Chapter 22

(WARNING! Violence! :D Blood, Biting, graphic descriptions of broken bones!! Be warned!!)

A few of them had opened fire on them but before Matt could react to it, Kasey had grabbed his arm and pulled them around a pillar for cover.

Matt was yanked behind the pillar before he could react, and hissed lightly from the sudden movement. "This isn't going to be easy." He waited, before chucking his ecrisma stick against the opposite wall, listening to it ricochet into a couple of guys.

"I know." She replied, before taking a breath and looking at him. "Stay back and stay down." Was all she said before diving back out into the fray. He heard her mumble something to herself, "Atlas, echolocation."

A piercing frequency came from Kasey's direction, it was high and seemed to bounce around the room but the others gave no sign of hearing it.

Matt covered his ears for a moment, before realizing the sound was coming from Kasey. The others didn't seem to hear, so it must've been higher pitched than their ranges. He recognized that Kasey wanted him to stay put, but he wanted to help nonetheless. Once again he tossed his second stick, ricocheting it off the wall and into another couple of enemies' heads.

Kasey dodged and weaved the attempts to hit her and came right up to one of them and spin kicked him in the chest. There was a crack from the man's chest as he flew backward and crumpled to the ground after hitting the wall with a loud thud.

She slid across the floor to another and did a similar movement but there wasn't a crack this time.

Matt whipped his head around, listening to the chaos happening around the room. When they got out of there, he'd have to have a serious talk with that girl. He felt around for pieces of cracked concrete, picking them up and chucking them directly at their opponents' heads before slipping back behind the pillar.

He heard her take a few others out and a strange noise came from her. It sounded like the thing that had pinned him to the roof with webs while fighting Spiderman, Interweb, and Ironman.

He did not, however, notice someone break off and start watching his movements, lining their gun up to where he kept stepping out, waiting.

Matt recognized that sound, but knew that no new characters had entered the fight. Maybe her friends had given her some of their tech? Or maybe it was her own... Gah! He didn't have time to ponder over her, he just needed to keep taking out who he could. He broke out another piece of concrete, peeking out from behind the pillar to send it straight at another enemy's head. He didn't throw to kill, only to render unconscious.

When he stepped out again, while Kasey took out another, the man fired at his leg when he placed it out as he peaked around the corner and Kasey froze, hearing the gun shot, whirling around but getting grabbed and restrained when she got distracted.

"Damn it!" Matt cursed aloud, tucking himself behind the pillar as tightly as he could, pressing his hand against the wound on his leg. He really hadn't planned on getting shot twice today. Pushing against the pillar, he slid up until he was in a standing position. "Get out of there!" He called to Kasey.

She struggled in the guy's grasp before getting loose enough to break free and kick him away. "Get away from me!" She snarled at them.

She heard Matt curse and honed in on the one who shot him and was moving to pursue him and sprinted at him, tackling him and rolling across the floor with him. "You're gonna regret that," She hissed as the man struggled with her before she had to get away from him before he tried to shoot her.

He scrambled to his feet only for her to launch at him and pulled herself around his back.

"Get the hell off of me!" He struggled trying to get her off but screamed in anguish when she sank her teeth into his side, blood filling her mouth instantly.

The man dropped to the ground, unable to stand from the pain. "SHOOT HER GET HER OFF OF ME! DO SOMETHING!" He yelled and Kasey leapt away when they shot towards her, latching onto the ceiling and swinging out of the way and tackled another.

A few of them moved towards Matt's location, hoping if they could trap him that they could force her to stand down.

He heard the sickening crunch of Kasey's teeth into the man's flesh. He grimaced and tried to think of a plan, as he could hear some of the men closing in on him. He went around the other side of the pillar, favoring his wounded legs. He wouldn't show the dizziness setting in from the blood loss. He held another chunk of concrete, planning to use it as a bludgeoning weapon if he needed to.

They pressed closer on him but kept their distance. Their guns were raised as they circled both ways.

Kasey was holding back a lot less now, scratching, biting, and just messing up anyone she came into contact with.

Matt turned the chunk over and over in his hands, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Once someone got close enough he turned and struck the chunk against the back of their head, throwing punches in between the men.

They fought with him, backing away, a few taking shots at him in the closer range and one kicking at the bad leg, hoping to knock him to the ground.

Kasey tried to go help but others kept her occupied.

Matt stumbled from the kick, but used the momentum to use his good leg to sweep the man's feet out from under him. His body was alight with pain, but his adrenaline was currently keeping him going.

They fell to the ground but kicked back at him again as well, hitting the back of his leg. They kept him surrounded but also distanced to keep from getting hit. Another couple gun shots at closer range, another at his injured leg but completely missed.

Matt fell to the ground with an audible thud. "Where'd you learn to shoot?" Matt chuckled, going to try and stand again. An expression of confusion crossed his face, as his body was becoming reluctant to listen to him, the wound from earlier still affecting him.

Multiple guns aimed at him, one of which fired at his already injured leg, making Kasey turn to them, eyes widening. She was still struggling with a few others.

"Gah-!" That was going to leave a huge mark, and he'd sure have fun explaining this one to Foggy. He struggled to reach for the chunk of concrete he had dropped, and in a last ditch effort he threw it past the men that were surrounding himself, instead towards the men holding Kasey back. "Get out of here!"

Kasey startled when the men were knocked out by the concrete and got away from them but hearing him cry out and knowing he had already been shot at least twice.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. You come back with us and we'll leave him be." The man from earlier told her, making her look over. "Resist or refuse and they'll make sure he stays down."

Kasey's heart was racing. She didn't know Daredevil's abilities but he said it himself that he wasn't immortal. She ran her options through her head before speaking softly.

"Atlas. Call 'em out."

Matt heard a male voice start calling out their positions while she stood there, waiting.

Six surrounding him, all aiming, the man near her and two others. So nine. She took a deep breath. "...You'll let him go?" She asked. "All of you?"

"Hmm. We'll make it happen." He agreed. "But if he tries to stop us then all bets are off."

Kasey hesitated, debating her options.

Matt groaned, listening to their demands. He absolutely would not go down without a fight and he would not let her go back to them.

"Don't you dare take that offer!" He reached out, grabbing a hold of a man's foot, pulling forward so the man would fall backward.

They gave a cry as they fell and Kasey was quick to web him to the ground while disarming another, glancing at the man who stepped back in surprise as she grinned, her teeth sharp and stained with blood.

"I don't think I will." She launched another two webs, pulling two of the others towards her, spun, and threw them into the other two guys by the man.

"Shoot him!" The man demanded as chaos broke out.

They fired, one missed as they were hit by more webs and the other one grazed his right arm, opposite of his left leg that was shot.

Kasey pinned them all down before turning to the man and stalking towards him. "Give me a reason I shouldn't just end you." She hissed, "watching" him back away rapidly.

"If you kill me you will never return home. You want that don't you, Kasey?" He replied, watching her just as closely.

Kasey froze, eyes widening. Her heart was pounding. Home? They could- Of course they could! they brought her here in the first place! She hesitated and the man grinned.

"See? You can't get home unless you come back with us." He told her.

Kasey stood there before suddenly, launching at him, slamming him into the wall, pulling his arm behind his back. "I will find my own way. I will not suffer through hell again just for a chance of something you won't even do."

"Wh- Wait, Kasey, I-" The man screamed as she effortlessly shattered the bones in his wrist with an audible crunch, broke his arm with a crack, and dislocated it from its socket as well with a pop.

"You better pray to God that I don't come back there. Cause it won't be your arm next time." She hissed into his ear, her voice cold and empty. She threw him to the ground with a sneer and turned to approach Matt.

Matt sat himself up, feeling the last bits of adrenaline begin to fade, and the actual weight of the pain settling in. He pushed himself into a standing position, "looking" around at the unconscious bodies. Their heartbeats were slow, except for the man with the broken bones, but Matt doubted they'd be getting up anytime soon.

"You have a lot of explaining to do.." Matt gripped his arm wound with his good arm. "Although, now might not be the best time."

Kasey didn't reply to him. "Let me patch you up so you don't bleed out on our way out." She replied, kneeling next to him.

"Are you alright?" Matt asked her, able to smell the blood on her. Strangely enough it almost seemed to be coming from around her mouth. His mind wandered back to the crunch he heard earlier, and the thought made his head spin.

"I'm fine. You aren't. Let me patch you up." She sounded numb and tired. "Atlas, guide me to what I'm doing."

"Of course. I suggest starting with his right arm." The male voice spoke up again and Kasey started knitting her webbing together and wrapped it around his arm around the injury and made sure it was secure before looking at his left leg.

"Can you lay it straight for me?" She asked him, preparing more webs.

"You took on a lot of guys." Matt spoke, a bit slower than normal. He straightened his leg out for her, wincing as he did. He could already predict how concerned Karen would be when he didn't show up to work.

"That webbing is interesting, I've seen something like it before, from a couple of friends of yours. Though, it's different."

She let Atlas guide her as she worked to tend to his leg before frowning a bit. "Atlas says it's broken." She told him. "I'm... not familiar with fixing that." She explained. "I can try to at least set it and wrap it until someone else can deal with it." She offered. She wasn't answering anything he said to her. She couldn't.

If she stopped focusing on what she was doing then there was a high chance that she'd kill everyone in this room and everyone in the area. She didn't care anymore.

That was going to be a difficult call to Claire. He'd already made her drop by a few times in just the past few days. Not to mention he'd be out of commission until his broken bone healed up. "Just enough until we can get back to our mutual friend's apartment." His voice was deep and stiff, trying not to focus on the pain.

She nodded at that. She took a deep breath before carefully but quickly following Atlas' instructions and setting the bone back the best she could, tapping into a small bit of her strength to do so. She quickly started wrapping it with her webbing, making it thick and tight.

After she was content with that she looked at him. "You said you were shot in the back earlier too, right?" She asked him, making another batch of webs as she talked.

Matt made a sound of discomfort, the setting of the bone sending his senses haywire for a moment. A sort of overload for his sense of touch. "Yeah, that was the first one. Bullet might still be in there though." He reached out, touching the webbing wrapping gingerly.

She nodded. "I'll just keep it from bleeding more then." She gently pushed him to lean forward a little so she could start wrapping it around his torso. "Alright." She stood up and hesitated. "Do you think you can walk?"

"Not very well, but yeah." Matt pushed himself to stand, hesitating a moment to let the dizziness fade away. He wondered how he looked with the webbing knitted around his wounds. Then again he was too tired to care at the moment. "Let's get you somewhere safe."

She raised an eyebrow. "You're the injured one here." She pointed out, still sounding hallow. "Besides we are still surrounded. We either go out the cellar and fight that mess or fight our way out through the building."

The thought made her more frustrated and angry then she already was but never once showed it. She was still too numb for it.

"I'd say we should go through the cellar, make our way somewhere else. It's still pretty light out, so they shouldn't move farther than this building and the ones around it." He didn't know how public the group was expecting to be.

She nodded but walked over and gathered his sticks, handing them back to him before going to the cellar door and listening. "There's still a lot of them out there. It may be better for you to wait here." She "looked" at him. "I'll... I'll deal with them."

"Are you going to be able to handle them all? I can at least take some down with these." He held up the sticks with his good arm. He was still uncomfortable with letting her go and fight the fight alone.

Kasey nodded. "I got this." She promised. "They will open fire on you. I know that they won't shoot me. At least not with the intent to kill."

"I'll be by the door, if it gets to a point where I need to go out there." He didn't like it, not at all, but there wasn't much he could do anyway. All he could do for now was trust that she'd be able to take out the others. "Be careful."

She nodded before hesitating for a moment, the memory of them passing right by her, playing through her mind. "Here," she pulled the goggles off. "Hold this for a moment please," she handed them over, eyes facing herself.

Matt took the goggles, with a bit of confusion. He leaned against the wall next to the door, so that he'd be able to listen in to what was happening outside. "Try not to get shot, it's not fun."

She hummed at that. "I wanted to check something... Atlas, keep an eye on me."

"Of course. I am ready when you are."

Kasey nodded and took a deep breath, focusing back to how she felt when they had almost caught her a bit ago and tensed up a little bit.

"You... you have disappeared!" Atlas declared. "You are invisible to my cameras without infrared!"

"Disappeared?" Matt questioned, knitting his brows together in confusion. "Are you telling me you're invisible or something?"

Kasey shrugged. "That seems to be what Atlas is saying but," she "looked" at him for a moment, now that her brain was clearer, she picked up on things easier.

She decided to keep it to herself. "If that's the case then..."

Kasey opened her eyes and let her body slowly relax, focusing until she was relaxed again. "Am I still?"

"Yes!" Atlas replied. "Incredible! I'm making notes!" He sounded excited for a little AI.

Kasey smiled at that. "Then I think I can manage not getting shot." She focused and turned it off and on a few times before figuring out what exactly triggered it.

While Matt couldn't see any of what was happening, he could infer it based on what he heard from both Kasey and the AI, which, by the way, was a very impressive little AI to him. After all, this was the third one he had met in the span of just a couple days.

"Alright. I'll be back once I get them taken care of." She told him. "Please, stay here." She then slipped out the cellar door.

She had waited until they weren't looking and stuck close to the wall before climbing up to one of the snipers and taking them out before they could warn anyone.

Matt listened from inside the building, keeping track of who was conscious or not via their heartbeats. Luckily, it seemed that Kasey was making it through alright.

Kasey took out another sniper without being seen, keeping track of how many were left.

Meanwhile the man she had broken the arm of, slowly moved to grab his watch from his broken arm to alert them of her presence.

Matt's ears perked up, hearing movement near him. "Damn it." He trusted Kasey for the outside enemies, and trudged his way towards the sound, readying one of his sticks. Locating the conscious man, he used his good arm to fling the stick at him.

The man heard him coming and quickly ducked out of the way, calling into it. "25 is outside, may be invisible." He quickly spoke into the watch. He hesitated for a moment before looking towards Matt, with a spiteful glare. "Shoot on sight. Take 25 dead or alive."

Kasey was planning how to get to the other two snipers but stopped, hearing the message echo from every one of them and froze.

That's not what she expected.

She quickly leapt to the next roof top and looked for the sniper but was much more on guard now.

Matt stumbled towards the man with hell on his tail. He didn't care if he looked wounded, but he knew the man wouldn't make it far with his injuries. "That was a mistake." He growled out, reeling his fist back and slamming it into the man's head.

The man slumped to the ground unconscious immediately after getting hit.

Kasey was approaching another sniper when her senses went off and she flipped backward, over a shot from the sniper across the roof.

"They have infrared scopes!" Atlas informed her, making her swear under her breath and launched a web towards the sniper across the rooftop and covered the end of the gun to stall him.

She got into a fist fight with the other and he ended up webbed to the roof and knocked unconscious. She unloaded the gun and pocketed the bullets.

Maybe Tony could figure out what they were.

She moved to get to the last sniper who shot at her with a pistol instead. She dodged and weaved and kicked him hard enough to knock him off the building.

She webbed his leg and caught him then stuck him to the side of the building.

Matt went back over to the door, listening to hear if they had located Kasey or not. He breathed out a sigh of relief upon hearing her still going at it, taking down the men outside.

She waited on the roof listening to them trying to find her. How was she gonna do this? She didn't know but she knew if anything went even slightly wrong she might slip and put someone down for good...

But she hardly felt scared by the fact. She was numb, tired, and done. She wanted to go home. She wanted these people out of her life. So why the hell should she hold back?

"They wouldn't want you to do that." Atlas spoke quietly, bringing her out of her thoughts. "You know they wouldn't."

"I do." She acknowledged. "...But is that what I want?"

Matt heard Kasey's and Atlas's voices, but wasn't coherent enough to put the words together. He sucked in a small breath, sliding down the wall next to the door to sit, listen, and wait.

She sat there debating her options before her mind traveled back to Matt.

She had barely known him for long but... he was a lawyer. Murder is against the law.

Would she get him in trouble if she decided to end this for good?

She sighed before using her invisibility time to change fully into her spider suit and glanced over the building's ledge. "How many?"

"Ten. Three watching the cellar door, three guarding the alleyway, and four in the middle looking around."

"Okay... We will take the alley ones out first then middle then cellar so we can just straight up book it."

"I shall guide you through the plan then!" Atlas chirped as Kasey leapt over the ledge while invisible and dropped down onto one of the guards, knocking him to the ground and out cold.

She webbed the two others to the walls before they could shoot her and dodged the bullet spray from the four in the middle.

She hopped onto the building and waited for them to stop and look for her again before snagging two of the guns away and to the side of the building and leaping across to the other side, doing the same with the other two.

She then dropped down and did a low spin kick and tripped them and webbed them down.

She turned to the last three who seemed tense and they stepped back as she appeared before them, her mask pulled up to reveal her mouth just enough for them to see her sharp fanged grin coated in blood.

"Boo."

They cried out in fear and shot at her but she disarmed them, knocked two of them out and approached the last one with a slightly twisted grin.

"See you Hell." She said in a sickly sweet tone before spin kicking him hard enough that it sent him through the wooden cellar door, breaking the door into splinters.

Matt looked over in the direction of the splintered door, having heard the altercation outside. If anything, he was more surprised that Kasey was able to kick a man hard enough that he'd go through two inches of solid wood. He listened once more for any heartbeats, before pushing himself back into a standing position.

"I think that should be the last of them..." Matt mumbled, shifting himself so he was able to lean against the doorframe to look towards her.

"It is!" Atlas' cheerful voice responded. "All fourteen of them!"

Kasey nodded at that and looked at him. "How do you wanna get outta here? Cause you can hardly stand it seems. Let alone stay awake." She frowned a bit.

Matt knew it would be a very, very long walk home, especially if they were trying to stay hidden from the public eye. After all, it wasn't even that dark out. "I could..." He hesitated. "I could call a friend."

Kasey tilted her head, raising an eyebrow under her mask. "A friend?"

"He's helped me in situations like this before, and we can't exactly go walking around in broad daylight like this. We could use a ride." Matt sighed out. He knew he'd get an earful from Foggy, and he also didn't like to bring his friends into his issues.

Kasey nodded at that. "It's either that or I carry you most the way-" She shrugged. "But I do think we should at least try to find a nearby alleyway that isn't full of these guys for them to come to."

"Yeah I don't want him to get mixed up in this." He tried to remember the alleys near where they were. "There should be an alleyway split off from the one connected to the other side of the building. It might be safer there."

She nodded. "I think I can get us onto the roof and we can cross over there that way," She offered. "It'd be the easiest way to not be spotted."

"Then let's head to the roof." Matt grumbled in response, leaning somewhat against Kasey as support. Usually he wouldn't show this much vulnerability, but he was too tired to care.

Kasey nodded and Atlas guided her to the nearest fire escape and she hesitated, debating the easiest method of getting up there. "You think you can hang on tight enough if I use my webs to get us up? It'd be faster than climbing... Probably better for your leg too-"

"Yeah, I think I can." Even if it was just for a little while, he believed he could hold on, even with a burn and bullet skin wound on his arm.

She nodded, pulling a wooden box over to stand on to make them more equal height and waited for him to grab hold. She carefully wrapped her arm around him and used her other to launch the webbing up to the rooftop. She activated a grappling hook like mode as it reeled the webbing back into a spool for her to use later and pulled them both up to the roof top with ease.

She helped him the rest of the way up first, as she could stick to the side of the building and climbed up after him, disconnecting the webbing. "Alright. That's one task done."

Matt landed on the top of the building with a wince, resisting the instinct for his injured leg to buckle out from under him. "Once we get to the alley, I'll make a call and we can just lay low until he gets here. But under no circumstances must you tell anyone that he has any connection to me. The same rule goes for Claire." He wanted to trust Kasey, but there was always a worried thought at the back of his mind.

Kasey nodded firmly. "It's not like I c-" She quickly corrected herself. "Would tell anyone what he looks like. Atlas has programming preventing that kinda thing too."

"It's true!" He chirped, sounding oddly enthusiastic about it???

"Besides, I'm far too familiar with that." She carefully helped him across the roof until they made it to the other side and lowered them both down with the same webbing. "Alright. We should be good here for a bit."

Matt wondered what she would've said in the first place, but didn't deem it anything worth looking into. He leaned against the brick wall of the alley, sliding down until he sat on the cracked concrete. He pulled out a burner phone from a concealed pocket and clicked through the contacts, dialing Foggy. He listened to it ring a couple times before the other end was picked up.

"I need a pick up."

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