The Master was paying a visit to the cult's headquarters.

"How is it proceeding?" He asked one of his Imp subordinates.

"It's d-doing well, Mr. Saxon!" the Imp replied. "We're ready to commence the ritual, we only need one more thing..."

"That being?" the Master asked.

"We need the blood of a Morningstar..." the Imp explained.

"The blood of a Morningstar? It might be difficult, how can I approach Luci-" The deranged Time Lord had an excellent idea. "I think I know where to go..."

Later, someone knocked at the door of the Hazbin Hotel.

Charlie, excited as usual, went to open.

In front of her was the Master.

"Hello, is this the Hazbin Hotel?" He said, faking a German accent. "My name is Roger von Meister, Ich am here to be redeemed."

"Well, you've come to the right place!" said Charlie. "Welcome, I'm Charlie, the owner of the Hotel! Come inside, I'm gonna introduce you to the others!"

"Danke." the Master stepped inside, smirking.

"Everyone! We've got a new guest!" said the princess. Vaggie, Cherri and Buster went downstairs. "This is Roger, he'll stay with us at the Hotel. Roger, this is Vaggie, my girlfriend and manager, Cherri and Buster, our other guests, and these are Niffty and Husk. our maid and bartender."

"Hey./What's up, doc./Sup./Hi!" Vaggie, Cherri, Buster and Niffty said in unison. Husk motioned to him.

"Die pleasure is all mine." said the Master.

"There are also Alastor, Angel Dust and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Our facility manager and two guests - but they're not here at the moment," Charlie explained. "You're gonna love them!"

"Say, haven't we met before? Ya look familiar," said Buster.

"Nein, I don't think so." said the Master.

"Come along, I'll show your room," said Charlie.

"Splendid, none of the people that could recognise me are here." the Master thought. "I need to find the right time to steal the princess' blood." He pulled out a syringe from his pocket. "This should be more than enough..."

"...And this is your room!" Charlie opened the door for the Master. "I hope you'll like it! The others will come soon!"

"I see, danke, Charlie." said the Master. The girl left, leaving the deranged Time Lord alone in the room.

"Better if I rest for the moment, I might be too suspicious if I acted now." He thought.

Outside of the hotel, a blonde woman observed the building from a distance.

Hours later, Alastor, Angel and the Brigadier returned.

"We're back!" said Alastor, "I hope we haven't missed anything important."

"You did! We've got a new client!" said Charlie happily.

"Really?" the Brigadier raised an eyebrow, smiling. "Where are they? I'd like to meet them."

"I'm gonna call him!" Charlie went upstairs.

Minutes later, the princess returned. "Guys, meet our new guest, Roger von Meister!"

The Master arrived in the main hall and the instant he entered his field of view, Alastor blocked the Time Lord with his tentacles.

"Alastor, what the fuck?!" said Vaggie.

"Charlie, dear, stay away from him. That man is dangerous," said Alastor. ""Meister"...The Doctor was right, you really are terrible with names."

"The fuck are ya talking about?" Husk asked. "What does the Doctor have to do with this?"

"That man in front of me is an old enemy of the Doctor, from what the Doctor told me...Meet the Master," said Alastor.

The instant Alastor finished saying that name, Angel and the Brigadier pointed their guns at the Master.

"Oh, you seem to know him," Alastor commented.

"He was a thorn in UNIT's side when the Doctor worked for us in the 70s." said the Brigadier.

"Now then, care to explain why you're here before we rip you into shreds?" Alastor asked.

"I just want to talk, I mean no harm." said the Master.

"Yeah, sure, and I'm the Queen of England!" said Angel.

"We have to inform the Doctor about this." said the Brigadier.

"There's no need for it, Brigadier." A male voice spoke: It was the Doctor, now in his Seraph form.

"Doctor!/Doc!" Everyone minus the Master said in unison.

"Doctor, how nice to see you again." said the Master, "I thought you were dead."

"Death is for other people." said the Doctor. He approached the others. "Whatever reason you had to come here is definitely not a good one, Master."

"Well, Doctor, I assure you I'm just here out of...Simple curiosity." said the Master.

The Doctor didn't buy it. "Sure...". He whispered to the Brigadier and Angel. "Keep an eye on him."

Somebody knocked on the door.

"I'll answer." the Doctor changed into his Hellhound disguise. "Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel. How can I help-"

The Doctor went silent as he saw who he was talking with: The same woman he saw at the gala.

"Is Charlie inside?" She asked. Her voice sounded soft and regal...Yet threatening.

"Well, yes. Come in." said the Doctor.

"Thank you." The woman stepped in.

As the woman entered, silence fell. Alastor looked at her with an uncharacteristic expression of pure horror while Charlie was shocked.

"...M-Mom...?"

"Hello, Charlie." Lilith smiled.

"Who-Why-wha-"

"What are you doing here?" Alastor interrupted Charlie.

"What's the matter, I can't pay a visit to my daughter?" said Lilith, glaring at the Radio Demon.

"Not after disappearing for 7 years." said Vaggie.

"CHAAAAAAAARLIE!" Lucifer arrived in the hall happily. "You wouldn't believe what GENIUS idea I just ha-"

Lucifer went silent too as he noticed Lilith.

"Li...Li..." He stuttered, "L-Lilith?!"

"Good to see you again, Luci." said Lilith.

"You're...You're back! You really are back!" said Lucifer. "Where have you been?"

"I owe you...A lot of explanations, both to you and Charlie. Is there somewhere we can talk?"

"We can go to my room." said Charlie, as she lead the way.

"Wait." said Lilith, she pointed at the Doctor and Alastor. "They're coming with us."

The two looked at each other with a puzzled look.

"Why us, Your Majesty?" the Doctor asked.

"I think want we'll say may interest you, Doctor." Lilith followed.

"How...Does she know me?" the Doctor thought. He then glanced at Alastor, who was looking at the Queen of Hell with a utterly frightened expression.

"Are you alright, Al?" the Time Lord asked, "I've never seen you so scared?"

"Me? S-Scared? Oh, nonsense." Alastor tried to regain composure with partial success. He followed Lilith.

The group arrived in Charlie's room. Lilith sat down on her daughter's bed. "Alright, time for explanations. Tell me everything you want to know, I'll try to answer."

"Well..." said Charlie. "Why did you disappear, and where have you been in these 7 years?"

Lilith sighed. "I was in Heaven."

"In Heaven?!" Charlie, Lucifer and the Doctor said in unison, shocked.

"Why?" Lucifer asked.

"Remember when I made my performances at the theatre, with my songs inspiring and improving the Sinners' morale? The High Seraphim didn't like that. So, they sent Adam to talk with me." Lilith explained.

"Of course Sera didn't like that..." the Doctor groaned. "Let me guess, she feared a Demon rebellion?"

"Bingo." said Lilith. "Heaven striked a deal with me: I stop boosting Hell's morale, in exchange of being living in Heaven."

"That's it?" said the Doctor, growing more annoyed. "Is that why you abandoned your daughter and your husband for 7 years? Because you wanted a holiday?"

"Yeah! There must be something, I bet they were...Threatening you, or something like that! Right...?" said Charlie.

Lilith looked away.

"...Right?" Charlie repeated, with less hope in her tone.

"I...Didn't have much choice." Lilith tried to justify herself.

"Choice?! You abandoned your family! To go a place that it's not even that great." said the Doctor. "Do you have any idea what your daughter has been through just last year?! She's been mocked and insulted for her dream and saw some of her friends die at the hands of Humanity's first divorced!"

"I'm aware of that, and I'm sorry." said Lilith, "I...Really miss Eden, and I didn't want to stay into this shithole. But I didn't want to abandon Charlie, that's why I sent Alastor."

Alastor flinched, as the Doctor gave a puzzled look Charlie and Lucifer.

"What does the radio guy has to do with this?" Lucifer asked.

The Queen of Hell snapped her fingers...And collar appeared around Alastor's neck, with the woman holding its chain.

"Let...Me...Go..." said Alastor.

The Doctor and Charlie were horrified, they never seen Alastor like this.

"You were at the Gala, weren't you?" said the Doctor, "That's why Alastor was terrified...He saw you."

"You own Alastor's soul?!" said Charlie.

"Yes, I didn't want to leave you all alone, so I tasked Alastor to assist you in every way he could." Lilith explained. She pulled the chain, forcing Alastor to come closer. "You behaved well around my daughter, didn't you?"

"Y-Yes, I did..." said Alastor. He glanced at Charlie and the Doctor. "I-I even protected the Hotel from those Loan Sharks...Isn't that right?"

"Yes, that's true." said the Doctor.

"Good." The chain vanished.

"How...How did it happen? How did you get Alastor's soul?" Charlie asked.

"Well, it started 7 years ago. I needed someone that could have help you, and who better if not a feared Overlord?" said Lilith. "Besides, he needed my help after a little kerfuffle with another ant."

"It was Vox, wasn't it?" the Doctor asked.

Alastor nodded.

"Alright, next question." said the Doctor. "Why did you return after almost a decade of absence?"

"Lute sent me down here." said Lilith.

"That winged Dalek is still in charge?" said the Doctor.

"Correct, she sent me here to stop Charlie and her hotel." said Lilith. "Of course, I'm not gonna obey that psychotic bitch."

Charlie was gonna ask another question, until Angel stormed into the room, followed by the Brigadier.

"Doc! We have a big problem!" He said, panting.

"What's the matter, Anthony?" the Doctor asked.

"The Master has escaped." said the Brigadier. "I managed to shoot him in the legs, but I don't think it did much."

"WHAT?!" The Doctor, followed by the others, rushed outside the hotel and looked at the Vee Tower, having an idea where he went. "Where did he go?"

"I dunno, he just...Disappeared!" said Angel.

"He must have used a Transmat..." said the Doctor

"OW!" Charlie shouted. Something made a cut on her finger.

For an instance, the Master appeared and took some of Charlie's blood and then disappeared into a crimson cloud.

"The fuck just happened?" said Vaggie.

"I'd like to know it, too." said the Brigadier.

"He took Charlie's blood...Why did he take her blood?" The Doctor asked.

A confused expression appeared on Lucifer's face, seeming to recognise that "cloud".

The Master reappeared in the cult's headquarters, injured.

"Master!" An Imp subordinate tried to help the Time Lord stand but pushed him away.

"Leave me, you idiot!" He shouted as he handed the syringe to the Imp. "Here's the blood of the Princess of Hell. Start the ritual at once!"

"Yes, Master!" said the Imp.

The ritual began, cultists of several species of Demons put themselves in a circle. As they chanted, a crimson-black fume manifested, consuming the cultists after they finished. The Master was laughing mad as he witnessed the scene.

"Yes! Yes! Rise and shine, conquer the whole of Creation, my mistress! Show those who imprisoned you the power of the ROOT OF ALL EVIL!"

A female voice's cackling echoed through the walls, as the fume engulfed the headquarters, and went, higher and higher, reaching the Vees' HQs.

One by one, every Sinner inside the tower got killed by the Root of All Evil, with their bodies and souls ceasing to exist.

Of course, Vox, Velvette and Valentino noticed that.

"What the FUCK is going on, Vox?!" Velvette shouted.

"It was that fucking Master, wasn't it?!" said Valentino.

"Where does that fume come from?!" Vox thought.

Suddenly, the crimson fume entered their quarters, causing the Vees to panic even more.

They tried to escape, but the fume was faster. First, it took Valentino, then Velvette. It almost got Vox too, but managed to escape via electricity.

Unfortunately, Pentagram City wasn't the only zone of the Pride Ring that was affected, every main city of this Ring, like Imp City, met the same fate.

The Doctor & Co. observed the scene, horrified.

"Huh...Guys?" said Angel, noticing that the smoke was approaching the Hotel.

"It's coming towards us!" said Husk.

"Quick, inside the Hotel!" the Doctor ordered.

The group ran back into the Hotel, but suddenly, a purple-ish crack opened in the ground, making Alastor and Angel fall into them.

The Doctor saw that and immediately changed directions, heading towards the TARDIS.

Charlie wanted to follow him, but Lucifer dragged her inside. However, the Doctor didn't have much luck. As the Time Lord entered the blue box, a sphere of energy surrounded the TARDIS, as its wheezing, groaning noise became highly distorted.

Then, it disappeared.

"Wha...What happened?" Husk asked, panting.

"Hold on, where's Angel?!" said Cherri.

"Where are the Doctor and Alastor?" Vaggie asked.

"I think I saw the Doctor go into the TARDIS." said the Brigadier.

"Great, he ran away." Husk rolled his eyes.

"Nonsense, the Doctor wouldn't leave us." the Brigadier defended his friend.

"Fellas, look!" Buster pointed outside. The fume seems to have stopped and a golden barrier was surrounding the hotel.

Then, they heard someone knocking and a "thud" noise.

Charlie went to open...And found an unconscious Vox on the ground.

"Vox?" said Buster.

"What is he doing here?" Vaggie asked. "And put this barrier?"

"That would have been me." A familiar female voice spoke. The group looked outside, as Sera and Emily landed.

"Sera?!/Sera." Lucifer and Lilith said in unison.

"Emily!" Charlie said happily.

"Thank goodness we arrived in time." Emily hugged Charlie.

"We've seen the chaos happening here." said Sera, "Where is the Doctor? we must talk to him."

"The Doctor has disappeared into his TARDIS." said the Brigadier. "Two of our friends are gone, too."

"I see. The situation is worse than I thought." Sera sighed. "I think I know what it's happening. I'll explain inside."

The group went inside, with Emily carrying an unconscious Vox.

-To Be Continued-