In some mysterious time,
a prophecy is made by an Apache mystic that two red-haired heroes will come to
help return the land to the Apache, though they live a century apart, they will
end up acting as one! 100 years ago, in Arizona, the Two-Gun Kid comes across a
couple of Native American men being accosted by some gunmen. He drives off the
gunmen, but one of the Apache men ends up dying from his wounds. The other
reveals that the gunmen were after a map he has that apparently points to the
location of a deed signed by President Arthur proclaiming the land as belonging
to the Apache tribe. It was hidden after the soldier tasked with getting it to
the Governor fell ill. The Two-Gun Kid rides with the man back to town where
the sheriff reluctantly places the young Apache in jail due to the accusation
of one of the earlier gunman named Keeno. The Two-Gun Kid promises he’ll get it
sorted out and the next day, in his civilian guise as lawyer Matt Hawk, he’s
able to poke enough holes in Keeno’s testimony to get the Apache man
exonerated.
Later, they follow the
map to a cave where the deed is supposedly buried but end up finding nothing.
While they’re searching the cave, Keeno and his men arrive and use dynamite to
seal off the entrance, trapping the Two-Kid Gun and his companion
inside! The Two-Kid Gun locates another narrow exit but before they leave,
feels an instinctive urge he can’t explain to leave a message of sorts in the
cave wall. Outside, the Two-Gun Kid confronts Keeno and his men, who want to
prevent the deed from being found so they can keep the land. The Two-Gun Kid
disarms Keeno and his men and scares them off but laments that the deed seems
forever lost…
In the present day, Matt
Murdock awakens, having experienced the Two-Gun Kid’s adventure as a strange,
vivid dream. He heads to the office where he finds Foggy, who admits that
things aren’t going so well with trying to patch things up with Debbie after the
whole Micah Synn fiasco. They’re then visited by a man named Keeno, which Matt
recognizes as the same name from his dream! Mr. Keeno enlists their services to
help with a land dispute between himself and the Apache tribe. Realizing things
are eerily similar to his dream, Matt feels compelled to fly out to Arizona to
investigate. As soon as he lands, he’s approached by a young Apache man named
Timmy Red Moon. Timmy offers to drive Matt to his hotel and on the way,
explains how Keeno and his family have been cheating his people out of their
land for a century. Now, Keeno is building a dam that will ruin the ecosystem
and local wildlife. Timmy wants Matt to simply not help Keeno, but Matt says
his job is to serve the interests of his client.
Later, Matt is mulling
things over when he hears Timmy getting mugged by two men outside. He heads out
as Daredevil and takes care of the two men, who it turns out had been sent by
Keeno. This convinces Daredevil to help Timmy and, following the logic of his
dream, discovers that Timmy has the map of the deed’s whereabouts that’s been
passed down through his family for generations. Daredevil feels the map and
discovers a secret about it: the real directions to the deed were scratched
into the leather, hidden by the fake ones drawn on. They follow these
directions and find the buried deed, when suddenly they’re pinned down by Keeno
and his men, who had been tracking Timmy. Daredevil and Timmy take refuge in
the cave and Keeno seals them inside, just like was done a century ago.
Following his dream, Daredevil finds the message in the wall left by the
Two-Gun Kid, as well as the way out, which he ends up having to swim through.
Eventually, Daredevil makes it out and confronts Keeno and his men, perfectly
mirroring the Two-Gun Kid from a century before. He takes Keeno down and
regards the Two-Gun Kid’s message, a bullet with the word “Howdy” scratched
into it.
As night approaches,
Daredevil can almost feel in the air the thanks from those long dead as this
century long caper comes to a close.
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