Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Rider, Dr.strange, Blade, Morbius, Hellboy, Venom, Witchblade, the Darkness, Vengeance, Frank Drake, Hannibal King, Kazaan or any other demons mentioned; except the Qel Mugad and Scourge.

Enjoy my first fanfic, and no flames!!

The New Recruits

On the outskirts of Las Vegas a dark entity walks onto the speed way towards the strip, the entity wore rags and an ancient robe, the entity looked human but instead of a human face, the face had shown black eyes skeletal cheek bones, skeletal nose, and razor sharp teeth. A car drives by, the driver sees the creature, mistaken him for human the driver asks, "Are you alright?"

"I'm just fine, I can't say the same about you…..mortal." the demon shrieks with anger and horrid strength, he grabs the driver and all of a sudden after the demon stares into the driver's eyes the driver turns pale and old looking more like an unwrapped mummy and turned into ash. In the back seat sat Dr. Strange looking at the demon as he gets into the driver's seat. Strange then begins to talk but before he can even get a word out the demon said, "I am Scourge, the brother of Mephisto and Zarathos; I am the final fallen angel of the old heavenly order."

"That was not what I was going to ask, I was going to ask how did escape from your dimension of hell?"

"I have no dimension; I roam the other dimensions of hell to gain followers and soldiers for my own cause; to rule this world and find the Heart of Eternal Darkness, an Amulet with the power to free all demons from hell so that they may not take human to live on earth."

Dr. Strange exclaims, "Your plans will not succeed, there are few of us that will fight you, the original Midnight Sons defeated your brother Zarathos and Black Heart, your nephew, son of Mephisto; has killed Mephisto with human blood and a Kitchen knife, so you have no allies to help you thwart the Human Race or to find this amulet…."

Scourge, with a sinister smile on his lipless face laughs at all the things Dr. Strange said, he looks Strange in his eyes and says, "There is Lilith and the Lilin, and from what I've heard Kazaan has also asked for his allegiance to me. You have lost Dr. Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, and Master of the Mystic Arts."

Scourge reaches out to grab Strange and kill him right then and there, but instead grabbing Dr. Strange, Scourge grabbed the air. Scourge yells, "That slippery little magician!!"

Scourge then grabs the ashes of the dead driver and sucks any life that is left in the ash, he then sees all the things that happened to the driver over years and learns the ability to drive; through the driver's memories of driving with his instructor, when the driver got his license; all of the driver's experience were now that of Scourge's. Meanwhile at the new Night Stalkers base of operations. Dr. Strange arrived to urge Hannibal King and Frank Drake to rejoin the Midnight Sons, "King you must come back to the Midnight Sons."

"Find someone else Strange; Frank has some good applicants for the positions."

"King, are you sure you and Frank want to stay hunting an endangered species?"

"It beats, fighting demons."

Dr. Strange went and asked for the list of replacements from Frank Drake, "Well Doc, I have the list right in my hands; before I give this to you let me say the names: 'Macdonald Gargan AKA Scorpion' from what I have heard this guy is the new Venom; 'Jackie Estacado the wielder of the Darkness' guy's a badass with brains that's all; and finally 'Sara Pezzini the wielder of the Witch Blade' hard as nails homicide detective; okay Venom, Estacado, and Witch Blade live in New York but Jane is another story check the deserted Deckard St. subway station; you might find her there, oh and I almost forgot….."

Drake grabs a branding rod with the Spirits of Vengeance Symbol at the end of it. Strange grabs it and says, "Thanks Drake, but I don't remember giving this to you."

"I stole it awhile back from some museum egg head who stole from you. Anyway go find them before the BPRD find out about scourge and the Midnight Sons."

Strange looks puzzled and asks, "BPRD?"

Drake puts his hand on his head and answers, "The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense; there best agent is a demon named Hell Boy, he has killed his share of monsters and demons. If he gets involved, all bets are off that the government will get involved, so teleport yourself to New York and brand those three, I believe Blade, Johnny Blaze, Morbius, and Badilino will also be in New York."

Dr. Strange walks out of the base and yells out, "Winds of Watoomb, trans port me to New York city!!!"

A massive gust of wind appears and carries Dr. Strange and heads of to New York. Scourge arrives out of the Shadows in the Night Stalker base, Hannibal King sees him and says, "He fell for it master."

"Good, now we can get on with the plan…..Kazaan."

Kazaan takes off the Hannibal King mask, then Drake looks surprised and grabs one of the assault rifles a loads it up and aims at both demons, but before he gets a shot Kazaan knocks out Drake and throws him into a room with the real Hannibal King. Scourge begins to call forth a beacon that brings forth demons from hell. Meanwhile Strange arrives in New York City right away he sees a black figure swinging from building to building, is it Spiderman? No the figure gets closer the creature is black and white with yellow eyes and physically fit; the monster lets out a roar with its slimy tongue waving in the air; this had to be Mac Gargan, the new Venom. Strange heats up the brand with a fire spell, once the brand was hot Strange tried to burn Venom's arm but misses as Venom jumps on to a car behind Strange; Venom breaks the wind shield open and grabs the driver, Venom lets out a monstrous roar and kills the driver, the passengers get guns out and start firing, the bullets bounce right off of Venom. Venom grabs the front seat passenger biting a chunk of the passenger's neck clean right off; Venom drops the man on the floor and the man is gushing blood gasps for air while coughing up blood simultaneously then the man dies from blood loss. The last passenger tries to get out of the car but Venom jumps onto the roof of the car, "Going somewhere Estacado?"

And when Strange heard Venom say that he walked toward them but when he got closer the sun went down. And Jackie says, "No, I'm not gonna run this time, Venom..."

And with a demonic voice Jackie yells out, "WELCOME TO MY WORLD!!!!"

And a huge demon-like arm popped out of the roof of the car smacking Venom off of the car and into a window of a bookstore. Venom amazed by Jackie's new found powers jumps right back on his feet and stares at this newly transformed Jackie Estacado and says, "What the Hell are you?!"

And a dark, raspy, sinister voice says, "Come Venom, embrace The Darkness."

"Sorry, I already embraced A Darkness."

Then both Monsters charge each other meeting each other halfway, Venom kicks the Darkness right in the face, the Darkness turns its head back, then Venom punches the Darkness in the stomach, the Darkness takes the hit but stands right back up, then Venom grabs the Darkness by the neck and slams him to the ground, then an agitated Darkness says, "My turn!!!"

The Darkness grabs Venom by the neck, then looking at him disgustingly throws him a block away, Venom feels the hit and the massive pain just from the Darkness holding him by the neck. The Darkness summons millions of Darklings; the darklings then start to attack Venom but before they get to Dr. Strange yells out a spell, "Seven Suns of Cinnibus destroy these shadow dwelling creatures!!!"

The Darklings disappear with only a cloud of ash to show that they were there. The Darkness turns back into its host Jackie Estacado, Jackie, feeling dazed from the blast stumbles towards Strange and Venom. Once Jackie got close enough he was fully energized feeling as he did before the ordeal with Venom. Jackie now standing in front of Dr. Strange and Venom and says, "Who the hell are you?"

"I am Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme; I protect earth from paranormal entities. And I see that you two have met."

Venom explains why he attacked Estacado and his crew. "The reason why I attacked Don Estacado is because his men have gotten in my way of capturing one of NYPD's detectives of being a vigilante. But I got so close that these guys tried to grab me and beat me, but in my nature I killed them."

Strange then ponders on who the detective is, then references back to the list, "Are you talking about Sara Pezzini?"

Venom replies, "Yeah."

Then Jackie asks Strange, "What's so important about detective Pezzini?"

"I'm here looking for four people to join The Midnight Sons; you two are on this list along with detective Sara Pezzini, the wielder of the Witchblade, and you two."

Dr. Strange then pulls out the brand and with the seven suns of Cinnibus spell and heats the brand up and says, "Venom, Jackie Estacado take the brand and become members of the Midnight Sons, become Spirits of Vengeance!! Put out your right arms and receive the mark."

Jackie and Venom put out there right arms, Strange puts the brand on Venom's arm first, Venom screams in agony for a minute. Strange then puts the brand on Jackie's arm and Jackie stays calm, but the Darkness inside him screams in pain and agony saying to Jackie, "Cannot, Must not; don't take the brand Jackie, it's…it's…too much Light!!!"

As Strange finishes with Jackie, Venom, holding his arm, asks, "So what's next?"

Strange then replies, "We need to find Sara Pezzini, then after that we have to assemble the rest of the team."

And so the three of them went to find Sara Pezzini, "This isn't gonna work Venom, where did you see her last?"

"Well, last I saw her, she was headed to some fancy restaurant with some guy, and I think his last name was Nottingham."

Jackie looks calm and cool with a smirk on his face saying, "So she took my advice."

Venom asks, "What are you talking about?"

"Well I asked her if she was still going out with Ian Nottingham, she told me no, so I gave her some advise she's probably at dinner with him as we speak."

Dr. strange says, "Well you two, let's go. What restaurant is it?"

Jackie puts his head in his hands as if he was embarrassed then said, "The Olive Grove by Central Park."

Dr. Strange, Jackie Estacado, and Venom headed toward Central Park, as they got to the park Venom could see Sara sitting with Nottingham; Venom changed from symbiotic creature to Mac Gargan while Strange and Jackie stayed the same. They soon got to the Olive Grove but before they could go into the dining area a man in a tuxedo stopped them. "Do you three have reservations?"

Jackie said, "Yeah, check the name 'headinpodium'."

Mac tries to understand the joke but says, "I don't get it."

The man checks the reservation book for the last name headinpodium, but before he can say that there is no one by that name Jackie grabs the guy by the head and smashes his head into the podium and knocks him out.

Mac says, "Oh, I get it now!"

The three of them walk to the table that Sara and Ian were sitting at and Sara asks, "Estacado who the hell are these two guys? And what the hell are you doing here!?"

"Sorry Sara, its just Strange over here needs to talk to you."

"Yes I do, pleasure to meet your acquaintance Ms. Pezzini, I am Dr. Stephen Strange; I came to recruit four new heroes to help stop a demonic force that calls himself Scourge. What I am talking about is a team of paranormal heroes called the Midnight Sons or to the Demons the Spirits of Vengeance."

Sara then looks at Strange as if he has lost his mind. "So you're telling me that I'm a Spirit of Vengeance, I don't think so. You've got the wrong girl, sorry. And even if I was, I have a date."

Nottingham walks toward the door all of a sudden a few security guards show up, they try to take Jackie, Mac, and Dr, Strange out of the Restaurant. But Mac says, "Get your hands off me!!!"

Then Mac punches a security guard, the power of the punch throws the guard into a table; Mac transforms into Venom and another guard grabs a chair and breaks the chair off of Venom's back. "Now, I'm pissed."

Venom roars at the guard scaring him so bad the guard pisses his pants. Meanwhile Jackie is grabbed by two security guards but Jackie summons six Darklings to kill the guards, instead the Darklings are grabbing food from other people and tasting each dish, if they don't like it they throw it a the guards, "Pussies!!"

The Darklings hear what Jackie said and one of the Darklings grabs a steak knife and throws it at one of the guard's head killing him instantly, then three BPRD agents show up then Dr. Strange, looking calm and cool casts the Winds of Watoomb spell to distract the agents. The Darklings grab the other three security guards that are holding Dr. Strange and Jackie, as the creatures grab the security guards and slit their throats with butter knives. As soon as the guards were killed Dr. Strange saw the BPRD agents coming, they shoot the Darklings killing them instantly, meanwhile a man on a West Coast Chopper rode to the entrance of the restaurant and found the three BPRD agents arresting Dr. Strange, Jackie Estacado, Venom, and Sara Pezzini. The leather clad man asks one of the agents, "What did these four do?"

"These three killed six security guards and this woman is in violation of wielding a concealed weapon. What's it to you."

"Well I don't see a concealed weapon and I think someone with a knife could've whacked those security guards so let them free."

"What?!"

Dr. Strange then yells out, "John Blaze!!!"

"I said Let them free, and if you don't, I'll count to three."

Johnny Blaze puts three fingers up.

Johnny Blaze transforms before the agents' eyes and as the transformation completes the man appears to be the Ghost Rider. "Holy Shit!!! Marcus shoot him…shoot him!!!!"

The agent shoots at Ghost Rider, but instead of killing the Ghost Rider the bullets melt into his body, the Ghost rider gets angry and grabs Agent Marcus by the neck and throws him into a parked car breaking the car's windshield. Then the other agent grabs an innocent female bystander and puts a gun to her head saying, "come any closer you demonic son of bitch and I'll blow her brains out!!!"

The Ghost Rider says, "I don't think that's BPRD policy, do you?"

The agent then confesses, "Well, I ain't apart of the BPRD, I don't even know what the fuck the BPRD is; I'm apart of the Franchetti family, West Coast branch."

Then the Ghost Rider looks at Jackie. Jackie says, "So Frankie heard about Paulie huh? Well that just figures."

Jackie then uses the Darkness arm and stabs the fake agent picking him up and throwing him into the wall of the Restaurant. The Ghost Rider then transforms back into Johnny Blaze. Johnny then grabs the dead agent's keys and frees Dr. Strange but agent Marcus wakes up and calls in BPRD backup, "I need backup ASAP!!"

Soon Agent Marcus passes out, Johnny hears sirens in the distance and Jackie says, "Leave us we'll catch up with you and Strange!"

Johnny Blaze and Dr. Strange leave on Johnny's new Motorcycle. More BPRD agents show up along with a 6' 5" red creature wearing a brown trench coat, black pants, and black boots. To some this creature is known as a demon, but the BPRD know him as Hellboy. He walks up to Jackie Estsacado and says, "Why didn't you run?"

"I don't need to run, Venom and Sara have nothing to do with this, let them go."

Hellboy looks at Venom and Detective Pezzini and asks all three of them, "Ever heard of a demon named Scourge?"

Strange and Johnny Blaze don't get far, as soon as Blaze and Strange try to run off a BPRD helicopter launches a net and captures the two paranormal heroes. They are then captured by BPRD agents; Blaze is then put in a portable cell keeping the Ghost Rider in check. Dr. Strange is put in the truck also carrying Jackie Estacado, Venom, and Sara Pezzini. Once they drove off two creatures appeared out of no where and jumped in front of the trucks; the trucks turn over on there sides jerking all passengers. Strange and the others break out of the truck that they were in and as they got up Dr. Strange looks around and sees hundreds of reptile-like creatures either on two legs or on all four legs and Strange finally says, "We are surrounded."

The agents get out of the truck that Blaze is in. the agents pull out hand guns, while Hellboy pulls out his Samaritan gun and aims at the closest creature. Soon a shadowy human figure walks out of the demonic crowd and says, "Do you like?"

"They are known in Hell as the Qel'mugad; the fallen species, my personal bodyguards…and pets."

Dr. Strange then exclaims, "Scourge!"

The others look at Strange as if he has seen a ghost, "He's almost at full power."

"Well of course, after all I need my power to find the heart of eternal darkness; oh and I almost forgot to tell you my agents are already on earth looking for it."

As Scourge said this Johnny Blaze broke out of the cell and quickly turned into the Ghost Rider and attacks Scourge grabbing him saying, "Back to Hell Scourge."

As soon as the Ghost Rider throws him, all of the Qel' mugad jumped onto the Ghost Rider and started cutting him and biting him. The rest of the agents and new Midnight Sons attacked as well led by Hellboy and Dr. Strange, the Qel' mugad soon became overwhelmed by Darklings summoned by Jackie Estacado, Sara Pezzini evolves from a mere human to an armored female warrior cutting down the creatures, Venom tears through hordes of them tearing their throats with his mouth and devouring their flesh, Hellboy bashes through a group of them with his stone-like hand, the agents are overwhelmed by the monsters and killed, but in the Nick of time a huge monster on a hellish bike shows up wearing dark blue leather and wearing two chains around his chest and a demon like Skull with spikes on its fore head and two huge bottom Canine teeth and two huge upper wisdom teeth, this was the second Ghost Rider, this was Vengeance. Vengeance grabs a huge double barrel shotgun and blasts a group of Qel' Mugad, even Vengeance is Overwhelmed; two more people show up jumping into the fray; one of them was so pale as snow with black hair, red eyes, and vampire like teeth; Morbius the Living Vampire, he wore a black body suit with a black and red cape. The other was an African American man with Tattoos on the sides of his head; he wore an armored body suit and a black trench coat he wielded a sword and one fully automatic gun; he is the Vampire hunter Blade. Now the creatures would be defenseless with such awesome power as the Midnight Sons. The creatures were soon overwhelmed and fled, but for Scourge the Midnight Sons and Hellboy couldn't defeat him, or so he thought. The two riders tied him up with steel chains and then blade stabbed Scourge in the mouth meanwhile Jackie Estacado summoned huge tentacle-like creatures to constrict Scourge even further but before Venom, Morbius, Sara Pezzini and Strange could cause any damage Hellboy shot Scourge right in the head and instead of Scourge dying from both the sword and the bullet wound to the head he breaks free of the tentacle creatures and the chains and pulls the sword out of his mouth. The bullet pops out of his head and falls to the ground. "Is that all you have?" Scourge says.

Before any of the Midnight Sons move toward him two choppers show up and fire nitrogen rounds into Scourge and instantly freezing any part of him that is hit and soon as the choppers run out of ammo Scourge stands as a statue. More BPRD agents show up and put the statue in a freezer powered with Nitrogen and Freon and soon the Midnight Sons disappear. The agents ask Hellboy, "Should we go find them sir."

"No, they just helped put away a very dangerous demon, the least we could do is let them go."