Kids Next Door
Operation: A.N.G.E.L.
Angelic
Nuisances
Guardians
Eliminate
Loftily
Chapter 04: The Second Angel.
Note: Vensy is used with permission of Vensy-Chan her creator.
The second summoning went pretty well, this time Luvara was able to do a shrinking spell before everyone was almost crowded out of the room. The summoned angel appeared like an odd mix of a flat-worm and an squid. Luke and the Tolienator were both amazed it didn't need water to survive. They separately both thought that the last angel looked much stronger than this one. But neither wanted to tell their magic-welding allies that.
The worm-angel hovered over the ground awaiting orders. It looked to the Summoner. Unlike the last angel, this one was more attentive more obedient; Xanthanos was proud that he summoned him correctly. Of course, having the artifact sometimes known as the "Spear of Destiny" did help, he must admit.
"Shamshiel, ta telexh maher!" Xanthanos commanded in a magic language. With that the monster left.
Luke decided it couldn't hurt to ask. He quietly approached Xanthanos and asked, "What is that monster's name?"
"Why he is Shamshiel, legend says he was corrupted because he taught astrology to mortals," Xanthanos said matter-of-factly. "Kids these days don't learn anything useful in school."
Luke was even more confused and puzzled than before now, he decided not to ask any more questions.
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It was a typical hot and dry Texas day. Operatives Fourteen, Eleven and Fifteen were working on plans that would help Numbah Two, from Sector V, with his latest invention. They were expecting Numbah Twelve and Thirteen to arrive to help soon. None of the group really liked Numbah Thirteen; she was too quiet for their taste. None of them dared tell that to her face though.
When Numbah Twelve started opening the club house's door, he thought he heard something like a wrecking ball. He turned around to see that the sound wasn't caused by construction equipment as he had thought; it was caused by a 40 foot tall monster. He ran into the club house to tell the others the news.
"D-do you think it's one of that kind of monster that took out two bases last week?" Numbah Fifteen asked nervously. She frowned slightly in an effort to control her shaking; she had never been so terrified in her life.
"We have to get out of here," Numbah Fourteen said. "We need to get out and scatter, and get in contact with the moon base. Section V managed to take one of these down; we need to know how they did it."
Numbah Fifteen snapped out of her panic, she dialed out to the moonbase on her watch and informed them of what was going on. Numbah Eleven and Numbah Fourteen worked to quickly grab everything that was irreplaceable and light.
The group was able to completely abandon the building before the angel started smashing it. Within ten minutes Sector V appeared with a new weapon/machine/bodysuit they called an E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. and were able to battle the monster rather efficiently.
No one remembered to contact Vensy, the new Numbah Thirteen, to warn her to keep away from the clubhouse. She arrived just as Numbah Four in the E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. was about to finish defeating the monster.
Vensy had never seen an angel before. She was amazed by it. It was amazing, it was big, its body smooth, perfectly symmetrical and, it had an air of otherworldliness to it. It was like looking at a giant work of art, like reading a poem from a dear friend that was written just for you, like walking through a wooden path home, something about it felt powerful and right.
When Vensy saw that it was being attacked, and destroyed she couldn't help by cry out against it. She wasn't sure what was going on, who was doing what, and why it was being done, but she felt in the pit of what she figured was her soul that the destruction of the creature was wrong.
No one sane was close enough to Vensy to hear her yell- everyone had retreated to shelters and safe houses. When the angel fell it landed about 10 feet away from her. She ran to it and watched as it took its body pulsed for the last time.
The pilot of the E.V.A.G.E.L.I.O.N. was Numbah Four; he began to mildly curse when the angel was falling and he realized that there was a person close to where it was going to land. When the dust had settled, Numbah Four saw who it was, it was the new Numbah Thirteen, and it looks like she walked up to the monster. Numbah Four asked himself how stupid one must be to walk up to a monster that was several hundred times as big as you. He was sure he was going to have a headache for the rest of the day from just thinking how stupid that operative must be.
Much to Vensy's horror the E.V.A.N.G.E.L.I.O.N. then took out a large knife and cut the dead angel. Numbah Four was making sure it was dead. After making sure Numbah Four ejected out of the mechanical suit, and ran over to Vensy.
"You are the stupidest, more moronic, biggest idiot I know!" Numbah Four yelled with clenched fists at his side. "That monster almost fell on you, what were you thinking? Probably nothing!"
Numbah Four then stormed off quickly, he wasn't in the mood to hear her try and defend herself or anything stupid like that.
Vensy didn't chance after him or yell at him. She just stood her ground and quietly muttered, "How dare he?"