Hazbin Hotel: Hellish Misfits

Chapter 8: Education, Amusement, Revelation

Pride Ring - Hazbin Hotel
Charlie's Room

James was sitting at the side of Charlie's bed, leaning on the side of it, as he was on the floor, while Charlie was on her bed. She had a pillow on her face, as she grumbled from hearing what she had heard before, while also explaining to James about Stolas and the Ars Goetia.

"So let me get this straight, under the royal family: you, your mom, and dad, are this family of bird-demons known as the Ars Goetia who are royalty in their own right, but not as powerful and Stolas, he's your demonic godfather?" James asked her, trying to wrap his head on what she told him.

Charlie mumbled a yes, while James blinked, "Wow. And he's that thirsty?"

Charlie would groan at hearing that before she complained about something incoherent.

James sighed, as he then said, "Well, I do have a reason for taking a part time internship with IMP." He scratched teh back of hsi head, "I was thinking I could learn to fight better from them, or at the very least... try to convince them to help fight in the next Extermination."

Charlie would peeked out and ask, "Why? I mean... once we prove the hotel works then there'll not be a reason to fight."

"I'm not saying that'll happen, I can't be sure of it, but..." James said, as he took a deep breath, and honestly said, "They might not listen or want to listen."

Charlie sat up and said, gently taking his hand, "James, I understand you want to be cautious but... if we show that we're resorting to fighting then they'll never believe what we're saying about the hotel and the honesty of us wanting Redemption to work."

"Charlie. These people decided on a yearly extermination. Something that completely heartless. Even if it is Hell," James explained. "And the one guy they put in charge of it literally told us he does it for the sheer sport and pleasure of it."

"But maybe his bosses might see that it'll work and make him stop." Charlie said, trying to make him see reason.

"And if they don't," James asked, as he reasoned, "I mean, they didn't listen to your dad the first time, like you told me. I'm not sure they'll listen when that happens."

Charlie looked at him and said, "James, this place." She gestured to the hotel, "It's about giving hope to those who want to Redeem themselves, and if we lose that hope then what would've been the point of it."

She got up, revealing her cloven feet as she stood up and looked out to the horizon of her realm, "Every year the extermination attacks the sinners who either truly are as bad or those who were misplaced, like you and Lydia. If I want this to work, I can't give up on the hope that someone might be willing to listen and give this hotel a chance."

James looked to her and sighed. He got up as he walked up until he was next to her. He looked out at the city as he said, "I'm not giving up on the dream either, Charlie. But Heaven might not listen as a worst-case scenario." He sighed softly as he replied, "And if that is true there might be a time when words will fall deaf, and actions must shout out louder." He then looked to her as he said, "I'm not looking to start a fight but I will defend even if it means I end up dying again."

CHarlie looked shocked hearing that from him.

James shrugged, "I'm mean, not like it'll come to that. I just don't want your dream to be trampled on by inflexible and heartless deaf ears if all heaven are jerks like Adam."

Charlie looked down before reminding, "My dad was from Heaven too... before he met Mom."

"Well with the exception of your dad. I'm just saying they decided on the extermination and threw your dad and mom down here without a second thought," James said as he tried to say without hurting Charlie further. But sighed as he turned around, "Nevermind. Good night, Charlie."

CHarlie sighs as she goes down hugging her legs to her after he left and said to herself, "I can't give up..."

He closed the door behind him as he sighed, "I can't give up on her… or this."

Charlie had requested a number of patrons of the Hotel to come to the dining room, which had been changed to have a number of tables and chairs behind them as well as a whiteboard and papers. Charlie wore her tux as she waited for them.

Dan, Lydia, Clint, Bruce, and even James showed up, while Daredevil raced in and hopped into James's lap, as Lydia sat next to him. Dan raised his hand, "Teacher? Why are we here today?"

"I think she's gonna have us do a screened roleplay like Angle and Sir Pentious did," Clint shrugged. But then looked a bit amazed, as he asked, "Or... is it a multiple choice where we can guess the answers? Because that would actually work. Like a Remedial Goodness Class."

Vaggie came in and had her spear out, "Quiet."

Charlie cleared her throat, "Hi there, I know that this is probably not you'd expect but I decided to take this time out of your busy schedules to educate you on how things are down here in Hell compared to anything you might've heard on earth or the 'propaganda' from Heaven." She even used air-quotes when using propaganda to show how she doesn't hold it against Heaven for that if it's true. She then drew seven ring-like shapes in a vertical line down before placing lines along the rings and asked, "Now then, can anyone tell me what these specifics are?"

Everyone looked to Vaggie, to have her Okay on speaking. Vaggie nodded for everybody to speak.

Lydia then asked, "Are they Rings?"

"Correct." Charlie beamed at Lydia and said, making a backet over all of them, "But they are not specific rings. they are the Seven Rings that comprise the entire realm of Hell." She even moved after to show how she wrote HELL on the other side of the bracket to show how the seven rings are all of Hell.

James arched an eyebrow, as he raised his hand, as he asked, "Why seven? I thought there were 9: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Violence, Heresy, Fraud, and Treachery."

"Actually, the rings are separated by the seven sins." Charlie corrected before she explained, "Where Each ring has its own unique atmosphere and environment to match the rulers of each realm. From Pride, where we are, all the way to Sloth."

She then wrote the names of the sins for each ring on the line with Pride being on the top followed by Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Envy and finally Sloth.

Bruce raised his hand, but didn't speak, which irked Vaggie, as she said, "SAY SOMETHING!"

"He's askin' about the significance to this, if we's can't go there," Dan translated, and then nodded, "We heard about it when we were tryin' to get ta Lust." He shrugged, "Mostly, because we heard about this place. Ozzie's."

"Oh yeah... Ozzie's..." Charlie said, chuckling nervously, before clearing her throat before saying, "Sadly. because of how things are Sinner are restricted to ring of Pride, compared to Hellborns, as when the Exterminations first started, as a means to spare the other Rings of the same carnage and destruction that afflicts this realm every year."

She then made a rough sketch of a sinner and how they're barred from leaving Pride.

Clint frowned at that, "Well, that sucks. It's like we're in a killing pot. I mean, what's the point of Hell if a person isn't at least sent to the ring of their specific sin to get punished once in a while? Might even solve the overpopulation problem if the other circles are just as big in this area. And not confined to one spot in particular."

"Yeah, youze guys were right: Adam's a dick," Dan huffed.

"You're forgetting about the millions of Hellborns that are down here too." Vaggie reminded, "Those Imptards and that Hellhound are just two of the species born down here."

Everyone blinked at this, as Lydia then said, "Yeah, but there's only Pentagram City in Pride. I figured there'd be other cities all around."

James shrugged, but then asked, "So does your Dad run all the circles?"

Charlie sighed before saying, "Dad's the overall ruler of hell since he accidentally caused it's creation when he and mom gave Eve the Apple in Eden to give humanity free will. But because of how there are seven realms, each has a ruler part of the Seven Deadly Sins group that is like a collective group of rulers that still answer to him. Dad's the Sin of Pride."

"And Leviathan is the Sin of Envy," Lydia shot up, smiling that she knew this. But then shied down, as she blushed in embarrassment, "Sorry."

"No actually I was gonna say the names." CHarlie assured before writing a dash mark with a crown symbol next to the names while her dad's name has the larger crown mark, "The ruler of Western and violent Wrath is Satan. the ruler of the warm and jungle-like Gluttony is Beelzebub, or Bee." Which made Daredevil bark happily while Charlie continued, "The overly polluted and gangster Greed is Mammon. Lust is Asmodeus' realm. Evny is Leviathan: as Lydia pointed out, and Sloth with all its hospitals and rehabs is Belphegor."

"And the Seven, are they um... former angels, like your dad was," James asked, curious about all this.

Charlie looked confused by that question and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"I mean are the Seven angels that were with your dad on trying to convince the higher ups that the gifting free will to humans was a good thing or are they Hellborn like you," James asked. "I'm just wondering if there's kind of a power struggle or what, I'm just... I'm just wondering is all."

"Out of everyone in the Seven Deadly Sins, Dad's the only one whose a fallen Angel. The other six were born here since the beginning of Hell, like the other big names you probably heard about." Charlie revealed.

"Ah," James thought on it, but then asked, "But, who's the demon, Stolas?"

"For me to go into that you'll have to understand the power structure here." Charlie stated before saying, 'I know from my lessons that humans have a high, mid, and low class. However, that's super emphasized here."

She then drew a pyramid that had been coded by letters like on a test with S being the highest smallest section followed by the A+, A, B, C, D, E, F. Before pointing at the top-most section the smallest and where the "S" was, "This here is were my Dad is on this power structure, because of his status as a Fallen Angel and King of Hell. Underneath him is his family, like Mom and me." She said pointing with the marker to the A+ area.

She then lowered it to the A section, "Then the Sins."

She then moved the marker to the B section and stated, "This is where Stolas is as he and a number of royalties like him are part of the Ars Goetia family."

Looking to them she asked, "Anyone of you heard of them before?"

James thought on that, as he spoke, "Well, I read somewhere that the Ars Goetia are mentioned as Demons, but that's about it. There's not much information that would be known about them."

"They are a royal family of demons that have been inexistence since the War between Heaven and Hell known as the 'War of Creation' or as dad heard the angels call it 'War of Heaven'."

Charlie explained, "Stolas is a member of that family of bird-like demons who studies astrology and the stars with greater understanding where human science is limited."

She paused before saying to the humans with a nervous smile, "No offense."

James held his hand up in apology, "No need. I mean, Hell's shown a lot of advances. Like Pentious's tech."

"He's a steampunk inventor from the 1800s." Vaggie reminded dully.

"I RESSSSENT THAT!" They heard him shout and saw him, and the other sinners, though Husk and Alastor appear to be missing, the snake sinner muttered, "Ooopssss..."

"I'm just saying, his tech is way more advanced than the usual steampunk stuff we see," James implied.

"Like that Death Ray on his Blimp," Dan asked.

"Exactly," James said.

Sir Pentious wen and hugged both Dan and James to him, "Blessss you botthhh."

Clint then asked, "So aside from the Seven, Goetia, and your dad and family, what are the others?"

Charlie, a little surprised at her lesson of Hell being eavesdropped, she continued her lesson, writing down short notes on the side of the pyramid, "Well under them is the group that I'm certain you're all familiar with. The Overlords given their power, status, and also what influence here in the Pride Ring. Under them are the regular Sinners (where you all fit into), under them are the other Hellborn species like Baphomets from Sloth, Envy's aquatic species, possessors, and the demons born in Lust like the Succubi and Incubi."

Lydia then arched an eyebrow, as she asked, "Question: How does one become an Overlord, out of curiosity? Are they like that when they get here, or are they born that?"

"No sinner is born down here." Vaggie answered, "They're called sinners for a reason, and they spend the literal eternity down here with that little punishment they have for their sins and their immortality."

She then said, "And if you wanna know how someone is an overlord, ask either Pentious or Alastor since one used to work for them and the other is an Overlord."

James then asked, "I do have a few more questions." He then looked to Vaggie and asked, "How long have you been here?"

"Three years. though my arrival wasn't any better than yours." Vaggie answered harshly. Charlie went and consoled her best friend, "Sorry about her... It's just that when Vaggie arrived she was lucky to survive after the extermination where an angel cut off her eye... I was lucky to find her when I did after it was over..."

"So then, Vaggie was in the middle of an extermination like us," James blinked in surprise.

"You could say that…" Vaggie replied while looking distraught at the mere mention of it. James and Lydia noticed this and thought it was a traumatic experience for her to have died, only to enter Hell and in the middle of a purge. Charlie looked at Vaggie sympathetically as she recalled the day Charlie met Vaggie, who looked as though she lost her eye to the purge, and was gravely injured.

"Hmm, I feel my ears burning, did someone say my name?" Alastor's voice was heard before he appeared behind the two best friends from the shadows, his smile ever present.

James sighed, "Alastor, nobody..." But then his phone rang as he looked to it, with the same number from yesterday. Though it wasn't Blitz's as he answered, "Hello?"

Though it was on speaker, as they all heard, "Well, if it isn't my big dicked Blitzy."

James and everyone cringed at that, except for Alastor, who merely arched an eyebrow.

"Uncle Stolas?" Charlie asked, before taking the phone, "Is that you?"

She was doing everything she could to remain calm, accidentally putting the Goetian Prince on speaker phone.

"Oh dear, the wrong number again," Stolas coughed up in embarrassment as he talked normally, "Uh, Charlie dear. May I speak with um… what's the young man's name again?"

"James." She answered before, she asked concerned, "Is something the matter?"

"It's merely a trivial matter," Stolas explained, "I was hoping he and his friend, along with Blitzy, would help us escort me and my daughter around Loo Loo land for the day."

Charlie arched an eyebrow, and asked, "Uncle Stolas, after everything between us, you and Via are like family to me, it's the least I can do to help, but... one problem isn't Mammon's Loo Loo Land down in Greed?"

"Well, yes, but it will be okay if Sinners are escorted by a Hellborn of your status, my dear. And I also recall how much you and Vagatha loved Loo Loo Land that day a few years ago," Stolas smiled.

Charlie cringed at that, "Yeah... I remember..." everyone, except Stolas, could see how stressful the smile was.

"And I'll pay you," Stolas hinted teasingly.

"In what," James gulped fearing the payment would be a particular kind of method.

"Money," Stolas smiled.

Dan took the phone and shouted, "We'll take it!"

Charlie took the phone again and said, "Uncle Stolas, you know you don't need to pay me to take this job."

"Well, I know that but this is a theme park. And I would be rather reprehensible to ask for such a huge favor if you and your constituents weren't compensated. I was even going to ask for Blitzie's services."

"You're gonna pay anyway, even if we say no to payment, aren't you," Clint asked.

"Precisely," Stolas answered, amused.

James shrugged, "Well, maybe, but we should probably ask the warden before we do that."

"Warden?" Stolas asked confused.

"Vaggie," James dryly answered.

"Ah, Vagatha. Is she there? I wish to say hello to her." Stolas asked while everyone turned to face her and saw her scowling at them, before he asked, "Is she scowling? I find that particular scowl adorable."

Angel Dust, Dan, James, and Clint couldn't help but snicker hearing that.

Cheeks flaring, Vaggie muttered, "I suppose we can go..."

"WOOOOOO! FREE DAY," Dan exclaimed while jumping in the air in victory.

Everyone, even James as he scooped up Lydia, as they said, "FREE DAY!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP," Husker shouted from the other room, hearing all the screaming.

Charlie and Vaggie shared a nervous glance that went unnoticed by them as Stolas smiled, "Splendid. See you all soon, my dears."

Later On
Greed Ring - Loo Loo Land

The Greed Ring appeared to be a rundown city and industrial area with rampant criminal and gang activity. The sky had been shown to be green colored that shifted to have a blue hue at night with red stars, and a spinning green coin moon. There were countless factories and smokestacks as well as garbage and pollution all around, however there were also small sections of upscale suburban housing showing no signs of urban decay and little lack of maintenance.

As they drove Charlie turned to Stolas and the figure sitting next to him.

The figure was an adolescent avian demon with a rather lanky figure with unkempt slate-gray feathers, which formed into back-length and shaggy-styled hair with bangs. Her eyes sported pink sclera and bright white pupils, and her long-pointed fingers were colored white. Her small beak was colored black, and her long tail feathers sported tips which were a slightly darker shade than her feathers. She bore traits from both of her parents - having her father's white mask-like face with her mother's eyes. She also wore soft-purple eyeshadow on her eyelids. Her attire consists of a black beanie hat with a pale-yellow tiara design on her head, both a pink choker and a pink long-sleeved dress with a pattern of pale yellow stars printed all over it, which was worn under a black feathery cardigan on her shoulders, alongside a set of black leggings and heeled boots.

This was Octavia, Stolas's daughter and princess of the Goetia family.

Charlie tried to wave and smile at her old friend.

Octavia glanced to her, and then frowned, not in the mood for any of this, until the van stopped. The door opened, as Blitz gestured to them, "Okay. We're here. Everyone out."

Millie and Moxxie were the first to get out, being all professional where they're wearing crisper, higher quality suits with shades on.

Even James and Clint stepped out, wearing crisper, higher quality suits their sizes as well, with shades included. Apparently, it was a gift from Stolas since the two would also be bodyguards for the day as well.

"Man, do we look fucking awesome or what," Clint said enthusiastically while elbowing James, "I bet we get the she devils' attention dressed like this!"

James remained silent as he glanced at Charlie who was down about how Stolas' daughter seemed to blow her off and said, "I... doubt it."

He walked over to Charlie, as he asked, "You look down. Something wrong?"

"I just wish I knew what was wrong with Octavia..." She said glancing to the frowning daughter of Stolas.

"Maybe she's going through a teenage anti-social phase," Clint suggested, "You know, that time every teenager just wants to be left alone and looks depressed all the time."

"Like Lydia," Dan teased, only to get cold glares from Lydia and Vaggie at that statement.

James looked at Dan and said, "You'll live longer if you shut up."

"Dude, we're already dead," Dan counted with a sly grin.

"There are fates worse than death," Vaggie said as she cracked her knuckles behind Dan.

Lydia then extended her claws, "And you heard what Charlie said, Sinner are immortal unless killed by an Angelic weapon."

Dan sweated in fear as he could feel the dangerous aura of both girls behind him ready to punish him for his words. James could feel it too as he slowly moved away from the girls' target.

James hurrily raced up, but accidentally bumped into Octavia, as he realized it, and apologized, "Oh, sorry! I was, um.. trying to avoid the angry one."

"Just watch where you're going..." Octavia snapped, still in a fowl mood (AN: No pun intended).

Dan felt goosebumps from Octavia's words and attitude as she glared at him.

She humped and walked away, ignoring her dad, dressed in Loo Loo Land merchandise such as a shirt and the apple-cap and stated, "I apologize on behalf of my daughter, Via has been in an unfair mood for a while..."

"Wow," Dan half-smirked, "She must really hate you."

"Oh shut up," James said, as he put his shades on and looked around the theme park.

The park itself was a typical carnival with overpriced items and rigged games. It was somewhat shabby, as several elements of the park were either broken, cracked or look disheveled and run down such as the mascots, the animatronics, and the apple statues. The attractions also seemed to be rather dangerous.

James blinked, as he looked around, "I sense a lot of safety violations and a future lawsuit on this place."

"This is Hell so there's probably plenty of lawyers down here to help with that," Clint added.

Lydia looked to Charlie and Vaggie and asked, "So you guys went here?"

Charlie remained silent while Vaggie pulled Lydia out of ear shot of Stolas and explained, whispering, "We actually went to the park that Mammon based this cheap knockoff of made by Charlie's dad back in Pride: Lu Lu World."

"Stolas only focused on this because of how he brought his daughter here back when she was girl." Vaggie finished glancing at Octavia who was annoyed to be here.

"Seriously," Lydia blinked.

Angel walked up to her, and drinking a bottle of booze, blinked, "Man, this place is just copyright infringement allover."

"Yeah, and that sick clown's latest addition didn't do anyone, especially Charlie and Octavia, a favor." Vaggie said, ending it with a shudder.

"Greetings everyone," a mascot that was an apple with a green top spoke up, as he danced about in front of the four, "I'm Loo Loo!" He then looked at Angel as he said, "I'm gonna have to confiscate your alcohol."

"Bettah mascots on Coney Island than you have tried," Angel bluntly said, and stuck it in Loo Loo's right 'eye'.

They walked away, as the mascot said, "At least I still have my dignity and self-respect."

Gasping, Stolas looked to his daughter and pointe, "Look! Via! It's Loo Loo!"

"I have a question." Octavia said looking at the mascot.

"Well, ask away, little girlie! A-hyuk, a-hyuk, a-hyuk!" Loo Loo said making a silly, though pathetic laugh.

"Is it true this park is just a really shameless spin-off of Lucifer's far more popular Lu Lu World?" Octavia asked, aloud so that the sinners with them could hear her, as she smirked at the mascot and her father. She was really ripping into the theme park.

Though given how poor the state of this park was, there's no questioning the validity of her words.

James smirked, as he asked, "Yeah, is it?"

Loo Loo waited a beat, glancing at the princess being there before answering, though it sounded more like a question, "No?"

Octavia with a sour mood on her face, told them, "This place reeks of insecure corporate shame."

Stolas chuckles nervously as he leads Octavia away, saying to her, "Why don't we go check out the rides?"

Loo Loo looked at the Goetias as he shrugged, "That girl is creepy."

Blitzo shrugged before following, "Eh, wait till her dad tries to diddle your holes."

Loo Loo turned and asked the group, "What's that mean?

"Don't talk to me!" Moxxie shouted, smacking the mascot's finger away, afte coming out of his fear and snapped, "I know you're a pervert under there!"

Moxxie left, leading Millie off with him. Vaggie did the same with Charlie who called, "Sorry..."

Loo Loo hangs his body dejectedly, admitting, "Yeah..."

James looked at Loo Loo with disdain, as he made an 'I've got my eyes on you' gesture, and slowly backed off. He ran up to Moxxie and Millie as he noticed Millie's excitement, as he asked, "You seem excited about this place, Millie."

"I love this place! My parents would bring me and my siblings here when they could swing it. Money-wise," Millie explained in a enthusiastic voice as she recalled her childhood memories from her time at Loo Loo Land.

Moxxie saw an employee wheelbarreling some novity into the store and said, "I noticed..."

he then went to the window and saw the price which was more than the plastic than it was made from, "The prices do seem rather criminal. I mean, that much for a novelty cup that you use one time?"

"'Cause, it's Loo Loo Land," Millie exclaimed in childlike joy.

The former humans looked at Millie's childlike happiness at the theme park.

'I wonder if I was like that as a kid,' James wondered as he recalled his time at theme parks with his parents. The others thought the same thing.

"Listen to your hoe, Mox," the head of IMP Blitz, said while nudging Moxie. Making Moxie annoyed that his boss was calling Moxie a hoe. Blitz ignored the glare as he took a swig from his novelty cup.

"How 'bout I take the first watch while you all have a little-" Blitzo took off his sunglasses and winked at them, mostly his employees, "-fun?"

"OOOOOH," Millie exclaimed in excitement as she grabbed Moxie over her shoulders and ran towards a ride, "We gotta do my favorite ride!"

"Oh, yeah," Movie asked as he looked in the direction they were heading, "Wh-which one?"

Millie would lead him over to a roller coaster named "The Lawsuit" when they saw a lone Imp riding it solo, plunged off a sheer 90-degree drop at incredible speed while also on fire and with its rider hanging on for dear life. The coaster violently plunges into a tunnel in the ground.

"Oh crumbs," Moxie said while looking terrified as his wife continued to skip happily towards the Lawsuit.

James glanced to those with him and asked, "So... what do you guys wanna do?"

"EEEEEEE!" Lydia smiled, as she grabbed him, pulling him over to the stand with Loo Loo targets and prizes, "I wanna win that!" She pointed to the purple platypus penguin stuffed critter called a Thing... which actuallly had it in captialized letters on a tag it had reading "thing".

James, however, wasn't so sure when he saw the game itself. "Lydia... Are you sure you want a play a game of chance of Hell of all places," James asked her not convinced this would go well, "I mean... doesn't this place seem like it would be-"

However, Lydia wasn't listening as all of her focus was on the Thing stuffed toy.

He sighed, as he looked at the booth owner, who looked a bit sketchy, as he asked, "How much for a round?"

"Hmm... About 5 $ouls." The Carny said, saying the name of the currency down in Hell, before glancing over his shoulder and said, "Oh! Don't get much of you sinner folks down here in Greed."

"We're here on special occasion with the Princess and the Goetias," James answered, as he presented 5, and then asked, "So how does this game work?"

He handed the toy gun to the boy, "Hit a Loo Loo in da rear and win a thing for one of yer lovely ladies."

James arched an eyebrow, "One?" He looked to where Lydia was... and saw Charlie and Vaggie there. He nearly freaked out as he asked, "What the...?! WHY ARE YOU GUYS HERE?!"

"We just came to see how this game is compared to the rest of the shit here." Vaggie said, looking at the stand suspicious.

James looked to Charlie and asked, "Is it that, or is Vaggie keeping a special eye on me? Because Dan and Bruce were peddling fireworks around."

Vaggie would then answer him, "It's just you..."

The carnie shot out, "C'mon, kid. Win a prize already. Time is money, and you're burnin' through more of it bickering with somebody who ain't worth time over."

Ignoring that, James took the shot, and hit it bullseye, "Got it."

"Ooooo! I hate ta break it to ya, but it didn't go down," the carnie smirked.

"Huh?!" James asked looking, but Charlie then said, "That's not fair..."

"Don't know what else to say to ya, kid," the Carnie shrugged, and looked to Vaggie, "Say, wanna win a prize for your sweetie-pie there?"

Vaggie narrowed her eye and asked, "I don't know? Do you wanna go home with your teeth intact?"

"Oooh, you sure about that? I'd thought you'd wanna show this chump up, seeing you're better than him," the carnie smirked, pushing Vaggie to playing.

Vaggie smirked, "Okay then."

She then took a bill from Dan and handed it to the carnie, "Hit me."

She took the gun, and fired, only for the target to move to the side, as the Carnie smiled, "ooooh, guess I was right about you being better than the guy. You suck worse than him."

Both Vaggie and James fumed at this and both put a bill down, as they shouted, "Another round!"

Charlie sweat dropped and said to the Imp, "Excuse me, I know it's your job, but don't you think you're just over doing it?"

"Hey, don't blame me. This is the ring of greed here. The side, these two are gonna put my kids in college," The carnie smirked.

Meanwhile
Near the Petting Zoo

Dan and Bruce were walking about before Bruce stopped his friend suddenly and pointed at the petting zoo.

Dan blinked to see a legit and actual Dragon in the petting zoo here in Hell as the two went starry eyed as Dan lit up, "Dude, I know what we're doing today."

Elsewhere

Stolas and a less than enthusiastic Via were strolling around while Blitzo was keeping an eye out for trouble. Though far from it, a small blue beetle like drone was crawling around, doing nothing. But oddly enough, staying out of sight. Especially from the creeps and thieves planning to kidnap the father and daughter.

"You know I love it when you're all serious." Stolas stated.

"I'm on the job," Blitzo said as he looked around, "Keep it in your pants."

Octavia was disgusted, "Both of you need to get a room..."

Blitzo arched an eyebrow, "Hey, I am not a day-hooker." But spotted a mother with her child as he got a glare of disapproval. He frowned, "I just said I'm not."

Octavia groaned before her father made it worse by pointing at the tent before them, "Via, Look! I remember how you and dear Charlie would have tears of joy after your time in the circus tent."

The tent had a sign of something called Robo Fizz inside, as a mother pushed in her crying son.

"Oh no," Octavia paled as she had a flashback.

When she was a child, and came to Loo Loo Land, as she is pushed against the stage by an excited crowd of imp children. The stage was loaded with animatronic robots, while the main header, called Robo Fizz sparked and cackled maniacally leering over Octavia, who soon broke into tears. A younger Blitzo was seen in the background tending to a food cart. Dressed and painted as a clown, scowling.

Back in the present, both Blitzo and Octavia scowled at the memory, as they said in unison, "I hate that fucking clown."

Behind them...

"Excuse me, Blitzy. I appear to be in the process of being kidnapped." Stolas called, being held up by multiple imps who tied him up, tool his wallet and put a sack over his head.

Suddenly, the imps were all frozen in place, as Clint was nearby, as he walked up, drinking an overpriced drink, as he said, "You know you've got more than one bodyguard, right?"

Stolas pouted as the other imps ran for their lives, muffled saying, "I was hoping my Impy hero to save me..."

Octavia entered the big top and found a seat, as Clint and Blitzo carried Stolas in,his head still covered in the blood-soaked sack, set him down, and walked off to take position. Stolas made no move to remove the sack, until Octavia annoyedly ripped it off her father's head.

He blinked before seeing the lights dim and turn on.

"Hey-hey-hey-heyyy, implings! It's me, the Robotic Fizzarolli," a robotic harlequin clown appeared from behind the curtians while announcing who he was even as the robot was glitching and sparkling, "Shipped from Big Ozzie's factory to bring you a wonderful show celebrating Loo Loo Land, spelled with Os, to avoid lawsuits! H-H-H-H-H-Hit it!"

He showed a contract to prove it.

Clint noticed the annoyed look on Blitz's face, and asked, "I take it you two know each other?"

"I now the shitty sellout that bot was based on..." Blitzo answered, still annoyed.

"Really," Clint arched an eyebrow. "Now that's something to get pissed out about."

Though both didn't notice, but the same blue Beetle was looking around, scanning the area, as it scanned targets in order of Blitzo, Clint, Stolas and Octavia: Pyscho-Bitch, Valuable Experiment, Thirsty Owl, Princess. But then looked at the Fizz Bot and clinked: Valuable Host body.

And just as it scanned, Robot Fizz and the other more disturbing animatronics started to play music and the show.

Loo Loo Land, Loo Loo Land!

The curtains opened to reveal Robo Fizz's band, FizzaRolli 'n Friends, composed of various hideously decrepit animatronics, including Big Woobly on guitar.

Everybody sing along with the Loo Loo band

Robo Fizz went around pointing and gesturing at various demons in the audience. Ev'ry boy, ev'ry girl,

Stolas looked excited when Robo Fizz got to him, ev'ry woman, ev'ry man loves Loo Loo Laaand!

But this was short-lived as Blitzo popped up and pointed his rifle at Robo Fizz, who dashed back to the stage.

Platforms in the stage rise up in time with the music, Loo Loo Land, Loo Loo Land!

Everything is beautiful at Loo Loo Land

Ugly children holdin' hands in Loo Loo Laaand! Robo Fizz grabbed various Imp children out of the audience and wrapped them up in a big hug, before jumping up and tossing them away. Most of the children slammed into the bleachers, while one soared behind them.

Everybody's friendly, Robo Fizz hugged Big Woobly so hard that its neck broke a bit more than it already had been.

And nobody is mean, Robo Fizz dashed over to the two-headed, banjo-playing bear animatronic and slapped it in the back, making it squirt a stream of oil from its bigger head at the face of an Imp in the bleachers attempting to drown out the song with music from his phone.

No copyright infringement's ever seeen Robo Fizz dumped a gasoline canister onto a large stack of cease-and-desist papers, lit a match, and threw the match and the canister at the stack, setting the whole thing ablaze.

He then sat on a piano, playing a familiar scene, I have a dream... (He has a dream)

He stood up, I'm here to tell... (He's here to tell)

Robo Fizz then landed on the stage, as he finished, About a magical, fantastic place called Loo Loo Laaaaand!

Octavia was sitting and absorbing the musical with disgusted boredom.

Outside

Moxxie and Millie walked along a row of game booths, when they spotted Charlie, Vaggie, Lydia, and James at a particular booth.

Moxxie would approach with his wife and asked, "Excuse me, Princess, but what is going on here?"

"Apparently, it's the War for the Thing," Charlie awkwardly pointed out to the scene.

Millie pushed her husband and CHarlie to the side with stars in her eyes, "A THINGIE!?"

She then turned to her husband, "Mox-mox I gotta have that thingie."

"Oh," Moxxie blinked, as he smiled, "You want that Thing?"

"YEEEEESSS!" Millie cried out, "I don't really know what that thing is but I want that thing!"

"WEll, then.." The vendor smirked, as he poked his head out, "If you wanna, then join in." He pointed to the haggard duo that was James and Vaggie, "Ya can't do any worse than these losers."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LOSER!?" The two shouted at the carnie eyes flaming or showing a skull.

"Well, least you two have something common," the Carnie smirked, "You both suck equally."

That got them both ready to tear the carnie a new one.

"Too bad you losers can't win as easy as you can being sore losers," the carnie continued to goad the two trying to get them to waste more money on his game.

Moxxie then gently pushed them both away, as he said, "Why not let a real crack shot do this. Don't fret, I'll win a prize for both your ladies to defend your honor." And handed the carnie 5 $ouls.

10 more $ouls were put down, as both Vaggie and James picked up their guns, as James said, "I'll keep going."

"Same," Vaggie frowned.

The carnie Imp rolled his eyes and used his tail to hand Moxxie his pistol. Moxxie doesn't even line up the shot, instead looking to his wife as he effortlessly hits the target right in the bullseye. And Vaggie and James shot as well, hitting their targets. Unbeknownst to Moxxie, the target barely moved. He made a "ricochet" noise with his mouth and blew the black powder smoke clear of the gun, pleased with his marksmanship.

"Ohhhh! Strike one, little man," the Carnie smirked, as he looked to the two, "And this makes it the 30th loss for you both each so far."

Moxxie looked shocked, as he argued, "But, I hit it!"

"Hmmm, I don't know what to tell ya, buddy," the carnie smirked, as he pointed to the targets, "The target, see? It didn't go down. So, yeah...! No go, bro."

Moxxie growled in anger and fished another bill out of his pocket along with Vaggie and James, and fired another cork each, hitting the target dead-center. The targets didn't budge. Moxxie slapped the pistol in annoyance, "The Heaven's wrong with this thing?!"

"Oh, man. A real shame, I tell ya," the Carnie smirked, as he mockingly cried, "Whaaa, whaaa.."

At that moment, James, Vaggie, and Moxxie hissed in anger.

Lydia looked at the trio, as she assured them, "Guys, we don't have to blow an entire allowance. It's just a Thing."

"It's not the thing that's important." James said speaking as if Lydia didn't get it.

"It's proving that I got better aim than this jerk." Vaggie said, which made sparks fly between them like in an anime.

"But isn't it just a game," Movie said, "There's no need to prove it to this guy, is there?"

The two glared at Moxxie, making the short imp shrink more as he squeaks, "Nevermind..."

Back with the Show

Stolas is gleefully clapping to the music, while Octavia has thrown her head back in torment, banging her fist on the seat next to her, even as the cast sung, -body sing along with the Loo Loo band!

Ev'ry boy, ev'ry girl, ev'ry woman, ev'ry man loves Loo Loo Laaaaaaand! The show ended with a small pyrotechnic display as Robo Fizz cackles maniacally. The bear animatronic faceplants onto the stage and falls to pieces. Stolas claps and cheers even harder, "Ah hohohoho ho ho ho ho ho, how delightful!"

Behind Stolas, however, an imp armed with a kris dagger rises from beneath the seats ready to stab Stolas, but the top of his head is quickly blown apart by a shot from Blitzo, who has taken up a position in the gallery behind the back row of seats while Imps scream in absolute fear and run away. Stolas was however turned on, flirtatiously saying, "Oh, my! What aim you have, Blitzy."

However, that was the thing that broke his daughter as she shouted, absolutely furious, "I can't take this anymore!"

And immediately bolted from her seat, tears in her eyes.

Stolas blinked at this as he saw his daughter storm off, "Via?"

Octavia ignored her father as she left the tent with an angry scowl on her face looking like she could rip the first sinner in half just for standing in her way.

Clint and Blitzo were about to go after them, but the Robo Fizz cackled as it turned and spotted Blitzo.

"Mua ha ha ha ha hoho-oh! Is that Blitzo my sensors spot up the-e-e-ere?" THe robot asked, intenitonally saying the O in his spelled name.

"I bet the kiddies are still running away from you, huh?" The robot then let out a maniacal laugh.

The blue beetle was on stage scanners zeroed in on Robo Fizz at it waited for its next move.

"The 'o' is silent now!" Blitzo shouted at the robot, while Clint looked and said, "Blitz, ignore the tin-can. We gotta go!"

"A-A-Awwwww, just like your audience always was when you to-told your lazy jokes here!" The robot shot back with a little dance, before cackling its laugh, Blitzo removes his visors and throws them on the ground as he ignored Clint and continue to argue with Robo Fizz, "Bitch, I make more money killing people than you do being a cheap ass robo rip-off of an overrated sellout JESTER!"

Clint sighed as he groaned, "Blitzo. Don't let this ass get to you, man. You're better than this."

The robot then began to glitch "Oohoohoo! Someone's salty! Real or not, though, people lo-o-ove me!"

"Does anybody love you..." The robot stopped, finishing with a low demonic voice, "BLITZ-0?"

The beetle still went unnoticed as it got onto his back... and then dug deep into the body still unnoticed.

Though as Robo Fizz cackled, it suddenly went wide eye, and spasmed, as it gagged and spasmed, "Eh? WHA-WHAAAAA-A-A-A-A-A... ARGH!" It began to lose control as it gasped and gagged, like it was being eaten alive on the inside, and then gargled like it was drowning or choking. And then went limp as it looked like a puppet hanging on strings for the night.

Blitzo blinked, "Okay that was fucking strange... even for that shitty knockoff..."

It then stood up straight, as its eyes glowed red, and still smiled. It then spun around in a buzzsaw wheel going after Blitzo and Clint, as they shot at it.

"By strange, do you mean that it looked like it's been hacked to appear to be possessed," Clint asked as he continued to shoot at the robot, "Or the fact that it somehow knows your name!?"

"No i meant how it fucking grew a goddamn buzzsaw!" Blitzo shouted back.

It then shot its arms at them, wrapped around, and slingshot them both out. Just as they fell from the sky, an Imp pushing a cart of lit torches with the green fires native to Hell (Hellfire), smiled, "Torches! Get your inconvenient torches right here, I say I say!"

Blitzo then landed on him as the boxes of Hellfire torches fell and began to ignite the tent.

The other animatronics were walking out, their pelts or skins melting. But then suddenly, the robots were harpooned by the Rogue Robo Fizz, as they began to cry and merge with the Fizz Bot, as it growled, a third eye growing over its right eye, "Power Upgrade!"

Meanwhile
Back at the Shooting Game

The carnie was making a killing as he had so many $ouls that he had enough to put his kids through college and retire in Sloth.

"Phew, you guys are somethin else," the Carnie smirked, as he rolled up a bill to make a cigarette out of. "But still, to go this far and not realize it. I'll just say it," he smirked as he looked to the exhausted trio, "If ya suck. Ya suck."

He then looked over at Milie and said, "Specially if you can't get yer hottie a prize."

"Lemme try," Millie gently shoved all three, as she took the pop gun, and then fired. Though the shot missed the target, but the Carnie, he stepped on a button, making it fall over.

"Ooooh, looks like the lil' lady wins the Thing," The Carnie smirked.

Moxxie, James, and Vaggie were reacting with annoyed shakes or twitches as the husband shouted, "What! Are you kidding me?! You- you- you charlatan!"

The Carnie then said, "Move it pipsqueak, I'm talking to the ladies." He then pushed Moxxie away and growled in a seductive purring sound to both MIllie and Lydia. making the two recoiled in disgust and revulsion.

However, everyone heard two pairs of screaming as suddenly, the Carnie was smashed under by Blitzo and Clint, who looked like a mess.

"Sir?" Moxxie asked.

James blinked, "Clint?"

"Hey, guys," Clint weakly waved to them.

Charlie looked around worried and asked, "Uhh... where's Stolas and Octavia?"

"They're heading to the Fun House," Blitz shaking stood up as he grabbed his gun.

Charlie immediately ran for the Fun House, very concerned about the two. while Blitzo said, "Hey M&M Back the princess applepie up. The rest of ya, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I need help."

James looked to him, and asked, "What's going on?"

Suddenly, a large crash got their attention, as they looked to see what it was.

It was the Robo Fizz, but the other animatronics fused into a monster being. The duo bear was now the right side and arm of the beast, with massive claws coming out of the bear's head like fingers, as the legs were the frog bot's legs with tentacles wrapped around to make them stronger, with a few tentacles made into spider legs, while the T-Rex animatronic made up the upper back, with the dino's head part of the left side of the chest, and the left arm was a wrap around of the Fizz robot's arms into a tentacle with teh dino's tail. And Fizz's head looked normal, only with the jester's cap twin tails now longer and alive, as his right eye was glowing red exposed with more robotics, as it cackled, "HELLO KIDDIES,"

"That..." Blitzo said as he went and fired his flintlock pistol at the Ubber-fizz.

Vaggie looked at this, and looked annoyed, "I'm sorry, but..." and then looked to Clint, Blitzo, and James, as she asked, "But what the fuck have you three done!?"

"Nothing!" The three of them shouted, while Clint asked, "Seriously? Do you blame Men for all of your problems?!"

"SOUNDS TO ME LIKE MISS SALTY HAS SOME BAD EXPERIENCES WITH GENTLEMEN," Robo Fizz cackled as he lumbered to them, "IT'S NO WONDER YOU HATE YOURSELF, VAGGIE! YOU CAN NEVER FIND ANYONE TO LOVE... AND THUS... DRIVE EVERYONE AWAY,"

Vaggie shook with rage, her hair becoming wilder and her eye glowing red, before she shouted, "¡MUERE, HIJO DE PUTA!" And threw herself into the fight, spear forward.

She went in a speed that was almost invisible as she was ready to run this robot through and end it.

However, the robot was just as fast as it was now face-to-face, as it bit down at the tip. Though Vaggie's grip on it was just as tough, the robot used it to throw her back to James, as he caught her, and Blitzo shot it in the face. It arched its back a bit, but then returned forward, as it spat out the bullet.

"Augh, what a mouth," Blitzo smirked, but then grimaced at what he had just said.

Ubber-Fizz coiled himself up into his rolling form again, charging straight at them. Both Blitzo, Clint and James with Vaggie in his arms leapt out of the way as his enemy hit the booth, destroying it in a large explosion. Several pieces of shrapnel and burning prizes shot in all directions, as the severed heads of three of the "things" Moxxie, Vaggie, and James attempted to win. The piece of stuffed animal struck a young Imp boy in the head, knocking him unconscious the second a photographer took a picture of the Imp family.

The family frowned at the downed boy while the father ranted, "Goddammit, Nathan! You ruined another bloody photo! Why were you even born?!"

Robo Fizz cackled, as he turned around, on all fours, looking like an animal, as he spotted James, "AND YOU...!"

"What? What about me," he said as he put Vaggie down.

Robo Fizz shrugged, "NUTHIN'. I DON'T TALK TO WHINY BITCHES WHO LISTEN TO EVEN WORTHLESS BITCHES. YOU COULDN'T LIVE IN LIFE, AND IN DEATH YOU SUCK BALLS!"

He cackled as he taunted more, "YOUR MOMMY AND DADDY MUST BE TURNING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES KNOWING THAT THEIR SON WAS ALREADY DEAD BEFORE HE DIED."

James looked like he had been struck through the heart, as it may have been true on that.

Lydia snarled, "Shut the fuck up!"

She then went to stand protectively in front of James, "You don't know a damn thing about him!"

"OH COME ON, PUSSYCAT. YOU AND HE BARELY ARE ANYTHING AT THIS PONT," Ubber Fizz taunted, as it slowly crawled to them. "I BET YOU TWO HAVEN'T EVEN TALKED OVER THE WHOLE LOVE CONFESSION AND SUCH"

And then turned to Vaggie, "SEEMS THIS STUCK UP BITCH DOESN'T GIVE A RATS ASS AT ALL. MIGHT AS WELL MAKE EVERYONE AS MISERABLE AS HER AND LAMO-BLITZO HERE"

Blitzo growled at that and shouted, "Do you ever just shut the fuck up!?" And fired some more bullets into the robot.,

"DO YOU EVER STOP WITH THE HORSE FETISH?!" Robo Ubber Fizz taunted.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO," Blitzo said as he pulled out his rifle and went semi-automatic, firing at the beast. But the bullets kept bouncing off it, as it wheeled again, as it charged.

James sighed, as he looked to Vaggie as he calmly said, "Vaggie. You get your wish today." He then drew out the scythe, as he charged right at it at it. But he flipped over it, as he turned around and stabbed the blade right in its back, as he anchored on it. It swatted around, as it roared out, trying to get him off. Though by command, the Crucible suddenly transformed back into its gun mode, only now it looked like an automatic rifle. James made the cut in bigger, as he stuck the muzzle in, and rapidly fired holy light in it, as the robot roared out, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH FUCK! DICKS, DICKS, YOU'RE A DICK KID! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

He looked to Blitzo and shouted, "Blitz! I need a grenade!"

"You think I bring one with me everywhere?!" Blitzo shouted.

"Yes!" James replied back.

Blitzo sweat dropped, and produced one, as he said, "Yeah, you're right."

And then threw it up to James as he caught it.

James pulled out the pin, and threw it in teh hole, as he jumped off and landed on the ground.

Robo Fizz blinked, as he realized there was a bomb in him, and gulped, "Oh fuck"

And then blew up as his bigger arm was thrown out to the parking lot, smashing cars, except for the IMP vehicle. It stumbled a bit as it crashed into the carnival tents, setting everything further into ablaze until it finally crashed on the ground, spewing oil and fire.

Meanwhile

Charlie was looking for both Stolas and Octavia.

Elsewhere, Stolas and Charile were still running after Octavia. "Octavia," Stolas called out.

"Via, where are you," Charlie too called out.

"Just leave me alone!" she called out, as the two looked to see Octavia running into the Fun House.

Inside, both Charlie and Stolas were confronted with a a surreal room of eyes, tubes, spikes, mirrors, and disembodied hands. Stolas went further into the room, looking around for where his daughter could have gone. A shadow appeared behind Stolas, as a random Imp jumped upon his back.

Charlie gasped, "Uncle Stolas!"

Stolas, annoyed, grumbled, "Umm, I think I'm supposed to be bodyguarded right now!"

Charlie walked up as she kindly asked, "Um, excuse me. Sir."

The imp looked to her and blinked, as she asked, "I'm sure you're not a terrible person at heart. So maybe you could let him go?"

The Imp and Stolas blinked at this, as the imp went, "No."

The Imp covered Stolas's mouth with his shirt sleeve but was suddenly shot in the head and fell to the ground dead. Moxxie and Millie appeared in the entryway, Millie having just shot the Imp with a pistol.

Though Charlie groaned, "Ugh… Why? I could have tried to talk him out of it!"

"Yeah, I didn't think he gave a damn, princess," Millie said, non-sarcastically but honestly.

Stolas wiped the imp's blood off of sleeve, annoyed, and asked, "Ugh, that's better. Where is Blitzy? He's my knight in shining armor, not you littler ones."

Millie scratched the back of her head, as she answered, "He's, uhhhh... busy. With Clint and James."

Moxxie slid in as he groaned, "Being fools."

Charlie arched an eyebrow, and asked, "What kind of fools?"

Moxxie pointed to outside, which was on fire, "The 'everything is now on fire' kind."

"I must admit, that does sound like Blitzy." Stolas admitted before looking to Charlie, "Charlie dear, why are you here and without your own entourage of protectors?"

"I just thought maybe I could get through to Via and ask what's wrong," Charlie admitted.

Stolas sighed, "I understand how you feel my dear but do not forget that you are the daughter of the Morningstar himself and all of Hell would suffer as a result should anything happen to you." Stolas stated before admitting, "I fear that I must brave this trial alone..."

"Stolas, please. Let me try," Charlie said, as she ran ahead to find Via before Stolas said she could.

Charlie went deeper into the fun house and then found Octavia there riding on one of the apple theme rail cars, cautiously she approached, "Via?"

Charlie would sit next to the Owlet and tentatively ask, "Are you... okay?"

"No," Octavia said. "I didn't even want to come here."

"But your dad said you loved it here," Charlie asked.

"When I was five, my parents didn't hate each other," Ocativa revealed, and sighed, "And my dad didn't act like this while flirting with some red dickhead."

Charlie sighed before looking down while Octavia said, "When dad said that you were coming, I was really happy... but then I got angry at you..."

Charlie was shocked to hear this, "Why?"

"Because I thought if I saw my big sister then everything would be better but it's not, especially when she has two sinners pining for her and you got so focused on your project that I thought you were only doing this to keep those sinners in that shitty hotel of yours..."

Charlie blushed and nervous began to ramble, "Wait you think?... I mean sure but I didn't... You really think..."

Octavia looked down upset, "I get why your dad became a fucking recluse in his palace after your mum left him but what's my dad's excuse?"

Charlie thought on it, as she remembered Stella's attitude towards everyone. She was full blown raging and humiliating everyone. Especially Stolas with constant insults and cruelty slung towards him. Even Lucifer himself was no exception either. But Charlie knew Via loved her mom a lot, and sighed, knowing it wouldn't be so simple to say that. But she had to say something.

"I can't really say either," Charlie said, as she tried to help her out, "But I think your dad's trying to find one or an explanation to it. I didn't think he intentionally did this or that to hurt you."

"Yeah sure..." Octavia said dismissing Charlie's words, "So what's your excuse about that one-eye moth demon and that imp-sinner?"

Charlie blinked, "My excuse? Wha…?"

"I know your breakup with that Leviathan impostor was bad but, are you still in denial about finding someone?" Octavia asked the princess of Hell.

It was Charlie's turn to be in a fetal position, as she rested her chin on her knees, and sighed, "I've just... been really focused on the Hotel. Trying to find a way to stop the Extermination without getting anyone hurt and all. I had to put that need in my life aside to help others, and..." she sighed, as she felt depressed, "I won't lie. I wish I could go and find that happiness, but it'd be too selfish to do that."

She then rolled her eyes as she softly chuckled, "And I've known Vaggie's been protective of me, and I think James is sweet, and Lydia's fun to be around..."

She then shrugged, "And compared to Seviathan, they're sweet, nice, and..."

"The cat-sinner?" Octavia asked surprised, before her face narrowed, "I guess I shouldn't be surprised you'd have it for 3 sinners, given the rumors about your dad and Eve."

Charlie blushed embarrassingly, as she asked, "Can we... please go back to why you're scared, Via? I'd like to try and help you, and maybe you can help me."

Octavia looked down, the lessons she was taught as a child about not losing your composure to anyone, especially someone of a 'potential threat' like a member of the Morningstar family. Unable to hold it in, Octavia asked, "Is he... is he going to leave me? Like how your mum left you?"

Charlie, and Stolas, looked in shock that as well, as Charlie asked, "What? Why would you think that?"

"Because you left me..." Octavia revealed, her eyes brimming with tears, and explained, "After your parents split you became so focused on yourself that you sorta shut everyone who wasn't part of your immediate family out... like me..."

"You said we were gonna be like sisters, but you left me...!" Octavia shouted at Charlie's face, the tears burning as they went down her face.

Charlie blinked at this, as she realized the damage she did. She pulled Via close, as she said, "I'm so sorry, Via. I never intended or wanted to hurt you."

The heir of the Goetia looked away, "Well, you did, and unlike you I don't have a place to make my own a new home for myself..."

She was quiet for a minute before she hugged Charlie and confessed, "I'm scared... I'm scared that dad's gonna run away with that imp and leave me all alone..."

"Never, Via," her father suddenly spoke up as he was now in there, dropping his hat, as he sat next to her as he gently hugged her, "Via, I'd never leave everything, or you, behind."

Octavia staring in surprise while Charlie gave them space to talk things out, "But you and mom have been fighting non-stop when she found out about you sleeping with that imp... How do I know that you won't go away and I'll never find you?"

"I won't, Via. Remember what I said back then when you had that scary dream," Stolas asked her. "I meant it, that I'll always be there. I guess today, I was probably trying to assure you on that. Guess I let my flirting get the better of me at times."

"At times?" the daughter asked her father, believing that it was all the time instead of just at times.

He shrugged as he looked a bit embarrassed, "But you're right. You are too old for this place."

Charlie watched smiling seeing her friend's family rebounding.

As Stolas carried his daughter out an imp grinned maniacally in the space above the drop-ceiling, looking at the Goetia duo. The imp then dropped down and flicked open a switchblade. Before Charlie could issue a warning, This alerted Stolas immediately turned his head a full 180 to look at the imp, his eyes shining brightly. Shocked, the Imp suddenly turned to stone and is knocked over by a swinging pendulum. With that act done, Stolas turned his head back around and said, "Come along Charlotte, it's time we left this imitation of your father's work."

Given that he was using her full first name, Charlie knew that he wasn't in the mood to talk about what he did to the Imp that tried to assault him.

However, Vaggie, James, Clint, Blitzo, and Moxxie were sent crashing through the fun house as they were in a heap.

Charlie looked, "Oh goodness, what happened?"

James sat up, looking haggard, "A mad clown."

Moxxie slowly got up as he groaned, "Way to ruin another thing, sir."

Blitzo, half beaten and looking comedic, smirked, "It was worth it. That shitty fuckin' clown..." But then something burst through as it was crouched down. It was the Fizz Bot, now looking more like a Terminator without the skin, as it cackled, "Shit, it's still going, isn't it?"

Robo Fizz cackled, as it made its way to them, "You're really a bunch of shit heads, aren't ya? HA HA-HAHA-HAHA-"

But suddenly, the dragon from the petting zoo broke in and bit Robo-Fizz, as it screamed, throwing him in the air and ate him in one gulp.

Dan and Bruce were on the back, as Dan cried out, "Welcome to Jurassic Park, Bitch!"

They all stared in surprise before James asked, "Is that a Dragon?"

Vaggie arched an eyebrow, "Wait, how did you guys knew we were in danger?"

"Wha-?" Dan asked, blinking confused. Bruce looked at his friend before nudging him to lie.

"Oh yeah... We heard the explosions and screams, and all the cool fire comin' around," Dan smiled. "WE totally kicked that bot's ass with Bessie here." and gently petted the dragon which purred at his touch.

Outside
Parking Lot

Everyone was walking over to the lot where Angel and the others casually waited for them to show up.

Angel looked and asked the others, "So... you think we'll be in trouble here?"

Everyone looked to see the fires as Lydia said, while holding onto a Thing that James had gotten her during the fight, "I think Loo Loo Land will be in bigger trouble. A place like this would get sued for being a major death trap."

"Especially with all that Hellfire." Charlie admitted seeing the park burning down.

Stolas then asked Octavia, "So what do you wanna do now?"

"We could check out Stylish Occults," Via smiled. "They have these weird taxidermies."

"That sounds... delightful?" Stolas said, not certain about it, but was willing to give it a try.

Via giggled, as she smiled to him, "Thanks, Dad. You're okay at times."

No, Thank you, Via. Thank you both." he said hugging Via closer while pulling Charlie into the hug between them.

Though Moxxie asked, "Can we go now?"

Dan & Bruce then looked in with Bessy and Vaggie sternly told the two "No. We're not taking an Infernal Dragon back to the Hotel with us."

This made the Dragon in question whimper before turning away, dropping her two riders, and sulked away...

In a darkened room a lone figure sat infront of a computer screen as it watched the visual data it got when one of the beetle-drones it had latched onto the IMP's van, to get to the Green Ring.

He had to admit, the initial testing of his "Possetle" on a robot of Hell's creation had been promising, especially how it held its own against trained combatants of the organic variety.

Meanwhile

Observing a video feed from the remains of Loo Loo Land, sitting in his seat at his observation console, Vergil arched an eyebrow at the scene. "Hmm. It seems my Poseetle managed to hack such an advanced robot like that Robo Fizz. Even performed better in combat. But not much in armorwise." He got up as he turned around, seeing a variety of unfinished products in weaponry, as he smirked, "Guess this requires more and more testing."

Next chapter: Scrambled Eggs