I spent a while just sitting in the Garden taking in all the sights this place offered, but eventually I started getting restless, so I stood and made my way back to where Michael had said he would be while I took a break.
On the way, I decided to see what had changed with my sacred gear as I had noticed a distinct clicking sensation that only comes from an IM gear being in active mode.
With a bit of will, I summoned the physical gear to appear and nearly fell over from the sudden change in weight that doing so produced. I looked over my shoulder, intending to see why, and had to take a moment to just stop and think as I watched 12 wings of gears and cogs happily click away as if they were totally normal.
"Paraclete, what the fuck is this?" I call out after I reorient myself and adjust my walking and balance to the new weight.
"It would seem that upon you sitting on the Father's throne, you already mutated sacred gear, activated balance breaker by itself, and haven't deactivated since" I sigh as I start walking towards Michael again.
"Ugh, do you know why it looks like angel wings at least?" I had hoped that the halo would be the only biblical adjacent thing my sacred gear would do, but I guess not.
"It was most likely an interaction with heaven's system that caused the balance breaker's form to mimic that of an angel's wings and halo" I grumble about pain in the ass sacred gears the entire way to what I learnt was the main meeting room of heaven.
"Oi, Michael, you in here?" I ask as I knock on the large gold door that looks really important before I push it open just enough for me to stick my upper body in to see if he was in here.
As I poke my upper body through the gap in the door I am taken aback by the sight of what looks to be all the angels of heaven all in one place so with a completely blank face I give the now staring angels a wave before turning to Michael who stands in front of the massive table they are surrounding.
"Hey Michael, just came to tell you that imma a head back to earth and you most likely won't be able to find me for a while but don't worry I'll be back on the weekend to go over the system" I try and get my words out as quick as I can to not bother the super important people in this room.
POV change to 3rd person
The collection of seraph stared at the young-looking man with the metal halo and 12 moving clockwork wings in stunned silence as their brains tried to comprehend the impossibility of an angel they had never seen before with 12 wings, while Michael stood at the head of the meeting table with a strained smile.
Before what they all saw as a baby angel could even start to move back out of the room when he finished what he wanted to say, he was glompt by the messenger of God, Gabriel, and smothered between the woman's unnecessarily large bosom.
"Michael when did we get a new angel?. I thought that with mother broken and Father" she didn't dare say what happened to her Father, "gone that we couldn't make anymore but I've never met this cutie before" she says with unfathomable cheer in her voice only overwhelmed by the sheer amount of grief when she spoke of her father's disappearance.
"Yes, brother, why did you not tell us if a new sibling, especially one with as many wings as this one has?" The voice of God Metatron spoke, his voice echoing in a mind-numbing way for any mortal that would hear it.
"Because he isn't an angel", Michael says after a moment of hesitation as he tries to pry Gabriel off of Nick so he doesn't suffocate.
"Gasp, oh, thank heaven I can breathe", the holder of Clockwork Planet coughs for a moment before explaining to Michael.
POV return to 1st person
"I'm not an angel, I'm a human with a mutated sacred gear that takes the appearance of angel wings and a halo. And I'm only in heaven to help Paraclete in repairing heaven's system so Michael doesn't need to be here twenty-four-seven doing what he can so the whole thing doesn't collapse" I say as I take a large step away from the now much scarier looking Gabriel who looks like she wants to continue cuddling me even if I'm not an angel.
"Now if you'll excuse me I need to head home, I have people to help and children to teach" I say before I hurriedly slip out the door and damn near sprint away from the saraph as fast as I can, even going so far as to learn to fly with my new wings just to get away as quickly as I can.
With Paraclete's help, I was able to quickly return to the spot I arrived in this reality, and with a bit of willpower, I created a receiver to reconnect to the dimensional gate back in Zaun.
When the blue swirling portal reappeared, I quickly stepped through after saying goodbye to Paraclete, and when I arrived back in my reality, I saw all of the people who saw me off had gathered again.
"How did you know I would be back now?" I ask, and that seemed to confuse them, which in turn confused me even more.
"What do you mean you just left, not even a full minute ago?" That made me pause before I started going over the design of the gate in hopes of finding out what they were talking about.
What I found was both interesting and concerning that even after all of my double and triple checks that I didn't catch it.
I had thought that in this universe with magic, the spiritual world would be the 4th dimension, given how close it would have to be to interact with the physical world, so I built the Gate to isolate itself from i,t, not knowing that time was still the 4th dimension in this universe.
I had accidentally made it so that when the machine activated and shifted a person to a new dimension, its isolation from time would make the return trip almost the exact second the person left.