Angel had been holding his own quite well against the ever increasing horde of demons and thinking of lots of incredibly witty things he could say back to Spike just to annoy him when the demons vanished. Completely, all of them, leaving him and Spike standing there as if nothing had happened, he didn't get it at all, he didn't like it though, whatever it was.
Spike had just turned to him, probably to bleat more about how he'd single handedly made the demons vanish when the flash of blue and gold gave away the reason. Not so much the Senior Partners as the other side. No wonder the demons had been getting stonger, he bet the male had sulked and upped the ante.
He nodded slightly, he wasn't about to do reverential just yet. Not to the ones that had taken Cordelia from him.
"Powers that Be" he said by way of explaination to the blonde vampire beside him. "This was a test?, a game, a punishment"
Could have been any or all of the above. Sometimes he hated these two.