I noticed there isn't any of this crossover (that I can find), so i decided to write my own. Please bear in mind I wrote all this chapter after having too much caffeine and being unable to sleep at about half 2 in the morning. The Skulduggery Pleasant parts are set somewhere between Playing With Fire and The Faceless Ones, you know, before Fletcher and everything going hideously wrong. The Ghost Rider parts are set just after the first movie.

1. Trouble

Detective Skulduggery Pleasant, well dressed, sophisticated and generally charismatic skeleton, was currently very annoyed.

People generally did get this way when they were woken up from meditation at about 3am by cleavers, dragged out of their homes and thrown in a cell and Skulduggery was angrier than most to start with.

To begin with, he didn't even know why he was currently under arrest and in a cell surrounded by armed guards. It definitely didn't help that, in the rush to catch him, several of the cleavers had stood on and generally ruined his favourite hat.

He stared at at through his hollow eye sockets sadly. He really had been fond of this hat. He was fond of all of his hats, but especially this one. A scythe had cut half of the brim off and the top was practically crushed.

Someone was going to be in big trouble about this one, Valkyrie Cain knew, looking at the monitor in the room just outside the Sanctuary's holding cells. She could tell just be the way he was sat that he was already considering punching the next person he saw.

But the charges were practically definite. A street full of people, mages and civilians, had seen a skeleton attack the man. Scorched to death, apparently, although she hadn't been allowed on the scene. And the only skeleton walking around Dublin, or anywhere for that matter, was Skulduggery. It didn't matter that the man had been near the top of several Sanctuaries most wanted lists, it was still murder. And not the only reported incident in similar circumstances in the last week, either.

Still, Valkyrie found it hard to believe her friend could do anything like this.

And the reports hadn't exactly been that clear. Most of the witnesses were drunk. The skeleton seen killing people was wearing leather, apparently. Skulduggery wouldn't be caught dead wearing leather. He wouldn't even be caught alive wearing leather.

Which made her wonder what the hell was going on...