Scribbles:Project Archangel

"So, let's begin," said Michael, queuing up his Powerpoint presentation on the projector. "Let me remind you that this data is rated Cherubim level - revealing it to personages of lower security levels is considered...unwise."

Caleb nodded. He understood how this line of business worked.

"Since this is your first briefing, let's go over the last week." He clicked a button and a picture of a pyramid in the desert. Plumes of sickly green smoke issued from between the stones. "On Monday, the earthly avatar of Anubis arose according to ancient prophesy." He clicked again. The new picture showed the smoking ruins of the same pyramid. "This crisis was averted by a pyromaniac cab driver from Newark and the orphaned daughter of an Egyptian ambassador."

"Averted..?"

Michael continued on. The next slide showed what looked like a scene from a Science Fiction movie. "On Tuesday, the hive of a race of semi-intelligent insectiods was destroyed by members of NASA's covert militant arm before the swarm finished its cocoon-slash-shuttle."

Click. This was a picture of an attractive blonde couple and a cheery little blonde girl. "Islamic fundamentalists detonated home-made explosives in an isolated district of Tel Aviv, inadvertently killing the Anti-Christ, who was on holiday from Sweden with her parents. That was Wednesday."

Click. "Coincidentally, that's the fifth Anti-Christ this year."

"Wait, sir...."

"And just this morning, well-known rock star and Kabbalistic messiah..."

"Sir? I don't understand. You say all of this already happened?"

Michael pulled off his glasses. "Oh yes. Since Monday."

"I still don't understand. I was told I was recruited to save the world. It sounds like it's already been done in spades."

Michael pulled up a calendar on the projector. "Yes yes, that's why Project Archangel is here. But as you'll note on the timeline, the world is projected to end at least once a day until April of 2012."

Caleb dropped his coffee.

"Ever since the Chernobyl meltdown was averted in 1986, the world has been living on borrowed time. Archangel's job is to make sure it stays that way."