“Birds of Prey” Fanfiction!
Sonya Blade sneaks onto the rail yard to get dirt on the Chechen and China White! But are those ninjas amid the rail cars?
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“We gonna sit here all night?” Black Canary asked Sonya Blade.
Sonya continued snapping photos of the Chechen’s caravan as it moved to a building on the eastern side of the rail yard.
They saw no sign of China White, her emissaries, or anyone who could meet the Chechen.
“Until we get the evidence of the Chechen exchanging goods, we sit tight and watch,” Sonya said.
“If he goes into the building, we won’t see anything.”
Sonya looked at Canary, letting the masked vigilante see her annoyance. “If he goes into the building, we’ll move closer. But not until then.”
The Seattle detective made sure Black Canary understood her point before turning back to her lens. Canary sulked next to her on what she felt was the wrong side of the rail yard’s chain-link fence.
Minutes later, the Chechen’s vehicles pulled in front of the eastern building. Sonya signaled to Canary, and the two moved to a better vantage point while remaining outside the fence.
When they reached a position from which they could see the caravan again, someone opened the sliding wall at the front of the building.
Sonya looked through her camera and saw an Asian man in a suit waving the Chechen’s men inside. The first sedan was already on its way in.
“I’ve got a guy who’s probably with White’s operation working the entrance,” Sonya told Canary.
“You were saying about them going inside?” Canary said.
Sonya pulled back from her camera and looked at the fence. “Guess we have to get through this thing.”
“Leave that to me,” Canary said.
Sonya grabbed her arm to stop her. “I have a quieter way,” Sonya said. She handed her camera to the Canary. “But you’ll have to stay here.”
Minutes later, Sonya convinced the guards at the gate that she was on a joint task force with the GCPD. She believed a kidnap victim was on the truck they let in earlier.
The smarter guard wanted to call in to verify her story, but she successfully argued they didn’t have time. The detective also worried the call in would not be to the GCPD, but to the Chechen.
Sonya convinced them to let her in. She walked into the rail yard, operating on the idea that the guards would sell her out to the Chechen. She used the idle railcars as cover as she moved toward the east building.
Black Canary had to stay behind because Sonya’s ruse would never have worked with a masked vigilante at her side.
If things got hairy, Sonya would call Canary in. She hoped that wouldn’t be necessary. She knew she must do this strictly by the book and couldn’t rely on Gordon’s leniency with vigilantes.
Otherwise, China White, the person ultimately responsible for the death of Sonya’s Seattle police partner, would escape justice.
Again.
Sonya reached a boxcar just to the side of her target building. The last sedan just entered the building. The Asian man stepped inside; the sliding wall began to close.
The Seattle detective needed to see inside that building.
Sonya was about to move when an arrow stuck into the railcar next to her. She turned from the obstructing arrow and found two hand ninjas standing behind her. Sonya never heard them approach.
Hence, ninja, she figured.
Looking up, Sonya saw two other ninjas on top of the nearest rail cars. They held bows whose arrows aimed at her.
One ninja on the ground said, “Ishii-san wishes to meet you, Ms. Blade.”
Ishii-san.
From her in-depth knowledge of China White’s organization, Sonya knew that could only be O-Ren Ishii, White’s lieutenant.
White herself wasn’t even here!
Sonya raised her hands and said, “It’d be rude to refuse such a charming invitation.”
Batgirl leaped from her perch outside the rail yard. Using her cape as a glider, she sailed over the rail yard’s chain-link fence and onto the property.
Moving through the maze of idle rail cars, she used the shadows to hide her approach to the maintenance building. She was a few cars away when she saw movement on top of the boxcar ahead of her.
Two ninjas with bows and arrows.
Presuming these were the same ninjas who worked with Kano, this confirmed China White’s presence — at least, someone working on her behalf.
Batgirl did not see a second party approach the rail yard because they were already here, waiting for the Chechen within the maintenance building.
Might a shipment of illegal contraband be waiting there too?
Remaining out of sight, Batgirl trailed the ninjas. One of them fired an arrow at something beneath him.
The Gotham vigilante stopped in place, waiting to see what transpired.
A moment later, two more ninjas appeared. They each held an arm of Sonya Blade, steering the Seattle detective toward the maintenance building. The ninja up top dropped to join them.
Batgirl cursed under her breath. She wondered how Blade knew to turn up here. She guessed she came with Black Canary, and the pair got lucky in seeing the Chechen head out.
Instead of leaving town as Batgirl had ordered, they must have followed him here.
That meant the Canary was lurking somewhere too.
With her flair for the dramatic, it surprised Batgirl that Canary didn’t use her yelling thing to free Sonya. She must be too far away.
Batgirl needed to find her first before she did something that got them all killed.
Using Sonya’s camera and telephoto lens, Black Canary saw the three ninjas walking with a captive Sonya.
It wasn’t a leap to figure these were more of the mooks who had attacked them in Seattle.
Sonya used her ruse with the guard to maintain an element of surprise. Now that the Chechen and White’s people captured Sonya, surprise went out the window.
There was no reason to think they didn’t know Black Canary was here too. Yet she’d seen no ninjas come her way.
Of course, avoiding detection is what ninjas did.
Canary may walk into a trap, but ensuring her partner was safe took precedent to her own safety.
Dinah left the camera on the ground and scaled the fence.
Sonya in the hands of the Chechen and China White’s emissary O-Ren Ishii (THAT O-Ren? Tarantino mashup, bitches)!
Will Black Canary’s bluster break things up?
Will Batgirl’s stealth approach cost Sonya her life?
That’s what we’ll find out in the next chapter as this “Birds of Prey” fanfiction presses to its climax!
While writing this fanfiction, I used Green Ronin’s Mutants and Masterminds, 3rd Edition RPG, to leave some things to chance. Check it out!
Like this Birds of Prey fanfiction? Check out Mark’s original “Shadowdance” saga books!
