Ey'yo, so I'm, yet again, spreading my works into other areas. I'm still continuing my main GX fic (but, due to circumstances involving the site, beyond my control, I've hit a little setback…). But, anyways, this, here's going to be a series of Batman/Wonder Woman fics/drabbles, usually delving into their 'firsts' together. Most will probably involve some type of feeling, eventually evolving into romance. I'll try to stay in chronological order, but I'm also alternating between the two (Who knows? Maybe if I/you feel I'm good enough, I'll write more than just drabble/ficlets). The first one goes to….Princess Diana!! crowd cheers
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Respect, Remorse, and Redemption
Diana stood erect, slightly annoyed, as her colleagues decided to perform a sneak approach into the outpost that stood before them. One, J'onn J'onnz, had disappeared several minutes before, supposedly scouting the area for an opening into the building of some sort, when she knew she could just as easily have created one, right in front of them.
The other one, known to her only as Batman, stood in a crouched position in front of her, peering out from behind the ruins they were currently veiled by with a pair of binoculars, they called them, zooming in at certain areas, checking out the patrols, and, obviously, trying to think up a plan to sneak through. She watched him carefully and let her mind wander momentarily, allowing her to mull over the past few hours
The man in front of her was a mystery. Of course, there were many unknown objects, places, people, and ideas, now that she had left her home of Themyscira, but this person had especially piqued her interest. When they had met only hours ago, after the battle against alien spacecraft, she had wondered where this person was, and why he hadn't helped them fend off the enemy forces.
It quickly became clear to her, however, that this man - this BATman - had no super powers to speak of, yet still was grouped with the other six of them. That wasn't what had enticed her interest in him, though. It was the respect he seemed to have been given despite not having any powers to speak of. All the others, even the one called Superman, who seemed to be the most revered by the other four's actions, seemed to value Batman's opinion of what should be done. Of course, she hadn't been asked much, herself, during their meeting, but it was understandable. She was new, knowing very little of whom they were fighting and whom they were fighting to protect. She realized, then, that she had no knowledge of things outside of her home island.
However, when the one in front of her, Batman, spoke up, every was quiet, and seemed to listen intently. She mused on how one, with nothing extraordinary besides his equipment, could demand such respect just by being present there. He did have a certain aura about him, about how he carried himself, but all she could feel was something that seemed to scream out 'intimidation', though she would have none of it. She was not only a warrior of Themyscira's Amazons, but their princess. She would not have some human male try to intimidate her.
And yet…the respect he was shown made her a tiny jealous. Sure, she didn't have the friendship of anyone there, as she knew no one else, but she was still there to help out, leaving her home, and, most likely, getting disowned or banished by her mother, should she ever return. And yet she wasn't getting thanked. She shrugged it off as her mind still working in its 'princess' mode. She was part of a team now, surely they respected her as much as she did them, correct?
"Something on your mind, Princess?" Batman gruffly stated, his eyes never leaving the binoculars. Diana jumped in surprise slightly. It was the first time he had ever spoken to her, directly, and his quiet nature made it seem like he wasn't one who would start up a conversation.
"Nothing, really," she replied, trying to be nice. "Just waiting for you to give me the signal."
"What signal?" Batman inquired incredulously.
"To go attack, obviously." Diana was somewhat flabbergasted that she even needed to state that. "Surely, you realize I could defeat them myself?"
"We're not here to cause a ruckus, we're here to shut down this factory," Batman told her, lowering his binoculars "Fighting meaningless battles should be avoided whenever possible, especially when they outnumber us like they do."
Diana couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You think I can't do it?" she fiercely wondered.
Batman seemed quite disinterested in the squabble, which did little to improve Diana's mood. "I don't really care if you can or can't, we'll wait for J'onn to return."
"Hiding like cowards is not the Amazon way!" she retorted. Why couldn't he see that the few guards stationed here were mere targets for her to eliminate?
"They must have a weakness," Batman replied, peering around the corner to check for anything he could have missed in his deliberations. "When we find it, we'll strike."
As if on cue, J'onn suddenly came up from the ground, revealing himself. His face seemed grim. "I have scouted the outer walls." He shook his head to confirm, "There are no openings."
Diana, figuring it was her chance to prove her colleague wrong, declared, "Then we'll make our own!" She flew towards the building, half-expecting one of them to stop her, but was slightly surprised when neither came behind her. She flew through a trio of the guards, knocking them down, and whipped out her lasso. She threw it around the legs of the giant three-legged walked, and flew through the loop a second before it constricted around the machine's leg. She sped around the creature several times, before flying up and tightening the knot.
"Hera…!" she muttered. "Give me strength…!" As if on cue, Diana clasped the three legs together, sending the machine careening towards the building. A loud crash and a few moments later, an opening in the side of the wall was revealed.
Diana stood on the creature's leg, smirking at the two, particularly Batman, and stated, "There's your opening." She swiftly flew into the opening, seconds before seeing a squad of guards firing at her. She dropped to the ground to dodge a flurry of projectiles, before deflecting those that could prove fatal away with her gauntlets. They struck a few of the soldiers, dropping the number slightly.
She heard the other two finally arrive behind her, and deflected a few more beams, before the group in front of them retreated. "They run like cowards," she announced, turning to her comrades, "what are you waiting for!?" And she sped off after them.
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About forty-five minutes later, Diana found herself in another pickle. She had just raced around a corner after they had defeated several guards, only to find fifteen to twenty more waiting for the three of them. This was at least the fourth time it had occurred, and she knew, despite not wanting to admit it, that she was running out of options and time.
She backed around the corner after deflecting a trio of bolts, one striking down one of the opponents, and turned to the other two. "They blocked us off again!" she cried.
Batman reached for his belt and withdrew one of his 'Batarangs'. "It's almost as if they know what we're thinking," he analyzed coolly, priming his explosive, and sending it towards the group of enemies. It exploded upon contact with the ground-like bridge, taking out about a third of their opponents as well as dispersing their ranks.
"Any ideas, J'onn," Batman stated calmly, almost more like a demand than a question, keeping an eye out for any more adversaries. When the Martian didn't respond, he turned around, inquisitively. "J'onn?"
The eyes of the Martian dimmed back to a dark-yellow, as he grimly informed them, "Superman and Hawkgirl are down." He lowered his head. "They have failed."
"What?" Diana gasped. She turned to her black-caped comrade and noticed a twinge out of the corner of Batman's mouth and wondered if that's as close to emotional as he got. "Are you sure?" she wondered, half-unbelieving, half-wishing against it.
J'onn nodded. "I can sense it," he said.
His eyes began to grow eerily again for a moment, before he gestured to a corridor behind Diana. "This way. Hurry!" he told them. The trio began to speed down the passageway as the door where they had just been fighting sealed behind them. The trio whirled around a corner, as a door opened behind them. They didn't need to turn to know who it was and laser beams fired past them as if to stem any doubt they had.
They entered a large hallway, with a door about twenty feet above them. Diana and J'onn flew up to the top of the platform, while Batman took out his grappling hook and fired it at the ceiling just above the doorway. Just as Diana turned around, realizing Batman wouldn't have been able to fly up to them and wondering if he'd need help, the Dark Knight had already deftly landed next to her, placing his instrument back onto his belt.
She glanced down at the slimy aliens, and ducked away as a barrage of blaster fire sped towards her. She raced after the two other beings down the narrow passage and after a few more twists, stalled for a second, peering around a corner.
"We lost them," she breathed, somewhat relieved that they were all still in one piece.
"For the moment," the Caped Crusader noted quietly. Diana turned to what she deemed as the pessimist, as he held an object in his hand. He slid it onto his gloved hand, and it began to emit some electricity.
"Look," the Martian mentioned. The cowl-wearing hero turned to where J'onn was waiting for them and hurried over to them, gently beckoning Diana to follow. They froze on either side of their companion, as he pointed up towards the extremely high. The two others noticed a rather large transparent red mass floating around near some of the creatures that had invaded Earth. They seemed to be monitoring the mass. "It's the central core," J'onn informed them, before they could question about it.
Batman turned to the green-skinned being. "How can we shut it down?" He inquired flatly.
The Martian again gestured in the direction of the red mass, only more directly to its center. "The Ion-Matrix Crystal," he mentioned, as the two noticed the floating red rock bob up and down in its stasis field. "If we can remove that, we'll shut down the entire plant."
Batman began withdrawing a Batarang from his belt, as J'onn noted, "I'll need a distraction."
"Done," the black-caped man stated, flinging his projectile a what appeared to be a pipeline. It sliced through the leathery pipe like butter and began spewing out some black, foul-smelling liquid onto a pair of 'engineers' only yards away from the crystal. The rest of the alien crew in the room turned to where the object had flown from.
J'onn had already disappeared through the floor and Diana was drawing upon her strength, tearing off another similar looking pipe. This one, however, began releasing a brown gas, similar to what the plant had been spreading into the atmosphere.
The smoke provided some cover from above, but below was a different matter. The aliens were already converging on the two warriors, causing the duo to counterattack. Diana reflected a series of bolts sent their way, while Batman glided down to the enemies aiming at them. He sliced a kick at one, knocking him down, while using the object he had placed over his hand earlier to send a shockwave through the other one.
As the warrior fought against another group of adversaries, Diana realized that this Batman, while not one that could out-muscle the likes of her or Superman or even J'onn, had his own style of fighting and ferocity that would make any Amazon proud. Not to mention he had a strong mind and great instincts, he almost moved as if he were water, so fluid, graceful, and powerful.
He suddenly turned to her and frowned slightly, letting another Batarang fly in her direction. She gasped in surprise as it skimmed just above her shoulder and struck the alien that had been sneaking up behind her.
She suddenly felt very foolish to have been distracted so easily by him, and expected him to berate her. Instead, she was shocked when he called, "Are you alright?" Surprised that she wasn't getting mocked or yelled at, she merely nodded.
She immediately spun around and took out the group that had been waiting for their comrade to strike and, almost instantly knocked half of the group of the ledge. A shot suddenly rang out above her, and she raised her gauntlet in its direction, but realized it wasn't her that was getting shot when a painful groan rang out. A few platforms above her, J'onn dropped with the Crystal only a few feet to the side of him.
"J'onn!" she cried in concern, knocking the two aliens standing next to her away from her and flying through the one in front of her towards her fallen ally.
She helped raise him up a bit, then heard more battling going on behind her. Almost forgetting about Batman, she whirled around, hoping he hadn't met a similar fate, yet. Relieved, he was still battling, though the numbers against him were great.
She was about to go over to help the Dark Knight, when, as if reading her thoughts, he shouted, "Get him out!" She paused for a moment as, what appeared to be a cut, left a trail of blood over the black-caped hero's lip and down his chin, as he grabbed the appendage of an opponent from behind him. He thrusted up with the lightning-weapon on his hand and flung the creature on top of another opponent just ahead of him.
He turned back to see if they had left, to see that she hadn't moved. He scowled viciously at her. "NOW!!" he ordered.
This seemed to snap the Amazon back into reality. She picked up the fallen warrior in her arms and raced towards a door that had begun to close. She glanced behind her to see that Batman had already begun to make his move, leaving a smoke bomb behind him and swinging towards her with his grappling hook. He picked up the Crystal and flew behind them. Silently thanking the gods that they were all safe, she forged ahead through the doorway. She skidded to a halt and looked up behind her to see that the door was nearly shut.
Batman was still several yards away from the exit. "Batman!" she cried, as the door sealed in on itself. She heard a few grunts from the other side, realizing that he was trying to pound his way through, though she knew in her heart of hearts it wouldn't do any good. Not with a normal human's strength.
She began to head back to the doorway when a series of laser fire began to pound against the doorway, even pushing against it. All was then silent. "NO!!" Diana screamed. She began to head to the door even faster when J'onn appeared in front of her. "Stop!" he told her. "There's nothing more we can do for him."
"You don't mean he's…" Diana's voice got caught in her throat. It couldn't possibly be true.
J'onn somberly nodded, "…Gone."
Diana lowered her head and for the first time in her life felt the urge to cry. She didn't know why. She had experienced sadness, before, but never like this. Of course, she had never experienced death in her life before, either. Her race was an immortal one. Sure, they had people banished or leave the island once or twice, but they always were still alive. It was the first time she had ever truly lost someone, even if it was only someone she had known for barely a few hours. She felt as if she had failed her friends, especially the one who had just perished.
'No,' she told herself, forcing back the urge of tears. 'This is not something an Amazon should do. Not in the face of a death of a warrior.' She silently sent off the hero to the Underworld and muttered, "Hera, help us."
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Green Lantern and The Flash finally appeared after what seemed like forever. As she saw them approach, Diana noticed how bored and annoyed she was by waiting. She faintly wondered if she was the type of person who always had to be doing something. She shook her head and calmed herself. The last time she raced ahead without more than a little planning, they lost a fellow warrior.
J'onn shifted. "You know that he wouldn't blame you for what happened to him," he stoically informed her. Diana gasped slightly, then remembered that J'onn was a telepath. He glanced at her with a look that told her that he was sorry for peeking without permission.
She smiled at the alien encouragingly. "I know," she muttered. "Thanks, J'onn."
Green Lantern drifted down to them, just as Flash sped up the building and appeared on the opposite side of the two. "Sorry we're late," he told them. "We had to help out some civilians."
Flash, with something between an inquisitive and annoyed look, asked, "Why did you call us back here?"
Diana stepped in front of them towards the enormous factory ahead of them and motioned to it. It looked like the other outposts they had attacked earlier, but this one seemed even larger than those, as if it were the command center. "Superman and Hawkgirl have been captured," she explained. "They're being held somewhere in that building."
Flash approached the building in a stunned silence, only able to breath in awe of the giant complex. He looked back at them, silently questioning if they were serious. Diana nodded at him, confirming that they were entering the building. John Stewart, the resident Green Lantern, spoke up, then. "What about Batman?" he inquired.
Diana closed her eyes and lowered her head slightly, feeling that emotion of sorrow once again rear its ugly head, but able to hold back the tears for her fallen comrade once again. J'onn, noting that Diana needed a moment away from her, answered for her. "He acted heroically…to the very end."
Flash's jaw dropped instantly. "The Bats gone…!?" he croaked remorsefully. He looked away at the building, causing Diana thought for a moment if he was going to lose it, as well. She reached out to put a hand on his shoulder, but froze when she noticed he was grinding his teeth in anger. He seemed primed for action against the invaders.
Diana decided, instead, to give her opinion. A 'eulogy', as she was told it was called. Feeling herself more composed, now, she announced, "He was a true warrior."
John, however, didn't like the fact they were now down half a team and growled, "This is NOT good." He lowered his voice, so as not to let the others hear his concern, though Diana still could hear it. "Definitely not good."
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Diana felt her head throb fiercely, as she vaguely heard a pair of friendly voices echo through the recesses of her mind. "J'onn….J'onn wake up!" one stated. She desperately began to dig forward, closer to the sound.
A low grunt, which she assumed to be the Martian, then followed. Another grunt followed the first, before the alien groaned, "Superman…" telling her who the first voice belonged to.
"You shouldn't have risked your lives for us," Superman told their comrade, though Diana, even in her weakened state, could tell it was more of an apology than a reprimand.
Diana slowly opened her eyes, blinking her vision into view, as J'onn answered, "Would you have done any less for me?" She noticed that Superman and the alien had their forearms and their legs below their knees sealed into the ground of the platform they were on. She struggled a bit, before realizing it was futile. The ground was too compact and took up too much of her limbs to get enough strength into them.
Diana heard another groan on the far side of the green being. She glanced around the two heroes to see Flash connected to the ground beneath him in the same manner. The princess then glanced behind her to see that Green Lantern and Hawkgirl were also ensnared into the ground. "Oh…my aching head…" Flash grimaced.
Footsteps could be heard approaching ahead of them and the group turned their heads towards the sound. One of the slimy aliens appeared in front of them. "Earth's mightiest heroes," the voice sneeringly echoed. Its form then began to shift. The body and limbs soon began to turn brown and evolved into a suit. The appendages slowly shifted into hands and fingers and the blob hat seemed to make his head formed into a dashing blonde-haired face with hard features. He smirked deviously at the group. "Welcome."
"Senator Carter…" Superman gaped. His brow furrowed in disgust.
The fake human chuckled maliciously. "Unfortunately," he venomously began, "the real 'Carter' never returned from Mars."
Superman growled. "And you used me to weaken Earth's defenses!" he shot back.
The 'man' shrugged, continuing his cackling. "But you were so eager to cooperate," he informed him. He leveled his stare to the red-caped hero. "Thanks to you the humans were totally helpless against us." He bowed slightly in gratitude, but Diana noted that even his bow emanated arrogance and offensive.
Superman scowled in response. "It's not over yet…" he murmured in anger.
The man shook his head, like an instructor correcting a student. "Wrong, again, Superman," he gestured with his hand up to the ceiling, which immediately opened up, revealing that the sky had disappeared under a thick smog. Lightning pierced the clouds above. Diana could make out an object that seemed to be moving in front of the lightning. For a moment, appeared like some type of plane, but as it approached, she could tell it was more of a spacecraft.
A smaller shuttle lowered beneath the massive command ship, racing towards their position. The ominous feeling that had been building slowly crept up to her neck and the Amazon suddenly found that the air had become thick with malice, making it difficult to take full breaths.
The drop ship landed into the hangar, if it could be called that. Almost instantly, the fake Carter turned and smirked at the group of heroes, before turning back to the ship. "All hail…The Imperium!" All of the aliens bowed in reverence at the waist to what turned out to be the entrance to the shuttle, as something depressurized inside it. A burst of smoke covered the area, as something dropped out. Diana couldn't make it out and, though she knew it was inevitable, she got the feeling she never wanted to.
When the smoke had dispersed, it revealed a giant…mass is the only thing she could describe it. It was a massive purple blob of mass, including several tentacles that slithered out from what the princess presumed to be the 'body'. It began to glide towards them, though it seemed, and she didn't know how she could tell, more focused on the Martian in their group. She turned towards her comrade to see that his face was firm and emotionless. She didn't know if that unnerved her more than the creature slowly moving towards them.
Suddenly, a voice that seemed to vibrate from within the bowels of her mind shook the core of her being. It felt like her head was slowly being ripped apart. "J'onn J'onnz…" the creation's voice gurgled. "It's been a long time."
A tentacle seemed to motion in his general direction and, at it's command, the ground lifted the hero up towards the platform and dropped him a few feet from the Imperium. After a few moments where the two aliens stared each other down, the giant pinkish-purple mass signaled with its tentacle towards the Martian. The two nearest aliens revealed some type of pole arm and began to advance on the motionless hero. They both, then, stabbed the blue-caped individual, sending a thousands of volts into her colleague's body.
J'onn howled out in pain as the group watched. She had to close her eyes a few times from the bright light of the electricity and resisted the urge to turn her head from witnessing the pain of another of her comrades. The Martian's shape-shifting ability then failed, as his features then became more alien, with its cone-shaped head reappearing in view.
After a few moments, the aliens withdrew their weapons, leaving J'onn to sway and quiver in pain, as he dropped to the floor. The skin on the Martian seared in obvious pain and smoked tumbled off his prone form. "Much better," the Imperium stated, causing Diana's mind to, once again, feel her mind become filled with pressure that threatened to cause her skull to burst. "You have defied us for centuries."
J'onn slowly shook his head and picked himself up from the ground, for the first time showing that he despised the creature. "And I will never bow before you or any of your kind!" he defiantly declared.
"Then, we shall, personally, see to it to finish what should have been accomplished long ago," the Imperium cooed. "The elimination of the last Martian." Several tentacles suddenly extended and shot into J'onn's arm and chest, slowly creeping through his body and to his skull.
J'onn tried to resist screaming out, again, but the slithering arms soon reached his head and slowly began to pull the Martian towards the putrid mass. Inside the brain-like creature, electricity flowed into the friendly alien's body through the tentacles still attached to the hero. Diana could hear the echoes of J'onn's cries through the body of the blob and saw her friend squirm when the electricity shined bright enough to reveal the shadow of her comrade.
She couldn't take it anymore. She had already lost one of her friends due to her helplessness, she couldn't bear to lose another. She closed her eyes, although the Imperium was showing the torture through her mind's eye. Suddenly, a voice, different from everyone's present, quietly echoed in her mind. "They must have a weakness. When we find it, we'll strike."
She gasped, opened her eyes, and turned her head in a few different directions. She noticed that no one else seemed to have heard it, or if they did they weren't responding. 'It…couldn't be…!' she mused. 'I must be imagining things.' But even though she wouldn't believe that Batman was alive at the moment, she admittedly felt comforted, even if slightly, by hearing the man's voice. She decided she would honor her friends passing, by waiting till the bitter end with determination. Possibly even wait for their 'weakness' to reveal itself.
Superman growled, as his anger boiled at his friend's pain. Diana realized this must have pained him the most, as he was the strongest of them and was still helpless to do anything. "Let go of him you filthy…!" He stalled to try to struggle out of his bonds, but it was futile.
Diana felt the Imperium smile within her mind, before it stated, "Kneel, to us, J'onn J'onnz."
The Martian squirmed, grunted, seemingly trying to do everything in his power to break free of the grip of his enemy. "N…Never!" he cried, through his pain-filled howls.
The Imperium seemed intrigued by the resistance of his prey. "Why do you resist the truth? Embrace it. After all these years, you have finally lost." Another charge was sent through the body of its captive.
J'onn fell limp for a moment after the shock, suddenly making the Amazon that he had finally passed. But the facial features on the Martian change, into what Diana could only interpret of his best form of a defiant grin. "Have I?" he wondered cryptically.
"You're hiding something," the Imperium's voice boomed. "What is it, I wonder? Another one of your Martian tricks?" The mood of the creature changed, Diana noted, as well as insistent that the hero was being secretive. It answered…almost too quickly.
Feeling that he was winning the emotional battle, J'onn merely replied, "Do I sense fear?" But Diana was puzzled. What good was there to bluff, now? Did he really have something up his sleeve that even he didn't reveal to the others?
Another charge pierced through the alien's body, as the Imperium's voice roared even louder than it had ever done, as if it was trying to get information from the group of heroes still bound into the ground. "What are you hiding!?" he demanded.
The charge through the hero caused him to call out again, but it seemed as if it seemed more callous and shallow. For a moment, Diana wondered if this was the final moments for her green friend, when J'onn suddenly called out. "NOW!!"
An explosion rang out behind them, spewing bits of slime and debris outward from one of the pillars to the left and behind them. Smoke poured out from the pillar near the red mass that Diana, remembering from the last outpost they had infiltrated, was the Ion-Matrix Crystal.
The smoke soon began to separate from the pillar, and Diana immediately took notice that a black cape was flowing behind the person that was standing there. A wave of relief washed over her when the cowl revealed itself and the full body of Batman was standing atop near where the shield surrounded the Crystal.
"Batman…!?" Flash exclaimed in shock.
Diana, even though she was relieved, and had the suspicion that she wasn't dreaming from earlier, was still in awe of the hero. "It can't be…" She wondered if this is what it would feel like if she ever saw any of those banished from Themyscira ever again. If they had been under different circumstances, Diana wouldn't know if she could've restrained from at least showing some type of emotion, revealing how grateful she was that he was still alive.
"I mentally shielded him so he couldn't be detected," the Martian grimaced as he began to slowly muscle his way out of the Imperium's grip.
Batman slid his hand into the shield and placed something onto the crystal, which suddenly turned blue. The area around the shield also began to turn blue, and shortly thereafter, like a rush of water, the red spots along the pipeline soon began to shift into the blue color.
The fake Carter's eyes widened, followed by his stare becoming cold. "What have you done!?" he cried.
"Reversed the ion charge," the Crusader gruffly replied.
"The Crystal!" The Imperium cried. "Destroy it!"
Batman raised his grappling hook and shot it to the ceiling above, quickly escaping the array of bolts that pierced the area of the crystal and the ground the hero once stood. The laser weaponry wasn't strong enough to pierce the area around the crystal. "It's shielded…!?" Carter gasped.
Batman swung as the blue energy slowly overcame the red through the complex. The smog that was billowing from the factory was soon replaced by a massive blue beam that erupted from the pipes that jutted out of the top of the factory and pierced the smog in the sky. It broke through the clouds and the blue sky came into view. The dark brown clouds that had overtaken the horizon were swiftly disappearing revealing more and more sunlight.
The sunlight that had been blocked came into full view in the hangar. The aliens that had gathered at the edge of the platform soon began to rush away towards the shuttle that had brought the Imperium with it. Those that were unfortunate enough to not be quicker than the ever increasing sunlight disintegrated quickly, as if they were water without a glass to hold it.
J'onn finally burst forth from the Imperium and began dragging to alien mass further into the sunlight. "You live underground and shun the light!" he accused. "Why!? Does it burn your pale putrid skin!?" The mass began to bubble and gurgle in agony.
Diana was nearly unable to believe their source of luck, when Batman, the instigator of this sudden change in fortune, dropped in front of her to confirm this was no dream. He knelt down in front of Diana and reached for the back of his utility belt. "Ultraviolet rays," the Dark Knight explained. "Coming from the depths of space, they have no resistance to our sun's radiation." He began to drill the ground that had Diana trapped with some type of ray that began to dry the ground that held her. She slowly realized that the ground's strength came from the fact it was more mud than anything else.
Diana smiled and giggled light-heartedly. "So you did find their weakness, after all," she noted, breaking her arm free from the bonds that tied her to the ground. Batman quickly went to work on the other arm, when the Imperium shouted a command to eliminate them. "Not this time," she muttered to herself, wanting to prove she wasn't just a rookie. She wrapped her arm around the hero and blocked the laser bolt that would've struck Batman in the back.
Diana expected a 'Thank you', or some sort of acknowledgement but realized the hero hadn't even bothered to look up. She then realized that might have been a good thing, as it meant he trusted her enough to watch his back without even taking his eyes off his work. It was probably as close to subconscious gratitude she would get from him, and she felt more content about that than she think she would've gotten with an actual 'Thank you'.
She soon broke free her other arm and her legs, as one by one the other heroes freed themselves and slowly began to battle back against their adversaries. While Diana and Hawkgirl eliminated forces in the sky, the others took care of the ground troops. Slowly, but surely, the heroes were able to drive back the invaders, while annihilating the Imperium, to make sure this never happened again.
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Diana stood on an overhang overlooking the city. She had been reminiscing quietly over what had transpired only a month before, and how much she grew that day. And, although she had trouble admitting it, Man's World did have its…own interesting lifestyle. Unlike on Themyscira, where everyone was female and had the same ideas for the most part, Man's World held many different people with different personalities, ideas, and talents.
A man stood beside her, deep in the shadows of the building, using a pair of binoculars to peer down below them, as they awaited for the opportune moment to strike against their foes. This time, they were waiting for a gang war to break out, or, if possible, stop it. Tips had lead them to the war starting somewhere in the area, but nothing out of the ordinary had shown itself, yet.
She watched Batman intently as he skimmed the surface, searching for some clue or tell that allowed him to discover any signs that one of the people down below might belong to one of the gangs involved. She instantly wondered how unpredictable this man actually was. Though she questioned others in the League, she hadn't found out much about him, other than he resided in Gotham City, when not in the Watchtower or on missions. She found him…intriguing.
"Something on your mind, Princess?" Batman's deep, gruff voice inquired. Diana was used to this by now. The two had only been on a few missions together, but the initial discussion they had had now become something of a tradition. So, she gave him the same answer whenever she was asked that question.
"Nothing, really," she said, smiling sweetly. "Just waiting for you to give me the signal."
Batman took down the binoculars and looked at her incredulously. He finally revealed a smirk to her and questioned further. "What signal?"
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Alright, so it was longer than I wanted. And it wasn't even that original of an idea. But, this is pretty much how it's going to be: Take a scene from the series, retool it into one of the two's POV and run with it. I'll most likely add my own little bits for holidays or something like that, but…
Sorry for all you Wonder Woman lovers out there, I didn't want her to seem like a wimp, because she's not, but I wanted her to be emotional, somewhat of a foil to Batman, who is pretty stoic, most of the time (at least in uniform). However, I may have made her seem like she was kind of scared there, for a bit, but she wanted to prove herself, and nearly lost one of her comrades due to her over-eagerness. Reviews are welcome (including flames, if you so desire).