Hello! My name is Caboose! You probably know me from Red VS Blue! What you didn't know is that I...have my OWN adventures with Freckles. I somehow ended up in this place after walking through a door behind the base...and I made new friends who works in the hotel and assassin stuff. They shouldn't worry, Caboose is here to help them!
Caboose's Guide to make Friends in Hell is a Red vs. Blue & Hellaverse Crossover fanfiction by Crimson Soldat, where the titular Blue Team's loveable fool of a Spartan and his AI Companion upon Hellaverse's Hell.
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There's also Side Stories called Caboose's
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Caboose's guide to make Friends in Hell has the following examples:
- 24-Hour Armor: Played for Laughs, as how it goes with Blood Gulch Crew; Vaggie is befuddled that Caboose can eat through his helmet and is nonchalant about it.
- Accidental Misnaming: As per norm for a Cloudcuckoolander like Caboose.Caboose: It's nice to meet you, Charlotte Morbinstern and Baggie!
Vaggie: IT'S CHARLIE MORNINGSTAR AND VAGGIE, YOU IDIOT!
Caboose: Yes, Charlotte Morbinstern and Baggie.
Blitzø: You want to join us? You're just a Sinner who doesn't know what I.M.P stands—
Caboose: It means "Irresistible Miraculous People", am I correct? - Berserk Button: Caboose values his friends and families, so a threat towards them is unforgivable.
- Caboose overhears the phone between Blitzø & Stolas when the former is being chased by Martha & her husband and assumes that the demon noble is trying to make Blitzø his only friend, enraging him.
- When Vaggie tries to talk to Caboose about Freckles, the blue Spartan's voice grows deeper when he subtly threatens her if she tries to kick the droid out, scaring Vaggie and the rest of the hotel residents.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Caboose perfectly embodies this trope. Followed by Niffty and Blitzø.
- Commonality Connection: Caboose easily befriends Niffty & Blitzø due to the three of them being Cloudcuckoolanders.
- Didn't Think This Through: Charlie chose to do the Trust fall as one of the trust exercise activities with the Hotel's residents, not anticipating that Caboose's MJOLNIR armor is too heavy for everyone, let alone anyone.Caboose: Um, guys. You guys didn't catch me?
Vaggie: *Groaning as she tries to push Caboose off everyone* What do you think? - Dies differently in the Adaptation:Â
- While Martha is killed by Moxxie, she was shot in the stomach by Caboose after she asks him to help her.
- The Catfish Monster is killed by Millie by throwing a Molotov Cocktail within its mouth in canon. Here, it is killed by Freckles in a similar manner.
- Dumbass Has a Point: When Adam was about to tell Emily how annoying Caboose has been, Caboose interrupts him twice to advice him not to swear when there are children present.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Adam and Lute may be ruthless, cruel and outright horrible people, but even they cannot tolerate Caboose's obscurity during his "daycation" in Heaven.Â
- Fourth-Wall Observer: Caboose, even including the narration in every chapter.This is the part where I decided to join the hotl where I can make more friends! I hope Charlotte and Baggie don't mind in me making some?
- Giant Scrap Robot: Freckles manages to locate the Carmines who have a MANTIS droid in store, which Caboose bought with UNSC weapons schematics for Freckles' new body, but it ended up taking a lot of space in the hotel until Alastor built a new room specifically for the droid.
- Gilligan Cut: When Vaggie expresses concerns to her over Caboose's side job, believing it to be a shady job where he indulges his sin out of the hotel, Charlie tries to calm her girlfriend down, believing that Vaggie's concerns are unfounded. The scene then cuts to Caboose having his first day working at I.M.P.
- Go Through Me: Caboose tries to get in between Vaggie & Sir Pentious after she demands the Sinner get rid of the Egg Bois.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Blitzø expresses disbelief over Caboose's desire to join I.M.P., but changes his mind and lets him join when the blue Spartan mistakes the company's acronym for "Irresistible Miraculous People".
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Carmilla decides that she needs loads of alcohol after dealing with Caboose for the first time.
- Insistent Terminology: Caboose insists that Freckles is his pet, not a robot, even after gaining a MANTIS-like body.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Implied, as when Caboose appeared in Hazbin Hotel, he was in Charlie's room while she & Vaggie were lying on the bed.
- Money Dumb: Caboose has money from the percentage of the sales the Carmines make with the schematics Freckles gave to Carmilla in exchange for the MANTIS droid for the AI, but he ends up draining it in thousands as he spends it to play Gacha games.
- The Nicknamer: Caboose often refers to Vaggie as "Miss Angry Mexican Pirate", much to her frustration.
- Oh, Crap!: For different reasons, both Moxxie and Caboose have this reaction when Millie brings them to Loo Loo Land's roller coaster, The Lawsuit.
- Point of Divergence: Because Caboose has unintentionally ended up in Helluvaverse's Hell, things have certaintly change.
- The Trust Exercise becomes worse in canon due to Caboose's Armor being heavy to move after he lands on them. It becomes worse in Vaggie's Trust Exercise as he nearly shoots Angel and Pentious with his Sniper Rifle since he sees that he was "helping".
- Even though Martha is killed by Moxxie, she is shot in the stomach by Caboose with his Pistol since she was asking for his "help".
- Caboose kills the imp who was trying to mug Stolas and Octavia, instead of turning into stone by the Goetia as seen in canon.
- Caboose is the one who unintentionally massacres all of Verosika's concert-goers in the middle of the orgy instead of Blitzo as seen in canon, which leads to her in throwing her flask full of Beezle-juice and thus the creation of the Catfish Monster.
- ​Freckles fights the catfish monster intead of Millie.
- Shout-Out:
- Caboose is shown playing and addicted to Honkai: Star Rail.
- Freckles fighting with the Catfish Monster is a homage to the Godzilla fights.
- Caboose and Lute's Dance-off in Heaven is similar to ​that of Slamacow Creations.
- ​Before the Dance off, Caboose put on a fedora before he proceeded to dance to the song 'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson.
- Due to Caboose spending a lot of money on a Gacha Game, Freckles then suggested that he play Stardew Valley.
- Caboose singing Come and Get Your Love is similar to that of Star-Lord's Section seen in Avengers: Endgame.
- He is also shown to be a fan of Red Bone as well.
- After doing an errand for Alastor, he and Niffty decide to go to his room, where they are going to watch The Legend of Vox Machina due to him gaining interest in Dungeons & Dragons and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
- While hanging in the Mall with Vaggie and Charlie, Caboose sings the Little Einsteins' theme song.
- Caboose did the infamous Brooklyn 99 interrogation scene when he tries to find who ate his cookies.
- In the short Soda!? I love Soda Pop! It's just a K-Pop Demon Hunters referring to where Bobby and Zoey do the shoulder dance.Â
- Sanity Slippage: Played for Laughs. This is what Vaggie is whenever Caboose is nearby.
- Sneeze Cut: When a fish turns into a Kaiju due to Verosika's can of Beelze-juice ending up in the sea after she throws it to Caboose & Blitzø, Caboose does his usual "Tucker did it!" shtick, only to realize that Tucker isn't there with him. Meanwhile, Tucker suddenly sneezes out of nowhere back at the base.
- Stumbled Into the Plot: Caboose was heading to the base's dining room when he discovered a mysterious, recently made door and went through it, mistaking it as a shortcut, which leads to Hazbin Hotel and eventually the Helluvaverse.
- Walking Techbane: Caboose's bad luck with machines follows him to Hell, even affecting something as furthest of a definition of "transportation" as a carousel & roller coaster.Moxxie: Ca…boose, how… the FUCK did you set it (roller coaster) on fire?! You literally sat there for just a second!
Caboose: Well, that tends to happen whenever I am near vehicles. - Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Vaggie, Moxxie, Loona, and Adam question who would name their kid Caboose.Adam: I am still wondering what kind of fucker names their child Caboose?!
- You Do NOT Want to Know: Freckles tries to protect Caboose' innocence as Verosika's crew gives the spring breakers an orgy.Caboose: Freckles. What exactly is going on? Are they dancing? I am so confused.
Freckles: IT IS NOT ADVISABLE TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING, CAPTAIN.
Caboose: Oh…okay. [...] Maybe I can record the whole thing and perhaps one of my friends at the Hotel can tell me what it is!
Freckles: I HEAVILY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DON'T TAKE THAT ACTION. - You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Vaggie mutters one when she sees that Caboose's so-called "pet" is actually a giant robot.
