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Chaos Sorcerer: Great to hear from you again. About the deleted scenes, I wasn't doing a collection of deleted scenes but just that one because John pissed me off in that episode and in the 2nd half of Season 6. Well, if you hadn't given me the idea, I wouldn't have thought about this at all. We'll see about Peter. This story has no Defenders stuff so we'll assume The Hand ends with Nobu. But the 'war in the shadows' between The Hand and The League can be given a reference. In this chapter, I kinda fixed Malcolm's overall plan. Did you read any of the other stories I recommended to you? I read some of HandAssassinSpider-Man's stuff. It was great.

Chapter 2- Two Devils battle

Hell's Kitchen, New York

On a rooftop in Hell's Kitchen stood a figure in a red suit. He was none other than Daredevil or as some people called him- The Devil of Hell's Kitchen.

But no one knew who he was or why he was a vigilante. His real name was Matthew Murdock, though he mostly went by Matt. He was a lawyer. When he was a child, he had been blinded in an accident but it had enhanced his other senses to superhuman levels.

His father had been murdered because he had refused to throw a boxing match. That and many such incidents had made him become Daredevil. Recently, he had lost someone he cared about more than anything- Elektra Natchios.

Calling their relationship rough or complicated was an understatement. But at the end of the day, the two loved each other a lot. Unfortunately, in the final battle against The Hand, she had fallen to their leader- Nobu.

Her slow death in his arms was going to haunt Matt for the rest of his life. Now, he was too pained to even go into his own apartment where the two had many happy memories together. He did not do much lawyer-work either. Most of his time was spent as Daredevil, beating criminals to a pulp. These days, he was showing even less restraint than before but he still couldn't bring himself to kill anyone. But deep down, he wondered if Frank Castle was right.

The sound of something stretching behind him brought him back to the present. He knew this sound was produced when an arrow was notched on a bow. But he stood still, deciding to surprise the attacker instead.

The bowstring was released and the arrow flew towards him at its fullest speed. At the last moment he dodged it by leaning sideways. He then turned around, brandishing his club and deflected another arrow. The one in front of him had blocked his heartbeat like the ninjas of The Hand did so he could not use it to detect him. But there were always other ways to hear people, like Stick had taught him.

The archer fired again and he deflected as the two moved towards each other. The archer fired one more time but Daredevil caught it before it hit him. Touching it, he realized it had a green fletching. Wasn't that the color of the fletchings on the arrows used by that Hood from Starling City?

He didn't have time to think as the archer tried to smack his face with his bow which he ducked to avoid and then flipped away to avoid another hit as he threw the arrow away. He tried to strike him with his club but the archer blocked with his bow.

The two were in a stalemate for sometime. The archer suddenly withdrew a fletchette and tried to slice Daredevil on the chest but fortunately, he had superhuman senses so this tactic wouldn't work on him. He jumped back just in time and avoided the fletchette. The archer threw it at him but he deflected it.

The archer tried to strike him again but he blocked with his club and pushed him back. He then divided the club into two sticks and as the archer struck again, he sidestepped and grabbed the bow from both sides with his sticks. The archer tried to free it but he kicked him on the stomach and then flip-kicked him on the face, making him stagger back as he dropped the bow.

As Daredevil moved towards him, he took out an arrow from his quiver and attacked him again. Daredevil jumped back to avoid being sliced by the arrow. He then moved in to punch the archer but he side-stepped and managed to slice his arm a little.

Daredevil winced a little because of the pain but he wasn't bothered much by the injury. The archer tried to slice him with the arrow, but at the last moment, he changed the hand with which he was using it. Daredevil's senses once again proved their worth as he jumped back just in time to avoid it. He then gave the archer an uppercut. Then he ran at him grabbed his head between his legs and flipped him to the ground.

The two got up at about the same time. The archer punched Daredevil and he stumbled back a little. Then he punched the archer who stumbled back. Before the archer could recover, Daredevil jumped in the air and gave him a flying kick, sending him flying back. The archer fell near his bow.

He staggered a little as he got up. Before he could do anything, Daredevil kicked him on the knee and it broke. The archer fell to the ground due to the pain. He then rolled away near his bow. Daredevil moved towards him but he threw a flashbang grenade to the ground, disorienting his senses for a moment and escaped.

After he was gone, Daredevil wondered what was happening. The green fletching on the arrow proved that it was The Hood who had attacked him. The archer had also shown the skills that could be associated with The Hood. So now, Daredevil wondered why The Hood had attacked him. The man's mission was to deliver justice to the corrupt rich so why did he travel all the way to Hell's Kitchen to try and kill him? What did he have to do with it?

There was only one way to find out. He needed to go to Starling City to investigate. As he thought of Starling City, he ended up thinking of someone. That someone was Dinah Laurel Lance. He had met her in law school. After Elektra's departure, the two had been in a relationship and he had cared for her but they had later broken up. Some piece of him still felt something for her though.

Pushing the thoughts of Laurel out of his mind, he decided to prepare for a journey to Starling City.

Starling City

Malcolm limped towards a rowbench that held some arrows and leaned heavily against it. He then ripped off his mask and hood and gave a sigh.

He was shocked to see that Daredevil was more skilled than him. So now, killing him was too difficult but he had a contingency just in case. The green fletching had been used by him on purpose.

The green fletching would make him suspect that The Hood was trying to kill him while wearing a different suit to conceal himself so he would undoubtedly come to Starling City to investigate. While he would be absent from Hell's Kitchen, the Gnucci family would believe him dead and during that time, he would take some of their money. If they would try to back out, he would use some harsher ways to 'persuade' them. Meanwhile, Daredevil and The Hood would probably fight and be too busy to stop him.

Malcolm gave a satisfied smile, realizing that he had killed two birds with one stone.

I think that by this point, Matt is more skilled than anyone from the first two seasons of Arrow considering that he could easily beat Nobu who had centuries of experience. Still, Malcolm would put up a good fight.

I hope this plan of Malcolm makes more sense than his plan in 3x9. And you guessed right. I am going to try something new, that is I am going to do a crossover paring, in this case Matt/Laurel or MurLance.

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