The Birds of Prey are unofficially a thing! Now it’s time to put the hurt to the criminals (we hope) in the final chapters of this fanfiction.
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Taking advantage of the confusion, Sonya lashed out at the bow-wielding ninja closest to her. She took him down quickly and targeted the next in line. He also fell, both ninjas turning to ash.
The two sword-wielding ninjas flanking O-Ren advanced on the newcomer who had entered through the skylight. Sonya figured her to be Batgirl.
The Gotham vigilante used her cape to fend off the swords. A punch and a kick felled the ninjas, leaving O-Ren vulnerable behind them.
“Hubba, hubba, hubba,” O-Ren said.
Sonya started for O-Ren, but two more ninjas swooped in to attack. She made short work of them and then turned back to look at O-Ren. She was in conversation with Batgirl, though both women stood in poses ready to fight.
O-Ren said, “Perhaps a withdrawal is wise. But will you let me walk away, Batgirl?”
“No!” Sonya yelled. She moved to a position flanking O-Ren. “You’re not leaving until you tell us what China is up to!”
“My city,” Batgirl said, “I handle this my way, detective.”
One of the Chechen’s mobsters flew behind O-Ren, crashing into the side of the railcar.
To her credit, O-Ren’s eyes never left Batgirl.
The Gotham vigilante and Sonya looked in the direction from which the mobster came.
They saw Black Canary standing on top of the rear sedan. “Wrapped up the rest of the baddies,” she said. “Did I miss anything?”
The engine of the other sedan started up.
“Don’t want the Chechen to get away from the scene, do you?” O-Ren asked. “Not with so much evidence of malfeasance in the area.”
O-Ren turned her head slightly, motioning to the open rail car behind her. Presumably, whatever she was giving to the Chechen was in the railcar.
Putting the goods and the Chechen in the same place wouldn’t necessarily convict him, but it’d give the GCPD something to hold him on until they made something stick.
That is if they caught the Chechen. And if Sonya’s presence as an out-of-jurisdiction cop didn’t hinder the case.
As if the two vigilantes with her weren’t hindrance enough.
“The Chechen will be lucky to get off the grounds,” Batgirl said. “GCPD was on the way before we broke in here to save a hostage.”
Sonya smiled. Gordon said he grudgingly worked with the city’s vigilantes, but Batgirl handed the commissioner a gift practically wrapped with a bow — and an excuse for Sonya’s presence. Batgirl also went close enough to police protocol that any arrests would stick.
The Gotham vigilante impressed Sonya.
“Why don’t you set that sword down and start talking,” Batgirl told O-Ren.
The assassin’s lip curled into a sinister smile. “You’re not the only one with theatrics,” she said.
A small capsule dropped from her kimono sleeve. O-Ren jerked the capsule into the air in front of her and cut through it with her sword. The capsule exploded, releasing a cloud of thick black smoke.
A spear attached to a length of chain burst from the smoke and right at Batgirl. A guttural voice yelled, “Get over here!”
The spear jabbed into Batgirl’s shoulder, piercing her armor. Worse, the weapon tangled itself in the Kevlar weave. It would take a moment to pull it free, but at least the armor took the brunt of the damage.
At times like this, she was glad Batman had accepted her. Otherwise, the spear would go through spandex, and Batgirl might not be functioning.
Batgirl also needed to deal with the chain attached to the spear.
Sonya reacted first, leaping through the cloud of smoke and striking something on the other side.
A man in a yellow tunic, devil’s half-face mask, with black sleeves and pants stumbled out of the cloud’s coverage.
In his left hand, he held the other end of the chain attached to the spear in Batgirl’s shoulder.
With him distracted, Batgirl found the time to remove the spear. Dropping it to the ground, she saw movement to her left.
O-Ren was making her escape.
Black Canary performed an acrobatic leap from the roof of the sedan to the floor and then through the cloud of smoke. Sonya squared off against the newcomer — Scorpion.
“You weren’t lying when you said he’d recover from a head wound!” Black Canary said.
Squaring her shoulders for a fight, Sonya said, “We just have to knock him down again.”
Canary spared a sideways glance at Sonya before taking up a stance to fight Scorpion.
Black Canary and Sonya Blade rematch against Scorpion! Batgirl races after O-Ren Ishii! And will the Chechen slip past the vigilantes? Check out the next chapter!
While writing this fanfiction, I used Green Ronin’s Mutants and Masterminds, 3rd Edition RPG, to leave some things to chance. Check it out!
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