Author's Note: Hi there so I re read this chapter and I noticed a lot of mistakes I'm a perfectionist and for some reason I have trouble with spacing out the story so when I do a line break for dialogue it breaks like the rest however everything else is all put together and I have no clue to fix that problem can someone help me I'd really appreciate it. So, this story takes place in the same Universe as the story Infinity Wars Divided I Stand by 100thCentury. But it is a prequel and it's a Nico story if I have to set a timeline for this I would be after Blood Of Olympus in the PJO universe but in the timeline wise of the MCU as a whole I'll say a few weeks after Age of Ultron but before Ant-Man and obviously before Civil War.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters used in this story all characters that appear are property of Rick Riordan or Marvel Studios. I'm just making this story for fun. Also if I would have to rate this story as if I would show it on TV or a movie I'm obviously not making Deadpool which is amazing by the way. This story isn't R it's not PG-13 either I'll say it's….between PG-16 to 14A.

Chapter 1: Hellrider *Judas Priest*
"P-please…I didn't do nothin'. W-who are you?"

"You know who I am, don't bother hiding it. You owe my father five seconds of having to include your name on my list, and owe me more for tracking your sorry arse down. Now, do you want to do it the easy way or the hard way?"

"No! E-everyone was doin' it, but I swear I didn't mean—"

"Easy, or the hard way?"

"Listen to me Kid he is coming … he… he'll kill us all"

"Hard it is."

With a blink of an eye, the streetlights went out as the world turned cold, and a second later, the man's body lay on the ground, his head rolling a few metres away. As colour slowly flooded back into the world, Nico di Angelo muttered out a chant, and the man's head and body were sucked into the concrete Earth. The 16-year-old half-blood sighed, his hand passing through his shadow mask to rub his temple tiredly. This new mercenary-type job he now had was tiring and time-consuming, but someone had to do something to collect all the escaped souls back to the Underworld, and no one could be more suitable for the job than Nico.

He'd first got the job just a year after the end of the war, when things have settled down. Will had decided to go back to school that year, and invited Nico, but he'd declined without hesitation. There was no freaking way he was going back to school, even if his then best friend – now boyfriend – was attending.

Nico slipped a hand into his pocket, and pulled out a black tablet given to him by his father

It was very similar to the mortal iPads, but it had an eternal battery life, unbreakable screen, and unlimited memory. Nico pressed the Messenger application and just as he got a message from Thanatos.

The soul of William Hudson collected. Will send you the next name soon

Nico rolled his eyes at that, before slipping the device back into his pocket. A few months of hunting souls… Nico pulled the hood of his cloak over his head and headed for the busy street of East LA just literally around the corner. He had just stepped under the dim light of the moon when he caught his reflection on the reflective window behind a convenience store.

A hooded black figure stared back at him, baggy sleeves from a black robe hung from long arms as he lifted them. All he needed was a scythe to complete the grim reaper look. At that thought, Nico allowed himself to smirk. He was just several metres from stepping onto the busy street when he changed his mind and decided to look normal for once…well, at least not looking like a poorly dressed Halloween enthusiast since that Hades worshipping day was merely a few weeks away.

The half-blood subsequently pulled off his robe and stuffed it into his pocket, before waving away his shadow-mask. Once again, he stared back into his reflection; now obsidian black eyes stared back at him, eye-bags hanging heavily from underneath them, showing his lack of sleep. His face was weary, skin pale as usual, and black hair messy. He noticed how his hair barely grazed the collar of his shirt, and remembered how Hazel had practically strapped him to a chair and cut his 'gods-awful 70s length hippie hair' as described by Annabeth. Hey, it wasn't his fault he never had the time to cut his hair or had the effort to get the damned knots out. It was odd seeing his own face again, as he hadn't for a while. Shrugging to himself, Nico headed out towards the crowded street; he was far too tired to shadow-travel again, and dug out a few bills from his pockets. Perhaps he'll have the first hot-meal for dinner since the last time he dropped by camp long enough to stay – around a month ago.
Suddenly he heard an alarm bell ringing he looked peeked at the street where it was closest. He looked and in the middle of the street was a pickup truck and in the bed of the truck was bald skinned white male holding a rocket launcher. Nico turned and saw a Hispanic lady walking on the sidewalk, unfortunately one of the men with guns saw her as well.

"Kill her man we can't leave witnesses."

Nico's eyes widened, he knew he should shadow travel in public but at the moment he didn't care. He shadow traveled and tackled the old lady out of the way, as bullets were flying everywhere. He turned and saw the lady sprinting away in terror. Then, he heard it… an engine revving. He looked over the side of the van he was hiding behind. He couldn't quite tell what car it was but it had a big engine supercharger. The revving was so loud Nico almost covered his ears. Then he saw the back tires spinning and he watched as the car took off like a Rocket.

"Shoot it, shoot it now!"

One of the robbers ordered. Nico watched as the man on the truck bed fired the rocket launcher at the car. BOOM it had the car dead on, and yet incredibly it didn't stop it instead the car went up into the air from the weapon it did a spin in the air like it was a gymnast, then the car landed perfectly and kept charging towards them. With its wheels on fire and its supercharger blowing flames as well. The car kept driving faster and faster. Until Nico watched as it rammed into the truck head on. Nico's eyes nearly popped out as a ring of fire arose from the road around the two vehicles. The son of Hades watched in shock as one guy was being dragged to the black car which didn't even have a scratch on it. He kept hearing the man who fired the rocket begging for Mercy. Then he heard a loud splat and saw that the side of the truck was now red with blood. Which made Nico almost throw up, the driver of the truck tried escaping but was grabbed by the other driver. He was then dragged across the cement and Nico saw the trunk being opened. It was then that Nico saw who was driving the black muscle car, and seeing its face almost made Nico want to back away slowly. It was humanoid wearing a leather jacket and black jeans but instead of where the head is supposed to be it was a skull. In fact it the whole body was literally a skeleton. But the thing that scared Nico the most was that the Skeleton was on fire where the skin was supposed to be. The Flaming Skeleton looked at Nico, got into his car and drove off leaving a trail of fire tire tracks behind it. Nico heard police sirens in the distance so he shadow traveled out of there as fast as he could. When he arrived in Cabin 13 he sat on his coffin shaped bed and started panting like his heart was going a million miles an hour. Nico knew that whatever he saw wasn't from the Underworld. Nico was thinking what every other demigod was thinking. Ever since Tony Stark announced himself as Iron Man, people with abilities have been showing up out of the woodwork. First it was Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, the rest of the Avengers, Thor in England, Captain America who Nico used to collect the trading cards of him back in the 40's in Washington, and then finally it was the Inhumans, people whose ancestors were experimented on by Aliens and were given powers. That more and more beings with abilities were showing and right now the tension in the Demigod world was thick and ready to explode lots of Demigods were talking about hiding in Camp Jupiter for the rest of their lives. Others were talking about that this planet wasn't big enough for Demigods, Superheroes, and the Inhumans, and that they need to be taken out. Otherwise their world would be exposed. Nico was scared of the world they were living in now. It didn't help matters that Zeus was acting more paranoid and high tempered than usual. Saying that we need to go to War with Asgard since Loki had killed so many people in the Gods own home of Manhattan. That option was shut down immediately by the rest of Olympus. Nico just couldn't shake this feeling in his gut that their world wasn't going to be kept in the shadows for long, and then there was the flaming Skull. He thought about Iris messaging Reyna and Frank to let them know something like was going on less than 6 hours away from their home.

"No I shouldn't tell them yet what good would telling them right now other than scare them?" He asked himself.

"Well they could send help maybe Hazel and Frank could help me with this." He answered.
"And what would you tell them? You were going after an escaped soul when you saw a flaming skeleton wearing biker style clothes driving a car that was on fire and did flips in the air."

His mind told him right back. Nico came to the conclusion that maybe he should talk with his father about what he saw first then only if it was necessary would he tell the others about it. He passed out as soon his head hit the pillow.

"Don't get involved in this issue son." A voice said to him.

Nico opened his eyes and saw that he was in his father's Throne room in the underworld. He saw on the throne was Hades himself but instead of wearing Greek armor instead he was wearing clothes that wouldn't have looked out of place at either rock concert or a biker bar. He wore a cut off leather jack with a black long sleeved shirt with rips on the upper chest and sleeves. He also wore a ring with a sharp point on it indicating his marriage to Persephone.

"Don't get involved with this issue son." He said again.

"What issue?" Nico asked knowing what his father was going to say.

"The Ghost Rider." His father answered.

"Ghost Rider? Well it's a better then the name I was thinking" He thought.

"What is he?" Nico asked.

"Vengeance." His father replied as he stood up and started pacing.

"That's it? So Nemesis created this… this Ghost Rider. Is she that bored and she has that much time on her hands."

"It's not Olympian." Hades answered.

Hades saying those three words scared Nico. It's not Olympian, than what was it? At first he thought it was from Asgard like Thor. Nico was annoyed with Asgard revealing itself to the world during the invasion of New York and with what happened in England. It was getting harder and harder to go after lost souls that escaped the Underworld. Plus hate groups were popping up all over the world. They were called the Watch Dogs. To Nico they looked and sounded pretty close to the Nazi's or the KKK back when he was younger back in the 40's. The Watchdogs were created in response to the Inhuman Outbreak. Hades turned to look at his son.

"Nico for once listen to me don't get involved in this there are some supernatural entities in this world you and the rest of the demigods shouldn't know about if they did the tension that is already going on in our world will…"

He made an exploding motion with his hands to emphasize his point. Nico could see where his father was coming from. That some things existed in this world that the Demigods didn't need to know, Nico smirked at what his friend would do if he told them about the Ghost Rider. Percy and Jason would try and find him to stop him, Piper would use charmspeak to try and get him to leave, Annabeth would try and research him, Reyna would train to kill him, Frank and Hazel they would worry that it was some spirit sent to bring Hazel back to the Underworld.
It was morning when Nico opened his eyes. Luckily it was a Saturday so that meant no activities today which were a good thing for Nico. He got up and saw a note on his bedside table.

Dear Nico
I know who you are looking for, and I want to help. I can't say everything in a letter in case Zeus or Hades is able to read it. We have to talk face to face. Make sure you are alone in your cabin at 7:30 tonight, if you are I will tell you everything you need to know about the Ghost Rider, and where you can find him
Signed.
Informant.