Celestial Cyber

Chapter 3: Guardian from Above

The Muscle Man leaned forward in its chair, put its hands together, and looked around at all of us. “I want to ask you all a question before I begin. Who here believes in angels and demons?” Everyone looked confused, and no one raised their hands. “That makes things a little more difficult for me, then. You see, I’m a guardian angel.” “I think I’ve heard children’s tales about those,” said Travis, the short, Caucasian, male engineer. “Aren’t they some sort of ‘holy’ being that is sent to the earth to protect a certain person from a variety of things?” “In a nutshell, that is what humans see my kind as. My situation is a little different, however, because I’m not guarding, per se, but I am defending. That sounds like the same thing, yes, but there’s a difference. A guardian angel protects a single human from evils like demon influence, but what I’m doing is protecting all of humanity, both from demon influence and itself.” “So you’re an angel?” I asked. “Then how did you end up as a robot?” The Muscle Man leaned back and said, “I’ll tell you my story, if you promise to hold any and all questions until the end.”

“About five years ago, back in heaven, I was a common angel, no different than any other angel I knew. My normal day consisted of worship and socializing. I never imagined that I would do anything big, but one day an angel approached me and told me to come with him. There’s no evil in heaven, so I had no reason not to trust him. I followed him to an area of heaven I had never seen before, an area that looked almost like a holy version of military boot camp. I saw all these angels, and they were using swords, shields, bows and arrows, all types of weapons. I asked the angel I was following what was going on, and he just said, “Don’t worry. You’re not being enlisted in that field. You are being given a much more special job.” I followed him into a building where I found a handful of other angels. The angel that had led me there left the building, so I began to socialize with some of the other angels.”

“I walked over to another angel and asked him what was going on, but he just shrugged and said, “I don’t know any more than you do, sorry.” I looked around at the other angels, and all of them seemed just as confused as me. After a minute or so, an angel with two sets of folded wings walked up to us and got our attention. I’ll try to remember exactly what he said. I believe his speech went something like this: “Attention, all angels, I have an important announcement for you all. As you may know, mankind has discovered a way to harness energy at an incredibly efficient rate. We, as mankind’s guardians, are very happy to see humans with less suffering due to the disappearance of their energy crisis, but I know as well as you do that human greed and pride with soon corrupt this wonderful discovery they have made. Our Lord, blessed be his name, has told us that in five years time, a disaster worse than what will be happening soon will fall upon all of mankind. You few angels have been summoned here now because you are to be given a gift, a gift that will hopefully save mankind. I know that some of you may be asking yourself, ‘If this is a big deal, why only send a handful of us?’ I was told that is because our Lord wants mankind to depend on him again, and if he were to send all angels to earth and stop it right now, they wouldn’t think about him. They will see such a short war as nothing to think twice about. You few, select angels will be sent to earth now so that in five years time, you will be able to rise to help save mankind, and hopeful in the process remind them of your king. In a little while, you will all be personally instructed what to do. Have a good day, and may the Lord be with you.” All the angels, including me, gave a joyous ‘Amen’ and looked around to see more angels with two sets of folded wings walking in. Each one of them took one of us and had us follow them to separate rooms.”

“The angel that I was following had me sit down in a chair across from his. I quickly asked him, as I suspect many of the angels in that room did first thing, why I was chosen and what I was going to do. “Why you were chosen, only our Lord knows that, but my job right now is to tell you what you will be doing soon. What do you know so far about important humans on earth?” I told him that I knew of some of the leading scientists and that I knew of the leader of Lucif Inc., Judas Lucif. “Good, so I won’t have to explain about him. Our Lord has seen all of history unfold already, and he has told us that soon, there will be a third great war that will endanger all of mankind. He has seen the head of Judas, and He informed us that this war will put a dark, heavy burden on his heart, one that he would do anything to get rid of. For this reason, Judas will soon make a deal he will regret, and this deal involves the destruction of all mankind.” I asked him how I was going to be involved in this, and he responded by saying, “There are some crystals on earth that our Lord made which have a unique connection to heavenly things, such as us. Demons have found a way to corrupt those crystals, and they plan to use them to control the robots mankind built. In retaliation, heaven, by our Lord’s command, will send you angels to earth to inhabit these same crystals so that, when the need should come, you can also take control of a robot.” The angel got up and motioned for me to follow him.”