Welcome to Hell's Kitchen. Don't mind the crime rate.

Atop many of the blocks, grey gargoyles hunch, and watch over the city. Their talent is legendary...but even with the cops on patrol, stone just can't do everything...

All around Hell's Kitchen, in the shadows, beneath the ground, and in the cracks, Hand ninja's creep. They've resurrected, and they're more ready than ever. Hell's Kitchen is there's. No one's going to save it now...

From out of the shadows, a fierce force leaps. She screams in a deaf/Latina accent, and she's armed... She wears a motorcycle helmet around her head. It keeps her ears covered...and her face, too...

With a pair of submachine guns, she hacks at the ninjas. They dive her from all directions, making as much noise as they'd like. Alas, noise will not be their ally tonight...as likely as that seems. Echo, the new deviless of Hell's Kitchen, empties the mags, draws a pair of katanas, becomes a virtual speedster, and drenches the tunnels beneath Hell's Kitchen with Hand blood.

She slices off their heads. That is the ONLY way to guarantee that a Hand ninja will never return from the dead...

Sometimes, she makes Indian noises as she fights. Ah, if only she could hear herself...

There's quite a crowd tonight. But Echo's more than capable. She's slaughtered a drove of Yakuza before...and they were twice this size. Her katanas drip, as she slays them all.

At long last, she's decapitated the last one. She wanders into the middle of the alley, and stands still. She rests. She's done a lot of hard work tonight...

Alas, with her four working senses, she senses a new danger approaching. As she's imagined, the Hand's dragged in reinforcements...

From out of the sky, Sabretooth lands in the street. He smiles, bares his fangs, and retracts his mutant claws...

Echo sighs, and yawns. She's just about exhausted of Sabretooth's over-elaborate entrances...

To Sabretooth's left, he's joined by Azazel. He appears from out of nowhere, and looks like a red devil...

To his right, he's joined by Hellfire. He grabs a chain nearby, whips it, and lights it up with his own fire...

Echo smiles, and sharpens her own swords. This'll be hard...but she's sure she can clean this up before punching out for the night...

Both sides charge one another. The fight is on. Echo starts by charging the member of the trio who's the most likely to abuse her hearing.

Sabretooth and Azazel take turns attacking her. Hellfire stays in reserve, swinging his lit chain. Azazel's fast, and Sabretooth's stealthy. Both would have an advantage over Echo if she couldn't see, smell, or feel them...

Thankfully, both Sabretooth and Azazel generate a stench. And Hellfire smells like fire...

By and by, Echo becomes more capable of predicting Azazel. So, she simply puts her sword in the right place, and waits for the right time...

Azazel appears. In a flash, she runs him through the chest.

Sabretooth tries to sneak up on her. She takes up both katanas, and starts fighting him again. He's fierce. She can't hear...

Echo dupes Hellfire into slicing the top off a fire hydrant. The resulting geyser dampens his flames, and discourages Sabretooth.

Afraid of water, Sabretooth runs away, hides, and finds a burning trash barrel, where he tries to dry himself. Here, he gets to work, and plots revenge.

Drenched, Hellfire lumbers away from the geyser. He yells angrily, and runs away.

Azazel teleports to a hospital, where he treats his injuries. That got WAY too intense, even for him...

Echo escapes, in the chaos. She mounts a block, and perches between two gargoyles.

Beneath her, Hell's Kitchen sleeps. Not too far away, the geyser of the sliced-off fire hydrant makes a lot of expensive white noise...

Up here, Echo removes her helmet. She's got notches in her ears. She's also got a white handprint tattooed across her face. There's a steamy story, as to how she got it...but that'll just have to wait.

Tonight, the deviless of Hell's Kitchen keeps a vigilant eye out for danger. Because of her, Hell's Kitchen isn't so much like hell. At least not for civilians...