#cherrisnake because of vibes

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Not my best, but I just realised I haven't posted a meme in forever.

New chapters coming soon, enjoy this in the meantime!

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Attention all three of you who may have missed out on a New Year's smooch or were quietly shipping some of those juicy pairings—guess what? I didn't forget you. I just... hit the snooze button on the calendar a teensy bit. Fashionably late is still a vibe, right? RIGHT?? (Don't answer that.)

So! Without further ado—or excuses—here comes the official lineup of New Year's Kiss stories!

Cherrisnake fans, sound the confetti cannons, because you're up first! Yes, it's finally your turn to witness some post-holiday lip-locking (and maybe a dash of drama, spice, or smoll sad—who knows?).

I'm still doing some light stretching with my writing muscles, so if things read a bit like a rusty tin man learning to tango... just smile and nod. First story hits your screens Monday, May 12th, so mark your calendars, set a reminder, tattoo it on your arm (kidding...unless?), and be there!

Want updates without chasing them down? Follow #DRP New Years Kiss 2025 for all the good stuff straight to your dash.

Until then—stay hydrated, stay shippy, and Toodles~ 💋

[sssardonian-ssserpent]

((Mild hot take in the read below (nothing to do with drama just my own opinion on an aspect of Hazbin):

The CherriSnake in this show was not written very well. It was written poorly. Very poorly. Extremely poorly. Which sucks to me because, I’ll admit, I was not a CherriSnake shipper going into the show. I disliked it because of how it was everywhere and I just didn’t vibe with anything about it from what I saw or various fanworks, but I tried to go into it with an open mind because I knew it was coming thanks to the episode 6 trailer featuring Cherri that came out on Twitter. I wanted to see if I could like it, see if the show could win me over because it was doing a fantastic job with Husk and Angel. And not only did it NOT do a great job, it honestly made me hate the ship even MORE because of how sloppy, slap-dashed, in credibly rushed and utterly lacking of any chemistry, bonding, or character depth it had.

First off. I’m not a fan of how suddenly and without warning Pentious’s absolute and total crush on Cherri was. Like, we’re talking about a man who literally called Cherri and Angel both “whores with no class” in the pilot during their fight (which is confirmed to be canon to the show’s timeline by the by so HE DID call her that, at some point), and seemed to completely disregard her as nothing but an enemy to try and destroy, so forgive my skepticism when in episode 6 he’s suddenly sheepishly trying to buy drinks for her/asking to have sex with her and nervously trying to declare his love for her on the evening before the finale battle. And that’s another thing that I’m not a fan of, him trying to proclaim that he loves her. Sure, you could make the argument that he did it in a spur of the moment thing because he thought there was a chance he may die, and that’s fair, but I feel like that is way, WAY too strong of a declaration for one character to make when he’s only realistically talked to her, maybe four times in the whole season, 3 of those times being the result of a three gag punchline.

Like. Proclaiming your love for someone is a very, very, very different thing from just expressing your interest or your liking someone. It’s much more heavy and it has a shit ton more emotional weight behind it. Weight that Pentious doesn’t even nearly begin to have to try and approach her and declare it right there in the lobby. And even then, what does he say he loves her for? The fact that he thinks she’s beautiful and she makes explosive weaponry that he finds amazing.

That’s it. Nothing else. Just the two most bare bones and basic shit about her character. Nothing about her personality, nothing about anything deeper in her heart that he may see, nothing about any connections he personally feels with her, NOTHING. It feels almost completely soulless and just lacking in the most basic of romantic chemistries, because we never see even a single scene of just these two talking to each other. It’s just Pentious trying to confess/awkwardly trying to flirt with her and then dipping immediately, until he doesn’t when they kiss shortly before he dies and drops the love confession from her, which, COULD HAVE been an emotional moment, if they had gotten more than, at best, three whole fucking scenes in the entire season with each other.

A romantic kiss scene should not be making me roll my eyes in annoyance and sighing. A love confession should not be making me sit there and shouting at my screen “what do you LOVE about her??? You BARELY KNOW EACH OTHER!” And yet here we are.

And that’s not even beginning to get into Cherri’s characterization because boy do I have some words for that.

First off, the actively dismissing Pentious when it’s clear he’s trying to flirt with her/leading him on when he’s clearly confused and struggling.

Now I’m not saying Cherri Bomb should’ve been immediately crushing right back on Pentious or that she should’ve been just as spellbound with him as he was for her or anything, god no. But it really doesn’t help with the “the ship has no chemistry” thing going on in the ship when it feels like the other active participant in said ship just does not have any interest at all/is purposefully trying to lead the other on with no actual intentions to follow through.

I’ve seen so many people talk about the club scenes with Cherri Bomb and how she was actively always giving Pentious so many openings to actually flirt with her, and I’m sitting like “…WHERE?” The first time Pentious tries to engage in anything close to flirting in the hotel, reaching to touch her shoulder while asking her questions, she roughly grabs his hand, and declares “don’t touch me.” That is already super fucking clearly NOT an opening. That is her shutting his ass down super fast.

Then we have the scenes where he is trying to buy her drinks. He asks her politely if she’d want to have him buy her a drink, and she snidely responds with “Why? Didn’t you say we were arch rivals?” while smirking at him in this very almost snooty way. Pentious, panicking because of having to eat his own words, backs off immediately and makes the excuse he’s buying drinks for everyone there.

And then it happens again when he does actually buy her a drink, and she just silently glares at him with an annoyed grimace on her face. Which makes Pentious back off again and immediately declare how he’s buying drinks for everyone again. (“Giving him an opening” my ass.)

She is CONSTANTLY brushing him off the entire night and not showing any interest in him in the slightest, with the ultimate blow being when, clearly drunk, Pentious asks her if she wants to have sex with him, and she responds like this.

It’s the specific wording of “I’m sorry, why would we have sex” for me. Combined with her laughing in his face and looking completely and totally unfazed by it. I’ve seen some people say that “oh she wasn’t saying no, that wasn’t a no” and I’d like to heartily disagree with that notion. People sometimes say “I’m sorry” at the beginning of their sentence either as a means of asking them to repeat themselves or as a means of softening the blow for a rejection, and the wording of “why would we” is a very EXPLICIT rejection in my mind.

It doesn’t read to me like a legit question, it comes off as rhetorical and mean, a firm and amused “no, why the fuck would we do that/no, why the fuck would you think I’d want to have sex with you?” And Pentious’s rejected expression that doesn’t change throughout that brief scene speaks to me that is exactly what was trying to be said here.

And then Pentious bails for the third time and the punchline comes when he’s dragged into that orgy by the rest of the club patrons, she happily goes on her merry way fucking some other club patron for the night and doesn’t even look at Pentious once. There is explicitly NO interest being shown with Cherri here, and it utterly kills any potential ways their characters could mesh in a way that’s fun to watch or talk about.

And we don’t even get the chance to see her again until episode 8, which is where the most infuriating aspect of Cherri’s character in this ship comes into play for me. The part where she learns that Pentious has two dicks.

This is just after Pentious runs away after nervously trying to confess his love for her (again, when they barely know each other and he spent the entire night he saw her last getting constantly rejected by her) and Angel approaches her talking about how she could totally bang/hook up with him and she responds by scoffing and saying “don’t be gross.” And then, when Angel lets slip that he heard Pentious has two dicks…

THEN she becomes interested.

THEN. ONLY THEN.

No thinking he’s cute, no thinking his mannerisms or awkward attempts at talking to her are endearing, no secretly thinking his tech and machines are cool or that the Eggbois are cute, none of that makes her interested in him. It’s the fact that he’s potentially hung in the bedroom that makes her even remotely interested in fucking him. NOT LOVING HIM. FUCKING HIM.

She barely even reacts to his death. It’s just a look of shock on her part. Her brow doesn’t even furrow.

So…Just to recap.

Angel Dust and Husk got multiple scenes together throughout the entire season where they’re constantly interacting, talking, fighting with each other, until it finally culminates in a beautiful and heart wrenching scene of understanding that then glides perfectly into a captivating and catchy song about understanding each other’s struggles and learning that they don’t have to be alone with their shitty situations and can rely on each other.

Sir Pentious and Cherri Bomb got, at best, 6 scenes with each other across two and only fucking two episodes, and it consists of nothing but a random and sudden crush that is fueled by no chemistry, no bonding, no understanding, and only consists of the most bare bones physical attraction that raises to a fever pitch of a love confession way, WAY TOO QUICKLY on one side, and total and utter disinterest that only barely reaches the desire to fuck the other just because they heard how they had a second dick on the other side, all culminating in no song, no character growth between the two, and a sacrificial kiss and love confession that feels hollow and empty because there is absolutely nothing there behind it.

Can you see why I’m so mad about how this was written now?

[hazbin-hotel-the-rewrite]

Hey so you said something about hh rewrites well I was wondering what's the biggest change you would make? And what couple or ship would you think you should develop more and make shine and if I may put my own option I would make Charlie a little bit more funner and I would keep all the trust exercises because I actually liked that though it was funny but I would make her have one on one moments with each individual like I I have her ask how they got their (get to see backstorys through Charlie) and have her have some of the activities more grown up like angle dust is their for drugs(i think idk) so like what if Charlie focus a lot in that and then I totally should have chaggie be the best couple ever i like the idea of them

Also sorry if i didn't do that write I'm new to rewrites but I do have a question so in your rewrite thing what should you make happened if the characters die because is always confuses me soo much like they could just pop up so hypothetically would adam just show up in hell? Idk i just can't wrap my brain around it

Also in your rewrites what would you do with Lilith? (Because in my personal opinion, I would love for her to just be as silly as Lucifer but also be a huge badbitch if needed to)

Anyways love your idea of a rewrite hope you do good and reach your goal what ever it is

I would consider one of the biggest changes so far, would have to be taking the first season of the canon show and be splitting its two main concepts into different seasons(having season 1 focus on hell and focus on the redemption part and having Charlie try to show that the hotel can be useful in redeeming the two sinners((with also a little bit of filler for the characters to chill and have vibe time)); and Season two would focus on the Heaven plotline with the six month time limit for the BIG extermination, and that Charlie has to get more proof that the sinners can be redeemd and are shead from their sins and many more divergent plotlines like Carmilla and (V)Aggies will be important for this season 2)

I think for the couple part, I would mainly wanna do only 4 prominent couples to get the development: Chaggie, Huskerdust, Baxty(Baxter x nifty), and Lucilith. I want to add maybe two more couples, but I also want to wait for more characters to be revealed in the series before making these choices. This would also mean ships like Cherrisnake(who is going to have a rivals-friend relationship), VoxVal(I despise giving Valentino happiness, and Vox deserves a bit better(just a BIT)), and Guitarspear(A one-sided attraction which will lead to despair) will not be canonized mainly so I can give other ships their time in the spotlight for development and want to show more dynamics for the cast.

For the ships, I wanna give Chaggie much more shipping and a couple of moments and show them being a great duo(and also having Aggie be more supportive of Charlie with also needing to give her hard truths when she needs to, with Charlie needing to be more understanding with Aggie and to not be too silly at times. Huskerdust will mostly be kept similar in canon with some needed divergence(some development is kept spoilers because I'm workshopping some ideas for development). Baxty is cause I really like the idea of Husk and Niff having a relationship with people who want to become better people, and it would also lead them into thinking that they should become better people too(Husks will be first, and Nifftys will come later) Lucilith… will be spoilers I will keep some things in cano,n but I need to see season 2(and maybe season 3 to see what will happen to their relationship to do but I have some ideas but some are highly spoiler plot related)

For when the people die, I don't have any major plans yet due to wanting to see what the show is gonna show about the death lore; all I can say about Adam is that I aint gonna kill him ;)

Lilith… I have some ideas but I still need to see what will the show do forward cause I while I still have some plans I want to see what the show will do with her and her mystery, and that I might have seen some spoilers about her…. but Im gonna wait till I see if any of that is true to decided what to write with her.

Also, thank you so much for sending me an inbox message. You are my first one \^w^/

(Also, I have a huge post coming up for everyone else!)

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Easy Penny. 1 [Cherrisnake]

When Cherri finds herself without funds, she has to get a part time job as the minion of one of her former enemies. She thinks maybe she could take advantage of her boss with her charms, but what was not expecting was being the one charmed by him.

"Fuck this stupid ass job!"

Her scream was the only warning before the explosions started resounding all over the place. Cherri came out the little dinner, throwing away the stupid tray with coffe mugs she was supposed to take back to the kitchen. Fuck all of that. She threw another bomb casually at her back, breaking the main windows, before ripping out the damn name tag on her chest.

Since the start, she had a bad vibe about the place. The fact that the uniform the owner insisted should be wearing was at least one size too small, forcing the fabric to stick to her body, and the skirt was so damn short she found herself constantly pulling it downwards was already enough. The payment was good enough that she was willing to be the eye candy that they wanted. If Angel Dust was literally leaving nothing to the imagination for his job, and makig good money out of it, then what was a mini skirt in comparison? It was the part where the clients kept thinking that was a green card to touch her everytime she passed them by the point in which she draw the line. Her already minimal patience had become non existent when the owner gave her ass a squeeze too when she was busy cleaning up tables and then, when she barked on his face to keep his grubby little hands for himself, the guy had the audacity of telling her to learn to take a joke.

That is when the bombs came off, destroying the inside of the building as people tried to come out the door as fast as possible. She gave the place one last middle finger before running away. In took him to the next street to start groaning out loud.

Why did this kind of shit happened to her? This was the sixth job she had to give up for some bullshit reason since the year started, and it never seemed to be enough to supply both for her basic needs or the extra she needed to keep her partying lifestyle. Oh, sure, she could live without that extra or she could throw herself into traffic or do any other number of things that would make living in actual literal hell more intolerable than it was already.

Yeah, no, that option was off the table. Fuck that. Everyone needed something and she wasn't going to deprive herself from her thing for just a stupid thing like lack of money. She just needed to figure out where to get that money. Just as easy as fucking that.

She groaned to herself, rubbing her face. Why nobody could just pay her for being hot and exploding things? She had plenty of experience on both those areas. Maybe something to do with demolition? Sexy demolition? Was that even a thing?

A couple of research results on internet later, she found out that it was a thing. Good looking girls were being called upon for a demolition company because the hotter the girls, the more they got hired, or at least that was the logic that their boss explained to them. The uniform was some tiny short-shorts and also small top, work booths and a helmet. She lasted just a couple of weeks working there until their boss was "taking care of" by some overlords to whome he owed it money to and it was back to the unemployed search. At the very least the overlord took care of paying them where they were going to receive at the end of the month and that had to be her consolation for some time, until eventually that also ran out.

Of course that that same guy had offered them a lot more than that if they signed contracts with him and Cherri had already seen that bullshit happen way too many times to know it was a bad idea. She said thank you, that is very nice, but no thank you and was actually relieved when they left it at all. Most of the girls accepted anyway. There was no point wasting resources on just one of them when the benefits were already there. The relief only lasted until it dawned on her that she still needed to find something for herself.

She even thought about starting her own company with the same idea. Improve it even, with both hot guys with hot girls, but quickly gave up when she realized that was way too much work and absolutely not the point of anything. One by one, she went to all the interviews that she could cath as available on the newspaper because someone, somewhere, for any reason, had to give her something more solid to do.

Attending calls for sex phone? Apparently her accent wasn't sexy enough for the standards of the company.

Clerk for a baby store that just opened up? They didn't like it when one cursed too much while telling kiddos to not destroy the toys in display.

Painter? They didn't appreciate she tried to speed the whole process with a bomb full of paint. It only left a few people deaf for a few minutes. Pussies.

Babysitter for pets? If there was a husband, he would always try to get with her and if there wasn't, all her clients were too specific about every single thing that their pets could ever need. After the last one had fired her for feeding their little shits a different brand of premiun food than the one that was supposed to, she didn't want to try that again.

In the end, she had a newspaper page full of red crosses and the only space that wasn't marked showed literally her only option. It had to be her last option for her to even consider it. When it was clear there was nothing for her to try to, she sat on her bed and stared at her phone for a whole five minutes before she started typing the number.

It took a while for someone to answer on the other side, but when it did, it wasn't the voice that she was expecting.

"Hello? Who is talking? Do you want to talk to the boss?"

For fuck sake, he had them now being his seretaries? Cherri stomped the floor with her heel, considering to just hang out and look for something else. But she knew there wasn't anything else, so she took a deep breath instead.

"Yeah, pass me to him" said finally.

"Okay! Boss, the tiny person that lives on your rectangle wants to speak to you!"

A sound of a power tool turned off, right before the voice of the last guy she wanted to rely on in hell started talking.

"Yess? How can I help you?"

"I called for the position" said Cherri with a huge sigh. Luckily at least the man on the other side didn't made a big deal out of hearing her voice. "For the assistant thing?"

"Oh, really?!" Pentious cleared his throat, putting a more formal voice. "I mean, yess, indeed, I am looking for one. Do you have any experience in the area?"

Cherri frowned and stared at her phone. Was he for real?

"Uh, I have experience fighting on turf wars" said, really holding back on throwing light over the fact that she had kicked his ass at least a dozen times during those so he should know already. If anything, that should be a selling point in her opinion, but still didn't know if Pentious was going to be the kind to appreciate that kind of remarks from his underlings. "I… have sort of a reputation for it. So there is that."

"Do you now? Well, that iss pretty good. When do you think you can come?"

Cherri blinked. That easy?

"Do I get the job now?"

"No, no, no, ssorry, I didn't meant that. I assked becausse clearly I can't hire you without having any idea of what you would be like working with me out there. Sso if you are really sserious about getting this job, I think a practical experience iss going to be the besst to clear any doubtss. If everything comess out alright, I could give you an uniform so you can sstart ass ssoon ass possible! Hell doessn't wait for anyone, my friend!"

"Sure" Cherri sighed. She should have known something like that was coming. "So how good is the pay anyway?" asked, without wanting to wait any longer for that, which was her main focus.

"Ass beffeting to the dangerouss and very important labor I hope my asssisstant is going to fulfill!" said Pentious and then told her a number that had Cherri jump out of her bed, holding the phone tight on her hand.

She had no idea from where the fuck that snake man had that much money, but if he was willing to give her a portion of it in exchange for some help then by all means, she wasn't about to protest about it.

"I can go right now" said, grabbing her jacket. "Where are you?"

"Oh" Pentious sounded taken aback by it. "N-now? Right now you want to come in?"

"Yes, man. Didn't you just say hell waits for no one? Just send me the adress and I will be there."

"Uuuuuh, sssssure! Yes, very well! I like an assistant with some initiative!" His tone didn't exactly reflected that, as Cherri could still hear some clanking and metallic sounds in the backfround. "Abssolutely, you can come in. But don't try anything funny or elsse my ssecurity ssysstem will be upon you fasster than you can devilish eggss!"

Cherri rolled her eye and exhalled. Corny ass old man. After just a few minutes her phone went up with a new notification. The locations was already send.

"Perfect! See you later, loser!" said, hanging up and only later realized what she said, groaning.

That was probably not the best way to say goodbye to a new boss, but whatever. She had already decided to do this shit, then the least she could do is to carry through. The worst that could happen is that Pentious closed the door on her face. If she actually got this, then that was a safe and secure thing for a least the rest of the years that would give her more than enough.

The address of Pentious turned out to be on a more desolated area of the city that she was expecting. Most of the buildings around looked to be either abandoned or destroyed partially, leaving only some sinners dealing on the corners. All of which made the building where Pentious had to be waiting to stand out all the more. If it wasn't the caged camera that followed her as soon she came close, it was going to the telescope coming out from one of the superior windows or the ship looking thing that came out from the roof. The graffities all around it were hastily painted over or crossed out, but there were too many to count.

Cherri blowed a bubble gum in front of the camera and knocked on the door. Inside she could hear a mess of stuff moving around, until a tiny hand opened up the door to reveal one of the egg boys.

"Are you the tiny person from the rectangle?"

"Yeah. Sup" greeted as she chewed.

The small demon egg struggled to get the door open, making a wild gesture for her to come inside. Cherri stared around the place she imagined had to be the lobby. In another life this building had to have been some kind of fireman department, which explained the wide space and the pole, but now it was filled with vaguely steampunkie junk, tools and boxes left open with the Carmilla logo on the side.

"Have we met before?" asked the same egg, after struggling to close the door again. He seemed genuinely perplexed, squinting his eyes as if that was going to make his memory go better.

"A couple of times" Cherri looked at him back, wondering if she should mention the many battles in which she made eggs explode to win. Mostly because she had no idea if those death were ever permanent or not, since she didn't know either if they were supposed to be sinners or hellborn. Did they ever respawned after she cracked them? If not, then probably talk about his fallen brothers would come out in real bad taste. "Uh, is Pentious here or what?" asked after an uncomfortable silence.

"Oh, yes, the boss is here!" said the egg enthusiastically, glad to be of help.

Then he stayed there, smiling, adding nothing else. Cherri blew up another bubble and licked the traces of gum from her lips.

"Are you going to bring him over or…?"

"Good idea!" The egg boy said loudly, before running off with their short legs up to the stairs to the second floor.

With minions such as those, no wonder the guy had to put stuff on the newspaper to get help. It was also no wonder he barely ever won any of the fights he got himself involved with. She chewed mindlessly as she started lookig onto the open boxes. Most of the one had ammo for cannons as far she could tell, but some were smaller weapons, handheld guns. Nearby there were some workbenches full of parts that were yet to come together.

"Welcome to my evil lair!" announced the voice of Pentious from a top the stairs, making a flair of hands as he descended. "Marvel upon the future Gun Overlord, Sir Pen… Cherri!?"

Upon seeing her, Sir Pentious slipped his hand on the reiling and lost his balance, rolling down. By some miracle, however, he managed to stand himself up right at the bottom of the stairs. He quickly fixed up his suit and cleared his throat, as if to pretend none of that ever happened.

"We ssee each other again, Cherri Bomb!" announced bombastically, making a pose. The confidence only lasted about a second before he frowned again in confusion. "Why are sseeing each other again? I mean, here? I wass ssuppossed to meet ssomeone now. For the…"

"The advertisement, yeah" Cherri pulled the page of the newspaper with a red rectangle around the square Pentious had paid for his announcement. "That is still me" pointed out, looking over him. "We… talked in the phone. Did you really not know that it was me?"

Sir Pentious blinked.

"Oh. That explains why the voisse ssounded familiar. I thought it was jusst my earss failing. When you work with heavy machinery all day you can never be totally ssure."

"Well, it's not" Cherri chewed her gum. "I came here for the pay, so you tell me what you want me to do, boss."

"Iss that… I-I mean, yess! Finally, you recognize the superior abilities of the future Overlord in front of you!"

"Whatever you say, dude" Cherri blowed another bubble. "How do you make so much money, by the way?"

"Patentst! Many, many patents!" said Sir Pentious loudly, reaching out to another room. After a second he came back, making a pout. "You were ssupossed to follow me. Please, keep up."

Cherri shrugged and walked to where he dissapeared again. It was a room full of lockers and benches. Most of them were occupied by weapons, but Pentious quickly closed them before she could see too much.

"Works in progress!" justified, going to a locker near the wall and opening it up. "I was hoping that my assistant would use the appropriate uniform. A unified front starts with presenting a coherent sense of style! That way, everyone will know it's my gang of evil doerss behind each of our attackss!" explained dramatically, pulling out a grey suit with yellow stripes, similar to the one he was using, if only because this one actually had pants. "If you are sseriouss about working under me, I expect you to comply with this requirement."

Cherri took the hanger that the man was offering her and she chewed loudly as she made a face. Oh, no. That wouldn't do at all.

"Uh, do I get less pay if something happens to it?"

Sir Pentious frowned, as if he never even thought about it.

"No, why it would?"

"Alright" She put the suit on the bench and started taking out her coat. "Fine, I will change. If you want to watch, you can just stay there."

She said in the tone of a joke, but actually testing out the waters. If Sir Pentious was eager to see her, she was willing to ask for a raise immediately to only then idulged him in, as long he didn't try to touch her. If that was the kind of dynamic that they could have, then she was going to keep that snake eating from the palm of her hand. But what she didn't expect was the violent blush that covered up the entire man's face as his eyes went wider than ever, right before he covered them up with both his hands.

"I will go! Pleasse, take your time!" yelled, making his way to the exit and stumbling with everything on his way until he was out.

Cherri frowned at that. Was he gay after all? It wasn't an issue, but it did meant that she had to change her approach in order to get more out of him. Maybe he could entice him through offering pictures of Angel or something? Angie would know to help a girl in need.

In any case, now she had something to fix. She pulled out a knife from inside her booth and swallowed the gum in her mouth. No way she was going to look that square in the streets. She had her own reputation too!

An hour later, Sir Pentious loudly cleared his throat, right outside the changing room.

"Are you perhaps done, miss Cherri?" called.

"Yeah, yeah, I am done!" Cherri finished fixing her tall ponytail in front of the mirror and came out, kicking the doors open. "Ready now, boss!" announced, standing up on her modified uniform. "I made it more my style, hope that is okay" said with a smirk.

Her now better suited suit revealed her mid rift with turn edges, one of the sleeves cut to reveal her arm where she had her favorite tattooes. The pants were cut until they were short shorts, letting her to still sport her red boots. Sir Pentious stared at her from the bottom to the top. By the way he swallowed up and had to turn his eyes away, blushing until his face was almost completely pink, Cherri had now the confirmation that he was definitely not gay.

"That… that iss very creative" said Sir Pentious, looking at everything around her before her, scratching his neck. "Is, I mean, iss that, you think, going to help you to work?"

"It will make it easier for me" admitted Cherri. "But you are the boss, so you tell me if I should put more on."

"Uhm…" Sir Pentious coughed into his hand, his eyes travelling around. Even the one on his hat was fixated on the ceiling. "Your comfort iss rather important. I can't expect my minionss to work at their besst if they don't feel at their besst! So… do what allowss you that!"

"Oh" said with a teasing smile. "So this is what you like, boss?"

"Uh?" said Pentious, staring at her. At her eyes, confused. "Ssure? But ass long you wear the uniform and do my evil betting, that iss fine enough. I am nothing but a reasonable mastermind, after all!"

Cherri arched an eyebrow, but shrugged it off. Maybe he was just containing himself for this being the very first day. Old men like him probably didn't believe on fucking in the first date either. But he could't be that much of a prude either or he wouldn't have end up in the same place as her, right?

"So? What do you want to do today?" asked, hoping to finally know what this job actually entailed. The description on the newspaper was purely "assistant to future Overlord" and since then Pentious haven't really gone out of his way to clarify any specific labor. At the very least she wanted something more exciting than just answering calls, budgetting or something boring like that.

"A test run, of course!" Pentious slithered his way to the entrance and grabbed a megaphone nearby. Cherri covered her ears, but the noise of feedback still came out loud and clear before his came through. "Attention, all minions, present yourself on the lobby immediately! We are going to go to a currently on going turf war on the east side of the city and we are going to win it, in the name of your future Overlord!"

A sound of quirky voices all came running from the top of the stairs. Predictably, on their hurry many of the eggboys slipped up and came rolling down easily to land on the soft carpet that received them in the end. Cherri wondered if the carpet was there exactly for that purpose. From there, the eggboys stand up and all saluted to Pentious, ready to get their orders.

"Excellent! You see, miss Cherri Bomb, this is the kind of disposition that I will need if I am to conquer a portion of hell for myself" said the snake proudly, patting the head of the minions. "Now, prepare my flying ship!"

As soon as he said it, the group dispersed again. Cherri looked at Pentious, crossing her arms over her chest.

"So… what I should do then?" asked, when the man wasn't saying it.

"Oh?" Pentious blinked at her. "Come with us?"

"And do what?"

"Do my evil betting?"

"Which is?"

"Kill everyone until I win?"

"Ah, well. That I can do" said Cherri, opening up her coat at her waist, full of hanging bombs ready to use. Pentious looked at them, still partially covered by her legs, and swallowed, looking away. "How many deads? Do you mind if they aren't recognizable anymore? Do you need them complete?"

"Uhm" Pentious cleared his throat, regaining his posturing. "As many as demonly possible. No, I don't mind the state of their bodies after we are done with them. Just have them eliminated from my way is all I need."

"You got it, old man" Cherri smirked. At the very least she could have some fun doing that. "I will expect my pay by the end of it" said, turning around before he could respond so she could wait them all outside and Sir Pentious didn't remind him this was supposed to be a test run, not the actual hiring.

Alright. If Cherri had to admit it, it was kinda fun.

By the end, though, Pentious was so impressed with the amount of bodies and the remaining survivors running away that he didn't say anything about officially hiring her. Cherri herself was actualy a bit surprised about how easy it was when she was assisting the one with the massive weapons of destruction rather than obstructing him. She looked at the tank from which the torso of Sir Pentious came out, laughing maniacally to whoever could be left to listen to him. Which at that point was only her and the rest of her new coworkers, but he didn't seem to mind anyway.

"How about we go out to eat and celebrate?" proposed Cherri as soon Sir Pentious stopped to breath. She kicked out of the way the head of someone landing near by. "Your treat, of course, boss. You gotta keep the morale of the team high and everyone could do with some food, right?" added, directing a pointing gesture to the eggboys closer to her and they perked up, more than glad to give support.

"Yes, high morale! We need that!"

"We are so depressed and down!" said another happily.

"Food often contain enough microplastics to contaminate the ocean!"

"Yeah!" encouraged Cherri, patting the top of that last one. "This guy knows what he is talking about! We need those delicious microplastics, boss!"

Sir Pentious took around to the utter destruction around him and then at all his little minion, expectantly getting around him with their usual smiles. Finally to Cherri, but his eyes lasted less time over her even if the one on his hat lingered.

"Very well" said Sir Pentious, crossing his arms as if he was taking a stand against a wave of request. "I guess we did earned a little celebration after our victory and it would reflect poorly on me as your brave leader if I didn't reward you accordingly."

"Exactly!" Cherri jumped to the entrance of the tank, crouching to tower over the serpent man. She smiled down to him, crinkling the sides of her eye. "Follow me in your wheels, old man. I know the perfect place for us to have a great time" said with a grin, before jumping with a flip back to the ground. "It's not far from here, I think!"

"Wait! We need to give the finishing touch to commemorate the ocassion!" said Sir Pentious, stopping her mid crossing the street. He got back into the tank again and pulled out what looked to be like a stick for her. Sir Pentious pulled himself out the tank, clumsilly ending up in the ground on his desire to come out quick and then ran to a pile of bodies. "I declare this battle won by Sir Pentious, future Technology Overlord, and his loyal minions!"

He then implanted the stick onto the body closest to him, from which a green flag extended with a picture of Sir Pentious trying to look cool making finger guns. Cherri thought to herself she definitely needed to have him have that thing changed. Not all the money in hell was going to make it worth to be associated with such a dorky ass branding. But they could see about that later.

For now, she was hungry.

The perfect place in question was one of her favorite pizza joints in all of hell. It was greasy, stuffy, the bathrooms were never to be used by anything with a conscience and there was more than a few obvious violation to health regulation that could crawl on the ground or between their feet. But they had the best fries that Cherri had ever tried and their beer was always the right level of cold. One could always forgive a few cockroaches if at least the drink was worth it. It's not like they were going to die from whatever they caught there.

When they brouht the biggest pizza they had to their joined tables, Cherri grabbed the biggest slice she could and took the first bite. Oh, this was absolutely terrible for her. There was no way this was healthy in any universe. It was absolutely perfect.

"So?" asked, casually pressing her chest against the arm of Sir Pentious on the table. He had taken his own slice, holding it under a bunch of napkins, but froze with his mouth half open at the contact. The rest of the eggbois could not care less about their interaction even if they were ordered to it. "What do you think, boss? You believe we can make a good match after all?"

Sir Pentious became a brigh pink and tried to clear his throat. Unfortunately he went too hard on it and the attempt somehow resulted on him having to cough on his hand before ever managing to get a word out.

"I mean!" said finally, with a squeaky voice, before trying again, his eyes looking up to the ceiling. "I-I believe you are… a more than acceptable asset to my team of evil doers. The ruthleness and quick thinking you owed today in the battle ground was certainly impressive. It would be frankly foolish of me to not take the opportunity to accept you in my ranks. So, consider yourself permanently hired for as long you want to work under me."

Cherri blinked, actually surprised at the compliment. She would have expect him to try to hide it all under some "but I am still the mastermind here, don't forget it" bullshit, rather than just say it. Most of the boss she ever had since landing on hell, or even before that, would have done as much. You don't want an employee to really start thinking that they aren't replaceable, after all. Maybe Sir Pentious just never learned that, surrounded by the eggs that would follow anywhere without question no matter how they were treated.

She snorted, patting his back. Maybe he didn't have what it took to be an overlord, but at least he could be easy to deal with.

"Smart choice, old man" praised, straighten up again. "After this, we get dessert, don't we? You can't just have something like this for dinner. That can bring out the depression again, and we don't want that, do we?" asked, smirking to the closest eggboi to her.

"No, we don't!" supported the creature instantly.

Cherri chuckled. These little guys were so much better than she thought before. Sir Pentious sighed, as if he was already expecting the question.

"Of course" said, resigned to his fate and Cherri took a drink of her beer, sideyeing him for a bit.

Oh, that man had no idea how much she was going to exploit him. No idea at all. But well, what other thing could he ever expect from hell?

As the night fell, with an ice cream in hand, Cherri patted the eggbois closer to her. They all had their treats in hand, whike Sir Pentious came out the place they came out with a single ball of ice cream and saving his wallet back into his pocket with a slight frown. Before he could save it entirely, Cherri decided to take her chance.

"So?" said, offering her open hand to the man.

Instead of putting there the fat stack of money she expected, he took her hand on his and shook it gently, slowly.

"It was an honor working with you today, miss Cherri" said and Cherri looked up to see he actually seemed sincere. That ennerved her a little more than she cared to admit. Why did he have to be so weird about everything? "I hope to see you again tomorrow so we get to talk about strategies for greater attacks."