uneasy_rider (uneasy_rider) wrote in exiles,
@ 2010-05-08 02:39:00

Entry tags:

"contemplate infinity", adam warlock, ghost rider roxanne simpson

Soul Gem Search
The fact she can command the bike in outer space is breathtaking. She shouldn't be able to do this, but with belief, maybe all things are possible. Big Z is appreciating the unparalleled freedom so much he's sort of kind of letting Roxanne ride in the proverbial bitch seat a little more on this one and just take things in. Adam Warlock isn't what she'd call "chatty." It's fascinating to consider there are other beings out there like herself trying to just get up in the morning and not become some terrorist or something. Maybe he can answer something that is gnawing at her.

"So what is it I'm sensing out here?" she asks. "I feel...It's like driving through Montana. Big stretch of awesome nuth'n, but you can feel some sort of pull towards the horizon. Only there ain't no horizon."

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Re: The Road to Hell

exiles_baddie
2010-07-04 08:54 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I assure you, Miss Simpson, everything I've said is within my power. You see, Zarathos broke your reality. Trillions of souls, suddenly freed from their mortal coils... I've made contact with my own counterpart from that reality... for things to be restored, Zarathos needs to be returned to hell. If he is, your obligation to the Timebroker is done... you're free, no longer an Exile, no longer a Ghost Rider. Everything, and everyone you desire can be given back to you... for one simple trade. Surely you don't want Zarathos more than you want... everything.

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Re: The Road to Hell

uneasy_rider
2010-07-04 09:31 pm UTC (link)

"Problem is," she says, voice shaking, but oddly firm. "I've been so many places ah can't count. Everywhere ah go, there's Riders." She remembers them all, even if they were just images in the papers or on the computer - Johnnys and Dannys and these Western guys and Nick. Nick who never felt the love of God and never will because his parents shut him out of it. how many more of them would she condemn.

"Yer assurance means piss when I need lemonade," she retorts. "Big Z is evil incarnate. Every time he takes me over, it's like everything I am is ripped aside. I wouldn't wish him on anyone - but ah gotta. The worlds I've seen need someone with dirt under their nails to help those in places where there aren't no angels. Zee ain't mine to bargain - and ah ain't gonna make him yours to bargain with either."

"Johnny and Crash?" She swallow and steels herself. "I'm trusting them to God."

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Re: The Road to Hell

exiles_cosmic
2010-07-04 09:38 pm UTC (link)

Mephisto roars with rage when his offer is refused. He lifts a hand, holding an odd gem which radiates power. A vortex extends from the gem, howling with the sound of ten thousand damned souls as it extends towards Roxanne.

"If you will not give me the traitor, Zarathos, I will take him!" he roars in that weird stero effect.

Just before it can reach Roxanne, however, Adam Warlock leaps into the path. His body falls, lifeless as his essence is sucked from his body, swirling and distorting in the vortex, heading back towards Mephisto. As Adam touches the gem he had mastered for so long, it glows brightly, washing everything in a blue light. At that moment, there's a calm voice in Roxanne's head.

"I trade my life for the universe, child. The devil has a soul... my own."

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	Re: The Road to Hell uneasy_rider 2010-07-04 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	She doesn't have time for shock, just anger - anger at everything in ever world the Devil ever took and for the deaths of Johnny, Crash, and Adma. Zarathos - granted his freedom within Roxanne wells up from within her like never before, more fierce for his acceptance. But it is Roxanne's visage that turns the demon's non-eyes and stares. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: The Road to Hell

exiles_baddie
2010-07-04 10:01 pm UTC (link)

There is a brief moment of realization as she stares. There's not one Mephisto there, but two - the one of this universe, and the one from her home. Zarathos had broken her universe by breaking the laws of hell, leaving Mephisto a refugee, and trillions of souls floating loose, to be claimed.
She can feel the mind of the devil, seeing his sins through his eyes - the two Mephistos made contact, and made plans to double-cross Thanos. After all, why settle for a fraction of half the souls of one universe if he could claim ALL the souls of another? All he needed to succeed was Zarathos back in his grip.

Mephisto, both of them, scream. Its the most horrible sound imaginable, the type of thing that drives weak men to instant insanity, echoing and rebounding, coming from everywhere at once, and with him, all the souls of the condemned, and all of his servants scream from beyond the gates in terror.
There's a grinding nose as hell itself begins to come apart at the seams. Souls begin to flood from the gates, giving Roxanne and Mephisto a wide berth.

As he screams, unable to advance, Mephisto's hand lights on fire the contracts containing Johnny and Roxanne's souls burn, and with it, Roxanne can feel her heart burning, and with it, the Rider's flames begin to go out, the skeletal eyes begin to go dim.

Then Mephisto collapses, his eyes black and empty, save for the barest hint of a reflection of Adam Warlock in them. The scream stops, and the only noises are the sound of Roxanne's own breathing, and hell collapsing beyond the gates.

She can see the body of Johnny Blaze, struggling with the chains as he catches fire, his soul being destroyed, but as his eyes settle on Roxanne, he calms himself, despite the spreading flames.

"We're... free."

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Re: The Road to Hell

uneasy_rider
2010-07-04 10:45 pm UTC (link)

The flesh burns from her body until the agony stops because there are no more nerves to burn. She sinks to skeletal knees and still she stares. The universe screams so loud other universes can hear it. Somehow, the Rider - the entity that is Roxanne Simpson, Zarathos and more for the merging - knows these Mephistos' death knells can be heard in other worlds. Somehow, she has wounded all Devils by making these two feel a soul's torment.

With nothing to support her skull any longer, it rolls off her body next to the gem and the silence deafens as much as the scream. the hammer melts into a small pile of rock and metal dust on the floor.

Those with eyes to see catch a fleeting image. A maiden in white and a skeleton in black merge from the remains. For a moment, they appear to clasp one of each of their arms and hands in a feral salute of brotherhood and thanks before melting away into vague memory like the shape of a snowflake long remembered after it has turned to water in a warm hand...

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	Re: The Road to Hell vicious_cycle 2010-07-04 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	A world away, another soul feels the shift. He's not a reverent person, or given to sentimentality. Even so, Nicholas Salem lowers his head and holds a moment of silence, as he will every year at this time for the rest of his life in honor of Roxanne Simpson. Fitting day for the All-American southern girl to earn her freedom forever. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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