Impact Of The Wheels
Meanwhile, the dark cloud felt vindicated by her earlier remark about the divine light creating her four immediate nephews, his four immediate sons, so that they in turn could create lesser beings. Confident, the Darkness felt the urge to remind God about that remark.
"Just as I said, Brother," she needled, "you made these four to create lesser beings, and yet I never expected them to start doing so this early."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures, Sis," countered her younger brother, "As I said, I was very busy, and I wanted the brothers to make excellent use of the arsenal that I gave them."
"I wonder just how many other types of lesser beings each of them made," the older sister reflected annoyingly.
"Can we get to them later?" the younger brother ended that line of thought.
Before this archangelic act of creation, the four beings of painfully blinding white light were limited in their options for combat roles. Given the full extent of his power, Michael could not be anything less than a warrior. Lucifer had been the original trickster out of the four, having tricked his own aunt, yet he had to transition into the role of warrior. Raphael had been the sustainer, serving as both protector and healer. From the beginning, Gabriel had been the exclusive special operations force, and eventually learned a great deal of his second-eldest brother's trickery.
The creation of the Wheels - named Sarathiel, Sidriel, Zephaniel, and Zophiel - made a positive immediate impact, just by expanding the four brothers' options. With all appropriate insights from Lucifer and Gabriel, each of the four Wheels became both a lesser trickster and a special operations force for the new group of eight. Gabriel assumed the multi-layered role of sustainer, while Raphael himself became the third warrior.
Each original Leviathan may have been powerful as Michael and Lucifer put together, but the new group of eight agreed that their collective opportunity for Raphael to provide additional heavy assault capabilities would prove decisive against the enemy.
Meanwhile, the Darkness and God observed the group of eight engage repeatedly and more confidently in combat training after combat training against simulated copies of the supermassive Leviathan combiners.
Author's Note: The celestial combat roles in this part of the story are inspired by the Warrior, Strategist, and Free Agent roles assumed by the Thirteen Primes against Unicron the Chaos-Bringer in Justina Robson's Transformers: The Covenant of Primus.