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The dwarf mines.

"It's just ahead," Greg said, looking at his phone while he walked down in the mines with Tamara and Hook.

"Are you sure whoever's in charge of you guys doesn't want you to die in a mine collapse?" Hook asked as he walked with them since Dream did not go back to her home. He could not find her until he bumped back into Greg and Tamara. 

"Just keep moving." Tamara scoffed at the pirate while she shined the flashlight. 

"Who is telling you what to do?" Hook continued to ask them.

"You know what? That's not your concern. It's not ours either." Greg said, stopping to look at Hook before he continued to walk to where the phone was leading them.

"Not your concern? So, you're telling me you don't know who commands you?" Hook asked the two of them while he stayed still with Tamara. 

"Unlike you, Hook, we believe in something. We have faith in the sacredness of our cause." Tamara said to him when Greg found the dwarf pickaxes. 

"We're here," Greg said, making Hook and Tamara look over at him.

"So, your sacred cause is pilfering a dwarf's pickax?" Hook asked, sounding a little amused. 

"Regina had this in her pocket when you turned her over to us," Tamara said, taking out the trigger to show Hook. 

"It's a trigger. And this ax, according to our people, is what activates it." Greg said, walking over to hand the ax to Tamara.

"You're going to destroy an entire town and kill everyone in it?" Hook asked them when Greg moved to pick up a flat rock. 

"Yeah, including your enemy," Greg said when he put the rock down.

"Rumpelstiltskin won't be immune to this?" Hook asked them, furrowing his brow. 

"None of your kind will be. Once this thing gets activated, nothing can shut it off." Tamara said when Hook started to regret his decision. 

"This whole town will revert to the forest it was. So, tell us, Hook, we're willing to die for our cause; are you willing to die for yours?" Greg asked him.

"Absolutely." Hook said, but he was not exactly sure. He watched Tamara hand Greg the pickax before she set the trigger on the rock. 

Greg hit the trigger with the pickax, causing the ground to shake for a bit before it floated up, glowing blue. The three of them shielded their eyes when the blast went off before running away from the trigger.


The loft.

Regina sat up, putting her boots on, while Dream moved to wipe the blood from her sleeve in the kitchen part. Regina got off the bed when she moved her hand to her neck due to her neck pain and headache. "Here, let me... You're making it a bigger smudge." Regina said when she walked over to help Dream wipe the blood on her sleeve. 

The two of them looked up to see the Charmings walk into the loft with Henry. 

"Oh, Henry!" Regina exclaimed when Henry rushed into her arms. 

"Mom!" Henry exclaimed while he hugged her.

Suddenly, there was an Earthquake, causing the whole town to rumble; when everyone tried to hold onto things. But it stopped as soon as it started. 

"Regina was that..." Emma went to ask when Regina looked up from holding onto both of her children. 

"Yes. The diamond was activated." Regina sighed when Henry moved to hold onto his sister.

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