As we move closer to the climax of this “Birds of Prey” fanfiction, Black Canary and Sonya Blade play hide and seek with Scorpion while Batgirl chases O-Ren Ishii.
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Sonya lashed out at Scorpion with a front kick. He parried the blow with the brace on his gauntlet. Undeterred, Black Canary followed up with a low kick.
Scorpion blocked her with his shin guard and then extended his leg to kick at Canary. She shifted right and avoided the blow.
The women pressed their attack. Black Canary scored a few hits, forcing Scorpion back. Sonya took advantage of his retreat, but Scorpion parried her attacks. He pushed her away from him.
Scorpion then waved his arms in a martial arts kata. Sonya’s eyes widened; she recognized the move.
Black Canary moved past her to attack Scorpion. Sonya grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
“What the hell?” Canary asked while glaring at Sonya.
Suddenly, a blast of flame rose from Scorpion’s feet and obscured the assassin. Black Canary and Sonya threw up their hands against the flame’s heat.
When they looked back, Scorpion was gone.
“Again, I ask, what the hell?” Canary asked.
Sonya shook her head. “Wish I knew, but I’ve seen that trick before. He uses it to teleport and sneak attack. We just have to —”
“There!” Black Canary said, pointing further into the building. Sonya looked in that direction. There was a burst of flame on top of one of the other railcars.
Scorpion emerged from the fire. He glared at the women and then dropped out of sight on the other side of the car.
Sonya took a quick glance back at where O-Ren had disappeared in the smoke. “O-Ren’s gone,” she said. “So’s Batgirl.”
Black Canary put a reassuring hand on Sonya’s shoulder.
“I studied with one of the greatest martial arts masters on the planet,” Canary said, referring to Lady Shiva. “I saw Batgirl take down some street thugs. Wouldn’t want to be O-Ren right now.”
“You haven’t seen O-Ren wield a blade,” Sonya said, a hint of despair in her voice.
Batgirl fired her grappling hook at the rafters in the maintenance building’s ceiling. It quickly wrapped around a support beam. With the line secure, the vigilante pushed the button to recoil the line, pulling herself up over the rail cars and repair machinery.
She landed on a beam in the rafters. With her bird’s-eye view, Batgirl spotted the Asian woman moving between the cars stationed for repairs and toward the building’s rear entrance.
Along the way, the woman shed the white kimono. Underneath, she wore a skintight black suit perfect for stealth. The woman kept the ninja-to low at her side. She knew how to handle the weapon with respect.
Batgirl leaped from the rafters and glided toward the fleeing woman. She landed on a railcar, ran its length, then leaped to another.
A leap to another car brought her within striking distance. A last leap accompanied by an acrobatic flip brought her down in front of the woman.
“Looking for a bit of alone time?” Batgirl asked, now realizing how much Robin’s wisecracks earwormed into her.
The woman stopped, sizing up the auburn-haired vigilante. “This doesn’t involve you, girl,” she said.
“When you brought Kano and his violence to my city, you involved me. Now tell me why you’re here.”
The Asian woman tilted her head slightly. Then Batgirl saw a flash of steel. The ninja-to blade sliced across her cowl.
Batgirl checked her cowl with her glove. The woman’s swipe failed to draw blood but served as a warning of the woman’s skill.
“My name is O-Ren Ishii,” the woman said while standing in a combat stance. “At the age of eleven, I avenged the death of my parents by murdering yakuza oyabun Matsumoto. Since that time, I have honed my skills as an assassin, slaying many little girls like you.”
“What did you do?” Batgirl assumed an opposing combat stance. “Talk them to death?”
O-Ren Ishii frowned. She dug in her heal to prepare for attack.
Intending to box in the teleporting Scorpion, Black Canary and Sonya split up to go around the railcar Scorpion dropped behind.
Unfortunately, Scorpion found Canary first.
She caught him out of the corner of her eye, his spear thrusting at her back. Canary spun out of the way to Scorpion’s side.
Using the momentum from the spin, she brought her heel up and cracked Scorpion on the back of his head.
The masked assassin stumbled forward, crashing into a piece of repair machinery.
“Teach you to sneak up on people,” Black Canary said.
She followed up her taunt with another kick to the assassin’s face. Scorpion rolled against the machinery, stumbling away from Canary.
He kept his footing, grabbing a metal shaft from the machinery as he went. He hurled it at Canary. She sidestepped and avoided the object.
“I’ve got some fancy powers too,” Canary said. She cracked the bones in her neck, then bounced and shook out her hands as if ready to fight. “Or we can go with an old-fashioned Seattle beatdown.”
Scorpion gazed at Black Canary. He then began another martial arts kata, similar to the one he’d used earlier to teleport. However, this one looked slightly different —
Canary felt intense heat beneath her feet.
It looks like things are heating up for Black Canary! Will Sonya get to her friend in time to help her? And now a showdown between Batgirl and O-Ren Ishii? Whaaaaaat? Come back next chapter to see how this wraps up!
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