CHAPTER II:
Malthael flew towards the Pendulant Engram with extraordinary speed. Out of his six siblings, he was the fastest.
He saw the Engram in the distance. When he got closer, he could see that it was a sculpture made of pure-white silver and gold. The sculpture was made of four triangle shaped towers coming out of the ground into the sky (they measured a total of 120 floors high). The four towers were held together by three enormous circles. One was at the base (The largest of the three); the second was located near the middle, and the final one located near the top (the smallest of the three).
The sculpture also had several Angelic scriptures carved into the stone. When he was flying around it, Malthael eyed a certain scripture that was engraved into the third tower, right above the third circle, near the bottom, the scripture read: "Whether it be our Light or their Dark, our fellow Angels or our enemy Demons. Whether it be mortal, or immortal, dimensional, or inter-dimensional; We, the Guardians, will continue to defend all that is just, we'll be forever the Balance between Good and Evil."
While Malthael found the scripture somewhat inspirational, he couldn't help but wonder who were these "Guardians of the Balance"? Malthael pushed the question out of his head when he laid eyes on his younger brother.
Landing quickly, the Archangel of Wisdom, swiftly moved to join Redeemer. He was a measurable length of seven to six steps from the other Archangel when he noticed two other beings with him, one on either side.
The being on his right was a robot of some sort. It was white, with details and other secondary armor dark grey. The eyes were green. It wore a belt that consisted of canisters and other gadgets; the belts 'buckle' was a grey skull. Though It's hands were curled into fists, he could see that the machine had four digits (three fingers, one thumb). There were spike on its shoulders and where its knuckles were.
The being on Redeemer's left was a human-like immortal (Immortals who took the form of humans without wings or any other Angel/Demon attributes). The being wore a black bodysuit, with what appeared to be a white V on his chest. He wore a Red Cape/Cloak hybrid. Like the machine, he wore a combat belt with a skull on it. This being wore a mask similar to Redeemer; He had green eyes like the machine, and two white symbols that covered his eyes.
Snapping out of his thoughtful daze, Malthael walked the final few steps until he was two steps apart from Redeemer and the other two.
"Redeemer", Malthael spoke with no emotion.
"Malthael, first one here, as expected", Redeemer then gestured to his companions, "I'd like to introduce two of my closest friends and allies"
Gesturing with his left hand, to the human-like immortal, "This is Al Simmons, otherwise known as Spawn X"
Unnoticeable due his hood, Malthael raised an eyebrow in a questioning way at the name "Spawn".
And almost as if he sensed his brothers' curiosity, Redeemer spoke, "He is of no relation to DarkSpawn, brother", looking at Spawn told Redeemer what to say nest, "We'd say more, but I'd prefer to wait until the other members of the Council are present. So as not to repeat myself"
Gesturing to his right, to the machine, "And this, is Omega Xeta Leader-Ten, or Omega XL-10. Again, I'd prefer to have our siblings here so that I can explain without having to do so repeatedly"
TIME SKIP-TWENTY MINUTES LATER…
With the rest of his siblings gathered at the Engram, Redeemer set to explaining the reason he called them to meet him here.
"Now, I suppose you're wondering why I called you here", seeing the five of them nod, Redeemer continued, "There are two reasons actually, first of them being my comrades here", saying that he gestured to Omega and Spawn.
Imperious took this time to speak, "Why is that one called Spawn? If his of no relation, why would he insist on being called the namesake of those damned bastards?"
Redeemer nodded to Imperious before speaking, "I'm to believe that is what you're all thinking. So we'll try to make this brief and quick", Redeemer looked to Spawn and gestured for him to join him.
"Spawn is in fact a human. Or, he was. To start this story, I must take you take to the day of Divine Blood, the day I faced off against the Lord of Lust, JerichoSpawn. While his soul and body was destroyed his…suit, was not. This led me to discover that the Lords of Darkness were all in fact human, at one point or another. That they are all expendable to a point. The user CAN and WILL die at a moment unknown. But the SUIT, will live on and fine a new mortal, one who is either already consumed by Darkness, are close to it. That said, after the death of the Lord of Lust, I captured his suit, now known as the K7 Leetha, and experimented on it, to see if there was some weakness that could be used, exploited, against the Spawns. But what I discovered was much more, USEFUL, than some weakness. I discovered that I could remove the Darkness that lied inside the K7 Leetha, and replace it with Light."
Redeemer stopped to let that sink in. The five Archangels were both shocked and surprised. Until this point, they merely thought the Spawns were demons who were created to represent the Sins of Darkness. They had no idea that they were actually corrupted mortals, and that the real demons were the very suits they wore. They were also surprised that Redeemer, their younger sibling, was able to remove the Darkness that infected the suit and refill it with Light.
Redeemer continued, "Skip ahead a few hundred years, and I finally let the K7 Leetha out of its cage to find a suitable host. With that said, unlike its original state, where it seeked out souls tainted by Darkness, it would now look for a soul filled with Light. So goes another five years. And I get word that the K7 Leetha has found a suitable host, a human warrior by the name of Al Simmons."
"Take it into your minds, that this all occurred several million years ago. I soon found Al, and got him acquainted with the suit and the new world he was entering, as well as train him to the best of my ability. We became one helluva duo, the two of us. And for several hundred years it was just the two of us, until Omega came into the picture."
With that said, Spawn took a step back and Omega took his place next to Redeemer.
"Omega's story is fairly straightforward. I built him with the help of Spawn and another Angel, Gabriel. He has a core of Golden Light, which powers him. He's also sentient, fully-aware and capable of making his own decisions. I built him after that long campaign in Sanctuary, when we discovered that demons were using new weapons such as blasters, cannons, and other projectile armaments. While we did in fact construct these types of weapons on our own, I still felt that we were a little late to the party, so to speak. I felt that we needed a…edge. So I began to construct Omega, or as called him before, the LightBot. I built him to be able to house and use several weapons, including blasters, cannons, missiles, and other weapons of heavy damage."
Redeemer, again, paused to allow that piece of info to sink in. The Archangels were amazed at this. This machine was a walking army, for the Light no less!
"When we activated him, we had to train him to use his weapons, and how to interact with both mortals and immortals. And, thanks to his personality matrix, he was able to go through all of this with an actual personality and emotions that he knew how to control. After his training was completed, I thought it a good idea to add him to the small team Spawn and I had created."
"Since that moment exactly…four million years ago, we've been fighting Demons and protect the innocent, as well as the ways of the Light. The three of us, together, make a devastating team that would, does, and will, continue to make the Forces of Darkness quake in their boots."
The Archangels noticed that when together, the three warriors did indeed send of an aura of victory and intimidation to all who opposed.
Tyrael was the first to break the silence, "I look forward to the day when we can fight alongside, brother. Your team and ours"
"As do I", Imperious stated boldly.
"Count the three of us in as well", Auriel said, with Itherael and Malthael nodding behind her.
Redeemer smiled beneath his mask at his older siblings, thankful that they approved of his comrades. Turning to his friends, Omega and Spawn nodded to him to continue with the second point that needed to be spoken of, quickly.
"Now, on to the second point, I believe…I have found the reason, or at least I THINK I have, to why Demons attacked this city."
That piqued everyone's curiosity. They were all wondering why the Demons attacked this city. Some many innocent people were slaughtered; they owed it to them to find the answer; so that their deaths may not be in vain.
Instead of Redeemer speaking the reason, he simply walked over to one of the pillars that jutted out of the ground. He pressed two symbols that were on the top: one appeared to be circle with a cross through it (funny thing though, the symbol looked a lot like Redeemer's mask), and what looked like a shield with a sword through it.
After that, he moved his hand down to the left, and lightly moved it over a scripture; a scripture so strange and old, which not even the Archangel of Wisdom, could decipher it. With that done, Redeemer moved his hand back to the top of the pillar, till it hovered over a cross-like symbol.
Pressing it caused the cross, the two symbols, and the scripture to glow blue, and activate a hidden door to make its appearance.
In the center of the bottom floor of the Engram, a.k.a. the Decoign, a round, circle shaped building rose from it. It was white, as if it was made of ivory, and contained many more scriptures carved into its sides, similar to the one Redeemer pressed on the pillar.
A pair of gold doors slid open, like an elevator, to reveal…an elevator of all things.
"We discovered it after you all separated to scour the city", Omega spoke bluntly; breaking the five Archangels out of the trance they were currently in.
Redeemer nodded to the robot before looking to the still flabbergasted celestial beings, "I closed it, and that was around the time I contacted the five of you to meet me here"
After a few moments of silence, Itherael finally spoke, "So…what do the three of you have in mind?"
Spawn decided to speak up this time, "We're going to explore it, but we're going to need some back-up…"
They didn't even need to think about it; all they did was look to Itherael, who nodded to them and turned to look back at the three warriors, "Count us in"
They all got into the elevator, which seemed big enough to house twenty people. With only five buttons on the control pad, Redeemer pressed the lowest one.
As the doors were closing, the Archangel of Fate decided now was a good moment for a quick joke and spoke, "Anyone got any last words? Now might be a good time"
SMACK!
His question was answered by a slap to the back of the head.
"OW! What the F-"
"Ha-ha! Well said Malthael!"