The Release of an Archangel

As you may (or may not) know, Floppa cast an archangel down to Inanis. The angel’s name was Marshall (his original name was Lucifer but he hated it cos it was too girly) and he was a seemingly normal angel in the eyes of others - but the others cannot see what lies inside a person’s heart…

Floppa noticed something was wrong with Marshall when the archangel took a squad of Sergeants (he was the General of the Duellum at the time) down to the human world to exterminate some Noctis. All of the members of the party (except for Marshall) hadn’t come back, and when asked about the loss of the party members, Marshall claimed that the Noctis had killed them.

Of course, this wouldn’t seem odd - except that all the angels Marshall brought with him were all angels that he’d previously had arguments with. Moreover, despite the Noctis being strong enough to kill all the other angels, Marshall didn’t have a scratch on him. And so, Floppa came to suspect that Marshall had done something to the other angels.

The next day, Floppa had Marshall assemble another squad of angels to go back down to the human world and exterminate Noctis. Like before, only Marshall returned - but soon after another angel returned, making Floppa doubt whether Marshall was evil or not. This angel was covered in scrapes, cuts, bruises and had a couple of broken bones. He reported to Floppa that everyone else in their party had been killed by the Noctis or brainwashed, and since Marshall was unable to save the angels, he had killed the Noctis and the brainwashed angels.

Floppa lamented the loss of the angels, and He decided that He’d search for the bodies so that He could give them a proper farewell. He decided to send a party of Scouts down to the human world, and made sure to give them items that would save the Scouts from any danger they might come across.

Soon, the Scouts returned - without the bodies they were supposed to find. The leader of the party reported to Floppa that the dead angels and Noctis couldn’t be found anywhere. To be specific, it was almost like none of the angels had ever gone to the human world. Shocked, Floppa considered the possibility that the Noctis had taken the bodies of the angels and eaten the dead Noctis, and so He arranged a visit to Inanis.

Upon confrontation, 69 denied having the dead angels in his possession, and encouraged Floppa to look around Inanis if He wished to. Fooled by 69’s confidence, Floppa left and went back to Caelum. There, He tasked his finest Creo with making a magical crystal ball that would show Him what He asked it to show. Soon enough, such an item was delivered to Him, and He questioned the ball about the location of the dead angels’ corpses.

The crystal ball revealed a ghastly sight. The angels had not been killed. Instead, they had been kidnapped and used for experiments. All of them floated in tanks filled with a cyan-colored liquid, and there were several butterfly needles attached to various parts of their bodies, collecting blood and transporting it to a large tank in the middle of the room they were in. Some were unconscious, and the others were awake but seemingly paralyzed.

Floppa, horrified by this, immediately summoned Marshall and questioned him as to the fate of the corpses. Marshall told Floppa that the bodies had been lying there when he left the area, although there had been some sort of neon green light that appeared just as he left. Curious about the neon green light, Floppa questioned 69 once more, and yet again 69 denied Floppa’s accusations. This time, Floppa took 69’s offer of looking around Inanis unimpeded, but He still didn’t find anything.

Returning to Caelum, Floppa considered the idea that maybe some humans had discovered the angels and revived them somehow through some esoteric art. However, that wouldn’t explain why the Scouts had said that the bodies weren’t anywhere in the human world. Maybe 69 had created a new dimension without his knowing, or he’d just hidden them somewhere that Floppa didn’t look through in Inanis.

Just as He was about to run out of ideas, an angel in a white lab coat came into his line of vision, and he seized the angel. Upon interrogation, Floppa was able to find out that the angel was a Creo that had been threatened into becoming a researcher for a rebel angel group in Caelum named the Insurgents. She had been heading towards a laboratory where they had been conducting experiments on other angels to try and enhance Noctis strength (since angels were a lot stronger than Noctis) and speed.

Right before Floppa was able to get the name of the leader of the rebel group or the location of the lab, the angel suddenly started to choke. Unable to do anything, Floppa watched as the Creo died from asphyxiation. Armed with this new information, He came to a forked path: either He’d purge Caelum and erase all the memories of Caelum all of the non-Rex angels received after arriving to get more time to come up with plans for rebellion, or He’d let things continue and investigate before doing anything major.

Floppa decided to let things continue, since He didn’t want to do anything he would regret. If push came to shove, then Floppa would terminate the angels spreading chaos and bring order back to his dimension. Summoning the Gaudium General, Floppa commanded her to investigate Marshall and the people he affiliated himself with in secret, and soon enough He discovered the identities of many Insurgent operatives. However, whether Marshall was an Insurgent or not was still a mystery to Him.

Thus, Floppa decided that He would join the next party Marshall led to the human world, and soon enough an opportunity came. Floppa asked Marshall to show Him the squad that he would be going down to the human world with. Just as the squadron was about to leave, Floppa pulled one of the angels aside, (secretly) told him of His mission, and disguised Himself as the angel. He then followed the other angels through one of the connections.

At first, nothing seemed odd. Marshall was commanding the angels to kill Noctis, as a Sergeant taking his soldiers on an extermination mission normally would, and from time to time he would approach another angel to have a quick conversation with them. However, as time passed, Floppa realized that they were getting farther and farther away from the portal - far enough that He could not feel the connection’s presence anymore.

Suddenly, a team of Noctis launched an attack out of nowhere. Several angels were captured and would’ve been brainwashed if it weren’t for Floppa, who unveiled his true form and turned most of the Noctis to dust with a shine of his holy light. The rest hissed and scowled, watching Floppa cautiously. Then, the leader of the group of Noctis (a Crapula for the curious) turned towards Marshall and spat at his feet.

“Traitor…” it hissed. Then the group fled.

Floppa, whose curiosity had been piqued, questioned Marshall as to the meaning of the leader’s message. However, Marshall denied having any connection with the Noctis, and claimed that the Noctis were simply attempting to have the angels kill each other. To Floppa, this would’ve seemed like it could be a possibility, but after discovering the Insurgents, He couldn't take any chances. Floppa decided to strip Marshall of his rank.

A few days later, a fight started within the Duellum barracks. Ever since Marshall had been demoted, several angels had gone missing, and an angel had accused him of kidnapping them and sending them to Inanis. However, Marshall remarked that even if he did kidnap the angels and send them off, they were good for nothing and deserved to be gone. This angered several more angels who had been close to the ones that had been presumed dead or gone missing. Eventually, the fight had gotten extreme enough for Floppa Himself to step in and stop the fight. As a result, Marshall was moved to a different location.

Unbeknownst to Floppa, this was exactly what Marshall wanted - a secluded place where no one had any reason to visit, where he could take the ones who did and send them to the lab. Unfortunately, his efforts had been slowed, but he could still transport angels to his lab at a steady rate. The Noctis continued to grow stronger, the cause unknown to everyone except the Insurgents.

At one point, Floppa decided to visit Marshall because He felt like it - and He caught Marshall in the act of kidnapping an angel. A confrontation ensued, and through that Floppa found out why the Noctis had been getting stronger; it had been because the blood of the captured angels had been used to empower the Noctis. As a result, nearly eighty percent of the Noctis had become half-angel.

Disgusted, Floppa searched Marshall’s memories, found the identities of the other Insurgents, discovered the lab’s location, and then banished him and all the Insurgents to Inanis. The angels in the lab were rescued and had their memories of the lab wiped. The Insurgents were lost to time, and several hundreds of thousands of years later, all the half-angel Noctis were wiped out in the event deemed the Purification.