Hazbin Hotel: The Million Year Old Sinner

by SenoirNathaniel

Stumbling into the undergrounds of Hell, Vaggie and Charlie meet a towering behemoth of a caveman named Oogar, who had spent most of his years beneath the surface. Oogar joins the two and enters the redemption program at the Hazbin Hotel, where he goes down a perilous path to redemption against powerful demons and his own primordial fears.

19. Wrath of The Mammoth

Millions of Years Ago...

"H̵e'͏s holdin̵g yoù b͞a͏ck."̡

His eyes shot wide open, a haggard gasp blowing through his maw in a weak exhale. The cold air stung his body as though a thousand shards of glass were cutting deep into his paper-thin flesh.

"H̷e̛ t͢h̨in̡k̷s ͞yo̶ù'́r̴e̢ ͜w̕eak."

Miraculously, his legs conjured up all the energy needed to lift himself from the ground. He sucked in mouthfuls of the gelid wind, struggling to keep his emaciated body elevated. Across from him was a man that was sprawled onto the snow, his skin blackened from the frostbite that had ravaged his body. The muscular build that once comprised his form had devolved into a skeletal frame, almost as though he hadn't had a meal in days. His hair, once a great mane of reddish-brown hair was but meager white strings that clung onto his scalp.

"̡No͢w͟'̷s͝ you̷r t̨i̡m͝e͟.͟"

A sickly breath sputtered from his gaping mouth, one that sent a rattle in his brittle ribcage. He gazed at the boy that was standing before him with sunken eyes that appeared to be absent of life. Somehow, this sentient corpse was strong enough to raise its stick-like arm from the ground and extend it forward as if it were reaching out to his final chance of salvation. The boy looked on with contempt and horror, his eyes flicking away from the decrepit husk.

"͘͜K̢ì́l̨ĺ̷ h̕͝i̷ḿ͜."͘

Laying by the adolescent's feet was a spear that had sat on the icy grounds collecting snow. Silently, the boy slowly reached for the spear and turned his attention back to the withering man, who weakly croaked as his hand jittered about, throttled by the frigid winds.

́"̸̨̕Ķè͜e͟͝͏p͞i̸͞ng̴ ̕him͞ á͜l͡͞͡i͜͡͏v͏͝ȩ̵ ̡͢͠ẃiļl̷͠ w̡ei͏͢g̢h̵ ̢̡̕y͢o̕u̷͘ ͝d̵͘o͏wn̷.̴̕͏"̵̧

A ravenous hunger raged within the boy's stomach, one that spoke louder than a single thought his mind produced. The weak shell of the man only hid spoils that allow for survival in this merciless winter. The famine was insatiable, like an itch that he couldn't scratch.

"̸̛R̶̛̛͟è̴̛̕a̸̴͜d̵̡ý͜ ̢̛͘͝y̢̕ò̧͘u͡͝͠͝ŕ̶͞ ̨͘͝w̷͡è̷̀ą̶͜͞͝p̴͟͠ǫ̨̛͢͞n̨͠.̵̴̵́͘.̶̛͜.̢͟"̡́̕͠

"N-No..." The man begged but his words held no weight towards the boy that loomed over him. Holding the spear high above his head, the jagged tip pointed for the chest region.

̛͘͟"̷̨A͘̕͟͝N̡͜D̴͝ ̨͡Ḱ̡̢̧͜I̷̷͘L̴͟͝L̨̧̡̛.̷̨̛͞͝"̛͞͝

The man tried his best to convince the boy to let him live but hunger outweighed his rationality. With a strong lunge, the boy thrusts the spear with all of his strength that remained in his skeletal frame. The second the spear blade touched the chest, this act of slaughter was thwarted by a sudden flicker of white light that snapped Oogar from this twisted reality.

Pulling himself upward, Oogar let out a distraught gasp. For a moment, the air felt heavy on his lungs as he surveyed his surroundings. He was still standing in the blackened cave. In place of the withering man was his father, who had drifted off into slumber long ago. A wave of relief washed over Oogar as he mustered out a lukewarm sigh. However, despite taking solace that it was but a nightmare, that dream he had envisioned. That voice that plagued his mindscape. The fact that he had done such an atrocity. It all unlocked a new fear for the adolescent neanderthal.

He recalled that horrid night he had with his mother in the tundra. The setting was all too familiar for him, it was almost as though the horrors of days long gone had made an unwanted return. That all of this could be end up becoming a reality sooner or later. Sliding back down onto the snow and holding his head, Oogar's mind began to process everything that occurred in his troublesome sleep. But it wouldn't be long until he heard a distinct cry.

The cry of that baby mammoth, still out in the freezing cold.

Oogar moved his head over to the cave's mouth, the adolescent's shrill cries filling the frigid air. The ravaging hunger was still present but he knew he had to act and fast. Otherwise, he would become something that he truly isn't. Carefully picking up his spear, Oogar crept through the snow and advanced towards the cave's maw. His eyes darted from the opening to his father at a spastic pace, making sure not to disrupt his sleep. Growing closer, the howling winds began to dull out the snow crunching as the teenager stepped foot out of the cave's mouth and out into the raging blizzard that sent snow scattering through the land.

Where his vision was blurry and white, his hearing allowed him to follow where the calf was wailing. He trudged through the snow, straying further from his temporary haven and disappearing into the furious whiteness.

---

Pentagram City...

The sound of gunfire, laser beams, explosions, and the screams of civilians filled the city streets as Malphas's forces swarmed the remaining hotel residents that they were assigned to execute. However, despite being short of two members, the three demons proved to be a greater hassle than anticipated. Atop a vulture bot, Husk had just finished snapping the neck of a guard before carelessly tossing his corpse to the side whilst Angel offed the second one with a bullet to the head. Blowing the smoke from the gun's barrel, Angel reloaded his firearm before turning to the feline with a smirk.

"You know Husk, I am really startin' to dig this date!" Angel said with a laugh.

"We're not dating, jackass..." Husk growled before the two simultaneously leaped the vulture bot with the spider mounting himself onto the winged demon's back, the two soaring off to the next vulture bot while the one they finished with crashed into the pavement, sending fire and shards of metal to cascade throughout the battlefield that was ignored by the duo.

"Of course we are babe! The atmosphere, The excitement, just the two of us rawdogging through dipshit after dipshit. I mean, can ya think of a better date than this?" Angel said while Husk was busy outmaneuvering a shower of laser fire with the spider managed to cling onto his back.

"Honestly, I think all that splooge you've been sippin' is starting to leak into your brain..." Husk said, hurtling for the nearest vulture bot as he recoiled his fist back and slammed it straight into the heedless knight, his helmet's visor flying off while his body plummeted from the flying robot. The second guard didn't last long either for he was knocked from the avian-like mech by a strong kick to the chest courtesy of Angel.

"Oh yeah, you think of a better date than this!" The arachnid barked, ducking down to avoid passing laser fire from a vulture bot.

"Angel, this is less of a date and more of saving our asses from getting killed by some psychotic rich kid burning through his dad's money like a cigarette pack." Husk replied, drawing out his pistol as he fired at the pilots of the approaching robot before throwing himself back to avoid an energy bolt that bore a hole straight through the vulture bot's wing. Because of the damage to its wing, the robot began to decrease in altitude as it veered off to the side prompting the duo to abandon the falling mech by leaping right off it. The vulture bot came crashing into a nearby building, erupting into a fiery explosion. One that was also disregarded by the two demons who were locked in their own argument

"Well, maybe it's because you are too much of a stubborn chicken shit to appreciate our fine moments together!" Angel cried, whipping out his Tommy guns to fire off at the avian robots that swarmed the crimson skies.

"Do you EVER shut up?!..." Husk groaned, tipping his hat back slightly from which a cluster of bullets fell from his head and onto his palm which he promptly inserted in his revolver.

"Hey, you need me talkin'. I'm a good counterpoint to your peace of mind." Angel said, the winged demon rolling his eyes in response as he pushed the revolver's cylinder back into place.

"And you're one of the reasons I'm a bitter drunk." Husk growled with annoyance.

"Yeah, that too I guess." Angel carelessly shrugged before his eyes darted side to side. "Say, where's that neat freak gremlin coworker of yours at?"

SPLAT!

Angel would get his answer from the heavens above when the decapitated head of a guard dropped from above and landed just several inches away from the arachnid's foot. Out of disgust-fueled fueled, The spider shrieked with terror as he kicked the head in Husk's direction, unintentionally bonking him in the rostrum.

"OW! You son of a bitch!" Husk roared with pain, clutching at his schnoz while the head bounced back onto the pavement.

"Oh, my sincerest apologies. It's not like I was expecting a fucking head to fall from the sky!" Angel barked.

From greater heights, the headless corpse of a poor knight was suspended high off the ground by a longsword that skewered him through the chest. Holding the blade was none other than Niffty, wearing a psychotic grin that spanned across both her cheeks to a point where they were starting to visibly curl up. With a flick of her spear, the corpse was flung right off the blade as it plummeted onto a car's roof, denting the metal exterior in the process.

Niffty spun her head around, producing a sickening crack while her singular eye narrowed at the remaining guard, who was shivering with fear. He held his crossbow with a shaky and loose grip and his legs were on the brink of buckling down from overwhelming terror that was surging through his mind and body. This fearfulness began to reach its apex when Niffty took a step forward, firing off a bolt that was easily evaded by the cyclopean demon.

"So… you insolent fools rob me of my vintage vinyl player..." She said, her voice oozing with violent contempt. A second arrow was fired and avoided as Niffty advanced closer towards the doomed guard blade in hand.

"Get my dress dirty..." She continued, another bolt was fired and dodged yet again.

"And now you're trying to vaporize us alive with flying robots!?~" She said, before suddenly flicking the sword upward with an expeditious motion. Once her movement was complete, the avian knight's arms were sliced clean off of his body as geysers of blood gushed from the stumps that once held his limbs. His screams would go unheard when the longsword's tip bore a hole right in between his eyes and came shooting from the back of his head with the blade now stained with blood and pieces of brain matter dribbling off of it. Grinning with sadistic glee, Niffty wrenched the blade from the guard's head as the corpse dropped on the robot's back like a sack of potatoes.

"BEHOLD, ANIMALS! I AM NIFFTY! QUEEN OF BLOOD AND LAUNDRY! ALL OF YOU SHALL PAY FOR YOUR WICKED DEEDS WITH YOUR BLOOD AND FEEL THE AGONIZING BITE OF MY BLADE!" She screamed with bloodlust before rushing off the tail end of the vulture bot, leaping at the great distance that seemed impossible for a demon her size. She was approaching a vulture bot just up ahead as the cyclopean demon gracefully spun about in the air to avoid the laser fire. With a strong thrust of her blade, Niffty plunged the longsword right into the vulture head, electrical sparks exploding out from the avian-like robot's head.

As the sword burrowed itself in the mech's head, Niffty jerked herself forward with her grip still on the handle. The blade tilted leftwards, pulling itself out from the robot's head before it was swinging downwards onto the first guard that stood in her way. Fortunately for him, he was able to jump back in time once the longsword's edge cut down on the metallic floor. With the two guards alerted to her presence, the first one drew forth a battleaxe and swung it in a sideways motion. Niffty lowered herself the second the axe was swung at her head, barely flicking a hair on the cleaning lady's head.

Niffty retaliated with a sword swing of her one, prompting the guard to parry her blow by bringing his axe up in a defensive manner. This prompted a clash between the two demons, their weapons clanging against one another while simultaneously dancing around their attacks. The second knight joined his partner in this fierce quarrel, running into the battle with a spear in hand, a weapon that was impelled forward in the cyclopean demon's direction. Sadly for the cyclopean, her reflexes were off by just a half-second.

SCHRIP!

Niffty may have been able to side-step the attack, but the spear managed to scathe the side of her body, a gash opening up on both her dress and flank area. Gazing to her side with a look of horror, Niffty's singular pupil shrunk from pure shock. It wasn't the flesh wound that mortified her, if anything, that was trivial at best. It was the tear on her dress that left her mindset in a perpetual state of unadulterated murderous rage.

"M-My dress..." The cyclopean ushered out, blocking off both the spear and axe with a flick of her longsword. The two knights locked eyes with Niffty, whose visage sported a cold, almost dead-eyed look that started to send shivers down their tail feathers.

"YOU... YOU SNAGGED MY DRESS!" Niffty roared before pushing back the two armored assailants with an unexpected rush of strength that coursed through the cyclopean's veins. They barely had a second to react for Niffty took one step and suddenly disappeared out of sight. The two knights, confused and afraid, moved their heads around to try and catch just the slightest glimpse of the one-eyed demoness. Unaware that death was standing right next to them, holding the blade that was seconds away from cleaving them into pieces.

"Your fates have been sealed, I will spear none of you meek ants..." The raspy yet savage voice of Niffty whispered into their ears before a brush of wind moved across the midsection of both guards. The eyes of the two guards collectively rolled into the back before their torsos simultaneously rolled off of the lower half of their bodies. Geysers of blood gushed outward before the knight's legs crumbled onto the metallic floor. Niffty's cheeks were still twisted into a psychotic smile as the cyclopean demon leaped from the vulture bot to another from the next one with her blade outstretched.

The two pilots operating the mech were promptly skewered onto her longsword as it pierced through their armor and impaled them through their abdomens. While having two men skewered on her blade, Niffty sprang herself from the robot and hurtled straight for the pavement. Thanks to the lanced corpses, it softened her landing as she withdrew the sword from the two demons. The vulture bots that had their pilots disposed of both collapsed onto each other, hitting the cement as a fiery explosion that evolved into a roaring fire that raged on behind the cyclopean, who didn't bat an eye.

"WHO WANTS A PIECE OF THE BLOOD QUEEN!?" Niffty cried to the crimson heavens, her blade hoisted high in the air while the encroaching fleet of vulture bots closed in on her.

"Holy fuck, is she ALWAYS like this during a scrap...?" Angel commented to Husk.

"You kiddin' me? This is her at her tamest!" Husk replied before running into the danger guns blazing yet again.

The carnage ripped through the city block with more robots and guards dropping like flies while the trio's energy was gradually stretching thin. But something much greater was planning to make a grand appearance in this wild bout and it was heading straight for the warzone. A thunderous shake raged on the stretch of asphalt whilst rattling the air, setting some vulture bots off course. The sudden quake didn't go unnoticed by the trio either as they were nearly knocked off their feet from the tremor that sounded like it was coming their way.

"The fuck!? We goin' through a hell shake." Husk said, waving his arms wildly to steady himself. The trio's panic and confusion would be further heightened when all the vulture bots attacking them all shifted gears and flew off into the other direction with only a small few still having their sights set on the three. If the battle wasn't hectic enough, a vulture bot came roaring through over the city street. One that was being ridden by Malphas, who looked visibly afraid as though something was chasing after him.

"ALL OF YOU KILL THAT DAMN THING AND PROTECT ME! I WANT TO LIVE!" He screamed out to his whole troop before zooming off, leaving the knights in confusion about what he meant. Though their confusion turned to alarm when large rock chunks were jettisoned through the air, cascading onto the disheveled streets.

"Shoot, I don't think we'll have time to get to my underground bunker in the outskirts of town!" Niffty cried, moving to the side in order to avoid a falling boulder.

"Hell if I kno-Wait, was THAT why you wanted me to dig that giant hole in the fuckin' woods!?" Husk replied with vexation, simultaneously blowing out a knight's brains with a gunshot to the head as his corpse flopped over the vulture bot's neck and splattered onto the asphalt.

"Oh yeah, I didn't want you to judge me for being weird!" The cyclopean yelped defensively, quickly evading a spear jab before leaping upward and slicing the wielder's head off, proceeding to kick his headless corpse to the side.

"Niffty, when we dug that hole, you told me that was your dumping ground for dead bodies…" Husk before a leviathan-sized earth slab was flung over their heads, ripping through a handful of vulture bots in mid-air crushing knight and robot alike. The three demons dove the side to avoid the falling rock that decimated the

"Well, that was a form of weird that you're familiar with!" Niffty exclaimed.

"Will ya zip it!? I dunno what the fuck is going…" Looking up, Angel's eyes widened and his voice went silent. Niffty and Husk were both confused to the sudden pause from their comrade but their answers would be met with a shattering screech that turned the air still and split apart the hellish earth they were standing on, long fissures running underneath their feet like water rushing down a river.

What had intruded on this chaotic scene was a humongous woolly mammoth that trudged down the streets, the city feeling its labored footsteps shake the cement trails while buildings shuddered from every stomp of the way. The vulture bots flew around the beast, their laser fire merely aggravating the mammoth as raised its forelegs off the ground and slammed them back down with such tremendous force that the flying robots caught in the stomp's range dropped like flies. The marvelous sight of the shaggy juggernaut locked the trio in a state of bewilderment, though Husk and Angel returned to their senses that they were still in a battle zone but all the conflict that had transpired was washed away by the incredible beast that ferociously decimated robot after robot with barely an inkling of effort put into its attacks.

"Okay, they're distracted with the giant elephant monster. Let's bounce!" Angel said, peeling off into the direction with Husk following by his side. But, their one-eyed acquaintance was too immersed by mammoth that smashed its way through the city block. Its great height and power began to unravel an unbelievable idea that most people would label as insane, but Niffty wasn't part of that majority.

"Sooo... cooool...MUST...RIDE!" Niffty shrieked before making a beeline for the mammoth. This didn't go unnoticed by her colleagues as Husk glanced over to see his friend running towards the building-sized behemoth.

"NIFFTY, THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" He screamed before pivoting into the direction that the cleaning lady was going. Unfurling his wings, Husk boosted himself forward.

"WAIT, HUSK! NO!" Gliding across the street in order to reach the cyclopean and remove her from the scene before she could get hurt. But his rescue would gain the attention of a vulture bot that soared after the two demons. Right before it could take fire, the mammoth caught the robot by the neck with its long trunk. The pilots were unable to fight back for the behemoth recoiled its prehensile nose back launched the robot over the horizon with a swing of its trunk, sending the armored pilots off along the ride. The Mammoth took a step forward, the cyclopean and the feline separated from the hairy giant

"Need a lift?" A feminine voice called out, one that was familiar to the hotel residents. The Woolly Mammoth reached its trunk down and enmeshed all three demons in its prehensile schnoz. The trunk elevated the demons from the ground before carefully resting them onto his back, Angel clutching onto the mammoth's fur along with his companions.

"Bet this was something you weren't expecting to do today, wasn't it?" The familiar voice spoke to the spider demon as Angel craned his neck up to see Vaggie sitting right in front of him.

"V-Vaggie!?" Angel yelped with confusion. "What the fuck is going on!? And where the fuck is-"

"Oogar? You're sitting on top of him right now." Vaggie bluntly answered, the realization beginning to sink into Angel's consciousness.

"Well, I wanted to mount him but not like thi-OH FUCK!" Angel nearly fell from his seat when the mammoth suddenly went into a dead sprint, forcing everyone to hold on for dear life. Oogar stampeded through town, his sights set on the approaching kettle of vulture bots that their cowardly leader sent out to their demise. With a stomp from its left forelimb and hindlimb, a crevasse opened up on the asphalt road beneath him as a colossal rock chunk flew from the fissure.

Outstretching his trunk, Oogar caught a gigantic rock trunk before it could hit the ground. With a twist of his forelegs, the earth hunk began to disintegrate into a hailstorm of smaller earth fragments. The rock shards flew towards the flock at the velocity of oncoming machine gun fire, too fast for the kettle to outflank the highspeed assault. The guards were torn apart by the shrapnel with limbs being amputated from their bodies, a thousand holes were perforated into their eggshell-thin armor, and some were even decapitated or sliced in half by larger earth pieces.

The robots didn't fare any better, the razor-sharp rock fragments reducing the flying machines into unrecognizable hunks of scrap. Some rock pieces sliced through wings while others struck them right in their underbelly resulting in a cataclysmic firework show of explosions. The Woolly Mammoth marched onward while the demons all looked on with amazement though Vaggie had her eyes on the prize. Once the barrage of rock shards came to an end, the remaining robots of the fleet all weaved off into different directions with one half veering to the left and the other half to the right.

Realizing that they were planning to attack both his sides, an idea came to the fur-coated tank as it suddenly stopped in its tracks and merely waited for the fleet to arrive. This move caused a spark of panic-induced confusion among his riders with Angel yelling at the shaggy behemoth to continue moving.

"HEY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOIN' STANDIN' AROUND HERE FOR!? THEY'RE COMING!" Angel barked at the mammoth, his words falling on deaf ears for the mammoth remained stationed.

"Ooga, come on! Malphas will get away if you stand there!" Vaggie interjected but even she didn't garner the beast's attention. Firmly planting all four of his legs into the ground, the ground underneath Oogar began to rumble and shake yet again. As the vulture bots came closing in, two crevasses opened up on the left and right sides of the mammoth. With a flex of its forearms, two separate large monoliths jutted from the ground just as they got into close proximity. The vulture bots that weren't swift enough crashed right into the thick stone walls. Oogar wasn't done yet as he slammed his shoulders into the surrounding slabs with enough strength to topple the rock pillars as if they were dominoes.

Any vulture bots that hadn't crashed into the wall were now crushed by the wall, along with surrounding buildings that were turned to flattened mounds of corpses, debris, robot parts buried under several tons of fallen rock.

"That... was... SO COOL! DO IT AGAIN! DO IT AGAIN!" Niffty screeched, excitedly bouncing with joy from the attack while Husk and Angel gawked with wide-eyed stares. Husk pulled out a bottle of whiskey that he had snuck during the trip and gave it a glance.

"...On second thought, I don't think being drunk for this will help." He said before stowing it back into his pockets.

"...I am both horrified and incredibly horny by this..." Angel peeped, staring at the incredible destruction that this behemoth had caused. "...I'm hornified."

"Good work, Oogar but we're not done yet! Let's get moving before that Hijo de las mil putas sends out more of his grunts." Vaggie exclaimed, directing her spear forward. Without a second thought, The Mammoth charged off down the city streets. Determination and rage burning within him like a great wildfire.

Further down the city, Malphas frantically steered the vulture bot through the buildings and towers of Pentagram City. The raven hyperventilate to himself, sweat running down his face and his hands visibly shook from the surging terror-fueled adrenaline. Dennis, meanwhile, was calling in all of his units while trying to hold on. Malphas looked over his shoulder to see that he had somehow managed to lose the mammoth demon, a sign that brought great relief to the corvid as he steered off onto the rooftop of the nearest building and lazily rested upon it. Pushing the switch forward, the vulture bot deactivated as the two avian demons took the time to catch their breath.

"S-Sir! I've deployed all our units, what's our next move!?" The falcon-like demon asked, removing his helmet to breathe easier. Malphas collapsed onto his back, letting a sickly wheeze.

"Plan? Plan!? Uh... uh... Okay, here's the idea... I... I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE!" Malphas screamed at the top of his lungs, putting his hands onto his head. "T-THAT FUCKING APE TURNED INTO GIANT ELEPHANT AND, AND... THAT... WHORE! THAT HARPY! THAT FUCKING CARPET DEVOURER! THAT SLUT IS THE REASON I'M IN THIS PREDICAMENT! THE ONLY OTHER BLIGHT THAT HAD EVOKED THIS MUCH SCOLDING HATRED FROM ME IS THAT IMP-GUZZLING FREAK THAT I AM SUPPOSED TO CALL AN UNCLE!"

"With all due respect my lord, you kinda...-" Dennis was about to give his honest answer right up until getting an evil look from his boss. "-...Didn't do anything wrong and that they were responsible for this. Yes."

"I KNOW THAT YOU DUNCE!" He screeched at his captain before emitting a tired sigh.

"Okay, okay... I'm calm, I'm calm. This is bad... Actually no, this is utterly horrible but I'm not down yet. I still have my one ace in the hole." Malphas said, his last sentence warranting a gasp from Dennis.

"M-my lord, are you certain about this..? Don't tell me you're really going to resort to that?..." He timidly asked.

"If those subdemonic pillocks really want to break out the big guns then I believe it's our turn to strike back." Malphas ordered, pointing a clawed finger at his captain. Hesitant at first, Dennis placed the helmet back onto his head and spout the orders into his communication device.

"Oh, and one more request." The corvid spoke up, garnering Dennis's attention.

"Make sure that the harpy dies too, Princess Charlie will be much more accessible that way..." Malphas said, cold hatred bleeding from his words that unnerved the knight captain.

"She, along with the rest of those foul dogs will suffer a horrific death unlike any other, these animals have overstayed their welcome and I've been biding my time long enough..."

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The Hazbin Hotel...

The delightful melody of polka music resonated from a record player, filling the living room as Charlie poured a cup of tea for her father to enjoy. Lucifer smiled with glee as he took the teacup and slurped down its warm contents while Charlie sat down on her settee, holding her own teacup and plate. After taking a good sip from his cup, The King of Hell let out a sigh of content.

"Ah... Caramel Apple Tea, no better beverage to drink after killing a flock of murderous geese is there Charlie?" Lucifer said to his daughter with a chuckle.

"I know how much you like it, dad." Charlie replied with a smile as her father finished the remaining ounces of his tea before setting his cup and plate onto the coffee table.

"Sorry for this unwarranted visit, dearest apple of my eye. But I figured I owed you a visit after all this time, I'm just always buried beneath a mountain of paperwork and royal meetings. It's all monotonous, I tell you." The Fallen Angel remarked with a sigh, resting against the back pillow of his chair.

"It's okay, dad. I get you're busy for most of the time but I'm glad you decided to come over and visit." The hotel owner said.

"Of course, sweetie. Now then, if I do ask..." Lucifer said, his eyes flicking down and his smile lessening a bit before he returned his gaze back to his daughter.

"The redemption plan. Are you still going about that?" He inquired, his sudden question almost prompting a spit-take from Charlie. She managed to swallow her mouthful of tea before weakly hacking.

"Err... O-Of course!" She said with a cough before wiping her jet-black lips with her wrist. After taking a deep breath, Hell's Princess continued on with her answer. "Sure, this hotel hasn't been getting much traction but not losing hope."

"...So are you are, dear. So you are." Lucifer said, reaching forward to refill his cup with a new batch of caramel apple tea. Hearing her father's relatively cold words, Charlie felt a twinge pinch at her stomach.

"Dad, if you could just simply listen and understand, you can see tha-"

"Charlie, Charlie, my dear. We've been through this countless times and you should already know my thoughts on this whole scheme you've invented! It simply won't work!" Lucifer interrupted, his outburst making Charlie recoil back in her chair slightly. Lucifer, maintaining his composure, cleared his through and tented his hands.

"My apologies, dearest. I... I didn't mean for that to slip." He apologized with regret, removing his top hat from his head to fix his hair.

"It's fine, dad..." She said, looking down at her teacup as she nervously tapped its rim.

"Now, Charlie, if you're still going about with your hotel then I shall not intervene. You are my daughter and as harsh as I may be towards your ideas, I still love you." Lucifer assured, placing his hat back onto his head.

"I know dad, but..." Charlie was hesitant to continue with her answer as she hastily placed her teacup and plate back onto the coffee table. "I uh... need to use the bathroom!"

"Ah, well… Help yourself, Apple of my eye. I have all the time in the world." Lucifer said, his daughter replying with a smile and hasty nod as she got off from her seat and left the room in a matter of seconds. Charlie slipped away from the doorframe and took a deep breath to ease her anxieties upon exiting the room. Cusping her mouth at her mouth, Charlie's mine entered into a deep state of concentration as she made her way down the hotel corridors to the nearest bathroom.

Stepping into the bathroom and locking the door behind her, Charlie quickly turned on the faucet leaver as a stream of lukewarm water spewed from the spout. Hell's Princess proceeded to splash herself in the face with water to keep herself steady.

Charlie was happy that his father had taken the time to visit her, but at the same exact time, she felt rather uncomfortable being in the same room as him. This mainly stemmed from his views towards her redemption plan. While Lucifer had tried his best to reverant himself from being overly harsh on behalf of his daughter, he couldn't help but scornfully lambaste his daughter's viewpoints with biting criticism.

She had remembered when she first presented the idea to Lucifer all those years ago before the hotel became a concept. The dead silence that was only filled by the ticking clock, the disapproving gaze that sent a sharp pain in her stomach, and the once gleaming smile dissolving into an unamused scowl were forever burned into Charlie's memory. While the hotel owner did all she could to move on from this heartbreaking experience, that underlying fear was present even after all this time.

"It's going to be alright, Charlie. You can do this." She said to herself, looking into the mirror that was situated above the sink with a hard look. Turning the sink off, Charlie wiped her face with a handful of paper towels. She discarded the crumpled-up, paper ball before leaving the room, taking a few calm deep breathes along the way.

"You can do this, he may be your father but you're a responsible adult. You can do this! Yeah... You can-"

"Breaking News, It looks like the ice age is making a big comeback for a giant mammoth is stampeding through the westside of Pentagram City!"

Charlie's train of thought was shattered into a million pieces when she overheard the TV from the room that was right next to her. Making a dead sprint into the room, depicted on the TV screen was live footage of a large woolly mammoth-like creature rushing through town. This sight sent Charlie into a state of shock not just because of the fact that a giant mammoth monster was stampeding through her town but also the fact that the beast had some familiar features adorned on its massive body.

The black spots coating its forearms. The red swirl on its left shoulder, right knee, and right side of its abdomen. The skull-like helmet that concealed the monster's head aside from two triangular-shaped fur tufts.

Piecing all this together, the weight of this sudden dilemma dropped onto Charlie like a ten-ton weight.

"Oh shit..." Charlie said with a harrowed breath.

"Charlie, I heard an 'Oh shit' drop in there. Everything alright?" Lucifer called out from Charlie's eyes still focused on the screen as she took a step back. The demonic princess started to sweat bullets, her heart beginning to race uncontrollably while the air around her began to feel heavy all around.

"N-Nothing, dad…" Charlie muttered, slowly leaving the room and stepping into the room with a sheepish smile.

"S-Say, dad! Since it's been a while and we haven't seen each other in so long, why don't we play a game of hide-n-seek! I know how much you used to love playing that with me. Besides, you're never too old for one round!" Charlie proposed.

"What!?" Lucifer exclaimed, rising from his seat. "Who or what kind of childish imbecile taught you that nonsense!"

"…You, dad." Lucifer's daughter replied curtly, the King of Hell pausing while his visage morphed into a look of dumbfounded realization.

"Ah yes, I DID tell you that! I suppose the embarrassing reverberations of my own sayings have come back to bite me." Lucifer said with defeat. "But, are you sure you want to play hide-n-seek, my dear? When you were fourteen, you told me you never wanted to play that game with me ever again."

"O-oh? I did...?" Charlie said, barely recalling the events.

"Yes, and I cried for an entire week!" The Fallen Angel exclaimed with dramatic sorrow, clutching at his own chest.

"Oh right... That explained all those empty cartons of ice cream." She said, the memories of her father locking himself in his own bedroom, sobbing hysterically while listening to Lacrimosa on loop flooding back to her mindscape.

"Well, why don't we play a few rounds? You can be the seeker first too! Say, why don't you go into that cabinet over there and count to... uh... A trillion! Yes, a trillion!" She proclaimed, zipping over to the armoire before opening both doors for her father to squeeze himself into.

"Hmm... That seems like a big number. Oh well, nothing I can't beat! Except for fiddle contests, that confounded hillbilly got lucky..." Lucifer said, vengefully shaking his fist before stepping into the cabinet. Charlie shut the double doors, her father beginning his countdown.

With Lucifer distracted, the hotel owner sped to the main lobby at blinding speeds, a charred trail moving along the floor in the wake of her travel. Making it to the lobby, the air currents that followed Charlie blew into the door and forced it wide open. Charlie looked off into the expansive city, closing her eyes and quietly exhaling before her body began to become enveloped in a scarlet hue. This red tint began to gradually brighten while streaks of flames started to whizz around her body like a raging whirlpool. Charlie's whole body was enveloped in golden flames and crimson light before disappearing into a sudden eruption.

Charlie's form was much the same as it was before, but the most striking difference was a pair of angel-like wings protruding from the hotel owner's back. The feathers were adorned in a bright red and white, matching the demonic princess's color scheme.

"There we are..." Charlie uttered to herself, stepping foot out of the threshold as she unfurled her wings. However, she had spread wings too early and as such, Charlie came to an abrupt stop for her demonic pinions were stuck on the surrounding walls.

"Oh, for the love of..." She grumbled before trying to exit the hotel a second time only to the same roadblock. She thrashed and jerked around before the hotel owner came stumbling out off the threshold, losing a few feathers from her wings in the process.

"ACK!... Man, I'll never get used to this..." Charlie muttered to herself, holding her head in embarrassment before slowly craning her neck up. The cool air blew between her feather as if they were directing her to where the beast ran amok. And with a singular leap and push of her wings, Charlie soared into Hell's blood-red skies and whisked herself into the cement jungle.

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Pentagram City...

Civilians scattered like rats to the sound of an old-timey melody that was slightly muddled to the sound radio static as Alastor strolled down the sidewalk, humming himself a merry tune on his peaceful walk. Of course, every time he would try to greet someone who wasn't a resident in Cannibal Colony with a friendly hello, they would vanish from sight in an instant. Though he had long since gotten used to that type of reaction as he walked through the city streets, eager to see where the day took him. As he was making his daily saunter, he noticed a crowd forming at the local Radio Hack, gawking at the various TVs displayed on the front window.

Normally, The Radio Demon would scoff at this scene chalk this up as the screen-addicted masses slobbering over whatever garbage was being churned out by the media or useless trash that Vox slapped his name onto for absent-minded consumers to blow their allowances on. That was his initial thought but as he passed by, he overheard the ramblings from the crowd that piqued his interest.

"What's next? Are the dinosaurs coming back to life too!?"

"If I kill this thing, I would make a mint selling blankets AND meat!"

"Come on guuuys, the giant rampaging monster is clearly the victim in this scenario!"

Curious, Alastor approached the throng of viewers and looked over their heads to see what was responsible for this conundrum. Displayed on the screens was a giant woolly mammoth stampeding through town while robotic birds swarmed around the towering beast. The heading displayed on the live footage read 'HOLY FUCKING SHIT! GIANT MAMMOTH MONSTER STAMPEDING THROUGH TOWN! THIS ISN'T A JOKE, WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! HOLY SHIT!' as the shaggy Goliath slammed a one of the mechanical avians into the building, the foundation collapsing into dust.

"Citizens are fleeing with terror and while others raiding any poor sap's belongings amidst as the mammoth continues its rampage through Eastside of Pentagram City." Tom Trench's voice buzzed through the speakers as the screen transitioned back to him and Katie Killjoy with the footage of the mammoth squished into a box that was obscuring the masked reporter from view.

"Indeed, Tom. Even in the face of imminent terror, there is always time to loot like the street rat you are! Though to anyone of you poor schmucks are currently homeless after your place got smashed by the giant monster then I got some words for you… TOUGH SHIT!" She yelled before bursting into a condescending laughing fit.

"H-Hey, the footage isn't covering my face again is it?…" Tom cheeped out.

"Well, Tom, maybe it's because even the twenty-five cents an hour wage slaves that are our editing team know that I matter more than you, and their jobs are far more depressing than yours!" She said with a giggle.

"Working with you in general, is bound to be depressing..." Tom muttered aloud, though his snide remark didn't go unnoticed by his partner.

"Sorry to say this Tom, but it's me first and all you sad loser fuckups last!~" Katie said, twitching her neck side to side as it cracked with each movement before carelessly shoving Tom off of his chair and onto the ground.

"Anyway, back to the giant mammoth, it's now..." Katie's smile disappeared from the live footage played before her eyes. It seemed as though the monster was heading straight for a setting familiar to the mantis-like demon.

"Wait a fucking minute? Is that my house? HOLY FUCK THAT'S MY HOUSE!" Katie Killjoy sprang out from her chair and ran off in a panic, repetitively yelling 'SHIT' until her voice faded from the camera audio. The screen cut to an SMPTE color bar while the grating ring droned through the speakers, leaving the crowd in a state of anxiousness. The whole gathering broke out into a sea of incoherent mumbling, Alastor standing in the middle of it all with an intrigued smirk as he curiously cupped his chin.

"Hm, it must be me but that beast had some rather peculiar features..." Alastor thought himself aloud before his mindscape was suddenly disrupted by a thunderous crash and the scream of a random demonic citizen.

"OH SHIT, THAT ELEPHANT THING IS HERE! EVERYONE BOOK IT!" He yelled with horror, pointing eastward for everyone to look in the direction. Sure enough, stomping around the corner was the Woolly Mammoth with robotic birds swarming at it. Instinctively, everyone turned and bolted out of the scene screaming the whole way. Alastor meanwhile stuck around as his eyes widened with surprise and delight.

"That caveman ceases to amaze me, does he?" Alastor said to himself, casually stepping to the side while awaiting the charging beast with an outstretched arm.

The Mammoth was unaware of the Radio Demon that was waiting for him as it reached for the nearest Vulture Bot that had gotten too close for comfort with its trunk. The prehensile nose wrapped itself around the flying robot like a python trapping its vulnerable prey in its coils, seizing both the mech and the unfortunate pilots in its grasp. Upon tightening its grip, Oogar crushed the vulture bot like a tin can as the satisfying crumpling of metal and crackling of flesh filled the air.

The beast proceeded to toss the newly-shattered robot over its shoulder like a piece of trash, the crushed robot remains crashed right into another vulture bot, downing the mech in the process. Four new avian-like robots appeared on the scene, both cruising in on both ends of the monster's back. A knight from each robot simultaneously leaped off the wings of the robot and onto the giant's back, clutching onto handfuls of fur.

"We got company!" Vaggie yelled, alerting the rest of the group who sprung into action. The knight from the left-hand side climbed up the side of the giant, gripping onto shaggy strands of hair while his body swayed back and forth from the mammoth trying to shake him off. Through sheer persistence, the armored demon managed to reach the top of the giant's back. Unfortunately, what the poor fool wasn't anticipating was Niffty standing in front of him, holding a large anvil above her head.

"HI!" Niffty greeted before slamming the safe right down onto the knight's head, a loud metallic 'CLANG' ringing out as the impact forced him to lose his grip before plummeting to the craggy ground. His partner watched as his fellow knight was squashed into a fine red paste beneath the mammoth's heel the second he struck the pavement.

"AND BYE!" She squealed with psychotic exuberance, waving her recently crushed foe farewell. As for the other guard, he managed to get to the top without an anvil-wielding gremlin standing in his way but what he was met was a spear that came dangerously close to skewering him had he not dodged. Vaggie furrowed her brow as she recoiled her spear and jabbed it forward a second time, the knight parrying the attack with a quick draw of his sword. The two blades locked with each other, their wielders applying pressure on both sides until one came out victorious in this combative impasse. Before this struggle could go on, Vaggie pushed forward with a great surge of strength that threw her armored foe back.

"No free rides, gilipollas!" Vaggie roared, the guard being knocked a couple of yards back as but still maintained his balance on the moving behemoth. Letting an enraged cry, the avian knight stormed forward with his sword raised above his head. Just as he swung the weapon, another interference stood in the way of his target. His blade was held in the air by a crimson cane, one that sported a microphone as the handle.

"Sincerest apologies good sir, but I am afraid we've reached full-ride capacity!" A grainy voice spoke, one that made the guard stand still in horror as he slowly looked to his side to see the Radio Demon himself staring at him, smile and all. Emitting a girly scream of fear, the guard turned around and ran away from the stag-like demon only to fall right off the mammoth's back. He too becoming crushed into an unrecognizable mess the second he fell to the pavement. Gazing over the shaggy giant's back, Alastor merely chuckled to himself before fixing the positioning of monocle slightly.

"Well, I was just going to knock him off this beast. Looks like I had my work cut out for me there!" Alastor snickered.

"Alastor!? Where the hell did you come from!?" Vaggie exclaimed.

"Oh, simple my dearest Vagatha. I was on my daily stroll, may or may not have disemboweled a mugger, helped myself with a cup of tea at my favorite cafe, saw you and the rest of the gang ride in on the streets on this giant elephant monster, and decided to join you on this unexpected escapade!" Alastor explained before taking a good look around his surroundings.

"Speaking of which, mind informing me of what in the blazes is going on? I believe I'm a little out of the loop." Alastor said, raising a brow.

"I'll fill you in but first I need to take care of something." Vaggie said, whisking off to the left-hand side of the mammoth's back. The two invading guards managed to climb to the top, having now entered a tussle between Husk and Angel with one guard, wielding a halberd, jabbed his weapon's spike forward as it nicked the side of Angel's abdomen just as he dodged the attack.

"AUGH! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Angel yipped with pain before retaliating by slamming the butt of a Tommy gun right into the avian-like demon's face. The Spider Demon stepped forward and used his firearm as a makeshift club as he whacked the knight across the face, making him drop his halberd in the process. With his foe disarmed, Angel repositioned his firearm in the correction formation as he pressed the barrel of his gun up beneath his chin before his brain exploded out from the back of his head with just the squeeze of a trigger.

"Just so we're clear, this body makes more dough than all the grunt work you do in a year!" The Pornstar barked before kicking the knight's lifeless corpse. Husk finished his foe off in a quick manner by kicking him off the moving mammoth, leaving him to be crushed into a gory paste just like his fellow men. The vulture bots were still swarming at Oogar, firing nonstop lasers before a series of black tendrils suddenly emerged from the ground and wrapped themselves around the robots with a vice grip.

Alastor, looking upon the flying machines while the screams of their pilots filled the air, merely snapped his fingers before each robot exploded into scrap, leaving the group free for the time being.

"Alright, now that's out of the way, can someone explain to me what's going on here?" The Radio Demon inquired as everyone perched themselves atop on Oogar's back for a brief moment to recuperate.

"Okay, so basically, Charlie has a stalker who's been watching her from a drone and now he's trying to kill us before we show Charlie his collection of fucked up dairies." Husk explained to the best of his ability, Alastor remaining silent with a still smile for a solid minute before managing his reply.

"Wow, that's fucked up even for me!" Alastor interjected.

"Yeah, well we're trying to get one of these drones to Charlie before anything else can happen. Luckily, these guards have been little trouble for us thanks to Oogar so I think we're-"

KA-THOOOOOM!

The Hispanic demoness should've learned not to tempt fate with her words for just several meters up ahead, something enormous dropped from the sky. Its landing rattled the very ground as the mammoth came to a grinding halt from this sudden intrusion from the sky, his riders nearly falling off from Oogar as they fasted their grip while their body's jerked forward. The whole scene was now caught in a duststorm of dust and fallen debris, while the object responsible for this was obscured in the opaque billows. Everyone caught in the dust cloud was forced to close their eyes while some hacked from the soot entering their mouths.

"You know... whenever you think you're in the clear..." Angel said between wheezes. "KEEP IT IN THE DOME SO SHIT LIKE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN!"

"Oh, this just keeps getting better, doesn't it?~" Alastor uttered beneath his breath, casually sitting and spectating this chaotic scene. Out of nowhere, Malphas's voice became audible throughout the area like an unpleasant siren that plagued the air.

"Greetings and salutations, disgusting sinner dogs..." Malphas's gravelly voice rang out through a speaker from somewhere. Due to the muddled view, it was hard to pinpoint where the corvid was hiding.

"MALPHAS, YOU BASTARDA! SHOW YOURSELF, YOU FUCKING COWARD!" Vaggie screamed out with seething fury.

"I would but I'm afraid I'm a bit too preoccupied with other matters to kill you vile animals myself. But, that doesn't mean I'm out of options." Malphas replied with a slight chuckle, further angering the spearwoman.

"Pedazo de mierda de perro! When I find you, I swear to Lucifer..." She snarled before her quiet growl turned into a furious roar. "I WILL CUT YOUR DICK OFF AND FASHION IT INTO A FUCKING STRAP-ON!"

"Fuckin' hell, Vagz..." Angel said, even for his perverted and crass nature he was taken aback by this.

"You're right, it'd be too small. I'll make a pacifier, just for a shithead like him..." Vaggie replied, murder still present in her voice.

"THAT'S EVEN WORSE!..." The Spider Demon replied before remembering who they were talking to. "...Actually on second thought, go ahead."

"Oh! Oh! Maybe turn his testicles into a door knocker, I saw it on a video once!" Niffty chirped in, giving her disturbing suggestions.

"Yes, yes. As much as I would love to stand around here and listen to your weightless comminations of castration but your animalistic prattle bores me..." Malphas said, Vaggie already picturing a punchable sneer on the corvid's face when listening to his monologue. As the dust cleared, the figure that had dropped the sky appeared to be a set of mechanical wings that were huddled together as if they were hiding something from the mammoth.

"Now then, foolish sinners. Prepare for your imminent annihilation! May present to you... THE MEGA ROC!" The second Malphas was finished with his dramatic introduction, the 'wings' began to slowly unhinge themselves from each other. Generating a painful scream of metal that almost deafening to anyone nearby as the terrifying revelation was now unveiled before the hotel residents. One that was deserving of a good 'Oh fuck' here and an 'Oh shit' there.

Standing before the mammoth was a towering bird-like robot, one that bore the familiar colors of lavender and black, but unlike any raven drone or vulture bot that Malphas had sent out, this mechanical beast stood at a colossal height that was near equal to the mammoth. Another striking difference from the vulture bots was that this robotic bird had a full body as it kept itself upright with a pair of talons that were tipped with silver blades. In the center of its chest, a gleaming purple core rested in a protective cavity. The final striking detail of this mechanical monster was a set of three individual 'tail feathers' that resembled scorpion tails that protruded from back end of the robot.

The hulking mechanism spread out its frighteningly large pinions that shrouded the surrounding city blocks in a shadowy blanket as it emitted a terrifying screech that split the blood-red skies of the underworld.

The woolly mammoth, however, was not afraid of this mechanical beast that dared stand in his way. Oogar furrowed its brow at the mechanical goliath and replied to its scream with a cry of his own, but this roar wasn't done out of intimidation or animal instinct.

It was a message. An acceptance to the Mega Roc's challenge.

"If you want us dead then face me, machine."

From greater heights, Malphas looked down onto the scene with a wicked smile as he pulled out a pair of opera glasses. He put them up to his eyes to getter a closer view of the ensuing brawl that would surely leave this city into a wreck. Standing beside him, Dennis gazed on with fear and uncertainty of what could possibly transpire in this hellish quarrel.

Before this monstrous confrontation was initiated, the mammoth's riders all tensed up, aside from Alastor, for what may have been the fight of their lives. Angel and Vaggie looked over to the Radio Demon as a thought suddenly came to both demons' minds.

"Well, aren't you going to help us!?" Vaggie shouted.

"Yeah, don't tell me you're gonna just stand by and let this shit happen, right!?" Angel added on, their comments being met with a chuckle from Alastor.

"Why yes, yes I am. After all, the combatants are set and it'd be rude to interrupt a clash such as this! So let's end this preamble once and for all!" The Radio Demon proclaimed before setting his gaze back the tense scene, his smile widening slightly.

"In other words, let them fight…~"

Oogar, fed up with waiting, made his move by barreling at the Mega Roc for a potent headbutt to the abdomen. With all the momentum stored up in its charge, The mammoth sent the mechanical avian skidding across the streets as it dug its razor-sharp talons into the ground below, claw marks stretching across the concrete. The giant went in for a second headbutt but The Mega Roc flapped its wings forward, ensnaring the mammoth by clutching him in both sides with a stronghold that he struggled to free himself from.

Reeling its head back, the robotic bird opened its beak and swung down, clamping onto the mammoth's neck with a vice grip that forced a pained screech from the shaggy giant. Despite its thick hide, the Mega Roc was able to bypass tough exterior as its metallic beak started to cut into the flesh comprising the megafauna's nape. The Mega Roc planned to throw the mammoth into the surrounding buildings by the scruff of its neck but Oogar was much smarter than the robot took credit for as the Mega Roc felt the crushing grip of the mammoth's trunk wrap around its neck. The mechanical avian felt its whole ginormous body be wrenched forward, both giants having now entered a grueling stalemate.

While some hotel residents chose to cling on and hope for the best, others sought to interfere even if their efforts were minimal at best. Angel blasted at the robot's head, emptying his clip of every bullet it contained only for each and every shot to dink off of the Mega Roc's steel exterior. The mechanical avian began to slowly lift the giant from the ground, Oogar's trunk gradually losing grip. But the mammoth demon was giving up as it suddenly stepped forward and thrust both of its curved tusks right into the robot's abdomen. Slowly craning his neck up, Oogar lifted the Mega Roc off the ground with his tusk suspending the robotic bird high up in the air.

Reeling his head back, feeling the robot's beak exiting the nape of his neck, Oogar flung the Mega Roc with an amazing display of strength. The robot's colossal body soared through the air, landing onto the pavement with a powerful 'KA-BOOMPH' that was felt far and wide throughout the city. Raising it forelegs off the ground, Oogar stamped down onto the pavement resulting in the ground crackling open beneath the Mega Roc before an entire wall comprised of small pillars that were combined into one expelled from the earth itself. Striking the mechanical bird and pushing its large body into the air, reaching the hell's stratosphere in seconds.

The Mammoth planned to attack the robotic roc once gravity came into play but this attack was all for naught. Using the rapid altitude to its own advantage, The Mega Roc unfurled its wings and took the crimson skies, allowing the wind itself to direct the robot into a proper position. Oogar stamped his feet onto the pavement, launching an onslaught of large stalagmite missiles skyward with intention of skewering the robot. The Mega Roc responded to this attack with a strong flap of its wings that corresponded in a strong wind gust.

The air currents raced downward with impeccable speeds that upon breezing past the jagged projectiles, all of them crumbled into useless pebbles. Throwing himself to the side with an incredible leap for a beast his size, Oogar narrowly avoided the wind torrent that drilled into the ground he was previously standing on. The mammoth proceeded to bolt down the city streets while Mega Roc gave chase, looming above the mammoth with its shadow submerging the megafauna in a sea of darkness. The hotel residents were still aboard, hanging on for their lives while Angel still fired at the mechanical avian, albeit with a shaky aim due to the moving behemoth he was riding upon.

"The fuck are you doing?! This ain't working!" Husk shouted at the gun-totting arachnid, baffled to think four measly firearms would down a giant bird mech.

"Don't you think I know that!?" Angel barked back, his Tommy guns running dry yet again.

"Then why are you shooting it when you know it does jack shit!?" Husk retorted, stumbling forward slightly from a sudden turn that the mammoth made that forced him tightly grip onto the beast's fur.

"Because I am pissed and I haven't shot anything in five minutes!" Angel barked, reloading his firearms.

Suddenly, The Mega Roc swooped down with its mechanical talons extended out and opened wide. The robotic bird descended further, closing the distance between it and the mammoth in less than a minute. It wasn't long before Oogar felt razor-sharp claws dig into his sides, followed by a crushing pressure that had cracked a few ribs. The Mammoth bellowed pain, blood dribbling from the freshly-puncture perforations that were indented into his flesh. He violently thrashed about in the Mega Roc's grip, the robotic bird beat its wings gradually lifting not just itself but the mammoth from the ground.

"SHIT!" Vaggie cursed aloud, making a beeline for the talons as she violently slashed at the right foot while Angel and Husk fired at the right, though it seemed their attacks barely scathed the talons. While her crew was busy trying to weaken the Mega Roc's grasp on the writhing mammoth, Niffty noticed a small panel that was bolted into the underbelly of the robotic avian. With a new plan presenting itself to the cyclopean, Niffty ran for the robot's talons, leaping forward and snatching onto its heel.

"I'LL SAVE YA, OOGAR!" Niffty declared, making the arduous climb up the Mega Roc's leg.

"NIFFTY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Husk yelled, ceasing fire along with Angel though Vaggie didn't let up with slashing at the talons as small rock chips flew from her blade. As the Mega Roc ascended further, it was making its way to a skyscraper, one he intended to skewer Oogar by dropping him from the scarlet atmosphere. The Demonic Mammoth continued to struggle, the increasing altitude began to take its toll on the mammoth. His consciousness was depleting by the seconds as he barely mustered the energy to keep his eyes open. From the sidelines, Malphas couldn't help but cackle at Oogar's misery.

"That's right! KILL IT! KILL IT TO DEATH! AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!~" He laughed with crazed glee whilst Dennis fearfully scooted away from his master.

Reaching the underside of the robot just in time, Niffty drew forth an abnormally large pin and with one good thrust, she drove the pin right into the panel. The pointy tip puncturing through the metal casing, sparks flying the second contact was made. Niffty didn't stop there as she rapidly jabbed her needle into the weak spot with a series of jabs with her arm moving at speeds faster than the naked eye could track. All of the cyclopean's hard work had paid off for The Mega Roc emitted a loud screech before making its unforeseen descent.

"AHAHAHAHA! YES! THAT'S...Uh... Wait, what in the seven circles?..." Malphas's excitement devolved into confusion upon seeing the Mega Roc take a sudden dive. As they were making their approaching ground, Oogar was beginning to regain his stamina while the talon's grip was starting to lessen. With a great return of vigor, Oogar's trunk shot upward as it constricted around the robotic bird's neck once again. With no way to properly defend itself, the Mega Roc's head jerked up and down in a frantic motion to free itself from the behemoth's grasp. Drawing nearer to the earth bellow, Oogar whipped his trunk forward, and with it the Mega Roc was thrown over the mammoth's head and landed back first onto the cement fields. Niffty dropped down from the robot's leg and onto Oogar's back right before he slammed the Mega Roc to the ground.

Hell itself quaked from the monumental impact as a sizeable crater indented itself amongst the solid grounds. Neighboring buildings crumbled into nothingness while the mammoth took two steps back to recover from being jostled about in the air. Malphas looked down with visible worry, realizing that this beast was going to put up much more a greater fight than he had anticipated.

"Okay, that was too fuckin' close…" Angel huffed, holding onto his puffy chest to keep his heart from racing out of control.

"Niffty, how did you know that was going to work!?" Vaggie asked with perplexity.

"Oh, it was easy! I didn't!" The cleaning lady exclaimed with a toothy grin, every single one of her comrades looking at her, apart from Alastor, with a questioning stare.

"…Makes perfect sense, my dear!" Alastor commented with his typical smile.

The Mega Roc slowly picked itself from the ground, its wings took significant damage from the impact with some of its metallic feathers broken off and sparks flying from its abdomen and torso. Oogar, having somewhat regained his stamina, stamped his forelegs into the pavement and from which a series of rock pillars sprouted from the earth and were sent into the robotic bird's direction. The Mega Roc's eyes turned red as streaks of electricity shot out from the bionic eyes, decimating the oncoming spires in the process. Oogar proceeded to barrel forward, simultaneously creating a rock wall with another stomp of his foot. This one wide enough to shield off his whole body.

The Mammoth proceeded to bash his head against the stonewall, pushing not just himself forward but also the wall. Oogar now came charging forth with his primitive shield ready for the scarlet lightning as the crimson electrical bolts were fired off into the mammoth's direction. The immense power of the shock started to shave through the wall, reducing it to nothing right as Oogar got into close proximity. The second the electrical bolts struck Oogar, the behemoth let out a horrific roar of pain while the agonizing shock transferred to his riders. Though, Alastor took more intrigue from the shock as a spark of electricity ran across both his fork-like antlers.

"Wowzers!" Alastor exclaimed, his eyes and teeth illuminating as if they were Christmas lights. The Mega Roc did not let up on its assault as it continuously struck Oogar with blast after blast, hoping to turn the mammoth into a charred corpse. But even in the clutches of overwhelming pain, Oogar's trunk managed to snift through mounds of rock that laid on the battlefield. The shaggy behemoth proceeded to shoot itself forward, fighting through the electrifying agony as he knocked the mechanical robot back with its tusk pushing the mechanical avian back.

With his robotic adversary knocked back, Oogar raised its trunk from the rocky piles, now sporting a hammerhead that clung to the edge of its trunk. Reeling his prehensile nose back, Oogar swung his trunk in the same manner of a baseball bat, his makeshift wrecking ball swinging right into Mega Roc's head.

WHAM!

The Mega Roc felt the Herculean weight of Oogar's hammer trunk slamming into its face, the blunt end taking off a portion of the mechanical goliath's face in the process. The hotel residents were all now coated with soot and char, smoke resonated off their bodies while their hair had frizzled up from the electrical shock. Though in the case of Angel and Husk, their fur had puffed up dramatically with small electrical streaks flickering from strands of poofy hair.

"Ma, can ya keep the lights in da kitchen on. The dark scaaawwwwy..." Angel murmured before collapsing to the ground.

A metallic hunk that once comprised the left cheek of the Mega Roc flew off as the mammoth raced forth its tusk slamming right against the robot's stomach. However, The Mega Roc wasn't intending on being jettisoned for the third time, the second that Oogar lifted the Mega Roc from the ground, the mammoth was slashed across the face with an unexpected swipe of the robot's talons. Three incisions opened up on the trunk's dorsum section, a pained screech escaping the elephant's maw before he was knocked back with a double-legged kick.

Leaping back a good several feet away from the mammoth, The Mega Roc pivoted its body with a sudden turn, sending all three of its blade-tipped rectrices into the direction of the caveman's cheek. Fighting through pain yet again, the woolly mammoth whipped sideways, letting the tail feathers wrap themselves around his tusks. The two giants had reached another arduous stoppage as the mammoth tugged its head back tugging the Mega Roc, who dug his talons into the ground, resisting the woolly beast's pull. Vaggie slowly pulled herself up with both arms, taking in deep breaths as she watched with dread from the mammoth's back witnessing the deadlock unfurl before her eyes.

But just then, across from where Oogar stood, she noticed the same pannel that Niffty had stabbed bolted onto the flank of the Mega Roc, one that had been revealed during its tail whip. Seeing an opportunity before her, Vaggie climbed towards one of Oogar's ears.

"Oogar, encase his feet. I have an idea..." She whispered into the mammoth's ears. While she didn't get a verbal response from the demonic megafauna, her request was answered when Oogar slammed his right foreleg against the pavement. From which, a set of triangular-shaped slabs emerged from beneath the ground and closed around the robotic giant's feet. With the Mega Roc mounted to the ground, Vaggie climbed to the top of Oogar's head before leaping forward onto the wire-like tail that was outstretched on the far left.

Taking notice of Vaggie's sudden intrusion, the Mega Roc made no hesitation in firing off an electrical bolt into the Hispanic demoness's direction. But with a good push of her body, Vaggie outmaneuvered to the right-side tail. Due to her evasion, The Mega Roc struck one of its own tails, severing in the process. Realizing its error, the robotic giant fired off another bolt only being met with the same result, this time his rectrices being whittled down to just one. With one graceful leap, Vaggie sprang forward and lodged her spear into the side panel. The Mega Roc unleashed a distorted cry to the red heavens, almost as if it was experiencing an ungodly pain.

The robot's body started to violently jitter and sputter about while Vaggie wrenched her spear from the robot's side. Sparks of electricity flickered about as Vaggie threw herself off the robot as it continued to sputter and violently shake. With two of its rectrices severed and its weak spot struck, Oogar gained the upper hand as he prepared to tug the Mega Roc forward and finish it off with a crushing blow. Glaring down at this fight, Malphas's sharp claws angrily dug his claws into the metal exterior of the vulture bot he was riding while shouting like a madman, his voice but a whisper in this mad quarrel.

"GO FULL POWER! GO FULL POWER, YOU MORONIC HUNK OF SCRAP!" Malphas barked at the top of his lungs, his patience having dried out while his fury had reached a boiling point.

Despite the damage it had taken, The Mega Roc slowly lifted its head, still jittering and sparking uncontrollably. The protective casing of its core began to slide open as the violet glow from the Mega Roc's chest started to brighten significantly. The remaining hotel residents who were still straddled on the demonic witnessed the lavender illumination before their very eyes, the light nearly rendering the whole group blind.

"...That ain't good." Angel gulped. His statement was further proven when the violet light illuminated to a frightening degree, one that could be seen from even the farthest distances. Small bits of rocks and dust were kicked up from this expulsion of energy, the Mega Roc convulsing at its own terrifying power.

"YUP, NOT GOOD! AMSCRAY!" The Slutty Spider barked, scrambling off of the mammoth's back with everyone else hastily following suit. They skittered to the sidewalk to avoid in the inevitable danger where Vaggie awaited for them.

Oogar, on the other hand, stayed put and didn't move a singular muscle despite his group screaming and begging him to move out of harm's way. The Mammoth stared the Mega Roc down with burning contempt that flared in its yellow eyes, planting all four legs into the earth below. This gave way to a quake that started off as a small clatter but evolved into all of Pentagram City being rattled to its core. A circular fissure began to carve itself around the mammoth, preparing himself for what his robotic foe had in store.

With one sky-splitting screech that dispersed the clouds from above, a violet beam of light flew from the vulture bots chest as it zipped down the street before everyone could register the blinding projectile. Oogar shifted his weight onto the ground the millisecond the beam came into near-contact, upon which a great pillar jolted from the cement with enough kinetic energy to send the megafauna's mountainous body skyward. Rather than striking the mammoth, the beam instead bored into the pillar that sent him flying, vaporizing the humongous column into nothingness. It didn't stop there as it continued its lightspeed venture down Pentagram City, a trail of building atomized by the unforeseen light.

Unfortunately, The Mega Roc had not hit its intended target. When the mechanical titan turned his head to the sky, it saw the mammoth hovering above. All four legs aimed for its head.

The Mega Roc's jaw swung open wide and despite the horrid shape it was in, the robot did something that it had never done during the course of this battle.

It spoke.

"OhO-o-oHHH SHiIIiii-SH-I-iiIiiiii-I-SHIT."

KYROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The lavender light had died out and a roaring earthquake ripped through the lands. The Mega Roc's fragile, the eggshell-thin body didn't stand a chance against the eighteen-ton beast, its whole body was crumpled and flattened into an uneven, wrinkled sheet of metal. When the mammoth made its landing, a deep crater was punched into the cement plains. The hotel residents all huddled together, having braced themselves from their monstrous comrade's rough landing. Once the hailstorm of debris had settled and the tremor had silenced, Oogar emerged from the crater with labored yet victorious steps.

Throwing his head back up into the sky and lifting his trunk as high as his body could allow, emitting a triumphant screech before the shattered city block was left in silence yet again. From the safety of his vulture bot, Malphas bore a scowl of fuming anger. Smoke wisping from his red hot brow, sputtering nonstop incoherent gibberish under his breath. Dennis, afraid to even approach his boss, quietly peeped out to him.

"So... The Mega Roc's a bust, What's the plan now?..." He timidly asked, fearfully grasping at his own wrist. The Corvid snapped his neck over to the armored demon, who jumped back whilst letting out a shrill yelp of fear. Snarling with blind rage, the smaller demon pulled his claws out from the vulture bot's back and slowly stepped forward with his own claws glowing bright orange from the searing hot fury that had overcome Malphas's senses. Right now, Malphas was met with an overwhelming urge to strangle his captain out of uncontrollable anger when his cere picked up something unusual in the air.

"Wait... Do you smell that?" Malphas asked, his feathers reverting back to their usual ebony appearance before craning his neck up to sniff at the eye. He took another whiff of the air, emitting a disturbingly sated sigh that creeped out the knight captain before his eyes widened with shock.

"The air carries a familiar scent of brimstone and apple pie... Make haste, Dennis! We mustn't waste another second here!" Malphas proclaimed as if he had snapped into a different personality entirely.

"Uh... come again?" Dennis asked with confusion.

"GET US TO THE FUCKING CASTLE, YOU NITWIT!" Malphas boomed, prompting his lackey to scramble to the vulture bot as he shifted the back lever forward as it raced off into the air and fled the scene altogether.

Returning to the hotel residents, everyone was left in a state of shock and amazement at the titanic battle that had transpired through the city streets. Oogar collapsed onto all four of his legs, sucking in gusts of wind to properly revitalize after his slim brush with certain death. Alastor suddenly broke the silence as he applauded Oogar, clapping and cheering for his daring act.

"AHAHAHA! YES! YES! WHAT A PERFORMANCE I SAY! YOU'VE REALLY OUTDONE YOURSELF THIS TIME, CAVEMAN!" Alastor hollered with exuberance.

"Dammit, that bird fuck got away!" Angel cursed, striking the ground with his foot out of anger, kicking up a small cloud of dust in the process.

"No matter, we still have that drone in Oogar's chest," Vaggie said with a haggard sigh before turning to the mammoth, planning to remount herself onto the giant's back. "All that matters is that we get to Charlie and Lucifer before he does first. I'm just hoping that they don't find out about all-"

"WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

A feminine yet thunderous voice boomed through the air, which made the whole group freeze with fear. Vaggie knew who this voice belonged to, a surge of anxiety effectuating through her mind. Even a beast as mighty as Oogar ceased all movements from the sky-splitting call of his caretaker. Descending upon the shattered city block, Charlie landed onto the craggy grounds while the hotel residents remained still like statues. The Demonic Princess's gaze met with her lover, an unpleasant chill sweeping through the hellish air.

The Hotel Owner slowly walked towards the Hispanic demoness, her shoes clicking against the pavement while the debris from the hellacious brawl swept beneath her heel. With every step, Vaggie felt the world around her darken with her only main focus being Charlie, a dire look worn on her visage that haunted her lover's vision. The Spearwoman felt all the breath leave her lungs, her near-glassy eye widened to the fullest degree. Separating by just three feet, Charlie took a deep breath before her interrogation.

"Vaggie… What happened here?" She asked with surprising tranquility, though it masked a great fury within the demonic princess. Swallowing her fear, Vaggie finally managed enough energy to conjure up a sentence.

"Alright, I know this is all insane. Trust me, I wouldn't believe it if it didn't happen to me." Vaggie replied, her voice laden with worry. "Husk and Angel, t-they were just minding their business when-"

"Are you serious!?" Charlie curtly interrupted, sending a jolt in Vaggie's chest.

"I swear! I'm not making any of this up. If I was lying, I would come up with something better than that!" Vaggie defended. "Please, I can explain all of this. You just have to trust me..."

"After what you did last night, you think I can still trust you after something like... this!?"Charlie retorted, taking one step forward that forced Vaggie to back away from the hotel owner.

"I-I'm sorry baby, I should've... I-I know this is… I'm sorry but…" Vaggie struggled to produce a believable sentence for all she brought to Charlie's ears were constant yammering. "Malphas... he-"

"Wait, Malphas? Malphas Goetia?" Charlie interrupted.

"...You know him?" Vaggie asked, raising a brow.

"Yeah, I met him at one of my father's dinner parties. He's considered to be one of our esteemed guests. Why are you bringing him up?" Charlie inquired, her question bringing a tense feeling to her girlfriend's stomach.

"Oh boy, This next part you ain't gonna believe..." Angel spoke up, rubbing the back of his head while looking off the side.

"...What 'part'? You're not making any sense here." Charlie continued to ask, confused as to what her group was referring to. Vaggie turned her head over to Oogar and gave him a nod, the mammoth responding by reaching into its shaggy underside with its own trunk before pulling out the raven drone. Extending his trunk out, the mammoth handed the Hispanic demoness the small robot.

"Here. You're gonna need to see this." She said, pressing the button that widen on its flank that activated the screen embedded on its torso. Vaggie proceeded to hand the robot to Charlie, who had her eyes focused on the screen. At first, it was little more but a series of blurry color blotches that barely made out an image.

"Whatever it is you're trying to do it... won't... w-w... what?..." The Demonic Princess's doubt turned to horror when she saw on the screen was none other but video footage of herself in the shower from the window, joyfully singing to herself.

"Inside of every-KSSK!-demon is-KSSSK!-a rainbow!"

A grimace made itself present on Charlie's rosy-cheeked visage, fighting against the strong urge to vomit her guts out at this horrific divulgence that her security and privacy were violated by an unseen force. Her hands almost ached from holding the drone as it fell from her hands and struck the ground with a hard 'THUD'. The realization that the same device that she was holding was also responsible for viewing her in secrecy made Charlie unbearably sick.

"Oh fuck, this is gonna be bad..." Husk commented on this distressing situation, no amount of alcohol could prepare him for a distressing situation such as this.

"What is... W-why... Why would he?..." The Hotel Owner struggled to form a sentence as Vaggie knelt down and picked the robotic raven off the ground, pressing the button on its flank a second time.

"Well, to answer that question..." Vaggie said before the scratchy voice of Malphas suddenly buzzed through the built-in speaker.

"Princess Charlie Magne is the only one that fuels my needs. She truly is a diamond in this filth. Her delusions, on the other hand, must be wiped clean off the slate for that is what truly hinders my devotion and undying love for her..."

Charlie said not a word, her only real response was moving her head to the ground while shadows obscured her eyes. A thousand emotions overwhelmed her like a wild tsunami consuming a ship during a violent storm. Vaggie stepped forth with an arm extended out of concern for her girlfriend's wellbeing.

"H-Hun?" She said before Angel gently pulled her back by the shoulders.

"Vagz, I... I think you should stand back for this." Angel nervously murmured.

Angel's intuition proved correct for smoke and embers began to emanate from Charlie's body. Her hands clenched into fists, barely able to control themselves from trembling violently. Her mouth formed into a hateful scowl, one that donned a row of sharp teeth that ground against one another. A terrifying growl escaped the princess's jet black lips along with a gust of hellish smoke, prompting Vaggie and Angel to instinctively back from this chilling display of tremendous fury that had yet to unearth itself.

After taking a few smoky breathes, a sudden spark of flames erupted around Charlie as she cried out with rage, prompting her crew to temporarily shield themselves from the fire. Snapping her head up, it was revealed Charlie's eyes had turned blood red with gleaming yellow irises. Protruding from her head was a pair of dark-reddish horns while her glorious blonde hair flared up like an untamable wildfire.

"C-Charlie, we have evidence right here... We can get this to Lucifer and expose Malphas for this!" Vaggie exclaimed, presenting the raven drone before Hell's Princess.

"No, it won't be enough..." Charlie snarled, trudging forward towards the mammoth. Her shoes left behind glowing footsteps that scorched into asphalt from her body heat alone. Oogar also approached his caretaker, the two demons meeting each other face to face. The princess and the beast both glared into one another's eyes, while a word wasn't uttered, a silent agreement was made between the two.

"W-What do you mean it won't be enough?..." Vaggie fearfully asked.

"...Men like him don't understand. Punish them with bureaucracy and they weasel their way out of it..." Charlie said, turning to the Hispanic demoness while the smoke and embers emitting from her body evolved into fiery plumes that surrounded the princess. The shaggy goliath stepped back from the sudden flaming eruption.

"But, there is something they'll understand... pain." Charlie growled as fire and smoke spewed from her maw.

"Woah, Woah, Woah, there toots! What happened to 'anyone can be redeemed' and that noise?" Angel spoke up, putting all four of his arms up. "I'm always up for a scrap, but even I know this ain't you!"

"...Anyone should be given the opportunity to change, Angel. But there are some people" Charlie answered turning her gaze back to Oogar, outstretching an arm and placing it on its trunk. Oogar gently wrapped his prehensile nose around the demonic princess's arm all while a low bellow came from his mouth. "...Are just demons."

"I am loving where this is going..." Alastor said with intrigue, eagerly stroking his chin.

"So, what's the plan?" Vaggie questioned.

"Simple. I know where his fortress is so we just go to his place ourselves." Charlie plainly stated, removing her palm from the mammoth's trunk before her hand generated a burst of hellfire, from which her pitchfork materialized in her grasp. With a strong push of her legs, Charlie leaped several feet into the air and landed directly onto the mammoth's back.

"We grab just about any of those small robots as we possibly can and take them to my father. But more importantly, we make him suffer..." Charlie said, the mammoth snorting in response as a means of acceptance to her plan. Vaggie, fearful at first, swallowed her worries while determination flared in her singular eye before climbing onto Oogar's back and straddling herself onto the behemoth.

"Count me in. Anyone else wanna join?" Vaggie offered to the rest of the hotel.

"You're darn tootin'!" Niffty exclaimed before giggling to herself. "I ALWAYS wanted to say that!"

"Well, got nothing else better do." Husk shrugged.

"And miss out on entertainment such as this, preposterous!" Alastor declared with excitement brimming in his voice.

"FUCK YEAH, LET'S KILL AN INCEL!" Angel shouted, joining the party on their perilous quest. One by one, each hotel resident perched themselves onto the mammoth. Vaggie held onto Charlie's shoulders, letting her lead the giant to their enemy's headquarters.

"Alright, are we ready?" Hell's Princess asked, being met with a collection of agreements. Turning her head to Oogar, she nodded to the mammoth, who emitted a booming roar whilst pulling its forelegs off the ground.

"Good. Let's do this."