"No Stiles." Theo noted when he lead Scott and Liam to the operating theater, "Can't say I'm not surprised." Scott chose not to comment on Theo's inquiry with Stiles, but instead eyed the tube that appeared to have something in it, "They called him Der Soldat." Theo explained, walking around the tube, "That's German for "The Soldier." I'm pretty sure he fought in World War II. And he was a Nazi. And an Alpha werewolf." He explained to them, "The Dread Doctors were using him to prolong their lives. They've been doing it for decades. Actually, probably longer."
"How old are these guys?" Scott questioned.
"Who knows." Theo admitted, "But wherever they go, he goes, too."
"So how do we find him?"
"Keeping him alive requires a pretty unique set of conditions." Theo explained, "There's got to be a power source. It has to be underground... And on a telluric current."
"Looks like we're going for a hike." Scott realized.
A teenager arrived at the hospital with severe injuries, "We got a hit and run. Victim is a black male, approximately 16 years of age." Melissa hurried over to help thinking its Mason, but it's not, "Blood pressure is 80 and dropping."
Micah and Derek were at the McCall house surrounded by a Mountain Ash barrier to keep them in and the Desert Wolf out.
"Nothing here." Landon shared with over the phone, as he walked through the Sheriff's station, "Anything on your end?"
"Not a thing." Micah responded on edge, "And I'm gonna lose my mind if I don't get out of this supernatural cage."
From his spot at the table, "The Mountain Ash is there to keep you safe." Derek reminded him.
"We should be keeping Stiles safe." Micah counterclaimed, "How are you not worried about this?"
"Trust me, I am worried about that." Derek answered in a bored tone, "But I also know she'll be able to take care of herself."
From his end at the Sheriff's station, Landon watched Stiles, paying attention to her phone, walk right into the Sheriff's door. He turned away as if he hadn't seen anything, "Stiles will be fine." Landon assured Micah, "Call me if anything changes."
On the outside of the Sheriff's station, The Desert Wolf had been ease-dropping on their phone conversation.
Some time later at the McCall house, Derek was eating pistachios which earned him a look of judgment from Micah. He silently held up the bag as an offering, "I'll pass." Micah told him, eyeing his cousin's laid back attitude, "Thanks."
He walked away to survey the house.
At the Sheriff's station, "Scott and Liam are out in woods with Theo." Stiles announced marching into the Sheriff's office where Allison and Landon waited, "Something tells me that they shouldn't be alone."
Landon gave her a calculating expression, "Is that your extrasensory perception talking or your 'not wanting to sit down and wait around' talking?" He challenged.
Stiles gave a thoughtful expression, "Maybe a bit of both."
"It's never been wrong before," Allison pointed out, "You go and make sure that Theo isn't walking them into a trap." Allison urged, "I'll stay here with Landon just in case."
"I can heal your leg if you want?" Stiles offered to her.
"No, thanks." Allison told her, "I can still fight."
Scott, Liam, and Theo were waiting just on the outskirts of the woods. She could immediately notice the look that Theo was giving her, "You say one word, I'll send you through a tree so fast, you'd think you were time traveling." She told him as she bumped past him, getting to Scott and Liam.
As they trekked through the woods, Scott couldn't shake his suspicion of Theo. Almost as if he were hiding something, "Where is he?" Scott questioned him.
"I thought we were looking for him," Theo questioned innocently.
"You know who I'm talking about," Scott told him with a halt.
"Deucalion?" Theo offered with a sly smile.
"You shouldn't trust him," Scott warned him.
"I already told him he was an idiot." Stiles shared, looking around them.
"You're the one who let him live." Theo reminded him.
"I'm not a murderer."
Theo laughed at Scott's naivety, "You still think you're gonna get through all this without killing anyone?"
"I didn't say that."
"We're close," Liam announced breaking the staring contest between Scott and Theo.
Stiles took a stand by his side, placing a hand on his shoulder, "You get his scent?" Liam nodded, "Which way?" Liam pointed in a direction just across from them, "Okay, good."
Stiles removed her hand just as Liam tried to take a step before realizing he couldn't move. He noticed that Stiles wasn't even giving him eye contact, "You think you're going to leave me behind?" He questioned with betrayal in his voice.
"Liam..." Stiles explained, looking a bit unsure, "Look, he wants to kill him."
By "he" Stiles meant Theo, "I just want his power." Theo reminded her, "You want to fight someone that actually wants to kill Mason? Go fight Parrish."
"Who did you see when you put on the mask?" Liam questioned him.
"I already told you." Theo shared, "It wasn't Mason."
"Who was it?" Scott questioned him.
"I saw a man dying in the snow." Theo shared, "He was impaled on a spear."
"It's called a pike." Stiles corrected him, "Landon told us the story."
"Then you know what it means." Theo agreed, "Time's running out."
Stiles cast Liam a careful look before touching his shoulder, letting him move again. Liam continued leading them further into the woods until they came to an old wooden door and paused. Theo placed his finger over his lips and leaned against the door, "Listen."
Through the closed door, the werecreatures and chimera could hear a heartbeat coming from the other side. A heartbeat that Liam instantly recognized, "It's him." Liam breathed out as he reached for the door.
One by one, they descended into another lair and found Mason leaning against the glowing tube. Liam hurried to his friend's side, "Mason?" Liam tried, but noticed the needle embedded into his neck, connecting him to the bubbling tube, "It's connected to him."
Kira was standing by her car on her phone, "Hey, it's me." She started off, "Oh, God. I wish you just picked up. I hate leaving messages." She spoke over the phone, "I always ramble. I always say stupid things." She rambled, "And then when I finally get to the super important thing that I'm supposed to say, the voice-mail cuts me off and..." The voicemail does indeed beep and she has to redial the number.
"Me again. I have to leave." She said, "But I'm coming back to help." She voiced, "I promise. Because you're right, Scott. If anyone is going to save Mason, it's you." She spoke with a sure smile on her face, "It's us."
Kira gets into her car and stared at the container in the passenger seat that held the pieces of her sword.
Mason has regained consciousness, groaning as he could feel a pressure inside his head.
"What is this thing?" Scott questioned at Theo.
For what seemed some type of miracle Theo answered honestly, "I don't know."
Mason moved his head slightly, "Liam, I can feel it…It's in my skull." He voiced as the machine began whirring.
"Don't move." Liam told him, before looking at Theo, "What are they doing to him?"
"Again, I don't know."
While Scott and Liam were irritated at Theo's lack of knowledge of knowing anything, Stiles prevented another bickering round, "Guys, let's focus." Stiles told them, "Mason, we're gonna get you out of here."
"Hold him still." Scott directed to Liam, "Okay. All right." He informed the friends, "I'm going to try to pull it out. Let me know if it hurts..." Scott only touched the device before Mason started screaming.
"It hurts!" Mason shouted instantly, causing Scott to remove his hand, "It definitely hurts."
"I barely moved it," Scott told them.
Allison was asleep on the couch in the Sheriff's office. Landon walked in and looked down on her, giving a look of consideration. He gently touched his friend on her forehead, which prompted an immediate reaction, "What?" She questioned, trying to shake off her sleep, "What happened? Who's dead?"
"No one." Landon told her as she sat up for him to take a seat, "Well, at least not yet."
They both checked their phones, but it appeared that no one has tried to contact them, "You okay?" Landon questioned her.
"Yeah, just jet lagged." Allison told him, "And this boot is starting to get on my nerves enough to where I just may take Stiles on the offer."
Landon eyed her carefully, "Does your dad know, you're here?"
"Please, if my dad knew that I was here, he'd send me back on the first flight back to France." Allison laughed, "Which is why Isaac decided to stay behind and cover me."
Landon gave her a doubtful expression, "Decided?"
Allison gave a smirk and head tilt, "More like I beat him in a skirmish." She admitted, "How about, you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm still thinking," Landon told her as he tapped his finger on the armrest of the bench.
"Still trying to figure out why Mason?" Allison guessed.
"I mean, he wasn't even on the Genetic Chimera list," Landon exclaimed with annoyance.
"He is now." Melissa announced as she came rushing into the office, holding onto Mason's medical file, "Mason was born with twin embolization syndrome."
"You mean fetal resorption?" Landon questioned.
"Mmm-hmm." She opened the file and revealed a picture of an ultrasound.
"He had a vanishing twin in utero." He stated with wonder.
"Which accounts for two sets of DNA."
"Still jet-lagged here," Allison restated, "Please say it with words that have less than three syllables?"
"He ate his twin." Landon simplified.
"Oh, God." Allison commented slightly disturbed at the idea, "But did it help?"
"I don't know." Melissa shared, "But it's just bizarre enough to sound like it might be important, right?"
"It has to help." Landon said as he examined the picture, "There has to be something."
While Scott and Liam were trying to figure out a way to remove the needle from Mason's neck, Stiles felt a chill run down her spine as her eyes gave a flash, "They here." She whispered just as the sound of clicking and running static filled the lab, "Get that thing out of Mason's neck."
Theo and Stiles turned to see the Surgeon has already made an entrance into the lab. Only the Surgeon wasn't interested in Stiles. He was focusing on his chimera, "Theo..." He hissed out, "Theo Raeken."
"He's coming with us." Theo declared.
Surgeon moved his head into a tilt, "Failure..." He breathed out, "Theo Raeken."
Theo appeared to be offended, "I'm not a failure."
Meanwhile, Liam and Scott were still trying to help free his friend, "Liam..." Mason breathed out, "Get out of here." He begged him, "Just go."
"Not a complete failure." The Surgeon assured him, "We learned from you."
Stiles could see a look in Theo's eyes, "Theo, he's trying to get to you. This is what they want, don't give it to them." Theo gave Stiles a look of confliction, "We can't beat them."
"The mark of a true failure." The Surgeon continued trying to bait Theo, "Repeating the same mistake again and again."
"Corey," Stiles called out. At the sound of his name, Corey became visible surprising Scott and Liam as he stood in front of them. Stiles then stepped to Theo's side, placing a hand on his shoulder, "We're taking Mason." She voiced, giving Theo an encouraging look.
Theo gave an acknowledging head nod as he shifted, "Then I'm taking what's mine."
Downstairs in the McCall house, Derek immediately got up from his place in the kitchen, "Micah, something's wrong." He called out ready to head out the door, "We gotta go..."
But he trailed off as he neared the front door of the McCall house to see that the mountain ash barrier across the front door has been broken. Tracy boldly walked by outside with a small wave and a satisfied smile.
He immediately spun around, Braeden's shotgun ready as he quickly realized that the Desert Wolf was in the house.
Gerard and Chris Argent stood in the library discussing the new information they had found out, "Mason Hewitt." Chris shared with his father, "He's a sophomore. Liam's best friend."
"And a mass murderer," Gerard added in.
"We're going to need to tell Scott the rest," Chris told him.
"Not necessarily."
"If there's a way to save him..." Chris argued.
"The pike won't save him." His father told him, "It'll kill him. Mason Hewitt is gone."
Chris eyed his father with suspicion, "But you still can't tell me where it is." He accused him, "How do we know it's not a steel cup gathering dust in someone's antique collection?"
"Oh, I think it's closer to us than that." Gerard said with a hidden promise, looking around the destroyed area, "We'll find the pike. Whatever shape it's in."
Chris doesn't fully buy into what his father claim, but played along, "If we can't, then we're going to need a lot more firepower to take on the Beast."
The sound of a door opened. They see it was Jordan with eyes glowing a fiery orange, "How much firepower do you want?"
"You have the entitlement and narcissism typical of your generation." The Surgeon mocked to Theo, "In that, you are a profound success."
From the floor, Liam tried to remove the spike from Mason's neck, but as he does Mason screamed a lot in pain, "Scott, I... I can't get it out." Liam cried out to his Alpha, "I don't know what to do."
"But your repeated failure taught us one thing." The Doctor continued, "The banality of evil. That you were and would always be an ordinary evil."
Theo seemed offended at the statement, "You think I'm ordinary?"
"We believed that to resurrect the perfect killer we had to start with the perfect evil." The Surgeon continued, "From you, we learned true evil only comes by corrupting something truly good."
Stiles' eyes widened at the statement, "Not something." She watched Mason on the ground, "Someone."
Theo could hear one of the doctors, that wasn't the Surgeon, ready to emit another transmission and immediately pushed them back. He continued attacking, repeatedly punching them in the mask, not giving them a chance to force a transmission.
While Theo's fighting against the one doctor, Stiles could see the Surgeon moving his way toward Scott, Liam, Corey, and Mason. Stiles backed closer to them falling to the ground, "Remember the plan?" She questioned Corey. He gave her a simple nod which seemed to be enough as Stiles lets eyes go white as a blue aura surrounded them.
However, Liam doesn't stick with the plan and rushed through the barrier, going straight into fighting the Surgeon by himself. "Liam, wait!" Scott shouted out, following the younger werewolf. "Liam!"
Hearing sounds his friends and Theo taking a beating from the doctors was enough to give Mason the push he needed to reach behind his neck, "Mason what are you doing?" Corey questioned in a panic, trying to stop Mason.
It was useless as Mason stood up, breaking through the barrier, causing Stiles to break out of her motionless state, and began pulling out the needle himself. This action halted the fighting as everyone watched as he does so.
The Surgeon noticed the action, "Transformation..." He stated as clouds of shadows form around Mason catching everyone's attention. "Transformation without frequency."
Stiles and Corey quickly backed into Liam and Scott against a wall as they watch the smoke continuing to cover Mason's body, "Mason!" Liam called out to him as Scott was trying to hold him back.
Mason's eyes turned white, "That is not… my name." He said in a deep voice as clouds of shadow covered him completely. With a manner of seconds, the head of the Beast and its roar came to focus.
The Desert Wolf had been stalking Derek through the McCall house, covering her scent. Doing the same thing, Derek remained hidden with the shotgun ready. While on the prowl, the Desert Wolf stepped on a line of pistachio shells that Derek has laid out across the floor.
From a corner, Derek appeared firing the shotgun. He shot at her armed hand, forcing the Desert Wolf to drop her weapon. He immediately cocked the shotgun again. The Desert Wolf proved to be faster she was able to grab hold of the shotgun to prevent Derek from shooting at her. The two struggle over it and pointed it up to the ceiling. It went off.
From the upstairs, Micah rushed towards the end of the hall, only to jump back as the stray bullet from the shotgun came up from the floor. Micah immediately fell back for cover.
Back downstairs, Derek and the Desert Wolf still were struggling for control over the shotgun. The two appeared to be even matched even as they try to overpower one another. Through the process, the shotgun got cranked again and set off, once again. This time within the struggle, the two had the shotgun pointed in another direction, causing the bullet to hit one of the lights.
Tired of the continuous struggle, Derek knocked her away with a kick to the stomach onto the floor and hurried his way out of the house. Sitting up on the floor, she could see him reestablishing the mountain ash barrier.
The Desert Wolf noticed Derek's ability, "Just who are you bonded to?" She questioned, eyeing Derek carefully. "Doesn't matter really, I love a cage match." She picked up her fallen gun, looking around the house expectedly.
Kira had returned to the desert surrounded by darkness. The only sounds that could be heard were the sound of the wind howling throughout the empty desert. Just as she was about to call out to the darkness, a shadowed figure stepped out.
Knowing that she didn't have her sword complete, Kira stood in her fighting stance ready to take on the mystery person, walking towards her, "I really don't think, us having to fight is necessary." The voice told her.
At the recognition of the voice, Kira relaxed but was perplexed at the sudden appearance. "How did you get here?"
Stepping into the light, where she stood, appeared Isaac wearing a cheeky smile and a scarf around his neck, "Allison." He stated simply.
"They can help me," Kira told him.
Isaac held his hands up, "I'm not here to stop you." He promised, "I'm here to bring you back when you've done your piece with them." He silently took a stand by her side.
She laid out the pieces of her sword on the sand, "I need your help." She called out, "Maybe I failed your test. Maybe I don't have control yet." She admitted. "But I'll do whatever I have to. Whatever it takes. Please. Tell me how to save my friends." She pleaded.
The wind surrounding began to howl as the Skinwalkers appeared from the ground, "Kira... We can help her." Red said as she held onto her staff.
"But it comes with a price." Animal informed the Kitsune.
"Everything has its price." War expressed the three Skinwalkers surrounded the Werewolf and the Kitsune.
Scott, Liam, Corey, and Stiles were still backed into the wall, horrified, as the Beast threw a piece of The Geneticist on the floor as it twitched while dripping liquid from one of the masks many tubes.
They watched from a distance as the Beast picked up The Pathologist and ripped off its head. It rolled across the floor landing at Theo and The Surgeon's feet. The beast, uninterested in Theo, knocked the chimera aside and headed towards the Surgeon.
"Success." The Surgeon said just before being stabbed with its enormous claws and dragged it outside.
While Stiles and Corey stayed behind tending to an injured Theo, Scott and Liam followed the Beast and it dropped the Surgeon on the ground.
From behind the Beast, they could see Parrish, on fire, as he punched the Beast right in its chest. The Beast retaliated back and punched him in the face. Not too far behind, Chris began firing large shells at it.
The Beast roared in retreat, even as Chris continued firing at it. He doesn't stop until it began to transform into a person that obviously wasn't Mason by a nearby bridge, "La Bête Du Gevaudan!" Gerard called out to them, "I know your name." A man turned to face them, "Do you remember mine?"
"Argent." He answered with a French accent, before taking off running. The Hellhound roared after him.
"Who the hell was that?" Scott demanded to know from the Argents.
"You've seen the Beast of Gevaudan." Gerard answered, "That was the Man. Sebastien Valet."
FINALE IS NEXT WEEK. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU WANT EXPLAINED OR SEE IN THE UPCOMING SIDE STORY! PREVIOUS SEASONS ARE INCLUDED!
