Animagus

Chapter One-Hundred-Fifty Six: Amplification Part Two

-McCall House-

Stiles met up with Scott, Kira, Malia, Liam, Allie, and I. Allie tried texting Devana but she didn't respond. I knew if anything was wrong with Devana, Allie would be able to sense it. We started going over the plan of breaking Lydia out of Eichen House.

Stiles has his MacBook out, along with blueprints of the building and the electrical system. "There are four steps– we get into Eichen, we get into the closed unit, we get Lydia, we get out."

"And we have to do all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a mountain ash barrier," Scott explained.

Malia, Kira, and Liam looked at Scott and Stiles. "You have a plan for all that?" Malia asked.

Stiles pulls out a key card. "I stole this last night off an orderly... But, it's useless, 'cause they reset the codes each night."

Kira looked at Stiles, confused. "So, why'd you take it?"

"I'm getting to that."

"The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make that key card work again," Scott explained.

Liam furrowed his eyebrows, "How are you going to do that?"

Stiles sighed. "We're getting to that, okay? Just listen–" Stiles turns his MacBook around so everyone can see. "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 nodded in understanding.

Kira seemed uneasy, "How are we going to cause a brownout?"

"That's your part. You're going to draw power from the mainline– but only enough to cause the brownout." Scott informed.

"Not a blackout. Do that, and you send Eichen into lockdown, which would be bad. Very, very bad." Stiles made it clear.

"There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen."

"Okay, slight problem– I don't know how to do that," Kira admitted.

"That's okay! You have time to practice." Scott reassured her.

"Let's say this goes perfectly. How does a brownout get us into the closed unit of Eichen?" Malia asked, unconvinced about the plan.

"The system takes five minutes to reboot. In that five minutes, all the alarms will be turned off. The key card should work."

Scott turned to Liam. "Liam, you, me, and Leia get Stiles to the gate of the closed unit. But after that, he has to go on his own. 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."

"Uh, any questions?" Stiles asked aloud.

"How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?" Liam asked.

"What's our worst-case scenario?" Malia asked.

"What if I can't do it?" Kira anxiously asked.

Stiles sighed. "Okay, admittedly, a lot could go wrong."

"Everything could go wrong!" Liam exasperated.

"Guys, if we don't do this, we lose Lydia. She's going to die in there tonight... And she might take a lot of innocent people with her." Scott said to the pack. All seven of us exchanged nervous looks but agreed that we needed to do this.