Chapter 90: 6-3

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Garrett Douglas explains the process of creating an electromagnet by adding a battery attached to a copper coil wrapped around a metal rod.

"I don't trust him" Stiles suddenly says. "And why is that?" Allison looked at him. "Well call it a gut feeling" Stiles shrugged. "I agree with Stiles. Something about him makes a chill go down my spine" Laura muttered.

He uses the magnet to make a metal ball spin in a bowl. Douglas suffers a coughing fit and flashes back to being trapped in a glass, liquid-filled tube in the Dread Doctors lair.

"Well we now know what makes that chill go down your spine" Derek pointed out. "Of all people the school had to employ a Nazi werewolf alpha" Corey groaned.

In class, he asks the students, including Mason, Corey, Liam, and Hayden, to imagine what adding infinite power, say from a lightning bolt, might mean for the magnet. Further flashbacks reveal Douglas' body was severely damaged from his time submerged in the liquid. He wills his flesh to repair itself and his eyes glow red, but he still has trouble breathing.

"It's kind of disgusting how he looked like in the tank" Lydia says. "Well he is from way back and the Dread Doctors probably kept him alive by not healing whatever injury he had sustained" Hayden said.

His coughing becomes so severe that he leaves the class and enters the storage room attached. There he inhales deeply from a mask connected to a tank marked Helium.

"Helium?" Scott rose an eyebrow. "Maybe he wants to do this funny helium voice" Stiles joked.

Cell phones start ringing in the girl's locker room. Nathan Pierce is having a "Start of the Season Lacrosse Party" and his mass text seems to hit all the phones at once. Gwen is freaking out by the lockers. She claims someone has removed all her sister Phoebe's stuff and the school administration is claiming she never existed. Hayden doesn't remember her either despite the fact that Gwen says she was on the team for two years.

"Probably got taken" Melissa said with a sad sigh. "Poor girl" Claudia muttered, holding her son's hand.

Scott and Lydia look up "Stile" and find a definition for Stile: An arrangement of steps that allows people but not animals to climb over a fence. They agree this is not the Stiles for which they are looking.

"Yes because I'm not some arrangement of steps" Stiles rolled his eyes.

Malia is taking a make-up math test with Natalie Martin in the counselor's office. She's frustrated and losing control. Natalie tries to get her to calm down, and breath but Malia freaks and turns into a coyote. She runs away down the hall. In the library, Scott and Lydia hear her howl and decide the test must not be going well. Scott, Lydia, Natalie, and Sheriff Stilinski find Malia in the basement where she used to come to lock herself up on the full moon. The Sheriff urges Scott to "Alpha" growl at her to make her calm down, but Lydia suggests they move away since they've invaded her territory where she feels safe. It works. Malia changes back and Mrs. Martin gives her back her clothes. The others are confused as to why Malia is suddenly shifting; they agree that the pressure of school and the recent attempt by her mother to kill her should not be having this effect. They wonder if it is connected to Stiles and the Sheriff explains that it's a Stilinski family nickname used by his father.

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