Make Hell Great Again
Now that the members of the grand council had agreed upon further heavenly upgrades, they turned to other spiritual matters.
"Brothers and sisters," greeted Castiel, "We have agreed to Zachariah's insistence on committing to all initiatives we can commit to in order to resist the Lesser Darkness. What I am about to say may be preposterous, but we will need to reconfigure the ranks of Hell ourselves, in addition to working with demonkind again."
The surrounding angels looked at the tall man in a simple trench coat much more intently.
"Translation: let's make Hell great again?" Metatron ridiculed the proposal, "In case you forgot, demonkind's got weapons that can kill us! Also, now that none other than God himself has cut the flow of souls to Hell, what makes you think they'll work with us?"
"In case you yourself forgot, Metatron," the Valiant one shot back, "I have quite the working relationship with Crowley."
"During the time I borrowed the monster souls of Purgatory," he reminisced, "I made a new celestial deal with him. I let him remain King of Hell, but informed him that I controlled the flow of souls between Heaven and Hell, and that his realm was being downsized. He accepted my ultimatum."
As Castiel recalled those events, he gave more thought to the reconfiguration he put forward earlier.
"The next time I see him again," he stated, "I alone will be more powerful than when I imposed that near-fateful deal upon him. I will descend into Hell, appear before him seated on his throne, tell him of all the changes to celestial existence, and then offer him the ultimate deal, one he cannot refuse."
"Still, shouldn't you have backup?" Anna popped the question, "If we were to agree to your proposal, there are lots of Supernal Men, Cherubs of the first class, Children of the Strong Ones, and even Strong Ones who could be assigned to back you up."
"Indeed," agreed the tall man in a simple trench coat, "but what I am putting forward here are a weapons buyback program and a weapons inspection program, not an invasion. We will take or take back every angel-killing weapon."
"And what reconfiguring will they get in exchange?" wondered Hannah, recollecting his earlier statement.
"A little bit of Father Max Thompson here," euphemized the Valiant One, "and a little bit of Lucifer there."