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ARCH ANGEL
By Jason Peralta

GENRE: Sci-fi
LOGLINE:

Arch Angel is about Michael, the general of Heaven's Angel Army. His life changes after the Devil finds a gateway into Earth and starts enslaving the human race.

SYNOPSIS:

Arch Angel takes place in the distant future in a large city called Union City. It's one of several cities in the large Country of the United Kindom of Acaima. There's a Scientist by the name of Doctor Seba. He's a weapons engineer who's helped the army of Union City called the Union City Special Forces by creating many revolutionary weapons for them. He has a son named Kyle who just became a Union City Special Forces Soldier. After creating his deadliest weapon called the X-Canon that can destroy an entire city, he feels compelled to help humanity in some way. Using Nuclear Energy, he created a product called the Ghost Phone. The Ghost Phone allows people who lost a loved one the ability to speak to the dead. Shortly afterward he gets a visit from the Angel of Death warning him about the end of the World and a choice he'll have to make. The Ghost Phone becomes widely popular and as the citizens continue to use it, it causes a portal that transports the disgraced Angel Lucifer to arrive on Earth. He is very weakened by his arrival and needs to kill many human beings so that he can absorb their souls and go back to his former strength. After his arrival, it causes the Archangel Michael to arrive. He falls into the ocean and a rescue ship picks him up. Inside the boat, he meets a nurse on board named Molly who's able to tend to his poor health. Michael is also weakened and has a slight loss of memory. As soon as Michael is fully healed, some of his memories return and he begins asking Molly who controls the army of Union City. Molly informs Michael where he is and flies away with great haste. Upon Michael's arrival at Union City Special Forces Headquarters, he absorbs the memories of a random Special Forces soldier patrolling the base and finds Captain Halloway. Michael introduces himself and warns him about an upcoming War between Heaven and Hell. Moments later Juliette shows up and attempts to unsuccessfully bring him down. Michael pleads with Captain Halloway to help him fight Lucifer. After Michael escapes Captain Halloway chooses to follow Michael and have him captured. Michael ends up taking shelter inside a cave at the beach in Union City where Death is waiting for him. He tells Michael that he needs to complete his training before challenging Lucifer and his Demon army. Michael believes there's no time to train and too many people will die in the process. Death fights Michael and beats up Michael to a pulp showing him that he's not yet ready to fight Lucifer. Meanwhile, Lucifer arrives with Doctor Seba at the Special Forces Headquarters where the X-Canon is stored. Lucifer blackmails Doctor Seba to use the X-Canon to destroy a nearby city so he can collect all the souls and regain his former strength. Doctor Seba refuses until Lucifer captures his son Kyle and gravely injures him. Doctor Seba cooperates and destroys a nearby city called New Kroy City where 500,000 innocent civilians lose their lives. Lucifer quickly flies there and absorbs all the souls, finally regaining his former strength. He opens a vortex where his top Demon generals Beelzebub, Leviathane, Mammon, Belphegor, and Asmodeus arrive on Earth. Back at the Union City Special Forces Headquarters, Doctor Seba was arrested. It turns out that Lucifer was making Doctor Seba see illusions and tricked him into using the X-Canon. His son Kyle is embarrassed by his father's actions and is ordered by Captain Halloway to take a break from the Union City Special Forces while seeking counseling. We see Michael completely healed from his injury after fighting with Death and Juliette arrives with about 12 other Union City Special Forces soldiers. Michael defeats all the soldiers without killing them and tries to convince Juliette to join him against Lucifer and his demon army. After Juliette rejects Michael, Michael is able to have Juliette speak with her daughter who passed away years ago. This is what convinces Juliette to help Michael. Doctor Seba is now in a huge stadium about to get publicly executed in front of Captain Halloway, King Highland, Juliette, and all the citizens of Union City. Before Doctor Seba is killed Michael rescues him and puts Captain Halloway into a coma. Michael was able to escape from the pursuing Union City Soldiers. Michael arrives in the beach cave with Doctor Seba and they discuss a way to redeem himself. He could help Michael and Juliette with the weapons and armor necessary to defeat Lucifer and his demon army. Michael transfers equipment to the cave and they both build a weapons lab together. Michael educates all of the demon Soldier's weak points to Doctor Seba as he continues to create prototypes for weapons and armor. Finally, after weeks and weeks of building, Doctor Seba introduces the weapons to Michael and begins production. Juliette visits Captain Halloway in the Hospital and all of a sudden, Lucifer and his Demon army start attacking Union City. Juliette contacts Doctor Seba to meet her at the Union City Special Forces Headquarters with Michael. Juliette rallies all available soldiers to go to war. She tries to introduce the new anti-demon weaponry built by Doctor Seba but the soldiers refuse to work with a man guilty of murdering all the people in New Kroy City. However, she makes a heartfelt speech and they all agree to join her in the battle against Lucifer. All of the Union City Special Forces go to war against Lucifer and his demon army. Even though they put up a valiant effort, the Union City Special Forces are killed along with Juliette. Michael almost dies but Death saves his life and he is brought back to the cave where Molly tends to his wounds once again. Captain Halloway wakes up from his coma only to find his estranged wife Sheryl by his bedside. She conveys her frustration with her failed marriage and divorces him. After she leaves, one of the Union City Soldiers named Ryan comes in after and tells Captain Halloway about Juliette's demise. They both go to the Black Fortress war room where King Highland is plotting his own attack against Lucifer. Captain Halloway convinces King Highland to replace the massive army that he lost. King Highland agrees but under his supervision and not behind his back like Juliette did. When Captain Halloway returns to the Union City Special Forces Headquarters, he finds a mountain of human remains with a flag stuck on the top. The bloody letter spells out "surrender." Meanwhile, Michael is visited by Death while he's asleep and still healing from his wounds. Death finally convinces him to begin his training. He wakes up and leaves Doctor Seba and Molly behind. Captain Halloway shows up with a massive Union City Soldier army right outside the beach cave where Doctor Seba and Molly are. Captain Halloway and Doctor Seba strike a deal that if he helps build more armor and weapons for his soldiers, King Highland will pardon him and they will also rescue Kyle as he was being held hostage by Lucifer. The last stand between all humanity and Lucifer begins. Captain Halloway and his army start getting slaughtered until Michael shows up and saves everyone. Lucifer and his demon generals all gang up on Michael but Michael's Angel Generals Serphim, Uriel, Rafael, and Gabriel join the fight along with other Angels. Lucifer's army is killed and he's the only one left. He holds Kyle hostage while Captain Halloway finds out that Doctor Seba once again took over the X-canon. Doctor Seba tells Captain Halloway if Kyle dies he will pull the trigger, killing everyone. Lucifer kills Kyle and is killed by Michael. However, when Doctor Seba pulls the trigger, the X-canon explodes. It turns out that after Captain Halloway made the deal with Doctor Seba, he secretly installed explosives inside the X-Canon. Humanity wins the war against Hell. Michael and his Angel army disappear back into Heaven. Fast forward to the aftermath, the Ghost phones start being destroyed so that Lucifer can't come back. As all the Ghost phones get destroyed, Captain Halloway salvages one. He brings it to his office and contacts Juliette. She quickly responds. On the outskirts of Union City, we see a small electric spark in thin air.

ARCH ANGEL

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"Arch Angel is..."

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"Michael, the general of God's army of angels, must fight the devil from enslaving the human race."

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