"MY FATHER SAID ALL OF THE KATASHI EVIDENCE IS being moved to a federal lockup by armored car tonight — probably within the next few hours," Allison informed April, Lydia, Scott, Aiden, and Ethan. Apparently, there was some sort of scroll hidden in the finger of the dead man that could help them figure out how to stop the Nogitsune. April had no idea whether this scroll had just appeared or what, but it was there supposedly.

The two girls had walked in on April just standing there and staring at the kitchen after her vision and asked if she was okay. Once she confirmed that she was fine, they had explained the plan to her before calling the boys over. They knew that having April on their side would help convince them, especially Scott.

Ethan's eyes widened in shock, "We're going to rob an armored car?"

"Well," Lydia sighed dramatically from where she was standing in the doorway of Allison's room as she took a step forward. "We're going to try."

"This is a really bad plan," the McCall boy muttered after the girls had explained it to him. They were all sitting in Chris's office and discussing how the hell they were going to get that finger.

Lydia, who had come up with the majority of the plan, was pretty offended, and she scoffed as she glanced around at everyone in the room. "It's not that bad."

"It's not that good," Ethan added because it really wasn't. April hated to break it to her friends, but she sincerely doubted that it would work. However, what did she know? She was not a strategist nor the smartest person in the room. She was not usually the plan maker. She just kind of sat in the back and did what she was told, so the plan could be amazing, and she probably would not know.

"None of us knows the route they're going to take," the Martin girl explained to them. "If Allison can get one of her dad's GPS trackers on the armored car, then we can follow it."

Allison nodded before pointing to a spot on the map on the table to give them a visual representation of where they were going to plan to be. "So, when it gets here—"

"We attack em?" Aiden interjected, cutting her off.

Lydia turned around and shot him a playful glare before continuing the plan, "No. Your bikes will be in the middle of the road, looking like you guys got into an accident. And, when the driver gets out to help—"

"We attack 'em!" Aiden said again, and it was pretty obvious to everyone in the room that he was wrong.

"No!" all of the girls yelled simultaneously before the strawberry blonde one corrected him with a slight groan, glancing between all of them as she spoke. "You'll distract him, and Scott will break open the back door."

Scott exhaled almost hopelessly, "I hope."

"Way to be positive, Scott," the blonde girl replied, causing him to smile and nod at her, clearly not understanding that she had been being sarcastic. She just smiled back.

Lydia sighed and turned to Ethan who was standing in between her and Scott, who was across from her alongside April. "And you'll get Katashi's finger."

"It's not his actual finger, is it?" the boy questioned, and the McCall boy turned to her with raised eyebrows, letting her know that this was also a question that he was wanting the answer to. April furrowed her eyebrows at them, realizing that they were even further behind than she was, which was a very rare situation.

The Banshee scoffed and looked at April and Allison with a look that seemed like she was asking them silently if the boys with them were dumb or something. "You are so out of our league."

"Why aren't we just going to Stilinski for help?" Ethan breathed out, leaning back against the dresser behind him. It was clear that he really did not want to put in the work to steal a freaking finger.

Scott was the one to answer since he had made a million promises to Stiles saying that he would help his dad and make sure that he did not get fired. "Because, if he gets caught, then it's the Sheriff tampering with federal evidence."

"Guys, this is going to work. We can do this," Allison told them confidently, straightening up from where she was leaning on the table. "We're losing Stiles. My dad's in jail for murder. We need to do this."

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APRIL, ALLISON, SCOTT, AND KIRA CROUCHED BEHIND A POLICE CAR as they stared at the wav that was going to be taking the Katashi evidence. They were in the parking lot of the sheriff's station, and Kira had volunteered to help. She was tasked with the job of putting the GPS tracker on the bottom of the van.

"You're up," Allison told her, and she nodded before sprinting toward the van and sticking the tracker below the license plate. She was about to run back when the door of the station opened and Parrish came walking out.

She jumped behind one of the wheels as he called to the driver, "Okay, let's get out of here." All of a sudden, he whipped his gun out when he saw something in the van. He then started to slowly make his way around the vehicle.

"We have to do something," Scott muttered when he saw the deputy getting closer to where Kira was hiding. Suddenly, the back doors of the van were thrown open, and a man jumped on Parrish, knocking him out. As the man turned toward where the other three were hiding so that they could see his face, April's eyes widened when she realized that is was familiar. "Who the hell is that?"

"Kincaid," both females answered, and Allison lowered her crossbow in shock. She had been looking through the scope to see what was going on.

They slowly crept up on the man as they watched him pull the exact finger that they had been looking for out of a cloth. Scott was the one to speak, causing the man to turn toward him. "We need that finger."

"Why should I give it to you?" he questioned with raised eyebrows and an amused smirk. It was a very goo question. Why would he give it to them when he could just as easily keep it for himself? He did not seem phased by the fact that there was a crossbow pointed straight at his head.

Again shocked by the man's voice, the blonde girl mumbled, "Man, you have a deep voice." Her words caused all of her friends — including the one silently climbing the van — to glare at her.

"There's a briefcase in there with one hundred and fifty thousand in it," the Argent girl informed him, gesturing to the open back of the van.

Kincaid just held up the finger and chuckled. "The scroll inside this prosthetic finger is worth three million." He was not stupid. He knew what what he was stealing was worth, and he was not about to be scammed.

"Give me the finger," the McCall boy demanded, and Kincaid and the Sharpe girl furrowed their eyebrows at him, wondering if he knew what he just said. It took him a moment, but he finally processed it. "You know what I mean."

Then, Kira jumped from the top of the van and wrapped her arms around Kincaid's neck. The man easily unwrapped her arms and threw her to the ground. HIs fangs and claws came out, and his eyes turned blue. "I guess negotiations are over." He grabbed the Yukimura girl by the neck and threw her into the wall before slapping the other two girls and causing them to fall to the ground in opposite directions. Scott had fully transformed now, and Kincaid raised his eyebrows as he easily beat the boy down. He crouched down as "You have the eyes of an Alpha... but where's the strength?"

"Up here," Aiden called, and they all looked up to see both twins standing on a balcony before hopping down. They started fighting Kincaid as Scott recovered, and April sat up and held her head that was pounding since she had kind of slammed it into the ground when she fell.

Lydia came sprinting over to her and helped her get up and walk over to where Allison was standing. They watched as the twins continued to hold the man down and fight him. He rolled off of a ledge, weak and tired, and Scott yelled to them, "Ethan, Aiden, stop!"

"You want him to come after us?" Aiden asked incredulously.

Ethan sighed as he grabbed the back of Kincaid's jacket to keep him from going anywhere or pulling anything while they were speaking. "Scott, we've seen guys like this. Trust us — he's dangerous."

"So are we, and he looks smart enough to remember that," the McCall boy pointed out, gesturing to him as he spit blood onto the ground. As they were talking, April walked over to where Kira was sitting and offered her a hand. The girl happily took it, and the blonde pulled her to her feet. "We're here to save a life...not end one."

"There isn't much here, unfortunately," Deaton informed them once they got to the animal clinic. He was staring down at the very tiny scroll in his hands that they had gotten from the finger. Everyone but April and Scott had gone home, but the two were determined to figure out how to get the Nogitsune out of their best friend.

The Sharpe girl questioned hopefully, "Does it say anything?"

"My Japanese isn't great," he answered before looking down. Was there any way they could type it in a translator or something then? "But, it appears to say that one method of expelling a Nogitsune is to change the body of the host."

"Change the body?" the McCall boy quizzed, a little confused. That was a little weird. Why the hell would changing Stiles's body get the Nogitsune out of it? Did the ancient spirit have a type or something?

Deaton nodded in confirmation before sighing, "Which begs the question...How do we change Stiles' body?"

"By turning him into a werewolf."