BASED ON ERIC KRIPKE'S "SUPERNATURAL". ALL COPYRIGHTED CHARACTERS AND STORYLINES BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS.

S02E16: FALL FROM GRACE

On one of the floors of the Command Section, Ellen sees Adriel walking to an unknown destination. With a fast pace, she approaches him and asks: "Adriel, did Castiel talk to you lately?"

"No! Why're you asking?"

"Because he's not answering me. Weren't we supposed to go at the warehouse and stop whatever Jenkins is planning?"

"Oh yeah" he answers as if he completely forgot about it. "Sorry! I can't go. I'm a little tied up on this new office dilemma that occurred recently."

"What's going on?"

"Well, apparently the angels from the 134th floor started pointing fingers at each other, suspecting rebellion. I'm on my way there to calm the waters down before something worse comes out of it."

"OK" Ellen says resigned as she watches him enter the elevator. "I'll see if I can get the others to help me."

As the lift's doors close, Adriel gives a nod of understanding, regretting being unable to help.

"Sorry Ellen" Selaphiel telepathically transmits to his co-worker. "Raphael and I are way in over our heads down here. This last earthquake in Indonesia made several buildings collapse; lots of people are caught beneath the rubble. We're trying to save them all but these damn reporters are making our job really hard. We can't make it. Sorry!"

"That's okay Selaphiel" she replies as she closes the telepathic link. Worried, she again tries to contact Castiel but again, she receives no response. "Why aren't you answering me?" she whispers to herself.

"Who are you talking to honey?" Noria inquires, standing behind her.

"Nobody. I can't reach Castiel."

"He must be on Earth."

"Yeah but we were supposed to go to the warehouse. He went to Salt Lake City garrison to organize an assault. I haven't heard from him since."

"Tell you what? Why don't you and I go together there and do what must be done. I'm sure Castiel will intervene with back up at the right time."

"It's too risky. We could be walking into a trap" Ellen shows concern.

"Yeah but do we really have a choice?"

"You're right" she answers after a few seconds. "Let's go."

Ellen and Noria appear right inside the warehouse, in a large hall. Boxes and crates are scattered everywhere and no illumination source can be seen. The only light comes from the balcony in front of them. Something is definitely going in the room behind it. What is strange is that they sense massive amounts of angelic grace everywhere. Confirming that to each other, they prepare for anything as they slowly approach the light.

"Wait" Noria suddenly says as men come out of the crates and start shooting at them with angel killing guns. Noria uses her telekinesis to stop the small projectiles before waving her hand and smashing all of the shooters into the walls. "The deal with these guns is getting pretty old" she confesses to Ellen.

From the darkness of the hall walks out Castiel. The two are surprised at his sight, realizing where all the grace was coming from. "Ellen, Noria" he says with an unemotional tone "I've got it covered here. Go back to heaven and wait for my return!"

"Castiel why haven't you answered me? I've been worried sick about you…"

While Ellen speaks with Cas, Noria discovers that the general's grace is not the only one in the hall. Lifting two fingers, she instantly illuminates the hall. The bright light reveals Rorovel and Vasaiel standing on the balcony. Vasaiel has his hand pointed to Castiel. Ellen looks at the image with the same shock as the other heaven board member.

"Ellen wait" she stops her from getting near their general. "Something's wrong!"

"Damn it" Cas roars "I told you to leave now. Don't make me order you!"

Ellen doesn't recognize his voice anymore. It's different, colder and raw. She can feel something has changed to the worse. "Ellen, there's something wrong with him" Noria cries out for her.

Rorovel looks back into the room, which is the same one filled with computers, operated by one individual. The same screen that displayed the 30 minutes timer is now showing 4 minutes left. "Can't you make this go faster" the rebel angel asks the man at the keyboard who answers that he can't. Noria feels his soul and reads his mind, finding out about the countdown. "Ellen, there's a countdown in that room and there are 4 more minutes left. Whatever Jenkins is up to will happen when that timer reaches zero. We have to stop it!"

Ellen however is focusing on Castiel. "Castiel, you know we have to stop Jenkins. Why are you sending us away? What happened to you?" She approaches him and lays a hand on his cheek. Remembering how much he loves her, the general starts bending, as if struggling to regain control over his body.

"Strange" Vasaiel admits. "The spell is fading. Ar'eviscera!" At the rebel's enochian command, Castiel straightens up and displays the same expression as before. "I told you to leave" he says. "Now you've seen too much … I can't let you walk away!"

Ellen, realizing that Cas is under the two rebels' influence, steps back and determinately speaks: "Castiel, we will stop that countdown. Even if we have to get through you!"

2 more minutes left. Ellen and Noria adopt fighting stance, ready to take on their general. They look into each other's eyes, knowing that this battle will not be easy. Castiel is 10 times stronger than both of them and with his angel sword, the powerful katana, they don't stand a chance against him.

The two attack at once. Because of being more experienced in hand to hand combat than Cas, Ellen manages to deliver several hits. However, they barely even move Cas as he smashes the walls with the two angel women. They quickly get up and try again. Effortless as he is immune to every attack they throw at him. He super uppercuts Noria, knocking her unconscious before grabbing Ellen and choking her in air.

Countdown reaches 0. A large part of the warehouse roof opens as a rocket propelled device flies out of the structure and disappears into the vastness of the sky, heading towards earth's orbit. "It's done" the human informs Rorovel and Vasaiel as they watch Castiel strangulating Ellen up to the point of killing her.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Michael's vessel materializes in front of Cas and starts swinging, forcing him to let go of Ellen. She hits the ground hard, trying to regain her breath. Meanwhile Cas and Michael throw themselves into a fierce battle. The archangel is heavily superior in every way, succeeding to dodge all of the general's fists and punching him every time. The rebel angels can't believe their eyes, witnessing their former leader.

Unable to continue the fight, Cas bites his lower lip in frustration and takes out his katana. "No" Ellen powerlessly says as Michael realizes the danger. Before Cas can unsheathe his blade, Michael disappears and reappears behind his enemy, hitting him in the back. He performs the same action again, very fast, leaving the general no time to recover. Again and again, the archangel uses this strategy until he grabs the sword from Castiel's hand and kicks him away.

Annoyed, exhausted, with blood dripping down from his nose, mouth and forehead, and with nothing left to do, Cas gathers energy to throw a light attack. Michael prevents him by saying 3 words in enochian: "Envira angelum remeyra", the counter spell. The general of the Host screams in agony, releasing a bright light out of his body. Afterwards, he falls down.

Michael turns his look to the two fallen angels. "We have to get out of here" Rorovel states as they try to teleport away. However, Michael grabs them by their collar in a split of a second: "Where do you two think you're going?" The rebels try escaping his grasp but the archangel knocks them out with a single punch. Dropping their vessel's bodies, Michael witnesses the computers. Their hard drives have all been erased by some sort of virus as the man who operated them left. Whatever went on here wasn't good.