Next time I Will Skip the "J" Train!

March 27, 2018:

Ghost Rider, Alchemist, Witchdoctor, and Ozymandias do battle with Lilith and some of her Lilin at a subway terminal.

Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer Train Terminal

The Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer train terminal located in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The upper and lower platform.

Characters

NPCs: transit cop, commuters Lilith Meatmarket Skinner

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Mood Music: [*\# None.]


Fade In…

At the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer train terminal located in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The last massive crowd of the "rush hour" group is finally thinning out the occupancy of this terminal. In another hour or so, the terminal will pick back up with those venturing into other parts of New York for the night life.

After the "J" train leaves from the lower deck, a transit cop can immediately be heard shouting on his radio. "There is woman on the track! No, I don't where she can from! I don't know where the hell she came from. Hold all the feckin J and the last Z train from entering here until I get her off the tracks!" y the time the worker reaches the track, the woman is gone. A blood curling moan causes the transit cop to drop his flashlight and reach for his gun. "I knew I shouldn't have pick up this extra shift." He picks up his flashlight and flashes down into the direction of the moaning and the darkness of the tunnel. "Miss, are you all right. "
"Yes, I am just giving birth. Could you be a sweetheart? I am in dire need of assistance." The sultry voice calls out to him in a hypnotic spell that easily overrides the will of the transit cop, beckoning him closer. "Be the first to witness this world's end."
The transit cop walks into the tunnel and bears witness to Lilith laying on the tracks about to give birth with three strong Lilin beside her. "My children prefer the dark and the cold places, when they arrive. It reminds them of home. They also could use something to eat! With these words, her stomach grows to what seems to be impossible size and dozen demonic Lilin pour of her womb! The sheer horror of this is enough to break Lilith's minor spell on the transit god, or perhaps she just let him free. It doesn't matter, the result is the same: The Lilin quickly devour the transit cop and rushed out of the tunnel in attempt to devour anyone of the lower platform, while the one of the stronger Lilin named Skinner goal is to make to the upper platform to help extend the carnage of the lower deck, by stopping anyone from getting below to help them.
Johnny Blaze was at the station, having felt some kind of….disturbance in this area. Ocean blue eyes looking around as a hand ran through his reddish-blonde hair. Though eventually, he hears the cop (and others) scream in horror at the 'children' that Lilith births, the Ghost Rider screaming with rage to get this….thing and get it NOW. that said, Johnny makes no hesitation to try and make for the lower floors, only to find Skinner standing in his way….a crack of his neck then as a silver chain lays wrapped diagonally across his torso.

"I'm goin gto end this. Now." he says then, cracking his neck as he approaches fearlessly. His smile growing as he knows full well he's going to make this bastard burn for what he has done, what he will do, and what he's presently doing.

But his real target?

Lilith.
Alice decided she was going to take the subway today. Parking was a hellish thing and while she could cab it, the woman did actually care about the environment. So in her gray business suit she stood reading a paper, waiting for her train, when the screaming started.

That was not a good sound. The paper snapped shut and the woman began to move. Not in the direction of the exit, of course, but in the direction of the screaming. "Go, go! Put your fucking phone away idiot, GO!" And she was slapping people as she went past them. The subtle push on the chemicals controlling flight on the idiots thinking live-tweeting this was the best idea.

And she is coming down the stairs behind Johnny to see him facing…what is that? Alice stops where she stands, gripping the gym bag over her shoulder a bit tight. Suddenly a hand flashes out and inside, pulling out what isn't a real gun but some cross between a water gun and paintball gun. "What the hell…" She mutters under her breath.

Alyse had taken the subway a grand total of once. It was cramped, slow and it smelt funny, so the Witch was lothe to be willing to do the same thing twice. That didn't however, mean she wasn't keeping a mystic 'eye' out for disturbances. As the birth and disruption reach her radar, the woman sits up from her meditations with a start. "Well…" she murmers as she stands from her suite, a gesture of her hand bringing that swirl of butterfly-shaped lights around her and changing her clothing from simple sleepwear to her 'Witch' gown.

There's a few more moments of panic and chaos within the station, but eventually the 'swarm' of her lights flitters into the space of the station and takes shape before fading to reveal the blonde woman in the gown that made it look far more like she'd stepped out of some formal affair rather than into heroics.

Ozymandias was already searching for any signs of Lilith or even Krampus in the city, when he senses the disturbance coming from Queens. He arrives shortly after everyone else, and quickly transforms his sickle sword into a mystical version of himself. He yells for the everyone on the upper platform to get out of hill and on to the streets. Hearing the screams from the lower platform of the terminal, Ozymandias proceeds down towards the lower to the lower platform from another stairwell.

Lilith gives birth to five more of her children and begins sniffing the air. "There is magic here. Lilith furrows his brow, "Not the supposed protector of this realm." She sniffs the air once more. "Strong aroma of a demon I have not smelled in forever, the Snake being, and…Lilith sniffs. "Something I have never smelled not of this world but still magic." Lillith opens a dimensional portal and Meatmarket emerges from it. "Make sure they do not follow me. If they survive yours and the rest of my children attack, then I will start watching how strong they really are. If they die, then they were never a threat. Lilith enters the portal with two other Lilin while Meatmarket and other Lilin join the attacks of the train.

Skinner spits on the ground and fires some metal blades from his skin, ripping the skin and revealing a demonic skeleton. "I am not use to my prey rushing towards their death! I must confess it takes some of the fun from it."

The Lilin on the lower platform have claimed another victim. A young man who was too busy wearing his headphones to notice the calamity around. They feast on him like lionesses fighting over antelope. His head goes flying and lands near Alice. Meatmarket emerges from the subway and sees Skinner fighting Ghostrider and moves in his direction, not noticing that he passed the the dimensional mystic Witchdoctor.

Alice had been reaching for her speedial with the other hand when familiar ethereal butterflies begin to coalesce. Alice relaxed slightly and she says, "Hello Doctor." In a friendly tone. "You couldn't, I dunno, snap your fingers and have me dressed for this eh?"

The gun in her hand is stroked by the other, her skin making momentary contact with the liquid inside, changing it subtly. A moment later aim that has more than a century to be perfected is levelled on the head of the murderous liln. As it goes to feast on the dead boy she fires. It makes a *POP* sound as pellet akin to a paintball spits from the teflon coated pistol. And one acidic bullet and another and a third goes spitting onto the lower platform from the guns. Alice has no problem killing killers and her face is set in a faint sneer as she fires.

"You have a serious skin problem, sir," Alice says to Skinner as she takes a shot at the Liln over Blaze's shoulder. Then she is moving quickly and quicker as her blood begins to churn with a chemical serum of her own design. Strength and reflexes and senses all begin to overclock so she actually uses the metal bannister to slide down to the lower platform fully. And the massacre there. "Oh bolux."
Johnny Blaze starts moving towards Skinner, managing to dodgethe shards thrown at him from taht demonic skeleton…only to find a bullet flying over his shoulder courtesy of Alice! Well, the assist is definitely -not- refused. as he moves his hand tot he silver chain around his torso, with a whip of his hand the chain comes undone, long and lengthy, he leaps into the air, the chain coming on hellfire as he swings it at Skinner! attempting to burn the demon.

He hadn't turned into Ghost Rider yet…he was gonna wait until Skinner was good in close before showing him what hell REALLY looked like. "Stay clear of the small demons! they are like Piranhas!" he shouts tot he other defenders who happen to be semi-helping him out.

"Time to go back to the abyss, demon." he growls.

A little expression of disgust crosses Alyse's face at the sight of the violence and the feasting. Whatever she'd been expecting? This wasn't it. Striding across the station towards the battle between the man with the chain and the demon while the second creature advances on the man. That simply wouldn't do at all. Alice's request? It actually gets -exactly- what she requests, the blonde woman raising a hand and snapping her fingers before those glowing lights swarm around Alice and she'd find herself dressed once more in her 'uniform'.

There wasn't time to admire her handywork however, instead she gestures with her hand and a bolt of crackling electricity takes flight towards Meatmarket. Two on one against Ghostrider? That just wouldn't be fair now, would it?

Alice's shot and Ghost Rider hellfire chain burns the human skin off Skinner to reveal his "true" demonic Lilin form. Rider can see parts of Skinner start to regenerate as more blades emerge from his body and hurl towards Ghost Rider. He transforms his hand until a large spike as he tries to stab Blaze. "What manner of prey are you?! The lilin that is shot by Alice screams in agony and falls over the half eating headless corpse. The scream does cause some of the Lilin to pursing some more victims, because they now are focus on Alice. Those would be victims make it to the alternate stairways and make it to the upper platform. Meatmarket falls to the ground surprised and hurt by Witchdoctor's blast. He hisses at her and quickly turns invisible. The next thing that Witchdoctor notices is a subway bench being thrown at her direction from her now unseen opponent.

Ozymandias appears from the stairwell that the victims just fled from. He uses mystical energy sickle sword to decapitate the head of the first Lilin he sees. He covers the people escape while he formulates a quick strategy.
Alice's shot and Ghost Rider hellfire chain burns the human skin off Skinner to reveal his "true" demonic Lilin form. Rider can see parts of Skinner start to regenerate as more blades emerge from his body and hurl towards Ghost Rider. He transforms his hand until a large spike as he tries to stab Blaze. "What manner of prey are you?!

The lilin that is shot by Alice screams in agony and falls over the half eating headless corpse. The scream does cause some of the Lilin to pursing some more victims, because they now are focus on Alice. Those would be victims make it to the alternate stairways and make it to the upper platform.

Meatmarket falls to the ground surprised and hurt by Witchdoctor's blast. He hisses at her and quickly turns invisible. The next thing that Witchdoctor notices is a subway bench being thrown at her direction from her now unseen opponent.

Ozymandias appears from the stairwell that the victims just fled from. He uses mystical energy sickle sword to decapitate the head of the first Lilin he sees. He covers the people escape while he formulates a quick strategy.
[OOC] Ozymandias says, "Only have a couple more poses, so feel free to go all out."
"Have I told you how much I adore you, love?" Alice says, her voice distorted through the speaker of her helmet now. This all done as she is running across the platform and playing tag with creatures that -do not- belong here. "What -are- they?" Alice grunts as a hit takes her in the back, but she takes it in her armor. It does knock her forward, but she dives into a roll and comes up with a second pistol. Both are locked on the Liln that had attacked her. Four acid-bullets shoot, two from each gun, with another soft *POP* *POP* *POP* *POP*.

And then there is the man with the flaming chain and shit. "Pirhanas? Pirhanas are -cute- and don't randomly attack humans. -Despite- the myth," The woman is finding time to have a conversation at the moment only by dint of the adderol and other things flowing through her system. Then she ducks and rolls and almost goes over the edge of the platform. "Oh fuck!" And she is scrambling against the tile right into the face of a Liln. "Hungry? Try this!" And she aims the barrel into the maw coming for her, making that head both explode and disolve in a gross manner. "Oh. Ew." And she is on to the next one.

Beneath the helmet Alice's face has become a grim line. The scene bringing back memories. Memories that try to trigger panic and fear. If not for centuries of micro-managing her own chemistry the traumas would have long done her in. As it is the scene only drives her into a cold fury. As the last potential victims flee she finds a Liln latching onto one arm. Talons begin to slowly penetrate the metal as it grabs for her unarmored hands and the guns. The scene Alice leaves behind is quick and precise even as she fights for her life against the demonic newborns.

*CRASH* That would be her being thrown into the wall of the subway. The brick cracks only a little and she grunts, falling to the bench and rolling heavily. But not out of it she still lifts her gun and shoots the things feet out from under it. Then it's head. "Don't lose your head on that trip," She gasps, "Ow."
You paged Alice with 'I love the pose. I do flashbacks normally for Oz, when I am not running scenes.'
From afar, Alice grins. "Thanks. I mean, she's 250+ and has seen SOME SHIT. Both WWs along with all the other super crap."
as Skinner lunges at Blaze even after Blaze incinerated the human skin from Skinner (talk about a tongue twister….) his eyes fall on the demon as they get into close range, allowing himself to be stabbed right in the gut, but it doesn't seem to kill him or have any kind of negative affect as Johnny suddenly grips the Demon by the neck. "THe most dangerous there is." his eyes dance with hellfire as he smiles wickedly.

THen? he roars right into the face of Skinner, his face burning off like paper to the flame, fdaing into embers as the muscle underneath incinerated away as well, leaving only a bare skull…wreathed with hellfire as those eyes glowed as if they were the home of Hell itself.

The Ghost Rider had arrived.

Those eyes looked right at Skinner as the Rider attempted to use it's superior strength to throw Skinner through a nearby wall.

Then it was meat market….the Rider roaring an ungodly roar.
Long distance to Alice: Ozymandias nods. "Oz too. Because of his curse, he has been involved in a lot of battle and wars since ancient times.

Invisibility? It's quite the trick in its own right, but not every fight requires someone to use their eyes. The bench hurled at the Witchdoctor? It simply seems to change course and deflect uselessly to onside. Closing her eyes for a moment, the Witch simply raises one hand skywards with a small gesture that sends the fire-suppression sprinkers of the station bursting worth with water. The torrent of droplets, they don't fall to the floor as they should, instead they float through the air around her like time had been frozen.

The Witchdoctor wasn't the Sorceress Supreme of this Earth, but the woman clearly had quite the power of her own. As those whirling droplets fly outwards she waits till their partern is disrupted by the invisible Meatmarket…then the woman's other hand crackles with voltage and she unleashes the lightning blast through the water-field, sending it arking towards her hidden foe through all that conductive material. She wasn't holding back.

The Rider's reveal? It was something to behold, but it was something she 'felt' rather then saw with her eyes.
The creature dies on top of Alice's leg. Just like in those old National Geographic show when a wounded bison slowly encircled by a pack of hyenas such is the case with Alice. The remaining Lilin that have not been injured or killed by her or now circling her. One of the Lilin who has body that resemble a dog with crimson scales and rotten oozing pores lunges in the air to pounce on her. The Lilin is immediately blasted in the air with mystically lightning that drops the Lilin. It falls dead also on top of Alice. Another blast fires at two other Lilin. "Ma'at's will be done" are the only words spoken by Ozymandias after he finishes killing these two.

Skinner eyes widen in terror as he sees the Ghost Rider. He knows the face of something connected to Zarathos, and it shakes him to the core until he is lifted and throw into the wall. He hits the wall, a Lilin missile of hellfire. A few seconds it seems like that this was enough and he emerges from the new hole in the wall, but quickly collapse on the third rail of the track. The smell of burning and sizzling Lilin filling the air.

That smell is also caused by Meatmarket being electrified, and turning back visible.
Meatmarket whisper, "Mother, forgive me for failing. Please return me to life one day." It is the last for now that Meatmarket speaks.
Alice got an eyefull of Johnny Blaze going full Rider. It isn't something the normal conscience really -likes- to see. Alice was not normal by any means, but it still unnerved the woman obviously. But she didn't have time to worry about it. She has a pack of ravenous demon beasts to contend with and is still on her ass.

But there is no getting away quite so easily. Pinned by the dog-Liln she growls and gives a shove. Thank the heavens for soldier serums, even if hers wasn't Captain America good. The red-scaled critter is launched into two of its friends with a grunt of effort from the petite mutant.

"Ugh!" She comments as she tries to roll to her feet, only to be pounced by ANOTHER Liln. "Seriously?!?" And the poor creature realizes why it is a bad idea to grab her. Because she can grab in return. And when all your blood turns to acid you die horribly. The screams are horrific, but very brief.

As she picked herself up off the floor she stumbled back a few steps till distracted. Just barely blocking a blow she took the punch and used leverage to throw the creature out onto the tracks. And that lovely electrified third rail. "Where are these things from?!"
Ghost Rider seemed more than ready to deal with Skinner if he had the power to rise again…but he sure as hell doesn't, and when he stays down, The Rider's eyes turn to meatmarket as he is electrocuted…but even after -that-, the Rider takes the chain and attempts to whip it in the perfect way, wrapping it around Meat Market and infusing the cian with Hellfire to burn the demon alive…to incineration. or at least it'll try to.

Then it looks to the other Lilins…growling a demonic growl. A true demon among demons, The Rider keeps his attention on the others, but it says no words.

The swirling water that still sparks, it ceases as the sprinklers are once more turned off and that which had been floating is reduced to steam and vapor by the heat of the lightning. Stepping through her self-created steam towards her teammates and the rider, the Witch in her gown has her tilting her head to the side before clearing her throat "What -are- these things?"
"GhostRider's Hellchain does incinerate the rest of the MeatMarket, turning him into ash. The Lilin paused briefly at the sight of Ghost Rider already allowing for anyone to quickly finishing them off. Ozymandias pulls out his Ilkwa and transforms it into mystical energy and stabs the remaining injured Lilin, finishing them off. He calls over his shoulder to the Witchdoctor, "New recruits really need to spend time looking over the League files, especially the new files. They called Lilin. They appeared at the Cypress Hill Cemetery during the solar eclipse."

Ozymandias looks over at the Rider and raises his eyebrows a bit behind his mask. "You are a first. I don't have that many firsts anymore." Ozymandias peers around the area at the wounded civilians. "These people are going to need medical attention. I am not sensing anymore Lilin, but I could be wrong. Let's secure the area, so the first responders can do their job.

The Alchemist survives her battle with a lot of demon blood covering her, such is the problem with close combat. It seems that this world has grown stronger in my absence. I want you to find all of my original children and my descendants that are still on this Earth. Let them know their true mother has return and find me some of these mutants and powered individuals. It looks like I need even more powerful children.

Lilith continues using scrying the scene. "When the time is right recover Meatmarket's ashes, so I can bring him back to life. He will be my eyes, when I do not have the time to view them this way. She points to the Rider, "I know who that that one is, and the Snake was with the Sorcerer. I want to learn more about them. All of them, I want to learn their all their strengths, their weakness, and those they love too. They are so many ways to make someone fall to you.

"That is a good question too," Alice says to Witchdoctor. She isn't breathing heavy, and noticably, because she is worn out. The woman seems to be mad. No matter how much you tweak your break chemicals you can't unsee things. Her especially. The carnage and blood are overlayed with others. A growl can be heard from the small combatant as she continues to move while threats are about.

Alchemist turns towards Ozymandias as she touches the blood and it becomes water, sliding off of her battlesuit easily. "Yeah, well, I would if I had -access- yet," She says in her snarky British voice. But there are injured people and she -is- supposed to be making a good show. So moving to the injured she begins doing what any doctor would, and healing them.

Those on the brink of death may just find escape its touch. Witchdoctor too has her own healing might and skill. The victims were in good hands. And those hands were close today, but will people be as lucky next time Lilith shows up?

Witchdoctor herself, she moves forwards and crosses between the others. Ozymandias seems to have quite a bit of knowledge already, and she certainly had plenty of questions. Later, they would be asked. For now she had a bigger concern with the injured and the dying. With her skill and her magics? She had plenty more to do. "I will see to what wounded I can."

With that? The woman in the gown turns to offer what aid she can.

Ghost Rider returns then to the group, the flames on the skul seeming to be doused as muscle and skin regrow the way it had been before in a matter of seconds, but even still it looks -very- painful. But it actually isn't. That aid, he looks to Ozy. "No, none left I can detect either." he shrugs then softly. Though his eyes fall on Alchemist then for a moment, cracking his neck softly. No words for her actually, but Witchdoctor gets his attention.

"They come from the Mother of Demons. I don't know who exactly she is…but my blood boils at the thought." probably because Zarathos is ROYALLY PISSED OFF still. that said, he slings that silver chain in a way that it perfectly wraps around his own torso diagonally, then he crosses his arms. "So then…who are all of you?"

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