Before I write, I just want to explain that I don't know everything there is to know about Wonder Woman and expect for a decently sized minority of readers to know than me about her. This story is mainly AR. It considers work from many different comic book writers but has the least in common with the work of George Perez and with the movie. I have not read more than the first twelve Rebirth issues (though I am currently having the next book sent to me). With all of this, I ask for your understanding.
Just so you get a little info on the Wonder Woman I have had experience with here's a list:
The Golden Age Omnibus – Volume One – William Moulton-Marston, The New 52 series, Rebirth Vol 1-2, Wonder Woman by Mike Deodato, Wonder Woman by George Perez 1-2, Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka 1-2, Wonder Woman '77 1-2, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman 1-3, Wonder Woman Earth One Vol 1, The Legend of Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman: War of the Gods, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon, and a number of Wonder Woman anthologies. There may also be ideas that are drawn from DC Comic Bombshells.
Again, this is AR/AU
The Great Divide
Chapter One :: Aeolus
Diana had never known a feeling like this one that was burning inside of her. She had had to learn a lot about the human world and the types of people within it. She had had to learn about man's hatred and greed and how that same need to please one's self could trample any idea of wonder and beauty in the world. She had seen how people could be on the streets struggling to survive whilst the wealthy lived with far too much. Men had much different ideas about the world than the matriarchy of Themyscira.
Which was what made this moment so hard for her.
She had learned joys and tragedies. Diana had had the opportunity to work for a living, she had had the opportunity to follow a man and have him fall in love with her for who was under the golden tiara, she had known what pleasures existed within the bedroom of a man and a woman, she had known how ecstatic a woman feels on their wedding day, and she had learned the joy of being told that she was going to have a baby and that hers would be the baby of her and Steve Trevor.
Those were wonderful moments, but this moment wasn't the one she had been dreaming of.
In her arms was her child, an adorable baby boy that would isolate her from her sisters. As much as she admired the way that Hephaestus would honorably care for the young sons of the Amazons, she didn't want to sacrifice her child to him as she had seen other Amazons do. She had already had to go through the labor without her husband due to the desire to be on Paradise Island during the delivery.
"Daughter," Hippolyte said as she took a few steps over to Diana, behind her Mara was standing. "If I may have a word."
"If it is a choice between my exile and the removal of my son, Mother, then I don't think that you will appreciate the discussion you are wanting to have," Diana argued. She looked at the baby. It was strange – babies – and especially how she could see herself in the features on his little face but that he also was a miniature version of her husband.
"How so, daughter?" Hippolyte challenged her. "How is it that you speak so quickly and yet can foretell what my words will be. No, I am not going to order the removal of this child but until the time your sisters can accept man into our world, you must live on the outer world."
"I plan to," Diana smiled, "With Steve. Is there a chance that I might contact him so that I can tell him the news of our son?" she asked as she held the little boy to her chest. She could now understand fully how hard it was for her mother to let her go so many years ago. She knew that her mother had not expected Steve to have taken care of her in the way that he had, but Steve was an honorable man, a good man. There were so many who were not like him.
"I must ask that, with your son in good health, you need to leave the island as soon as possible. I am sure that you can find a way of contacting him once you are home," Hippolyte said and Diana looked at the small baby in her arms. "Have you chosen a name for him?" she asked and Diana nodded.
"Aeolus Steven Trevor," Diana said as the two other women smiled at the choice of name. Diana looked to them before looking to where her clothes were that she would need to change into. "Mother," she said as she looked at little Aeolus. Hippolyte stepped forward with her arms wide and Diana allowed her to hold the small boy.
After she was wearing her Wonder Woman outfit again, with a robe around her, she reached back to hold her son. "Mother, thank you for allowing the two of us to be here."
"Well, thank you for coming home and giving me a chance to meet my grandchild. My prayer is that you will be here soon," she said and Diana smiled, she pressed soft kissed to Aeolus' head and left the palace behind, tears in her eyes at how she had to pick one family and not both.
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Diana looked over at Aeolus as he slept in the invisible plane, she walked over to the baby and allowed her fingers to rest on his head as he surprisingly slept. "Hello, my little one," she smiled as she kissed his forehead. "I know the beautiful when I see them and you look just like your father. He is a pilot and one who protects fine people, he risks his life in his line of duty. That is why you are named after one of my gods for the air, so that you will follow in his footsteps to be a fine man like him."
As Diana knelt beside the crib, she felt a sharp jolt and instinctively put her hand out for the young baby. "Hush, my darling," she said as she looked around. Hopefully this wasn't Circe or another former foe trying to take her down. She didn't know what the Silver Swan would gain from this and if Cheetah were flying, well then she would have to have talks with Barbara about her capabilities.
Unless the gods were angry with her for leaving her home. No. That couldn't be it.
"I'm just going to check to see what is going on, my darling," Diana said before she went to the control panel and then froze as lights seemed to streak down around her as if a meteor shower. She felt herself lose control of the plane before it disappeared around her. Rushing over to Aeolus, she wrapped her arms around him tightly before leaving the plane.
What she wasn't expecting was to be trapped in a giant bubble of glowing light instead of dropping into the ocean. Was this the work of the Gods?
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As Diana woke, she heard the sound of people talking around her and she opened her eyes. She felt a burning pain throughout her body and she looked around. For the moment all she could hear was buzzing but she was searching for a specific noise.
Her body froze as she heard the screams of her son. It was a mother's instinct that told her that this was her son and not someone else's. She looked up and saw him in the arms of a paramedic. "Aeolus," she said as she reached out for him, but then looked around. The light hurt her eyes.
This place was too loud with buildings that she had never seen before and moving pictures on buildings. There was a large crowd and very little green. Her eyes took in the street signs. The traffic lights. The mass of people and she got to her feet. "Aeolus," she said as she approached the trained medic, "Please can I hold my so—" she smiled as he handed the tiny baby to her.
Diana lifted the little boy and looked him over before bringing him to her chest. She stared around, the cars looked more numerous and very sleek and people were walking around with square boxes that they were writing in. This felt almost too much like her first trip to man's world. "Sir," she turned to the paramedic, "May you te-"
"Isn't that her!?" Diana heard a familiar voice and turned. She blinked to see Paula and Etta behind her. Their clothes clashed with those of the people around them, but even to Diana it seemed that she had not seen the two of them in years. They looked older than when she had seen them a few days ago.
Diana was about to make her way over to them before she felt someone to her side and turned.
"Are you okay? Are you really here? Diana?" Steve asked as Diana turned to him to see that he was also older than she thought that he'd be. He looked as if he had just found out that someone he thought was dead had finally appeared. What was going on?
"Steve?" she asked as Steve wrapped his arms around the two of them.
"I'm so happy that the two of you are here," he told them before looking back at Paula and Etta, he bowed his head and grinned, "Thank you for bringing me to them." He told them.
