Chapter 5

Six days later...
The Situation Room,
The White House Washington, DC

“Sire, Mr. President, Madame Vice-President, Madame Prime Minister, Secretary-General Bellucci, I’m afraid that the last North Korean forces near the DMZ have surrendered. The NCA has reached the 38th Parallel. North Korea has been entirely overrun by the Celestials. What’s worse, they’ve live-fed the summary execution of Kim Jong Un, along with much of his state and party leadership, and forced his sister to sign the formal papers of capitulation. She hasn’t been seen since, nor have any other prominent public figures from the Communist regime.

“By all accounts, the NCA is carrying out the same bloodbath that we’ve seen elsewhere upon their victories. Thousands summarily executed, basically shot most of the time, streets filled with flowing rivers of blood. Women brutally raped and then often forced to marry some of these unwed soldiers, per an apparent promise made to the troops. Children and youth were forcibly transferred to some kind of indoctrination centers for re-education.

“North Korea has been formally annexed to the Celestial Territories of East Asia as well. Some kind of provincial government has been appointed, mostly composed of ambitious Chinese Celestials, as the new regime doesn’t trust Koreans to govern their own territory at all. The 38th Parallel now represents the border between the Celestial Territories of East Asia and the Republic of Korea. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has officially ceased to exist,” the new National Security Adviser informed President Bernie Sanders, Vice-President Elizabeth Warren, Prime Minister Emma Watson of the UK, UN Secretary-General Monica Bellucci, and me.

“The annexation of Canada into the United States is commencing at least, so that’s some good news. Ten new states where provinces used to be. And we’re definitely in talks with Mexico to help arrange the union of our countries. So, there’s some good news, if nothing else. It helps when all of the governments are run by demons, so are on the same page, of course,” I smirked as I contemplated my planned consolidation of the unoccupied world into two major empires: the USA and the Asmodean Empire.

“Well, I’m afraid that I have some more bad news. The New Celestial Army has invaded Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, South Korea, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan all at once. You know what they intend to do, of course. Invade and conquer any areas that still have any significant human populations and aren’t fully converted into demonkind yet. They want to build up an even larger army than they already possess,” General Suarez announced now.

“Well, then, now’s the time to strike them ... and strike hard, then. Any reports on whether or not they’re using chemical weapons again, or else biological or tactical nuclear weapons, for that matter? Because if they are, those forces must be our primary targets. They cannot be allowed to poison the Earth, after all. Put me on the line with President Jovovich in Moscow,” I commanded.

I wasn’t sure how much of the “massive relief,” which Gabriel promised me on Inauguration Day, would really arrive from Heaven and its host. I certainly wasn’t too sure of when it might come, whether timely or not. He had been deliberately quite vague, of course. Part of me feared a double-cross by Michael, but that wouldn’t be in his best interests, would it? Surely, he didn’t wish to be supplanted by the Holy Ghost as King of Heaven, did he?

That was when I saw it ... and I was truly stunned. I watched with fascination, as did others, on TV and Internet, as a massive force of angels flew down from the sky and surrounded Taiwan. They hovered over the waters of the island, making it clear that it was to be guarded against invasion. Why Taiwan and not other areas, though? What made Michael choose to make his stand there? Why so many thousands of them, uncountable in effect?

I vanished from the White House and landed in the Russian President’s office in the Kremlin. Having installed Milla Jovovich recently as the President of a larger Russian Federation that included Belarus and Ukraine, I was eager to meet with one of my favorite puppet leaders. I fully intended to make good use of her, and not just in bed, though we were lovers, of course. It was high time to act, and so I would ... at least partly through her.