The heroes for hire have their hands full!

“Man, things sure did go south overnight!” Complained Spider-Man out loud. Swinging from one building to the next with a woman hanging over his shoulder screaming out loud and panicking as she looked down to the pandemonium going on at street level, at 20 stories up. He had found her being chased by wendigo just minutes earlier, webbing up the pack to buy time and pull her up to safety and swing away. “So, are you doing okay up here?”

“ARE YOU INSANE?! PUT ME DOWN! I’LL SUE YOUR ASS FOR THIS!”

“Yeah, yeah, I get it… I’m not much of a cabbie.”

Swinging across town and holding his ‘passenger’ tight, Spider-Man looked down at the fires and rampage going on below. Down below it was not hard to spot the massive wendigo terrorizing the streets, they were as big as Hulks and just as violent. What was worse were their numbers were increasing. He managed to rescue quite a few people already, but each time was getting harder and harder to do. The woman screaming up bloody **** over his shoulder nearly cost him a leg to rescue from a pack of wendigo chasing her down minutes earlier. “Hang on, we’re almost there, once you can get on your feet, you can cuss me out more.”

“FUCK YOU!”

“THERE you go! Keep those spirits high!”

Darting his hand out to fire another thread of webbing to swing towards another building, Spiderman brought the screaming woman to the garden roof of a high-rise where several people were already there, being protected to by the heroes for hire along with a group of SHIELD security who offered blankets and tended to any injuries. Landing on his feet, he let the woman down only for her to shove him away from her and stormed off, crossing her arms with a scowl before turning to the SHIELD crew nearby in the hopes of finding someone with authority. “You’ll hear from my lawyer you red and blue ass-hole!”

“Eh, can’t please them all.” Peter shrugged, getting a smirk from Iron Fist and Luke Cage as the woman stormed past them. Jessica Jones and Black Cat traded knowing looks as they watched the woman storm towards a SHIELD medic in charge to plead her case, only to be chewed out by the woman in the medical coat and guided by a pair of guards to sit with the rest of the survivors, all the while she was screaming threats of lawsuits against Spiderman AND SHIELD.

“Wow Spidey, what did you do to piss THAT one off?” asked the white-haired former thief, her arms crossed under the bust of her one-piece black cat-suit.

“Saved her from being a Karen sandwich, what happened to good old fashion gratitude these days, huh?”

Shaking his head, Daredevil approached the webslinger, slapping his hand over Peter’s shoulder. “She won’t have a case, not in THIS crisis, but if you need some legal advice, just let me know.”

“Thanks, knowing my luck, J.J. will claim this was all MY doing right from the....” Going stiff, Peter’s senses went off like a flare in his mind. His head darting one direction to the other as if trying to spot something.

“Uhm, Spidey? Are you okay?” Worried Felicia, seeing even Daredevil look apprehensive before Spiderman turned his attention to the Black Cat and ran towards her with his arms out to grab her.

“GET DOWN!” Tackled off her feet by the web slinger, the Black Cat felt a change in the air pressure around her, almost like the feeling of a fast car rushing past her before the ground shattered from an impact where she once stood. Spiderman had caught her just in time to avoid being crushed to **** by something huge, heavy… And invisible. Looking over Spider-Man’s shoulder, Felicia could see Daredevil back away and guide Luke Cage and Daniel Rand the Iron Fist back to keep them safe. With his batons ready, Daredevil looked like he was going to fight someone, then everyone clutched at their ears when a guttural roar reverberated across the entire rooftop, something that made Murdoc drop to his knees clutching his head in pain before he managed to roll to the side to avoid an impact that pulverized a supply crate behind him.

“What’s happening?!” Screamed Felicia, finally pulled up back to her feet so she could move again, just as Spiderman sprayed the area behind him with webbing from his wrists. The moment he did, everyone looked up in horror to find the silhouette of a wendigo thrashing and struggling to break free against the sticky webbing holding it in place. Darting his head to his right, Spider-Man did it again, catching a wendigo in mid leap to tumble to the roof thrashing and roaring in rage while bound in webbing.

“They’re invisible!”

“HOW?!”

With no time to figure out the how or why, Spider-Man had his hands full already with his senses going off like a fire alarm in his head. Ducking to the ground, Peter winced when he felt claws just barely rake across his back, hearing the Black Cat behind him scream and finding a crate practically explode from something impacting it with the same speed as what almost struck him. Looking behind him, he found Felicia clutching at her arm but overall was alright. Even though he could not see his attackers, his spider sense allowed him to know where they were. Grabbing hold of Felicia’s hand, the two darting towards the others just as more invisible attackers began climbing up the walls of the building and attacked.

The people on the roof instantly began to panic, and rightly so when one of the SHIELD guards suddenly disappeared from sight when he called for an air transport, followed by him screaming and a pool of blood forming on the ground where he once stood. Daredevil ran ahead and summersaulted into the air to kick the unseen attacker back over the wall, hearing its howls of rage descend to the city streets just as he landed on his feet. “We need to get everyone out of here!”

“How? Everyone’s going invisible, I can’t see a thing!” Before the eyes of the heroes and the group of people screaming for their lives, one by one they all went invisible, screaming blindly as they lost sight off who was in front of them or themselves. “How can we fight something we can’t see?”

“Welcome to my world.” Hearing the growls of the attackers around them over the screaming of those they tried to protect, Daredevil may not have been able to see the wendigo, but he knew there were five of them surrounding them and another twelve making their way up the steep escarpment of the building they were using as refuge… And across the street to another building he felt the presence of something watching them, its arms up like a conductor but unseen by everyone except for him and his enhanced senses. Whatever it was, it was MAKING these wendigos and their victims invisible; he wasn’t sure who or what it was but so long as it was over seeing the fight, they were at a disadvantage. Tilting his head, he could hear the radio off the remains of the SHIELD agent down on ground level that a transport was arriving to pick them up. “We can’t stay here. We need to hold them off until the SHIELD transport arrives.”

“How long do we have?”

“Five minutes… We need to buy some time.”

Bringing his wrists out Spider-Man sprayed the entire roof top with webbing, getting snarls and growls of complaint from the attacking wendigo as they thrashed and struggled against the steel strong fibers. But for the time being, the heroes for hire had an idea of what they were dealing with.

One managed to break free, roaring out loud and giving away its presence. “Same to YOU too, asshole!” Yelled Power Man, giving the man-eating monster a right hook with enough **** to send it across town. With Spider-Man and Daredevil acting as spotters, the rest of the heroes bought time as they waited for the transport to arrive. Even now they could spot the harrier transport heading their way. Uppercutting another wendigo off the roof with the strength of a Mac truck behind her punch, Jessica closed in with the others just as the transport arrived to hover over the roof and open its entry bay.

“EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!!!”

Guiding everyone towards the ship, the heroes for hire staved off the attacking monsters to make sure everyone could make their escape. But then everything went wrong when they tried to step onboard, only to be met with a wall of **** that prevented them from getting in. Slapping their hands against an invisible barrier separating them the safety of the harrier vessel and the growing horde of wendigo behind them, the heroes realised they were trapped. “What in…” Gasping as she felt a bubble of **** surround her, Jessica struggled against her prison before being pulled back away from the group and disappearing. One by one the other heroes were suddenly trapped in bubbles of solid light and snatched away from the fight as easily as plucking leaves off a vine. “What’s going on?!” Cried out one of the people freaking out just as an invisible cone of **** struck the side of the harrier transport, blowing out the engine and sending it falling like a rock towards the ground in a plume of smoke, leaving only Spider-Man, Black Cat and Daredevil to fend for themselves.

“Something across the street is controlling them, it wasn’t after the people, it wants US!”

“If anyone has any ideas, I’m open to anything.” Called out Peter, standing shoulder to shoulder with Black Cat and Daredevil.

“We can’t do anything while that… THING is keeping an eye on us, if we make an escape it’ll just wall us up.”

“I don’t see anything.”

“Believe me, its there… Watching us.”

Thinking fast, Felicia reached into a small pouch at her hip and pulled out a small cannister the size of cellphone. “Hold your breath guys.” Pulling a pin on the item, she tossed it at their feet where a plume of black smoke filled the rooftop, along with the smell of mace. Hearing the beasts in front of them cry out and cough from the fumes, Spider-Man could already notice the invisible wall behind them had relented when they became obscured by the smoke. Taking their chances, Spiderman hoisted Black Cat in his arm and the three jumped off the roof, with Peter firing a strand of webbing to swing away to safety and Daredevil using a bolas cable to do the same. By the time they reached ground level, the trio ran through an alley to safety.

“Geez Cat, what WAS that?”

“Pepper spray bomb, I have it just in case I steal from someone who shoots first and doesn’t ogle me.”

“I don’t condone it, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Chuckled Peter, looking around for a safe place for them to hide the wendigo hoard still hunting them. Stopping to catch their breaths, Felicia looked down to her injured shoulder, finding it scratched deep to cut through her costume and draw blood but for the most part she was unharmed. Seeing that the two other men were watching her inspect her injury, she gave a reassuring smile. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah… Just a little hungry.”