Who Is Like God?
The dark cloud was not surprised at all towards what the divine light had just told her. Long ago, the Darkness had observed God bring into existence her four immediate nephews, his four immediate sons, only to see them fight against her. Now, she was going to witness, from within temporal wardings, those same beings repeat that process on a relatively smaller scale.
The four beings of painfully blinding white light had just agreed that the eldest of them would connect with all the plentiful Hands of God remaining in their arsenal, then absorb the divine power contained in each item. Once completed, Michael proceeded to do what he alone, among his brothers, could do with all this power: celestial creative work. Four new creations appeared ex nihilo, with each appearance being accompanied by prolonged tremor and explosions of holy white light.
"Arise, Ophanim!" the archangel emitted piercing sounds of declaration.
Though the four new creations were celestial beings of light, gleaming like beryl, their celestial forms resembled wheels with eyes. Specifically, each of them resembled three wheels – not two – cutting through each other, and every rim was covered all over with eyes. When they moved, each could move in any degree of three-dimensional space, not just the four quarters of two-dimensional space. Also, these creations did not veer when they moved.
"Who is like God, indeed!" the Darkness uttered the implied opposite of her eldest nephew's name, remaining in awe of the Wheels' esoteric design.
For his part, God remembered the Wheels' greater scope of active abilities, in all their detail: full biokinesis, full chronokinesis, cosmic awareness, full electrokinesis, advanced healing, mental manipulation, full photokinesis, comprehensive power negation, rudimentary archangel banishment, full pyrokinesis, shapeshifting, comprehensive smiting, soul reading, full thermokinesis, vessel locking, warding removal, and weather manipulation. Next, he remembered their greater scope of immunity in relation to the Creation to come: against all fairy magic and all witchcraft, against exorcism by those other than hosts and primordial entities, against smiting by angelic medics, and against reality warping by cambions. Afterwards, he remembered their greater combat resilience in relation to the Creation to come: against hellhounds, against later Leviathans, and against even pagan deities at their peak power.
Author's Note: Innately, Michael cannot create precursors to regular angels. In this chapter, he has to absorb power equivalent to that of an archangel-human hybrid in order to create just one such precursor without drawing on his own power. The archangel-human hybrid comparison would require an "arch-Nephilim" more powerful than Lucifer's son Jack (from the official Season 12 finale); the archangelic parent would have to be none other than Michael himself. Meanwhile, each of the Ophanim in this story has one more wheel and can travel in one more dimension of three-dimensional space than its Biblical counterpart in the book of Ezekiel.