"For hope is but the dream of those who wake" Mathew Prior
The above quote was given to me at the end of a review for Odi Amo et Excrucior. I loved it so much I decided to write a fiction based upon it. Thank you Karene. So a sequel to the Odi, Amo et Excrucior trilogy of one shots has been written and I am slowly uploading the chapters as I go. I'm not entirely certain how this one'll come out, but it should prove interesting. Thanks for staying tuned.
Ara, Signing on:
"Diana" His voice comes through the small yellow metalic box strapped to Wonder Woman's hip slowly at first, crackling and fizzing past post-bomb static.
"Diana!"
Fluttering her eyes open, Wonder Woman shook her head and found she couldn't move her legs. A deep bass ringing stung her ears with a thudding like a slow grate of fingernails on a chalk board. Again the sound wrenched her closing eyes as she realised a pattern to the syllables:
"Diana!"
"Batman" she mumbled, coughing a sticky mound of dust and debris out of her airways spastically before yelling again into her soar, painful throat,
"Batman!"
"Hold on!"
Shaking the remaining fog out of her head, Wonder Woman, Princess of the Amazons reached within her focused warrior mind and pulled at the power which allowed her the priviledge of flight. Tugging at the wind, she lifted her arms above her head and thrust herself up out of the pile of debris and hung precariously above the gaping hole before blinking and ducking a split second before a missile hit it's target. Losing her balance from the explosion, she tumbled to the ground, a sharp pain ripping at her sight like a firework. Dazed, Wonder Woman took a blind swing at something hazardous and yellow, allowing the buzzing to empower her as she pushed whatever it was away and stood to wipe her eyes and realise she wasn't wiping just sweat and debris.
Blood.
It was another second before she realised in her confused state the blood was hers, and viewing the closest moving object, she lunged, thinking the object was another opponent. A warrior's cry split the scene as before she reached her opponent, an encompassing blackness dwarfed her briefly before pulling her to the ground. Landing on top of the darkness, she yanked herself upwards, stumbling briefly before feeling her own rope pull around her and lead her to the ground again. Above the adrenaline pumping her heart to breakneck speed, she heard the same bass droning, a heavy humming replacing the electronic static buzz.
"Diana! Do you hear me?"
Jerking away, Diana took a laboured breath, catching in her throat and coughing up a spastic cough of blood, dust and mucus. Spitting at the ground, she turned to feel the blackness wipe at her eyes and forehead.
"What's happening?" she wheezed, as Batman came into a blurred focus.
"You tell m... hang on!" the Dark Knight barked, grabbing the Amazon Princess by the waist and swinging them out of the battle via bat-grapple to the roof of a mid-sized building on the far side of the battlefield.
"Justice League, regroup on the Westmount building, repeat: this is Batman, regroup!"
By the time it took Diana to realise she had encircled her legs around Batman's waist, the Flash had sped up to eye the team members and whistle precariously. Letting her legs fall to the ground, Wonder Woman grimaced at the tender sharp pain her right leg sent up her nervous system. Batman felt the brief tightening of her muscles and held her up more securely as the rest of the League arrived. Diana let him hold her.
"Superman, you and Hawkgirl take the high east, come from behind the sun, blind them and attack. Green Lantern, take Flash and cover the south, use Flash as bait if you have to. J'onn"
"I know, handle the rest"
"Exactly. Any questions?"
"Yeah, what about Princess?" Hawkgirl said, folding her arms to her chest.
"I've got north" Wonder Woman said, her head clearing as the adrenaline paced the grogginess out.
"Stay away from the north parkade" Batman barked, sending the League to finish the battle with Luthor and his new batch of robots.
"Why?" Green Lantern asked as he flew off with the Flash in a green bubble.
"It's mine" Batman said as the League deployed and just as Wonder Woman prepared to fly off,
"Where do you think you're going?"
"To cover the north"
"Not like that"
"Like what?" Diana said, challenging the slightly shorter man
"Bleeding and injured"
"I've had worse"
"Not when you almost took down Superman"
"That was Superman?"
"Be careful"
"Batman worried?"
Diana smirked at Batman's inner panic. She had to admit, he was cute when he got like that. Before lifting off to the north of the battlefield, Diana leaned in and kissed Batman's cheek before grabbing his hand and flying him to his parkade. Batman grimaced severely, now he would have to re-search the area and destroy all evidence. All of it. Beyond the battle, Wonder Woman acted as cover, destroying the robots that got too close and waiting for the word from Batman.
"Now!"
Hearing the word, the League sprang into action, corraling the group of robots and Luthor towards the parkade as Batman let loose a volley of Batarangs to five small black boxes lining the pillars. Launching himself at Wonder Woman, they grabbed hands as the team flew out the back and Superman ripped Luthor out of his suit and tied him up with a loose cable from a defunked wiring system. As the police came to take over, Superman surrepticiously dropped Luthor in a secured Police vehicle before turning back and joining his team.
"Good work people, we almost" Superman started, staring straight at the Dark Knight,
"Got through this without damage to the city. You mind explaining yourself, Batman?"
"It was ugly"
"Lay off Batman's methods, they worked didn't they?" Wonder Woman piped up, stopping with a signal to cut it from Batman. Flash whistled, but shut up after another patent Bat-death-glare
"Okay, well. . . I'm going for a drink anyone up to playing Super-hero hookey and joining me?"
Hawkgirl said, grabbing Green Lantern before he had the chance to object.
"Hey! I wanted to see how it'd turn out!" the rest of the League could hear Green Lantern's diminishing voice as Hawkgirl answered,
"No you don't"
"Apparently I don't" were the last words they could hear as Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman stared each other down.
"Fine. But if anything comes out of this, Batman, you're on your own"
"I work alone"
"Fine"
"Fine"
Wonder Woman and Superman stared each other down as Flash and J'onn melted slowly away before noticing the Bat was nowhere to be found.
"What is with you, Diana?"
"Why can't you just let Batman do as he will?"
"Someone has to be responcible for Batman. He's a loose cannon"
"Loose..! At least he knows when to control his bleeding heart!"
"I didn't think Batman had a heart!"
"Shows what you know!"
"And you know different?"
"Yes!"
"Fine, then prove me wrong, but if Batman pulls another stunt like this again, don't come to me to clean up after it. The Joker was enough!"
"I don't remember anyone asking you!"
Superman took a double back as Diana stood proud and tall, regal even though the blood from her injuries was still coating her face and arms.
"Someone has to lead the team"
"Batman's not part of this team. He owes us nothing"
"Then why does he fight with us so often, Princess? If he really doesn't owe us any obligation, then what don't I know?"
"Watch yourself Clark. Push me any further and I'll show you what Hades is like. First hand"
"Is that a threat?" the mammoth man asked, squaring his shoulders.
"Lay. Off. Bruce. Because if it ever came to a point between him and the Justice League, I know who I'll choose"
"Funny. I used to know who you'd side with, too"
Staring him down, Diana clenched her fists tighter, Superman thought it best to leave before he goaded the Princess any further. Amazons, why do they have to be so testy? Batman crouched watching the superheroes' exchange all the while listening to the police reports and surveying the evidence he'd have to clean up. Wrenching himself further into the shadows, he avoided Superman's flight back to the cozy apartment he shared with Lois Lane and noticed the way Diana painfully unclenched her bloody fingers. Scaling down a fourth story wall, the caped crusader kept his eyes on the woman currently scanning the cuts in her palms from her fingernails.
"How can you be so..." Diana started, her warrior's senses alerting her to the presence of this very dangerous man.
"Nonchalant?"
"I was going to say arrogant, but that works, too"
"Cave. 12 minutes"
"How in the name of Zeus can y. . . I hate it when he does that" Wonder Woman said to the empty breeze as she took flight to Gotham City, and used the hankercheif he slipped into her palm to wipe away the blood.
The above quote was given to me at the end of a review for Odi Amo et Excrucior. I loved it so much I decided to write a fiction based upon it. Thank you Karene. So a sequel to the Odi, Amo et Excrucior trilogy of one shots has been written and I am slowly uploading the chapters as I go. I'm not entirely certain how this one'll come out, but it should prove interesting. Thanks for staying tuned.
Ara, Signing on:
"Diana" His voice comes through the small yellow metalic box strapped to Wonder Woman's hip slowly at first, crackling and fizzing past post-bomb static.
"Diana!"
Fluttering her eyes open, Wonder Woman shook her head and found she couldn't move her legs. A deep bass ringing stung her ears with a thudding like a slow grate of fingernails on a chalk board. Again the sound wrenched her closing eyes as she realised a pattern to the syllables:
"Diana!"
"Batman" she mumbled, coughing a sticky mound of dust and debris out of her airways spastically before yelling again into her soar, painful throat,
"Batman!"
"Hold on!"
Shaking the remaining fog out of her head, Wonder Woman, Princess of the Amazons reached within her focused warrior mind and pulled at the power which allowed her the priviledge of flight. Tugging at the wind, she lifted her arms above her head and thrust herself up out of the pile of debris and hung precariously above the gaping hole before blinking and ducking a split second before a missile hit it's target. Losing her balance from the explosion, she tumbled to the ground, a sharp pain ripping at her sight like a firework. Dazed, Wonder Woman took a blind swing at something hazardous and yellow, allowing the buzzing to empower her as she pushed whatever it was away and stood to wipe her eyes and realise she wasn't wiping just sweat and debris.
Blood.
It was another second before she realised in her confused state the blood was hers, and viewing the closest moving object, she lunged, thinking the object was another opponent. A warrior's cry split the scene as before she reached her opponent, an encompassing blackness dwarfed her briefly before pulling her to the ground. Landing on top of the darkness, she yanked herself upwards, stumbling briefly before feeling her own rope pull around her and lead her to the ground again. Above the adrenaline pumping her heart to breakneck speed, she heard the same bass droning, a heavy humming replacing the electronic static buzz.
"Diana! Do you hear me?"
Jerking away, Diana took a laboured breath, catching in her throat and coughing up a spastic cough of blood, dust and mucus. Spitting at the ground, she turned to feel the blackness wipe at her eyes and forehead.
"What's happening?" she wheezed, as Batman came into a blurred focus.
"You tell m... hang on!" the Dark Knight barked, grabbing the Amazon Princess by the waist and swinging them out of the battle via bat-grapple to the roof of a mid-sized building on the far side of the battlefield.
"Justice League, regroup on the Westmount building, repeat: this is Batman, regroup!"
By the time it took Diana to realise she had encircled her legs around Batman's waist, the Flash had sped up to eye the team members and whistle precariously. Letting her legs fall to the ground, Wonder Woman grimaced at the tender sharp pain her right leg sent up her nervous system. Batman felt the brief tightening of her muscles and held her up more securely as the rest of the League arrived. Diana let him hold her.
"Superman, you and Hawkgirl take the high east, come from behind the sun, blind them and attack. Green Lantern, take Flash and cover the south, use Flash as bait if you have to. J'onn"
"I know, handle the rest"
"Exactly. Any questions?"
"Yeah, what about Princess?" Hawkgirl said, folding her arms to her chest.
"I've got north" Wonder Woman said, her head clearing as the adrenaline paced the grogginess out.
"Stay away from the north parkade" Batman barked, sending the League to finish the battle with Luthor and his new batch of robots.
"Why?" Green Lantern asked as he flew off with the Flash in a green bubble.
"It's mine" Batman said as the League deployed and just as Wonder Woman prepared to fly off,
"Where do you think you're going?"
"To cover the north"
"Not like that"
"Like what?" Diana said, challenging the slightly shorter man
"Bleeding and injured"
"I've had worse"
"Not when you almost took down Superman"
"That was Superman?"
"Be careful"
"Batman worried?"
Diana smirked at Batman's inner panic. She had to admit, he was cute when he got like that. Before lifting off to the north of the battlefield, Diana leaned in and kissed Batman's cheek before grabbing his hand and flying him to his parkade. Batman grimaced severely, now he would have to re-search the area and destroy all evidence. All of it. Beyond the battle, Wonder Woman acted as cover, destroying the robots that got too close and waiting for the word from Batman.
"Now!"
Hearing the word, the League sprang into action, corraling the group of robots and Luthor towards the parkade as Batman let loose a volley of Batarangs to five small black boxes lining the pillars. Launching himself at Wonder Woman, they grabbed hands as the team flew out the back and Superman ripped Luthor out of his suit and tied him up with a loose cable from a defunked wiring system. As the police came to take over, Superman surrepticiously dropped Luthor in a secured Police vehicle before turning back and joining his team.
"Good work people, we almost" Superman started, staring straight at the Dark Knight,
"Got through this without damage to the city. You mind explaining yourself, Batman?"
"It was ugly"
"Lay off Batman's methods, they worked didn't they?" Wonder Woman piped up, stopping with a signal to cut it from Batman. Flash whistled, but shut up after another patent Bat-death-glare
"Okay, well. . . I'm going for a drink anyone up to playing Super-hero hookey and joining me?"
Hawkgirl said, grabbing Green Lantern before he had the chance to object.
"Hey! I wanted to see how it'd turn out!" the rest of the League could hear Green Lantern's diminishing voice as Hawkgirl answered,
"No you don't"
"Apparently I don't" were the last words they could hear as Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman stared each other down.
"Fine. But if anything comes out of this, Batman, you're on your own"
"I work alone"
"Fine"
"Fine"
Wonder Woman and Superman stared each other down as Flash and J'onn melted slowly away before noticing the Bat was nowhere to be found.
"What is with you, Diana?"
"Why can't you just let Batman do as he will?"
"Someone has to be responcible for Batman. He's a loose cannon"
"Loose..! At least he knows when to control his bleeding heart!"
"I didn't think Batman had a heart!"
"Shows what you know!"
"And you know different?"
"Yes!"
"Fine, then prove me wrong, but if Batman pulls another stunt like this again, don't come to me to clean up after it. The Joker was enough!"
"I don't remember anyone asking you!"
Superman took a double back as Diana stood proud and tall, regal even though the blood from her injuries was still coating her face and arms.
"Someone has to lead the team"
"Batman's not part of this team. He owes us nothing"
"Then why does he fight with us so often, Princess? If he really doesn't owe us any obligation, then what don't I know?"
"Watch yourself Clark. Push me any further and I'll show you what Hades is like. First hand"
"Is that a threat?" the mammoth man asked, squaring his shoulders.
"Lay. Off. Bruce. Because if it ever came to a point between him and the Justice League, I know who I'll choose"
"Funny. I used to know who you'd side with, too"
Staring him down, Diana clenched her fists tighter, Superman thought it best to leave before he goaded the Princess any further. Amazons, why do they have to be so testy? Batman crouched watching the superheroes' exchange all the while listening to the police reports and surveying the evidence he'd have to clean up. Wrenching himself further into the shadows, he avoided Superman's flight back to the cozy apartment he shared with Lois Lane and noticed the way Diana painfully unclenched her bloody fingers. Scaling down a fourth story wall, the caped crusader kept his eyes on the woman currently scanning the cuts in her palms from her fingernails.
"How can you be so..." Diana started, her warrior's senses alerting her to the presence of this very dangerous man.
"Nonchalant?"
"I was going to say arrogant, but that works, too"
"Cave. 12 minutes"
"How in the name of Zeus can y. . . I hate it when he does that" Wonder Woman said to the empty breeze as she took flight to Gotham City, and used the hankercheif he slipped into her palm to wipe away the blood.
