In this Birds of Prey fanfiction, Sonya Blade must battle through the minions of crime lord China White to escape to save her friend, the vigilante Black Canary.
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“What was done matters not,” China White said from her throne. “What matters is your inability to do anything about it.”
Seattle Detective Sonya Blade’s hands balled into defiant fists. She looked to her left and saw eleven men in immaculate suits lined up to pounce should White give the word.
Looking to her right, Sonya saw an equal number of men ready to do the same. The room resembled a dojo. The Chinese crime lord could watch any fight in the center of the room from the safety of her throne.
Turning back to White, Sonya said, “You think these men can stop me?” Looking at the Chinese woman in her throne-like chair, she challenged, “Think you can stop me?”
The crime lord laughed. “Silly girl. We don’t have to stop you. We merely have to slow you down until other men have accomplished their mission.”
White lost her sudden mirth and became deadly serious. “Finding and killing Black Canary.”
Sonya yelled and charged at China White. She didn’t get halfway to the crime lord before five of White’s suited thugs moved into her path.
Their mistake.
The police detective leaped into the air and kicked the central thug in the face, knocking him to the ground. She landed and threw a punch at the next closest man, knocking him down too.
The other three men attacked Sonya, none of them scoring any hits. Sonya’s second volley of punches took down two more of the men.
Three more of White’s suited thugs quickly pressed forward to fill the void left by their fallen brethren.
The remaining two men from the first wave fared better this time, earning a glancing blow that pushed Sonya back a step.
The blow angered her further.
A kick to the face took down the thug who’d hit her; a follow-up kick took down another man. More moved in.
Sonya continued the fight, easily beating back her attackers. Then one of them got lucky, coming from behind her and locking her in a chokehold. While he held her, two more thugs punched her midsection.
Sonya brought her heel down on the choker’s instep. The pain was enough to loosen his hold. Sonya slipped out, catching her breath as she analyzed her situation.
She’d cut the number of attackers in half.
Sonya glanced at China White. The woman looked amused as she remained on her throne.
Three thugs moved in on Sonya. She fended off two, but one got in a blow. She rewarded him with a punch to the face.
A gunshot broke up the party.
All eyes went to the source of the noise — the doorway. LoDolce stood there, his handgun aimed at the room’s occupants and his badge on display.
“Cliff LoDolce, SPD!” he declared. “Everyone, get your hands in the air and down on your knees! Now!”
“Detective LoDolce,” China White began. “I wasn’t aware the local police could enter private property without a warrant.”
“We can’t,” LoDolce said. “But when a local police officer sees a woman enter an establishment known for organized criminal activity and she doesn’t come out in a reasonable time, I can enter under probable cause.”
China tilted her head in disbelief. “You really think that will hold up in your courts of law?”
“That’s for later. Right now, I’ve got the gun and the badge.”
“I had this, LoDolce,” Sonya said.
“Cut your losses and let’s go, Blade,” LoDolce said, his eyes scanning the thugs looking for one of them to try something stupid.
“Listen to your friend, Ms. Blade,” China said. “You have yet another partner waiting to die in your arms.”
Sonya glared at China. “I’ll be back for you.”
China smiled. “I’m looking forward to it.”
“So much for my covert surveillance,” LoDolce said as he and Sonya exited the Chinese restaurant.
“I was doing fine,” Sonya said as she followed LoDolce to his car. “Another few minutes and I could have taken China White herself.”
“And without a reason to be in there, she’d be out in an hour,” LoDolce said. “Then she’d have you in jail for assaulting her and her men.”
The Seattle cops reached LoDolce’s car and climbed inside. LoDolce continued his chastisement. “That rap’d be hard to beat with your previous very public shows of excessive —”
“I get it!” Sonya said with a bit more venom than she meant.
LoDolce glanced at her. He then started the car and pulled into late afternoon traffic.
Sonya grabbed LoDolce’s radio from the seat beside her. Speaking into it, she said, “This is Detective Sonya Blade, badge number 2141974. Are there any reported incidents in the city? Anything extraordinary?”
LoDolce looked curiously at Sonya. She returned his look with one of trepidation.
A voice broke out over the radio. “There was a bombing in Belltown ten minutes ago. First responders are moving to the scene.”
Sonya fastened her seatbelt. “Move it, LoDolce!”
LoDolce rolled down his window. “What’s a bomb in Belltown have to do with us?”
“It’s China White’s gambit to draw out the Black Canary.”
LoDolce reached under his seat and pulled out a magnetic light bar of red and blue LED lights. “White knows who she is?”
While Sonya answered, LoDolce turned on the light bar and slapped it on the car’s roof.
“I don’t think she knows who the Canary is, but she knows the Canary can’t stop helping others.”
With the police light getting traffic out of the way, LoDolce sped into traffic, plotting a route for Belltown. “Then it’s a trap,” he said.
Sonya stared ahead.
A few quick turns later, LoDolce asked, “How does China know Black Canary will even be near Belltown?”
“I know she’ll be there,” Sonya said. “And she is not dying on my watch.”
Let’s find out how Black Canary is handling the trap — and if Sonya Blade can get to her in time! See you 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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