The following night, Fish and his men walk through the steel mill ground, wearing black jackets and gloves with rolled-up black stocking masks on their heads. Carr trails behind them, dressed in identical clothes with his bag over his shoulder. He appears nervous and obviously does not want to be there.
"Remember Carr," Fish tells him, "We lure Cage out and you nail him with that stuff."
"I really don't know about this," he tells them, "I have no idea how it might react if it comes in contact with human tissue. Especially someone like Luke Cage."
"Consider this a science experiment."
"Look, you may be used to this sort of thing, but I'm not. I'm not like you."
"Think about your family. You don't want anything to happen to them, do ya? If you see Luke Cage, picture your family, take aim, and let `im have it."
Carr falls silent. One of Fish's men rounds a corner and whispers to the group, "Cage is coming." The men all pull their stockings over their faces. Fish turns and whispers, "Remember, Carr. It's either Luke Cage or your family." They hide behind machinery or piles of beams with their guns drawn. Carr is the only one who stays behind; standing out in the open, he nervously pulls his mask on, opens his bag, and removes the Alchemy Gun.
Cage enters through the main gate, which is curiously open. "Hello?," he calls out, "I have an appointment with your manager." He recieves no answer as he continues. "Got a bad feeling about this," he says to himself as he walks past a building and turns the corner to find Carr waiting for him; he goes wide-eye and freezes. Cage, meanwhile, looks at him curiously and begins to stride forward, "Who the hell are you?" Fish watches the scene from the shadows and whispers, "What the hell are you waiting for?" Cage stops a few yards away from Carr and takes a look around. "So what is all this?," he asks, but still recieves no answer from the obviously terrified man in front of him. A moment passes, then Fish jumps out of the shadow, "Dammit, Carr!".
Fish and his men come at Cage from all sides, gun blazing. Bullets bounce off him, putting several holes in his shirt, but he takes a swing at the nearest man who gets flung back with enough force that he bowls over one of his partners and they are both sent bouncing along the dirt. He kicks the third, sending him in the air as he fires a final bullet. Carr shudders as he witnesses Cage's brute strength firsthand. "What're you waiting for?," Fish shouts as he fires another shot, "Shoot him, Curtis!". Cage dashes forward and lifts Fish off the ground, pinning him against a forklift. Next, he rips the mask off and instantly recognizes the men beneath it.
"Fish," Cage growls.
"That's right," Fish laughs, "You've been had. It was a trap all along."
"I would feel like a chump if your boys managed to do anything beyond waste my time," Cage casually tosses Fish into the air as he turns to Carr.
Carr raises his gun as Cage comes close. "If you're gonna shoot me with that thing, now's the time," Cage tells him as he comes for him, "Because I'm about the wrap it around your neck." The drum of the Alchemy Gun rotates as Carr selects the right vial. "I'm sorry," he tells him. "Sorry about what?," Cage responds and the answer comes when Carr pulls the trigger. A vial shoots out like a minature missile and breaks against the gravel behind Cage. He turns and watches the liquid begin to boil and tilts his head curiously. A second later, the gravel explodes with enough force that it knocks him off his feet and onto his side. Wasting no time, Carr fires off three more vials directly in front of Cage who sits up just as he notices the boiling gravel next to his face. "Christmas," he mutters just as it explodes in a massive fireball that sends him flailing through the air where he hits a crane suspending a plank of metal beams. He falls back to the ground in a cloud of dirt, face first, and begins to get back up once again. Finding his courage, Carr turns the magazine in the Alchemy Gun and selects a different vial, then fires it at the crane above him. The vial breaks against the metal chain, turning it black before is dissolves completely and drops the plank of beams. Cage looks up just in time for the beams to drop from above and bury him in a pile of metal and dust. Carr then moves into position as he notices something useful nearby. It takes some time, but Cage manages to crawl out from underneath the beams, barely managing to budge them as he pulls himself free. It isn't until he spots the nearby wrecking ball that he notices that Carr is now at the controls. The ball and chain swings Cage's way, knocking him into the air with enough force that he is smashed through the wall of the mill. Carr steps out and makes his way toward the hole in the wall, in hopes that his adversary was unconscious. There is no such luck. Cage soon emerges through the hole, "I liked you better when you were too terrified to move." Panic returns to Carr's face as Cage runs across the grounds toward him. He rotates his drum and finds the proper vial, then removes it by hand.
"You're doing it for the family," he tells himself before popping the vial open and dumping its contents on his mask and clothes, making sure to rub it into his gloves as well, but none of it touches bare skin. Soon, his entire wardrobe goes from black to a gray color as it takes a more metallic appearance. Cage makes it to him, knocking the gun from his grip and pinning him to a stack of pillars with the audible sound of metal against metal. Carr throws several pucnhes into Cage's face, his gloves now tough enough to force Cage to let go. He presses the attack, but Cage slams his fist into Carr's chest, which sends him back against the pillars and cracks his new metal suit. Cage throws another punch, which cracks his mask. Carr strikes, but Cage catches his fist and whips him overhead, bodyslaming him into the dirt. While on his back, Carr gives Cage a kick to the face, knocking him back, which gives him the chance to get on his feet, but the advantage is only temporary. Cage grabs and throws Carr back against the pillars, knocking some of his makeshift armor loose as it cracks more. He gives Carr another punch, which almost completely destroys his mask, exposing his face as it crumbles away. With Carr now groggy, Cage grabs him and throws him onto the ground, breaking away more of his armor as he slides through the dirt on his back.
Carr manages to regain his composure as he spots his gun; he scrambles for it on his hands and knees, desperately making a grab for it as Cage runs toward him again. The magazine rotates as Carr fumbles with it while in a kneeling position. "Put it down," Cage commands and makes a leap for him just as Carr rolls onto his back and fires. Everything seems to slow down as Cage and the vial pass through the air on a collision course. As he gets close, the vial shatters against his chest. With his shirt ripped apart from the battle, the vial hits his exposed flesh, releasing a small cloud of steam and glass. Carr rolls off to the side as Cage hits the ground, kicking up dirt and gravel in the process as the impact creates a small crater. Carr stands to his feet, breathing heavily as he waits. Cage slowly stands to his feet; once he's up and turns around, he notices his torn shirt begin to dissolve into nothing, followed by several patches of his pants. He looks at his bare arms and legs curiously as steam rises from his body. His vision is blurred and his legs begin to give out. He takes a step forward, but soon losses his footing and falls to one knee while a concerned Carr watches.
"What did you hit me with?," Cage asks.
"I had no choice," Carr apologizes just before Cage passes out.
