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One was late to work which normally wasn’t a very rare occurrence but that was before he found out demons existed.
Now he was always half an hour early to check in with the tracing team that monitored the unusual energy signatures that would pop up where demon sightings soon fallowed. Or he was until today the damn coffee shop taking twice as long as the baristas had accidentally mixed up the order making him double back.
One came running in through the doors as fast as someone carrying eight steaming hot cups of coffee could.
“Hey Twenty-one heres your mocha,” One said sliding the cup to the agent manning the desk.
“Thanks One!” The agent called out One saluting him before taking off down the hallway.
It was the one that months ago had been full of bodies of agents Twenty-Five to Sixty.
But he had been ignoring that as it lead straight to the control room where he worked with Two.
One dropped off the rest of the coffees to their recipients before hip checking the door into the office. The rest of the single digit agents already hard at work.
The head agent gave him a stink eye One flinching under their glare before he slipped into his chair next two.
“You’re late, the devil raid Starbucks?” Two asked smiling and accepting the cup of sugary cappuccino.
“Worse, he dropped in for manger check in,” One joked as Two tried to muffle their laughter.
“Soo- How the date go,” Two asked spinning in the chair grin mischievous the appearance of pure mirth only buffered by the sunglass they all wore indoors as she changed the topics. One blushed looking away.
“Uh, yeah something came up and Malum had to cancel,” One said shyly, an indignant squawk from Two letting him know the other did not approve at all.
“What! After all the mastermind planning I had to do to get you both a day off to meet!” Two lamented dramatically flopping back in the chair hands over her eyes as she groaned in frustration.
“It’s not a complete loss, we’re still talking on the phone, they said we can try to reschedule, it’s not that big of a deal they had to take care of an emergency and its not like I was sitting at the restaurant for hours like those sad romance movies,” One said brushing it off, his red blush not fooling Two for a second as she quirked her brow at him.
“Really?” She said doubtfully while One shrunk in their seat.
“I maybe missed the fifteen text and five voices mails they sent telling me about the emergency since they were worried when I didn’t respond because I had my phone off so it wouldn’t ring and ruin the date if the boss called,” Oen admitted head hung low while Two took her back support pillow from her chair and started screaming in it, people standing over and looking at their shared cubical concerned.
“Well they called you back and tried to reschedule! That’s good! They like you too! For the love of Satan don’t keep your phone off next time, what if you had an emergency,” Two said elbowing One as they nodded smiling thinking about their future date.
“Yeah, uh thanks for being in my corner, honestly would have probably fucked this up so bad without you helping me stay straight, or as straight as I can be-” One joked getting roaring laughter out of Two. The picture of them hanging out at the last pride parade they had gone to still very much prominently displayed in their office space.
“Just don’t rebound on any jocks again and your golden One,” Two said flicking One’s glasses back up their face One getting them back sneak attacking and going low hitting the pump that locked the chairs in place Two dropping down as it loosened.
“Hey! I had that at the perfect height!” Two grumbled after dropping to the floor in a squat with the chair. The sat up and fixed it One snickering as he watched.
“Thanks though for introducing us,” One said coughing and looking away before trying to down their coffee finding it was still apparently piping hot as they gagged. Two laughing again while he fanned his mouth like that would stop the burning.
Finally after they managed to stop getting distracted long enough to finish their morning paper work One rolled over in his chair to look at Two’s screen.
“What’s the assignment today? We’re not going back to Mexico?” One asked horrified looking at the little Polaroid that Two had taken of them in the cantina before they were attacked by chupacabra possessed goats. They had looked cool in their disguise though.
“Nah, boss isn’t giving us any field assignments, nobody is actually, until they can figure out how to make the guns automatically turn off on friendly fire,” Two said shrugging, the pain and scar in One’s leg aching where he had been shot.
“They want us helping out the breach team,” Two said pulling up their assignment on the computer.
“The breach team? Have they even made any progress?” One asked, last time he checked in on them they had been screaming at papers covered in squiggles and a board with ‘How to fight God’ scribbled in expo marker like a lunatic from the asylum was making their PowerPoints.
“Apparently they have,” Two said grinning and making a ghost sound wiggling their fingers at One who shuddered.
One snapped telling them to knock it off as Two cackled good naturally and messed with their hair before they headed out.
“So, what’s been the big development?” One asked as they made it to the elevator going down into the deeper levels
“That.” Two said pointing out at the now open floors and the massive metal arches built into the side of the earth.
One gapped having no idea that’s why the lower levels had been shut off to the rest of the agents for the last few months.
“When did they have the time?” One asked and Two gave a pensive frown to that.
“I actually have no idea.” Two answered before the doors opened the pair stepping out onto the floor.
“Hey! We need help on the key chamber shaft!” A worker called out waving around a clip board to get their attention pointing at the trio of engineers struggling with a giant heavy cord.
“On it!” One shouted back Two trailing behind as they jogged over. They picked up some of the cord helping to pull.
“Not- to hard, not to hard!” One of the engineers warned. Then One slipped stepping on their still healing ankle funny.
“Ah shit!” One shouted falling back but before they could hit the ground Two caught them.
“I got ya buddy,” Two said helping one back to his feet.
“Thanks two,” One said a soft and fond smile on his face, he knew they had been coworkers but he was really starting to see her as a good friend, it been a while since he really hung out with anyone he had been lonely.
“Okay again!” the engineer called out the group working in tandem now to pull a clank and aa loud bang ringing out as the engineers cheered something going right, not that One or Two could tell.
“Well guess we better find the team captain and get our orders,” Two joked dusting their hans off before joining One in the treck across the lab.
They found the captain working on something grumbling about alignment when they snapped to stand at attention saluting the higher ranked agent.
“Agents One and Two reporting for duty,” One said as Two tried to muffle laughter at the nerdy tattoos on the captain. He had a sleeve that was just the golden ratio, at least One saw he took his work seriously.
“Ah yes Mexican’t, we need help scotting on the test today, in an hour we’re tuning it on and your going to get right up on it and stick this bad boy through,” the captain said patting the camera on a pole One and Two flinching as they were reminded of their current nicknames in the office.
“Sir yes sir!” They pair said the captain grumbling and wondering away shoving the camera on a stick at them.
“Is this just a go pro and selfie stick?” One asked inspecting the device.
“Budgets still making cuts even though half the staff is dead and they haven’t paid the compensation to the families yet,” Another agent shouted over at them, Two and One giving the go pro a concerned look now.
“So the bureau is run by maniacs, not like most governments aren’t,” Two tried to joke getting a snort out of One.
“That might explain why all of our vacations days were denied.” One mussed still playing with the camera.
They ended up waiting around doing nothing until the captain started angrily shouting at them to haul ass.
They got in position on the ground waiting.
Thankfully they had suits and were tethered to the ground but still, they were standing in front of a portal to Hell. A voice rang out on the intercom telling everyone to evacuate, no on the resonances team when disaster struck.
The light in the portal flicked on a mish mash of colors that reminded Oen of melting Sherbert greating the team as their first look into the veil.
Then a red alarm light started flashing the rest of the power cutting off save the screaming warning and evacuation notices flashing all over.
Then the portal made an ominous sound the top part starting to break.
“Shit we need to move!” Two yelled trying to grab One and run to safety only as they ran they felt the ground disappear beneath their feet or the gravity shut off.
One and two screamed as they flayed in the air the camera on a stick getting spit out, One catching sight of it quickly to see a human eye in the lens now blinking at him before it made an annoyed expression.
Then One and Two felt the portal start trying to suck them in, the gate only getting larger opening up beyond the confines of the metal frame, small objects from paper to pens getting hurled around the room.
“One!” Two called out trying to reach out and catch One holding onto a pole, screaming let them know people were trying to close the portal and on the off chance they couldn’t Two steeled herself.
Oen reached out trying to grab but he was still fighting the pull of the portal only to lose.
He felt his finger tips brush against Two as she screamed watching him get sucked in with the camera.
At that moment all Two felt was pain and considering letting go and seeing beyond the portal with One together then the portal shut off the giant triple color window shrinking in and vanishing. Two jumped ot their feet running over screaming.
“One! One!” Two slammed her fist into the stone wall sobbing.
“Turn it back on! He’s in there!” Two screamed the rest of the lab either staring on horrified or looking mournfully at Two.
…
One felt his body get stretched out like one was shaking the wrinkles out of a shirt before he registered the world around him he looked up and around at the colliding colors and approaching darkness that he was rocketed toward. He gasped taking in the change as it felt like red eyes were staying at him now before the portal spit him out.
One screamed as he was falling through the air again, below he saw what looked like a massive city with ring in different colors emanating from it.
“Holy Fuuu-Hell!” Oen screeched as he realized where he was.
Though that didn’t help his current problem of having you go and get over himself was his families go too and he did not want to run into old Aunt Reginia down here.
One kept screaming all the way down and right before impact a flash raced out an caught him.
One was still screaming as the flash thing tossed him into a bunch of boxes where he collapsed before shooting up looking around terrified.
“Uh- oh fuck oh fuck, what if they don’t speak human!” One lamented out loud getting curious looks from all the other demons walking around.
One groaned running their eyes again looking up and around at the nasty realm. He landed near a appliance store a window display nothing by TV’s that he stumbled over to hoping the news could help his situation.
One was slumping against the glass trying to catch his breath before the TV’s all flicked off, One jumping off an up whipping around as the black screen hummed back to life, a large singular white eye opening an intense black slit pupil glaring at him as the large eye narrowed at him.
“Uh hi! Sorry about the window I’m going now-” One tried to offer up backing away slowly.
The giant eye narrowed more before flicking away the breath of relief short lived as many, many more took their place across the screen.
One screamed as a cord jumped out of the window wrapping around his hurt leg before dragging him into the store as he struggled. One gulped looking up at a tall man with a giant block head a glass screen and on giant white eye glaring at him in the ground.
“Welcome to Hell new arrival, I’m Vox,” The figure said a few more smaller white eyes opening across the screen as he bent down and offered a hand.
One screamed at the offer Vox giving him a dead pan back as the eye furrowed in annoyance.
“You’re going to be difficult," Vox huffed taking his hand back and crossing both behind his back, while One kept screaming on the ground.
Chapter 2: Horse to water
Summary:
Things happen.
Notes:
More becomes a little clearer on the shift of this timeline. Oooo, I really have no idea how to explain the progression of this fic that isn't just regurgitating Malum's notes, banging AU still. Evil Vox with an even bigger chip on his shoulder is fun to write.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Vox didn’t know why he listened to Velvette when she said a Human was seen falling out of the sky from an abnormal portal over the heart of the city.
The video had looked faked, but all videos looked fake to him these days considering he was the reason behind that.
Looking out the window as Velvette pointed off the New Arrival livestream and seeing a tiny human plummeting down outside their windows well Vox had really reacted on instinct. He didn’t know what would be funnier the human splatting and waking up a demon just like that or splatting and skyrocketing back up to Heaven.
It wasn’t a good deed or out of the kindness of his heart oh no, Vox’s heart had been blackened to a charred crisp years ago, no Vox was leaping at the chance to have complete hundred percent control over a possible pawn to use to infiltrate that damn hotel and finally kill the Radio Demon.
Vox sighed regretting the decision and plan immediately as the human cowered on the ground screaming still, the perfect candite to win over the princess’s pathetic bleeding heart and lull Alastor into a false sense of security was frankly a little to annoying right now.
Vox sighed as the third minute of solid screaming carried on wondering if there were any cosmic consequences to shooting Humans that fell into Hell by accident.
“Are you done?” Vox snapped multiple smaller eyes appearing around his one massive one as he bent over to glare at the human.
“Ah-ah-uh no, AAAAAAAA!” The human stumbled and Vox screamed himself now grabbing the human by the front of the shirt and yanking him up into standing his claws tearing part of the shirt.
“Would shut the fuck up! I’m trying to manipulate you!” Vox yelled shaking the poor human who was sobbing.
“Nooooooo,” The human moaned head hung back as the TV deadpanned at him.
“Dear god you’re pathetic,” Vox grumbled dropping the human back to the ground where they tumbled before jumping up suddenly angry.
“Hey now listen you demon scum! I’m an agent of D.O.R.K. and I will not tolerate any of this disrespect of my person! I am a capable-”
“You work for dork?” Vox asked before throwing his head back laughing madly clutching his middle, the human lost a little of the fight that had sparked deflating as Vox nearly fell over laughing.
“Ahahahahaha-Wow…ah I haven’t laughed that hard since 1979! Ah so many overdoses,” Vox said whipping a tear out from under his eye while the human nervously try to step back. “Now where were we, oh right,” Vox said snapping his claws which One just blinked at confused as cords with spitting mouths at the end shot out of the darkness wrapping around One’s arms and legs pulling him back and pinning him against the wall.
“Aaaah no, no, no, no please don’t probe me!” One screeched fighting the wires, Vox blinked before gagging dispelling them the human now awkwardly standing at attention.
“First of all, that’s ET’s weird freaky shit second of all… You know what fuck you I’m out deal with this on your own,” Vox said glaring at the human before a bright flash of light blinded One whose sunglasses let him see the being turn into electricity and disappear into the TV’s in the room.
“Uh…ahahah! That’s right run demon bitch! Fear me! Ahahaha!” One cheered before something falling out of the decapitated ceiling made them scream again. One scrambled away running from the ceiling tile seeing a door and pushing his way through freezing as he stumbled out into the street gawking at the mass of demon coming and going.
One stepped out slowly everyone seemingly ignoring him though he got a few curious looks as he took in the collage that was Hell’s populace.
“FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
….
Alastor looked up from the desk he was working at ears swiveling trying to figure out where the loud noise was coming form not sure if he was hearing it over the radios or the loud echo.
He stood up going to his window to try and see what was outside upon seeing nothing he went back to his desk and ignored it.
…
Velvette was rewatching the footage of the portal and the subsequent fall of the human out of it. She had a weird icky feeling thinking of the guy as the human but that’s how it was, she wasn’t human anymore.
Velvette groaned pinching her nose in annoyance as the footage looped back the view into the other side wasn’t the clearest but the location as clearly a lab of some kind a group of other human vaguely on the other side.
Vel turned off the replay, standing and stretching wondering what Vox had decided to do with his catch.
She walked off from the terminal, waving the rest of the team off that was watching the new sinner drop in.
Quiet literally as that’s how everyone got to Hell. Velvette shuddered remembering her own arrival and landing on top of V tower, it had been a down right miricule that she had been able to sweet talk the pissed off Vox into giving her a chance.
Now she just had to not fuck it up.
Velvette took the secret elevator to Vox’s real office located on a hidden floor. There was a public one that he would host meetings in, or more like executions but Velvette tried to ignore that.
She paused brows raised as she bumped into Valentino also in the elevator.
“Hola chica on you’re way up to see the head hancho?” Val asked taking a drag of his vape, Vox made him switch from his favored cigarettes because they reeked, slicing off the top of Val’s one decent antenna left when the moth had originally refused. Vox had burnt the other one down long before Velvette showed up.
“Yeah just want to make sure everything’s working out with the new hires,” Vel said shrugging and stepping into the elevator. They rode up slowly Val sneaking a peak at Vel’s wrist trying to see if they were still bandaged, Vox had slashed and burned her weeks ago now for suggesting a smear campaign against the Hotel the princess had started. Vox yelling back that his fight was only with the radio demon and not the royal family.
“How’s the wrist?” Val asked passing Vel the vape, she gratefully took a puff shaking her head and blowing a ring.
“Better, still doesn’t keep me up at night,” Vel said as the doors opened to the hallway leading to Vox.
“He does tend to have that effect,” Val added as the TV on the wall above the door flashed on, a big white eye blinking down at them before the doors opened.
Vel and Val stepped into the office three stories up of TVs displaying live feeds across Hell blaring and the back of the large swivel chair to them. They could see Vox’s leg resting kicked out as he reclined back before then kicking off the ground to spin the chair around. They waited for him to speak the single white eye on the left side of the screen boring into them. Val broke the silence first clearing his throat.
“Hey Voxy so uh we’re here to check in like usual,” Val started trying to be friendly while Vox just narrowed his eyes.
“What do you want, just tell me so we can get it over with and I can stop looking at your disgusting face,” Vox snapped Val flinching back and an angry scowl crossing his features before he huffed.
“Angel’s been threatening to quit and sick the radio demon on us unless I give him a lighter shooting schedule,” Val said shrugging while Vox sparked in anger, Vel flinching ready to bolt if lighting started flying around.
“Did he now, and why would we comply with his request when he’s delivering our worst enemy to us?” Vox hissed clearly displeased Val’s call.
“And invite slaughter into our own domain!” Val yelled back. Vel shied away thinking about taking the elevator back down as Vox started sparking and stood, more white eyes appearing on the black screen and around the room as it darkened.
“You dare doubt my power!” Vox thundered the whole room falling into dark with only the white eyes blaring at them as the only source of light. Vel shook terrified Val was about to lose more then an antenna.
“I made you and I can destroy you in seconds, you are nothing but a stand in! Replaceable, you are nothing without me! The radio demon only lives because he’s using the damn Morningstar family as shields! The moment I have an opportunity I am slicing his throat and sending him into oblivion like I should have seven years ago! I will feel him die under my own hands this time and I will not let him ” Vox screamed a cord jumping out of the darkness wrapping around Val’s neck holding him up. Val choaked and struggled Vox holding up a hand to keep Val suspended in the air. Vel stared up terrified.
Vox’s eye on one other screens flicked over seeing Vel paling as Val was strangled. Vox hesitating in his rant before dropping the moth, Vel helping him back to his feet as Vox glared down disappointed.
“What a sorry excuse for an overlord you make,” Vox clicked and Val glared clearly wanting to start the argument all over again, Vel taking the chance now to insert herself between them and diffuse the fight.
“While I fully agree with you about not giving into Angel’s threats we still need to make sure that the Morningstar alliance is completely severed before we can land a killing blow,” Vel reminded Vox sighing and nodding once more letting Vel be the voice of reason.
“I had planned to come up and offer an update on trying to infiltrate the hotel again,” Vel shifted the conversation back to safer waters Val giving her a grateful look.
“The human yes? He’s been… rather popular lately,” Vox commented Val snorting getting an multi screen glare his direction again.
“You can say that, puta’s all over Hellnet,” Val added, Vel cringing as Vox grumbled.
…
One was trying very hard to not look stupid in his attempt to get his jacket back from the top of the sigh, hanging off a light post leaning over.
Below demons laughed having snagged the jacket and tossed it up leading to the current situation.
For a couple months in Hell on his own One felt like he was doing fine, considering, he really expected to get murdered by a trigger happy demon looking for easy prey but they really had been more interested in bullying him. He wasn’t sure to count that as a blessing or curse but he had managed to shot out a demons eye on his second day so that earned him enough street creed to live he guessed since he had been lucky enough to have a gun on him still.
How he made it this far he wasn’t sure he was near starvation constantly, probably sick with who knew how many diseases, and stunk like the realm around him now.
He really missed deodorant.
“Come on, come on,” One whispered to himself in concentration as he stretched before nearly slipping, he managed to snag the jacket with a triumphant ha before falling.
One screamed as he fell two stories before an oomf let him know someone had cushioned his fall.
“What the flying fuck-” A grumpy winged cat growled sitting up and trying to work the kink out of his shoulder.
“What’s the big fucking idea- wait you’re the human,” The cat said blinking in surprise as One backed away slowly.
“Haha yep that’s me! Bye!” One said hightailing it out before the cat could remember to get angry.
“Wait! No! Listen you dumb ass!” Husk called out trying to give chase, he made the mistake of trying to take flight on instinct before shouting in pain his wings hurt a lot more then he had expected causing him to fall out of the shy. He looked up cursing as he lost sight of the Human.
“My, my, been a while since you’ve rolled over for someone else my pet,” Alastor said stepping out of the shadows the green glow dissipating as his portal closed. Husk snarled at him.
“Could have showed up earlier and stopped the fucker from running off,” Husk snarled getting a smack on the head from the staff as Alastor hummed staring at the ally way that had swallowed up the human.
“No need to chase after someone that just going to come to us anyway,” Alastor said while husk rolled his eyes.
“If he ever finds out we exist, the only reason Charlie hasn’t tried reaching out herself is she’s terrified the poor guy could die of fucking freight with Lucifer’s daughter on his ass,” Husk pointed out, Niffty and Vaggie the other search party that had been out ran over.
“Damnitt! I can’t believe we we’re that close,” Vaggie grumbled while Niffty sighed.
“He’s not really a bad boy do we have to save him?” She asked while Vaggie whipped around Husk rolling his eyes and Alastor cackling.
“Of course we have to save him! He’s a human with a whole life left to live!” Vaggie argued while Niffty crossed her arms pouting.
“He could also die young he was dumb enough to fall into Hell,” Husk pointed out his nose getting flicked by Alastor.
Then Charlie ran over panting.
“Guys! Any luck!” She aske dhaving trailed behind to watch their backs.
“You just missed him,” Alastor teased getting a sharp glare from Vaggie while Charlie looked horrified.
“We have to find him! Who knows how much time he has, he could be staring or in danger!” Charlie yelled worried out of her mind before going back to searching the street the res tof the hotel following after her.
They passed a tech store Husk warily looking at the TV’s airing normal shows as they jogged, then one flashed to a black screen an angry white eye popping up after watching them. Husk shuddered trying to ignore it turning to Alastor.
“The TV is watching us,” Husk warned while Alastor scoffed.
“Oh please Vox isn’t a threat,” Alastor tutted turning around to give a threatening smile at the TV watching them it sparked in anger the eye narrowing before flashing away the regular broadcast back.
“You do know you’re the only one in Hell who thinks that,” Husk warned pressing harder but Alastor waved it off.
“Please I know Vox, he’s dramatic but not stupid, and besides, I know he still hold me in high regard, we are perfectly safe from the eye behind the glass,” Alastor said tuning and going back to searching with the others for the trail.
Husk hummed not buying it for a second. He cast one more concerned look at the tech shop and TV display before stretching out his wings and giving flight.
…
Vox glared from his control room the feed showing Alastor trailing after the princess and hotel residents chase after the human, Vox would have laughed as a favor from him would have easily produced their target Vox having successfully kept tabs on the desperate human for weeks making sure the other stayed alive and out of the royal family’s hands, waiting for the perfect chance to pounce again.
He had been painstakingly controlling the field to his favor, making sure One as he learned the Human called himself, odd but Vox supposed he had an odd name too, had just enough to survive and keeping more violent demons out of his way.
Vox tapped his claws before pressing a button One slipping down another ally a door sliding out of the wall and blacking the path, the hotel running right by again.
Vox snorted, this had been to easy but he was getting board of this. He checked up on One again seeing the human was making his way towards… that place.
Vox stiffened before burying the memory that tried to resurface, it had been so long it might as well have been ancient history.
But the place he had met Alastor and where Alastor had left him die had to be painfully the same place.
Vox glared watching One scale the side of the wall down into the storm drain before hesitating and stepping into the darkness gun raised to defend himself as the shadows engulfed him. Vox hummed waiting for One to wonder deeper into the sewer complex before zapping to the wires to try again. Vox hung back watching in person now as One found the pile of bodies in the water screaming.
Vox rolled his eyes, all six right now groaning, must it always end like this he hadn’t even spoken to One yet.
“They’re not going to hurt you,” Vox called out stepping forward One whipping around terrified seeing him again. Vox waited glaring his screen the only source of light aside from the dim light forcing its way in through the vents above. Just then one of the bodies under One’s feet moved, the human running off screaming deeper into the tunnels.
“Well some of them might bite,” Vox said chuckling before pulling a pistol from his black coat he walked up finding the sinner struggling to finish regenerating he pointe the gun firing blasting the head clean off, the gore painting the once pale skin red as the body flopped back down.
“Opps,” Vox said before taking a stroll into the darkness spinning the gun on his claw as he whistled a tune.
Notes:
The plot thickens, this one weirdly behaving and staying in word count, let see how long that lasts.
Well I have had a crazy week, mom broke her wrist and now I have become undisputedly the favorite child, solely based on the fact that I am the only one left in town who can do the job. I shit you, not it was a game of duck duck goose and since it happened at the school she works at and was on the clock workers comp is covering it so thank God the health insurance demons haven't saw fit to devour us for being poor. She finds it hilarious and her co-workers are keeping her spirts up by hiding rubber ducks all over her class room, her favorite so far has been the cow duck, it's like Lucifer set off a duck bomb in there. They. are. everywhere.
Chapter 3: Attempting to build bridges
Summary:
Vox catches up to One
Notes:
Low-key loving the short chapters for this fic, I say then go write another 10K chapter for WTMR
Yes I haven't abandoned it sorry about that to the like, five people I think reading this right now, welcome back! I promise answers, eventually but first got to lay a few more plot bricks out.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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One ran as fast as he could down the tunnel- the dirty, very dirty, oh god, this water was filthy, what was that- splashing through the water.
“Ohgodohfuckfucknononowhyyyyy,” One rambled trying to step over the questionable looking lumps floating in the water. He scrambled over trash piles crying with each oozing fistful he clutched trying to stay as far above the water he could.
One turned left, then right and then ran down a corridor he thought he had already been through, then a few more lefts hoping it was the right way as he had been.
And he ran into a room that had seven hallways splitting off.
“Aaaaa-”
“I see that navigation is not a strength of yours.”
One screamed hearing the voice behind him spinning around and seeing the looming overlords staring down at him with a critical judging gaze.
“Are you going to be civil now?”
One screamed dropping and curling up in the trash pile sobbing.
Vox looked down at his wrist for his old watch rolled his eye and leaned back against the wall to impatiently tap his claw against his arm.
One shivered staring at the overlord in fear taking deep breaths to calm himself before sitting up trying to compose himself. Vox inspected his claws ignoring the human before he looked up as One attempted to speak but instead produced more of a terrified squeaking. Vox walked over and One flinched before noticing how the water seemed to part for Vox, or at least the goop stuff did, it wasn’t until the ominous being was bending over to inspect him up close did One feel the aura wash over him.
It felt like static was crawling across his skin, almost like he was standing next to a charged machine, he didn’t feel any breath hit him with how close the screen was allowing One to make out the pixels now but the rise and fall of a chest eerily remind one of how alive the dead were in Hell. The all black screen that still had a soft glow and the sharp eye judging him made One want to run off screaming again but he had steeled himself this time not planning on running from a possible ally now.
“What do you want?” One asked before jerking back as a hand reached out to him, the bright cyan claws that One felt could cut him just by looking at them gripping his chin making him turn his head while the overlord inspected him.
“I could ask you the same thing,” Vox replied before standing back up again to look critically down before offering a handkerchief for One to clean with, the human hesitated before accepting the eye relaxing somewhat into more of a tired gaze as One accepted the peace offering.
“But since you seem to find speaking a difficult task I will offer my proposition first,” Vox said began to circle One like a shark. One shook and tried to spin following Vox who still went at a leisurely pace even as Oen jerked himself around slipping and nearly falling into the water again.
“I want to know what it’s like to look through your eyes,” Vox said before faster than One could perceive bent down and grabbed his chin again the claws pricking at his skin as Vox trapped him. On struggled and tried to pry the hand of to no avail before Vox chuckled.
“Heheh, clever,” One said before screeching as the claws dug into his cheeks. “Okayokay, you want my eyes? Like we talking gouging or like you want to like hear my life story or some shit, Ah!” One rambled before he was dropped Vox rolling his eye.
“I’m sure you know by now how deals work,” Vox asked pulling a piece of paper from his coat.
“Yes! Don’t do them!” One said coughing as he was hit the stank of the sewer once more landing in a trash pile.
“You may want to reconsider that philosophy, a deal is the only way to get any shit done in this fucking pit,” Vox snapped yanking One up by the back of his head and shoving the paper at him.
“I am requesting to quiet literally look through your eyes, whatever you see I will too, in exchange I’ll do you a favor,” Vox explained, while One squinted trying to read the fine print before realizing it was just mocking insults.
“Hey yeah no, nothing I want from a demon that desperately,”
“Well, if you let me see through your eyes, and let me feed, house, and dress you, I could offer you so much more, maybe even get you a ticket back to Earth and you dull life,” Vox said and the paper poofed away One gasping as a new one took it’s place. He tried to read through it this time the fine print much more favorable mainly because it actually was fine print, after reading the whole page and seeing that for basically telling Vox everything he knew or saw, working odd jobs and literally explicit spying for signing from the point forward would be more evenly balanced.
“All you have to do is sign,” Vox said and paused thinking it over once more before nodding and accepting the pen, he yelped as he felt the needle prick him before grumbling the whole time as he signed. There was a second as the paper glowed in One’s hands before dimming back to a regular sheet, Vox snatching it back and flipping it over One paling as he saw there had been more writing on the back.
“Wow…just wow, you really feel for the easiest trick in the book,” Vox said looking down and showing One the other side that had much more duties and depts he would owe Vox for accepting. Vox deadpanned at One before sighing pinching the place on his screen where a nose might be on a face.
“We’ll work on that now,” Vox grumbled before snapping the fact he could with his massive claws baffling One before a chain came out of no where and clamped around his neck. One screamed and once more fruitlessly struggled trying to pull the near transparent blue chain off as Vox rolled his eye.
“Come on, I have something for you to do,” Vox said turning and walking off One tried to follow stumbling, sucking in a massive breath as he felt the chain vanish, he rubbed at his neck before Vox snapped again.
“Two paces to the right that spot is deeper,” Vox said still walking forward as One blinked before testing the spot. He nearly fell finding Vox was correct in that under the murky water a hole hid. He scrambled back before staying close to Vox who silently and effortlessly led the way out of the sewer finding a stair way that lead to a raised walkway that then took them higher to another level where One finally started seeing light from the bustling street above.
Vox didn’t climb the ladder instead there was a loud crashing sound outside and screaming before the manhole rabove was yanked off by something and a cord dropped down Vox grabbing it and letting it pull him up and out. One groaned and climbed the ladder like the normal human man he was.
Upon emerging to the surface One took in the car pileup and screaming demons trying to dodge the flinging cords that zapped anything that touched them. Vox once more board wondering around the carnage. One ducked back down dodging a car the was flung by the cords before the chaos parted or was dragged out of the way as a long black limo drove up. Vox walked over climbing in the door staying open as One realized he was supposed to get in too he ran over practically jumping in rolling across the seat before crashing into the door.
“Okay…Mr…New… Demon Bossman,” One said sitting up and sitting normally pawing around for the seatbelt and finding there were none before thinking that was to be expected with where he was.
“Yes?” Vox asked sounded exasperated with the conversation already.
“So uh, you kind of manipulated me-”
“You should have read the other side,” Vox jumped in before pulling out a phone and tossing it at One who nearly dropped it before scrambling to catch it.
“For your first job your going to go check up on my manufacturer, I need you to get down to the very bottom of the factory and see if their upholding their end of the deal, as far as they will be concerned you’re a humanish looking demon now,” Vox said snapping and One felt a bit of a head ache come one he rubbed his eyes before muffling a groan and looking up.
“If you survive that I may be tempted to put you in contact with someone that could help you,” Vox said dusting his coat off before slipping out of his shoes, One stared at the three toes and cyan talons as Vox kicked his feet up relaxing.
“If I survive?” One gagged before blinking seeing something reflecting off the tinted glass divider in the limo.
“I agreed to house, feed, dress you and provide information on a way out, not keep you alive,” Vox said before One realized the light reflecting in the glass was coming from his forehead he felt around sensing the same static he had felt radiating from Vox earlier before looking over into the side window and seeing the blinking floating eye above him.
…
“Alright team we have a…. a fucking job today so let’s get fucking cracking,” Blitzo said to the office that just groaned as the file was laid out.
“Fucking weird shit sloth Mcgee wants us to blow up the Bermuda fucking triangle because his crazy fucking racist ass wants to send ET his home phone,”
“Sir it’s ET phone home,”
“Shut up Moxie,” Blitzo said before pulling up his attempt at sketching out his grand plan.
“Since policy states unless we can fucking prove we fucked the target up we either commit a fuck tone of massive irreversible ecological damage or, bring him a party store decoration and dump Luna’s leftover’s on it,” Blitzo said before tossing the two year old unopened tubber wear onto the table making the crew gag.
“So do we even need to go to Earth for this one?” Millie asked poking the plastic box that Luna refused to look at with a pencil before jumping back as it moved on it’s own making a sound.
“Technically no but Fucker Mcgee want’s us to go to Bermuda so lets go to fucking Bermuda!” Blitzo yelled before slapping their crystal and opening the portal, the team cheering before jumping through and immediately falling into the ocean.
…
Two was face down at her desk listening to her co-workers whisper around her again.
“Poor thing, she got her best friend killed,”
“Some partner, One was fucked,”
“Why did management let her stay on?”
Two looked up at her white screening bags a mile long under her eyes reflected back as she tried to fill the spread sheet in with her mind. The cubical wasn’t dusty Two kept cleaning it for when One got back so he didn’t have a mess. As it was she was stuck on paperwork for the ‘fuck up’ in the lab which in all honesty was an accident on the damn safety team who was literally just Seven from Sanitation who did double duty and probably shouldn’t since the whole portal had been nothing but one disaster after another since they opened it and sucked One through.
Two was prepared to tune out the world again when she over heard different whispering. Peaking over the wall divider Two eavesdropped on her Boss and a higher ranking officer whisper arguing about something.
“No, absolutely not, we don’t know if it’s them,”
“It’s the same energy signature that we recorded in Mexico, the Arctic, California, and-”
“No, we are not sending disposable agents out to go look at ‘energy spikes’ come back to me when there’s something worth throwing squishy bodies at,” The boss said before stalking off the angent groaning and storming off. She made a quick stop at the office coffee maker before knocking on the agents door.
“Come in Two,” The agent said, Two walking in and taking in Ninety-nine’s office before setting the coffee down. The agent smiled grateful before chugging the hot drink like a keg and hurling the empty mug at the wall where it shattered above the trash can.
“…Sorry haven’t slept in a week, usually I have a paper to go cup,” Ninety-nine said before turning to give Two his attention who was trying not to sweat.
“How can I help you agent?”
“I was wondering if it be possible, if… I…” Two said stumbling over for a lie looking around for the charts or file that had been in Ninety-nine’s hands when he was arguing with the boss earlier. The she saw it on the desk dropping down to slam her hands down startling the sleep deprived agent who jumped.
“I would like to file an HR complaint,”
“About the horrible vicious bullying from your fellow agents for the portal accident that killed your best friend that’s really more Seven’s fault for not buying steel cord and just using rope off his boat?” Ninety-nine asked Two blinking before shaking her had slipping the paper off the desk and behind her back.
“What…pff no, uh I would like to complain about Twenty-eight stealing my pens, he’s taken like twenty…eight? Now.” Two said as Ninety-nine stood up slamming his own hands on the desk his eyes manic.
“That is unacceptable behavior I’ll have him court marshaled immediately!” Ninety-nine yelled before storming from the office.
“Nononowait!” Two gave chase after Ninety-nine, who found Twenty-eight innocently shoving the pens they stole from Fifteen’s desk up there nose.
“You know what fuck you Twenty-eight,” Two grumbled running off with the paper as Ninety-nine and Twenty-eight started sissy fighting in the middle of the office.
Hiding under her desk in her own cubical Two used the tiny lights hidden in the sunglass to look at the paper.
“Bermuda?”
Notes:
So... there's going to be a tragic backstory down the line here in a bit, so rating going to get bumped up to M later for violence, torture, worker's rights violations, and general horror elements that are about to become very prominent.
Le thank you.
Chapter 4: Elite Employee
Summary:
One settles into his new job, Two tracks I.M.P.
Notes:
'Nice' of the fic almost done, I'm about to torture One and Vox so bad. Cough, rating about to go up for violence.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
One trailed behind Vox both terrified and curious as they walked through the office building, if an office could be described as luxurious it would be this, high ceilings, marble floors, and intricate arching windows made up the first thirty floors that Vox dragged one up watching the human slowly lose his breath as they took the stairs. Finally they made it to the top, after fifty floors One nearly collapsing to his knee’s as Vox looked back unimpressed.
“This will be your office,” Vox said gesturing to one of the glass cubicles that had been something One noticed about the whole building the only walls were for the bathrooms everything else glass, everyone watching each other, constantly. At least this floor only had a couple other offices aside from the giant box that was Vox’s.
“Oh so I’ll have like paperwork and stuff?” One asked rather excited for something mundane for once.
“Yes you’re going to have paperwork you’re fucking working you stupid idiot,” Vox snapped and One flinched before accepting the ‘keys’ and sitting in his uncomfortable office chair. He really wasn’t sure what to expect from a workplace in hell but… this was kind of close.
One was having the horrifying realization that he had actual paperwork to do finding form after form in the pile on his table, he was despairing as realized he would need to acquire a ‘death certificate’, ‘No security number, and ‘Driver’s licenses’, while he was here, now he was just wondering how DMVs worked in Hell or if this was just Vox being a prick.
Probably the later.
One was so wrapped up in his confusion he didn’t see the other demon enter, he heard a loud electrical pop sounding behind him making his turn to find some grey eel thing awkwardly waving at him. Managing to keep his composure this time and force a smile since this demon wasn’t as scary, mainly because of the sweater vest One greeted them.
“Hi-” One said his voice cracking, “Nice…to meet you?” he finished unsure.
“Sorry didn’t mean to scare you, I’m Papermint,” The demon said holding out a fist as if waiting for a bump, One responded wondering if this was how demons chose to greet each and the friendly expression on Papermint’s face seemed to confirm it.
“Welcome to Voxtech,”
…
Charlie paced worried in her office while Vaggie and Alastor watched.
“Charlie, you can’t just barge in there,” Vaggie warned, while Alastor rolled his eyes.
“Oh of course she can, it’s just the Vs, they’re nothing,” Alastor insisted waving it off, “We’ll go over there and pick up the silly human and then you can mail it back home.”
Vaggie face palmed before reprimanding Alastor.
“We are not picking a fight with three overlords, maybe you can fight them off but I know your ass doesn’t give a shit if they level this place, which guess what, there goes your entertainment if it does,” Alastor just gave a glare at that before sighing.
“Fine, I guess we’ll do it your way then,”
…
Blitzo, Moxie, and Millie all fell out of the portal into the ocean after swimming back to the surface and getting pulled into the inflatable boat by Loona who was the only one that had waited long enough to see the other side of the portal. The imps coughed up the sea water before slumping over the side of the boat as Loona looked up directions for their destination.
“Yay…Bermuda,” The gang cheered with little energy as the near drowning ruined their good mood Blitzo shook the excess water off on the rest of the team before jumping to his feet.
“Alright now that we didn’t fucking die lets get down to business, we got a client that wants their worst enemy drawn and quartered so lets fucking hustle!” The gang cheered before then fucking up the engine shooting off in the wrong direction.
“FUUUUUCK!”
BOOM!
…
Two snuck off the plane hat pulled down and fake mustache askew as they tried to get through the crowd, they managed to get to a bathroom and slip in where the ripped the mustache off.
“Ow, ow, ow, ow,” She dropped the bag and changed jackets before heading out flipping off the confused grandpa that blinked seeing her leave the bathroom. From there she got threw security just fine managing to avoid being recognized.
Once out in the street she rented a bike and took off, from her pocket she pulled and checked her paper map which she had made with a stolen crayon on the flight over.
“Okay, time to fuck up some demons,” Two mumbled to herself before then running a red light and leaving a five car pile up behind.
…
Vox was going through some regular paperwork when the mail delivery intern came in, Vox’s eye snapped up on his screen and on the wall around him the rest narrowed in on the shaking demon.
“Uh...uh, y-y-you have mail,” the intern said before dropping the envelopes and running out of the office. Vox quirked a brow along with the usual important letters, spam, and concerning fan mail there was a little blue envelop with just his name on it.
Curious and thinking it may be another anthrax attempt since the last one went so well Vox opened it.
A little surprised by the choice of card, and that the assassin had been cocky enough to pick his birthday of all days to fuck around and find out Vox opened the card.
His eyes went wide as he took in all the signatures and scribbled messages in the card from his closest staff, or in their words friends, Vel and Val even joining in, the first one who assumes was the one to be the ring leader of this little scheme was his newest hire One the human was right beneath the pre printed message.
“Have a Telly-riffic birthday,” Vox read before snorting the little cartoon TV with legs and arms not as amusing to him as he bet it had been to the staff. Even so he read through the messages curious who tried to suck up.
Vox froze finding most just… hadn’t done that.
“Thanks for being the tough guy when we need you,” - Vel, “You’re lucky you’re hot when you’re mad,” - Val in his usual fucked up way of writing making the ys all little dicks, “Best wishes, recommend Claws N’ Jaws for manicures treat yourself,” – Melissa, Vel’s assistant, “Don’t watch the tape, Val let his horny side win,” - Travis giving him a heads up, Vox rolled his eyes as a tasteless homemade porno was what Val usually sent him often hiding it either as an important email or preloaded in a monitor that would go off when he logged in, not that Travis’s warning wasn’t appreciated but now he was curious how ridiculous Val had gotten with it this year, “Happy Not death day bossman,” – Papermint being a lot more cheeky then usual probably bolstered by the others into letting his sarcastic side out which was really one of the main reasons Vox hired him in the first place. But the one that really stuck out to Vox was One’s.
“Thanks for all the help Mr. Vox, I appreciate it,” Vox read that one over and over again, it had been a while since he felt, well, appreciated most despised overlords despite the need for their leadership and power to keep order in the pentagram, Vox always thought it was a thankless job mainly since everyone hated how it had to be done.
But he also supposed he hadn’t given One a whole lot of reason’s to hate his gut’s yet, since he was about to.
…
Vox felt that something was off in the tower, what he didn’t know yet but he had noticed since his birthday that everyone seemed less, terrified.
“Hey boss,” one of the staff casually greeted before jumping realizing who had walked by Vox didn’t pay them any mind since there wasn’t really anything to be offended about. He kept on his path doing a routine round up and down the tower to make sure everything was in order when he saw it.
One in one of the conferences rooms showing all of floor 19 staff how to make bracelets. Vox walked in looking over One’s shoulder to see the breading and bead work, it was quiet intricate.
“I find it super relaxing and it’s a simple craft so it’s not super expensive ore hard to find supplies but the best part is you get a little gift for your besties afterwards,” One said holding up a two foot long bracelet wrapping it around a blushing elephant sinner’s wrist. Vox looked up and down the table seeing Val with his bedazzle set and Vel with Melissa making so many bracelets that Papermint’s tail which they were using a stand to hold all the finished ones was now pink. Vox recognized a few of the names seeing they were trying to make one for each of the models and actors.
“Anyway the bracelet I’m most proud of I made for my best friend uh, back home, I actually got to use old silver necklaces that I breaded into a cord and hung charms I made out of buttons,” One shared Vox standing behind him listening as the table paled seeing he had walked into the room.
“Did you now?” Vox said letting One know he was behind him, the human whipped around and Vox looked through his eyes at what he must look like.
He actually didn’t like it, a towering black monolith with a judging white eye, he didn’t need to scare One he already controlled him so why did he need to keep being intimidating.
It just made him feel pathetic.
“Uh… yeah,” One said before holding up and offering a bracelet for Vox. Vox quirked a brow before holding his hand out for One to drop it into. Vox looked it over, b-f-f spelled out in the beads.
“Boss friend, uh we haven’t decided what the second F means,” One said and Vox blinked before feeling a laugh building his chest. It started as a chuckle before Vox was clutching his middle bending over laughing, his eye scrunched up in mirth. The room gaped at him in utter shock before running out in terror as One took the bracelet and put it on Vox. Vox froze then as well utterly shocked by the action and it was only after that One realized he may have made a grave mistake.
Vox stared down on the bracelet before his eye flicked up to One whose eyes were comically wide and peaking over his glasses.
“I don’t do friends,” Vox warned but made no move remove the bracelet he turned to stalk back out and to his office when One spoke up.
“Why?”
Vox turned around his gaze level, and One stuttered.
“I thought Mrs. Velvette, Mr. Valentino and Mint were your friends,”
Vox paused unsure of how to answer that.
“They’re not, we’re just in a mutually beneficial relationship.” Vox snapped and One gave him a doubtful look.
“You really think of them like that,?” He asked almost disappointed.
“Even if I didn’t, which I don’t that’s how they see me,” Vox said before vanishing into he wires refusing to admit to himself he was rattled.
Hidden under the table Vel and Val shared a concerned look.
…
“Whew I am never fucking doing that again,” Blitzo said dumping sand out of his shoes, over heard a flying saucer exploded. Moxie and Millie were posing for a photo Loona smirking as the target parachuted out into the shark infested waters, their screams faint but still audible from their spot where they had washed ashore.
“Alright gang pack it the fuck up it’s margarita time,” Blitzo announced ripping off his coat to reveal a Hawaiian shirt and questionable shorts. The gang cheered and started to head back towards the city, as they jumped the fence back to the street they heard a loud war cry and a bicycle bell ringing like crazy.
“AAAAAAAA-”
“Who the flippy fuck is that?” Blitzo said before a broom smacked him hard in the neck and the bike rider rode off with him dangling from the wooden pole.
“Should we get him?” Moxie asked as Blitzo and the biker screeched and disappeared around the corner.
“Eh after margaritas,”
“Yeah, sounds good, okay, we’ll save him a seat,” The gang said walking off.
“Blitzo can handle a little human on his own,”
…
“FUCK YOU REGGINA GEORGE!” Blitzo screeched trying to naw through the broom that was tied to the front of the bike.
“IT’S FUCKING AGENT TWO TO YOU FUCKER!” Two screeched back peddling harder.
“FUCK YOU ALL BLONDES ARE FUCKING REGGINA! AAAHHH” Blitzo twisted licking his crystal as they careened through the street, he looked up seeing his crew waving at him. He started licking a little more frantically as they crashed into the crew.
The portal opened and there was some screaming as the crew went through back to the office with Agent Two in tow.
Notes:
Notes go here
Chapter 5: Two in the Bush
Summary:
Plans plans plans plans plans
Chapter Text
One was actually having a pretty good time working at Vox tech. Everyone was really nice to him surprisingly for demons, except for Heather the mythic bitch and Reginia who was just plain mean.
Those weren’t actually their names but One, kept thinking of them like that since it was funny to him and Papermint apparently. One was also nearly crushed in a hug the other day by Sharks whose name was pretty on the nose from security who he thinks didn’t mean to let it slip that most of the company was now thinking of him like a mascot since whenever he was around Vox apparently ‘took his chill pills’ when One was in the room. Whether it was because One had some magical calming effect on the boss or Vox was afraid of accidently killing their literal human resource no body knew.
“You doing good?” The eel asked checking in with him in the cubical.
“Yeah just… does… do you guys think of me like a mascot?” One asked and Papermint blinked before tilting his head.
“Uh, I don’t, pretty sure the rest don’t either, but I’m not sure about the executive board they have a tendency to dehumanize everyone including each other.” Mint said with a shrug.
“Okay, just kind of feeling like a hamster lately,” One mumbled hiding under his desk with Mint as Heather walked by.
“A really cool hamster I hope,” Mint said worried and One shook his head.
“No, just kind of caged in lately, I literally haven’t left the building since I’ve been hired on,” One mentioned.
“What? Weird, I mean this is kind of the safest place if you’re one of V’s souls sooo,” Mint said as they crawled out, down the cubical hall papers were flying as Heather screamed at one of their coworkers, she took her job as Hell HR very seriously.
“Do the other Vs hang out like this I know Vox rarely leaves,” One said having only noted two other trips out of the tower for the overlord.
“No Val and Vel are always out doing stuff but if you’re like not scared about getting electrocuted to death you may ask Vox is you can leave or something,” Mint said which was a little helpful. Not thinking anything of it Mint left to go back to his own office leaving One to ponder the question if he could wander around outside the tower and not like if it was safe enough to do so since he was kind of ignoring the whole time he almost died in the sewer.
Lunch break came and One snuck out heading up to take the elevator to Vox’s office.
He made sure he grabbed a lunch for the big boss just in case Vox didn’t have one. Ha, one.
As expected One found Vox typing away at his desk the room washed in the colors of the screens showing the demons Vox was spying on, including the giant center screen watching that hotel place Vox always had a sniper pointed at for some reason. Maybe someone owes him money who lived there. One bet it was that cat guy that was always half dressed, he seemed like he make poor financial choices.
“Hey boss man!” One called letting Vox know he was here for his attention and to not lurk at the door like a rat.
Vox jumped spinning around the screen on that hotel slamming off as Vox stood.
“What are you-”
“Lunch!” One said holding up the plate he brought up from the employe cafeteria. Vox was silently baffled before taking it. One correctly guessing the overlord lost track of time. One took a seat on the desk since there weren’t exactly any other chairs, and he didn’t think sitting on the floor would help his hamster complex.
“What are you doing?” Vox asked though there wasn’t any hate in it, just confusion.
“Oh is there another chair in here I can take that,” One said looking around the place had terrible lighting despite the many glowing screens.
“No why are you staying,” Vox asked for more clarification before rolling the single eye as the human ate the sandwich in two bites.
“Is it okay if I stay sorry boss I should have ask,” One said and the eye softened for the first time One had ever seen.
“You can stay, you’re tolerable,” Vox huffed siting down and cutting the sandwich into little bites with the knife before eating them one by one, a slit like opening with rows of teeth appearing and disappearing each time the boss opened his mouth.
“Just tolerable?” One teased before the eye sharped into a glare and he stiffened up chugging his water.
“Don’t push it,” Vox warned moving on to the chip bag, he picked up the chips with the tips of his claws one by one too. One had never seen someone eat chips so slowly.
“New conversation topic then?” One asked, figuring he could use that then to pivot to his question on if he could leave the building.
“That would be acceptable,” Vox said nodding still only half way through the chips.
“What’s up with that hotel you’re always watching? If someone you need to talk to is in it why not send someone over or go yourself?” One asked and the gagging Vox did in response made One wonder if he picked the worst possible topic he could.
“Absolutely not, that, person,” Vox spit the last part before slamming his hand on the desk, “Isn’t some I want to talk to! They threw out that option on their own,” Vox said the eyes lighting up across the wall boring down on One who jumped to his feet.
“Get out,” One didn’t move right away instead opening his mouth to say sorry only for Vox to yell at him, “GET OUT!”
One finally fled but he looked back seeing Vox collapsed back into his chair head in his hands. One closed the door quietly behind him.
…
Charlie was out in the front attempting landscaping again to dress up the hotel when the black van drove up.
Charlie screamed jumping back before it nearly ran her over, Vaggie came running from the hotel chucking a spear through the front windshield of the van. There was more screaming from all parties which summoned a shocked Alastor from the kitchen who walked out with a trey of mini egg bites. Angel, Husk and Niffty all poked their heads out to from their windows inside Pentious was crying in terror with his egg bois.
The van did a couple of donuts in the dirt patches surround the hotel before the back doors opened and someone was pushed out the back face planting the ground obscured by the dust cloud before the van drove off.
The person sat up some human woman looking demon coughing out the dirt as she dusted herself off.
“Hey are you okay!” Charlie asked running up before gasping as the sunglass broken fell off revealing it really was just a plain human. The human blinked confused at her before making an uh sound and jumping back throwing her hands up in a karate stance as Vaggie walked up rolling her eyes.
“Did someone just dump a human on our door?” Angel asked shouting down at Husk who was still hanging out his own window.
“I don’t fucking know, do I look like I have hawk eyes or some shit!” Husk shouted back, in the middle window Niffty waved screaming.
“HEY ARE YOU A HUMAN!!!”
Two gaped, taking it all in before she was picked up and hugged by the goat-looking lady.
“Oh, you poor thing, here let’s get you inside,” Charlie cooed at the human who confused kind of froze up terrified as she was carried into the hotel. Alastor watched her eventually find her voice and introduce herself giving her plight of looking for another human this one a man that apparently was trapped in Hell a while ago.
“You have to help me, he’s been on his own out there for months even if it’s just his body I have to find him!”
“Don’t worry I sure that hasn’t happened people aren’t as terrible as they seem sometimes, I’m sure we’ll find him safe and sound.”
With Charlie distracted by that recognizing the story and trying to help Alastor scanned the edge of the property and sky.
He didn’t see any eyes and so closed the door convinced their stalker hadn’t seen anything.
But Vox had seen everything and was already planning his move.
…
One tracked down Velvette since she was less scary than Valentino and also not a pervert. She was busy in her studio working on the latest fashions and gave him a smile as he ran up.
“Hey Ms. Velvette!”
“Vel is fine, I’m still too fucking young to be getting Ms. By everyone let me enjoy it before my inevitable hag era.” Velvette teased shaking her friendship bracelets at him. One grinned back before sobering asking his question.
“So I may have pissed off Vox by accident earlier,” One stared Vel’s eyes going wide terrified before he continued, “I asked who it was at that hotel place he’s always watching for,”
Vel pressed her hands together concerned before explaining.
“You’re new so he might give you a pass but good fucking god do not ever ask about the Radio Demon, in fact don’t talk about him ever or even think about him is you want to keep all your limbs, how do you think Val lost that antenna and eye!”
One palled before nodding.
“If I apologize will that help?”
“Possibly?! I don’t know it’s like kicking a hornet’s nest when the RD gets named dropped.” Vel said exasperated, throwing her hands up. Then the company inter com came on, Papermint’s nervous voice speaking.
“Uh…Uh, employee …Agent One please report to CEO Vox’s office on floor 19 please, immediately, thank you” The clatter that fallowed knocked Vel and One into terrified silence before he turned dragging his feet as he matched back to the office.
…
Vox waited until he heard One close the door behind him as he spun around in the chair. One was standing straight stiff at attention Vox rolling his eye at the fear.
“Relax, your ignorance is forgivable, but next time I won’t be, so listened closely.” Vox said before snaping the screens all switching to different angels of that hotel, a playback loop of some red deer looking sinner scanning the horizon before stepping back inside replayed a couple of times before Vox paused the video.
“That is the Radio Demon,” Vox started One speaking impulsive over him.
“He just looks like a guy, like a closet furry but still a guy,” One said all three eyes blinking.
Vox paused as if shocked by the response before sighing and pressing forward.
“This is my mortal enemy, an overlord slayer and currently untouchable ally of the princess of Hell!”
“Oooooh, what he do though?” One asked actually making Vox glitch this time for a second a blue screen flashed with a red eye before the dull black and white came back.
“What hasn’t he done to me! He is the bane of my existence and now that you’re here I finally have a way to discover his weakness and end him,” Vox ranted sparking like crazy as he flipped his chair over in a rage. One’s jaw dropped and he snapped it shut as ox wheeled around on him.
“You’re going to that hotel as my spy,” Vox explained slightly calmer while One backed up.
“Uh so I am not the best at spying you see,”
“You’re a government agent,” Vox deadpanned.
“Not that kind of agent!” One argued but Vox just laughed before pulling a gun out and handing it to One. The video on the screen stopped looping and instead backed up some more.
“Two!” One shouted as his friend was picked up by some blonde lady before disappearing into the hotel.
“A little, incentive to get you to preform,” Vox said rather coldly. One kept staring as the video paused on Two.
“Go there, claim you’re going to stay a few days and catch up with your ‘friend’ and when I tell you after I see the perfect moment,” Vox instructed circling One before tapping the glowing eye he usually forgot about on his head but was now reminded of his purpose.
“Kill. Him.” Vox hissed loading angelic bullets into the gun and dropping One out on the steet to get to the hotel on foot.
One stumbled dazed before he heard Vox’s voice whispering in his ear.
“Remember I’ll tell you when, once the radio demon is dead, I will pay for your’s and your friend’s passage back to Earth. Don’t disappoint me,” Vox’s garbled voice vanished and One started the hike across the city to the hotel sprinting when he could only thinking about seeing his best friend again and not the task that loomed over him.
Notes:
Lol, rating about to go up for 'gore' later mwhahahaahah
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