Celestial Foot Soldiers
Castiel's words continued to astonish his audience. Many members of the grand council felt the urge to chuckle, for their celestial brother had drawn upon human pop culture. Zachariah was one such member.
"Cas," the Fiery One congratulated him, "even I'll admit that was a very, very human one-liner you had there! You got me chuckling there. In fact, we have a lot more than just one thing that's bigger than what Uriel and Co. have!"
The former employee of the month for too long to count gathered himself emotionally, then shifted a more serious focus towards the two feminine celestial colleagues who favoured releasing the sealed angelic hybrids.
"As for you two," he said bluntly, "have you given any thought to the possibility of the Lesser Darkness trying to co-opt them? She's got no grunts to call entirely her own!"
Before continuing, the one-time subordinate of Michael remembered one key point: that the new power rising had originally replaced Death and taken over command of all Reapers in existence.
"I mean," he continued, "I'm pretty sure she, for all her power, can't use the deathly celestials she's now lording over to go way beyond their mandate and conquer or destroy stuff just because she wants them to."
The tall man in a simple trench coat felt the urge to interject again, if only to say something more serious.
"Brothers and sisters," he addressed his immediate audience, "she does have a most dark command over six Dark Archangels and four Dark Arch-Nephilim, whom she herself created."
Unease settled into the other grand council officials upon hearing those words. When both he and Metatron briefed them on what had to be resisted, they relayed the existence of these dark beings as part of that. The most powerful Dark Archangel was Michael's equal, and could even remove Holy Fire. The two strongest Dark Arch-Nephilim could each do far more terrifying things.
"Which only serves my argument," Zachariah diverted his audience's attention back towards him, "She'll need celestial foot soldiers! She can't make them overnight!"
The next moment, those deliberating felt a great trembling of the council chamber, as well as that of the Commonwealth of Heaven at large. The celestial alerts that sounded all over the place were no ordinary alerts, but rather defense sirens.
"Really?" Anna shot the self-assured Fiery One a look. Others followed suit.