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Thunder banged and lightning crashed. Rain poured down the streets of Imp City. all those who had homes we all in bed, while those who were out in the streets had to hide out in trash dumpsters or cardboard boxes with the tops closed. Cars whizzed passed, splashing puddles on busy going Imps who were trying to get home. In one particular building, was the apartment of a married pair of imps, the young musical loving half Wrathian half Greedian Moxxie, and his butt kicking sassy yet lovable Wrathian wife Millie. The two were in bed, trying to get some sleep. Millie’s face was under her pillow, while Moxxie tried to pull the covers over his face, but the thunder and lightning kept making him fail miserably. Ultimately Moxxie gets up, and walks up to the window, the sound of raindrops colliding with the glass being semi-heard as he closed the blinds. Moxie sighs, as he then looks to the calendar
Today was he and Millie’s first marriage anniversary. To celebrate, he took her to the Lust ring to this club called Ozzie’s because he heard it had a reputation for love. But what he didn’t know was that it was run by Asmodeus himself, who ridiculed his singing right in front of him. And to make matters worse, their abusive boss Blitzo, a half Greedian Half Lustian imp, outright said that he watched them “pork” and he said it was uglier than missionary! And then, he called him a worthless, pathetic, annoying, baby dicked, good for nothing whor*-bag, and his wife a retarded c*nt! TO THEIR FACES! They were so embarrassed that he and Millie left after she hit Asmodeus’s jester Fizzarolli upside the head with Moxxie’s guitar, destroying it in the process. They’ve been trying to do nothing but sleep it off ever since
Millie then hears him sigh as she then sits up, putting the pillow down, and saying “Still can’t get any sleep either?” Moxxie shakes his head in response, before resting his head to the window blinds, closing his eyes and saying, his tone lacking emotion “I can’t believe he said those things….after all we’ve done for him…after he and I’s heart to heart…he calls me a worthless pathetic good for nothing….” he was referring to the time he and Blitzo got abducted by two demon obsessed agents, and when they had a heart to heart with each other…he thought things would be smoother, but, Moxxie guessed he was wrong. When Millie heard him speak, she says “well, ah personally can’t believe he called me a retard, and a c*nt, in the same sentence! Ah mean! Has he no dignity! He called me, a c*nt! A c*nt! To mah face!” Moxxie groans at that as he then gets back into bed, saying in annoyance “tell me about it! After all we’ve done for him, he goes around and treats us like this???” His expression then changed to sad again, as he then felt nothing but betrayal “just when i thought I could genuinely trust him again…”
Millie then responds, with a more annoyed tone “well personally, ah think Blitz has gone WAY too far this tahm! Ah might let him slide off mah radar with his jokes, cause ah thought he was just joking around, like a, big brother or somethin’ but tonight? On the one night you and ah were lookin’ forward to the most??? Ah ain’t EVER gonna forgive him for this!” Moxxie listens to her words, with a worried expression on his face, before he then sighs “your right. We can’t count on him, not after tonight…i just wish i knew what to do” Moxxie then lays down, facing the window, with Millie realizing his distraught, and hugs him by the waist, before saying “Moxx…ah know your torn up about tonight…but you can’t keep letting people push you around like a rag doll. You need to stand up for yourself, and fight your own battles” Moxxie looks to his wife, knowing she was telling the truth, before replying “don’t you think i try? But no matter what i do, this stupid body always gets mauled, mangled, and crushed. Sometimes i wish i wasn’t such a wimp” Millie then grabs his cheeks to face her, and says “you are NOT a wimp Moxxie. You are a smart, brave, and capable imp. And those are some of the reasons wha ah married you. Because you have the heart to care about others. And ah’ll never stop loving you. Not now, not ever” Moxxie slowly smiles, before holding her cheeks as well, saying “and i’ll never stop loving you” the two then embrace in a romantic kiss as they gently hold the back of each other’s heads, their tails combining to form a heart. The kissing then ceases, and Millie says confidently “now, wha don’t we try to get some sleep? We still got work tomorrow. But don’t worry. If that prick tries to ridicule us, ah’ll give him a taste of his own medicine” Moxxie smiles as he then lays down and goes to sleep as well.
The next morning, the storm had passed, but there was more damage than one could predict. The streets were now filled with water. The drainage pipes were backed up, leaving the roadsides having turned into shallow riverbeds. Cars drove and people walked, and the water splashed around. Workers try to unclog the pipes, but that means to get their hands dirty. Further into Imp City, the camera focuses on I.M.P tower, the company building of I.M.P, the acronym for immediate murder professionals, an assassin company, run by Blitzo, to travel to the living world, with the aid of the grimoire of Stolas of the Ars Goetia, and kills humans who cause the deaths of their clients. Millie was honestly into this kind of business, because she used to work at a demolition site back in her home ring of Wrath, giving her a crave for fighting which got out of hand sometimes. As for Moxxie, he always distasted the work because he didn’t know whether the targets were innocent, or psychos who deserve to die. Sure he was an assassin, but he had standards. In the meeting room, their spotted boss has called a meeting where Moxxie, Millie, and Blitzo’s adopted hellhound daughter Loona, were. Blitzo walks in front of a large whiteboard and says in a calm voice “alright, now I know business has been…a bit slow, lately. Yes, it’s no one’s fault! Okay? I’m not naming any names here-Moxxie-now does anyone have, any bright ideas on how we can get business drumming up again?” Moxxie stares in frustration at Blitzo’s comment, as Millie raises her hand, and suggests in a rather rude tone “wha not bring in more workers? That way business could run smoother?” Blitzo then ponders about it before snapping his finger “i got it! Why don’t we put up “for hire” posters, and try to reel in more workers? That way we’ll have some more hands around and business can drum up again!” a tick mark appeared on Millie’s head in the style of an anime as she shouts “ah literally just suggested that!” Blitzo remarks “hmm. Nope. I thought it up. It was my idea” Moxxie groans in frustration and says trying to keep a calm tone “actually, no sir. Millie thought up the idea, you just repeated it, and decided to take all the credit!” Loona, who rolls her eyes, just shrugs and says “oh cry me a river, fatty, and sit on her ass” Moxxie snarls, before Millie snaps “YOU sit on a thumbtack. And here ah thought we were somewhat buddies after the dhorks fiasco” she said in a disappointed tone. Loona’s ears straighten up, and her eyes look to Millie, the memory of them working together to save the boys coming to her head, their teamwork, and the chemistry they had…made her feel guilty a bit, before she shakes it off, as she wasn’t really a touchy hound” Blitzo then slams his hands to the table, getting their attention “hey now! What’s got you so revved up Mills? You weren’t this pissy yesterday” Millie then looks to Blitz with a stern look, saying rhetorically “you seriously, don’t remember Blitzo?” her tone was a mixture of rude, and angry, and when she said his name, she included the O, which he kept insisting to be silent. Blitzo looks offended by this, and says, in a more serious tone “hey, I told you. The O is silent. And I have jack sh*t what your talking about missy” Millie’s eyes then glow a bright red as she stands up, her fingers leaving the table, leaving scratch marks, as she marches up to him, saying, in a low voice “oh…you seriously don’t remember…how you followed me and Moxxie to Ozzie’s last night, after we told you NOT to…” Blitzo is wide eyed as she backs him against the whiteboard, her volume rising “and called mah husband a worthless, pathetic, annoying, baby dicked, good for nothing whor*-bag” Millie then leaps at him, pulling on his collar, standing against his chest, his tail twitching with the sounds of a rattlesnake, as she shouts “and called ME a RETARDED c*nt TO OUR FACES!!!!”
Blitzo then chuckles, before holding Millie by the waist, and forces her back to her seat, saying in a sarcastic tone “oh that’s rich Mills! For a second I thought you were mad at me about what I said at Ozzie’s. You know too well i didn’t mean it” Millie snarls, with the vocals of a crocodile mixed with a lion, making his chuckling cease. Blitzo then gulps before he then claps his hand “uh, okay then! Let’s get to work reeling in new recruits! And, just for you Mills, we’ll bring in more girl workers! What do ya say!” Millie’s snarl fades to a serious stare as she sits down, Moxxie scowls with a serious expression as Blitzo says, moving his lips but not his mouth “great! I’ll get the “help wanted posters made and printed” with that Blitzo speed walked out the door, and through the lounge room and into his office. Loona looks to the two imps, and she could tell at that moment, they weren’t putting up with his bullcrap anymore.
Cut to an hour or so later, the two imps sitting on the couch, fresh cups of coffee in their hands, their faces on each other’s mugs. Loona was reading the paper drinking from a bottle whilst Blitzo was out looking for more recruits. Loona stops to look at the married couple, and pulls out a drawer, and pulls out a few comic books. She then walks up to the couple and hands them to the couple, saying “maybe these can get your mind off of things” Moxxie then takes one comic book, and Millie takes hers. Moxxie reads his comic title aloud as “The Heroic adventures of Mr. Incredible, huh? Normally i’m not one for comic books, Loona” Loona shrugs “I know. But maybe it could give ya something else to focus on besides, well, my dad” Moxxie stares in surprise as that was the first time she ever addressed Blitz as such. Moxxie then opens his book, and it was named “The Heroic Adventures of Mr. Incredible: the missing Bridge mystery” with Millie, she was reading a comic of the same genre, but hers was titled “The Stretching Wonder Elastigirl” they read their perspective comics and to their credit, it did give them something else to focus on. The superhero genre did intrigue them quite a bit, especially considering how the supers in the comics were loved and respected by the people of the community. It gave Moxxie and Millie a glimmer of wonder if one day, they would be loved and respected like that. The love and appreciation they had for each other was enough for them, but it never hurt to wonder about the possibility of others appreciating them for their talents.
Suddenly, they heard Blitzo come in through the door, skipping to himself, and behind him, were five imps, all females, evidenced by their black horns with thin white stripes. Moxxie and Millie recognized one of them from the Harvest Moon Festival, and the others were clients from spring break. But one of them was unknown to them. Blitzo walks up to them, and says “well gang! Meet the newest recruits! Cecelia Goncalves, Lidia Liu, Hunter Braly, Abby Roudie, and Kressent Rhodes” the imps wave hello, meanwhile, Cecelia dashes up to them and shakes both their hands rapidly “hello! It's so good to officially meet you! I’m Cecelia! I’m like, well, a really big fan of your work” Millie asks curiously “really?” “yeah! Not many of us Wrathians can show our stuff like you do! You must be pretty famous” Millie and Moxxie are surprised by that, but just before they could reply, Blitzo interrupts “well we can rebel in that later, right now, we got a hit!” Hunter, the impette with the mom figure stepped up, and explained “on the way here, we were approached by this bizarro looking sinner with gloves and scientist gown and goggles like eyes. Told us that he heard of us and wanted us to off his boss for using him as a lab rat in an experiment he was working on. He said he would pay us a hundred souls for it!” Moxxie and Millie are shocked by this, as that was a lot of money. Then Moxxie asked “so, what jobs will these girls have?” Blitzo says with a grin “oh! Abbey’s in charge of paperwork, Kressent will be our girl who gives advice to us while we do our job, watching through this little doohickey” he then shows a little camera in his hand, and Moxxie and Millie are intrigued by this “soo, basically she’s our-” Crescent finishes his sentence with “communications officer. During your hit, i’ll be your eyes through the camera and help you out” Blitzo continues “and Cecelia Hunter and Lidia are our new field workers!” Millie then asks concerningly “wait, really? Are you sure?” Lidia remarks “eh, we just signed up to see Earth. ‘Sides. Hunter’s the sharpshooter. We’re just the help” Hunter smacks her upside the head, making her ask “what?”
“Alright let’s get to work gang! Loonie? Ya know the drill!” Loona rolls her eyes, as she reveals Stolas’s grimoire and opens it up. A red swirl appears on the wall where the couch MnM were on, and a portal to a parking lot next to a fence with a forested background appeared. The gang all then went in, before Moxxie heads up to Loona, putting he and Millie’s mugs down, as well as the comics, and asks “can you maybe, send these to our place? I’ll send you the coordinates ont he GPS” Loona thinks about it, and gives a nod. Millie then gently takes his hand, and the two head off through the portal together. The portal closes behind them, and they look to a mammoth factory. Moxxie and Millie look worried at first, before Blitzo shoves them forward as they head off through the entrance. Blitzo looks around, before saying “alright. This prick has to be around here somewhere, so” Hunter then puts her hand over his mouth and says “so, we’ll have to split up. Mox, Mills, you two take the west side, Lidia and Cecelia, the right, Blitz and I will stay in the center. Alright? If any of you find the target, ring me or Blitz up, got it?” the group are surprised by her assertiveness, and nod, before she claps her hands and says “alright, let’s move!” with that, the teams go into the factory, splitting up in their designated paths
With Cecelia and Lidia, they are in a large vacant lab, vials and tubes around them, some with liquid, some bubbling, and some were large and had embryonic fetuses in them, one of them resembling a famous Japanese Kaiju Lidia watched once. Cecelia looks around, before slipping, and falling, before looking up, and seeing a fridge. She had to admit, she was a bit thirsty, and she opened it up, and saw a box of cans of cherry flavored co*ke. She took two out, shouting to lidia “heads up!” before tossing her a can. Lidia shrugs “guess we can take a quick drink break” with that, she opens her can and drinks away. Cecelia then has a sneaky look, before putting down the duffle bag she was wearing, and raids the fridge, putting the box of soda cans, and other snacks into it
Cut to Blitzo and Cecelia. They look around, and see numerous people. They climb up the ladder and up onto the platform bridge above their heads. Bitzo prepares to shoot their brains out with his rifle, but Cecelia pushes it down, and analyzes the situation. She knew that if shots were fired, they’d look around. And no one was looking in their direction. However, she saw a young woman stop, hearing the gunshot, and slowly turned. Cecelia then looks around, and takes out a rock, and throws it at a direction away from them. Allowing them to escape. Blitzo asks whisper yelling “the f*ck is up with you? How come suddenly you're calling the shots around here, when i’m the boss!” Cecelia then replies “because, I heard about just how sloppy you are at managing things, so when I heard about this job, I thought I would help you manage things correctly. I mean, not all your problems can be solved shooting things haphazardly. You need to think before you act. You have to be smart about things. In certain situations, what do you think the right answer is?” “um, Doy! Do things your way, assert yourself as the boss a-” Hunter slaps him in the face imitating a buzzer sound “wrong! You have to stop, think about the possibilities, and put others before yourself, especially Moxxie and Millie. Your fiasco last night was all over the news. How do you think they feel about you insulting them to their face, especially about how you said those sexist words to Millie?” Blitzo thinks about it, and now ponders about it…if he didn’t say those things, then Moxxie and Millie wouldn’t have been so cross with him. And Millie looked like she was about to step in before he spoke up when Asmodeus and Fizzarolli were mocking her husband. He then saddens, realizing just how humiliated and embarrassed he had just made them with those mean comments “that’s what i thought” Hunter then leads on, with Blitzo continuing to think, before he catches up to her.
With Moxxie and Millie, they were crawling through the vents, crouched on all fours, their hands having morphed into hooves. They look below them, before spotting a certain room. They remove the lid below them, and leave the vent. They go on all fours as they continue, before standing up and hiding behind a large line of pipes. They look, and see a man examining too massive steel storage tanks next to a rumbling contraption, with a “radioactive” logo on it, marking it dangerous. The man writes on a clipboard, numerous scientists pushing buttons and pulling levers. Moxxie and Millie conclude that he was in charge, and then they hear a man say “are you sure it will work? The last time we tested it on one of the workers, it gave them diabetes and killed them!” the imps gasp. This must be the man who caused the death of their client. The head of this project then says “that was a minor setback. Besides, i’m positive that we’ve perfected the materials in these tanks. All we need is to test it again, and we’ll see just what incredible properties it will have on the human body” Moxxie and Millie then are left with little option but to shoot him. But as Moxxie got out his signature sniper rifle, his phone began to ring in his pocket, making him shoot a random assistant in the back of his head, getting their notice
“sh*t!” Moxxie exclaims as he and Millie speed to find cover and avoid detection, before Moxxie’s phone keeps vibrating, forcing him to answer, knowing it’s Blitz “What do you want, sir!! Through his phone Blitzo’s voice is heard as he says “look, Mox, i didn’t mean to interrupt whatever it is you were doing, i just wanted to genuinely know how things are on your end” Moxxie groans as he replies coldy “well if you must know, we found the target, and I was about to off him, before YOU called, making me miss!” he then hears Blitzo breathes in embarrassment before responding “oh sh*t. Sorry Mox! My bad. But don’t worry, Kressent will lock onto your location and we’ll be there in a jiffy!” Moxxie groans as he then hung up, and he and Millie are forced out of hiding when the scientists click their guns at them, the leader marching up to them, saying with curiosity “well well well…what do we have here?” he leans forward, examines Millie’s face, whispering “fascinating” before Millie bites at him, snarling. The scientist then picks up her tail, before she uses it to slap his face, making him say “remarkable. Genuine imp demons. And i thought those people at D.H.O.R.Ks were actually joking” Moxxie and Millie are surprised by this, but the scientists clarifies “yes. I know about those demon obsessed kooks. In fact, they asked me to join, but I refused. I didn’t take them seriously when they went on about all those secret cameras recording you and your trips to the living world. But, here you are” Moxxie then looks to the steel storage tanks, and the scientists spoke again “oh those? Those are for something great. Something that will make the world a better place. With this radioactive material, we could save lives. Cure cancer, grow more crops, and factory made meat that’s consumable. Technology is evolving fast. And i intend to evolve with it”
Suddenly, the door explodes, revealing Blitz and Hunter through the door, the latter having thrown a grenade, as evidence by the pin in her mouth, and the latter has a pair of assault rifles in both his hands, who scowls “you lay a finger on their heads, and i’ll fill your heads full of lead!” the lead scientists shouts “more demons! Stop them! We can’t let them destroy years of research!” the scientists then head toward the imps, Blitzo charging at them, with Hunter holding her ground. She then charges, and punches one of the men, before grabbing the other, and tossing him to another. She then grabs another with her tail, and slams him to the ground, before crotch kicking another, and throwing him to the left, where two more men were coming. With Blitzo, he uses his assault rifles to shoot at a majority of men. The lead scientist takes matters to his own hands by tackling him. Moxxie and Millie watch as they try to get their weapons, which they dropped earlier. Blitzo uses his feet to kick the lead scientist away, near the storage tanks, before digging into his duffle bag, and pulling out a ridiculously massive bazooka, the words reading out “my dick” spelled out on the side. Blitzo shouts in glee as he aims the bazooka and shouts “Oh yeah! Getting hard holdin’ this mother f*cker!” from the mouth of the bazooka, a missal which had a grinning face with the words “puss* destroyer” is blasted out, Blitzo cackling at this. The missile hits the tanks, causing a massive explosion, opening the two tankes open, heaps of green goop coming out. The flame of the explosion, plus the goop from the tanks, sizzles the entire left side of the scientist who cries out in terror, before heading to the exit
Moxxie and Millie on the other hand are coated horn to hoof in green sludge, some of it even getting into their mouths, and they tasted horrible. A zoom in shot inside their skin commences, as the microscopic material in the slime goes through their skin, and into their blood streams. Their different blood streams have strands of the goop combining with their red blood cells, and their dna stocks glow green, as some of Millie’s inflate into perfect spherical balloons, whilst Moxxie’s grow gold, and physically become stronger, and others resemble Chinese depictions of dragons. Outside, Moxxie and Millie’s eyes are pulsing neon green, as the same hew outlines their bodies in a strange way
Cecelia and Lidia come to the scene, both carrying carts full of smuggled snacks, as Cecelia has a donut in her mouth, whilst Lidia was drinking a co*ke with a straw, as they saw this unfold. Blitzo walks up to the two, but avoids touching them, or making contact with the goop, and he asks “uh, you two, alright?” Millie then gags “bleh! Alright, isn’t a word ah would use. Just look at us!” Blitzo remarks “oh. I do” he then takes a whiff, before gagging in disgust “WHOO! And i smell you two! Hunter, call Loona, we’re canceling the mission. We gotta take these two back home cause they REAK of whatever the f*ck their coated with” Moxxie says, his attention on said smell, and the goop coating him and his wife “for once, you get no argument from me Blitz” with that, the six leave the room, Cecelia offering the boys and girls a donut, which Hunter takes three of
Cut to later, in Moxxie and Millie’s apartment. Moxxie was sitting on the couch, already in his PJs, hearing his wife shower, holding a potted plant which he then puts on the counter. Millie then emerges, wearing nothing but a bra and panties, before she heads up to the flower vase in adoration “oh! And where did these come from?” she asks curiously. Moxxie replies “they just appeared outside our door. It says it’s from Cecelia, who wanted to make us feel better” “aww! That’s so sweet of her!” Millie says, as she then takes a whiff of the flowers, however, some of the pollen found it’s way into her nose, which made it tickle. Millie’s face scrunches up as she takes breaths to hold it in, but then, she sneezed. But to both their shock, the instant moment she sneezed, she jolts backwards, but then, she inflates. But not like an allergic reaction, she inflated like a balloon. And she expanded until she was the size of Moxxie, in the shape of a perfect sphere! Moxxie shouts in shock before slipping and falling to the left, his left arm thrusting forward, and from it, emits a blast of pure gold fire, which took the form of a chinese dragon, which bursts through the window, shattering it, before slamming into the car of the apartment across from them, blowing it up in a matter of seconds.
Moxxie gets up, and is shocked at first, but his attention quickly reverts to Millie, who looks at herself and starts panicking, as she says “Moxxie, what happened to me! Ah can’t move! Ah can’t feel mah arms or legs! Ah’m a giant beachball!” “i know! I know!” Moxxie says, trying to reassure her, “but don’t worry. I’m gonna try and see if i can reverse this” he then heads up to her left side, and gently rolls her forward, before rolling her to the wall, her right side touching it. Moxxie inhales as he says “I’m not sure if this will hurt or not, but in any case, try to hold still” Moxxie then charges at Millie, pushing her left size, and to both their surprise, it didn’t hurt Millie. In fact, it felt like a mixture of styrofoam, plastic and rubber. Moxxie keeps pushing to try and deflate Millie, but all it did was make Millie, embarrassingly, let out a fart, making Moxxie wince “eww! Millie!” “ah’m sorry! Ah couldn’t resist that burrito Cecelia offered, and you know spicy food makes me gassy”
No argument there. But the Moxxie got another idea. He gently climbs over Millie’s head, and tells her to “hold your breath, Millie” Millie then inhale, and holds her breath, her cheeks puffed up. Moxxie stands his forehead on top of hers, his hooves planted to the ceiling, before placing his hands gently on his cheeks. “Three, two, one!” and then, he pressed on them, making Millie blow out air like a pool toy inflation valve, and just like such, Millie begins to deflate. In a matter of seconds, Millie deflates back to her normal self, Moxxie leaping off, and surprisingly, lands perfectly on his feet. But his focus wasn’t on that. It was on Millie, who asks at the top of her voice “what in the sweet f*ck just happened!” “I-I think you just inflated like a balloon, and i, released a fire blast, like that street fighter game…but, how!” the two then thought about it, before Moxxie concluded “that goop…the goop that we were coated in! Somehow it got into our blood, and affected our D.N.A and, well, what happened just now” Millie breathes heavily as she was still processed what had just happened to her. She then says to herself “ah just turned into a giant balloon” before she grabs Moxxie and repeating, in a panicked tone “AH JUST TURNED INTO A GIANT BALLOON!!!” “I know!” Moxxie says, before calmly trying to think of something “wha-what are we gonna do! What if this happens again??? we-we can’t stay here! What if Blitz finds out!” Moxxie then agrees “your right. We can’t stay here. We need to leave. We have to leave Hell. travel to the human world” “but, Mox, how are we gonna do that?” “we’ll go down to Sloth, and see if anyone could give each of us Asmodean crystal…it’s the only way. We’ll hid out in the human world, try not to expose these powers to anyone” Millie sighs in worry “you know this is crazy, raght?” “I know it is” Moxxie says, sighing, before turning to his wife “but we have no other options. We have to do what’s best to keep everyone safe. If we unintentionally expose our powers we could bring more harm than good” Millie looks to Moxxie, and nods, before the two embrace in a hug, both of them with saddened expressions, knowing that now, their lives would never again be the same
