"Keep the change."A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark, dirty blonde hair, a scruffy beard, and piercing amber eyes grabbed the pack of cigs off of the counter, looking to the left, towards the broken down TV hanging in the corner, so that he could avoid the grateful look in the old store owner's eyes. Jason Cage was in New Nueva, within the dirty, grimy, and dark slums of the over-all advanced city. His travels had unwittingly brought him here, after some romps with the savage Hulks back in the Badlands, and he had decided to stop by this dirty little streetcorner store to get a pack of cigarettes before he traveled up to meet with one of his contacts. A man by the name of Matt Daniels, he had some information that he had wanted to give to Jason himself, personally, and as Jason already owed the man a favor back from his gangster days, the biker decided to answer the man's calls, anyways.
Along with this, New Nueva had the permeating scent of Sin that he could smell, even hundreds of miles away, and the spirit inside of him really wanted him to cleanse and burn a lot of these corrupted souls. With an inward snort, Jason flicked open one of the cigs, the end of it lightning instinctively. He was still in the store, and a glance over showed that the old man was already busy securing his few bucks from today - not paying much attention to Jason. Not the best type of mentality to have, but who was he to judge, honestly? Jason himself had grown up in the slums, but this man was old. The news, although with shitty connection, was playing on the ratchet TV set in the corner, and Jason continued to watch as he killed the first cig of the morning. He didn't have much of a rush to go anywhere right now-
The slam of the store's already broken door being slammed in caused the old store owner to jump and pant, holding his heart, while the smoking Jason merely released a rough grunt/sigh, inhaling some more of the nicotine smoke from his cancer stick. The man that had kicked open the door stamped in. Tall, muscular, wearing raggedy clothes, a bandana mask, and wielding a purple and green mohawk...along with a sawed-off. Looks like the first trash of the day.
"On the ground, old man. Don't fuckin' move!" Mohawk yelled, pointing the shotgun at the old man. The store owner whimpered, falling to the ground and pressing his arms above his head. Mohawk laughed an ugly, snorting laugh, before turning his head around, apparently looking for more people to threaten. As Jason, smoking and watching the TV, was the only other person inside, Mohawk narrowed his eyes and shouldered up to the biker.
"Aye! Dontcha see this boom-stick, bitch? GET THE FUCK ON- ...GACK!" Mohawk was cut off as his throat was grabbed viciously by a calloused hand. Jason slowly turned his intimidating eyes to the thug, eyes seemingly beginning to smoke as he blew a cloud of hickory-smelling smoke right into Mohawk's face.
"No...You get on the floor," Mohawk's eyes began to widen, his choking increasing as an inferno of fire blasted the flesh away from Jason's body, leaving behind a tall, scary ass skeleton, it's skull emblazoned with unnatural-looking Hell-Fire,
"Bitch." His voice came out as a low, deep, demonic growl, Jason's skeletal fist clenching even more, forcing the now purple-faced Mohawked to let out a choked whisper.
Old Man Store-Owner peeked from behind the desk, and could only gape in horror, fear, and confusion, as the leather-wearing skeleton slammed the Mohawk Thug face-first into the rough concrete floor, cracking the stone-like material, and splattering blood. The skeleton then grabbed the thug by his mohawk, bringing his broken and torn face up, before growling demonically and slamming the face deeper into the fragment of concrete.
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The thug had to jump-start shit, didn't he? Ghost Rider exited the cornerstore, hearing a nearby hobo scream in shock as he caught sight of the flaming, leather-wearing skeleton from Hell. The smell of brimstone was thick in the air as a revving engine got closer and closer. A deep black, wickedly demonic motorcycle, it's wheels blazing with Hell-Fire, stopped in front of Ghost Rider, whom saddled his ride and slammed his boots into the kickstand. Squaring his shoulders, the Ghost Rider brought his non-existent nose into the air.
Sin was as thick as the smell of despair.
Sharply bringing his head down, the Ghost Rider revved his engine, the broken road underneath his wheels and boots melting from the pure heat radiating from him and his motorcycle. With another roar of the engine, the Ghost Rider blasted the gas, blurring down the street at a speed no other modern vehicle could challenge. Behind him, he left a blazing trail of Hell-Fire. He was honing in on the sin, and the screams of fear and shock from the slum humans did nothing to stop him. Everything around him was a blur, 'cause when he was riding, he was focused on one thing.
He recognized the back trail he had taken...he was going towards the former Central Park, now a forest death-trap. The sinful was there.
The Ghost Rider let out an inhumanly deep, warped wail to intimidate/demoralize the target, heavy rock
music blasting through his skull - a sort of coping measure to deal with the constant lust for death the original spirit had left behind. Whomever sinful that was at his destination...they were gonna feel the true meaning of Hell.