(This chapter has been updated with the help of anonmike217, follow him)
Charlie, Razzle and Dazzle had been putting up a banner that read "Happy first week, Sir Pentious!" freshly painted with blue colors and many decorations to make the banner pop showing this was a great day of celebration.
'That looks perfect! Aah! I am so excited that Sir Pentious is staying at the hotel!' While Charlie yelled in excitement Vaggie was holding up the ladder that Charlie was on. Still not really into the whole situation but just happy her girlfriend is happy. But she has to point something out just to poke fun at him.
'Um, Pentious was just trying to take over the city with his weird steampunk bullshit a few days ago' Charlie chuckled knowing he was really harmless in his control over the city thing since his stuff keeps exploding and he hasn't made any steampunk stuff in over twenty-four hours. Progress.
'Well, I haven't seen him try to pull any of that here' Charlie said, descending down the ladder, as she reached the floor Sir Pentious came in, rolling in a new machine that his Egg Boiz were sitting on.
'What the hell is that?' Vaggie dared to ask.
'Oh, hello, purple female, it's my new invention, the Skin Flayer 11,000! I'm really looking forward to shooting the other residents' Sit Pentious said on what he knows best. Turf wars.
'What?! Why?!' Charlie aghast that Sir Pentious' streak of building steam machines had just been broken.
'Everyone is being too nice, obviously it must be a lie, I can sense that they are planning to kill me, but when? How? I must be prepared! Ooh, the new parts of my machine are here!' Sir Pentious said scrambled to have his war machine prepared just so he could feel safe. Just then Odette and Clara came in, wheeling in boxes of weapons, each of them labeled "CARMINE". Pentious rushes over to them.
Odette was a demon of tall and thin stature. White skin, light blonde hair tied up in a short ponytail, eyes with red sclera and white irises, and small black horns atop her head. Wears a pair of circular-rimmed glasses with red tinted lenses, a long white buttoned lab coat over a black turtleneck, long black gloves, black tights and a pair of silver pointé shoes.
While Clara had puce skin, curly cream hair tied up in a ponytail, black lips, eyes with red sclera and white irises, and small black horns atop her head. Wears a sleeveless black crop-top turtleneck, gray jean-shorts with a black belt, black fingerless gloves, white over-the-knee stockings and ballet shoes.
'Sign, please' Odette showing the clipboard which Sir Pentious signs the clipboard while Clara wheels in the boxes.
'Thank you for your business, enjoy your Carmine purchase' As both Odette and Clara began walking out of the lobby, something tripped them causing them to fall on top of each other.
The two looked back and saw nothing that could have caused them to trip. But it was when they saw something moving on the wall, that is when they realized who tripped them, it was a shadow, and this particular shadow looked oddly familiar. They soon felt someone looming over them, the two looked up and saw Dr. Facilier smiling.
'Odette! Clara!' Facilier greeted them happily offering to lift them up with the end of his cane. They both smile, as the two were lifted up from the ground with the help of Facilier cane.
As Facilier embraces the both of them with a hug, only Clara hugs back with Odette just being in there for a hug. Charlie and Vaggie who witnessed this had two very different reactions, Charlie couldn't stop awwing at sight, while Vaggie just had a shock expression. After a moment Facilier stopped hugging and began waving them goodbye.
'Tell your mother I said hi' Facilier said, as both Clara and Odette wave back they gave Facilier a high five before leaving. Once they are gone Sir Pentious takes the crate full of parts and weapons for his machine. Vaggie realizes who he is buying from and needs something to be explained soon.
'Wait, wait, two things, You!' First she pointed towards Facilier who simply smiled while playing a deck of cards.
'You know Carmine? As in Carmilla Carmine? One of the biggest Overlord weapons dealers this side of hell?!' Facilier smirked at that.
'Yes, as a matter of fact she and I are old friends' Vaggie wasn't surprised to learn and learn to just accept things. Connections and stuff. But she would think about the Overlords later she news to know Sir Pentious about buying weapons from the Carmilla Carmine.
'Alright and You!' Vaggie then pointed towards Sir Pentious.
'You are buying parts from an overlord?!'
'Uh, of course' Sir Pentious said as if it was obvious.
'Okay, well that stops right now' Vaggie began pulling the cart away.
'Hey!' Sir Pentious said, hurt that his comfort is being taken away from him.
'You absolutely cannot build weapons in this hotel, no one is trying to kill you, people are being nice because they want you to feel welcome'
Sir Pentious looks at Vaggie with a wry expression. He peeks over his machine to scowl at the other residents and workers. His gaze pans to Husk downing a bottle in the bar, who flips off Sir Pentious. Angel Dust, standing near the bar on his phone, does the same. Niffty, who is dusting a corner of the wall, looks at him and does a sinister-sounding giggle.
'Hmm, I have my doubts.' He said not trusting the current staff that wouldn't emotionally abuse them at first opportunity.
'Well, it's true, you have to trust us' Vaggie reassured.
'But I don't,' Sir Pentious said. folded his arms together in a huff.
'Well, why don't we focus on that for today's activities?' Charlie asked, trying to change the subject.
'Not before we lay some ground rules, no more building weapons, no more plotting against other guests, and you need to get rid of these things'
Vaggie points at Egg Boiz who was in the crate of weapons. 2 Egg Boiz, having a tug-of-war over a laser, accidentally sets it off and blows a hole in the roof, much to Vaggie's frustration.
'Oh! What did I just say?! What did I just say?!' Now angry that they are just fixing the place and more holes are appearing in the building.
'What?! Not my little egg boiz, they do my evil bidding for me!' Sir Pentious begged for his boiz to stay. Vaggie looked them up and down analyzing their intentions and crossed her arms.
'Do you want to stay here and redeem yourself?' Vaggie asked.
'Yes' He said, with some uncertainty.
'Then no more eggs' Sir Pentious, with tears in his eyes, looked at his eggs.
'All right, eggies. You've got to go. I can't keep you anymore!'
'Okay, boss' The Eggs saluted, before following Vaggie as she wheels Pentious' boxes away.
'No, don't resist, this is how it has to be!' Sir Pentious begins crying as he watches his Egg Boiz walking away, Charlie looking awkward, pats his shoulder. As Vaggie roll out the boxes, she look over to Facilier.
'Facilier'
'Yes?'
'Pentious' eggs are all over the place, and I need you to get rid of them' This made Facilier put away his cards.
'I'd be delighted to!'
'Humanely!' She added.
'Well, that's a lot less fun, but I suppose I can take care of that on my outing today' He walks out of the hotel with the Eggs following behind them.
'Great!' Vaggie said happy that things turned out well in the end.
Back in the hotel foyer, Charlie and the rest of the hotel's residents, minus Facilier, were all sitting on a sofa except for Charlie and Vaggie. Behind the two is a stage with a banner on it that reads "Trusting 101".
'Hi, guys, thanks for coming! It's been brought to our attention that there may be a little tension in the hotel' As Charlie explained, everyone is hating each other anf themselves for being stuck in this drabby hotel or on edge due to experiences. Except Niffty who is just happy to be here. Sir Pentious grabs Niffty with his tail and tries to shoot her with his ray gun, but Vaggie snatches it out of his hands before he can. Charlie puts her hand together and decides to continue upon the agenda for today.
'Tension that can be counterproductive to what we're trying to do here'
'We think that this group could really benefit from...' The background goes to yellow and Charlie and Vaggie go flying up into the air.
'Trust exercises!'
'Trust exercises" Vaggie said tried to maintain herself in the air but notices she just jumped gravity was pulling her down. Ralizing this she panicked and lost concentration on hovering in the air.'
'Ah, shit!' Vaggie falls on the floor as the yellow background cracks and breaks. Charlie foated down and pulls Vaggie to her feet.
'Vaggie, we rehearsed this' Charlie she whispered wondering why their practice runs were good but when presenting they fell through but later as she turned to everyone sitting on the sofa.
'We're doing trust exercises!'
'So, uh, what's with the whole, uhh, this? I'm not about to put on some show for these fucking chumps' Husk pointed to the chumps that were sitting next to him.
'Oh, I will, but it's cash up front, and I know that one can't afford me' Angel inferring to his craft as a porn star in which he gets paid lots of money in which everyone around here is broke so he can skip this exercise. Sir Pentious recoiled in disgust.
'Gross! I'd never think of it, spider!'
'Right, well, let's get started, Charlie?' Vaggie trying to keep the banter to a minimum and hurried along with the exercise hoping Charlie can take the lead.
'Actually, I thought maybe you could take the lead on this one, I trust everyone, so maybe you know better on how to build it properly!' Charlie said while walking over to stand by Husk, Niffty, Pentious and Angel.
'What? Uhh, I don't know if I'm qualified, uh...' Vaggie was unsure about this but Charlie reassured her.
'Oh, come on. It'll be easy! I'm sure you can handle this'
'Yeah, um, Sure, I can handle this, no problem' Vaggie takes a deep breath and walks down one side of the on her drill sergeant style that she learned and perfected a very long time ago. Hoping her skulls haven't rusted by then.
'All, right, so we are starting with trust falls! Each of you is going to share something vulnerable with the group about yourself and then fall backwards, while the rest of the group catches you, got it? Who wants to go first?'
'Ooh, ooh, me me me! Me! Me! Me!' Charlie excitedly said, pointing to herself.
'All right, get on up here' Charlie runs past Vaggie and onto the stage.
'I, I love you guys, like, really, really love you' She then falls backwards, Vaggie run forward and catches Charlie.
'That, felt, good! Angel, why don't you go next?'
'Fine' Angel said, rolling his eyes.
'This time everyone needs to catch him, okay? Unless you want me to hurt you' Vaggie takes out a spear as a means of discipline for the others to come closer to the stage.
'Somethin' about myself, huh? How about this? I LOVE to suck-' Husk threateningly points at Angel.
'I swear to fuck if you say dicks!'
'Popsicle's, ya sicko! Get your mind outta the gutter!' Angel falls backwards when Husk catches him.
'But, you know, dicks too!' Husk drops him.
'All, right, new guy, you're up' The room goes dark and melodramatic music plays. A spotlight shines on Pentious.
'I don't want to live without my minions, nobody catch me!' He falls backwards. But Vaggie, and Charlie catch him together.
'Damn it'
'That's great, wow, you are slimy, okay, good job, uh, Niffty?' Vaggie said feeling grossed out by catching Sir Pentious and feeling his gross snake slime and decided to just move along with the exercise quickly. Niffty runs past them onto the stage, giggling manically.
'Sometimes, I kill mother-bugs in front of their children as a warning to others!' Upon hearing this, the others were disturbed. Niffty flings herself off of the stage, but the others actively move out of the way to let her fall on the ground in the face.
'Yay! Pain!' Niffty, giggling, runs back onto the stage to jump off again.
'Pain!' While the group is distracted with Niffty throwing herself off, Charlie and Vaggie walk off to talk privately.
'I don't know if this is really working the way we'd hoped, maybe we should-' But Charlie interrupted Vaggie and held her hands.
'Honey, you have to trust me here, I got this, okay? I'll figure something out' Angel, out of nowhere appears behind them.
'If you're in the market for some ideas, I've got just the thing for some "trust buildin"' Vaggie being desperate decided to go with Angel's suggestion and already regretting it.
'What do you have in mind?'
Dr. Facilier, walking down the street, looking around the skyscrapers and many glass buildings closely followed by Pentious' Egg Boiz who are his new minions.
'Oh, boy! What's the plan, boss? I like your suit! What are the gator teeth for? Can I touch your staff thing?' With each step, Facilier had to endure their stupid question, as his once smile now faded. As the group walks a shadowy person watches them from behind, before appearing in front of them, revealing himself to be an Overlord: Zestial. A tall and slender demon with a spider motif colored in toxic greenland black.
'Hark, Facilier, how fare thee this day?' Before he could respond, The Egg Boiz interrupted.
'Who's that, boss? Want me to rough him up for you?' The Eggs Boiz were quickly silenced when Facilier slammed his cane to the ground before he knelt down and pointed the other side of his cane at them.
'Silence! Idiot, if you all want egg bodys to remain intact' He taps Egg Boi's shell with his cane before turning back to Zestial.
'Greetings, Zestial!' A demon comes out, wearing a bowler hat and suit from an alleyway and sees Facilier and Zestial.
'Oh, holy shit!' The demon trips and falls to the ground.
'Ah, the weather, doth become this fine day' Dr. Facilier nodded his head.
'Indeed, I believe we're going to have acid this afternoon' A random demon, seeing Zestial, pours gasoline over himself and sets himself on fire.
'If our luck doth hold! I do revel in the screams, how art thou?' Zesital asked as they began walking down the street with tons of demons who spotted them and hid, ran, or avoided them from getting in their way.
'It has been an age since thou hath graced us thy presence, some hath spun wild tales of you falling to...holy arms'
'Oh, I just took a well-earned vacation, nothing serious, though it's fun to keep everyone alert!' Facilier simply responded by wiping some dust off his sleeves. So Zestial continued about Facilier disappearance as a rumor going around. Besides him being stuck in another recession.
'There too hath been rumor of thy involvement with the princess and her recent flight of fancy, TELL ME! How does thou fall in such folly?!' Facilier didn't seem phased by this, he just smiled.
'You know me, I'm just playing my cards, feel free to figure out what I'm playing at?' Zestial smiled at that.
'T'would be grander folly by far to assume the workings of your mind, Facilier, thou hath been naught but an enigma since thy manifested in this realm'
'Coming from someone as old as you, I take that as quite the compliment!'
Facilier, Zestial, and the Egg Boiz walk into an alleyway with a row of lifts. The security camera spots Zestial and Facilier walking in view. As the elevator doors open Zestial and Facilier enter. The Egg Boiz attempts to follow, but Facilier blocks them with his cane.
'No, no, I have a very important task for you, stay here and guard the front until I return' Facilier didn't want to deal with these Eggs so he got rid of them by giving them a task. The Egg Boiz salutes and the lift begins its ascent.
'Oh, look, Frank is up there' He points to the lift, where one Egg Boi is inside, pounding on the glass.
'We have names?' Another Egg boy asked.
The lift reaches the top of the building and opens, where Dr. Facilier, Zestial, and Frank walk out. Frank watches as other Overlords come out of other lifts and go into another room. He follows them in and stands near Facilier's seat. The overlord sitting next to Facilier turns to look at Frank he then waves, The Overlord smiles widely at him, showing her pointed, knife-like teeth.
'Oh!' This caused Frank to hide behind Facilier chair as another overlord walks to the head of the table. Just then the woman herself, Carmilla Carmine walks in.
Carmilla is a tall and slender demoness with an hourglass build, light gray-magenta skin, and long, thick white hair with black streaks. Her hair is usually kept into a pair of large beehive-like horns by thin, ballerina-like black ribbons. Wears attire similar to a ballerina, which consists of an off-the-shoulder black dress with white buttons and white stripes located down the front and at the rim of the spiked skirt, which includes magenta lining. And finally Wore black, waist-length stockings covered by white ballerina shoelaces.
'Welcome, Hell sovereign Overlords, I've invited you all here because you represent the controlling powers of our city, together, you own millions of souls, souls at risk with the new Extermination schedule, we need to discuss what can be done to minimize the impact to our interest' She then looks over towards Zestial.
'Zestial, so good to see you, my friend'
'Enchanted as always Carmilla' Finishing heir greeting Carmilla looked over towards Facilier, who was reading his fortune.
'It is also good to see your still alive Facilier' Facilier stop looking at the cards and smiles towards Carmilla.
'Carmilla, you know I always check if the cards are in my favor' Facilier then gathered all of his cards and began shuffling them. Carmilla then snapped her fingers and her daughter, Odette, handed her a clipboard.
'This year's Extermination wasbrutal, far more even than years past. We have assessed that about 16% of the population was lost' With a nod, Odette projected the image into the slide.
'With the angelic legions now returning twice as quickly, I think it prudent we-' Carmilla is interrupted as Velvette opens the door and walks in, on the phone.
'Yes, I've got it handled, Vox, are you doubting me? Really? Me? That's what I thought, yes, I know, they're all a joke, thank you, V, see you soon' She then made a kissing sound to the phone.
'Kisses, darling' She hangs up and sits down at the opposite end to Carmilla.
'Nice of you to join us, Velvette, will your colleagues be joining?' She asked.
'No, they have better shit to do than to listen to an old windbag who thinks she's tough shit, I'm here to represent' She then aimed her phone at her and added poop emoji.
'Charming, so, as I was saying, we need to discuss-' Carmilla stops talking as Velvette waves her hand in the air.
'Yes?'
'On the subject of discussion...' Velvette takes out the head of an Exorcist and throws it onto the table. The other overlords look at it and mutter to each other.
'Holy shit!' Zeezi said.
'Where did you get this?' Carmilla asked.
'We found it during Extermination day, if these Holy Rollers can be killed, the game has changed, we can take the fight to them, the boys and I have come up with a full assault plan' Velvette stops talking and she and the other Overlords look at Zestial, who is sipping his tea loudly and aggressively to drown out Velvette.
'If it be true thee and thy colleagues desire to war with such meagre proof, thou art far more, foolish than I be thought' Facilier nodded, doing card tricks.
'I agree with old Zestial here, I don't see cards being in our favor' Carmillia not happy about those two sitting out despite the fact they have a dead exorcist head on the table.
'Meagre proof? It's a dead fucking Exorcist, I'd say that's pretty fucking definitive, or are you both going blind?'
'We know not how this perished, mayhaps t'was not by a demon's hand at all, if we rush to war without knowing mightn't, they purge all of Hell for daring an uprising?' Zestial slammed his hand on the table. To emphasize the point. The other overlords mutter in agreement. Velvette notices Carmilla's expression and smiles.
'Oh, I get it, so the grandpas is too pussy to fight, so I guess there's no point, right?' Both Faciler and Zestial frown.
'Oh, what's the matter, Fossils? Too senile to make a real power grab-'
Play Respectless
Both Carmine and Velvette glare at each other. The other overlords are all staring at Carmilla Carmine and Velvette. Facilier finally decides to break the silence.
'Well that was fun!'
'Hm, fine, safe travels back to the nursing home, fuckers! Kiss my arse!' Velvette said, giving them all the middle finger.
'What the hell? We literally just got here!' Zeezi yelled. As the other Overlords exited, only Carmilla, her daughters, Zestial, and Dr. Facilier entered Carmilla's office, with Frank sneakily getting inside.
Charlie, Vaggie, and Angel were standing in a BDSM sex dungeon. Slapping noises come in the background. Angel is looking satisfied with himself, Charlie is looking incredibly shocked, and Vaggie looks thoroughly livid.
'Angel! What the actual fuck?!' Vaggie yelled.
'No activity requires more trust than BDSM, baby, no bond stronger than those formed through bondage! That's their motto!' Angel points to a poster on the wall, which does indeed read "No bond stronger than those formed through bondage".
'Angel, love the enthusiasm, but, umm, uh, hmmm' Charlie tried to put this down as nicely as possible but couldn't, so Vaggie had to do it.
'What makes you think anyone would be into this?!' They then look to Husk, who is purring as he is getting a massage.
'You know, I...I don't hate this' Niffty then appeared wearing a dominant outfit.
'I'm ready to punish some bad boys!' Making Husk immediately regret his decision.
'Never mind, I-I'm out' A demon with snake hair comes up behind Charlie and starts giving her a massage. Other demons begin coming towards Charlie and rubbing themselves against her
'Okay, hello there, hi, um, hm, hm...' Vaggie pulls Charlie away from the other demons
'Ugh! I can't fucking believe I let you drag us here, Angel, this is disgusting'
'It's no big deal, Vaggie, you know, maybe I can just help, uh-Charlie tried to reassure her but Vaggie wouldn't have it.
'No, I told you you could trust me, and I'm not going to let you down, I just need to teach them, the way I was taught' As she said this, Vaggie smiles with excitement when she has the perfect trust exercise for all of them.
The group was standing on a rooftop with half-destroyed buildings all around them. Everyone was shocked that the exercise has taken them to a live turf war battlefield with guns blazing in the background, demons screaming, and explosions booming.
'THIS IS HOW YOU LEARNED TO TRUST PEOPLE?!' Charlie yelled. On the ground, demons are shooting each other, brawling with weapons, and one demon was on fire, screaming and running around while others are still enjoying the carnage.
'Yee-haw!'
'Let's go, Baby!'
'Bring it on, Bitch!' Back at on top of the rooftop, Vaggie again became a drill sergeant.
'There is nothing stronger than the trust between comrades in arms, buckle up, buttercups, because today you boys become men!' There is a loud explosion in the background, sending shockwaves that sways Vaggie's hair with a satisfying smile. Vaggie advances on Pentious.
'You!' She then picks up Pentious, who tried to protest.
'Wait, wait! I can't fight without my minions-!'
'Are gonna survive together!' She then proceed to throw off of the roof before turning to Angel Dust.
'And you!'
'D-don't you even think about it-' As part of their trust exercise and Angel's punishment for the BDSM sex dungeon suggestion, Vaggie takes Angel up proceed to throw him off of the roof.
'Are gonna make this hotel work!' Niffty was next, and she bounce around her arms raised with excitement, and psychotically smiling with anticipation.
'My turn! My turn!' Vaggie picks up Niffty as Husk goes back into the inside of the building, not wanting to get involved and realizing how far this exercise has gone. Vaggie makes to throw Niffty, but Charlie snatches her up before she can.
'Vaggie! No!'
'This is the only way they'll learn, Charlie'
'No, it's not, there are other ways, it just takes time!' As Charlie talks to Vaggie, Niffty looks back at Charlie, asking to be lifted. When Charlie ignores her, Niffty jumps off of the building herself. In the off-screen background, Pentious, Angel, and Niffty are being heard fighting against hordes of demons.
'Time we don't have! How many Exterminations will have gone by before these idiots get their shit together? How many times will we have to watch your people be killed before we make headway?' Vaggie asked.
'Vaggie...' Charlie said, trying to comfort her.
'I took charge today and it all went sideways, I'm supposed to make your dreams a reality, I'm supposed to protect you, I'm supposed to never fail you'
'I blame you for this, you crazy bitch!' Angel yelled down below.
'You didn't fail me, Vaggie, you're not-you're not-'
'If I can't help you, what's the point of me?'
'Vaggie, don't say that! You do so much! It's-' Charlie tried to explain Vaggie just simply raises her hand.
'I'm sorry, I'd, I'd like to be alone for a minute' As Charlie walks to the other side of the rooftop, an exhausted Angel comes out of the door, carrying a battered, but in tact Sir Pentious.
'Made it!'
'Let's go home, guys' Charlie said with a sadden expression.
'Ugh! I just walked up all those stairs!' As Angel pulls Sir Pentious back down the stairs, Vaggie stays on the rooftop by herself.
Back with Carmilla , Odette, Clara, Zestial, and Dr. Facilier all in a room together, with Frank listening in on them from behind a pot plant. Carmilla mutters in Spanish as she pours a glass, handing it towards Facilier before going down the bottle.
'Carmilla, what troubles thou? Losing thy composure is unlike thee'
'Yes, you usually kill them on the spot' Facilier said, chuckling a bit, trying to lighten up the mood before drinking his glass.
'It's nothing, Zestial, really' Carmilla just brushed it off. But Zestial can tell what really happened and why Carmillia has already made plans but most importantly why she did it in the first place.
'The felled angel, t'was by thy hand, was it not?' He asked which caught Facilier attention
'Let's not talk about it' Carmilla again tried to brush it off.
'Mom, maybe they should know' Clara tried to reason with her mother but she wasn't having it.
'Nobody should know,' She said, slamming her hands on her desk.
'I did what I had to do, I am not discussing this'
Play WHATEVER IT TAKES
After that happened Dr. Facilier leaves the Carmilla office and walks towards the elevator. As he walks in the hallway a voice calls out to him.
'Took that old hag long enough, to let you go' A voice said to him, Facilier turned around to see Velvette leaning against the window checking out her nails.
'I thought you left?' He asked. Velvette stops checking her nails and walks towards him until she is right in front of him, she then places her hand on her hip.
'I was just waiting, trying to check up to see if you still do old crappy magic tricks?' She asked. Taking a jab at his power.
'I don't know, do you still post a picture about food just to get attention?' The two stare at each intensely before both begin to laugh. The two began to hug each other then the two of them shared a quick kiss. As they pulled out she smiled warmly.
'I miss your old crappy magic' She said.
'I miss your need for attention' Facilier said. The two begin kissing again, and Frank watches.
Both now looking out of the window to catch up upon old times looking over the city they live in for so long.
'Seven years and not a single fucking text message' Facilier chuckled.
'You know me, I'm not too big on Voxtech' Velvette smiled and looked off at the window while hearing Facilier pulled out his cards in his hand reading the fortunes.
'So how is that shabby hotel you've been staying at' Velvette now sitting down in the air as Facilier many shadows transformed themselves into a chair.
Facilier let a card fly out of his hands and flew around her head and held it in between her hands seeing the daughter of the hells standing over her ruined hotel as angels descended from the heavens. Velvette frowned and pulled up her phone seeing how the stocks of Voxtech weaponry was going. Just more spam and false promises.
'I've been...Investing with my potential place of business' Facilier pulling out a card seeing Lucifer surrounded by rubber duckies.
Facilier chuckled as hell's royalty were shadows of their former self ever since Lilith left. Velvette ripped the card and placed it together showing a different card as the Vee's sitting in their towers while the world burns around them as usual. Velvette smiled and stood up taking a glance at Facilier as the shadows dissipated.
'If you need a place to stay, I have quite an extensive catalog to show you' Facilier glanced back and smiled holding up a card, poured a pink power and blows it towards her which turn into puffed pink smoke changing Velvette into her 1920's dress with her hair long, with a feather attached to the band with red finger sized gloves and red dress with feathers around her hip wearing a necklace of a death's head and high heels.
'Some advice, simpler is sometimes better' Velvette sighed and both leaned in for a kiss as Facilier watches Velvette walk off holding her hand in the air catching a card and showing it to Facilier as him being the fool.
'Till next time, fool' Then walking off to the elevator and disappearing from sight.
As the two businesses concluded he walked towards the other elevator and pressed a button. Wondering what kind of fool he was. As the elevator descended, Facilier was wiping off the black lipstick print on his face, with Frank standing beside him. Who looked lost and wondered what has happened but hopefully he'll be ignored if his standing still and be considered invisible has proven helpful.
'So how much did you saw?' Facilier asked, knowing that Frank was there the whole time but didn't say anything because who would believe him.
'Everything, Boss' Frank started to imitate the voice of everyone, when he reached the part where Facilier and Velvette kissed he slammed his cane on the floor.
'I see, let's just keep this between us, ok?' Facilier said, in a threatening tone.
'You got it, boss!' Frank said, saluting.
Back at the inside of the hotel, Upon the hotel balcony Charlie looks down below feeling worse after that disastrous trust exercise. Vaggie came on the balcony to see her. To check up on if she was okay.
'Hey' Vaggie said.
'Hey' Charlie replied.
'I'm sorry I got so crazy today' Vaggie tried to apologize but Charlie interrupted her.
'No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I put pressure on you, we work as a team, I guess I just thought all this would be easier, but, we'll figure it out, together, I mean, look what your exercise did for them' Charlie replied pointing towards the group. Over the balcony and onto the living room Vaggie saw Angel, Pentious, Husk, and Niffty laughing amongst themselves after one crazy battle against the demons in a turf war.
'And then, when that buff guy started beating the shit outta you!' Angel pointed out about how Sir Prentiosus got cornered by a demon wielding dismembered arms as weapons.
'Yes, and with the dismembered arm, Yes, that was particularly unpleasant' Remembering he got slapped by another man's arm in the face in the most ungentlemanlike display.
'I liked that part' Niffty said.
'Well, hey, at least you can take a beating like a champ' Husk comes over and pats Sir Pentious.
'You did okay, new kid'
'Really? Oh well, I suppose I did get into a little of the old rough and tumble today, and uh, thank you for pulling me out of there' Everyone laughs with enjoyment, but Niffty had to ruin the moment when she started to maniacally laugh evilly in front of her peers, and the guys stopped after hearing her laughter turning sadistic.
'Well, how about that?' Vaggie said. Just then the front door opens, and Facilier enters the hotel with the Egg Boiz minions tailing behind him. Vaggie notices them and calls out to Facilier.
'Dr. Facilier, failed to get rid of the eggs, I see' Facilier just shrugged
'Well, you could say these little monster grown on me'
'Why don't you give them back to Pentious' Upon hearing this, Pentious gets teary when Vaggie is allowing him to keep his minions.
'Really?!' Sir Pentious asked.
'Yeah, after today, I guess I can trust you with them, but seriously, no more weapons' The last words Vaggie said narrowed her eyes, showing how serious she is about no more weapons in the building. But this didn't matter, Pentious just got emotional and slithers down to hug his Egg Boiz as Facilier walks away.
'Ahhh! My eggs! Yay, ah, it's so good to have you back, now, go clean my quarters this instant!' At his command, the Egg Boiz immediately scatters away as Charlie and Vaggie watch them leave.
'Maybe, things will move fast than you think'
At the end of the day, Pentious was getting ready for bed with his Egg Boiz in tow.
'Ah! How was your day with Facilier, my minions?' Happy to have his Egg Boiz back in his arms getting his pajamas and their pajamas ready to turn it in for the day.
'It was awesome boss, I went to this meeting and there was a knife lady, an old guy, and a dinosaur' Frank responded.
'Mmm, that's nice' Not really interested but it's the thoughts that count. Frank continued.
'And the knife lady killed an angel, and I was not supposed to talk about it'
'Oh, I'm so sure and maybe you'll meet Martians tomorrow, but now is time for sleep' Sir Pretentious not believing that since exterminators never die by hell's weaponry and Frank always says the silliest of things. And that's what he loves about them.
'Good Night Eggies' The Egg Boiz rolls over to Sir Pentious and cuddles together as Frank yawns to sleep, while everyone is completely oblivious to the whole thing.
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