Chapter 2: Power stone
Robbie had returned from hiding the book in two months time. When he got back, SHIELD forced him to sign the Sakovia Accords and made a deal. For him to stay away from any and all SHIELD business and they would stay out of the Ghost Riders way.
He was fast asleep on this one night. The Rider knows his limitations and needs so once every two months the rider lets robbie sleep a whole night. He had taken the time to help gabe understand the terms and reasoning of his deal with the devil. All was quiet until a knock shook the halls. He sharply let out a sigh pulling his weary eyes to the clock on his nightstand. It read two twenty-one and tried to ignore it, but the person was persistent then finally gave up. As he started to fall back asleep his phone started to ring. Robbie growled reaching his hand over to the nightstand. Its caller I.D. was Daisy Johnson. He squinted at the bright screen feeling really pissed. How did she get his number?
"Johnson, I swear you better have the damn best explanation for waking me up on my one night off." He could hear her heavy breath. "Daisy?"
"Listen, we need to talk now. Its important." She hung up.
He slipped out of bed holding his head. What did she get herself into now? He pulled on some shorts heading for the door. When he opened it daisy was standing there with a towel wrapped around her wrist. "What are you doing here daisy?"
"We need to talk inside." She made her way in and turned around when the door closed. She realized he was just wearing shorts, and everything else was bare skin.(What? It was warm that night.) That was the first time she has ever seen him so. . exposed, but she could see his toned muscles. He stood there glaring at her with arms folded over his chest. She blushed a little. "Um... can you?" She gestured to him and his room.
"Sorry I wasn't expecting someone to come at two fucking twenty in the fucking morning on my only night off for the next two months." He glared as he went to his room to change into jeans and hoodie.
Daisy could tell how tired he was. She hasn't seen much of him since he came back, but that was part of the deal. He came back out fully dressed the way she always saw him. "Sorry this is really important."
She pulled off the towel exposing the orange glow to the dark room. The rider inside robbie could sense the power radiating off her. "What the hell is that?"
"We were notified that the battle with the avengers and Thanos was successful, but they lost the stones. They fell to earth and now one of them is stuck on my arm." She started freaking out again causing the house to shake until robbies warm hands braced her shoulders.
"Daisy focus, you need to calm down and breath. You said something about there being six of these things right?" Daisy took deep breaths nodding. "Which one is it then?" She only shrugged nervously then both realized he was still bracing her. He pulled away shoving his hands into his pockets.
"I don't know, there is no file on this one. All we know from these things are from connections off planet."
The riders voice echoed in robbies head. Daisy saw his eyes shoot to her hand. "He say's its called the soul stone, and that it links all of the others together to the user. All he knows is that it is the normal enhance everything, but then again even he doesn't know everything." He shuffled to gabe's room making sure he was still asleep and returned to daisy. "I hate to say this daisy, but we should go to coulson about this. That thing could draw a lot of attention, and we don't know if Thanos or the Avengers are tracking it or not."
"But what about your agreement with SHIELD? To stay away." He reached for his keys on the table and pulled his signature black jacket on.
"Daisy. If these stones are falling to earth they could land into dangerous hands, and something tells me you might need help." He gets his shoes on and guides her out the door. She reached his car waiting for him to unlock it when another blinding light flashed in the sky catching sight of a purple blur hit robbie square in his chest. He took steps back from impact and roared out feeling all of the energy flood his body.
"Robbie!" She tried getting closer to him, but saw cracks forming in his skin. It was different from the normal red cracks followed by his skin burning away, It was a purple glow. He was fighting the tsunami of power, but this wasn't something you could tame so easily, not this time.
"Daisy, I cant hold it back!" He clenched his teeth and held his head tightly as images of horrible uses of the stone flashed in his mind. Killing. Pain. . . Power. Finally he caved in under the pressure and it forced him to turn into the rider to handle the energy. His voice was mixed with the rider shocking daisy, the stone let the rider speak."Duele Demasiado!" Daisy watched in horror as he screamed in pain when fire fully engulfed his body burning away the skin. Knowing what stone just bonded to him daisy could say, "Hell just flooded over." She pulled out her phone and called Phil.
"Daisy?"
"No time, remember avengers dropping infinity stones to earth? Yeah, one attached to me and robbie just got hit with the power stone."
"I'm calling for back-up, stay out of his way and make sure no one gets hurt." Daisy's attention resumed to the burning man noticing the MAJOR upgrades.
His jacket connected to leather pants like a racers suit, his size and stature grew only a little but enough to be shy of Mack's size. His skull had narrow and sharp edges, new serrated teeth, and light purple crystals following the skulls structure. Armored boots reaching his knees lined with crystals as well, but at the end of the boot sharp pieces looked like bone toes. His fingers were like that too, long, sharp, and narrow. He slowly looked up from the ground with a long growl until his eyes met with hers.
He reached out quickly with the intentions of needing help, but daisy received mixed messages and threw up her hand sending him flying back and threw the neighbors garage wall. Normally that would have only annoyed him, but the stone fueled his anger clouding his judgment so he felt nothing but the maddening pleasure of rage and hate. He pulled himself from the rubble and lunged in daisy's direction sending them into the street with him on top of her. "MORIR!"
She right hooked him in the jaw breaking it out of place and slipped out from under him as he was distracted. She watched as he fixed it and pieces healed, and used her powers to send a car barreling towards him. Instead of him just stopping it or getting out of its way, he released a hot beam of hellfire melting it in half before it reached him. She noticed the more pissed off he got the more he changed, and now steel horns were growing from his skull.
"Robbie you need to control yourself!" She raised her hand preparing. "Don't let that rock control you. You control it not the other way around!"
He lunged again but daisy quaked him, sending him tumbling next to his car. "Look at yourself robbie, would gabe wan to see you like this?" As he rose from the ground he caught something in his eyesight. His reflection on the black paint of his charger. It hit him hard seeing how monstrous he looked, and remembered how hard gabe took it seeing the rider the first time.
Daisy saw him freeze staring into the sight and slowly eased closer. He pulled himself off the ground still starring endlessly into the reflection. "Daisy. . What is this?"
Before she could answer and enormous green man, another in a mech suit, and one in a red, white, and blue suit landed. "Stark?" Hulk went straight for robbie who was too transfixed on his reflection to see him coming. "Leave him alone!" Someone from behind in a long red trench coat held her back.
"Mam, we need you to stay-" He stopped seeing her arm glowing orange.
"Stop your friend before he bothers him!" It was too late as hulk grabbed robbie by the throat and slammed him hard into the ground. Even tony yelled to stop but hulk never listens.
Robbie roared releasing fire to burn hulks hand releasing him. "You burn?"
Daisy's hope drops. "Oh shit."
Robbie stands over hulk who is nursing his burned hand trying to heal. "Guilty!" Robbie jumped on his back to put him in a head lock as hulk stumbled trying to get him off.
"GET FIRE MAN OFF!" Hulk spoke loudly and finally found robbies hand pulling and threw him off. He went flying back into his car crushing the side. He peeled himself out of the dent unphased until he looked back to his car. He roared so loud it shook the sky sending a chill down everyone's back.
Iron man looked at Cap. "Is it just me or does he remind me of a certain someone?" Robbie rolled his shoulder and pulled a chain from his battered car and set it on fire.
Cap instantly remembered. "Yep, too familiar." He used his shield to block the chains from reaching hulk caching robbies attention. Hulk picked up the battered car and daisy saw he just made the biggest mistake. He sent it down crushing robbie under the overturned car. The metal started to glow yellow hot and robbie broke through lunging at hulk, cutting him deep across the chest with his claws.
Tony became shocked. "That's impossible." The only thing that could cut hulk should be adimantium. They needed to stop the fight before civilians get hurt.
Cap was especially concerned for the house close to them. (Robbies house) "We need to stop this now!" Hulk grabbed robbie with both hands pinning his arms to his sides. When he tried wiggling out a better idea hit. His mouth opened unnaturally wide and he bit down hard on hulks wrist. He dropped robbie to hold the burning wound.
A strange voice pulled everyone's attention. "Hey! Leave my brother alone!" Gabe had came out of the house and right in the line of fire of hulks rage.
Hulk threw a punch in gabes direction causing everyone to scream, "NO!"
Robbie moved fast enough to get between the two and stopped his fist before impact. Robbie has holding back hulks fist and his fire turned wild. "No one hurts gabe!" He took breaths getting deeper and deeper until he released a continuous beam of hellfire at hulk's face. He took steps forward as it pushed him back from sheer force. Daisy had seen enough breaking the mans grip on her arm and ran to gabe.
"You need to stop robbie before he loses himself."
Gabe understood and knew how to get to his brother. "Robbie, robbie stop and look at me!" He let up on the beam breathing heavily as lava dripped from the corner of his jaw. He scanned growling at the others as hulk fell concussions. "Robbie look at me." Robbie sharply glared at gabe but kept returning an eye to the other three. "Come back, don't let them turn you into what you've worked so hard not to be."
Steve dropped his shield and raised his hands showing he was unarmed. "Is it robbie?" He received a growl from the feeble but vicious looking demon. "We are here to help. That stone in your chest, its dangerous and we want to help get it off."
"Then why did you attack me? Why did you attack him?" His voice was accusing and dark.
Tony stepped out of his suit following cap. "Listen Ghost Rider-" That definitely caught his attention making his fire burn bright. "That was our fault for jumping to conclusion, so can you power down so we can talk it out like men?"
Robbie looked down to his crystallized hands. He tried really hard to turn normal, but the stone was feeding him too much power. "No." He turned to daisy, and even though his expression couldn't be seen she could feel the panic. "It wont let me."
Daisy came over and carefully placed her hand without the stone to comfort him. Steve came over and held out his hand for robbie to shake. "Its okey son, we know someone who might be able to help." Robbie didn't bother to return the gesture and daisy got tony's attention.
"I know where two of the other stones are. Two agents at SHIELD." Everyone watched as robbie flipped over what remained of his car. He placed his hands on the hood and fire encased it making it fix itself.
Tony smirked catching the model of car. "Damn kid, Is this ride yours?" All he got was a nod as robbie made sure everything was fixed. "Thought it would be a motorcycle."
"Why is that?" He crossed his arms leaning against the charger. Cap walked up putting the shield on his back.
"Because that johnny had last time I saw him. He's another ghost rider." Robbie was shocked and daisy picked up.
"So its true? There is another?" Tony nodded.
"Yeah. I think he was older and you are far more open-minded. But right not we need to focus on this." Tony pointed to the stone in robbies chest.
"Alright." He left everyone and went to gabe who was still at the front door. "I will be back soon. If you need anything call daisy." As robbie turned to leave gabe grabbed robbies arm.
"Promise me when this is over you will come back. I don't want to lose you for that long again." Robbie just nodded.
"Lo prometo." He went back to the group letting daisy ride with him in the car as the others raced back to their jet not far away.