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The fusion did his best to act like Alastor throughout the week.

Thanks to the deal they made earlier, Alastor and Vox concerned the best way to act like the Alastor was for him to be the dominant one in the fusion. While Vox didn't like the idea of taking the back-seat it was considered the best option given that they had already tipped off the others something was wrong when they were grappling for control.

'We've finally got the others off of our backs,' The fusion mused,'They aren't fully convinced, but it seems they won't pester us for the time being…'

As they were walking, they heard Charlie call out,"Hey Alastor!"

They turned,"Yes darling?"

"I was just wondering, how is the book? Did you find what you needed?"

"Afraid not, it simply didn't have what we were interested in."

"Oh...Sorry."

They shrugged their shoulders,"Hmph. It's not your fault, we doubted we'd find it in there anyway. It was worth a shot…"

"Was what you're after not common?"

"You could say that. I suppose not even Hell has what we're looking for. Guess we'll have to try something else."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find it eventually! In the meantime, why don't you come help us?"

"Help?" They asked, biting their tongue to hide the annoyance growing in their voice. "What is this about?"

"Well Vaggie and I were thinking that we should put up some posters for the hotel! You know, get some advertisement around the Pride sector if you know what I mean?"

Wait...she wanted them to hang up posters? Seriously?

Vox growled,'Oh great, more charity work…' Wasn't like he was getting paid, he was missing out on his meetings and personal life to aid Charlie's crazy passion project. He was quite literally strung along for the ride and as was the fusion themselves, having to listen to two overlords as their guide all while masquerading as the original 'Alastor'.

"No offense, Charlie, but we'd much rather be by ourselves…"

"Ah come on, you've been secluding yourself for a while, you should spend some quality time with the rest of us! And what better way to do that then to help me put up some posters around Hell?"

"And why do you insist on coming?"

"So you won't be alone, silly!"

They darkly chuckled, radio static and corrupted signals blaring,"Believe us, Charlie, we're never alone…"

"That's a good one, Al! You're such a card!" She laughed, slapping her knee at the fusion's statement.

'That wasn't a joke…' The fusion thought flatly, rolling his eyes at Charlie's ignorance. The Techno Demon's eyes narrowed,"So what do we do now?"

"We head out silly! There's tons of places in the Pride Ring to put our posters! Maybe a new customer will come in if we spread them out enough!"

The fusion gave her a skeptical look at this,'We doubt that…' They sighed,"As much as we'd rather be left to our own devices, we suppose we'll tag along in setting up these….posters."

"Thank you so much, Al! Your help is really appreciated! Thanks for being such a sweetheart!" She latched onto him, giving the taller demon a warm embrace. They flinched, irked by the touch. Neither the fusion or their components had been hugged in a long while. Affection wasn't something either Vox or Alastor reciprocated and it was taking a lot of self control to not move away from her.

'We are not a sweetheart…' They thought, slightly embarrassed. They are a being made up of the most powerful overlords in Hell and they managed to get called 'sweetheart'. Not exactly something they wanted to be addressed by."Don't mention it…"

"Yay! Come on, Vaggie's already printed the copies! It's time for us to spread them all around!"

The fused overlord groaned,'Cannot believe she convinced us into this...These fliers are so childish, no ones going to want to sign up for such shoddy advertising. This hotel is already doomed to failure and she's not helping her cause with these awful fliers.'

And they weren't just saying this because they were made up of a TV mogul and a Radio Broadcaster, Charlie was sweetie but the posters weren't exactly something most demons would take seriously…

Vox scoffed,'And with how she blew herself on Channel 666, these posters aren't going to be doing her any favors…'

'At least she knew how to fight. Probably one of the few genuine highlights of that desirous interview.'

The fusion narrowed their eyes, reluctantly putting the last poster they had on hand on hand on the wall.

'That should do it. Now we should go locate Charlie. We've gone far enough in the Pride Sector that I think any lunatic who actually takes in their surroundings will at least notice them. Not to say they'll join in, I highly doubt these posters will convince most sinners anyhow…'

However when they tried locating Charlie, they realized she wasn't where she was earlier.

"Where'd she go? She was just over here a second ago. She couldn't have gone far…" They searched around, annoyed they hadn't found anything yet. Their ears perked up when they heard a noise. Narrowing their eyes, they went over to investigate.

When they saw Charlie, they noticed a group of random sinners were surrounding her. One in particular was a wolf demon with sharp fangs and eyes.

"Excuse me, but would you five like to sign up for our hotel? The rent is really cheap and-"

"Hah, like we'd sign up for that loser hotel. We ain't stupid. Now get this stupid trashy papers off of our turf."

"Your turf?"

"This is our area to hang around, we don't want your stupid posters on our property. And as for your so-called 'redemption' go choke on it. Now go scram and take your stupid kiddy posters to someone who cares, that is, if anyone does at all."

Charlie shrunk a little, looking down dejectedly,"But I just wanted to hel-"

"No one wants your help, you dumb broad. Go choke on a rainbow and fuck off. And as for your 'posters', I think I know a better way to put them to use." The wolf roughly snatched the stack of papers from Charlie and took a bite, shrugging,"Crushed dreams should taste less like glitter and crayons…"

Charlie's hopeful demeanor shattered, her eyes softening in disappointment and sadness. She readied herself for defeat, turning her back. Suddenly, she ran into the fusion, who she forced a small smile towards,"Hey Al. We should get going, kind of lost the posters. We should go back to the hotel and manage things there."

They looked down at Charlie, silent rage burning in their eyes. Their sight locked onto the group of sinners and their smile became more forced than usual.

"Al? It's time to go…"

"Not yet, Charlie. We have to go talk with that group of lowlifes."

"Al, it's not necessary. Just some rough people, nothing out of the ordinary down here. There's no need to confront them."

Charlie attempted to hold them back but was unable to grab them in time. Marching over, the Techno Demon's grin became more strained as they asked in a fake cheerful tone,"Hello there little fella. Mighty fine day isn't it?"

The demons immediately jumped, cowering upon seeing who they assumed was Alastor."AIEEEEH! Its the Radio Demon! Everyone run!" The other sinners hightailed it out of there, fearing for their lives. They caught the wolf demon by his tail, forcing the lesser demon to face them.

"And you sir are just the one we wanted to speak to! That behavior you displayed was quite unprofessional, why don't you do yourself a favor and apologize to the princess?"

"Why the hell would I apologize to that broad? Her fucking passion project is a waste of time! All I said was the damn truth!"

"Truth or not, what you did was highly uncalled for. Now do yourself a favor and apologize, else we won't hesitate to use more...violent measures to get what we desire." To prove a point, they began contorting their form to become as monstrous as possible, now becoming much taller and their limbs sharper and inhuman. The wolf's eyes widened, now seeing the most terrifying creature before him. Bolts of electricity crackled off of their form as the radio dials and immense glitching, TV and radio static blared, now becoming loud enough to deafen the surrounding area's eardrums.

"DON'T THREATEN CHARLIE NEAR US EVER AGAIN, GOT IT?"

"Y-Yes! I'll say what you want, just don't hurt me!"

They then reverted back to their normal form, eyes gleaming with hostility,"Good. Now fulfill your part of the deal…" They pointed at Charlie and gave the demon a glare,"Don't make us regret being merciful towards someone as pathetic as you…"

They then forced the wolf before Charlie and said,"We're waiting…"

"I'm sorry Charlie…"

"Good. Now, scram. And do let the door hit you on the out…"

The wolf quickly ran away from them, fleeing the scene in terror.

'Think we scared them off, Alastor…'

'You bet we did. We won't have to worry about them ever again…'

"That should be the last we see of them…" The fusion mused.

"Uh Al…."

They blinked,"Yes?"

"No offense, but was that truly necessary?"

"Of course it was. Such offenses shouldn't be if you showed a bit more backbone wretches like that would have thought twice than to push you around like that."

"Al, I"m trying not to scare my potential customers…"

"Doesn't mean you have to allow yourself to be walked on. And besides, we're certain nothing of value was lost back there…And don't worry about those posters, we're certain we can make some more."

"But all the copies are gone. I don't have the original to make a copy out of."

"Well I believe we can do something about that." They summoned an entire stack of replicas out of thin air,"There we go."

"How did you-"

"Don't ask, just be glad we did it! Now let's finish setting the rest of these up."

Charlie put up the fliers while they watched. While they still didn't believe in the cause, they had to give Charlie credit for trying so hard against all the odds.

Charlie then rubbed the back of her neck,"Think that's everywhere in the area. At least it's something. And just in time too, it's getting rather late."

"That must mean we should return to the hotel…"

"Yeah...And Al? One last thing."

"Hm?"

"Thanks for the save back there. It was a bit...much but it did the trick. Though I gotta say, I had no idea you could do that to be honest."

"Do what?"

"That weird electricity stuff. Where did you learn how to do that, Al? I never seen you use that before. Is it something recent?"

They blinked, internally their components muttering the following,

'Fuck.'

'Dammit. Come up with something, now. We've come too far to get found out now.'

Thinking fast, the fusion did their best to make up a story from the previous events. They nervously smiled, averting their gaze as they said,"Erm...We found it one of those books. While it didn't have what we were looking for, we did learn some interesting tricks, like the ability to warp electricity…."

That was a huge lie, but they didn't really know what else to say. The real source behind the power was Vox but they knew that would blow their cover.

"Oh? That's odd, I didn't think they had that type of stuff in the books...Well, at least it wasn't a total waste of your time at least!"

"Erm yes. We suppose so."

"Come on Al, lets go tell the others about your new powers! They'll be so excited to hear about this!"

The fusion laughed sheepishly,"Do we have to, darling? We'd rather the others not know, it'd be better if they didn't…"

"Ah come on, don't be like that Al! There's no need to be shy, everyone is gonna be happy when they know you can do these cool tricks! Come on, let's go tell them."

The fusion's smile strained as Charlie held their hand and led them away. They felt slightly guilty at the lie they had told the princess, who had been nothing but kind and honest to them, but Vox, Alastor, and the fusion themselves knew what would happen if the truth came out.

The consequences of said lie could be faced when they were separated. For now, playing up the lies and rolling with it was the best they could do.