The Forbidden Fortress. It was a very exclusive, hidden... well, forbidden mountain that had a castle which was home to a certain wicked fairy which was given to her from her own mother before her after the agonizing and bitter taste of defeat and now it was up to her daughter to try to live up to the legacy her mother laid out for her and soon she would do the same with her own children. A woman who was obviously from the sea had come by and knocked out a guard before he could see her with one of her tentacles and she appeared to be carrying a sound asleep baby inside of a sling against her chest.

"Stop," A voice demanded, making the sea woman stop in her tracks and she was faced by another woman who looked unhappy with her. "Just who the hell might you be?"

The sea woman glowered and sent her tentacles out to grab a hold of the woman, but she held out a scepter to prevent it, so the tentacles got tangled in that. "Ursula. But you can call me Your Majesty."

"I don't bow down to fish." The dark woman scoffed as she held her scepter as strongly as she could.

"Who are you?" Ursula soon wondered as they tried to fight each other.

"I'm the person whose valet you either knocked out, strangled, or tried to impregnate," The horned woman retorted. "I don't know what those tentacles are for.

"We were invited here. What's your excuse?" Ursula retorted and demanded.

"We?" The dragon woman retorted.

"Yes..." Ursula nodded as she showed the sling for a brief moment to show the baby girl sleeping inside. "My little seastar, Uma. You will remember her name."

"Uma? Really?" The dragon woman smirked.

"Because she's number one and it was that or Uliana." Ursula smirked back.

"Well, this is mine and my own little dragon's home." The woman retorted, grunting a bit.

"So why did you send for us?" Ursula demanded.

"Believe me, I did not send for you." The dragon woman countered.

"Then what-" Ursula began to ask only for them to hear barking dogs and there appeared to be two Dalmatian puppies and one of them had a red ribbon on its head.

Both women braced themselves with their scepter and tentacle only for a third woman to come out and stop that. The Dalmatian puppies barked louder and louder as they came closer, but they weren't going to attack or bite at least.

"I wouldn't do that," The mysterious woman advised as she stepped forward. "Don't worry. They don't eat fish or dragon. Unless I tell them to," she then got down on her hands and knees and breathed some sort of green mist from her throat to calm down the dogs. "Thank you, my darlings. A wonderful job. I'll take it from here. Now who's gonna tell me what in the Hell I'm doing in this ghastly place?" she then added and demanded.

"Lovely question, because this 'ghastly place' is my home, and I didn't ask for any visitors." The dragon woman countered, mocking her for referring to her home in such a way.

"I received specific instructions." The thin and bony woman defended.

"As did I." Ursula added.

"I don't care. You're trespassing," The dragon woman glared at both of them. "And do you know what I do with trespassers?"

"Don't even think it." Ursula glared sternly.

"Hello, um, could someone tell me why I'm here?" A fourth woman asked as she stepped over to see what was going on.

"I hate surprise parties," The dragon woman glared. "That's it, I'm going to grind all of your bones to make bread for me and my little dragon."

"Now, now, ladies. Don't tear each other apart," A certain man advised as he stepped in from the shadows. "I need you all in one piece... Or rather, four pieces."

"Rumplestiltskin. It was you." The dragon woman glared once she realized what was going on.

"Guilty." Rumple smirked as he bowed before the four women.

"Someone wanna tell me why I left the sea for this?" Ursula asked with a scoff.

"Oh, yes. The reason for this little tete-a-tete-a-tete... A-tete... We all have something in common, apart from mutual distaste," Rumple explained. "We're villains. And it's time the villains got their happy endings as we owe it to the stories told before us."

All of the women looked curious and thoughtful about that.

There was then suddenly the faint crying of a baby heard, causing the dragon woman to sigh. "Please excuse me and make yourselves at home." she then told the others wearily.

The women looked at each other then and soon Rumple brought out what appeared to be his own baby who glanced curiously at his surroundings.

Everyone then met up in the lounge area to sit down and talk as the dragon woman brought out a purple-haired baby who had been crying until she waved her hand, making a bottle appear, and then she put it in the baby's mouth to "shut her up".

"Now then, this happy ending shenanigan you're promising us, can you really do that?" The woman with the dogs known as Cruella asked Rumple once they came to discuss what just happened. "Are you really that powerful?"

"Yeah, he's powerful, but not that powerful." The dragon woman stated as she seemed to know.

"No one is." The frizzy haired woman remarked.

"Love how you underestimate me," Rumple remarked as he set the baby boy down on the floor so that he could crawl around. "Adorable.

"What exactly are you offering, Shortstuff?" Cruella demanded.

"Only the answer to all your prayers." Rumple reassured them.

"I'm not exactly the religious sort." Cruella replied.

"Shocked." Rumple teased and smirked.

Cruella glowered from her seat and walked right toward the impish man, looking right down at him to make eye contact. "Look. I was quite content with my life until I received this summons, and I do not appreciate being dragged around on false promises." she then snarled.

"Nothing false about it, dearie," Rumple reassured as he pointed to all of the women surrounding him. "I know exactly what you want, and you, and you, and especially you."

"Really?" Maleficent scoffed.

"Really," Rumple nodded and confirmed. "But don't worry. I'm not one to betray trusts, so your secrets can remain your own. What I will share is what we all have in common... A desire for happiness. A desire to do what villains can never do. To win, especially for future generations. And I'm here to show you how, together."

"Even if we would work together, no spell known to man or woman can do what you're saying." The frizzy-haired woman remarked.

"Of course not, dearie, but we're not looking for a spell. We're looking for a curse. A dark curse," Rumple reassured and faced all of the women. "One that, if you help procure it, can get each and every one of you exactly what you want... Your... Happy... Ending."

"Where do we have to go and what do we have to do?" The frizzy-haired woman demanded urgently. "I must know what happened to-"

"Why don't you just come with me and we'll see what further we can do?" Rumple suggested as he scooped up the wandering baby boy who looked at the purple-haired girl who was currently being fed and she glanced back at him thoughtfully.

The four women looked at each other and knew that this would take some time and trust.

"The curse resides here... Bald Mountain. It's protected by a variety of lethal magic obstacles..." Rumple was heard saying as he brought the women to a special location with him and the infant he brought with him, carrying a lit torch in his other hand. "Obstacles that suit your very specific talents. Blood scarabs. The only thing stronger than their venom is their bloodlust. Cruella, I believe with your powers of persuasion they'll be as harmless as puppy dogs."

The woman smirked, knowing exactly what to do as she approached one of the insects and breathed the strange green mist on it that smelled about as pleasant as cigarette smoke. "I've got a little job for you, darling. Now run along and tell the others." she requested from the bug in her hand before it skittered away and went to do what was asked of it.

Once that bug left, it spread the message from Cruella and soon they all disappeared, opening the door for them.

"That's how it's done, darlings." Cruella boasted after using her special skill as they then walked through the door to the next level.

"The dark curse... darker than The Queen of Spades in Wonderland," Rumple told the women as he was about to throw the baby in his arm until the baby whined and fussed as though trying to tell him something. "Oh, I'm sorry about that, son, I forgot you were here a moment," he then told the infant before tossing the torch into the fire to make the flame bigger. "Fire. Forged from the breath of dragons hotter than a flock of Firebirds. Maleficent, I believe this is your area of expertise." he then signaled the dragon woman.

Maleficent nodded as she soon approached the fire and made it stand big and tall as she raised her arm in the air, allowing the fire to embrace both her and the infant in her own arms. Rumple's infant seemed concerned about the baby girl with Maleficent, but no one else appeared to be. They both soon sucked in the fire, dousing it out right away. The frizzy-haired woman was about to approach the baby girl as she felt the need to be concerned about her.'

"I'm fine, Cassandra, back off," Maleficent scoffed at the woman before she scoffed at Rumple next due to what she had to do. "Next time, maybe something challenging."

"And now... Ursula... If you don't mind." Rumple then signaled once the fire was out of the way and there was an orb standing in the distance.

Ursula smirked as she held her baby girl in both her arms and lashed out her tentacles to grab the orb and handed it to the impish man. "Is this what you're looking for?" she asked slyly.

"Indeed~" Rumple grinned, accepting the orb.

The baby boy soon oohed at the orb and was about to try to put it in his mouth.

"Now, now, that's not a bedknob~" Rumple tutted and advised as he kept the orb away from him and began to take his leave as the mountain rumbled.

"What the hell?" Maleficent murmured.

"What is going on?" Cruella added.

"I'm leaving with my prize. And you? Uh, you're about to die. I forgot to mention there's one more thing guarding the curse," Rumple told the women. "The Chernabog... An ancient demon that feeds on evil. It seeks out the heart with the greatest potential for darkness and devours it. That's why I really needed you four. Adieu."

"What?! You said you would help reunite me with the one I lost all those years ago!" Cassandra cried out and demanded. "We had a deal!"

"You can't go back on a deal with Rumplestiltskin but Rumplestiltskin can go back on a deal with you~" Rumple teased and giggled as he left with the baby boy in his arm as he watched the women along with the children they had brought with them.

The puppy dogs beside Cruella whimpered and whined before they seemed to briefly flash with the collars around their necks and resembled a pair of human children who were very scared and nervous right now.

Suddenly, Ben's hazel eyes flashed open after the annoying ringing sound and he looked over, slamming his hand down on his alarm clock on the nightstand beside him. "What a weirdly specific dream sequence..." he murmured to himself.

"Benjamin! Gabrielle! Breakfast!" Belle called out.

"Oh, boy!" Ben smiled and soon rushed out of bed to get some breakfast and start his day along with everyone else in Storybrooke.

"So, any plans besides going back to school today?" Belle asked as she shared some homemade french toast with Ben and Gabrielle while the brown-haired boy gave Oliver his own breakfast.

"Well, Sophie's actually gonna come into school today." Ben remarked.

"Sophie?" Belle wondered thoughtfully. "Do I know her mother?"

"I don't think so, Mom, Sophie's kind of a mystery kid in Storybrooke, but she said she would like to help bring back Jane's mom and the other fairies." Ben shrugged before he came back over to the table to sit down and eat his breakfast.

"And I'm gonna hang out with kids like Felicity Forte and Claire Cadenza." Gabrielle added.

"Well, I hope that goes well for you both," Belle remarked and nodded. "Captain Jones and I will try to do what we can in the library to help the fairies too."

"I just hope Jane's okay..." Gabrielle commented. "Where's she staying anyway?"

"With Ms. Lotus and the others who are staying with her too," Ben explained. "Carlos offered to have her stay for a while."

"Somehow, I think I know why~" Gabrielle whispered and giggled as she had a sneaking suspicion.

The family then tucked into their breakfast before they would start a brand new day in Storybrooke.

Everyone was attempting to go back to their lives and the way things were after the defeat of Ingrid and the banishment of Mr. Gold. Also, of course, the Christmas celebration that everyone was awarded with as a thank you from The Guardians of Childhood. Things were different in Storybrooke as well beyond that and one of the new classes in school was Introduction by Magic taught by none other than John Darling as he stayed in town along with his siblings in an attempt to adjust to new lives after their infamous adventures in Neverland with Peter Pan. In the Mayor office, Regina was unpacking her stuff. She suddenly burnt Mary Margaret's bluebird picture, enjoying watching it slowly burn. At the Charming family's loft, Evie was looking after Baby Leo to try it out. Emma said goodbye to her brother and left until she joined Killian and they met Belle at the library.

Ben was in the school library along with Sophie, looking more and more frustrated. "Oh, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot." he then grunted and complained, slamming his hands on the table and sighed sharply.

"Sounds serious," Sophie commented about how Ben reacted. "In an Archie Andrews kind of way."

"Six weeks and nothing," Ben complained as he sounded very unhappy. "They're still trapped inside that stupid hat."

"Whoa, 'stupid'? Sheesh, Ben, you taking lessons from those Isle of the Lost kids in Neverland?" Sophie replied.

"Sophie, please, this is hard enough already..." Ben retorted wearily as he looked back at her. "We can't figure something out, Mom can't figure something out..." he then listed and reminded her.

"Look, we just have to keep at it, okay? But we will find a spell to release the fairies," Sophie reminded him. "I mean, these translations are difficult and your mom's reached out to some of the finest minds in the world, and one of them will get back to us. I know it."

"I guess so..." Ben sighed. "I mean, at least Nova and Tinkerbell were spared."

"And Jane." Sophie added.

"Yes, Jane too, my dad always says miracles do happen..." Ben nodded before he sighed a bit. "Oh, Dad..."

Sophie looked back at Ben in slight concern.

"Dad, did you even love me? Love Mom?" Ben mused softly as he glanced out the window. "...we should've seen right through you."

"Your dad loves you and your mom, Ben, and even your new sister and cat." Sophie reassured him.

"Sometimes I'm not so sure..." Ben shrugged. "...I don't even know if I know what love even is..."

"Ben..." Sophie said softly as she looked at him. "Your father loves you, he may have his issues, but he does love you."

"He always gave me tough love over the years..." Ben sighed and nodded. "I know he loves and cares about me, but it hasn't been easy and there's also stuff going on with Audrey."

"...Do you wanna talk about it?" Sophie asked.

"...no, at least, not right now," Ben sighed softly. "Let's try to keep looking, okay?"

"Well, all right..." Sophie shrugged and nodded. "Why don't we try the internet?"

Ben merely hummed at that before shrugging and they went over to the nearest computer.

"I know you had problems with your dad and even your mother did too, but he did love you." Sophie reassured Ben as best as she could.

"And, uh, now he's gone from our lives forever," Ben said softly. 'Like Mal,' he added in his head. "Yeah, I... I just, I uh... I just hope he's found whatever it is he's looking for." he added aloud to Sophie.

Evie continued to babysit Leo, soon putting the baby boy down for a nap. She then flinched as her phone suddenly vibrated and she went to leave the room quickly and quietly so Leo wouldn't wake up from the loud buzzing sound and went to the bathroom to have more privacy. "Hello?"

"Evie, Sophie thinks she found a way to free the fairies." Ben said urgently on the phone.

"Really? Are you sure?" Evie asked with wide eyes.

"Yeah, Mom found some sorta spell from an ancient language and there's a ceremony that needs to go on." Ben explained.

"So, are we gonna have some kinda Free the Fairies Day then?" Evie wondered.

"We might, it includes a ceremony and we'll need to get Jane involved too of course." Ben nodded and then added.

"Well, at least there's one silver lining in that cloud." Evie said, sounding proud and relieved.

Meanwhile, into the woods, everyone was gathered including Jane very obviously while Carlos stood beside her as well as Dude.

"Here." Belle told Regina, handing the woman the dagger that would be needed to complete this.

"You got it?" Emma asked the dark-haired woman.

Regina: I got it," Regina nodded. "Are you ready, Jane?"

"Just remember, I'm still training," Jane remarked. "I'm going to be a fairy godmother someday."

"You'll be a wonderful one." Carlos reassured her.

"Thanks, Carlos." Jane smiled at him, though she didn't look 100% happy.

Regina and Jane soon both came together while everyone else backed up away from them. Regina used the dagger and her own magic on the great hat of Yen Sid and Jane helped out with her own magic wand and whispered three magic words to ignite her own fairy magic. Everyone else waited for as long as they could as it took some time, but fortunately not a painfully long time.

"Bibbidi... Bobbidi... BOO!" Jane soon said and the final word echoed as her wand glowed and she shot the hat with one last jolt of magic.

Everyone braced for the impact as the hat glowed brightly after that. Nearly everyone was pushed back and Harry held onto Carla protectively. Dude yelped as some other sort of magic seemed to hit him that no one else saw or realized yet. Fortunately, within moments, there was a surge of magic and the fairies were all brought back in one piece, holding onto each other and soon saw that they were all safe and sound back home

"Yes! We got the fairies back!" Harry cheered.

"Which one of you kids is Captain Hook's son?" Perla soon asked as she walked over to the teenagers.

"Over here." Carlos pointed out as Harry waved his hand.

"Guilty as charged~" Harry added with a grin. "Would you like my autograph?"

"No, but I would like your father's so we can book some dental appointments for you since I've been out of work for a while and I hear that the dentist doesn't exist where you folks come from." Perla clarified and then handed him a card for an upcoming dentist appointment for later this week.

"Aww, man!" Harry complained once he was given a card to go and see the dentist with. "Just because Barbossa has a little bit of plaque..."

Mother Superior sighed in relief and looked around once she saw where she and the other fairies had ended up, then looked instinctively over to Emma. "Thank you." she said to the blonde woman.

"You all right?" Emma asked softly.

"No. I'll live, but being in there with... and without..." Mother Superior replied breathlessly. "Thank you."

"Actually, you should thank the mayor and your daughter." Emma suggested.

"Welcome back." Regina added.

"Um, hi, Mom." Jane waved to the older woman from where she stood with Carlos and Dude.

"Thank you..." Mother Superior sighed and nodded and soon hugged the teenage girl right away. "Oh, my darling little Jane, I missed you so much."

"Of course, Mom," Jane replied with a bit of a clumsy smile. "I missed you too."

Everyone was glad that peace had been restored in their town now that the fairies were back, but without anyone knowing or seeing it, a monster escaped from Yen Sid's hat.

Later, everyone met up at Granny's Diner as Jane and Mother Superior sat across from each other and the fairies came to get something to eat and reassure the others that they were alive and well.

"Whoa. Beware of lurking pirates," Emma remarked as she approached him. "What are you doin'?"

"Just thinking." Killian said softly.

"Lurking and brooding. That's a classic combo," Emma noted and nodded. "I think heroes can do a little bit of bragging and celebrating. Let's go. It's a party. We should... Buckle some swash or, you know, whatever." she then suggested.

Killian smirked before sighing. "I'm hardly a hero. The fairies were only in the hat because I put them there." he then said.

"You weren't in control of that. That was Gold," Emma reminded him. "Trust me. You have a mark in the hero column."

"I hope so." Killian said softly.

"Come on." Emma replied urgently before luring him over to the others.

In the meantime, the Mills family gathered after a certain item was recovered that needed to be discussed.

"Go on, Mom. Ask." Henry encouraged.

"But ask politely." Evie added.

Regina nodded at both of her children and soon approached the adult woman fairy with a book in her arms. "Excuse me. May I ask you something?" she then asked the other woman.

"What can I do for you?" Mother Superior replied calmly.

"Do you know what this is?" Regina countered as she brought out the book and set it down on the table.

"Isn't that a book?" Jane shrugged.

"Yeah, it is, but there's a little more to it than that." Evie nodded.

Mother Superior opened the book only to see completely blank pages which bewildered her. "Where did you get this?" she then asked the Mills family.

"The Sorcerer's mansion," Emma explained. "Henry found dozens of these blank books there."

"The Sorcerer is here?" Mother Superior wondered.

"Well, his house is, but we haven't found him yet." Henry explained.

"You're looking for him?" Mother Superior asked. "I suppose you found Mother Goose too?"

"Someone please tell me that's a coincidence..." Emma begged about Mother Goose.

"Well, I was hoping he could... Write me a happy ending and legacy for Evie," Regina explained softly. "But that book seems to have great power."

"Oh, it does." Mother Superior nodded.

"So I thought if he rewrote it..." Regina shrugged and tried to explain with a small smile, though she began to feel like she was losing Mother Superior's support or help. "I know it sounds crazy."

"It's not crazy at all, but you're looking for the wrong person," Mother Superior reassured her and informed. "Although The Sorcerer is a very powerful wizard, you should be looking for the author."

"They aren't the same person?" Evie wondered.

"I guess not." Jane merely remarked as she ate some pumpkin pie.

"Why would The Sorcerer have the author's books?" Regina wondered.

"That is a quite perplexing question. And I'm afraid I do not know," Mother Superior replied. "But I do know that they are two very different people."

"So... You know who the author is?" Evie asked hopefully.

"No. But I do know he exists. I mean, if he is a 'he'," Mother Superior replied quizzically. "I've never actually seen him. In fact, no one has. Not for many years. Same with Mother Goose."

"Figures." Emma muttered about probably meeting Mother Goose in an another adventure down the road.

"So this is where hope has gotten me?" Regina lamented softly.

"Mom..." Evie frowned in concern.

"We'll find him, Regina. It's not like he just vanished," Emma insisted to the other woman before facing the fairy they had to talk to. "Blue, do you have any idea why he might've disappeared?"

"Sadly, no, but there are whispers that he left hidden clues in some of his works." Mother Superior remarked.

"You mean, works like Henry's book?" Emma asked, trying to get an idea.

"Also who's Sophie supposed to be?" Evie wondered.

"Sophie?" Mother Superior repeated curiously, but before anything else could be said or done...

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!" A monstrous scream was heard from outside, startling everyone inside but not as much as everyone else outside.

The lights were even flickering on and off as everyone felt a shaking all around them.

Emma: What the hell was that?" Emma muttered.

"Whatever it is, it's our next monster to face in Storybrooke." Evie suggested.

"Again?" Jane asked wearily.

"I suppose we should go out and see what's killing property values this time." Regina advised to the others.

And so, they came outside of Granny's Diner and found some sort of teenage monster on the clock tower. Everyone else on the streets was running away as the heroes looked up on the clock tower to see the teenage monster and it even seemed to have giant wings with horns on their head and had heavy metal music playing next to it. It soon saw people looked right over and it let out a monstrous scream. It then flew right off of the clock tower, swooping around the heroes, mostly the teenagers as everyone ducked for cover and hid behind a car. Emma and the others then ran away and went to hide away and come up with a plan.

"Did that thing come out of the hat?!" Regina wondered in alarm. "I thought the spell was only supposed to release the fairies."

"It is! Jane said so and she's a Good Fairy!" Evie nodded.

"Well, maybe it is some kind of fairy." Mary Margaret suggested.

"Well, whoever they are, they should turn the music down!" David said before yelling out. "HEY! TURN THAT RACKET DOWN! YOU'RE CAUSING UNWANTED NOISE POLLUT-"

The monster teen snarled and breathed fire, causing David to yelp and duck away.

"Nice..." Evie remarked and rolled her eyes until an idea hit her. "Hey, guys, why don't we just put it back in the hat and figure out the rest later?" she then wondered.

"Because we can't," Ben explained regretfully. "Once something's freed, it can never be retrapped."

"Great. So our best defense against magical beasts follows the same rules as chicken pox?" Emma scoffed.

"Surely Th Savior and Evil Queen can defeat a simple hell beast." Harry suggested.

"Don't call my mother evil." Evie frowned at that.

"Isn't that her name?" Harry shrugged.

"Harry..." Killian called to his son.

"Oh, okay, I'm sorry..." Harry frowned. "But maybe you guys can try to stop him."

"Well, it won't hurt to try, right?" Emma shrugged.

"All right, come along then and please, let's drop the E word already." Regina suggested and then added in slight annoyance, causing Harry to look sheepish.

"Are you gonna help too, Evie?" Emma asked the blue-haired girl.

"Uh, I don't know how much I can help, but I'll see what I can do." Evie replied.

"You have more power than I ever will." Sophie remarked softly.

Evie frowned a bit as she came after her mother and Emma, straying a bit further behind as she would only step in to help them if she absolutely needed to.

The two women stepped out, nodded at each other, and then blasted magic straight from their hands to shoot down the Teenabog right away. The devilish delinquent screeched and soon flew away with his boombox in annoyance.

"Well, that was easy."

"Yeah... what's up with the Teenabog?" Evie wondered.

"Teenabog?" Regina and Emma repeated curiously.

"Teen Chernabog..." Evie explained before shrugging. "Thought that was kind of obvious."

"Ohh." Regina and Emma then said.

"So, uh, is he really gone?" Evie wondered.

"Don't get excited. We only stunned it," Regina explained. "And a blast like that should've destroyed it."

"I was just getting used to things being relaxing around here," Emma sighed before looking over at a certain adult woman. "Belle?"

"I'll see if I can find anything about this thing in the library." Belle decided suddenly.

"Can we help?" Ben asked about himself and Sophie.

"Well, since Gabrielle is with some friends, I suppose that would be fine." Belle replied thoughtfully.

"Thanks. And, Mary Margaret?" Emma nodded and then prompted her mother.

"I'll get everyone to safety," Mary Margaret replied. "I'm on that."

"Wow. You guys really have this down." Emma stated.

"Well, this isn't our first monster bash." Killian reminded her.

"We do the Monster Bash, the Monster Ba-" Harry sang and attempted to dance.

"Harry." Killian suddenly said, making his son stop.

"Well, now that that's settled, what say you and I figure out a way to clip this bat's wings before it comes back?" Regina asked Emma.

Emma nodded as she decided to go along with that.

"...where is Leo?" Mary Margaret then suddenly asked Evie.

"Taking a nap." Evie replied.

Mary Margaret beamed as she patted the blue-haired girl on the head and took off.

"Evie, you coming with us?" Regina asked her daughter.

"...Let me just make a quick stop first." Evie replied.

Regina blinked before nodding. Evie then suddenly poofed away and exited in a way her mother would and then came back holding Baby Leo's diaper bag and kept the baby in a stroller, looking like the perfect babysitter.

"Impressive, my dear," Regina nodded. "You have this babysitting stuff down?"

"Well, I might have to take a parenting class or something, but this will at least be like when Henry and I would play together until we both got older." Evie remarked and explained.

"I'm so proud of you~" Regina mused, making Evie beam under her mother's acceptance.

"Why don't you just ask Mary Poppins' kids for help?" Emma attempted to joke.

"Oh. You mean Polly and Molly Poppins?" Evie asked Emma out of intrigue.

"...this town is going to kill all of my braincells..." Emma muttered before they left and went to Regina's office.

They eventually came to Regina's office. Evie kept Leo asleep as he was still napping, but would keep an ear out for any crying since she was babysitting right now and was also going to try to help her mother and Emma. After a while, Regina was given a call on her phone. After a while, the dark-haired woman looked a bit surprised and concerned, but wasn't purely afraid.

"Regina, who is it?" Emma asked.

"The Sea Bitch~" Regina smirked.

"Oh, you mean that woman Vanessa that Melody's dad dated during The Dark Curse when Ariel was in Neverland?" Evie asked.

"I've missed you, too. How are you?" Ursula asked on the other line.

"Mostly wondering how a plate of undercooked calamari ended up with The Dark One's cell phone." Regina replied.

"My daughter stole it from him." Ursula stated simply.

"Mom?" Evie called softly and gestured to the phone and herself and Emma.

Regina put the phone on speaker, sitting with both her guest and daughter once she understood what Evie was trying to tell her. "And where is he now?" she then asked casually.

"If we're lucky, probably passed out at the dive bar where Cruella, Cassandra, and I left him." Ursula explained.

"Cruella and Cassandra?" Regina repeated.

"Who's Cassandra?" Evie wondered to herself.

"Well, I know who Cruella is at least." Emma shrugged.

"Yes, we're back together. Rumple found us in New York, said he needed some old friends," Ursula nodded as she explained more to the former Evil Queen. "Told us a tearful tale about how he was living in a quaint town until he ruined everything, but he said it was a special place where villains could find redemption. Regina, Rumplestiltskin told us how you've changed, and we've changed, too and want good stories for our own descendants just like you. We've learned our lessons, and we'd like a chance to prove it to you. Please. Let us in."

"Sorry, dear, but..." Regina shook her head, trying to play it cool. "We have enough problems without inviting three-"

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" A roar was heard from outside yet again much to the shock of Regina, Emma, and Evie.

"Man, Teenabog strikes again." Evie murmured with wide eyes.

"Is one of those problems a hell-bat with beady eyes and devil horns?" Ursula asked Regina.

"How did you know that?" Regina asked, slightly in horror.

"Because that's the exact same sound it made before it tried to kill me and my little Seastar." Ursula clarified.

"Oh... so you've faced this creature before?" Regina wondered.

"Yes, and I can tell you exactly what it wants if it's anything like the species it descended from." Ursula nodded and explained.

"How convenient." Regina snarked.

"They've been living in a land without magic. How could they do it?" Emma reminded and pointed out in a whispered voice.

Evie looked wide-eyed once she had a theory. "It's Yen Sid's hat." she then noted.

"I know," Regina whispered back and scoffed a bit before she spoke up again to talk to Ursula. "Fine. Tell us what it wants."

"And then you'll let us in?" Ursula asked.

"Even if I wanted to, I couldn't." Regina replied.

"Well, then I guess you're on your own." Ursula shrugged and Regina was about to hang up.

"Come on! Come on!" Evie frowned as she tried to think of a way to fix this.

"Wait. The Snow Queen's scroll let her into Storybrooke once," Emma suddenly said, stopping Regina from hanging up. "Maybe it'll work for them."

"All right, Squid. If your information pans out, we'll consider letting you in," Regina then said, moving Emma's hand out of the way. "Those are my terms."

There was a few moments of silence between everyone and Evie even felt on edge as she could hear Leo crying because the Teenabog probably woke him up.

"You've got a deal." Ursula finally said.

Emma, Regina, and Evie all looked relieved. Evie then excused herself to go check on Leo as the poor baby boy was crying and stressed out right now. Evie also looked stressed herself since a crying baby wasn't for those who were faint at heart. After she checked on him, she decided to bring him out to the adult women who were discussing what to do next and what she heard was rather disturbing.

"Regina, I'm not sure it's after you." Emma commented as she peeked out the window as the teenage demon was flying throughout Storybrooke.

"Of course it's after me. Ursula said it devours the heart with the darkest potential," Regina clarified. "And now that Gold's gone, well, who else could that be? I mean, is there a dwarf named Evily? It's me."

"We're not gonna just sacrifice you." Emma stated.

"I'm not sure we have much of a choice." Regina countered.

"What's this now?" Evie asked in horror.

"I'm sacrificing myself to the Teenabog." Regina decided.

"Mom!" Evie gasped.

"That thing's magical, right?" Emma then asked the dark-haired woman.

"I would say 'magical' is a pretty good guess." Regina scoffed and nodded.

"So if it's magic, what happens if it leaves town for a world with no magic?" Emma wondered.

"...I think I know what Emma means," Evie said softly. "No magic, no beast."

"Exactly," Emma nodded. "So all we have to do is lead it over the town line." she then suggested.

"The Teenabog withstood both of our powers combined," Regina shook her head. "Even if I poof myself to the town line, the second I'm out in the open, it'll crush me like a bug.

"Not if you've got some help," Emma insisted. "Trust me."

"Yeah, Mom, trust us." Evie added.

Regina sighed wearily at both of them while Evie decided to tell Mary Margaret and David what was going on and that she was still babysitting Leo for them.

"I think this is a very stupid idea," Doug complained as he was downtown with Chad who was getting ready to film something while nearly everyone else had left or taken cover to avoid the next Chernabog. "You can't just livestream about some monster attack in our town!"

"Why not, Dominic?" Chad scoffed. "Jordan Glass has an audience with the school news, her dad runs the paper, and I am a social media king and Audrey shall be my queen by my side."

"Audrey is dating Ben, Chad." Doug reminded him.

"Not for long, Dilbert!" Chad retorted and smirked. "Once she sees this livestream and I fulfill my destiny as The Prince Charming who slays the beast and saves the day and wins the heart of the beautiful princess!"

"But your story is Cinderella!" Doug insisted and reminded the blonde boy who had more follicles on his head than inside his head. "There aren't any beasts or dragons or whatever that thing is out there in Cinderella!"

"Okay, well, what about the wicked step-mother, hmm?" Chad retorted, sounding smug. "She's a bit of a dragon lady, wouldn't you?"

Doug glared until he stopped to think about it before sighing. "...okay, you may have something there... I just don't know if-" he was then about to add after admitting that.

"Quiet, Durwood!" Chad suddenly said as he got his phone and selfie stick ready. "The countdown for my livestream has just begun."

Doug sighed wearily as he also filmed Chad to give the blonde boy a social media bump in his reputation.

"Hey, people! This is CharmingChad89 coming to you live from downtown Storybrooke!" Chad announced as he was using his phone as a camera while holding a selfie stick to show the damage in a social media livestream that came with a chat and live reactions. "Is it The Devil? Is it a horrible monster I must slay and rescue beautiful princesses like Audrey who's more fairest in the land than Snow White's daughter who doesn't even go to school with us? Let's take a closer look and find out!"

"Uh, Chad? I still think this is kind of a stupid idea." Doug commented.

"Oh, work with me, will ya?!" Chad complained. "How many times can you do a livestream with a live monster attack and-AAAAAAAAUGH!" he then cried out as the winged teenager suddenly swooped down and took him away, making him drop his cell phone and selfie stick. "TELL MY STORY! DEREK, DON'T LET THAT SELFIE STICK GET RUINED! IT WAS A GIFT FROM SANTA CLAUS!"

"One of the next Prince Charmings of Storybrooke High, ladies and gentlemen." Doug deadpanned into Chad's phone as comments in the chat continued to pop all around every two seconds along with hearts, thumbs up, but now scared face emojis for Chad's safety.

Emma, Regina, and Evie were soon riding in Emma's car at rapid speed while the Teenabog growled and roared and carrying Chad against his will.

"Hey, buddy, you need a popular best friend?" Chad suggested with a sheepish grin. "I can make you big in Storybrooke High."

The Teenabog snarled and then roared right in Chad's face, blowing the blonde-haired boy's curls back.

"...okay, you need to work on your people skills if you're gonna score with the ladies... like me~" Chad suggested and grinned, still trying to play it cool. "So, pal, what do they call you? Infernus? Balthazaar? Drizella?"

"...Chester." The Teenabog snarled.

Chad blinked and snickered before he burst out laughing. "Oh, no! Help me! I've been kidnapped by Chester the-WHOA, you have fire in your eyes," he then mocked until he saw the demon teen snarling and his eyes glowed hellish red. "...what're you gonna do to me? Please... I want my mommy..." he then whimpered. "...HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" he then screamed as this looked like the end of him forever.

Chester snarled after scaring away Chad and soon saw the yellow car. He then roared before going that way. "Evil Queen daughter..." he then snarled as he caught a scent of Evie in the car with the two women.

"What made you choose yellow?" Regina asked Emma as they rode through town, seeing the Teenabog in the rear-view mirror.

"What?" Emma asked as she drove.

"Your bug... Yellow? Bold choice." Regina clarified.

"I like yellow," Emma defended. "I stole it."

"You stole this car?" Evie asked with wide eyes. "Oh, Emma..."

"Is this really the time to question my taste and ethics?" Emma complained to both of them.

"Sorry, I'm just trying not to think about being some demon's lunch." Regina replied.

Emma: You're not going to be." Emma promised her.

"I'm glad you're confident." Regina retorted.

Chester soon landed hard on the car, making everyone jolt slightly. Evie tried to get away from his hands as he seemed to grabbing right out for her and Leo even glared and bopped the Teenabog on the head with his rattle.

"What, is this thing made of tin?" Regina asked Emma.

"Hang on. We're almost there." Emma reassured her.

"EVIL PRINCESS!" Chester snarled as he climbed down to the window and broke through the glass, trying to reach out for Regina and Evie.

"It's too late. I'm not gonna let all four of us die in this metal coffin on wheels," Regina complained as she had an idea. "Thanks for trying, Miss Swan and Evie."

"What?!" Both Emma and Evie asked as Regina suddenly disappeared from the car.

"Regina!" Emma cried out.

Chester growled as he tried to get into the car for Evie.

"Hey! Leave me alone!" Evie complained. "I'm not ready to have a boyfriend yet and I want him to be nice, smart, and funny like Doug!"

Regina then suddenly appeared on the road, just inches in front of the town line. "Hey!" she then called out and waved her arms.

Emma soon drove faster and faster while Evie tried to comfort Leo. Chester growled as he still kept trying to get a hold of Evie until he looked up and saw Regina coming up on the road.

"Hang on!" Emma told Evie and Leo before she sped up even faster before slamming on the brakes, causing them to screech.

Regina ducked down and soon the Teenabog flew off of the roof and was near the limit of the town.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW... SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-" Chester complained and was erased as soon as he crossed the town line.

Emma, Regina, and Evie all sighed once that was taken care of. Emma and Evie then came out of the car in relief while Regina smiled at them after standing back up.

Evie then came out while holding Baby Leo and Emma held onto the scroll. "Is that them?" she then asked her mother, seeing three adult women across the town line with girls around her age.

"Yes, that's them and that must be their children..." Regina remarked and guessed. "Have no idea who could've had children with Cruella though."

"Hmm..." Evie paused thoughtfully.

Just then, the sheriff station car rode up behind them and out came David and Mary Margaret as it drizzled a bit of rain.

"Emma!" Mary Margaret called out, rushing right over to her daughter.

"Are you all right?" David added.

"Yes." Emma nodded as she hugged her mother back.

"And it looks like Cruella, Ursula, and Cassandra were telling the truth." Evie added as she came over and showed them that she still had Leo.

"It would appear so." Regina nodded, about to take the scroll from Emma.

"No, wait. Emma, I... I think this is a bad idea," Mary Margaret said, stopping that. "Look, they may have told the truth this time. That doesn't mean they can be trusted."

"Mom, this doesn't sound like you," Emma frowned. "You always believe the best in everyone."

"I'm also a realist." Mary Margaret replied.

"Emma, she's right," David added. "Things were just starting to get back to normal in Storybrooke.

"You, too?" Evie frowned. "Mr. Nolan..."

"Look, we don't know anything about these three," Mary Margaret explained and defended. "They could be looking for redemption, but they also could be as evil as Mr. Gold or Zelena or worse."

"That could be, but they just helped us, and we made a deal." Emma remarked.

"Doesn't matter. It's a bad idea," Mary Margaret said. "They're villains."

Evie frowned as that hurt her a little on the inside.

"You're right. They are. They're horrible... But not as horrible as I was once," Regina said to the couple. "And if I deserve a second chance, so do they. How can I sit here, looking for my happiness, and deny two others a chance at theirs?"

"I'm with Regina," Emma nodded. "We let them in."

"Come on, you guys..." Evie said softly. "You trusted the Evil Queen's daughter to be your son's babysitter and who knows what Cruella, Ursula, and Cassandra's children wanna do? What do you say to that?"

The couple looked at her before sighing as she had a point there.

The three women and two teenage girls continued to wait on the other side of the town line. They then looked over as they heard something fall behind them and they found that it was the scroll. Cruella soon approached the scroll and picked it up, heading back to the car with the other two women and the two teenage girls with them. They all then came into the woman's car and with one quick glance at the scroll, they could see people on the other side as well as the town that was hidden from the general public. However, one of the teenage girls seemed to be hiding her face right away before anyone could get a good look at her as they drove into town.

"Welcome to Storybrooke." Regina greeted.

"Thank you, Regina," Cruella grinned. "You won't regret it."

"I better not." Regina countered.

Cruella then drove herself, Cassandra, Ursula, and the teenage girls over the town line as they went to go explore Storybrooke and get settled in, but unknown to everyone else in town, the nightmare in Storybrooke this time around was just beginning. Mal stared and looked all around Storybrooke, not sure how to feel right now, but had a lot on her mind enough already, especially as she stared at her pale blonde locks.

"Maybe you should tell people here that you're Blondie Lockes looking for your mother, Goldilocks." Uma smirked and teased.

"I could use a makeover..." Mal admitted, but rolled her eyes at what Uma just said about her.

"What're you gonna do first then?" Uma asked. "You gonna see your bae in this town or what?"

"I don't know yet..." Mal admitted with a weary sigh. "Let's see what your mom, Cassandra, and Cruella do with that spell to come into this town do first."

"Fine then, just make sure you stay out of my way, Dragon Breath." Uma warned and reminded her.

"Yes, of course..." Mal nodded before whispering something under her breath.

"What was that?" Uma demanded firmly.

"Oh, nothing! Nothing at all..." Mal sighed and reassured the other girl.

Uma narrowed her eyes and then turned away, wafting her braided hair in the air as she crossed her arms at the sight of this small town as it was a major stepdown compared to where she and her mother used to live.

"...Shrimpy." Mal soon muttered quietly once Uma was out of earshot.

Later that night, in the middle of the woods, David and Mary Margaret came to meet Ursula, Cruella, and Cassandra.

"Well, well, well. Look who's here," Cruella remarked. "It's been a long time.

"We gotta talk." David demanded urgently.

"Oh, so the prince wants a chat?" Cruella smirked.

"Very well, Prince Charming," Cassandra added. "What's on your mind?"

"This is our town," Mary Margaret began to say. "If you've really turned over a new leaf, you're welcome to stay."

"My, aren't we generous?" Ursula smirked.

"On one condition: No one must ever know what happened between us in The Enchanted Forest," Mary Margaret soon added. "And if you say one single word to anyone, especially Emma, well, you won't have to worry about The Evil Queen or her daughter. I'll rip out your hearts myself."

The three women merely nodded in response as they all seemed to understand as they were here for their own reasons that would be explained much later.