Summary: Adam has an epiphany, he hates it and decides to give the source of it a big fuck you.
"How's mercy taste you little bitch?" Lucifer taunted Adam with a smile, walking away with his daughter to her hotel crew.
All across the battlefield that became of the Hazbin Hotel, demons and angels alike stopped at the clear victory of Lucifer, and the undeniable and crushing defeat of Adam. So, curious about what was happening now, they watched the proceeding events to determine what to do next.
"No, you don't get to end this." The bloodied first man boldly declared, speaking as he climbed up from the crater, "I'm fucking Adam, the fucking man and you're just some clown or something!" He swiped his arm to the right as he looked with hate upon the filthy demons before him, who just regarded him with stern or unamused faces.
"I started everything on Earth! All of-" Adam paused suddenly, realisation dawning on him. Then he did the most unexpected thing.
He laughed.
For a minute straight, he laughed and laughed until his laughs started to sound like screams as tears of shed sanity fell down his face, he continued this even while all of Hell looked upon the seemingly mad First Man with unease and slight worry.
"Uh, you good buddy? What's gotcha laughing...and crying...and screaming so hard?" Lucifer couldn't help but question.
Adam panted as he slowed his laughter to fading chuckles, wiping the tears from his eyes, before staring at Lucifer with the eyes of a man who was done. "I just caught on to what's gotta be the cruellest fucking joke in existence." He started with insane glee.
Lucifer raised a cautious eyebrow at this, "Oh yeah, what's the joke?"
"We're the same."
That gave him pause, he gave Adam a confused look.
"Huh?" He intelligently responded.
Adam's smile became bitter as he looked up to Hell's skies like he had just lost all wind in his sails.
"All of our lives, we've been nothing but selfish arrogant pricks too absorbed in ourselves to care about others who aren't close to us, we've taken all of our gifts for granted, from the mere fact that we're alive and conscious, to our amazing power, we've taken it all for granted. As I have deluded myself in the supposed greatness that is my status as the First Man, so to have you deluded yourself that it is others who are the problem, not you or your ideas." He chuckled a dark chuckle "Honestly, I could spend the rest of this day just going over how much we parallel each other. How seemingly nothing either of us did created anything but destruction and disorder. How our existence is just pointless, that all we do is suffer and make others suffer for it."
Facing Lucifer, Adam's smile became a mad grin "And not even you can deny it, in all of your unrivalled arrogance."
Lucifer just stared with a passive face, not giving away any of his emotions.
Charlie looked between her dad and Adam, slight disbelief showing on her features "You can't seriously believe his right, dad?" In her mind, her father is a far better man than Adam.
Lucifer spared her a glance, before finally answering "I don't believe his right." Charlie smiled, "I know it." and looked at her father with surprise along with everyone else.
Adam just smiled even wider, "Yeah I am, and that's why I hate you a thousand times more than I did before." Now it was Lucifer's turn to be surprised, he regarded Adam with a curious confused look.
"The idea that I'm no better than my worst enemy...makes my skin want to crawl off me, makes me want to tear myself and you apart at the realisation of how pointless our lives have been, how worthless our actions are. It makes me want to end it all!" He shouted at the end, a crazed look in his eyes now.
"Lute! You and the others leave now! Or I won't be held responsible for your deaths!" He ordered her.
"S-sir! I can't just leave you!" She begged him.
"Then I guess you'll just die too! Not that it matters, nothing does!" He retorted with a laugh.
Charlie and everyone else got on guard, slightly afraid of this insane Adam "W-what are you going to do?" She nervously asked.
Adam gained an amused look, before deciding to humour her "Ten thousand years ago when I still lived and was in the prime of my human life, there were ten primordial beasts that had the power to harm even Heaven's strongest, and I was given the task of sealing them, due to the immense unrivalled will I possessed, which would allow me to trap them within my very soul. Even now, they still linger, though they've long given up trying to escape from their prison, I can release them from it any time I want!" He gleefully announced, getting into a stance, and bringing his clenched fists in front of himself, keeping them parallel.
Lucifer looked confused, wondering what he was talking about "Ten primordial beasts? I don't remember that."
"I've managed to subjugate most of them, all but one. Fucker is so strong that sometimes I wonder if the trauma of trying to beat and seal it passed down to my descendants in the form of the Beast of the Earth." He continued without pause.
In his home, Vox blinked in shock "Is he saying he fucking fought and sealed the monster that is supposed to herald the end of the universe?"
"I think he is." Velvette affirmed, equally shocked.
"...That's fucking hardcore." He whispered out.
"Wait, why did he mention he can summon them?" Valentino questioned instead.
That certainly gave Lucifer pause. A beast so terrifying and powerful, that the trauma it gave Adam passed down to all of humanity into a prophecy of the apocalypse beast.
With a wide-eyed look, he realised what he spoke of.
"No..." He whispered out in disbelief, genuine fear and terror seeping into his being, "NO! Not even you can be so insane as to release that, that Devil!" His outburst scared everyone who heard him, making them worry at how the guy who just effortlessly thrashed Adam, was now shaking in fear.
Adam just laughed, "I'm just doing the only thing I know that matters now, ending our lives." When he finished that sentence, Lucifer rushed forward with all of his speed.
It wasn't enough.
"With this treasure, I summon..." Adam begun. Everything went dark.
Lucifer froze a mere arm's length away from reaching Adam.
"Dad! Or are you okay? Why are you stopping?" Charlie cried out, wanting to step in but unsure what to do.
Suddenly, on each side of the two men, three dark grey wolves with two white toads appeared, all ten of them howling and chirping like they were announcing the arrival of a king.
Adam, now with his left forearm facing up and his right arm nestled in the crook of its elbow, didn't respond. Lucifer, tried to inch his way to him, trying to halt it but soon gave up, despair falling onto his face as the wolves and toads disappeared, and a massive webbed cacoon with webs attaching it to the ground and whatever walls it could find.
"FUCK! He tricked me! He's doing that ritual and he tricked me to help him do it!" Lucifer cursed with terror, stepping back and away from the Madman and caged Beast.
"Seriously, what the fuck is going on!" Vaggie yelled out, confused and terrified.
That seemed to remind Lucifer of them, he turned to them, desperation and fear on his face "Everyone! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" He gave what may be his final order.
Charlie sturred, unfamiliar with such fear from her father "D-dad..."
"Charlie for the love of God! Forget about me and everything else! Run as far as you can or you're dead!" He commanded once more. Finally getting everyone to run, even the Exorcists ran, afraid of what could make the devil scream in fear.
But no matter how far they ran, they and all of Hell and Heaven heard Adam speak.
"Eight Grip Sword, Divergent Sila Divine General." He chanted, serious and still.
And when he uttered that final word, it felt like Hell froze over.
"Mahoraga."
A mouth broke through the cacoon, causing it to disintegrate as all Hell bore witness to the return of The Beast.
"Hey, you fucking twink." Adam called out, bringing all attention to him.
With a mad grin, he addressed Lucifer for the last time, "I'll be dying first, you can give it your best shot if you want to resist still." No sooner did he say that, a massive fist the size of his head backhanded him away.
Lucifer looked over to where Adam landed and was greeted by the sight of him lying on some rubble, golden blood splashed everywhere. He was dead. In one casual strike, Mahoraga had killed Adam, without angelic steal or power.
Lucifer was snapped out of his trance by Mahoraga's thundering steps, and for the first time, he gazed upon the Beast.
It was massive, easily twice Adam's already great height and with a massive build, it was pure white with exotic tattoos on its body. To say that it was muscular is an understatement, with a menacing looming strong body topped off by an eyeless head with four wings, a tail swishing on the back of its head and an eight-grip wheel floating above it.
"nononononononono, NO NO NO NO! You fucking bastard! You've killed us all!" Lucifer flared his fallen power, charging up his full demon form to its fullest in a futile fight.
As he prepared to battle it, it rushed forward, faster than he could react in his frazzled state, it dug its fist into his gut, launching him through the ground and carving a massive trench that stretched just beyond the hotel's grounds.
"DAD!" Charlie cried out from Vaggie's arms, trying to get out to help her father.
Lucifer crawled out of the trench, Vox's camera capturing a terrifying sight.
Gold blood gushed from a wound on Lucifer's head, who coughed up more blood as he staggered to his feet, unsteady and faint. He took a moment to breathe and managed to collect himself.
BOOM!
He turned his head away from the explosion of dust and dirt, and once the shower of debris calmed down, he was greeted by the sight of Mahoraga walking toward him, having jumped across the kilometre-long distance in a single leap.
As the giant destroyer approached, Lucifer prepared himself to die a futile battle.
He just needs to last long enough against this, Cursed God, for Charlie to escape and hopefully convince Heaven to nuke Hell.
Otherwise, the universe was done for.
Omake
The Opps won't catch me lacking.
Adam grinned as he prepared to slaughter everyone at the Hotel. Except for Lucicunt's brat and maybe Vagina if she counted obviously.
But he wasn't stupid, he knew that hellspawn would amass an army, the brat-bitch was too much like her parents in that regard, treated an attack on her ideas and lab rats, which are HIS brats to kill for being useless fuck-ups, as an attack on her.
As he neared the hotel, his army followed him, and instead of being met with a counter charge like he expected the dumbfucks to do(Horrible tactic, especially against a superior foe unless you have a trick up your sleeve) he was blindsided by a shadow portal.
He tumbled in the pocket dimension for a bit, but just as he prepared to break out, he was dumped back out into Hell. He quickly steadied himself and prepared a counterattack to feint into a dodge for the expected attack...
Only to be met with the sight of Lucifer, his family, all of fucking Hell it seems and even his Exorcists with them! Wait, is that the Archangels!? Sera, Emily, all of Heaven too!?
"What the fuck is going on!?"
"What's going on," Lucifer began, deadly serious.
"Is that this is an intervention." Sera finished, giving him a serious but comforting look.
...
"Huh?"
The Blonde brat stepped forward, as serious as everyone else "Adam, we know you're hurting."
"I'm what?" Seriously, what the fuck was going on?
Then Lilith came forward, "You hid it well, but as the centuries go on, your depression becomes clearer and clearer."
"Indeed!" Alastor came forward with a worried smile "Never before have I heard or seen someone as depressed and suicidal as you!"
"I am?" He guess he's been getting super careless lately.
"While a lot of us hated you before because you acted like a dick." Angel Dust continued.
"We now see it as the unhealthy attempt to cope with your life as it is." Carmilla finished a sympathetic look on her face.
Then Rosie came forward "And while I might be one of the last one of your descendants you'd want to see" All of you are actually, "Even I can't stand to see the man who had suffered just for someone like me to drive him mad with grief at how those like I turned out, want to end his life when he should be happy within the heaven he earned." She actually seemed deeply hurt. Huh.
Lucifer took over "What we're trying to say Adam is..."
"You need to stop." Everyone pleaded, even Lute was with them.
For a minute straight, Adam didn't respond, just staring at them all. Then he snorted.
"Wow, so this is how I go out huh? Jumped by everyone in Heaven and Hell." He cynically remarked, getting surprised looks from everyone.
"Wait, Adam no we're not-" Lute tried to clarify.
"Well guess what bitches! I'm not losing! We are losing!" He declared with a snarl.
Charlie tried to calm Adam down next "Hey, no one's going to-" she managed to get out.
"Well if I'm going down! You're all coming with me!" He roared out before settling into a familiar stance.
"Adam wait no!" Everyone shouted.
"WITH THIS TREASURE I SUMMON-!"
AN: A cool little idea I came up with right at the end of June. Started as a crack fic where Adam summons Godzilla instead, before Lucifer would go "I can do that too!" and summon Ghidorah. Then this fic came into my mind just as I made the draft doc, and I was flip-flopping between them before deciding I liked this idea better.
To all those who didn't like my first HH fic, rejoice, because this one at least has the possibility of Lucifer going out like Gojo.
Anyway, tell me how this was, I might make this into a little anthology one-shot series where I make random shit that comes to mind in the HH universe. Tell me what you guys think of that.
And I might even make a squeal including the fight if you all want me to, shouldn't take me too long. A month tops, God willing.
See you guys later!
(Also I'm doing this and not working on Galaxy because writing a natural progression of the plot without rushing it is hard)
EDIT: Forgot to add that Omake.
Total chapter word count: 2,552
AN word count: 184
Chapter word count: 2,348