"Why?" Teresa asked.
"Incoming, that's why." I answered, which got a lot of blank looks.
Gerald appeared next to me, "How do you know?" His arm had been bandaged, probably by Rick.
"Explain later, no time. Four more cars coming and we're out of shells." I looked at Coyote and Sam, Sam nodded so did Coyote.
"They probably already know," Sam pointed out, "Put them in play."
"All right. I'll call the ones in the woods you take the others. If nothing else we need Gerald to be functional."
Susan and a few others frowned, "What the hell?"
Coyote stepped up, "Susan, trust them. We've got less than five minutes before we're under attack. You want to make it through? Just do what they tell you to. Please."
None of them looked too happy with that but they shut up, I called Oliver.
"Yes?"
"Please tell me you have things that can stop cars and fast."
"Of course."
He kind of sounded offended that I'd asked, "Good. Do it. Then do whatever you can to stop whatever comes out of the cars, or at least slow them down. We'll have to hand to hand it with the vamps, out of shells. We can't risk Coyote looking to see what's what, we'll get Cas to do it. He can at least give us an idea of numbers."
"Do you want Roy and I to close in and help once we exhaust what we can do from here?"
"If things aren't going our way, yes."
"Understood," He hung up.
Sam got off his phone just as Dig's car came straight at us, "Friendly!" He shouted so people wouldn't start shooting. Dig skidded to a stop on the side of the road, he and Cas got out. I almost didn't recognize Cas, I was so used to the trench-coat. He was wearing a blue short sleeved t-shirt, black jeans, boots and a baseball cap. "Everyone," Sam continued, "This is Dig and Castiel. You'll have more questions, just save them. Castiel is an angel, Dig's a friend. Yes, angels are real. Process that later. Gerald show Castiel your arm."
Gerald just shook his head and pulled the bandages off. Cas placed his hand over the wounds and did his thing. It's damn hard to get hunters to look dumbfounded, but that did it.
"Holy mother of..." Gerald started, then stopped mid sentence. "Oh, uh, sorry."
Cas grinned, "Gerald, I have known Dean and Sam for years, it takes quite a bit to offend me and blasphemy is hardly a ranking sin anymore."
Everyone else just stared, time to get them focused again, "All right, stare at the angel later. Dig, catch," I tossed him the keys to Baby, "Grab whatever you need out of the trunk."
"Got it." He grabbed the keys and jogged past me.
"Dig's human, ex Army, solid and worked with us before," Sam said, "We've got two people in the woods, one of them's Roy, the other is someone who doesn't like people knowing too much about him but he's a friend." He looked at me, "He have what we need?"
"Things that go boom? Yeah."
Sam nodded and kept talking, "More than likely the cars that are about to show up will have the engines explode for no apparent reason, don't worry about it. Focus on killing whatever comes out of those cars after the engines go up in smoke. I know we're throwing a lot at you but the rules have changed. We clear?"
Sherm threw his arms up, "Sure, I guess. Kill monsters, ignore angels, magically exploding engines and nets that appear out of thin air. Anything else we're supposed to not notice?"
Knew that net thing was going to come back around. "Nope, just make sure to notice the things trying to kill you."
He muttered something, grumbled then spat on the ground in front of him, "I'll keep my eyes open, thanks for the tip."
"Hey, I'm all about helping out my friends," I replied. "Cas, you need to tell us how many of what species we're dealing with. Take out what you can. For the rest of you, when Cas takes something out there's a pretty spectacular light show and their eyes tend to burn down to cinders. Try not to let it distract you."
"Why can't he just take them all out at once? You know, smite them or something? Wrath of God?" Rick asked.
"Good question, long answer," Sam said, "Short version, it doesn't work like that. He's an angel but instant mass disintegration is more along the lines of an archangel, which he's not. He'll give us an advantage though."
"I fucking hope so," Sarah said, "Here they come."
"What?" I turned so I could look up the road, that's when the windows rolled down on the lead car and guns got aimed towards us. "Fuck! Everyone down!"
We all dove, well all of us but Cas. Sam, Coyote and I all landed behind Baby at almost exactly the same time. "So not cool!" I snarled, "Who gave them guns?" Bullets slammed into Baby, "Mother fuckers!"
"Gordon!" Sam snapped, "He has to be with this batch."
I heard a high pitched beeping and risked a look over Baby's hood. The lead car's engine erupted into flames just as I did, I'll never make fun of Oliver's exploding arrows again. Damn. A half second later the last car suffered the same fate. If normal people had been in the cars we would have been counting bodies at that point, but monsters don't go down that easy. Since both cars were filled with monsters, the doors flew open, literally, and landed about four feet away from the cars. As soon as the doors hit the ground, monsters came tumbling out of the cars, a lot of them.
The two remaining cars got hit by exploding arrows, then Cas's voice echoed through the air. "All of you, close your eyes!"
"Do it!" I yelled and hoped Oliver and Roy had heard as I ducked back down and threw my hands over my eyes. It was still barely enough, near blinding light pressed against my eyes while various screams erupted from behind us. The light faded a few seconds later.
I heard gunfire,"Cas?" Since the light was gone we peeked out, Cas had just taken out three of them, the rest had blindly scattered like roaches.
"They are blinded for now. It won't last." Cas explained
Gordon had appeared from somewhere. He was standing next to the lead car, he had a piece of paper in his left hand and his right hand was sliced open. "Bye angel," he said as he slammed his hand onto the paper.
Cas lunged towards him but it was too late, "No!"
"Don't look!" I shouted as Cas started to glow.
"Dean!" Cas yelled, "Four werewolves, the rest..." Light surrounded Cas and exploded out from him before he could finish.
"Fuck you Gordon!" Sam screamed.
"Did he just kill an angel?" Gerald asked.
"Nope," Gordon said with a nasty smirk on his face, "Banished him. By the time he gets back though, all you assholes will be dead. Get them!"
Fortunately, most of Gordon's guys were still trying to see so couldn't do much yet. I wasn't sure why they still had their eyes but didn't have time to wory about that. Us hunters however could see just fine. Cas had taken out three, I counted ten more. An arrow hit one, it started convulsing, that left nine more.
"Go!" Sam yelled. All the hunters moved as one, Sam and I headed straight for Gordon, he dropped his paper and thankfully pulled out blades, not guns. Baby's trunk was still open so I grabbed the Purgatory Blade as I ran past and Sam yanked out his machete.
"C'mon Winchesters!" Gordon taunted, "Been waiting years for this." He ducked out of the way of an arrow which landed in the side of the car. "Gotta do better than that!"
Sam was on my left, he sped up, got ahead of me then did something I'd never, ever seen him do. He launched himself into the air and did a flying spinning back kick which connected solidly with Gordon's head, slamming him full force into the side of the car. Sam landed and swung his machete straight across, trying to take Gordon out in one hit. He almost did it, Gordon just barely ducked and Sam's blade took off a chunk of his scalp.
Apparently Sam had decided to take full advantage of hanging out with Oliver and Roy over the last year, Jesus Christ!
Gordon recovered and aimed one of his blades straight for Sam's stomach. Sam brought his blade down to block but got knocked back just by Gordon's sheer strength. Gordon was about to bring his Purgatory blade into play when I got there and blocked it.
I slammed my off hand into his face, "You mother fucking son of a bitch!"
He grinned, blood covered his teeth and was trickling down the side of his mouth, "Hi Dean. Miss me?" His elbow took me square in the jaw, which hurt like hell and drove me back a few feet. Sam took another swing, Gordon shifted right, caught Sam's blade in an X using both of his and shoved it into the side of the car. Sam almost lost his grip on the blade as Gordon pulled the blades toward his chest. Sam went with the blades, took a step forward and nailed Gordon in the stomach with his knee.
Gordon grunted and Sam managed to twist his blade out from between Gordon's blades. Gordon lunged forward and aimed one of his blades straight at Sam's throat. Sam leaned away but Gordon drew blood low down on Sam's neck. Sam hissed and jumped back.
My world shifted. There were screams coming from all sides, I was surrounded by monsters, outnumbered and had to protect Sam, had to survive. Nothing else mattered.
"That's right Dean," Gordon said, showing his fangs, "Remember how it was down there? How it felt?"
I didn't answer, just shifted tactics, fuck taking his head. I was going to take him apart piece by piece. My arms moved, the obsidian glinted in the sun as I swept the blade high then switched my aim as he went to block and sliced clean through his forearm instead. His hand, his Purgatory blade and half of his forearm fell to the ground. He howled and reeled back.
"Heal from that bitch!" I growled as I pressed my advantage. Unfortunately vamps don't go into shock, he blocked my next attack and scrambled away. Sam threw another kick at him just as I lunged forward, Gordon had nowhere to really go. He had to choose, Sam's leg or my blade so he aimed for Sam's leg but Sam was way ahead of him. He pulled the kick, which meant Gordon had thrown all that power into thin air, when he didn't connect with anything solid he stumbled. Sam's machete dove towards Gordon's neck again, Gordon blocked again, his arm up high and wide open for me. Gordon knew it too. His eyes went wide just as my blade took that arm off at the shoulder.
He didn't even get a chance to scream, because Sam took Gordon's head before his arm hit the ground.
I didn't bother celebrating because I spotted Oliver running towards us, which meant things had gone to hell. I turned to look and the sounds of all the other battles going on hit me hard.
Star's blade took another head, then she screamed and dropped as a bullet took her knee out. Oliver leapt over her and fired, the arrow taking the guy that had fired at Star in the eye. Must have been a vamp because he started yelling and convulsing as he jerked the arrow out of his eye. Roy vaulted over another car, stabbed one guy with an arrow, then hurled one of his darts at the neck of a redhead monster chick who just lined up a shot on Coyote.
Both of those monsters flinched but didn't drop, werewolves then. I yanked out my gun and nailed both of them with silver bullets. That got their attention. Coyote didn't hesitate and drove one of her silver tipped blades through the heart of the redhead in front of her and rolled to the right just as another monster started firing at her.
Gerald nailed the guy Roy had stabbed with a silver bullet through the heart. I saw Susan laying on the ground, injured some way or other. Rick was going toe to toe with a vamp, neither of them had weapons that would hurt each other so they'd resorted to blades and claws. Sarah popped up from behind the hood of her car and fired at the legs of a tall brown haired dude in a long black trenchcoat. She took one of his knees out just as his gun jammed. I saw vamp fangs as he hissed."Sam! Vamp!"
Sam nodded and we headed into the fray. Sam's blade swept straight through trench coat dude's neck in one hit. Sam didn't even slow down. Rick had just been thrown by the vamp who's back happened to be towards me, my blade crunched through his spine without stopping. They'd all die, I'd take them all out.
"Dean! Down!" Gerald hollered.
I dropped and looked behind me, another monster with a gun had just lined up a shot on me. Gerald's shot took him in the head, he just smiled. I rolled up to my knee and was just about to hurl my blade at him when Coyote came out of nowhere, swinging her machete full force, his head flew off. She was bleeding from her shoulder, her face was bruised and she was limping. All that rage I'd kept at bay for over a year came flooding back.
Oliver took a bullet to his left arm, he didn't even seem to register the hit as he twisted to throw something at the monster that'd hit him. There were two left. One that had just shot at Oliver and the one was still fighting with Rick. I moved. The one that had shot Oliver saw me coming and started to turn to face me, he should have moved faster. I emptied the rest of my clip into his face, didn't kill him of course but it drove him backwards and into the side of a car. I separated his head from his neck before he had a chance to recover. I spun and was about ready to take out the vamp Rick was fighting with when I saw it's head go flying thanks to Dig.
"Any more of these bastards?" I snapped. There had to be more, more to kill. I needed to do more damage. A bone chilling howl came from behind me. "What the?"
We all looked up, there was something that looked like a wolf at the edge of the treeline.
"That's no wolf," Gerald said.
"No, no, no..." Rick started mumbling. "I can't...don't make me..." Then his words faded into pant laden growls.
Gerald backed away, "Rick?"
Rick's eyes turned yellow, his fangs and claws grew and all sense of humanity left him.
"Roy!" Oliver ordered.
Roy grabbed an arrow out of his quiver and fired it at Rick. Seeing as how Roy was standing about five feet away from Rick when the arrow hit and the net deployed Rick was swept off his feet and landed in a heap about three feet away from where'd he'd been standing. I was out of bullets but Sam wasn't, Rick was trying to shred the net when Sam nailed both of Rick's hands with silver bullets. Rick howled, literally.
I turned back around but the wolf was gone. Looked like Magnus's wolves were still alive and kicking, either that or we'd just seen an Alpha werewolf. An Alpha could have controlled Rick. I knew just how powerful an Alpha could be, seeing as how the Alpha vamp had been in my head for a bit way back when. I was starting to think Cas may have been right, the portal was still open. In which case we'd need Cas to talk to, oh no. Gordon had banished Cas and Cas wasn't allowed to be in Heaven anymore. Fuck! Gordon may have killed Cas after all.