Two hours later Stiles and Scott are in Derek's loft while Lydia is getting transported to a hospital for a checkup due to her bruised throat. Scott wanted to go with her, but she pressed him that he should help find Stiles' father.
The two teens inform Derek of what happened and that his girlfriend is the Darach out killing innocent people.
Soon after they finished explaining things to Derek Jennifer shows up and tries to play innocent but her real appearance gets revealed when Stiles throws mistletoe dust at the woman, something Deaton told the boys will weaken the Darach.
Once Derek can be sure that Jennifer is indeed the one killing people he's about to finish her himself but she stops him by telling him that she's the only one who can save his sister. Taking the bait Derek, Stiles, Scott and Jennifer go to the hospital.
When Scott, Stiles, Derek and Jennifer arrive to heal Derek's sister most of the hospital is cleared out, only Scott's mother, Cora and Peter almost being the only ones left with the rest of the hospital relocating to another hospital.
When the group around Scott gets to the first floor however they are greeted to Peter sliding down the hallway to them curtesy of the fused together twins.
"Uhm, we have a problem." Peter says looking up at his nephew.
"We don't have time for this." Derek grumbles, worried about his sister and transforms.
"Get the others to Cora. I'll hold them off." Scott tells Derek.
"I thought you can't risk shifting." Derek counters.
"Who said I have to shift for him." Scott says, looking at the hulking form of the alpha twins.
"Come on this way." Peter tells Stiles, Derek and Jennifer, leading them down another hallway in the direction of Cora's room.
"Ethan, Aiden you don't need to do this." Scott tells the alpha, slowly approaching him with raised hands.
"Yes we do! We only want her!" Comes as reply and the large werewolf packs Scott by his throat, pushing him into a wall.
"Stop. We don't have to fight. We don't like her any more than you do. But she has Stiles's father and can heal Cora." Scott says trying to reason with the twins, but gets nowhere, the large combination of them punching Scott across the face making him start to shift slightly, grey skin threatening to take over, but stops from his chest to his ear height, before quickly retreating with Scott groaning.
"Can't even control his shift. Weakling." The massive werewolf chuckles, going after the others until Scott grabs his shoulder from behind, still in between shifts, breathing heavily with blackish-grey skin moving back and forth on his skin as if in a struggle.
"Bring me to Deucalion and I'll talk to him." Scott demands, his voice dark much like Deucalion's own.
The twins growl angrily but hear Deucalion's voice from downstairs sk them to bring Scott.
"Fine. It's your funeral weakling." Aiden says, the twins separating and leading the were eagle to the elevator.
"Just take me to him alright." Scott says, slowly getting himself back under control.
A few minutes later Scott is talking to Deucalion who ran into his mother but let her go upon hearing Scott request to talk to him.
"I have to admit Scott. I'm surprised you want to talk to me." Deucalion says.
"Don't mistake this for thinking I'm OK with what you did, but I think you know already that I need your help." Scott says.
"How very true young alpha. It's plain as day you don't trust your instincts and get overtaken by them. And to think I thought of you as my equal." Deucalion tells him.
"Why would you want an equal in your pack? Didn't you say you're the apex of apex?" Scott asks.
"Who says I don't enjoy some competition?" Deucalion chuckles.
"Literally everything about you." Scott replies with a grin.
"Fair enough. But let's get to the point. What are you hoping to accomplish by talking to me?" Deucalion asks.
"A truce. You help me with your powers and we defeat Jennifer together." Scott offers, holding out a handshake.
"A truce huh? Don't you come out ahead on that deal?" Deucalion asks.
"Hey you get the chance to convince me to join your pack while training me. That's what you are after, right?" Scott asks.
"You are more mature than I gave you credit for." Deucalion says, accepting the deal, shaking his hand.
"Where is she?" Deucalion asks Kali, exiting the room with Scott.
"They are all gone. Jennifer knocked Derek unconscious and took off with Scott's mother for some reason." Ethan reports.
"My mom? But she's not a guardian." Scott says shocked and worried.
"Guardian is also another expression for parent." Deucalion reminds Scott.
"Do you know where she is taking her and where Mr. Stilinski is?" Scott asks, his knuckles turning white from clenching his fists angrily.
"No. But I know someone who does and we'll go pay her a visit." Deucalion says dangerously, his eyes shining red through his shades.
"What about Derek's sister?" Aiden asks.
"We don't need her. You can go get your revenge after the next full moon when Derek has made his decision." Deucalion says.
"Scott, Scott!" Stiles shouts, running through the hospital looking for his friend.
"Stiles. How's Cora?" Scott asks, meeting his best friend, stepping away from the alpha pack.
"Alive but still on death's door. Why are you with them?" Stiles asks, looking at the twins of the alpha pack with a glare.
"I made a deal with Deucalion. Until Jennifer is gone I'm with them. I promise you. We'll get our parents back." Scott says, squeezing Stiles's shoulder.
"Our parents? She took your mom? You can't be serious." Stiles shouts.
"I am. Can you do me a favor and tell Lydia I'm fine when you see her and that next time I will be able to protect her?" Scott asks sadly.
"I... fine. Just make sure you're not getting sucked in by them I need my best friend back when all this is over." Stiles says, hugging Scott strongly.
"Sure. Someone needs to keep you and coach from making the other go homicidal." Scott chuckles.
"Scott! Let's go visit that person to find out where your parents are and that witch is hiding." Deucalion says.
"Yeah. I'm coming." Scott replies, stepping out of the hug and follows the alpha pack.
The next few hours are all very rushed. The Argents prepare themselves for Chris to be taken, although the man surrenders himself to Jennifer, intending to save the kidnapped parents. In the meantime Stiles goes to Lydia to inform her of Scott's decision to team up with the alpha pack.
The next day at school Stiles hears of Chris's disappearance while he's discussing with Lydia what they should do and has a panic attack, fearing he'll lose his father now that Jennifer has all three parents.
Lydia drags the hyperventilating Stiles to the locker room and slaps him across the face to make him snap out of it but it doesn't help and she kisses him to make him hold his breath.
"What was that?" Stiles asks, his breathing evening out.
"I read somewhere that if you hold your breath during a panic attack that you'll calm down." Lydia answers a bit embarrassed.
"Smart. One thing though, are you going to tell Scott?" Stiles asks.
"I don't know. I don't want to hurt him and honestly, you're just like a cousin to me. Why?" Lydia says.
"Just wondering when I'm gonna die." Stiles says joking.
"Scott's not that bad." Lydia tells him, pushing Stiles.
"When it comes to you, he kinda is. Those are the times I truly realize what him being an alpha really means." Stiles says, thinking back zo how Scott took on almost Derek's entire pack by himself to protect her.
"Well if I do tell him I'll make sure to reassure him that he has nothing to worry about." Lydia promises, before getting up and helps the kneeling Stiles up as well.
"What now? She has the guardians. How do we figure out where they are? You must have some clue, I mean she wanted to kill you for some reason and not as a sacrifice." Stiles says.
"Right. But when she realized I was a banshee, she was surprised so it has to be something I did before that." Lydia says.
"Let's go pay our guidance counselor a visit. She might actually be in league with Jennifer right? I mean they are both emissaries." Stiles suggests.
"Good idea." Lydia agrees and they head to the guidance counselor office where due to the notes of Lydia's sessions they figure out that Lydia who was drawing a tree constantly was actually drawing its roots and made pictures of the nemeton.
|Around the same time in the woods|
"Do you get it? My power amplifies your presence it's kind of like an aura. Like how stronger animals give off a dangerous vibe or scent." Deucalion explains, walking through the woods with Kali and the twins cornering Deaton's sister.
"Yeah I think, but how do I control it? I mean with the other powers like the transforming from Peter, the claws from Kali, even the werewolf features from Enis and Derek I never had any trouble with." Scott says.
"Scott. I am the alpha of alpha's for a reason. I have gathered more strength than possibly any wolf alive." Deucalion says cockily.
"So how do I control it?" Scott asks.
"You don't be afraid of it. Accept the fact that with my power added to yours you are one of thw most powerful creatures alive." Deucalion suggests.
"Here's your chance to try. There are stories that a true alpha can break through mountain ash barriers. Use your new strength to do it." Deucalion tells him, pushing him to the circle around Ms. Morell.
"I won't hurt you. We just need to know everything you do." Scott tells the scared woman.
"I'm not telling you anything. Alan said that you're different but I think he's just blinded by seeing you as a son he never had." She tells him.
"Fine. Then your barrier will be my training ground." Scott says, closing his eyes and puts his hands on the barrier, starting to shift gradually, first his claws appearing with their blue hue, then his wings spreading behind him, brown in color and his eyes glowing red with his mouth being a bit sharper, not completely with beak though.
"Do it. Accept my power and break the barrier." Deucalion whispers to him.
"Yes." Scott agrees and takes a deep breath, before releasing a loud screech, gaining his beak and his skin becoming ash grey, his beak actually being black like a ravens, his wings also being covered in black feathers and his talons glow a deep red color.
He then jams his wings against the barrier while pushing against it and pulls the barrier apart with his wings, breaking it with the ash scattering.
"Now we got you." Kali says, getting ready to maim the woman.
"No. I need to talk to her." Scott's voice says, holding a wing in front of the werewolf.
"Are you really letting this kid boss me around Deucalion?" Kali asks.
"He is stronger than you." Deucalion replies looking at Scott's form happily, seeing the aura he gives off leaving the twins whimpering submissively.
"Now. Tell me where they are and I will fly you out of here safely." Scott tells Deaton's sister.
"No." She refuses.
"Damn I'm trying to save everyone here. Don't make me regret extending that curtesy to you." Scott growls, punching the tree behind the woman, making it collapse backwards with a good chunk of bark raining down on the group.
"F- fine. They are at the nemeton. That's all I know." She says frightened.
"Is she telling the truth?" Scott asks Deucalion, who nods before turning around and walking away.
"Just leave. I can walk fine." Ms. Morell tells Scott when the alpha pack is retreating.
"Do you have an idea where the nemeton is?" Scott asks the pack leader, falling in step with him while loosing his transformation.
"No. I'm afraid I don't." Deucalion replies and they head back to the loft where Scott continues to train getting used to his new power by sparring against the pack one by one, even being on par even with a full powered Deucalion.
After a few hours he gets a text from Stiles, asking him to meet at the animal clinic, so that midday he enters Deaton's clinic.
"Hello?" Scott asks, entering the clinic and shortly after gets glomped by Lydia, who kisses him passionately.
"I'm so glad you're OK." Scott says relieved, brushing over the red mark on her neck.
"I promise you. I'm strong enough to protect you now." Scott says, intertwining their hands.
"Hey. We called you here to find our parents not to make out with Lydia." Allison interrupts the couple, standing in the door to the operating room with Isaac and Stiles.
"Right. Sure." Scott says, following them into the room with Lydia and gives Deaton a big hug when he sees his father figure.
"Your sister is safe for now and thank you for believing in me." Scott tells the man.
"So, where is the nemeton? I'm guessing you also figured that part out right?" Scott asks, getting a round of nods.
"But we have no idea where it is. And neither does Gerard, Derek or his uncle." Allison says.
"The alphas don't remember either." Scott informs them.
"And that's where I come in. I have a method which will show you where it is, but it's dangerous. You will basically become a substitute sacrifice for your parents and give power to the nemeton before we bring you back to life. There are many dangers to account for here. For one there is that Beacon Hills will attract the supernatural again with the nemeton gaining power. Then there is a chance you won't make it back and finally the sacrifice will always leave a kind of darkness around your heart. It's something you will never get rid of if you do this." Alan tells them.
"I'm doing it." Scott says confidently.
"Us too." Stiles and Alison say simultaneously.
"Alriht. Lydia, Isaac I'll need your guy's help." Deaton says and brings them to where he has bags of ice and they carry them into the room where Allsion and Stiles take off their shoes while Scott strips down to his underwear, before waiting at one of the large tubs of water in front of them.
"Stiles, before we do this. Isaac and I..." Alison says, confessing her liking the werewolf.
"I know. It's fine. We just grew apart." Stiles says understandingly.
"Scott. While we're confessing things." Stiles says nervously.
"What is it?" Scott asks confused.
"Lydia kissed me to calm me down when I had a panic attack like back when we were kids." Stiles blurts out quickly, making Lydia lose grip on her ice bag and it falls into Scott's tub's water where she fishes it out while looking at Scott worried.
"It meant nothing. It was either this or choke him." Lydia tells the alpha.
"Actually, she did hit me a few times before that." Stiles points out.
"It's fine you two. I trust everyone in this room completely. I know you wouldn't go behind my back." Scott says, patting Stiles' shoulder.
"You know I only love you." Lydia tells Scott reassuringly, giving him a sweet kiss, her tongue seeking out his during it.
"Ahem. Well we can get started actually." Deaton says, finishing dumping the last of the ice in the tubs.
"How do we do this?" Scott asks.
"The three of you go in the water and submerge, entering a near dead state and allowing you to enter your mind and form the connection to the nemeton." Deaton explains.
"Alright." Scott says being the first to step into the water with Alison and Stiles following his lead. The three then sit down, the water going up to their shoulders.
"What am I supposed to do?" Lydia asks a bit worried at seeing Scott about to freeze to death.
"We need to keep them underwater and they could fight it instinctively so you need to hold them down." Deaton says, doing this with Stiles, who takes a deep breath and nods to the vet.
Isaac does the same to Alison and Lydia hesitates a bit.
"Trust me Lydia. I'm not leaving you alone. I will be fine." Scott says, holding her hand and leans back until he's fully submerged in the water, his hand dropping into the water with a splash moments later.
While they are in their minds the three find out the location of the nemeton, which is actually next to where Peter bit Scott all that time ago.
Half a day later, in the late evening the three wake up again.
"How long were we out?" Scott asks worried, seeing Isaac and Deaton look grim while Lydia is missing.
"Half a day. The full moon is only hours away." Isaac replies with a sigh.
"OK. We have to divide and conquer. I go deal with Jennifer with the alphas and you focus on finding our parents." Scott tells the people in the room.
"Where is... Lydia?!" Scott says, stopping when he hears her scream and he puts on his pants and grabs his shirt before already running out of the clinic to find Lydia who watched Jennifer dominate and kill Kali and the twins before asking her to scream to get Derek to come to her, since the hales all disappeared, Derek and Cora were fleeing town, with Derek no longer having his alpha powers, since he gave it up to save Cora.
Scott arrives maybe 5 minutes after Lydia's scream, busting into the loft through a window and sees Lydia cowering against a wall with Jennifer looking down at Kali.
Scott doesn't even engage the former emissary and only scoops up Lydia, before flying away with her.
He brings the girl to her home and asks her to stay safe.
Once he left to meet up with Deucalion though Lydia calls Stiles and also heads out to help the kidnapped parents.