Okay guys so there won't be an update next week due to it being my birthday (happy birthmas to me). With that said enjoy whatever holiday you celebrate and I'll see you next year!
The Beast of Gevaudan jumped in the middle of a dark road and took off running. Sirens could be heard in the distance, following close behind. A group of Sheriff's vehicles were racing down the road with Stiles and Derek close behind in the jeep. Stiles was listening on the conversations on the police radio.
The voice of Deputy Clark was the first to report, "Unit 5 heading northwest on Crescent." She reported through the channel, "Reporting an incredibly large something."
Another unit vouched for her, "Unit 9 to dispatch." They responded, "I think I've got eyes on the same thing. It's some kind of rabid animal."
Deputy Clark shook her head, remembering what she saw at the telecom station, "Unit 5 to 9. Trust me, that's no animal."
In another location, amid the current high-speed chase, there appeared to be a multi-car pileup with Deputy Strauss being the only officer on the scene, "Unit 6 to dispatch." He reported through his radio, "We have a situation downtown involving multiple fatalities."
"Copy. Medics on the way." Dispatch informed him, "Do you have a perp in sight Unit 6?"
Deputy Strauss shook his head, seeing nothing or no one insight, "Negative. Looks like a 1091-E, Animal Attack."
"10-4. Can you say what kind of animal?"
Stiles chose now intervene, knowing what exactly could've caused the pile, "All units stay back. Do not engage." Stiles responded through the radio in the jeep, "I repeat. Do not engage."
"Stiles! Get off the radio." Sheriff Stilinski demanded, but warned his deputies, "All unit alert. Wait for backup. Repeat. No one goes near this thing."
Deputy Clark radioed back in her status, "Unit 5 reporting a sighting off Hill Road southbound."
Unit 9 radioed back in as well, "Unit 9. I've got it turning off Oak Ridge, southbound on Beachwood."
"All units. This is Dispatch." Dispatch informed them, "We've got a 911 call with an additional sighting on Mitcham."
At the news, the Sheriff pushed the accelerator further in his own cruiser.
Back at the jeep, Stiles pushed down on the breaks. Derek looked over at Stiles, seeing the calculating expression, "What are you thinking?"
"I think I know where it's going." Stiles answered and reached for the radio, "Dad."
"Stiles get off this channel!" The Sheriff demanded once again.
"Dad just listen to me." Stiles countered back, "He's headed for the hospital. All right?" Stiles shared, "He's headed for Beacon Memorial." Placing down the radio and grabbing onto Derek, "We gotta get to Scott."
At the hospital, alarms were beeping while Melissa and Scott were evacuating patients, "Again, this is a Code White, a full hospital evacuation." Melissa stated over the PA system, "All critical patients will be taken by ambulance to Hill Valley."
Scott stood with the door opened to patients and doctors stream out the emergency room entrance as a series of loud booms shook the building.
From the nurse's station, Melissa left her position when she heard twisting metal and additional crashes that seemed to be very close. The elevator doors opened as people run screaming, as the sound of a low growl seemed to come through the walls. She ran for the exit.
Taking Stiles' word on it, Sheriff immediately radioed the other deputies, "Unit 5. Clark, I need eyes on Parrish." But none of the deputies responded to the request, "Does anyone have Parrish's 20?"
Dispatch was the only one to respond, "All units. We have a 911 emergency call reporting a man on fire running into Beacon Memorial."
"Clark disregard."
When the Sheriff arrived at the hospital, he found Stiles and Derek waiting for him with Stiles appearing to be rather annoyed with her arm crossed while Derek appeared to be just fine with his daughter's current demeanor. The sound of a roar could be heard from the outside.
No words were needed as the three of them hurried into the hospital and heard the loud growls coming from another floor as Scott appeared from around a corner, showing no signs of being hurt.
Without even thinking, Stiles launched at Scott, nearly taking Derek to the floor due to Derek bonding the two together. She gripped Scott into a tight hug, "You're okay."
Scott was surprised at the reaction, but it doesn't stop him from returning the gesture, "Yeah, I'm fine." He voiced obviously confused, "They're on the fourth floor."
When they got to the fourth floor, charred bits were scattered across the floor as some parts of the hallway were still burning. The Sheriff, armed with his gun, and Scott took the lead, while Derek and Stiles brought up the rear. The growling seemed to have stopped, but it was unusually silent.
Just as they were about to turn a corner a flaming body flew past them and smacked against the wall. It's Parrish with his flames disappearing followed a few seconds later by the fire in his eyes. He seems to be dazed, "Parrish?" The Sheriff called out to him, rushing to his aide, "You okay? Deputy!"
While Derek, Stiles, and the Sheriff were checking on Parrish, Scott noticed the beast tracks in blood on the floor. As he followed them, the tracks transformed from being clawed feet to bloody shoe prints.
Deaton slid a folder towards Derek and Stiles, who both gave him a confused expression, "What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist."
He opened the file and inside of it were pictures and records of experimentations, "This is the only surviving evidence of Dr. Valack's time as Chief Medical Officer of Eichen House." The pictures revealed to be a series of dead creatures, "To call it human experimentation would be charitable."
One picture caught Stiles' eye. It's one of a woman with a hole in the middle of her forehead. Until like the other pictures, this woman had no facial distortion, "A Banshee."
Deaton nodded his head, "She died screaming."
"So, he drilled holes into their heads?" Derek questioned, "All of them?"
"That was the experimentation part." Deaton clarified, "He did it to Werewolves, Banshees, Wendigos, any creature he could get his hands on." He shared, "And Valack found that trepanation would initially heighten their powers, but to levels that couldn't be contained."
"So, he wants to make Landon more powerful." Derek guessed.
Stiles looked at the pictures in horror, "Except he's going to end up like them."
"Worse, actually." Deaton told them, earning him more alarming expressions, "Landon's abilities were already exceptional, to begin with." He explained, "Putting a hole in his head will be like causing a leak in a nuclear reactor."
"He'll hear everything." Stiles surmised.
"Every death, every dying scream, all at once." Deaton expressed.
"That's going to kill him."
"Not only that..." Deaton hesitated to say, "His own dying scream could be so powerful that it might kill everyone around him as well."
Stiles went to the one person who could help, but unfortunately, not even the Sheriff was able to do anything, even after Stiles had shared the new information, "She's the only person who can check him out of Eichen House."
"Can't we get a court order or something?" Stiles pressed urgently.
"Technically, trepanation is still considered a medical procedure." The Sheriff explained, "A judge would have to declare Natalie unfit, which isn't likely." He pointed out, "It could all take months."
"So, you're saying there's nothing we can do," Stiles replied absolutely horrified at the thought.
"I'm saying there's nothing we can do..." The Sheriff said, before looking around them and leaned into Stiles' ear, "Legally."
"You serious?" Stiles questioned him, getting the subtle hint.
While the Sheriff appeared to still be unsure, he does give a weak head nod.
Stiles placed multiple blueprints of the Eichen House building, on the dining room table at the McCall house. Scott, Kira, Micah, and Liam do not question the acquisition of the prints.
"There's four steps." Stiles told them, "We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Landon, get out."
"And we have to do it all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier." Micah reminded Stiles, since literally everyone, except Stiles, couldn't get past the barrier, "You have a plan for all of that, right?"
Stiles showed them a badge, "I stole this off an orderly." Stiles shared, "But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night."
"So why did you take it?" Scott questioned.
"I'm getting to that." Stiles told him, "The only way to get Landon out of Eichen is to make that key card work again."
"How are you going to do that?" Micah questioned.
"We're getting to that, okay, just listen." Stiles told them, "I pulled all the history off the key card. Two weeks ago, there was a brownout and the security system rebooted. During a reboot, all the key cards revert to a default code."
"So, if we trigger a reboot..." Liam spoke, trying to piece together what Stiles was saying.
"The card goes back to the default code." Stiles explained, "It works again."
"How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira questioned.
"That's your part." Stiles told her, getting a wide-eyed expression, "You're going to draw power from the main line. But only enough to cause the brownout." Stiles explained, "Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad." Remembering a personal experience at Eichen House, "Very, very bad." Stiles pointed at an area on the blueprint, "There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen."
"Okay, slight problem." Kira said with hesitation, "I don't know how to do that."
"That's okay." Stiles assured her, "You have time to practice."
"Let's say all this goes perfectly." Micah voiced, "How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?"
"The system takes five minutes to reboot." Scott spoke, "In that five minutes all the alarms will be turned off and the key card should work." He explained, "Liam, you and I get Stiles to the gate of the Closed Unit." He directed towards his beta.
"But after that, I'm on own." Stiles noticed a look of protest forming on Liam's face, "You can't get past the Mountain Ash barrier." Stiles reminded him, not giving Liam a chance to protest vocally.
"And when we're gone, all anyone's going to think is that there was a reboot of the security system caused by a brownout." Scott summed up the place.
"Uh, any questions?"
"How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?" Liam questioned them not hiding the doubt in his tone.
"What's our worst-case scenario?" Micah questioned just as doubtful.
"What if I can't do it?" Kira reminded them.
Stiles took all their doubts into consideration, "Okay, undoubtedly, a lot could go wrong."
"Everything could go wrong," Micah muttered loud enough to be heard.
Stiles sighed, knowing it was a possibility and looked at Scott, giving him a nudge on his side. Scott gave a confused look until Stiles tilted her head towards the doubtful trio, "Guys, if we don't do this, we lose Landon." Scott prompted them, "He's going to die in there tonight."
"And he might take a lot of innocent people with him." Stiles finished.
Doctor Valack and Nurse Cross walked down an unused, leaky Eichen House corridor. From a storage locker, Valack retrieved something that was similar to being a mask of one of the Dread Doctors. It was broken and burned.
"Have you ever actually put that thing on someone?" Cross questioned him.
"Not in years." Valack admitted, admiring the mask, "Close the doors, would you?"
Cross does as direct, "How do you know it still works?" He questioned with doubt.
"I don't." Valack answered stepping close behind Cross, "I suppose we should give it a try."
Valack says he hasn't put the mask on anyone in years. Nurse Cross expresses doubt that the mask will still work.
Valack slammed it down on his head. He convulsed and screamed as the indistinct voices in his head continued to get louder and louder. However, this lasted only for a few moments before his screams stopped.
In a biology lab at the school, Micah handed Kira a lightbulb, giving her an expectant gaze, "What?" Kira questioned him.
"Do it." He responded, indicating at the bulb in her hand, "Do your thing."
Kira shook her head, "What thing?" She placed the bulb on the table, "I don't have a thing."
"You did it before." Micah reminded her, "You had to learn how, right?"
"Actually, no." Kira corrected him, "It just happened."
Micah gave a confused expression, "How'd you learn to fight with a sword?"
"That just kind of happened too."
Micah shrugged his shoulders, "So you've never worked for anything." Kira nodded agreeing to the whole thing, "Cheater cheater, pumpkin eater." He said in a sing-song voice.
Kira looked slightly offended and amused, "This wasn't my idea." She reminded him, picking up the bulb as for an example. "How are we even getting past the front gate?"
"I have a guy on the inside." Micah replied, "And stop changing the subject. Do your thing."
Kira exhaled as she focused on using her power. The sound of electricity humming filled the classroom as the lightbulb began to flicker on and off. This only lasted a second before it lit up completely before shattering, "It didn't work." Kira said with disappointment, staring at her now empty hand.
She then looked up at Micah, who has a shard of glass embedded in his head. Kira at least looked alarmed, while Micah looked unaffected.
He plucked the shard gingerly from his head, "No, it didn't." He agreed, taking out a fresh light bulb for them to try again.
Melissa McCall retrieved body bags for Scott and Liam from the hospital morgue, "Just promise you're not coming back in one of these."
"We're coming back with Landon," Scott assured her.
"Okay. We still don't know who's actually doing this." Liam voiced, "Who the Beast is."
"We'll find out."
"You think it's someone we know?" Melissa questioned.
"I hope not," Scott admitted.
"You think he even knows he's doing it?" Liam offered.
"How are you so sure it's a he?" Melissa questioned the younger werewolf.
Melissa was being brusque with Liam and he noticed, "You still mad at me?"
"No." Melissa told him, stepping closer to him, "But if you try to kill my son again, I'll put you in one of these myself."
As she walked away, Liam whispered, "She's still mad."
Scott nodded.
Derek and Stiles cornered Parrish inside the Sheriff's office, "That's the worst plan I've ever heard." Parrish told Stiles, the moment Stiles told him the plan of getting Landon out of Eichen House.
"Okay, the plan is perfect and it'll work perfectly," Stiles retorted, "Especially if you agree to drive the van."
Parrish still didn't seem too convinced of the entire thing, "Is the Sheriff on board with this?"
"How do you think I got the keys?"
"I thought you stole them."
Stiles gave an acknowledging head tilt, "While that's a perfectly reasonable assumption, I did not steal them. And we need you because all the Eichen guards know all the Sheriff's Deputies, okay." Stiles reiterated, "We need a real deputy."
"I realized my mistake after I had finished saying it." Derek groaned, hearing the shade Stiles had thrown.
"Wait, you're okay with this?" Parrish questioned him.
"And one who won't ask questions," Stiles said, out-speaking Derek.
Parrish stared at the couple, "It's not safe to bring me along." Parrish stated, "I'm dangerous."
"So is the giant murdering werewolf that's killed over 30 people," Stiles counterclaimed, "But somehow didn't kill you."
The biology lab was covered in broken lightbulbs with Micah now wearing goggles and sitting a few feet away from Kira, "Can I ask you a question?"
"No."
"Did your mother really try to kill you?"
Micah doesn't miss a beat, "Did your mother try to leave you in the desert with Skinwalkers?"
"Are you really going to try to kill her first?" Micah doesn't answer the question, but instead removed his goggles, "Why'd you take off the goggles?"
"Because this time you're gonna do it." Micah answered, getting up and moving closer to Kira, "And it's gonna work. Because this is the only way we're getting Landon out of Eichen House."
Kira focused again. This time the bulb dims significantly, "Kira, it's working." Micah said with relief.
But as soon as Micah pointed out, Kira lost control and the bulb flashed brightly just before breaking as it did previously. The lost control doesn't stop there when the sound of electricity hummed loudly just before all the lights inside the classroom burst.
Kira and Micah look around them in awe, "We should go." Kira stated, seeing the mess that had been created.
"Yeah." Micah agreed as they beat a hasty retreat.
After they exited the biology classroom, Corey became visible against the blackboard. He had been spying on them the whole time.
While Micah and Kira were escaping from their mess they left behind in the classroom, Stiles shared what was going on in the investigation of the shoe prints left after the beast transformed back into a human at the hospital with Scott in the library, "Kind of mystified about how giant clawed werewolf feet turn back into a pair of sneakers." Stiles concluded.
"Argent said it wouldn't be like anything we've ever seen before." Scott brought up.
"Did he say it was going to defy the laws of physics?" Stiles questioned back. Before doing an about-face, "What are you doing here?" Stiles questioned.
Scott turned his head and could see that Theo was in the library with them, "I still need to graduate."
"No. No." Stiles replied in a very calm manner, taking a stand in front of Scott, "What you need is to be beaten severely with a lead pipe wrapped in barbed wire..."
Theo made the effort of at least looking guilty, "Okay, I admit that mistakes were made."
"Murders." Stiles corrected him, "Some murders were made."
"You know how the Soviets helped us win World War II?" Theo questioned, "They knew how to make it through a Russian winter."
Stiles looked rather unimpressed, "That it? Okay. Thank you, Theo. Very informative."
Reflexively, Stiles grabbed Scott by his hand and began moving them along, "If you're planning to break Landon out of Eichen House," Theo called to them, causing Scott to stop him and Stiles from going any farther, "You still need to get past the Mountain Ash."
"I can make it through," Stiles answered in retaliation.
Theo doesn't pay Stiles any attention, but rather set his sights on Scott, "Scott can't."
Now it was Scott's turn to be suspicious of Theo, "What do you really want?" Scott questioned him.
"I know you saw the fresco." Theo referred from the Dread Doctor's lair, "Two seriously pissed off creatures, the Hellhound and the Beast, fighting over a pile of dead bodies." He reminded him, "I don't want to be one of the bodies, it's that simple." He shared, "I can get you to Landon." He boldly walked in between them, "Or we can see who gets to him first." He stared at Stiles.
Stiles in return gave him a hard stare before a look realization took place, "He's right." Stiles said in an obvious tone, surprising Scott in the process. Stiles moved away Scott, giving him a look of confliction, "None of you can make it past the Mountain Ash barrier. Only chimeras."
"Stiles-" Scott started to say, but Stiles silenced him a hand.
"It's the only way to get Landon out," Stiles stressed, taking a stand by Theo. Theo seemed surprised at the action, "Theo can get to him without the Mountain Ash hassle."
Theo gave Scott a look of satisfaction before he placed his arm over Stiles' shoulder and lead them out the library, leaving Scott alone.
The Sheriff was trying to convince Natalie Martin to get Landon out of Eichen House, however, she wasn't having it, "I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, but if you don't mind, I have recommendations to write."
"Natalie, you know what's going on." He told her, "You know about the Closed Unit in Eichen House. And you know what's down there."
"I know how to survive in Beacon Hills." She corrected him, "That's what I know."
"Then just check on him." He pressed, "What if I'm right?"
Natalie finally gave him her full attention, "You know, my mother-in-law, Lorraine, predicted her wife's death." She shared, "And when I was in college, I was overcome with this feeling that something terrible was happening to my sister. When I called her, she was in the hospital with a burst appendix." She related, "These moments happen for everyone. And you know what they're called?"
"Undeniable proof of the supernatural?"
"Coincidence."
This doesn't discourage the Sheriff as he handed her an envelope, "Take a look at this." She opened the file and it was filled with Valack's experiments, "It might expand your definition of, uh, coincidence."
