passed that promotion test with 100% and the tester took a note agent knows their job but isn’t very confident yeahhhhhhhhh

I would like to preface this by saying i am a casual watcher of helluva boss, ive watched all the episodes and im more into what the show could be rather than what it currently is (i have… many a issue with the choices made but im not gonna get into that rn HDJFYID). And of all the episodes that made me wish it reached its full potential it was the cherubs episode which was, not a great episode lets be honest (it had some good moments dont get me wrong! And if you really liked it then good for you! It just wasnt my cup of tea sorry fjjf) so heres my rewrite of it! I Frankensteined parts from the original i thought worked and everything else is completely different hdjufidbd, hope yall like it!

The episode would start out the same with blitz watching the tv and shooting it, loona begrudgingly and annoyingly reminds them they have a fuck ton of clients to get to today and that they should head out. IMP enters the human world disguised and begins to take out their first target (hiding in the bushes), moxxie takes aim and shoots but the bullet is stopped last second. Confused as hell moxxie assumes he missed and shoots again and again only for the same thing to keep happening to which they hide deeper into the bush so that blitz can demand an explanation for moxxies “incompetence”. Moxxie tries to explain but all three of them are violently ripped from the bush by an invisible force, millie starts swinging her knife but the force grabs her wrist and reveals itself to be a guardian angel sent by C.H.E.R.U.B. They get over powered by the angel and skiddadle, to ease the tension and focus the group blitz says theyll just get back to that target later and should focus on the other ones, only to find out that all their other targets also have guardian angels. Onto their last possible target they are aggravated and worn out, to test if they have an angel they throw a rock that actually hits them on the head and quickly rejoice, only to be once again stopped before they could kill the target as keenie, cletus and collin appear, with a new guardian angel ready to be assigned. IMP crew starts insulting them and demanding them to fuck off from their targets or else but keenie and cletus doesn’t take them seriously and simply wave them off (collin stays largely quiet and cowering throught the entire time), summoning two dove body guards to dispose of them. They get their asses kicked and retreat to the office where blitz and loona are getting a lot of angry demands as to why their targets arent dead yet while moxxie starts freaking out over the future of the company. Millie says they might be able to get back at them and holds out a check list that collin had sticking out of his pocket that she snatched, containing all the names of the humans yet to have a guardian angel with one name remaining, which just so happens to be their newest clients target. They rush off to kill the target before the cherubs can get to them, only to end up getting there at the same time as the cherubs, luckily for them though the bodygaurds are not there and the new guardian angel is running late. The IMP crew gets their attention and starts airing their grievances and hatred for them which elicits a petty set of responses from keenie and cletus, which kicks off the same fight and accidental killing of the human they were supposed to assign the guardian angel to. Unfortunately for the cherub crew the guardian angel did show up but only last second to see them kill the human, in horror they portaled back to heaven to tell on them, which leads to them getting kicked out. As theyre being banned the deer lady says all the guardian angels will be recalled back to heaven and that their business will be put on hold and transferred to a more “competent” power. The cherub crew is left devastated but the imp crew rejoices and quickly gets to killing the clients they couldnt kill earlier, as they kill one of the clients millie says shes happy theyll never have to see those three again and the other two agree. Of course this cuts to a small sheep angel secretary entering a high cherubs office, named abbadon (the lion guy), telling him that he has been given control of the agency as well as to be wary that three imps are running around on earth to kill humans. Upon hearing this he instates that all the recalled guardian angels be trained not just in defensive combat but in offensive combat, but that only he will personally deal with the “infestation”, he takes a heavy inhale of his holy cigar and smoke covers all but his glowing eyes, cut to credits.

Anyways thats my rewrite of it, a big problem i found with the episode is that it lacked compelling stakes, and while nothing is wrong with having a silly filler episode much of the season was about setting up for characters to come back and screw with the imp crew which made it hard for me to view the cherubs as a viable threat to IMP. Regardless im happy with this rewrite and im chill with criticism for both the story and the designs!! Now onto some bonus notes (pretty much just some bonus facts that could come into “later episodes” that aren’t relevant to the plot in this rewritten ep lol):

- Abaddons whole arc starts with him personally trying to kill IMP for their hellish ways, but he underestimates them and finds he gets defeated set back in his progress of taking them out*, the longer he goes on trying to kill them the more tunnel visioned he gets, he’s a high ranking angel! He cant be beat over and over by some disgusting lowly imps (uh oh ego), eventually he gets so enraged and tunnel visioned he abandons all regard for his and everyone else’s safety, leading to the accidental death of a human. When he realizes what he’s done its already too late, he’s been kicked from heaven, and this only enrages him further, blaming everything on the imps and taking none of the blame. He’d then go on to hunt them down and repent constantly, as if killing the imps and praying will let him back in, eventually he’d (reluctantly) team up with striker and he hates that he’s turned to a lowly imp to take out other imps (also it’d be really funny if they had an enemies to “lovers” thing lmao)

*IMP just barely beats him btw, they lost more easily to the guardian angels cause they were caught off guard and didn’t have any time to prep, in their fight with abbadon they’re more angel ready and abbadons underestimation of them gives them the upper hand. From there the more they fight abbadon, the easier it is to fight him which pisses abbadon off to no end

- When abaddon switches his head he transforms into what it is (human head for a human disguise, the animal heads can either be anthro or feral depending on the circumstance as needed), the inactive head then becomes a beautiful but nearly indestructible porcelain head

- collin is only an intern/guardian angel in training, hence the name tag. Hes pretty much a young teen trying to get his first job only to get blamed for the incompetence of his employers. Whyd i make him a teen? Cause i think it fits but also because it’d be funny seeing millie and moxxie parent him the entire time. Also he’s an orphan, his parents were exterminators and were killed in a skirmish between two demons when he was very young, poor boy cant catch a break (lore for a future “episode” i guess lmao)

- cleetus and keenie are more like hoity toity business managers who put on a gentle persona when in reality they’re more like the kind of managers to say “you’re getting a raise! *gives you a dollar and a stick of gum*”. If it wasn’t obvious enough i redesigned the hell out of them, cletus is supposed to be a literal man child, the type of guy with a high ego but throws a hissy fit when things dont go his way while keenie is a kind of pretentious lady who uses the word dear in a condescending way 99% of the time (that doesnt make sense but oh well lol)

Thats all i have for now, I actually have an idea for a millie centered episode too! As for this “episode” maybe one day ill make an animatic of it or write something idk lol let me know what yall want