Hellfire Gala: Break on Through to the Other Side

[Banshee]

OOC: If anyone is planning to bring back a dead character, feel free to drop them into this thread.

IC:

There were cracks of light everywhere as Sean Cassidy, the X-Man known as Banshee, and Captain America led a band of warriors and soldiers in a fight against a demon horde.  Banshee flew through the battlefield unleashing his sonic scream to push back the creatures that were attacking his teammates.

"Cap, the cracks are starting t'close," the Irishman said as he hovered in mid-air near the Sentinel of Liberty. "All except that one," he said as he pointed to a very large fissure in the distance. "I'm going t'investigate. Demons have been going through it, and then others have been sent flying back toward us.  Something or someone on the other side might be fighting them off as well."

[Captain America]

Steve Rogers knew he was dead. Had been dead. Was still dead. 

Dead is dead. 

There was heaven and hell, and then there was purgatory for those who believed in such things.

And then there was, apparently, this limbo realm where death was not final and you had to fight for your very soul on some days. Today Steve Rogers and Sean Cassidy and a cavalcade of others were fighting their way through a group of demons to try and figure out why there were cracks in reality. 

"I'm right behind you, Banshee!" Cap shouted as his shield flew through the air and connected with the head of a large red demon, bounced off and hit a second demon before returning to Cap's hand. "I'll keep watch on group while you push through!"

[Ingrid Bjornstad]

"I've got your backs! Just go!"

How Ingrid Bjornstad had gotten to this point in this place was beyond her. She wasn't dead. She was very much alive but cursed to spend her days in this hell dimension with the screaming Irishman and the American who was tossing around his shield like a toy.

"Ma'am, I think you better stick with me," Captain America said as Ingrid vehemently shook her head. "Please," the super soldier added as Ingrid closed her eyes and summoned a huge wall of hellfire to keep the demons away from them. 

"Look, you are a really nice guy. And your pal there is just as nice. But you really have no idea what you're doing. Not in this sort of fight anyway," she added as she bent the hellfire and shot it back out at the demons. "I'm a witch. This is bad. Very bad. And if I'm cursed to stay here, I can, at the very least, help you guys get back home. I mean, I bet my Aunt Freyja cheesed off Loki again, or someone thought my family was too nice to the Trickster. I'm sorry. I'm rambling. I have enemies. Just like you do, Captain."

[Banshee]

Sean had flown off and made it close enough to the fissure to see who was on the other side. He wasn't sure if it was more chaotic on his side or theirs. "Capt'n! X-Men and Avengers on the other side! I'm just not sure if this is our world or not!"

"Right now, anywhere has to be better than here!" Rogers shouted back as he turned to the witch named Ingrid again. "We will not be able to make it out of here unless you are with us, ma'am." Sean could see the woman waving her hands wildly as she followed Captain America toward the portal. 

"Take a look!" Banshee said before turning back to send a sonic blast at some advancing demons. "Iron Man and Doctor Doom, Jubilee and Dazzler, all having a party without us! Think it's time we get out of here!"

[Captain America]

Steve couldn't help but wonder if this was indeed home. He'd been shot, and he knew he had died on the courthouse steps in Manhattan. But then he woke up in this place and had been fighting to get back ever since. He had run across other heroes and some villains on his quest to get back home, and he was lucky that Sean Cassidy had actually stuck by him this whole time. He knew the X-Man had died at the hands of the third Summers brother who went by the code name Vulcan, but he still had no idea why or how either of them had made it to this place.

"Loki? How is your family connected to Loki?" Rogers asked Ingrid as she kept sending hellfire blasts at the demons that were trying to prevent them from getting out of this nightmare.

"My aunt was one of his followers a long time ago," Ingrid replied as she gritted her teeth and sent a flurry of runes in the direction of the demons. "They...were close. And yes, you can be skeeved out by that. I know I am!"

"Loki?" Banshee said as he landed next to Rogers and Ingrid. "He's on the other side of this rift, too."

"If he's involved, then anything can happen," Captain America said as he let his shield fly at another advancing creature. "On three we get out of this place. One....two..."

TBC Cap, Banshee & Ingrid in the main Hellfire thread

OOC: If anyone needs someone to pop up, feel free to continue using this thread