It's believed with the amount of wiring what goes on in the V towers that it could be a fire hazard if something hasn't been done correctly during the construction process, Vox having an entire room dedicated to surveillance would prove this exact point.
The fire started in the walls due to some damaged wiring from some shit quality wires and a draft would help fuel the fire with oxygen. The power tripped and the entire tower would be plunged into darkness, the first to notice was Velvette, all the employees aren't important to the story.
Velvette saw the lights in her room go out and just assumed that Vox was being a bit of a creep and following Alastor again on the surveillance system, only to get mad at something he did or said and had a power surge which shut of power to the whole city, she decided to get up and go see him. make sure he is doing ok and maybe yell at him to fix the fucking problem.
Valentino on the other hand was lying in bed, he's tired to all shit and could not be asked to check on why the power went out, it was most likely Vox since his weird stalker behaviour causes him to cut power to the whole city when in the network besides Velvette would tell him what happened in the morning, the darkness also felt nice, he's not distracted.
Vox was making his way back to his floor when the power had cut so he's currently stuck in the elevator, he got confused, this wasn't his doing and he's currently trapped in here, he got a notification on his phone about a meeting schedule. He looked at it and realised that he can use it to get out of his sticky situation, he yawned and put the phone down and used it to travel outside due to nothing in the building working, he hated doing it while tired though since he doesn't know where he could come out.
He appeared in a random sinner's home, looked worn down with the wallpaper peeling, the carpet being stained with dark red liquids and who knows what else, the smell of the home was strong he couldn't exactly describe what it was, but it wasn't nice. He stepped out of the T.V. and looked at the sinner who was sitting on the sofa in the room.
The sinner looked up at him in complete shock "How the fuck did you get into my house?" as if he didn't just watch him come through the TV. They seem to be a newcomer to hells welcoming environment; he activated his hypnotic eye "Don't talk to anyone about this." with that he left the home and went back to the tower. He no longer has his phone since that was left in the elevator so he can't ask Velvette or Valentino what happened.
the smoke has started to spill from the cracks, it only took a few minutes, but the fire has spread a lot. Velvette, after seeing the city still with lights, decided to call Vox to ask if he knew why the power in the tower had gone out but he did not pick up which pissed her of a bit. "For fucks sake Vox." she swore to herself, she was completely oblivious of the situation unfolding in the walls around her.
Valentino being a moth and having one of the best scents of smells from all three of them had smelt the smoke, it woke him up from his sleep "what the fuck?" he got up and walked around the room trying to find the source of the smell since it was nothings like the smoke from cigarettes and even if it was he'd want to know who was in his room just smoking.
Walking around his room didn't exactly help, he went to turn the lights on only to remember that the power is out, weird, shouldn't that have been sorted out by now? What time even is it? He tried to follow the smell and realised it was coming from inside of the walls. Valentino realised the smell since he had to deal with it in his studio thanks to the princess almost setting it ablaze.
Fires were common in hell yes and Vox had made sure that nothing would cause a fire when the tower was first built, made sure that the sprinklers would work but like all things Vox got sloppy with maintaining this equipment and no one would have reminded him of maintaining the equipment, if the overlords reputation gets ruined then he'd lose potential contracts.
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