Scott is laying on his back in his bed at the Moonlit Palm Motor Lodge, wearing a gray tank top stained with sweat. His eyes are closed as though he's sleeping, and they don't open until the sound of sirens driving past the motel wakes him up. He groans and stretches as he sits up in bed and looks around at the open windows, thinking quietly for a moment until he's interrupted by the sound of someone pounding on the door. Scott stands to his feet and grabs a t-shirt off of the nearby chair before he answers it. Argent and Selene are standing outside of the door, and give Scott a look before he speaks.

"Let's go," Selene says.

Outside of the motel, where Argent opens the door to his black SUV, and Scott, now wearing a blazer and a gray t-shirt, hops onto a black motorcycle, Selene hoping onto her motorcycle as well. The sunset has colored the sky behind them in warm shades of purple, pink, and orange as the three share a look before they set off for their destination.

In downtown Los Angeles, a young boy, Alec, is running through a neighborhood in Little Mexico as he is pursued by Hunters in black clothing. He quickly jumps over a chain-link fence and runs through puddles illuminated by the colorful sunset.

Alec turns a corner and runs through a dark alley, dodging cars and attempting to stay out of the Hunters' line of sight. He stops for a moment, leaning against a support column as he catches his breath

Alec suddenly hears the footsteps of Hunters approaching and turns to see two men, each with a crossbow and an assault rifle aimed at him from several meters away. He ducks just in time for a shot arrow to miss his head and bury itself in the support beam before running away, trying his best to keep as much distance between himself and the Hunters as possible. He jumps down off of a platform and heads toward the warehouse district as the Hunters shoot off another arrow at him, which hits the dumpster next to him. However, when the last arrow is shot at him, it hits him right in the leg.

In the warehouse, a trail of blood is seen on the floor as Alec, with the arrow burrowed in his thigh, staggers to a nearby support column and collapses onto the floor.

Alec has just gotten settled on the floor when suddenly, he hears the sound of a Werewolf roaring at the top of his lungs before a large amount of gunfire goes off for several long moments. Terrified, Alec assumes that they were the Hunters who were after him, but Selene is quickly by his side as Scott and Argent take care of the hunters.

"Are you hurt somewhere else?" She asks as she quickly pulls out the arrow in his leg. He looks at her terrified and she gives him a small reassuring smile. She lets her eyes glow their alpha red and the boy relaxes a bit. The sight of Selene's werewolf eyes causes Alec's eyes to glow gold for several seconds. Selene smiles and glances behind her where Scott and Argent share a knowing look.

~~~

Later, on a dark road at night, Scott, Argent, Selene, and Alec are driving in Argent's SUV. Scott, in the passenger seat, looks back at Alec in the backseat, next to Selene, as the young teen thinks about the night's events.

"Scott's gonna tell you a story. Maybe it'll sound familiar," Selene explains.

"There was this kid-- sixteen, alone, and running for his life. He couldn't see them, but he could hear them getting closer. They had guns, crossbows. They were hunting him. It started on the night of the full moon. Something came at him-- something bit him-- and it changed his life. It changed everything," Scott tells the story. "What's your name?"

"Alec." the boy answers.

"Did I get it right, Alec?"

Alec remains silent for a moment before he speaks. "Is that what happened to you?"

"We've got our own story. But there were parts neither of us expected. People... I thought would be with me forever... are the people I lost." Scott looks pointedly at Argent as he continues. "Some people I thought I could never trust... ended up saving my life."

Argent looks over at Scott with a small smile.

"More than once," Selene adds. "We've all got stories."

"Everyone in my story is dead," Alec says glumly.

Selene looks at Alec with empathy. "Yeah, but you're not. And now you're with us."

"So what happens next? Your story... How does it end?"

Scott, looking overwhelmed by the memories, turns back around in his seat and stares out the windshield.

~~~

Monroe and her Hunters are shooting up the shipyard where Scott, Selene, Malia, Isaac, Lydia, Peter, and Deucalion had just met up, all of whom are equipped with the weapons they received from Gerard. Deucalion has just been critically shot in the chest and abdomen multiple times, and the others have taken cover behind support beams and shipping containers as they plan their next move.

Scott, hiding behind a stone support column, looks around the corner for a brief moment to find Malia ducked behind a nearby dumpster, though he's forced to move back to avoid being hit by gunfire, which just broke the cement covering the corner he was just standing behind. Deucalion is desperately trying to crawl away to safety, and Peter has just rushed from behind another support column to behind a steel barrel in hopes of it holding up better against the Hunters' ammunition.

Malia, still ducked down as far as she can against the front of a dumpster, tries to hold the metal container still so Lydia, who is covering her ears to minimize the trauma to her enhanced sense of hearing, remains safe. Scott, who is just barely avoiding being hit where he is, frantically calls out for his girlfriend.

"MALIA!"

A Hunter with an assault rifle has just found Scott's hiding spot and is about to shoot him, much to Scott's panic, until suddenly, Stiles' Jeep speeds through the road in front of the shipyard and forcefully hits the Hunter so hard he flies backward. Scott, stunned, looks at Stiles, who gives him a relieved-yet-exasperated look.

"You didn't think you were doing this without me, didja?" Stiles asks.

"Not thinking, but hoping," Isaac replies.

"Selene, you really do have a type,"

Before Scott can process his best friend's arrival, Derek appears next to the Jeep and smirks at him.

"Without us?" Not waiting for a response, Derek immediately lets out his fangs, claws, and glowing blue eyes before roaring and launching himself into the fray, allowing him to easily take down two Hunters in midair.

~~~

With the rest of the pack still pinned down, Derek runs toward a pair of Hunters shooting at his loved ones and snatches one of their rifles out of their hands, using it to knock them out by hitting them in the head with the butt of it and repeating with the next one before snarling and moving on.

Since Derek's intervention has tilted the fight in their favor, Selene gets out of her hiding spot and rushes toward a Hunter, shoving him hard against the chain-link fence behind him. Without pausing, Selene, using her newly-taught sightless acuity, senses a Hunter behind her and pirouettes before slashing him across the chest several times with her claws. Malia runs to kick the first Hunter in the head, easily knocking him out. Selene and Malia nod at each other in thanks.

Near the parking lot, Peter has just shoved a Hunter against one of the stone support columns; though the Hunter blocks his first strike, Peter manages to land a second one before kneeing him in the head. Once that threat has been eliminated, Peter, with his glowing blue eyes and fangs out, roars in glee and goes to find another Hunter to fight.

Isaac has just slammed another of Monroe's men onto the ground like a sack of potatoes, which leads Monroe to realize that they're outmatched. She runs toward her SUV with the rest of the Hunters who are conscious and not badly injured before they drive away. Once they're gone, Stiles, who has been hiding behind the same support column as Lydia since the tide started turning in the battle, makes an exasperated gesture with his hands before shooting her a look.

"I can't believe that you didn't tell me about any of this. Not a word! Not a single word!" Stiles complains.

Stiles and Lydia make their way toward the others as Lydia responds in an equally exasperated tone of voice. "We had reasons. Really good reasons."

They meet up with Malia, Derek, Isaac, and Peter and join Scott and Selene, who had been trying their best to keep Deucalion alive, to no avail. Deucalion's breaths become more and more shallow as he gently thrusts his hand on top of Scott's and Selene's, a trickle of blood dripping from his mouth. The alphas, knowing deep down that Deucalion won't survive, look devastated as they make eye contact with their newest mentor and listens to what he has to say.

"Gerard... What he f-f-fears most... He can't... beat you two..." Deucalion has difficulty continuing as he slowly runs out of air and time, though he chuckles as if almost in amusement when he realizes how this war ends, smiling in spite of himself. "...And he knows it."

Before Deucalion can say more, his eyes go glassy, his breathing stops, and his hand slips out of Scott's own, confirming his death. Scott and Selene, with tears in their eyes, exhale in disappointment as the others gather closely around them. Malia, just as upset by Deucalion's death, shakes her head in disbelief.

"It's really started, hasn't it?" She asks.

Stiles frowns, not knowing what she's talking about. "What's started?"

Scott stands to his feet, though he doesn't immediately take his eyes off of Deucalion's body. "It's an all-out war."

When Scott finally turns to look at the rest of his friends, he suddenly remembers that Derek has re-joined them for the first time in over a year and looks at him in shock. Noticing Scott's line of sight, Lydia, Malia, and Peter all turn to look at Derek as well as Scott walks forward and hugs him tightly, though Peter rolls his eyes in the background and sighs before he turns toward his nephew.

"As much as I enjoy the impromptu family reunion, what are you doing here?" Peter asks.

Derek and Scott break apart, each clapping each other on the shoulder in a brotherly fashion as they do so before Derek begins to explain his return to his hometown. "I found a pack slaughtered in Brazil. There were two words written in blood on the wall-- 'Beacon Hills.'"

Selene glances backward at Deucalion's body for a moment before turning back to Derek with a surprised look on her face. "You came back for Beacon Hills?"

Derek gives Selene a look as though she should know the real answer. "No-- I came back for you two."

Scott looks at Derek gratefully and Selene smiles at him before suddenly, the police radio in Stiles' Jeep starts to chirp and beep. After a moment, Gerard's voice is heard through the speakers, and the pack follows Scott, Selene and Stiles to the Jeep. Scott gets into the passenger seat while Stiles gets into the driver's seat, just like old times, while the others circle around the open windows to hear what Gerard has to say. Ever the literary scholar, Gerard recites a modified excerpt from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, which is spoken by Mark Antony in Act 1, Scene 3.

"'Blood and destruction / And dreadful objects so familiar / All pity choked with custom of fell deeds / And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice...'"

Scott and Stiles share a concerned look, clearly unnerved by the message Gerard is sending.

~~~

Gerard is speaking to them through a police radio of his own in the armory. Back at the

~~~

Scott frowns and gulps anxiously

"Do you know the rest, Scott? Do you know your Shakespeare?"

Scott looks up at Selene, who is standing outside of the passenger door of the Jeep with Malia and Derek and who nods to indicate that she knows the answer. Scott picks up the radio microphone and hands it to Selene, who finishes the quote.

"'Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war...'"

"War, indeed. You must all be feeling rather nostalgic. Are you pleased with the little family reunion I've gathered around you, Selene?"

Scott can't help but roll his eyes, albeit with a grim expression on his face, before he responds over the radio. "Yeah, why don't you come join us, and I can thank you in person."

Gerard ignores this comment in favor of continuing to make his point. "I even have a few visitors for you... from London."

~~~

At ARGENT ARMS INTERNATIONAL, Gerard is speaking into the police radio with one hand and holding a taser baton in the other. Behind him, he has a bloodied Jackson suspended from the ceiling by his wrists.

"Even someone like Jackson Whittemore couldn't resist coming back to Beacon Hills," Gerard taunts.

Jackson glares at Gerard with fury as Gerard stares at him.

~~~

Back at the SHIPYARD, Lydia is stunned by the revelation that her dream about Jackson, Derek, and the others being frozen was true, and Stiles looks at her with concern as Gerard continues to speak over the radio.

"Say "Hello," Jackson!"

~~~

Gerard jams the tip of the taser wand into Jackson's ribs, and, though he does his best to resist showing his pain to Gerard, he is unable to completely hold in his groans as the electricity courses through him.

~~~

Back at the SHIPYARD, Scott, Derek, Selene, and Stiles look horrified by what they're hearing, and Lydia, who has the most history with Jackson of all of them, is unable to listen without squeezing her eyes closed and covering her ears.

~~~

At ARGENT ARMS INTERNATIONAL, Gerard has finally finished his electrical torture of Jackson, who wastes no time threatening him.

"Do it again, old man! Come a little closer-- I'm gonna shove that thing so far up your ass!"

Gerard is not at all offended by this comment as he narrates for the pack. "He's lost none of his charm, has he? You can find him here with us at the armory, Scott."

Gerard grins as he continues his monologue. "In fact, I'm going to tell you where to find all of them."

~~~

At EICHEN HOUSE, Parrish is walking slowly through the closed unit. It's clear he's uneasy about what he could potentially find here, as he cautiously grabs his sidearm just before he turns the corner. Right as he crosses the threshold to the next gate, he sees Gerard and three Hunters, including Deputy Ferrell, and sighs deeply.

"Your deputy Hellhound met some friends of his while responding to a call from Eichen House."

Parrish, angry at himself for not seeing the trap and frustrated by the fact that his own deputies are apprehending him, decides to be taken without a fight, not willing to hurt any potentially-innocent coworkers who may simply be influenced by the Anuk-ite. Parrish is locked up in Halwyn's former cell, where Gerard turns on the freezer system in order to weaken his powers.

~~~

At BEACON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, a healthy-looking Rafael McCall, wearing his usual suit, is roughly thrown into one of the holding cells by more of Monroe and Gerard's deputies. Rafael glares at the Hunters furiously as they lock him inside.

"Your father was on his way back from San Francisco with the goal of entering the fight... But he didn't get far."

~~~

At BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Liam and Cheryl are keeping watch at the doors in the wing that Nolan showed them not long ago, where three unconscious men lay in hospital beds, each with oxygen masks on their faces and IV drips of a purple substance believed to be wolfsbane.

"You might want to tell your mother to skip her shift at the hospital tonight. Liam and his friends are there now. Optimistic of them, but woefully ill-advised."

Liam moves away from the windows and walks back toward where the men are laying in their beds, looking concerned as the lights out in the hall flicker ominously.

In the Shipyard Parking lot, Scott, Selene and the others look horrified by the picture Gerard has painted with his words

"This is how you wage war, Scott. A strategic positioning of your army against theirs. Which is why you will come to me. You will try to save as many as you can, and you might even save a few. But, your limited resources will be spread thin, and ultimately, you will fail."

Scott, overwhelmed by what he's hearing, grimaces and sighs as he squeezes his eyes closed for a moment, clutching the radio so tightly that he nearly crushes it. Selene places her hand over his and he meets her eyes with a look of hopelessness.

"The dogs of war, Scott, Selene... They're coming for you,"

Selene takes the radio over from Scott. "Maybe, but the wolves of war are coming your way. This time we won't let you get away."

~~~

Scott has just called Theo and Liz, who are on the road in Theo's truck, driving along a dark back road.

"Just buy us more time. Wherever Liam and the others are, get them out of there," Scott directs.

Theo sighs, his face tense with a grim expression. He glances over to Liz, who quickly meets his eyes. She moves her head a bit to the side as she pulls up her shoulders.

"Am I buying you time to come up with a plan, or to get help?" Theo asks.

"Both," Selene replies over the phone.

Theo, looking determined, ends the call and hits the gas as he goes to help save his allies.

~~~

Lydia has just flipped the animal clinic sign on the door from "OPEN" to "CLOSED" before joining Scott, Selene, Isaac, Malia, Derek, and Stiles in the exam room, where they are gathered around the metal exam table as Stiles and Derek begin to explain how they are involved in the situation.

"So, literally day one of my internship, and up comes this slide about this guy they've been chasing in the woods of North Carolina," Stiles begins.

Malia frowns in confusion as she looks at Derek. "I thought you were in South America..."

"I was. The bodies of the wolves I told you about? They blamed me," Derek explained. Derek's expression is grim, but it's clear by the look on Stiles' face that, though he is exhausted, he's also excited to be back in the supernatural drama of Beacon Hills.

"So, I learn that the FBI has cornered this feral, mass-murdering unsub-"

Before Stiles can continue, Derek cuts him off with a look and his own version of the story. "-I found a group of Hunters gathering in a meeting place. I was trying to get information."

Stiles rolls his eyes before finishing his thought. "Yeah, well, the FBI found it, too, and they were planning a SWAT assault to take him down, dead or alive."

Stiles looks over to see Lydia smirking, clearly humoring Stiles, while both Scott and Malia are looking at Stiles and Derek with wide eyes. The sudden attention causes Stiles to become even more awkward. "And, as we all know, though, with Derek, it's preferably dead."

Derek is taken aback by this comment at first before finally shrugging, acknowledging the truth in Stiles' words as the debate continues on. "Preferably."

"Nous savons," Isaac mumbles.

Stiles ignores the local pessimists, Derek and Isaac, in favor of moving on with the story. "So, I convinced them to take me on the field op."