Journey of the Devil- Chapter 46
Lucifer teleported away from everyone inside of Lux and went back to his suite at the hotel, he needed to look in the book that contained potential allies, he needed to find a Fred to join the team, or essentially someone incredibly gifted with Physics and mathematics with an understanding of chemistry, and if they happened to be a young sexy College student, well then so be it.
With tears in the fabric of reality going on around earth, he needed help, it was a specialty that no one on his had, and he knew that the answer wasn't his flame, not this time, no he needed help and he knew it.
Lucifer started reading the names in the book paying attention to detail, he needed to find the right person, and besides Angel had a Fred, Chloe and that new moron cheater husband of hers had an Ella, Lucifer felt it time to have his own version of a sexy quirky scientist, he was the champion of earth dammit, fair is fair.
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Chloe was at the Lux bar with Maze, Linda, Ella, Dan, Amenadiel, and her daughter Trixie, their loved ones had given them all space to talk and try and process things.
"He barely said anything to us" Chloe quietly said realizing that Lucifer had barely acknowledged any of their existence... except to talk about his perfect abs, it hurt, it hurt a lot.
"Lucifer has a lot on his mind Chloe, he is the champion of the planet" Amenadiel replied feeling left behind himself, Lucifer hadn't spoken to him at all when he was there, treated him just like he wasn't even really there.
"That bastard acted almost as if none of us were even here" Dan angrily said "I mean what about Charlotte, he didn't even ask about her, and he is supposed to be a champion".
"None of us told him about his mother taking control of Charlottes body Daniel, he wasn't being insensitive, he just doesn't know" Linda calmly replied.
"This is what truly being left behind feels like" Maze said, sadness in her words "being left behind physically is one thing, but when someone treats you like you're not even there, like you don't matter to them anymore, that's what being left behind truly is". Maze felt anger bubbling inside of her just thinking about it.
"This is all too much, I mean its the apocalypse out there, and being in the same room with God, Jesus, and Lucifer himself and everyone falling from heaven and" Ella was crying at this poing and Amenadiel was hugging her allowing her to cry on his shirt "It's all just so overwhelming you guys... i'm trying to be strong... but i'm freaking out right now"
Everyone saw the despair coming from the forensic tech, but comfort was difficult to give, truth be told they all felt the same way... hopeless as if they were now on their own.
Azrael had left with Lucifer's team, their loved ones, God and Jesus to go do what Lucifer wanted, it was at this point just them and their loved ones and fact they were hopeless and helpless to do anything, they all had been reduced to the peanut gallery, it was painful to be sure.
How dare Lucifer treat them like this, Chloe thought to herself, to treat them like they were nothing, like they weren't really there, Chloe felt anger and rage swelling inside of her. Sure she may have married Marcus, and maybe none of them had been as close with Lucifer before he left this time to become a fucking superhero, but they all still had cared about him, and he treated them like they were absolutely nothing. Chloe felt the rage, anger and frustration building, their loved ones were kicked out of heaven, they had been terrorized by their own dopplegangers not to mention the goddess of all fucking creation, Lucifer's mom herself, the least Lucifer could do is give them a conversation of all things.
Right when she thought her rage would hit a boiling point, the club shook almost like an earthquake, everyone started screaming and panicking bracing for whatever impact or calamity was about to happen next, but when the shaking stopped, there were more people in the club with them, seven little dwarfs to be exact, each dwarf standing on a stair, a happy looking dwarf, a sneezy one, a grumpy one, a sleepy one, a bashful one, a dopey one, at the the bottom of the stairs, the leader of the seven an older gentleman with glasses named doc, all of them deeply concerned
"Is there a champion of this realm that could possibly help us please, Snow White has fallen deathly ill, and we were told by the wise mirror to come here and thus a champion we would find" Doc said as he stared at the bar looking at Chloe and the rest of them including Beatrice who was wide eyed with the surreal site in front of her.
Amenadiel looking shocked realized what was happening "The seven dwarfs... from the fairy tale realm..." Amenadiel at this point was speechless... this was supposed to be impossible.
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Frank and Nancy were now inside of the New York Times building thanks to Azrael and her powers, they were now talking to the various editors and reporters about what was going on, Lucifer had christened them each with fresh titles Frank was the president of Morningstar holdings and Nancy would be the Vice president of Morningstar holdings, Lucifer knew they were both incredibly intelligent and perhaps better than him at the whold daily minutia of day to day operations.
Lucifer knew that Bruce Wayne had Lucius Fox to run Wayne Industries in the movies and Tony Stark had Penny to run Stark Industries for him in the movies, each of whom had their superhero gig to deal with just like Lucifer did, Lucifer felt quite happy to have a Frank Lawrence and a Nancy Verner. Lucifer had also asked them to keep in touch with the New York Knicks now that he owned them as well as the NBA offices to see how they would deal with the many crisis that were now befalling earth.
Frank and Nancy were now in the very top offices of the building listening to the various reports coming out as well as new info being gathered by their sources, and none of it was looking good.
Adding to the troubles were their sources coming from the NYPD which was dealing with a massive current spike in crime due to rioting and just general panic, angels with broken wings were being arrested and being taken off the streets and the confused and scared angels were in a state of panic themselves after being kicked out of heaven. And of course the panic of people being thought and known to be dead now walking the streets wasn't helping anything, nor was the fact that a massive flame covered the earth a little while ago closing a hellmouth and killing thousands of demons which had been terrorizing earth, so many reporters were talking about 'Champion' but not even knowing where to begin when it came to reporting on it.
"Frank this isn't good, i've got reports from sources in Brussells that the EU is planning on killing anyone with wings, they're saying that there is no way they are human and thus must be some alien invasion meant to hurt humanity" Nancy spoke those words with nervousness in her voice, they were in a powerful human position running the New York Times especially from the position of a multi billion dollar company like 'Morningstar Holdings' but the situation was still escalating and their options were few.
"I'm not sure what we can do other than let Lucifer know Nancy" Frank replied sensing that there wasn't much on the table as far as options went. "The rioting on the streets is escalating too quickly for law enforcement to handle on their own, we're losing ground here" Frank knew that they weren't prepared as a team for all of this, as a team they were still in their infancy which Frank realized with concern.
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Dennis, Angela, Sara, and Sasha were wondering through the top three floors of Morningstar tower in Miami looking at all of the equiptment, all of the weapons, old fashioned spell books, there were firearms, there were swords, spears and a few bows, there was lots of different technology, especially related to law enforcement, and the computer hardware and software tech was all military grade. All of the other loved ones kicked out of heaven were safe and sound in the building.
Angela realized that Lucifer never lied, he really must've watched a lot of Batman and of the show angel, the top three floors were decked out with things she and Dennis knew they would need, there were even different phonebooks for places around the world with the phone numbers converted to english, it was amazing to see, oh and a flamethrower, Angela just shook her head with a soft smile... Lucifer.
"How long do you think it'll take you to set up all this hardware Angela?" Dennis asked looking surprised by just how much there was.
"It should only take me a few hours Dennis, it's a lot but I can't imagine it'll be too much of a problem" Angela quickly replied, knowing she wanted to get it finished quickly.
"So let me get this straight, all of you including my dad are helping Satan himself be a superhero" Sasha said as her young teenage eyes went up in surprise.
"Yes indeed we are" Dennis replied slightly smiling and shaking his head, what even was his life anymore, a week or so ago he was about to kill himself distraught over the loss of his wife, now he was helping Satan be a superhero, and his wife was kicked out of heaven here with him because of Lucifer's mom, what the ever loving fuck.
"And we also work for a multi billion dollar company owned by the devil himself... so bonus" Angela said smiling and laughing at the preposterous nature of it all.
"perks of the job I suppose" Sara kindly said, "It's like working for superman and Bruce wayne at the exact same time" Sara said lightly laughing.
"And a supernatural James Bond" Dennis humorously replied remembering what Lucifer had said in heaven when he took him to see his wife.
And with that Sara and Sasha helped Dennis and Angela to set everything up, time was of the essence, any little help that could be offered would be needed.
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"BINGO" Lucifer joyously yelled out "I found you, I found me a Fred, this is just bloody damn well perfect" Lucifer was quite happy at the person he was was reading about, a young gothic woman, loved to dress in black, short dark hair, twenty one years of age, 265 Iq, with a doctorate in physics and Masters degree in Chemistry, the passage also said that the young woman liked to try and communicate with the spirits of the dead using the dark arts most notably the seance.
The passage told Lucifer that she earned her Degrees at a huge Australian college close to the city of Perth, The Australian institute of Science, and the young womans name... Elaine Belloc.