CHAPTER 5
A few days later, the Black Dragon lined up in rows as they were awaiting instructions on how to proceed with their mission on infiltrating Havik's Pyramid. They were organized into four teams that were headed by Tremor, Kabal and Kira; Sonya and Kano would be jointly leading the last team. Sonya was going over each team's position on when and where they would infiltrate the pyramid. Kobra sneered and was making backhanded comments as she was giving her orders. Sonya stopped as she became distracted by Kobra's laughter.
"Kobra! Would you like to tell everyone what the hell you find so funny?" she asked. Kobra narrowed his eyes. "You barking orders to everyone is what I find funny." "Oh is that so?" Sonya walked over to him so that they were standing face to face. "Do you have a problem with my command, Kobra?" He started to laugh at her. "Yes, I do. You don't belong here, blondie. You think that you get the right to call the shots when there have been so many of us working hard for that chance?" Then he looked at her up and down and smiled. "Let's be honest. The only real reason that you are Kano's second is because you are probably bouncing on his lap every night. You must ride him real good."
The Black Dragon fell completely silent as they all knew that Kobra had crossed the line with that surprising remark. Kano appeared from behind Sonya in the doorway. His one good eye widened at Kobra's scandalous claim. While he did not interrupt, he instead listened in anticipation for Sonya's response. "You are dangerously out of line," Sonya angrily snapped. Kobra sneered and put his face into Sonya's. "There is no way that I am taking orders from you, stupid bitch. Why don't you get down on your knees and do what you do best? You can suck my..."
A small smile spread across Kano's lips as he watched Sonya slap the shit out of Kobra. He stumbled backwards from the force of her hand. Laughter erupted from the others when they noticed Sonya's hand imprint on his face. Kobra got up and spit out blood. Sonya roughly twisted his face causing him to grimace from the pain. "Is there anything else that you'd like to say?" she lowly growled. "No ma'am," Kobra answered. After letting him go, Sonya looked onward toward the rest of the Black Dragon. "DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO CHALLENGE MY AUTHORITY?!" she angrily shouted. In unison, the other Black Dragons responded, "No ma'am."
Kano stood next to Sonya. "Let's get this out of the way right now," he started to say." Under no circumstances are any of you to challenge Sonya's authority as it is a direct afront to me. To defy her command is to defy my command. There will be serious consequences to anyone who does not abide by this. Do we understand each other?" As he stated the later, his cybernetic eye started to brightly glow. "Yes, boss," everyone responded. " "Alright, everyone get the hell out and load the trucks. Sonya and I will follow in a few minutes."
After everyone left the room, Sonya looked at Kano. "Thank you for that, I am sorry that got so out of hand," she said. "Kobra is a bloody prick, he had that coming with that stupid ass comment. I'm just sorry that I didn't rough him up myself," he said. Sonya chuckled. "Well let's get going, we've got a long drive to the portal site."
"Wait a tick, I've got something for you." Kano pulled out a pair of energy bracelets and handed them to her. "I had these made for you; these are more powerful than what you normally wear. You can control the strength of the energy blasts. They are enhanced so that if it comes down to it, they can devastate anything in its path." Sonya was impressed. "Thanks, I can't wait to give these a try." "Alright, let's get going, love, we're gonna have a long night ahead of us."
A couple hours into their long drive, Sonya was reviewing the entry points on Kano's laptop. As she was rapidly zooming in an out of various angles of the pyramid, Kano looked over her shoulder. "You're making me dizzy, zooming in and out like that. What the hell are you looking for?" Sonya kept moving her fingers to enlarge the images towards the top of the pyramid. "I feel like we are overlooking another area that we can access." He gave an irritated sigh. "We've been over this three times, Sonya. We agreed that we had this covered. Stop overthinking this."
Sonya shot him an annoyed look. " I am not overthinking this, Kano! My gut is telling me that we are missing something! It's right under our noses..."Focusing for a moment she slowly reangled the very top of the pyramid and then paused the image. "Kano, take a look." She pointed to an enlarged image of a small entrance at the top of the pyramid. "We've got ourselves another way in." Kano grinned at her. "That's bloody brilliant, love." Kira took a look and nodded in agreement. "I'll take point here. It's going to be a long climb, but my team can do it."
A few moments later, they finally arrived to the portal site, which was a vast desert with small patches of grass throughout. Kabal looked around their surroundings. "Are you sure you this is the location? We seem to be in the middle of nowhere." Suddenly three figures approached them from the shadows. "You need not doubt. This is the portal site to enter Chaosrealm." Kenshi appeared before them along with Scorpion and Smoke. Sonya gave a relieved sigh. "I am glad that you were all able to meet us. So how do we find the portal from here?" "We are supposed to keep walking until we find a pillar of stones that seem out of place," Kenshi said.
The fading sunset guided their long path in the lonely desert. Finally they came to a circle of tall pillar stones. Sonya cautiously approached the center of the stones. "So now what? Are we just supposed to wait for the the portal appear on its own?" Scorpion stood forward next to her."I should be able to summon it." Scorpion stood in center of the stones and with a quick circular motion of his hands, he released his fire power to summon the portal.
In response to his fire magic, a blinding light flashed accompanied by a strong gust of wind. Suddenly, a firey ring appeared before them revealing the portal. Kano looked at Sonya and the rest of their team. "Alright everyone, brace yourselves. I suspect that this Chaosrealm is unlike anything we've ever seen before." Kenshi agreed. "You are correct, Kano. We all need to be prepared for the unexpected." With that, Sonya and Kano stepped through the portal, followed by Kenshi, Scorpion, Smoke and the remaining Black Dragon members.