Chapter 26: Invasion

Everyone arrived back home, and Sasha invited her boyfriend to stay the night with her, so she could do some more filming for her webshow. They spend a good portion of the night filming and reshooting, while they spoke to the rest of the club on Skype in between shots. Percy revealed to everyone that he had secretively filmed Toby's Alpha ceremony, and he censored the faces of everyone except Sasha, Zoe, and Toby.

"Uh, Guys...you don't think that this might be airing out too much laundry would it?" Toby asked.

"Your audience wants to know oh mighty alpha!" Zoe said with a big grin.

Bernie appeared behind her and everyone gulped except Toby and Zoe. "It should be fine...you have everyone's identity protected...although, I might suggest you blur Sasha, Zoe, and Toby's faces just to be safe. Got that Percy?" he asked before he set his big werewolf paw onto his shoulder.

Percy flinched and nodded. "Yes sir" he said nervously.

Bernie cleared his throat. "Toby...Zoe...I've been informed earlier today by Joseph that Ian's going to be making his move shortly. I've already sent for reinforcements, so be on guard"

"And Amarok?" Toby asked.

"She wasn't observed to be with 'em. She could be doing something else. She's never been very easy to track"

"Does mom know about this?"

"I spoke to her about it earlier. Don't be overwhelmed with this. I will serve as an advisor for you. Got it?"

"I want Zoe to be my second in command"

"I'm going to suggest you keep in touch with the whywolves on enemy locations. The will be operating drones in case things start to get hairy"

Tim snickered at the werewolf puns, but everyone else was not in such a lighthearted mood. "Does this mean that war is going to happen?" Terra asked.

"The war has already started when the Cowlitz clan got attacked. Kari...Clare...I want you two to stay safe, understood?"

Sasha's mother poked her head in and looked at them worried. "Something bad is about to happen, isn't it?"

"I'm sorry Mrs. Thomas; I think you know what might happen to us in the upcoming fight"

She sighed heavily and looked at the floor in dismay. "I've always known...I just hoped it wouldn't come to this. He's just too young to be fighting and leading...I don't care how strong and smart he is...he hasn't got the experience!"

"On the contrary, Toby and Zoe are both top in the recruiting rank. They have received training from the elders, Tai, me, and a few others. They've been groomed to be fighters. If they could take out a half dozen hunters without any effort, then they can handle urban warfare. It's always been in their blood to be warriors"

"This isn't right"

"None of it is, but we need all the help we can get! Do you think I feel sunshine and rainbows sending my daughters and sons out there!?"

Sasha's mother relented, but she looked towards Toby. "I want you to come back alive, you hear me?"

Toby nodded and gulped looking over at Sasha's similar worried expression. Toby's stomach started to growl, and he doubled over clutching it. "I feel like someone is kicking me in the stomach, while it's lit on fire" he said.

Sasha laughed. "Why didn't you go eat?" she asked.

Toby frowned and looked away blushing. "I thought you might......like to eat with me" he said.

"Didn't you eat not too long ago?" Her mother asked.

"Yea, but I didn't eat enough"

Sasha smiled lightly, and she took his hand. "I'll make you something Toby. I don't want you to starve" she said before waved to the camera. "I'll be back, gotta feed my wolf" she said before she left her seat dragging Toby out of view. She looked at her mother. "You can't leave him in the kitchen by himself" she muttered as she walked by.

"Hey! I've gotten better at cooking"

"Toby, it's the messes you make not the cooking part"

Toby frowned. "I know, but..." he muttered before they walked past Todd who sat on the couch playing a video game. Toby walked in to check on him while Sasha started to make him a meal. "Hey Todd...how's your back feeling?" he asked.

Todd sighed. "Sore...the tingling comes and goes. I hate feeling weak" he said.

Toby smiled patting him on the shoulder. "Nervous tissue is the slowest to recover...about several days. Just kick back and relax. Take it from me...I've been there kid. I hate waiting for my body to recover, but I'm glad I'm not human, or I'd dead" he said.

Todd's face lit up. "You wanna play?" he asked curiously.

Toby smirked. "Sure" he muttered before he sat down grabbing a controller.

Todd sighed. "I didn't know she was qualified" he said.

Toby chuckled. "Yea we'll she's been off work after an incident in the hospital. It's kind of Ironic how you go to a hospital to get better, but you mess with a werewolf doctor you get worse...If you know what I mean" he said.

Todd's eyes went wide in horror. "What happened?" he asked.

Sasha poked her head out to look into the living room. "Toby do you like to have boobs?...der I mean breasts...darn it...do you like to have chicken?" she asked.

He stared at her not sure what to say, but Todd laughed at her. "You already know Toby loves boobs!"

Toby smiled. "Yea, I think Tits are great!" he said. He paused for a second. "I didn't just say tits did I?" he asked.

She nodded and giggled to about his slip up, and she tucked her hair behind her ear with a big smile. "Yea...you kind of did" she said as her face returned to normal color.

"Chicken sounds good honey" he said before he swatted at the back of Todd's head. "Stop talking about your sister's boobs, you turd!"

Todd's eyes widened, and he stiffened up. "Hey! You talked about them too! I'm not a perv!"

"Only I can talk about her boobs. You can label me what you want, but you don't have any idea what it's like to deal with walking around with them let alone deal with YouTube comments. She doesn't like having them made fun of or..."

"Toby...it's fine! That was actually funny" she said from the kitchen. "I'm used to them now. They are a part of me. I know that I'm attractive, but now that I have my powers, I'm not afraid to push all those dogs back" she said before she let out a big heavy sigh. "I know that my show got popular because of them. I'd rather use them to trick guys into getting educated instead of trick guys for money"

"You think only guys are into them?" Toby asked.

"Toby...do you know how many times I get my boobs groped by women?"

"More thank I think?"

"Yea! They make a game out of it in the girl's locker room. I'm well aware that girls like to gawk at them" she said before she laughed to herself. "Speaking of which...I had a question about werehorses"

He gulped and looked towards Todd's oblivious expression hoping he had no idea where this conversation would be going. "What about them?"

"Well, it got me wondering. Could traits from two different werecreature parents be crossed and passed down to their offspring?"

"Yea, but what does this got to do with werehorses?"

She giggled evilly. "Oh nothing...I was just wondering how a werewolf could get so big!"

Toby turned bright red, and Todd was very confused. "No! Toby's so big because of giant genes! Right Toby?" he protested before he looked over at him.

Toby was sinking into the couch like a torpedoed battleship, and he really did not want to be a part of the conversation anymore. Sasha poked her head around and smirked evilly. "Don't worry Toby...I love horses too" she said before giving him a flirtatious wink.

Toby whimpered to himself not just at the notion of having certain traits inside him, but it was a very good possibility where he had gotten some. "I don't think I have werehorse in me...you know what I eat" he retorted.

"Yea, but you do love giving me rides...even when I've already turned"

Toby's lip quivered and whimpered feeling grateful that Todd who was still unaware of Sasha's witty line of questioning. "Maybe you should give me a ride?"

Sasha laughed at him. "I like being in control of you. You'd wreck everything...you're just too strong"

"Huh? That doesn't make any sense" Todd interrupted.

"Todd, play your game" Toby and Sasha both said.

"Fine"

Later while Toby was eating, they heard a knock on the door and Toby looked towards the door as Sasha's mother answered it. A Red haired man with a green ascot cap stared at her and gulped. "Sorry miss, but...Is Toby here?" he asked with a thick Irish accent.

Sasha's mother sighed allowing him inside, and she stood by the door nervously. Sasha's grandparents were at the table with Toby as the gentleman approached him. "Toby...we have a problem..." the man said before two black hawk helicopters approached and flew over making the house shake and vibrate.

They all jumped to the sudden fly by. "What's going on?" he asked.

"Here look at this" the man said before pulling out his tablet.

A male news anchor was sitting at a desk with a globe behind him. One the bottom scroll said "Ragnarok Terrorists Attack Portland". "We have some developing news from Portland, Oregon. After a string of murders taunting messages written all over in the victims' blood, Portland was attacked again in the middle of the night. The FBI dubbed these extremists the Ragnarok terrorists because some of the messages saying Referring to "the big bad wolf" and "Time is running out", and Nordic Rune carved into every single forehead of their victims. Ragnarok is an old tale from Norse mythology that depicts a large wolf that brings Armageddon" he said before it cut to a press conference.

The feed said it was live from Salem before the governors of Oregon and Washington walked up to the podium. "I have been in constant communication with the FBI, Homeland Security, and other agencies after a new after the catastrophe in Kelso/Longview. According to the new information from my trusted sources, I am declaring mandatory evacuations for Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington counties. The timeline for these evacuations are as follows for these zones: Portland 1 and 2 effective immediately, Portland 3-6 at 3 midnight, Portland 7, Maywood Park, Lake Oswego, and Beaverton at 2 am, Gresham, Fairview, Wood Village, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, West Linn, and Troutdale at 5 am, After 7am the communities of Oregon City, Happy Valley, Gladstone, Tigard, Tualatin, King City, Durham, Forest Grove, Rivergrove, Cornelius, Sherwood, Wilsonville I have set up voluntary evacuations. I am ordering counter flow for all interstates, highways, and arterial roads out from the city. Please! I implore you to heed these evacuation times and stick to the routes set up. I will step back and allow our neighbor to the North to speak" The governor of Oregon said.

The governor of Washington swapped places with the governor of Oregon, and she cleared her throat. "Thank you, I would like to add that we have established shelters for those who do not have mobility and the elderly. We also have shelters set up for evacuees to utilize outside of the evacuation areas. In conjunction with Portland evacuations I have issued mandatory evacuations for Clark, King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. The timelines for these evacuations will occur in these areas: Seattle 1-3, Tacoma 1-2, Vancouver 1 immediately, Seattle 4-8, Tacoma 3-5, Bellevue, Everett , and Vancouver 2 at 3am, King 2-4, Kitsap 1-2, Pierce 2-3, and Snohomish 2-3 at 6 am. I want to reiterate for you to adhere to the routes and times to avoid putting your friends and neighbors in harms away" she said before a men dressed in black approached then and whispered into their ear.

They played a clip cell phone video of a break in at a News station. Ian walked up to the desk with a security guard trying to take him down. Ian grabbed the guard by the neck and grinned. "Do you have a family? A wife? Children? Do you love them?" he asked.

The guard's eyes widened in horror, and he grabbed for his gun. Ian brutally slammed the guard's head against the desk shattering the glass as he freed it from its holster. The man slid down the side of the desk off camera, and the news anchors backed away. Ian sat down as Garou and Gunter stood beside him. "People of the world! I am Ian the leader of what you humans call the Ragnarok Terrorists. Now that we have taken control of one of your cities, maybe you all will pay attention to our final message. Today marks the day the planet is under a new order. We've allowed your population balloon to 8, 9, 10 billion, as an Apex predator it's my duty to make sure that this planet is healthy. What I see is nothing but a Dirty, Disgusting, Crowded world, where animals are dying off, and food is becoming scarce. This is a world where our kind have been denied the right to hunt our prey without being shot at or just be shot at because of what we are. This is what happens when most of us are too scared to do what nature designed us to do. I'm making a call to all you werewolves out there to begin population control starting with the rich and powerful responsible for poisoning our air and water and hording all the wealth for themselves. I invite the low and middle class to join us in killing the fat cats! They are one hundred percent responsible for why the world is what it is today...you have nothing to lose! Join the winning side and live a life of prosperity. Become powerful for once in your miserable meaningless lives, and become a werewolf today!" he said before he looked at the camera and transformed.

"Don't think your military will have an impact against us! We have taken over hundreds of nukes and chemical weapons. Garou, will you be so kind to demonstrate what you got in the briefcase?"

Garou opened the case and unveiled a lead casing, which he had a Geiger counter in hand clicking lowly. Once he opened the lead casing the counter sounded like TV static until the casing was closed. "We have plenty more in that van" he said before the clip ended.

The news anchors were very unnerved. "We are now getting reports that the Portland National Guard Armory has been raided, and ground troops cannot get to the city due to gridlock and air troops have been shot down. We'll continue to bring you updates once we gain new information on this story" he said before the man pulled his tablet away.

Toby growled after another helicopter flew overhead. "Ian's was waiting for them to plug up the streets...they did what he wanted them to" he yelled.

"Yea, not good"

"Did you know he had nukes!?" Sasha's mother screamed.

Toby did not reply, but Sasha sighed heavily. "Yea, they knew"

Sasha's grandparents frowned. "With all this chaos, cellphone services are going to be jammed up" they said before Bernie barged into the house.

"Toby! We're having a meeting in the Quarry! Sasha, tell Lilian what's going on. Tell her to begin Plan Delta Rho"

"Okay!" She said before she ran out the door.

Bernie looked towards her grandparents. "You got satellite phones?"

They both nodded before he looked at them sternly. "Can we borrow one? I'd like to be in contact with SAM"

Aoife stood up and rushed into the guest room before she came out handing him her satellite phone. "You know your codename"

"Hey don't I get one?" Toby asked.

"Don't worry big bad, you got one"

"What is it then?"

"That's it"

"What? Seriously? Sasha's nickname?"

"What's wrong with your nickname? I thought it was cute" Sasha butted in as she poked her head around the door.

"Nothing, I thought they would be more..." he muttered as Sasha gave him a look. "Nothing's wrong, I just wanted it between us, that's all" he said nervously. He could hear his mother laugh from outside.

Lilian stepped in front of the door, and she looked at them sternly. "I'm going to have Sasha help me with getting my triage unit set up"

"But what about the bombs?" Sasha's mother protested.

"My unit is going to be deep underground. She will be safe there with me"

"What should I do? Where do I go?"

"Follow the evacuation procedures, fill your car with everything you'll need for a week and carry cash. If you already have an emergency kit, you're more than halfway there"

"We got to get moving! Lilian! Sasha! Need you to be on your guard. Don't assume just because you are medical that you won't be targeted" Bernie spoke severely.

Sasha gulped and Lilian nodded. "I have arranged for our techies to help us out. They should be bringing in Light rail vehicles in to bring in all the aid I'll need, and we'll be using the vehicles as rooms. I had a hunch this will be uglier than we've anticipated" she said before she looked towards Sasha. "Let's go hun" she said bravely.

Sasha nodded nervously and struggled to put on the same brave face. "Yea, Okay" she muttered timidly.

The Irish man walked out bumping into Toby's shoulder. "Let's go Captain Commander!"

Toby looked at him shocked. "Who me? I'm the Captain Commander?"

Bernie smirked. "Come on! Show some fangs! You aren't a puppy anymore!" he said before swatting Toby's shoulder.

Sasha stepped up and kissed Toby on the cheek for good luck. "Stay alive...I want my children to be held by their father" she said before she winked at him.

Toby looked deep into Sasha's eyes before he smiled assuming that she was referring to his samples that he left for her. He come in close and gave her a kiss on the lips. "I love you, honey. I promise I'll be there some way or another when you give birth" he said.

"I love you too" She said before she pressed her hand into his chest. "I'd prefer you be there in flesh and blood" she said before he turned away. "Oh and Toby!" she said. Toby paused and looked back. Sasha smirked. "I want you to rape his ass! D'you hear me!?" she asked.

Toby grinned. "You can count on it. I promise I'll cut him down a size or two" he said as she passionately touched his stubble for one last time before she took off with Lilian.

"Toby!" Tammy screamed.

Toby flinched hearing the little girl's voice. Tammy and Sammy both ran up to Toby, and they each hugged at his legs. Sean walked up beside Sasha and frowned. Toby looked down at the two twins and sighed. "I have to go now..." he said before he calmly leaned over and pulled them off gently. He kneeled down to their level and looked at them sternly. "You are not going to cause Yvonne grief are you?" he asked.

The twins both teared up. "Please don't leave! What if you don't come back?" Tammy asked.

Yvonne approached them with baby Steele in her arms. "Aright you three, I said you can say goodbye not keep him from leaving" she said before she looked towards her husband. "Terry and his girlfriend are gassing up the RV. I'm going to take Sandy and her folks down to Monmouth. He says he's got college buddies there"

"So he's not going to fight?" Bernie asked.

"I said I was going to take them! Terry is doing me a favor!" She raised her voice.

"Stick to the backroads! Text me when you make it there safely" He said before he planted his wife a smooth.

"Get going you two!" She said before she swatted her husband on the rear.

He chuckled before he took off with Toby trailing behind. When they got to the cliff side, he gasped at the turn out. There were massive amounts of Werewolves and other supernatural creatures in the cloaks just standing around talking amongst themselves. There were different color cloaks and different designed masks. Each where unique to the clan they were from as well as clued in on what animal they were tied to. Toby put his cloak and mask on, and on the forehead of his mask was the Greek letter Alpha with an umlaut above it. He jumped down into the quarry and by then everyone was looking up at him. He walked around and everyone eyed him curiously before the outsiders started to talk again.

"Is that really Steele's son?" One asked.

"He's so young...how can he be that huge?" another said.

Toby walked up to the broken down excavator and jumped on top of the cab. He looked around and the talking ceased after he cleared his throat.

"Okay, those of you who have got radio please tune it to 100 hertz...Our Deltas will feed us locations in audio if digital communications go down. They are our eyes and ears. Use your respirators. I know it prevents us from smelling our enemy, but I've heard rumors they've gotten a hold of VX gas and not just Sarin"

Everyone when silent and most gulped to the news of the type of chemical weapons involved. Then, a gamma from his own clan came up with Percy. "Wait...hold on!" he shouted.

Percy gulped before he pulled out a sheet of paper. "Dad says that SAD isn't doing anything about contacting the military. He says the army has ironmen armed with dazzlers patrolling these areas. Unless you all have a crap ton of EMP grenades, you might want to consider how you enter the city" Percy said holding out a map to him.

Toby looked at the piece of paper and took it. He examined the map for 5 minutes and then smirked. "The Robertson Tunnel...we'll infiltrate the city from there...by entering here at the west side of the Tunnel we'll emerge here near the Vista Bridge and throw smoke bombs to avoid the dazzlers" he said pointing to a spot of the map.

"Um...could we even fit in the tunnel? And isn't that a light rail tunnel?" someone asked.

"Yes, it is 21 feet in diameter bud, and there's two tunnels, and yes I know it's a light rail tunnel, but I'm pretty sure they have the whole thing shut down in that area" he said.

"So if it's a Light rail tunnel what about the overhead wires?" Another person asked.

Toby smirked. "We'll just watch our heads won't we...don't worry it's only 800 volts of electricity. It should give you a good zap" he said. "Why? You planning on jumping around the tunnel in your Therian form?" he asked.

"No?" the person said.

Toby sighed. "Don't transform until we confront the enemy. There are going to be a lot of humans that we are going to have to get out of the city as well. The rules of warfare have changed. This isn't about stopping Ian and annihilating his betas, it's also about showing the humans we're aren't all those creatures in movies, books, and folklore...where we are demonized. You all have seen how terrified humans are afraid of us. Once they see this...this insanity what do you all think will happen? Not only will they realize we exist but they'll try to segregate us. If we fail to show them what we are like, he wins" he said before he sighed. "our peaceful way of living will be ripped away from us like the Chihuahua and the bone...you know how that turns out?" he asked.

"Yea the Chihuahua gets an even bigger bone" Patches said.

"That's what we want...The Chihuahua loses his bone to the Great Dane, and through the hardship, he gets an even bigger bone. You understand this analogy will reflect on our way of life. Ian takes away our old secretive culture, and we'll end up with an even better way of living...I have been thinking recently that we're taking shame into our wolf hood. Like we can't be open and be proud of it...this threat of being hunted down and persecuted, Even if we as individuals have never wronged in our lives. We've lived within the laws of humans. All they see in us is just all of us being the same, and that's blatant racism. I don't blame them. For how our race was brought up into existence, how some of the outcasts just go onto a killing spree...just like Ian. Others suffered great loss and feel the world falling around them...just like Amarok. I know a lot of you have some things against the humans, but they aren't perfect and neither are we..." he said before he cleared his throat. "Wie Körper, wie Bruder (Like body, Like Brother)"

"Das ist richtig (That's right!)" some of the people said.

Toby smirked. "Danke (Thanks)" he said. He sighed. "Wie Körper wie Bruder means like body like brother. It's an old hochdeutsch werewolf proverb father told me, which basically means that if you have a similar appearance to someone or something you are friends..." he said. He sighed. "Even though Ian makes valid points, he stole most of that rhetoric from Peter. I feel that our planet and culture aren't doomed. I see that the humans will begin to settle other worlds, and this planet will be less crowded...I can imagine space wolf bounty hunters becoming a thing" he said, which he got a few chuckles out of them.

"Oh, yea...I almost forgot...Toby come with me and Chiefy" Scott said.

Joseph looked back at Scott very annoyed, and Toby laughed a little. "Hey, I didn't mean to make it a smash hit or anything...It just stuck okay?!" Toby said noticing Joseph's intense angry stare at Scott.

"It is alright Toby...you didn't know any better" Joseph said before he let out a soft sigh.

Toby followed them to a GMC half ton pickup truck. Joseph opened the tailgate and unlatched the door to the canopy. Toby cocked his head curiously, and he saw a huge wooden box wedged between the side of the truck and the cab. Joseph crawled in and slid the huge box out. Joseph hopped out and lifted the box. He swung the box around to the side and set it down. Joseph ripped open the wooden box and a familiar scent carried into Toby's nose. His eyes widened realizing who's sent it was. "Is that my..." Toby muttered.

Joseph and Scott nodded. "Yes and Your father would have liked for you to have it. He had a feeling you'd grow to his stature" Scott said.

Toby looked at the two oddly. "Why did you have it?" he asked.

"It was your mother's idea...To tell you the truth Steele's scent drove me insane...I had to bury it just to get rid of his noxious scent" Scott said with a playful smirk.

Toby walked up to the box and looked into it. There on the bottom of the box was dark shiny armor. Toby's eyes lit up with exhilaration seeing the armor was remarkably in his size. "Wow...I know I would be just as big as my dad was, but...I thought he was a lot larger than this" he said.

Joseph stared at him and sighed impatiently. "Well, are you going to try it on?"

"Hold on, I never wore werewolf armor before. Let me figure out how to put it on!" Toby muttered.

Scott smacked himself in the forehead. "You put the under suit on first..." he said.

Toby glared back at him and growled. "I already figured that out smartass!" he shouted as he pulled out the black suit made out of mysterious fibers. He looked at it and cocked his head oddly. "Now what?" he asked.

"Side your legs through the neck hole, it stretches..." Scott said.

Toby removed his cloak then did as Scott said and the neck stretched just like he said it would. Toby forced his feet through the leg holes of the one piece suit. He pulled the rest of the suit up his body while slipping his arms in through. His arms found the arm holes, and everyone gazed at Toby curiously. Toby examined the suit. "This suit is too revealing" he complained. The suit formed around Toby's body and showed off everything the young werewolf had.

Scott threw the chain mail at Toby. "Put this on!" he yelled.

Toby caught the chain mail, and he slid the titanium mesh over the under suit. Then Joseph and Scott helped Toby fasten the chest and back plates on him. Toby slid on his arm and leg guards. The armor was very heavy. It was very modern and designed to deflect bullets with angles and no curves. Toby looked himself over and knocked on the armor. He could hear how dense it was from the ping. Toby laughed lightly. "It's pretty tough isn't it? You don't think it's too outdated do you?" he asked.

"Nah, you'll be vaporized just like the rest of us. I like for it to go quicker honestly. Don't want to feel the pain"

Joseph smirked. "You'll make a fine warrior Toby...You may still think you are weak...but on the contrary, you are quite strong, not many pups can take on a foe like Ian and survive to tell the tale. You have done this many times and lived to fight another day. You remind me so much of Steele when we met back when I was in seclusion. Steele's strength helped me regain my strength...Seeing him take on Ian himself put life back into my spirit" Joseph said.

"But I'm not my father...and Zoe took on Ian by herself also. I heard she did much better than I did"

"But you are his son, and Zoe doesn't doubt herself like you do. I believe that the only one defeating you, is yourself"

Toby sighed as he put his cloak back on. He jumped onto the truck, and he looked at the crowd and cleared his throat. Everyone settled down and looked back at him attentively. "So listen up! A lot of humans will attack us. Don't get mad at them at kill them, just disarm them...don't do it literally either...I want to make myself clear. Make sure the military does not come into contact with any blood" he said.

"What about POWs? Where do we take them?"

"Contact us, we can arrange for some gammas to take POWs to a holding facility"

Bernie jumped onto the truck next to Toby. "Oh yea, and for theÜbers, we've modified your masks. Anyone with umlauts over their rank will have a temporary promotion. Über Gammas and Über Betas authority over their squad meaning you can make an executive decision without conformation of the Über Alpha, and you will be assigned a squad of 8 shapeshifters to lead" he said. His mask had an Umlaut above the Greek letter Beta on his forehead.

Toby looked at Percy sternly. "Hey Percy!" he yelled.

"Y-y-yes?"

"Can you see if your dad can find whoever is in command of the Oregon National Guard or the army and tell them what is happening...He's got to have some resources..." he said.

"I'm on it!" Percy said before looking down at his armband and started typing into his smartphone.

Toby looked towards the crowd. "Alright I need you all to find yourselves a group, and elect anÜber" he said. The crowd started morphing from chaotic to over a hundred squads. "Neat" Toby muttered.

Bernie gave Toby a box. Toby grabbed it and looked inside. Inside were a collection of grenades. Each one labeled with a tag. Toby looked up at him shocked. "But I don't have the training!" he said.

Bernie laughed. "I see that you are smart enough to know when to use them. You're plenty proficient in my eyes" he said before he reached his hand out. "Let me see your mask" he said.

Toby took his mask off before he began loading his cloak pockets with the grenades. Bernie started pointing at the buttons. "This here is your voice encryptor button, your night vision button, your thermal image button, your scuba toggle, your power button...and your reset button" he said as he pointed at various parts of the mask.

Toby smiled. "I got it..." he said. Bernie handed Toby his mask, and Toby put his mask on. Dr. Lovejoy climbed on top of the truck and lifted a trash bag. "I'll need a wolf from each squad to act as Triage. I have tags for all of you. Each will start off with 4 rolls of stickers, and attach them to any untagged victim. Green means non-life-threatening, Yellow means they can wait, Red means they can't wait, and Black means they are dead or will not make it!" she yelled holding up one of the tags.

Everyone talked amongst themselves seeming very worked up. Dr. Lovejoy sighed. "Make sure the label is visible. These are the exact same tags the humans will use, so you do not have to rescue green, yellow, or black taggers. Lilian will and I will have hospital in the Washington Park Station, I'm going to need a Squad of werewolves to guard the hospital. Another to help move beds and medical supplies for Haley's station over at Centennial High" she said.

The leaders from each squad walked up to her, and they grabbed bags of sticker rolls to distribute them. "Well help with the beds and hand out tags" one of the Über gamma said.

"If any of you run out of tags, come back and fetch some more. I don't want any of you to go about and not have a tag when you have a victim that needs a red. If you do find yourself in that situation, bring them with you" she said before she cleared her throat. "If you find someone alone, and they are in the red. You don't need to tag 'em, just bring them over...The tags are for sorting batches of wounded or bodies. Just use your best judgment" she said.

Someone raised their hand. "Some of us have medical training. Will you need us?" they asked.

Dr. Lovejoy sighed. "I'll let you know if we need more people but we have medical Deltas. I would like to have you give first aid when you're out in the field" she said.

"Does everyone have the supplies they need?" Bernie asked.

"We need a flare!" someone said.

"What kind? Roadside or a Pistol?"

"Roadside" they answered.

"I need a pistol one" another one said.

"I'll get you, your flares" he said before he grabbed a bag from his front seat. He vanished into the crowd giving the squads supplies.

Tai walked up to Toby. "Hey, kid" he said.

Toby looked down at Tai, and they lifted their masks. "Yea?" Toby asked.

Tai smirked. "I think some of us can probably take back the underground using the back door, and we can capture thralls and put them into the Cells" he said.

Toby looked at him oddly. "Do you think we have the Capacity?" he asked.

Tai nodded. "There's an old Cell block that we blocked off, and there should be about 200 cells give or take. All we need is to breach the brick wall" he said.

Toby raised an eyebrow. "200? Why so many?" he asked.

Tai sighed. "It's where Ian kept his insubordinates and humans locked up when he was in power..." he said.

Toby cocked his head cutely. "Since when did we have a back door?" he asked.

Tai pulled out old sheets of paper showing an extensive map of the Underground with each page showing a level and stating the depth of each level. "You see the old Cell block area is covered with booby traps, but the back door here on NW Savier and 15thleads to the old Cell block. Once we get it cleared off I can get sweepers to clear it up" He said. On the map it stated the hazards like Asphyxiation chambers, Lye and Acid dumps, Flamethrowers, Railcar truck drops, and Burmese Tiger Traps.

Toby cringed. "Damn...and you have to navigate that?" he asked.

Tai nodded. "Yea...it's kind of why we blocked it off...There wasn't a need to use that space until now. I learned about this from the Elders today during the ceremony" he said.

Toby nodded. "I got ya...I'll let you do that mission. Just don't get burned alive" he said.

Tai laughed as he put his mask on. "Compared to Nukes and VX, this should be a cakewalk" he said before he looked back at his Squad. "Let's go!" he said before they headed off.

Toby looked off towards the cliff to see Zoe landing near the crowd. She was in a panic and ran straight towards Toby, and she stopped in front of the truck panting heavily. "Ian!...He just broke into the KATU news station and blurted everything out about us!!" she yelled.

The whole crowd had a look of anger and hatred. Toby looked at her worried. "What do you mean everything?" he snapped.

Zoe winced. "Everything! Our history, our conspiracy, the only thing he failed to mention was the war between him and us" she muttered before she growled. "Sasha's video's got taken down again"

Toby looked very troubled. "That bastard...what did he do to the people is the broadcasting room?" he asked.

"He scared them out, and he took a security guard out like he did on KOIN news...I don't know if they escaped or not, but you have to hurry...it's the longer you spend here the more people he's going to kill!"

Bernie got a call from the satellite phone and answered it. On the other line was a woman with a Cockney accent. "Is this Wolf Cop?" she asked with her silky high pitched voice.

"Speaking?"

"Yes, this is agent Tracy. I was wondering if you want to give the go ahead to contact the media and send them all of the "My boyfriend is a werewolf" webshow?"

"That will be perfect"

"You know...Big Bad reminds me a lot of an Ex-boyfriend of mine. Hell, my pups have the same freakish height and looks, that they could be brothers"

"What are you getting at?"

"I'm just reminiscing my younger years. My only regret is to tell that crazy German what great werewolves our pups turned out to be"

"Why are you telling me this? If you're going to tell me you bred with Steele, just say it! I don't have time to be reminded my friends wild outings"

"I'm the best with espionage. I know Sasha can speak with him. Just have her tell him that, and he's going to be a great-grandfather"

"Damn, he must have been really young"

"He was, and I've never found a man since who could scratch my itch quite like he could. I regret not holding onto him...yea, well...anyway, I've uploaded all the files. Oh, and my daughter has already got them to put the videos back up"

"That fast?"

"Of course love! They take Sasha's content down constantly. You all just haven't noticed because of how awesome SAM is. Anyway, I got to get off from here, you gotta world to save" she said before she hung up.

Toby stared at him before Bernie growled at him. "Well, don't just stand there! Let's go!" he shouted.

Toby nodded. "Let's take back the City!" he yelled thrusting his fist into the air as he started off leading the whole crowd.

The huge surge of werewolves ran through backyards, Forests, a golf course, over roads and streams. They ran for miles along some railroad tracks and then through surface streets before they wound back onto the railroad tracks but with catenary lines over head. They followed these tracks before they reached the tunnels. Toby ran on top of a maintenance overpass overlooking the entrance to the tunnels. The mass of people crowded together, and Toby looked around to see how many there were. Toby looked back at all of them. "We'll set up a base in the underground once it's captured, and you can leave your rations there and rest there or whatever we do..." Toby said loudly.

"Does everyone have their voice encryptors on?" Bernie asked before a large portion of the group started fiddling with their masks.

"Toby, why don't you use the lookout at Council Crest?" Tai asked over the radio.

Toby pushed a button on the side of his mask. "You think I should? Wouldn't I get shot at?" he asked before he released the button.

"You have the cover of night. There hasn't been any information from the drones, and I fear they are being shot down"

Toby looked towards Bernie who did not have any objection to this suggestion. "Alright, let's get this over with..." Toby muttered jumping off the overpass. He led the crowd into the tunnels, and they made it inside the underground station and stopped there. There were some beds and pressed against the walls with movable partitions between each bed. There was a squad setting up additional beds and partitions inside a light rail vehicle, and Dr. Lovejoy was looking at the flat screen TV relaying the news, and she was in disbelief and held her hand to her face.

The squad who was moving the beds snuck a peek at the screen and shook their heads before they continued to move back and forth from the elevator with equipment trying to keep busy. Toby walked up to Dr. Lovejoy, and she looked back at him. "I didn't think it was this bad...I thought Ian was just meaning to scare people...he's actually going through with this" she said.

Toby looked up seeing scenes from a news helicopter before the helicopter was subsequently shot down. The scene was similar to that of the Longview Attack, and Toby became so irate from the images that his arms and head involuntarily trembled violently. "How old is this footage?" he asked.

The Doctor shrugged. "I wasn't looking when it exactly happened, but it's been new in the past 15 minutes" she said.

Joseph looked up at the screen and frowned. "December 2, 1861, I remember first hearing about the battle. The battle was so intense that it made the sky weep in sorrow, and it washed away the blood and death. Everything was purified, and the only thing left were the street posts in the ground. I'm going to remember this day as well...The day a star died at the earth stood still" he said.

Toby nodded before sniffed the air and looked around, which he saw some meat laid against the wall. He licked his lips before he started poking at the bag. "Oh, I smell Sirloin..." he muttered. He looked back, and he got growled at from one of the cloaked people.

Zoe came up from behind him and grabbed his shoulder. "You're part of my group!" she said firmly.

"Welcome to the A team!" Patches shouted.

"Isn't there supposed to be a group of 8?" Toby asked.

"We do, I got Terry, Van, Olivia, Lenny the Minotaur, Terrence the werelion, and Casey the Harpy"

The new faces waved hello and were quite timid to be near him. Terry was speaking to his father, and Van was showing Olivia how her technology worked.

Toby rubbed his forehead. "You think it's a good idea to have her on the team?" he asked.

"I tried to say something, but that bitch don't listen to anyone" Zoe said before she slugged him in the arm. "Come on, show our new friends that you are cool" she said.

Toby sighed. "I don't want to babysit her" he muttered.

"Van's going to babysit her" Zoe whispered into his ear.

The elevator beeped, and when the door opened, he saw Sasha inside fidgeting seeing everyone looking at her. Lilian looked up at him and smirked recognizing the armor. Sasha giggled and walked up to him touching it curiously. "You look so handsome in that armor Toby..." she said with approval before she grabbed his arm pulling him down for a kiss. Toby blushed knowing everyone was watching him, but he forgot about them when she started massaging his arm. "I'll have to work on you later...I know how sore you get after combat" she said into his ear.

Toby smiled imagining her gained skill in the chiropractic arts on top of her amazing full body werewolf massage with a happy ending. "Thanks hun...I probably will need you to work on me..."

"I'm looking forward to it big bad" she said with a low murr. She took great pleasure in providing him an intimate high quality spa experience. She loved how rough she could be on he would still like it.

"Holy Cow! She's his girlfriend?" The minotaur asked. Zoe nodded before he laughed nervously when Sasha gave him a look.

"Got something against me, cowboy?"

"No...he's just got a great taste in women"

Zoe laughed at him before she nudged him. "You're on thin ice mister"

"I'm just teasing you, I know it's shocking to see a shewolf as blessed as I am, but I'm just going to take it as a compliment that I shocked a minotaur" Sasha muttered.

"Yea, I'm shocked alright" he said as he sighed heavily. "Fuck my life..." he muttered to himself.

Toby sighed. "Well, I'm going to head up" he muttered.

Sasha sighed tracing his chest plate. "I'm going to give you one hell of a hero's welcome. I mean it too...I want you alive when my pups are born" she repeated herself.

"Um, I will..." He muttered before he looked at the others. "You guys coming?" he said.

They all nodded before Bernie spoke up. "Alright! Let's get a move on men!" he shouted. The masses started to head off into the portal, and Toby started to rub Sasha's back tenderly.

Sasha cooed. "Toby?" she asked.

"Yea?"

"Your dad says to kick Peter's ass!" she said.

Toby chuckled. "Oh yea? Are you hiding anything else from me" he asked.

Sasha put a hand over her belly and giggled. "Nothing at the moment...I'll be waiting for you" she said. He went silent, and she looked up at him starting to tear up. "Don't keep us waiting for long" she said.

Toby smiled and waved at her. "Don't worry...I won't" he said as he pushed the button to the elevator. There was a beep, and the doors opened. Toby let go of Sasha and took her into the elevator along with his group. The doors shut, Sasha resumed her embrace. "You are not going to die...I know you won't" She said.

"I hope so...I'm not an optimist" he said.

"He'll come back" Zoe blurted out.

"I'm in the same boat as Toby" Terry chimed in.

"Me too" Patches said.

"I'm with Zoe...Toby survived getting a hole in his chest...he survived getting gutted. I survived getting my neck broken..." Olivia said before Toby growled.

"Okay! I get it! But just remember that we can't regrow our heads. One head shot and it's all over. Also, just remember that you'll die if you have no energy to heal"

"Head shots or wear them down...got it!"

"I doubt it" He muttered before he looked towards the new faces. "Okay, and New guys, don't die on us before we get to know you" he said before Zoe elbowed him.

"Just kick ass! You're going to do great!" she said before she grumbled to herself. "Really dude? I've scouted these guys. Having a harpy on the team can work out great"

"Have you seen what happened to the helicopters? She'll be a sitting duck up in the air like that!" Toby muttered before Casey cleared her throat.

"I can manage! I might not be part owl, but I have you guys be the eyes on the back of my head. That's why we got radio right?" Casey asked.

"Like you can dodge everything! You're limited to things that we can see...what if you get hit by a dazzler? Then what?"

"You're such an asshole, Toby" Zoe muttered.

"At least you know he cares about you all" Sasha added.

"He still doesn't need to be an ass"

"He just speaks his mind. I like that. It's a waste of my time listening to bullshit" Terence said.

"Same here" Terry added.

The elevator beeped and the doors opened with a clunk. Toby stroked Sasha's chin and smiled. "I'll come back" he said.

Sasha kissed Toby's jawline, and she put his mask over his face. "Go get'em, big bad!" She said slapping his shoulder buttocks.

He smirked. "Root for me, okay hun?" he asked.

She giggled. "Of course silly" she said as everyone stared at them from outside.

Toby pushed the button to keep the door from closing, and he walked out. "Auf Wiedersehen!" he said before he ran off.

"Auf Wiedersehen, big bad!" She said watching him jump a fence and ran through the Zoo. The animals watched him zip by and most were spooked. He stopped in the wolf exhibit, and the pack looked at him gratefully.

"What's going on? Everything has been so quiet" The alpha whimpered.

Toby sighed and lifted his mask. "There's a war going on..." he said. He looked at the pups and frowned. "Hide your pups...I don't know how bad this is going to get, but I know there's a chance there will be a scuffle or a few around here. I don't want your pups to be hit by a stray bullet" he said.

The Alpha female and the juveniles rounded up the pups and guided them into the burrow. The alpha wolf looked at Toby and wagged his tail. "You've gotten bigger..." he said.

Zoe tapped his shoulder. "Hey, we gotta keep going!"

"I'll chat with you later, but if you want to know...I just became the alpha" he said as another helicopter zoomed overhead. Toby put his mask back on and ruffled the top of Alpha wolf's head. He ran off jumping into the elk exhibit, and the wolves howled.

"GO, TOBY!!" The wolves cheered on as he jumped the fence that leads to the woods. Two soldiers in camouflage metallic body suits came out and pulled their guns out. Their lasers both focused over Toby's heart and head.

"Don't move! This is a restricted area! No one goes in!" One yelled.

"Hands up where I can see them!" the other yelled.

Toby growled before he held his hands up. "Okay you got me" he said.

The two soldiers heard a noise off to the side and looked down. "EMP Gre..." they shouted before their suits short circuited. The two soldiers fell forward as their suit's seized. Terence jumped from a tree and pulled out his triage tags. His tan furred slender arms reached out from the cloak as he marked the two as Black.

Toby looked at him confused. "They aren't dead" he said.

Terence looked up at him and put his hand up to his face. "It appears to me that rigormortis has set in" he said before he knocked onto their helmets.

"Thanks"

"Hey, Zoe threw the grenade, I'm just..." Then they heard more gunshots and a ping come from off Terence's chest plate. "Fuck man! I hate being shot at!"

They looked up and an unarmored soldier appeared. Toby picked up a thick stick that was the diameter of a human leg, and he chucked it at the soldier. The soldier turned to run, which the stick him in the arm and shattered it with a loud horrific crunch. Zoe swooped in to steal the soldier's gun, and stuck a yellow sticker on the man. Toby assumed it was the stick that broke and ran off leaving the guy to scream in agony.

Zoe forced the dazzlers free from the frozen suits, and she tossed them to Van and Olivia. "These will work on unmasked werewolves and soldiers. It's supposed to blind them temporarily, either knock 'em out or run away, got it!? Don't be sticking around for them to get help!" she shouted.

Terence pulled the radio from the soldier's hip. "You better tell your men to stop shooting at the cloaked werewolves. You wouldn't want to make new enemies now would you?" he asked putting the radio in the man's unbroken hand.

Meanwhile, Toby heard another gunshot and this time he felt some hit his shoulder. This feeling was more like a tap instead of stinging like when you were shot by a paint ball. The chain mail did its job. Toby growled. "Where the fuck are these people coming from?! Stupid Ninja tactics" Toby yelled.

"R2! Hold your fire! The cloaked ones are allies" a voice erupted from their radios. Terry and Patches met up with him and pushed Toby ahead.

They ran off and jumped a divided highway before he rushed through a neighborhood. He got to a clearing on a mountain 1,070 feet in elevation with a 440 feet communication tower, which it overlooked the city. He jumped a fence, and he started to climb up the ladder to the top of the tower. He looked around the lands he had dominion over. Gunshots, Explosions, Snarls, Growls, and Screams of terror and pain echoed from the city; Helicopters, Jets, Tiltrotors and Rockets flew above the city; there were many areas with thick columns of black smoke rose into the sky; and a deathly morbid scent of blood, burning flesh, jet fuel, and gunpowder hit his nose. "Oh my god..." he said feeling sick, and he fell backwards against the grate.

He reached up and pushed a button. "It doesn't look good up here" he said.

"I know" Terry said over the transmitter.

"We need to get the Fires extinguished and evacuate people. I can see some on top some of the towers at SoWa" he said.

"Look at all of the buildings...they blitzed the city. No one had a chance to escape"

"Hey, Can someone hotwire a boat and evacuate those people up river" Someone said over the transmitter.

"We got the Fires under control!" another said over the transmitter.

"The military and First Responders are aware of us...I've got some squads assisting them!" Scott said over the transmitter.

"Do they know where Ian went?" Toby asked.

"Negative...no one has been able to locate Ian" Scott said over the transmitter.

"I can't see much of the city with all this smoke, and I'm afraid I'm going to get shot at!" he said.

"Then get down and we'll try some other vantage points!" Terry said over the transmitter.

Toby began to climb down the tower and there was an explosion near them. The tower vibrated and swayed as Toby came down. "Oh shit!" he yelled descending faster.

He jumped the rest of the way down, and Terry a patted him on the back.

Toby looked off to the side and saw Zoe behind the water tower looking out at the city. He walked up to her, and he touched her shoulder. "Did you think it was going to be like this?" he asked.

She looked back at him. "No...I didn't. Did you?"

"No, but I don't see a mushroom cloud yet"

"Let's keep it that way"