Chapter 2 - Femme Fatale, Cochon Saignements

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SAN was busy as always, with planes flying in and out of the port. Then there was that plane from Washington, DC, that was landing, containing one CIA agent onboard, preparing for a mission that was taking place 27 years before.

Diana exited the airport and called for a taxicab. Of course, being such a beautiful woman, didn't have to stand too long before the nearest cab, driven by a man of all things, parked close. Diana didn't feel like wasting time, so she got into the cab.

"Where to?" Asked the driver in a mexican accent.

"San Diego university." Diana replied without a break.

"Yes, let's go." The driver hit the meter and the cab began to speed away.

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The trip took only 15 minutes, and the tab was about 30$. After quickly paying the driver, Diana exited the cab and laid her eyes on the University of San Diego.

"So this is where our tax dollars have been spent." Diana said to herself.

While walking to the doorway, amongst the other students, Diana walked past a crying girl with her friends. Curious to be a heroine, Diana stopped to talk.

"Is everything OK?" Asked Diana

"It's her boyfriend. He's being a douche." Replied one of the girl's friends.

Diana knew how this one was. There was only one way to fix this.

"Then get rid of the douche!" Diana replied.

"But it's just, we've been together for like, ever!"

"Trust me, girlfriend." Diana sat down next to the girl, handing her a tissue. "They never change."

"I just wish he'd stop being such a douche, and talking with other girls!" The girl choked back her sobs.

Just then, the boyfriend in question walked out from the school. He was a heavy-set man in his early 20s. He had his letterman jacket on and his wavy blonde hair combed over his shaven sides.

"Maggie, i'm sorry if I hurt you, it's just that..."

"You're a douche, Justin!" said one of the girl's friends.

"Justin, You promised you wouldn't talk to Chrissy!"

Diana was only a short fuse away from blowing. Not only was this girl she was trying to comfort really dumb, her boyfriend was even dumber.

"Maggie, you're supposed to support me! That's what girlfriends do!"

Too late. Diana was in feminist mode. She stood up and got in Justin's face.

"You know what, jockstrap? You just keep acting like a douche. But don't do it around her. She's a lot more than just your girlfriend, she's not just some toy you can dump for another girl, and then another. So smarten up, or grow old and die alone." Diana didn't hold anything back.

A group of students watching the commotion oohed at Diana's revolution.

The jock in Justin laughed at Diana. She wasn't taller than him, and she sure as hell wasn't as big looking. But if only he knew what she was capable of.

"What, are you gonna beat me up, cutie-pie?" Justin taunted, turning away.

When he turned away, it was a sign of fear. He could make himself think that just because he was bigger than Diana he wasn't scared of her, but confrontation can make anyone scared. Except an Amazon is trained to be ready for it.

"Why are you turning away? You scared of me?" Diana taunted "Hit me. Go on, Hit me!"

"I don't beat up women." Justin taunted Diana.

That was it. This guy wasn't going to do a thing.

"Me neither, but today, i'll make an exception." Diana dropped her bags and slugged Justin right in the face! He doubled back and hit the pavement, blood streaming from a tooth socket that was now missing a tooth.

"Oh my god!" Maggie stood up and watched her boyfriend get the beating of his life.

Diana pounced on top of Justin and put him in an armbar. With little effort, she twisted his arm into a dislocation. Justin began to yell out like a hurt kid. Diana got up, without even breaking a sweat.

"You dislocated my arm, you crazy amazon bitch!" Justin cried.

"There's 2 arm sockets in the human body...you can play football with the other you pig." Then Diana turned to Maggie "There...that's what a girlfriend does for her boyfriend...ahem...douche."

With a look of shock on her face, Maggie watched Diana pick up her bags, and enter the school. Whether Maggie kept her douche of a boyfriend was something Diana wasn't interested in. She was more interested in seeing the time travel machine.

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"You think he OK?" Saaya asked her fellow students in her thick Japanese accent, the ones who worked on the time machine.

"The rats survived. They were a little burnt, but they made it there and back." replied Donald

"He took his clothes off...obviously he didn't vant a burnt veiner." Ernie joked.

"You and your jokes." Donald smiled

Diana opened the door to the laboratory where the machine was built.

"Hello there!" Diana spoke to the students.

The 4 students turned to see Diana.

"I'm Diana Prince. I'm from the CIA, the president sent me."

"Yes, we've been expecting you. Micah Ellefson, i'm in charge of the project." Micah, the oldest and the most decorated of the students extended his hand to shake Diana's hand. But what he didn't expect was a bit of blood.

"Hey, ugh!" Micah whipped his hand when he saw the blood. That of course, came from Diana's knuckle where she had slugged the jock in the mouth. She had been fuming and probably didn't realize her hand was cut.

"Oh, i'm sorry...I uh, must've hurt my hand on something." Diana apologized.

"That's ok, it's not a big deal, just a jumpscare, really." Micah wiped it off on a nearby paper towel. He handed Diana a towel to wipe her hand as well.

"So this is what you've been working on." Diana looked at the machine.

"She's a Beauty, eh?" Donald spoke up in his Canadian accent.

"4 year of study, study, more study." Saaya spoke in a thick Japanese accent.

"And 4 years of hard vork, hard vork, and money." Ernie added in his German accent.

"Wow...now how does it work?" Asked Diana

"It's a bit of a process. First, you need to understand how time travel works. First of all, you physically are going back in time, and physically you're returning. Now, a copy of you goes. The original stays here. But if the copy dies, you do too, because you cannot be in control of both bodies once and they need to be both alive for it to work." Micah stopped to take a sip of water from a bottle.

"Do you store the one body here?" Asked Diana

"Cryogenically, we have to. If we don't, the body goes mouldy and dies. And then your copy is stuck in the past until it's called back into it's dead remains, and then you die. Another thing, Like the terminator movies, time travel involves a lot of time-scorching, so unless you want the fabrics in your clothing to fuse to your body and be extremely painful...you go naked."

Diana gasped a little. She wasn't entirely comfortable being naked around men.

"The machine is designed to call you back at a certain time, and in this case, we've set the clock to bring you back on the 3rd of August, 1992. It shouldn't take you more than 4 days to deal with the situation, and we want to keep the time as short as possible so we can get you back into your original body before it gets feeezerburn. You'll land on July 31st, so you can board the cruise."

"Now wasn't there another person in this mission?" asked Diana

"Yes, there was. He's already in the past. You see, the powers that be decided he go first, so he could get you clothing so you're not running around naked in the past, facing an indecent exposure charge from the law."

There was another reason Diana wanted to go first, as then, she could say the first person to ever travel back in time was a woman. Well, that might not have been entirely accurate. But if it was any compensation, she would be the first "American Woman" to go back in time. Or rather, first "Amazon Woman" to go back in time.

"I wouldn't run around naked...i'd probably sew some fig leaves together." Diana joked

"You know, the other guy, said the same thing." Donald smiled

"Where is his body being kept?" asked Diana

"Right this way." Micah led Diana to another part of the room, where 2 cryogenic containers were set up. One of them had a naked body of a man inside of it.

"Oh my God!" Diana gasped.

"Here is our friend. He appears to be physically unhurt. We're going to unthaw him...and you, in the hot water glass tanks over there so we can keep an eye on you and your vital signs. Don't worry, we'll throw some covers on your body when we thaw it out."

"So that other cryogenic chamber...that's where i'll go?" Diana asked

"for 4 days." Micah spoke.

Diana was pretty nervous about the whole thing.

"When do I go?" asked Diana

"As soon as possible. We've been preparing the machine for you. Just step into the changeroom over there. There's a bathrobe, so you don't have to walk naked over here. Saaya, want to give her a hand?" asked Micah

"Yes. come with me, Diana." Saaya led Diana to the changeroom.

While Saaya guided Diana to the changeroom, the students went to their stations to get the machine to it's prime state. 3 minutes later, Diana walked out of the changeroom in the bathrobe.

"Ok, just step into the chamber, close the door, and remove the robe. Make sure not one piece of the fabric is touching you, otherwise it will fuse to your skin." Micah told Diana.

Diana walked over to the chamber and walked into the heart of the machine.

"Good luck to you, Diana." Micah wished Diana the best of luck.

"You just make sure I don't die." Diana closed the door to the chamber.

"We'll do our best." Donald spoke up.

Inside the chamber, Diana looked at the walls. They smelt of burnt rubber, and a little bit of burnt flesh. The scent made Diana nervous.

"Ok Diana, we're about to fire up the machine. disrobe and make sure nothing is touching you." Micah instructed.

Diana quickly disrobed and covered up her extremities.

"You might not want to cover up, either. Your skin might melt together so keep your hands and arms from your sides."

Diana groaned and did just that. She was hoping that the boys weren't just checking her out.

"Ok, we're getting underway here. Saaya, start up the computer."

"Roger!" Saaya began hitting a series of buttons on the computer.

"Ok, we're looking at a mass of 125 lbs, we'll need significantly less energy than before, give me about 2300 kilowatts, Strachwitz."

"Ja!" Ernie began to set the electric charge.

"Ok...Hit it, Don!"

Don then pushed the red button on the machine, and a series of bars began rotating around the chamber that Diana was in.

Diana began to feel strange. Then, the heat inside the chamber intensified. Then, she could feel pain in her soles, then, her thighs began to hurt. Then, her whole body felt like a surge of fire had entered it. She screamed and her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and she lost consciousness.

The chamber continued it's work, and then, it was all over. The 4 scientists went to go and collect Diana's body to put in cryogenic freeze with that of the other one.

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