Adam looked at the Phantom Rider, Spectre then answered back, "Long time no see Carter. I see you were able to maintain your Spirit of Vengeance even though you lost your ability to transform. The new look suits you."
Phantom Rider was the weakest of the 24 variations of the Ghost Rider only being just slightly stronger than Ghost Rider 2099, that was mainly due to the 2099 version was an super-advanced android, so that version lacked the mystical and hellfire abilities, but dont let that fool you into thinking he was weak. He was skilled in the occult, his knowledge gave him power. It was why he had trained a number of riders personally.
Although he had used the last of his Ghost Rider power long ago, he was able to keep a version of the Spirit of Vengeance even after Johnny took that title. It was why his look was different from all other Riders.
Like Robbie Reyes, he was a different kind of Spirit of Vengeance.
"Stand down Johnny, start using your head and listen to the spirit inside you. I know it is screaming innocent at you, cause that's what I hear. You can't beat this one, even if we joined forces. This is Spectre, he is THE Spirit of Vengeance. Unlike Mephisto he can strip the Ghost Rider from you forcefully and absorb it. Why don't you take a look around you? That boy is still alive. Although, old friend, did you have to be so harsh on that boy when you pulled that evil thing from him?" Carter said as he retracted the rope from Adam's wrist.
"I did more than leave the boy alive, take a closer look. Now we can catch up later, judgement calls. Oh, and Johnny, next time you try to touch one of my people, I will strip you of your power. You don't deserve to wield the Spirit of Vengeance if you are trying to use it against the innocent."
As Adam approached Eli, both Carter and Johnny looked over to Robbie and looked to see what he had done.
Adam knew Robbie didn't harm innocent people with the power granted to him, he killed criminals and protected the innocent with it rather than killing them like his uncle had wanted.
With each kill Robbie did, the soul of the deceased was sent to Malebolgia for him to create his army of soldiers that he planned to use to attack the other Lords of Hell to take over Hell itself.
The realm of Hell was unique, no matter the universe you were in, there is only one realm of Hell that all universes connect to, although it can look different, that was due to there were many levels to Hell itself.
Although there were multiple levels it was all still one Hell. Same went for Heaven, those were the only constants within the Omniverse.
It didn't matter if you were in Marvel, DC, Image, or any of the other infinite number of universes, they all shared the same heaven and hell.
Both Carter and Johnny were shocked when they detected an actual Spirit of Vengeance within Robbie. This had shocked both of the men, although they could do the same, but in so doing they would be giving up their own Spirit of Vengeance.
Johnny Blaze ends up doing that in the comics, he gave up the curse and passed it to his personal mentee Alejandra Jones, he did eventually reclaim the Spirit of Vengeance after she met her end in the Absolute Carnage story arc. Though like most Rider's she didn't stay dead for very long.
"How is this possible?" Johnny exclaimed incredulously as we still felt a powerful Spirit of Vengeance within Adam.
The main reason Johnny had attacked Adam, even though he knew him to be a Spirit of Vengeance, not all Ghost Riders were good.
Johnny had mistaken Adam for Deputy Kowalkski, who also had a piece of the Spirit of Vengeance, which although he wasn't as strong as the typical Rider, he was still a major thorn in the side of many of the Riders. Also Deputy Kowalkski used green flames as well.
Carter Slade just shook his head, "Like I said, his Spirit is on a much higher level than yours, even I don't know the limits of Spectre's powers."
Yelena shuddered after hearing the screams from Eli's soul, but she didn't do anything to stop him, she just watched the two men as they talked amongst each other.
After Adam had brought Eli's soul to the brink of destruction, he healed the soul and proceeded to repeat the process sixty six times, one for each kill Eli did.
The police only knew about thirty seven of his murders, but Adam could see exactly how many he had killed with a glance.
Johnny and Carter both went over to Robbie to help the teenage boy up when they saw him begin to awaken. Johnny had dropped out of his Ghost Rider form and approached Robbie, kneeled down and began to assist the kid up.
"What is happening?" Robbie said as he gathered his thoughts, suddenly when he saw Johnny Blaze his eyes widened in both shock and excitement.
"Ay caramba! Johnny Blaze! Me and my brother are huge fans. Can I get an autograph?" Robbie shouted excitedly.
Johnny just smiled, "Sure thing kid, in fact I can do better than that. I can bring you home and meet your brother. We are going to need to talk anyway..."
"AHHHH" Eli's sudden scream cut off Johnny and brought Robbie out of his fanboy moment.
Seeing his uncles soul being tortured, Robbie was about to go try to help but when he saw Eli's soul thru his new eyes he froze instantly. Now that he had a actual Spirit of Vengeance inside him, he could see the various sins his uncle committed throughout his life.
He had never known anything about what or who his uncle truly was, he was horrified by the amount of sins his uncle committed, but soon that horror turn to rage when he saw the sin of pushing his mother down a flight of stairs while she was pregnant with his brother, and that both his mother and father were killed due to Eli.
He purposely ran to Robbie's parents house when he was chased by the cops, this caused both his parents to be killed in the crossfire along with Eli during the fire fight.
Robbie transformed into a Ghost Rider, this time he looked like a Spirit of Vengeance since he was one officially now.
The only difference was that his flames were similar to Adam's which was a dark green flame, Robbie's flames were a light green that had a touch of orange.
Adam felt the anger from Robbie and after healing Eli's soul back for the sixty fifth time, Adam pulled Eli's soul out of the torture chamber and threw him at Robbie's feet.
"His last and final justice I leave to you, Robbie, get the long awaited justice for Gabe and your parents. Then we will go heal your brother. We will take care of the rest of these scum bags."
Suddenly the Prometheus flew down from above, even before it landed, Steve and the rest jumped down and landed in the middle of the street as the ship landed within the parking lot of the mechanic shop.
"All right Natasha, I need you and Yelena up on those roofs for the high ground, me and Taskmaster will take point, Bucky your our wrecking ball, you will attack from the left flank." Steve began barking orders and directing the team.
A large group of gang members were en route to their location, due to the earlier fighting the gang had called even more reinforcements.
Upon finding out their turf was being attacked, the Grumpy's gang had reached out to several other gangs, such as the Blue Krüe gang as well as the Russian and Italian mafia within the area, and made a temporary alliance in order to take out Adam and the Riders.
Seeing the new arrivals and recognizing the iconic shield of Captain America, Johnny and Carter Slade both stepped up, Johnny then reached out his hand to Steve.
"Captain Rogers, where you want us? We will help."
Taking Johnny's hand and giving it a shake, Steve gave a nod, "We appreciate it, with both of your help we can definitely reduce collateral damage. Even though we have a foundation that will help fix any damage caused, we still don't want to inconvenience the good people in this neighborhood. If you two can help Bucky to flank the sides as we draw their fire to the front, we should be able to take them out before any serious damage is done to the neighborhood. We have about three minutes till they arrive, so you boys may want to suit up."
"You got it." Johnny gave a smile as he instantly turned back into the Ghost Rider and reformed his Hellfire chain in his hands.
Phantom Rider pulled out his Spirit Guns and said, "It's a honor to be fighting by your side once again Sargent Barnes and Captain Rogers."
Steve and Bucky both looked at Carter Slade in astonishment, Carter had the mask and hat disappear revealing his face and then he used some power to overlay his image of when he was younger.
"Corporal Slade, 107th Infantry Regiment."
"Slade!!" Both Steve and Bucky excaimed simultaneously.
Slade gave a smile and reequipped his mask.
"We're getting a drink together after this Slade, that's an order." Steve said as they heard the roar of engines in the distance getting closer.
"Alright boys, lets leave the tearful reunion for after we deal with these.... Is that a bazooka?" Natasha admonished, but then her suit picked up several heavy weapons signatures and displayed the weapon detailed on the HUD.
Yelena pulled out an S7 Flexfire Sniper, an experimental varient of the SRS99-S7 AM which had been improved on with the help of Eve, the rifle originally was only for medium range due to the optics only having three times zoom, however Eve was able to improve the smart-linking scope to not only connect directly to the HUD of the Mjolnir helmet but also utilize the target tracking and acquisition sensors built into the armor which extended the accuracy to pinpoint precision up to 3000 metres, or 9842 feet which is roughly 1.8 miles.
Taking aim Yelena said, "HEAP Round". After which her HUD notified the ammo was adjusted to the High Explosive Armor Piercing rounds.
Yelena pulled the trigger ten times back to back as she moved the gun targeting ten vehicles that had people hanging out the window or sunroof waiting to get in range to fire the bazookas.
Unfortunately for them they wouldn't get a chance to use them, as the round hit the engine blocks, not only did they penetrate deep into the engine but they exploded violently.
It effectively turned the engine into a frag grenade, the engine parts where launched into the driver and passenger compartment, so if the explosion didn't kill you, the shrapnel from the engine would.
"How the hell do you know about such a weapon?" Natasha exclaimed at the sight of the ten cars exploding.
"I asked Laura to just download all available weaponry available into my memory. Much easier than reading manual." Yelena responded with a shrug.
Laura was Yelena's assigned AI for her Mjolnir armor.
"You can do that!?! Miranda, can you download all available weaponry my suit has to my memory?" Natasha exclaimed, to which she asked her assigned AI to do the same.
Soon so did Steve, Bucky and Taskmaster.
"That's messed up sis, you knew that was possible and never told me." Natasha exclaimed as she too now received weapon details of every UNSC weapon into her brain.
Even Steve and the others even gave a nod to agree with Natasha's statement.
"What? I can't help I am just smarter than you all."
Johnny then got an idea, "Hey, can I borrow that real quick?"
"I don't think that's a good idea, apparently if your not a SPARTAN the kick on these guns are pretty bad." Yelena looked at Johnny strangely.
"It'll be fine, trust me." Johnny said as he took hold of the rifle.
Johnny then proceeded to use his hellfire modification on the gun, it began to transform into a demonic looking gun, the muzzle break turned into a skull while the barrel had vent holes which spewed flames out of it constantly.
"Hell yeah! In the words of Tony Montana, say hello to my little friend." Johnny took aim at the large convoy and pulled the trigger.
A massive boom erupted, shattering every glass window in a 100 yard radius, Johnny was shot backwards with such force he went thru two houses, from outside wall to outside wall, in seconds.
The convoy of vehicles after being hit with the HEAP round that was empowered with hellfire completely evaporated along with the road and ground for two miles in a straight line.
Even Adam was gobsmacked at what had happened.
"Holy shit! That actually worked!" Adam exclaimed, he couldn't believe what he had just watch happen.
The others just stood there awkwardly, staring at the line of scorched Earth that started a few feet in front of where Johnny originally stood when he fired the gun.
"Damn that things got some kick." Johnny's voice finally broke the silence as he climbed out of the rubble of the last house he went thru.
Yelena's eyes sparkled when she quickly retrieved the gun, but to her dismay it had reverted back to normal.
"Well I guess that's one way to take out an army." Bucky said with a chuckle.
"More like land clearing to me. I may have to get one of those spirit things for myself." Natasha said with a sigh.
"Thank god for that UNSC Damage Recovery Foundation, otherwise I think Johnny may have just went bankrupt with that shot. Brings a whole new meaning to the words one and done." Yelena said with hesitation.
"So how about that drink Slade? I don't know about you all but I need one after witnessing that. I mean hell, thats more effective than a nuclear bomb." Bucky said as he stared at the damage all around them.
"Sure. Any particular place in mind?" Carter Slade responded after being brought out of his stupor.
"Yea, your going to love it. Commander Adam gave Steve a nice wedding gift, so come on we will show it to you." Bucky signaled Slade to follow onto the ship.
He wanted to surprise Slade with the bar they used to frequently go to as a regiment in Europe during World War two.
After picking up Robbie's brother Gabe the ship headed to the Infinity.