Chapter 4. Hold the fort.
Jack walked in the front desk room of I.M.P. with Dundy and Shelly following.
"Hey Loona!" Shelly greeted.
"Hey." Loona waved. She was on her phone at the desk.
"Guessing Pocherello ain't here yet?"
Loona snickered. "No. He asked me to let you know he'll be in late."
"Ah, darn!"
"Are you all prepped for today?" Dundy asked.
"Yep. Blitzø's getting the explosives ready in the other room." Loona answered.
"Great. I think I shall go see the man and run the plan by him again, he seemed quite excited for it."
"Well he's really excited about it, so I bet he's waiting for ya."
"Alrighty then, best not keep the imp waiting." He walked to the meeting room to meet up with Blitzø.
"Ima go up top and get stationed." Shelly said, turning to leave. "Good luck y'all!"
"You too Shell!" Jack called out. He checked his phone. "About two and a half more hours till today's Cleansing. Think I'll go see how the preps going and see if Blitzø has any new stories." Jack went to the meeting room.
Loona was left alone at the reception desk. Her phone's notification went off. It was Poch sending a message.
'Hey. bout to pop in soon and i got the Nachos ready.' Poch texted her.
The two agreed to watch some JoJo while they waited for the Cleansing. Loona sent him a thumbs up. Seconds later a blue gate opens up and Poch walks in holding a large bowl of nachos. It was mixed with ground beef and tomatoes.
"Here we go." He set it on the desk, went back to his portal, reached in and grabbed a jar of salsa and a tablet, closing the portal. He sat next to Loona and set up the tablet, grabbing two pairs of earphones out of his pocket. He handed one to Loona.
She took it and placed them in her ears before taking a bite of the nachos. "Mmph that's good." She commented, blushing when she realised that was said out loud.
"Thanks." Poch smiled.
Loona looked away and grunted, dipping her next bite in salsa.
Poch tapped away on his tablet and brought up the anime, continuing where they left off. Loona leaned in to watch and so did Poch.
Two hours later.
"Think we got enough time for part two?" Loona asked, having finished part one of the hangman episode.
"The Cleansings in like twenty minutes so not really." Poch answered, putting his tablet away.
"Damn."
"If you want, we could watch it at my place after the Cleansing."
"Really!?"
Poch giggled. "You really like this show huh?"
Loona felt her cheeks get red. "Well, it's not a bad show, I'll give you that."
"Alright, so my place some time after the Cleansing today? We can order pizza."
"...sure. That doesn't sound bad."
"Sweet." Poch opened a blue portal and placed the empty bowl inside it. "I should get going."
"Happy hunting." Loona said with a small smile.
As Poch left, Millie, who was leaning against the door frame, walked up to Loona with a small smile.
"...what?" Loona asked the imp.
"Nothing just….never seen you smile like that. Seems like you've taken a shining to Poch."
"What!? It's nothing like that!"
"You're blushing."
"Sh-shut up!" Loona stood up. "Let's just go Already!"
"Alright."
Jack, Dundy, and Poch got on the roof. Shelly was there, talking on her phone.
"That sounds great for dinner!" Shelly said on her phone.
"She's talking to Solis." Jack said.
"No doubt." Poch agreed.
"Can you add pepperonis to the garlic bread?...oh you're the best!" Shelly announced with joy.
"Shelly!" Poch called out to her.
"Hm?"
"Five minutes!"
"Oh fuck! Babe I gotta go...I love you too, stay safe!" The phone hung up and she placed it in her pocket.
"Blitzø's gonna take the first shift. He's on his way up with this new piece he's been wanting to use."
"Sweet!"
"Everyone's got their roles right?" Jack asked.
"Yes." Dundy answered, slamming his fist together to form his gauntlets.
"Yep." Poch added, drawing his daggers.
"Ready to gun!" Shelly said, twirling her red twin double barrel pistols on her hands.
The elevator dinged and out came Blitzø with a modified sniper. Its barrel was wider and it had a nozzle attached to its loader that ran to his backpack. "I'm here!"
"Boss!" Jack called to him. "You all set?"
"Hell yea!" He walked up to them. "Can't believe the first time I'm gonna use this baby is against angels!"
"I'm counting on ya boss imp!" Shelly told Blitzø.
"Alright guys," Jack unleashed his scythe, "let's go lick some angel ass!"
"Lick?" Poch asked.
"You mean kick." Dundy ascertained.
"I know what I said." Jack responded.
The sirens went off and the gates opened.
"Game time!" Poch tore open a gate and jumped through.
"Good luck." Dundy said, running off the edge and jumping to the nearest building.
"I'll be below." Jack wrote the sign for Dust, called for him, and jumped off, having his shadow demon form into wings, flying down.
"Alright boss man," Shelly said, "let's lick those asses!"
"Right!" Blitzø crouched down and looked through his scope.
Shelly brought her hand out and wrote X+ÇÆ~ in the air. "Le-armes!" She called out. The words went in her shadow and her shadow itself changed. It rose and took the shape of a giant disk with a light dark ring near its edge. The bottom parts of the ring's edge came out and turned to Shelly's side, breaking apart and forming into two long barrelled guns with a slot where the handle and trigger should be. Shelly shoved her pistols in the slots. A round slider came out from the disk's front and went around her eyes becoming a visor.
Blitzø ogled at it. "Wow…that's hot!"
"Heh, thanks, but I'm taken for by a cute sexy hellhound."
The angels came in and before some could touch any sort of ground, Blitzø and shelly already fired on them. Blitzø's rifle shot the grenades he made earlier, refashioned into explosive bullets with Dundy's help. He managed to nail some and disorient them.
"Boom! Suck it angels!" Blitzø yelled. "Ain't gonna kill ya but that had to hurt!"
"Nice shooting!" Shelly complimented. She aimed at the angels Blitzø shot, and fired on them, killing them. Each one Blitzø hit, she'd follow up with her bullets.
"Oh hey I see Poch!" Blitzø mentioned.
Poch was on the street, cutting through the Angel's that surrounded him. Three large angels wielding hammers ran up to him. Poch wrote Xțøæß. "Taurus!" The shadow demon Taurus appeared. He pointed forward and had it ram forward, stabbing its horns through one's chest. He then swung left and right, directing the shadow to do the same, punching off the other two's heads. He dismissed it and backflipped to avoid the two angels coming from behind, wielding claws. He stabbed them in the neck.
The Angel's noticed the exterminators and began to focus on them.
Back with Dundy, he was on a nearby rooftop, punching through the chests of Angel's with ease. He slammed his fists down on two, crushing them before he heard and felt a loud crash behind him. He looked back and saw an angel twice his size and overly muscular. It had a triangle shaped hood and a long cloak, having boots on along with white gloves and a white speedo.
"Ah, a big guy." Dundy said, turning to it. "You look to be quite strong because of your size." He cracked his neck and then his fingers.
The angel moved its arm back and punched at Dundy, crashing its fist into the roof, kicking dust and breaking through.
"...that does not mean," Dundy said, the dust clearing to show he swayed out the way, "you can defeat me." He slammed his fist into its gut, causing it to bend forward. "Size is not everything in a fight." He uppercuts it with his other fist, faultring it back before he grabbed its arm and its face pulled into his. "Pay attention. This will be on your final test." He said before punching its face.
On Jack's end, he was twirling his scythe around, shredding up the Angels. He spun it on his neck to cut the three that surrounded him. "Cmon! I want a challenge!" He taunted.
Four white birds the same size as him, with red masks and wide ten foot wings with silver metal feathers, flew around him. The spiraled around before darting to Jack and enclosing their wings on him, trapping him in a dome.
"...Dust." Jack said inside. Four black blades stuck out the bird's bodies before razing through them. "I said," the birds fell on the ground, segmented, "I wanted a challenge."
"Holy shit! They're tearing the angels apart!" Moxxie commented, looking through the window.
Blitzø came in. "Tag out, ran out of ammo!"
"On it!" Millie said, grabbing her assault rifle.
"Be careful Millie!" Moxxie told her as she left.
Blitzø looked out the window, monitoring Poch and Jack. "Look at those two go! So glad we hired them! And I helped take down a few!" He bragged.
Loona was watching as well but mostly on Poch. She noticed how he smiled and felt a little scared with how close some attacks came his way.
"And you said killing angels was ridiculous!" Blitzo told Loona.
"Uh-huh." Loona said, not paying much attention to him. Her eyes widened and she yelled. "Poch, look out!"
Behind Poch landed a mechanical angel with six long metal blade arms, eight spider legs, and razors on its chest. It had no mouth and only red eyes. It stabbed four of its arms at Poch.
The hellhound dodged it and lunged at it, swiping his daggers at it. Each swipe was blocked and it tried to grip him. Poch narrowly avoided its grasp and nearly got stomped by it. It spun its chest around, keeping its head in place, stretching its arms out, getting closer to Poch to try and cut him down.
Poch moved back, backing away from it as it came to him. Poch wrote X+ßøœ beside him. "Shiva!" He called upon his bone shadow demon and had it form two large bones and stuck them in the machines rotating arms, stopping it. He jumped up and had the remaining bone fragments for a sharp finger before piercing its head, destroying it. "There." He said.
Before he could dismiss Shiva, three more of the same machine came down in front of him. Poch had Shiva form into two big arms on his shoulders before the mecha ran up to him.
Dundy stood atop the angel brute, being on the ground in front of the building he was on, having caved its face in. "You failed." He told it before it became halos. He walked off the golden rings and heard heavy footsteps.
He looked left and saw an angel that was a little bigger than the brute but had metal gauntlets on its arms that had a hammer handle. It wore a mask with fangs instead of a hood, and wore a toga. Its skin was pale and it had four wings.
"Hm. Another wishing to take the co-" Dundy started before the angel vaulted to him and slammed its large hammer fist into Dundy, driving the owl into a building. He laid there and some denizens of hell, who were inside, screamed in surprise and fear.
The angel broke through the wall and walked to Dundy. It then started to slowly pummel him, each punch shaking the ground, putting him further in. It raised both fists up and slammed down on him.
Dundy shot up and grabbed its hands. "Hehehe-hahaha." He slowly and mildly laughed. He stood up and licked off the blood on his beaks. "Good news….you passed the test….bad news…" he pushed away its hands and wrote XÝĐß. "You passed the test….Asura."The words went into his shadow and the shadow ran up to Dundy's back, turning into six spots. From those spots emerged six giant arms.
The angel rushed its fists at Dundy, only for him to take hold of them with the top arms of the shadow demon. He pulled the bottom four arms back and drove them into the angel, crashing it out of the building. He walked out, brought out his phone and called Shelly. "Shelly. Got a hole that needs a quick patch."
"On it!" Shelly replied. She pulled out a red pullet from her belt. "Hey Millie?"
"Yes?" Millie shot an angel and threw it off balance.
"Can you shoot this at the ground near the hole Dundy made?" Shelly flicked the bullet to her.
"Sure!" Millie caught it, loaded it in, and got into position, aiming at the opening. She shot and once the bullet hit the ground and became a red barrier wall that covered the hole.
"Tell her I said thank you." Dundy asked Shelly. He hung up and walked up to the giant angel, cracking all six of his shadow knuckles, including his own. "Now then," the angel got up, "where were we?" He said.
"Dora dora!" Jack yelled, having his Taurus send a barrage of blows to a few angelic battle cubes and the blocky bees it released. He returned Taurus after destroying them. "Still no challenge!" He heard the sound of something slithering on the ground, coming up to him. "Oh fuck."
Four long and large white snakes, with wings and arms on its upper half, surrounded him. Each held a spear and pointed it at Jack.
"Got damnit! Dust!" He wrote and called on Dust, having the black mist surround him. "I hate the snake fuckers!" Two snakes stabbed at him and he had Dust create two black walls to stop the spears. Jack jumped back to avoid the two behind him and swung his scythe at them. The snakes blocked it with their spears, being slightly pushed back. The first two jumped up and dived at Jack. He spun his scythe, having Dust spiral around it to repulse the attack, jumping up and slamming dust down on the ground to create a shockwave to push them back.
He swiped a cutting wave of Dust at the two snakes in front of him, managing to cut one in half while the other managed to dodge and get only its arm lobbed off. He brought Dust back to him and had him form a larger blade on his scythe. He threw it and got the snake that avoided him. The two snakes beside him, wrapped around him and constrained him, tightening on him. "Hate...these….fuckers!" He said, losing air. His scythe came back and stabbed one in the head, freeing his arm to let him grab it and cut the others head off. He took a breath and looked at the corpses, flipping them off.
Poch's bone arms held two robot heads while the last bot's top half fell to the ground. Shiva crushed the heads it held and tossed them away. "Wonder who's leading?" He wondered.
He saw the falling corpses of the angels Shelly shot down. "Shelly may get first thanks to aid." He looked down the street and saw a horde of Angels coming down it. Poch smiled and ran to them. He wrote X+àçß and jumped into the air. "Ardov!" He rolled forward and his shadow covered him, enveloping him as it turned into a giant spike ball. The ball rolled forward, wheeling and crushing the Angels in its path. The Angels he missed lunged at him. He jumped up and slammed down on them.
Poch dismissed Ardov. "Wohoo!" Poch cheered, feeling good about himself, fist pumping the air. He didnt realise Loona was smirking at him from the window, thinking he looked like a dork.
Poch felt the ground shake. He got ready and looked around for the source. From the ground behind him came a lanky angel with drill arms and a brown robe. It kicked a surprised Poch in his ribs, flinging into a nearby gated window. He gritted his teeth in pain. "That's, ah, a new angel." Poch grunted, getting off the gate.
The drill angel ran up to Poch and stabbed both arms at the hellhound. Poch deflected it with his daggers and swiped at it, only to miss when it jumped back. Poch lunged at it and it dug underground. Poch looked down its hole, thinking about jumping down, till it popped out beside him and tried to give him a right hook.
Poch ducked and stabbed at it with his blue dagger. The angel deflected it out of his hands and sent it spiraling in the air, slamming its drill fist at Poch. He sliced open a gate with his red dagger and jumped back into it. Its other end opened above it and Poch came out, reorienting himself to grab his blue blade and dive at the angel.
Before he could gouge its eyes out, another drill-armed angel, this one wearing green, came out of the ground, arching to Poch and hitting him in the chest. "Gah!" Poch yelled in pain as he tumbled away but got back on his feet. He looked at the two angels and the brown ran up to him, sending a barrage of spinning blows at him.
Poch blocked and evaded the best he could and jumped out the way only for the other angel to try and bear hug him. He rolled forward and started to write but before he could get the first letter in the brown one came from behind and punched its drill at the back of his head. Poch narrowly swayed his head out of the way, getting nicked on the cheek. He sliced at it to get it to back up, trying to get another word in. The green drill angel came at Poch, pincering him with its ally.
Poch tried his best to fend them off, but their speed was great despite the size of the drills, he could barely block and deflect the attacks. He had two words in, an X and a ß floating near him. He took a chance and continued his words, going one word at a time. Each word he got in was followed by him getting hit or scraped by the drills. He took a few blows before finally being able to write Xß+₩ß×. He tossed up his blue dagger and had it form a gate before jumping through it, avoiding the Angels attacks.
The Angels looked around for Poch. A blue portal opened behind the brown one and out of it emerged the teeth of Chomper, chomping down on the angel and munching it into a bloody pulp. The green drill angel rammed its arms at Chomper only for Chomper to jump forward and disappear before contact was made, Poch coming out of it and digging his daggers into its eyes.
"Got ya!" Poch yelled. The angel's arms closed in around Poch, locking him in. "What the-!?" A third angel with drills came out of the ground, diving at Poch. "Shit!" He tried to write but his arms were constricted due to the grapple he was in. He braced for impact.
As soon as the drills were about to hit him, Klarna emerged, coming out of Poch's shadow. It swung its giant blade at the angel, knocking it back before slicing it down in half. It then grabbed and ripped off the arms holding Poch before crushing the green Angel's head. It knelt to Poch and lifted him up before the hellhound swatted its hand away. Poch glared at the shadow demon, growling at it. He stood up, holding onto his bruised ribs. "I didn't ask for you!" He growled. Klarna blankly stared at Poch. "...go the fuck away!" He told it, dismissing Klarna.
The hellhound exterminator sliced open his red gate and walked through, appearing in the I.M.P conference room with a scowl.
"Poch! You ok!?" Millie asked, concerned. She had switched out with Moxxie.
"I'm fine, just need a quick fix."
"You don't look fine." Loona said, also concerned.
"You took a lot of hits from those Angel's, glad they didn't rip you a new one, literally. We'd have to call you holes." Blitzø remarked.
Loona glared at Blitzø. "Shut up!" She turned to Poch. "I'll get those pills Dundy told us to make."
"Thanks…" Poch thanked her. Loona left to grab the pills and Poch thought back to Klarna being summoned. He tightened his fist. 'He came again...dammit!' He thought in anger.
The large brute stumbled back, beaten up and bruised by Dundy, who stood in front of him with Asura.
Dundy had both his arms up and stepped side to side. "Hmph!" He sent a left jab, the middle left arm mimicking it and hitting it on the gut. "Hmhm!" He sent a left hook followed by a right hook. "Ora!" He did a triple armed uppercut, sending it in the air. As it fell Dundy reeled back all his arms.
"ORAORAORAORAORAORA!" He yelled as he sent a furious barrage of punches at the Angel. "ORAAAA!" He sent the final blow straight to its head, nearly ripping it off.
It fell to the ground, dead. Dundy dismissed Asura and stretched, cracking a few bones. "How much time is left?" He looked at the clock, it showed that the cleansing had fifteen minutes left. "Last wave is coming up." He looked up and shock hit his face. From one of the gates near him came a blimp-like device that had four angel shaped wing jets. It was flying straight to the I.M.P. building with eight small spears rotating around it. "Oh no."
"Bombers?!" Jack shouted, having one come out the heavenly gate near him.
Poch drank some water and swallowed a blue pill Loona gave him.
"The hell is that?" Blitzø asked.
Poch looked out the window and nearly choked. "Cagh coach! A bomber!" He saw two more behind it. "Three Bombers! Shit!" He grabbed his phone and quickly dialed up Shelly.
Shelly answered her phone. "Yea I see them! Should I try and take out a few of its orbitars?"
"Let's not risk it, think you can shield all that?" Poch asked through the phone.
"I'll try, this is a big building!" She hung up and dismissed her shadow demon. She wrote Xę+§æ in front of him. "Dome-don!" Her shadow became an octagon shield with spiral linings coming from its edges to the center, segmenting it.
"Is that donnie?" Moxxie asked.
"Jack tell ya?"
"Yea. It's a shield apparently?"
"Something like that." She tossed it up and it stopped face up on top of the building's center. The segments expanded and spiraled around the whole building, covering it.
"Holy shit!" Moxxie said in awe.
"Yea...cool right!" Shelly said. It was nearly pitch black inside so Moxxie couldn't see her with her arms out, struggling to hold Donnie.
One of the blimps launched a sphere at the dome, the object exploding on contact. It launched another only for it to be sliced by Jack, who made wings from dust to be able to fly.
"Come get some!" Jack said, the explosion from behind by the severed sphere making him look like he's in an action movie.
Another blimp came by and launched its orbiter. Jack was about to destroy it till a chunk of concrete crashed into it. Jack looked down and saw Dundy with asura out, holding chunks of the ground. Three more orbs were launched by the blimps. Jack got two and Dundy managed to nail one. The leftover angels took the opportunity and started to fly up to the dome, attacking it.
"Shit!" Jack flew to the Angels and cut up a few. He looked back and saw an orbiter fly to the shielding, exploding on impact. He looked between the blimps and Angels, thinking of which to focus on.
Dundy tried his best, but his method wasn't a very accurate one and he had too much to target, some chunks he threw hitting Shelly's dome.
Shelly grunted. "Can't...keep up...if this continues!"
Jack and Dundy's phone rang. It was Poch. They both answered.
"Poch?" Jack said.
"Jack, focus on the Angel's! Dundy, just target the blimp on your left!" Poch told them.
"What are you planning?" Dundy asked.
"Trust me!" Poch told them through his phone. He hung up.
Jack put his phone away and decided to trust Poch. He went to the Angels hammering at the dome and started swinging his scythe at them, cutting them up.
Dundy focused on one blimp, throwing chunk after chunk of rock at it, a few hitting its spheres and causing it to explode on it.
The unattended blimp fired a orbitar. Jack and Dundy wanted to react but their trust in Poch stopped them.
A red gate opened and a black bone arm came out and grabbed the orb. Poch came out with his arm attached to the bone arm and tossed it back. It exploded on its front and Poch turned the arm into a bone wire and stabbed it in the blimp, pulling to it and landing on its top. "Ok, it's got like four orbs left." He made a bone arm and grabbed one of the orbs. "Gotta help Dundy." He threw it at the other blimp before grabbing another to do the same.
He tried to grab another but it was launched. Poch acted quickly and shot a bone arrow at it, destroying it. However he was too slow to stop the next orb that fired. It hit the shield.
It didn't have any orbs left and Poch feared that. He knows how they work and when it's out of orbiters, it itself becomes the final bomb.
Its jets revved up as its power was stored. Poch formed two large bone spears and launched them at its top jets, shortly piercing it. Poch pulled the left one back and jumped at it, kicking it in. It lost balance and Poch grabbed the spear with his dagger and spin slammed it into his other spear, breaking the other thruster. The blimp began to lose altitude.
Poch had Shiva turn into a giant spiked hammer head, having it attached to his blue blade. He jumped up high and spun down, cutting open a red portal before making contact with the blimp, going through it to appear under it and slammed it down under the blimp, sending it upward before it detonated.
Poch looked over and saw the blimp Dundy attacked was falling, having been wrecked by debris. He noticed it only had one of its spheres. He glanced at Shelly's dome-don, seeing it shake and rattle. "Oh shi-" the other blimp exploded and pushed Poch away. Povh was about to summon Ardov till Jack caught him.
"Gotcha!" Jack said.
"Jack!? what about the-" poch started.
"Taken care of!" Jack said. "Bombers are down too, so mission successful."
"...no...we're forgetting something."
A bright light and the whirring sounds of power came from a mid range distance from the building's front. They looked forward and realised what they had forgotten. It was the third bomber. While they were taking care of the first two, the third one was storing power.
Its wings became bigger, its spheres sped around its body, and it glowed brightly. It was about to ram into Shelly's dome and she couldn't handle a blow like that,not in this condition.
"Crap! How we gonna take that down!? Dust isn't strong enough to carry and hurl Dundy at it!" Jack surmised.
"Then hurl me!" Poch demanded.
"What!? Are you crazy!?"
Poch held the end of his blue dagger under the handle of his red one. "Do it!"
Jack looked at him unsurely before getting serious and nodding. He flew to the bomber's path. As soon as it launched, Jack threw Poch at it.
The bomber rocketed to Poch and the hellhound shoved his blue dagger into the red blade's handle, the blue blade absorbing itself into it. The red blade of his dagger lit up and extended into a long katana that was a mixture of blue and red with its edge being both jagged and smooth. Crimson and blue auras raged from it and Poch spun around, sticking the blade out.
Contact was made and Poch cleanly cut through the bomber with ease. He kept up his momentum and cut open a red and blue portal, quickly getting through it before it exploded. He was only partially in when the bomber detonated, getting hit by its shock wave and pushed through, tumbling on the roof of the building. His katana turned back into daggers.
"What was that!?" Moxxie asked.
The sirens went off, signaling the end of the Cleansing. "Oh thank fuck!" Shelly exclaimed, finally able to dismiss her shadow demon. She fell to her knees, panting, as the dome retracted back to a small shield, going back into Shelly's shadow. She looked to the side and saw Poch laying on his front, near the wall. "Poch!"
"Satan's balls!" Moxxie shouted as Shelly and him ran towards Poch, Shelly being a bit sluggish. "Is he ok!?"
Jack landed by them on the roof. "Poch!" He called out.
Poch groaned and slowly got up. "Im… I'm fine." He said.
"Are you? You took a heavy hit and used your chaos blade."
"Chaos blade?" Moxxie asked.
"Im...fine." poch reassured, holding his arm as he stood up. He weakly smiled.
Jack sighed. "Let's get you patched up. Shelly could use some rest too."
"That'd be nice." Shelly said, sweating and recovering her breath.
"I'll call Dundy and give him an update."
Loona placed around, trying to focus on her phone to seem natural.
"Loona calm down. I'm sure he's fine." Millie told her.
"Y-yeah I know that." Loona feigned assurance.
"He's probably good, besides, now we can officially say we fought Angel's! Suck it Verosika!" Blitzø said.
"Why her?" Millie asked.
"You know why."
The door opened and in came Jack holding up Poch.
"Poch!" Loona exclaimed, approaching them.
"He took a big one, but he'll make it." Jack reported.
"Tis but a scratch." Poch joked.
"A bunch of scratches."
"I'll get the medkit!" Blitzø said, dashing off for the box.
"Can you sit him on the chair?" Jack asked Loona.
"Yeah sure." Loona took a hold of Poch and guided him to the nearest chair. "Easy there." She said as he slowly got into it with her gentle aid.
"Thanks." Poch told her with a small smile.
"Don't mention it." She returned the smile.
"Millie, Shelly could use some refreshments, mind helping her." Jack told the imp.
"On it!" Millie saluted, hopping off.
"Got the kit!" Blitzø said, slamming in the room.
"Thanks." Jack took the med kit. "Now can you give us some privacy?"
"Why?"
"I gotta dress his wounds."
"We can be here for that, unless there's something embarrassing he doesn't want S- hurg!" Loona grabbed his throat.
"Let's just go, Blitzø!" Loona said, aggravated, pulling her adoptive father out.
Outside the room, Shelly laid on the couch, trying to cool down. The door opened and Dundy walked in.
"Hey Dund! How you managing?" Shelly asked.
"I'm fine. Mind getting me a glass of water and a pill, Moxxie?"
"Sure." Moxxie went off to get what was asked.
"Shelly, on my way here, I ran into someone."
"An angel we missed?" Shelly asked.
"Nope, something better."
From behind Dundy came a light Gray and white hellhound. His color patterns were the reverse of Loona's, which meant his tail had a white tip and was gray underneath. He was about two inches shorter than Shelly, had red sclera and white irises and had an average body build. He wore a color with a lock on it, a black undershirt, and long Jean's. His left ear had three earrings and his right ear had one. He waved at Shelly. "Hey hey hey."
Shelly gasped. "Solis!"
Solis walked up to her and was pulled into a nearly crushing hug. "Hehe, hey hun!"
"What are you doing here?" She asked, pulling him off her, still holding onto him.
"I rushed over as soon as the sirens for the end went off." He held her cheek. "You ok? I saw you had to use Donnie."
"Aw, I'm fine." She said, giving his nose a quick rub with hers.
"Here ya go." Millie handed her a glass of lemonade, while Moxxie got Dundy his drink and pill, earning gratitude from the owl.
"Thank you Millie. This is my boyfriend, Solis."
"Hello." Solis smiled and shook Millie's hand.
"Hi Solis, I'm Millie," she gestured to Moxxie, "that's my husband, Moxxie," she then motioned to Loona and Blitzø, "that's our boss Blitzø, with a silent o, and his hellhound Loona.
"Pleasure." Solis waved. He turned to Shelly. "Is Poch ok?"
"He'll be fine, Jack's patching him up." Shelly answered
Solis sighed in relief. "That's good to hear."
"Hey! Can someone get me the red gel? It's not in here." Jack yelled.
"Oh! It's in my office!" Blitzø said.
"Why?" Moxxie asked.
"Nunya business!"
"I'll get it." Loona said, heading off to Blitzø's office.
"Millie, can you get two straws?" Shelly asked.
"Way ahead of you!" Millie pulled out two straws and handed it to her.
"Thanks!" Shelly said, giving Solis one. "Share a drink with me, babe?"
"Of course." Solis told her. They both unwrapped their straws and placed them in the drink, both taking a sip while looking lovingly into each other's eyes.
Loona walked by and rolled her eyes at the two. She opened the door to the meeting room. "Got the-" she stopped when she looked forward. Poch was in his underwear with Jack behind him, wrapping black gauze around his chest. Poch and Loona looked at each other wide eyed and blushing.
"Thanks Loona." Jack said, unfazed.
Loona stiffened up, and walked towards the table, setting the bottle of gel on the table before turning around and exiting the room, closing the door behind her.
"You ok Loony?" Blitzø asked.
She didn't say anything and walked up to Dundy, took his water, sipped it before splashing it on her face. She then walked to her desk and sat down, going on the computer.
"Loona?" Millie asked.
"Need to erase the image." Loona said, in a somewhat trance.
"What image?"
"Cute sexy hellhound!" Loona yelled.
"...what?"
END
Next chapter. Fear.
