Heroines Mallory, Vena Cava and Talking Tina fight the fallen angel Abaddon and his accomplices vampire Lady Valentine and succubus Morphine.
Mallory is France's answer to Buffy...sort of. Buffy was blonde;Mallory has flaming orange-red streaked hair. Buffy dressed in pastelskirts and flowery halter tops; Mallory wears red and black vinyl withcombat boots. Buffy hung around with two other high school students--geekXander and witch Willow; Mallory hangs with a mute, telepathic juvenilenamed Talking Tina, a blue-haired drag queen and explosives expert namedVena Cava, and the head of Commando Operations, Inspector Durand. Buffytook directions from her mentor Giles; Mallory consults the Necronomicon.Buffy was single; Mallory killed her husband with an ax on their weddingnight when she found out he was a demon about to sacrifice her. What Buffyand Mallory do have in common is that they fight vampires and other evilcreatures.
While speaking to a crowd in Paris, Pope Hieronymous I has beenkidnapped. The Ministry of Secret Services has called Anti-ParanormalCommando Operations leader Mallory [Olivia Bonamy] to find him, much to the dismay ofCarmina Belladone, the Vatican's press attache. After watching a videotapeof the actual kidnapping, Mallory believes the masked kidnappers to be theliving dead, but Belladone thinks they were just terrorists in bulletproofvests. She's not about to buy rubbish about "living dead" nor does shelike Mallory and her band of superstitious mercenaries.
It's not going to be an easy mission. On their last assignmentfighting ghouls, Vena Cava wound up in a neck splint, and Talking Tina wasbitten by baby ghouls and now lies in a coma that the doctors say could bepermanent. Worst of all, Inspector Durand was killed. Before embarking onthe search for the Pope, Mallory invokes the spirit of her dead husband [Julien Boisselier]who is now a wandering demon in limbo. He is able to identify thekidnappers as evil spirits who have vowed obedience to Abbadon the Dark,the exterminating angel who fell from God's grace during the OriginalFall. Rumors are circulating about him in limbo, demon hubby says. Theysay that he's preparing to free the fallen angels and destroy all ofcreation.
Mallory gets a list of all supernatural events occurring in Franceover the past five years. Plotting them on a map of France, she noticesthat they form a pentangle. Using that pentangle, she heads south fromParis in her pink and black hearse to a spot where 5,000 inhabitantsdisappeared some 15 years ago. Along the way, she is surprised when a batlands on her windshield and it turns out that Talking Tina has possessedit. Using her negative energy detector, Mallory is led to a gate in themiddle of a forest. Passing through the gate, she finds herself in anotherdimension, so she gets back in her car and drives through the gate. Whenshe comes to a crossroads and has the choice of going to the Crypte desVampires (Vampire's Crypt) or the Relais des Loups Garou (Werewolf Inn),she heads towards the vampires.
Mallory stops at a gas station that sells Fresh A+. Talking Tinadetects telepathic waves coming from behind the station. Mallory checksit out and finds several humans being held in cages. After releasing them,she discovers that one of them is Father Carras [Adrià Collado], one of the Pope'sbodyguards who also disappeared when the Pope was kidnapped. Carrasdoesn't know where the Pope is, but he decides to teem up with Mallory.Tina takes over the hulking body of the gas station attendant, and they'reon their way again.
Meanwhile, Vena Cava [Jeffery Ribier], who was left behind in Paris, has beensearching for Mallory with her locator. She found the gate, went throughit, and meets up with Mallory just as Mallory, Tina, and Carras areattacked by hordes of cloaked ghouls. Vena jumps on top of a cement post,aims her thick-soled boots, and shoots silver bullets. Well, she thoughtthey were silver bullets. Guess that the salesman lied. In order to getaway from the ghouls, the four Commandos jump into a well where they finda secret passage. Labyrinth though it is, they manage to find the Pope [Laurent Spielvogel]when Tina leans on a wall and it breaks through. While the Pope complains,Carras releases him. Mallory notices the lack of guards and becomesconcerned that releasing the Pope was a bit too easy.
Unbeknown to the Commandos, they have been being watched by thevampire Lady Valentine [Valentina Varagas] and the succubus Morphine [Sophie Tellier]. Cautiously, theCommandos head back through the labyrinth, looking for the exit. Suddenly,they come upon a green dragonlike monster that chases them until theydeadend in a small room and the door closes, shutting out the dragon. Whenthey spread out to look for an exit, a wall of spikes drops down in thecenter of the room, trapping Vena, the Pope, and Tina on one side andMallory and Carras on the other. While the Pope continues to kvetch, Venafinds a lever under a floorstone and turns it. The wall begins to move.It's going to crush Mallory and Carras. Vena turns the lever the otherway, and the wall stops. Then it begins to move in the opposite direction.If not stopped, it's now going to crush Vena, Tina, and the Pope.
Vena grabs her tube of blue lipstick and aims it at one of the otherwalls. The lipstick explodes, creating a hole. First she pushes the Popethrough the hole. Then Vena follows. Unfortunately, the hole isn't bigenough for the gas station attendant to fit through, so Tina transfersherself into Vena's body. The gas station attendant is crushed. While Tinalooks for another body to possess (she can't get into the Pope for somereason), Mallory and Carras come across some writing carved into the wall.It's in Latin and Carras can read it after making a rubbing. It tells thestory of how God locked the fallen angels in an abyss but Abbadon escaped.A prophecy says that he will reincarnate as a human every 100 years "untilhe is the one God entrusts with the keys to His Kingdom." Mallory andCarras put 2+2 together and realize that Abbadon is none other than thePope.
Separated from Vena, Tina, and the Pope, Mallory and Carras searchfor them. They come upon a young man in chains. Carras wants to releasehim, but Mallory notices the bite marks on his neck. As they fight overwhether or not to destroy the man, Lady Valentine appears. In front ofMallory and Carras, she sinks her fangs into the man's neck and drinks himdry. Mallory recognizes her immediately as the Pope's press attache, Carmina Belladone("always sucking up"). Lady V then turns on Mallory. Mallory puts up afight, but Lady Valentine is immortal. Not even a pole through her heartcan stop her. Lady V captures Mallory and Carras and takes them to hercastle in the sky, where Vena is already being held in chains.
The Pope is there, too. He explains to them that his kidnapping wasactually an elaborate ruse to lure Mallory to him. Now that she's out ofthe way, he plans to destroy the world of sinful humans to make room forthe fallen angels who were created by God in His image, perfect andimmortal. Wanting her to witness his ascendancy, he has Mallory placed inspiked handcuffs and suspended from the ceiling rather than destroyingher. Mallory reminds him that she never works alone, so the Pope/Abbadoncalls in Morphine the succubus, who can assume other personas. Morphinemetamorphs into Mallory, kills the Minister of Secret Services, andconvinces the Army General to send his troops to the Loire valley, leavingParis unprotected.
Morphine then pays a visit to Tina in her hospital bed. Tina [Thylda Barès] hasmanaged to get back into her own body, so when Morphine shows up, theyhave a telepathic showdown. Tina wins. Because her body is still weak,Tina takes over the body of a young nurse and returns to help Mallory. Inthe meantime, Mallory's demon hubby comes to her to enjoy the spectaclebut, perhaps out of a sense of guilt or maybe even love for Mallory, heinforms her that the mixing of their blood when she killed him hasactually imbued her with power. He compels her to use this power to freeherself. Mallory focuses, and the handcuffs break away. Mallory kissesdemon hubby. The next thing she knows, she is kissing Carras.
Tina advises Mallory and Carras about Morphine killing the chief andhaving the troops sent to the Loire. The three of them hurry back toParis, where the Pope/Abbadon is invoking the Powers of the Universe andthe Forces of the Ether to open the Gates of Hell, where he intends tosend all humans (which doesn't sit well with the vampire Valentine). On amakeshift altar in front of him lies Vena, awaiting sacrifice. Whileghouls chant "Abbadon! Abbadon!" Carras and Tina sneak up. Tina sends atelepathic message to the ghouls to kill themselves and to one ghoul tocut the ropes that bind Vena. They then turn on the rest of Abbadon'sfollowers while Mallory concentrates on Lady V.
Suddenly, a line of protective green fire goes up around Abbadon.Carras pulls out the rubbing he made and reads, "He who crosses the Lineof Peril shall confront his worse enemy. Only inner faith will triumphover this ordeal." Mallory looks to Carras, but he throws away his cross.His faith has crumbled, and he cannot help. The deed falls to Mallory.Concentrating all her faith, Mallory steps across the flames. An ax takesshape in her hands. Suddenly, she is facing herself in her wedding gownand herself as an executioner. "You can't escape the Evil inside of you,"says one of them. "Good and Evil are two faces of the same monster," saysthe other. They take swings at Mallory with their axes. Mallory tossesaway her ax and ducks. Mallory the bride and Mallory the executionercancel each other out, and now it's just Mallory and Abbadon face-to-face.
The sky opens up, and Abbadon attempts to force Mallory back, but shestruggles to approach him. When it's apparent that there is no stoppingher, Mallory grabs the edict from Abbadon's hands and eats it, mumbling,"Fut toi!" She tosses Abbadon down the stairs, the sky closes up, andAbbadon and Lady V tuck tails and run. "I lost the battle, but not thewar!" screams Abbadon as he goes through a door into the interstellarvoid, tumbling...tumbling...
Epilogue: Mallory visits the grave of her demon hubby and gives himback his wedding ring, releasing him from limbo (re: Necronomicon, chapter112). Lady Valentine moves to the island of Izu, Japan and becomes a specialcorrespondent on the television. The Commandos head for Japan. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]
