this is probably going to sting" Hook attempts to take her heart and is blown back by a magical force sending him into the cell wall "Ah!" he grunts in pain as he fall heavily into the wall, onto the ground.
The Wicked Witch could only chuckle at the man's failed attempt to take her heart as she stalks towards the stunned pirate as he tried to get himself off the ground
"My family may be troubled dearie, but we all know that a heart is a precious thing, and I cast a protection spell on mine eons ago. So, you're going to have to do better than that".
At that the door to her cell suddenly open's as she snatches a sharp knife from the pirate's belt, expecting it to be Amelia on the other side to stop her only to find a very alarmed Thomas Smith on the other side to see her with a knife in her hand and Hook cornered with a crazed look on her face, having felt the burst of magic coming from the cell.
"Ah Thomas" she greets the teen with a grin "I was just talking about you with your Mommy. Look's like someone's in trouble when she finds out about this" she tells the teen before looking back to the pirate "Oh, it appears you were right. It did sting. Now then, do you want to see something really painful?"
Seeing the Wicked Witch lift the knife up the teen reached out with a unsheathed hidden blade ready to defend the cowering pirate only to watch as Zelana cuts off her own hand to remove the bracelet from her person.
"What the f..." Tom gagged in disgust as he held onto his breakfast for dear life. That was the most disgusting thing he had ever witnessed in his short sixteen years and he had to help clean out the sewers of Monteriggioni once.
"There. Much better"" she pant's out ignoring the pain the Wicked Witch picks up her own hand as the band falls onto the floor with the droplets of blood standing up she places her severed hand back where it was before using her magic to attach it back into place.
"You should have listened to my sister" was the last thing she told them before disappearing in a cloud of green smoke just as Henry run the cell having heard the commotion.
Seeing the empty cell the teen gulped to himself at how much they had messed up "My Mom's gonna kill us" he fretted out-load as Anastasia appeared behind Henry.
"I just might help her" a voice they all recognized said from the hallway. Their head whipped to the side to see Anastasia with her arms folded across her chest with a scowl on her face.
"Bloody Hell".
"You let her out?!" Amelia barked at the three responsible for letting Zelena escape her cell, standing before the two former villains mayor's office while the Charming couple, Belle and Anastasia stood in front of the desk as the villain had it out over Zelena's escape.
She was glad she had asked Anastasia to keep an eye on her son's as they tried to find a way to get to Emma without Zelena's help. But by the time she received her sisters call it was already too late to tell her the pass-code for the ward to stop whatever plan Hook had to get to the Wicked Witch of the West.
She never thought she would ever be this angry at Tom, he knew better than to do something that stupid, that reckless, and with Hook no less. But her blood boiled under her skin at the man that would recklessly put her's and Emma's son in that sort of danger with a woman as unpredictable as Zelena was.
Tom and Henry stood idly stood by as Hook took the brunt of the couple's wrath as Regina managed to keep her reign in her anger at the situation while, rage rolled off the redhead as she clenched her fists to her side and her fingers twitched at her sides trying her best not to punch the pirate and use his hook as a means to drag the man by his nose for the rest of the day.
"Technically, I let her escape" Hook corrected the Assassin taking their attention off the boys.
"Moron!" Regina exclaimed at the pirate face.
"Watch it, Your Majesty" he warned the former Queen "At least I'm doing something to save Emma".
"What's the hell is supposed to mean?" Amelia fumed at the man in front of them.
"Well, maybe you like being with Henry alone" he tells the redhead "Might I remind you it was Emma that saved your love from the darkness" he points out to her.
"After she pushed me out of the way" she argued with the man taking the group by surprise. That hadn't realized that was what happened, but she did. It was her the darkness was coming for.
"Maybe you both like not having Emma around?" Hook went on ignoring the woman's argument. He had seen how close Henry had gotten to the Queen's love over the last few weeks before the Queen's of Darkness rolled into town. Even started to called her his mother.
"Maybe you having a hook?" Regina jumped in enraged at the pirates insinuation "Maybe you'd like another?".
"Enough!" Mary Margaret interrupted the stand-off before the former villains from behind them "Zelena's out, that is what matters, but not as much as Emma" she points out to them as the redhead takes in a calming breath willing for her anger towards the pirate to simmer to focus at the problem at hand.
"Emma kept us united, and that is exactly how we are going to remain. Come hell or high water, we are going to put our nonsense aside, and find my daughter. Okay?" Mary Margaret questioned the three former villains as they continued to glare at each-other knowing that the woman was right. Their silence was her answer as the former Princess continued "Okay. Where would Zelena go first?" the question was sent towards the couple in front of her
"I know exactly where" Amelia said turning to face the former Princess "Or more accurately, who she's after".
Her partner was the first to leave the office with Henry quickly following behind his mother as the other's followed suit.
Catching her son's gaze he tried to convey how sorry he was for letting Zelena go so easily only for his mother to shake her head before stepping to leave knowing where the woman was headed, she would have to deal with her son's stupidity for doing exactly what Hook wanted out of him later.
"Mom. I'm sorry. I thought.." he started only to make his mother stop and turn back to face him, taking him aback at how quick she was.
"Well, you thought wrong!" Amelia snapped at her son making him freeze under his mother's gaze "I expected this sort of thing from Hook, but not you".
She didn't even have to yell at him making his step back from his mother as her anger and disappointment rolled off the redhead towards her son, as the Charming couple, Anastasia and Belle watched on.
"-Not only have you managed to let Zelena out, she has her magic back, now we have deal with whatever she has in mind for Robin" she exasperates with her hands on her hips, taking in deep breaths to calm her simmering anger with the teenager in front of her.
The bottom of his lip quivered as he sat on the back of the couch with his head hung down in defeat readying himself for whatever his mother had in stall for him.
"Amelia.." Mary Margaret tried to call out to the mother seeing how upset Tom was.
"Not now Snow" the redhead snapped at the former Princess as David ushered his wife out of the office to leave the mother and son alone.
"I may have not raised you like I wanted to, but I've taught you've enough in the time we have had together not to let people like Hook to manipulate you so easily. To do so something so stupid and dangerous. She could've killed you and Henry".
"You don't know that.."he tried to argue only for his mother's voice to
"No, I do know that. Because that has been my whole life Tom" she retorts "This life, we will always have people like the Wicked Witch looking for any weakness to exploit to use against us. It never ends. First it was your grandfather and then you and your father
"It was a mistake".
"A mistake you should've seen coming" she tells him "When emotions are running high we need to be the one's to think when other's can't. To weigh up the risks and rewards. Hook wasn't thinking when he brought you to that ward, in that moment he didn't care about what would happen to you or Henry. You should never have to pay his mistake".
"I can't-" she choked on the dark thoughts that passed through her mind, her sudden break made the teen look up at his mother to see a flash of pain go through her face as she shook the thoughts them out of her mind to continue "I can't always be there to save you Tom, and that terrifies me more than anything in the world" she admits to him.
The teen's heart squeezed uncomfortably as he saw the error of his ways in his mother's admission. She wasn't angry at him for breaking Zelena out, she was fearful of what the Witch could do to him or Henry down there in the ward, because it had happened once before. Before they were all brought back here/ When she was forced to tell him who she was to him.
"I was just trying to be brave like you" Tom tells her. The sentiment was meant to be compliment at the way she continued to stand up to people like Zelena and even her sister.
Her face softened at her son's voice as his head dropped ashamed for disappointing his mother this way. "I'm only brave when I have to be. Tom, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble".
"But you're not scared of anything" he argued looking up at her like he was the three year old toddler that adored his mother and father.
"I was today when Stasia told me where you were going".
"Even assassin's get scared I guess" he nervously chuckled out.
"Mm-hmm" Amelia hummed as she joined her son on the back of the couch.
"We'll always be together, right?" he asked her making the redhead smiled to herself making the teen's brow furrow in confusion "What?" he asks.
"You know I asked your grandfather that once".
"What did he tell you?".
"He told me what I told you when I gave you this" she says taking his hand into her's to pull back the sleeve of his jacket to reveal the leather cord that held Thor's Hammer "He also told me of a day he might not be able to protect me like he always did when I got into trouble. There would be a day that he would have to leave me, not out of choice, but because I was ready to face the world on my own one day" with her free hand she placed them under her dons' chin to make him look up at her.
"Tom, there is going to be a day, when you're going to have to face the world without me. One day I'm going to have to pay the same price everyone else does".
He knew what she meant making him snatch his head away from her touch to hide the pain that overcame his mind. He hated talking about it, even when he was still her apprentice.
"Romeo told me, that if that day ever came, that all I had to do was to look up at the stars whenever I felt alone and he would be there to guide me to the next star" she says talking his hand into her's "I need you to be ready for that day Tom, whether we want to talk about it or not, I'm not always going to be able to save you. I didn't train you, just so you could fight any villain that came along., I did it to make you stronger than me. So you don't make the same mistake I did. To make you stronger than I ever could be".
"I understand" he gulped with a firm nod as she swept away stray tear that left his eyes.
"Do you know what the best thing is about making a mistake?" she asked making him shake his head "That there's always a way to fix things, you just have to fight enough to find it, okay?".
"Okay" he choked out wiping the rest of his tears off his face to stand up with his mother.
"Come on, we've got a witch to find"
Letting herself into the Charming family's loft, the redheaded assassin sought out her friend inside the apartment
"Robin?" she called out for her friend as he came down the metal staircase with a children's book in his hand having gotten Roland off the sleep.
"Shh!" Robin shushed the Assassin as her head whirled around to see the man descending the metal stairs "I finally got him to sleep".
"I'm sorry" she sighed as he made it to the bottom taking his hand with her right hand "I was just worried" the Assassin told her friend.
"Why? What's wrong?" he asks her.
"Zelena. She got out" she tells him tugging on his hand "Come on. We have to get Roland and go. The others are waiting".
Smiling to himself, he could help seeing the protectiveness she still had over him and Roland despite the strain their friendship had been under since having to say goodbye to her at the town line. In her own way she still loved him.
"What?" Amelia suddenly asks him seeing the look on his face.
"No, I just... I like when you're concerned about me".
"I've just missed you that's all" Amelia lips quirked into a half smile letting out a relaxed breath taking his hand into hers which he gave willingly to the assassin he had completely fallen for "All that time without you, made me think that maybe I should've given you a second chance" the assassins head tilted forward to meet Robins with hooded lids as he was caught in the redhead's spell.
"At what?" the thief gently pressed.
"At us.." she trailed off as she slowly closes the distance between them, her lips barely touched his as he suddenly recoiled back in horror as he realized who it truly was under yet another glamour spell.
"Zelena?" Robin gasped in dismay.
A devilish smirk grows on her lips as a simple wave of her hand, the image of his friend changed into the woman that had killed his wife to take her place only to hurt the people the closest to him.
"Well done" she compliments the thief having seen through the spell "You really do love her, don't you? Funny that you couldn't tell when I was glamoured as Marian though"
"What do you want?" he demands out of the woman with gritted teeth.
"Why you, dear. See, you're the key to everything for me".
The group of hero's and villains led by Regina and Amelia walked down main street with determination within their ranks found Zelena in the middle of the road in front of the clock tower holding Robin hostage with her magic. The thief stood rigidly as he strained under the woman's power, his whole body was being constrained under a green magical hue.
"Hello, sis. Amelia" the Wicked Witch greeted the pair that were flanked by Charming couple, Hook, Henry, Tom, Anastasia and Belle behind them "I see you've fixed the clock. It would be a shame to break it again. Although, it might be fun to see Robin fly like one of his arrows".
"You lay another finger on him and I swear to all the gods I'll make what I did to my old family look like child's play" Amelia glowered opposite the Wicked Witch as her one remaining hidden blade slid out from her gauntlet on her left as Anastasia mirrored her sister's actions from behind her in the silent threat towards them.
Stepping forward Tom took his place next to his aunt keen to make up for his earlier mistake as he held up his fist against the Wicked Witch as two hidden blades slipped out of the gauntlets. All three assassin's armed and not afraid to fight whatever the witch would send their way.
"Oh, I'm not here to hurt Robin" she tells the overprotective assassin "I'm here to trade him for the apprentice's wand".
"What the hell do you want with this?" Regina asks her sister.
"I am tired of losing to you!" she yells at her younger half-sister "You continue to get everything!" she adds placing a loving hand on her growing belly "But now... now I have someone to love me and only me. See, this is my future, and I am not letting anyone take it from me or turn it against me. So I am going as far away from you, Amelia and Robin as possible... Over the rainbow, where you can't follow".
"Back to Oz?" Regina questions her sister.
"I may have been feared and despised there, but at least I was free. At least I was in control. So, if your loves wants her forest-smelling friend slash one night stand to live through the day, you will give me that wand".
"Don't even think about it" Hook called out to the Queen.
"You can't, Regina. Please" Mary Margaret was the next to protest as Regina saw Amelia flinch forward as Robin continued to choke under Zelena's magic.
"Ah ah ah" Zelena warns the Assassin off for making a move towards her former love "One more move and you'll never see him again" after a beat, with the real threat evident the redheaded assassin relaxed her forearm, the blade sliding back into place in her gauntlet as she made herself take a step back as Anastasia and Tom did the same.
"Good move dearies" Zelena smirked at them, knowing that she had won this battle.
Looking to her left the former Queen saw the defeated look on her partner's face, knowing that she had no other choice but to hand the wand over to her wicked half-sister.
"I have to" the former Queen tells the others.
Stepping forward as she hands her sister the wand as the Wicked Witch let's go of her hold of the thief. Catching the gasping thief she carried him over to Amelia who grabbed her best friend into her hands as she tried to find anything else the witch might've left on him, only to see that he okay.
"Lovely" Zelena gasped in delight of having the wand in her hand as she pulled the necklace she used to cloak herself as Marian from her pocket, holding it up high "Now, all it needs is a little direction. A trinket from home" she says looking towards her sister, relishing in her small victory over the her sister using the want to circle the pendant on the end of the necklace making it glow a bright emerald green.
"Now see me do what you weren't powerful enough to do yourself" she tells Regina before she flicked the wand to send the pendant in to the distance.
Amelia and others watched as a giant storm cloud grew in the distance with a green tinge in the eye of the storm as thunder and lightning originated at its the wand Zelena uses it to control the portal as Regina reached into her blazer pocket, giving Amelia a sharp nod in readiness of their next move.
The Wicket Witch controlled the storm for a mere few seconds until she lost control, the spell backfired sending the Witch backwards.
Making their move Amelia shot forward grabbing the wand out of Zelena's hand as Regina snapped the magic repressing wristband back on her sisters wrist as David and Anastasia ran forward to take a hold of the pregnant woman's arms, doing her best to get out of her captor's strong hold of her.
"God you're freakishly strong" Zelena growled at the blonde assassin who held her.
"What the hell happened?" Hook asked the Queen as Amelia handed her the wand back to her partner.
"What happened is I'm not stupid" she answered Hook as the former Queen's looked to her sister who continued to fight off David and Anastasia's hold on her "I knew you could open that portal, but I also knew it would weaken you. See, there's one thing our family does well, sis, and that's exploit pain. Now we're gonna take your portal, but we're not taking it to Oz".
"We're taking it to Emma" Amelia finished looking at Mary Margaret.
As the storm grew into a tornado as the united hero's and villain's made last minute preparations in Granny's to use as a mean's of transportation and base to whatever land they were about to end up in.
"Floyd, shut down the fryers" Granny instructed her line cook as she came out the back with a crate "Secure the condiments!" she ordered as Tom moved around the diner following instructions to ensure a safe journey as the wind outside picked up sending debris everywhere, before heading back to Roland and Henry.
That also meant finding a safe space to keep Senu in. It would be a bumpy ride for the human's let alone her eagle. Wherever, Emma was in this new land Senu would find her much faster than anyone would, and she wasn't going anywhere without her eagle to guide her. In a cage large enough for the adult eagle that she had 'borrowed' from the pawn shop, the assassin secured the cage under one of the tables in the booths.
"I know, I know" she tells Senu as the eagle pecks at the bars eager to be let out. She hated being contained. She had always been to fly to wherever she wanted to go. but she mainly stuck near the assassin as the redhead would often find her on the roof of the mansion a couple of times ever since she had started to stay over a number of days. Now that she and Tom had permanently moved in the eagle had taken to living in the tree in the front yard at night, keeping a a close guard of the boys' window's.
She hated doing this for her, but she couldn't risk her breaking a wing or worse in the approaching twister. She was meant to be free. The bird of prey seemed to calm down at her words as she reached into the cage to stroke the top of her head through the bars.
"I won't be for long. I'll have Granny cook up a nice rabbit for you when we get to wherever we need to be" hearing this the bird happily chirped at her owner before the redheaded assassin covered her over with a blanket from the Inn.
"Is she okay?" she heard Belle ask from behind her making the assassin turn to see her friend sat at the table as hell broke out around them. Granny was desperately trying to pick up anything she could save from going airborne.
"She will be" she says standing up from her place to see her aunt with the enchanted rose set into the glass dome "How's the old man?".
"Weak" Belle answered her friend.
"I'm sorry. But if I know my Uncle as well as I do, he'll be doing everything he can to get back to you, even cheat death".
"How do you know that?" the librarian asks her.
"Because I would be doing exactly the same thing" Amelia tells her giving her aunt a supportive squeeze of her shoulder. "Thanks for coming along".
"Don't move" Robin warned Zelena as he, David and Anastasia tied her securely to a chair, with the blonde enjoying herself just a little too much as she went to gag the Wicked Witch only for the Prince to stop her.
"Sorry, old habit" Anastasia sighed out in disappointment.
"I'm not sure my insurance covers this place going airborne" Granny tells Regina the redheaded assassin joins her and Mary Margaret holding baby Neal at the bar.
"We'll be fine" the Queen reassured her as the redhead make a quick fuss of the infant in his mother's arm, catching the image the former Queen couldn't help but think back to the conversation she and Amelia had before everything fell to pieces.
Was her partner really that desperate to have another child? She certainly doted on baby Neal whenever he was nearby and she adored Roland as well, but she just put that down to that just being Amelia. She loved children. She was so natural with them.
The real question, was she ready to start a family to call their own with the woman she loved in the chaos they called their lives.
"Well, Your Majesty, it's coming" Hook tells Regina from the door interrupting her thoughts "How do you suggest we get this cyclone to take us to Emma and not to Oz?".
"I'm not going back to OZ" Amelia told her partner with her hands on her hips shaking her head "There's nothing you can promise me in exchange for going back to OZ" a challenging brow rose on the Queen's face.
"Don't worry dear, we'll be using this" Regina takes out Emma baby blanket from her purse.
"Emma's baby blanket" Mary Margaret stated seeing the blanket in the former Queen's hands.
"I, uh, couldn't very well carry her yellow bug" Regina tells the former Princess "Ready?" with a nod from the Princess.
Everyone watched as Regina waved the Apprentice's wand over the baby blanket that belonged to the savior when she went through the wardrobe into this world. The white blanket shone gold as magic attached itself onto the material.
The door to the diner was suddenly opened to the dwarves making Roland jump and wrap his arms around Tom's legs as the sound of lighting scared him.
"Twister!" Leroy announced to the group as the Doc and Happy followed in behind the Grumpy dwarf. The sudden noise made Senu call out from her cage which made the assassin curse under her breath. She had just settled her.
"You've got to be kidding me" Regina mumbled to herself at thier arrival.
"Leroy!" Mary Margaret exclaimed "It's okay. We summoned it" the Princess reassured the dwarfs.
"You did?" he questioned her.
"It's taking us to Emma" she explained.
"Out dwarves, Adults only" Regina swiftly tells them with her partner stood beside her ready to throw them out if need be.
"No!" Grumpy protested standing up to the former Queen and her Widow.
"No?" his fellow dwarf Happy questioned his brother.
"We're staying" Grumpy stood his ground.
"We are?".
"We've been on the side-lines too long, sister" he complians to the former Princess "Missed too many adventures. Now it's embarrassing" he says as Senu calls out from her cage "You're even taking a bird over us!?" he exclaims hearing Amelia's eagle screech out in protest hearing the man's words.
"Yes!" Amelia spoke up to defend her bird "Because between you and Senu, she's more useful to us than all seven of you combined" she snipes at the man earning a hard glare from him before he looked to his only saving grace in Mary Margaret.
"How do you think it feels when everyone asks you how the adventure was, and you got to say that no one asked you to go along, that you weren't needed? We're not turning our back on you again, not even in the face of certain death"
"Thank you" Mary Margaret sighed out in appreciation to her old friends.
"Certain?" Happy spoke up again.
"You're seriously just going to let this happen" Amelia whispers to her partner "There's a reason they don't come" she tells her as the diner started to violently shake making everyone rush to the counter and grab onto it.
"Hold on tight, everyone!" Granny announced as the twister finally made it to the diner.
Everyone scrambled to the counter as Regina and Amelia quickly brought Roland to them, placing him between them with a protective hand each over the boys head as they held onto the counter for dear life as the diner was taken off the ground into the twister, with their son's either side of them.
"You did it" Henry tells his mother from over her shoulder.
The couple's eyes met in the chaos as a wide smile grew on the red head's face that was mirrored by Regina's as an excited laugh that the Queen loved the hear from the woman she loved whenever she jumped worlds.
This was going to be one hell of an adventure. And they couldn't wait to share it with each other
Meanwhile
"Now's the time" Rumpelstiltskin told they newest incarnation of the Dark One Emma Swan as Merida held the savior at arrow point in the middle of a stone circle "You want the wisp? There's only one way. Now do it".
"I'm not going to kill her" Emma tells the phantom Dark One as she battles the darkness that is fighting to come out.
"You got that right" the northern Isle woman tell her firing an arrow at Emma, who catches it before it strikes her heart. Taken back by the blonde actions Merida falls back to hide behind one of the stones that surrounded them.
"Go on. Use your anger. Use your power" the former Dark One goes on.
"I can talk to her" the blonde insists.
"You're a crazy woman. I don't want to talk" Medira pops out from behind one of the stones and fires another arrow at the woman who catches it again.
"You need to find Merlin, Dark One" Rumpelstiltskin tells Emma as Merida fires another arrow at the blonde "You need that wisp" this repeated as Emma continued to argue with the phantom Dark One. Above them the wide wing span of an eagle flew over the alternation as its cries echoed through the sky above them .
"Please, don't".
"Kill her. What are you waiting for? Kill her".
"Stop!" Emma yells as she uses her magic to grab the young redheaded girl in place making her gasps as Emma pulls her over with a magical force and rips out her heart.
"Excellent" the phantom Dark One encouraged her "Now. Crush it" he instructs her. Merida Gasps in pain as Emma squeezes the heart just as she hears a familiar voice.
"Swan" Hook called out to the blonde with a glowing heart in her hand "Don't".
Looking up she see's Hook running towards her with her family close behind her including her parents and Henry with Regina and Amelia close behind as Senu perches herself on one of the stones around them.
"What? How?" she questioned the new arrivals.
"It doesn't matter how" Hook took her attention again "Has anything ever stopped me before?".
"You don't know what's happening" the blonde tells her "This is the only way to find Merlin. He's the only one who can stop the darkness".
"Quite right" the phantom said from behind her "Crush it".
"The only way to protect all of you" Emma continued.
"But to stop the darkness, you're going to let it consume you" Regina stepped forward to speak to her.
"You don't know that" Emma argues earning a pointed look from the former Queen.
"We're not going to take the chance" Mary Margaret stated taking out the Dark One's dagger out the was engraved with her name on dark lettering.
"No, wait" Hook protested "You can't do that. This has to be her choice".
"Don't listen to them" the phantom spoke to her again "They don't understand what's at stake".
"You don't understand what's at stake" Emma repeated the phantom's statement "If I don't find Merlin, the darkness will destroy all of you".
"Emma, please. No".
"The dark one destroys everyone near it. Look at Gold. I can't do that to my family. And to you" Emma tells the man she loves "She has to die" Emma says squeezing the girl heart again making the young woman gasp out in pain.
"Listen to your words. It's not you speaking, Emma" Hook tells the woman he loved "We can find another way together. Look at us, heroes and villains together for you, because of you. And if we can overcome it, if we can overcome our so can you".
Merida gasps as Emma shoves the heart back into her chest and then hugs Hook as her family takes a collection sigh of relief at the bullet they had just missed.
As the family relaxed as they brought Emma back from the brink Amelia looked to the side to see Emma approaching Merida within the stone circle as the northern ilse woman looked outward into the forest. The corner of the Assassin's lip quirked up seeing how the young girl she had met all those years ago had grown into a strong young woman brave enough to face the Dark One head on.
It had been a long time since she and Romeo had visited DunBroch Castle in time for the Highland Games to win Merida's hand in marriage. King Fergus was good man and it showed in the way he ruled his clans. Her red hair fitted right into the family whereas it stood out from the crowd in Monteriggioni. She always wanted to return one day, but that opportunity was quickly taken from her by everything that had happened.
"You know her?" Regina's voice brought her out her thoughts as the former Queen saw her partner looking at the young redhead that Emma had nearly killed.
"I did" Amelia answered her partner.
Looking behind her Merida caught the eye of the woman that she had met when she was just young girl, she could see some darkness in her green eye's she didn't remember there being, but it seemed to have been washed out the brightness that remained.
Following Merida's gaze, Emma saw that Amelia had caught the younger redhead's eye as Merida mockingly curtsied at her keeping her gaze firmly on the female assassins that reminded her of the way she and Romeo had greeted the royals all those years ago that made her giggle. Rolling her eye's at her antics, the assassin greeted her old friend with a friendly wink that made the younger woman grin at her before running into the woods to catch the wisp she and Emma had been after, leaving Emma to return to her family that had followed her.
"Mom, Dad, this is too dangerous" Emma tries to warn them "You shouldn't have come" she told them
"We had to" David tell her daughter engulfing her in a fatherly embrace.
"You're our daughter" her mother tells her.
"Well, you don't look like a crocodile" Hook complimented the new Dark One.
"I guess I lucked out" she retorted.
"Here" Mary Margaret suddenly said taking out the Dark One's dagger, holing it out to her daughter "We think you should have this".
"Take it. You'll be able to control yourself" David tells her as she sees Rumpelstiltskin appears over her father's shoulder.
"No" she quickly declined.
"Emma, think about it" Hook spoke up "If it falls into the wrong hands, what it could do. What you could do..." the pirate trails off.
"The fight to control my darkness has just begun. It's too much power" she tells ehr parents and the man she loved before her gaze went to the two people among them that would be able to stop her "Someone needs to watch me".
Taking the dagger from her mother the new Dark One offers it to the couple knowing they would do what needed to be done if she ever got out of control. One that wouldn't be afraid to reign her in, and the other to push away any sentiment she had of the blonde do what she did before with her own Uncle, to defeat an enemy she had been trained to kill one day.
"Are you serious?" Regina questions the blonde taking the blade from her.
"She looks very serious honey" Amelia mumbled to her partner as the assassin stared the Dark One out with a raised brow.
"I saved you. Now save me" she tells Regina before looking at Amelia "And if you can't save me, do what no one else will willingly do. You're the only one who will get past their feelings and do what is necessary... Destroy me" she tell them.
"It won't come to that" Henry tells his mother falling in her arms.
"I know, kid" she tells her still looking at the Queen and Assassin "So, are you guys gonna tell me how y'all got here?".
"Well, it might be easier to show you" Hook replied holding his hand out for her to take.
With Senu leading the way, the group of hero's and villains walked Emma to where the diner had landed in the middle of the forest, a mound of dirt was the only thing that lead the up to the small building to replace the steps that usually sat at the bottom. The blonde had to smile to herself as she saw the bird that stuck near the redheaded assassin took a perch on the sign and hung off the diner letting out small chirps to announce their arrival.
"You brought Granny's..." Emma observed out load as they got nearer just as the owner herself ran out to greet them all.
"Backup generator's working, but the fryers are shot" the older woman announced as she came out to find Emma.
"And Granny" Emma added as Leroy ran out with his own announcement,
"Terrible news! No onion rings!"
"And Leroy"
"There's no shortage of people who want to help you" Mary Margaret told her as Robin, Anastasia, Belle carrying the enchanted rose Blue had given her, as well as Happy and Doc.
"The old woman has locked up the good liquor" Anastasia complained to her sister as the blonde assassin made her way to her sister.
Amelia went to reply only for her and Tom to see an additional passenger come stumbling out of the diner trying to figure out where she was until she heard Tom and the redheaded assassin call out her name.
"MJ!?" Amelia and Tom exclaimed in unison making the other's look up to see the girl Tom had been hanging around with back home there. The teem couldn't help the smile on his face seeing her there while his mother looked at the girl in a mix of confusion and annoyance. Hearing her name she finally saw everyone else looking back at her with a lazy smile on her face.
"Wild ride guy's" the girl yelled as she pushed her think curly hair back out of her eyes. Tom went to find her only for his mother to quickly grab his shoulder to pull him back.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Amelia growled out in annoyance as Regina joined her partner to question the girl. She shoudln't be here.
"I was..in the bathroom" they didn't get any more of an explanation as they heard the sound of horse hooves thundering towards them.
"What now?" Leroy asked for the whole group as they turned to face a groups of knights on horseback approach them.
"Stand back" Emma tells the rest as Amelia step forward with Anastasia ready to fight at a moment's notice while Regina kept Tom and Henry behind her with a hand keeping the teenager in place in case he thought about jumping into any fight. The knights came to stop a few meters away from them to look upon the people that have been promised to arrive.
His eye's seemed to linger on the redheaded assassin as a smile tugged the corner's of his lips before settling back on Emma.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Emma demanded out of them.
"I'm King Arthur of Camelot" the knight in the middle answered "We've come to find you".
"Find us?" Hook skeptically asked the King.
"My Lord, they think their arrival is a surprise" one of the King's knights tells him.
"You were expecting us" Mary Margaret states blinking in surprise.
"My lord" another knight calls out to their King "They bear the symbol of the Brotherhood" the knight points out the visible metal work that covered her gauntlets on her forearms.
Arthur looks towards the assassins as his smile grew wider, only to see their wiriness visible on their face. "Do not fret the Creed has always and will always be welcome in my kingdom".
"Thanks? I guess" Amelia trailed off.
"It was Merlin" King Aurther went on "He prophesied your coming here a long time ago, just as he prophesied many things".
"Merlin. Where is he?" Emma asked King Arthur "We were told that he's been missing".
"For years, yes. But not for much longer because according to his prophecy, you're destined to reunite him with us. Now, then, if you'll all follow me...".
"Where?".
"Why, Camelot, of course".
A fanfare of trumpets greeted the King of Camelot as he escorted the large party from Storybrooke over the bridge to the the golden gates of the stone castle. Banner's of the King's insignia stood flanked them as she walked beside her soulmate and sons.
The assassin's walked silently as they looked at every nook and window on the face of the castle while Tom looked up in awe. They were looking for anything they could use in a place that they knew nothing about to use to their advantage.
"Оn znayet Bratstvo"(He knows the Brotherhood) Anastasia spoke up from behind her sister as Roland walked along with his Auntie Amy, keeping a protective hand on his shoulder as they went along. Hear
"Ya slyshal" (I heard)Amelia answered making Regina look at her soulmate in a mixture of confusion in curiosity. She knew it was never a good sign whenever she and her sister spoke in their own language.
"Kak ty khochesh' igrat' v eto ?"(How do you want to play this?) the blonde Assassin asked.
"Smile politely until they try and kill us" Amelia replied in English as they passed through the giant gates.
Six Weeks Later
The ground rumbled beneath her shook as her eye fluttered open to find herself in the dark on the floor of Granny's with her back leaning against the counter as she saw the other's that had traveled to Camelot in clothes from the Enchanted Forest. Tom and Anastasia woke up groggily opposite her in blue and forest green assassin's robes with their normal gauntlets on their forearms, alongside, Robin and MJ as Senu angrily squawked from her cage under the booth.
Her eye's sort out her partner as she found David helping his wife up with their son nestled in his mother's arms as she saw Hook, Henry and Zelena. Finally green eye's met brown as they stared back at her with a mix of betrayal and anger in them.
"What the hell?" she heard the Queen trail off as Amelia looked at the Queen in bewilderment as she heard a voice call out to her from next to her.
"Amy?" turned her head she saw the man that had left his wife and son behind to find a life of his own staring back at her. His blue eye's met hers like they had thousands of times before, only this time there weren't full of love and wonder for her, but of worry and surprise.
"John" she instantly replied as he her slowly took her eye's off her's to trail down to her stomach. Following suit, her eye's found him staring at the noticeable bump that Regina and John had been staring at.
The set of robes that where a little different from the set she usually wore failed to conceal the secret she had been trying to keep from her partner until she couldn't anymore as her hand naturally sought out to cradle the firm a second look at the set of robes she wore they felt lighter somehow, like it wasn't really there. The whiteness almost shone in the darkness of the diner as if the sun was reflecting off the clean white material that sat on her like a second skin.
"Come here" the Captain whispered as he helped his wife off the floor, with everyone's eye's seemed to catch on to what Regina was looking at. One by one, everyone saw the thing that the assassin didn't want anyone knowing about her. Not until she had built up the courage to tell the most important person about what had happened.
"Bloody Hell" Hook drawled out in surprise seeing the woman like this as Zelena just smirked at the her sister's love from her place.
She never wanted the ground to swallow her up as much as she did just then as the door to the diner opened allowing Sneezing and Bashful to enter to see the return of the town's hero's and villains after a quiet six weeks.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sneezy asked everyone taking their attention off Amelia for a minute or two as John tried his best to comfort the pregnant assassin. Tearing her eye's off her partner, the redhead felt the sting of rejection as the former Queen focused her attention on the dwarfs.
"What happened?" Mary Margaret countered holding Neal close to her.
"We're back" David said outload from next to his wife.
"This doesn't make any sense. We were just walking into Camelot" Regina recalled everyone last memory as Tom slowly walked over to his mother and father.
"What the hell are we wearing?" Leroy spoke up at his outfit before he spoke to his brother "Sneezy, what happened? How long were we gone?".
"Six weeks" Sneezy informed everyone.
"What?" Regina gasped in shock.
"Our memories... they're gone" David said outload
"Damn it!" the assassin spat out in frustration "Again" she added with a sigh.
"Where's Emma?" Hook said the one question no one had thought of yet.
"Relax" her voice came from the door making the group snap their head towards the sound to see Emma dressed in dark leather staring at them with bleach blonde hair tied back "I'm right here".
Amelia felt sick to her stomach as she gripped John's arm. The darkness rolled off the savior as she stood in front of them. Tom could feel it too as he stood with Anastasia, the latter having to hold the teen back from doing something stupid.
"Mom?" Henry spoke up "What happened to you?".
"Isn't it obvious?" Emma said taking a step into the diner "You went to Camelot to get the darkness out of me" she said stroking her mothers cheek as Amelia heard the audible gasp come from the former princess "And you failed" she stated as Sneezy suddenly sneezed making the Dark One snap her head towards the dwarf wearing her leather jacket.
"What the hell are you supposed to be?" she questions the dwarf.
"Ah..." Sneezy didn't get a chance to sneeze again as Emma turned him into stone.
"There's no saviour in this town anymore".
"Hey!" Amelia barked at the Dark One taking a brave step forward taking the blonde making her look at her "Pick on someone your own size Dark One" the assassin seethed out the last two words through her teeth as Emma heard two hidden blade slip out of the woman's gauntlets "Or you'll have me to deal with".
The Dark One seemed to stare at the blade on the assassin's right blade for a second or two remembering what had happened to it during their time in Camelot. The assassin had left Storybrooke with one broken from when she stabbed the Apple of Eden and now it had been replaced by a slender blade that shone in the darkness.
"You're one to talk Assassin" Emma blankly blinked at her "Always the one to stand and fight but you were too scared to tell the woman you love about that" Emma pointed to her bump.
"I'm not scared of you" Amelia tells the woman bluntly.
"Maybe you should be this time" Emma stoically warned the assassin without missing a beat.
"Emma, stop" Regina said stepping in front of her partner to break the line of sight "That's enough" she sternly tells the woman.
"Or what?".
"Or I'll do exactly what you asked me to" she says reaching for the Dark One dagger at her side and finds it missing.
"Looking for this?" Thunder rumbles in the sky as Emma produces the dagger in her hand angling it at Regina's neck "Nobody's gonna touch this dagger but me" she warns them.
Rounding the frozen Queen she walks past the defiant assassin behind the Queen bumping her shoulder as she walked to Hook "Now, for what you all did to me... You're about to be punished".
"Emma. Why are you doing this?" Hook asks his love.
"Because... I am the Dark One" she darkly states for disappearing a cloud of dark smoke, leaving the group of hero's and villains behind.
What the hell happened in Camelot?.
AN: Annnd we made it!
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