Super Science
Ch 109: Devilish Delight
Izuku walked from his office to the front desk to assess the so-called situation. There, he saw two things. First, Purah was already there, peeking through the front door's glass. Second, Dante hid under the Secretary's front desk, cowering and whimpering like a dog while Josie tried to comfort him.
Walking up to Purah, he asked while pointing to Dante, "Is he the situation?"
Purah looked up from the window and replied, "No, but he's part of it."
Walking back to the Secretary's desk, he looked over and asked, "Dante, what's gotten you so worked up yet again?"
"He's…here.", Dabte replied in a terrified voice, pointing to the door with his tail.
"Who? The devil?", Izuku asked back.
"No, worse than him.", Dante answered while scooting even deeper under the desk.
"Oh, come on. If it's not the one being that acted as the catalyst for the downfall of all humanity, then what could possibly be? " Izuku began to say with confusion and exasperation while walking back to the front door, looking out of it before stopping mid-sentence.
Taking a few seconds to try and comprehend what he was looking at, he turned to the two women in the room and asked in a bland tone, "Why is there a slutty looking motorcycle fetish prostitute outside my facility?"
"That's the other problem.", Purah told him.
"Well, why hasn't the security activated and taken him out?", Izuku inquired.
"That's the other thing. It hasn't sensed him, it's like he doesn't exist.", Josie informed him.
"But…he's standing right there.", Izuku pointed out the obvious.
"Look at these scenes.", Purah told him while waving him towards the front desk. Going back, he hopped behind the counter and looked at one of the many computer screens that Purah was typing away at, bringing up different charts with sensor readings. Pointing to them, she explained, "No body heat, no movement, no plus, no pressure, no nothing. The machines say he isn't there, but…there he is."
Izuku takes a deep breath, adjusts his glasses, and tells them, "I'll try to handle this."
Stepping outside, he was once again greeted by the sight of the strange person before him. It was a man around Izuku's age, 6' 3", with messy black hair, orange-amber eyes, black-painted nails, and a well-built build. He carried himself with confident bravado while wearing tight black pants, unusual metal shoes that appeared to be guns, a thick silver belt, and an open leather biker coat with no shirt underneath.
Approaching the man, he said to Izuku, "Well, well, I was kinda hoping that white-haired baddie would come out again, but short green and freckles aren't unwanted either.", He said this with a tantalizing tone that made Izuku quiver in a way he didn't know.
"Can I help you with something?", Izuku said back, trying to keep his cool.
"Normally, I'd follow that up with something else, but I'm here for business and not pleasure.", the man answers while putting his hands on his hips.
"And that would be?", Izuku prompted him.
The man smiled devilishly and whipped out two black glocks from nowhere, pointing them at the building while exclaiming, "You are harboring a demon. Whether with or without your consent or knowledge, I'm here to kill it."
Izuku tried to keep his cool, hoping the guns wouldn't be pointed at him as he informed him, "We do know that, and under whose orders are you here to do that?"
"The Angelic Council of Heaven, you know, up there," the man answered while pointing to the sky. But since you already know about the demon, it'll be easy! I just hope you're not going to say you won't let me kill it." He asked the teen scientist, who scowled at him. The gun wilder gave a disappointed huff and griped, almost amused, "Typical Cultist."
"This is a scientific research facility.", Izuku corrected him.
"Potato, tomato.", the man blew him off with an unamused tone. He gives an exhausted sigh and says straight up, "Look, just tell me what I'm dealing with so I can assess how much force I need to use and possibly kill all of you."
Only for Dante to peek his head through the window, and when both their eyes met, he ducked back down where the gunman exclaimed in shock, "A Cambion?! Sheesh, I thought they were all extinct! How'd you manage that?"
"We…accidentally opened a portal to hell.", Izuku reluctantly answered.
"I remember my first accidental hell portal…..that was not a good time.", the man said with a nostalgic expression before turning to one of fear-induced trauma. Shaking his head clear, he told the teen, "Anyhow, step aside, cutie, before I pump you with as much demonic ichor as I'm about to pump into him."
But before Izuku could do anything, the man jumped over him from a standing point and rushed to the building like a wild animal! He bursts through the doors looking for Dante, but when he sees him hiding behind the desk, pointing his guns, Dante screams and rips the desk from the ground before throwing it at him!
The gunman kicks the desk away, shattering it into hundreds of pieces and hitting the adjacent wall!
This gave Dante a chance to get a head start, and after spreading out his wings, he flew through the winding hallways! The gunman smiled with evil excitement as he raced off with blinding speed in pursuit of him! At the same time, Izuku ran in and saw the aftermath! He just hoped Dante could get away long enough for them to put up defenses and grab anyone to fight off this invader.
As Dante flew with all his might, the security system suddenly came to life and began to target the gunman. Mini guns, plasma cannons, and electro bombs shot with pinpoint accuracy at the man, but he managed to dodge it with such ease it was like watching a grown man walk over a block city made by a child.
Dante took as many tight turns as he could and even flew in front of defense guns to blitz or stun his pursuer. He even took a considerable risk by flying through a Tesla gate! But no matter what, the gunman never lost him, like a bloodhound! It was apparent that this person was on another level when he ran through an active Tesla gate and came out with only a bit of electricity coursing around him.
It even got to the point that he allowed the weapons to simply hit him as he pushed through, not showing any damage! Dant squeaked in fear as he tried to escape even faster! Luckily, the security system activated a new set of defense measures and new weapons that looked similar to the first but somehow different sprung up and pointed at the gunman. Usually, he'd just run through the hail of fire, but something didn't sit right in his stomach, and he decided to dodge it.
This gave Dante some time to get ahead, but the man quickly started to catch up again, and he fired his guns at the defenses to keep them from inhibiting him any further. Then he began to fire his guns at Dante, with several shots grazing or hitting different parts of his body! But his fear compelled him to keep fleeing! Forchantly, the man's body and security guards came out and headed off the gunman as Dante continued to run! The man is only surprised by this for a moment before he smiles and launches himself at the people!
First is Rappa, who he avoids by sliding under his legs, then Goto, who he avoids by transforming into smoke; next is Rogue, who he nearly allowed to hit him but not before morphing into a swarm of bats; and finally is Barkan and the xenomorph who lashed their arm blades like crazy! But then he stops time around him just long enough to get around the two blade wielders, running along the ceiling and avoiding the two entirely!
The chase continues for a while longer, with the gunman shooting at the defense weapons and trying to catch up with Dante, who he takes occasional shots at. Eventually, the gunman gets sick of this and jumps to all fours, where he suddenly turns into an enormous black wolf!
The wolf was even faster than his human form and caught up to Dante momentarily! He jumped into the air and tackled the demon man into a random room, where they wrestled and rolled on the ground until they both fell away from one another. The gunman retook his human form, manifested his guns, and pointed them down at the grounded Dante, who froze up in fear!
"Please! Mercy!", Dante begged him.
"Sorry, buddy. It's nothing personal. I'm under orders.", the man told him, his trigger finger ready to pull, as Dante squeezed his eyes shut.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that.", said the voice of Izuku over the P.A system.
The man stopped his shot, looked around the empty metal room the size of a basketball court, and asked delightedly, "Is that you, freckle boy? Sorry, but no one, not even God himself, has the power to stop me from doing what I want."
Izuku chuckled and said, "Are you sure about that? Then how about we test that theory by seeing how you fare against our new anti-demon technology?"
The man laughed back and stated, "Like, I haven't heard that one a thousand times. What? You got an inaccurate picture of Christ, maybe a couple of crucifixes?"
"No, something more…usable.", Izuku replied vaguely before pushing a button in the room he was in.
Suddenly, the entire floor below them opened like a hatch, and the two fell right in. The gunman managed to grab himself halfway and turn his leather jacket into a set of bat-like wings, allowing him to land easily. After getting up from a superhero landing, he looked up from where he fell and whistled.
"Woof! That was a deep drop! How freaking big is this place?", he asked while looking around at the now football stadium-sized room of metal he was in…by himself. Realizing this, he asked, "Aw, man! Where'd that Cambion go?"
"He's safe with us.", said Izuku's voice over the speakers in this new area.
The gunman took an arrogant disposition and chastised, "So this is your so-called 'anti-demon' tech? A big hole. Tch. Don't make me laugh. Being cute doesn't mean you're automatically funny."
"No, that was just to get you into the arena.", Izuku told him with a knocking sound in his voice.
"Arena?", the man asked as his question was quickly answered.
Suddenly, he heard a loud sound from behind and saw a 50ft door behind to open up to a dark room. In the dark room, something loud and heavy could be heard stomping in his direction. Within seconds, an enormous towering mech marched out, having to duck to get out of the door! It was 70 feet tall and made of metal so thick it could be considered a fortress. Its red eyes beamed down like two headlights on the man as he stared at it with a mix of amazement and shock!
"A giant mech? Cool, but ultimately useless. For me, this is just a hunk of scrap metal.", the gunman boasted while not paying attention, which the boy took advantage of.
With one fast swing of its colossal metal arm, it hit the man with such force that his whole body folded and broke simultaneously! He was going to the far side of the area and crashed so hard against the wall that it bent several inches in!
After a few minutes of silence, the man pulled himself from the wall with a body that shouldn't have been able to move! In fact, he realistically shouldn't be alive after a blow like that! Not even All Might would survive something like it! But the man just pulled himself out on broken legs, leaking black blood, and his body healing at a rapid pace!
"Okay, that hurt.", he said as the last vestiges of his wounds disappeared. After cracking his neck and pulling out his guns, he exclaimed, "Let's see what you got!"
The mech slammed its hands on the ground and roared like an engine! The two stood off for a minute before running after one another, neither backing down! Once they were within yards of one another, the man jumped into the air, and the mech threw its arm abc for a punch! The two of them clashed, foot to fist, and they canceled out one another, sending both skidding back! The man opened fire and pelted the machine with a hail of bullets that bounced right off the metal hide. The mech revealed a set of built-in weaponry and opened fire back!
The gunman dodged the attacks and almost seemed to have fun with it, too, as he ran, slid, and ducked under the bullets that were the size of his head! All the while, he unloaded so many bullets on the robot that he still did nothing! At first, he thought he was just too far away, so he got in close and began to fire, which started to do the trick. The mech responded by using short-range attacks and oversized fists and feet to smash or crush him. All the while, the man would dodge these attacks easily, slowing down time to get some extra hits in and mocking the machine, morphing into bats, or taking his wolf form to reposition himself.
This is when the mech puts off more speed and exceeds what a machine of its size could possibly do! The gunman had his confident look wiped off his face as the machine blitzed and nearly crushed him several times! Luckily, he could dodge some of the attacks by freezing time or morphing. He even managed to kick one of the punches away with a single strike from the aid of his gunshoes! But his luck quickly changed as he felt that same odd sensation he felt when the guns shot at him in the halls, and the mech was learning his patterns.
So the mech made a false punch, cueing him to try to dodge. Still, the mech hit the ground with its foot, shaking it hard enough for the man to be knocked off balance long enough for the machine to step on him with the other foot, punch him into the ground several times, and then grab him and fling him into the air, where the mech took out rocket launchers and machine guns to pelt the man!
The man began to fall from the air after getting ripped to shreds, right into the mech's open body cavity that had what looked like a meat grinder inside! But just before falling right into the death trap, the man regained consciousness and suddenly opened a portal where an enormous hand emerged and punched the mech, causing it to fall back! The man landed on the bot and healed his body within several seconds. Usually, it would be instantly, and he wouldn't have to force it, so something was fishy. Whatever that robot did before hitting him injured him much more than usual. Maybe now wasn't the time to play around.
So he began to shoot the robot around its body with all four of his guns, running around it as it stood up and tried to swat him like an annoying fly! Constantly employing his dodging techniques as before, morphing into his wolf form to change positions fast, and summoning giant demonic hands and hooves to hit the mech. All while defying the laws of gravity, motion, and inertia. Quickly, the man grew confident, and when he tried to summon another hand to punch the bot back, it opened its back where a laser beam of white light blasted the man right back to the ground, where he smoked like a well-done turkey! That laser hurt just as much as the blows and ammo before! This wasn't his ordinary fight; these people were ready for a battle of his caliber. But not enough.
He fell to his knees as he tried to catch his breath. Getting blasted like that really took way more out of him than he wanted to admit. It was like the few times his energy could get sapped out of him, which was never good. As he thought of this while trying to catch his breath, he heard Izukus's voice tease him again.
"Give up?", Izuku asked vexingly at seeing his state.
The man smiled and answered excitedly, "Oh please, this isn't even my final form!"
The man suddenly stood up and began to perform a couple of suggestive dance moves before striking a provocative pose and shouting, "Shalfeboso!"
Just then, his clothing melted away into the darkness, with only a few strands left to cover his…tenders. They swirled around before sinking into the ground where another portal opened, and the crotch dragged up an enormous figure bound in that darkness before being fully revealed! It was a demon, an enormous demon that was nearly as tall as the mech! It was almost entirely human apart from its bat wings, horns, red and black skin, tail, and hooved feet. Despite that, it looked like an unusually active human, meaning this was a giant incubus!
After the demon was summoned from hell, the darkness left behind covered the gunman's presence like a thick smoke as he began to dance around. That was when the meaning of this was revealed: the demon started to fight and move by his command of movements! The demon was far faster than the mech and attacked it with a flurry of quick punches and elegant movements. This caused the mech to falter as it had to learn a new pattern of movement from a new entity, compounded even further when it would whip out a new set of abilities, giving no time or room for the mech to counter.
Performing spinning kicks, midair head drops, flashes of dark energy, and even blowing a kiss made of blue fire that burnt to the mech so bad it nearly melted its chassis. It even dared to giggle and make filthy noises while hitting the machine! Finally, the mech fought back and harmed the demon significantly with the same glowing white energy used on the gunman. The confidence of the demon faded as it took one too many blows until it was brought to its knees, where the mech turned and blasted it with its back thrusters, causing it to be sent flying off!
As the enormous demon fell to the ground, the mech ripped off its chassis, revealing a laser cannon already charging up for a final attack! The gunman knew it was now or never and yelled at the demon to show them what they were really made of! The demon stood back up, a sneer on its face as the gunman sprang to his shoulders and funneled his power into it. The demon took a heavy stance and placed its hands just a few inches from one another in a ball shape, where energy began to collect inside of it. The demon began to make sounds of struggle.
Finally, the two giant beings charged up enough energy and blasted simultaneously, locking in a stalemate of Kamehameha and a repulsion blast! Both beams did nothing but fight against one another for a few seconds until the gunman did something that seemed to kick things into maximum overdrive. The demon's energy blast broke through the mech and overpowered it before engulfing the machine entirely!
The end result was a nearly destroyed mech falling to the ground and a smiling demon sinking back into hell as the gunman jumped off its shoulder and his clothing returned. Looking around, he boastfully proclaimed, "Is that all you have?"
However, he got no response as a strange-shaped object came up from the ground and blasted him in the face with a green gas, which induced insomnia, causing him to wobble. Then, several machines quickly emerged from the ground and began to wrap him up in steel wire that hummed with the same white energy, preventing him from escaping. But he never got the chance even to try that as he was shocked with millions of volts of electricity before a set of strange-looking Tesla coils came up from the ground and, on either side of him, pointed at the opposite side of his head and surged him with several million more volts of electricity into his head! Causing the gunman to scream in pain and blackout!
After an unspecified time, the gunman woke up from his electrifying experience with a killer head and body ache as his vision blurred. After coming to his senses, he complains, "Ow! Oh, my head!"
When he tried to move around and roll over, like he did in bed, he realized he couldn't! Quickly opening his eyes and struggling with all his might, he saw how he was in restraints, holding his limbs and body down! He pulled, struggled, and wiggled in a small panic but quickly found that they wouldn't break or even wiggle no matter what he did! Once secure in this fact, he looked around to see what he could do and caught sight of Izuku with a very unpleasant expression on his face.
Changing his tune, he cooed with intrigue, "Oh, it's you again, freckles and...hello, doctor.", He said in a sensual voice after seeing Egon standing next to him with the same expression.
"Professor.", Egon corrected him in a callus tone.
Rolling his eyes, the man said, "Whatever. I gotta say, freckles, you really surprised me. Few can do that, and even fewer can knock me out. But almost no one can keep me restrained.", He said the last part in a menacing tone.
"Oh, you think we can't? Then try it!", Egon challenged him.
"Ha! If you think these restraints can hold me.", the man began to say as dark energy seeped off his body, "Then you.", he said while pulling at the restraint with all his strength, "Are!", he continued while trying to morph into smoke, "Huff. Right.", he finally gave up, but not before one last second wind of trying to morph into bats. After realizing he was fully stuck, he demanded, "Hey! How are you restraining me?"
"I told you, anti-demon tech.", Izuku said with a boastful glint.
"Anti-demon, my ass.", the man grumbled before telling them, "You're not the first batch of idiots who have tried and mostly succeeded at holding me down. I'll get out, and when I do, you're gonna wish you'd let me do my job and leave!", he said in a demonic tone as his face shifted to something far more horrifying.
But the scientist didn't even flinch at this, and Egon took out his pad, fixed his glasses, and told him, "Yeah, yeah, sure. Right after some questions."
But before the two scientists could even speak, the man suddenly blabbered out, "I'm 6 '2", my hair is raven black, my eyes are natural, I have 5% body fat, clocking in at an even 200 pounds, I'm a Taurus, oh! And it's 9.5 inches."
"Not like that-wait, what's 9.5 inches?", Egon asked in confusion as the gunman simply smiled seductively at him. Egon sighs and continues, "Forget I asked. Are you a demon or not?"
"You tell me? I'm 'restrained' in your anti-cock blocking tech, am I not?", the man shoots back.
Egon growls in irritation but calms down as he trunks to Izuku and tells him, "Do the thing, Izuku."
Izuku nods, then opens his coat to reveal a crucifix; where he begins to pull it out and point it at the man, who acts scared irritatingly, saying, "Oh, what's this? The freckled cutie has a cross?! Oh, I'm so scared!", only for him to burst out a laugh and explain, "NOT! Let me tell you something about us demons; short stuff, we don't fear the crucifix, we fear god. Faith through God is what allows you to channel his power and then use the cross as a medium to express that power. So without the power of God through true faith and relationship with him, that's nothing more than a weirdly shaped T."
Izuku just raised an eyebrow and then shoved the cross into his face, and his whole body went up into flames! The man screamed bloody murder for several seconds as the fire consumed his body until his flesh had melted completely off and charred his muscles! Izuku pulled the cross away, and the man's body slumped over in a charred mess of a half corpse. He didn't move after that, and the two scientists assumed the worst.
"I think you killed him.", Egon observed, only for the body to come to life with a sharp gasp, making the scientist jump as Egon corrected himself, "Never mind!"
After the gunman finally caught his breath, he looked at Izuku with one eye left and exclaimed with a lipless, tongueless mouth, "Holy crap! You're a Christian! A real-life Christian! What the fuck! I thought they barely existed anymore; apart from third world countries.", he said the last part under his breath before yelling in shock, "But holy shit! How'd that happen?!"
"When a demon tells you about hell and all its 'luxuries', you tend to reevaluate your life.", Izuku told him vaguely.
But the man pieced it together fast as he said in an impressed tone, trying to butter him up, even while looking like a burnt lump of charcoal, "Well, I'll be damned, you actually surprised me again, freckles. I'm not used to that. I'd tip my hat if I had one. Good thing you're not a Jew, or I'd be dead!"
"My name isn't Freckles; it's Doctor Izuku Midoriya.", Izuku told him firmly while walking up and looking him dead in the eye.
"Agnolo. You can also call me The Omen.", Angolo introduced himself.
"Omen?", both scientists said at the same time.
"Yeah, going by my full name is one thing when fighting angels and demons, but humans are different. So I played with the idea of a superhero alias, ironic seeing as I'm far from heroic in any sense.", Angolo explained to them while laughing at his own irony.
"Now that we got your name, let's continue on.", Egon interjected while taking note.
"Continue on?" Angolo asked before realizing and saying, "Wait, are you trying to question me? What makes you think I'll play nice and spill my guts?" in a teasing tone.
"Cause if you don't, Izuku here is going to flash that cross at you till you're nothing but bones.", Egon told him in a threatening tone as Izuku polished the crucifix.
Angolo rolled his eyes and shot back, "Psh. I've been reduced to bones plenty of times. It'll just take me longer to regenerate.", Angolo suddenly regrew his body and clothing as he said, "Like that."
Both men became disturbed by the sight and said, "Gross."
"Anyway, you know what'll happen, so the first question is, What are you?", Egon asked him.
"What do you mean? You already know I'm a demon.", Angolo chided back.
Izuku narrowed his eyes and stated, "Except you're not. We took samples of you, and we can't make heads or tails of it. You human, that's for sure, but not entirely. You're like a-like a-like a-.", Izuku faltered with the answer.
"Like a paradox?", Angolo offered.
"Exactly!", Egon exclaimed before coming to a realization and saying, "Wait. Then you do know what you are!"
Angolo blew a raspberry and rolled his eyes, telling them, "I've lived in my own skin for this long; of course, I know what I am! Apart from the times, it gets blown off."
"You sure seem to lead an interesting life.", Egon said with an interested yet disturbed tone.
"Would you believe me if I said this wasn't the first time I was restrained in a secret laboratory surrounded by scientists trying to make sense of what I am.", Angolo said with an enticing tone.
"We're getting off course, what are you?", Egon asked him.
"I'm an Ophilim.", Angolo replied.
"Don't you mean Nephilim?", Izuku corrected.
"No, but kinda. You see, instead of being half angel, I'm half demon.", Angolo explained.
"But that would make you a Cambion.", Izuku asked.
"I see your Cambion friend has told you much, but not about me.", Angolo asked with a knowing look.
"You never came up in conversation.", Izuku replied.
"Well, let me just give you the footnotes. A Nephilim will always be a Nephilim, no matter what. But a demonic child will either be disfigured, dead or a Cambion due to the human-to-demon ratio. In contrast, your Cambion friend is like 60/40. I, on the other hand-.", Angolo expelled before falling off.
"Are 50/50.", Izuku finished.
Angolo raised his eyebrow and said, "You catch on quick. That's right. I'm a true hybrid, a perfect mixture. However, you want to put it."
"If that's true, then what's the difference between you and Dante?", Egon inquired.
"You named it?" Angolo asked in an amused tone, only getting stern glances from the two scientists, which made him retort, "Okay, I'll drop it. And yes, there is a difference, a big difference! It's like wolves and coyotes; they might be the same thing but far different. I'm the perfect combination of spiritual and physical. There never was, nor will there ever be something like me ever again." he explained in short.
"Besides being a true hybrid, what exactly makes you so different?", Egon asked him.
"You said it before. I'm a paradox. I'm within God's design as a human and also outside of it as a demon. All the power, none of the responsibilities.", Angolo explained as a surprised expression came upon the scientist's face; where Angolo added, "Though I will go to hell no matter what I do if/when I die. Which *snort* good luck with that! I'm not even sure I can fully die.", he said with a laugh that did not sound mentally stable at all.
"Okay…um…if you're a demon, what are you doing working for angels?", Izuku asked, hoping to change the subject.
"Simple, brownie points.", Angolon told them, getting more confused expressions. "Whatever the angelic council can't do by the rules of God, they send me to do in their stead. As a reward, they don't send their armies every other hour to try and fuck me. Metaphorically, of course.", he explained in detail.
"So you're working with Angel's…who have been regularly hunting you down?", Egon summarized.
Angolo rolled his eyes and told him in an irritated tone, "Look, pal, I've got to deal with shit on three fronts: humans, Angels, and Demons. Sometimes, the first one is easy enough, but the other two are anything but! If I can mitigate just one, I can easily deal with the other and any strays who try to go against the rules. Which happens from time to time, but not as often. I have something with the demons, but that's another can of worms for another time.", he sighs and tells them in short, "Look, the angels of heaven make me do their dirty work, and in exchange, I don't get attacked as often. My latest case; kill a demon who was summoned full time into the physical plain."
"Okay, but why don't demons like you? You're a demon, too. Shouldn't you get along? I mean, you did summon one in the fight with our mech.", Izuku inquired.
Angolo smiled as a little black heart floated from his body, and he said, "Your innocence is cute. However, the only reason I was able to summon a demon was because I had signed a contract with him. Other than that, demons hate each other. We're always trying to one-up one another to climb the hierarchy, and they don't necessarily hate me. They want what I have to offer."
"What's that?", they both asked.
"When a demon 'kills' or eats another demon, they gain their unique traits, thus making them stronger. I'm like the ultimate buff in this regard. If any demon eats me, they gain my paradoxical existence and nature. And if Satan got it, oh boy! He'd be a second God!", Angolo expands with increasing severity in his voice, making the two men lean against something or grab something to absorb all this information. Angolo gives them a minute to breathe and says, "I know it's a lot to take in."
After calming down, Izuku asked, "There's just one thing I don't understand.", this made Angolo raise an eyebrow in intrigue. "Why would the council send you if the situation with Dante was already resolved?" he inquired.
Angolo made an expression like his head just blew up, and he asked in a casually anger rising tone, "Ex-fucking-cuse you?"
"Yeah, Michael came to us about three weeks ago and gave us a stern warning about playing with interdimensional travel.", Izuku explained vaguely.
"Context?", Angolo prompted them.
"We made a machine that opened inner-dimensional portals, and the first successful one led straight to hell. Date came out, and Michael visited us soon after.", Egon explained quickly.
Angolo looked back and forth, then asked in a low tone, keeping his head down, as if trying to make sure heaven couldn't hear him, "Did he have a stick up his ass?"
"Sideways.", Egon replied.
"Typical.", Angolo said with a snicker before his face turned to outrage, and he yelled, "Wait! What do you mean it was resolved!?"
Egon told him, "He said Dante could stay as long as he didn't cause trouble."
"What if you're lying to me?", Angolo said while narrowing his eyes suspiciously at the two men, only for a small scroll to fall on his head.
Looking up, they all saw what looked like a very shiny dove sitting on the rafters. When they looked back down, they saw Angolo with a demonic tail holding the scroll and reading it, his face growing in increasing increments of anger before he threw the scroll aside and yelled at the dove.
"Oh, come on! Thanks for the heads up, Uriel. It was a really big help! I could've used this info over an hour ago!", he screamed at the bird, who suddenly flew up and vanished in a blast of golden light. Angolo growled and griped, "Fucking Angel's."
He sighs in aggravation and turns to the two scientists while telling them, "Alright, you can let me go."
"What?", they both ask like it was a stupid request.
"What do you mean, what? I have no reason to stay or kill anything, so I'll peacefully take my leave. And if I'm lying, may God strike me where I stand.", he assuredly told them while holding up a scout sign.
"That's the oldest swear ever.", Egoin shot back while crossing his arms.
"If I'm telling the truth, by God's will, your hair will turn green, professor.", Angolo told him with a snide smile.
Egon smiled proudly back, knowing it would never happen, but then he glanced at Izuku, who looked at him in surprise, so he peeked a glance in a nearby mirror and saw that his shandy locks had turned green! Grabbing at them to make sure it wasn't a wig, he yelled and begged the man, "AH! Change it back! Change it back!", Angolo smiled, and when he looked back at the mirror, his hair was normal again. She sighs and admits, "Okay, we believe you."
Egon then went to a control panel and pressed a button where the hum of energy ceased, and restraints popped off his body. Angolo fell to his feet and rubbed his wrists where he complimented, "Man, this anti-demon tech is the real deal!"
"That's what you get when you have a real demon to test on.", Egon said with a bit of pride, but as the half-demon man was about to leave, Egon called to him and asked, "Before you go. What exactly are these?", he asked as a mechanical arm descended and held Angolo's weird gun shoes.
"I was wondering why my feet were so cold.", Angolo commented, looking down at his feet and walking over to reclaim his footwear without socks.
"That doesn't answer my question or why they weigh so much.", Egon told him as the machine arm refused to release the shoes.
Seeing no way but to blab, Angolo told him, "There are my extra guns. They give me more of a kick when I fight. Plus, if someone is pinned underfoot, it's the end once I stomp. As for why they weigh so much, that's the point. It would be a problem if someone could just knock me out of them and then use them against me."
"I'm pretty sure you're the only thing around that could use these weird things.", Egon commented.
Angolo made a sour expression, marched over to the professor, and pointed a finger into his face while saying frimley, "Don't you dare say shit about my shoes! My beloved baby brother designed them for me, and I proudly wear them!"
"Okay, geez, I'm sorry!", Egon exclaimed while backing away. After Angolo stopped being offended, Egon asked, "Why did your 'baby brother' even design shoes like this?"
"Oh. He got inspiration from watching me play Bayonetta with him in my lap.", Angolo regarded it as a fond and happy memory.
The scientists look at one another before looking back at the man where Izuku asks, "You play Bayonetta?"
"Sure I do! The games are always tons of fun, and Ceraza herself is a fucking icon! I drew a lot of inspiration from her.", Angolo told them with excitement.
"That explains a whole lot.", Egon said under his breath.
Just then, Angolo twirled in Izuku's direction and posed while handing him a card, saying, "Here, green bean, for you."
Izuku looked down at the card and saw it had Angolo's full name and phone number on it, along with a cute little picture of a horse and a winky face. Apparently, his last name was Zalman. Looking up from the card at his grinning face, Izuku told him, "I'm…not into guys."
"No, no, it's not for that.", Angolo waved him off before getting a look on his face and offering in a suggestive tone, flicking a forked tongue, "Unless you want to?"
Izuku blushed a bit and backed away before Angolo laughed and assured him, "I'm just teasing. If you ever need someone to do something rather…sinful, give me a ring, and I'll make it so. Consider it a sowwy from me." He then turned and waved the two of them off over his shoulder while saying, "Well, I've gotta bounce. Catch ya later."
With that, he opened a portal and walked through it, disappearing from sight. Once it was gone, Dante came out from his hiding spot and asked, "Is he gone?"
"Yes, Dante, you can be at ease. He won't come back…hopefully.", said Egon in an unsure tone.