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I wake up and my eyelids feel heavy and I feel drowsy. I stare at the ceiling and stay like that for a while. I hear my monitor beeping next to me and there's shuffling across the room. I turn my head to the side and see J'onn and Batman looking at a screen that J'onn is holding in his hands. I sit up slowly and they both look at me. I rub my head and feel the restraints of the wires and tubes attached to me.
"Welcome back Diana, how do you feel?" J'onn asks me calmly like he always does. Batman stares at me blankly through his black mask. "It feels as though Hera is pounding my head into the earth…" Batman's eyes narrow and he turns to continue to tap on the health monitor. J'onn closes the screen by holding the top and the bottom and pressing the two together, it disappears. He comes over and looks at my bedside monitor that's been beeping away. He studies it closely and taps on the screen a few times before turning to me.
"Diana, its bad new. I'm so sorry. You're metabolism has been slowing down. I can't seem to find a way to bring it back to normal health again. Unlike Flash, your metabolism and body structure isn't the same as his or the humans. You can't eat human food for it won't help the situation. I'm not sure what we can do now."
I have been prepared for the worst and I have braced myself to tell them the secrets of Themyscira. "Listen to me closely. This is very important to me and my Amazon Sisters. I need you not to tell the secrets of Themyscira for there will be sever consequences if you do." I can hear Batman tapping the screen while I wait for a response from J'onn.
He looks at me questioningly and nods once. "There is a holy fruit that has grown in Themyscira for many, many years. That plant has been grown only on Themyscira for it is the fruit of the gods. Since I'm a demigod, or so the humans would call me, I still have to eat somewhat like a human, but I can't consume human food for, like you said, it is ineffective. That plant is the only way to bring me back to full health."
There was a moment of silence again before J'onn spoke, "How would you say we grow one of these holy plants?"
"But that's the complication J'onn, the plant won't grow anywhere but Themyscira and it was once said that a greedy male demigod wanted to have an endless supply of holy fruit which is forbidden. He came to Themyscira, the first male to ever step foot on the land besides Zeus, and stole a sapling of the tree. He fled and tried to grow it on human soil, but it quickly died. The Greek Goddess of Earth, Gaia, quickly poisoned the earth so the Man's World would never see the light of the holy fruit."
I lowered my head slightly because that was my only chance to survive here, but since I'm forbidden from going back to Themyscira, I can't go and eat the holy fruit on Amazon land.
I slide back down in the bed and on my back. This time Batman walks leisurely up to me. "What is the chemical and biological ethnics of this holy plant?" "It doesn't have any. The gods have created such a miracle. Just like the gods themselves, they don't have a body system like humans. Nor do the plant. They are just pure energy."
I can see his eyes squint in frustration. He walks back over to the screen and slams the intercom button on the control panel, "Prepare the Javelin, now."
He turns around swiftly and walks vigorously out the door. I listen to the titanium enforced steel doors close tightly together behind him. J'onn looks back at me with concerned eyes, "Is there anything that I could do to ease the pain?"
I smile genuinely at him because I know he wants the best for all of us, "No, but thank you J'onn." Before he made himself scarce, I grabbed his hand, "No really, thank you." I know that comment runs much deeper than an ordinary 'thank you', but I think by now, he deserves that much.
He cracks a smile and sinks under the ground, a trick that he does much too often and I have come accustom to.
I made myself more comfortable before I completely lay back down. Within a few minutes Flash comes in with four plates full of "Sky High" burgers. He carefully walks over balancing all the plates on his forearms and hands. It seems so odd to see Flash being slow and steady, I absolutely had to laugh. He cracks a smile ever so slightly not breaking his concentration.
He tosses the plates up about a feet and runs out of the room. Before I could blink, Flash dashes back into the room before the doors closed. Even before the plates could fall three inches.
I noticed what he grabbed, it was a bed-n-breakfast table. He placed it over my lap and set down a entire plate of the "Sky High" burgers. "Eat up princess!" I stare questioningly at the carefully piled burgers. I glance back at him and he's shoving them in his face. I guess he feels me staring at him so he looks up, "What? I have super speed, yes, but with great powers I have great weaknesses!" he says confidently, "Since I'm supa speed, I also have supa speed metabolism! Always eating!" He's almost spitting food at me when he gives me a mouthful smile and winks before he continues stuffing himself.
I probably eat only two burgers when Flash finishes all three plates of it. He leans back into his chair comfortably and gives me a loud burp. I grimace and hiss under my breath, "Men…"
We probably sit there in silence for about a minute before Flash comments, "I thought you needed company since not many of us are around the Tower anymore." He flashes me one of his toothy grins and slings an arm around his uncomfortable folding chair.
"Can I help you with anything Princess?"
I pause for a moment making a big deal about what I would want him to do for me. I already knew though, "You could help me get up. I feel like walking around a little." I started positioning myself to get up but Flash quickly pushes me back down, "Oh, uh… J'onn said not to let you up…" He scratches the back of his head making the mask of his costume shift showing more of his baby cheek bones.
"I haven't been up and around for a week now, I don't think exercise will make things worse," I was loosing my patience with young Flash here.
"I know I'm not the smartest guy in the world or anything, but I Princess, have front row seat of how metabolism works," he jabs his thumb towards his chest and stands tall and proud. Of course he had to make a joke, right? "What I'm saying is, the more you move or strain yourself, the slower your metabolism will get, which means that you'll make it worse."
Trying to outsmart Flash was a big mistake… Though he looks more stupid than he really is.
I grin at him, "Well… the least you could do is run me out of the infirmary and take me to the deck for a little while. Then I can be somewhat helpful."
He stands upright looking down at me and crosses him arms around his chest, "…mmm…fine!" he uncrosses his arms and rests them on his hips. He picks me up and carries me bridal style to the control panel of the deck. He sets me down gently on the chair.
"Thanks Flash." I give him a warm smile again.
He gives me a mirror image of my smile and speeds away.
I never thought about "having a relationship", or as the humans call it, with a man, but I sure wouldn't pick flash to be my soul mate. He's sweet and all, but just too immature. He's like family.
I turn my attention to the control panel and pull up the navigator. I lean back in the chair and watch the blip, which indicates the Javelin, move around on the map. I watch the blinking red blip for about five minutes before it disappears.
My eyes go wide, I quickly sit up in the chair and stare at the screen for another minute. Maybe it was just my eyes, I blink a few times. The blip isn't there. My heart starts to race and my mind goes blank for a moment wondering what would happen to Batman or anyone else in the Javelin if it went down.
For another note, I will be updating probably almost every day. I have prewritten this story but not yet finished. The chapters may be short, but I will be working constantly on this one story for a while. I haven't really figured out how this will end, so let's just go with the flow and see how this turns out? I also don't know how long this will take so if you have any story ideas to bring it to an end or help bring it to an end, then please, feel free. Also would love any story advice.
