Shayera dropped her shoulder as her wings pushed her through the air to collide with the back of Volcana, with a loud grunt she was sent surging into a brick wall. Hawkgirl smiled as she landed on the ground knowing that her opponent wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. While she took a second to admire her handiwork, Wonder Woman was in the process of making her own

"Hey Shayera!" Shayera turned at the sound of her name being called by the Amazonian princess. "Batter up!" Wonder Woman had Copperhead wrapped in her golden lasso and again Hawkgirl smiled at what she knew her friend was about to do. Like a professional baseball player she moved into a batter's stance, her mace serving as a bat.

"This one is going outta the park." Wonder Woman swung the lasso in a 360, picking up speed and power before she finally released Copperhead in the direction of an awaiting Shayera. Hawkgirl lifted her leg off the ground as she prepared to strike, a surge of electricity appearing around the mace as she brought her foot down and gave a powerful swing. The mace connected and Copperhead's unconscious body went hurdling blocks away.

Wonder Woman watched in amusement as he flew over her head, turning back to Hawkgirl with a smile. "Safe to say that's a home run."

"I'll say."

"Thanks ladies, we'll take it from here." The police chief called as he and a handful of other police officers ran to secure the villains.

"How about lunch? I'm starving." Wonder Woman said as she placed her hand on her stomach, walking towards the only slightly shorter woman.

"Yeah I could go for a bite myself." Hawkgirl started to place her mace on the holster on her hip but raised it again when she was unsuspectingly hit in the head with something.

"HEY!" She yelled at the man who had thrown a small chunk of rock at her.

"You think we need your help!? Why don't you go back to laying waste to your own home! You think because you've changed your name you're different?! You're nothing but a useless filthy hawk!" The man spit in her direction but not directly on her as she tightened her grip on her mace, fighting the urge to take her rising anger out on him. Diana was quick to step in and defend her though.

"Why don't you back off little man! She's proved..."

"No." Diana was cut off by the solemn sound of Shayera's voice. "Don't bother." Shayera lifted herself from the ground and took to the skies, leaving Diana behind. Before going after her Wonder Woman gave a menacing glare to the man, he would have been a fool not to cower away.

"I forgot how fast you really were." Diana stepped into the doorway of Shayera's room not bothering to knock, being sure she wouldn't have been granted permission to enter anyway. "I thought you'd still be in the city, I guess I should've checked here first." Shayera only turned her head away as to suggest that she wanted to be left alone. She sat on the back of her bed, knees up and elbows resting atop of them.

"You alright?" Diana asked after a few more seconds of her friend's silence.

"I'm perfectly fine." Though Shayera's features were contorted in anger, her voice was softer. Wonder Woman turned her head to the left to see Shayera's mace protruding from the wall, obviously left after Shayera slammed it there out of anger.

"Sure you are."

"Would you just go away?"

"I could." Diana walked fully into the room, letting the doors close behind her. "But I won't." Again Shayera let out a loud sigh.

"What that man said back there...it's not true Shayera." Again there was a long silence.

"But isn't it." It was more of a statement than a question of clarity.

"I know you think you deserved some of that when you first rejoined the league Shayera, but you've proven yourself time and time again. You don't have to let people treat you like that. No one has the right to say those things to you."

"I gave them that right Diana, the moment my people came to earth."

"But you've taken it back every moment since then Shayera. I was the toughest on you out of everyone and even I've forgiven you. You're not going to change everyone's mind, but the least you can do is forgive yourself."

Shayera hugged her knees closer to her chest.

"I just don't think I can..."

"But you must, Earth is your home, and I won't stand to see you treated like a second class citizen."

"But that's it isn't it? Earth isn't my home; Thanagar is no longer my home. I don't have a home I can't be a second-class citizen because I'm a citizen of nowhere. Maybe coming back here was a mistake, maybe..."

"Stop it." Diana's voice became stern. "Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You can call yourself Hawkgirl or you can call yourself Shayera, I don't care what name you change to. But what I will not have is you changing who you are. And the old friend I knew was stronger than this and wouldn't take crap from anyone. So if you've lost that part of yourself I suggest you get up and go find it, because we all miss it."

Shayera looked up, a little bit of shock written in her expression.

"I told you before that I only want to be friend enough to keep you grounded, but now I only want to be friend enough to keep you soaring. So go talk it out, meditate or smash it out Shayera, but don't you ever let anyone tell you who you are. And if I'm doing that now, and I'm wrong. And you're just some shell of yourself now, then leave. But if Shayera Hol is still the fierce warrior that I've always known her to be then get up and stop feeling sorry for yourself." Wonder Woman grabbed the impaled mace and tossed it to Shayera who was quick to catch it.

"The world needs you, Shayera. Are you gonna fight, or are you gonna cower?" Shayera stared at the mace in her hand for a second but then smiled at it and then up at the Amazon in front of her. She couldn't believe what she needed was a pep talk from a princess. She slid off the bed and stood, electricity appearing around the mace.

"Atta girl." Wonder Woman smiled.

"You're right, and I think I'm gonna go find that pig and teach him a lesson." The smile faded from Diana's face as she sheepishly rubbed at the back of her neck.

"Umm, perhaps I was being a little forward when I suggested you smash it out."

"No you were right." Shayera moved past her and headed out of the room, of course she was kidding but Diana didn't know that.

"Shayera? SHAYERA!"