A/N: Hello, everyone. I have returned with a new Cross Ange story for the fandom; my Living Hell's first of soon-to-be many spin-offs. I haven't been writing for both assignments and rewriting my Tainted Repentance in time to plan for my soon-to-be animated stories(s).
Note, unlike the main story, this is more like an episodic series that may or may not follow the other story's plot (just like Phineas and Ferb) just to add some lore and moments that the main story couldn't, and a loose time to post a chapter instead of stressing out from IRL deadlines. If anyone like, you all can review and suggest an episode focusing on a character(s) doing something random/ serious alongside mine.
(I do think of making Q&A episode(s) for the characters but it depends if you like to add questions.)
Disclaimer: I don't own Cross Ange or any of its characters and original plot, excluding the original characters I created for this story. Cross Ange and all its rights belong to King Records (Japan), Sentai Filmworks (USA), and Sunrise/ Bandai Namco Entertainment (Japan). This fanfiction is meant for entertainment only and not for profit. This story contains heavy language, blood and violence, and mild sexual themes not for audiences under 16-18 years old.
Inside a single, large room with a giant TV screen in the background but ignored by the group of people standing in front and facing the camera with some smiling their mixed happiness or amusement, while the others are calmly frowning, except the giant man in red uniform and helmet hiding his expression. The one woman in the middle, with short blonde hair, flaming ruby-red eyes, and dressed in a revealing blue flight suit like most of the other women wearing their different-coloured flight suits, took a step forward with a calm smile.
"Hello, everyone. This is the start of Cross Ange: Living Hell's first spin-off; Hel-Live!" The titular protagonist Ange, formerly known as Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi, greeted the camera with her loyal maid Momoka Oginome smiling behind her mistress's side with a nod.
"What does Hel-live mean?" Cynical asked any of her teammates in confusion for the title, which Red Death wondered aloud with a shrug of his shoulders. "I think I heard that the original title was Cross Ange: Hell of a Life, but there would be a lot, don't you think?"
"Ever since we've been working hard for almost two years of the best we can, we are proud that there will be more of us, from the serious stuff…" Tusk spoke with a smile, as everyone ignored the TV behind them switching it on by itself, showing their adventures in the main story.
"…to the fun stuff that the main story didn't get to show!" Ersha beamed as the TV then showed more unfamiliar scenes of themselves in new scenarios, as this spin-off's future episodes.
"Keep in mind, that this spin-off may or may not be canon to Living Hell's lore, but mostly to show content," Salia noted, trying to be professional despite trying to stop her smile from twitching for standing close to the other men.
"It's better to add more to our story's fandom than nothing," Hilda reassured with a confident smile.
"So, with that, I hope that we will enlighten you all with more of our adventures," Salamandinay assured with a warm smile. Unaware of almost all, the snake tamer, Moon heard something from his two snakes telling him something that startled him to look around the room.
"Moon, are you okay?" Chris asked from Rosalie's side, collecting everyone's attention to look at the timid boy.
"Ular and Hebi said they just noticed something; has anyone seen Rush and Apache?" Moon translated his snakes as the question involving those two names and realised the missing two members of their group attracted everyone's surprise to look around the room.
"I think I remembered Rush telling Apache to… either 'throw fans who snuck in here to Living Hell's main story for the lore' or 'wait for the approval of someone Apache knows to come here'?" Hyacinth recalled, with everyone's initial understanding of the former answer immediately became confused about the latter although Ammo seemed to know something to look at the camera with wariness.
"Well, at least we might know where Apache is." Hilda pondered.
"But where's Rush?" Jill wondered with a bemused scowl, with a strange tint of disdain she immediately felt. 'And why do I think that SOMEONE's missing?'
A soft cough from behind them alarmed everyone to look behind…and almost scream their mixed shock or anger when they slid to the sides and gawked their surprise that not only they just realized that the other man they were thinking about was standing against the wall holding the TV and not said a single word in the beginning, from hiding behind Red Death's massive height…but he is accompanied by their enemy and his two Living Hell's children.
"Sup, kids." Living Hell's protagonist, Rush the Human Killer nonchalantly greeted with a bored scowl and waved his left fingerless gloved hand, his right bandaged arm holding the enemy's albino son sitting on it. As for the enemy, he ignores everyone glaring at him to write something on a large piece of paper with a black marker while his blue-haired, dark-skinned, and green and black-eyed toddler daughter in a blue dress sat on his shoulders with her head resting her chin on his scalp and blonde hair.
"Rush, where have you been?" Ange asked with suspicion directed to Embryo like everyone else. "And why are you with Embryo, again?" Cynical demanded.
"Don't tell me you guys went on another date…or worse; got into a Rated-M story?" Ammo shuddered in dread, with some of his friends also feeling the same.
"Relax, you big babies. Em, the kids and I just got back from doing cameos." Rush assured with a harsh sigh and a tired scowl.
"Cameos?" Salamandinay, Moon with his snakes, and Vivian tilted their heads in confusion.
"After Living Hell was finished, Rush and I were helping the author to show up in some of their other stories that needed rewriting from errors, while waiting for news on the Cross Ange X Kingdom Hearts crossover that shall be on during Hel-Live, and others that can be used for more spin-offs." Embryo explained without looking up from the paper he finished writing before he handed the paper to his daughter Khalifa who carefully held and read it.
"Whoo." Ammo sighed his relief just as he heard Rush informing him what made him blink his amethyst eyes open in horror. "But you're right about the Rated-M one, Ammo…. but more to the canon show's bitch. and will be on next year or another."
"No fair!" Rosalie complained, waving a finger at Embryo holding onto Khalifa while she held her arms and the paper over her head and facing the camera…although she held it upside down. "You get to show up in the author's other stories outside the canon show, and they even made you different from your jackass self!"
"Of course. Unlike how writers portrayed me in their versions following the canon show, can't I NOT act like a childish, filthy idiot in one version or in all the author's stories that I would appear?" Embryo wondered aloud with a disgusted sneer that may have alarmed almost everyone although Ange immediately thought of his words to ponder with a tired scowl…
"…Yeah, that would be great." Ange prayed, looking up at Khalifa's upside-down message with Embryo's son Aya leaning his head to try to read it but almost falling off Rush's arm only to be caught by the bandaged man who then raises and place Aya to sit on his shoulders.
"Um, kid. You held your dad's message upside down." Jasmine informed Khalifa, despite feeling wary for Embryo and his two children, as the child looked at the paper in bewilderment even when she tilted her head until her father's hand helped flip and turn it to reveal the message before giving it back to Khalifa holding as it should be shown over her head…
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"So, with that; get some snacks and drinks, some tissues, your phones, or even your boy or girlfriends, and go read the bull we'll do to make this the living heck we can. Hopefully more than the main story!" Rush concluded with a proud grin when he swiftly reached his left arm behind Embryo's back and waist and pulled him closer like someone playfully pulling and holding their partner, surprising everyone although Embryo's mouth twitched into a startled but happy smile facing Rush now staring at the camera with his bandaged right hand pointing like a gun.
"Bang." When Rush fake shoots a non-existent bullet at the camera, ignoring almost everyone shifting their attention between Rush, Embryo, and the camera a few times in mixed surprise, the camera immediately turns black, and the recording stops.
A/N: So, I hope you all will enjoy the story's chaotic stupidity. Don't forget to like, favourite, and review. Your support is always appreciated, and the same for supporting the fandom's other fanfic writers.