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“ Two salty hunters, one half-angel kid, and a dude that just came back from the dead, again. Team Free Will 2.0. ”

Team Free Will is a nickname made up by Dean after time traveling back from 1978 to 2010.

History[]

At the time, the team consisted only of "one ex-blood junkie, one drop-out with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose", which were Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, and Castiel, respectively.

The nicknames were based on Sam's former demon blood addiction, Dean's intentional lack of education, and Castiel's state of unconsciousness as a result of time traveling.

Dean did not use the name of this team for a number of years, though he continued to fight for free will and object any outside force that tried to control him or his teammates.

In 2017, when Castiel began to doubt his own importance, Dean reminded him that he, Sam and Dean were members of Team Free Will.

After Castiel's resurrection, Dean declared Team Free Will 2.0 to be "two salty hunters, one half-angel kid and a dude who just came back from the dead, again." Following the rescue of Mary Winchester and Jack from Apocalypse World, Team Free Will 2.0 are seen hunting werewolves together, indicating that they became a full-time hunting team following their reunion. Months later, they worked together on a regular gorgon hunt with the help of Rowena MacLeod.

However, Team Free Will 2.0 is broken when Jack accidentally kills Mary Winchester in his soulless state. Jack becomes hunted by the Winchesters, particularly Dean, for his actions and the threat he poses. After Dean refuses to kill Jack, Team Free Will 2.0 stands up to God himself, only to have God kill Jack and unleash chaos upon the world in retaliation for their defiance. The remaining members, with the help of Rowena MacLeod, Arthur Ketch and the demon Belphegor, manage to stop God's plan, but the remainder of the team is broken when Castiel chooses to leave due to Dean's anger towards him and inability to forgive Castiel. The remaining members are later reunited after Dean makes amends with Castiel during a mission to Purgatory to get a Leviathan Blossom to trap God, having learned the spell from the original team's former enemy Michael.

Team Free Will 2.0 is eventually reunited completely after Jack is resurrected by Billie with a plan that will allow Jack to become strong enough to kill God. The team later undertakes a quest from Billie that results in the restoration of Jack's soul by the Garden of Eden, fully restoring the conscience he lost when Jack sacrificed his soul to kill the alternate Michael. Later on, they all learn that Billie's plan for Jack is to be turned into a bomb that will be powerful enough to destroy both God and The Darkness but will mean that Jack will die as well. This divides and splits the team with Dean and Jack being for the plan while Sam and Castiel are against it. When it is time for the plan to go down, Sam discovers that Billie was using them to try and take power for herself after Chuck and Amara are gone. However, the entire thing had been orchestrated by Chuck to be his true ending for the story. Dean became so desperate for revenge and blinded by his anger that he nearly shot and killed Sam to get a soon to be detonating Jack to the two cosmic beings. Sam was able to talk Dean down and thus stopped Chuck from having his ending.

After absorbing his sister, God has decided that he is done with all of them and has begun killing everyone on the planet. Dean and Castiel hunt down Billie, resulting in Castiel's death when he sacrifices himself to summon the Shadow to Earth by admitting his love for Dean and fulfilling his deal with the being. The Shadow absorbs both Castiel and Billie, leaving Dean, Sam and Jack as the only surviving members of Team Free Will. The three are left to face off against God with Jack's powers gone, most of their allies wiped from existence and Michael not answering their prayers for help.

Alone on an otherwise empty Earth, the Winchesters learn that God intends to make them suffer by leaving them to deal with their failure to save anyone by refusing to give in to him and he goes so far as to reject their offer to give Chuck the ending that he wants with them killing each other in exchange for bringing everyone else back. Jack soon senses something and leads the Winchesters to Michael who reveals that Adam was killed when God erased humanity from existence. Michael agrees to help stop God, but discovers that even he can't open Chuck's Death Book. Shortly after, they are joined by a resurrected Lucifer who claims that the Shadow brought him back to help them stop God. Though reluctant to work with their old enemy, the Winchesters are persuaded when Lucifer kills a Reaper named Betty and turns her into the new Death in order to read the book. However, once it's open, Lucifer kills Betty, having actually been resurrected by God in order to get the book and taunting Michael that he's now God's Favorite instead of Michael. Michael ultimately kills Lucifer with an archangel blade supplied to him by Sam.

Realizing that Michael will do anything to become God's Favorite again, Dean feeds him a story about using the Book of the Damned to translate Chuck's Death Book while Sam supposedly finds a spell in the book capable of killing God. As planned, Michael feeds the information to Chuck who obliterates the archangel for his earlier betrayal. Chuck physically beats Sam and Dean viciously, especially when they both keep getting back up. However, they reveal that this is all part of their plan and Jack, now immune to Chuck's attempts to smite him, drains Chuck of all of his powers and heals the Winchesters. Sam and Dean explain that the effort to turn Jack into a cosmic bomb also turned him into a kind of power vacuum that has been sucking up energy all over the place, including from the fight between the two archangels and their respective destructions. Coupled with the God power released by Chuck's attack on the Winchesters, it made Jack unstoppable. With God drained of his power and mortal, the survivors of Team Free Will 2.0 decide to leave him behind to live out a mortal life, grow old, get sick, die and be forgotten rather than kill him.

In the aftermath of God's defeat, Jack, now the new God and existing in harmony with the Darkness, reverses Chuck's erasure of every living thing on Earth, restoring the planet to a state of as if nothing had ever happened in the first place. Jack then chooses to depart, stating that he is going to remain hands-off in affairs, feeling that Chuck's mistake was writing himself into the story but would still be around in all that existed. Sam and Dean are left finally truly free of God's influence and able to make their own future.

Almost five years later, Dean dies permanently during a vampire hunt, but Sam goes on to live a long life and die of old age. Both Winchesters go to Heaven where Bobby Singer reveals that after taking over, Jack reshaped Heaven by tearing down the walls separating the souls and ending the loops of happy memories that they spend forever in. Bobby also indicates that Jack resurrected Castiel as Bobby states that Castiel helped Jack to reshape Heaven.

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Team Free Will 2.0 (Seasons 13-15)[]

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Original Team Free Will (Seasons 5-12)[]

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