This chapter of Birds of Prey fanfiction presents the ultimate confrontation between Sonya Blade, Black Canary, and Kano.
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Seeing Sonya take aim, Black Canary shouted, “I thought we said no shooting in tight spaces!”
“It’ll only ricochet,” Sonya began as she squeezed off a shot.
It bounced off a rail two levels below and struck something further down. A blast of steam obscured the lower levels. They could barely see Kano’s cyborg red eye.
“If you miss!” Canary finished.
Shaking her head, Canary took the stairs two at a time, moving down to the level above the criminal from Madripoor. Sonya moved down the stairs, hugging the outside wall, so she was not visible to Kano below.
From the third level, Kano took another shot at Sonya with his eye beam. This time, his blast of crimson-colored energy cut through the bottom of the stairs and grazed Sonya’s thigh. She stumbled, falling hard on the landing two floors above Kano.
Her gun slipped from her grasp, clattering through an opening in the stairs and falling to a lower level.
“Shouldn’t a’ come after me, Lil’ Sonya,” Kano taunted, his words barely understandable through his thick Australian accent. “Gonna end up like yer partner.”
Sonya gritted her teeth.
“He was fulla heart,” Kano continued. “‘til I ripped it outta ‘im.”
Through the openings between stairs, Canary made eye contact with Sonya. Silently, she insisted Sonya not let the monster get to her. Sonya nodded.
Yet the memory of her partner’s murder, a murder Sonya was helpless to prevent, played in her mind’s eye.
Detective Dequinn Stevens pursued Kano into an apartment complex believed to be a front for White’s drug manufacturing. Sonya was close behind, but not close enough.
When she caught up with Stevens, she found him in the filth with a hole in his chest.
Kano had ripped out his heart and left him dead.
Sonya wouldn’t lose another partner to Kano. Not here. Not now.
The Seattle detective watched as Black Canary performed a controlled roll down the stairs to the landing above Kano. He took a shot at her, his eye beam grazing her side.
The blast did more harm to Canary’s leather jacket than to her person.
“If you can use your gun,” Canary said.
Sonya took that as a cue. She threw her hands over her ears and buried her head between her knees.
Down below, the steam released from Sonya’s missed shot made it impossible to see Kano’s position.
Black Canary wouldn’t need to see him as she unleashed her mutant-powered scream.
The vigilante focused her sonic force into a focused stream of aural force just as her mentor, Lady Shiva, had taught her. She directed this force at Kano’s position.
The sonic assault slammed the crime lord backward and into the wall. He fell forward and rolled down the stairs, crashing in a heap on the landing.
Kano didn’t get up.
As Black Canary used a railing to hold herself up, Sonya ran to her side. Both women looked down at Kano.
“Is he…?” Sonya asked.
“Would it make you happy if he were?” Black Canary asked.
Sonya turned away from Canary so she wouldn’t see her reaction.
An hour later, Sonya stood alone outside the bridge of the cargo ship she’d just raided with Black Canary. Three stories below her, Seattle police were clearing out the defeated underworld thugs.
Those arrested included Kano, the man who murdered her partner. As they led him away in handcuffs, Kano glanced at Sonya, flashing a smile and a wink.
The Seattle detective looked away before her hatred got the better of her.
She felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning, she saw her friend Black Canary behind her.
“I’m surprised you’re still here,” Sonya said.
Canary shrugged and crossed her arms in front of her. “Normally I’d have left a damned long time ago,” Canary began, “Seattle PD isn’t too hip on vigilantes. Not like, say, Gotham.”
Black Canary stepped to Sonya, placing her hands on either of the cop’s shoulders. “But my friend needs a shoulder, so I’m here.”
Sonya took one of Canary’s hands in hers. “Thanks for that. But I’m okay. Really.”
Canary took a long stare at Sonya. The cop threw up her hands.
“Really, Dinah,” she said. “I’m good. Kano’s going to jail. For a little while, anyway. China White will probably have him out in a few days.”
“He’s caught on a boat full of drugs! How in the hell —”
Canary continued, but the look on Sonya’s face silenced her. Her hands fell to her sides, and her shoulders slumped in defeat.
“This is why I stick to low-level crime,” Canary said. “There’s a sense of accomplishment.”
Sonya smiled. “We put our finger in the dike and pray for the best,” she said.
“That Scorpion guy better pray,” Canary said.
Sonya allowed herself a laugh. “If he turns up, you’ll be the first person I call.”
Black Canary looked surprised. “Wait. You mean —”
“Gone,” Sonya said.
Canary crossed her arms in front of her and pouted.
“Cheer up,” Sonya said. “At least you don’t have to file the paperwork explaining all of this.”
Sonya Blade and the Black Canary wrapped up their business in Seattle! In the next chapters, find out what’s going on in Gotham City!
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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