(This chapter has been updated with the help of anonmike217, follow him)
'Once upon a time, there was a glowing city protected by golden gates, known as Heaven. It was ruled by beings of pure light. Angels that worshiped good and shielded all from evil, Lucifer was one of these angels. He was a dreamer with fantastical ideas for all of creation but he was seen as a troublemaker by the elders of Heaven for they felt his way of thinking was dangerous to the order of their world.'
Charlie begins to tell a story of how the universe was created by beings called Angels, and as the narration goes on, the images show the silhouette of her father, Lucifer, creating fireworks, which draws the ire wrath of the angels for his behavior.
'As punishment for their reckless act, Heaven cast Lucifer and his love into the dark pit he had created, never allowing him to see the good that came from humanity, only the cruel and the wicked; Ashamed, Lucifer lost his will to dream; but Lilith thrived, empowering demonkind with her voice and her songs, and as the numbers of Hell grew, so did its power; threatened by this, Heaven made a truly heartless decision that every year, they would send down an army, an Extermination, to ensure Hell and its sinners could never rise against them but Lilith's hope remained. And her dream was passed down to their precious daughter, the Princess of Hell'
The angels banished Lucifer and Eve from Heaven and Earth, and into the depths of Hell. While Lucifer stagnated, Lilith thrived and brought Hell to new heights, causing the angels to start the Extermination, as population control for the overpopulated demons and sinners. As Charlie finishes narrating, she closes a book titled "The Story of Hell" and looks out to the City.
'Don't worry, Mom, I'll make you proud' Charlie looks out the window sadden as the city was burning to the ground. Again.
'Charlie?' Surprise, she turned around and saw Vaggie who was just standing there.
'Aah! Oh, shit. Did you hear all that?' The key Charlie is holding transforms into KeeKee who scampers away. Vaggie nodded.
'Uh, yeah I was right there' Mastering her technique of standing so still she couldn't be seen. Or that her girlfriend was so grief stricken she didn't notice her. Or maybe both. Charlie sighed and looked out of the window again seeing an explosion.
'Sorry, I get pre-tty worked up after an extermination happens, the story helps...' Veggie let out a small chuckle before sitting down next to her.
'Don't worry I enjoy your theatrics, are you okay?' placing her hand on Charlie's shoulder who sighs holding the hand there.
'I'm fine, just... thinking, ya' know? Family stuff' Shereplied.
'Did you hear from your mom?' Vaggie asked. Charlie shook her head in dismay.
'Oof...how long has it been now?'
'Not that long, only...seven...years of doing something important, I'm sure! But, this kingdom was something she really cared about, something I care about' Charlie looking up at nowhere.
'Well, at least you're not alone' Vaggie shifts her hair back, finding a girl that genuinely likes her for who she is.
'I just hope that what I'm trying to do here will work' Charlie looked down at herself. Vaggie patted her shoulder again.
'It will, I have faith' KeeKee leaps into Charlie's arms as Vaggie stands up.
'Alright, come on, Facilier says he has something to show us' She walks out the room. As Vaggie leaves, a loud bell rings throughout the city, Charlie turns to the Bell Tower at Heaven Embassy. Charlie looks on with sadness, knowing that it's another year before the Extermination comes again.
The TV turns static before it fixes itself to reveal a sinner stabbing another demon to death with a knife before Dr. Facilier caught their attention.
'Hello there, you sack of human garbage, do you like creating chaos and breaking the Geneva convention, creating atrocities with each of your sinful life? Of course you do, that's why you're in hell! But what if I tell you that there's a place you can stay that has none of that! Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel, a misguided path to redemption! Founded five days ago by Lucifer's delusional daughter, Charlotte Morningstar!' As the camera rolls, scenes switch from the front of the Hazbin Hotel, to Charlie on camera and she waves at it before Angel Dust comes into view, putting two-fingers over the head pranking behind her.
'Put fate in her inexperienced hands, as she tries to work through her daddy issues by fixing you! With 24-hours of awful staff and horrible pest control, custom rooms with an awful design! Wow! All this, and more at the Hazbin Hotel! Your last desperate attempt at salvation starts here!'
The camera turns to the bartender, Husk, who was clearly drunk, passing out on the ground as Niffty, the hotel maid, tries to stab and chase after a bug, and then to Angel Dust, with a support beam falling close to KeeKee, scaring the demon cat before running off, and Angel Dust flipping Facilier off.
The commercial then ends, Facilier then turns off the tv.
'So what do you think?' Facilier ask with a huge smile across his face. On the couch, Charlie, Vaggie were surprised of the commercial being poorly misleading and very offensive to their nature.
'I'm sorry, what the fuck was that?' Vaggie asked, throwing a fit at Facilier.
'Uh, Yeah. One note, , I mean, first off, thank you so much for making this seriously amazing, but um, maybe the tone is a bit off. We want people to want to come here. This makes it look, um...' Charlie couldn't say the world so Vaggie did it instead.
'Bad, the word you're looking for is bad' Vaggie plainly stated.
'Funny, I was going for more hilarious than bad' Charlie trying to soften the blow.
'It didn't explain anything about how we're trying to save demons from extermination, which is the whole fucking point!' Vaggie pointed out that the commercial made it seem they were a band of crazy people.
'Vaggie is right Facilier, the commercial was to let sinners know we are trying to help them' Charlie agreed with her. Facilier tapped his cane on the tv changing the channel to the news.
'Well my clown face friend, it had been awhile, 7 years to be precise, I'm used to my radio not this noisy picture box advertisement' He taps the television twice with his staff. Turning it off.
'So, I had fun with it' Vaggie felt her eyes twitching in anger.
'Oh, fun? You had a little fun with it? Well, this is not what we want to represent us; when you showed up here a week ago, you told us you would help run this hotel, instead, you're mocking us, nobody's gonna wanna come to a place that a powerful overlord like you thinks is a waste of time' Angel Dust raises his hand from the couch, catching everyone's attention.
'If you're filming a commercial, can I suggest you take better advantage of the talented celebrity you have right here?' Angel Dust takes a bottle with one arm before pointing all three arms at himself. but Vaggie doesn't like it.
'Angel, you're a porn star' Vaggie stated.
'A famous porn star, I'll have the horniest sinners knocking these walls down to get in' Angel replied.
'We are not filming a porn as a commercial' Vaggie furrowed her eyes not wanting to make this into a whore house.
'Why not? Sex sells don't it? I swear if you film me going at it tall and black here, you'd be rolling in participants willing to stay at this tacky hotel' Angel insisted while Facilier brushed it off.
'Ha, in your dreams' he joked.
'You know it,' Angel replied.
'And Angel, I really don't want to exploit you' Charlie said but Angel brushed it off.
'Oh, please, baby; this body was made to be exploited; I got the arms, I got the stamina, I got the legs; I got the lung capacity, oh, I got the legs; the gag reflex, the holes, the chest fluff everyone thinks are tits' Charlie chuckles nervously until her phone rings from Lucifer.
'Hold that thought! I'll be right back' She said walking out of the room.
'I could keep going all night, baby' Angel dust now lost in feeling pride in his work. In a hallway Charlie breathes nervously and answers the call.
'Hello? Dad?'
'Hey, I have a question, if a voodoo man over there is so powerful, then why can't he just make people stay here?' Angle pointed out while the three of them were milling about in the living room.
'Oh, I can' He smiles, as a dark aura surrounds him.
'Why do you think I'm here?' A voice from the bar said as the three looked over.
'You actually think I'd be cleaning bottles and listening to you fucks bitch and moan all the time if he wasn't forcing me?' As Husk cleans a bottle, Niffty pops up from beside him with a hand raised.
'I like being forced,' Niffty wanting to be part of the conversation.
'Keep that to yourself, Nif'
'What? You don't love being here with me, Whiskers?' Angel dust asked.
'Call me Whiskers again and I'll jam that bottle down your throat' Husker threatened, but that seems to turn on Angel.
'Kinky, come on, keep talking dirty'
'Angel, Let Husk do his job and no we can't force sinners to stay here, they need to choose to' Vaggie feeling herself age by the second.
'I'm choosing to be here and I think it's all stupid,we're in hell, toots, that's kind of the end of the road, ain't it?' Angel pointing out that people like it here in hell. Despite being murdered all the time.
'Well, Maybe it doesn't have to be, just because nobody has made it out before doesn't mean it's not possible' Angel Dust places a hand on Vaggie's shoulder, giving her a deadpan expression. Back at the hallway, Charlie, after the phone call, seemed really happy with the news her father brought to her.
'Hey, whatever means I can keep crashing here rent-free, crack is expensive' Angel leaning back on the sofa. Still not believing it but appreciating the gesture.
Back at the hallway Charlie was really excited about the news.
'Yeah, I can totally, yeah, I'll head over there right away, okay?' As she hangs up the phone, she gasps in excitement.
'Yes...YES!' Charlie giggles in excitement; she then calls Vaggie in gibberish.
'Vaggie! Holy, shit!' Vaggie, not understanding what Charlie tried to say, asked what's going on.
'Ah! what?' Charlie didn't say anything, just waving very frantically to come over here.
'Get over here!' Charlie said, mumbling. Vaggie sighs happily and comes to Charlie while she is jumping around in a very happy mood rapping the wood at blinding speeds. As Angel Dust drinks in the background, Vaggie approaches Charlie from behind. Smiling nervously as Charlie was hopping up and down.
'What's going on?' She asked. Charlie Breathes in and out to calm her nerves so she can explain, but explaining too fast due to her excitement.
'My dad just called, he said that the leader of the Angel Army wants to meet, he asked if I could go instead' Charlie hyperventilates and grabs Vaggie to get up close. However Vaggie, was confused.
'But-but, the extermination just happened. What could they want this soon after-' As Vaggie went on, and on about how this might be another ploy to hurt the hell royal family. Charlie was in the mood to get her hotel project to work, and remained hopeful that she would start singing.
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Charlie has gotten to right where she wants to be, the Heaven Embassy with the watchtower. She opens the door to peek inside.
'Hello!' Charlie called out but to her surprise that the whole embassy deserted. She walks to the front desk to check in.
'Hello? Creepy...' Coming to the front desk with no one but a single bell. She taps the bell to ring it, and at the instant, a golden scroll and feather ink pen floats from above over to her.
'Oh, okay...also creepy' The scroll and feather flies up before disappearing. Right then, the twin doors slide open to show Charlie the meeting room, and she enters inside the dark room with no one around.
'Uh...hello? Is anyone here?' The lights suddenly switched on, revealing two angels at the end of the room, with one being an exorcist lieutenant, Lute and the big boss leader of the Angel Army, Adam, who is eating a rib in his hand.
Adam wore a mask that held a pair of horns similar to an exorcist, albeit longer, smoother, and with a golden ornamental attachment on the tips. Having a pair of large and golden wings on his back. In contrast to other angels that have appeared thus far, Adam's halo was bright gold in appearance, and similar to the exorcists, has two spikes pointing up then down from each other, though these spikes are located at the front of his halo as opposed to the likes of Lute's halo, which has its spikes in the middle, joined by a small dot. He also wore a smooth white and golden cloak that appears to have a large 'A' symbol emblazoned on the front. His visible hands were black in appearance, as well, and had golden tip spikes on the back of his collar.
Lute appears to have a nearly identical appearance to others. Wearing gray and black shorts with a white band in the middle. The only visual differences appear to be that her halo and right pupil are black with a white glow instead of white. Her horns curve down with white five glowing white lines on each horn.
'Sup' Adam said.
'Holy, shit!' Getting surprised by the sudden appearance of two angels in the room made Charlie fall to the ground. Getting back up and readjusting herself to introduce herself properly.
'Hi, I'm Charlie, my dad asked me if I could meet you'
'Yeah, I know' He responded, eating a rib like a buzz saw.
'Okay, well, it's nice to meet you too'
'Totally, it's nice to meet you' Adam reaches over to and offers Charlie a handshake, and as she was about to shake his hand, her hand slips right through, revealing him to be a hologram, fizzing on and off after being touched, which freaks Charlie out.
'Ha! I fucking got you, did you see that?' Adam asked Lute to which she nodded.
'Ha!, Good shit' Charlie was trying to get something straight with Adam being a hologram.
'Uh...so, wait, you aren't here?' Charlie asked.
'No, you think I'd come down there? No, I mean, I love the vibe, totally, I love your tunes; pretty fucking hardcore, don't get me wrong, but! It's such a bummer! man, everything down there's just so "eugh", ya know? Ew' Ignoring that Charlie went on to lay out her planes for her happy hotel.
'Right, so, I'm happy we've got this opportunity to meet; there's a project that I've been working on that I really want to talk to you about-' Adam puts his finger on Charlie's lips to quiet her down.
'Hey, hey, hey, hey, slow down; we've got time, how about we get to know each other a little, mmm, how about lunch? You hungry? I got you' Adam pulls out a plate of ribs he's been eating towards.
'Here's my personal favorite, you'll love it'
'Uh...thanks' Charlie tried to grab a piece, but her hand again went right past them, also revealing to be a hologram, as they fizzed on and off from the touch, and Adam laughed.
'I got you again, bitch! Fuckin' hilarious!' Charlie makes a small unamused chuckle alongside Adam's hyper laughter.
At the Hazbin Hotel, the workers and residents were summoned by Vaggie to discuss their poorly misleading commercial. Angel Dust is constantly looking at Husk with a seductive gaze while Husk is glaring daggers at him.
'Okay, so, Charlie is dealing with something very important, so while she's gone, we are making a new commercial; one that represents her vision and what we're doing here; so, we need a camera, Facilier?' Facilier poured an unknown powder on a card and he blew it toward Vaggie.
As the powder clear, on Vaggie hand was 1920's style camera with no possible way to record a video. Vaggie was unamused by this.
'A video camera?' Rolling his eyes, Facilier blows on the powder again and this time the old camera now turns into a more modern one. Vaggie aims the camera at the bar, recording a bar scene with Husk behind the counter reading a script in his claws with Angel Dust at the opposite counter. The camera whirrs back to get a better focus of the two.
'And...action!' Vaggie yelled, Husk carefully read the lines on his script, bringing the script closer to read.
"'Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel, can I help with anything?'"
"'I've been a bad boy, and I need a big, strong daddy to put me in my place...on the path to redemption!'" Angel Dust said putting on his porn actor style of acting. Which Husk groans, then he looks back at his script again.
"'Well, you came—'"
"'Oh, yes!'" Angel interrupted him as the scene demanded it. But there was someone else demanding for him to stop.
'Cut! Okay, Angel, I need you to be less horny if possible, and Husk, can you maybe not have a script in front of your face?' Vaggie criticized.
'I ain't no actor! I can't memorize this shit!' Husk yelled back, throwing his hands in the air.
'Well, we could improve this shit, baby cakes, rrawwr' Husk "accidentally" pushed Angel dust over the counter.
'Whoops'
'Husk, come on' Vaggie said with no real opposing emotion knowing that Angel definitely deserved that.
The meeting with Adam continued as Charlie listened in bored out of her mind, propping herself on her elbows while listening to Adam exaggeratingly boasting himself and his sex life.
'So, I was playin' this gig, and for some fuckin' reason, this virtue chick was diggin' on the drummer, and it's like, "do you know who I am? I'm fuckin' Adam, I'm the original dick!" All dicks descend from me, you think you want drummer dick? No way! I'm the Dick-fuckin' master! So, anyway, then we fucked, and it was awesome, what'd you do this weekend?' Adam asked.
'Wait, your name is Adam? Like the first man Adam, that means you...Oh...' As Charlie put the pieces together, she winced.
'That explains so much...'
'I know, I fucking rock' Brushing off the awkwardness from Adam and gets to her subject of matter in hand.
'Well, Adam, sir, Mr. Adam, sir,' Charlie said nervously.
'Call me, Dickmaster, ' Adam creepily said.
'Adam, you seem like a smart...well, stand up guy' Charlie trying to not insult him.
'Uh-huh' Adam not noticing what Charlie is trying to say.
'And I know you are the leader of the angels and you are a big thinker, a revolutionary, a— a genius!' Charlie said, trying to butter him up for him to sign off on her happy hotel deal.
'I mean, your words, babe' Adam now somewhat interested but more into eating his ribs in front of him. Charlie continued.
'Who would really love to put his name on something'
'Fucking love putting my name on shit! Shit's the best!' Adam exciting said.
'It's a solution to our biggest problem!' Charlie said, trying to get to the root of their problem. But Adam thought of a more prevalent problem he kept experiencing.
'Oh, Herpes, yeah, that's a bitch'
'No! Our... other biggest problem' Charlie trying to get him into the main problem but Adam kept going off about different worldwide problems that needed addressing.
'Oh...uh..ugly people? Math? Global Warming? Nah, wait, that's Earth's problem' As continue rambling Charlie stares at Adam with deadpan annoyance at how ignorant he is.
'Ummm...'
'Stab! Stab! Stab!' As the bug scurries Niffty tried to stab the bug, but misses, and starts stabbing the bug multiple times before Vaggie stops herlifing her up from her collar.
'Alright Niffty, Niffty. Niffty! Your line is "We have the cleanest rooms", okay?'
'Got it,I'm ready' Vaggie then aims the camera at her, upon her words instead of saying her line Niffty freezes and stares blankly at the camera without a breath or blinking from the scene.
Vaggie panels away, looking puzzled. Angel peers in, close up on Niffty making blank stares with an ominous shrinking pupil. Angel slowly backs away, already creeped out.
'Uhh, cut' Niffty snaps out of it and back to her cheerful self and giggles.
'How was that?' She asked.
'Well, Niffty you actually have to say the line, so let's roll again' Vaggie replied.
'Ok!' Nifty said excited to get back to acting.
'Action!' But again Niffty froze, leaving Vaggie irritated, as Angel comes close to her face.
'You're doing great, Vagina' Vaggie just yelled to no one in particular.
'Cut! Alright, uhh maybe we can try to fix it in post'
'Do you even know what that means?' Angel dust asked.
'I'll figure it out!' Vaggie yelled. Later Vaggie was sitting in front of a broken TV, watching the poorly edited shots of the commercial.
'Well this commercial has gone to the slums, hasn't it Vaggie?' Dr. Facilier said, appearing out of nowhere and right next to Vaggie. To which she groaned.
'Ugh, este pendejo...why are you even here?'
'Like I said, I put investment on this, and I like to see how it's been doing' As Facilier sat on the couch next to her, his shadow sat on the same couch next to him.
'Seeing you fail miserably brings so much joy, and by the way you're doing a great job' Vaggie was getting ticked off by Facilier and his carefree insults, stands up and turns the camera toward him.
'And here is Dr. Facilier, the egocentric piece of shit that—' As she aims the camera at Facilier the video camera glitches violently, freaking out Vaggie, dropping the static camera on the floor.
'Ugh' This made Facilier chuckle a bit.
'I wouldn't try that my dear, I'm camera shy' Vaggie has just had it with Facilier's insults and walks straight up to him.
'That's it! I don't care who or what you are! If you're staying here, you're going to make this work, because if you don't, you can say "bye bye" to your "investment" when this is an empty hotel, won't it, shitass' As Vaggie returns to her chair, Facilier approaches her.
'Fair enough, how about we make a deal' Sensing an opportunity to have an easy deal then work himself up from there.
'Pfft, you think I'm that stupid making a deal with a demon like you?' Facilier just shakes his head.
'Not for your soul, just a simple deal, I do this for you, and you never ask me to engage with modern technology ever again' Vaggie had second thoughts of letting Facilier do the work for her.
'Or...you let Charlie come back to this empty, dirty, shit stain of a hotel' Glancing away for a brief moment seeing the rundown state of the hotel has been sighed as Vaggie made her decision.
'Fine' Vaggie handed the camera to Facilier which he promptly threw it in the trash.
'Now then!' Facilier threw something on the ground creating a huge amount of smoke, as the smoke transformed the hotel into a film set with the hotel staff into a 1920s style film crew. With shadows demons being the camera crew.
'Alright everyone, let's make a fucking commercial'
Charlie was feeling exhausted with another of Adam's questionable rants of women and his masculinity.
'When you take her out for the fifth time and she still expects you to pay the check but you're like,"Hey, I thought you wanted equality"'
'No! Our shared problem of overpopulation in Hell!' Charlie yelled. Slamming her hands on the table having had just enough of this man.
'Ohh, well that's not a problem! We got that covered! Lute, how many demons did you kill this year?' Adam asked. Lute step forward.
'Got a good 275 this year, sir' Lute said.
'275? Woah! Badass! Awesome job, danger tits! Pound it!'
Adam raises a fist for Lute to make a fist-bump, which she did.
'Uh no, not awesome, those are my people, you know that right?'
'Oh yeah that must suck for you!' Adam bursts into laughter.
'But these are souls...human souls just the same as the ones you have up in heaven' Charlie pleaded. Adam just brushed her off.
'They're not the same, they had their chance and they earned damnation'
'You're wrong, sinners made mistakes, sure, but everyone makes mistakes' Charlie tried to appeal to their humanity but there wasn't a lot of humanity in there to begin with.
'Angels don't make mistakes' Lute said.
'You really think that' Charlie said sadly that this angel became so jaded during her long service as an exterminator.
'I know that,' Lute confidently said.
'Yeah, I've never made a mistake in my fuckin' life' Now coming around the table, the room turns slightly darker with ominous red.
'The only reason you're still here is because daddy gave you and your hellborn kind a pardon from an exorcist blade, how does that feel, to know how little you matter?' Adam sniffed and straightened himself upright.
'Ok, almost out of time, guess we should get into it'
'Oh fuck!' Charlie got out from her chair and got closer to Adam and by using magic she teleported a stack of paper.
'Okay I've got a lot to get through and not a lot of time and I feel like you weren't hearing me before so here it goes'
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Despite being a hologram, Adam grabs Charlie and throws her right out of the door.
'Um, wait, you-you—ugh, SHIT!' Charlie tries to get to Adam, but the door closes while he continues to do a guitar solo. Defeated, Charlie slams her fist on the door. Angry that it was doomed from the start.
Charlie, sad and defeated walking through the empty streets of hell, returns to the hotel. Until Vaggie runs towards her hugging her tightly. Excited that they have something special to show to charlie.
'Charlie! How did it go, did they listen?' Vaggie asked.
'Oh, they sure did hear it but-' She tried to explain but Vaggie interrupted her.
'Oh come here, we have something exciting to show you' Vaggie leads Charlie to the group and then she sits down.
'Facilier pulled some strings and it's about to air'
'I also pull out limbs too' Facilier added into the mix.
'Wait, the commercial? You all made a new one?' Charlie asked.
'Yeah, one of my better performances if I do say so myself' Facilier slapping his hand with his shadow.
'That's...that's amazing' Charlie was about to cry but Angel interrupted her.
'Sshh, it's starting'
'Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel-' The Tv cuts to the News report. The group except for Niffty get annoyed and angrily complain.
'Breaking news in Hell today! We have just received word from the Heaven Embassy that the next Extermination is happening sooner than ever before; do you know what that means, Tom?'
'No, what does that mean, Katie?' Tom asked.
'It means we're all royally fucked!' Sinners scream as the time on the Clock Tower reduces to 176 days till the next Extermination.
'Wait, what? Why?!' Angel Dust asks.
A drone scours an area seeing the wreck and destroyed buildings along the path during the first extermination and finds a dead Exorcist corpse with its head missing. The drone scans the corpse bringing back the data to their angel bosses.
'We found the body, sir, they've never managed to kill one of us before; we should just go down there now and destroy them!' Lute yelled.
'No, no; we can't risk them catching on, but don't worry, when we come back, there won't be a demon left alive to pull a stunt like this again!' Adam said destroying the projector, causing its light to disappear only showing Adam's glowing evil smile. For the next extermination would be their last.
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