DAREDEVIL:THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR #1
DEVIL'S DUE PART 1
By:Stephen Kelley
Hell's Kitchen my home I've "walked"these streets for many years since I was a kid, even before the accident it was never a nice neighborhood, it was filled with corruption cops, businessmen, cheap thugs for hire you name it. My name is Matt Murdock I'm a lawyer, I also happen to be legally blind a side effect of the accident that happened to me when I was a kid, you see a blind homeless man was crossing the street and a disposal truck carrying toxic waste through the city which was prohibited by state law was speeding through so the cops would not pull them over, the guy gunning the truck saw the homeless guy and tried to screech to a halt but he was skidding across the road and in a selfless act I shoved the homeless man out-of-the-way and one of the barrels of waste fell from the truck as it crashed, the glowing green liquid shot into my eyes burning out my retinas and forever blinding me. But as I quickly found out when I woke in the hospital that though the chemical had taken my sight it gave something back to me in exchange, my four remaining senses functioned at superhuman level meaning I could hear, touch, smell, and taste better than anyone on the planet, but as a drawback my super hearing and smell was my Achilles heels to the regular person a whiff of perfume,strong one at that was nauseating for me to be near imagine smelling a perfume so strong that it felt like you were walking through a gas chamber or Imagineering this screech of a subway and it's like 10,000 nails on a chalkboard, but my sense of hearing also had an added attribute I could "see"using a radar sense similar to that of bats, meaning if I heard a pin drop the sound vibrations would "wash over me"and for a split second I could see all the details of an entire room so yeah,
this is the life that I lead. My father Jack "the devil"Murdock was a washed up prizefighter way past his prime, my father was enforced in me especially after the accident to be somebody and to this day I never forgot that lesson especially the night that my father was murdered for refusing the thrall fight, years later I would capture the man who did this but even then it still left me feeling empty till elektra came into my life but as quickly as she came she had been murdered by my arch nemesis bullseye only to be revived by my secondary enemies the hand, but eventually I would get married but she too would die, I would also find out that the mother that had abandoned me when I was just a baby had become a nun seems my whole entire life I had never been given a break, it was after my father's murder I started to become a vigilante I started to call myself daredevil after the kids at school always used to make fun of me because I would do acrobatic tricks despite being blind I fondly remember my costume being black and yellow but I switched to red as it was "more appropriate". And tonight I found out the crime boss the owl was planning something big so I swung/bounded across the rooftops of the kitchen meeting my usual informants or any thugs who had "loose lips", it wasn't until I got the drop on some of the owls henchmen that I figured out what the owls plans were. The owl had for two nights only placed a bounty on my head, two G'S to whoever could bring my head to him and to make it worse he had hired six deadly "assassins"to do the job unfortunately the documents I had "borrowed"did not list who they were, as I said seems my whole entire life I've gotten the short end of the stick and the next two nights ahead of me are gonna be no better then when I was six or seven. As I was gathering my thoughts I could hear the owls voice, he was using an audio projector though I could tell by the sound quality it was an old-fashioned movie projector of sorts "so daredevil, my eyes in the sky tells me you got the drop on some my boys and the cat is out of the bag, yes I've hired six assassins to take pesky little you out you should feel honored, it's not often I have an enemy that I desperately want to kill now let this be a warning to all in New York beyond just Hells kitchen anyone caught trying to give refuge to the "man without fear"will be added as collateral damage, oh but don't worry daredevil I won't have the assassins take you out in the daytime if you managed to survive tonight you'll get a reprieve but when the sun goes down, the hunt will resume and if after these two nights you're not dead well then I'll hire more assassins and lengthen the time line till you're dead carcasses is finally at my feet"owls shrieked as his face got really close into the projector screen before cutting off, so tonight begins a six person ringer and owl I guess thinks I'm going to crack under the pressure he more than anyone should know why they call me the man without fear "you won't be so cocky after I'm done filling you with holes".