Land of Villainous Doom

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FORBIDDEN FORTRESS - PAST

Ursula was in the Fortress. She knocked out a guard.

"Stop," Maleficent ordered. "Just who the hell might you be?"

Ursula attacked Maleficent. "Ursula. But you can call me your majesty."

"I don't bow down to fish."

"Who are you?"

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

"I was invited here. What's your excuse?"

"This is my home."

"So why did you send for me?"

"Believe me, I did not send for you."

"Then what..."

They heard barking dogs. Cruella came and said, "I wouldn't do that. Don't worry. They don't eat fish or dragon. Unless I tell them to. 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?"

"Lovely question, because this "Ghastly place" is my home, and I didn't ask for any visitors," Maleficent said.

"I received specific instructions."

"As did I," Ursula said.

"I don't care," Maleficent retorted. "You're trespassing. And do you know what I do with trespassers?"

"Don't even think it."

"Now, now, ladies," Rumpelstiltskin stated. "Don't tear each other apart. I need you all in one piece... Or rather, three pieces."

"Rumplestiltskin," Maleficent noted. "It was you."

"Guilty."

"Someone wanna tell me why I left the sea for this?" Ursula said.

"Oh, yes. The reason for this little tete-a-tete-a-tete... A-tete... We all have something in common, apart from mutual distaste. We're villains. And it's time the villains got their happy endings."

STORYBROOKE - PRESENT

Regina led Henry to the school bus. Mary Margaret taught her class again.

"Now who can tell me what the study of birds is called?" Mary Margaret said. "Henry."

"Ornithology?" Henry guessed.

"Very good."

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In the Mayor office, Regina unpacked her stuff. She burned Mary Margaret's picture. At the Charming Family loft, Granny looked after Neal. Emma said goodbye to her brother and left. She joined Hook, Sean, Indiana and Emma. They met Belle at the library. Emma and Indiana left Hook, Sean and Belle.

Hook, Sean and Belle tried to figure out how release the fairies from the hat.

"Well, I see you still have your temper," Belle commented.

"Six weeks and nothing," Hook said. "They're still trapped inside that bloody hat."

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

"If we're reduced to those magic boxes, then I'd say hope is in short supply."

She patted the computer. "They, uh... Call it the Internet. And it can help us. And once we get the fairies out of the hat, they can help us release everyone else, including that poor old man that you put in there."