"So, this is how it ends." Lucifer solemnly says to himself, tied up in holy chains and unable to move. Even if he could move there was nowhere to go. This cell wasn't anything special, but the heavily armed Exterminators surrounding the entire area made it so any escape attempt would lead to more unimaginable pain and suffering.
"Everything I worked for, my wife, my daughter, and all of hell slipping from my grasp. That's not even the worst part though, the worst part is that God didn't even have the nerve to do this himself. Nope, just sent a bunch of sadistic angels to ambush me. No epic battle, no civilization ending war, just a simple stab and grab, and now I'm here…all alone."
"…uh, Mr. Magne?" Lucifer perked up and looked behind him to see Maxwell's upper half leaning out of a portal. "I'm just gonna pretend I heard nothing."
"What? Not gonna blackmail me?" Lucifer asks coyly.
"Nah, who would believe me anyways? Care to join me back in hell?" Max invites with a hand outstretched.
"I thought you'd never ask." With a wide grin on his face, he hops a couple times in his chains toward Max and the human eagerly pulls him through the gateway.
With a grunt, Max pulls the lord of hell though and the portal closes behind them.
"Wow! That was easier than expected." Blitzo comments in an almost disappointed voice.
"We're not done yet." Max reminds him as he helps Lucifer get out of his bindings. "The angels are gonna realize Lucifer is free and send every Exterminator they can at us. We gotta hurry and get Lucifer someplace safe and defend him until he's back to full power."
"And where would that be genius?" Loona asks in a snarky tone.
"I could really do without the sass right now." Max grumbles.
"If I may?" Lucifer interiors while dusting himself off. "In the pride ring I have a cache of weapons and ammunition we can use to fight off thousands of angels. Normally I can summon them with a snap of my finger but being out of hell for so long has drained me of my power. If we can get to the pride ring and hunker down for long enough, I'm sure I'll get enough energy back to turn the tables."
"Looks like we got a plan. Now uh…how do we get from here to the pride ring?" Mad asks curiously.
Three imps, a hellhound, a human, and the devil himself now stand together…inside an elevator.
"Why is it that all elevators seem to have the same dull music?" Max asks as he can hear the soft music play as the elevator carries them.
Ding
The doors open and the team walks out. Soon enough they reach the outskirts of the Pentagram.
"Oh no! We're too late! The city's in ruins, it's all scorched, there's dead bodies and rubble everywhere!" Max cries out.
"No don't worry, this looks more like a scuffle between some sinners, maybe a turf war. Nothing to be concerned about, just the normal level of mayhem." Lucifer quickly explains.
"Oh thank….you know I probably should be thanking Him considering He's the reason we're in this mess."
The six make their way through the city, maybe sinners gaping in awe at Lucifer himself having returned to hell.
"Yes yes hello my lovely sinners. It's so nice seeing you all, and if I find out one of you has tried to claim my home as your own, I'll happily rip out your tongues and use them as Christmas decorations." He casually threatens, maybe scampering away to try and not risk getting on his bad side.
"Okay, so we just gotta get to the Hazbin Hotel and inform the others, that way we'll have a bigger group to help us fight, maybe the hotel can be used as a base?" Max wonders out loud before the entirety of hell rumbles.
"Damn it all! They responded just as fast as I feared." Lucifer's eyes gleam with hatred despite the smile on his face.
"We gotta hurry!" Max yells as they start running toward the hotel, only for hell to tremble again as the sky opens up.
"Too late!" Moxxie cries out as Exterminators begin pouring out of the crack, all armed to the teeth and ready to kill anything and everything in sight. Immediately the many sinners of hell panic and begin running away. Some unlucky ones were quickly killed in many ways, bisected with swords, impaled with arrows, gouged with lances, a total massacre and it was only the beginning.
"Fucking hell, now over Charlie wants all this stop." Max knew so many of these sinners were awful people, many who have raped, killed, and tortured, but in that sea of sin were also people who possibly had good in them like the friends before made at the hotel. Knowing some good people could possibly be killed in this unfair hunting game devised by god…it pissed him off.
"Okay, guess we're fighting our way through." Max growls out as he feels his body change, his veins glowing, teeth sharpening, and wrath filling his body. "Let's go! Remember to protect Lucifer!"
Two angels set their sights on Lucifer and swooped down ready to grab him, only for one to have it's screen face destroyed and body fall to ground as Moxxie sniped it out of the sky with a rifle in his hands. The other one was closing in on the lord of hell only to be decapitated by an axe swinging Millie who was splattered by a strange gold fluid.
"Gross! What is this?!" Millie shook her hands ti try and get it off.
"Oh don't worry, it's just ichor, the blood of angels." Lucifer calmly explained as the decapitated head rolled toward him and he nonchalantly kicks it in the air and starts impressively juggling it with his feet like it was a hacky sack.
"So it's just gold blood? Then I guess I'm over it, RAH!" She dives back into the fight, severing limbs and slicing bodies.
"You got quite a woman there Moxxie." Max compliments with a chuckle as Moxxie looks at her love struck.
"Yeah, I do~" He sighs happily before quickly aiming and shooting another angel out of the sky.
Max chuckles before one angel comes in close with a knife only for Max to dodge and put it into a chokehold. One angel comes from behind with a sword in hand, close to stabbing Max who was busy with holding the angel in a headlock, only for the sword wielding exterminator to be blasted to bits thanks to a shotgun blast from Blitzo.
"Thanks for the assist!" Max says before finally snapping the angel's head.
"Hey no problem! These so-called exterminators are easier to fight than I thought!" He cockily yells, not noticing the three angels looming behind him. But what they didn't know was the vicious hellhound behind them that quickly attacked, thrusting her claws through the bodies of the two on the left and right, and snapping her jaw around the neck of the one in the middle.
"Ptoo!" She spits out whatever ichor ended up in her mouth. "Ugh, tastes shittier than human blood."
The fight seemed to be in I.M.P's favor, but when Moxxie was looking up at the sky for any more angels, he noticed two angels working together to hold up a minigun, one aiming the weapon, and the other feeding the weapon the ammunition. "They're bringing out some heavy artillery!" Moxxie yells out to warn everyone.
"Oh fuck! Scatter!" Blitzo shouts as the six run out of the way before a hail of bullets began. With the fighters out of the way, more angels began swooping down and taking to the streets, ready to hunt those who escaped.
Max was running before he finds a destroyed building and hops through one of the broken windows. He tries to steady his breathing as he hears the many angels skulking around. Max puts a hand over his own mouth to try and keep as quiet as possible, until finally the angels move elsewhere.
"Phew." Max settles down, only to hear a crack behind some debris.. Irises red and ready to throw hands, Max gets on his feet ready to attack the source of the sound. He sneaks toward where he heard the noise, and just when he's about to pounce, he finds himself attacked first as whatever was hiding jumps him.
"Gah! Come on fucker! I'll rip your goddamn they post out!" He yells as the two tumble before crashing into a nearby wall. Shaking his head, Max looks at his opponent, only to find it's Loona. "Fuck's sake Loona, we nearly killed each other!"
"Max? Oh great, so I'm stuck here with you." She scoffs while Max rolls his eyes. Before he can say anything, he hears more demons scream before they're killed. The two peek over the debris and find a dozen angels patrolling the area.
"Damn! We got separated from the others, and there are too many exterminators in between us!" Max groans as he and Loona take cover behind the debris.
"These angels are really pissing me off!" Loona growls out, giving Max an idea.
"…quick question. Earlier today, you said something along the lines of 'try to pet me and I'll eviscerate you' right?"
"Yeah, why?" Loona asked, unsure of where he was going with this.
"Well, I've been using my own anger to try and fight, I think we'll be needing yours too." He explains as he raises his hand and begins moving it toward Loona's head, eliciting a large growl from her.
"Try it, shitfuck!" She dares him, teeth bared and claws at the ready.
"The way I see it, either I pet you and you get pissed off and kill these angels, or you claw me and I get pissed and invoke my own wrath." Taking quite the gamble, he finally puts his hand on top of her head between her ears with a soft pap.
"…" Loona is still glaring at his hand, eyes full of hate, yet hasn't attacked yet. Thinking it required further touching, Max continued petting her, gently rubbing the top of her head and surprised by how nice her fur felt. It was almost imperceptible, but with a bit more petting Max was sure he was seeing her face grow red. Her glare lessened and her gaze became more relaxed. Once his hand moved behind her ear and gently scratched it, he heard an unmistakable 'w-woof' escape her.
"Woof. Woof~" Max was blushing now as he heard the adorable sounds come out of the tough hellhound, he could feel her head pushing up against his hand, eager for more petting.
"C-cute…" The word slipped out of Max's mouth and caused the both of them to freeze as they realized what they were doing in the middle of the battle.
Max slowly pulled his hand away from Loona, he almost thought he heard her whine in displeasure before he saw her eyes fill with utter fury. "Yeah uh, I'm gonna go run now. But before I go…are you mad at me for seeing you like this, or mad that I stopped?"
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" Max was screaming in fear as he ran like his life depended on it, and it likely did. Dodging and weaving through several Exterminators, Loona was quickly chasing after him, screams filled with anger that were only interrupted when she clamped her jaws down on an unlucky angel's throat, the rage-filled hellhound tearing through everything in her path.
"OUT OF MY WAY! OUT OF MY WAY! CAN'T YOU SEE SHE'S GOING TO KICK MY BUTT!?" Max yelled out as he ran.
"OH I'M GONNA DO MORE THAN KICK IT!" Loona screeched as she ripped through another angel with her claws. "GET BACK HERE AND TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN!"
"I'D RATHER RUN AND HIDE LIKE A SCARED KITTY CAT!" Max retorts, soon seeing the area where Blitzo, Moxxie, and Mollie were.
"What the? Is that Max? And Loona rampaging behind him?" Millie asks as she squints her eyes to make sure she's looking at things right.
"Gangway!" Max yells out before he jumps over the debris and imps and rolls on the ground. Loona finishes killing the last angel in her way before hopping over the debris. Max looks at the enraged Loona and chuckles nervously. "So I know what you're thinking, should I kill this human? And the answer may surprise you…"
"Oh I'm not gonna kill you, I'm just gonna make you wish you were dead!" Loona snarls only to be interrupted as Blitzo hugs her tightly.
"Oh my sweet Loonie, I thought you were gone forever!"
"Ugh, I've only been gone a few minutes!" She huffs trying to push her dad away. She looks at Max again and mouths 'This isn't over.'
"That's gonna bite me in the ass later…wait where's Lucifer?" Max asks curiously.
"Wait, we thought he was with you!" Moxxie exclaims. Before they could panic, another hail of bullets rain down on the streets.
"Gah! That fucking minigun is giving me a migraine! How do we kill someone who's flying right above us waiting to rain death on us?" Blitzo gripes.
As the angel was preparing to fire its heavy weaponry again, it heard a series of clicks, indicating it was out of ammo. It looked around for its ally that was giving it ammo, only to suddenly feel something pull on its org. It looks down and was too late to fly away as it was snatched by a black tentacle.
"I think I can be of assistance!" A familiar voice can be heard as a portal opens up and out comes the radio demon himself.
"Alastor! Never thought I'd be so happy to see you!" Max laughs as he smiles at the overlord.
"Don't think I came alone!" He waves his mic and out in battlefield Max can see the other hotel residents join the fight.
"Oh this won't do." Niffty's voice can be heard before the small cyclops began darting around quickly snatching away the weapons from the angels. "Nope, nope, nope!" She repeats as she carries their weapons away just to give them to Max and I.M.P. "Oh Hi Maxxie! I missed you!"
"I missed you too Niffty! I'd hug you but I'm likely a mess, let's wait until after I shower off the dirt and ichor on me.
Suddenly two bombs roll near the weaponless angels before detonating. Cackling joyfully, Cherri Bomb drops in as she helps with the slaughter. "This is much more fun than cracking eggs!"
"True, the only issue is these bastards are yellow on the inside too!" Angel Dust comments before pulling out his tommy guns and riddling several more angels with bullet holes.
Any angels trying to run away are quickly picked off as Husk uses some guerilla tactics to shoot them from the cover, quickly using his cat-like agility to jump to different cover and keep the enemy confused on where the attacks are coming from. "I thought I'd be done with war, then again I'd barely call this a fight."
Some exterminators try to regroup only for Vaggie to dive into the fray, spinning her harpoon before plunging it into one angel, then throwing a dagger into one that came up behind her. Before any other could try to take her on, they are engulfed in hellfire, Charlie walking through the fire with her eyes red, horns sticking out of her head, and a vicious smile on her face. The two stand together surrounded by the exterminator corpses before Vaggie clears her throat. "Is it weird that I think you look hot in that form?"
"Only if it's weird I think you look hot killing angels." Charlie giggles as she slowly reverts back to her usual self and gives Vaggie a kiss on the cheek, the moth demon's face erupting in a blush.
"My little girl, killing angels and enjoying the company of her lover. Reminds me of my younger self." Lucifer says as he steps out from behind some debris.
"Lucifer! You're okay!" Max says with a grin before frowning. "Never thought I'd be so happy about that."
"Of course I'm okay, in the middle of the battle I had enough energy to create a portal to the hotel. There I informed everyone of the battle that was taking place, and they all bravely chose to join the fight. I thought hell was the home for the selfish and cruel…maybe there's more good in these sinners than I ever thought possible."
Max smiles at the fallen angel, ready to join the fight and put an end to these exterminators, only for the entirety of hell to be blinded by a brought white light.
"Gah! What happened!? Don't tell me the angels had a nuke with them!?" Max rubbed his eyes as he tried to regain his vision. Once he can see again, all he can see is that something has arrived that was worse than any nuclear weapon, God Himself.