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It had been almost two and a half weeks since Arackniss last spoke or saw Overlord Pentious. But it was nothing new as Pentious busied himself with ruling his large empire and coming up with new plans and ideas to gain even more power and territory. The only thing Arackniss was in charge of in Pentious' vast empire was Pentious' ever growing army of Sinner Demons.
Yes, gone were the simple minded and breakable Egg Bois, whose fragile exterior made it impossible to keep, gain, or hold conquered territory, they were replaced by Sinners, who had either volunteered or more likily force to join Penn's forces, but those that willingly joined would recieve better pay, care, and were more likily to advance in rank than those that didn't.
Tonight, General Arackniss had recieved information from Intel that someone was an imposter, unfortunetly the info as Arackniss read the report didn't come from the more reliable Captain of the unit, but by someone trying to seek praise and maybe get promoted a rank up from their current one. But no matter, the info would most likily be the same and that was that an imposter had infiltrated Pentious' forces. The list for potential enemies was long and any one of them could have sent this spy in to find or cause weak spots in Pentious' defences and sabotage and undermine it from within.
Wanting to find and neutralize the threat as soon as possible so that Overlord Pentious wouldn't get mad and take out his aggression out on his own soliders or worst on Arackniss himself. But so focus was Arackniss in tasking himself in finding the supposed imposter that Arackniss had forgotten about an very important meeting he was suppose to attend without fail.
So now here he was making his way to Intel to see the one person that could make sence of the report handed to him, when he came upon someone coming towards him suspiciously. So Arackniss quickly took cover in a dark alcove to see who it was and observe what they were up to.
Arackniss didn't have to wait long to see who was walking or more like stumbling towards him. It was a recently new recruit named Viturin Nikitin, but usually went by Nik, an auburn red Russian cat-faced spider demon with dark turquoise sclera and electric blue pupils and 3 smaller eyes over his eyebrows, and electric blue hand claws and toe claws at the end of white legs, and at 5ft 9in was about 6 inches or so taller than Arackniss.
Nik was partnered with Niss in a take down assignment, not that Niss needed ( or wanted ) a partner, it was more like assessing Nik's skill level ( at least that's what Niss was told at the time ).
To Arackniss, the assignment was easy all they had to do was erase all demons that were hold up in an abandoned office building, and said demons were the core that made up a small group that was against Pentious' rule. All that were present were erased and if there were anymore members of the group, they either went into hiding or left Pentious' territory and never looked back. With the job done, Nik had put in the call for their pick up, which was apparently on the roof of the building they were in. An the only stressful part of the mission was the elevator ride to the roof, Niss was trying to relax and smoke a cigarette in silence during the ride, but Nik was fidgety and wanted to talk, but not knowing what to say started with what came out sounding like a pick up line of " Hey Handsome." ( to Niss ) and paired the line with a ridiculously cheesy screwball grin. Of course Niss asked angrily what did Nik just call him because no one had ever dared say anything like that to him before, and even though in a panic Nik quickly came up with an excuse saying he was trying to bum a cigarette off Niss, and when Niss questioned Nik further by asking if Nik normally threw in " Hey Handsome " casually with every guy Nik met, to which Nik answered that he did that sometimes when he was nervous and then apologized by saying sorry. Letting it by ( for now ), Niss then handed Nik a cigarette for which Nik thanked him, then Niss told Nik to keep the talk to a minimum and that he normally didn't fraternized with newbies. To which Nik decided ( for some unknown reason ) to place his right hand on Niss' right shoulder and lean into Niss and said " Sure thing friend.", and if the elevator doors hadn't opened just then, Niss most likily would have either punched Nik in the face or killed him.
Now here was Nik ( most likily coming back from some off base bar because judging by the bottle in Nik's left hand, nowhere on base could you get vodka ) stumbling drunkenly forwards with his right hand on the hallway wall to keep himself balanced and upright, while the left hand had a tight grip on the neck of a vodka bottle. Just as Niss was thinking that Nik's drunken state was impractical for infiltrating anything was when Nik slumped against the wall he was bracing himself with and suddenly threw up the containts of his stomach onto the floor. Realizing that Nik wasn't just drunk but plastered, Niss went over to Nik and asked in a conserned way " Hey ! You okay !? " and Nik drunkenly answered " Uh ... Ye... Why ? " " Because you just threw up everywhere !!! " Niss answered back and indicating what Nik just did with Nik then looking down in a daze and said " Oh. " Then Nik said " Yeah, I'm pretty drunk. Ha... " placing his right hand on his forehead. " Yeah, No shit ... Where's your barack ? I'll walk you to it. " said Arackniss as he was trying to keep the drunken spider demon balanced and upright while Nik placed his head on top of Niss' head and wrapped his left arm around Niss' left shoulder all while still having a death grip on the bottle's neck. " Hm .. I uh ... I don't remember ... Left maybe ? No ... Right . Wait ... It's up one more floor ... I think ? " said the confused drunken spider. Not wanting to go on a wild goose chase all over the base looking for Nik's room, Arackniss made a decision that he hoped he wouldn't regret later. " It's fine, my room is just down this hall. " Niss said as he help support Nik and walked him to his door. " What you get your own room ? " Nik said sounding shocked. " Yeah ? " answered Niss, " That's not fair. " whined Nik " I have to share one with three other sinners. Do you know how fucking hard it is to get your dick sucked, when I got these dumb fucks coming in and out of my room ? " Nik complained as Niss leaned Nik's back against a wall. " Yeah, well it pays to be the boss' right hand man. " said Niss as he took his room key out of his pants pocket and while Arackniss' back was turned " I bet it does ... " Nik said just before he downed the rest of the vodka left in the bottle as Niss unlocked and opened his door.
When the door was fully opened, Nik looked in and was amazed by what he saw, the room was clean for starters with a few posters of some of Niss' favorite movies on the walls, the bed was centered in the room with a nightstand on either side with a simple digital alarm clock on the left one, a bit further left Niss had a computer that he used for work only, and if he looked around the room more, Nik would find that Niss had a dresser, a closet, and Niss had a full private bathroom, and then Niss said as if it was nothing special " It's not that much better than what you have."
Nik was going to argue that Arackniss had it way better, but decided to hold his tounge when he saw Niss' bed and Nik literally leaped with joy from the door to the center of the bed, which both shocked and surprized Niss because it had to be at least six feet from the door to the edge of the bed and another two feet to get to the center of the bed, which kinda impressed Niss but he didn't show it. " These sheets feel like Heaven's softest clouds ... And you have a California King ! Lucky. " said Nik who was by now hugging one of two pillows, and if Nik had turned around when he spoke, Niss would have seen the tears in Nik's eyes that threaten to fall from shear joy.
But having not seen Nik put down his drink before he leapt onto Niss' bed he warned Nik " I swear to Lucifer, if you spill a single drop of vodka on my bed." " Chill. " Nik said already wrapped up in the top cover of the bed like a cloak " It's empty, see ! " Nik said as he shook the bottle to show that no sloshing sounds would come from the now empty bottle. Pinching the space between his eyes and sighing heavily and hoped he wouldn't developed a headache later, gave Nik a rundown of what he expected ( and hopefully Nik Would follow ) Nik to do while staying in his room " Listen. You're not supposed to be here, so if you're going to sleep here, you can't be loud, make my bed in the morning, and make sure nobody sees you leave ... Oh and don't steal my shit ... I will know it was you. " " Yeah yeah, I know the drill ... " Nik said as he laid down sounding like he heard these kind of rules before. " Okay, bye. " Arackniss said as he turned to leave. Well this got Nik's full attention now as he tried to sit upright in the bed, but the blanket he was currently wrapped in was covering his eyes. " Wait ! Your not gonna come cuddle ? I thought we were gonna fuck ! Why the hell you blue ballin !? " Nik said as the only thing not covered was his mouth. An his protest indicated to Arackniss that his leaving wasn't something Nik was use to when sleeping off being drunk. But what Nik said made Niss feel like he was cheating on Pentious even though clearly Nik didn't know he was ( in Niss' mind at lease ) in a relationship with the Overlord. An that anger was a little bit present when Niss said " Like that would ever happen. Go to sleep ! Drunk ass ... " and with that Arackniss left and slammed the door closed.
Locking the door from the outside, Arackniss made a few mental notes, 1st was to contact maintance and get the vomit cleaned up, and 2nd and as if to confirm it with himself said quietly " Yeah, there's no way he's an imposter. He's too stupid ... "
With helping Nik out, Niss had been sidetracked from his goal of going over to the Intel office and double checking to see if the report was correct or not, Arackniss decided to walk a little faster to make up for lost time and hoped the Captain in charge hadn't left for the night. Wanting to be relaxed before he got to Intel, Arackniss decided to smoke one cigarette, but just before he got it lit, with his head down and all of his eyes closed. Arackniss didn't noticed that someone was in his path as he crashed right into what felt like a brick wall than a person, causing him to spit out his cigarette, and to fall backwards and landing on his back. Before he looked to see who he had ran into, Arackniss out of habit yelled/shouted at the person angerly for delaying him further from reaching his destination to the Intel office. " Hey !!! Watch it asshole !! " But after a moment, Arackniss was able to focus on the person and wished that he kept his mouth shut. For looming over him was none other than Overlord Pentious himself, and all at once Arackniss remembered the one thing he forgot when the imposter report was delivered to him. His meeting with Overlord Pentious, though boring and always on repeat, were never ever to be missed unless physically unable or double dead, and now Arackniss was looking up at the crossed expression on the Overlord's face and knew he was in trouble when Pentious said in a dark tone that filled him with dread " Arackniss ... You missed our meeting ... "