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Having ended up in Apocalypse World following an attempt to rescue [[Mary Winchester]],<ref name="thirteen09" /> Lucifer's son [[Jack Kline]] is captured by Michael, who tries to use Jack's power to open a portal between the worlds to lead an invasion force through. Jack and Mary eventually manage to escape Michael's custody and after seeing the state of the human race on Apocalypse World, Jack decides that he needs to kill Michael to save Apocalypse World.<ref name="thirteen14" /> Jack and Mary subsequently form a human resistance against Michael.<ref name="thirteen18" />
In the main universe, Asmodeus prepares for the upcoming invasion by getting the [[archangel blade]] -- the one weapon that, in the hands of an archangel, could kill another archangel such as Michael and Lucifer. Asmodeus reveals to [[Ketch]] that Gabriel is still alive and Asmodeus' prisoner.<ref name="thirteen13" /> Ketch subsequently discovers that Asmodeus has been regularly injecting himself with Gabriel's grace to power up. Following a beating by Asmodeus, Ketch rescuesd rescues Gabriel and steals the archangel blade as well as Asmodeus' store of Gabriel's extracted grace. In exchange for sanctuary, Ketch delivers Gabriel, the archangel blade, and the grace to the Winchesters at [[the Bunker]].<ref name="thirteen17" />
While trying to treat the injured and traumatized Gabriel, Sam and Castiel discover that Gabriel had faked his death when Lucifer "killed him" during the Apocalypse so that he could abscond from his duties and return to a life of personal enjoyment before he was captured and imprisoned by Asmodeus. Asmodeus eventually tracks Gabriel to the Bunker and attacks, but Gabriel snaps out of his traumatized state and fights back, killing Asmodeus. Rather than help with Michael's impending invasion, Gabriel once more chooses to abscond from his duties and leaves.<ref name="thirteen18" /> Castiel later visits Heaven for help with finding Gabriel and discovers that with less than a dozen angels left alive, Heaven is on the verge of crumbling, with Gabriel being the last hope to save it.<ref name="thirteen19" />
