This takes place before the fall of Freelancer

It was a peaceful morning, the forest was peaceful, the dear grazing in the fields, birds chirping, turkeys flying for their life as a glowing green child chased after them with a shotgun, sun shining down on a farmhouse overlooking the sea, clouds dotting the landscape. It was a peaceful day on the farm, at first glance. Inside the house was a different story.

"Honey I need you to go to the store and get these ingredients!" Skyla shouted over the numerous alarms going off in the kitchen. Avery was running around at the speed of fucking light cleaning up the house as the kids dragged out Thanksgiving decorations, and putting away Halloween decorations.

"Little busy right now Love! I had Lambda order them online!" Avery said as he speed past, speed enhancement activated. "Give it a few minutes! Reginald! WAKE UP AND WORK!"

"But I'm tired dad." the boy yawned.

"I DON'T CARE!" Avery responded as he picked up the boy, then yeeted him into a pile of cardboard boxes. "BREAK THOSE DOWN THEN CHUCK THEM IN THE FIRE PILE! JOHN GET OFF YOUR PHONE AND HELP REGGIE! SEAN, YANG, RUBY, AND APRIL, GO FIND REX AND TELL HIM TO HURRY UP WITH THOSE TURKEYS! THOMAS HELP YOUR MOTHER! LEONIDAS KEEP MAKING DECORATIONS! KLIONE STOP PLAYING WITH JAYSON AND HELP YOUR MOTHER! WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THAT COOKIE RUBY?!? BEN! GO HELP YOUR MOTHER! YOU TOO ANDY! NAGISA HELP REGGIE! LILITH STOP MAKING ILLUSIONS! FELICIA CONTACT REX AND GET HIM BACK HERE! FELICIA! Where is Felicia?"

So yeah, real peaceful. Oh, that's right, Felicia is currently napping in the attic in order to get away from the chaos. She was done with her families holiday antics, mostly because they never listened when she would tell them to start early. However, she would never get to finish her nap as he father stopped up the stairs, picked her up, and dragged her back down to the kitchen.

"Daaaad~ I was napping!" She complained.

"Listen, We are trying to prepare for Thanksgiving, and somehow are stuck hosting the event for Project Freelancer again. Bad enough that we also have the your Aunt and those damn pranksters coming. We need all hands on deck here. We. Cannot. Nap." Avery said, looking directly into her soul.

Felicia just sighed as walked off, contacting her brother Via Telepathy. She really wanted that nap.

With Project Freelancer

North was walking down the hall to the training room, when he passed Washington who was staring at a photo. He noticed him, and quickly put the photo away.

"Hey North, going training again?" He asked.

"Yeah, might challenge Avery to a spar before dinner. What were you looking at?" North asked.

"On old photo. Nothin much." Wash said as he turned away from North. "Just something I wish I could fix."

"It was a photo of your old team wasn't it. Back in Omicron." North said, putting a hand on Wash's shoulder.

"Yeah. Back then, we would always have holiday parties, no experimenting, no training, no missions. we could relax. Thanksgiving was always one of the favorites. Everyone would panic as they rushed around preparing the mess hall for us to eat together, cooking dinner, finding ingredients. Heh, those were the good ol' days. back before we knew the truth." Wash said and he leaned against a wall. "Even back then, Avery was always in the center of everything, giving orders, making choices, and Skyla was always beside him as he worked. They were inseparable . Well, until I ended it. My biggest mistake. I ended more than lives that day. I ended everything about Omicron. I just did the wrong way."

"You killed everyone." North said. "You killed as many as you could. like you were trained to do, like we are. Kill as many of the enemy as possible, leave little left."

"Yeah, my first target was our own Director, Octavia. If you met her before she was found out, she would seem like any ordinary citizen with a major in bio-engineering and Bio-mechanical engineering. if that was normal. After she was found out though, man, she was a demon. she had changed her own body to be able to decompose and build itself back together instantly. I thought I had killed her with a lightning bolt, but when Avery told me that she was a the old base where he found the kids, I began to think if I really did end Omicron that day. Many members I though I killed, but most of them showed up at that base."

"Sheesh. You think she really is dead this time."

"I don't know. I hope so, but I get this feeling in my neck, like I've been shot. It's strange."

"You talk to the docs about it?"

"Nah. it's nothing new. I felt it all the time when I was around her. she just always seemed too.... Nice all the time. She was an exact opposite of the Director." Wash said as he pulled out the photo.

It was a photo of Avery, Skyla, Wash and four other figures, but the lighting was bad, and shadows covered their faces.

"This was taken on the last Thanksgiving we had together. It was interesting, everyone was cheerful, but me and Avery weren't. We had found out about Octavia's true objective. To rule over earth using super soldiers. She even used her own son as an experiment, but he was killed in the first stage."

"Man, you are way to depressed right now. Come on, we are loading up the pelicans. York said something about a mutant turkey on the menu?" North said, chuckling. "Could use a little lightning to cook it."

"Alright, alright." Wash put the photo away and followed North.

In the woods near the farm house

Rex sighed as he fished around in the vest he was wearing for more shells. Only to realize he had shot them all. He looked at the dozen turkeys floating around him. "I think this is enough?" He looked down to see Ruby, Yang, April, and Sean walking trough the woods. "I guess Dad is looking for me?" Rex asked as he floated down to them.

"Yeah. Said something about running a out of time?" Ruby said, Zwei barking in conformation.

"I swear there is something about that dog." Rex said, well, more muttering to himself. "Well, I've run out of ammo anyways, and got a few turkeys for dinner. I wonder how dad is going to cook them in 2 hours? And in one oven at that?"

"Dad has defied the odds before." Yang said as the picked up a shotgun shell from the ground. "You did pick up your brass right?"

"Uhhhhhh.."

"We go the turkeys, go get your brass." Sean said as he took the shell from Yang. "You do know haow many you shot right?"

"Maybe."

"Rex!" April said as she picked up another from the ground.

"Alright, I got it here!" Rex said as he put the turkeys on Ruby's wagon. "Tell Dad I will be back in an hour."

"'Kay!" April said as she gave her brother a hug. "Be back soon!"

So yeah, things are moving along nicely. Man my thumbs hurt. maybe my computer is working now? Okay yeah it is, this is going to be easy. Alright let's check back in to the kitchen.

The danger zone

"THOMAS I NEED THE CHICKEN BROTH!" (Here ma!) BEN GIVE ME THE STUFFING! (Here you go. Please stop yelling.) "ANDY I NEED THE CRANBERRIES!" (Yup) "KLIONE GET THE GROCRIES OFF THE PORCH! (Hai!) "ENGLISH!" (No) "YOUNG LADY!" (The stuffing is burning" "AAAHHHHH!"

So yeah, danger zone is in full swing. I am just going to stay on my couch on out earth and watch the parade. Let's skip ahead a few hours to the dinner

Freelancers

Carolina sighed as the pelican sat down in the landing zone. Not only had she been dragged out of the Training room, she was stuck in the pelican with the giant turkey. How York and Florida even found this thing, Carolina didn't want to know.

"About time we got here." She said as the Pilot opened the cargo bay door. She grabbed the rope attached to the cart and handed it to Maine, who had taken a nap on the way here. "How ere we going to get this in the door?" Carolina asked.

"Who said anything about a door?" Avery said as He gave Carolina a hug. "How have you been?"

"Hands off." Carolina said as she judo flipped him.

"Crankier than usual. Got it." Avery said as he dusted himself off. "Any ways, why does Maine have a giant ass turkey?"

"We were told that we were bringing the turkey."

"Huh. First time I heard this. Had Rex go hunting. He got a dozen turkeys."

"Well now you have a giant turkey."

"Yeah...."

"Let's eat shall we?"

"Yeah.

Inside

Carolina looked at the over crowded table, and for once in a long time, Smiled. It reminded her of the time before her mother died in the war.

"So, how have you guys been?" Wash asked.

"Good. Crazy at times." Avery said, giving Jayson a small piece of turkey.

"That's good. Hey can we talk for a second? Outside?"

"Yeah, sure."

And with that the two superpowered badass soldiers walked out side.

"So, what's going on with Tex?" Skyla asked.

"Said she didn't want to come." York said. "She said she wanted to train some more."

Carolina just growled. "If I had to be dragged her, so did she."

"Carolina just relax. you are way to stressed." Rex said as he pulled the green bean casserole to him. "Tex is a strange person who prefers to fight then spend time with friends and/or family."

"So the two of you have more in common than you think." Lilith said, an evil smirk on her face.

"YOU WANT TO GO YOU LITTLE SHI-" *Smack*

That was Skyla bitch slapping Carolina. "no swearing in front of the kids."

Carolina mellowed out after that. She wouldn't admit it, but she was terrified of Skyla.

So yeah, the dinner was interesting. but it wasn't without its downside this year. actually was it a downside? I don't know.

Dinner was going along smoothly, people were chatting. Until, well, and explosive device decided to land in the front yard.

Avery and David were outside faster than the eye could track, and their eyes widened as they watched as hundreds of armed troops marched on the front lawn.

"Son of a protestant whore!" Avery shouted as he pulled Iron straight from the ground and launched it into the horde, making it explode as a improv grenade. he then pulled the fragmented iron back to him. "Now? Really!" he shouted.

"Orders are orders. you should know that, Magnetron."

"God I hated that name. Made me sound like a villain." Avery said as he sent an iron bit at the soldier that spoke. "Are these guys the insurrection?"

"Nah, these guys are different." David said as he shot a lightning bolt at a flanking group. "I would have thought that everyone would be out here fighting already?"

Inside

"Should we help them?" North asked.

"Nah." Everyone else replied.

"EVERYONE PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" A soldier shouted.

"But I'm eating?" Andy said as he bit out of a drumstick. "Maybe later."

"PUT YOUR HANDS UP NOW!" The soldier shouted, then smirked as he grabbed April and put a pistol to her head. "OR I PUT A BULLET IN THE BRAT'S HEAD!"

"Tch. Ya shouldn't have done that pal." Lilith said as she stood up, a murderous glint in her eyes. "Because now you won't be leaving in one piece."

"Oh yeah? And what are you going to do about it? Huh?" He said as he pointed the gun at Lilith. "Little punk!"

"This."

In the soldiers eye's he was surrounded by demons, that didn't die when he shot them in the head, and whenever they touched him, he felt pain like never before, and in the middle of all of it, was that white haired kid, staring into his soul as she walked closer and put her hand under his chin. and whispered in his ear. "There is only one painless way to end this." she sounded like a enchantress, as she guided his arm holding the gun up to his head. "Only one way." then he pulled the trigger.

To everyone else, the soldier seemed to have a panic attack, firing his gun in random directions, before he started screaming bloody murder, falling to his knees and putting his pistol to his head, and pulling the trigger. The freelancers just looked at Lilith, who never moved.

"What did you do?" South asked.

"Gave him his worst nightmare, and his last." Lilith answered before eating some sweet potato.

It was then that Avery and Wash walked in, unharmed.

"Lets get back to dinner shall we?"

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Sorry it took so long to write this, I have been typing as fast as I can, and I think this is the fastest chapter I've ever written. go me. sorry if this chapter isn't as good as my other ones, but it'll do.