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Issue 4: Game. Set. Match.
Lower East Side. New York, New York 3:05 p.m.
Since the beginning of the fight, Anna was dodging and evading light daggers through acrobatic means as she crossed paths with Cloak. He enlarge his cloak made of darkforce energy to envelope her. Anna launched a box crate toward Cloak using her grapple hook as it enveloped into the cloak as Dagger pounced on her with her light daggers in hand. She ducked her head and curved her body to avoid the strikes from the daggers, elbowing Dagger in the gut and a left hook across her face. Before Anna could deliver a kick to the chest straight at Dagger, she felt a shadow loom over her as she turned her head to see Cloak behind her.
"Oh, no you don't." she shot out her grapple to pull herself to the ceiling, delivering a heel kick across Cloak's face. "With dark and gloomy out, that just leaves-"
Dagger enlarged a large light as Anna covered her eyes, shielding them as Dagger grabbed the unconscious Cloak and fled the scene.
"And just like that, she's gone. Both of them are." Anna scanned the area, observing all of her surroundings in the warehouse. "Now let's see what I can find while I'm here."
She looked around opening one of the crates for any evidence as to what was going on inside the building. Anna inspected every crate to see what was inside. In the first few there were only black market weapons. The rest were cable grapples to hold objects in place when off the ground, given the demonstration used it to hold a falling box she forced with her grapple hook. She grabbed a duffle bag and started putting the cable grapples in the bag. Along the way there was a large box as Anna grabbed a crowbar to pry it open. Revealed inside was a high powered motorcycle in a black and silver color while the rest were import cars of the European class. She took a clipboard which showed a list of things inside the crates. Trap mines, goblin pumpkin bombs, razor bats, and goblin gliders left from Norman Osborn's goblin empire. A variant of Shocker's gloves, Vulture's wings, Mysterio replica robots, and Scorpion's suit. A kinetic powered suit that allows the user to bounce around with speed and force using kinetic energy. A mechanized battle suit to give enhanced strength and durability. The last box had a name branded with the word: Alchemax.
"Looks like everything is up for grabs. And as for this Alchemax company, I'll have to look more into this. But first things first..." Anna's ears perked when she heard police sirens before activating a small tracker on one of the boxes. "That's my cue to leave. And now would be a good time for me to Felicia. I just hope she's not dead in my body." she said as Anna took the keys to the motorcycle and drove out of the abandoned cache
"I want this area secured. Have these crates taken back to Alchemax. Call Liz Allen, tell her we found her stole property. And as of the goblin and super criminal equipment transported to the station."
"These have to be Tombstone's men. I see a couple over there wearing masks."
"The Demons. They must have came here for a shakedown. With whoever this secret cache belongs to."
"Probably Hammerhead's or Lincoln's. Unless Li is also involved."
"I want everything to find these guys. If someone so much as sneezes or twits about this, I wanna know."
St. John hospital. Gramercy, New York 5:26 p.m.
"When did you last see Ms. Marconi?"
"She was stable, responsive enough for her to wake up in a couple of days." the nurse stated to the officer. "But when I came back she was already gone."
"So you didn't see anyone enter the room? Or her leaving with anyone at all."
"No, I- I don't know."
"We'll put on a APB on her. In the meantime, we'll also contact her personal friends and any family she has left."
As soon as the police officer and nurse left, the window suddenly opened as Anna stepped inside the hospital room. Instead of her Black Cat outfit, she wore only a hooded jacket and jeans when her feet settled on the hospital room floor. She noticed a small hospital gown as she grabbed, taking a whiff of the smell. It definitely had Felicia's scent on it when she smelt sweat coming. She also detected a hint of horror as Anna inspected the room. She turned right of her to see a mirror in the bathroom before staring back at the gown.
"Damn it, Hardy. Where the hell are you in my body?"
Tombstone's flat. Harlem, New York 9:24 p.m.
Back in Tombstone's penthouse in Harlem, Tombstone is playing pool as he sent a solid 8 in the hole with a poke from the pool cue. He positioned to acquire the next solid before he heard the door knock.
"What is it?"
"There's someone here to see you, sir."
"Not now."
"It's Hammerhead."
"Hammerhead. What the hell does he want?" he looked at the guard. "Send him in."
"Yes sir, Mr. Lincoln."
"Look at you."
"Your guard stay out back."
"I don't think so."
"You're in my house now. And I call the shots here." Tombstone snapped his fingers as his men stood with .38 pistols and mp5 sub-machine guns in hand. "So what's it going to be?"
Hammerhead cocked his head to his guard. "Wait for me out. Now." he ordered as the guard did what he was told
"Now why are you here?"
"I take it ya didn't heard the rumors."
"Rumors of what?"
"Fisk is back."
"Wilson Fisk is dead. Spider-Man saw to that when he had a posse of goons with him in Shadowland."
"Wasn't him. And besides, the web head never struck me with having armed goons as his posse. Always thought that one was a pretender wannabe."
"If you have a plan, I suggest you get to it."
"With Fisk back returning to be this city's kingpin, I say we join forces." Hammerhead suggested. "We get Li and the Demons, Fisk is no more."
"No deal. Li took my shipment. Besides, I bet you didn't even talk to him first before coming to me." Tombstone folded his arms. "More to the point, I don't trust you."
"Neither do I. But..." Hammerhead paced back and forth before glaring at Tombstone. "You and I both know expects us to pick each other off. So I suggest a temporary truce. Once Fisk is taken care of, we can get back to killin' each other."
"My answer is still no." Tombstone said back with a glare. "Now leave before I have my people ghost you."
"Good luck with finding that shipment from Li." Hammerhead said as he slammed the door behind him
"Mr Lincoln. Sir? Should we partner up with Hammerhead-" the guard's head was slammed in a wall, in which blood became displayed as another approached Tombstone
"Find out where Li is, and get my damn shipment."
"You get it, boss."
'Damn it, Felicia! Where are you in my body? The last thing I need to see on the news is a small adult female dead by alley way.' Anna leaping through rooftop to rooftop. 'I should've kept an eye on her. Why am I so caught in finding this arms deal? And I heard about those two people there. Cloak and Dagger. Why were they there?' she dived down and grab hold of a fire escape and landed on her feet in an alley. 'That's not important right now. I need to find Felicia before she gets herself killed! You better not be dead in my body, Hardy.'
Anna's ears perked when she heard a sudden gunshot four blocks away from her. She leapt forward with her cat like agility and dived down, landing on the fire escape using her hands and feet. She saw a downed child follow by two demon members with guns in hand. She dived forth, landing on one of the demons back knocking him unconscious while the other one aimed his gun at Anna. She used her cat like reflexes to dodge the bullets lunge her way. She leaped as she grabbed the man's wrist and had her legs folded on his head, slamming him face first on the floor. After the fighting was over, she rushed toward the child to see if she was alive. But before she could, she was stunned from behind by an unknown assailant as she fell on the ground losing consciousness.
"I have to give you credit, you kept your word."
Anna's eyes went wide to see the person she's been looking for. The one whose body she housed as her own. Anna Maria Marconi, better known in this case as Felicia Hardy.
"As promised, gentlemen. I present the Black Cat."