The Devil...

I've been walking around Hells Kitchen for a while and the few people that saw me didn't give me another glance so I must be in the clear and so it was with a relieved mind that I continued to prowl the streets of Hells Kitchen looking for a certain man who could help me with my Peter situation but it seems it wasn't to be tonight since out of nowhere while I was walking down an eerie silent street with no one in sight a whole bunch of thugs began to pour out of the alleyways surrounding the street both in front and behind me and it wasn't long before I was surrounded on all sides by around thirty thugs who were all holding baseball bats and crowbars menacingly and when I took a closer look at them I realised that I recognised a few of them as some thugs that trie to mug me who I proceeded to beat the shit out of before leaving them in the gutters. "You may have changed your clothes vigilante but we can still tell that you're the same bastard who was fucking with us, you shouldn't have done that. Now the tables have turned and your gonna get yours, LET'S GET HIM BOYS!" One of the thugs step out from the crowd to make their little speech and it seems this guy is the leader of these rabble rousers, this'll teach me not to be nice and leave guys unconscious in alleyways so next time I'll leave them with a few broken bones so that even if they wanted to they wouldn't be able to do anything but I can think about that later because right now there are thirty fuckers wielding weapons coming to murder me and I'm not afraid to admit I'm a little scared.

I've never been in a proper fair fight because of my early limited training so I was easily able to deal with the assholes in high school and once I got my spider powers it became even more unfair as I wasn't facing any supervillains and even while I was prowling through the streets of Hell's Kitchen I was only ever accosted by at most four thugs at a time so it was easy to deal with them with my enhanced abilities but even so I've always had the advantage in any of the fights I've had and I pick my battles very carefully but right now there are more than thirty thugs coming at me each and every one hungry for my blood and yes maybe my spider powers make this a fair fight but I've never fought this many people before and I'm not got enough martial prowess to handle this with ease but what I do have is my spider powers, I won't be able to beat all of these guys with just my limited fighting skill so I will have to rely on my spider powers or more specifically my 'spidey sense' (spidey senses are peters thing, maybe I should call them something else like 'My Nick Tingles are tingling, that was horrible) to avoid most of the blows that will undoubtably be coming at me and I have no doubt that I will have to take a few huts but I can at least make sure those hits are on my body and from blunt weapons rather than bladed weapons but still this is gonna be pretty hard and I can't be like Peter who would pull his punches to not hurt them when he could knock them out in one go so I'll have to make all of my hits KO's to take them out quickly and efficiently because if they're not taken out in one hit then they'll get back up and eventually they will overwhelm so I'm aiming to knock them out before they can even get a hit on me.

"DIE MOTHERFUCKER!!" I no longer have time to think and plan my actions as the first thug is upon me and the first thing he does is swing out with the crowbar in his hand and so I lean back avoiding it and when he goes to take another swing with it I move forward ducking under his swing to get in close and then I uppercut his stomach with enough strength that he's instantly out of the fight and on the floor with probably a few broken ribs, I notice a knife coming towards my side and so I reach out and grab the wrist of my attacker before pulling him towards me and levelling him out with a punch to the face the takes him out for the count and I have barely a moment to appreciate before I'm was again attacked but this time in both sides by two people and so I duck underneath their blows before sweeping their legs out from under them and then jumping on one of them and knocking him out and I'm about to do the same to the other when my senses blare out and I spot a bat that is swinging full force toward my head and so I jump backwards to minimise the damage while raising my arm to block the bat and while most of the damage is absorbed it still hurts a bit and I wince but I don't have any time to think about that before I'm once again on the move avoiding a metal pipe that was heading for my stomach and so I lose my self in the battle and I start to focus purely on avoiding blows with my spider sense while taking my shots where I can and if that means taking a few licks here and there to take out a few of them then that's fine.

I don't know how long I've been fighting for because it feels like a long time but it can't be more than a few minutes and at some point I realised the force I was putting in my punches wasn't enough because while admittedly some of the guys I was putting Dow were staying down more than one kept getting back up like the first guy who I punched in the stomach and while I'm sure I broke a few of his ribs he still got back up and was swinging at me and so I've had to increase the strength I've been using on them little by little to try and find the sweet spot where they won't be able to do anything after I hit them and I finally find it and I begin to put loads of these guys down for the count once I find that balance and IM's a trying to feel confident when I've taken out nearly half of the guys that have attacked me and I'm getting into the groove when I suddenly find my spider sense going off like a blast siren and so trusting my abilities I quickly do a big jump and roll while hearing a loud bang and when I get to my feet I realise I'm no longer surrounded by any thugs as they are all together staring at me and in front of them all is the guy who first spoke and leads these guys but what's more important is the gun I spot in his hands that has smoke coming out of the barrel and when I look back to where I previously was I notice a small bullet holes in the ground so that must be what my spider sense was warning me about, this is getting out of hand and while I was resolved to fight these guys before that was only when I thought they only had melee weapons and I'd be able to handle them which I was as I'd take nearly half of the guy out of the fight but now that a gun was involved that makes things much harder not because the guns cares me or anything but with more bullets flying around it's gonna be harder for me to fight and doge and I'm definitely going to have to showcase more of my abilities than I already have (though that can be passed off as human) and I don't want to use my abilities because the moment it gets out that there's a vigilante with powers out there I'm gonna have a lo of people looking for me and I don't think I'm good enough to avoid them for long but unfortunately what other option do I have but to continue fighting even if that means showing more of my abilities.

Knowing that there were no civilians in the area as they'd already ran off and hid )as this was Hell's Kitchen and they were used to it) I saw no other option than to continue to fight but at least I could be assured that no one else besides these thugs is gonna see my powers and I'm glad that I have my features masked as well with my hood on and so it was with a heavy heart that I decided to use my powers out in the open and if Murphy's Law (Whatever can go wrong will go wrong) is working like it always does then at least one organisation is gonna find out about it and they're gonna have motives and designs on me but that's just what I'm gonna have to deal with since I don't want to be shot and I'm gonna have to deal with these guys if I wanna stay in Hell's Kitchen to accomplish my objective here though revealing my powers might make that objective much harder, the guy with the gun holds it out to point it at me and he's close to pulling the trigger but it seems he wants to have an upgrade from thug to minor villain as he decides to do a bit of monologue for me. "I didn't think I'd have to get this out but you left us no choice, this is your own fault. You should have left us alone, now your gonna die." He speaks aloud and I'm confused as to what he's thinking as if I recall correctly all of these guys tried to mug me during the past few days and I just put them down in return so it wasn't me getting involved in their business but theses guys trying to mug me and when he points the gun at me I don't move because for some reason my spider sense doesn't go off but he still has a gun and so I decide to move quickly before he can shoot but when I'm about to move off my spider sense rings slightly and so I stop in my tracks, I know it's stupid to stay with the guy pointing his gun at me but I'm not gonna be like Peter who constantly doubts his spider senses and ends up paying the price for it and I'm assured that these guys don't have anything to mess with my spider sense so I can trust it and so I'm gonna stay standing here with the guy aiming his gun at me rather than move which makes my spider sense tingle and I know that sounds stupid and idiotic but if I can't trust my own powers than what's the point in having them, so I stay standing waiting for something to happen.

I begin to panic when I see the guy begin to press down on the trigger and I'm worrying if I've made a big mistake and I'm preparing to quickly dodge but even then I would've still left it too long and at best would come out with a shoulder wound but just when I've begun to doubt myself and move I notice some kind of red cylinder streak down from the darkness above the city and it impacts the gunman's hand knocking the gun out of his hand and to the floor and while I ignore the thugs panic I trace the trajectory of the red cylinder back up to the top of a building and I see standing there the person I've been looking for this entire time, the 'Devil' of Hell's Kitchen...

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