Chapter 31

It had been a few hours since Vox returned to the V Tower and gave the glass Beelzejuice bottle to a scientist he hired to examine the weird liquid that Valentino had supposedly drank as that was what Vox thought happened and if there was a way to reverse the effects. He paced back and forth in the V lounge impatiently as Val was on the glass table, squeaking. Vox wanted to deal with this problem very quickly as he didn't have time for this.

"What is taking him so flipping long!? He should've been able to solve this thing already! I swear out of all days for Val to tick me off it had to be today, I already had to cancel three meetings today just to look for him and now I have to deal with him being a flipping caterpillar!" The television being ranted to the other two Vees in the room.

"You can't be serious," Velvette said.

"Oh I'm serious Velvette and these were very important meetings I had to attend to today! Seriously, how the flip does Val get himself into situations like-!"

"I seriously used to look like that?"

Vox paused. "What?" He asked, turning around to see Velvette and Vaxal weren't even listening or paying attention to him. Rather, they were looking at Vaxal's phone at something.

Velvette had a look of disgust and horror on her face looking at a picture of herself when she and Vaxal had first started dating back when the Vees had first formed. "Bloody grief, I looked like a flipping doll! What's with my makeup? White eyeliner under my eyes with a white line over my eyes and why in bloody flip did I leave my hair all messy like that?! White frilled hair ties? No. Absolutely not." She then looked at the outfit. "Also, that outfit. A disgraceful tea-length dress with puffed sleeves?" She looked at Vaxal, stunned. "How the flip did you fall in love with me when I looked like that?!"

Vaxal smiled at her. "Aww, come on Velvie. I though you looked really cute back then. And I'm sure you would still look cute if you put on that same outfit and makeup," he said, his voice filled with love for her.

The fashionista blushed and punched his shoulder playfully. "Shut up, no I wouldn't! You're just trying to make me blush like a high school girl getting her first kiss from her crush."

"Well, technically I already did make you blush like a high school girl when we first kissed on our date back then," he said teasingly, making her blush more.

"Ahem, guys?" Vox asked, but seeing they were not paying attention to him, he sent a spark of electricity from his finger to Vaxal's phone.

This caused Vaxal's phone to lose its charge quickly and the weapon specialist watched the battery percentage on his phone drain rapidly until it was out of power and turned off. He glared up at her person responsible for that. "Vox, what the flip was that for?!" He asked angrily.

"Can you two please just listen to the problem we're dealing with here and take it seriously?" Vox asked.

Velvette rolled her eyes. "Valentino was being an idiot and got scammed and somehow ended up being a caterpillar and your credit card is gone Vox, yes we already know that. You wouldn't shut up about it for the past two hours!" She said in exasperation before looking at her phone and noting the time. "Anyways, I'm going to change and get ready for tonight. I'll be right back, love." She kissed Vaxal on the cheek and headed off to their room to get ready.

Vaxal smiled at her as he plugged his phone in the charge. "So how long is Val going to stay like this?" He asked, poking Valentino on the glass table which made him squeak in annoyance at getting poked.

"I have no flipping idea, hopefully that flipping scientist I hired can be useful," Vox said as he suddenly got a call from his screen head and he answered it. "This better be some good news," he said into the phone as he listened to the scientist on the other end. "A magic potion was in that Beelzejuice bottle? Well if that's the case then get to it and reverse the effects then...what do you mean you don't know how to reverse this?!" Vox shouted, listening to the guy ramble apologies. "So I basically hired you for nothing then?...I don't want to hear it. You're fired, now get the flip out of my tower. Either you use your legs to walk out or I'll personally come down there and kick your butt out myself!" He heard the guy say he'd be out in five minutes tops. "At least you're smart enough to know not to test my patience, now get out!"

With that Vox hung up the call and let out a frustrated yell, feeling like he was getting nowhere with solving the mystery as to who had put the potion in the bottle that turned Val into a caterpillar.

"Relax Vox, you'll figure something out, probably," Vaxal said as he headed to the bar and grabbed a bottle of Devil's Rum. "Here drink this, this should cool your circuits down."

He tossed the bottle to Vox, who caught it, popped the cap off and began drinking it. "Knowing whoever did this, they'll no doubt let this go to their head that they bested an Overlord and when they let their ego take over, they'll just end up doing something stupid that will let us know who's responsible for this," Vaxal continued.

Vox took another swig of the rum. "I hope the jerk does something very stupid soon, Vaxal, cause I don't really have time for-," he paused as he looked at the glass table and saw Valentino was gone. "Val? Val, where the flip are you?! Vaxal, where the flip is he?!" He asked angrily.

"I don't know. There's no way he could have gotten far with those small legs of his though," Vaxal said, not seeming bothered.

"Well don't just stand there! Help me look for him then!" Vox said as he began searching the room and Vaxal joined him. Velvette came back in time to see them looking around the room.

"Um, what are you two doing?" She asked.

"Well, Val just decided to go and start wandering off on his own and-," he paused as he turned around to look at Velvette and his eyes widened. "Holy cow."

Velvette was wearing a desire red short dress now with a heart cutout on the front of her chest, a shorter sleeveless dark navy-blue coat with three desire red hearts on the left side of the collar, desire red-striped fingerless opera gloves with alternating colors with dark navy blue for her right glove and white for her left, a black belt with a white heart-shaped buckle, black stockings, and desire red low-heeled shoes with white pom-poms on top. Instead of the usual pigtail or high ponytail styles she would use for her hair, it was let loose in a long wavy hairstyle.

Velvette giggled at seeing Vaxal's stunned look. "So, how do I look babe?" She asked seductively and a bit timidly, having created the look just for him.

"You look sinfully gorgeous Velvie. You'd even give Lilith a run for her money," he said.

Velvette giggled. "Oh, stop it, you. Flattery will get you everywhere with me, darling."

"Who said I was flattering, I'm being dead serious, sweetie."

Velvette blushed. "You really think so? I mean, I wanted to try out this new outfit I designed, but I didn't know if I should let my hair flow naturally for once and I didn't know if you would like it or not. Do you really mean it, Vaxie? Do you like my hair like this?" She asked, playing with her hair by twirling her finger around one of her locks.

"I do Velvie. you always look beautiful in my eyes when you style your hair, but seeing your natural hairstyle makes you look breath taking."

"Vaxal, can you focus back on looking for Val instead of charming your way into Velvette's sweet side right now!" Vox asked in exasperation.

Velvette glared daggers at Vox for ruining the sweet moment. "Listen here, you flat face jerk! How about you keep your mouth shut and business out of our relationship before I take my high heel and shove it so far up your-!"

She then heard a crack and slipped. Vaxal managed to catch her before she fell on the floor. "You alright, Velvette?" He asked in concern, helping her to her feet.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Vaxal, but what the flip happened?" She asked, suddenly feeling off balance. She glanced down at her feet and noticed one of the heels of her high heels was broken. "What the flip?! These high heels are brand new! How did they bloody break already?!" She asked in annoyance.

She got her answer when she saw Valentino on the floor and chewing on something. Valentino spat it out in disgust as he thought it was food and Velvette could see it was chewed up bits of desire red plastic and it didn't take long for Velvette to put two and two together and she was beyond furious, glaring daggers at Valentino, so angry that her eyes began glowing red with anger. "YOU LITTLE PIECE OF TRASH!" She yelled, lifting up her other high heel to bring down on Valentino. "YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

Vox, seeing this, jumped and slid across the floor. "Velvette, wait! Don't hurt Val!" He said, pushing Valentino out of the way, only for Velvette to slam her heel on his hand instead, to which he yelped in pain. "Ow! Blazing circuts, Velvette!" He cried out, curling on the ground and holding his hand in pain.

"Well maybe you shouldn't have put your bloody hand there and just let me squash the little trash stain instead," Velvette said, still seething.

Vaxal saw Valentino grinning on the ground as if he knew what he just did. "No matter what form Val is in, he somehow manages to find a way to tick us off. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, why do we even want to help Val in the first place again?" He asked.

"Honestly, like all the crybaby ever does is tick us off, throws his little tantrums every time something doesn't go his way, and breaks our stuff! Not to mention we always have to get his butt out trouble when he does stupid junk like this!" She indicated towards how Valentino was now a caterpillar. "Can't we just replace him with someone who won't drive us insane everyday or something like that?"

Vox got up from the floor, still holding his hand in pain, and sighed. "Look you two, I know Val can be a little...excessive."

Both Vaxal and Velvette gave him a look, knowing that was an outright lie. "Okay, he's extremely excessive," Vox conceded. "But Val is still one of us, alright? We're the Vees and each of us have an important role to play to make sure we keep our iron grip on this city's citizens and keep them far away from that radio-controlling pest. That old timey jerk, I'll make sure that-,"

"Alright, we get it, Vox," Velvette interrupted him. "You don't need to do another monologue session obsessing over Alastor again." Her hand glowed pink with sparkles and she swiped it left like she was swiping on a phone screen, changing her broken high heels to her navy low-heeled shoes with white pom-poms on top. "That's better," she said to herself.

"I am NOT obsessed with Alastor, Velvette! He's practically my arch enemy, what the flip makes you think I'm obsessed with him!?" Vox asked.

"Vox, you literally talk about your hatred for Alastor and how much you want to get rid of him every day ever since he came back from his 7-year disappearance. You look up any new notifications and info about him online so you can use it against him, and not to mention the body pillow you have of him in your room," Vaxal pointed out.

"What! I do NOT have a body pillow of that strinker in my room! I think your starting to see things Vaxal. Maybe you should fix that eye of yours!" Vox shot back.

Vaxal narrowed his eyes at the television being as his right eye, instead of being a red sclera with black irises and glowing white pupils like his left eye, was actually just the right pupil was the shape of an X. "I can see perfectly fine, thank you very much, you jerk. And I literally saw you last night using it as a punching bag and yelling at it when you left the door to your room open," the specialist said, his tone tight with anger.

Vox growled in frustration. "Alright, fine, I do own one, but I didn't buy that piece of garbage! Val gave it to me thinking it would be so flipping hilarious to own a body pillow of the person I hate the most! So I use it as a punching bag and that's all I use it for!"

"Sure V, so this is totally not you sleeping with it in your bed and cuddling it like a teddy bear then?" Velvette asked with a smug grin as she held up her phone showing the picture she took of Vox sleeping in bed and cuddling the body pillow of Alastor.

Vox felt his eyes twitch in annoyance. "I had a very long and busy day and I was exhausted that night, okay?! That only happened one time!" He said, his voice sounding annoyed.

"Hmm, you know, I wonder how many views and likes this would get if I post this on my Voxtigram account?" The fashionista said with a mischievous smirk.

"Vel, I swear if you post that stupid picture online I'm going to-,"

"Bloody flip, don't get your knickers in a twist, Vox. I'm not going to post it," she said before looking at the time. "Ah, shoot, we're going to be late, babe. We should head out now," she said to Vaxal.

"Where the world are you two going?" Vox demanded to know.

Vaxal grabbed his now fully charged phone. "Well, while you were looking for Val, I booked me and Velvette reservations at this luxurious restaurant called Hellfire's Sizzle's and then were checking out this new club that just opened in the middle of the city which apparently is supposed to have the best drinks from each of the different parts of this place," he said.

"You can't be flipping serious! You're just going to leave me here to take care of Val all by myself while you two have a fun night out?!" Vox asked in exasperation.

"Would you rather have one of us look after him instead?" Velvette shot back, still having not forgotten how Val broke her shoe.

Vox was about to respond until he remembered how Velvette just tried to hurt Val with her high heel. As much as he didn't want to look after Valentino by himself, he felt like Valentino would have a better chance of surviving if he was with him instead of the other two who wouldn't hesitate to get rid of him if he ticked them off a lot. He sighed. "You know what, fine. I'll watch over him while you two go on your little date. He'll probably last longer with me than with either one of you anyways," he conceded.

"See, that's using your brain in that flat head of yours," Velvette said in a sassy way and pinched his cheek.

The television being pushed her hand away and groaned in annoyance. "Will you two just go already?" He asked.

The two soon headed out and closed the door. "Alright, now that those two are out, I can focus on figuring out who the jerk was that did this and wasted my time trying to fix this-." He paused as he looked at the ground and noticed that Valentino was gone again. "Oh for flip's sake, where did he go now!?"

He got his answer when he heard glass shatter on the floor. He turned his attention towards the bar area and saw Valentino on one of the shelves pushing alcohol bottles off and they shatter on the floor. He went over there and grabbed Valentino off the shelf, holding him. "Val, can you not be a pain in the butt for at least 5 minutes?!"

His response was Val biting down on his finger again, this time a lot harder now. "Ow, blazing circuts, will you let go of my finger!" Vox growled out, trying to pull Valentino off his finger, but the caterpillar wouldn't let go. Vox was trying his best to not accidentally rip Valentino in half or squash him while trying to pry him off as Val was very delicate at the moment. He finally managed to get the caterpillar to let go of his finger and see that Val had actually drawn blood this time.

Vox signed in annoyance. "Seeing as how you bit me so hard that you tried to take a finger, I'm guessing you're hungry?" The caterpillar squeaked. "I'll take that as a yes, and I'm guessing you want meat too huh?"

Another squeak answered him. "Of course you do," Vox said as he made a call to his assistant. "Lewis, I need you to cancel all my meetings and appointments for today, I have something more urgent that needs my attention….I don't give a flip if that's not your name, just do as you are told ,got it?!" He got a confirmation on the other end. "Good, also tell me, who's our lowest earner this month?...Ah right him, he really has been slacking off recently. Well send him up to me, I have a better use for him right now."

He then chuckled darkly. "Also I need you to cancel my credit card and get me a new one. The last thing I need is for the person who did this to Val to use MY money for whatever stuff they want." He head his assistant give him confirmation that it would be done. "Good, now get back to work."

The television being hung up and heard angry squeaking. "Yes, Val, don't worry. Dinner is coming up soon." He then sighed. "Let's hope finding this witch who did this to you won't take long."

A few days went by as Vox spent most of his time in his surveillance room checking out the footage of what actually happened in that alleyway. He managed to find the footage of Valentino meeting with a lady only for the woman to be hidden from the cameras view not giving him a clear image to see what she looked like. Then the footage cut out into static and once back online it just showed Valentino as a caterpillar and the woman gone.

Vox spent hours trying to track down the person's location through the many cameras around the city while asking Velvette and Vaxal to bring him things as well as handling his work of interviews, business meetings, handling the finances of Voxtek, and doing his talk shows along with their own work they had to do as well. While he continued his search, there was one thing that stumped him though.

He now leaned back in his chair, tired and annoyed as Valentino kept on squeaking which was driving Vox crazy with the constant squeaks. What honestly was the point in turning Val into a caterpillar? If she wanted to get rid him, then why didn't she just stomp on him? This makes no sense; there has to be something I'm missing here. Attacking an Overlord especially someone like the Vees is basically a deathwish; you mess with one you get the other three on your butt. It's almost as if she wants to be found. What is this witch's plan? Vox asked himself once again.

Once he found out the location of where the lady was, Vox grabbed Valentino and left the surveillance room, heading back up towards the living quarters of the V Tower. He headed towards Velvette and Vaxal's room and knocked on their door, but got no response which meant they were either asleep or having fun and ignoring him.

Seeing as how he wanted to deal with the problem as soon as possible, he unlocked and opened their door and hoped that they were just asleep and luckily enough, the two were just fast asleep, which filled him with relief, but as he was thinking about how to carefully wake up Vaxal and Velvette without the two of them ripping him to pieces knowing they've been very busy the past few days doing his work along with their own and barely getting any sleep.

Vox suddenly noticed that Valentino has managed to escape his grasp again and started panicking and then saw the caterpillar right next to Vaxal. "Val, no!" The television being whispered-yelled, but before he could stop him, Valentino bit down on Vaxal's neck.

That woke Vaxal up instantly. "Ow, son of a witch!" He sat up on the bed and smacked Valentino, which made the caterpillar let go and fly backwards, though Vox managed to catch him before he hit the ground.

Velvette woke up and sat up rubbing her eyes. "Vaxal, baby, what's-?" She paused as she saw Vox standing there and she let out an outraged scream, pulling the blankets up to cover herself. "Vox, what the bloody flip are you doing here?! Get out of our room, you flipping creeper!"

Vox glared at Valentino, who smiled up at him, making the other growl in annoyance. "What to flipping go, Val," he ground out before looking back at the very aggravated and tired Vees. "To be fair, this was not how I wanted to wake you guys up," he admitted apologetically.

Vaxal looked at his phone on the nightstand, seeing it was almost 1 in the morning. "Vox, you better have a really good reason you decided to wake us up at 1 in the flipping morning," he growled out.

"Look, I found the location of where that witch is hiding that turned Val into a caterpillar."

The weapon specialist blinked. "Seriously, that's it?" He asked, looked exasperated.

"What, don't you want Val back to normal and kill her for turning him into this?" Vox asked.

"Of course we do, you bloody moron! That way you can get off your lazy butt of watching the stupid cameras and actually do your job, but this couldn't wait until the morning?" Velvette asked, looking very grumpy.

"Yeah, just go back to bed Vox and we'll deal with this in the morning, alright?" Vaxal said.

Vox groaned as he saw the two lay back down to go back to sleep. "Seriously, the sooner we deal with this, the better," he said.

"Just get out of our blazing room already. You're lucky I'm not in the mood to rip you a new one for seeing me without my clothes, creeper," Velvette said.

Vox sighed, knowing this would happen and decided to pull out the big guns. "Alright, if you two help me with this right now, I will personally book you two a room at that casino resort near that beach you two love so much and I'll give you the day off," he offered.

"A month," Vaxal said firmly.

"I'm not doing a month, Vaxal," Vox said before sighing. "How about two days?"

"A month," Velvette now said firmly, sticking by what Vaxal said.

"Seriously, do you know how expensive that place is?" The television being asked. "How about a week?"

"A month," the other two said in unison, not budging.

"Two weeks and that's my final offer."

Both glared at him while showing their displeasure with a rude hand gesture and Vox groaned, knowing the place would cost a lot, but as he thought about it, Vaxal and Velvette had both worked nonstop the fast few days with barely any sleep, covering both their own work and his too. Concluding that they did both deserve a break, he sighed. "Alright, fine. I'll book the room for one month and I'll even make it a deluxe suite with a spa package and room service. Deal?" He asked.

Vaxal nodded. "Deal. Now get out of our flipping room so we can change. We'll meet up with you when we're ready," he said.

Vox nodded. "I'll get the coffee ready," he said, taking Val and leaving the room.

As Vox left their room, Velvette whined cutely. "I really don't want to get up, babe," she said.

Vaxal gave her a peck on the cheek. "I know you don't, sweetie, but think of it like this. After we deal with this witch, a whole month just you and me without having to deal with no business, no bull, and no Vox or Valentino around," he said.

"Honestly, being away from Vox and Valentino for a whole month so that we can get some time to ourselves makes dealing with this bull worth it alone. I swear those two make it impossible for us to have some peaceful alone time without them constantly arguing and bickering like a bunch of flipping brats!" Velvette sighed. "Why don't you go meet up with Vox down in the garage when you finish changing, Vaxie. I might take a while getting ready."

"Alright, babe."

Meanwhile...

As Vox was heading towards the garage, he suddenly heard the alarm go off in the tower as an intruder entered the building. He headed to his surveillance room and looked through the cameras, seeing that all the security guards were slaughtered and in pieces. Suddenly the power got cut off and everything went dark. Vox rushed towards the power room and saw a bunch of wires were cut and the generators were destroyed.

"Oh, you got to be flipping kidding me!" He groaned out before feeling something hit the back of his head hard enough to make him black out.

When he woke up, he found himself locked up in one of the cages in the torture room where the Vees would brutally torture their victims or ones that crossed them, make an example out of them, and so on. "Ow, my head. How the flip did I end up down here?" He asked before noticing that Valentino wasn't anywhere around him and there was a figure standing in the shadows, glaring at him. He narrowed his eyes. "Alright witch, who the flip are you and you better let me out of this stupid cage right now!" He demanded.

"Still as demanding, hot tempered, and clueless as I remembered since we last saw each other," said a voice as the person stepped out of the shadows, revealing herself. "It's been a long time, Vox."

Vox groaned. "Oh great, its my flipping ex. It's been years since I last saw you, Melosa. If I had to take a guess, you're the one that turned Valentino into a caterpillar, correct?"

"Give the man a gold medal," Melosa said snarkily. "Who else could have done that?"

"What the flip was the point of doing any of this?" He demanded to know. "What was your goal besides wasting my flipping time?!"

"I wanted to see if you became something for yourself, and you certainly have. Still, so glad I left you back then. Honestly, if I hadn't, you'd still be a loser," Melosa said. "Best decision to make was to dump you then."

"And here I thought it was because I sucked at dancing," Vox said sarcastically.

"Oh no, that's also part of the reason I dumped your sorry butt and you also suck otherwise. Seriously that was the worst night in the bedroom I ever had ever," she said.

Vox's eyes twitched in aggravation as he glitched out. "Oh, you really like to run your mouth do you, witch? So give me one really good reason I shouldn't just electrocute you and be done with you?" He said.

Smirking, Melosa held up Valentino in her hands as the little caterpillar was squeaking like crazy, struggling to get out of her grip. "Well, I'm sure you wouldn't want to clean up bug guts from your friend all over the floor now, would you?" She asked knowingly. "So, if you want him unharmed, then you'll give me what I want."

Vox growled. "Oh really?' He asked. "And what is it you want, hmm?"

"Oh it's simple, really. Just hand over ownership of VoxTek Enterprise's, the V Tower, all your products and your contracts and I'll turn your friend back to normal and you'll never see me again," she said.

Vox started laughing. "I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest stuff I ever heard of. I worked hard to get this company where it is today and earned my rights as an Overlord and the contracts that I gained and I'm not just going to give them up just like that," he said.

"You sure that's what you want?" Melosa asked, starting to squeeze Valentino in her hand.

Vox scoffed. "Yeah. So, go on and get rid of him for all I care. I can always find someone new to replace his butt." He saw Valentino giving him the puppy dog eyes now and the caterpillar was letting out cute sad squeaks. He wished he could reassure him, because as much as he would rather die than hand over everything to this witch who trampled his heart, he couldn't just let Val suffer like that. "Though, getting rid of Val would be a waste of leverage, would it not?" He asked.

Melosa chuckled wryly. "While that is true, dealing with one less Vee is better than having three Vees and this little creep around. Besides, I can get what I want from you the hard forceful way, but that requires more work and just handing me what I want is much easier," she said.

"I've got ask though, why a caterpillar though?" The television being asked, genuinely curious.

"How the world should I know? I guess it's just some random side effect of the potion I gave him," she said.

"Let me guess, you've been studying more of that forbidden magic, huh?" Vox asked.

"Of course I have. You always said how ridiculous it was and I should've been more into technology, but look who's….," Melosa suddenly paused. "Wait, why are you having a regular conversation with me? Are you trying to distract me?" She asked suspiciously.

Vox chuckled. "Now my dear, whatever makes you think I would do that, hmm?" He asked, smiling.

"Either you tell me what your game is or I'll turn you into a mini tablet, Vox, and-,"

Melosa didn't finish her sentence as she heard the sound of a gun being pumped and she turned around, only to feel the tip of the axeblade poking her in the throat and the barrel of the gun pointed right at her face as Vaxal had his guitar gun pointed right at her and she dropped Valentino on the ground in surprise.

"The game is, you turn Valentino back to normal and maybe I won't blow your head to pieces. Your move, witch," Vaxal growled.

"Wait, how did you know where we were in this building so fast?" Melosa asked, stunned.

She got her answer when she heard a pinging noise and looked behind her to see Vox there holding a homing beacon, making her realized that she had fallen into their trap. She glared at him before smirking. "Well played, Vox. You always were so clever when it came to outsmarting people. However, there's one small problem with this. If you get rid of me, then you'll never know how to turn Valentino back to normal.

"That's what you think, witch," said Velvette.

Melosa watched Velvette walk in the room and in her hand was a potion bottle. "What the flip is that supposed to be, hmm?" She asked sarcastically.

Velvette laughed. "Darling, do really think you're the only one who knows how to make these different kinds of potions? If so, then you're a bigger dummy than I thought. I create and sell my Love Potions all throughout this place and a simple transformation spell like this is child's play," she said.

Vox was stunned. "Wait, Velvette you're telling me you could've-?" He tried to ask.

"Shut it, Vox! I'm having my moment here!" Velvette snapped before returning her attention back to Melosa. "Anyways, as I was saying before I was interrupted by that flat face jerk, when it comes to potion making, it's as easy as designing fashion," she said.

Melosa was absolutely speechless. "W-Well, even if you do get rid of me, I would just always come back again and again and-," she said but was interrupted.

"Let me stop you right there cause that ain't happening with an angelic bullet to head or this angelic blade that can slice your throat," Vaxal said, seeing her about to respond to that. "Oh please, you think Carmilla Carmine is the only Overlord to sell Angelic Weapons on the black market?" He sneered.

Seeing she was truly outmatched, Melosa gupled and looked at Vox. "Now Vox, sweetheart, surely you wouldn't let poor little me be hurt or worse like this, right?" She asked, sweetening her voice in hopes of swaying him.

Vox smirked thoughtfully, seeing the Vees had the upper hand. "Hmm, well it's either that or we can brutally torture you for the rest of your miserable existence. So it's either torture or death, your choice," he said.

But Melosa then had an idea and smirked. "Hmm, how about the third option instead?" She said.

"Oh? And what would that be, huh?" Vox asked smugly.

"This!"

Melosa quickly pulled out and tossed a stun grenade into the air, which went off, disorienting everyone in the room. "This isn't over, Vox. Mark my words," Melosa said before vanishing.

The effects didn't last long and when the Vees were no longer disoriented and could see once again, they saw that Melosa was gone. "What the? Where did that witch go?" Velvette asked.

"If she's been learning dark magic, then no doubt she probably teleported out of here," Vox said. "Looks like I'll have to look into anit-magic spells for the V Tower so this doesn't happen again. "Also, can someone let me out of this flipping cage already?" He asked in exasperation.

Vaxal went over to the cage and grabbed one of the bars on the door and melted the entire front part of the cage with ease, making Vox look at him. "Seriously? You couldn't have just used a key, Vaxal?" He asked in exasperation.

"Vox, it's almost 3 in the morning now. I don't give a hoot right now. I'll buy a new cage door for the torture room," the weapon specialist said.

Vox sighed. "Fine, also Velvette, you're telling me you could've made a potion that could've turned Val back to normal all this time? WHY THE FLIP DIDN'T YOU JUST DO THAT FROM THE FLIPPING BEGINNING!?" He yelled out.

Velvette rolled her eyes before looking at him. "Three things. First, shut your mouth, Vox! Second, you never asked me to create one, and third, making potions isn't as easy as you think. These potions take a few days to make and since you've never made a potion in your life, I don't want to hear it," she said.

Vox glitched out as he started screaming. "ALL THAT STRESS WAS FOR NOTHING!?" He yelled out, nearly popping a few circuits until he finally calmed down and sighed. "Alright, fine. Just please use the potion already to turn Val back to normal?" He asked.

Velvette opened the bottle and dumped the potion onto Valentino, who was squeaking on the ground in annoyance as the liquid turned into a large cloud of red smoke. Once the cloud of red smoke disappeared, it showed Valentino was back to his normal self again.

And he didn't look overly happy.

"Ah, it's about flipping time you three did something and got me back to normal! Also, you really were just going to let that witch kill me Vox, you selfish jerk!" He yelled at him.

Vox grew furious. "Oh really, I'm the selfish one! I spent days trying to figure out who did this to you and Velvette and Vaxal worked non stop the past few days doing my work as well as their own, so don't you start stuff with me about selfish, Val!" He yelled back.

"Well you could've done it faster. Do you know how horrible it was being stuck like that! Why couldn't you work faster, Vox!"

Soon Vox and Valentino were at each other's throats yelling and cursing at each other again much to Velvette and Vaxal's annoyance. "I swear, I'm starting to regret making that potion now," Velvette said with a sigh.

Vaxal sighed. "Unfortunately it was the right thing to do, Velvie," he said.

"I know, but now we're stuck with these two idiots arguing again without any peace and quiet," she said.

Vaxal got an idea and grabbed his guitar gun, lifting it up before he brought it down on top of both Vox and Valentino's heads, knocking them both out. "There we go, problem solved, for now at least," he said.

"Oooh, my man," Velvette said. "Did I tell you how much I love you?"

"Love you too, Velvie. Now let's get back to sleep cause tomorrow you and me are going to take a nice vacation away from all this," Vaxal said.

"I'm looking forward to it," she said. "I even have a new bathing suit I've been wanting to try on."

They headed back to their room, leaving both Vox and Valentino knocked out on the ground in the torture room. "I hate you," Valentino said unconsciously.

"I hate you too," Vox responded just as unconsciously.


Well, that was quite an adventure, huh? :)

And yes, Melosa was indeed Vox's ex who made him feel self-conscious about not being able to dance, but Magic and Ozzy helped him with that.

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