Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Helluva Boss Episode One: Murder Family (Remix)

 

Part One: Mrs. Mayberry

Once upon a time, there was an innocent lovely blonde teacher named Mrs. Mayberry.

 

She taught at a red schoolhouse with a little golden bell at the top of it. “Learning is fun,” was written in bright yellow letters on the side of the building with art of colorful kites and a rainbow painted on the wall. A sign at the front read “Puppies Junior School” in the sunlight. There were tall green trees and a playground off to the side. The golden old-fashioned bell rang for the start of the day. A blue jay and a cardinal sang from a tree branch as the teacher opened the white curtains.

 

The Vivziepop lookalike woman wrote “Good morning!” in white chalk on the green blackboard.

 

 “Good morning!” She twirled in a dance, catching her piece of chalk. She wore a white shirt with colorful red cherries on it and a long blue-gray skirt. A green pendant rested on her shirt. She wore cherry earrings and round yellow glasses. Her blonde hair was tied back in a flower-like shape behind her. “Have a bright and sunny day” was written on a poster with a large smiling sun with big eyes on it. Nearby was a calendar and an old boxy computer on a desk. A white daisy was in a flower pot. “The word of the day is harmony,” was written on a schedule posted on a board behind the children sitting at desks. The orange curtains by the windows had white math symbols on it. The schedule read “math, history, reading, grammar, science, art and music” as the many school subjects for the days of the week.

 

“I hope you all did your homework!” she trilled.

 

 The children nodded with a dance to their bodies. One boy wearing an orange shirt spun around in a stool wearing a dunce cap and he faced the wall. The class broke out randomly into song.

 

“We love to do our homework and we love our teacher too!”

 

The teacher sang, “And when I throw out these fun questions, you should know just what to do.”

 

“Okay!” they cheered, arms in the air.

 

She wrote on the board 2 + 6 = 8 and added,


“Two plus six is…”

 

“Eight!” the class answered.

 

“And good behavior’s…”

 

“Great!” they chimed in.

 

“And now it’s that part of the class when we say the time of day and date.”

 

“It’s nine in the morning,” sang a blonde boy.

 

“On January 8th…” added a black girl.

 

“The sun is out smiling,” said a brown haired girl with a bow.

 

“And it’s your husband’s birthday!” reminded the dunce boy with his tongue out.

 

As the class sang “la la la,” the teacher found herself scrapping her chalk down in a line on the board. Sweat coated her forehead as the chalk was almost completely broken down. The singing was a constant drone in her head. Her right eye twitched and she turned around.

 

“Oh my stars, stop singing children! Hush up now!”

 

The class fell silent.

 

She put a hand to her forehead. “I forgot it’s my husband’s birthday! I didn’t get him anything special.”

 

The brown haired girl stood up and said, “Maybe if we call him, we could do a happy birthday surprise!”

 

The teacher and kids gathered around the boxy computer. At the husband’s house, a lone sock fell on the call screen that read “wifey” on it.

 

The screen turned on, and everyone gasped in disbelief.

 

The teacher’s husband was in the process of having sex with another lady!

 

A tie, a bra and a condom flew against the screen as they straddled naked in their bed.

 

“We won’t be needing this,” a voice said as the condom hit the screen with Mrs. Mayberry’s face on the other side.

The teacher sat at her desk, looking stunned, her face turning red. The other woman was so young and beautiful. There was her husband, clad naked and showing off his muscles and parts to the other lady.

 

“Oh yeah,” the husband giggled, “Not there, not there.” They seemed to be also playing with squeaky sex toys.

 

With a blank shadowed look on her face, the teacher suddenly stood up and walked away. If she wasn’t going to be able to divorce that cheating bastard…

 

“Wait! Mrs. Mayberry!” called the brown haired girl. She took hold of the teacher’s hand. “Remember what you taught us…think before you act.”

 

Dark thoughts suddenly festered within the woman and she gripped the girl’s neck before tossing her up in the air through the roof. She stomped out of the room and shut the door. The children ran to the window to watch as she got in her old green car and plowed through a white picket fence. “I love school” was on her license plate. The children rushed to the computer.

 

The door to the bedroom was quickly pulled open.

 

“Oh shit, sweetie!” said her husband, caught in the act of fucking the young lady on their master bed. “What are you doing here?”

 

“Shut up, Jarold!” A newfound rage flared in her eyes. A deadly looking riffle was in her hands. She fired several shots.

 

The blonde lady shrieked as Mrs. Mayberry moved closer.

 

“You scream like a bitch!” the teacher mentioned to the blonde haired lady.

 

With a demonic yell, she brutally shot the younger woman across multiple areas of her body. Thick blood splattered everywhere.

 

Her husband gasped. “Oh god, what have you done?! She had a family!”

 

“We could’ve had a family!” the teacher sobbed, in a flood of despair and rage. She picked up a bullet and shot her husband square in the head. He collapsed to the floor, dead.

 

“Oh god, what have I done?” she asked, frazzled, whipping away the blood from the screen. She saw her children stare in horror and disgust. “In front you all.” She broke down into tears, seeing her dead husband in a pool of blood. She spoke her last words through sobs. “I’m so sorry my children. Don’t forget to work on your timestamps.”

 

Mrs. Mayberry knew there was nothing left for her but jail time and grief. There was only one other option. With shaking hands, she shot herself in the chest with a yelp. The children fainted on the floor one by one at the traumatizing sight. The policeman took the wailing blonde lady to the hospital…and found Mrs. Mayberry’s body lying next to her husband’s on the blood-stained floor.

 

The blonde lady Martha stared lovingly with a brown uncovered eye at her new muscular husband Ralphie wearing an orange plaid shirt. He had brown hair and an athlete/superhero build. Their two children stood by her bedside as she recovered. The room had bouquets of colorful flowers in every corner. Camera flashed as news reporters talked to her.

 

“How does it feel to have survived such a crazy bitch?” a newswoman asked.

 

“I just hope that sick woman finally found peace,” Martha drawled in her hospital bed.

 

Her husband comforted her, head lowered.

 

“You are so brave,” the reporter commended to Martha. “Here’s $2 million dollars!”

 

The woman’s face lit up as she was handed a large golden check. “Oh thank you!” She smiled at the cameras with her husband like she was a movie star.

 

The stereotypical America family lived in a house near the woods and by a lake. Martha dressed like a housewife with a long polka dot skirt. Her daughter had brown pigtails, a lavender shirt with a tie, and a red skirt with boots. The younger boy had a beaver-skin cap, a white shirt, brown pants and camouflage boots. On the outside, they were the perfect typical family.

 

“You’re a hero,” said more news people as she stood elegantly at a VNN (Vivienne News Network) podium.

 

“You’re a hero, girl,” admired a brown skinned jogger with short blonde passing Martha by. Martha basked in the attention and wealth she received. Who knew that getting shot at would change her life for the better.

 

“My mama’s a hero!” declared the son.

 

“She is a hero!” The brown haired casher agreed down to him with a wide grin as the family went grocery shopping.

 

“Ooooh…You’re a hero!” moaned Martha’s husband as he thrust his penis wildly in and out of her as they made love in their bedroom. Their walls were covered with pelvises and newspaper clippings of Martha under “local hero” headings.

 

“You’re a hero,” smiled an old praying priest who stood by her at one church meeting.

 

Even worse for Mayberry, a new class of children cheered, “You’re a hero!” to Martha when she taught a “How to deal with trauma 101 class.”

 

“Oh you’re a hero!” another man groaned in the bedroom as he wildly gave her anal.

 

 0 0 0

Mrs. Mayberry woke up staring at a crimson red sky. Her form had completely changed… Mrs. Mayberry was now a purple demon with stripped curved horns on her head, and wearing rectangular glasses. She wore a pale red shirt with x stitches on it, along with an eye where her pendant was. Her hair was long and white and pulled back with a black bandana. She wore a dark skirt with an upside down cross on it and heels. She also had sharp yellow teeth.

 

After finding a place to live and shying out of sight from shady strangers, Mrs. Mayberry had the chance to continue her career where she left off. So she did. It took some learning and adaptation to Hell’s culture but fortunately it was pretty simple.

 

Mrs. Mayberry was soon hired at “Pentagram Penitentiary Place,” one of the top public schools in the Pride Ring district. It was a large school for grades K-12. The name of the school was in black letters surrounded by a red downward facing pentagram over the black front doors. “All grades in one place!” read the slogan. The building was of red-orange brick with three rows of low cracked windows facing the front. The outdoor playground consisted of rusted basketball hoops, a jungle gym, dark asphalt and a swing set that made squeaky sounds every time it was used. The slide was high up and made of metal, so that it was always painfully hot for the young demon children to slide down. A barbed wire fence with swirls of wire at the top surrounded the prison-like school.

 

A bunch of middle schoolers were bouncing a demon skull around and tossing it into the basketball hoops. Little preschooler demons rough-housed on the grass-less ground, laughing. One small green dragon kept making burping sounds, emitting orange sparks much to the delight of his peers.  A dinosaur used his tail for a black eyed doll girl to use as a jump rope. There was even a little scary-go round that furry bird-like kids went on to test their flying…and they’d often spin out of control in the air. One white bird crashed against the fence and slid down with a flop.

 

“Loser!” taunted a bulky blue cyclops kid wearing a baseball cap. He spat on the bird’s upside-down head and laughed with his goons. An older demon with a rhino’s horn was spray-painting teal blue penises on the walls.

 

“Watch your back!” the rhino called out in mockery to a centaur who fired an arrow from a bow, startled. The green lizard demon tied to the target glanced down at the arrow that had almost gotten him in the crotch. He sighed with relief, only to have an ax lodged into his head, thrown by an orange goat bipedal teenager.

 

Nearby were two purple demons with silvery snake hair sitting on a concrete window ledge, wearing blouses, sequined navy skirts and shoes. They were listening to music from their Eye-Pods. One of them was painting her nails and the other took a drag from an e-cigarette. Every kid had a number temporarily tattooed on their necks. An E, an M and an H were before the numbers, for elementary, middle and high school. K or a P next to the E stood for kindergarten and preschool.

 

A loud buzzer rang at the top of the roof, signaling class starting. The children were lined up in front of their respective teachers. Mrs. Mayberry stood in front of her line of preschool demons.

 

After singing a song about a demonic turtle drowning in a bathtub with the class, she counted each child as they made their way to homeroom. They all filled in and sat at their wooden desks. The demonic alphabet was listed on a nearby poster with translations into English and other languages.

 

“Good morning!” Mrs. Mayberry trilled in the windowless classroom, scrapping her chalk against the blackboard before catching it with a twirl. “I hope you all did your homework!”

 

The kids fearfully nodded.

 

“Hmm, I don’t think you did, EP-04,” she scolded a demon boy wearing an orange shirt with no paper in front of him. “Go sit in time-out.”

 

The boy groaned and sat on a stool facing the wall. The white dunce cap burned on his head.

 

“The pledge of allegiance,” Mrs. Mayberry led. The class stood up with their hands on their hearts.

 

“I pledge allegiance and my soul to the banner

Of His Majesty Lucifer and Her Majesty Lilith

And to the unholy Inferno

For Pentagram City

One nation under Satan

Indivisible

With liberty and chaos for all!”

 

They sat back down.

 

“Now let’s sing,” Mrs. Mayberry ordered.

 

The demonic class broke out into song:

 

“We love to do our homework and learn stuff every day.”

 

“And when I throw in these hard questions, you should know just what to say,” Mrs. Mayberry sang.

 

“Okay!” they cheered.

 

She wrote an equation on the board. “Divide this number by…”

 

“Zero!”

 

“Our favorite paint is…”

 

“Bloody red!”

 

“And when there’s a stranger danger…”

 

“You stab them in the head!” they answered, making stabbing motions with their arms.

 

“A poison for a deep sleep?” she asked.

 

“Wormwood! Does no good!”

 

“The geological components of Hell?”

 

“Fire and brimstone!” added a girl.

 

“If you can’t use love…”

 

“Use hate!”

 

“Now it’s time for us to say the day and date.”

 

“Your death day was on January 8th, right?” piped up a boy in the back.

 

Mrs. Mayberry stopped short. “Hush up! We don’t mention that date.” She turned to the class. “Go on.”

 

“It’s 3 in the afternoon…” said a boy.

 

“On October 31st,” said a green girl.

 

“Hell’s heat is still hot,” said another girl, sweating.

 

“Let’s watch the episode first!” reminded the dunce boy.

 

The demons went “la la la” as Mrs. Mayberry stared at the board, red eyes wide.

 

“Oh my suns! Stop singing children. Shut up!”

 

The demons fell silent.

 

“I forgot it’s the new episode! I’m supposed to be off to pursue my revenge!”

 

“Maybe you could scare your enemies at a death-day party!” a girl suggested with her hands up in the air.

 

Mrs. Mayberry looked at her hell-phone and saw the last seconds of an I.M.P. commercial. She stood up to walk away.

 

“Wait! Mrs. Mayberry,” said a girl, taking hold of her hand. “Remember what you taught us. Act before you think.”

 

Mrs. Mayberry pat her head. “I think not. Work on your timestamps and assignments, children. I’m off to pursue a little education of my own.”

 

A horn-covered sub man walked in and bellowed, “200 pushups on the double! Or it’s back to your cells!”

 

The demon children got up from their seats and bent down to do the pushups.

 

Mrs. Mayberry called a taxi outside and it drove her off.

 

Up on a screen outside her window, Mrs. Mayberry saw a full commercial where she learned of an assassination company called I.M.P.

 

“Hi there, I’m Blitzo, the “o” is silent and I’m the funder of I.M.P.! Are you a piece of shit that got sent to Hell? Or are you an innocent soul who just so happened to get fucked over by someone else?”

 

The next shot showed a bulky red demon with horns, wearing a white Ohio shirt/jersey. A sign read, “Some guy who hired us!” The demon spoke:

 

“After lovingly killing my wife for fucking a delivery man, you could imagine my surprise when I wound down here, after the State of Ohio killed me.” He rammed his meaty fists. “I really wish I could stick it to that yappy jogger who saw me hiding the body!”

 

“Guess I’m not the only one who murdered my spouse,” she thought.

 

Blitzo appeared again. “Well luckily for you, thanks to our company’s special access to the living world…we promise to take care of your unfinished business by taking out anyone who may have screwed you over when you were alive!”

 

The sounds of the imp jingle motivated Mrs. Mayberry as the taxi pulled to a stop in front of the I.M.P. building. She got out, climbed up the stairs and knocked on the office door. It opened and out popped Blitzo.

 

“Is this I.M.P.?” she asked.

 

“Yes,” Blitzo said.

 

“I figured, since I saw the commercial. I have one bad bitch that needs to be killed. And I’ve got a lot to say.”

 

“Well, come on in then,” he said with a grin and a low voice.

 

Mrs. Mayberry paced Blitzo’s office at I.M.P. headquarters as she told her story. Blitzo listened half-heartedly, lounging on his leather office chair.

 

 “I was a good person before it all went down,” she narrated, pacing to and fro. “I was good my entire life.”

 

She continued on, adding details about her personal life. She held a cigarette in her hand. Apparently, it was easy to get into unhealthy habits in Hell.

 

“You do everything right in life, play by the rules, and still get sent down here with all the Hitlers and Epsteins of the world. After one measly massacre propelled by blind rage. So that’s why I’m here. To get my revenge.”

 

“I mean was she hotter?” Blitzo remarked with a smirk.

 

The demon’s eyes flared red in anger, her face partially in shadow by the drawn blinds. A lemon tree was in the background with a sign that read “no whores” beside it.

 

“I’m just saying I had a hard time understanding the unprompted melodrama you just spat at me, tits,” Blitzo chuckled.

 

Mayberry growled and her body briefly glowed red. Her cigarette bent in her hand.

 

Blitzo rolled his eyes. “Anyway I don’t think you quite understand how we’re operating down here.” He stood up and Mrs. Mayberry glared at him. “You see we take revenge on the living and it sounds like the core cast of your sitcom of a death frankly are all probably down here in Hell with you. Boop.”

 

He bonked her on the nose.

 

Mayberry’s pointed tail twitched, her purple claws clenched. Her skirt was torn with holes and her feet were cloven hooves. This imp guy was worse than the demonic children she taught.

 

Mayberry extended her left claws. “Not all of them. That whore survived. Now they all call her a hero.”

 

She continued. “Between the talk shows and bullshit donations she made so much goddamn cash. Getting shot was the best thing to happen to her!”

 

Mayberry bashed her fists into the ground, creating cracks. “She’s not a hero!” Mayberry yelled, getting in close to Blitzo’s face.

 

“Yeah, okay, yeah, my thoughts exactly,” Blitzo stuttered in a rapid nervous voice. He frantically pressed a red button under the desk multiple times. The red light flashed under the “Deranged Client” label on a dashboard. The other labels read, “More Coffee,” “Soiled My Pants,” “Horny Client,” “Client Giving Birth,” “Ghost,” and “Stolas.”

 

Blitzo later burst through the door, followed by Mrs. Mayberry. “Guys, I’d like you to meet, our newest client!”

 

The room suddenly burst into flames…Blitzo was furious. He quickly led Mrs. Mayberry outside where she hopped into a taxi to wait back home.

 

“Bye and don’t worry,” called Blitzo to her, “We’ll get that skank in less than 24 hours or your first kill is free!”

 

She could only hope that crazy imp and his team could do their job.

 

As it turned out, Mrs. Mayberry later found out that not only had I.M.P. killed Martha, they also killed her crazy Satanic family. Mrs. Mayberry was very impressed. She held a piece of cake and laughed with the I.M.P. members for a special celebration. Millie talked about how it was okay to kill someone if they tried to kill you back.

 

“That’s messed up,” mentioned Mrs. Mayberry. Then she smiled. “But I paid for it!”

 

Everyone laughed again. Mrs. Mayberry felt good among her new allies. She had embraced her past at last.

 

After the celebration, she got back into the taxi but instead of heading home, she headed further into town.

 

There was a red Ohio demon for her to thank.

 

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Part Two: The Imps’ Adventure

In another office room during the time of Blitzo and Martha’s meeting, Moxxie was holding a black and red crossbow in his hands. In front of him was a picture of a smiling family: a father, a mother, a baby and two children. His arms were shaking as the reflector hovered around the man’s crotch area.

 

“Moxxie, stop shaking!” Millie chided. “You’re gonna shoot our only hellhound!”

 

Loona lay on her back on a gray couch. The family picture was in one hand and her phone was in the other. On the wall were drawings of Blitzo as a horse and a drawing of Robo Fizz with an arrow sticking out from it.

 

Loona spoke in a sarcastic tone, not looking at them, “Wow. I feel so loved here.”

 

“Just take a deep breath,” Millie told Moxxie, inhaling, “and let it out.”

 

“But, it’s a family,” Moxxie argued. “Under what circumstances would we ever need to kill a human family?”

 

“I mean if that’s what the client wants,” Millie began with a shrug.

 

“Maybe like a shitty dad,” Moxxie suggested. “Or a mob family.” He spoke through his teeth, “That’s understandable. He then spoke normally, pushing aside bad memories of his horrible murder family. “But to eradicate an entire innocent, seemingly innocent, upper middle class family bloodline?”

 

Loona stood up and stared at the picture for a moment before pointing to Moxxie.

 

“Hey! You don’t know they’re innocent.”

 

She pointed to the boy. “This kid probably sets dogs on fire.”

 

She pointed to the girl. “Maybe this girl gets off to bullying Australian kids online.”

 

She pointed to the father. “And this guy…” She narrowed her eyes and spoke lower. “This guy definitely watches.”

 

“Exactly!” Millie agreed. “Humans are full of secret nasties. It’s why so many of them end up down here. But guilty and innocent ain’t our business, Mox.” She cupped his cheeks with her hands. “Killing who we’re paid to is our business. Choose a target.”

 

She kissed him before stepping aside. Moxxie positioned his crossbow again.

 

“I just think it’s a bit excessive and we could be a bit more selective, is all.”

 

Just then, Blitzo barged into the room, followed by Mrs. Mayberry.

 

“Guys! I want you to meet…”

 

Startled, Moxxie fired the arrow and it ricocheted around the room. Millie jumped into Moxxie’s arms as the arrow hit a computer. It then flew and poked a hole in the family picture that a startled Loona held. The arrow made impact with the bottom of an eel tank, causing it to wobble dangerously. The arrow speed toward Mrs. Mayberry but Blitzo calmly caught it in one hand.

 

“…our newest client!”

 

The eel tank suddenly fell down, glass and water pouring onto the floor. The eels burst with electricity, casing the room to erupt in flames. Loona, Moxxie and Millie cowered in fear.

 

“Dammit, Moxxie! I just bought those eels!” Blitzo yelled in anger.

 

Soon, imp firefighters rushed to the scene to put out the flames as the group waited outside. The firefighters also carried the eels away to their red fire truck. Although imps were immune to fire, the buildings were not.

 

Mrs. Mayberry climbed into a taxi cab.

 

“Bye,” Blitzo waved, “and don’t worry, we’ll get that skank in less than twenty four hours or your first kill is free!” He waved as the taxi drove away.

 

“When did we start implementing that deal?” Moxxie asked.

 

Blitzo turned to glare at him. He pulled him close, holding his face.

 

“When you set fire to my office in front of a…” Blitzo screamed, “client, you fucking dipshit!" He shoved Moxxie out of the way in anger. “Now someone please tell me that fancy book is still intact!”

 

Loona stood against the wall, typing on her phone. “You mean our only ticket to the other side?” She pulled out a blue book from behind her. “Yeah, got it.”

 

Blitzo came over to her and started to baby talk to her. “And that’s why you’re my favorite, Loony. You get a treat now.”

 

He held up a dog treat in his hands, tossed it in the air and caught it with his long tongue.

 

“Ew, stop it,” Loona said with disgust. Blitzo pulled the biscuit into his mouth and chewed.

 

“You’re so gross!” she remarked.

 

 A nearby billboard with Blitzo’s face on it read with misspellings: “Goat an asshole in the living worlds!? Come to I Am Pee!!??! Make sure you put this sign up on the rite side. Don’t fuck this up. Also payment may take a couple of weeks because it cums in the mail. –Speech to text- -Blitzo”

 

Millie drew a pentagram with chalk onto the wall. The pentagram glowed red and a portal to the human world appeared.

 

“Aw stop it, I get enough of that from my therapist,” Blitzo told Loona before she left. He mentioned to the other imps, and moved his fist in front of him in anticipation. “Now let’s go lick some ass!” He pressed his hand into Moxxie’s face.

 

“The expression is “kick some ass.” Blitz,” Millie mentioned before she stepped through the portal. Blitzo let go of Moxxie’ face.

 

“Mine’s better,” Blitzo said before following her.

 

“Aw, fuck,” Moxxie sighed as he followed them through the portal.

 

All three imps stood in front of a small red house by the lake as the sun set. Blitzo and Moxxie leaned against the side of the house, rising from the bushes. Blitzo stood up and peered into a window. A row of white flowers were on a planter on the ledge.

 

“That’s gotta be her,” Blitzo whispered. He then chuckled darkly. “This is too easy.” He looked over at Moxxie. “Moxxie, do you want this one?”

 

Moxxie looked stunned and smiled nervously. “Me?”

 

“Yeah, this one’s simple enough for you to handle. It’s just a happy mother who just got out of the hospital.”

 

Moxxie stood up and looked through the window. His face fell as he looked at the happy family enjoying dinner. A pig’s head was at the center of the table. The house was decorated with axes and guns on the walls. A lamp stand seemed to be made out of a spinal column. Ralphie and Martha affectionately rubbed each other’s noses, Martha holding a dinner platter in her hand. Moxxie hesitated; there was no way he could kill any one of them.

 

“You snooze you lose, Mox!” Blitzo called out.

 

He got out his gun, which was black with flames painted on it. The reflector was an upside down cross and it hovered over Martha’s face. She smiled with large doe eyes and blinked innocently.

 

“And I’ve got you, bitch,” Blitzo murmured.

 

“Wait, are we actually killing a family?!” Moxxie asked in disbelief.

 

“No, don’t be a puss, we’re just killing a mother,” Blitzo remarked. “We’re running a family.” He grinned and clicked his rifle, positioning it.

 

“But…” Moxxie began. “Hold on, hold on, let’s just think about it…”

 

Moxxie lifted up the rifle just before Blitzo fired. The bullet hit a glass mirror in the house, causing the family members to gasp in fear.

 

“What was that, Ralphie?” Martha asked her husband, who sat at the table.

 

Ralphie shook his head. “I don’t know Martha, but whatever it is…”

 

He stood up with a sharp-toothed grin, holding a rifle in his hands.

 

“They’re gonna be tomorrow night’s dinner!”

 

Martha set the platter down on the table, downed a glass of wine and smashed the glass on the floor.

 

“Alright, kids! Gun’s out!” she called with an evil grin. The kids, too, grinned evilly as they pulled out smaller guns. The boy pulled out his from his brown beaver-skin hat.

 

“Looks like we’ve got some rabbits to catch, youngins!” Ralphie said with an evil chuckle.

 

Back outside, Blitzo was fuming. “What the fuck was that, Moxxie?”

 

Moxxie breathed anxiously before letting out a croak, his snake-like tongue flickering. He fell to his knees, hands over his face.

 

“I’m sorry. They just seemed so wholesome and happy.” Tears fell from his eyes. “I panicked.”

 

Blitzo face-palmed. “Oh who the fuck is innocent, Moxxie? From the moment of birth, you’re already a parasite leeching off your momma’s tits.”

 

He grabbed his chest in an imitation of holding breasts. He leaned in and poked Moxxie painfully on the head. “Now get the fuck over yourself you baby dick prick!”

 

A bullet fired through the wall and shot Blitzo in the arm. He cried out as black blood splattered.

 

“A new hole!” Blitzo cried in terror. “Scatter!”

 

Blitzo and Millie leapt into the air just as another gunshot created a larger hole in the wall. A grinning Martha and Ralphie leapt through the hole and chased after them, guns drawn. Moxxie peered out from behind the bush, rapidly looking around. A child’s hand grabbed Moxxie’s pointed tail and he yelped. He only saw a barrage of fists from the children before passing out.

 

Millie flipped backwards along a cobblestone trail before diving into the lake.

 

“Where’d you go, little critter?!” Ralphie called, firing another bullet. He stepped onto the wooden dock. “Y’all can’t hide long from me!”

 

Millie had her head above the water under the dock, a knife in her mouth. She broke through the dock with a crash before landing with a grin, knife at the ready. Ralphie swing a beer bottle at her, but she moved behind him out of the way. Millie jumped up in the air, knife in both hands. Ralphie swung the bottle upwards, hitting her in the head. The glass shattered and she fell to the ground with a loud yelp. Millie struggled weakly to stand, but collapsed onto the dock, eye twitching. Ralphie grinned down at her as the sky spiraled red. He picked her up and headed deep into the woods.

 

Moxxie opened his eyes and gasped with a squeak to find his hands and body tied with rope. He appeared to be tied to a stitched up headless dead body sitting on a chair. Moxxie’s face fell in fear as he stared at the boy and girl in front of him. Both their eyes were red and devious grins formed on their faces.

 

Moxxie tried to defuse the fear. “Oh. Hello there little ones. Aren’t you cute?”

 

The children spoke in low distorted voices at the same time:

 

“It’s nice to have a new critter to play with!”

 

Moxxie glanced up in terror at a red spotlight above him. The light revealed a human head high up and several limbs on plaques. The wooden walls were stained with red blood. Two plaques held stitched up faces of skin. A larger plaque displayed a dead man with long white hair, arms crossed, eyes and teeth bulging out. His upper chest was connected to the plaque. A picture frame made of bones displayed another face made of skin inside it. Human skin was tacked to the wall with “bless this mess” stitched onto it. Moxxie looked and saw a dead human body on a platter, an apple in its mouth. Organs were displayed in a nearby bowl.

 

Moxxie took one look at the dead body and whimpered. “Aw. Crumbs.”

 

Meanwhile, Blitzo was running for his life in the woods. Four gunshots rang out as Blitzo darted through a bush, leaves falling to the ground. Martha’s evil echoing laughter quickened his pace. The imp slide down a grass hill, landing on his feet. He crouched under the bushes, looking around. He panted, catching his breath.

 

“I know you’re hurtin’, little devil,” drawled Martha in a sing-song voice.

 

Blitzo darted behind a tree, taking in deep silent breaths. His back was pressed against the bark. He covered his mouth, not daring to move.

 

“I promise that I can make that pain go real quick.”

 

Martha walked through the woods, not too far away, in shadow. “Just come let Mama Martha put a bullet in that pretty little skull!”

 

Blitzo sighed in relief after hearing the footsteps fade.

 

Ring! Ring! Ahh!

 

A startled Blitzo scrambled to retrieve his yellow cell-phone, which was ringing a yelling ringtone. He eventually caught the phone before pressing it to his ear. The phone had a GFY (Go Fuck Yourself) on it and a laughing devil emoji with imp horns.

 

“This is a really bad time,” Blitzo whispered harshly.

 

At Stolas’ palace, the owl prince was currently lounging in an ornate bathtub, several lit candles with blue flames positioned around the edges. Astrological symbols glowed white in a circle on the floor. The midnight blue curtains looked like the night sky, with starry designs on them. Floating constellations hovered around the room. He was the prince of astronomy as well as being horny.

 

“When isn’t it a bad time, Blitzy?” he mused, stretching his long slender arm. He held a rotary phone to his ear, the speakers shaped like sunflowers.

 

Blitzo sighed in frustration. “What is it?”

 

Stolas’ four red eyes blinked. “I’ve been meaning to follow up on our last conversation regarding my grimoire?”

 

Blitzo’s angry face appeared in a bubble.

 

“What did you just call me?” Blitzo asked. Stolas popped the bubble with a finger. “My book, Blitzy. The book I was given to do my job that I have allowed you to use to do yours?”

 

Blitzo ducked as a bullet flew through the tree he was behind. Martha’s shadowy figure appeared in the hole, her eyes and mouth glowing red.

 

“I can hear ya, darling!” she called out.

 

“Shit,” Blitzo muttered, scurrying off.

 

“Anywho,” Stolas continued. “I have been thinking. You know, I have been permitting you to access the mortal realm less than legally for quite some time now, but I do need it back to fulfil my duties. I was thinking, what if we worked out some sort of exchange?”

 

He ran a finger along the edge of the tub. He then did a walking motion with his fingers as they glowed red.

 

“Favors for favors? Doesn’t that sound…” He spoke seductively, “…enticing?”

 

Blitzo skidded to a stop as another bullet hit a tree. He ducked behind another one and frantically whispered, “You gotta stop using your fancy-ass rich people talk, okay? I’m trying to concentrate on not getting fucked in my hay!”

 

Bam!

 

Another bullet hit a spot on the tree.

 

“Then let me keep it simple,” Stolas explained. “Once a month, on the full moon, you return the book to me, followed by a night of…”

 

His eyes glowed red, his beak open in lust…

 

“…passionate fornication.” He briefly slid lower in the tub with a blush before rising up to lean against the tub.

 

“And…you get to keep it the rest of the time. Sound fair my little imp?”

 

“Fine, whatever!” Blitzo replied.

 

Stolas let out a happy sigh. “Oh Blitzy! I’m so excited! I cannot wait to fill your slimy cock inside of my mouth…”

 

Blitzo cringed as Stolas went on about the sexual things he planned to do to him.

 

Out of nowhere, Blitzo found himself being pinned against the tree by the bottom handle of Martha’s gun.

 

“Gotcha!” she grinned. Blitzo’s phone was on the ground, Stolas still talking.

 

“So, you’re a little devil, huh?” she asked, a wide grin. “Come to drag me and my kin to Hell? Well not today, Satan!”

 

She pressed the gun further into Blitzo. “Gonna send y’all back where ya came from!”

 

She hit Blitzo hard and he slumped to the ground. She took him and headed off into the woods.

 

Back at the house, Moxxie struggled to free his tied up hands and body. In the reflection of the window, he could see the orange yellow lights of fires. He gasped.

 

“Millie!”

 

The two kids stared deviously at him. He froze when the girl revealed a long sharp knife in her hands. Moxxie glared, determined. As the girl raised the knife, Moxxie shoved her backwards with the chair. There was a thud as the chair toppled over onto the floor. Moxxie grabbed the knife and cut the rope loose, freeing himself. A “Live, Laugh, Love” sign and a hangman’s noose hung from the wall. Moxxie burst through the round window, a shadow silhouette with glowing yellow eyes. Wasting no time, he raced into the woods and toward rows of torches. Hanging from the trees were intricate red Satanic symbols made of wood. There were also tents around the area.

 

A full moon appeared in the sky from behind thin clouds. Down below, Blitzo and Millie were tied to a stake decorated with black spikes at the top. Ralphie laughed as he poured gasoline onto the ground by their feet. Martha stood nearby, holding a torch in her left hand. Her blouse was torn and low cut, with polka dots on them. Her demonic eyes were red and she wore skull earrings.

 

Blitzo groaned in frustration. “I had that fucking shot. God dammit, Moxxie.”

 

“Satan!” Martha declared. “We return your filthy creatures back to the pits of Hell!” She raised her torch. “May the root of evil remain honored as we continue thy work!”

 

Martha tossed the torch underneath Blitzo and Moxxie, who still struggled to free themselves. Ralphie laughed again. The stake soon lit up in flames…

 

…leaving the imps unscathed.

 

“Yeah sorry, that’s not exactly how it works, lady,” Blitzo explained. “You see, your fire doesn’t really hurt us, but I mean I could fake it if that’ll get your dick hard.” He smirked and Millie giggled.

 

“Oh. Shit.” Martha stared confused and rolled her eyes. “I don’t have one.”

 

Then she got a better idea and grinned. “Well, I’ll just shoot you in your smart-ass mouth!” She held her rifle in her hands.

 

“That would be more effective,” Blitzo mentioned.

 

“Blitz!” Millie spat.

 

Martha laughed manically again as she raised the rifle, two barrels pointing at the imps. The imps closed their eyes and braced for death.

 

A loud bang and a yelp was heard. Martha’s eyeball flew from her socket and she collapsed dead to the ground.

 

“Moxxie!” Millie cried in relief, seeing Moxxie hold a gun in his hands. Moxxie raced over and untied Millie and Blitzo.

 

“You’re not getting your goddam paycheck for this one, Mox!” Blitzo mentioned before he fell down. Moxxie and Millie embraced each other with small smiles. They slowly moved their heads against each other in affection. Ralphie tripped over Martha’s body before fleeing the scene.

 

“Oh yeah, thanks! I’m fine!” Blitzo spoke out in angry sarcasm.

 

Moxxie helped his boss up, supporting him.

 

“I’m sorry, sir. I compromised our objective and put us in harm’s way. It won’t happen again. I promise.”

 

Blitzo pulled Moxxie into a hug. “Apology accepted.” Then he spoke to Moxxie in a low threatening voice. “But if you ever pull off a stunt like this again, I’ll fuck you and your wife.”

 

Just as fast, Blitzo separated from Moxxie and announced, “Alrighty! Job well done! Now let’s get off.” Millie lifted her arms in a cheer. From his chest, Blitzo pulled out a gray horse figure with a black mane like a My Little Pony toy. He put it back and retrieved his hell phone.

 

“Eh. Yeah give me a moment. I need to get something I left at the house,” Moxxie said.

 

“Okay, fine but hurry up,” Blitzo said. He put his hell phone to his ear and spoke loudly, “Loona! We’re ready to come home, dear!”

 

Moxxie raced through the woods, determined to set things right. In the background, Stolas was talking to Blitzo, mentioning, “You and I on…peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all night.”

 

Back inside the house, the boy and girl were in their father’s arms in a corner.

 

“Don’t move!” Moxxie demanded, pointing his rifle at them. The boy and girl looked scared and innocent. The girl even had a dark gray stitched up teddy bear with her.

 

Ralphie chucked before glowering at the imp. “What are you gonna do, little guy? Kill us?”

 

“I should!” Moxxie replied, stepping back. “You people are monsters!” Then he lowered the rifle. “But… you should have a chance at a life and a purpose. Look at your children. They have their whole future ahead of them! You are going to face your crimes, justly.”

 

He picked up a remote from a stand. “I am calling your earthly authorities and they will make sure you are dealt with, fairly. I am handing this, my way.”

 

He pressed a button and a television turned on in the adjacent room. A black and white program played. Moxxie gasped in surprise, then looked down at the remote.

 

“Oh shit,” he muttered. The black remote had pink and white buttons reminiscent of a smiling goofy face.

 

“Uh do you…do you have a phone to summon 911?”

 

“Yeah, it’s in the kitchen,” Ralphie mentioned behind him.

 

Moxxie held the remote. “Then what’s this for?”

 

“It’s a universal remote,” Ralphie replied. “Got it for the kids.” The kids smiled and he pulled them in a hug.

 

“Aww,” Moxxie smiled, eyes shining.

 

Moxxie called the police and hurried back to the portal in the dark woods.

 

“There he is,” Blitzo said. “Have a good wank-off session, Moxxie?”

 

“Excuse me?”

 

Blitzo walked over to him. “Well I don’t care where you cum in the living world, just come to your job on time, alright?” He poked Moxxie several times for emphasis. “See you at the office!” He ran through the portal.

 

Millie placed a hand on Moxxie’s cheek. “You doing okay, sweetie?”

 

“Better now, honey,” Moxxie replied with a smile. “I think I just needed a minute to process.”

 

Millie tenderly touched Moxxie’s chest. “You have a good heart, honey.” She playfully pinched Moxxie’s nose. “Just a fuzzy head.” She kissed him and Moxxie’s heart fluttered. He smiled happily as Millie walked through the portal.

 

Moxxie heard the whirl of blades and flashes of light. He turned around. There were police cars and a helicopter in front of the house.

 

A voice over a loudspeaker said, “We got em’ boys!”

 

A missile fired at the roof and the entire house exploded in a fiery inferno. Something hit Moxxie in the face. He stared at the ground and found the head of the teddy bear that had flown off. He stared with a shocked look of disbelief on his face. The family that had a chance to be better was now dead.

 

Blitzo grabbed Moxxie hard by the neck and pulled him through the portal.

 

Later on, everyone was laughing and celebrating back at I.M.P. headquarters. They were all wearing birthday party hats. Loona and Mrs. Mayberry held slices of cake on plates. A white banner read “Killed the bitch,” in red letters. A white and blue cake sat in front of Moxxie, the blue icing read “We did it! :)” Everyone seemed joyful except for Moxxie. He still felt awful that they had killed an entire family. An evil family, but still…They had come inches to being killed or being caught by the humans. Now here they were celebrating human death.

 

Moxxie wasn’t sure if he agreed to the “senseless killing” morals of I.M.P. anymore.

 

Millie squealed for joy and hugged Moxxie tight around the neck. “Did you see my little Mox, Mox? We did it! Oh Moxxie!”

 

“Well here’s to another mission accomplished,” Blitzo announced, “…and Moxxie finally learned not to fuck up.”

 

Moxxie just stared wordlessly at his plate, dark circles under his eyes.

 

“And killing people isn’t that big of a deal if they try to kill you back,” Millie added, rubbing Moxxie’s white head of hair.

 

“That’s messed up,” said Mrs. Mayberry, “But I paid for it!”

 

Everyone except Moxxie chuckled at that.

 

“Yeah, fuck that family!” Blitzo declared, raising a victorious fist.


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