This chapter has some strong language. By the way, I have an idea for Benny's VA: Darryl Kurylo from the English version of Yakuza and Destiny 2.
Benny was led into Verosika's room, seeing how the place was dimly lit by a pinkish light by a dresser and wardrobe. He felt something at his foot and looked to realize he stepped over a sex-toy; in fact, they practically littered the white carpet of the room. Verosika's rather ginormous bed took up the room, with unkept pink covers, silky sheets and a white mattress, and what looked like handcuffs at opposite sides of the bedframe. And aside from the chair that stood at her dresser, it was the only other place to sit in room. Benny was no fool, as he knew Verosika believed she had him right right where he wanted, but he wouldn't let her have that easily.
"So I suppose this the part where you try and seduce me, right?" He asks as he heard the door gently shut and turn around to see Verosika, suddenly no longer having all the injuries inflicted by Blitz, but her 'perfect' body now dressed in black, transparent nightgown that hid nothing to Benny's imagination. The imp simply shook his head, as he couldn't believe Verosika tried her natural ways at all with him. Has he not made it clear that he was not for sale at the moment.
"I just thought you'd be okay with me being a little comfortable in my own room." Verosika said in her usual seductive tone.
"You want comfortable?" Benny asked. "Why don't you put on a sweater, a sweatshirt, then another sweatshirt and then another sleeping bag."
Verosika started to look a little confused.
"And then, for a bonus, how about a wrap you up in your sheets? Like a giant burrito?"
Getting the message that he just wanted her to cover up, Verosika rolled her eyes and snapped her fingers and now wore black, lacy underwear underneath her gown. But then, she turned back to trying and being sexy.
"Didn't know you were into encasement." She walked towards Benny and had her hands at his shoulders. "Kinda kinky, if you ask me."
But Benny shrugged her off as he said "Ha ha. Funny. Alright Verosika, you got me here, both of us barely wearing anything and you're think you got me right where you want me to be. But all you're doing is just wasting my time and yours."
She scoffs. "You don't have to be such an ass. I was just trying to be friendly."
"Oh. Is that what we're going with now? Well, I know your kind, and how friendly you people can be. But it's not gonna work, not on me."
"And what makes you so fucking sure?" Verosika was now starting to get irritated with Benny, not as much as she could be with Blitzø, but slowly getting there."
"Ten years, working at a Cabaret, being the boss, of all things. You get use to seeing a lot of hotties come and go, and even got a whole lot of them working for me, and they don't even need to try and seduce me. They know their place and that's why I love them. But I can never love a woman who thinks she can dominate me."
"Oh, I don't think I can." Suddenly, Benny found himself pushed onto the bed, the succubus music star leaning over him. "I know I can."
But the Imp held a glare as even more so sudden, he took Verosika by the wrists and the lady then found herself on the carpet with Benny directly above her. "I wouldn't bet on it." He says. "When I'm in a relationship, I let my woman know that I'm in charge."
Verosika then thought she could use this to her advantage as she said "Well then...why don't you show me how you take charge."
There was a moment of silence, with the two demons remain still for a few seconds before Benny spoke "...No." And that's when Benny got up and off of the surprised succubus, who thought she finally had it, only for Benny to back off when she literally gave him the opportunity to ravage her. Getting up, she saw Benny peering out her bedroom window, opening it before pulling out a cigar and a wooden match. Striking the match against his jacket, he managed to light it up and then lit his cigar, which he breathed in deeply before exhaling the smoke out the window in a deep sigh.
"I'd leave you disappointed anyway." He said, leaving Verosika confused as she walked up to him.
"What do you mean by that?"
"My eye wasn't the only thing Samael took from me."
Taking a few seconds to process what that meant, Verosika's eyes widened what she realized that-
"You mean that-?" She started to say, but Benny beat her to it.
"He nuked my balls, Verosika."
'Damn.' Verosika thought. She didn't think Benny's life would be so bad, but to hear that he's been left Sterile by the Archangel he's indebted to...Not even she would wish an emasculation on her worst enemy. Not that she needed to, believing Blitzø be a "Limp Dick Worm".
"Well, shit." Was all she could say at the moment. But then Benny reassured her.
"Don't get it wrong, I can still have sex. It's just no fun with the possibility of getting a girl knocked up. Useless sperm makes it all the more boring."
"...Sorry to hear that, Benny." She says. "I'll bet you really do know how to have fun in bed."
"If you call 'angry, violent sex' fun." He says as he takes another shot at his cigar. But then Verosika takes him and cups his chin in her hand.
"Oh, it's one of the best kinds of fun."
His eye was half-open when he stretched his arm out the window and taps the cigar for the ashes to fall outside before merely dropping the cigar outside anyway. He could feel Verosika's powers of temptation, and while they were very, VERY slowly working, he knew that they could never work to full effects. Still, he needed to snap out of it, not wanting to give him what she wants so easily as he turned his attention to her arm; his eye was set on the heart tattoo with the familiar name.
"What happened between you and my brother?" He asked, making Verosika hesitant as she lets him go and turns around, arms folded across her chest as the memory of she and Blitzø's breakup was still hurtful and infuriating in some ways to her.
"I thought he loved me." She said, her voice slightly broke a bit. "But that was before I realized how big of a shithead he turned out to be."
Benny could take anything, bashes, stabs, insults. But when someone says something about his loved ones, well...he was contemplating on whether or not to use the knife right now.
"Do tell." He simply said in a low tone.
Both of them stared at each other with scowls on their faces as Verosika began her little story.
"I used to love him...I gave him everything, but all he ever did was take and take and take..." Her voice was coming to a growl as she turned away from Benny, who listened in on it. "I tried to do hard to make it work, and I thought he would do the same, but now. He wasn't the worse I ever fucked, but...by the time I wake up, all alone in a hotel room, I later find out that my car is totaled, my credit cards are maxed out and that stupid, fucking, small-ass, limp dick bitch head is off somewhere, practically fucking himself on some shitty horse while I'm stuck paying fucking hotel bills that I couldn't even afford at the time with my money fucking wasted!"
She slams the dresser and decides to take a flask out and chug a huge mass of it down. Benny remained stoic and silent as Verosika tried to get herself drunk to calm down. After about five gulps, the Succubus too a breath and faced Benny.
She sighed as she said "Eventually, I just "Fuck you" to him and we broke it off." She rubs her arm, with the crossed out heart was. "But I just...couldn't forget." And then, she looks down at her flask. "...And drinking sure as hell didn't help!" Then, she throws the flask to the door, where it hits and falls too the floor, the alcohol staining the carpets. She then turns to Benny with a glare, annoyed by how expressionless he was. Compared to Blitzø, she didn't really like how Benny is the strong, silent type. That just doesn't work for an Imp.
"Don't take this the wrong way, Benny...but your brother is a low, selfish, stupid, fucked-up-in-the-head, dick-riding piece of shit. For everything he did, he deserves worse than what he had coming to him down at Ozzie's."
"Should've figured you were there." Benny thought to himself as he began to show silent fury, contemplating on whether or he should hold Verosika at knifepoint now or what on what else she has to say.
"It's honestly hard to believe that you're his brother, given that the two of you are basically polar opposites. I would surprise me how you would still care so much about him, given what I've told you."
"...We're imps, Verosika. What's your excuse?" Benny finally said something, something that wound up confusing the Demoness, forcing Benny to explain. "In case you don't get it. This. Is Hell. We. Are Demons. It's in our nature to be low, selfish, stupid, fucked-up-in-the-head, dick-riding pieces of shit. After all, we're fucking Imps, it's what we do."
She didn't know if it was because she got herself a little bit drunk, or if she just found Benny intimidating. But Verosika couldn't seem to find herself able to talk back to the Rorschach Demon as he continued.
"Just like it's in your nature to be a Dick-sucking, cock-riding, doggy style loving, incest obsessed, man-manipulating, uncaring, back alley, bimbo-headed pop Princess, pink loving whore who would do anything to get some."
And with all that said right at her face, Verosika snapped and lunged at Benny, who was too quick on the draw, as he had the Kandarian Dagger at her throat, making her stop dead in her tracks as the she looked to see the weapon that made made Angelic ones look more humane.
"And look...my brother may have some problems with people, but that's on me for failing him. He really is a nice guy. And the only reason why he is the way he is because of the upbringing in life he had to go through."
He lowers the dagger, giving Verosika a chance to rub her neck as Benny turns away from her with his head down. "If he were raise any differently, with people who could actually care for him, I'm sure it would've worked out between you two. But that ain't how it work around here; I know that all too well. This is Hell, and we all gotta live like how it is."
"...What the fuck does that have to do with anything?" Verosika asked in anger. "Yeah, it's Hell. People are assholes to each other all the time! You see it literally everywhere! So what's your damn point?!"
"THAT'S my damn point!" Benny said, turning and point a finger at the Succubus. "Nobody's gonna give two shits about your failed relationship, Blitzø's humiliation or any worse than that! By now, I'm sure all that would've blown over and Hell's residence would've moved on. Unless it was something REALLY big, than no. No one's gonna care."
She was now starting to get an understand of Benny's point of view. And in all honesty, it kinda surprised her, the way he saw things as they were. "We...are demons, Verosika. We shouldn't act like...like...like we're humans."
And with that, now Verosika was starting to get the picture. Benny saw the world in red and black. And because of what happened to him in youth, that point of view has stayed with him since then. It would also seem that Benny truly does care for his brother, despite how she pointed Blitzø out. She's couldn't fully understand, given how her success has driver her so far, but that doesn't mean she couldn't at least try to help out in some way. As she saw that Benny was at the window, she walks up behind him and holds by the shoulders.
"Benny..." she says. "Life for demons doesn't have to be all about not caring and putting others through shit. This isn't exactly the old fashion kind of Hell where's are just torched by us demons."
"No...it's more organized." Benny murmured out.
"Hey. Just like humans, we've been able to do things that most would want to do. Otherwise, I wouldn't have ever been able to become a music star and we wouldn't have these shitty-ass cities to get wasted in. My point is that this world isn't exactly painted one color. We demons can be whatever the hell we want to be and still be...well, demons."
"...That doesn't exactly make me feel better." Benny said. "Thanks for trying though."
"Yeah, well...I don't know what came over me, talking to you like this. I wanna blame the drink, but honestly...you just have a certain appeal that not even your brother had."
"I was being serious about how you two could've hit it off."
"You really think so?" She asked, taking Benny's hand and the two slowly walked towards the bed. "Honestly, it was not that bad in bed...you ever actually been in the sack with someone?"
Benny replied. "Once before. She had an on-again/off-again relationship. But she was the one who lost her hood thing. Then again...I don't even have it now."
"Oh, I doubt that." That is when Verosika dropped her gown, being only in her underwear at this point. Benny had a bit of a deadpan look on his face as he said "You really wanna do this?"
Taking Benny by his right cheek, Verosika has both of them fall onto bed, and a second after, she finds the Imp directly above her, and for the first time, see a bit of smile come up on his face. It looked a little evil, but she wasn't complaining.
"Like you said...it's in my nature." She said as she continues to caress his cheek. "Now, show me that you're not as useless as you think."
"Okay. You asked for it."
Verosika was not prepared for what she experienced next as she Benny suddenly came and bit down on her shoulder...hard. So hard, in fact, that it drew a lot of blood.
Meanwhile, outside the room, Verosika's crew was looming over the door, waiting to hear something that came out of the room.
"What are they doing in there?" asked Kiki. And that's when they finally heard something. Screaming and growling that sounded like it's coming from both Benny and Verosika. Then the sound of things getting smashed and crashing all over the room filled the ears of the crew, who took a step back as they could've sworn the felt the ground shake. They didn't even know if the two inside were fighting or doing it.
"Um...do you guys think it's going well?" asked Josh, and the respond was a piece of ceiling cracking and landing on Kat's left leg. "Sounds like it's going well to me." He said.
A little while later, it was quiet again and they all stared at the door with a little bit of suspense. Eventually, Verosika came out, wearing a transparent nightgown and with a smile on her face, looking like she's had the greatest time of her life.
"...So how'd it go?" asked Ace.
Verosika started off by saying "Well..."
Later on, Benny was given his contact information to Verosika as Moxxie and Millie came to pick him up after asking for a ride.
"Do let me know if this little plan of yours to assist me works out." He tells her as he finishes writing. "Tell me about anything you can find. I'll be in touch." And then he hands the paper over to Verosika, who happily takes it.
"A pleasure doing business, Benny." Verosika said, flirtatiously. "I feel this may be the start of a beautiful friendship."
"Tell me about it." And with that, the Rorschach Demon walks away, heading over to the couple, who had a car ready for them. Benny recognized the vehicle as one of Virtue's cars.
"Heya, Benny!" Millie greeted her boss's brother, who got into the back of the car.
"You weren't sexually abused by her band mates, were you sir?" Moxxie asked before shuddering. "That kinda happened to me once."
"Ms. Mayday and I came to an agreement." Benny explained. "She'll be sharing information with me, for now on."
Millie replied "Well, that's nice. Anyways, we landed a job with the help of your pal, Todd Virtue! Tell him, Mox."
"Right. Our job was help you secure an easy passage for when you go to meet Andrealphus. In return, Virtue gave us a perfect excuse for what we are to tell our boss."
"I see." Benny said.
"He also asked if we could assist you in making sure you managed to secure the Ars Goetia Marquis when you arrive at his palace."
"You don't have to do that. I work better alone."
"Well, we already got paid in advanced, so we might as well." Millie replied as Moxxie added "Besides, we kinda like hanging out with you."
"Even if it puts your lives at risks?" Benny asked.
"That's the story of our lives so far." said Moxxie.
"Hmph. You know, you remind me of someone, Moxxie. Someone I met in Limbo City. Hmm...you wouldn't happen to have a brother yourself, would you?"
"Not that I know of. Yet, I always wondered if I had other family that weren't..." Moxxie trailed off, gripping the steering wheel tightly as Millie puts her hand at his lap to calm him down.
"Sore subject for him, I see." Benny thought to himself before saying out loud "Well, stick around Limbo City and you might be in for a surprise."
Moxxie contemplated on the thought of that as they drove off.
Meanwhile, in Limbo City, at a downtown garage, an imp was working on a motorcycle when he looked up from the engine and sniffed the air in response to something. He looked almost identical to Moxxie aside from a few differences; having black hair instead of white, no freckles on his cheeks, a small tattoo of a three-bladed kurumaken on the left side of his neck, a long red tail with a single fit at the end and he seemed to be an inch taller. He was dressed in a biker's attire, a leather jacket with a hood over a pale white t-shirt, black pants and gloves that fully cover his hands.
He fought back against the urge to sneeze as he believed someone must be talking about him and continued to work. That is until he heard his phone ring and looked to see who was calling.
"...Mother." He sighs out in a raspy voice. "It's always something."
And with that, the Imp gets onto his bike, throws on pair of goggles, opens the garage door and rides out of there.
Yeah, the latest episode of Helluva Boss helped me with something I wanted to do for a while in this story. And that was give Moxxie a brother as well. Moxxie's origin story helps give a bit of an explanation for the origins of his brother in this AU. But I think it might be obvious. His name will be shown later. His VA, I imagine would for him, would be Michale Dobson.