"What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist." Deaton tells Scott and Stiles as he takes out photos from an envelope. "This is the only surviving evidence of Dr. Valack's time as Chief Medical Officer of Eichen House. To call it human experimentation would be charitable." Deaton says as the two teens take in all the photos of patients who had holes drilled in their heads. "A Banshee. She died screaming." Deaton says pointing to a picture of a young woman screaming.
"So, he drilled holes into their heads? All of them?" Scott asks him. "That was the experimentation part. He did it to Werewolves, Banshees, Wendigos, any creature he could get his hands on. And Valack found that trepanation and would initially heighten their powers, but to levels that couldn't be contained." Deaton explains to them. "So he wants to make Lydia more powerful." Stiles asks him.
"Yeah. Except she's going to end up like them." Scott answers for him. "Worse, actually. Lydia's abilities were already pretty exceptional to begin with.Putting a hole in her head will be like causing a leak in a nuclear reactor. She'll hear everything. Every death, every dying scream, all at once." Deaton says making the two boys shiver. "That's going to kill her." Stiles says out loud.
"Not only that...her own dying scream could be so powerful that it might kill everyone around her as well."
***
"There's four steps. We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Lydia, get out." Stiles explains to the group which consisted of Scott, Malia, Kira, Liam, and Brett. "And we have to do all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier." Scott continues for him. "You have a plan for all of that?" Malia asks the two. "I stole this last night off an orderly." Stiles says pulling out a card from his pocket. "But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night."
"So why did you take it?" Kira asks him. "I'm getting to that. The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make that key card work again." Stiles continues before being asked another question. "How are you going to do that?" Liam asks him. "We're getting to that, okay, just listen. 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 of the key cards revert back to a default code. So, if we trigger a reboot..."
"The card goes back to the default code. It works again." Liam finishes for Stiles. "How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira asks them. "That's your part. You're going to draw power from the main line." Scott says to her. "But only enough to cause the brownout. Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad. Very, very bad." Stiles continues to explain. "There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen." Scott finishes leaving Kira worried.
"Okay, slight problem. I don't know how to do that." She says to him. "That's okay. You have time to practice." Scott reassures her. "Let's say all this goes perfectly. How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?" Malia asks the two boys. "The system takes five minutes to reboot. In that five minutes all the alarms will be turned off the key card should work." Stiles answers her.
"Liam, you and I get Stiles to the gate of the Closed.
But after that, he has to go on his own. We can't get past the Mountain Ash barrier. 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 finishes. "Ok well what about Jules? You said that Theo's coming too so he's obviously gonna bring the rest of the pack." Liam asks the older boy.
"Well from what we learned, Jules is a cadejo. It comes from Central American folklore and if Jules had red eyes that night at the communication towers that means Theo found a way to turn her into the Black Cadejo." Brett explains to the group. "Wait there's multiple kinds?" Stiles asks the boy. "Well there's the white one, who's job is basically to protect people." Brett starts. "And the black one?" Scott asks him, making Brett sigh. "The Black Cadejo is said to be the reincarnation the devil and if you look into her eyes she can basically cause you to go mad or even die." Brett finishes quickly leaving them all stunned.
"Ok so we have to figure out a way to knock her out without looking into her eyes. Great, she's basically medusa." Stiles says with sarcasm with his voice. "Uh, any questions?" Stiles asks the group.
"How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?"
"What's our worst-case scenario?"
"What if I can't do it?"
"How can we be sure Jules won't kill us?"
"Okay, admittedly, a lot could go wrong." Stiles starts before Liam interrupts him. "Everything could go wrong."
"Guys, if we don't do this, we lose Lydia and Jules. Lydias going to die in there tonight. And she might take a lot of innocent people with her. Jules is being manipulated by Theo. He's pinned her against us so we have to figure out a way to get her back on our side. Tonight we save them both. "
***
The group had soon started to execute their plan. Malia and Kira had gone through the front were visitors were allowed in. Scott, Stiles, Liam, and Brett had been out in body bags so they could be delivered to Eichens morgue by Parrish.
"Please remember to follow visitor procedure. Eichen House has a wide range of patients and we cannot guarantee the safety of those who deviate from the rules." An Eichen worker says to the visitors as Malia and Kira hide in the crowd. On the opposite side of of Eichen House, Parrish had driven up to where the bodies were being delivered.
"Delivery to the morgue." Parrish says to the guard .
"I don't see you on the list." He tells Parrish. "You heard about the animal attacks, right? The hospital ran out of refrigerated drawers and Eichen's got the only other up-to-code morgue in the county." Parrish explains to him.
"Let's have a look." The guard tells him. "I don't think you want to do that. The stench back there almost made me pass out while driving." Parrish says trying to divert the guards attention from the back of the van. "Open the back of the van, please." The security guard tells him. "I'll need to log the names off the toe tags." He explains to Parrish as they make their way to the back of the van. "There's significant decomp. They were found in the county tunnels way past rigor." Parrish explains to him. "Open them up, please." The guard tells him. Parrish finally complying as he opens the bag to show a decomposing body making the guard gag as he turns away. "No, no. Go, just go." The guard tells him, making Parrish smile internally.
Once inside all four boys struggled to get out of their bags, especially Stiles as he falls to the floor. "Oh, my God. Never again." Stiles says as he exhales deeply. Scott standing as he grabs his phone to look at the time.
"Fifteen minutes. Starting now."
***
"We're in. We did it." Kira says to Malia as they make their way into the electrical room. "Don't get too excited. Getting out's the hard part." Malia says as she takes the cover off of the electrical box. "Twelve minutes." She says as she looks at the time on her phone. "Okay, Kira. You can do this."
"I think it's these. But they're covered in rubber." Kira says pointing to two metal rods as Malia immediately looks for something sharp. She ends up grabbing scissors, and tries to cut the rubber until Kira stops her. "You want to electrocute yourself?" Kira asks her. "I'll heal." Malia retaliates. "Not if you die." Kira argues.
At this Malia retracts her claws and uses them to cut the rubber, immediately being electrocuted in the process. "I didn't die. Four minutes." She says looking at her phone again. "I can smell how nervous you are." Malia tells Kira. "Not helping." Kira says to her annoyed.
"Okay. You can do this. It's just like we practiced." Malia says trying to encourage her. "You mean like when I caused a major blackout?" Kira asks her. "Not like that, no. Ten seconds. Nine, eight..."
"Please stop counting." Kira says as she places her hands on the two rods expecting something to happen only for everything to stay completely normal. "Why isn't it working?" Malia asks her.
"Because I have no idea what I'm doing." Kira answers her as she continues to try and cause the brownout. "Come on. Kira, nothing's happening." Malia tells her. "I'm aware of that. I don't want to lose control because I'm scared I might fry the entire system." Kira tells her as she remembers all the times she lost control. "Stop worrying about what you might do. This isn't about you or me. It's about Lydia. We're here to save Lydia. We're here to save our friend." Malia tells her as Kira attempts to try one more time.
Kira immediately feels the electrify run through her body as the system begins to reboot. "Kira, it's working." Malia tells her.
"Keep going."
***
"She did it. Kira did it. Five minutes to get to Lydia." Scott says as the four boys look at the flickering lights above them. Stiles turns to the door ready to slide the key card only for the card reader to not be on the door. "Where's the card reader? It should be here. It has to be here." Stiles says as he begins to freak out. "They must have taken it out when the Dread Doctors got through." Scott suggests. "Are you telling me we came all the way down here just to be stopped by an ordinary key? Are you kidding me?" Stiles says in annoyance of the situation meanwhile Liam and Brett stare intensely at the door. "We don't need a key." Liam says as he and Brett turn to Scott and Stiles. "Not if we can break it down." Brett finishes for him.
The three boys attempt to break it down but because of the mountain ash their powers have been weakened. "Guys, we're running out of time." Stiles says to them. "We can't. The Mountain Ash. It's too much." Scott explains to him making Liam realize something. "Hit me." He tells Scott and Brett.
"What?"
"Hit me. I'll get angry then I'll get stronger." Liam tells them. "Hit him. Hit him!" Stiles encourages. "I tried to take your powers. I tried to kill you. Hit me." Liam says as Scott hits him.
"He also left you for dead."
"I wanted you dead. And you, I demolished coaches car. You said you wanted to make me pay for it right? Well now's the time." Liam tells the two boys as they begin to punch him repeatedly. "Do it again." He tells them. "It's gotta be harder than that. Do it!Do it!" Liam says as he begins to wolf out.
"Yeah!" Stiles yells in encouragement. "You angry?" Scott asks him as Liam begins to nod. "Let's do this." Scott says as the three boys begin to break the door down. Once they break it down they encourage Stiles to keep going as they attempt to get through the mountain ash. "We're never going to get through." Scott says aloud. "You've gotten through it before, though, right?" Liam asks him. "Ah, it was a life and death situation." Scott answers him.
"And this isn't?" Brett asks him. "This isn't just a circle. There's Mountain Ash in half the building." Scott explains to the two boys. "Stiles and Lydia had five minutes to get in and out. It's been almost ten. The reboot's over. And the key card doesn't work anymore. And then there's the four security guards." Liam says to the boys making them confused. "What guards?" Scott asks him. "Those guards." Liam says as they see the four guards down the hall.
The three boys immediately try to fight but due to the fact that the guards had tasers they didn't really stand a chance. Next thing they knew they all ended up on the floor being electrocuted. This didn't pass with Scott however. He knew they could give up that easily and his alpha instincts immediately kicked in as he roared and knocked the guards off of him with Liam and Brett proceeding to do the same.
"Come on. We're getting Lydia out of here."
***
As the McCall pack executed their plan The Chimera Pack were executing their grand plan. First with Tracy who took care of the Guard by the outside gate, breaking open the door and leaving her Kanima venom on it. With the guard being distracted she came up behind him effectively killing him.
When the guard by the door tried to figure out why his walkie talkie wasn't working he ended up just turning it off. However when he heard a noise behind him he took out his elongated taser, unbeknownst to him, Josh was standing behind him smiling as he looked at the electricity coming from the taser. The guard turning around to attack him only to be stopped by Josh who grabbed the taser and began absorbing the power. The young boy managing to get the upper hand and knocking out the guard.
With Theos influence on Jules, she had sided with The Chimera Pack and began using her new found abilities. She snuck up to one of the guards, grabbing his arms and sinking her claws into them as her eyes turned red. The guard seemed to be in a trance as he looked into her eyes. He couldn't look away and Jules smirked at this, feeling her dark aura envelop her as she absorbed the mans life force. It was almost as if she was stealing his soul like all the stories she had read about The Black Cadejo. The man later fell to the ground as she kicked his body aside, entering Eichen with the rest of the pack.
"Visiting hours are well past over." The worker at the front desk tells them as Corey makes him self visible to the rest of them. "We're not here to visit." Tracy says as the man looks up to see her transformed into the Kanima. Theo making his way past her as he smiles evilly at the worker.
"We're here for Lydia Martin." Theo tells him as Tracy grabs the man by his shirt and throws them across the room as they makes their way to Lydias room. "Stay focused, Lydia." They hear Dr.Valack tell Lydia as the approach her room, not knowing that Stiles was there as well, hiding. "What did you do to me?" Lydia asks him. "I've amplified your abilities. Something that might just save the lives of your friends." Valack tells her as she begins to explain what she's seeing. "Theo and Hayden. They found it. They were looking for Noah, but they found a symbol. A circle inside of another circle, carved into a wall.The symbol of Scott's pack." Lydia explains to him. "It was more than a symbol, wasn't it? It was a promise to reunite them." Valack asks her.
"Yes."
"But has Scott done it yet? Will he be coming for you?" Valack says as he begins to hear buzzing.
"Someone's coming. But it's not Scott." Lydia tells him as he stands to walk out of the room to see The Chimera pack approaching him. Tracy immediately runs up to Valack, grabbing him by the neck and pinning him against the wall as Theo, Jules, Josh and Corey make their way into Lydias room. "I can't believe this is actually a medical establishment." Theo says looking at the hole in Lydias head.
"Now what would a pack of Chimeras want with a Banshee?" Valack asks them. "I don't want a Banshee. I'm looking for a Hellhound." Theo tells him as they see Parrish from the other side of the door with his skin on fire as he melts it. "Back off." Theo says as he takes Lydia from her bed and stick his claws into her neck. "I said back off."
Seeing as Parrish wasn't stopping Theo send the others to fight him off. "Take him." Theo tells them.
"The guy's on fire." Corey argues. "You'll heal. Do it."Theo says with anger as Tracy let's go of Valack and runs up to Parrish, sticking her claws in his abdomen hoping that it would paralyze him only for him to grab her and knock her against the wall.
Next was Josh who tired to electrocute Parrish, but again it didn't work and Parrish ended up punching Josh away. Jules tried to attack him and she grabbed his arms even though it burned her hands and made him look into her eyes as she tried to make him go insane or even kill him. At this point however Parrish seemed to be unstoppable as he grabbed Jules and knocked her head into the wall effectively making her bleed seeing as blood began dripping down her forehead.
Corey tried to stop him too but only ended up having his whole body burned. While this happened Valack ended up drilling a hole into Theos leg making him let go of Lydia.
"Sorry Theo, but I'm not done with her yet."