Birds of Prey #3 (2023)

Hellhound) watches over Jackie Pajamas' Rheelasia "Compound", where he attempts to goad Black Canary) into a fight, informing her that he too is a student of the Sensei. She refuses to fight, believing that if she wins the armed guards will shoot her. After Hellhound walks off, Jason Bard) warns her that he's going to continue pushing her into a fight, which she says is one more reason she must escape. Bard tells her that will be tough, because though there's no fence, there is a hundred miles of jungle around them which will be hard to get through, especially with him blinded from a muzzle flash.

Elsewhere, Robin) helps Oracle) go over satellite photos of Rheelasia with magnifiers in hopes of locating the Compound. While they're looking, Oracle receives an email which she initially believes is from a friend, until she checks it and finds it's the ransom demand for Black Canary: $1 million transferred to a "blind account" in Bosqueverde, which she does not see as a problem since she knows where she can get it, and quickly steals $1.3 million from the accounts of Roland Desmond).

In the Compound, Black Canary sneaks into the men's hut to break Bard out with her, convincing him to come with her by pointing out that no one is going to pay millions for his release. She ties a rope around his waist for easy communication: one tug for stop; two for go, and says she's not only doing this because he saved her life but because they have a "mutual friend." On their way out of the camp they bump in to an armed guard, whom Black Canary quickly drops, and they run off not knowing Hellhound is watching them from a rooftop. He reports their escape to Pajamas, who becomes enraged because Black Canary's ransom just came through. In the jungle, Bard and the Black Canary rest for a moment and discuss their mutual friend, whom Black Canary admits is her best friend and she doesn't even know, until they're interrupted by the sound of approaching dogs. They flee, ending up at a cliff that they have to leap off of into water below.