uneasy_rider (uneasy_rider) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-07 16:26:00

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inactive - roxanne, nicholas salem, plot-"from hell with love"

Hell is a personal thing
There's some inborn sense telling her where to go, and she rides like she's never ridden before. Fully possessed, truly angry, and driven for revenge. Nick is back there keeping up with her, but as she cracks her 21st demon head and crashes through another set of gates leading down to Mephesto's deepest dungeons.

Most of what she picked up in church and reading the Bible was right. There was a lake of fire and souls suffering up demon rules, but this level is something else all together. This is where the Devil puts thought into tormenting the people that really pissed him off. These structures are meant not to torment so much as break and humiliate. One woman screams as she is gang raped over and over again. A proud man is surrounded by faces laughing at him, belittling everything he ever stood for. Another is kept with demon-pigs and forced to eat from a trough. Over and over, people - good people - are made to suffer. Both demon and rider snarl and press forward until they reach a strange quiet place in the middle of this insane place. A house - one of those big, fancy rich places looms in the distance like something from a late night movie. that's when she finally pulls over.

"Ah don't know how ah know," she says to Nick. "But Johnny's in there."

Gates crash closed behind them.

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vicious_cycle
2010-03-07 11:44 pm UTC (link)

To sleep at night, Nicholas has had to come to some kind of sense of peace with the idea that this is his fate. He has no soul. He's never had it, so its never been something that was stolen, or that he had and lost. It was always just this grim reality and feeling of emptiness, ever since he found out something of where he got his scars. So the drive through hell, frantic as it is, doesn't have the same sense of being alien as it might to most. He's not looking forward to the depths of hell and all, nothing like it, but he's accepted it, and it gives him something of a grim focus, driving for the pits.

His chains whip about, clearing a path for them, until they come to the illusion.

"I'm not surprised. I'll follow your lead."

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uneasy_rider
2010-03-07 11:59 pm UTC (link)

"place gives me more a' the creeps then all that out there," she murmurs. She knows Nick's soul is probably already some kind of plaything down here. She wonders idly if they passed it somewhere on the ride. putting the kickstand down and picking the hammer up, Roxanne walks iinto the house throuh the front door.

Sodom had nothing on this joint.

Electronica blasts from the surround sound and you can barely move through some parts of the house because of the sheer amounts of writhing flesh. Women in all stages of dress run around being chased by red skinned demon men, only there's no one to defend here. There's drugs of all kinds everywhere...food of all kinds...ATVs glade through the yard filled with laughter. it's everything they ever looked at in magazines and wondered "what if?" only it's sick somehow...

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vicious_cycle
2010-03-08 12:04 am UTC (link)

This is an interesting hell, if nothing else. The music is crap, the drugs are no temptation - his own vices have more to do with bottles and cigarettes, and though the half-dressed, and less than half dressed women get a glance, he skips that one through some combination of knowing this is hell, and being more focused on the biker babe ahead of him. That's his kind of hot, he can see what Johnny was thinking. It keeps his mind straight, anyway.

"I dunno, music'd give me a headache, but seems like there's worse fates. You still feelin' like your man is in here?"

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	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"Ah know he is!" She presses on. Upstairs there's an orgy she has to wade through to see out a window. That's when she see him. "He's out at the pool!" Two guys grab her and leer. "Hey, that's not a toy to play with out there, sweetheart..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Flame begin to circle the pentagram on his right hand as he reaches out, lifting one of the men by the collar. "This one's with me." he snarls, talking half as himself, half with the grating voice of the demon. "Back off." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_misc 2010-03-08 12:24 am UTC (link)
	They laugh. "You gonna make us little man?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 12:31 am UTC (link)
	He headbutts the man laughing, and kicks towards the knee of the other. Going Ghost Rider here would draw the kind of attention they can't afford til they have what they came for, but he's always up for a good bar scrap. "Get yer' guy and let's go." he calls to her. "I got this." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 12:35 am UTC (link)
	She dives out the window into the pool. The water is...The water smells of body fluids and she chokes as she surfaces. "Johnny...Johnny haul some ass. We gotta go!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Johnny is indeed there. He is chained to a wall. A ragged pair of jeans is the only clothing he had left. His chest is covered in angry red welts and blood flowed from some of them. His head is bowed. He hears his name, but he doesn't stir. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 01:06 am UTC (link)
	She reaches under his chin. "Ah can't bend these, Johnny. It's all thoughts down here. it's all our own mak'n. come on! Ya gotta git up!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 05:07 am UTC (link)
	He blinked a few times. He had the chains around him to keep him from giving in so each night he could try to crash the gates every night. The chains fall away and Johnny seems to come back to life. "Let's ride." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 07:15 am UTC (link)
	The demons have noticed. Hammers bludgeon skulls and lawn chairs become dangerous weapons. "Ah gotta say, Love," she remarks. "This is one creative person'l Hell ya got going!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 07:18 am UTC (link)
	The chains reappeared, but this time they were in his hands. He lashed out at the surrounding demons. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 07:27 am UTC (link)
	No point in subtle anymore. "Hey Nick!" She hollers. "Quit kiss'n them boys and knock 'em flat. We got gates to knock through!" And she'll be doing them as the Rider. Johnny watches as flames appear from Roxanne's skull and a demon emerges ready to torment those in Hell it once was subservient to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 07:29 am UTC (link)
	Nick was struggling, but they were here for a purpose, and he's going to see it through. As it is, he barely hears her. When he does, there's a burst of flames, and a skeletal figure fights his way out of the mass of demonflesh, and from another direction, a terrible cycle answers with a hellish growl. "We ride?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 07:33 am UTC (link)
	Hell itself shutters at the thought of two of them as they blast their way to her bike. She pus Johnny in the bitch seat and hauls ass towards the gates at full throttle, hammer first. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 07:35 am UTC (link)
	He picks up speed. Despite the howl of the engine, he knows how to make himself heard. "Gates are closin' fast, this is gonna be close... an' we got company if we don't make it." Behind them, there's quite the horde gathering. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 07:41 am UTC (link)
	"Keep moving!" he yelled and started to swing the chain over his head. When it had picked up enough speed, he released it in the direction of the pursuing demons. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 07:49 am UTC (link)
	Roxanne guns the engines and races as if her whole existence depended on this single moment. Because it does. As she scrapes through she smashes the gate with her hammer, Shattering both it and her hammer. Without looking she guns it for the border with New Orleans. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

vicious_cycle
2010-03-08 07:55 am UTC (link)

He wasn't going to make it. As they drove, Nicholas intentionally fell behind to hold off the demons with a swinging spiked chain and hellfire... Why? He knows he's doomed... the thought Johnny might not be, somehow, someone can escape? He needs that more than he needed to not be damned.

And then the gates are broken... that shouldn't be possible, it shouldn't.

but it is.

Just outside the gates, he stops, casting back a massive wave of hellfire, driving the hordes back, at least momentarily as the sorcerous power of the Harkness line and his marks of damnation combine to power the burst.

Hearing the screams of hell behind him, he guns the engine, and heads for New Orleans.

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uneasy_rider
2010-03-08 08:22 am UTC (link)

They drive past the city limits and down country roads until they finally stop. Roxanne takes her helmet off and finally looks back at the man ho has been holding her around the waste.

He's old.

"Always wanted to see your wrinkled face," she says, her words more clear from slowing down her speech. She takes off her glove and runs a hand across his cheek. Tears well up in her eyes. "Ah ain't you're woman, Johnny. Ah think you know that, but it don't matter. No matter what or who ah am, I'll come fer you."

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	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:25 am UTC (link)
	He put a hand on hers and offered her a tired smile. "It's 'pprceiated. So was the save. I've...been in there awhile." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 08:32 am UTC (link)
	"Ah know." She doesn't know how she knows. She just does. She also knows she ain't gonna get no 'I love you's' and all that mush. His eyes say everything. "She's dead, here, ain't she?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:33 am UTC (link)
	Johnny looked away and then he nodded. "Yeah, she is. Ain't gonna ask how you're here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

uneasy_rider
2010-03-08 08:44 am UTC (link)

"Good, 'cause I ain't gonna ask the same." Her Johnny didn't just die. He never existed. The world crashed around them.

But for old time sake she slips her hand around to the back of his neck while they both sit on the bike, just like they used to. She rubs her lips against his, feeling the soft scrape of stubble once, twice - like a signature - and then slowly melds herself against him.

Hello...
I've always loved you...
I'll never stop...
You're a good man. Live a good life

Goodbye.

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	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:47 am UTC (link)
	He wrapped his arms around her and let himself get lost in her. His senses were flooded by the way she felt against him, the way she smelled and the way she tasted. If this was some trick and he was still in Hell, then he never wanted to leave. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 08:50 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas pulls up near the pair, shifting back, though his hands take longer, the hellfire burning about the pentagram marks on his hands still. He doesn't interrupt, just bringing the bike to a halt and waiting. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 08:59 am UTC (link)
	With great reluctance she slowly ends their stolen moment. Life, such as it is, goes on. She slides off her most prized possession, pressing the keys into Johnny's hands. Riders need rides. If he says anything she'll cry, so she steps back slowly one aching footfall at a time towards Nick's bike, never taking her eyes off what could have been. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 09:00 am UTC (link)
	He extends a hand to her. "You sure?" he asks simply. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 09:02 am UTC (link)
	For a very brief moment he let himself think that this was a second chance and then...she's leaving. "Rox," he called out. Maybe she would come back. Maybe there could be a second chance. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 09:07 am UTC (link)
	"She'll always love you, Johnny," she calls out as she takes Nick's hand and his bitch seat. 'Cause ah do. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 09:11 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas nods to Johnny. "I know the deal as well as you, Mr. Blaze, you escape hell on the Rider's bike, your soul is yours. And I know Roxy, the one from this world, ain't in hell... so she's out there somewhere. You got your freedom, you got your second chance, and you got a chance to try and find her... but you gotta let this one go. Don't hold this over her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 09:13 am UTC (link)
	He's quiet, sad and looking like someone who had lost everything, while he considered Nick's words. Eventually he nodded. "Go." There was no need for any other words. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

vicious_cycle
2010-03-08 09:18 am UTC (link)

Nick nods. He had to know what Johnny would do before he told him the rest of what Zarathos knows.

"Mr. Blaze, she was possessed by an agent of Blackheart's. That form was killed, but her soul wasn't in it. Zarathos doesn't know where she is, but Kale may have moved her to a different body... she might be out there... somewhere. But its gonna be up to you to find her if she is."

Its a tiny shred of hope. Ghost Riders don't usually get to have any. It might come to nothing... but he has to believe maybe, just maybe there is a chance of a happy ending for just one of them.

He guns the engine, starting away from Johnny Blaze, hoping that he'll find what he's looking for.

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	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 09:24 am UTC (link)
	Roxanne grips Nick tightly, both numb and a thousand other things she can't process right now. One thing she is though is a survivor, and survivors look forward. "Hey, Nick," she asks after a few miles. "Know anyone who needs someone to fix ah few bikes and isn't picky about ID? Ah gotta get me ah new hammer..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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