The Akrida War is a war between the forces of the Monster Club Universe and the Akrida, a race of monsters created by God to finish what he started if he were to be defeated in the War for Creation.
Background[]
During the War for Creation, God created a race of monsters called the Akrida as a failsafe in case of his defeat at the hands of Team Free Will 2.0.[1] God was eventually defeated and his powers were stripped from him with Jack Kline becoming the new God and restoring everything that God had destroyed,[2] including the Multiverse.[1]
In the Monster Club Universe, in the 17th century, hunter Joan Hopkins went insane and consumed monster essences, becoming convinced that humanity was the problem and needed to be destroyed. Unable to kill Joan who couldn't be harmed by anything of that Earth, hunters and the Men of Letters teamed up together to banish Joan from their world. As a result, Joan met the Akrida, becoming their queen and leading their efforts to destroy other worlds.[1] Under Joan's leadership, the Akrida invade her world several times over the centuries, but they are always defeated by the Men of Letters who use the Ostium to banish the Akrida back to their own universe each time. Finally, following an invasion in 1957 in which the Akrida were defeated with severe causalities, Joan and a number of Akrida managed to remain in her universe, albeit weakened and unable to accomplish their goals.[3] Furious at being defeated time after time, Joan used every ounce of power that she had left to wipe out the Men of Letters, ending their threat to her plans.[1]
Following his death at the hands of vampires, Dean Winchester went to Heaven where he began driving through it while waiting for his brother Sam to join him.[4] During his journey, Dean went on a detour through the Multiverse, looking for a world where his family got a chance at a happy ending. In the process, Dean discovered the existence of the Akrida and the threat that they posed to all universes. Unwilling to let his own world where Sam was still living be destroyed, Dean decided to take action against Jack's rule against interference to ensure that the Akrida were stopped.[1]
Progression[]
The Akrida Return[]
By late March 1972, the Akrida were preparing for another invasion, searching for where their queen was hiding[5] and marshalling under a leader who took Lawrence, Kansas DJ Rockin' Roxy as a vessel.[6] Samuel Campbell became aware of the Akrida's return from his hunting contacts[7] and began searching for the Ostium with the help of Ada Monroe as it was the only thing that could stop the Akrida.[8] Two demons also became aware of the Akrida threat and struck a deal with the Akrida Leader to get her the Ostium in exchange for their own safety.[6] In order to restore Joan Hopkins' strength, their leader began using Roxy's radio tower to send a signal to draw in monsters, particularly rare ones, for the Akrida to extract the essence from.[9][6][10]
Upon John Winchester's return from the Vietnam War, Dean visited his father in a bus station and gave him a letter from John's father Henry Winchester, one of the Men of Letters, before vanishing in order to nudge things along. While Dean stayed behind to keep an eye on things, Bobby Singer left to find help to stop the Akrida.[1]
Finding the Ostium[]
Samuel eventually managed to track the Ostium down in a Men of Letters crypt in New Orleans. However, he was chased off and disappeared before he could retrieve the box.
Upon John's return to Lawrence, his father's letter led him to the Men of Letters Clubhouse where he was accosted by the demon Slick before Mary exorcised him, having been sent to retrieve information on the Ostium by her father. Using the key included with the letter, the two were able to enter the Clubhouse where John learned of his father's status as one of the Men of Letters and Mary found the diagram that she was looking for. However, Slick's partner possessed Ada Monroe in order to find the Ostium.
Discovering Ada's disappearance, John and Mary teamed up with Carlos Cervantez and Latika Dar to find Samuel and the Ostium. After once again exorcising Slick, the group tracked Samuel to the New Orleans crypt where John and Mary found the Ostium and were attacked by a Loup-Garou watchdog and the demon possessing Ada attacked Lata and Carlos. As John killed the monster, Lata used the Ostium to banish the demon and save Ada. However, the group found no sign of Samuel himself.
Returning to the Clubhouse, Ada explained the significance of the Ostium and the threat that the Akrida posed. With Samuel having found evidence of a Men of Letters office in Savannah, Georgia with information on the Akrida and their previous invasions, the Monster Club decided to check it out for themselves so as to stop the impending invasion.[8] However, they discovered that Samuel had already been there and cleaned out all of the information on the Akrida, leaving only a few zombie guards that the hunters had to dispatch. In the process, the Monster Club discovered that the Ostium was no longer working.[6]
Ada later used a potion to access the echoes of the demon that had possessed her in search of information on its partner.[9] With the help of Carlos, Ada captured and interrogated Slick who eventually revealed his deal with the Akrida Leader and that she was possessing some woman. However, he didn't know anything about who the woman was or how the Ostium worked and Ada magically trapped him inside of a plant.[6]
Arrival of the Rare Monsters[]
Drawn by the Akrida Leader's signal, rare monsters such as La Tunda and Bori Baba began showing up in Lawrence and the surrounding area and the Akrida targeted them for their essences to help restore their queen's power. Both La Tunda and Bori Baba were killed by the Monster Club, but it simply gave the Akrida Leader the chance to collect their essences unimpeded.[9][6][10][5]
During this time, the Celibatarian god of war Mars Neto began searching for soldiers who would be perfect to fight in the war with the Akrida. Meeting John Winchester, Neto became convinced that he was perfect to fight the Akrida as he was both a hunter and a soldier. To this end, Neto healed all of John's war wounds and scars before John killed him, but he told John with his last words that he was ready to fight the Akrida.[11]
Having been mind controlled by the Akrida to build their radio tower, several people died of the effects of the Akrida's stingers, drawing the Monster Club's attention. At first, this was mistaken for being the work of Ada's half-djinn son Tony Monroe, but Tony revealed that the Akrida were actually responsible. An Akrida managed to get Mary with its stingers, but John saved her with Tony's help. By tracing the project that the Akrida puppets were working on, the Monster Club identified Rockin' Roxy as their leader[10] and tracked down the location of the radio tower.[12]
The Akrida Make Their Move[]
With her son's help, Ada found another Men of Letters office with more information on the Akrida written by Henry Winchester which the Monster Club worked on deciphering with Millie Winchester's help. However, by this time, the Akrida had gathered sufficient power to begin making their move, capturing Samuel and abandoning their radio tower by the time that John and Mary reached it. Confronting the two, the Akrida Leader revealed that nothing of this Earth could harm the Akrida and she offered a trade: Samuel for the Ostium.
From Henry's notes, the Monster Club discovered that the Akrida were all linked to the Akrida Queen and they couldn't survive without her. Needing to find a way to get the Ostium working again, the group called upon Henry's ghost who directed them to a piece of rock from the Akrida's universe which would recharge the box. Tracking down Samuel using magic, John and Mary banished the Akrida Leader using the Ostium, only to discover that she was not the Akrida Queen. The two were cornered and nearly killed by several more Akrida before an injured Samuel managed to banish them with the Ostium, breaking the Ostium in the process as a consequence.
By the time that the Monster Club banished their leader, the Akrida had managed to locate their queen's underground hiding place. Having collected the monster essences that they needed, the Akrida delivered them to the queen to restore her strength so that she could bring the rest of their species to destroy the universe.[5] The Akrida subsequently went quiet with no signs of them anywhere.[7]
Following Samuel's return, he provided the Monster Club with pictures he'd taken of possible locations of the queen. However, they were light damaged and practically useless, forcing the Monster Club to scope them out again. Samuel departed with Ada to look for magic that could stop the Akrida while John found a picture of the man who had given him Henry's letter amongst Samuel's photographs, although neither he nor Mary recognized Dean. In addition, Millie took the Ostium home with her in an effort to repair it.[7] Subsequent efforts by Lata and Carlos to find the queen at the locations provided by Samuel all proved to be unsuccessful, but with the help of Rockin' Roxy's memories of her possession by the Akrida Leader, they eventually found the queen.[3]
During this time, the Akrida began investigating the Monster Club through their puppet Kyle Reed who got close to John's ex-fiancé, police officer Betty Donelon.[13] Needing information about Dean, the Akrida decided to frame John for Kyle's murder so that they could interrogate him through their mind controlled puppets and then arrange his death in an accident. While successful in framing John, the Akrida were unable to learn anything from him about Dean. Instead, John deduced that the Akrida feared Dean and that he was not of this Earth as nothing of this Earth could harm them. With the help of his friends, mother and Betty, John escaped the Akrida and went on the run until Millie and Betty found a witness to clear his name.[3][14][15]
Ada's search for magic capable of stopping the Akrida eventually led her to meet witch Rowena MacLeod. In exchange for Slick and after testing Ada's magical abilities, Rowena provided Ada with a crystal that could kill the Akrida and their queen, but required the sacrifice of a piece of the user's soul. In addition, Rowena revealed that the Akrida Queen was going to use an alignment of five planets to open her portal, an alignment that Lata discovered had already begun.[15]
The Akrida Invasion[]
Samuel was contacted by Joan Hopkins who identified herself as a fellow hunter who had information on the mystery man that both the hunters and the Akrida were trying to find. Upon meeting John, Mary and Samuel, Joan gave them Dean's Journal and explained that she had thrown both Dean and his car into a portal that would tear them apart. Much to their shock, Joan revealed herself to be the Akrida Queen and explained that she was actually human just like them and a former hunter. Joan offered the Monster Club the chance to join her rather than killing them while also distracting them so that her forces could take over the Men of Letters Clubhouse.
With Joan having revealed that she had had history with Campbell Family, Mary looked through her family's history and found a record of Joan from the 17th century revealing that Joan had gone insane after losing her entire family, consumed monster essences for power and was banished from the world by hunters and the Men of Letters. At the same time, Joan confronted Lata in the Clubhouse and revealed the same thing before burning off Lata's anti-possession tattoo so that she could be possessed by an Akrida. With the Men of Letters having cast a spell that was keeping her from opening her portal, Joan destroyed all of the Aquarian Stars in the Clubhouse to break it and left behind the possessed Lata to try to convince her friends to join Joan's cause. With no other choice, Ada sacrificed the magic that Rowena had given her to kill the possessing Akrida and save her friend.
With Joan poised to open her portal, the Monster Club decided to try using the repaired Ostium in reverse to bring Dean back from where he was banished to by Joan as Dean, being not of this Earth, could harm the Akrida. As the Ostium could only be used in reverse at midnight, John, Carlos and Samuel confronted Joan at the place where she was opening her portal to buy them some time, armed with silver swords as Joan possessed some vulnerability to monster weaknesses, although they couldn't kill her. While Joan fought John, she summoned several more Akrida in human vessels to fight Samuel and Carlos. As Joan fought John, she revealed that she was the one who had killed the Men of Letters in 1957, including John's father.
At midnight, Mary, Millie, Ada and Lata used Dean's Journal with the Ostium, but it only brought back the Impala, leading them to summarize that Dean must be dead. However, as the car itself was from another universe, it could be used to harm Joan and the Akrida. As John continued to battle Joan and the other Akrida overpowered Samuel and Carlos, Mary drove the Impala at Joan. Just before the car hit her, Joan opened her portal behind her. Mary hit Joan with the Impala, killing her, and then passed through Joan's portal. The death of the Akrida Queen caused the rest of the Akrida to perish moments later, freeing their vessels and bringing an end to the war and God's failsafe plan. Although Mary appeared to have been lost to Joan's portal, it suddenly reopened, and the Impala emerged with both Dean and Mary inside.[1]
Aftermath[]
Dean explained that the Impala had protected both him and Mary from harm, although as Dean was already dead, the portal couldn't do any real harm to him. Instead, Dean was trapped in the World Between Worlds until the portal reopened and the Impala came through with Mary. Dean identified himself as a fellow hunter to the Monster Club, but one from another universe who had discovered the Akrida while on a detour through the Multiverse as he drove through Heaven. With the Akrida being both God's failsafe plan and a threat to the safety of his own world and his brother Sam, Dean had broken the rules to nudge things along and stop them.
As Dean explained everything, Bobby Singer returned with Jack Kline who was displeased with Dean's interference against Jack's explicit no interference rules. However, Dean convinced Jack to let it go and Jack agreed to let Dean finish what he had started with his meddling, providing Dean with the Colt. To help guide John and Mary if they chose to continue hunting, Dean gave them his hunter's journal, citing how his father's journal had guided Dean throughout his own life. Aware that Azazel would likely be coming in 1973 to start making deals as the prelude to the Apocalypse, Dean gave Mary the Colt and warned her to use it to kill Azazel if she ever encountered him, giving his parents the chance to avoid their fates in this universe and to stop the Apocalypse from ever being set into motion. Jack then returned Dean, Bobby and the Impala to Heaven.
With the war over, John and Mary set out to figure out their futures together while the rest of the Monster Club continued hunting.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- ↑ Inherit the Earth
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Suspicious Minds
- ↑ Carry On
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Reflections
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 You're Lost Little Girl
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Hang on to Your Life
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pilot
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Teach Your Children Well
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Legend of a Mind
- ↑ Masters of War
- ↑ Art of Dying
- ↑ Cast Your Fate to the Wind
- ↑ You've Got a Friend
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Tears of a Clown