"You son of a bitch!" Ellen screams from her cell. "You know what kind of pain and misery you've caused us?!"
"Woo, Ellen, calm down." Gabriel says "Screaming at him won't do you any good. It's not as if you could reach him."
"When I get my hands on you..." she says but Kevin interrupts "You think I like this? You think I wanted this? They've killed my mother. Being a prophet took everything away from me!"
"You didn't have to help them."
"I had to. They tortured me, killed me over and over. Do you have any idea what it is like to get a taste of heaven for a second and then being yanked back to all this? And then Michael promiced to take me to the paradise world. He lied."
"Why did they keep bringing you back?" Gabriel asks
"I guess they couldn't let another prophet come to be. Not a one they couldn't control. But I am done. I don't care anymore. So if you have a way out of here, I want to help. Especially if it means sticking it up to that bitch Naomi."
Gabriel smirked "Kid, if you can send that bitch back to Heaven, I'll take you to Paradise world myself."
"Ok, I'm in." Kevin says.
"Ok, now tell me how can you eject Naomi?"
"There is a sigil for almost anything. Just have to get her in a room, distract her while I draw it and blast her away."
Gabriel frowns "Quick question. Does it work on an archangel?"
"No, only on angels. It may affect an archangel a bit, but nothing significant. Why?"
"Ough, just asking."
"So, when are we doing this? Got a plan to escape this place?"
"Now sounds good." Gabriel says standing up. He rips the Loki bonds of his hands and with a snap of his fingers opens his doors. He takes a walk around the cell block, looking at people inside.
"All right everybody, we are going to do this slowly and quietly, ok?"
He snaps his fingers again and the doors open. People start rushing out.
"C'mon! Really? I said slowly and quietly." He says frowning.
Ellen and a few people stay behind. Gabriel turns to Kevin's cell. It is unlocked and opened, but Kevin doesn't move. Instead he just stared at Gabriel.
"What are you?"
Gabriel thought about telling him the truth, but felt the kid would back down.
"Loki, the god of mischief." He says smiling.
"So, why help us?"
"Need to go back to my world, the paradise world. And you kid are gonna help."
Kevin was unsure about this, but nodded anyway. He left his cell and joined them.
"Ok, now what?"
Gabriel and the others slowly exited the cell block. There was no angel in sight. Ellen explains "They must have gone after the others. Really wish they have listened to you. They are all going to get themselves killed."
"At least they gave us cover." Gabriel replies. "Let's go find Naomi."
They walk around the compound, looking for her. In the main yard angels collected the runaway humans. She walks in front of them, waiting for them to bring as many humans as they could. Gabriel and the others get there and take cover behind a shed.
When enough humans were brought down, she orders the angels to go look for more and turns to others. "Alright, you are going to tell me who let you out."
Gabriel looks at Kevin and whispers "Can you do it here?"
"Yes, but it has to be out there, in front of the shed. If I go out there, they will spot me. We need a distraction."
"I got that part. You just make sure you blast every angel back to heaven." He says.
Naomi was getting impatient. "Nobody wants to speak up? I guess I'll have to..."
"I'll speak up!" Gabriel says coming out behind the shed. He walks over to the humans making sure he has the angels attention so that Kevin can come out and do his thing.
"It was me." Gabriel continues smiling.
"Loki? How?" Naomi frowns " We bonded you."
"Can't trick a trickster. Now, I want you to release these humans."
"And why would we do that? You can't hurt us. You have no leverage."
"Ough, but I do. I can tell you this you have a rouge archangel here. And I know who and where he is."
"What archangel?" Naomi frowns
"First you have to let them go."
"No, I don't have to do anything. What I will do is destroy you if you don't tell me."
Gabriel smiles at her seeing Kevin nodding signalling him he has finished. Then he whispers to her "No, you won't." nodding back to Kevin.
Kevin activates the sigil making all the angels leave their vessels and going up into heaven. All but one. Naomi still stood there looking around at what was happening. She turns back to Gabriel smiling. "Well, that didn't work out completely for you. Now you are going to die." She rushes at him, stabbing him in the chest with her angel blade. His face covers in pain for a second, but smiles back at her and then vanishes.
"Damn tricksters!" she shouts infuriated.
"Go back to Heaven now, or I will kill you." Gabriel's voice is heard all around, but she can't tell where it was coming from. She was weak from the sigil, she couldn't concentrate.
"You won't! For some reason you care about these humans. You sent all the angels to Heaven instead of killing them. Why?"
"Food, why else? We demy-gods have to eat, you know."
"No, there is something else. Something more." She says.
"Does it matter? Last chance, leave!"
"I can't. I can't fly." She says getting on her knees. Kevin was still holding the sigil.
"Leave the vessel, Naomi."
She was struggling to maintain control, but could fell slowly slipping. Eventually she gave in and left the vessel. Jo falls to the gound. Ellen runs to her daughter "Jo! Jo, honey, are you there? Are you ok?"
Jo slowly opens her eyes "Mom? Is that you?"
"It's me honey. I'm right here."
Gabriel approaches and touches her forehead. He nods to Ellen "Naomi's gone. It will take some time, but Jo will be ok."
Kevin runs to them "We should get out of here."
Gabriel nods. "Right, let's go."
After a while they all reached the campsite. A few people that the angels didn't catch the first time welcomed back their friends and family. Kevin smiles seeing them all together, but a few frown at him. They knew who he was, and what he has done in the past. Gabriel declares "This kid saved us all today. And he is about to do it again."
Kevin looks at him confused "I am?"
"Sure, kid. You are going to help me open the rift."
"But we need the archangel grace for it."
"And we got it" he says taking a small vial out of his pocket.
"But that's empty." Kevin says frowning.
"Won't be soon enough." He says opening his throat with an angel blade, collecting his grace, and healing himself.
"Will this do?" he asks Kevin who stood there in shock and fear.
Kevin slowly starts backing away from him "You... Who... You are not Loki."
"No, I'm Gabriel."
"But all that you said..."
"I meant it. I am from that world. Not an asshole like the angels around here, you saw that. I just want to go back to my world. And bring a few people there too." He shows pointing at others.
Kevin didn't believe him. He was too scared he might fall into the angels hands again, them making him do things. Ellen comes over and sort of comforts Kevin "Look, kid, if it wasn't for Gabriel, we would all be dead or worse. You would still be stuck there."
She grabs him by the shoulders and shakes him "If it wasn't for Gabriel, I would have killed you back there, you hear me!"
Kevin nods. "We still need other ingredients."
"Right here." Gabriel says pulling out a bag from underneath a rock.
"Now, let's go home."
Back at the bunker Cass and Jack greet Mary and Bobby who just came back from a hunt.
"Pesky ghosts." Bobby frowns
"It wasn't that bad, Bobby, we..." Mary started to explain what happened, but suddenly went pale. Cass, Jack and Bobby look at the direction she was looking at. A rift was being opened.
First ones to go through were Ellen and Jo. Bobby stood there, shocked. "Ellen? Jo? I don't believe it."
"You better believe it. "she replies, making everybody relax a bit.
Slowly one at the time people came out.
"How?" Bobby asks.
The answer walked through the rift – Kevin. Mary and Jack frown at him.
"You? You tried to kill us!" Jack tried to rush at him, but a hand stops him. He looked up at the man who was holding him "Gabriel?"
Gabriel just smiled at him.
"I better call the boys." Mary says.
"Don't bother – Gabriel says – I'll go find them." he says and vanishes.