City of Demons

City of Demons is the third volume of the Incidentals

### Summary

The story starts with a group of masked individuals planning to attack a part of Beverly Hills only to get interrupted by The Incidentals(without Bo, Taylor, Nuke and V. In the fray, someone named **Martina** recognizes Seven. The new team ) shows their slight inexperience when Seven almost blinds Alex which causes a heated argument between the two. Meanwhile, the entire fight was seen from a drone camera by an unseen person.

Back at Headquarters, Marko tries to mention how they should profit from their superheroing before Seven mentions that they should talk about it at some place that isn't their headquarters. So at a mini-golf course, they talk about how they can monetize their group only for Alex to point out that he and Seven won't get along.

They argue again only for Seven to question Bo's intention and then head over to Skid Row where she's approached by two men who she easily defeats. Meanwhile, Marko talks about wanting to do a project with **Goel Granville** after saving one of his lead actresses, **Olivia**, earlier. He teleports to the party where he's personally greeted by Granville.

After meeting up with Benny and Granville at the party, Marko notices a secret door, ports past it just to see a group of people wearing the plague doctor masks and speaking of a "sacrifice" complete with a naked Granville approaching Olivia who's tied to a chair. Granville soon summons a monster from her body and Marko accidentally reveals himself by gasping before being chased away by the creature.

Marko teleports back to the headquarters to tell everyone about what Granville is doing only for Bo to question if he's sane and sober before Granville approaches their headquarters with a helicopter and a missile.

After further inspection, Granville finds himself pursuing Martina after seeing her on a TV special reporting on the explosion at the Incidentals HQ, he injects her with parts of the demo as she runs away.

At the Incidentals safe house in **Altadena**, Shannon is shown to have been impaled by something with Sayde helping it get pulled out of her, after the expunging, Seven returns, conveniently at the safe house as well.

Meanwhile, Granville is confirmed to be part of a demonic cult as they feed the entity another scared person.

Seven slightly mentions that she knows something about Granville and then shrugs it off which causes a bit of a rift between Marko, who's fired up enough to suggest going after Granville, and Seven, resulting in her slapping him.

Tristan breaks them up and leads Seven to the roof so they can talk, they talk about JPL and Martina and her connection to Granville mentioning that Granville lives off of other's misery and despair. She then asks Tristan to find her to which he tells her where she is after touching an heirloom of hers.

The Incidentals question the authenticity of the story since "hollywood celebrity kills people for cultist reasons" sounds stranger than fiction and Bo mentions that he believes the story since his father disappeared from a conspiracy, they intend to infiltrate the house using Marko's teleportation powers.

Seven meets up with Martina as they revisit the first time they meet Granville. A few years back, they encountered him while walking through the streets of LA getting flirted with by some random guys. One of the guys recognize Granville and tries to warn Martina that he's dangerous but Martina gladly takes Granville's card after he promises her that she can earn some money dancing in a music video. At Granville's party, Seven points out that the party has a weird vibe because a woman that seemingly was drunk wasn't being escorted to an exit. Martina gets aggravated and basically tells Seven to stop trying to ruin her good time or leave, Seven leaves. Martina goes back to the party and finds out that she's an enhanced who amplifies other people's powers to which is why Granville wants her alive.

Meanwhile, back at the Granville infiltration, they're welcomed by the past victim of the Granville sacrifices who has been possessed by a demon. Alex attempts to intervene to get interrupted by his late father, who's also possessed and Granville mentions that Martina is a final part of his plan.

Martina and Seven visit and talk out what happened and Seven brings Martina back to the safe house where she explains what happened after the party and her connection to Granville to which Bo, Shannon, Tristan, Seven and Martina rescue Alex, Sayde and Marko. Granville promises to soak Turnbull canyon "in blood".

At another safe house to take care of Sayde, Alex and Marko, Marko mentions that Granville is planning to make a group of roughly almost a million people into fear demons. Granville, in a television interview mentions his history of being abused as a child by one of his mother's many boyfriends who he paid a shady individual to beat to death in retaliation.

Bo concludes that Martina's powers were manifested before the Event, mentioning that her cells vibrate well with something of another dimension which translates to their dimension as a "power boost".

The Granville interview continues as he mentions his job working in a mailroom where he hides the fact that he poisoned a co-worker for insulting him and soon interacted with fellow cultist, Cabel Wilson, who he avoids mentioning follows the same demonic cult as he does.

Bo concludes that there may be people who may have already had powers prior to the Event and then points out that the big premiere that Granville is planning is used to conduct a massive execution that will send some of the attendees to a level of terror he can feed off of.

Bo creates a weapon that he can use to defeat Granville with but mentions that there's a chance that it probably won't work efficiently. At the premiere, Seven warns Bo that if she shoots Granville anywhere near Seven, she'll kill him, which conveniently causes Granville to grab Martina as a hostage.

Martina manages to free herself from his clutches as the fight against Granville continues. Martina tells Seven that she's dying and would rather die helping out the Incidentals and punishing Granville than helping Granville and sacrifices herself providing a boost to the group.

In the process, Bo manages to use the weapon he constructed to fire at Granville full blast, gravely weakening Granville just enough to get a one-sided pummeling from Winters.

A few days after the premiere, everyone recuperates as Platte says that he's taking a vacation from his police job as they scatter Martina's ashes in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.

### Characters

* Marko Brenner
* Seven
* Alex Winters
* Tristan Platte
* Sayde
* Olivia
* Martina
* Goel Granville
* Benny
* Shannon Delgado