Archangel Michael is briefing a group of warrior angels for a mission to Earth to find the escaped rebel angels. "The Forbidden, that's what we are calling these rebels due to their forbidden acts, are hiding out on Earth. The captured rebels have provided us with three possible locations in New York City where the warehouse they use to hide in is located." He begins the briefing.
The briefing room is a large, airy chamber with white walls and a high ceiling made of glistening marble. A single, wide window is set high in the wall, letting in a soft, natural light. At the center of the room is a long, rectangular table made of polished mahogany. The chairs surrounding the table are upholstered in a deep, navy-blue fabric that complements the dark wood. On the table is a map of the city with three red circles indicating the possible locations of the warehouse where the Forbidden might be hiding. At the head of the table is the Archangel Michael, his wings outstretched, his eyes on the task ahead. Around the table are a dozen warrior angels, their faces determined and their armor gleaming.
Michael continues his briefing, "We will split up into groups of four and tackle all three locations simultaneously. If they really are hiding at one of these locations, we will find them."
After about an hour of going over the details of the mission and assigning a leader for each team, Michael sets the whole mission in motion. The warriors get up and head out making their way outside and through a portal to Earth.
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Jonas, who was sitting at the back of the room listening to the briefing, gets up after everyone else, including Michael, leave the room. He walks over to the map table and checks all three locations. Blaine talked to him about remembering a moment he woke up in an empty concrete room with a metal door. When Klein walked in to talk to him, Blaine could hear sounds of cars, trains, birds, dogs, and people walking around talking. As Jonas looks through the locations, he narrows down the location to one nearby a busy city area where it would be possible to hear all of those things. The other two locations are more remote and the sounds you would hear would be of industrial factories, but no people walking about.
With a better idea of where the Forbidden are hiding, Jonas is determined to get there before the warrior angels. He made a promise to Blaine that we would find Amelia and ensure her safety. If they are hiding her, that's where she would be, possibly in the same room they kept Blaine. He walks out of the briefing room and heads over to the class four guardian angels' armory and equips a sword and armor. He then heads out and goes through a portal that drops him directly behind the warehouse he believes the Forbidden are hiding.
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"We have to do something, they captured everyone, Klein! How are we going to get what we want with just the five of us left?" Marcus, one of the rebels, asks Klein.
They are feeling restless and do not want to just sit here in hiding while their friends are being held by the archangels. "We can't let them win, if we don't do anything now then destroying the temple of the seven would have been for nothing. You said that would get them to listen and start the process of change, but instead we are now in hiding with half of our group already captured." Matthew says.
"We should do something about the female guardian, Blaine betrayed us, how else have they been able to get to us so easily and get most of us?" Lucas mentions, wanting to make Amelia pay for the current situation.
Klein is walking back and forth listening to their concerns and what they want to do. "I understand how you all feel, I mean, for God's sake, we had a good plan, and it has all fallen apart instead of getting the outcome we expected. But we need to think about what to do from here on very carefully. We can't just barge in to rescue our brothers and sisters with just the five of us, they would slaughter as we step foot in headquarters," he says.
"We need to be smart about this and find something we can do to make them listen to us and negotiate the release of our brothers and sisters." He explains.
"But what are we going to do? I mean, it took us a few days to properly plan and set the explosives at the temple of the seven," Marcus asks.
Klein looks at Marcus and nods in understanding, "We'll use the human weapons we collected, they might not hurt angels, but they can surely bring upon mayhem and destruction to structures and objects. We can use rockets and grenades to do damage to any location in heaven," Klein begins with a plan to act.
"We should threaten to destroy the room of the new, by damaging a portion of the library. Upon seeing the damage to the library and our threat to do the same or worse to the room of the new, they should stop pursuing us and agree to talk," Klein explains.
The four angels gasp, eyes wide, "The room of the new? Are you sure Klein? I think that would be going too far. That is the most sacred room in heaven. The place where new souls are created. If we destroy that it will put all of heaven in chaos," Lucas says.
"I have no intention of destroying the room of the new, but they don't need to know that. They just need to believe we would go that far in order to get what we need. Though, if they still don't, I will destroy it. After all, if I can't have the freedom we seek, then I don't care what happens to Heaven in the process." Klein says in a very determined tone. "If you stand with me, get up and start gathering the weapons, let's get this started."
The angels look at each other, unsure of this plan, but they stand in front of Klein and bow, "We are with you Klein." They say in unison.
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Jonas has had no luck in finding Amelia yet, he has checked three rooms with no signs of her. He can hear the rebels talking in one of the rooms, he hears of the actions they want to take to get what they want. He uses the time he has while they continue to discuss to keep looking for Amelia. Eventually he opens a door to an empty room where all he can see in it is a blonde female with a tattered, dirty white robe lying on the ground crying. He can see her back exposed with what he knows to be whip lashes bleeding.
"Oh my God, Amelia." He says running over to her. He grabs her and holds her head up, turning her so she can see him. "It's okay, I'm here, you're safe now."
Amelia opens her swollen eyes, tears soaking her face, "Blaine?" She says in a very weak voice as she sees a blurry figure holding her saying she is safe."
"I'm sorry, I'm not Blaine. It's Jonas, Blaine sent me to find you. We have to get out of here, can you get up?" Jonas says.
Amelia struggles to sit up, "I... I think I can," she says with a raspy voice and coughing.
Sounds of doors slamming open alert Jonas, "We gotta go now," he says in a desperate tone as he realizes the warrior angels are finally here. He knows they will have every exit blocked off. There is only one way out and he needs to do it now before they block that too.
He grabs Amelia and stands up with her in his arms and quickly opens a portal back to heaven. The portal is flickering as if losing power. "We don't have much time!" He says running towards the portal barely getting through it as it collapses.
Moments later, two warrior angels run into the room to find only blood on the ground and a cloud of dust dissipating in the center. "Clear!" They say as they look around the room and run out to the next room. They surround the rebels who attempted to escape splitting up. Klein tried to escape through a portal, but it was blocked off right before he went through.
"We have the Forbidden, I repeat we have the Forbidden. We are on the way back with them now," says the leader of the team through a shell to inform the other teams and the archangels.
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