Greetings from Underbrooke (5th Book of Heroes and Villains Quintet)

Chp 2: Desperate Souls

Flashback: In the early days of Oz, a young Dorothy Gale is asked to defend her kingdom by some bandits who are working with the Wicked Witch but flees into the forest, believing she cannot help them with her father away. After she falls into a Ogre trap, Dorothy is saved by Odysseus, who is on a quest to save his realm from Hydra. He encourages Dorothy not to give up, and he even offers to train her for battle, suggesting that she fight the bandits herself. When Dorothy faces the bandits, she foolishly drops her arrows, then loses her dignity when Odysseus defends her. Using his past mistakes and learning from them, Odysseus inspires her to try again, and she successfully aims at the bandits' weapons, prompting the bandits to leave the kingdom, and setting up her future as the bandit princess. Dorothy thanks Odysseus for helping her, he tells her that she will make a great Queen and she tells him that Greece will have a great hero like him and they kiss each other goodbye. Later, the Wicked Witch turns the bandits into flying monkeys for failing her. End of Flashback

Present day Underworld, Under inside Hades' lair, an injured Renee awakens and notices two young women, Glinda and Penny, they are also trapped with her in the chamber. As she struggles to move Renee convinces the two women to run for help and asks for Liam. As they reach the exit, a many headed snake creature, Hydra, chases after the two. Above at the cemetery, Dorothy and Edward look at the gravestones of those who Dorothy felt she had failed as alluded in the past, But Edward is confident that they can rescue Renee and tells Dorothy that she can be able to succeed. When she sees the tombstone of Odysseus, Edward is surprised to learn that she knew the Greek Hero, and believes that he has unfinished business with her, which gives them the idea to help him while seeking out Renee. Liam and Grace meet up with Zelena and Rumple. Liam tells them that Renee has maps at the Sheriff's office, Grace and Rumple head there but when Zelena turns around, Liam has took off and calls for him. Liam notices fresh blood and traces the direction, but instead they find two young women and Glinda says she knows Renee. As soon as they hear the Hydra's sound, Zelena uses her magic to take them to the Underworld version of Dorothy's apartment. Later at Roni's Diner, Zelena and Liam are joined by Dorothy, and thanks to Maleficent, they find Odysseus, who they hope he will complete his final quest before he can move on, being Hydra. At the Mayor's office, Grace uses her powers to get in and search for the maps as Starla stands guard. Instead of finding the map, Grace sees the Deathwhisper, who explains to her that because she chose to be reborn and is in a new body, she can bring her back to life. She tells Grace if she helps her escape the Underworld, it will be as if she never died, and therefore, Zelena's soul will be pure again, Grace reveals to Starla that she has changed to be known as Sorceress. Unfortunately when Rumple asks Grace if she found the map as they leave the office, Grace says to Rumple that she didn't find anything. As they reached the tunnel with Hydra waiting for them, Odysseus starts to lose his courage in front of Zelena, Dorothy and Liam. Nyx appears in Crimson cloud of smoke and tells them that Hydra was the creature responsible for killing Odysseus, then gives Liam Renee's bloodied wedding ring as a gift. Back at the apartment, Dorothy believes its time for Odysseus, who regretted fighting Hydra alone, to fight the creature as a team. When Hydra enters the apartment, everyone splits up, leaving Odysseus, Dorothy, and Penny trapped inside the library. Odysseus suddenly gives the woman his sword, then grabs a pipe for himself, Penny uses the sword and Dorothy readies her arrows. They then use their weapons on Hydra and as soon as Dorothy and Penny cut off one head, Odysseus could use his pipe to seal the wound with salt on the pipe, so that nothing could grow back in its place. Than Odysseus takes the pipe, bag of salt and burns the Hydra's neck, successfully kill the creature. Penny faints and Odysseus catches her, and when she comes they introduce each other, as she revealed to Odysseus her name is Penny. As everyone meets back at Roni's Diner, they learn that it was their "unfinished business" for Odysseus to rescue Penny from Hydra, as he died during his fight with the creature. The group takes them to the crossing, and Odysseus and Penny ascend together to the Afterlife. As the clock ticks twice, Hades has decided that it's time for the outsiders to pay by punishing them. Hades arrives to see his prisoner Renee, and tells her that for each soul her friends help escape, one of them will have to stay forever. Hades forces Renee to decide which of her friends will pay for this by creating new tombstones for her to engrave with a chisel.

In Wonderland, After Erika and Will's arrival back to the realm, they got married and had a royal wedding at Erika's palace. On their wedding day, with Little John serving as their ordained minister, everyone watches Will and Erika exchange vows and wedding rings. The subjects then celebrate with a dance and festivities, the next day Will Scarlet has a coronation and he became the Red King, everyone cheers and says "Long live the King!" Than they bowed down to Erika and Will.