175 days till extermination day

At the hotel Charlie paced back and forth with her cat Keekee by her side, while Vaggie, Nathan and Angel witnessed. "Ok, So… the extermination is coming in 6 months instead of a year!" She began. "No big deal, just a little setback, 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!?" Vaggie then grabbed a hold of Charlie's shoulders to calm her down. "Yes, we will!" "It's true, we'll purify a soul and show those angels that it's not a waste of time!" "Oh please, you had less than half a chance when you started all this 'salvation' bull$#!t." Angel said. "And now…" He Looked at his phone seeing multiple new texts from someone called Valentino. "Ain't no silver lining this time, toots!" "Sure there is! We just…. Have to look a little harder for it!" Charlie retaliated. "She has a point! We have to look forward to the path for redemption!" Nathan added. "Well while you're looking, the rest of hell's going nuts! People are already freaking out about the news!" Angel argued, showing the absolute chaos of panicking demons. "Look at what's happening in the doomsday district!" The phone then buzzed with a new message. "Uh what does that donkey show?" "And who's this Valentino guy?" "Oh! Nothin'! Val's my boss, and he's just freaked out about the news too! Like I said everyone's losing their s#!t!"

"Yeah, that's true… sinners are desperate…." Vaggie realized. "Maybe desperate enough to do anything to avoid extermination!" Charlie immediately caught on to what's happening. "This is the perfect time to recruit more sinners FOR THE HOTEL!" "Cute idea and all… but are you really gonna go out in all of this?" Angel said, showing more chaos on his phone. "Well it's not like people are just gonna show up on our doorstep!" Suddenly as Charlie finished talking, a large explosion emerged from behind them. "Or blow up our wall!"

They turned the giant hole in the wall to the outside, where a large mechanical blimp covered in a multitude of weapons was in front of the hotel. Inside the blimp were a bunch of small egg demons in suits and hats and the one controlling it was a large cobra-like demon with a body color predominantly in charcoal gray. His eyes had cerise sclera with black pupils, and a mouth with sharp yellow teeth, two of which were long snake-like fangs. His tail was black with thick yellow stripes featuring numerous cerise eyes running down the length of it. He had a black cobra hood with its front colored yellow with black corners and four cerise eye patterns spread across the center. He was dressed in a jacket in a matching charcoal gray to his skin, pinstriped with yellow, and a black bow tie with a single cerise eye in the center. Beneath the jacket was a long-sleeved yellow undershirt. He also wore black fingerless gloves with yellow dots on each knuckle and had sharp cerise claws. He accessorized with a large top hat in charcoal gray, which had a sizable cerise eye in the center of it, as well as many sharp yellow teeth and a pair of goggles. "SHOW YOURSELF ALASTOR!" The snake demon echoed. "COME AND FACE-" The snake demon then noticed that the demon he was looking for was sitting on a balcony while sipping coffee. "Oh there you are! FACE MY WRATH!" "Who are you?" Alastor asked, as he knew he made many enemies during his time as an overlord. "Who am I…? Who am I!?" The snake demon yelled. "I am the great SSSir Pentiousss! Inventor! Architect of dessstrution! Villain extraordinaire!" Alastor then shadow warped to the front of the building, where Charlie Angel and Nathan were standing. "Ohh! You tell 'em boss!" One of the egg minions cheered. "Sir Pentious?" Nathan said confused. "Oooh! He's a bad boy!" Nifty giggled, climbing onto Alastor's shoulder. "Ha! Well if all that is true you think I would have heard of you!" Alastor said, grabbing nifty and putting her down. "I attacked you literally last week." Sir Pentious reminded, only for the radio demon to tilt his head. "We've done battle like 20 times!" "Well you must've been really bad at this!" Alastor laughed. "ENOUGH! Now cowar! For when I've ssslain you, the almighty Vees will finally acknowledge ME! As their equal!" "Oooh! Wait, who are the Vees?" Nifty asked, confused. "Oh, nobody important!" Alastor answered. "Actually I'd like to know as well!" Nathan asked. "Well let's just say that one of them is my Team Flare…."

Meanwhile near the Vee tower, a group of demons watched a commercial for the new VoxTek voyeur scopes before immediately rushing in like maniacs. Throughout the street, more and more people were sucked into this strange VoxTek phenomenon. In the Vee tower, however, sat the source of it all: the chairman of VoxTek, member of the Vees and overlord, Vox, a television headed demon dressed in a white shirt and black and red striped vest underneath a dark blue coat with light blue stripes and pants and shoes with light blue tips to match his sharp blue claws, his screen had two large red hypnotic eyes and a mouth with sharp blue teeth, and wore a wi-fi hat and bow tie with small antennae emerging from the hat. Vox laughed as more and more viewers and customers were being sucked under his spell. "Hahahaha! Now that's good television!"

Suddenly he got a call from his television face and flipped it to one of his TVs, where on the other end was the second member of the Vees and fashion queen, Velvette, a slim demon with cedar-brown skin, and long curly hair that was currently in a ponytail that was colored desire-red that features the insides colored in a dark navy-blue, and white swirled-streaks her eyes had white irises, red sclera and slit pupils, and her makeup consisted of burgundy eyeshadow on her eyelids, and black lipstick on her lips with a strip across the center of her mouth that had fangs inside. She was dressed in white skull-shaped earrings, and a sleeveless navy-blue coat with burgundy lining and two desire hearts on the left side of the fur collar. Her coat was usually worn over a sleeveless, black turtleneck crop-top that includes two desire-hearts on the chest. Her set of loose-pants are colored in navy-blue and desire-red in a striped pattern, held by a black belt with a white heart-shaped buckle and she wore black low-heeled shoes with white pom-poms on top and black-striped fingerless opera gloves with alternating colors - white for her right glove and desire for her left. "Hello there, Velvette, how are you this hellish morning?" Vox asked calmly with a cup of coffee in his hand. "Oh cut the s#!t Vox, I need you up here, now!" Velvette yelled. "Whatever could be the problem, my dear?" Vox asked, turning away and checking his phone. "Your little boytoy is wrecking my department, while I'm trying to put together a show so…" before velvette could finish, she saw one of her models getting torn apart. "Just get your ass here, now! DAMNIT VALENTINO!" The call ended and Vox signed, he knew that when Val is throwing a tantrum, he has to take it out on either his or Velvette's department. He got up from his chair and headed to the elevator. "Oh god, here I go Valentino, just another f*(ken day with Val." He grumbled. "Hey hey hey, f*(k my life…."

Using the elevator, Vox ascended to the upper floor where a handful of reporters were surrounding him. "Mr. Vox, what are your thoughts about the new extermination deadline?" One reporter asked. "My dear people!" Vox began. "We at VoxTek enterprises, have always been at the forefront of innovation! And now… with this new oncoming threat, we're shifting our focus to your protection!" Vox then descended a small screen to reveal his newest product. "We are proud to announce that VoxTek angelic security is coming soon! Trust us! With your safety…." With his hypnotic powers Vox hypnotized the reporters to stop surrounding him. "Uh sir, when did we start working on angelic security?" One of Vox's employees asked. "30 seconds ago." Vox answered threateningly. Before passing by the reporters. "Try to get that b!(h Carmella on the books and cancel all my appointments today, I have a fire to put out upstairs!" He then telephoned through the nearest security cam.

On one of the upper floors, Velvette inspected the models and outfits that were meant for her show. "No! Unacceptable, you're fired, what is this? Wrist ruffles! Is this 1750? Burn it like the witches who wore it!" Vox then appeared next to his fellow overlord. "Hello Velvette! I can see you're busy!" He said casually while Velvette facepalmed. "Tell me where's our hotheaded friend now?" "Up in his tower, waiting for a flat-faced prince to calm him down!" Velvette growled before getting on her phone. Vox sighed. "And what's got him out of sorts today?" Vox asked, irritated. "Who knows but he tore up my best model!" Velvette answered showing the gruesome aftermath being carried away. "And you know the show can't go on waiting for that unlucky b!(h to pull herself back together! MELISSA, GET IN HERE!" One of Velvette's models then stepped forward before the overlord switched her outfits with a snap of her fingers. "No, no, hideous, I want to die, ew, there that's it! That's the one!" "Well, it looks like you have everything under control here!" Vox commented. "Of course I do, f&$k you! Now shoo! Take care of the p!$$ baby!" Velvette growled before getting on her phone as Vox walked off.

Soon the television demon entered a lavish room at the top of Vee tower, complete with bedrooms, flatscreen television and an amazing view of pentagram city. In that room however, a cloud of red smoke engulfed one of the couches, laying there was the last member of the Vees, the owner of the p0*n studio, overlord, and well known p!mp, Valentino a large demon with purplish blue skin, four arms and a gold tooth like angel. He was dressed in a scarlet coat with puffy collar and cuffs, that was decorated with hearts, he wore black gloves for all four of his hands, a thin scarlet hat with a zebra striped wrap and long white feather with black hearts and he wore a pair of heart-shaped red tinted shades that covered his red pupil-less eyes. "F*(ken FINALLY!" He roared in a Spanish accent, he threw a glass on the floor in a fit of rage. "Kitty, another drink!" He ordered the small robot jester. "Can you believe what that piece of s#!t did? The UNGRATEFUL W#0RE!" The robot returned with Val's drink only for him to throw it at Vox, who stepped aside just as it hit the wall. "Uh which w#0re are we talking about this time?" He asked nonchalantly. "F$(ing Angel Dust! Who the hell else would I be talking about!?" Valentino answered, outraged. "That F$(ing $!ut walked out on me! Me! I F$(ing made him!" He ranted while Vox pulled out his phone. "Without me he's just a bag of meat with some mildly entertaining holes!" "Angel quit?" Vox asked. "No he didn't quit, it's worse!" Val growled before grabbing Vox's phone and threw it to the wall smashing it on impact. "HE MOVED! He thinks he can just walk in here, go to work and go home somewhere else? Can you F$(ing believe that!?"

The overlord then stomped his way to the cabinet. "He thinks he can walk up and shake up Lucifer's b!mbo daughter, and some human brat!" "Angel is living with Lucifer's daughter AND a human now?" Vox asked. "Yeah her name's chalky or chandler, something mannish like that!" Val replied as he rummaged through his cabinet. "She's got this hotel and this human likes putting creatures in balls, and not in a fun way!" Val then turned around with two different guns in his hands. "Which of these makes me look sexier?" "What are you doing Val?" Vox asked as the other demon rummaged through his cabinet once more. "You're not going over there…." "That slippery twink is going to remember who owns him." Val growled, pulling out a gun. "I'm gonna f*(k everybody in that rancid s#!hole I swear to god…" "VAL…." Vox growled, quietly losing and before his cool and pulling Valentino back before it came back. "Think about it, our brand is perfection." He began as he strolled the p!mp to the window and took his gun. "And what do you think chasing w#0res around town will do for our image?" "Uh… f*(k it up?" "Riiight! Do you want people to think that you can't control your own employees?" "No!" "Exactly! And hey! You still have him under contract! He isn't going anywhere! So maybe you should…" "Do nothing?" "Great idea! Now that's why they pay you the big bucks!" "Ugh but I really wanted to shoot someone!" Val groaned, pulling out a cigarette before Vox lit it. "Well let me call up the lowest earners this month!" "Oh you know me too well!"

Valentino then took a big whiff of his cigarette. "You know, Angel isn't the only one spreading time at this ratty hotel with the little leaguer and the devil's princessa…." He said while Vox was looking for some equipment. "Who else is there? Someone who owes you money?" Vox asked. "Someone who owes us much more than money! The radio demon is there…." That name made Vox flinch as he clawed the table, after all this time, it couldn't be him… could it? "What did you just say…?" He asked, concerned. "You heard me!" Val laughed. "Alastor came back and is hanging with Lucifer's d-daughter… and that wasn't the first F*(KING THING YOU TOLD ME!?" Vox roared, grabbing Val by the collar. "Heeey killing Alastor is your k!*k!" Val then let go and went to the monitors where he showed everything from a VoxTek voyager scope.

Alastor managed to subdue Sir Pentious' blimp with long black tendrils, he laughed at Pentious' cries for mercy, while the others showed visible concern. "Uh Alastor, I think he's had enough!" Charlie said hastily. "Na! He's got a few more hits in 'em!" Angel laughed. Sir Pentious tried to cling to his ship but eventually slipped away onto the ground only to be caught by Nathan's Noivern. "Good catch echo! Now let 'em down." Nathan commanded as Echo dropped the snake villain on the ground. "Thanks for another forgettable experience!" Alastor commented. "Thank you FOR LETTING YOUR GUARD DOWN!" Sir Pentious laughed before taking a small piece of Alastor's coat only to regret that decision when Alastor immediately flung him away with his magic. "Well that just happened…." Nathan said surprised. "Indeed and it looks like I need a visit to the tailor!" Alastor said. "Best of luck chums!" He soon turned away from the hotel. "Wait you're leaving?!" Vaggie said outraged. "Alastor! We need your help! We need you to do your job!" "We need a wall!" Angel pointed out. "Of course, can't have my new project fall into disrepair already! What would the papers say?" Alastor then summoned a bunch of doll-like minions who were armed with construction equipment, angels pushed his friends aside and got close to the biggest one. "Hey sweet cheeks whatcha doin' later…?" He said seductively and confused the minion. "I love a man with a giant… tool."

Back at the Vee tower, Valentino growled at what his employee was currently doing. "See? Look at how he flirts with that guy and he's not even paying!" He ranted. "Who is he? I'm gonna kill his whole. F*(ken. Family! Vox? Vox!?" Vox however was preoccupied by the glitching camera, which he knew for a fact that it was Alastor due to his strange frequency around screens and devices. "That f*cker is back!" He growled. "Yeah, I thought he was gone for good too!" Valentino added. "It's been seven years!" "You still p!$$ed he almost beat you that time?" "Uh f*(k you!" "Just saying!" "Things have changed a lot since he left town!" "That's for sure!" "I gotta send a message of who's REALLY in charge of things now!"

Later on, Vox went back to his broadcasting room to begin his plan. "Welcome home… I'm gonna make you wish that you'd stayed gone!" Vox laughed before sitting in his chair. "Say hello to a new status quo!" Soon multiple hdmi cables hooked into the back of Vox's head as he began his broadcast. "Everyone knows that there's a brand new dawn, turn the tv ON!"

"Welcome to the show!" "Top of the hour we're discussing a certain HASBIN who has been spotted covering around town after a seven year long absence!" He reported, "Did anybody miss him? Did anybody notice? More on tonight's program!"

It soon switched to multiple television programs with Vox as the star. "So the radio demon's back in town, why's he hanging around? What does that mean for your family?" "But lately it's 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, I hope he had a nice vacay but HE SHOULD'VE STAYED AWAY!"

As this was happening Alastor returned from the shop only to see people flocking to the TVs, guessing that the picture box headed loser is up to his old tricks again. "While he hid in radio, we pivoted to video!" He turned to see Nathan setting up flyers for the hotel and went up to him, whispered something in his ear, and made him smile before walking away with him. "Now his medium is getting bloody rare!" "Hell's been better since he split, where's he been? WHO GIVES A S#!T?!"

Later on Alastor got his mic ready for his own broadcast. "Salutations! Good to be back on the air!" "And with a special guest!" Nathan added as their radio broadcast reached throughout hell with the help of Echo to provide. "Yes I know it's been a while since someone with style treated hell to a broadcast!" "Demons rejoice!" "What a dated voice!" "Instead of a clout chasing mediocre video podcast!" "Come on!" "Is Vox insecure? Pursuing allure?" "Switching between this fad and that is nothing working?" "Ignore their chirping!" "Everyday he's got a new format!" "You're looking at the future! He's THE S#!T THAT COMES BEFORE THAT!"

In the skies Echo continued to deliver Alastor's broadcast. "Is this Vox guy as strong as he reports?" "Or is it based on his support?" "He'd be powerless without these so-called Vees!" "Oh please!" "And here's the sugar on the cream, he asked me to join his team!" "HOLD ON!" "I said no and now he's p!$$y that's the tea!" "You old timey pr!(k! I'll s-suffer-ing!" Vox soon started to glitch and overheat due to his rage. "Uh oh! The TV is buffering!" "I'LL DESTROY YOOOOuuuu…." Soon Vox's hardware couldn't take it anymore and short circuited causing a massive blackout throughout pentagram city. "Looks like flat-brain has lost his signal!"

At the hotel, the only place with power, Nathan stepped aside as Alastor did what he does best. "Let's begin… I'm gonna make you wish that I'd stayed gone…." His antlers soon elongated and his eyes morphed into radio diles. "Tune on in…When I'm done…" Soon his limbs elongated as well and became more demonic. "Your status quo will know its race is run… oh this will be fun…." With Alastor the winner, he laughed across the airwaves while his rival was left alone in the darkness. "F***(k!"

After that little… incident… A meeting of the Vees was held discussing recent matters, with velvette sporting a shorter hair style. "We have a problem." Vox began. "Alastor is getting too close to princess Morningstar and that human kid, so our main concern now is to make sure that no deal is ever struck between those BRATS and that smiling freak…." "And how exactly are we supposed to do that?" Velvette questioned. "Put something inside them, that's how I get the b!(hs to behave!" Valentino suggested. "Hmm… maybe someone on the inside isn't a bad idea…." Vox replied. "Do you think Angel would?" "That lanky p#!k won't even return my calls…." Val grumbled. "We need someone who little miss bleeding heart would take in…." Vox said, standing up and strolling around. "Someone pathetic, desperate, with no direct ties to us!" Velvette added. "I employed every down on their luck loser this side of hell who the f*(k is left?" Val agrued. Vox then thought up the perfect candidate. "I think I have… just the one…."

Meanwhile back at the hotel, three three returned from a long day where Charlie turned to her couch in despair. "So… how'd it go?" Angel asked despite already knowing the answer. "Not a single new recruit…." Vaggie sighed. "Well who'd wanna spend their last days not f*(kin' and fightin'." Angel said before a knock on the door was heard. Vaggie immediately went to the door and hastily opened it. On the other side however was a familiar snake villain. "Why hellooo my dear!" Vaggie immediately responded with a punch to the snake's face and a sharp spear, leaving him on the ground in fear. "Wait wait wait! I come in peace!" "What are you doing here?" The moth demon demanded before her girlfriend approached the door. "Vaggie, what's the problem?" She asked before seeing their guest. "Oh! Hello again! Hey Nathan check this out!" The three turned upwards to see Nathan gliding down with his Noivern. "Sorry if you lost me earlier, Al decided to pull me away for…" He then saw what was happening, "Oh! You're that arbok guy who flew around in the death blimp right?" "That would be so! You may call me the great SSSir Pentiousss!" "Again, what are you doing here?" Vaggie asked, irritated. "I didn't come looking for a fight!" Sir Pentious answered, getting off the ground. "I uh, I heard you're helping people! People who want… to be better…?" Charlie immediately cheered upon hearing those words. "You heard right!" She answered, rushing up to him and holding his hand. "Welcome to our home of healing! Our resort of restoration!" Just before she could bring Sir Pentious into the building, they were stopped by Angel. "Are you f*(ken nuts!?" He objected. "This guy was just trying to kill us like literally 6 hours ago! And now you wanna bring him in here to live with us?" "Absolutely! This place is about second chances!" Charlie answered. "And who deserves more than this… slithery slippery sssspecial little guy!" "Aren't you supposed to protect this place?" Angel asked to Vaggie, but before she could answer she was stopped by Charlie's puppy dog eyes. "I… guess he's not much of a threat without the war machine…." Vaggie sighed, making Sir Pentious light up. "Or even with the war machine." He was immediately brought down by that statement. "Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Charlie cheered, hugging her girlfriend before grabbing the snake by hand once more. "Sir Pentious! Welcome to the hazbin hotel!" "Oh no darling! Thank you! You won't regret thisss!" Sir Pentious replied, entering the hotel with Charlie and the others. "I'd give you a week! Tops!" Angel commented before heading inside as well.

Inside Charlie showed the new guest everything. "So, this is the bar and the bartender!" "I recommend not being near him at all times!" "This is the curtain, and this is the new wall after you destroyed the old one! Oh and this is…" before Charlie could continue she was pulled aside by Vaggie. "Babe, you don't have to show him every detail." She informed. "Sorry. I'm just so excited to have our first real guest!" Charlie said, full of getty. "Uh what the hell am I then?" Angel pointed out. "Well you're an important part of our family here Angel! But you…" "Constantly make us look bad, s3xually harrase the staff and have literally never once tried to improve!" Vaggie filled in. "What she means is it's just nice to have someone interested for once!" Charlie answered, before walking back to the guest making Angel feel down and catching Nathan's attention. "Over here is our maid, nifty!" Charlie said, introducing nifty, who immediately ran up to Sir Pentious. "The bad boy is back! NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN…." She yelled frightening the snake villain. "We're about 80% sure she's harmless!" Charlie explained, "I still have one of my Pokémon guarding the door from her!" Nathan added. "Oh! That's Nathan! He's the first human to arrive in hell!" "A human huh?" Sir Pentious said, fascinated, rubbing his hands. "I hopefully get to do a lot of tests on you!" Nathan immediately took a step back, with his hands raised.

"And over here we have…" she bumped into a familiar overlord. "Oh uh, Alastor, our gracious facility manager!" Charlie introduced before turning to the radio demon. "You've met our newest guest, Sir Pentious!" "Ah yes you're the one who ruined my coat!" Alastor reminded. "I definitely remember you now…." The two were frightened upon hearing that. "Well I guess this is a great time for your first lesson!" Charlie noted. "How to apologize: The first step to being a better person is to admit when you are wrong!" She then pushed the two closer together. "Why don't you give it a try?" "Yes, mr um… radio demon, sir. Please forgive me for, um, attacking you and ruining your very lovely coat!" Sir Pentious apologized before pulling out the fabric that was taken. "Um, here!" Alastor then took the cloth. "Oho! Not many people managed to take even this much off me!" He said proudly. "It must've meant a lot to you…." He then set the cloth on fire, burning it in front of them.

Soon after, Charlie had gathered the rest of the guests together for a little game. "Now with a new resident, I think it's important we all get to know each other, so we're all going play a little game. Follow me!" Charlie then began her game, clapping her hands every time she rimed. "My name is Charlie." Clap clap. "I like to sing!" Clap clap. "And when we get to know each other it's the greatest thing!" Clap clap. Charlie then gestured to Sir Pentious, indicating that it was his turn. "My name's Sir Pentious…" Clap clap. "I like to build…" Clap clap. "And despite my stupid egg boiz I think I'm very skilled!" Clap clap. Sir Pentious then turned to Nathan. "Ok! My name is Nathan." Clap clap. "I like Pokémon!" Clap clap. "Because the best thing about them is the way that we bond!" Clap clap. Nathan then turned to Angel. "This is stupid…." He groaned. "This is not stupid!" Clap clap. "It's just the game!" Clap clap. "Sir Pentious and Nathan did well so now please try to do the same!" Clap clap. Angel only responded by pinching his forehead. "I am too sober for this…." "Well get used to it and learn how to play, this is going to be your whole day!" Vaggie rimmed before clapping.

Next they did some roleplay with Angel dressed in a trench coat and hat and Sir Pentious dressed in a sailor outfit and licking a Lollipop. "Oh I'm a bad man on the streets who never got enough hugs." He said reading from a script. "Now, where's an innocent kid I can sell c$ ck to? Wow, who wrote this?" "Take a wild guess…." Nathan said, pointing at Charlie. "It's great right? Keep going!" Angel sighed before continuing. "Hey you, kid!" "Who meeee?" Sir Pentious asked innocently. "Yeah, you look like a kid who could use some… devil's dandruff?" Angel groaned at those words. "Not me! I have to go home and study!" Sir Pentious replied. "C'mon kid, it'll make you cool like me… the c$ ck head…." "The only cool thing here is to say no to drugs! Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to NOT have sss3xuall intercourse before marriage!" Charlie and Nathan clapped their hands together in front of Sir Pentious' performance. "Bravo bravo!" "Somebody give this man an Oscar!" "Wow Pentious, at this rate you'll be redeemed in no time!" Charlie said proudly while Angel looked away. "I'm… I'm going to bed…." He said before storming off but not before seeing Charlie praising the snake's progress, Nathan however felt saddened by the spider's predicament and followed him upstairs.

In Angel's room, he took off the coat and hat and put them onto his demon piglet, Fat nuggets, before laying on the couch and looking at his messages, where his inbox was nearly filled by messages from Valentino, each message he played switches between his boss being more compassionate, to him more aggressive and cruel. As this was happening, he heard a knock at the door, he looked up at the door seeing Nathan on the other side. "Hey, you ok?" He asked, concerned. "P!$$ off…." Angel answered. "You know you can talk about it, right?" "No thanks…." That only drew Nathan closer as he entered Angel's room and saw his phone. "I see your Valentino's favorite huh?" "See for yourself, kid." Angel then handed Nathan his phone as the trainer played one of the messages. "Hey marsetio! Sorry about what happened earlier. I'm just so stressed and I need you baby! Hope you come home!" The message ended. "Doesn't sound that bad!" "Play the next one…." Nathan played the next message and this time it was a completely different tone. "You actually think you can change? Addict trash like you doesn't change… I'll see you soon, baby…."

That left Nathan in shock before he sat down next to his friend. "I guess you don't have the best work life huh…?" "You have no f&(in' idea…." "Wanna talk about it…?" Angel sighed. "If I do, will you promise to leave me alone…?" Nathan smiled before making a cross with his hand. "I guess it started a couple of decades ago…." Angel began. "Back then, I was a nobody, just some schmuck unfortunate enough to land himself in hell. I was just hanging out in a club and drinking my problems away… that's when I met him… at first I thought he was amazing, gave me a home, a job, made me a star in the making, even gave me fat nuggets over there! But when I eventually found what he was really all about… it was already too late for me…."

Nathan signed upon hearing those words, the poor guy was being pulled into an abusive relationship and he didn't even know it…. "Can't you just quit?" "Nope my soul was his the moment I signed that contract…." Angel then sat up. "Listen kid when it comes to overlords like Val, you either have someone's soul in your pocket or your soul is in someone else's. There's no middle ground." He looked away. "And I learned that the hard way…." He got up from the bed and exited the room, leaving Nathan feeling simpantatic over Angel's predicament. He knew what it was like to look up to someone, only to find the ugly truth under the mask.

Later that night at the bar, the spider demon grabbed a liquor bottle and chugged it down, but as he finished it, something swooped by him, confused he headed to the open light source where the figure must be. But once he checked the inside, he saw Sir Pentious placing a VoxTek surveillance camera! "You slippery little s#!t!" He growled, causing the snake to flinch. "You workin' for the Vees?! I f*(ken knew there was something s#!tty about you…." "I don't know what you're talking about… w#0re bug!" Sir Pentious insulted, Angel immediately pounced on him and sucker punched him in the face, The two tussled for a few moments. "Get your aggressively average body… OFF OF ME!" Sir Pentious yelled, briefly hypnotizing Angel to stun him, allowing him to make his escape. As the two closed in however, Charlie Vaggie and Nathan were approaching the doorway. "What's going on?" Charlie asked before seeing the fight. "Angel! What are you doing!?" Nathan shouted. "This little b!(h is a traitor! Angel yelled. "Preposterous! I would never betray you!" Sir Pentious lied innocently. "You guys are my best friends!" He then hugged the three. "Oh yeah? Then explain this!" Angel retaliated before tipping some books aside, showing the hidden camera.

With his cover blown, sir Pentious panicked, slithering to the window in fear before he remembered something. "Of course! The Vees said to only ussse this in case of an emergency!" He said before reaching into his shirt, the others turned back as the snake pulled out… a gift box with a tag addressed to Vox. "You're gonna give us a present?" Nathan asked, confused. "It's in the box, dumbass!" He immediately took off the lid only to be met with disappointment. "What the hell am I supposed to do with these?" He questioned, pulling out a small ball with a green top with a yellow spiral around it. Nathan immediately recognized it. "A nest ball!?" "A nest ball?" Sir Pentious said, confused. "What would happen if I threw it?" Sir Pentious then tossed the ball into the air and out came a trio of small robotic Pokémon with screws and magnets stuck that caused them to be stuck together. "Magneton!" "Oh! Well then Magneton! Strike them down with bolts of electricity!" Sir Pentious ordered as the Magneton did as it was told. "Everyone get out of the way!" Nathan warned, causing the rest to hide near the entrance to the room. "How the hell did he get his hands on that thing!?" Vaggie questioned. "Don't look at me! I'm not even sure myself!" Nathan replied. "But maybe I can stop him with a battle!" "Are you f*(in' nuts you don't have the strength to beat that asshole!" Angel objected. "I didn't say me and the magneton would be fighting!" Nathan replied, pulling out a pokeball. "Yo venom breath! You may have the Pokémon, but can you use them in battle?!" He yelled, stepping in. "Oh you wanna go child?" Sir Pentious asked smugly. "Well I'd be happy to oblige!"

Note: for Sir Pentious's battle theme I recommend listening to bede's battle theme from sword and shield.

Nathan immediately sent out his tyrantrum, while he had the type disadvantage given that Titanasaur is part rock type, he did however have a couple more to give him an edge. "Magneton! Ussse Thunderbolt!" Magneton did as it was ordered and generated a massive amount of electricity that immediately struck Titanasaur, but thankfully he was able to resist it well, much to Sir Pentious' dismay. "Hey what the f*(k!?" "Yeah he's part rock type so it's not gonna do much damage!" Nathan commented before turning to the others. "You guys might want to hold onto something!" "Wait, why?" Vaggie asked before her answer arrived. "Titanasuar, use earthquake!" The tyrantrum then slammed his foot on the ground, causing a massive tremor that caused the hotel to shake and heavily damaging the Magneton but not knocking it out. "Huh!?" "Ha beat that!" Sir Pentious laughed. "Of course it has sturdy for its ability…." "Now Magneton! Strike this beast with um…" Sir Pentious checked the book that was also in the box and found the perfect move. "Strike him with gyro ball!" The Pokémon immediately curled up into a ball and flew straight towards the other Pokémon, directly hitting him and damaging him greatly. "Don't give up yet Titanasaur! Another earthquake quickly!" The tyrantrum struck the floor more aggressively this time and managed to knock the Magneton out. "Oh come on!" Yelled the snake at his defeat. "Nice work Titanasaur, you've earned your rest!" He said returning the injured Pokémon back to his ball.

The snake villain then sent out his next Pokémon, a golbat. "Of course he has one of those…." Nathan sighed as apparently villains are obsessed with golbats and zubats for some reason. "Time to hit 'em where it hurts! Show him what for, Kineticx!" Nathan sent out the Gardevoir as it was armed and ready. "Golbat! Strike him with… uh…." He checked the book once more. "With poison fang!" The golbat immediately bit into the Gardevoir with its venomous fangs. "Gaarr…." Kineticx groaned in pain. "Oh great he's been poisoned!" Nathan said to himself. "Don't give up Kineticx! Knock it sideways with psychic!" Kineticx's eyes flashed blue as a blast of psychic energy invaded the opponent, instantly k-oing it. "Ok now that's just unfair!" Sir Pentious called out, returning his Pokémon as Nathan did the same.

"Prepare to face your doom!" Sir Pentious yelled, sending out his next Pokémon, a pair of gears of faces and an Xd out eye for each. "Klink!" "That's a new one!" Nathan commented before checking his Pokédex.

Klink, the gear Pokémon

A steel type

The two minigears that compose this Pokémon are closer than twins. They mesh well only with each other.

"Another steel type huh? Good things I've got something that can take 'em!" Nathan commented before pulling out his next Pokémon. "Time to level the playing field! Go get 'em Shadowsaber!" Sending out his Aegislash, the Pokémon gave a fierce look. "Ssso that's how it's gonna be huh? Ok then!" Sir Pentious growled as he read the book. "Gear grind Klink! Grind that sssword up good!" "Not on my watch! Protect with king's shield!" Shadowsaber generated a barrier around just as the Klink attacked. "Now hit 'em where it hurts with sacred sword!" Shadowsaber immediately switched forms and struck the Klink down.

"That's it! This next one will be your demise!" Sir Pentious growled, retracting the Klink before switching to his final Pokémon, a small crow-like Pokémon with a top shaped like a witch's hat and a broom-like tail to go along with it. "Murkrow!" "Return shadowsaber!" Nathan commented as he knew he was at a type disadvantage. "Now's your turn, Night Tide!" Nathan sent out his Greninja. "Let's make this last one quick! Use ice beam!" "Oh no! Sucker punch, murkrow!" The murkrow immediately struck first before the other could attack. "Greninja!" The other Pokémon growled before directly hitting the murkrow with a blast of ice and instantly defeating it.

With the battle over, Nathan crossed his arms to the betraying snake. "Any other surprises you have in mind?" He said, angrily. "Ah! Abort abort! SOS agent Pentious in need of immediate evacuation!" Sir Pentious panicked, communicating to Vox on a wrist watch. "Pentious? Wait, you were caught!" Vox laughed. "It hasn't even been… a day!" "Please, you've got to get me out of here!" Sir Pentious pleaded. "I can't believe that we thought you could handle even something THIS simple!" Vox laughed once more. "And do us a favor… if they don't kill you, go ahead and DO IT YOURSELF! YOU MISERABLE FAILURE!" And with that Vox ended the transmission, leaving the snake demon alone with the others. "I… just make it quick I guess…." He said somberly, curling up in the fetal position. "Not that I deserve it…." While Vaggie and Angel were happy to oblige, Charlie and Nathan however declined.

"Sir Pentious…?" Charlie said, lending her hand to the fallen victim. "It starts with sorry! That's your foot in the door, one sincere sorry!" She placed her hand on Pentious' heart. "Spoken straight from your core! The path to forgiveness is a twisting trail of hearts but sorry is where it starts!" "Who could forgive a dirtbag like me…?" Sir Pentious cried, falling on his back. "I don't deserve your emissty!" "Can't we just kill him?" Angel and Vaggie objected, pulling out their weapons and surrounded the defenseless villain. "Shoot him and spill his blood…?" "That's an opinion you could choose!" Charlie replied. "Works for us…." "But who hasn't been in his shoes…?" Charlie then took Sir Pentious' hand and pulled him upwards. "It starts with sorry!" "Sorry?" "Dig down deeper and say one sincere sorry!" "I'm so sorry!" "And your journey's underway!" "It'll take time to cover your/my vast multitude of sins! But sorry is where it begins! It starts with sorry…."

"I hated that song!" Said nifty who was behind them. "Uh, when did she get here?" Asked Nathan, startled before nifty stepped on Sir Pentious' tail and left. "Why are you so lame? Not a bad boy!" "Great first day…." Charlie signed proudly. "Let's get some rest!" "Let me talk to Pentious first!" Nathan replied. "Ok see you in the morning!" "See ya!" Nathan then turned to Sir Pentious while the others went to sleep. "So Pentious, where did you get those Pokémon…?" "Oh they were a gift to Vox! He gave them to me in exchange for helping him with ssspying on you!" Sir Pentious answered. "Did he ever look into the address, or the person who sent them?" "Couldn't, The sender was anonymous! The only other thing they left besidesss the book on moves was a note saying to use them well." Nathan held his chin, someone gave Vox a bunch of Pokémon to use, but why? And how did they even manage to get them in hell in the first place? "I'll have to look into this tomorrow morning…." "Oh! Can you tell me some assspects of your world! I've never seen anyone from another dimension!" He asked gitty, "I'll tell you in the morning, how's that?" "Workssss for me!" Sir Pentious then slithered away. "Glad to have a guest after all….."

As Nathan and the others went to bed, Alastor stepped in and grabbed the wrist communicator Sir Pentious left behind. He activated it and called up Vox. "What!?" He yelled. "You'll have to try harder than that next time, old pal…." Alastor laughed before crushing the device with Vox screaming with rage and him laughing in the darkness.