Kenshi vs. Daredevil

## Description

*They both lost their sight in a terrible accident, but these two warriors are still able to fight. Which of these two will win this Fatal Fiction?*

## Interlude

Hiro: In days long ago and in fiction, there were tales of blind individuals who senses were greater than that of normal individuals.

**MBStarscream: And that's who these two modern blind warriors are able to kick ass in their respective worlds.**

Hiro: Kenshi Takahashi, the blind swordsman of Mortal Kombat.

**MBStarscream: And Daredevil, the crimson defender of Hell’s Kitchen.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Kenshi

Hiro: In his early years, Kenshi Takahashi wandered Asia challenging the best of the best to duels, one day encountering an elderly man named Song. Promising Kenshi a powerful new blade, he lead him to a place called the Well of Souls.

**MBStarscream: Driven by his desire for power, Kenshi opened it up - the result left him blind and the released spirits getting consumed by "Song", who was in fact a disguised Shang Tsung. You thought it was Song, but it was I, Shang Tsung!**

Hiro: Turns out those souls were of his warrior king ancestors, and some of them still stuck around in the magical sword inside the Well. Taking the blade, Kenshi set off to get revenge on Shang Tsung and free his ancestors.

**MBStarscream: Eventually, Shang died of unrelated matters, and Kenshi decided to just go back to fighting random guys. In the old canon, that's where his story ends. But in the new canon, Kenshi ended up falling in love with a lady named Suchin, but eventually left her.**

Hiro: When he came back eight years later, it turned out that he had knocked her up and also that she had been murdered by a criminal clan called the Red Dragon. Kenshi took his son Takeda and gave him to his friend Scorpionwho had just gotten over being a revenge-driven murderer, to go become a revenge-driven murderer. Later on he'd pick up his son so they could get revenge together.

**MBStarscream: And then he wasn't in Mortal Kombat 11 for some reason. Come on, I wanna see more of him!**

Hiro: Despite his blindness, Kenshi possesses senses that are heightened beyond their normal ability and can fight on par with any other kombatant. Kenshi wields an ancestral sword that contains the spirits of warrior kings from his line, and he is in turn guided by these spirits in combat. He can sense an opponent's presence by their energy or by hearing them and thus, can take opponents by surprise.

**MBStarscream: His senses are so acute, he is capable of sensing beings capable of hiding from well trained assassins such as Sub-Zero and can even sense beings sealed in objects such as Shinnok who was trapped in his own amulet that leads to a dark dimension. His sense of sight is revealed to be spiritual in nature, meaning that he can sense the souls of living beings. Also due to his blindness, he is completely immune to attacks that would target one's sense of sight.**

Hiro: Kenshi is well-trained in telekinesis as well, frequently using it to move objects and people without physically touching them. His telekinetic attacks allow him to push, pull and lift most things using a single hand motion. He is also capable of teleportation and levitation, further increasing his mobility.

**MBStarscream: Throughout the years, Kenshi has also showcased other psychic talents like telepathy, through which he can project waves of energy from his mind that can paralyze opponents, keeping them in place and stopping their movements which leaves them open to attack.**

Hiro: Kenshi has demonstrated several talents using such skills that are useful outside of physical combat, like the transmission thoughts and reading minds, seeing visions of the future in his dreams, removing mind control effects on others, creating portals with an incantation, and being able to overload one's senses to knock them out. Kenshi can also employ his telekinesis into a tangible, projection of himself to attack opponents from a distance, similar to Noob Saibot.

**MBStarscream: In combat, Kenshi wields an ancient katana blade called Sento, which belonged to his long-lost ancestors, the warrior monarchs of both Asia and Europe in Earthrealm known as the Warrior Kings. The spirits of Kenshi's ancestors can manifest themselves through the blade and possess Kenshi in combat, allowing him to summon them in battle.**

Hiro: Whenever he wields Sento, Kenshi gains an array of telekinetic abilities, like pushing, throwing or slicing opponents from afar with his katana. And when he's done with his enemy, he ends the fight with a few nasty Fatalities. To finish foes off, Kenshi telekinetically paralyzes his opponent. He then proceeds to twist and contort their limbs into unnatural positions before finally killing them by crushing their skulls, letting their eyes pop out of their heads.

**MBStarscream: Or he can lift an opponent into the air with his mind, then lift Sento into the air and begins to spin it. To finish his foe, he drags them face first through the spinning blade, turning his enemy into mince meat.**

Hiro: Kenshi is definitely no slouch amongst his peers in the world of Mortal Kombat. He's fought against the Revenant and the Shirai Ryu, led an entire army against Shinnok, took blows from Scorpion, and kept up with Kabal, who can move fast enough to disappear in short bursts and react to automatic bullet fire.

**MBStarscream: But like anyone else, Kenshi still has his own flaws. Should he be disarmed of Sento, he loses the vast majority of his abilities, and used to be quite arrogant in general, which led to him being blinded in the first place.**

Hiro: But blind or not, Kenshi has still shown to be a remarkable fighter and a great protector for Earthrealm against evil.

*Kenshi: The battle and I are one.*

## Daredevil

Hiro: Young Matt Murdock was raised alone in Hell’s Kitchen by his father, Jonathan “Battling Jack” Murdock, who had claimed that his mother had passed away. While a successful underground boxer, Jack hoped that his son would not follow in his footsteps and wanted a better life for him, encouraging Matt to focus more on his academics over sports and violence.

**MBStarscream: Things would soon change for the Murdock family when Matt attempted to protect a blind man from a traffic accident. In the heat of the moment, a truck containing a radioactive isotope spilled its contents onto the streets, with some of it getting onto Matt’s face and blinding him.**

Hiro: Despite the loss of his sight, he soon learned that all of his other senses have been enhanced to near-superhuman levels. As the years went by, Jack continued to fight in order to ensure Matt would be taken care of, even if it meant doing business with unsavory characters.

**MBStarscream: His later refusal to throw a rigged bout in order to retain his pride soon led to his death, which Matt did *not* take lightly. While revenge lingered on his mind, he remembered the vow of nonviolence he swore to uphold for his father. He soon convinced himself that he could still uphold the spirit of his promise by adopting a separate identity - one which would not be restricted by such rules and can be used to exact his revenge.**

Hiro: With a costume forged from the remains of Jack’s old boxing robes, Matt set out to seek out those responsible; on that day, Daredevil - the Man Without Fear - was born.

**MBStarscream: Though it may seem that a blind lawyer such as Matt Murdock would be incapable of handling himself in a fight, such an assumption is mistaken. Shortly after recovering from the accident which cost him his vision, he received tutelage from Stick, an elite member of warriors known only as the Chaste, teaching the blinded Matt how to control his senses.**

Hiro: So refined were his remaining four senses that he can detect the most minute changes in his surroundings, while the radioactive chemicals granted him the ability to emit an electric pulse that reflects off objects, creating a mental image of the general area; to describe it as akin to echolocation would be a fair comparison. Stick also supplied Matt with training in the martial arts, covering roughly a dozen disciplines such as skrima and ninjitsu.

**MBStarscream: Daredevil is highly prepared for a fight, having a versatile arsenal packed into his walking cane. It may keep up Matt's facade as a blind civilian, but when vigilante justice calls, the cane is revealed to have a series of weapons packed inside.**

Hiro: Explosive pellets, hidden blades, grappling hooks, to say nothing of how the cane itself can separate into nunchaku or billy clubs. His suit, meanwhile, is resistant to several types of damage, with antennae hidden in the horns to further aid his senses and navigation.

**MBStarscream: Looking at the accomplishments of Daredevil reveals quite the impressive résumé, between his natural gifts from the waste and his training with Stick. Matt is fast enough to deflect gunfire in a matter of milliseconds and has the strength to toss a barbell weighing nearly a quarter ton. His durability, meanwhile, is such that he can withstand high-wattage electric shocks, napalm explosions, and I-beams swung by superhuman foes.**

Hiro: However, his heightened senses can be just as much a hindrance as they are a blessing to Matt; any foe aware of how sensitive they can be can overwhelm them with extreme stimuli, such as with noxious odors or deafeningly loud noises. Other than that, he also lacks traditional superpowers in the same way other street-level superheroes do, and can be beaten by vastly stronger foes.

**MBStarscream: But Daredevil has proven that he can use his knowledge and power for their benefit against any odds, giving a new spin to the old adage that “justice is blind.”**

*Matt Murdock: Be careful of the Murdock boys. They got the devil in them.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, Daredevil is free to let the devil in him run rampant in his own terrain. But will that be enough to score him a win in this battle of the blind?

**MBStarscream: Hey, Hiro. MORTAL BLINDNESS!**

Hiro: Really?

*Hell's Kitchen*

Somewhere in this city, its crimson-clad vigilante acrobatically dropped down to the street level, landing near a dimly-lit alleyway. Standing to his full height, the man known as Matt Murdock, or by his superhero name **Daredevil**, looked around the street, watching the cars go by. He was about to move on, when his radar sense caught a nearby presence not too far from where he was. Without having to see this unseen party, Daredevil spoke.

"Sneaking up on me is pointless, you know."

He turned towards the alleyway where the figure he had sensed emerged from the shadows. It was a man in a black body suit with red accents. He wore a sash across his chest, depicting a dragon, and a black pauldron on his right shoulder. Attached to his belt was a small satchel. He wore red knee pads and black boots, and a red bandana across his eyes.

"Hmm," the figure said as he approached. "You do have keen senses. How would you like to test them further?"

"What did you have in mind?"

"Showing me your skill." The man, **Kenshi**, said as he telekinetically drew his sword, Sento. "I will show you mine." A smile forming on his face, Daredevil whipped out his billy clubs. "I've got plenty of things to show you."

**FIGHT!**

Daredevil sprinted at Kenshi, but was pushed back by the swordsman's telekinesis and slammed onto the ground. Jumping towards the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, Kenshi tried to slash him with his sword, but Daredevil sensed the incoming attack and countered with his billy clubs. He kicked Kenshi back and got to his feet, connecting his clubs to form a quarterstaff. He tried to strike Kenshi across the face, but the swordsman blocked with Sento and started to duel with Daredevil for a moment. Daredevil then slammed the staff down, creating a small shockwave that pushed Kenshi backward.

Seizing his opening, Daredevil struck Kenshi with his staff twice before jabbing him repeatedly with it, eventually pushing him further back. As Daredevil charged, Kenshi countered by telekinetically slashing him with Sento, then hitting him in the face with its hilt. Punching the staff out of Daredevil's hand, Kenshi met the vigilante in an exchange of fisticuffs. The father of Takeda then telekinetically grabbed Daredevil, lifted him into the air, and flung him towards one of the two buildings that surrounded the two blind warriors. As Daredevil got up, Kenshi used his telekinesis to move Sento through the air, but the Man Without Fear felt the air being cut and dodged as Sento embedded itself into the wall he had just been thrown into.

After briefly exchanging blows with Kenshi, Daredevil kicked the samurai away and dived towards his staff. He split the staff in two as Sento flew into Kenshi's hand, leaving a fresh hole in the wall. Daredevil hurled one of his billy clubs at Kenshi, who knocked it away with his sword and charged at the Devil of Hell's Kitchen. Daredevil managed to dodge two swings of Sento, then grabbed the ancient sword and pulled back his fist to punch his opponent, but Kenshi telekinetically stopped Daredevil's fist before planting his own punch in the face of the red superhero. Kenshi followed up with multiple slashes of his sword, but Daredevil pushed Kenshi back.

Kenshi went to slash Daredevil again, but Daredevil flipped over the blind swordsman and caught his neck with the wire connecting his sticks, then slammed him on the ground. Just as Kenshi got to his feet, Daredevil whacked him across the head with both sticks before knocking him back with a kick to the chest. In response to this, Kenshi summoned a psychic version of himself in front of Daredevil that slashed him three times. The sightless Mortal Kombatant dashed forward with a shoulder strike, then held Daredevil's arm and pulled him behind him, spinning towards the vigilante with a side kick afterward. Daredevil punched Kenshi in the face before trading fisticuffs with his fellow blind fighter.

As Daredevil started forcing him back while punching, Kenshi telekinetically grabbed Sento and cut across Daredevil's back, eliciting a painful scream. With Daredevil distracted, Kenshi punched and kicked him repeatedly until he launched Daredevil upward with a rising slash; he leapt up to him and slashed him twice with Sento. Daredevil hit the floor, then quickly got up and lunged forward, striking Kenshi across the face with his billy club, then dashed past him repeatedly, striking him with each pass.

With Kenshi dazed from the attack, Daredevil connected his clubs with a wire chord. "Time to end this." He said as he looped the wire around Kenshi's neck from behind and started choking him. Kenshi tried desperately to breathe as the wire constricted his throat, threatening to snap his neck with enough pressure applied. Daredevil gritted his teeth as he pulled, waiting to hear the wet crack that would finish the fight.

He then felt two fingers touch his head, and suddenly screamed in agony as his superhuman senses was abused by Kenshi's telepathy. Kenshi felt the wire leave his neck as Daredevil stepped back, clutching his head. After taking a moment to get his breath back, Kenshi turned towards Daredevil as the hero struggled to make sense of his surroundings. Daredevil's agonised screams only got louder as his spine and ribcage were ripped out of his back, his tendons from his arms and legs still attached to the ribcage, making him look like a grotesque puppet.

As he slipped away, Kenshi drew Sento and effortlessly sliced through Daredevil's neck, his lifeless head hitting the floor. After the tendons that held onto Daredevil's ribcage were severed next, his corpse landed just in front of his own head on the ground.

The blind swordsman seethed his sword and bowed in respect for his fallen opponent as he lay before him.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: At least he didn't have to see THAT.**

Hiro: While Daredevil has shown to be stronger and faster of the two, Kenshi had several things going for him that led to him coming out on top in the end. Daredevil's fought impressive foes, but even he couldn't do much against the telekinetic abilities Kenshi possessed.

**MBStarscream: And you're thinking, "Hasn't he fought telekinetic foes like Typhoid Mary? So shouldn't he be, like, used to these kind of foes?"**

Hiro: That may be true, but comparing Tyhpoid Mary's telekinesis to Kenshi's shows the latter's to be more impressive via lifting fully grown humans, whilst Mary can only throw small objects. Daredevil's billy clubs were effective weapons in combat, but Sento easily gave Kenshi the weapon advantage.

**MBStarscream: And apart from letting him throw Daredevil all around, Kenshi's telekinetic abilities gave him a lot more things to do in the fight, like making a copy of himself, telepathy and summon a demon wielding a sickle, so he outclassed Daredevil is versatility. But what really put Daredevil in a bad spot was Kenshi's telepathy.**

Hiro: Daredevil's radar sense was vulnerable to Kenshi's telepathic abilities and could be overloaded by them at any time, giving Kenshi a perfect opportunity to land a finishing blow. Daredevil could hold his own with his superior strength and speed, but Kenshi's abilities, versatility and deadlier weapon gave him the win.

**MBStarscream: Daredevil sure lost sight of where he was.**

Hiro: Kenshi wins.

## Advantages

### Kenshi (Winner)

* Telekinesis gave him the edge
	+ Was also more impressive than Typhoid Mary's own telekinesis
* Deadlier weapon
* More versatile via telekinetic abilities
* Had less weaknesses to exploit
* Telepathy could overload Daredevil's radar sense