Helluva Boss

S2 E8: Angels and Agents

C.H.E.R.U.B. Last Time...

Cletus glared one last time at the imps. "This isn't over!"

The cherubs summoned a colorful portal to Heaven and flew through it...but then were suddenly repelled back.

"What the?!" Cletus asked.

Five more cherubs came through the portal. Rachel, a white sheep, Beau, a gray sheep with a bow, Honey, a bee, and Bea, another bee. The four hovered with their hands in prayer. The last cherub, the leader, was a brown deer dressed in purple overalls, a lavender shirt, and a pink ribbon. Deerie conjured up reading glasses and a clipboard.

She spoke to the cherubs in a condescending manner. "Mmm, yeah, no sorry, Cletus, but I'm afraid your actions resulted in the death of a human. I'm afraid you can't re-enter Heaven. Yeah, no..."

"What?!" cried the three C.H.E.R.U.B. members in disbelief.

Deerie chuckled. "Yeah, mm, sorry. Yeah, no..."

"Is there anything we can do?" Collin asked with a whimper. Deerie filed her hoof before chuckling again. "Yeah, no! Oh no, no, no." She then said "no" to Collin, Cletus and Keenie as she pointed her front hooves at them. All of them had tears in their eyes.

"Uh! But we didn't mean to!" Keenie pleaded. "We never! It was all..."

She pointed down to the scaffolding where I.M.P. was, but they had already left for Hell. Keenie screamed in horror and her companions gasped, eyes wide.

Deerie just smiled, "Anyway, sorry guys. But those are the rules, yeah!"

She did a happy wave and a "Bye!" as she and her group of cherubs flew back up through the portal.

"Wait! But..." Cletus flew up toward the portal but it had already closed. Cletus sniffled, then cried a river of tears from his eyes. The other cherubs also broke down into sobs.

Cletus, Keenie and Collin broke down in heavy tears as they surveyed the area around them. The audience lay slumped and dead in their seats after being shot with arrows and bullets. Metal scaffolding lay bent and wrecked on the wooden stage where Blitzo, Moxxie and Millie were moments before. The former opera singer now lay dead and crushed underneath a stage light that had fallen on top of her. And underneath a broken piano lay the dead crushed body of Lyle Lipton, the elderly inventor they had tried to save.

The scene was eerie and empty. The nervous well-dressed piano guy had promptly fled the scene, traumatized after the events. And those accursed imps had jumped through a portal back to Hell in triumph.

As Cletus cried some more, fountains of tears sprung from his eyes. Keenie and Collin rushed in to comfort him. The trio had never felt so vulnerable before.

"I...I can't believe this!" Cletus wailed. "We were so close to helping out that man...even though he was shitty and old..."

"Language," chided Keenie.

Cletus continued. "We did everything right, but now we can't get back through."

"It's not...completely your fault," Collin said, putting a hoof on his leader's back in comfort. "It was all an accident."

Cletus raised an eyebrow at his comrade. "What do you mean 'not completely?'"

"Well..." Collin began.

"You're right, it was those imps' doing!" Keenie interrupted, her white lacy wings flapping in frustration. "If only Deerie had seen what they were doing to us."

The three took some deep breaths and sobs as they slowly calmed down. With a wave of his hand, their fancy dresses and tuxedos clothes were replaced by their regular outfits: reddish overalls for Cletus, a light blue shirt and white bow tie for Collin and a yellow dress for Keenie.