Mere hours after the sudden appearance and disappearance of the gundams in Tokyo 3, the entire world was reeling from the resulting chaos. Gendo was relieved to find that the initial report had been incorrect, and that terminal dogma was in tact, however, the blast had substantially damaged the captured angel Lilith, and this fact would set the Human Instrumentality project back several month at the very least.

Two countries in particular where most interested in the attack, Russia and America. The two UN Security Council member nations had long had doubts about NERV's ability to counter the Angel threat, and this incident only validated their suspicions. Furthermore, many of their top research facilities, including the famous Area 51, had been forcefully requisitioned by NERV. Wanting to rest control of The UN back from NERV, Russian and American leaders called an emergency meeting in the one facility they knew NERV and SEELE could not hack into to spy on their discussions, NORAD. Within its labyrinthine passages beneath the granite of Cheyenne Mountain, they debated how to deal with NERV.

"Mr. President," a large man with a deep Russian accent bellowed, "it would be wise to condone NERV's lack of ability in protecting their own city to the general assembly."

"And then what Vostivich? Do we leave the world without a hero? Damn it! That won't work! They trust Gendo too much..." a lean but well built man responded jumping to his feet. This was Nathan Doome, the President of the United States.

"Perhaps there is another way eh?" Vostivich, the Russian prime minister responded

"What do you mean?" Doome said, leaning back in his chair.

"About a week ago my agents uncovered a fact that we have both long feared, NERV is being siphoned funds by a non UN sanctioned group."

"WHAT?" Doome nearly fell out of his chair in shock.

"Yes, a para-religious group called SEELE. And that's not all, SEELE seems to have taken a recent interest in the area in Israel called the valley of ashes. In Greek it was called Hades, if that gives you an idea of its reputation." Vostivich explained.

"What could they possibly want from there?" Doome said, trying to regain his composure.

"That's were it goes from bad to hellspawned evil, Doome. They believe that the "Dragon's Prison" is located there. They want to open the very gates of Hell." Vostivich replied

"Your joking!"

"I wish to God I was, Doome. That's why the Angels are attacking Tokyo, every scholar of biblical legends knows that the garden of Eden was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iran. So NERV's explanation is all just a load of Shit." Vostivich coolly replied. "Either NERV is in on this, or they are a puppet to distract us. Whichever it is, what do we do?"

A heavy silence filled the room, both men now came to the realization that they had no idea what to do. Cautiously a young American officer entered the room and after standing to attention reported, "Sirs, A man calling himself Michael wishes to speak to you. And, Sirs, He's the pilot of the white mech.!"

Doome and Vostivich glanced at one another, why would he be here?

"let him in Captain" Doome ordered. The man left, and returned with a man dressed in a strange white trench coat. The man wore a sword at his side, and a silver revolver on the other. His eyes felt like both men like great lances into their inner thoughts. And his gate and posture spoke of calm controlled power. This man was of course Heero Yuy. Giving a nod towards the young captain he calmly said, "Gentlemen I would like to speak to you alone..." Doome nodded and motioned the young officer to leave. When the young man had done so, Heero let the Coat fall to the ground, revealing the double pair of white angel's wings that unfurled from his back. Doome and Vostivich both sat mouths agape.

Heero spoke, "Gentlemen, I am the Archangel Michael, as you know SEELE wishes to revive my evil brother Lucifer. NERV however wishes only to protect men from what they think are beings sent by God. In reality the entire thing is staged by SEELE to distract attention from their resurrection scheme. However, as you have seen, I and the Four Horsemen, who I will introduce you to at another time, can easily destroy NERV. Yet that would accomplish little, as they are as deceived as you are. No, SEELE must be dealt with directly." Heero paused, "But to do that we have to expose the truth to the personnel of NERV who are not members of SEELE. To do this, we need to force them to enter an engagement in the Holy Land. Can I rely on your cooperation?"

Doome and Vostivich both nodded.

"Now," Heero drawled, "lets talk about the Kamchatka Anomaly..."

AUTHOR'S NOTES

DarkNexus: Yeah! My first Author's note!!

Thank you to all of you who have been reviewing so faithfully, you make it worth the effort! I'm sorry I took so long to post this part, but I have had serious writer's block. Never fear though, I have many more chapters on the way... I have had an outline of the entire story from day one, but I get stuck on details a lot --;

This August I'm packing my bags for college! I'm heading to Texas Tech! If any of you lady reviewers live around there... damn that was lame... ;

Oh, by the way, if you check out my Author page, at the bottom of my Bio is a small quote from a real, (yes real) school camping trip to Turner Falls Oklahoma. They are all quite funny, (In my opinion anyway) and I change them every time I update my stories, so check up on it now and then.

On another note, I want to know if any of my readers like to draw fanart. If you want to draw fanart based on my story feel free to do so. All I ask is that you email me a copy. I don't even care if you put it on a website (but if you do, send me the URL so I can post the link here! That way we both benefit!). In fact, I would love to see any pics of the Gundam boys in their angel forms...

Finally, I'm also going to start a second story called "Technical Angelics" to explain some of the mechanical devices in "The Archangel" that I really haven't delved into... And you, the reader can help! Any questions you have about the gundam's designs, the Firesword, weapons, etc. that you post in your reviews will be answered in it! As far as making it a story, its going to be done as a series of reports from the Firesword's chief Design engineer to Heero. I already have some chapters goin up, and by the time you read this they should be uploaded. So ask away!!

And remember: Insanity - its not the disease, it's the cure.

NEXT CHAPTER: INNER SANCTUM

Who's really pulling SEELE's strings?