Overture 2

The trio came downstairs where Angel was sitting on a couch and a TV set up with Alastor beside it.

"Well, look who's up!" Angel grinned as he smiled at the trio.

"Morning, Angel." Allison greeted him as she sat down beside Charlie with Vaggie taking the other side of the couch.

Angel was wearing a newly made bow that Allison made for him last week and he even commissioned a small outfit for his pet, Fat Nuggets.

"So, shall we review the footage, ladies?" Alastor asked them with a tilt of his head.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Charlie excitedly nodded and Alastor turned on the tv.

The tv picture flickers for a bit with static for a little moment before it cleared up to show flames and mayhem in the background. A red demon with a spiky collar was smiling as he stabbed a large plump red demon beneath him before a familiar hand with crimson claws appeared.

"Well, hello there, you wayward Sinner!" A radio voice greeted them as the quality of the tv went into static for a bit when the hand appeared.

The two turned to face the camera, pausing on what they were doing. The hand that pointed to them belongs to Alastor.

"Do you like blood, violence, and depravity of a sexual nature?" He asked as the two demons looked at the camera in confusion.

"Of course you do, that's why you're in Hell!" The camera moves back to fully reveal the wreckage of one of the cities as the two stare at Alastor in confusion on what he was doing.

"But what would you say if I told you there was a place to stay that had none of that?" More demons popped out of their hiding places with the same look of confusion on their faces as the other two before the screen glitches to reveal the newly renovated Hazbin Hotel.

"Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel, a misguided path to redemption! Founded five days ago by Lucifer's delusional daughter, Charlotte Morningstar!"

Charlie was having a conversation with who appeared to be Vaggie before she noticed the camera. She gave a nervous wave while smiling as Angel appeared with a mischievous smile. He used her shoulder and head to photo bomb the video by sticking bunny ears over her.

The screen switches to Charlie, at the 666 news station, presenting Katie Killjoy with a drawing of the Hazbin Hotel. She gestures to heaven with a smile but Katie just gives her a sneer while holding a cigarette, seemingly bored by her idea.

"Come place your fate in her inexperienced hands, as she tries to work through her daddy issues by fixing you!"

A picture of Charlie looking over at all sketched images on the wall is cut to another screen with lines and arrows pointing at her along with a spotlight shining above her before it changed to another image as Charlie was seen crying with Lucifer facing away from her, a bright red light shining over him before it changed to another image where Charlie is presenting the activities of the hotel to the sinners.

"Here we offer fun things!"

Razzle and Dazzle are both seen sweeping and dusting within the hotel with the words 'Fun Things' appearing before it fades as Husk is seen stationed at the bar, looking absolutely bored out of his mind and drunk before he faceplants on the counter.

"Such as; somewhat functional staff!"

Niffty jumps on the counter and climbs over a snoozing Husk as she tries to stab a beetle which scurried off with her shockingly large sewing needle as it almost pricked Husk's eyebrow. The words 'Pest Control' appears as Niffty chased after the bug.

"And 24-hour pest control!"

The scene changed to a toilet with the words 'Custom Rooms' and a number of eyes on the wall, peering at it ominously. You do not want to ask where or what they do.

"Custom rooms, and just look at this tacky parlor!"

The area shifts where Allison is at the lobby and waving nervously at the camera with Keekee sitting at that table grooming herself beside the radio and Angel was bored as he sits on the couch. A plank fell on the table, startling Keekee as it destroyed both the table and the radio, which made a loud piano chord noise. Keekee leaped at Allison who caught her in her arms as the blue doe stared at the destroyed table and radio in shock.

"Enjoy riveting conversation with our singular resident."

The camera moved to Angel who noticed the camera, raised an eyebrow before flipping it off with his finger. The word 'Wow!' briefly obscured the entire screen.

"Wow! All this, and more at the Hazbin Hotel!"

The screen shows a drawn picture of the Hazbin Hotel with stickers and notes around it.

"Your last desperate attempt at salvation starts here!"

The outside of the hotel is seen with the advertisement note: 'Call now! Or don't! I don't care! We still don't have a working phone!'

The TV switched off as it showed the reflection of Charlie, Vaggie and Allison staring at it in stunned silence. Alastor turns the TV off before he turns to the trio with a grin.

"So, what do you think?" He asked.

On the couch, Charlie and Allison were stunned and surprised but the commercial was poorly misleading and very offensive to their nature and what the hotel is about before Vaggie turns her glare at Alastor who just smiled sharply at them.

"I'm sorry. What the fuck was that?" She asked and Allison winced as her ears twitched.

"It's, um, interesting I think." Allison admitted reluctantly. She doesn't know what to think of the commercial.

"Uh, Yeah. One note, Alastor." Charlie hesitantly said as Alastor patiently waited for her to answer.

"I mean, first off, thank you so much for making this seriously amazing, but um, maybe the tone is a bit off." She said as politely as possible.

"We want people to want to come here for redemption, Alastor. This makes it look, um..." Allison said but couldn't find the words as Alastor tilted his head at her.

"Bad. The word you're both looking for is bad." Vaggie bluntly said as Alastor just grinned.

"Bad is one way to put it. I was going for good but still needed some tweaking." Allison laughed nervously.

"More like a major fix." Vaggie grumbled.

"Funny. I was going for hilarious." Alastor said as Vaggie gave him an annoyed look.

"It didn't explain anything about how we're trying to save demons from extermination, which is the whole fucking point." Vaggie told him with Charlie agreeing.

"Vaggie is right, Alastor, the commercial was to let sinners know we are trying to help them." Charlie said as Alastor rolled his eyes slightly.

"Well, my dear, I haven't been active in hell for some time and everyone remembers me from my radio show, the proper medium to express oneself." He said before going to the television and tapped it twice with his microphone staff.

"But, you insisted on this noisy picture box advertisement." He expressed his disdain for it.

"So, I had a little fun with it." He admitted as Vaggie raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, fun? You had a little fun with it?" Vaggie questioned as she stood up while giving Alastor an angry look.

"Well, this is not what we want to represent us. When you showed up here a week ago, you told us you would help run this hotel. Instead, you're mocking us. Nobody's gonna wanna come to a place that a powerful overlord like you thinks is a waste of time." Vaggie said before a hand raised caught everyone's attention as they saw that it was Angel who raised his hand.

"What?" She asked him. She doesn't need another headache to form due to Alastor.

"If you're filming a commercial, can I suggest you take better advantage of the talented celebrity you have right here?" Angel suggests as he takes a bottle with one arm and points all three arms at himself but Allison doesn't like it and neither does Vaggie.

"Angel, you're a porn star." She told him.

"A famous porn star, I'll have the horniest sinners knocking these walls down to get in." Angel grinned and Allison wrinkled her nose.

"I'm gonna have to disagree with that idea, Angel." She said with a disapproval look.

"I agree with Allie. We are not filming a porn as a commercial." Vaggie said as Angel pouted.

"Why not? Sex sells, don't it?" Angel asked as Alastor appeared beside the couch next to Angel.

"I swear if you film me going at it with Mr. Fancy talk creepy voice here, you'd be rolling in participants willing to stay at this tacky hotel." Angel said as Alastor laughs with amusement but he's clearly not amused.

"Ha ha. Never going to happen." Alastor bluntly said but glanced at Allison secretly who caught his eye and blushed shyly with a small smile before looking away which he returned secretly.

'I already have my sights set on someone.' He thought.

"Angel, I appreciate you wanting to use your special skills to, um, attract folks to the hotel, but I really don't want to exploit you in that way." Charlie told him.

"Just because you're a famous porn star, it doesn't sit well with the idea of exploiting you due to your status as a celebrity in the adult film industry." Allison told him as Angel rolled his eyes playfully.

"Oh, please, Allie Baby. This body was made to be exploited. I got the arms, I got the stamina, I got the legs. I got the lung capacity. Oh, I got the legs. The gag reflex, the holes, the chest fluff everyone thinks are tits." Angel started to list everything about himself off.

Allison has to cover her ears even though they're lowered against her head as she tries to not listen to what Angel is saying. Alastor was feeling one of his eyes twitching at Angel's antics and after seeing how discomforted his doe was with him and his dirty talk, he looks like he'll murder Angel if he doesn't stop right now. Charlie laughed nervously before her phone started ringing. She looked at it and saw that it was a call from her father with his caller id as a picture of a duck.

"Hold that thought!" Charlie excused herself as she picked up the phone.

"I'll be right back." She stood up and went to a quiet area just as she heard Angel say something.

"I could keep going all night, baby." He said.

Once she was in a quiet area, she breathed nervously as her thumb hovered over the accept the call button. Her father usually calls her if he needs her to do something or if he is bored. So maybe, this might be different? Taking a deep breath, she accepted the call as she smiled nervously.

"Hello? Dad?" She greeted her father through the phone.

Back to the others who were at the lobby.

"Hey, I have a question." Angel said as he pointed his thumb at Alastor, whose ear twitched curiously at what he wanted.

"If freaky face over there is so powerful, then why can't he just make people stay here?" He asked as Alastor smiled sharply at him.

"Oh, trust me." He said as his smile became mischievous and dark as his dark magic showed

"I can." He said just as Husk looked at them.

"Why do you think I'm here?" He questioned them as he was holding a bottle.

"You actually think I'd be cleaning bottles and listening to you fucks bitch and moan all the time if he wasn't forcing me?" Husk said as he cleans a bottle as Niffty popped up behind the counter with her hand raised.

"I like being forced." She said and Husk gave her a weird look.

"Keep that to yourself, Niff." Husk told her as she hopped down and went to hunt down more bugs.

"What? You don't love being here with me, Whiskers?" Angel cooed teasingly at him and Husk glared at him grumpily.

"Call me Whiskers again and I'll jam that bottle down your throat." The avian cat warned him and Angel smiled flirtatiously at that.

"Kinky. Come on, keep talking dirty." Angel said with an eager smile, beckoning Husk to say more as Allison looked at the spider.

"Angel, please stop. We don't need that information and just let Husk do his job." Allison told him and Husk gave her an appreciative look.

"Allie's right, Angel. And, no, we can't force sinners to stay here. They need to choose to." Vaggie agreed with her friend.

"I'm choosing to be here and I think it's all stupid. We're in hell, toots, Allie-Cakes. That's kind of the end of the road, ain't it?" Angel said as he crossed his arms.

"Well, Maybe it doesn't have to be. Just because nobody has made it out before doesn't mean it's not possible." Vaggie said as Angel put a hand on her shoulder with a deadpan expression with Vaggie doing the same to him

"Hey, whatever means I can keep crashing here rent-free. Crack is expensive." Angel told them as Allison gave him a look.

"The only reason you're staying here rent free is because you're our first client, Angel. But it doesn't mean you can't just... ruin your progress." Allison said as Vaggie spoke up.

Meanwhile, Charlie was still talking to her dad and her expression was slowly changing to excitement and happiness as she received the news that her father brought her and to say the least, it filled her with hope that her project will finally be approved.

"Yeah, I can totally, yeah. I'll head over there right away. Okay!" Charlie could hardly contain her squeal as she hung up and gasped excitedly.

"Yes… YES!" Charlie gushed happily as she giggled excitedly.

She rounded the corner slightly and looked to Allison and Vaggie who were both talking to the others.

"Vaggie, Allie! Holy, shit!" She shouted suddenly and waved to them enthusiastically, scaring both of the two from that.

"Ah! What?" Vaggie yelped.

"Geez, Charlie, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Allison yelped.

Charlie waves to them to come to her as she has some exciting news.

"Get over here!" She mumbled excitedly.

Vaggie sighs happily with Allison shaking her head fondly as they both went to where Charlie is while the princess is jumping around in a very happy mode.

"What's going on?" Vaggie asked as Allison stood next to her.

"Did something happen with your phone call?" Allison asked her curiously.

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