Who Will Defend Us?

[ngm_villains]

Manhattan
Central Park
April
1:26 pm

The portal from Limbo opened easily and without triggering the wards that warned those mystically sensitive of what was happening in the city.  S'ym's erstwhile ally had seen to that.  Not that S'ym trusted him further than he could throw him, but he had been truthful enough in what he could provide. 

Other demons, made temporarily invisible, followed him out of the portal.

"You all know S'ym's plan," he said.  "Raise hell out there.  Make the humans panic.  The more chaos we sow, the weaker our ally makes the barrier between dimensions.  And when that happens, he says this world will belong to S'ym!  And what's good for S'ym is good for all of you!"

The demons began to cheer.

S'ym puffed on his cigar.  "But it's gonna take all of you doin' what we do best.  Killin' folks, corruptin' this world, just like we done before.  Only there ain't no X-Men here to stop us this time!  No little Darkchylde to ruin things!  This time... this world... will... be... OURS!"

The demons flew off, ready to raise hell. 

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[sorceress_supreme]

"Adventure time," Sofia said in a droll tone. She looked at Tommy expectantly. "Need some help there, handsome?"

[fear_the_rider]

"Well, Miss, if you could make it sundown around these parts, I'd be a lot more help to you all than I would just bein' a handsome southern guy with a handgun." Tommy grinned.

[didnotwant]

"And if someone wants to hold onto my clothes for me I can give us an extra kick," Marion adds in. She might be a late comer to this but she is here to help out.

"Just don't shoot the big bad wolf, okay?"

[sorceress_supreme]

"Don't worry, we're all allies here," Sofia said to Marion. "I can place them into a pocket of Limbo to be retrieved later, if you like." Better than just leaving them laying about.

In the meantime, though, Sofia looked up at the sun. Okay. Total eclipse of the city.

She could do this, right?

She closed her eyes and concentrated, a stream of eldritch words coming to mind as she called up the proper darkness spell. Something to block out the sun's rays for an entire city.

It took Sofia a very long, silent moment in which she felt her great-uncle rumbling power nearby.

But there it was...a swirling darkness over the sun, and a gradual darkening of the sky.

Faux nighttime had been achieved, and Sofia was a little bit weaker for it.

Thank god she had backup.

[fear_the_rider]

Tommy wasn't sure if this was going to work but he was willing to give anything a try.

When the pentagram on his hand began to itch and then flare to life, he closed his eyes sadly and fell to his knees.

The others would see his hair start to fall out and his skin melting, exposing the bone beneath. Soon enough, the Ghost Rider stood with the group.

"Sorceress. Disable the shield and lead your team in. Leave the demons to me."

[atlanteanhellion]

"Huh. So that's what he does. Neat."

Kassi checked the tip of her trident, just in case.

[didnotwant]

"Thanks!"

She starts to toss her clothes aside. Her body is already starting the process of changing. There is loud snapping sounds coming from her arms.

Shifting isn't pretty.

"Hey. Kid?" That is directed at Frankie. "Use whatever you want?"

[vesper_verde]

Vesper's eyes widened. What had he gotten himself into? He so needed to implement the offensive changes to his suit soon. He couldn't compete with a guy with his head on fire to the bone, a madwoman who swung a sword through cars, another woman who made it go dark, a third woman who apparently changed into a wolf, and yet another woman who poked things with a trident.

If he hadn't been in a serious relationship, Vesper might have enjoyed the female to male ratio of the group.

[sorceress_supreme]

She'd seen pictures of the entity, she'd seen heard stories, but Sofia had never truly seen the Ghost Rider in person.

"That is pretty awesome," she agreed, throwing Marion's things into the pocket dimension.

Then she placed her hands upon the forcefield. "Valkyrie, Kassi, see what your weapons can do to this thing. Vesper, do you have anything hi-tech that can, I don't know, analyze the properties of this thing?"

[hellkitten]

Liza watched the Ghost Rider appear. Impressive, even given her family history.

"That looks painful. Just remember, not all demons are that bad, are they, Bossy?"

She slapped the possessed bull on the flank. It made a dull ringing sound. She heard bones popping and cracking, and looked over at Marion.

"And that just sounds painful." She winced.

She retrieved her line from around "Bossy's" neck and walked closer to the forcefield. There wasn't a whole lot she could see that she could help with there.

[fear_the_rider]

The Ghost Rider did not understand the mortals' expressions of pity for his host. Pain was merely an inconvenience to it. Tommy Templeton disliked pain but the Ghost Rider knew he was becoming tolerant to it. Soon enough, he wouldn't feel it anymore.

The sound of a motorcycle was heard above the din of the conversation and the Rider's hellish bike appeared, leaving a path of hellfire in its wake. Ghost Rider reached down into the side saddlebag of the bike and drew forth a spiked shotgun. He pumped it once and looked toward the shield but craned his head enough to speak to Liza.

"I have yet to meet a demon that didn't seek my destruction in short order. But you, granddaughter of Satan, are not my enemy. Your father is known to me and my host will need your help before the end." the Rider said.

[sorceress_supreme]

"Because that doesn't sound ominous at all," Sofia muttered under her breath. Power flared from between her fingertips, interweaving into the spell that held the forcefield together.

It was far more complex than something she was generally used to.

Joy.

[im_a_librarian]

Dawn kept a tight grip on her sword, belatedly realizing that "Valkyrie" was apparently her.

"His... he's on... he's a skeleton... on.. fire..."

[hellkitten]

"Everything sounds ominous when it's coming from a guy with a flaming skull."

She looked over at Dawn.

"Deep breaths. Just keep taking deep breaths and stay with us. You'll get used to all this in no time!"

[didnotwant]

Marion would agree but right now she has just fully transformed into a pretty big looking wolf.

She lets out a snort and starts to pace waiting for a chance to start moving. She really doesn't like waiting.

[vesper_verde]

Vesper gave a sidelong glance at Sofia. He knew he needed to update his gear, but high tech analysis was for someone in an Iron Man suit or something.

"Oh, sure. I will jus' cut t'rough ze special hyperspaces to calibrates ze enhanced time-matter fields. Zen calibrate ze sensor array, because ze polarity seems to be next to ze dome's perimeter. It zat hi-tech enough?" Not that he had any idea what the hell he just said.

[atlanteanhellion]

Kassi didn't hesitate. After checking the tip of the trident she thrust the weapon at it with about half Atlantean strength. There was a light 'clang' noise, but nothing. Kassi didn't even really get much snapback.

"Hm. Weird."

Then she went at it full-strength.

"IMPERIOUS REGINA!"

[sorceress_supreme]

Sofia grinned at Kassi. "See, that? What Namorique did over there? That's what we need to follow. Attack. Possibly with a cool battle cry." She paused and looked at Vesper. "And that wasn't sarcasm right? Sarcasm should be directed at our enemies, not at ourselves. That's for group hangouts and dramatic misunderstandings in our secret identities."

[im_a_librarian]

Dawn took a couple deep breaths and felt the battle lust pounding in the back of her head. The sounds of war and the smell of blood.

"Aaaaaah!" she bellowed, swinging her sword against the barrier.