BITE THE ROTTEN APPLE

The ODST nodded, putting an arm on his shoulder. "Come on, let's m--wait." Before he could move, she pointed behind them, to a noise she had heard.

The Moon-Copter was flying by, stopping briefly. Moon Knight spoke. [i]"I have found one of the Kingpin's gliders heading toward the courthouse with his mechanically-enhanced allies. You must move swiftly."[/i]

"Yeah, yeah, I got it," she said with a roll of her eyes. "How about this? I hitch a ride on the top of that bird you have, and he goes his own way? That way I can get a good shot off if I need to in a pinch, and I can jump off to let you go."

[i]"That seems... adequate,"[/i] the man said, lowering slightly.

She stepped on, crouching slightly to grab the top. "So let's move."

He indeed did start flying, with her gripping the top, Spider Man swinging on his way at their pace, periodically completely launching himself into the air at random.

Azumi spoke as they moved on. "Just so you know, I'm more prone to using traditional weapons than any of those weird powers. So I'll need something big to blow up some of those heavier mechs. Marines didn't explain that one."

Moon Knight answered calmly. [i]"Marines. I was one once. In some ways it's liberating. Before the padded gloves, the cowl, that cloak. The voices in my head. All gone. Back to the basics. Before the spectacle of it all. When it was a job. Not a religion. When all I knew was what I knew."[/i]

A schizophrenic ex-marine? Okay.... Still, she could understand somewhat, what with serving a woman with a hefty goddess complex on a regular basis. "I can relate."

[i]"Oh?"[/i] A pause as he thought on this. [i]"It's never about what you think it is. Still, someone has to do this. Still, someone has to do the fun stuff. Still, the blade must praise its lord. Still, people want to know, how can I live like this? The blood I've spilled. The blood yet to be spilled. Still, the answer is the same. How could I live any other way?"[/i]

She assumed he was kidding about the "fun stuff" comment. Otherwise he was both a psychopath [i]and[/i] a multiple, or at least a schizophrenic and psychopath. "How do you live with that? With killing your enemies like that, when you might have known things about them? When you had to keep from objectifying them?" She had to know how to handle things with Bruce, after all.

[i]"The risks? The times I've descended into madness? The times I've died? How can I live like this? How could I live any other way?"[/i]

"... I guess you have a point there." She paused a moment. They were getting close to the courthouse, and she could see the fight going on, the many thick-armored heavy troopers there, a few throwing bombs at the courthouse to stick there on a timer. There was also a bomb squad car for concealed detonation. "Just try to keep from following that Khonshu too closely, okay? Is there any other way around it, to avoid worshipping someone if they don't deserve it?"

He apparently would have none of this talk of a lack of piety. [i]"If you do not mind, I will just go back to listening to the voices in my head."[/i]

She was more than a bit deadpan, but had to draw attention to something she had seen on his arms. "...considerate, truly. Just wondering, what are those dart things you use made of? The ones that look like a gibbous moon?"

[i]"Unimportant. They are a gift of the priests of Khonshu. Usable in close and long range for possibly lethal effect if I choose."[/i]

"Okay, so like shuriken. Sounds useful. And this Khonshu? What is his role in things?"

[i]"Khonshu, my patron, is the Egyptian God of Vengeance and the Moon. I am his vengeance--"[/i]

"--and Batman is the night, I know. I went over this." The rest of their travel was relatively silent.

Finally they arrived, Spiderman throwing the last of the smaller tech troopers into another of them to knock him out, grabbing a bomb off of the building and running it over to the car, dropping it in and going for another as another car came. He used a Tech Heavy as a springboard using his webs, even slamming him into the ground and stunning him momentarily as he grabbed another and ran it over. Apparently the police in the area couldn't handle this many armored opponents, not enough gun.

She dropped down off of the copter as it descended slightly, watching as it flew off again, off to what he had been busy with. She was next to Batman. "Sorry we're late," she said, still sounding a bit annoyed with Moon Knight, but saw a large helicopter carrier of sorts coming their way, red like these troops. "Only a few more, guys, we gotta take these out." She sighed at that. How could she take out people like that without lethal weaponry? "Gotta use this," she told him, and drew her handgun, aiming at one of the oncoming Heavies. She shot him once in the shoulder, the explosive bullet making him take a step back before she shot the other, then a knee, then the other knee... she conserved ammunition there, the armor hits enough as she charged forward... and tackled him, slamming his back into the ground. She grunted, punching once, twice, three times into his face with the gun! Finally, she was torn off, slammed into the ground, and he stood up.

She saw, the remaining four bombs were on the courthouse. Spider Man was grabbing one, bringing it over... "Everyone grab a bomb! I can't up there, so just throw it if you have to!" Quickly, she reloaded. They had to move.

(Feel free to Get the remaining enemies on your next post. I'll get the boss over here on mine, or you guys can. I'll give the proper amount of information for its arrival.)