Felicia gripped her wound as she lifted her hand to see the damage. "Shit, that's going to be a bitch-" she sighed as the release of pressure gave way to a wave of pain, "at the dry cleaners..." She mumbled  as she staggered along the edge of the wall. Normally she could just leap from the building haphazardly, doing a duck and roll to ensure her safety. With the wound though things wouldn't be so easy. Ignoring the lingering thugs she batted their attacks away. What's worse it seemed their numb nuts boss was the only one with any decent insults (or combative skills for that matter). She wouldn't let them surprise her again, no way. She had bigger fish to fry than these wanna be gangster guppies.Â
"Ah-ha!" She exclaimed as the flash of lightning illuminated what she had just spotted. "Purrrfect!" In her bolt of excitement she let go of the pain and connected a swift kick to the groin of the same thug that tried to blind side her at least ten times now. "Give it break bub, only Spidey has been able to pull a fast one on me..." she flipped over and ducked the other thug that made an ill-fated go at her. His clumsy form crumpled  to the ground when gravity finally caught up to him. She finished, " and I kinda let him." Taking another breath she did a somsersault back to the last thug up and gave a quick elbow jab to the knee, then his right side. Once he was hunched over she finished with a jab straight to the nose. "Ya know what they say, that whole cat and mouse sorta thing...that's uh... me and...Spidey..." She trailed off as she looked around at her most unfortunate sparring partners as they laid sprawled out all around her.
Felicia leaned over and put her support of her upper body on her knees. "Shit that smarts." She beat her teeth as the proportioned weight was very un-proportional given what her right side was feeling. Her wound was now more active than ever. She lifted her hand and could feel herself becoming dizzy at the sight of crimson. Her once snow white glove now was dyed a dainty pink and speckled with oblong spots of deeper red, more profound shades of red. She was fading fast, and didn't want to pass out with these bafoons all around her. She shuttered at the idea of what that would be like if they came to before she did. "Gotta-keep up." She winced and eased herself up to the exit she had previously been perspicaciously balancing towards.
"Hey missy!"Â The thug with the now broken nose spat blood in her direction, his call coming out as a bloodied hissing.Â
"What worm?" Felicia was in no mood for his cat calling or whatever the low life had to say. "Whatever ya have to say, save it! It would do both of us a lot of favors, trust me...I took it easy on ya'll."Â
The thug cackled and started coughing. Either from laughing too much with a fractured lung or because of the blood from his face dripping down his throat. Felicia wasn't sure, and in either case she didn't care. "You may be done with us...but we sure ain't done wit you!" He hissed between wheezes.Â
Felicia stalled her approach, this could be him just batting her. Or maybe he was trying to prevent her from helping her comrade. She took the pitch, "what is roach?" She glared at the mangled man as she pivoted her footing to face him his direction. She could tell how disorientated she was she almost collapsed in the process of changing directions. If this was bait and he was setting a trap she was most definitely screwed to say the least.
"Well ya see miss Cat, you twos may have been keeping an eye on us. But our little gang ain't so little. See we got informants all around this city looking for do gooders such as yourselves and--"
"Worm keep it short if you would like to have one lung completely intact."
He furrowed his brow, wiping a combination of snot and blood from his lip. "As I was saying before I was RUDELY INTERRUPTED!" He wheezed and coughed after his exclamation. Felicia was too tired and at this point borderline slap happy to not release a small snicker.Â
She sighed and bent her body to lean against the brick railing of the roof top, "oh the little things she said as she slowly slid down."
The man getting his breathing under control continued on with his sch-peal. "Anyways, we knews you were coming. Our eyes and ears been on ya for months...we knews your plan, where you were staking us out..." He grinned, "we know we ain't no picks of the litter ya see." She ignored his double negative and tried to focus on the point. "We were sent to uh..." his eyes rolled back in his head before he could continue and foam started leaking from his mouth.Â
"What the hell?" She stood in a hunched position to inspect the man. She lumbered over to the man, felt his pulse, it was done. Like she thought he was dead. She wondered what he was going to say next. There were a number of things and no real evidence to give one rationale any more support than the others. The fact that it was more organized and calculated definitely meant Stature and Black Cat had to go back to the drawing board and maybe even recruit some help. She wanted to say it was too dangerous,especially for the kid. But for some reason the kids' words and little pep talk got to Felicia and she had faith. Not only in herself, but in her and the kid working together. As a team.
Felicia couldn't get all mushy gushy right now though as it felt like her innards had beat her to it. She needed a plan of action something to do right now to help her and Stature get out of this mess, but what? Felicia managed her crumbling body over to the fire escape and took a breath as she watched her young comrade grow to at least 7 feet tall. The men all around her seemed frightened, well at least those with any brains did. A few seemed to stand their ground and almost like the idea of a challenge. "What a mess..." she smirked and allowed herself a moment to breathe before she started her decent down the copper bean stalk.Â