Once Upon a Time Season Five (Fanfictionized!)
Previously on Once Upon a Time... Emma banished Gold from town, threatening Belle's life if he returned. Then she had Regina steal Belle's heart, a pesky little detail she didn't share with her parents who continued to use Belle as a nearly constant babysitter, completely oblivious to the fact that heartless Belle was letting baby Baelfire crawl around the top of the stair and run holding scissors. All while leaving the toilet cleaner lay out where anyone would reach it. When Gold tricks a couple of displaced fairytale characters into sneaking him back into town, he immediately figures out about Belle's heart being held as leverage and tells The Charmings who confront Emma while Gold scampers off to rescue Belle's heart and his dagger from Regina, who is too distraught after Gold tells her that her evil sister Zelena is boinking Robin Hood, to stop him. Meanwhile...
Snow to Emma: "It's wrong to take away another's person's free will, Emma." Charming nods.
Emma to Snow: "Oh yeah?! Well what about what YOU did?" she asked, reminding her parents about all the stupid crap they did back in the Enchanted Forest, most recently applicable the kidnapping and darkness filling of Maleficent's daughter Lily, a fact she learned from Regina, who learned it from Snow, who knew because she did it.
Subsequently Emma and Regina go into the real world and come back with Robin Hood, a pregnant Zelena and Lily in tow. Gold, who is dying in Belle's arms, uses his last ounce of strength to free The Sorcerer's Apprentice from the hat. The Apprentice realizes that a dead Rumplestiltskin is bad for everyone and attempts to pull the darkness out of Rumple and into the hat. But the hat can't contain the darkness.
Cut to Emma stabbing the darkness with her dagger and disappearing.
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Zelena opened her eyes and smiled at the chipped and peeling ceiling of her cell. It had only been a matter of time... she got up and stood in front of the door as a key was hurt scraping in the lock. The door sings open to reveal Lily standing on the other side
"I trust you had no trouble getting in?" she asked.
"None at all." Lily confirmed, "It seems the nurses around here get a little disloyal to your dear sister once a dragon appears."
"Well you can hardly blame them." said Zelena, "I doubt Regina offers much in the way of incentives."
"Her accommodations certainly leave a lot to be desired."
Zelena rolls her eyes when she sees former Author Isaac Heller standing behind Lily, "What are YOU doing here?"
"The same thing you." he replied, "Plotting my revenge on the heroes."
"What do you need us for then?" Zelena asked, "Can't you just write your way out of this mess... 'Author'."
"I'm not the author anymore. The job has moved on to a more 'worthy' candidate."
"Then I don't see how..."
"How a human, a dragon and a wicked witch can win?" Isaac asked.
"She isn't a witch at the moment." Lily informed him, "Regina put a magic cuff on her wrist that keeps her from using any magic."
Zelena grimaced, "And only Regina can remove it."
"Maybe." Isaac said, "But I'm willing to bet that Rumplestilkskin could do it."
"Rumplestiltskin?" Zelena scoffed, "He's currently at death door; if he's not dead already... or hadn't you heard?"
"Oh he's still alive." Isaac said.
"How do you know?" Zelena asked.
"I know, because if Rumplestiltskin was dead than this town would be a smoking ruin by now. You may not know this but once Rumple dies The Dark One will be released..."
"Is that bad?" Lily asked.
"If you don't mind watching the whole world burn, it's not that bad I suppose..."
"So that's why you were helping him." Zelena realized. "I figured he offered you something precious or something that was very very naughty..."
"What did you think I helped Gold out of the goodness of my heart?" he sneered, "I did it to save my own ass. Which I might add is still on the line unless we can get to Gold pronto."
"Look guys," Lily interrupted, "the last time I saw the 'heroes' they were flocking towards Gold's pawnshop. Something about him dying..."
"Then we may not have much time..." Isaac said, "We need to get to Gold before he dies and unleashes the Dark One all over town."
Zelena raised her arm and tapped the magic canceling cuff.
"Yeah yeah..." he paused as a wicked thought occurred to him, "You know of course that the only way to save our collective asses is to make sure that Dark Curse doesn't get into the hands of those," he sneered, "Heroes."
"How the hell can we do that?" Lily asked.
The former author smiled at Zelena, who smiled back, "Tell me darling," she said after a brief pause, "Do you happen to know where old Rumple kept that stunning little knife of his?"
Edited to finish scene one.