Chapter 43

Moxxie and Millie

"Are you sure about this, hun?" Asked Millie as she and Moxxie were making their way to Blitzo's and Loona's apartment in Imp City. "It's only been a day since we got rescued by your dad again and Loona and Blitzo must still be reeling from what he said to them and…well what he did to them. You sure you want to talk to them so soon?"

"Yeah, I am." Said Moxxie as they entered the building containing Blitzo's apartment. "I'm pretty sure. I just hope that Blitzo is in a talking mood with us after what happened." Millie hummed at that as they took the stairs to Blitzo's apartment, the two knowing where it was after Blitzo told them several times in an attempt to get them to come to his home for various reasons.

It took them awhile, but they were just in front of the door that lead to Blitzo's apartment. Taking a breath, Moxxie knocked on the door.

"Blitzo. It's Moxxie and Millie. We need to talk about what happened yesterday." Said Moxxie as he tried to get Blitzo or Loona to open the door and invite them in. It took a few moments, but soon the two Imps heard the sounds of muffled footsteps before the door opened, revealing Loona.

Looking down at the two Imps that were her coworkers, Loona gave them a indifferent looks, but both Imps can see that she was both uncomfortable at seeing both at them and was still shaken at what Mordekaiser's spectral hand had done to her. The evidence was clear as day with her rumpled clothing and ruffled up fur that looked like it hadn't been brushed in days.

"What the fuck do you twerps want?" Demanded Loona, trying to act like her normal self, but it failed on account of both her appearance as well as the undertone of fear that was present in her voice.

"We want to talk to Blitzo." Said Moxxie as he looked at Loona. "I…we need to talk to him about what happened yesterday with my dad. As well as his behavior towards us." Loona raised an eyebrow at that before speaking.

"And why the fuck would he do that with you fucks?" Demanded Loona as she glared at Moxxie, trying to act though despite the fear she had of displeasing Moxxie's father. "In case you didn't know, he's not in a talking mood right now after what your dad pulled. So, why the fuck should I let you guys in? Just be glad that he hasn't fired you guys." Millie looked a little peeved with what Loona just said and was about to give her a piece of her mind when Moxxie spoke.

"Its really important that we speak with him Loona." Said Moxxie as he stared down Loona, who was a bit surprised at the sheer force that Moxxie spoke to her. He never spoke to her like this before. "We need to talk about my dad and his behavior towards us. We either talk to him now or we're going to have problems, Loona." The Hellhound girl was about to reply back when suddenly they all heard Blitzo's voice.

"Let them in, Loonie." Said Blitzo, his voice dull and lifeless. Loona gaped at what she just heard, but before she could protest, Blitzo reaffirmed what he just said. Firmer, but voice still dull. Upon hearing that, Loona growled a bit in anger, but also concern before relenting. Moving aside, Loona let Moxxie and Millie enter the apartment, giving a glare as the two Imps entered the apartment. Upon entering said apartment, they saw just how rundown it was. Much like their own apartment was, but somehow much worse. It was clear to them that Blitzo didn't really spend much money on his living conditions as much as he should have.

It didn't take much for the two Imps to find their boss sitting on his apartment couch, looking like he just had a fight with a giant hellbear. Bottles of cheap alcohol were around him as he chugged down another one. Upon seeing this, both Millie and Moxxie looked at Blitzo in concern as he finished chugging down the entire bottle.

"Yeah, M M." Said Blitzo as he looked at Moxxie and Millie. "Came here to talk about your jobs? I told you jerks already, I'm still keeping you guys around. Can't get better help than you two even if I tried. Despite all the problems your dad gives me, Moxxie. Not that I can go on any jobs right now anyway. Your dad took the one thing that allows us to go to Earth and do our jobs, so unless he's going to give us the book back, we're going to have to make do with what money we have now. Which isn't much."

"How you holding up then, Blitz?" Asked Millie in concern. Her boss was always terrible with finances. She wasn't sure if he has much money saved up for something like this.

"We're doing fine." Said Blitzo as he grabbed another bottle and opened it up. "Got all these real cheap at the local store. Had to kill a bitch to get them, but who gives a shit. Police here aren't exactly the most competent bunch in Hell. If they were ever competent at all." Blitzo was about to take a sip from his new drink when Moxxie spoke up.

"Sir, we need to talk about what happened yesterday. About you told me before we got rescued." Said Moxxie, softly but firmly as he watched Blitzo drink away what was likely the events of yesterday. Upon hearing Moxxie's words, Blitzo stopped and looked at him in annoyance.

"What the fuck do we have to talk about?" Demanded Blitzo as he groggily got up and glared at Moxxie, clearly in a drunken state. Demons, even Imps, had more tolerance to alcohol than humans on Earth, but that only resulted in the drinks in Hell being stronger than those back on Earth. Hence Blitzo getting drunk on cheap booze. "You still have your job and we're having a hiatus on jobs because of your dad taking the only way we have to going to Earth. There's nothing else to talk about." Moxxie just sighed as he heard Blitzo's drunken words. He can't really be too mad at Blitzo due to him being drunk, but he couldn't really control himself if Blitzo starts to badmouth his dad or him when he wants to talk to him about this exact same behavior that's been his biggest issue with Blitzo since he started working for him.

"Well, I wanted to talk about your behavior towards me since me and Millie started working for you." Said Moxxie as he looked at Blitzo, who was drunkenly looking at Moxxie. "You claim you keep me and Millie around at I.M.P. despite knowing that we're only there for work because of my dad. You claim that you wanted to be around the close familial bonds and love we have for each other yet you treat me so poorly. Just…why? Even without knowing about my dad and him being the reason that me and Millie wanted to be apart of your business in the first place, you still treated me like crap and harassed me on a daily basis even though I didn't do anything at all to you. What the fuck, sir? Didn't you consider the possibility that I may just outright quit from the company with all the shit I have to put up with both you and Loona? Or did you not care about that at all? Just…tell me why you harass and stalk me and Millie both in and out of work. What's the motivation? Because I feel like I deserve that answer now after everything." Upon hearing all that, Blitzo looked at Moxxie in drunken annoyance before going on a tirade.

"I don't have to explain anything to you, Moxxie." Said Blitzo as he drunkenly walked towards Moxxie. "Your fucking dad saved us, he took Stolas' book after manhandling my daughter with his strange glowing claw hand, and then proceeded to send us our merry way with even more reasons to not piss the guy off. If you think you can just trounce over here to my home and demand explanations of why I treat you the way I do after all that, then you're even more naïve and fucking stupid than I thought." While Millie glared at Blitzo for his insults towards her husbands, Moxxie just stood his ground and stared at Blitzo defiantly. He wanted answers to his boss' abuse and stalking behavior towards him and he was going to get them. Even if he had to threaten him to get what he wanted.

"Then fucking tell me, sir." Said Moxxie firmly as he and Blitzo glared down at each other. "Or else I'll…I'll tell my dad about all the shit that you put me through." Upon hearing that, everyone looked at Moxxie in shock at what he just said. Both because of him threatening Blitzo and him also using his dad as a means to get what he wanted. Moxxie, the normally passive and peaceful, as much as you can be with an Imp, of the group was threatening to use his dad to get what he wanted. Even Millie was stunned to hear her husband use a tactic that he normally would be appealed at doing as she knew from the beginning that Moxxie didn't like using his dad to get what he wanted. He wanted to be his own man with his own accomplishments he could be proud of. So to hear him use his father to get what he wanted was a shock to her.

"He must really want answers that badly." Thought Millie as she looked at Blitzo, who glared at Moxxie for what he just said.

"Real fucking manly there, Moxxie." Said Blitzo as he drunkenly glared at Moxxie, who stood his ground. "You're using your fucking dad to get what you want like all those stupid fucking nobles that rule over Hell instead of dealing it yourself. Fine, if you want to know why I fucking treat you like shit despite wanting to be around that love you got for Millie, I'll fucking tell you." Blitzo then proceeded to bring out his phone from his coat pocket. After sometime of drunkenly finding his phone, grabbing it, and then drunkenly scrolling it so he can find something, Blitzo eventually found what he was looking for. He then showed it to Moxxie, who was stunned at what he saw.

On the phone screen was a picture of Blitzo, younger, with two female Imps from the looks of it. They looked…happy together. Really happy together.

"Who are they?" Asked Millie when she saw the picture as well.

"My sister and my mother." Said Blitzo as he looked at the picture with sadness. "Barbie Wire and Tilla. My sister and mother respectively." He pointed at the corresponding Imp with his finger. "We had a good life together. A real good life, despite having a shitty dad that will sell his own family for money and being poor has well despite being part of a circus. We had each other and that was enough for us. We were…happy." Blitzo then sighed as he sat down on the floor in pain and sadness. "But then I fucking screwed it all up. I ruined our decent life and got my mom killed and my sister to fucking hate me for probably the rest of my life."

"What do you mean?" Asked Moxxie as he looked at Blitzo as he teared up at the picture, feeling pity coming up within him as he watched his boss break down. "What do you do?" Instead of answering the question, Blitzo asked his own.
"You know Fizzarolli?" Asked Blitzo, referring to the Imp that was the business partner of Asmodeus, the Sin of Lust, who also may or may not be the lover of said ruler of Lust. "Who am I fucking kidding, of course you do. We used to be fucking best of friends before he went big with Asmodeus. Like real close friends, but then I fucked it up over a fit of fucking jealously and crippled him and everyone that I ever loved and cared about in one fucking night. Just because everyone loved Fizz over me, especially my shit father. In one fucking night, I caused Fizzarolli to lose his horns, arms, my sister being burned, and my mother dying to a fucking fire. Causing my dad and sister to disown me, leaving me to fend for myself for the rest of my life." Upon hearing that, Moxxie and everyone looked at him in shock and horror at what he just said. They never once thought that Blitzo had something like this in his past, considering how he often was at work and out of it.

While they were all still in shock at what Blitzo revealed, he continued.

"Eventually, I found work as a clown alone, but that wasn't enough to even just survive in Hell. Said Blitzo as he sat down on the ground before tossing his phone away. "Constantly got screwed over my pay or didn't get work at all. Or worse, I got betrayed by people I thought I could trust or had to trust. People I thought cared about me or needed me, backstabbed me the second they got something out of it. So, after sometime of all this, I decided enough was enough so I decided to fuck over people back before they could backstab me in return. Sometimes it was against people that deserved it, but most of the times it was against others that didn't like Verosika. Eventually I just ended up fucking people over just because I could. I just couldn't stop doing it. Even when they were genuinely wanted to be close to me, I just fucked them over. I kept double crossing them or hurting them until they left. Hell is filled with shitty people, I'm not willing to deny that, but there's also people here that don't deserve the feeling of betrayal and hurt you get when someone they thought loves them betrays that love and leaves them for dead. And I just kept doing it over and over until I found Loona. Until I found you guys."

"Why?" Asked Millie quietly as she processed all this information, uncharacteristically quiet after everything Blitzo revealed to them. "What made us special?" Blitzo just groaned as he laid on the ground.

"Loona reminded me of myself." Said Blitzo as he looked at Loona, who stayed quiet as she looked at her adoptive father with a shocked and quiet expression on her face. "Alone. Unloved. Constantly snapping at people for no good reason other than the fact that she was fucked over constantly and doesn't want to let people get close to her in fear they'll backstab them and hurt her like everyone else that did before." Loona said nothing as she clenched herself when Blitzo said those things about her, not even bothering to try to deny what he was saying like she normally would do.

"As for you guys." Said Blitzo as he looked at Millie and Moxxie, who both looked at him in shock as they processed all this information. "You guys…you guys remind me of what I lost when I lost my family. That genuine love and care between family that actually care about each other. That actually will be at their side and be at one's side when they're having a shitty day. That's why I want you guys around. I want…I want what I used to have with my sister and mother. Before I fucked everything up." With all that said, Blitzo looked at Moxxie with an expression of both sadness and resignation. "Even if I have to put with your overprotective and scary as hell father. Kind of wish I had that kind of dad instead of my shitty one though. So I guess it's not too bad, even if he makes me have nightmares and crap my pants on a daily basis. And probably will make me wish I was apart of the Extermination list if I ever piss him off again." Blitzo then sighed. "You don't know how lucky you are, Mox. Having a dad like that. One that cares for you. One that will always be there when you need him. One that actually gives a shit about things other than himself." Moxxie just looked at Blitzo as he wallowed by himself, processing all this information Blitzo just gave him. Eventually, Moxxie walked over to him and sat next to Blitzo.

'I…I didn't expect all this, sir." Said Moxxie as he looked at Blitzo with a look of pity in his eyes. "I didn't know you had all this…struggles and sadness within you, sir, given your…attitude and behavior at work. I'm sorry for what you had to go through before, but as much as I feel sorry for you right now, that doesn't excuse you for treating me like you do at work. For treating me so poorly every chance you get, both on the job and out of a job. You don't have the right to just treat me like a sentient punching bag that you can freely insult whenever you feel like it. I have feelings too. I have rights and you trample on those rights on a daily basis when I interact with you sir. And I don't care about the this is Hell argument, sir. If there is one thing I learned from my dad out of everything he taught me, its that just because this is a place for the damned doesn't mean we can't do anything to improve life here. To make things better for everyone. So that things what you went through no longer happen. So that the Exterminations don't need to happen. So that monsters like the Radio Demon don't get to kill whomever they want freely and without any consequences to their actions. And while I don't have any authority over what he does or plans to do in Hell, that doesn't mean I can't put my hoof down at your attitude towards me, sir." Moxxie then sighed before speaking. "If you want me to stay with you, sir, then we need to lay some ground rules. Otherwise, you can take the book back from my dad once he's done with it and say goodbye to me and Millie because I can't stand anymore of your behavior around me anymore."

"And I fully support him, Blitz." Said Millie as she looked at Blitzo with a determined look on her face. While she also felt for Blitzo after he revealed everything to them, she was still supportive of her husband's decision to cut off ties with Blitzo and Loona if Blitzo doesn't agree to treat Moxxie better. "So unless you want to get new people, you better listen to all of Moxxie's rules or else we're gone." Blitzo looked at both Millie and Moxxie, both of whom have serious expressions on their faces, showing just how much they wanted him to treat Moxxie better, before sighing.

"I guess that's fair after what happened yesterday." Said Blitzo solemnly as he looked at both of them. "And, even then, I think I have to considering Moxxie's dad will probably kill me for not treating his son better after getting him kidnapped." Sighing deeply, Blitzo spoke to Moxxie. "Say whatever the fuck you have to say, Moxxie, then you can leave." Moxxie just looked at Blitzo in pity after what he revealed before speaking.

"I will, but first let me say this." Said Moxxie, causing Blitzo to look at him. "Do you think your mother and sister will want you to keep on treating other people like crap, even when they want to genuinely want to be friends with you? Or do you think they want you to move on from the past and make a new family with people you can trust in Hell?" Blitzo didn't say anything as he looked at Moxxie, his expression unreadable. Sighing at this, Moxxie then spoke the first things he wanted from Blitzo.

The Next Day

Mitna Rachnun/Grey Realm

Within the Grey Realm, Mordekaiser was patiently waiting in his throne room for his various subordinates to arrive, either in person or contacting him via magical means. Sitting on his throne, Mordekaiser was soon greeted with the arrival of his various subordinates arriving in the Grey Realm personally or making a projection from either Hell, Earth, or Runeterra so they can attend the meeting despite their responsibilities preventing them from attending the meeting in person.

Ranging from simple generals and spies to corporation executives and even Overlords of Hell, his subordinates were varied just as much as they were numerous. The rulers of Earth, Runeterra, and Hell had no idea just how deep his connections were in their lives and they will not be able to stop him when he decides to finally take over everything and anything in their realms. Attending the meeting were also Voraq and Keira. The former to inform him of new Niskaru he created and the latter to inform him of new developments in Runeterra.

Seeing that everyone was present, along with some interesting new faces, Mordekaiser spoke up.

"Let us begin." Said Mordekaiser simply as he started the yearly report.