Lincoln's cheek was still sore from the slap Moxxie's shitty father did to it before. Alas, he was still trying to be brave through all of this. He knew that if he stood up to Crimson again, He would probably get something far worse than a painful slap to the face.

"Must be fascinating, having a human down here in Hell."

"Well, how I came here is a really long story." Lincoln pointed. "Besides, you probably wouldn't even care about how I can come down here in the first place, or where I came from."

Crimson made a small chuckle. "Well, you're probably right. I don't give a flying fuck about your little biography, not even if you were as famous as George Washington."

Lincoln let out a huff.

"Though it's weird as fuck with a kid having snow-white hair on his head." Said the evil imp.

"Oh here we go." The boy rolled his eyes. "It's a hereditary thing. I mean, I can't have white hair, but it's ok for you?"

"Heh. Touché." Crim smirked. "Point well-made. I guess there is no shame in it. I mean, down here, there are weirdos and freaks galore, and no one is complaining... much."

It was a little silent again before Lincoln let out a small breath and asked: "why do you hate your own son so much?"

"what's not to hate about him?" Crimson said as he looked at one of his family photos. "That little retard is weak as fuck. He can't even lift a butterfly or a moth! Moxxie's own personality is pathetic! His fucking so-called physique even more so! I mean, why the fuck couldn't he have been a muscular, handsome imp that was not gay!? Be someone who is fucking straight for Satan's sake?! Bah! Just looking at him in a picture is more than enough to make me vomit my own intensities!"

Lincoln looked a little terrified to see what kind of demon, or a monster Crimson was. What kind of person would even call Crimson a father at all? Nobody. If there ever was a "worst father of the year" award, then Crimson would definitely win first place.

"I could go on and on about him more." Crimson continued. "But, we would be here for days and I'm honestly not really in the mood for that."

Growing a little angry, Lincoln said: "Moxxie is a great guy."

"Pfft, yeah, great at being a weakling."

"He has a beautiful wife and she's-"

"I know about his wife!" Crimson rudely blurted. "But I don't give a fuck about that ditzy broad of his. And since she crossed me too, that cunt can die with him!"

Now Lincoln was becoming even more scared. "Which is why," said Alessio, "the sooner Moxxie comes over, the better, little boy."

Looking over the family portrait over the fireplace, if was Moxxie when he was a little boy, and Crimson sitting menacingly over his son, and a beautiful demon lady next to him with an Italian kind of dress.

"who's she?" Lincoln asked Crimson

"Oh, Lucrezia? Ah, she is a woman I never should have married in my life." Crimson sounded a little bitter again. "She was always pulling Moxxie away from the family business and even stood up to me at times. Well, she was a good-looking broad, but... I did what I had to do with her, by finishing the job."

With his heart sinking into his feet, Lincoln realized that Crimson killed his own wife. "You're... you're evil." Lincoln said to Crimson. "You are an evil monster with no one to love!"

"Dontcha talk back to the boss here!" Alessio threatened Lincoln by grabbing his cheeks.

"Hey hey hey." Crimson tried to sound friendly. "I'm a compassionate man. You know, I did actually try to have Moxxie become the greatest member of my mafia, and become like me. And, I do know how to love. So I am not a monster."

The white-haired boy did not look very convinced by this ruse.

"And, consider yourself lucky. Normally, I wouldn't just keep you alive long enough to see this. You should be privileged."

"I had no idea you hated your son so much."

"Ha! More than that stupid beard I married all those years ago, but she's not a problem to me anymore." He smoked his cigar again. "And when Blitzo comes here, I will enjoy killing him too. I can kill three birds with one stone."

Telling by the tone of his voice, Lincoln can tell when Moxxie gets here, Crimson will definitely enjoy killing his own son. He wanted to say this was so messed up, but this is Hell after all.

"Crimson!" Called out a voice from outside. Lincoln recognized it. It was Moxxie. "I know you have Lincoln in there! Give him back!"

Crimson smiled and he walked to one of his windows. As suspected, his son was alone.

"Calling me by my first name now?" Crimson called out. "What? I'm not your dad anymore?"

Moxxie got mad and said: "you were never my dad to begin with! I am all alone so we can have a talk about this!"

"Sounds good to me." The father quietly said to himself. "Very well. Alessio! Unlock the door!"

"Got it, boss."

"Well, you got what you wanted." Lincoln scowled at Crimson.

"yes. Yes I have Lincoln. Come with me." He sat him down on the couch. "You just wait here while me and my boy have a chat."

He heard Moxxie come in the room, and was shocked. "Lincoln!" He exclaimed. He was about to run over to the kid but then Crimson pulled out a pistol, pointing it at the right side of Lincoln's head.

"Not so fast, Mox. You will do as I say, or he will die."

"Don't hurt him. He's just a kid."

"Then do as I say, and I won't have to."

Realizing about what was happening, Moxxie sighed and said: "ok. You got me. It's just me you want."

The mafia imp slowly moved the gun away from Lincoln's face with a smile. "Now that wasn't so hard, was it? And I also have a surprise for you. Boys! Bring in the interloping retards!"

Loona, Blitzo, Moxxie, Millie, Tex, Crystal and Serena were being held by the brutes. They all have been bound by rope and Loona and Tex had muzzles over their faces so that they wouldn't bite anyone. "Oh crumbs! What the hell happened?"

Letting out another cruel chuckle, Crimson finally said, "you didn't think I wouldn't know you would secretly have reinforcements, or a sneak attack on their enemies without warning? Plus, I have eyes in the sky for here. I own the Greed Ring." he put his hands behind his head in triumph.

"You thought of everything!" Lincoln said

"Of course, little man. I ain't the leader of this mob for nothing."

"Look, dad, you got what you wanted. It's me you want. Let them all go."

"Well, i was going to, but then you broke my promise." Lincoln's heart sank, knowing exactly what was going to happen. "But first, before I kill ya, i wanna have you suffer a little longer, Mox." said Crimson. He looked over at Alessio and gave Millie some kind of needle into her arm. Over the next few seconds, Millie realized she couldn't move. It was like that drug did something to her body. "I wanna make sure you know true pain before you die. Pin her down!"

Alessio picked up Millie and pinned her against a wall. "Let me the fuck go you, chickenshit!" Millie said

"Can't do that, little lady." said Alessio. "If you had pain before, than you will know true pain for killing me and Crim's friends."

Moxxie's dad pulled out a branding hot iron that was still orange-yellow at the end. "And this is for my posse to you." Crimson added.

"No!" Moxxie tried to save his own wife, but then a bunch of other shark goons barged in and pinned him to the ground so he wouldn't be able to intervene.

"To be fair, dame," Crimson said to Millie, "this is probably gonna hurt me more than it will hurt you... nah, it will hurt you more." He thrusted the iron into Millie's back, making her scream in pure pain and agony. It was as equivelant to a cat being skinned by a chainsaw, or a pig being thrown in a wood chipper. Over and over again, Millie was forced to endure the hot bran iron torture as it was a new level of pain for her, and it wasn't long before tears were streaming down her face.

Vortex, being the strongest member of this rescue party, was able to kick one of the shark goons in the groin to try and save Millie, but Crimson pulled out a pistol and shot him in the right thigh, making him fall with a loud thud.

"Tex!" Loona shouted in horror.

This was all so much for Lincoln to take in. Watching one of her friends get tortured, and seeing another one of his friends get badly injured like that.

"Don't interfere, pretty boy!" Crimson shouted down at Tex as the hellhound was grunting in pain. "Now where were we? Oh yeah." Crimson continued torturing Millie and the female imp was already crying more tears from her eyes as she was screaming in agony.

Moxxie was sobbing himself as he was watching his own wife get condemned to unspeakable torture. His spirit was instantly breaking watching the light of his light get tortured over and over again. This was exactly what Crimson was trying to do. Lincoln simply looked away and wished he can just cover his ears so he wouldn't have to hear her crying and yelling in pain. But alas, he was bound and couldn't move his arms to make it happen.

This brutal and inhumane torture went on for about ten minutes and Moxxie just wanted this to end already.

"Ok, I think you have suffered enough, little lady." Crimson put the iron down and Milie was sobbing some more from the pain. "Now that my pathetic excuse for a son has suffered long enough, I think it's time to finish it." he pulled out his pistol again and walked over to not his son, but Lincoln.

"Wait a minute, you're going to kill me?!"

"Of course I am, Lincoln. What did you expect? And hey; you should be lucky. Normally i wouldn't do this to any fucker who crosses me, but this will be quick and painless for you. As soon as I get a bullet through your brain, you won't feel a thing."

"Guys, i'm so sorry." Lincoln said. "This is all my fault. I never meant for any of this to happen."

"No, it's not your fault, Lincoln." said Loona. "It's this evil bastard's fault. You are the most fucking disgusting and sadistic piece of shit I have ever seen!"

Crimson laughed a little. "Sorry toots, but flattery's not gonna get you anywhere." turning back to Lincoln, he said: "Don't bother apologizing. It will all be over soon." he cocked his pistol, and put it against Lincoln's head. "Nice knowing ya, kid."

Lincoln just waited for the killing blow to happen already with his eyes closed. Before Crimson could fully pull the trigger, the sound of an explosion was heard and someone crashed through the windows. It was a beautiful female imp with pale red skin and long hair and looked a little tall for an imp. She was wearing a black bodysuit with a trench coat over it. She also had a skeleton mask over her face so that no one would be able to see it, kinda like a superhero.

"Who the fuck are you?!" said Crimson.

The female imp didn't answer and pulled out a mini-uzi gun from behind her, shooting Alessio a few times in the stomach, making him grunt and pain and fall on his back. The next thing this demon imp did was jump in front of Lincoln and untie him. "Here you go, sweetie." she said. Then she killed the other shark goons that were holding Moxxie. "Get away from him!" Without talking any further, she untied the rest of them, and Loona went over to Tex to try and tend to his wound.

Moxxie felt like he had heard this voice before.

"I'm fine, Loona." said Tex. "Just a minor wound. Ah!"

"You're hurt!" the female hellhound said.

"Don't worry about me. What about Lincoln?"

"Right." Loona walked over to Lincoln, who was probably shaken from all of this. "Lincoln, you ok?" she looked worried about him.

"I'm... i'm fine. But this is all my fault."

"No, it wasn't." said Tex. "Crimson fooled everyone."

"Yeah, don't beat yourself up. We know it wasn't your fault." Loona added. "You'll be ok."

The female demon pulled out her gun and Crimson was about to shoot her down, but the female imp was fast and kicked it out of his hand. "You have caused me and Moxxie a lot of pain! You are the most evil, unforgiving, callous piece of shit I have ever known in my life!"

"I don't know what the fuck you're-" Crimson paused as he realized something. "Lucrezia?"

Moxxie's heart sank to his feet, and he knew he had heard that voice before. "M-mom?" he said.

"But... you're dead, cunt! I killed you!"

"No." Lucrezia said. "You killed a look-a-like. An old friend of mine that saved me from you. You didn't think that I wouldn't know you would kill me?!"

"Right... didn't think that through." Crimson realized. "Please don't kill me! Let me go! Have mercy!"

"I thought you said there was no mercy?" Lucrezia asked flatly

"Look, not in the face! I'll do anything!"

Lucrezia paused and said: "Stay away from me, my son, and his friends. Otherwise, i will make you fade into oblivion."

Crimson snarled and said after a brief pause. "You can have him. You can have all of them."

"That's what I thought." Lucrezia smiled sweetly. She walked over to Lincoln. "Did my evil ex-husband hurt you?"

"He slapped me on the face, but not so much."

"Typical."

"Mom, I... i thought you were dead." Moxxie began tearing up.

"We can talk about it later, sweetie." Lucrezia said. "For now, you need to help your lady."

"Millie!" Moxxie realized, walking over to Millie as she was still crying on her back on the floor, he pulled her up, and began soothing her. "Shhh, it's ok, honey. I know it hurts, but you'll be ok." he continued soothing her.

Loona promptly helped Tex try to walk with his injured leg, and everyone came out of the building, leaving Crimson skulking in fury. "I thought I had got rid of her." he said to himself.

At Stolas' chateau, Millie was on her belly on a medical bed. The burns on her back looked pretty bad and painful. Poor Moxxie was there trying to comfort her as he possibly can to make her feel better. "Oh Millie." he felt like crying himself seeing his beautiful, lovely wife in this kind of state. "You're going to be ok."

Poor Lincoln still looked guilty about all of this, and still felt like it was all his fault.

He walked over to Millie and said: "It's my fault, Millie. It's all my-" he felt his shoulder being gently held by Loona. "Please stop saying that, kid. It's all Crimson's fault. His doing." she gave him a sympathetic look on her wolf-like face. "Everything will be fine."

Licnoln let out a sigh. "I just wish that this was all a dream."

"I'm there with you." Moxxie agreed.

"Yeah, don't beat yourself up, honey." Millie tried to smile. "I've suffered worse pain."

"These burns are certainly very serious." said Stolas. "Might even be powerful enough to leave scars on it, my dear."

"Maybe we should just take her to a hospital." said Crystal.

"Indeed." said Stolas

Moxxie then walked up to his mother and hugged her tightly as he was in so much tears. "Mom. I... i missed you so much. I... i thought you were dead all this time."

"Come on, Moxxie. You need to keep it together." she hugged him back.

"You were alive all this time?"

"I didn't want you to find me."

"What?" Moxxie looked a little confused. "Why?"

"Because I hate myself for leaving you with that... thing you called your dad." Lucrezia said. "I really wanted to take you with me, but i knew if I did, then he and his friends would hunt you down and try to take you with me. And... i'm so sorry."

"Mom, i can... i can never hate you."

"I understand if you do, sweetie. I should have come back to you a long time ago."

"thank you for... getting me out of there." Lincoln said to her. "I would have been dead if not for you."

"We all would have been," said Vortex. He was having his leg tended by Octavia after being given rubbing alcohol over the wound. Now she was putting a cast over his thigh.

"You might have to be on crutches for a while."

"That's fine." said the male hellhound. "I've suffered worse pain anyway." he thought of how he got one of his eyes lost in the first place.

"Look, why don't we give Moxxie and his mommy a little space to catch up." said Blitzo.

"Here, Lincoln, why i don't i get you some ice cream." Loona offered.

"We'll come with you." said Serena.

"I'll make sure Millie here is taken to a hospital and treated with proper care." said Stolas.

"Make sure they take care of her." said Moxxie

"I will Moxxie. I will make sure of that."

Loona walked Lincoln out of the building and saw a few tears escaping Lincoln's eye. "What's the matter."

"Are you- are you sure this isn't my fault?" asked Lincoln

"Positive." Loona reassured him as they sat on a nearby bench down the street. She sighed and looked guilty over what the poor kid has been through. "Look, i know you never asked for any of this. It caught us all by surprise. And... i'm sorry you had to see all of that happen."

"I just want to forget about all that had happen back there." unexpectedly, he felt himself being hugged by the female hellhound. Normally, she was not a hugger, but seeing how Lincoln was completely shaken, she decided to let this one slide and try to comfort him as much as possible.