The Serpent Queen

Mercy, Part II | Part Four

At Hawk's house, the Cobras all sat around the TV in the living room whether it be on the couch or the floor.

His parents expected him home after training and nearly half expected Phoebe as she was his girlfriend, but they didn't expect the other fourteen teenagers to arrive at their house. Cars were parked down the street.

Hawk hoped that either his mom or dad had the sense to order a few pizzas to the house. It would be a little embarrassing for him if they didn't. It would ruin his badass cool guy image. Luckily for him and the Cobras, they did. He offered up his house to watch the movie, since he couldn't go to anyone else's. Only Miguel, Phoebe, and Aisha knew that he was grounded. No one else in the dojo knew.

Hawk found 'Over The Top' on Amazon Prime and was about to press play when Bert spoke up from the floor after reading the sypnopsis of the film.

"Why would Sensei want us to watch a movie about a trucker coming together with his son?"

Joe elbowed him, "Maybe it's about the arm wrestling?"

"Well it did come out in 1987 so knowing Sensei, he probably thinks it's a good movie. I'm surprised he didn't make us watch any Rocky movies." Phoebe replied. She rested her head on Hawk's shoulder and shimmied closer to him to get more comfortable.

When watching the introduction, the Cobras saw the main trucker polishing a hawk on the front of a company car called Hawk Hauling.

Hawk pointed to it and fist bumped Miguel, "Oh, I need to get one of those for the Sentra."

Phoebe laughed, "Of course you want it. Though I didn't know you had your own hauling company back then."

Hawk just laughed at her, "Nice one."

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A few quick scenes later, the trucker was shown shirtless.

Abe whistled just for fun, "Ladies, look away. Shirtless man alert."

Kayla admired the trucker "You know what? Stallone looks like Elvis."

Phoebe agreed with her, but she wouldn't voice it out loud. "The trucker's nickname is Hawk."

Hawk glanced to her, "Do you think that's why Sensei gave me that name?"

"It's actually his surname." Aisha corrected. "His name is Lincoln Hawk."

"But what do you have in common with him?"

Hawk just shrugged. He noticed his mother come into the room with several pizza boxes. So he paused the movie.

"Pizza's here." She announced while setting it down on the coffee table.

"Yes." The Cobras chorused with smiles.

The Cobras opened the several boxes to smell and see the greasy cheesy and meat topped pizzas. They began grabbing a slice or two each as Hawk unpaused the movie.

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After watching the movie, Miguel commented, "Okay. I can see why he wanted us to watch that."

"Yeah. The lesson of the movie was that the world doesn't meet you halfway. If you want something. You got to take it."

"Like striking first." Phoebe added.

"I wonder who the best arm wrestler is in the dojo." Aisha wondered.

"It's obviously me." Hawk smirked. "I have the best muscles."