#char:patsy walker

Hellcat was one of the most experienced fighters that Matt had ever heard of. Although he had not personally worked with her in some time, and even when he had it had been more like fighting alongside someone rather than collaborating with him, he knew enough from the brief snippets that he had heard on the streets, or on occasions small pieces of her fights that he could hear from the rooftops. By the time he got to the place where she had been battling against criminals and gang members he found they were on the ground unconscious and she was nowhere to be found, and there was something to be said for someone who managed to make Matt smirk without even saying two words to him. Now, it seemed, they were on the same team, and Matt was more than eager to get started on working with her.

A good place to start, it seemed, was in Fogwell’s. Knowing what the other people on your team were capable of was one thing, but being able to integrate tactics and approaches with each other was the difference between defeat and victory. Add into that Matt’s insane curiosity, and he figured it was basically a given where they would end up. After running through a few warm-ups himself he considered putting a scarf around his head to hide his face, but teams were built on trust. When Hellcat walked into the gym, Matt Murdock was standing there, though he still felt as if he was wearing the mask.

Growing up, Sue had almost exclusively relied on her uncanny ability to remain in the background, and to avoid the attention of her father, which was so often something that anyone would attempt to escape out from under. If she could go back and tell herself that she was the face of the Fantastic Four now, the one that appeared on national television and took interviews with hundreds of reporters a year, she probably would’ve laughed in her own face, but life had a funny way of surprising you. The public had a vested interest in their heroes, and that extended to their private lives. Luckily, today Sue was with someone who was even more well versed in the whole media circus, the one and only Patsy Walker.

“I really didn’t expect this big of a turn out,” Sue said, taking a moment away from doing her makeup to look at the crowd gathering on the street outside the hotel. “I mean, it’s just another Q&A. Anything pertinent has been shown on TV already, or announced by the President. Are they expecting us to say we’ve found the cure for world hunger, Patsy? I fear they might just be disappointed if they are.” Of course, Sue was more than convinced that the two of them could accomplish such a massive feat - they merely needed more than twenty four hours to prepare for it.

Patsy Walker was a woman after Tony’s own heart. Both of them had taken one look at the typical convention of super-hero secret identities and decided that wasn’t for them. Tony’s response had been one decided on almost entirely in the moment and more than made up for it in the decade that followed, whereas Patsy had put a little more thought into the whole thing, but that was beside the point! There was another celebrity hero out there and Tony was determined to make her acquaintance for real this time. America Chavez in her body didn’t exactly count!

When FRIDAY informed him that Hellcat was on her way, though, Tony had to let out a groan behind the mask. This wasn’t exactly the best impression to make the first time around. Iron Man getting beat up by civilians who thought he was a giant spider, bear, monster from a book that scarred them as children or Voldemort didn’t really paint a great picture as to his heroism! “I’ve got this completely under control!” Tony announced from under the flurry of pedestrians currently crowding him. He sent a net flying out from his suit towards one of them, sticking the man to the ground. “See? That was pretty cool, right? I know that was pretty cool!”