CENTRAL CITY, COLORADO

In an alley behind a liquor store in Central City, Colorado. A man staggers along finishing a bottle of liquor when strange music begins playing, He stops and looks around for the source.

"Fenrir Odensbane!" Gabriel Says, as he steps out from behind a dumpster and plays the tune again on a kazoo.

"Gabriel. I assume you're not here to apologize." Finrir Says, as he tosses his bottle away and they face off.

"Ya think?" Gabriel Says

Gabriel opens his coat to reveal a wooden sword, and Fenrir's face flashes with a glowing yellow wolf face and snarls.

"I vowed to do this honorably. No gimmicks. No tricks. Just mano... a-mano." Gabriel Says

Gabriel swings the sword around and Fenrir's hands extend into claws, as the funky music plays and they prepare to fight.

"Here, boy." Gabriel Says

Fenrir makes wolf growling noises, as Fenrir cuts Gabriel's hand.

"Ha!" Gabriel Says

"Never known an archangel to bleed." Fenrir Says

"Ya got me." Gabriel Says

They continue to fight and Gabriel is wounded in the side but vanquishes Fenrir with his wooden sword. He pulls out a slip of paper with a list of names on it and crosses out Fenrir's with a bloody finger, and then walks away.

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MOTEL ROOM

Inside the motel room, where Sam is unpacking and Dean's on the phone with Castiel.

"Yeah. No, we just got in. Mm-hmm." He looks at Sam. "What are you doing? Don't unpack." Dean Says

"Dude, we could be here for days." Sam Says

"No. No. Hey, hell, no. Hey-No, not you. That's... Just call us when you get to Amarillo, all right?" He hangs up. "All right, look, Rowena's spell said that Gabriel would be here." Dean Says

"Yeah, here or in Texas." Sam Says

"Yeah, she tracked his essence--which, gross--to both places. So Cas and Katherine is gonna hit up the Lone Star State in a few hours, and we will check this place out." Dean Says

"Okay. And that could take some time." Sam Says

"Which we don't have. Look, I know you know that we've been following leads for the past two weeks. We have nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, Mom, Elena, Jack, they could be hurt. Or worse. And we're stuck here in this stupid motel room...doing..." Dean Says

He kicks the bed Sam's sitting on, activating the magic fingers vibration, and Sam jumps to his feet. Dean kicks the bed again and the vibration stops, and Dean points at the bed.

"Bonus." Sam gives him a get-on-with-it look. "Looking for some runaway, dumbash archangel who doesn't wanna be found." Dean Says

Suddenly there's a knock at the door and they arm themselves and open the door to find Gabriel, injured and bleeding.

"Hey, fellas. Looking for me?" Gabriel Says

APOCALYPSE WORLD

In Apocalypse World, Jack and Mary walking through the forest together.

"Balthazar's army attacked, but we were ready. And then I... I killed him." Jack Says

"And Bobby?" Mary Says

"Well, he'll be back in a few days with the people that we saved." Jack Says

"How many?" Mary Asks

"30 at least. You're not happy? This is the third battle in a row that we've won." Jack Says

"Jack, I know. I...we're running out of space and supplies. I mean with Wren now around, and now with all those new people, I just...don't know how we're gonna take care of everybody." Mary Says

Suddenly there's a rustling in the woods nearby, and Mary instantly draws her gun and aims it at a man with raised arms.

"Sorry. Didn't mean to startle you." Jakob Says

"What is it, Jakob?" Mary Asks

"Just got word from the eyes outside Michael's fortress." Jakob Says

"And?" Mary Says

"They're saying the angels, they're leaving." Jakob Says

"Why would they leave?" Jack Asks

MOTEL ROOM

The motel room, where Sam is bandaging the wound on Gabriel's side.

"All right, this is gonna hurt a little bit." Sam Says

"A little?" Gabriel Says

"How'd you know we were here?" Dean Asks

"Come on. I felt your witch's tracking spell the second she laid it on me. Tasted like haggis." Gabriel Says

"So now you're in trouble?" Sam Says

"What gave you that idea?" Gabriel Says

"You show up on our doorstep, bleeding like a stuck pig." Dean Says

"This? Eh, you know, you...roll into town for a little R&R, stumble into the wrong poker game, take a guy's money, his wife... things get messy." Gabriel Says

"You're trying to tell us you came here for R&R?" Sam Says

"Yeah, this isn't exactly the Riviera." Dean Says

"I know, right? Huh. Yeah, so anyway, um...I don't suppose you guys have any more of my grace laying around, right? 'Cause, uh, the tank's a little low." Gabriel Says

"Oh, did you drain it killing Asmodeus?" Sam Asks

"And ditching you. It'll recharge. Eventually. But, uh, until then..." Gabriel Says

"Whatever we didn't use on you, we used to open up a rift." Dean Says

"Cool. Superdupes. Okay. Well, uh, in that case, gentlemen, I must bid you a fond adi--" He tries to stand and clutches his injured side and cries in pain. "Ohh! Yeah, nope. Maybe after a... little siesta." He flops over onto the sofa "Whoa. Aw. Aw, crap." Gabriel Says

Meanwhile outside in the alley from the teaser where two men have found Fenrir's body.

"Died as he lived-- side by side with the bottle." Sleipnir Says, as he picks up Fenrir's bottle and throws it away while he eats an apple.

"So little respect for our brother." Narfi Says

"Well, at least he got a few licks in before the shivving." Sleipnir Says

Narfi touches a finger to blood spatter on the ground and tastes it "This is archangel blood."

"Better call father." Sleipnir Says

APOCALYPSE WORLD

SURVIVOR COLONY

Elena is sitting on the steps of the old house she's staying at, she's seen holding Wren in her arms.

"Okay you've been changed and washed, and I know you've eaten..now it's nap time." Wren coos at her, she wraps her hand around her finger. "Come on baby girl, it's nap time now..come on." Elena Says

Wren starts to fall asleep in her arms as Elena continues to rock her, she kisses her daughter's forehead and looks up as she sees Marley approaching her.

"Hey Marley, back so soon." Elena Says

"Yeah I needed a break from playing tag, because
I was hoping that later you can help me with my archery." Marley Says, as Elena sighs.

"I was hoping you would forget about that." Elena Says

"When it comes to hunting I never forget, so.." Marley Says

"Okay, Wren's asleep now..I'll go put her down, and I'll reach you." Elena Says

"Okay." Marley Says, smiling.

"Hey, Kelly." Elena Says

One of the woman, Kelly, from a group walks over towards Elena.

"Hey Elena." Kelly Says

"I'm so sorry to ask you this, but could you-" Elena Says

"Oh sure I'll watch Wren for you." Kelly Said

"Oh thank you so much Kelly you're the best." Elena Says

"Of course I've had three kids, this will be fine." Kelly Says

Elena stands up and gently hands over Wren to Kelly, she's still asleep so Kelly walks inside the house.

"All right let's go Marley." Elena Says

"Finally, so I've practicing and my aim..is slowly improving. Maybe one day, you'll show me how to use a gun." Marley Says

"Don't push it." Elena Says

"Sorry." Marley Says, as Elena smiles.

Later on Jack is now using his powers, to look through the church which now seems abandoned, Jack opens his eyes.

The flyover was his vision or dream, and they're sitting around a fire in their camp, with a group of rebels.

"It's all empty." Jack Says

"You're sure?" Mary Asks

"There are a few angels guarding the perimeter, but inside...they're gone." Jack Says

"What is going on?" Elena Says

"Maybe...maybe he's scared." Jack Says

"We've been fighting Michael the better part of eight years. There is nothing he is scared of." Jakob Says

"He's scared of me. I'm winning." Jack Says, as Mary and Elena looks at him.

"Jack.." Elena Says

"I think we should go, see if Michael left anything behind, something that can tell us where he's gone, what he's planning." Jack Says

"It could be a trap." Mary Says

"It's all right. I'll keep you safe." Jack Says

MOTEL ROOM

Back in the motel room where Gabriel is, he's still passed out on the sofa.

"Until his grace levels come back up, I-I just...I don't get it." Sam Says

"Yeah, well, right now, don't care. He's here, and we're gonna keep him here." Dean Says

Gabriel suddenly waking up and bolting upright. "Where?! Where am I?" He sees Sam and Dean and remembers "Oh, right. You."

"Gabriel, look, we don't really know what's going on here--" Sam Says

"We need your help." Dean Says, sternly.

"Uh... yeah, not a big joiner." Gabriel Says

"Oh, so you got better things to do than save the world?" Dean Says

"Exactly." He inhales sharply and struggles to stand again. "Look, this has been...great, a real thrill. But, uh, I just came here for the silver stuff. And since you two are all fresh out, it's time for me to say sayonara." Gabriel Says

As Gabriel is gathering his things and making for the door, it slams open revealing Sleipnir and Narfi.

"Raspberries." Gabriel Says

"We're here for the angel." Narfi Says

Narfi's face glows with an overlaid skull, and Sleipner's glows with a horse's head.

"The hell are you guys?, the hell are these guys?" Dean Asks

"Oh, just a couple of Norse demigods." Gabriel Says

"Demigods?!" Sam Says

Narfi attacks Sam, and the fight begins. Sleipnir then attacks Dean, while Gabriel hides in the closet.

"Gabriel, little help in here!" Dean Says

Gabriel cowers, shaking his head as Narfi chokes Sam and Sleipnir backs Dean against a wall with a whip.

"Sammy!" Dean Says

Dean finally knocks Sleipnir down, and goes to Sam's aid, but Gabriel has beaten him to it, stabbing Narfi in the back with another wooden sword. Sleipnir watches as Narfi dies, and then Gabriel holds up the sword toward Sleipnir.

"Hiya, handsome. You ready to die?" Gabriel Says

Apparently not ready to die, Sleipnir runs away. Gabriel hunches over in pain after straining his injury.

"Ooh." Gabriel Says

"You okay?" Dean Asks

"Uh, yeah. I'll go after him in a sec. I just...need a minute." Gabriel Says

"Wrong." He holds up a pair of angel handcuffs "You're not goin' anywhere." Dean Says

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APOCALYPSE WORLD

THE CHURCH

Meanwhile Inside Michael's abandoned church as the rebels enter and search it with their weapons.

"Clear over here. All clear." Jakob Says

"Jakob, take the others. Check the warding." Mary Says

A group of her soldiers go out to secure the perimeter and Elena sighs.

"God, I really hate this place." Elena Says

"I know right, so many bad memories." Mary Says

"Look." Jack Says

Jack he points to the altar, set up like a war table with a map and plastic army men converging on one point.

"Well, those are Michael's armies." Mary Says

"Why are they all over there?" Jack Asks

"I don't know." Mary Says

"What are you up to Micheal." Elena Says

Suddenly the other men return dragging Kevin Tran between them.

"Look who we found in the dungeon. The prophet. Kevin Tran." Jakob Says

"Kevin?" Elena Says, as they angrily push Kevin to his knees.

"He's a traitor!" Jakob Says

"I'm-I'm a prophet of the lord. I was serving God-" Kevin Says

"You serve Michael. Prophet here turned his back on own kind." Jakob Says

"I didn't have a choice! I...y-you don't understand. I... I...I never used to believe in anything. Well, ex-except science-quantum mechanical unpredictably. But then the end of the world happened, and everyone around me--my friends, and my...my mom--they all started to die. But God chose me? What... What does that even mean?! Michael said he wanted to save the world, not kill it. But he...he hurt so many people. When I couldn't perfect the spell, Michael, he got mad and threw me in the dungeon. And I was so scared, but I fixed it. B-but I...I couldn't do it anymore." Kevin Says

"Kevin...breathe." Elena Says

"And then he...he..." Kevin Says

"Kevin." She placed a hand on his shoulder "What spell? What's Michael planning?" Mary Asks

"There's a place in the south where the walls between worlds are thin. Michael's gonna use a
spell from the angel tablet to open up the rift, and then he's g-" Kevin Says

"He'll invade our world." Jack Says

MOTEL ROOM

In the motel room, where Gabriel is handcuffed to the room divider, as Sam and Dean return and remove their jackets.

"You know...you guys are lucky I'm low on juice, considering what I did to the last guy who locked me up." Gabriel Says

"You know what? We said we'd let you go, just as soon as you tell us what the here is going on here." Sam Says

"Yeah, it, uh... it's not a fun story." Gabriel Says

"Well, we just broke into a junkyard and stuffed the body of a demigod into a car crusher, so I think you owe us some answers." Dean Says

"Okay, they're not really demigods." Gabriel Says

"Mm." Dean Says

"Look, the Norse pantheon is its own weird thing. Think of 'em more like, uh, god-begotten monsters." Gabriel Says

"Whatever. What did they want with you?" Dean Asks

"I killed their brother." Gabriel Says

"Why?" Sam Asks

"Remember when I told you what happened after I faked my death at the Elysian Motel?" Gabriel Says

"Yeah, of course. You went to, uh, Monte Carlo with a bunch of porn stars." Sam Says

"Uh-huh." Dean Says, smirking.

"Yeah... well, I left a few parts out." He relates the tale in voiceover as he's escorted into a fancy hotel suite by Fenrir and Narfi "After Lucifer, quotation marks, killed me, I needed to lay low. Luckily, I used to hang with a pretty resourceful crew. Found me a real top-shelf hideaway." Gabriel Says

Gabriel, in a tux with the tie undone, joins Sleipnir, Narfi, and Fenrir playing poker in the suite. He wins the hand, and everyone is impressed and laughing, and they toast, before Dean interrupts Gabriel's flashback.

"I thought this story had porn stars." Dean Says

"Ah! Good catch. My bad." Gabriel Says

The scene in the hotel suite rewinds at high speed, and Gabriel joins the poker game again, except this time smooth sax music is playing and the suite is filled with porn stars.

The action of the game is the same, but the tone is entirely different, with Gabriel playing it up for the woman in his lap. later in the same suite, Gabriel is in a robe with two scantily clad women.

"I had it made--all the booze I could drink, all the, uh, entertainment I could handle." Gabriel Says

Sam interrupts and Dean looks disappointed, but the action returns to the motel room.

"Okay! Why don't we just skip to the end?" Sam Says

Gabriel sighs and skips to the end of the story, asleep in bed with the two women, when Sleipnir, Narfi, and Fenrir bound him with a sigil and kidnapped him from his bed.

"So this is how it ended. By the time I came to, they had sold me to Asmodeus." Gabriel Says

"Why would they do that?" Sam Asks

"Hello? Lucifer? In case you don't remember, there was an apocalypse brewing at the time." Gabriel Says

"We remember." Sam Says

"Well, Vegas odds had my bro pulling off a big win." Gabriel Says

"Yeah? And whose fault was that?" Dean Says

"Mm. Fenrir, Sleipnir, and Narfi were just trying to cover their keisters. They needed to get rid of me before Lucifer figured out where they had me hidden. But selling me to that Kentucky Fried B-hole? For them? That was all profit." Gabriel Says

"So you want revenge." Dean Says

"Well, obviously. Roasting Asmodeus was, uh, satisfying for a hot minute. But you know one thing better than killing him? Slaughtering them all." Gabriel Says

"But since you're low on grace, you had to do it the old-fashioned way-- with wood." Sam Says

"Don't let anybody ever tell you you're just a pretty face." Gabriel Says, as Dean frowns and shakes his head at that.

"All right, anyway, if there are only, uh, three gods or monsters or whatever, how come there are four swords?" Sam Says, opening up his briefcase.

"Oh. That top one? That is for the man with the plan, the architect of my torture, and my own personal public enemy numero uno. Their papa... Loki." Gabriel Says

APOCALYPSE WORLD

Inside Michael's abandoned church in the Apocalypse World, gathered around the map table.

"Jakob's right. Leaving his plans like this? It's too sloppy."

"Or he doesn't care."

"Doesn't care?"

"He knows we can't stop him. He's probably making his move as we speak."

"No, I can go, right now. If I can surprise Michael, I can kill him." Jack Says

"Jack, no." Elena Says

"No, we can't let him cross over." Jack Says

"And we're not going to." Mary Says

"Look we know where he is," Jack Says

"Do we? Michael could've left this map as bait. Bobby's only a day out. We should wait." Elena Says

"Elena's right. Michael, he...never does anything without a reason." Kevin Says

"I say we let the archangel go. Let Michael be some other world's problem for a change." Jakob Says

"How can you even say that? That's 7 billion innocent people." she scoffs and turns to Jack "Jack, listen to me. This is Michael we're talking about. He's killed everyone that's ever stood against him." Mary Says

"Jack listen to us, we have to think this through sell we're asking is for a day. Please." Elena Says, as Jack sighs then nods.

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MOTEL ROOM

Dean drinks from a flask "Hold on. I thought Loki was you."

"It's trippy, I know. Look, remember when I told you I went into witness protection? Well, who do you think put me there?" Gabriel Says

"Loki?" Gabriel nods "You and Loki are friends?" Sam Says

"Oh, well... We were. A few thousand epochs ago, I was out for a hike in the fjords. Came across Loki bound in a cave, snake dripping venom into his eye. Ugh. Apparently, he had some spat with his pops. Anyhoo, I freed him. Saved his life. Then my real brothers started going at it. I wanted out. Loki owed me one, so... he helped me ditch Gabriel and become him." Gabriel Says

"So then you took on his whole...trickster vibe." Dean Says

"What did Loki do while you were impersonating him?" Sam Asks

"Oh. Well, he had his own family drama to worry about. It was in his best interest to go off the grid for a while." Gabriel Says

"But you saw him in Monte Carlo." Dean Says

"Well, I needed someplace to hide. He'd already helped me the once." Gabriel Says

"You know, none of this would've happened if you'd had just...stuck around and helped us fight Lucifer." Dean Says

"Hey, I did help you. "Casa Erotica"?" Gabriel Says

"You call that help?" Sam Says

"I call that art. But yes, without me, you two chuckleheads never would've known how to throw Lucifer back in the Cage." Gabriel Says

"But instead of giving us a hand, you ran. And you just did it again when you ditched us in the bunker." Dean Says

"All right, Dean-I have more important things to do than to join your little band of merry men." Gabriel Says

"Hey, what you're doing? This? This is not important." Dean Says

"Every day, Asmodeus tortured me. Every...day! He fed off my grace for years! He used me, he debased me until I was...what I went through...you don't forgive. Everyone who had a hand in it will die.
Get me?" Gabriel Says

"Yeah. We do." Sam Says

"Okay, you went through it. We get it. All right? But killing Loki? Not gonna change any of that. It's not. In fact, probably not even gonna make you feel better." Dean Says

"Well, agree to disagree, Dean-o. We all have our demons. Mine are here, in this town." Gabriel Says

"Okay. But...you're low on grace. And Loki knows you're coming." Sam Says

"Sam." Dean Says

Dean leads Sam out into the hall for a private conference.

"What?" Sam Says

"Not like I care about killing gods, okay? But this whole revenge kick? It's a waste of time." Dean Says

"What if it's not?" Sam Says

"You've seen it, Sam-with me, with Dad. Revenge only ends one way-ugly." Dean Says

"Well, maybe it doesn't have to." Sam Says

"Okay, I think I know what this is." Dean Says

"Okay, what is this?" Sam Asks

"You. You're you're so hopped up on this "Kill Bill" fantasy of his." Dean Says

"No, no, no. This has nothing to do with me." Sam Says

"If you had a shot at Lucifer, you wouldn't take it?" Dean Asks

"Of course I would. But this is about Gabriel. He needs our help." Sam Says

Dean rolls his eyes, but agrees to hear out Sam's plan back in the room.

"Gabriel, you agree to help us, we'll agree to help you." Sam Says

"Hmm." Gabriel Says, nodding his head.