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"Tippetarius" is the second episode of Season Two of ABC's Once Upon a Time Tales. It was written and directed by Schroeswald. It is the fifteenth episode of the series overall, and premiered on December 31, 2018.

Synopsis
The four heroes of Oz arrive in their quadrants to mixed success. Ozma arrives at Shiz and infiltrates it. Zelena and the Emerald City welcome Chad to Oz and in flashbacks a young boy named Tip gets training in magic.

Recap
Pastorius and Lurline are in the Emerald Palace with maps of Oz all over the walls cradling their child when suddenly Mombi poofs in next to them. She tells them that she will help them take control over their final section of Oz, if they give her the child. They ask why she would want the child but she evades the question, after a long pause they agree and hand over the child. She snaps her fingers and all the maps show the North as apart of the Kingdom of Oz. She asks what the boy’s name is and they answer Tippetarius. She disappears and reappears in her cabin cackling about getting some good labor when in a few days they won’t have any use of the Gillikin.

Nessarose is standing outside of Mombi’s Cabin frantically trying to get it to open. Eventually Ozma relents and opens the door, after having the door shove her backwards. Ozma lounges around and gives Nessarose five minutes to explain herself. Nessa tells her that she is recruiting a group of witches to reshape reality to their liking, they would have no memories of their pain and would only know the reshapes reality but they would not have any troubles, after a few seconds of thinking Ozma agrees to the plan and asks when to do it, Nessa tells her that she’ll need to make sure no one is in their way first.

Dorothy rides into the town of Shiz on the Saw Horse with the Scarecrow following behind her and helping to show her the area. As she walks through the crowds she hears a college girl yell about Up Town being attacked and jumps on her horse to go. As she reaches the town she finds it in complete ruins except for a young woman, Ozma. Dorothy and the Scarecrow pull her out of the rubbage and ask what happened. Ozma says that her name is Betsy Bobbins and she was a villager in Up Town before it was attacked by a witch with no arms. Dorothy pulls her onto the Saw Horse and the three return to Shiz.

Jinjur is riding a purple horse into the ruins of Munchkinland with Nick Chopper riding behind her, and is welcomed by the Queen of the Field Mice. The Queen tells Jinjur that her Mice Kingdom is the only thing left slightly intact after the invasion and so brings her underground to show her the new council of Munchkinland. It consists of Milla, Ojo, and the Queen. Jinjur takes a seat at the head of the council with the Tin Man next to her, and is introduced to each of them. Milla was the wife of farming leader Boq and now has his place, Ojo is the popular representative with the Queen representing the royalty.

In Mombi’s cottage Tip is sleeping in a small bed much too small for him when Mombi yells out at him to get up. Tip rushes out and starts to clean up the whole house, as he finishes Mombi says that she’s leaving to enchant a magnifying glass for some money as a prank. Once she leaves Tip sneaks out of the house and hops on the Saw Horse and rides out.

Ozma arrives at Shiz and Dorothy gives her a room at the Elphame Academy. As she settles in to her new room she is invited to go to a party at the main college by the Scarecrow, she protests but eventually gets dragged over. At the party she interacts with the Highly Magnified Wobblebug, and Madame Morrible as well as students, who act rude to her. Eventually she slinks out the back door and runs into Shenshen who she throws a fireball at, killing her.

Zelena shows Chad to a ballroom, both of them in their fineries, and tells him that Jellia told her to rub elbows with the aristocracy to gain support. As they arrive Jellia welcomes them in a suit and tie and drags Zelena away from Chad. Jellia introduces her to Button-Bright, a carefree, dumb, but very rich Gilikenese man who was originally born in Kansas. Next she shows her to Animal rights activist and professor, Doctor Dillamond but as she is talking Zelena’s eyes drift to Chad who is standing in the corner, she tells them that she has some urgent business to attend to and runs over to him.

Tip and the Saw Horse arrive at a large dome where they are greeted by a greeter who asks why Tip is there. He says that he is looking for Locasta to teach him magic and so the Greeter ushers him over to her. He tells her that he wants magic to defend himself from the Wicked Witch of the North. Locasta gladly accepts and tells him to do magic you must draw on strong emotions that power your will. To start she has him grow a pumpkin from her garden which he does, and then it keeps growing and gains wooden arms and legs.

Zelena asks Chad what’s wrong and he starts to complain about being neglected. Zelena tells him that even though she rules all of Oz she will never neglect him, their marriage won’t be postponed any more and it is in two weeks, April 15. She grabs his hand and takes him back to the ballroom and they start to dance together.

In the dome of Locasta Tip is told that she can teach him no more. As she says this he materializes a book saying banishment and says that he will get his revenge soon enough, but before that he must get rid of some loose ends and send her to a drab land without color. He says an incantation in some sort of foreign language and Locasta disappears and is replaced by Button-Bright, complete with an umbrella. Button-Bright asks how he got there and Tip lies saying that he banished an evil witch to his land but unfortunately she needed to be replaced by someone, and that someone ended up being him. Button-Bright is resigned to his fate and leaves, once he gets outside he starts to float away, hanging on to his umbrella.

Ozma gets back to her room where she discovers that someone left a mules in her room. For a second she thinks about killing it but then she softens, she picks it up and decides to call it Hank. She conjures up some food for him before making Nessarose appear in the mirror, she tells her that the people of Shiz, and especially Dorothy, suspect nothing, they think of her as a country bumpkin and she plans on developing that image. Nessarose is pleased and leaves to go look for a Quadling Witch.

Mulan is travelling through the barren Vinkus, muttering about getting the worst job, when she runs into some Yunamata soldiers. She tries to explain that she comes from the queen of Oz but they ignore her and the general has them attack. She is knocked out, but when she wakes up she discovers she is a prisoner, she hears a voice welcoming her and turns around to see Stanum, all tin except for his head.

Ruby walks into the city of Ovvels and is welcomed into it by Commander Cherrystone. He says that the whole city is happy to see her. Suddenly in the distance a pirate ship appears and Ruby asks who it is, but discovers that he doesn’t know.

Starring

 * Rebecca Mader as Zelena
 * Meghan Ory as Ruby
 * Jamie Chung as Mulan
 * Teri Reeves as Dorothy Gale
 * Chloe Bennet as
 * Kip Pardue as
 * Nicole Maines as
 * Heidi Blickenstaff as

Special Guest Starring

 * Kathy Bates as
 * Carol Kane as

Guest Starring

 * Jonas Maines as Tip
 * Maisie Williams as
 * Laura Brent as
 * Dean Charles-Chapman as
 * Christine Baranski as
 * Cree Summer as
 * Cameron Monaghan as
 * Halle Berry as
 * Clancy Brown as
 * Toby Kebbel as
 * Paul Scheer as Scarecrow
 * Alex Desert as Stanum

Co-Starring

 * Iain Glen as
 * Luke Camilleri as
 * Sarah Grey as Shenshen
 * Jamie Jackson as
 * John Cleese as
 * James Rittinger as Student 1
 * Léana Yu as Student 2
 * Richard Newman as Yunamata General
 * Alison Raine as Greeter

Uncredited

 * Unknown donkey as

Trivia

 * -|Production Notes=

Title

 * The title card features the city of Shiz
 * -|Episode Connections=

Event Chronology

 * The Oz flashbacks takes place a few years after Bleeding Through and
 * The United Realms events take directly after "".