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It really was stupid. Alastor and Lucifer were arguing and the insults went too far, magic mixed and hit a mirror before hitting Alastor, and suddenly there was just a pile of clothes left behind and his mic.
"Ah, um.. shitshitshit. Charlie's gonna kill me. How did I vaporize him?" This happened in their shared hallway. Then he sees some movement in the clothes. Did he turn the red guy into a frog or something?
He sifts through the clothes and finds a newborn with some red hair, still the deer ears, little tail, hooves and the same red claws. Yeah Charlie was still going to kill him.
"Okay, so the bellhop is a baby .. right.... Okay so, um nod if you can understand what I'm saying?" Just staring with super red eyes. "Um okay maybe I can reverse this before Charlie finds out." He picks up Alastor's clothes and takes both the baby demon and clothes to his room.
"Okay okay so let's see I was trying to cast, and he was casting and they mingled in the mirror.... " He triple checks his work but then Alastor starts crying. Hungry and apparently soiled the clothes he had been wrapped in. Ah it had been quite a few hours. Shit, okay he's not heartless. A snap of the fingers and Alastor is clean and there was a bottle. "Alright kiddo I hope this is to your liking. Can't focus on trying out the spell if you are screaming your head off."
He had to smile a bit, Alastor was a cute baby as far as demons are concerned. Made him miss Charlie when she was this size. A bit of burping and now a special diaper for tailed children and he lays Alastor on the bed.
Okay, he works on the spell, tries casting the reverse and little symbols pop up from Alastor. "Awesome, where the fuck were you when this happened in the first place?" Nah, knowing the Loa they think this is hilarious.
He sighs and messages for Charlie and Vaggi to come to his room. At the knock. "Come on in."
"You wanted to see us?"
"Yeah, there was a little mishap here in the hallway earlier and... Well the bellhop..." He gestures to baby Alastor who was hugging his mic staff while gumming on it. "I tried doing a reversal but the loa won't let me so until there's another solution, I'm afraid he's stuck like this. Didn't want to say anything until I knew if I could reverse it or not."
Charlie doesn't care for kids, at least not criers.
"Oh boy, Alastor is the strongest sinner in hell and has a lot of enemies. If people find out that he's just a helpless baby, well... everyone is going to have bigger problems." Says Vaggi.
A letter appears in front of Alastor and it was a summons for an overlord meeting. All three of them look at each other and then the infantile overlord.
"How are we gonna pull this off?" Asks Vaggi.
"Um, one of us could go in his place?" Offers Charlie.
"Maybe Husk?" Says Vaggi.
"I can go. It's just some overlords right? I can bring him with me and say it was a punishment for being.... Him."
Offers Lucifer.
"I guess it's not like we can hide this for long." Admits Vaggi.
"Okay but you need to pay attention to the meeting, or at least record it." Says Charlie.
Lucifer snaps his fingers and Alastor was in a baby version of his clothes. He looks at the shadow. "Can you shrink the mic into a pacifier please?" And the mic changed into a binky. He takes the invitation. Ah this must be that Carmilla person the t.v. head name dropped. Yeah maybe a few words with her too. He opens a portal as he carries Alastor through it and to the Carmilla Industry building, and follows the meeting direction.
"This meeting is for overlords, your majesty." Says Carmilla.
"Well, as he is being punished right now, he is here." Says Lucifer, he takes a seat and sets Alastor on his lap. She and Zestial looked at the shrunken Overlord. "So I will record your little meeting and show him later. But your invite came only a few minutes after this so...." Lucifer sets up the stand and hits record.
"As you wish." She didn't want to draw attention to herself after making the weapon Lucifer had been tied up to.
Rosie had come in and rose an eyebrow at baby Alastor. Most of them did. Once all of the seats were filled....
"Again, he is being punished right now for being an ass. Get on with your meeting thing."
Being turned into helpless babies got them to get on with everything which included Val setting the TV. Head in the middle of the table.
"For the destruction of so much of the pentagram and loss of power as well as losing power for so many sovereign overlords, I raise the vote to remove Vox from his overlord status. All in favor." Everyone raised their hands and Alastor saw the raised hands and made an aye sound when raising his little fist. Dropping the pacifier in the process which Lucifer cat he's and gives back to Alastor.
"Unanimous, Vox is now, no longer an overlord. Time to report losses for each overlord. No losses for Alastor. The two he lets run around still are around and the others he keeps hidden away."
People gave away their reports.
"Since we have you here, your majesty, are there any plans to rebuild the Pentagram?" Asked Maestro.
Lucifer blinks as he was creating a bottle as he wasn't expecting to be addressed. "Not really. It's not like you won't have plenty of new workers dropping in everyday. Between insurance, supply runs and such you can rebuild easily enough. I made sure you were self sufficient."
Zestial watches as Lucifer feeds the baby.
Val smirks at the sight of baby Alastor. Lucifer looks at Val. "You wanna be a caterpillar? Keep your perversions to yourself."
That's why all kids go to heaven. To get away from perverts like Val.
Vox was quite literally yeeted out the window into the dumpster far below.
Alastor's ears flicker and swivel around. They would wiggle when. He drank from the bottle.
"I have a problem, why is he so fucking cute?" Asks ZeeZee.
"Why a baby though?"
"After all of his boasting and bravado and knowing I can turn him into this which definitely hurts his creepy factor? He can take a hit but his ego? Nah. You should take pictures."
So came a lot of pictures, including from Velvette.
"Anyway, you done with the meeting?"
"Eh, yes." Says Carmilla. "You two were adorable too." She says to her daughters who blush and look away.
The meeting was over and Lucifer turns off the recording and brings Alastor back to the hotel. "There, your overlording is done."
He brings Alastor back to his own room. "Okay, so I'm going to need some help with this." He knows if the Loa but not how to contact them. He sends a text to Sera, asking if she knew how to contact these particular beings.
Meanwhile Alastor needed another changing and luckily, magic.
Alastor, much as his adult version doesn't sleep, he just looks around. He wasn't a fussy baby at least. "Go figure, this is as pleasant as you get and we have to turn you back as fast as possible." He sighs. At least he didn't have anything to really do.
He does tickle the baby which just makes him squirm. "Too young to even smile huh?"
There is a knock at the door. So he picks up baby Alastor and goes to answer it. "Hello, um how can I help you?" It was Rosie.
"Your majesty I wanted to see Alastor."
"Um come on in, you've known him a while right?"
"Since right before he came to hell, yes."
"Do you know anything about the loa or how to contact them?" he moves out of the way for Rosie to come in and sit.
"Why would you need them for?"
"This was an accident and I have the reverse spell but the loa won't let me reverse it." Admits Lucifer.
"May I hold him?"
"Don't eat him, or bite him." He hands Alastor over who just keeps looking around.
Rosie tickles him and rubs his ears which makes the baby flail again. "I figured it was something like that. As for the loa, I know how to contact at least one, thanks to this one here but anything beyond that is going to have to be up to you. I don't know if they will respond to you, your majesty."
Alastor was reaching up for the feather in her big hat. "Oh no you don't you double dealer." She was gentle about it.
"Double dealer?"
"He was under contract with me until the whole incident with Vox." She writes down instructions with her free hand to Lucifer.
"Oh thank you ah... Um.... "
"Rosie" she hands Alastor back. "Good luck!"
Lucifer sighs and lets out his tail to hold and cradle Alastor while he conjours up the altar, booze, a cigar and the symbols. "Um... okay so sinner baby you should be okay and not get like, cancer or anything from one cigar right?"
Alastor just watched. "Right, you are a baby and cannot answer me. Okay I can do this." Thankfully Rosie can write clearly and Lucifer reads out the words, adding some blood for this.
An old man picks up the bottle of booze and the lot cigar. "Never thought I'd see the day when the devil himself would call any of us. And this little blasphemous cretin.... " The old man pokes Alastor. And baby Alastor makes a sound in protest.
"So how do I change him back?" Asks Lucifer.
"You don't. He has to grow up. What's more is all of his memories will be overwritten. However, he still holds his contracts. Now the downside is he won't remember his mother, or what he did to get down here." The gatekeeper puffed on the cigar. "Looks like you get to be the daddy he never had."
"Oh hell no!"
"Oh hell yes, you do this and maybe you can prove a few things to a number of people. Besides it ain't like you got anything else to do."
"I have lots of important things I do!"
"Making ducks and crying over duck themed things isn't it. You aren't even supporting your daughter's dream. Namely cause you can't think of these damned souls as anything other than damned souls. So, start with that one."
Then what happened was the gatekeeper vanishes along with the booze and cigar and the devil looks at the baby form of his nemesis and realizes he is stuck with him.
"Great." Alastor yawns and curls up, finally drifting off.