#hell patrol

6:32 AM EST February 16, 2025:

Judas Priest - "Hell Patrol" From the album Painkiller (September 3, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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Cat was covered in in Dark Elf blood. Some of her own, as well, but mostly it was the elves’. She hated the smell of it. There was a kind of primal wrongness to it, something not matched by any other creature she’d encountered.

She had just slashed the jugular of one the last of this cell. Quick, efficient, messy. The Hell Patrol had located a group of Dark Elves operating out of Norway, and the battle had happened on an isolated beach. Better that way, out of civilian eyes and the possibility of civilian casualties. They’d fought well, and now the elves were dead or dying, the sand was tacky with blood, and she was thinking about whether it would show too much weakness if she asked Loki to just teleport the damn stuff off of her. But then her ears pricked, metaphorically at least. There was a sound coming from very far off…very high up, she finally realized, and she was the closest one to it.

“Something’s coming from the air!” was the first warning she called, poised to run in case it was some kind of weapon. But she took just a second to look up, and…it looked like a figure, looked humanoid. She’d known Thor to make that kind of dramatic entrance, but never from quite so high.

It was only seconds before whoever it was hit the ground, creating a shockwave and hitting with such impact that when Cat got back to her feet, ears ringing, she found she was at the edge of a crater. And down the crater, she could hear a heartbeat.

“They’re still alive!” was the second thing she called out, before starting to crawl down the side of the crater, her cat-like agility fighting with the softness of the sand.

She didn’t get too close, only enough to get a better look. It was a woman, in armor, and she was alive but wounded. Her blood didn’t smell human.

“Loki, she’s hurt!” she called, because he was the healer among them. And then, as an afterthought, “and she smells like Hogun!”

12:11 AM EST January 11, 2025:

Judas Priest - “Hell Patrol” From the album Painkiller (September 3, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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