Before we begin, just so you guys can get an image of Angel's parts being sung by a woman, here's the best I could find:

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Yes, it's more of a role reversal where the girl gets the guys lines and the guy gets the girls lines, but this is the best I could for this. There are thus far no full on female duet covers of Addict.

Anyways, onto the chapter.

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The viewing opened up to the inside of a dimly lit building, focusing on a table at the center of a room. Surrounding the table were numerous anthropomorphic demonic sharks with red eyes, razor sharp teeth, and various clothing apparel. However, they were not alone.

On one end of the table sat a very tall demoness with four arms. She was covered in white fur with pink spots, her hair going down towards her back, the left side of which was brown while the right was pink with a few tuffs of white. Her irises were both pink, but her left eye had no pupil and a dark sclera. She wore a white suit with pink stripes, a black and pink bow tie, a black choker, pink gloves, a black miniskirt, and long black high heel boots. She also wore a white fedora with a pink band and black feather sticking out. But to top it all off, her suit gave an opening that showed off a bit of the large breasts the woman had.

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"What did we just walk into?" Ruby asked with a raised brow.

"Some kind of discussion, I would wager." Weiss said as rose her brow as well, more so at the anthropomorphic sharks.

"Those are humanoid sharks." Emerald said with a deadpan.

"Remind me, what universe is this meant to be again?" Roman asked Vortech.

"Disregarding Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury, may I properly welcome you all back to Hell." Vortech proclaimed to the audience.

"Oh, dear..." Glynda said with a slight frown.

"That demon ain't back, is he?" Qrow asked as he looked over to Vortech.

"No. This time, Hell was scheduled next to be viewed." Vortech said, alleviating those in the audience who felt unnerved the moment Ozpin's demon counterpart showed his face on the viewing screen.

"Wait, this is Hell?" Mercury asked as he looked back at the screen with a raised brow. "I thought they'd be more flames."

"Or the tortured screams of the damned for that matter." Cinder muttered.

"Well, last time we saw this universe, we really didn't see any kind of fire littering the streets and sky in Hell." Blake said. "Other than demons, some dark buildings, and a red sky, that's all we really saw of Hell."

"Speaking of the last time, are we gonna see I.M.P again?" Jaune asked Vortech. "Or does this have something to do with that other focus in this universe you told us about?"

"The latter." Vortech answered him before glancing over to Roman. "Roman did want to know what Neo does in Hell."

"I thought I recognized that color palette." Roman rubbed his chin a bit in thought as he looked towards the white and pink haired demoness on screen. "I gotta say though, this Neo looks like a far cry from what I'm used to seeing."

'I look like a furry bombshell.' Neo signed with a small smile. "Not that I'm complaining with my looks."

"In Hell, Neo is a spider demon with a height of around eight feet." Vortech explained. "That's... all I'll say for now."

"Jeez, she's taller than the average person." Roman said with surmised eyes.

"Not to mention the bust she's carrying." Yang pointed out with wide eyes. She took a look at her own breasts before looking back at the ones spider demon Neo had. "Those knockers are bigger than mine."

"Yeah, I wasn't trying to point that out." Roman deadpanned a bit. He had taken an early notice at the cleavage his partner's demonic counterpart had, as well as how much was being shown. Suffice to say, he didn't want that thought in his head.

Meanwhile, Neo smirked a bit in pride with her eyes closed. "I mean, I'm fine with what I've got, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna welcome the aspect of more of it."

"Must you phrase it like that?" Weiss asked Yang with a bland look.

"Hey, I don't like the girl, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna give compliments when they're due." Yang shrugged in response to Weiss. "We can't all be prudes. Besides... you're probably only calling me out cause you're jealous."

"I most certainly am not." Weiss immediately scowled in response as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Unlike most people, I do not define myself by what lies underneath my clothes."

"Biologically speaking, however, human and faunus women usually seek to have larger breasts." Penny pointed out with a raised finger. "The larger their breasts, the better they are at supporting their young. And in other instances, attracting a partner for sexual relations."

"Okay, can we please move away from the topic of breasts?" Weiss asked with an annoyed look. "This is getting more detailed than I'd like it to be."

"The conversation definitely has taken... an odder direction." Pyrrha said with a feint blush on her face towards Penny's explanation.

"I feel ashamed that I can't get it out of my head now." Jaune said with his own feint blush as he placed his hands to his face.

"I don't mind it." Mercury commented with a slight smirk.

"You're a pig." Emerald told him with an eye roll.

"I mean, Penny's right though." Nora said with a nonchalant shrug. "I've caught guys at Beacon taking glances every now and then."

"Safe to say though, they're all too scared to approach Nora." Ren added in with a calm look. "Thankfully..."

"Can we just please stop talking about... all of this, and get on with the viewing?" Weiss asked with another frown before turning her head away and grumbling to herself.

Glynda had blandly rose her brow at the students the entire time before diverting her attention away when they had ceased talking
"Well that entire conversation was a thing."

"I'm gonna have to try and teach Penny a little bit more in the department of being discreet." Pietro said as he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.

"To be fair, Yang did start the whole talk up." Tai pointed out. "She's always been carefree. Whether it be in actions or words."

"As crude as your daughter was, Weiss has always had an issue in rising into topics regarding breasts." Winter shook her head a bit. "Even if she denies it, I can always tell that it bothers her."

"Meh. Men and women go through the same stuff when it comes to sizes." Qrow shrugged before taking a swing of his flask. "The self-conscious ones are always first to complain."

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"So, lemme get this straight..." The lead shark demon mobster in a teal suit with a neck tie and blue overalls started to speak.

"Hmm?" The demonic variant of Neo questioned him with a raised brow after inspecting her hand.

"Jacques has a lanky filly runnin' his deals for him now?" The shark mobster asked.

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"Woah, woah, woah. Did I hear that right?" Roman asked with a taken aback look. "I couldn't have heard that right. I heard that, right? My Neo is working for Jacques Schnee?"

'I feel dirty.' Neo signed with a frown. She then flipped her sign around. 'And that's coming from me.'

"A crook working for a crook. How surprising." Sienna muttered with an eye roll.

"I should have figured father would be in Hell in this universe." Winter remarked with a frown. "Though that was on the account if he was dead or not. I suppose this answers it."

"If this is a deal of my father's, this seems far more dirty and criminal than usual." Weiss crossed her arms while shaking her head. "What father does tends to be more under the table and less blatant. Black mail. Threats. Hustling. Sweeping issues under the rug."

"Go figure she knows what her father does." Ilia thought with an eye roll. "And yet she's done nothing about it."

Vortech cleared his throat loud before looking over to Roman. "Back to what Roman said, this version of Jacques isn't a Schnee. Never even married Willlow. But his status in Hell is equal to what he has on Remnant. Just more dastardly."

"I mean, I'm a dastardly individual myself, same as Neo. But why would she work for a scumbag like Jacques Schnee?" Roman asked in continued confusion.

"For that question... let's just say she doesn't have much of a choice in the matter." Vortech carefully replied back to Roman.

Roman and Neo furrowed their eyes a bit at Vortech before looking to each other. They then looked back at Vortech.

"I don't like what you're saying." Roman told Vortech.

"You're not gonna like watching it, either." Vortech replied back as he pointed to the screen.

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"Who ya callin' a "filly", busta?" Neo asked back, revealing her sharp teeth, one of which was gold as she placed her upper two hands onto the table, her lower two crossed, her voice having an accent to it. "I'm more pro than you could ever handle, baby."

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"Well, barring this version of Neo working for Jacques Schnee, she speaks the truth." Roman said with a shrug and a tilt of his head. "She's killed more people than me, and in such an expert fashion. It was truly beautiful."

'I'm far from a filly.' Neo signed with a proud smile, yet with a calm look. "Though I can't say how I feel about the accent I have here. It's going to take some getting used to."

"Proclaiming how many people you kill isn't something to be proud of." Ironwood blatantly spoke with crossed arms.

"What? We do with it Grimm. I'm just being inclusive here." Roman said in defense of himself and Neo.

"Grimm don't have souls. People do. No sane person goes around stating how many people they kill with a smile on their face." Ironwood shot back.

"Unless the kills are from a video game." Qrow added in.

"Don't help him, Qrow." Ironwood told his colleague.

"Just saying." Qrow replied with a shrug.

"Well, it's not like we cared for the people we killed." Roman told the General. "And more them were other crooks and criminals. We never killed anyone that didn't deserve it."

"Correction: You have only killed people that get in your way." Winter shot over to the criminal mastermind. "Police officers aren't criminals. The ones that actually hold well to their duty, anyways."

"Touché." Roman shrugged in response.

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"Well, ya certainly ain't talkin' like one..." The shark mobster shot back, prompting Neo to glance up in annoyance.

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"The hell does that mean?" Neo thought to herself with a raised brow.

"Her accent and tone of voice is slightly off-putting." Blake said with a raised brow. "And I mean that in a non-criminal way."

"Other than sounding like she can hold a conversation, her accent definitely doesn't sound like someone who's ready to do some underhanded work." Yang said.

"Sometimes the most dangerous and efficient people are those you least expect." Ozpin sagely stated. "Even the unlikeliest of faces and voices have the potential to be dangerous."

"I really shouldn't smile at the irony here." Cinder thought to herself before glancing off to the side with a small smirk. "But I just can't help myself."

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"Look. Let's cut to the chase." Neo made her voice clear as she leaned over the table, resting her elbows onto it as she laid her chin onto the back of her hands. "Big J didn't have much time to deal with some shitty C-list mobster in a tacky suit. So I figured it might be doin' him a big favor to get one of his petty deals outta the way..."

Neo then sat straight in her seat with her hand out a bit in an expectant manner. "Ya got the shit?"

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"Ah... This is a drug deal, ain't it." Roman said with a nod of understanding.

"Drugs." Weiss said with disdain in her voice. "Definitely far more dirty than what my father usually does."

"Just when I think the man can't get any lower." Winter muttered to herself. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad our version of father has some standards. Otherwise actions like these would have driven the SDC's reputation into the ground far earlier on."

"I really don't get what's so special about people taking non-medical drugs." Ruby said with a confused look. "They should know they don't really help."

"Well, Rubes, sometimes people are just depressed and want to fall back on something." Yang told her younger sister. "Or they're just stupid. It's almost like how Qrow took to alcohol."

"Are you comparing my alcoholism to that of a drug addiction?" Qrow asked his eldest niece with a raised brow.

"Hey, admittance is the first step down the road to recovery." Tai told Qrow as he put his hand on his shoulder.

"I've already admitted it." Qrow shrugged off Tai's hand before holding up his flask. "Yet here I am still."

"Yeah, I know..." Tai trailed off with a sigh as he shook his head.

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"Depends." The shark mobster scowled as he rubbed his finger and thumb together. "On whether or not you have my money..."

Neo scoffed with a ticked off smirk as he placed her hand against the top of her breasts. "Ya think I'd show up to a drug deal without the goods to pay? This is Hell, dipshit!"

Neo then removed her hand from her chest as she glanced off to the side with a peeved look. "I ain't fuckin' stupid..."

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"Of course you're not stupid, Neo." Roman told his pint-sized partner, placing his hand on her shoulder. "Don't let anyone ever tell you different."

Neo beamed brightly at her boss's words as she placed her hands within her lap. "Awe. And don't let anyone ever say you're not my dummy."

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"Then let's see it." The shark mobster told her.

Neo then promptly slammed a brown suitcase onto the table, standing up from her seat as she did so. "There! Ya see? It's all he—."

Before she could finish her sentence though, Neo heard the many numerous clicks of guns being cocked. It prompted her to look up with a deadpan.

The shark demons laughed a bit as they held Neo at gunpoint, Neo giving a heavy sigh in response.

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'Seriously?' Neo signed with a deadpan.

"Well that all went south real quick." Mercury commented.

"I guess the sharks want to keep the drugs and the money." Jaune observed.

"Like drug dealing loan sharks." Nora said. "Actually... I think I know why they're sharks now."

"A bunch of rookies. All of them." Roman shook his head with a tisk.

"Aren't they the ones that pulled guns out on her, though?" Emerald pointed out.

"Yep. Their first and only mistake." Roman said with a nod. "Trying to play the tough guy act on Neo."

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"What's that you said about bein' fuckin' stupid? Filly?" The shark mobster snidely asked Neo with a cocky smirk.

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"Just keep talking. You'll be shark fin soup in a moment." Neo thought to herself as she narrowed her eyes at the shark mobster.

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Neo gave the shark demons a bland look for a moment before sitting down back in the chair. "So let me get this straight... I show up with Jacques's money to pay, an' you chickenshits pull the tough gangsta routine on me? Just like that?"

Neo got back up from her seat, narrowing her eyes as she leaned forward, her upper left hand rested on the back of her hip while her upper right hand pointed towards the shark demons. "Why, to look cool? Ya don't look cool! Ya look... sad. Stop it!"

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At this, Neo couldn't help but silently giggle a bit.

"No truer words could ever be spoken about this situation." Roman said with a smirk.

"She calls them out without any form of hesitation." Blake said. "She definitely has something up her sleeve."

"She wasn't even all that surprised when the sharks first pulled their weapons out on her." Pyrrha pointed out. "This Neo must have dealt with similar situations such as this in the past. Alive and dead."

"She doesn't even seem all too invested in the whole ordeal." Cinder observed of spider demoness Neo. "And from the sound of things, she'd rather them all to properly complete the transaction as opposed to fighting. Though given her attitude, I doubt it has anything to do with the fear of getting gunned down. She's trying to be diplomatic as a courtesy for them, as crude as she is at doing it."

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"I can just tell a weak willed stooge when I see one. 'S easy money." The shark mobster said to Neo, who merely held a sweet and cheeky smile on her face with her hand in front of her mouth as the shark demons still aimed their guns on het. "Jacques must not give much of a shit about this deal... so why don't I just take it instead? Maybe if you behave, you can keep your head. In exchange..."

"Aw, this bullshit tough guy act ain't foolin' me, babe..." Neo interrupted the shark mobster with a sly smirk, moving away a shotgun battle from her face. "But... maybe I'm givin' off the wrong vibe."

"Lemme speak a language ya might understand better." Neo spoke in a sultry tone.

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At this, Roman paused for a moment as he furrowed his eyes again. "Hey, wait... why's Neo talking like that?"

"Probably to lower the sharks' guard." Sienna suggested. "Being playful is a tactic dangerous woman can use well to distract an enemy."

"I've seen Neo be coy and playful before." Roman retorted. "This... seems a bit more than regular teasing. I don't know, maybe her voice is throwing me off."

"That's... pretty much the point of what I just said." Sienna told Roman with a raised brow.

"Ah, you wouldn't understand." Roman waved her off before looking back at the screen.

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The shark mobster merely smirked as he looked her way. "What language is that? Skan—."

Immediately spawning a third set of arms and hands, Neo pulled several various weapons ranging from tommy guns, assault rifles, and pistols, all of which had pink highlights indicating some form of spider-related theme. The spider demoness wickedly smirked as she fired at all of the shark demons in a trigger-happy fashion.

The shark demons are groaned in pain from the multiple spray of bullets coming from Neo. None of them were able to fire back in time. All of their bodies hit the floor. Blood splattered everywhere.

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"Holy shit." Qrow uttered with a surprised and slightly impressed look.

"That was the most one-sided stand off I've ever seen." Tai said with wide eyes. "And the quickest."

"Despite the gruesome display, that was some excellent reaction time." Glynda couldn't help but compliment Neo's demonic counterpart. "She pulled out her weapons and fired before the sharks' could even pull their triggers."

"Just as swift as a spider." Ironwood added in.

"She can spawn weapons?" Ruby asked with stars in her eyes, completely ignoring the slaughter that just occurred. "Ooh, I'm so jealous."

"Of course that's what you're taking from this situation." Weiss sighed a bit while shaking her head.

"She kicked their asses before they even knew what hit them." Yang said with an impressed look. "Talk about skill."

"That happened quicker than I thought was gonna happen." Mercury said with his own surprised look.

"She can sextuple-wield. Even with heavier caliber guns." Emerald said with wide eyes. "I guess there are pros to being a demon."

"Quick. Efficient. And enjoying herself through the entire thing." Roman said with a knowing smile. "That's my Neo."

Meanwhile, Neo herself held her own smirk at all the shark demons her counterpart had just killed. "It's a lot more bloody than my usual work, but I'll take it regardless."

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When the deed was down, Neo smirked as she put away her most weapons, receding her third set of arms. She brought one of her pistols towards her face, blowing away the smoke from the gun hole before twirling it expertly in her hand.

Quietly humming to herself, Neo started to walk towards the shark mobster, the only shark demon who Neo hadn't shot as he lay on the floor, backing away from her with a gritting scowl.

Neo then placed her hand atop the shark mobster's head. At first, he held his scowling look. But that all changed when Neo placed the barrel of her pistol against his head, causing him to look at it in concern.

"So." Neo started with a daring tone. "Ya gonna finish that word?"

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"Sounds like she took extreme offense to what the shark guy was about to say." Jaune said with blinking eyes, still taken aback a bit at everything that just occurred.

"Any woman would be mad as all hell if someone else called them a skank." Yang said with a shrug. "It's just a word that we all equally hate."

"I can't say I've ever heard of a woman killing en masse over it." Ren said with a tilt of his head.

"There are some words you just never say to a woman." Ilia said. "At least if you're not prepared for the fallout."

"Nobody calls me skank, and gets to walk with their head still attached." Neo thought to herself with a schooled smile. However, she soon glanced up with a thoughtful expression. "But not-Mando's right. My counterpart did seem to take more offense to the word then most women."

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However, to Neo's surprise, the shark mobster was immediately shot in the head from another direction, causing him to fall to the floor dead.

Neo reeled back in surprise as she stared at the shark mobster's body. However a moment of thought later and she connected the dots as to what happened.

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"Oh, wait, what?" Roman asked in surprise.

"My potential kill's been stolen." Neo thought to herself with a frown.

"A third party?" Winter questioned.

"A third party, or one already in the deal?" Ozpin questioned in response.

"If that's the case, I suspect this universes variant of my father isn't too far away." Winter frowned a bit as she crossed her arms.

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"Eugh... God." Neo thought to herself as she placed her hand against her face in annoyance.

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"And that might prove it was my father who made the final kill." Winter said as she held her frown. "I know that look of annoyance all too well."

"So do I." Ironwood said whilst shaking his head.

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Neo was next shown walking outside to see a hot pink limousine awaiting for her. A demon wearing a suit with tentacle arms and a large head with only a sideways eye for his face opened the door for Neo as a stream of red smoke exited from the car.

"Neo." The voice of Jacques rang upon the air. From within the darkness of the limousine, a sharp-toothed, grinning pink smile with one gold tooth could be seen accompanied by a large pair of pink-tinted, heart-shaped glasses. A hand motioning for Neo to come in.

"Mm." Neo gripped her arm in apprehension, now holding her fedora in hand.

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Weiss felt a shiver down her spine upon hearing her father's voice. Except his voice in this universe had an edge to it that she did not like one bit.

"Is he... is he wearing heart-shaped glasses?" Ilia asked in slight disbelief.

"His teeth are pink." Emerald said, giving the screen an odd look.

"What is he, a pimp?" Mercury asked with a short chuckle.

"Whatever he is, he's got Neo unnerved." Yang pointed out.

"My father has that tendency with people under his thumb." Weiss said as she held an all too knowing frown.

"I've got a bad feeling with that smile of his." Blake gave the screen an apprehensive look.

"I don't get it. Why's Neo looking scared in front of this guy?" Roman thought to himself in confusion, his eyes faltering a bit in concern when he saw spider demoness Neo's look. "It outta be the other way around. What gives?"

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Neo soon resumed walking towards the limousine, entering into the vehicle before it started to rev its engines and drive off.

Inside the limousine, a blue-grey skinned demon, taller than Neo sat upon a dark, red velvet couch with various heart decals. Two demoness hookers sat on both sides of him, rubbing themselves against him.

His suit was red with a fluffy white fur collar adorned with red hearts. His shirt underneath was black with white stripes. He wore black high heel boots that matched his gloves. Atop his head was the heart-shaped glasses from before, alongside a tall, red top-hat with a black and white stripped band, a black and white stripped feather, and two moth antennas sticking out from the brim of his hat.

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"That's... what father looks like in Hell?" Weiss asked with a slightly disturbed and taken aback look.

"Woah. I was joking about the pimp thing." Mercury blinked in surprise.

"I feel like clawing at something." Winter scowled at her father's demonic counterpart and the two hookers clinging to him.

"Everyone, meet Jacques' demonic variant." Vortech introduced to the audience. "A moth demon standing around ten feet tall. An Overlord of Hell."

"Overlord?" Ironwood asked. "Such like Stolas from the last viewing of this universe?"

"Ugh. Don't remind me." Roman groaned into his hand.

"Stolas is a Prince of Hell. He has a higher standing. And he was born into his position." Vortech explained. "Overlord's earn their titles. Sinners that gain enough power and influence in Hell to get a seat at the adults' table. Every Overlord varies in their power, but it's well known that they're not ones to easily be trifled with should their paths be crossed. Much more difficult to get rid of them too."

"Of course Jacques Schnee makes his way up into power in Hell." Sienna said with a sigh. "I was a fool to hope he'd be eternally screaming in a river of fire."

"So Weiss's dad is basically a really bad bad guy here." Ruby surmised as she glanced a look at demon Overlord Jacques, frowning at him a bit.

"Let's just say, this Jacques makes the one from your universe look like saint." Vortech replied back.

"That's a shuddering thought." Winter scowled further.

"And Neo's working for him." Roman frowned as well, crossing his arms. "I've got a bad feeling about this."

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"So. Tell me, Neo Cream..." The demonic Jacques spoke in a smooth and low tone before raising his voice a bit with a growl. "What the fuck was that?"

"Um... I-I overhead you at the studio." Neo tried to explain to Jacques with a nervous chuckle. "Talking about how you didn't have anyone to handle this deal... with... I mean... I just thought it was an easy gig... I knew I could take em' out easy and even scored ya both..."

"Neo, Neo, Neo." Jacques interrupted her with a toothy smirk. "Baby... What have I told you countless times, sweetheart? Regarding you, work and my affairs?"

"C'mon, boss!" Neo complained a bit to Jacques as she glanced down, her lower arms crossed. "I know how this stuff goes... It was just—."

"WHAT." Jacques growled as he immediately snatched Neo's face, bringing it very close to his as he wickedly smiled down at her frightful expression. "...Have I told you?"

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The Neo in the audience found herself taken aback a bit at the situation. Not because of Jacques per day, but because she had never seen herself with such a fear-filled expression.

Roman's eye twitched a bit before narrowing into a glare as he began to tighten his grip on the arm of his chair.

Weiss flinched as well, thinking back to some of her father's more abusive attributes. Specifically to ways he would mistreat and slander her mother.

"And the record keeps getting worse and worse the more it spins." Winter ruefully muttered as she scowled at her father's demonic counterpart.

"I see even in Hell, Jacques likes to assert his authority over others." Ironwood frowned. "Though this Jacques seems far more forceful."

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Jacques loosened up on his grip of Neo's face, allowing for her to reply back to him with a downhearted look. "...Stay in the studio...?"

"Very good." Jacques told Neo with a frown. "And where were you today?"

Neo pouted with a scowl as she glanced off to the side. "... Not at the studio..."

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"An abusive relationship." Pyrrha said with a grimace. "You only ever hear about things like this, or when you watch certain shows television."

"It's hard to imagine seeing the actual thing unfold." Jaune finished his partner's sentiment.

"Man, Weiss. I know you've talked about issues with your dad, but I never considered he'd be this much of an asshole." Yang said to the SDC heiress with a raised brow of surprise.

"I can understand a bit of the fear Neo's counterpart has." Weiss shook her head with a sigh. "Knowing father, he doesn't treat her as an actual person. Rather his own personal property that he decides everything for, doing all that he can to leave no room for argument."

"Hmph. I guess Schnees are more screwed up than I thought they already were." Ilia thought to herself as she crossed her arms, narrowing her eyes a bit at the screen.

Upon hearing Weiss's words, Neo frowned before glancing off to the side, tightening her hands into fists. "I am not someone's property. I'm not some doll to play with, and I never will be."

"It isn't a wonder why Miss Schnee wanted to come all the way to Vale to become a huntress rather than in her home kingdom." Glynda shook her head as she quietly spoke between herself and her colleagues. "I can't begin to imagine what it must have been growing up with a man like Jacques Schnee as her father."

"I know Jacques. Personally and from what Winter has told me." Ironwood said to Glynda. "He keeps the facade of a business man, but underneath he's a heartless son of a bitch."

"It's a good thing I've ignored the calls he's made to me over the semester." Ozpin said. "I doubt I would be able to hold a proper conversation with him without cursing him out as a goodbye."

"That sounds like conversation I'd pay good money to see." Qrow remarked before taking a swing of his flask.

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"Very good, darlin'..." Jacques calmly complimented Neo. "Now. Let's talk about how you're gonna make up for the work you missed."

"I can... pull a double shift tomorro—." Neo opted to suggested.

"I THINK." Jacques proclaimed with a wide grin and snap of his fingers, interrupting Neo as he ordered the limousine to halt with a screech.

"You can get out right here. Stand on this corner and make up the time you missed filming." Jacques told Neo as she gave him a frown in return. "You were supposed to do a gang bang today. So you might be having a long night, sugar..."

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"Excuse me?!" Roman shouted as he got to his feet. "My ears must be clogged with something this viewing, cause I'm hearing a lot of shit that I don't believe I'm hearing!"

'Deep breaths. In and out.' Neo signed to her boss as she got up from her chair to place Roman back into his seat, patting him on the shoulder as she did so.

"Gang bang?" Blake asked with wide eyes. "Does that mean Neo's a..."

"She's a porn star." Emerald said with a surprised look.

"Oh, dear God." Weiss groaned into her hands. "That means my father's counterpart runs a porn studio."

"The most popular studio in Hell, to be exact." Vortech said to Weiss.

"Never mind. He can reach new lows." Winter said with a bland and frustrated look.

"Wow. I really hit the nail on the coffin with that pimp joke." Mercury said with an impressed expression on his face.

"I suddenly have a bad feeling we're about to see something far more inappropriate this viewing death and blood." Tai said with a deadpan look. "Yang, make sure to cover your sister's eyes when we do."

"Got it." Yang gave a two finger salute back to her father in response.

"Could you see if you could cover Penny's eyes as well?" Pietro decided to ask Yang. "I don't want her seeing anything too graphic that might scar her."

"I'll see what I can do." Yang replied back to the scientist.

"Oh, come on. There's no need to baby us." Ruby complained a bit. "We saw Roman, Jaune, and Neon butcher a kid last time we saw Hell. We can handle this."

"Wait, what?" Emerald asked, immediately taken aback by Ruby's words.

"I concur with Ruby." Penny nodded. "Besides, I am combat ready."

"Girls, there's a difference between watching people kill other people, and watching people have sex." Tai said to Ruby and Penny. "Besides, this is Hell, so I don't think this will have anything to do with regular porn."

"Yeah. A gang bang is the first clue to hardcore." Qrow said.

"In other words, you two have no room for negotiation in this." Yang said as she looked at Ruby and Penny.

"Oh... very well, I suppose." Penny relented.

"Ugh... Fine." Ruby crossed her arms with a frown. "But only the really bad stuff. I'm not a kid anymore."

"You'll always be a kid in this family, Rubes." Yang placed her arm over Ruby's shoulder. "No matter how old you get."

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Neo started to open up the limousine door with a dejected look as she started to walk out. "Yes, sir..."

"Is that all?!" Jacques shouted at Neo, causing her to flinch.

"Whatever ya want, Mista Jacques!" Neo turned back around, putting on her best smile as she tried to speak with a sweetened tone, though one could tell she wasn't into it.

"Good girl..." Jacques told Neo. "Now, get out."

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"Ooh, I hate him." Roman scowled as she shook with rage. "I really really hate him."

'You're not the only one, but you need calm down a bit.' Neo signed to Roman with her hand on her hip. 'Save it all up for a potential heist where we rob him blind.'

"Very well, Neo." Roman said as he breathed out through his nose. "But only because you say so."

"And beginning my countdown now..." Vortech muttered as he summoned a comedically large clock into his hand.

"What was that?" Roman questioned Vortech, turning towards him.

"Nothing." Vortech quickly responded as he threw the clock away.

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Spider demon Neo was now shown walking through the dirty and red streets, her stilettos clicking with each step as she past by various demons who all eyed her, prompting her to scowl back at them.

Now leaning against a lamp post, Neo lit a cigarette that she began to smoke. She angrily muttered to herself as some of the nearby demons watched her. "Fuckin' pompous shithead! Fuckin'... Ugh..."

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"I've thought of worse, but agree with her sentiment." Winter said.

"My Neo being forced to wait on the street like a hooker." Roman shook his head with a scowl. "I know I've paid some hookers myself for a few nights, but this whole thing hits different when it's someone close to you."

"There's a thought I didn't need in my head." Sienna said with a sigh. "But I suppose your sentiment is oddly noble enough."

"I think I can hazard a guess as to why Neo's counterpart wasn't all too fond of being referred to as a skank." Cinder muttered.

"Yeah. Someone with her position? It's be like rubbing rub a pound of salt into the wound." Emerald replied to Cinder with crossed arms.

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Soon enough though, a dark pink vehicle pulled up beside Neo. The driver honked the car's horn, getting Neo's attention. Neo rose her brow as she leaned down towards the car window.

Neo put on her best poker face as the window rolled down. She sultrily smiled as she began to speak. "Well, hey there. See som—."

However, Neo was then promptly taken aback with surprise and confusion as to who was behind the window that was rolled down. "Oh..."

Within the back of the vehicle was the demonic version of Ruby, nervously waving at Neo. Beside Ruby was Ilia Amitola, her skin was a muted lavender and her hair white with light pink stripes at the end.

She wore a white mini-dress with slate-gray X's on her bust, similar colored scalloped trim to the bottom hem, and a matching belt alongside slate-gray evening gloves and a choker of the same color. On her legs were a pair of stockings, one pale slate-gray while the other was a pale slate-gray alternate with light pink stripes down the length. One of the straps of her dress is off-the-shoulder, revealing a slate-gray bra. To top it all off, she has a big pink bow on the back of her head.

The demonic version of Ilia frowned at the scene as she slapped her hand against her eyes.

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"Uh..." Ruby trailed off with a tilt of her head, confusion written all over her face.

"Wait how is she Hell?" Emerald asked with a surprised look.

"Why is she blonde?" Mercury asked.

"That's what you're taking from this?" Emerald asked him.

"Apparently Ruby was born in Hell in this universe." Yang told Emerald. "That's at least what Vortech told us. So good news is that she didn't do anything bad in life to get there. She's still alive."

"So I guess this is where I come in." Ilia said with an uncertain look.

"Well, this outta be riveting to see." Roman blandly spoke.

'And the surprise guests are...' Neo signed with a raised brow.

"My fatherly instincts are kicking in." Tai said with a frown. "Why is Ruby's counterpart rolling up to someone who clearly holds the disposition of a hooker?"

"Hey, I take offense to that!" Roman called out to Tai.

"I mean that in the nicest way possible." Tai replied to the criminal. "I've got people to be concerned for just as much as you."

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"Whoa now... For ladies, I charge extra." Neo turned her head away as she rose back up, holding her hand out in a halting manner towards Ruby.

"No no no!!!" Ruby immediately yelled out as she leaned out of her car window, revealing she was in the same red suit from when the audience first saw her appearance. "No! We don't want any of that! I was wondering if we could talk to you real quick..."

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"Okay. At least she isn't going up to her to pay for sex." Tai wiped away a beed of sweat from his forehead.

"Charges extra for girls... that was actual funny." Qrow said with a small smile.

"Who the heck goes up to hooker just for quick conversation?" Roman asked with a befuddled look.

"I'm sorry, haven't we fought you on a weekly basis? Have not fully met Ruby yet?" Yang asked Roman with a raised brow.

"I feel a sense of offense in that statement, but I am choosing to let it slide." Ruby spoke to her sister with a bland and quiet tone.

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"I'm on the clock, sista..." Neo told Ruby as some of the demons in the background looked at the scene in intrigue and confusion. "Ya gotta pay if ya wanna waste my time."

"Oh, yes! Sure! I can do that!" Ruby smiled as she swiftly opened the door for Neo to enter in, Ilia still giving a frown to the situation as she narrowed her eye.

Neo rose her eye at Ruby before eventually relenting with a shrug.

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"And she's willing to pay just for the talking. Like she isn't fully grasping Neo's job description." Roman said as his disbelief grew. "I'm sorry, I know I despise Red, but born in Hell or not, that is not person that belongs there."

"Thanks... I guess?" Ruby said to Roman with a raised brow.

'Well, Money's money anyway. At least I'm getting paid.' Neo signed with a shrug.

"This whole scenario has a Ruby plan written all over it." Weiss stated.

"From the cheery smile to the blatant eagerness." Blake nodded in agreement.

"That just means I really like my plans. What's so wrong about that?" Ruby asked her teammates.

"It's more so that we can tell when you're up to something, sis." Yang told Ruby. "You don't even try to put on a poker face when you're hiding something."

"I have a poke face." Ruby crossed her arms with a pout. "I've just never found the right thing to use it on. I'm very good at keeping secrets that I take seriously."

"Then that just leaves the issue of what all you take seriously." Weiss blandly said to her partner.

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"Ya got any booze in this fancy-ass car?" Neo asked Ruby as she entering into the vehicle, crawling over Ruby and Ilia's lap as she tried to get in.

Ruby didn't show any discomfort to how Neo was entering into her car while Ilia was more than a little peeved.

"Are you sure this is the one you want to talk to?" Ilia asked Ruby as she turned to her, revealing that she had a grey eyepatch on her left eye with a red X on it.

Ilia pointed her hand towards Neo, who was shown landing down on one of the adjacent seats with her legs stuck out. She waved back with her right upper hand as she used her left to rest behind her head. Her lower left hand held her cigarette between her fingers while her right rested on her lap. Neo stuck her tongue out with an almost mischievous smile.

"Yes. She's good! I can tell." Ruby replied with a smile, causing Ilia to look at her in disbelief.

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Neo raised her brow at Ruby's demonic counterpart before thinking to herself. "She's either insane or really reaching here. Though I doubt that she isn't serious."

"She's insane." Emerald quietly muttered in regards to Ruby's counterpart.

"Now, now. We shouldn't be too quick to judge." Cinder opted to say. "We've yet to find out what Ruby plans for Neo. Certainly there must be some merit to it."

"Or none." Mercury replied.

"Yeah, I'm having some serious trust issues in that statement." Ilia said with a small frown towards what demon Ruby said.

"Neo's pose alone described her entire attitude." Weiss blandly spoke.

"Well, we don't know how she entirely acts." Ruby said in defense. "We know that Weiss's demon dad is abusive towards her, and she doesn't like that. So she can't be an entirely bad person herself."

"Eh. I've seen far more optimistic situations." Ozpin decided to join Ruby's side with a shrug. "She may be worth it."

"Which now begs the question as to why Miss Rose's counterpart wanted to talk to Neo." Glynda said.

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"So what's what?" Neo asked as she tried to get into a more comfortable position. "Like I said... I'm on the clock."

"Weeeeeeellll..." Ruby trailed off with a cheeky and excited smile as she rubbed her cheek against Ilia's, who gave a small smile in return.

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"That was... oddly and overly friendly." Ilia said with a raised brow.

"Well you two most certainly know each other." Weiss surmised with a shrug. "Ruby can be clingy when it comes to those she makes friends with."

"You say clingy, I say friendship in its purest form." Ruby retorted to Weiss.

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Separating herself from Ruby, Ilia looked over to Neo again. "What is your name? Miss...?"

"Neo. Neo Politan? The Porn Star...?" Neo told Ilia, confused a bit as to how she didn't recognize her. "I'm kinda famous here, bitch..."

"Was that necessary?" Ilia asked with a frown.

"Nah." Neo cheekily replied as she sat up. "But those words tend to just slip outta me..."

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"I'm suddenly feeling disturbed a bit with this Neo." Roman frowned again. "At least show some displeasure with your position in the afterlife."

"You're assuming she hates having to be a porn star." Vortech said to Roman with a raised brow. "Believe me. She just doesn't like being abused. The whole sex gig is part of why she works for Jacques in this universe to begin with."

"You can't be serious." Roman deadpanned at Vortech with slumped shoulders.

"I wish I wasn't." Vortech replied with a disturbed shiver down his back.

"Now that you mention it, Neo here has been really teasing with the way she talks at times." Yang said with a blinking look. "I guess she likes to be really flirty in this universe. I can see a lot of double entendres in the future with her."

"Not to mention how crass she in in her delivery." Weiss added in.

"I suppose there are worse things than my counterpart being a nympho. At least it isn't her entire personality, so I'm not too torn up about it." Neo thought to herself with a shrug.

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"My name is Ilia... This is Ruby." Ilia introduced herself and Ruby, the latter waving at Neo with a sweet smile. "We—."

"Like a pelvis?!" Neo suddenly blurted out.

The spider demon was shown mischievously chuckling at her own little joke as Ilia gave a frustrated sigh.

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"What?" Ilia asked in complete confusion.

"I believe Neo's counterpart is making a joke on your name." Penny said to Ilia. "Ilia is also plural for ilium, which the uppermost and largest part of the pelvis. Otherwise known as a hip bone."

"Oh..." Ilia said before frowning a bit. "I can't say anyone's ever made fun of me like that."

"Sounds like she did it just to get on your nerves." Weiss commented to the chameleon faunus.

"Well it looked like it worked." Ilia said as she crossed her arms.

"Always finding a way to agitate people." Roman said with a happy sigh. "Never change, Neo. Never change."

Neo responded with quiet and happy giggle.

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"...We have a proposition for you."

"Your princess, Ruby here, has repurposed one of her family's buildings into a rehabilitation center for souls like you who we think have a chance at redemption." Ilia explained as an image of a large building drawn in pencil and crayon called the "Happy Hotel" was shown.

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"Wait, it's possible to redeem demons?" Ironwood asked with a surprised look.

"This definitely has Ruby's name written all over it." Qrow affirmation nodded as he swirled the alcohol around in his flask.

"So basically what she's saying is that demon Red is trying to get Neo, and any demon she can, up to heaven." Roman connected the dots.

'That's a new one.' Neo signed.

"You were right, Emerald. She is insane." Cinder muttered to her lackey.

"Hold on, can we go back a bit? Did Ilia say Ruby is a princess here?" Blake questioned.

"So she's royalty in Hell like that Stolas guy?" Yang asked.

"Not just any type of demon royalty. Ruby is the heir to king and queen of Hell." Vortech stated. "The head honchos."

"Ruby, a ruler of Hell." Weiss said with an odd look. "That sentence does not feel natural."

"I was definitely not expecting to learn something like this." Ruby said with blinking eyes. "Wait, doesn't that mean Dad's the king of Hell?"

"I... guess it does." Tai said as he held a look of surprise.

"This universe keeps getting all the more strange the more it goes on." Port commented whilst shaking his head.

"Yes. One of the friendliest people on Remnant is the king of Hell in another dimension. It's quite the outlandish idea, and here it is as a reality." Oobleck concurred with his friend.

"I wonder what Raven would say to this." Qrow muttered to Tai.

"She'd probably straight out deny it until she saw actual proof." Tai replied to him. "Same as Summer. Though Summer would probably be calm about it."

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"Our goal... Is to get a damned soul into Heaven! At least one." Ilia continued to explain as a drawing of a smiling spider demon Neo was shown walking into the Happy Hotel before shown flying out with wings and a halo. "Just to prove that it's possible..."

"Is it?" Neo asked.

"We don't... know yet." Ilia replied with crossed arms as Ruby looked down with a saddened frown.

"Uuuuuh-Huh... Right..." Neo said with an unsure tone, causing Ruby to grow a look of concern.

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"Wait, she hasn't even tested if her goal could work?" Roman asked as he pointed his arms towards the screen.

"That's just poor planning." Cinder muttered to herself while shaking her head.

"I'm going to assume Ruby is operating on faith in this situation." Weiss blandly spoke.

'Consider my faith low.' Neo signed with lowered eyes.

"Oh, come on. What's wrong in wanting to help redeem people?" Ruby asked.

"Naturally, there isn't. But you have to consider that these are the souls of the damned." Glynda pointed out to Ruby. "Not only will it be more difficult than it would have been when they were alive, but your counterpart doesn't even know if her goal is possible. It's a noble deed to try and make someone into a good person, but this is a situation on a different level."

"While I'm not going against your counterpart's desire, without proof that it can be achieved, it does seem far fetched." Pyrrha said with an unsure look.

"Well... I have to try, don't I?" Ruby asked in return. "Just because I was born in Hell here, doesn't mean that I can't try and help others out. It's what I do best."

"In Ruby's defense, they do say the road to heaven is paved through hell." Ozpin said. "Certainly it can't be an impossible feat to get a soul from hell into heaven. Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps the purpose of this Ruby's is to cure the damned."

"See, Professor Ozpin gets it." Ruby smiled with a nod of her head.

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"But!" Ruby immediately jolted in with a nervous smile. "We want you to be our first test subject!"

"Uh... Why me?" Neo tilted her head in confusion.

"Because...!" Ruby proclaimed before explaining, albeit with her own unsure tone. "You seem like someone who regrets her life choices and would be interested in self-reflection and bettering herself!"

Neo responded with an unsure look.

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"That... that kind of sounds a little more like an insult then a term of endearment." Roman said as he shared in spider demoness Neo's look.

'I'm losing confidence in this goal with each passing second.' Neo sighed with a deadpan.

"I agree. I feel that better wording could have been used here." Sienna said as she rose her brow at the screen.

"Ruby has always been awkward in regular conversation." Yang said.

"I'm not that bad." Ruby said to her sister as she shrunk into her seat a bit, frowning.

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However, Ilia lightly pushed Ruby out of the way a bit as she gave her explanation. "Because. We've been talking to demons all day and nobody has agreed to do it yet."

This response had prompted Neo to place her hand on her face as she started to crack a humored smile that she did her best to contain. However, she soon fell over in a fit of laughter.

"Ha Ha! Ha Ha Ha! Ha Ha! Ha! Ha Ha Ha Ha! Ha Ha!"

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'This is just sad.' Neo signed, closing her eyes as she shook her head. "I almost feel sorry for her."

"Ah. Issue number two." Roman said with a humored smirk.

"The prospect that people in Hell don't want to be redeemed." Ironwood said, knowing where Roman was going.

"It's hard to send someone to heaven that either does not believe in such a thing as being possible, or does not wish to go to heaven." Winter stated.

"Oh, come on. You can't be telling all those demons are fine with being in Hell?" Ruby frowned again as she pointed her hand at the screen. "It's Hell for crying out loud. It's the worse place to be."

"We've already seen that people like Jacques Schnee thrive there." Ilia pointed out. "Evil people don't just stop being evil people on a dime."

"This operation is definitely going to be in for the long haul." Jaune sighed a bit as he crossed his arms.

"Well, nothing worth fighting for ever came easy in life." Yang said. "If Ruby keeps on pushing, I'm sure she can redeem a few demons."

"Well, when your mind to something, you can make most things possible." Tai said in agreement with his eldest daughter.

"Hmm. I suppose I can't fault them on that prospect." Cinder thought on Yang's words with a shrug. "Obtaining the maiden powers will be no easy task. Yet it will all be worth it in the end."

"Awe. Thanks, guys." Ruby smiled at her father and sister.

"Any time, Ruby." Tai smiled back at his youngest daughter.

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"Look. You'll get free meals, free housing and protection from Hell's constant hazards." Ilia told Neo with her hand on her hip. "That is if you agree to attend what activities we plan... and genuinely attempt to rectify your behavior!"

"Sounds lame." Neo dismissed Ilia with one-eyed glance and a smirk.

This had prompted Ilia to growl at Neo, baring her sharp teeth as a skull formed in her eye.

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"It looks like my counterpart's a big supporter of Ruby's idea." Ilia said. "Why else would I get so angry about Neo's attitude towards it?"

"It's less so full on support than it is an obligational support." Vortech said to Ilia.

"What does that mean?" Ruby asked.

"I'm not being forced in some way to go along with this, am I?" Ilia asked as she soon grew a frown.

"If you consider love as force, then yes." Vortech said to her with a nod.

"...Love?" Ilia asked back with a surprised look.

"Ruby is your girlfriend in this universe." Vortech stated to Ilia.

"Huh..." Ruby uttered as she found a feint blush growing on her face. "This, uh... this is definitely taking befriending Ilia a little further than I expected."

Ilia wasn't any different than Ruby as her freckles turned pink. The two girls shared a small glance with each other before Ilia began to think to herself. "Well... I guess I could see why my counterpart is dating her. She is cute."

"They grow up so fast." Yang said as she gave a small sniffle.

"Congratulations, I guess." Blake said to Ilia, placing her hand on her shoulder.

"Hold on, how old is Ilia?" Tai asked Vortech with a serious look.

"Do you have something against their relationship?" Sienna decided to ask Tai.

"I want to make sure they're of proper age." Tai crossed his arms. "I'm not taking chances with face-value knowledge when it comes to Hell."

"Ilia's one of the more younger sinners in Hell. Ruby is actually the older one here." Vortech said to Tai. "Around one hundred and forty-six years of age, last I checked."

"Say what now?" Tai asked, finding himself immediately gobsmacked.

"Definitely well over the age restriction." Yang said with a short chuckle.

"Ruby looks like she couldn't be a day over twenty here, and you're telling us she's in her hundreds?" Qrow asked.

"One of the few perks of proper immortality. Eternal youth." Ozpin thought to himself. "It kept Salem appearing in her thirties."

"So you're basically saying Ilia's dating an old woman." Ruby said to Vortech.

"You're the one making it awkward here, not me." Vortech replied back.

"You know what. Forget I said anything." Ruby said as she shook her head, blush reoccurring. "Let's just focus back on the viewing."

"Yeah. That's probably a good idea." Ilia quietly said as she tried to control her own blush.

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"Aw!!" Ruby suddenly interjected as hugged onto Ilia, trying to calm her down as she gave Neo a nervous smile. "You can't tell me you enjoy standing on the side of the street waiting for someone to pay to—."

Ruby soon paused in her words before glancing off to the side with an embarrassed look. "You know..."

"Hmm... I don't know!" Neo replied with a sly and toothy smirk as she rose her brow at Ruby. "Please, finish that sentence..."

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'She can't even say "pay to have sex".' Neo signed while shaking her head.

"Ruby's too pure-hearted for Hell." Yang said as she crossed her arms.

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"Ugh! Ruby, she's not a good candidate..." Ilia complained to Ruby as Neo held a calm smile. However, that calm smile soon turned to a small frown at Ilia's words as she glanced off to the side. "We'll just look again tomorrow..."

"Hey!!" Neo suddenly shouted, getting Ruby and Ilia's immediate and surprised attention. "Who said I'm not a good pick?! I'm the best pick! You broads don't know me! I could be whatever I wanna be!"

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"Oof. They hooked Neo with the unintentional reverse psychology." Roman winced a bit. "I'm a bit disappointed."

'Same.' Neo signed as she held a similar look.

"Well, at least now it seems Neo's more open to the idea." Ruby said, now having gotten over her initial embarrassment when learning her counterpart was dating Ilia.

"And all it took was for my counterpart to dismiss her." Ilia stated, her freckles still a slight twinge of pink, though she was calming down further.

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"Then prove it!" Ilia pointed her finger against Neo's bust.

Ilia and Neo quickly pressed their foreheads against one another, scowling at each other as Ruby held another nervous look to the situation.

"I'm in." Neo suddenly said with a smirk, causing Ilia to widen her eye in surprise.

"Really?!" Ruby excitedly said with stars in her eyes.

"...Really?" Ilia asked Neo with a raised brow.

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"Huh. Well that was far more easy than I expected it to be." Jaune blinked his eyes.

"Never underestimate the power of reverse psychology, Jaune." Nora smirked as she proudly crossed her arms. "I've gotten Ren to do some things with it that he normally wouldn't do."

"I'm ashamed to admit, but she is right." Ren calmly nodded in response.

"Well, it looks like Ruby's one step closer to her goal of getting a demon into heaven." Pyrrha said.

"Now comes the difficult part of her trying to get Neo to become a better person." Weiss stated. "Rehabilitation has a lot of steps to take. One slip up and it can all go down hill."

"I'm sure Ruby will find a way to do it." Yang affirmably nodded. "She's her own little miracle worker."

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"Yeah!" Neo replied with a shrug and closed eyes. "I'm also three months behind on my rent, so free housin' sounds fuckin' good to me. Plus, it'll be nice not to have to suck the greasy landlord's dick every month."

"Charming..." Ilia replied with a bond tone.

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"Oh, hey that thought out of my head. Get that thought out of my head." Roman muttered while vehemently shaking his head.

'Okay. Now I'm disgusted.' Neo signed as she blanched a bit.

"The greasy part alone gives an impressionable image." Sienna grimaced while crossing her arms.

"It's not a pretty thought." Blake winced as well.

"Yeah. Helping Neo is going to be a good thing. I can tell." Ruby nodded as she winced as well.

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"Anyway..." Neo trailed off as she began to stretch her lower arms. "If that's all, then I guess I should prob'ly get back to work today, at least. If you gals ain't payin' for playin'... I still need to make abou—."

Suddenly, Ruby plopped down a large wad of cash into Neo's hands, causing the spider demoness to shrink her eyes in surprise.

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"Well... that's a very generous donation for just talking." Roman remarked, his mood taking a one-eighty at the stack of cash.

'Too generous.' Neo signed with an unsure look.

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Neo put a finger to her lip with a raised brow as she looked at the cash before looking up at Ruby in confusion. "Uh... what is this?"

"Money!" Ruby replied in a chippy tone.

"For...?" Neo trailed off in continued confusion.

"Helping us!" Ruby happily stated with sparkling eyes.

Neo shrunk her eyes in deadpanned confusion again before replying back. "...This is a trick."

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"No, this is Ruby." Weiss said with a blank look.

"Why she confused about the money?" Ruby questioned. "I mean, Neo said it herself that she would only talk with me and Ilia if she was getting paid. We talked, she's willing to help us, she gets the money she asked for. What's so difficult about that?"

"To be fair, you did give her a lot of cash, just for talking." Ilia said to her.

"Well, she is helping us out. It only seems fair." Ruby replied back.

"I don't think you're getting the point. There's nothing wrong with paying her. It's how much you're paying her that's throwing her off." Ilia explained.

"Well I am the princess of Hell here—I never thought that sentence would leave my mouth." Ruby said with a raised finger. "I'm sure I've got plenty of money."

"As an heiress myself, giving out a lot of money isn't necessarily a smart thing to do." Weiss said to Ruby.

"There's a difference between the smart thing and the right thing." Ruby stated while crossing her arms.

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"No. This is an investment in you." Ruby smiled as she placed her hand onto Neo's bust.

Ruby then moved towards Neo, leaning towards her with her continued smile. "There's a lot more to you... Than what you think there is... Neo! We want to help you!"

"Pfft... Okay? I mean, I don't really need any help, so, uh..." Neo tried to wave Ruby off, though her tone somewhat betrayed her words. "Yeah..."

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"See?" Ruby pointed towards the screen with a smile.

"Hmm. It seems gotten through to Neo." Winter said with a slightly impressed look.

"That's my Ruby for you." Tai said with a proud smile. "Sometimes, all it takes for her is a few kind words to get through to people."

"The power of belief is a strong thing." Ozpin nodded. "When someone believes in another, it can bring them hope."

"I can't believe she actually got Neo to stutter like that." Emerald muttered as she looked at the screen with a baffled look.

"This is very strange universe." Cinder muttered as well.

Meanwhile, Roman silently groaned a bit as he thought to himself. "Please tell me I'm not actually warming up to a version of Red? I feel dirty."

With Neo herself, she found herself frozen as she stared at the screen. She slowly moved her hand over her chest as she felt her heart start to beat faster. "Did I... did I actually just get touched by her words?"

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Neo was then shown exiting out of Ruby's vehicle, looking back at the demon princess. "...Okay... Well, um... Thanks. We'll be in touch, huh?"

"Yes! And thank you!" Ruby cheerily told Neo, the latter of whom rose her brow at Ruby with her hand on her hip.

Neo then watched as Ruby's vehicle drove off, tightening her grip on the cash given to her as she rubbed her hand against her hair. "Sure..."

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"So this is actually a thing now." Roman muttered. "Neo working with Red. Just when you think you've seen it all."

"It seems like this is going to be the start of an interesting relationship." Sienna commented at the scene.

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Neo then started to walk through the streets of Hell, soon being shown walking into a building as she hummed to herself. "Hmm..."

Passing by several conversing demons, Neo tiredly opened up the to her apartment building. "Mmm..."

Within the room was shown to be various sex toys on the floor a makeup booth, and a bed. Within a corner of the room was a pink pet bed with white polka dots that had a small demonic pig with horns and small spikes laying down in it.

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"Seriously?" Roman deadpanned at all of the sex toys in Neo's apartment.

However, Neo wasn't currently focused on that. Her heterochromatic eyes were set on the cute demon pig.

"Awe. Who is that adorable wittle thing?" Weiss gushed as her hands were placed on her cheeks.

"Look at the cute little demon pig." Nora gushed as well.

"That's a thing in Hell too?" Mercury asked with a raised brow.

"Awe." Emerald said with a warm smile, completely lost in thought as she stared at the demon pig.

"And we just lost Emerald." Mercury muttered as he crossed his arms.

"That is Neo's demon pig pet." Vortech explained. "She calls him Fat Nuggets."

"Gah! Even his name is cute." Yang squealed.

"The multiverse has so many cute things that I really want!" Ruby whined a bit with stars in her eyes.

"Yes. First the Child, and now this Fat Nuggets." Penny said with a bright smile. "The multiverse just seems to be full of cute and adorable little creatures."

'Gimme. Gimme Now.' Neo signed as her eyes seemed to sparkle at Fat Nuggets.

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"Redemption." Neo thought to herself as Fat Nuggets walked up to her, prompting her to pick him up.

"Silly, huh Nuggs?" Neo gave a sad smile to her demon pig as she sat in her bed with him in her arms.

And from there, the screen faded out.

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"It's not silly at all." Ruby said with a soft smile. "If you really want to better yourself, all you have to do is take the first step."

"Well that was an interesting viewing. A little bittersweet." Roman commented. "I have a newfound hatred for Jacques Schnee now."

""Join the club."" Winter and Sienna said at the same time, both of them with crossed arms.

"The viewing did give us more insight as to how Hell appears and those who reside in it." Oobleck said with a nod.

"And thanks to Miss Rose's counterpart, we now know of the potential aspect of having a demon turn their ways around and going up to heaven." Glynda said.

"It's all turning out to be an odd universe, but one that I can't help but find myself interested in." Pietro admitted.

"So anyways, what the next universe, V?" Nora asked as she looked back at Vortech.

"He said we were seeing a double-feature, remember, Nora?" Ren asked his partner.

"Oh, yeah..." Nora said as she recollected Vortech's words.

"Memory of goldfish sometimes with that one." Vortech muttered in regards to Nora as he rolled his eyes.

"I guess we're not fully out of hell just yet." Jaune commented.

"So what in Hell are we going to see next?" Blake decided to ask. "More of what Ruby's trying to do, or are we going back to I.M.P?"

"Actually we're going to see more of Neo's life." Vortech said.

"So Neo's the star of the double-feature." Roman smirked. "Who else would be appropriate for the role?"

'I'm just that great.' Neo signed with a smile.

"And this time, we get to see her sing." Vortech added on.

"Wait, sing?" Roman asked in surprise, something Neo shared a very similar look to.

"That's right. Vortech did say this was a musical-based universe." Weiss pointed out.

"Musical, you say?" Cinder asked with an interested glint in her eye.

"Ugh. This better be a good song. I can't stand musicals." Mercury groaned as he crossed his arms.

Emerald merely rolled her eyes at Mercury in response to his attitude. "He seriously needs to learn some class."

"Let's get this show started, shall we?" Vortech asked as the he started up the viewing screen.

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As the viewing turned on again, the audience was greeted to the sight of demonic Jacques smoking a cigarette while sitting in a lounge chair as two demon prostitutes in skimpy clothing laid beside him. Summer, a cat demon, and Dia a succubus.

Jacques let out a red, heart-shaped puff of smoke from his cigarette before smiling wickedly with his pointy pink teeth that glowed in the dark.

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Roman and Neo shared a scowl when they looked at demon Jacques and his pink-teethed smile.

"Surrounded by more hookers, I see." Winter spoke with a bland and disdainful tone.

"What's my father's counterpart doing now?" Weiss muttered with a sigh.

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A walkway covered with hearts that led to purple curtains was shown. The hearts started to glow as the curtains opened to reveal the figure of spider demon Neo on a stage as she had her hands upon a stripper pole. In the background was a large web that had a heart in the center of it.

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"Oh, no..." Roman said as dread begin to fill in his eyes. "I recognize this kind of setting."

"So do I." Qrow said as he rose his brow at the screen.

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Demons in the audience watched as the background web soon glowed pink as music began to play.

Neo tightened her grip around the pole before taking in a silent deep breath as the beat of a techno piano played.

"🎶Till death do us part.🎶" Neo began to sing as she moved her lower four arms up and past each other before making a pose. A pink heart shape glowed on her chest, alongside her eyes that glowed a hot pink.

"🎶But we're already past that phase.🎶" Neo sang as she moved her legs around before twirling a bit on the pole. She then stood still with half of her hands on her hip, smiling as she flipped her hair out. She revealed to be in nothing but her black choker, her stilettos, and a skimpy skirt with a heart cut out just about her crotch region. Her large, fur-covered breasts bare and out in the open for all to see.

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"Dear, God! Why?!" Roman yelled out as he immediately covered his eyes. "Are you kidding me?! I do not want to see this!"

Yang gave a slight whistle in surprise at the screen as Blake and Weiss appeared scandalized. All the while Ruby held a blush of embarrassment on her face.

Ilia blushed as well, gulping a bit as a bead of sweet ran down her head.

"Oh, dear." Glynda said as she placed her hand against her face.

'I suddenly feel very exposed.' Neo signed with a feint blush on her face. While she wasn't necessarily angry at what she was seeing, she was still taken off guard.

"Well, congratulations, Qrow. You were finally able to get us to see a stripper with you." Ozpin deadpanned to his trusted friend.

"Summer would be pissed if she could see us now." Tai groaned into his hand.

"This does not feel right." Pietro said as he closed his eyes and looked away.

"You're not alone, Pietro." Ironwood said with a sigh.

"Well, this easily tops Barty having that ghost dream in the Ghostbusters universe." Port remarked as he tried to keep his composure.

"Please do not bring that up again." Oobleck quickly responded with his head lowered.

"Her boobs are out in the open! I do not need to be seeing Neo naked!" Roman shouted as he then looked over to Vortech in anger. "Why are you showing us this?!"

"To be fair, she is still wearing a skirt." Vortech said to Roman.

"That's not the point!" Roman shouted retaliation.

"I mean, from the looks of it, her nipples are being covered by all her fur." Yang pointed out.

"Please, can we not talk about this?" Weiss quietly asked as her face became flush with embarrassment.

"Hey, hey, hey! I better not be catching any of you ogling at Neo!" Roman than shouted as he pointed his finger out to everyone. "This ain't no peep show!"

"We're really not trying to look." Jaune said to Roman with a feint blush as he and Ren have covered both of their eyes with their hands.

"Don't worry, Jaune. You're not the only one having some discomfort to this." Pyrrha said as she patted her partner's shoulder.

"Nora, I have my eyes covered just fine." Ren said to his childhood friend as she had placed her hands over his eyes as well.

"Nope. Not taking any chances." Nora said to him whilst shaking her head.

"Hmm. I suppose people really do find embarrassment in the naked body." Penny thought to herself as she looked around the room.

"The guys got one thing right, though. This isn't a peep show." Mercury said before he smirked and glanced back at Roman. "This is a stripper show!"

"Shut up you little twerp! I wasn't asking for your input!" Roman shouted in fury at Mercury.

"Don't cause a scene, Mercury." Cinder sighed as she placed her hand against her forehead.

"Well, this takes a singing performance to a different meaning." Sienna remarked.

"I hate everyone who is talking right now." Roman groaned with an seething look.

"Then why don't we continue with the viewing then, Hmm?" Vortech asked Roman. "The less we linger on this subject, the faster we can get through the rest of the viewing."

"I'd rather it not be shown at all." Roman retorted.

Neo then tapped her finger on Roman's shoulder, getting him to look over to her as she looked at him with a straight face, a feint blush still on her cheeks. 'Let's just get this over with.'

Roman responded by grumbling to himself and crossing his arms, looking away from the screen.

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"🎶This is a brand new start.🎶" Neo walked around the pole before kicking her right leg high in the air. "🎶And I think I deserve some praise.🎶"

Jacques's smile ever grew as he watched Neo dance on the pole, watching through his pink-tinted heart glasses as she leaned forward a bit, ass raised as she waved her hand in a suggestive manner. He then proceeded to blow another heart-shaped puff of smoke Neo's way.

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Roman started to seeth further as he began to grind his teeth at the look Jacques was giving to Neo.

"Of course that pig is enjoying this." Winter scowled in thought at the actions of her father's demonic counterpart.

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"🎶For the way that I am...🎶" Neo sang as she swung around on the pole. She then stopped as she leaned against the pole, back turned to Jacques as she continued to sing with a frown. "🎶Despite having overdosed and ending up comatose.🎶"

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"So... does this mean Neo died of a drug overdose?" Ruby asked as she tried to bury away her initial embarrassment towards seeing Neo half naked.

"It would seem she's singing about her life in Hell." Weiss said as she rubbed her eyes. "Though, I will admit that despite the... overall setting, she is a nice singer."

"Neo's great at anything. Even if she doesn't have a voice in our universe." Roman stated, his arms still crossed. However, he soon grew a frown as he recalled spider demoness Neo's words. "She really died of an overdose? I need to make sure I keep Neo away from any risky substances. No way am I letting something like that happening."

Neo glanced over at Roman, noticing his frown as she began to think to herself. "Dummy's probably worried I'd might do something like my counterpart. If anything, I should be the one worrying with the all cigars he smokes."

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"🎶I don't give a damn...🎶" Neo then smirked with a raised brow as Jacques ref smoke wrapped around and up her body before directing her towards Jacques as she looked his way.

Jacques smiled again as Neo twirled around the pole again, squatting to the ground before rising up as she pointed her thumb at herself. "🎶I've let my emotions go. Fuck being a sober hoe.🎶"

"🎶This is the mantra. This is my life!🎶" Neo walked down from her pole as she walked along the walkway with a wicked smile on her face as the demon's in the audience all moved towards the walkway, all giving lustful smiles and smirks towards her. "🎶You're playing with now till the end of the night!🎶"

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"It looks like she's drawing in an audience." Sienna commented while knowingly glancing at Roman.

"Please, shut up." Roman responded with narrowed eyes.

"Now it sounds like she's singing about no longer caring and focusing on herself." Weiss analyzed the lyrics.

"It fits her position as a demon." Blake said. "She's already made her choices in life. Now that she's dead, she doesn't have any regard for her future actions."

"Yet we saw that there are some things that affect Neo still, despite being dead." Pyrrha said as she thought back to how demon Jacques treated Neo.

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Neo motioned her hand towards Jacques, prompting him to raise his brow at her. She waved him off as she turned around, walking away as she then promptly kicked away a particularly lustful demon with a fedora and grey fur. His name was Travis.

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Despite the whole strip show thing, Neo couldn't help but silently giggle when her counterpart kicked the lusting demon away.

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"🎶Surrounded by fire. The passion ignites.🎶" Neo then twirled on the floor as she rubbed her hands up against her body, pushing up her large breasts as Jacques red smoke swirled around her again.

She then leaned forward, her hands on the walkway as the smoke wrapped around her neck and arms as if they were shackles.

"🎶A hit of that Heaven and Hell, a Hell of a high!🎶" Neo sang as she broke away from the smoke, rising up with a smile as she raised her hand to the air.

The red smoke then promptly flew into Neo's nostrils, causing to rope her eyes back as she fell back towards the walkway floor.

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"A representation of her overdose." Ozpin said.

"What most addicts feel when they're high." Qrow said after taking a swing of his flask. "They feel good and bad all at once, and it gets to their heads."

"Jacques smoke probably represents the lure drug addicts feel when their urges pop up." Glynda said in observation. "They feel chained to the affects, yet the moment they dive in they embrace it."

"That, and the smoke was most likely physically chaining Neo for a moment as well." Oobleck pointed out. "Vortech did said Jacques is a powerful demon. He could easily control the direction of smoke."

"That too." Glynda replied to him.

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"🎶I'm addicted to the madness.🎶" Neo's voice was now heard singing with another woman's.

She sprawled herself on the walkway in a seductive manner before an image of her crying and hunched onto her bed with someone else was shown.

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"Wait, what's going here?" Roman asked, looking up at the screen with his full attention as he started to give a worried look.

Neo frowned at the screen, having similar thoughts to her boss.

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"🎶This hotel is my Atlantis.🎶" Neo was then swiftly shown with the other person trying to comfort her as she cried before it cut back to her moving her hands along her body with a smirk.

Neo was then shown crying with her hands on her face, laying on her side as the other person, who could be glimpsed with a female form and long orange hair, was still shown trying to comfort the hurt Neo with a sad look to her face.

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"She's... crying?" Emerald muttered in question.

"I didn't think that crazy chick could actually have emotions like that." Mercury muttered as well.

"It would seem that when out in the open, this Neo puts up the front of a professional gangster as tough as metal. But when confided to herself, she's depressed and saddened." Ren analyzed with a calm, yet sympathetic demeanor.

"No doubt having to relate to my father." Weiss thought to herself with a frown. "Even though I was young, I can still remember the nights when mother cried."

"I know the chicks a crook that works with Torchwick, but I can't help but feel bad for her here." Yang thought to herself. "No one should have to go through this kind of pain."

"Well, at least it looks like she has a friend that cares for her." Ruby said, having taken notice of the orange haired woman that had sat beside Neo, trying to comfort her. "Whoever she is."

"She looks familiar." Nora said as she tried to squint her eyes in an attempt to get a better look.

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"🎶We're forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin.🎶" Neo continued to rub her hands on her body as the other demons in the audience continued to ogle her with lust. "🎶Let me leave my soul to burn and I'll be breathing it in.🎶"

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"Now it seems she's alluding to taking in the ashes of her deteriorating soul." Weiss analyzed.

"More signs she's being more accepting of her fate in Hell." Pyrrha said.

"I wonder if this is before Neo met me and Ilia." Ruby wondered. "It doesn't look like she's in the mood to change herself right now."

"It might be." Yang shrugged.

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She knocked away a stray bottle that had been on the walkway, causing it to fall off. As the bottle fell, it transitioned towards a Molotov with a red skull on it before it exploded in green fire.

The viewing cut to the roof of a building as several towers of purple and pink smoke arose from sections where other Molotov had been thrown at.

Through the rising smoke, the figure of Nora could be seen tossing a Molotov in her hand with a sharp-toothed smirk. Her skin was white with bomb and start tattoos on her right arm. She wore a grey, fingerless satin glove on her left arm and a shorter fingerless glove on her right. She also wore a red off-shoulder crop top, a black bra, a reddish, torn-up miniskirt with two buttons on the front with one loose suspender, and ripped black leggings underneath. On her feet was red and white boot on her left foot, while on the right, a white and red sock. To top off her appearance, her long, orange hair was done up in a large ponytail. On her face, she had a singular, large red eye with a white X for a pupil.

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"Wait, is that me?" Nora asked in surprise. "I'm in the the music number?"

"Apparently Nora is a cyclops in Hell." Ren said as he tilted his head at the demonic Nora.

"She must be the person that was trying to comfort Neo during her flashbacks." Blake realized. "Meaning you and Neo must be friends to some capacity in Hell."

"They both are a bit destructive." Ren admitted with a nod of his head.

"Huh..." Nora said as she let the thought linger in her mind.

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"🎶I'm addicted to the feeling.🎶" Nora sang along with Neo as she ran across the roof, hopping off of it before tossing back a red bomb with a black skull on it that exploded.

"🎶Getting higher than the ceiling.🎶" As Nora was shown running across rooftops and throwing bombs, Neo was shown wickedly smiling as she climbed her stripper pole.

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"Ooh, a duet." Penny smiled with an excited look.

"Neo's... dancing, while Nora's throwing bombs left and right." Ruby said, having hesitated a bit when trying to find the words to describe Neo's stripper activities.

"This Nora seems to be a lot more... arsonist-like." Jaune observed.

"Regardless, Nora does also seem to have a good singing voice." Weiss said before looking over to the ginger bomber. "Perhaps you should try singing more often."

"I don't think I'd personally be able to sing that well." Nora waved Weiss off with a slightly embarrassed look. "Just because demon me can sing, doesn't mean I'd be all too good at it."

"You won't know until you try." Ren said to Nora.

Nora glanced at Ren for a moment before looking away. "Well... maybe."

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"🎶And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end.🎶" Neo was then shown leaning back from the pole with her arms out, hanging onto it with her legs. At the same time, Nora was shown jumping onto rooftop pole, swinging around it before standing onto her feet and rubbing her hair back ad she looked out to the city before her.

"🎶Just concede and give into your inner demons again.🎶" Neo and Nora sang as they were now shown side by side, wickedly smiling as their eyes glowed a devilish pink.

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"There's an image I'd never thought I'd see." Yang said with wide eyes.

"Both Neo and Nora giving evil smiles. It's... kind of creepy." Ruby said with a small grimace.

"It's not that creepy." Nora responded with a light laughing scoff.

"It... kind of is." Jaune said with a wince.

"It seems like they're both singing about letting go and giving into their darker desires." Blake said, unfazed by Neo and Nora's demonic smiles.

"Overall, it seems the entire song is about addiction." Weiss stated. "Both Neo and Nora are addicted to their lifestyles in Hell. Neo with her career as a... killer porn star, and Nora causing destruction."

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A techno beat played as Nora was shown rocking out within the pink fire caused by her explosions. She punched her fists through the air before sticking her tongue out while headbanging.

Back with Neo, she was shown smiling as she rubbed her lower hands against her bare breast, her upper hands behind her head as all the demons in the audience threw money into the air. She then moved one side of her hands down her body, leaning back with her tongue seductively out before turning onto her stomach and kicking her legs back and forth with a smirk.

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"Well, even though I don't like it, I can't help but admit that Neo knows how to reel in cash." Roman begrudgingly admitted.

"The rule of the stripper. The more sexy you are, the more money you get people to throw." Sienna said.

'Some people just can't resist my looks.' Neo signed with a proud smirk.

"This is doing things to me that I don't know how to feel about." Ilia thought to herself as she stared at spider demoness Neo with a heated look.

"Neo really knows how to work what she has." Yang gave a slight whistle of appreciation at what she was seeing.

"Yang..." Ruby groaned a bit at her sister's words.

"What? I know good looks when I see it. She has good looks." Yang replied. "I'm not just gonna sit here and deny it. Even if she is a bad guy. Other than that though, the songs got a really nice beat."

"It's definitely some of the more better uses of techno I've heard." Blake nodded in agreement.

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Nora was then shown throwing a bomb at a billboard with Jacques' face on it before running along a rooftop. As she did, she pulled out another bomb, pulling the pin with her sharp teeth before throwing it away with a smile. She then ran across more roof tops as it started to rain green across the city.

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"I approve of that." Sienna smirked when demon Nora blew up a sigh of demon Jacques.

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As Nora ran across the rooftops, Jacques' limousine was shown driving down the road. It had hearts on its front hood and roof, a Golden grill, gold horns on the front bump, headlights designed as sharp and narrowed eyes, and a golden moth hood ornament to top it all off.

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"Dear God, that limousine is so gaudy." Weiss said in repulsion.

"That just screams that he's a pimp." Cinder dryly remarked.

"I will never understand what it is with some people and wanting their vehicles to have faces." Winter said while shaking her head.

"They just think it's cool." Qrow shrugged in response. "Sometimes they're right. Most of them they're wrong."

"I always did hate a car with eyelashes on it." Mercury commented.

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Lighting crashed down as Jacques' limo road off. Within the limo itself, Jacques was shown counting money in his hands while Neo sat next to him with an uncomfortable look, now covered up in her regular attire. Off to the side, Dia and Summer were shown making out with each other.

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"Think we can focus on the hookers to the left?" Mercury questioned, raising his brow as he focused his attention on Dia and Summer.

"You're intolerable." Emerald said to him with a deadpan.

"I actually kind of agree with him." Ilia thought to herself as her attention was drawn to Dia and Summer as well.

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Soon enough though, Neo widened her eyes a bit as Jacques placed his hand under her chin, directing her face towards his as he wickedly smiled at her.

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Immediately, Roman's eyes shot up as his hands tightened into fists. "Don't you fucking dare..."

"Despicable." Winter scowled at her father's demonic counterpart.

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Jacques, having pulled out his second set of arms, positioned Neo on top of his lap, lifting her chin up as he continued to smile at her. Jacques the stuck his tongue out, attempting to bring Neo in to kiss her.

However, this did not go well with Neo as she scowled and immediately pushed him back. Jacques frowned at this and scowled at Neo in return, struggling with her for only a quick moment before clutching onto her face with his clawed hand and forcing her to kiss him as his limo continued to drive through the green rain and towards a towering porn studio.

The viewing then quickly cut to Neo in her apartment building, her suit ripped open to reveal her bare bust as tears fell from her eyes. She angrily tossed a glass of wine at the wall before falling down beside her bed with her hands on her face, crying into them.

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By this moment, Roman's blood was over the boiling point as he tried with all his might to restrain himself. "That... fucking... Bastard."

"An abusive relationship indeed." Glynda dourly spoke.

"That rotten pig of a man!" Winter shouted.

"Hardly a man at all." Port glared while crossing his arms. "Parasite is a far better term."

"I can't believe I'd ever find myself hating Jacques Schnee more than I already do." Sienna found herself admitting as she too scowled at the screen.

"A Jacques Schnee without restraint for his actions or their repercussions." Ironwood crossed his arms with a sour mood.

"While I'm glad for Ruby's sake that we weren't shown what all he did to her, it still feels wrong just sitting here, watching it and not being able to do anything about it." Tai muttered with a disturbed and frowning look.

"One of the many drawbacks to watching these universes." Ozpin solemnly spoke. "All we can do is watch them unfold. No matter how disturbing and displeasing it all gets."

Cinder had held a schooled look through most of the song, yet she couldn't help but frown ever so slightly at the scene that had just occurred. "Undoubtedly, this version of Neo has gone through far more despicable things than I had during my time at the Glass Unicorn... but I can understand her pain to an extent."

"Damn, Weiss. I never thought your Dad would be this much of a scumbag." Yang frowned with a small glare.

"It's what most faunus see him as." Ilia ruefully muttered.

"Was it ever like this when you were growing up?" Ruby asked Weiss with a concerned look.

Weiss frowned with an uneasy appearance as she held her hands within her lap. "My father is a cold, calculating, and cruel man. Perhaps the worst he ever treated in our family was mother... but even on his most frustrated days, he was never that much of a monster. It's... unnerving to look at."

"I can't even imagine how much Neo goes through on a daily basis with this version of Jacques Schnee." Blake frowned.

"Speaking of, how's the Neo from our world taking this?" Jaune asked with an his own downtrodden expression.

Much to people's confusion and somewhat surprise, Neo herself was rather calm towards the scene. However, it wasn't a regular kind of calm either. There was an... eerieness to it. Her hands were placed perfectly on her lap, and her eyes were leveled at the viewing screen. There was no discernible emotion within her facial features, but the dilated pupils in her eyes... those who got a good look at them could see a deathly hatred radiating from within Neo. Undoubtedly, her thoughts were far more vocal than she outwardly was at the moment.

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"🎶Yeah you fell in love.🎶" Nora sang as it cut back outside.

As it continued to rain, a puddle was shown where an image of Mercury with grey skin and white hair was shown for a moment. He had on a white suit with a black collar and black overalls. He also wore a white hat with teeth on its band. He bore a calm and crooked smile with stitches on his lips as he was also shown to be a cyclops demon, albeit his eye having grey swirls within it that led to a white X for a pupil.

"🎶But you fell deeper in this pit.🎶" Nora continued to sing as she walked onto the puddle, wiping away the image of Mercury.

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"What's this, now?" Mercury asked with a calm tone and raised brow. Most in the audience were still a little quiet after what they saw transpire with Jacques and Neo.

"It looks like you're a cyclops demon too." Emerald said.

"And it seems Nora might have known you." Ren observed. "The image of you being wiped away when Nora walked on the puddle gives it that feeling."

"Huh. I wonder what that was like." Mercury shrugged a bit before resting his cheek in his hand. "I had a cool hat though."

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She over to the edge of a roof, a melancholy look on her face as she placed her elbow against the rim of the roof, putting her head in her hand as she looked out towards the various drug stores and porn studios before her.

"🎶While death rains from above.🎶" Nora twiddled around with a bomb before rolling it off the rooftop with her finger. She then grew a more determined look as she rose up with a smile, just as the bomb below her blew up in a pink explosion. "🎶So count your blessings, cause this is it.🎶"

"🎶You're not letting it go...🎶" Nora stretched out her vocals as she turned around and rested her arms on the rim of the roof, leaning back a bit.

"🎶So what if I misbehave? It's what everybody craves.🎶" Nora then walked forward with a smile on her face, taking out several red pellet bombs from behind her tossing them all to the adjacent sides of her with a wicked look.

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Nora couldn't help but quietly giggle at the lyrics of her demonic counterpart, glancing over to Ren as she thought of them.

In return, Ren couldn't help but calmly smile when he caught Nora glancing at him. He could catch onto what she was probably thinking of when her counterpart sang those words. Despite the moments of aggravation, Nora's wild side was also a positive that Ren found towards her.

Neo silently giggled at Nora's lyrics as well. Despite dark thoughts still running through her head, she was still paying attention to the song. She then gave a knowing nudge at Roman's shoulder, prompting him to glance at her.

With a tired sigh, Roman replied to her. "Yeah, yeah. You're a troublemaker. But the fun kind."

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As the bombs went off in pink explosions, Nora closed her eye and brought her arms above her head. "🎶You already know...🎶"

"🎶So come if you're feeling brave, and fancy yourself a mate.🎶" Nora expertly twirled on her heals towards a green, neon sign that read: "ADDICT" on it as it was surrounded by crates of TNT, boxes of explosives, bombs, and dynamite packs.

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"Well damn." Yang said with wide eyes.

"That... is a lot of explosives. Even for Nora." Pyrrha said with a wince.

"Oh, this is going to be beautiful." Nora said with stars in her eyes.

"Definitely arsonistic." Blake said with a firm nod.

"Despite the inevitable destruction Nora is about to cause, she has a wonderful stretch of her voice." Weiss said in compliment towards the ginger bomber. "And it seems a few nice dance moves as well. Barring the more... crazy movements from before."

"It's called rocking out. Maybe you should try it sometime." Yang said to Weiss.

"And ruin my hair? No thank you." Weiss shook her head in response.

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"🎶You want it, I got it, see what you like?🎶" Nora sang as she stopped before the sign, wickedly smiling towards at her handiwork with her hands on her hips. She then placed one foot forward just as the rain immediately stopped pouring down. "🎶We could have it all by the end of the night!🎶"

Nora then pulled out a remote trigger, flipping up the lid to reveal the red button.

"🎶You're money and power.🎶" Nora sang as she grew another saddened look ad she thought towards an image of Mercury smirking at her. She then wiped the thought from her head as she wickedly smiled back at the sign she was about to blow up. "🎶My sinful delight.🎶"

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"Hmm... I think Nora and Mercury may have been more than just friends." Pyrrha said in observation.

Ren had noticed this too, prompting him to give a small frown at the scene.

Nora and Mercury both raised their respective brows before slowing looking at each other, prompting them to raise their brows further.

"No. I could never see that happening." Nora immediately said.

"Me neither." Mercury said in agreement.

"From the looks of Nora's face, this Mercury might have burned her in a way." Blake observed with a calm demeanor, thinking back to Adam for a moment.

"She does not appear to be burned." Penny said with a confused look.

"No, Blake means that demon Mercury might have hurt demon Nora's feelings in a way." Ruby explained to Penny.

"Oh..." Penny said in realization. "Yes. That does seem to be the case."

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Nora then promptly hit the button, causing all of the explosives to blow up.

"🎶A hit of the Heaven and Hell, a Hell of a high...!🎶" Nora and Neo sang together as Nora ran and jumped off the roof with a bright smile on her face as her explosions continued to go off.

The screen turned to white for a moment before it transitioned to a building with cyan and pink lights.

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"Some of the best handiwork I've ever done." Nora proudly smiled with her hands on her hips.

"And some of the most risky." Jaune added in.

"I think we can add "extreme thrill seeker" to the quirks of Nora's demonic counterpart." Pyrrha said.

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"🎶I'm addicted to the madness.🎶" Neo and Nora sang as Neo was shown raising her head up with a smile on her face.

"🎶This hotel is my Atlantis.🎶" Nora rose up in front of Neo, looking to her with her own smile.

"🎶We're forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin.🎶" Neo sang with a smirk in front of bright, pink lights as she was shown in a skin tight pink dress.

"🎶Let me leave my soul to burn and I'll be breathing it in.🎶" Nora jumped in beside Neo, smirking as well, pointing her hands to herself as she leaned forward.

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"And now they're officially singing together." Weiss said. "From the sound of things, we're getting to the climax of the song."

"Well, Neo, you know how to pull of a tight dress." Roman said to his spout henchwoman.

'I'm just about good in anything.' Neo signed with a smile.

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"🎶I'm addicted to the feeling.🎶" Neo and Nora sang beside each other with sharp-toothed smiles. "🎶Getting higher than the ceiling.🎶"

The viewing screen changed into a spiral of pinks before the spirals were shown to be on a set of pink-tinted glasses Neo held in her hand. She flicked the glasses a bit, ridding it of the swirls before placing them onto her eyes.

"🎶And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end.🎶" Neo and Nora sang as Neo looked over to Nora, who was putting on star-shaped pair of glasses designed for cyclopian demons. The two nodded to each other before striking poses, revealing that they stood in front of a glass wall that held an aquarium of fish. "🎶Just concede and give into your inner demons again.🎶"

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"Heh. They even make glasses for cyclops demons." Yang said with a short chuckle.

"It's a bit more goofy since it's in a star shape. But I like goofy like that." Nora said with a giggling smile.

"Those pink glasses look pretty damn good on you Neo." Roman complimented. "Maybe you should try wearing something like that."

Neo replied with a small smile and a shrug. "Meh. I think I look better without glasses."

"It looks like Nora and Neo are getting ready for the finale of the song." Ruby observed.

"Like I said. They're nearing the climax." Weiss stated with a nod.

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The techno music then played in a lower tune, building up with each beat.

Neo was shown in front of a mirror and desk. She wore a black thong without her gloves as she strapped on a grey corset with pink laces.

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"And there's another thing I did not need to see." Roman sighed as he closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"I kind of a small butt." Neo thought to herself with her finger tapping against her cheek.

"That is a tight look." Yang said with a slightly surprised look.

"No complaints here." Ilia thought to herself as she stared at the screen.

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With Nora, she placed a fur coat onto her back that was covered in cherry decals, alongside her first name on the coat.

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"Ooh, a fur coat." Nora said with a giddy smile. "Momma like that. Especially all the cherries on it."

"It will definitely fit with your counterpart's more wild aesthetic." Ren nodded.

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Neo was then shown putting on her hot pink gloves on each set of her arms before the viewing cut to show to stiletto covered legs walking through a hall. It then showed Nora walking through an adjacent hall as she was shown with pink boots, each with a large white Star on them.

"🎶Just concede and give into your inner demons again.🎶" Neo sang in an autotune before turning around with a smirk on her face, the pink-tinted glasses covering her eyes.

Pink lights turned on as Neo and Nora stood beside each other on a stage in front of blue screen that formed a pink pentagram behind them. Nora was shown with her boots, fur coat, and star-glasses while Neo was shown wearing her pink-tinted glasses, her stilettos, hot pink gloves, a black corset with pink laced alongside a black miniskirt.

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Nora whistled at the sight with a smirk. "Do we look good or what?"

"I've seen far more odd fashion choices for on stage singing." Weiss said. "At least nothing clashes too much here."

"I'm just glad Neo's wearing a proper skirt this time." Roman said with a bland expression.

"Nora looks like a rock star and Neo looks like a dominatrix." Yang said in observation. "Which in hindsight is a weird duet combination."

'Get on your hands and knees and call me mistress.' Neo signed with an impish smirk.

"Bad, Neo. Bad." Roman chided his partner with a slightly perturbed look.

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They both spread their arms out as the techno beat dropped back to its regular tune. They then put their hands to the floor before bringing them up against their respective figures and walking towards their respective stripper poles.

Neo and Nora both twirled around the poles before getting in front of them and dropping to the floor, spreading their legs wide out before slowly bringing them together to the beat of the music. They both then twirled up to their feet, looking to each other with bright smiles before lending out their hands respectively to one another.

Neo and Nora then walked closer together, spreading their arms out before leaning their heads back. Nora then backed away as she started to twirl around before spinning and throwing out multiple bombs towards the stage and audience section filled with tables and booths.

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"Nice choreography." Ren said with a nod of appreciation. "Even if they are dancing around stripper poles."

"They're definitely well in sync." Blake said.

"Looks like you guys might have some competition for best dancing." Ruby said to team JNPR.

"Nah. Nothing can beat our moves at the Beacon dance." Nora replied with a shake of her head.

"I can see this as a close second." Pyrrha admitted with a small smile. "Those this Nora seems to be pretty good at twirling."

"And throwing bombs." Emerald remarked.

"Yeah, they're about to cause some mayhem." Ilia said.

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The bombs all started to blow up on impact as a sign within the building reading: "Hell 666" was shown in blue neon.

Neo and Nora then stepped forward from their spots, nodding to each other before crossing their arms and falling back off the stage just as purple and blue fire started to consume the building.

"🎶I'm addicted to the feeling.🎶" Neo and Nora sang as they got up to each other's faces, brightly smiling.

"🎶Getting higher than the ceiling.🎶" Neo and Nora stood up with their arms spread out, smiling to each other still.

Neo then took Nora by the hand as the two started to run towards the exit of the building with smiles on their faces as green flames burned the floor.

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By this point, most of the students in the audience found themselves nodding their heads to the beat or tapping their fingers and feet.

Even a few of the adults became more drawn into the beat of the song.

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"🎶And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end. Just concede and give into your inner demons again.🎶" Neo and Nora sang as they strutted out of the building Neo's lower left arm placed on Nora's back.

"🎶Again!🎶"

Nora then tossed back one final bomb, causing a large pink explosion that enveloped the viewing screen. When everything cleared, the strip club was reduced to rumble with pink flames rising from it.

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"Whoo! That was great!" Nora cheered as she threw her hands in the air.

"Who knew a song about addiction could actual be pretty good." Tai said with a short chuckle.

"I'll admit it. That was pretty good for a musical." Mercury stated.

"Of course, it was all thanks to the role that Neo played in the song that made it work." Roman stated with his chin up, a smile on his face.

"Hey, we were singing a duet." Nora said to Roman with crossed arms and a frown.

"I mean, you had a hand in it, but the real star was Neo." Roman replied back to her.

'No cameras please.' Neo signed with a smile.

"Glory hounds." Nora grumbled.

"I will say, it was definitely an interesting song. The beat combined with the meaning of lyrics worked quite well." Weiss complimented. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but as long as we hear more songs like this, I'm... actually somewhat eager to see what else Hell has in store."

"Well good. Because there's still more to the viewing." Vortech said to Weiss.

"Oh, wait, we're still going?" Roman asked.

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The screen slowly faded to black, but that didn't stop the music from playing again, this time with a remixed variant to it.

"One!"

"Two!"

"One. Two. Three. Come on!"

"🎶I'm addicted to the feeling. Getting higher than the ceiling. And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end. Just concede and give into your inner demons again.🎶"

"🎶I'm addicted to the sorrow. When the buzz ends, by tomorrow.🎶" Neo melancholically sang as she was shown inside a hotel, leaning over the counter of a bar with a cigarette in her hand.

Ruby's hand reached over towards Neo's shoulder. However, Neo immediately scowled at Ruby as she became agitated from her attempt to help her. This had caused Ruby to flinch back a bit as she grew a concerned look for Neo.

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"Talk about a complete mood shift." Jaune said.

"This must represent the hangover after the high." Ozpin calmly stated.

"It looks like Neo's already checked into the hotel now." Ruby said with a small frown of concern at Neo's immediate rejection of help. "I guess she's going through the motions right now."

"We did say the process wasn't going to be easy." Glynda said to Ruby.

With Roman, he was currently frowning at the screen as he began to think to himself. "Man, I do not like seeing depressed Neo. That really irks me."

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The spider demoness crossed her arms as she began to walk away from Ruby, giving her the middle finger with her lower left hand as she left while the demon princess watched her walk off with the same look of concern on her face.

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"Jeez, you don't need to be that crabby about it." Yang angrily frowned at spider demoness Neo giving demon princess Ruby the finger. "She's just trying to help."

"When it comes to people like this, Firecracker, it's better to help them when getting on their good side first." Qrow said. "The more closed off they act, the harder it is to try and open them up by going straight in."

"Believe us. Raven was the same way when we first started Beacon." Tai said to his daughter as he gave the viewing screen a knowing look.

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"🎶There's another rush of poison flowing into my veins.🎶" Neo sang as she walked, clutching her chest and arms. She then smiled as she rubbed her upper hands against her face before bringing them down with a distraught frown. "🎶Giving me a dose of pleasure that resides by the pain.🎶"

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Qrow glanced down at the flask in his hands before closing his eyes and giving a small nod of understanding. "I've been down that road before. Sometimes, I still end up taking it."

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I liked it better when this Neo was happy dancing on a stripper pole." Roman said with a frown.

'Me too.' Neo signed with a similar look.

"Do you want me to quote you on that?" Vortech asked Roman.

"Oh, don't even start." Roman retorted back with a ticked off look.

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"🎶I'm addicted. I'm dependent.🎶" Neo sang as she entered into her hotel room where she found Fat Nuggets awaiting for her.

Neo smiled at her pet demon pig ad she picked him up, walking past some fur coats and a wig of blonde hair and towards an acting mirror.

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Immediately, Neo brightened up at seeing Fat Nuggets, growing a large smile on his face when he appeared.

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"🎶Looking awesome.🎶" Neo smirked, patting her hair a bit ad she looked herself over in the mirror, Fat Nuggets smiling along with her. However, she immediately saw a flash of herself, scowling at the mirror with beads of sweat running down her head as she bare naked with fuzzy cuffs on her left upper arm, all the while Jacques was shown holding tight on her lower arms as he thrusted himself into her from behind with a devilish smile on his face. Immediately, Neo found her left arm against the mirror, soon looking down with a downtrodden look as Fat Nuggets gave a look of confusion towards her. "🎶Feeling helpless...🎶"

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And just like that, gone was Neo's smile. Replaced with a small frown. Her head was slightly lowered as it almost seemed a shadow had grown over her eyes. Her expression was nearly unreadable. But her tightened fists gave somewhat of an idea as to her current thoughts.

"Yikes..." Emerald muttered with a flinch.

All of the students in the audience were taken aback by the glimpse of Neo being raped by Jacques Schnee. Even if it was for less than a second, they could get a clear picture as to what had transpired.

Weiss, quietly gasped a bit with wide eyes as she clasped her hands over her mouth, staring at the screen in shock and horror.

"Oh... oh dear." Oobleck quietly said with a frown.

"That abhorrent abomination." Ironwood scowled with a small shake of his head.

"A glimpse as to the horrors Jacques inflicts onto Neo." Ozpin sourly spoke.

"And since this is Hell, I doubt most would care for her situation." Glynda shook her head with a similar mood.

"There are no words to describe the hatred I have for this version of father." Winter said with a glare.

Sienna scowled at the screen as well with hatred in her eyes, but did not say a word. What she did do was raise her brow as she then glanced back at Roman and Neo. Neo held a darker variant of her calm appearance from when the audience first saw Jacques force himself onto her counterpart, but for Roman... he was a different story.

His eyes were filled with hatred, his hands clutching onto the arms of his chair with all the force he could muster. Safe to say, Roman Torchwick was about to explode.

Vortech calmly looked over at Roman before pulling out the clock he had summoned earlier. Glancing at it, yet not taking his attention away from Roman, Vortech read the time that the clock showed. "Five... Four... Three... Two... And One..."

Immediately, Roman shot up from his chair, and bellowed out a tirade most full of hate. "That mother fucker! That dirty, slimy ****! I swear to god, I'm gonna kill him! Im gonna tear out his teeth one by one, burn his eyes with a cigar, and then I'm gonna *** *** *** wrinkled **** and shove it down his throat while he gags! After that, I'm gonna blast several **** ****** right up his *****!"

Everyone in the audience were quickly stunned into silence with Roman's angered speech. None said a word to him.

Neo had looked over to her boss, and happily smiled at him with a tilt of her head.

"Roman... I didn't think you had such words in you." Cinder thought to herself with a small and impressed smirk.

"Bravo." Sienna thought to herself as she looked at Roman with wide eyes.

"Are you done?" Vortech asked Roman and bored and bland tone.

"Not even close!" Roman shouted at him.

"Well too bad." Vortech shot back with a stern tone. "You had your time, now sit down."

"Make me!" Roman yelled.

"Well all you had to do was ask!" Vortech shouted back at him before slamming his staff against the floor.

Promptly, a portal opened up behind Roman's seat as several ethereal blue chains shot out from it. They wrapped around Roman, tying him to his seat as he was forced to sit down in it.

As Roman struggled in the chains, with Neo trying to help him out a bit, Vortech looked back over to the rest of the audience. "Does anyone else need to vent their frustrations?"

Everyone was silent as they looked towards Vortech, none of them moving or attempting to answer him.

Yang was slowly raising her hand up, but was immediately brought back down by Blake.

"No?" Vortech asked as he looked around the theater. "Then let's hurry the rest of this up."

With those words, everyone turned back around in their seats and looked towards the viewing screen. Roman and Neo had given up on getting the former out of his chains as Roman quietly grumbled in response to Vortech.

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"🎶And I know I'm raising Cain by every highway in Hell.🎶" Neo scowled a bit before tossing away her cigarette onto an ash tray, having crumpled it up into a heart shape as she then walked over to her bed.

She sat on her bed with Fat Nuggets before laying down, resting her arm under her head. "🎶Maybe things won't be so terrible inside this hotel.🎶"

Far Nuggets then walked up to Neo's face, licking her cheek a bit and prompting Neo to sweetly smile at him before closing her eyes.

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Ruby stared at the screen with a small frown of concern on her face, before a look of stern determination replaced it. "I have to help her. Whatever it takes to redeem Neo and get her out of Hell, I have to try."

"I really want Fat Nuggets." Neo thought to herself with a pout.

"Well, I must say, these have been some of the most vocal reactions we've had thus far." Vortech said as he stood up from his throne. "Perhaps a little vocal. Why don't we all take an intermission, Hmm?"

"I suppose that would be a wise idea." Ozpin calmly nodded.

"Well, I'm glad you agree." Vortech replied to him. "You all should know where the exits are."

Upon his words, the doors to the theater opened up for everyone to exit out of. As everyone began to get out of their seats and move towards the exits, Vortech walked over to Roman to Neo.

"Are you gonna get me out these chains?" Roman asked Vortech with a peeved look.

"Keep your mascara on, I'll have them undone in a jiffy." Vortech replied with an eye roll.

Slamming his staff against the ground again, Vortech caused the chains to unravel from Roman and recede back into the portal they came from, before the portal closed.

Roman got up from his seat, dusting himself off while evening out his cuffs.

"Come on, Neo." Roman said as he looked over to his pint-sized partner. "I need a drink."

Neo nodded in response to her boss as she got from her seat as well, following him out of the exits behind everyone else.

As the theater emptied, Vortech began to walk towards the exits as well. He then glanced back, however, as he roamed his eyes around the theater.

"Alastor? Are you there?" Vortech called out, yet received no answer.

Narrowing his eyes, Vortech turned around and walked through the exit, shutting the doors behind him.

All was now silent in the theater. Empty. Void of anyone. Save but the voice of one.

"🎶We're all alone, no chaperone. Can't get our number. The world's in slumber. Let's misbehave!🎶" Alastor Ozpin's voice sang throughout the empty theater.

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Casting:

Angel Dust: Neopolitan

Cherri Bomb: Nora Valkyrie

Valentino: Jacques Schnee

Charlotte (Charlie) Magne: Ruby Rose

Vagatha (Vaggie): Ilia Amitola

Dia: Herself

Summer: Herself

Fat Nuggets: Himself

Travis: Himself

Shark mobster: Himself

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Author's notes:

Hey there everyone! Here's the awaited Angel Dust chapter. I had a brush with Covid and had to take a break, but I'm feeling much better now.

Some things to take away from this chapter is that I had to change some dialogue to fit with the RWBY characters. I didn't need to change too much, but I still needed to change them. For instance, Neo is female and Angel Dust is male. I had to change some of Angel's dialogue to make it seem like a woman was saying it rather than an effeminate gay man. That's why I had Neo say "pro" instead of "man" and why I had the shark mobster almost say "skank" instead of "faggot." I also had to change up a joke in the comic where Angel makes fun of Vaggie's name by saying it sounded like vagina. Ilia and Vaggie are names that are far from sounding the same. Luckily, I was able to find that Ilia is plural for Ilium, which relates to the pelvis. It was a stretch of a joke change, but I had to make it given the situation. I won't usually add or change most dialogue in these things for the movies/tv shows/games/comics, so don't expect a lot of it in the future.

Other than that, with this chapter done, I'll be focusing again on my other stories. I'll maybe upload this story again once or three times over the year, but I think from now on, I'll mostly save updating this story for the summer. You guys might not like it, but it's what I need to do to help focus on the stories I have. A lot of authors make so many stories but leave some of their ideas behind in favor of others instead of focusing on working on and finishing a first few stories before making new ones.

Any-who, the next chapter will be an intermission chapter. Don't expect it any time soon, because like I said I'll be working on my other stories.

So until next time, farewell Rule Breakers.