Requested by Random_Canadian_04 on AO3

Takes place between "Love Me Tinder, Love Me True" and "Seeing Stars" (reason for earlier placement will be explained in endnotes)

3rd Person POV

"Remind me again why I'm doin' this...?" Ayden questioned with impatience and snark clear in her voice as she leaned her head on her paw with her elbow on the window edge of the I.M.P. van as it drove through Wrath with Blitzø behind the wheel.

"Becaaaauuuse everyone else was busy and I need an extra pair of hands for this booze sampling fest." Blitzø answered eagerly as he held up the flier for the event in her face while facing her; in bold red Western-style font was the name of the festival "THE DRUNK 'N DRAWL FEST" along with two imp hands clinking together beer steins and "BOOZE BATTLE" and "SILENT CASE AUCTION."

It'd only been a few days since the "Den" events and Ayden had hardly done anything but mope around the office, halfheartedly cleaning her weapons while looking at her phone every time it buzzed but swiping away the notifications that came up after reading them and Blitzø had finally had enough-

Abruptly, Ayden slapped the flier out of her face away to point ahead and yell,

"Watch it!"

"Shit fuck!"

*SKREEEE!*

Blitzø had to swerve the van around to avoid a hellhog that decided to have its nap right in the middle of the road.

"GET THE FUCK OFF THE ROAD!" Blitzø shouted back to the hellhog while flipping it off and Ayden just glared at him as she had spread her arms and legs out to brace herself against the van while her tail poofed up in alarm.

Just as she was about to yell at him, Blitzø announced as if nothing had happened,

"Oh look we're here."

Revealing that they had pulled up to a farm that had the "Drunk 'n Drawl" banner spread over the ranch name and several wooden stalls had been set up in a main-street style way with vendors advertising their goods and a large stage set up at the end for the drinking contest later.

Once Blitzø parked the van towards the entrance of the event, he hopped out of the van and took a deeeeep breath in before asking Ayden as she stood next to him with her arms crossed and her face in a moody expression that could rival even Loona's,

"*HAAAH* Smell that Kid?"

Ayden sniffed a few times before answering dully,

"Bogans?"

"Incoming chaos..."

Ayden raised an eyebrow in question before he ran off into the festival and she begrudgingly followed, grumbling about how she could've been napping back at the office but Blitzø had insisted on bringing her here.

Music started to play as they walked around doing different things, Ayden slowly starting to enjoy herself with each one;

♫ It's getting late have you seen my mates

Ma tell me when the boys get here

It's seven o'clock and I want to rock

Want to get a belly full of beer ♫

Ayden sampling some hellhog jerky, spicy and regular, while Blitzø stole an entire platter of cheese slices to drown them in hot sauce before pouring the whole thing into his mouth-

*KLCK!*

Only for her to have to give him the Heimlich maneuver when he forgot to take the cheese slices off the mini wooden chips they were set on for sample taking before Ayden laughed at Blitzø's wheezing face.

♫ My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys

And my old lady she don't care

My sister looks cute in her braces and boots

A handful of grease in her hair ♫

Both of them competed in arm wrestling and beat several imps before Ayden met her match with a bulky imp who was about to beat her but whose tail "mysteriously" caught on fire allowing Ayden to steal the victory and the prize of a medal with a flexing arm on it and "Strongest Bitch" engraved on it along with a stein of beer that she downed in four gulps.

♫ Oh, don't give us none of your aggravation

We had it with your discipline

Oh, Saturday night's alright for fighting

Get a little action in ♫

Blitzø bringing a tray of acquired free drink samples and trying to hog them all but Ayden managing to swipe a few to his slightly drunken chagrin.

♫ Get about as oiled as a diesel train

Gonna set this dance alight

'Cause Saturday night's the night I like

Saturday night's alright alright alright, ooh ♫

*REEEEEE!*

"AH!" Ayden grabbed her ears when the speakers screeched all around them before Wally Wackford's voice came through them,

*Attention-a I say I say attention-a, the main-a event's about ta get-a started!*

"Is it jus' me o' is that guy *hic* that guy's ev'rywhe'e?" Ayden questioned with her tone wavering a bit and stuttering as she was starting to get a little tipsy from the drinks.

"Not important," Blitzø waved it off while tossing the tray of empty shot glasses away before pulling Ayden down into a "plotting" huddle as he devised, "Here's the plan..."

He muttered his plan into her ear and she smirked before nodding.

Short Time Skip

*I say I say the time-a has-a come for-a the winners of the silent-a auction!* Wackford jumped onto the stage as everybody started to gather around the stage, not noticing the two shadows knocking out the two huge bouncer imps guarding the back of the stage, as Wackford announced, *Our-a first item's up-a are the-a Stonebuff family's artisanal eclipse-shine!*

The curtain went up on stage to show off the product but the audience gasped when they saw nothing behind the curtains and Wally started announcing,

*Now-a no need to-a panic people! We'll be-a gettin' to the bottom of-a this and-*

"It's them!" An imp in the crowd shouted when he saw Ayden and Blitzø sneaking away behind the crowd toward the I.M.P. van with the last of the crates of booze they managed to steal and Blitzø yelled,

"We're fuckin' outta here!"

"See ya shitheads!" Ayden added before she and Blitzø took off running for the van as the crowd turned to a mob with the occasional imp running back to their stall for their guns and weapons and others mounted hellhorses, drawn buggies, and vehicles to prepare pursuit.

"Fuckin' Hell!" Ayden shouted in surprise as she was about to board the van but stopped when she saw the mob gearing up causing Blitzø to yell through the window as he was already behind the steering wheel,

"Let's fucking gooooo!"

Reaching through the window to pull Ayden inside, not even giving her a chance to buckle herself in before he started the van and stomped down on the gas, making them both lurch back as they took off out of the festival and back on the road leading out of the Ring.

After a few seconds, a bump in the road made the radio turn on as a punky song came on,

♫ Celebrate the rejects (Hey, hey)

Eviscerate the presets (Presets)

Power is my thesis (Power, power)

Crimson on my lips, when I smile I'm a T-Rex

Obliterate the killjoy (Ooh, kill'em)

Detonate the new noise ♫

"Satan's varnish! Here they come!" Blitzø shouted, starting to panic once he saw how many demons were coming after them-

"Heh..."

Only for him to look over at Ayden when she gave a confident chuckle,

♫ Sounds from the underground (Loud, proud)

Doin' what I please when I lead, I'm a rude boy ♫

"Good..." Ayden grinned manically as she opened the window and climbed on the roof of the van, staying attached with her chain looped around her waist and hooked onto the passenger seat inside,

♫ Future on my mind

I'm leaving the past behind... ♫

Ayden created a fireball in her paw and sent it flying toward the mob-

*BOOM!*

♫ Can't stop mе noooooow

Can't stop me noooooow ♫

The blast took out a couple of imps on horses by sending them flying from the shockwave.

♫ Hey, hey

Hеy, hey

Hey, hey

Hey, hey ♫

"HAHA!" Ayden cheered victoriously before the rest of the mob appeared through the dust cloud to continue the pursuit making her retract, "Wuh-oh!"

Ducking as some bullets were fired and some embedded in the metal of the van as some imps on hellhorses approached the van.

♫ Kill'em with the mojo (Mo-jo)

Cinematic slow-mo (Slooooow-mo)

Sounds from the underground (Loud, proud)

Pedal to the floor, hardcore, I don't go slow ♫

"Oh shiiiit!" Blitzø shouted as he jerked the gear shift around making the van jerk around as well as scaring the hellhorses to falter and fall behind but some of the driving imps managed to keep up and two of their passengers leaped onto the roof of the van to face Ayden,

♫ La-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Pedal to the floor, hardcore, I don't go slow ♫

"Oh yeah..." Ayden smirked down the imps, unclipping the chain from her belt, before they started fighting;

♫ Future on my mind

I'm leaving the past behind

Future on my mind

I'm leaving the past behind ♫

Using her tail and fighting skills, Ayden managed to punch and shove off any imp that tried to jump onto the van.

♫ Can't stop me noooooow

Can't stop me noooooow ♫

Meanwhile, Blitzø managed to fire several gunshots at the vehicle wheels approaching from the sides making them spin out of control into some of the other pursuers.

One last buggy containing the Stonebuff family was left on their tail but Blitzø was out of bullets and Ayden was running out of steam to blast any more fireballs when Blitzø saw something out of the corner of his eye in the backseats.

After leaning back quickly to grab it, he shouted up at Ayden,

"Here!"

To reveal it was a hand grenade he tossed up to her,

♫ Hey, hey

Hey, hey ♫

"Fuck yeh!" Ayden pulled the pin with her teeth and readied to throw it, unknowingly amping up the blast potential with her powers as it glowed with a reddish-orange aura before she chucked it right onto the footwell of the buggy with the driver panicking,

"Get it out! Get it out!"

♫ Can't stop me now

Can't stop me now

You can't stop me now

You can't stop me

You can't stop me

You can't stop me ♫

*PPSSSHHHH!*

One last giant explosion went off sending out a huge wave of smoke but the I.M.P. van emerged hardly damaged except for the bullet holes.

"That fucking ROCKED! WOO!" Ayden cheered as she swung back through the window to land back in the passenger seat.

"Oh you said it Furball!" Blitzø cheered, fired up, "Didja see the looks on their faces?!"

"They-they were all 'argh the'e they a'e!' bleeeeh!" Ayden mocked them with a deep voice while making a comedic angry face before she laughed again, "HA! That was rippe'!"

"Yeah aren't you glad you didn't spend the day moping around at the office now?"

"I guess." Ayden admitted as she started coming down from her adrenaline high to ask, "'S that why ya really wanted ta bring me 'ere?"

"Eh I know you're still kinda messed up about meeting your old man and finding out he's a douche, so I thought you could use some fun." Blitzø answered truthfully with a hint of a rueful smile.

"Hmph... I guess this w's fun..." Ayden jokingly huffed and smiled a bit before reminding him, slightly stuttering from the still-lingering buzz, "But we can't tell Millie o' Moxxie... *brp* we can't tell'em 'bout this..."

"Oh for ~suuuuuuure~!"

"Y'know what I really want right now?" Ayden asked out of nowhere as she kicked her hind paws onto the dashboard and waved her front paws in the air in front of her.

"What?"

"Chocolate covered strawberries and.... spicy peanut butter pasta."

"You got some weird buzz cravings..." Blitzø looked over at her with a weirded-out expression before it disappeared as he mentioned, "But I think I know a place.."

"Woo!" Ayden cheered before they arrived at the vehicle Ring Elevator and, just after the doors closed to starting ascending-

*HLEGH!*

"You're fucking cleaning that up!"

AN- First story request done! (Sorry if it's a little short ^^; )

Some notes and references:

The two songs featured, in order of appearance, are "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Elton John and "T.Rex" by K.Flay from the movie "Nimona" (which I absolutely love and recommend : D and thought the song would fit into the whole "Ayden not wanting to become what her dad wants her to be and instead choosing to do things her way thanks to I.M.P.")

Those of you who understand the secret meaning/history behind Ayden's weird food cravings are awesome ^^

I've got three more requests in store plus I'm continuing work on formulating/organizing a Hazbin Hotel fanfic with another OC as well as a What If? Ayden Hazbin Hotel AU Insert story which means it might take a while to get requests out ^^

Speaking of... HOLY SHIT!!! Every episode of Hazbin Hotel so far are fucking insane! XD If you've seen them too and wanna talk about them, feel free to DM me cause there's so much that I wanna talk about and I am so pumped up for the final episodes this Friday ^^

Also, as far as short story's earlier placement, I want to avoid making possible conflicts in future Helluva Boss episodes since they're already gonna be kinda difficult to work with with Ayden's "B-story" plotline intertwined with the main show plot. So, when making requests, please keep that in mind and know that I'll soon be rearranging the most recent short story chapters to be in their chronological places relative to the show's episodes.

Until the next one, Bye!