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"They say he's dripping some kind of transparent goo-" Derek stared, grimacing.
"Yeah, I saw that at the game, it was like oozing out of the body bag," Olive scrunched her face up.
"That sounds sufficiently terrifying," Peter says, still scrolling through the computer.
"They also say he's starting to move," Derek said grimly and Olive turned to him with wide eyes.
"Okay, look-- I think I found something," Peter nodded toward the screen and everyone gathered around him. "Looks like what we've seen from Jackson is just the Kanima's Beta shape..."
"Meaning what? He can turn into something bigger?" Olive asked, sitting in the chair next to him to get a better look at the screen, widening her eyes when she saw it.
"Bigger and badder..." Susan trailed off, horrified.
"He's turning into that?" Derek stared at the screen wide-eyed and Peter nodded.
"That has wings!" Olive looked at Peter with a face mirroring Derek's.
"Yes, I can see that," He met her gaze and Olive narrowed her eyes at him.
"Scott, bring him to us," Derek rose the phone back to his ear and Olive swallowed hard.
"Oh, look somebody made an animation of it, maybe it's not so-" Peter played the video and everyone jumped back as they saw what it could do, screeching from the other side of the screen. Olive reached up and shut the laptop, turning to Derek.
"Maybe we should meet them halfway," She said and Derek nodded frantically.
"Scott, get him out of there now. Go now!"
"Derek, we need Lydia," Peter turns to Derek and Olive knitted her eyebrows together.
"What, why?"
"There's no time for--"
"That's the problem-- we're rushing. We're moving too fast. And, while everyone knows that a moving target is harder to hit, here we are, racing right into Gerard's crosshairs," Susan spoke up, interrupting him and Peter nodded, turning to her looking slightly impressed. Derek rolled his eyes and turned to face the door.
"If I get the chance to kill Jackson, I'm taking it," Derek said coldly, and Olive turned to Peter and Susan, shrugging before following him out the door.
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The group piled into Olive's car and drove to the warehouse district to find somewhere for this to go down. They parked inside one of the buildings and went outside to wait for Scott.
"Isn't that one of the Argent's cars?" Olive turned to Susan who nodded and Derek pushed them back behind one of the buildings.
"I think he stopped moving," Isaac said after they got out of the car.
"Where's Derek?" They heard Argent ask and Derek turned to them, nodding as he took off speeding down to them, flipping into place and flourishing his landing. Olive rolled her eyes and Peter snickered.
"Someone certainly enjoys making an entrance," Olive bit back the smile that made its way to her face and turned to watch the interaction.
"Get him inside," Derek nods to the building they're parked in and Scott and Isaac pick Jackson's body up out of the backseat and take him inside.
Olive goes into the warehouse with Peter and Susan behind her. They entered through the back and stayed back to make sure Peter was hidden.
"Where are they?" Scott turned to Derek who shrugged.
"Who are they?" He shrugged.
"Peter and Lydia!" Scott shouted as Derek knelt down and unzipped the body bag. "Wait a second, you said you could save him!"
"We're way past saving him, Scott! Look at him!"
"What about-"
"Think about it, Scott! Gerard controls him now. He's turned Jackson into his own personal guard dog, and he set all of this in motion so that Jackson could get even bigger and more powerful," Derek threw his hands up and Isaac turned to Derek.
"Where's Olly?" Isaac asked hesitantly. "Did you leave her with them?"
"She's watching them-"
"Them? Whose them?" Chris asked and Derek sighed.
"Olly!" Derek shouted and Olive came out from around the corner and Derek gestured toward her. Olive nodded, taking her mom's hand and bringing her around the corner as well.
"Susan?" Argent narrowed his eyes at her mom and Susan shrugged.
"Hi, Chris," She smiled slightly and Olive rolled her eyes as she joined the rest of them. Isaac visibly relaxed as she came up to them and smiles at him.
"Gerard wouldn't do that," Susan turned to Derek who met her gaze, tilting his head.
"No, she's actually right. If Jackson's a dog, he's turning rabid, and my father wouldn't let a rabid dog live," Argent says, and as if on cue, Gerard enters the warehouse.
"Of course, anything that dangerous, that out of control... is better off dead." Derek kneels down and prepares to shove his claws in Jackson's chest when all of a sudden Jackson wakes up, reaching up to Derek and shoving his claws into him, standing up and throwing him into the other room. The rest of them watch on with wide eyes, not really knowing what to do.
"Well done to the last, Scott. Like the concerned friend you are, you brought Jackson to Derek to save him. You just didn't realize that you were also bringing Derek to me." Suddenly an arrow shoots Olive in the chest and she falls back. Isaac's eyes widen as he catches her, easing her to the ground and Scott turns to the direction the arrow came from. There Allison stood, another arrow aimed at Scott.
"Allison?" He shook his head before running to Isaac and Olive.
"Come on we gotta move," Scott says, patting Isaac on the shoulder as he picks her up and carries her to the other room, setting her down gently on the ground.
"You gotta pull it out," She grunts and Isaac looks at her with furrowed eyebrows. "It's not gonna heal if you don't pull it out."
Isaac closes his eyes and wraps his hand around the arrow. Olive nods and he pulls it out in a swift motion. Olive screams in pain, grabbing the spot where the arrow was.
"Is it healing?" He looked at her, concern all over his face and she nods.
"Yeah, but not as fast as I'd like it to be," Isaac turns behind him, watching Argent empty his clip into Jackson. He grabs her hand, pulling her up and her wound begins to heal faster, closing before she knows it. Argent comes running into the room, the Kanima attacking him and throwing him into some boxes. Susan runs to his side, helping him up and into a safe spot as Derek flips over some boxes, growling at it, fully transformed.
It hisses, ready to fight back. Olive, Isaac, and Scott surround the other sides of it, all fully transformed and ready to fight. They all take their turns, slashing and kicking the Kanima but they're unsuccessful. One by one, they all get thrown into opposite corners of the room and get right back up, running at it to fight. Derek grabs it but it turns around and pushes him into a wall which he climbs up, flipping over the Kanima and scratching it in the back. It turns around, pushing him away as Olive takes his place, kicking it into the wall and clawing at his face. It grabs her, picking her up and throwing her into a stack of boxes. Scott was next, grabbing it and getting a few good punches in before it kicked him away. Derek rose up again running up to him and pulling his fist back to punch him. The Kanima took this as its opportunity to slash its claws across Derek's stomach, cutting him deeply and causing him to stumble backward and fall to the ground, paralyzed. Isaac got up, ready to attack until Allison approached him, slashing him multiple times with giant knives, causing him to fall to the ground. She turns to Derek, approaching him, twirling the knives.
"No, Allison!" Scott shouts just as she's about to stab him, suddenly, the Kanima grabs her and puts his hand to her throat, holding her back. Olive ran to Isaac's side, taking his hand.
"Not yet, sweetheart! We have a few things to take care of first," Gerard says, turning to Susan who was still with Chris. "You two make quite the pair."
"What are you doing?" Allison asks as she tries to struggle out of its grip.
"I'm merely cleaning house," Gerard said smugly. "Bring him in."
Suddenly two of Gerard's men come into the room holding a man whose struggling against them. His hands are tied behind his back and there's a hood over his head. They all share confused glances as the two men force the other one to the ground.
"Now," Gerard moves behind the man and puts his hands on his shoulders. "When I ask for a job to be done, I expect it to be done."
Gerard turns to Susan who is now standing closer to him, she shakes her head, realizing what's going on.
"If it doesn't get done or if you find a loophole, there will be consequences" Gerard pulls the hood off of the man, and Olive's eyes widen.
"Dad?"
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