This is the 25th chapter. I don't own the series of Helluva Boss or the series of Hazbin Hotel.
Radio Killed the Video Star
The scene opens with an exterior shot of the Hazbin Hotel before cutting to inside with Charlie pacing back and forth in panic mode. Keekee was in the shot, walking alongside her owner.
"Ok, so the extermination is coming in six months instead of a year. No big deal. Just a little setback." Charlie said, panicked. "Nothing we can't handle. Just angels cutting our timetable in half. But who needs a whole year to save souls? Am I right?! And next time when they cut the time in half again, and again, we'll just handle it, right?!"
"Yes. We will." Vaggie said with assurance, grabs her to get Charlie to calm down.
"Oh, please, ya had less than half a chance when you started all this salvation bullshit. And now..."
His phone vibrates with violent threating messages such as 'fucking bitch'.
"...Ain't no silver lining this time toots." Angel Dust finished his sentence while points it out.
"Sure there is!" Charlie said with a shrug. "We just...have to look a little harder for it!"
"How? Hell panicked after hearing the news." Felicia told her. "Even my sister is getting worried after what I told her about this."
"Same with I.M.P. and Loona, even Blitz wanted me to get back home or Millie and Loona kills him." Antauri adds.
Octavia checks her message, getting text message from her parents which they're worried about her and the job at the hotel.
"Also, while you're lookin', the rest'a hell's goin' nuts." Angel remarked, waves his phone in their faces. "People are already freakin' out about the news. Look at what's happenin' in the Doomsday District."
He scrolls down an article with the bottom showing a demon screaming in front of fire. Suddenly a pink message appears. Charlie, Felicia, and Antauri gets closer a bit.
"Err, what is a...Donkey Show?" Antauri asks, raising his eyebrow when Angel panics and retreats the phone back.
"Aah, heh, nothin'. My boss, Val, is just freaked out about the news too." Angel Dust said. "Like I said, everyone's losin' their shit."
"Yeah, that's true." Vaggie agrees, ponders a bit. "Sinners are desperate. Maybe desperate enough to try anything to escape the extermination?"
"This is the perfect time to recruit more sinners for the hotel!" Charlie exclaims with a gasp.
"Cute idea and all, but are you really gonna go out in all of this?" Angel Dust questions, waves the phone with the place still on fire and demons in panic.
"Well, it's not like people are just gonna show up on our doorstep-"
Suddenly, a massive explosion made Charlie scream in fright from behind, getting their attention. They turn to see a freshly made hole in the wall, then cuts outside to see Sir Pentious zepplin armed for battle. The scene cuts inside to see him and his Egg Boiz scattering around.
Sir Pentious is a slender snake-like demon whose body color is predominantly charcoal grey. His eyes have cerise sclera with narrow black pupils, and he has a wide mouth with sharp yellow teeth, two of which are long snake-like fangs. His neck is long and his tail is black with thick yellow stripes featuring numerous cerise eyes running down the length of it. He has a black cobra hood with its front colored yellow with black corners and four cerise eye pattern spread across the center. He wears a jacket in a matching charcoal grey to his skin, pinstriped with yellow, and a black bowtie with a single cerise eye in the center. Beneath the jacket is a long-sleeved yellow undershirt. He also wears a black fingerless gloves with yellow dots on each knuckle and has sharp cerise claws. He accessorizes with a large top hat in charcoal grey, which has a sizeable cerise eye in the center of it, as well as many sharp yellow teeth and a pair of goggles. The top hat appears sentient as it blinks and changes expressions.
The Egg Boiz are sentient eggs that have small skinny black limbs. It seems that their yellow eyes are actually inside the large crack in their shells and their mouths are an additional crack on the outside of their shells. They wear a yellow suit under a grey coat with yellow vertical stripes on it and a black tie. They also wear a black top hat with a pink or magenta strip atop of their shells.
"Show yourself Alasssstor. Come and face-"
Sir Pentious pauses for a moment when he notices Alastor absent from the freshly made hole. He then looks to see him sipping coffee on the balcony on the second floor.
"Oh, there you are-Face my wrath!" Sir Pentious shouts.
"Who are you?" Alastor questions, raising his eyebrows and turns to the zeppelin.
"Who am I? Who am I?! I am the great Ssssssir Pentiousssss!" Sir Pentious introduces himself with a hiss. "Inventor, architect of dessstruction, villain extraordinarie!"
Alastor dissolves into a fog as he descends to the ground, materializing aside Angel Dust, Charlie, Vaggie, Octavia, Antauri, and Felicia, who're in the scene watching Sir Pentious' zeppelin.
"Oooh you tell 'em boss!"
Niffty appears on Alastor's right shoulder.
"Ooooooh, he's a bad boy~!" Niffty said, clearly starstruck.
"Ha, well if that's true, you'd think I'd have heard of you." Alastor states, scoops Niffty up and drops her to the ground.
"I attacked you literally last week." Sir Pentious points when Alastor cocks his head. "We've done battle, like...20 times."
"Well, you must have been really bad at this." Alastor said with a smirk.
"Silence! Now cower!" Sir Pentious shouts with a smirk. "For when I've ssslain you, the almighty Vees will finally acknowledge me as their equal."
"Ooh! Wait, who are the Vees?" Niffty asks, reappears on Alastor's shoulder.
"Oh, nothing important." Alastor answered dismissively.
Cuts to the Vees' headquarters. A large crowd is in front of a store as they watch an advertisement on the TVs facing the window showing off a spy drone.
"New VoxTex designer voyeur scopes. Peeping on the neighbors has never been more stylish. VoxTex! Trust us with your money!"
Crowd immediately enters the store and stampedes out with boxes with voyeur scopes. Then cuts to random people watching their computers, laptops, and phones, and reveals their eyes signifying the work of hypnosis.
"This weeks episode of 'Yeah, I Fucked Your Sister, So What?' is brought to you by VoxTex. Trust us with your entertainment!"
Shifts to tapping fingers as the scene enters a large room with TVs showing off numerous consumers as 'trust us' reappears and overlaps. Electricity courses as Vox stands up from the chair laughing maniacally from his viewers consumerism.
"Now that's good television!" Vox said with a sinister smirk, laughing.
Suddenly, his screen-face shifts to reveal an icon on Velvette, another one of the Vees, signifying she's calling, with clown horn ringtone. Vox courses the call from his screen to his hands vis his electric powers and transfers it to one of his many screens to reveal Velvette in her studio, her hair into a large ponytail. Vox then sits down on his chair.
"Hello there, Velvette." Vox greets her with a smirk, grabs a mug of coffee. "How are you this hellish morning?"
"Oh, cut the shit, Vox." Velvette retorted, in a pissed-off mood. "I need you up here now!"
Vox looks to one of his screens as he gets the coffee cup and drinks it from it.
"Whatever could be the problem, my dear?" Vox inquires.
"Your little boy toy is wrecking my apartment, while I'm trying to pull together a show and-"
Off-screen, several workers running and screaming, and objects being tossed, as Valentino is heard cussing.
"FUCKING BITCH!"
"Just get your ass her! NOW!" Velvette snapped, turns to Valentino. "Damn it, Valentino!"
The call ends, and Vox's smile fades away as he gets up with a sigh, fixing up his bowtie.
"Oh god. Here I go, Valentino." Vox told himself. "Just another fucking day with Val. Hey hey hey. Fuck my life."
Vox then walks up to a platform, which rises up.
Cut to an elevator with a smiling Vox with the world bubble saying 'trust us!', before opening to reveal a frowning Vox sighing, and putting on a smile for a crowd of reporters that overlap one another pointing their microphones to him.
"Mr. Vox! What are your thoughts about the new extermination deadline?"
"My dear people! We are Voxtek Enterprises have always been at the forefront of innovation." Vox announces. "And now, with this new oncoming threat, we are shifting our focus, to your protection. We are pleased to announce-"
The screen zooms to him and an ad featuring the VoxTek logo, now gold and with angelic wings, with tagline reading.
"VoxTek Angelic Security is coming soon!" Vox continued. "Trust us, with YOUR safety."
Vox uses his left eye to hypnotize the crowd the same way as his consumers.
"Uh, sir, when did we begin working on Angelic Security?"
"30 seconds ago." Vox answered quickly, walks off. "Try to get that bitch Carmilla on the books and cancel all my appointments today. I have a fire to put out upstairs."
He then morphs his body into electricity and generates itself into the security camera on the wall.
Cutting to Velvette's studio. The staff cleans everything up as she looks to four designers holding up dresses to show her.
"Ugh. No. Unacceptable. You're fired." Velvette said in annoyance. "What is this? WRIST RUFFLES?! Is this 1750s?! Brun it like the witches who wore it!"
As she sends the designers away, Vox appears next to her.
"Velvette! I can see you're busy." Vox said with a chuckle, appears beside her. "Tell me, where's our hot-headed friend now?"
"Up in his room, waiting for a flat-faced prince to calm him down!" Velvette answered when Vox sighs.
"And uh, what's got him so out of sorts today?" Vox questions.
"Who knows?! But he tore up my best model!" Velvette snapped, threw the limb right at the demon. "And you know, the show can't wait for that unlucky bitch to pull herself back together! Melissa! Get over here!"
Melissa gets onto the platform, and Velvette uses her overlord powers to change her outfit one after another until she spots the one she wants.
"No. No. Hideous. I want to die. Eww." Velvette said, gasps with a smile. "Yes! That's the one."
"Ahh, looks like you have everything under control here." Vox said when Velvette rolled her eyes.
"Of course, I do! Fuck you!" Velvette retorts, flips him off. "Now shoo! Take care of the piss baby!"
Vox goes upstairs and is greeted by two moth demons who open the door for him. Once he enters, he finds Valentino sitting on his couch surrounded by a fog of red smoke. When Valentino notices Vox, he sits up with fury eyes.
"Fucking FINALLY!" Valentino snarled, throws his drink. "Kitty! Another drink!"
The Robo Fizzie next to him nods as it quickly heads off screen and re-appears with the drink.
"Ugh! Can you believe what that piece of shit did?" Valentino said furiously. "THE UNGRATEFUL WHORE!"
As he speaks, he tosses the drink at Vox, who moves away making the drink hits the door, and shatters on the floor.
"Uh, which wore are we talking about?" Vox asks, confused yet curiously blankly.
"Fucking Angel Dust!" Valentino snapped, gets up and walks to him. "Who the hell else would I be talking about?! That fucking SLUT walked out on me! ME! I fucking made him! Without me, he's just a bag of meat with some mildly entertaining holes!"
"Oh! Angel quit?" Vox questions with an amused smirk.
"NO! He didn't fucking quit! It's worse! He MOVED!" Valentino answered angrily, snatches Vox's phone, tosses the phone to the wall making it shatter in half and causing him to frown. "He thinks he can run off and shack up with Lucifer's BIMBO daughter!"
"Angel is living with Lucifer's daughter now?" Vox asks, raising his eyebrow.
"YEAH! That BITCH Chuckie or Chandler, or I dunno." Valentino snapped again. "Something manish like that, she's got that hotel and-"
As he speaks, he opens the closet full of guns, drugs, and pictures including a poster of himself. Valentino brings up two long pistol guns: a long revolver and a semi-pistol.
"Which of these makes me look sexier?" Valentino asks, turns to closet with a smirk.
"What are you doing, Val?" Vox counters, chuckled. "You're not going over there."
As he speaks, his left eye started it's hypnotizing spell, but Valentino is busy loading his guns.
"That slippery twink is gonna remember who owns him." Valentino said. "I'm gonna FUCK everyone in that rancid shit hole, I swear to god!"
Before he finishes, Vox grabs him by the collar and shoves him in the face.
"VAL..." Vox shouts furiously, distorted as he calms down. "Think about it."
Vox then walks Valentino towards the window, taking one of his guns.
"Our brand is, perfection." Vox told him. "And what do you think chasing whores around town will, do for our image?"
"Um...fuck it up?" Valentino answers.
"Right!" Vox said. "Do you want people thinking you can't control your employees?"
"No!" Valentino answered quickly.
"Exactly! And hey, you still have him under contract." Vox points out. "He isn't going anywhere! SO...you should..."
"Do nothing?" Valentino guessed.
"Great idea!" Vox said, pinched his cheeks. "Now that's why they pay the big bucks."
"But I really wanted to shoot someone." Valentio said in annoyance with a groan.
As he speaks, Valentino gets a cigarette holder, and Vox lights it with his electricity powers.
"Well, lemme call up to the lowest earners this month." Vox suggests, walks to the TVs.
"Ohh, you know me too well." Valentino said with a chuckle, blows smoke. "Ya know...Angel isn't the only one spending time at this Ratty Hotel with the devil's princesa."
"Oh? Who else is there? Someone who, owes you money?" Vox asks, turned to him.
"Someone who owes us much more than money...the Radio Demon is here." Valentino told him with a chuckle.
Upon hearing these words, electricity courses through Vox's head, and he scratches the desk so hard it leaves scratch marks. Vox made small ominous chuckles before turning to Valentino, two red lines appear on the left side of his lower lip.
"What did you just say?" Vox demands in a distorted tone.
"You heard me." Valentino said.
"Alastor...came back...and he is with Lucifer's daughter, and that wasn't the FIRST FUCKING THING YOU TOLD ME?!" Vox yells furious with glitches, walks to him and grabs him by the collar.
"Hey! Killing Alastor is your kink." Valentino points out, frees himself his grip.
As he speaks, he walks to the desk and turns on the television. Vox teleports to the center screen, which is a recording from a VoxTek Voyeur scope. The scene, from a drone point of view, showing Alastor using his powers to attack Sir Pentious zeppelin, laughing as he hears him screamig. Both Antauri and Felicia laughs, enjoying the scene.
"Arrgh! Oh! Please! Stop!" Sir Pentious pleads.
"Um...Alastor! I think he's had enough." Charlie said nervously.
"Nah. He's got a few more hits in him." Angel Dust states with a shrug.
Sir Pentious falls from the zeppelin in front of Alastor, face first to the ground. Alastor twirls his staff.
"Thanks for another forgettable experience." Alastor thanked him.
An Egg Boi falls and breaks into pieces in front of Charlie and Octavia.
"Thank you...for letting your down!" Sir Pentious said with a smirk, grabs a of Alastor's suit with his tail which he made a big mistake. "Oh shit..."
Sir Pentious looks up to see Alastor's shadow transformation in front of him. The next shot shows a massive green explosion as Sir Pentious is seen flying off to the city screaming as he disappeared from sight.
"Well, it looks as though I need a visit to the tailor." Alastor said, leaving. "Best of luck, chums."
"Wait, you're LEAVING?!" Vaggie snapped. "Alastor! We need your help! We need you to do your job."
"We need a wall." Angel Dust points out, gestures to the hole on the wall.
"And we need him pay the damage he made." Octavia adds.
"Of course!" Alastor replied, turns to them. "Can't let my new project fall into disrepair already. What would the papers say?!"
With a snap of his fingers, black ink demons appear with construction tools as Alastor walks away. Angel Dust takes an interest and looks at one of the large muscular demons, shoving Vaggie away.
"Hey, sweet cheeks." Angel Dust said seductively, walks up to him. "Watcha doin' later? I love me a man with a giant...tool."
"What a creep." Felicia muttered in annoyance as Antauri and Octavia nods with an agreement.
The screen zooms out to reveal Valentino scowling at the current events, leaning his face against the screen.
"See?! Look how he flirts with that guy, and he's now even paying!" Valentino growls. "Who is that? I'm gonna kill his whole fucking family! Vox? VOX!"
Vox was paying little attention, as his left pupil turns into a tilde as he eyes Alastor leaving, his appearance static and out of focus as the screen becomes a bit static.
"That FUCKER is back!" Vox shouts, glitches.
"Yeah! I thought he was gone for good too!" Valentino agrees with a smirk, realizing the situation and walks to him.
"It's been 7 years!" Vox said when Valentino leans up to him and pinches his cheeks.
"You still pissed that he almost beat you that time?" Valentino mocks, which Vox is clearly pissed to care.
"Uh, FUCK YOU!" Vox snapped.
"Just saying." Valentino said, walks around him.
"Things have changed a lot since he left town!" Vox points out.
"THAT'S for sure!" Valentino agrees.
"I gotta send a message of who's REALLY in charge of things now!" Vox said.
Vox's face fills the screen as Valentino laughs in the background. The next scene shows Vox grinning as he marches to his chair.
Vox (Sings):
Welcome home!
I'm gonna make you wish that you stayed gone!
As Vox sings, electricity courses through his aim as he sat down, and turns to face the numerous screens.
Vox (Sings):
Say hello to a new status quo
Vox pressed a button, and cords latch themselves to the plug ins on the back of his head, connecting himself with the TV networks.
Vox (Sings):
Everyone knows that there's a brand, new dawn, turn the TV on!
"Camera, speeds, rolling, three, two..."
Chorus (Sings):
Welcome to the show!
Vox (Sings):
Top of the hour and we're discussing a certain has-been who has been spotted cavorting around town after a seven-year absence
Did anybody miss him, did anybody notice?
More on tonight's program
So, the Radio Demon is back in town!
Why is hanging around?
What does that mean for your family?
Well, handy, I've got good news!
He's a loser, a fossil, and I don't mean to sound hostile
But the demon is a coward!
You can take that as gospel
Pulling my viewers? Impossible!
I'm visual, he's barely audible!
Stop giving him the time of day!
Don't listen to a word he'd say
Hope he had a nice vacay!
But he should have stayed away!
Cut to Alastor who had just finished getting his coat tailored. He notices the crow watching the advertisement of Vox. He smiles and walks away with an idea, as Vox continues singing.
Vox (Sings):
While he hid in radio, we pivoted to video! And now his medium is getting bloody rare!
Hell's been better since he split
Where's he been?
Who gives a shit?!
Cuts to Alastor making his appearance, as he starts his radio broadcast from the Hazbin Hotel.
Alastor (Sings):
Salutations
Good to be back on the air
Yes, I know it's been a while since someone with style treated Hell to a broadcast
Sinners rejoice!
Vox (Sings):
What a dated voice!
Alastor (Sings):
Instead of a clout chasing mediocre video podcast
"COME ON!"
Alastor (Sings):
Is Vox insecure, pursuing allure?
Fitting between this fad and that
Is nothing working?
"IGNORE THIS CHIRPING!"
Alastor (Sings):
Every day he's got a new format!
"YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE FUTURE!"
Vox (Sings):
He's the shit that comes before that!
Alastor (Sings):
Is Vox as strong as he purports?
Or is it based on his support?
He'd be powerless without the other Vees!
"Oh, PLEASE!"
Alastor (Sings):
And here's the sugar on the cream
He asked ME to join this team
"Hold on!"
Alastor (Sings):
I said no, and now he's pissy! That's the tea
As Alastor continues with his radio broadcast, Vox was getting so pissed that his screen face was starting to glitch with anger rising.
Vox (Sings):
You old timey PRICK! I'll show you suffering!
Alastor (Sings):
Uh oh, the TV is buffering!
Vox couldn't handle his anger, causing him to overload his circuits with static electricity.
Vox (Sings):
I'LL DESTROY YOOOOU YOU LITTLE-
The camera head could not get anything loaded, and Vox lets out an outburst that overloads everything from the TV screens to Valentino and Velvette's phone to everywhere in Pentagram City, causing a citywide blackout with the exception of the Hazbin Hotel.
Alastor (Sings):
I'm afraid you've lost your signal
Let's begin
Alastor slowly turns into his true demon form with every sentence.
Alastor (Sings):
I'm gonna make you wish that I stayed gone!
Tune on in
When I'm done, your status quo will know its race is run!
Oh, this will be fun!
Alastor makes one last evil laugh before cutting off Vox's signal throughout the city, leaving the Overlord dismayed that Alastor is still popular and powerful than last time.
"FUUUUUUCK!" Vox cried.
The scene cuts to the emergency meeting with Vox, Velvette, and Valentino to discuss a matter with Alastor as a Robo-Fizz, Kitty, pass out drinks to each of them.
"We have a problem." Vox informed them. "Alastor is getting close to little princess Morningstar, so our main concern now is ensuring that no deal is ever struck between Lucifer's BRAT and that smiling freak!"
"Well, how exactly are we supposed to stop it?" Velvette questions.
Valentino was putting so much glue on his revolver to decorate with glitter and marbles.
"Put something inside them." Valentino suggests. "That's how I get the bitches to behave."
"Well, maybe someone on the inside isn't such a bad idea." Vox told him. "Do you think Angel would?"
"That lanky prick won't even return my calls." Valentino said with a scoff.
"We need someone who Little Miss Bleeding Heart would take in." Vox points out.
"Someone...pathetic, desperate, with no direct ties to us?" Velvette guessed with a smirk.
"I employ every down in their luck loser this side of Hell." Valentino points out. "Who the fuck is left?"
"I think...I have JUST the one." Vox said with a scoffs, smirks.
As Vox slowly turns around, his right-hypnotic eye gleams with a sinister grin for a plan he has in stored.
Back at the hotel, the ink demons are currently fixing the hole in the wall as Charlie, Vaggie, Octavia, Antauri, and Felicia returns. Charlie throws herself onto a couch, exhausted.
"Soooo? How'd it go?" Angel Dust asks, knew that it didn't end well.
"Not a single new recruit." Vaggie replied with a sigh.
"And they're still at it." Antauri adds.
"Yeah, well, who would wanna use their last days not fucking and fighting?" Angel Dust rhetorically questions.
"We want to disagree with you, but after everything, we'll never get them in here at this rate." Octavia said.
As Angel Dust checks on his phone, they heard a knock on the front door. Vaggie walks over it and opens the door, only to find Sir Pentious holding his hat.
"Why, hello my dear-"
Sir Pentious is cut off by Vaggie punching him in the face. He falls when Vaggie brought out her spear at him. Sir Pentious cowers in fear with the tip barely at his neck, and held a peace sign gesture.
"Wait, wait, wait! I come in peace!" Sir Pentious pleads.
"What are you doing here?" Vaggie questions with a scowl when Charlie and Octavia appears behind her.
"Vaggie, what's the problem?" Charlie asks when she notices Sir Pentious. "Oh! Hello again!"
"What are you doing here?" Octavia asks in annoyance. "Don't you have a zeppelin to fix?"
"I didn't come looking for a fight." Sir Pentious said. "I uhhh...I heard that you're helping people, people who want to be better?"
Octavia and Vaggie aren't convinced, but Charlie lets out a gasp and runs over to grab his hand and leads him to the door of the hotel.
"You heard right!" Charlie said with a gasp. "Welcome to our home of healing, our resort of restoration, our-"
Angel Dust, Antauri, and Felicia appears from the door and cuts off Charlie.
"Are you fucking nuts?! This chump was trying to kill us like literally 6 hours ago!" Angel Dust exclaims. "And now you want to bring him in here to live with us?"
"Absolutely!" Charlie remarked. "This place is about second chances. and who deserves one more this slithery...slippery...special little man!"
"Aren't you supposed to protect this place?" Angel Dust questions, turns to Vaggie.
"I'm with Angel on this one." Felicia said, crossed his arms. "I mean seriously, do you think I would let this cobra shithead live in this hotel?"
Charlie gives her puppy-dog eyes, begging Vaggie to give Sir Pentious a chance to live in the hotel. Vaggie gives in.
"I guess he's not much of a threat without the war machine, or even with the war machine." Vaggie said with sigh in reluctance which Sir Pentious' cobra head flaps down with depression.
Charlie was so happy that she hugs Vaggie, lifting her up in the process and twirling around once.
"Oh! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Charlie said, then turns to Sir Pentious. "Sir Pentious! Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel!"
Charlie leads Sir Pentious to the door inside of the hotel.
"Oh no darling! Thank you!" Sir Pentious replied. "You won't regret this."
Angel Dust, Antauri, and Felicia follows soon afterwards.
"I give you a week, tops." Angel Dust said with a shrug.
Charlie gives Sir Pentious the tour of the hotel, introducing Husk to him, the wall he blow up before it was fixed.
"So, this is the bar and the bartender." Charlie said. "This is the curtain, and this is the new wall after you broke the last one, heh, and oh! Oh! This is the-"
Vaggie and Octavia grabs Charlie to calm her down again.
"Charlie, you don't have to show him every detail." Octavia said to her.
"Sorry, I'm just excited to have our first real guest!" Charlie said excitedly.
"Uh, what the hell am I then?" Angel Dust asks in annoyance.
"Chopped liver, perhaps?" Antauri guessed with a smirk as Felicia, Octavia, and Vaggie snickered.
"Well, you're an important part of our family here, Angel, but you uhm, uh..."
"Constantly make us look bad, sexually harass the staff, and have literally never once tried to improve?" Vaggie told him, listing it with her fingers.
"And don't forget a lazy ass on a log and immature." Felicia adds. "Also, you've made it clear you only stay because you don't pay rent."
"What they mean is, it's just nice to have someone interested for once." Charlie points out.
As Charlie comes back to Sir Pentious, Angel Dust was having doubts, looking a bit upset of everything Vaggie and Felicia described him to be.
Niffty was playing Keekee with a string when Charlie and Sir Pentious approached them. Keekee hissed at the sight of Sir Pentious and scatters away while Niffty turns around to meet him.
"Over here we have our maid, Niffty." Charlie said when Niffty gasps.
"The bad boy is back!" Niffty exclaims happily.
Niffty gets up on Sir Pentious and holds his collars, looking at him with insanity in her red eye and a very sadistic smile, which creeps him out.
"Never leave me again." Niffty whispers creepily.
"We're about 80% sure she's harmless, and over here we-Oh! Uh, Alastor!" Charlie said, nearly bumps into Alastor. "Our gracious facility manager! You've met our new guest Sir Pentious..."
"Ah yes! You're the one who ruined my coat!" Alastor said when his eyes glow red in the dark with a violent temptation to rip him apart. "I definitely remember you now."
Sir Pentious gulps nervously.
"Well, I guess this is great time for your first lesson!" Charlie said as she clears her throat. "'How to apologize!' The first step to becoming a better person is to admit when you are wrong, why don't you give it a try?"
"Yes...uhm...Mr. uhm...Radio Demon sir, please forgive me for attacking you and ruining your coat very lovely coat." Sir Pentious said nervously. "Uhm...here."
As a token of apology, Sir Pentious hands back the small fabric he tear from Alastor's coat. Alastor takes it and inspects the damage.
"Ah-ho! Not many people have been able to take even the much off me, it must have meant quite a lot to you." Alastor told him with a smirk.
Despite being generous, Alastor burns the fabric tear in green flames, leaving Sir Pentious and Charlie stunned.
The scene cuts to a group gathering introducing Sir Pentious to the hotel.
"Now, with a new resident, I think it's important we all get to know each other!" Charlie informed them excitedly. "So, we are going to play a little game. Everyone, follow me. My name is Charlie...I like to sing! And when we get to know each other it's the greatest thing!"
"My name's Sir Pentious...I like to build...and despite my stupid Egg Boiz, I think I'm very skilled!" Sir Pentious said, follows along while clapping twice.
When it was Angel Dust's turn, he looked disinterested, looking up from his phone.
"This is stupid." Angel Dust said bluntly.
"This is not stupid!" Charlie remarked in a singing tone, claps twice. "It's a game...Sir Pentious did it well so please try to do the same!"
"I am too sober for this." Angel Dust said in annoyance, rubbing his forehead.
"Well, get used to it and learn how to play, this is gonna be your whole day!" Vaggie points out, claps twice.
"Hey, where's Antauri and Felicia?" Angel Dust asks. "Shouldn't they join us?"
"I ask Octavia for taking them to their rooms, they must've been exhausted after all the work." Charlie explains.
The next scene cuts to a role-playing with Angel Dust wearing a trench coat and a hat while he reads a script. Sir Pentious was also role-playing as an innocent child wearing a sailor suit, licking a lollipop.
"'Oh, I'm a bad man on the streets who never got enough hugs, now, where's an innocent kid I can sell crack to?'" Angel said, reading the script. "Wow, who wrote this?"
"It's great right? Keep going!" Charlie said, gesturing him by waving her hand.
"'Hey you.'" Angel Dust called him, earned his attention.
"'Who, me?'" Sir Pentious said sweetly, turns to him with his cobra head lifts.
"'Yeah, you look like a kid who could use some...devil's dandruff?!' Oh, for fuck's sake!" Angel Dust said in annoyance.
"'Not me! I have to go home and study!'" Sir Pentious said with a hiss.
"'Come on, kid, it'll make you cool like me...the crackhead.'" Angel Dust said in a deadpan look.
"'The only cool thing here is to say no to drugs!'" Sir Pentious remarked. "'Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to not have sexual intercourse before marriage!'"
Antauri, Felicia, Octavia, and Vaggie give them 'dafuq?!' look on their faces.
"Yes! Oh bravo! Bravo!" Charlie cheered, stands up and claps her hands as she turns to Sir Pentious. "Wow Pentious! At this rate, you'll be redeemed in no time!"
"I...I'm going to bed." Angel Dust said, then heads back up to his room after overhearing Charlie congratulating Sir Pentious.
"I am so proud of you Sir Pentious!" Charlie said with a smile. "That was amazing!"
"Thank you! Thank you!" Sir Pentious thanked her. "You really like me!"
In Angel's room, Fat Nuggets is asleep on his bed until Angel Dust accidentally throws his coat on top of him. Fat Nuggets grunts and crawls out of the coat as he watches Angel Dust lie down on his bed. Angel Dust looks at his phone and sees all his voicemails from Valentino. Angel Dust sighs and begins to play them. Valentino's voicemails switch back and forth between a friendly, apologetic tone, and a barrage of screams threatening voice.
"Angel baby, come home! It's not the same without you here, I miss you! Come back-"
"ANGEL, YOU BITCH! IF YOU DON'T COME HOME, YOU'LL BE FUCKING GREASY TRUCKERS FOR THE NEXT YEAR-"
"Hey, amorcito, I didn't mean to yell, but you know how crazy you make me-"
"YOU FUCKING SLUT!"
"Hey, Angie! About earlier-"
"-KILL YOUR WHOLE FUCKIN' FAMILY!"
"Work's really stressful!"
"-LITTLE COCKSUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!"
"You actually think you can change? Addict trash like you doesn't change. I'll see you soon, baby."
Angel Dust sighs as Fat Nuggets gets on the bed next to him.
"Sorry, not now, Fat Nuggets." Angel Dust said sadly.
"Felt like shit and being left out?" The voice of Antauri said when he and Felicia entered his room.
"Antauri? Felicia? What are you two doing here?" Angel Dust asks surprisingly.
"Couldn't sleep." Antauri answered with a shrug. "Same with Felicia. The more we thought about it, the more Sir Pentious staying with us didn't add up."
"Thank you!" Angel Dust exclaims happily. "Glad I'm not the only one here with common sense."
"Well lets see, he shows up here to attack, gets his ass kicked, and came back few hours later claiming he wants to change?" Felicia said with a ponder. "We don't buy it."
"Hmm, well I was going for a drink anyway." Angel Dust said with a shrug. "Let's go."
Angel Dust, Antauri, and Felicia goes to Husk's bar and grabs a bottle of alcohol. Then they noticed a slithering sound. They found Charlie's office door opens, and takes a peek inside. There, they discovered that Sir Pentious is setting up a small camera in one of the bookshelves, a camera that belong to Vox. They realized what he was doing and slams the door open.
"You slippery little shit!" Angel Dust snarled furiously when Sir Pentious screams. "You're working for the Vees? I fucking knew there was something shitty about you."
"Give us one good reason why we shouldn't maul you and turn your skin into a coat!?" Antauri adds angrily.
"I don't know what you're talking about!...Whore bug and stupid mongrels!" Sir Pentious mocks with a hiss, smirked.
Angel Dust, Antauri, and Felicia were ticked off, and tackles Sir Pentious on the ground. He punches him in the face before wrestling with him.
"Get your aggressively average body..."
Before Sir Pentious finish his sentence while try to hypnotize Angel Dust, both Antauri and Felicia bites him off in the tail.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" Sir Pentious screams, jumps in midair with his tongue sticking out.
Felicia grabs hold of his tail and slams him into the wall before she and Antauri putting a pair of sunglasses on before Angel Dust body slams him and punches his face while using his extra limbs to put on his sunglasses.
"Fuck off!" Sir Pentious grunts while using his hypnotic powers which it didn't effect him. "What?!"
Angel Dust, Antauri, and Felicia gave him a smug look and taps their sunglasses.
"Oh shit!" Sir Pentious said in fright, knew he's in trouble when Charlie, Vaggie, and Octavia enters the room.
"What's going on?" Charlie asks with a yawn.
"This little bitch is a traitor!" Angel Dust told her, points Sir Pentious accusingly.
"Preposterous!" Sir Pentious denies. "I would never betray you. You...are my best friends!"
Sir Pentious hugs three of the girls.
"You didn't even bother to hide the evidence, you moron!" Antauri points out in a deadpan look.
Angel Dust lifts off one of the books to reveal a camera, much to Charlie's shock. Sir Pentious realizes that his cover was blown and scurries away. He brings out his wristwatch to make contact with Vox.
"Ah! Ah! Abort! Abort! S.O.S! Agent Pentious in need of immediate evacuation!" Sir Pentious pleads with panic when Vox immediately picks up.
"Pentious? Wait...you were caught?! Is hasn't been a day!"
"Please! You've got to get me out of here!" Sir Pentious pleads again.
"I can't believe we thought you could handle even something this simple. Do us a favor, if they don't kill you, go ahead and do it yourself! You miserable failure!"
"I...I...just make it quick I guess...not that I deserve it." Sir Pentious cried, lies on the ground with Vaggie holding a spear ready to pierce the skull while Antauri and Felicia had their claws ready to maul him.
"Gladly." Vaggie, Antauri, and Felicia said.
Right before Vaggie, Antauri, and Felicia could put him out of his misery, Charlie stops them.
"Wait! Pentious?" Charlie said as she starts singing.
Charlie (Sings):
It starts with sorry, that's your foot in the door
One simple sorry, spoken straight from your core
The path to forgiveness, is a twisting trail of hearts!
But sorry is where it starts!
Sir Pentious (Sings):
Who could forgive a dirtbag like me?
I don't deserve your amnesty
Angel Dust comes with dual Tommy submachine guns in both hands with Vaggie, Antauri, and Felicia tailing behind with her spear and their claws and fangs.
Angel Dust, Vaggie, Antauri, and Felicia (Sings):
Can't we just kill him?
Shoot him and spill his blood?
Charlie (Sings):
That's an option you could choose
Angel Dust, Vaggie, Antauri, and Felicia (Sings):
Works for us!
Charlie (Sings):
But who hasn't been in his shoes? It starts with sorry
Sir Pentious (Sings):
Sorry
Charlie (Sings):
Dig down deeper and say one sincere sorry!
Sir Pentious (Sings):
I'm so sorry!
Charlie (Sings):
And your journey's underway!
Charlie and Sir Pentious (Sings):
It'll take time to cover your/my multitude of sins
But sorry is where it begins
It starts with sorry
As the song ends, Niffty was also awake, but she's disappointed that Sir Pentious isn't whom she thought he would be: a bad boy.
"I hated that song! Why are you so lame?!" Niffty shouts, kicks him on the body and walks away. "Not a bad boy."
"Good first day!" Charlie states, sighs happily. "Let's get some rest!"
As Charlie and the others leave with a wristwatch communicator still in the office, Alastor appears from the shadow of the dark hallway with a smile. He comes and picks up the watch before contacting Vox on the watch.
"WHAT?!"
Vox paused when he realizes that it was Alastor who's calling him, showing fear in his screen face as Alastor laughs evilly.
"You'll have to try harder than that next time, ol' pal!" Alastor taunts.
With a maniacal laughter, Alastor crushed the watch with his bare hand, and the only sound Vox makes was a raging scream before Alastor retreats back into the darkness.
That's it for the 25th chapter.