I was making my nightly patrol, flying through the sky in my normal small King form only having my daggers with me as there is no reason to use Chastiefol for regular humans, when I heard the sounds of fighting down below.
I flew over to the source of the sounds and I came to a dock with a couple of cargo containers and saw a man in a black mask fighting a bunch of armed thugs and he was doing a very good job.
Seeing him, a clear sense of recognition was triggered.
'Is that Daredevil? But he didn't debut until long after Ironman' I wondered at the scene but decided to go down and help him.
I floated down silently and quickly lifted the thugs from the ground who were being beaten by the masked man.
(Matt POV)
Matt paused in confusion, he could hear all the erratic heartbeats of the thugs he was fighting and the sounds of them struggling, but what confused him was that the sounds were coming from the air above him.
"Figured I'd lend a hand."
I heard the voice of a young man come from above me as if he was on a roof or some sort of flying vehicle but I didn't hear a helicopter or any sort of jet, not to mention it sounds like he's only a few feet above me.
I also noted that the voice sounded young and spoke in an almost bored tone, but I couldn't sense anything else from him.
It was hard to explain what I sensed from him, I couldn't sense a heartbeat beat it was more like I was sensing a cool breeze or light rain. His heart seemed to be in tune with the natural world.
Deciding to figure it out later I waited for him to speak again and suddenly I heard the voice again but only a few feet in front of me.
His voice seemed young but came from the same height as my head so he must be using a voice changer of some sort, but it doesn't sound robotic, so it must be very advanced technology.
"I didn't expect to meet anyone else who was going around the city taking out the trash." The voice said but he didn't seem angry when he said trash, he seemed almost indifferent.
"What did you do with them?" I asked
"Oh, the guys you were fighting? They're just hanging around." He said with an amused tone of voice.
I suddenly heard the voices of the thugs get farther above me and then heard them scream and all fall onto the ground near me and I could sense that they were all knocked out and most likely had a concussion if they went as high in the air as it seemed based on their voices.
"Thanks for your help," I said as I quickly walked over to the cargo container and tried to break the lock.
"Allow me." The voice said.
What happened next I couldn't fully explain. It seemed as if the door to the container was ripped open but I didn't "see" anything used to rip it open. It seemed like...
Deciding to focus my attention on the girls I quickly helped them out and told them that the police should arrive to help them and then they should go to a certain clinic, one that I knew Claire sometimes worked at.
"Well, that makes one less group of traffickers on the streets." The voice said.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Oh I never did answer you did I? You can call me Fairy King Harlequin." The now-named Fairy King? Said.
"How did you do what you did to those thugs?" I asked.
"The answer to your question is fascinating, unfortunately, I have no time to tell it, keep up the good work masked man." The Fairy King said as the weird 'heartbeat' I heard from him seemed to quickly get farther and farther away.
'Seriously who was that guy? Fairy King Harlequin? That has to be an alias, I'll look him up as soon as I get the chance. For now, I'll take care of these guys' I thought to myself before calling the cops with an anonymous tip.
(MC POV)
I met The Daredevil, I can't believe it, but I still don't understand why he is active right now, it's only 2001 so he shouldn't even be done training with Stick let alone be a full adult and working as Daredevil.
It's all so confusing and it means that this world is a lot more complicated than I already thought.
First the new seemingly combined magic universes and their different magics, now Daredevil already having been active, things are probably going to get more confusing before they start to make sense.
I didn't think anything of it when I saw The Hand being active as they were active for hundreds of years and Kingpin had long been working with them before Daredevil debuted so I could wrap my head around that, but everything else is so different.
Does this mean more and more things will start to happen?
Are the Defenders going to form early?
Will people like Luke Cage and Iron Fist even exist?
All these questions and I only have 7 years to figure it all out before shit hits the fan and the world begins to change faster than anyone can handle.
"Sigh...I gotta get some sleep, worrying about all this stuff is going to just stress me out, that's a problem for Future Dean." I said quietly to myself as I made my way to my house to try and sleep things off.
The world is changing quickly and I hope I can keep up