So originally, I was going to use the "JOKER! OW WHY DOES SHE HATE PANCAKES?!" scene from Injustice for this chapter, and that brought up a whole lot of nothing after hours of thinking and thinking. Luckily, I remembered this little scene, and decided to add my own BMWW flavor to it. You're welcome ;D

Disclaimer: They're not mine. Let's not rub it in.

PS: This takes place in the Injustice: Gods Among Us continuity.


Chapter 7: Forsaken


"DIANA!"

The Amazon Queen and lover of the Kryptonian looked to the skies to her, and her face instantly went dark with fury and hatred and anger. Diana's face reflected the same emotion. This woman…this duplicate, this embarrassment and disgrace of an Amazon, she had earned a special place in Diana's hit list since she had entered into this world, brought here by the Insurgency Batman. She had been shocked and horrified by the actions this world's Superman had unleashed…and furious when she had learned and realized that this Wonder Woman and pushed and manipulated him, edging him on to commit such actions, and then allowing herself to be used by Superman and manipulated by him to carry out his will…but what she found worst of all was what she had left behind to follow such a path as this.

No longer, Diana decided.

"Your army will stand down!" she commanded as she landed onto the piers, ignoring the gasps of the Amazons as she tightly gripped her sword and shield. "They will not abet Superman's madness!"

"You hold no sway here, pretender!" The Amazon Queen snapped, her anger clearly visible as she approached Diana, taking her own weapons in hand. "I am in command!"

Diana could not believe how far her alternate self had fallen from grace…everything she had accomplished in her own world to promote peace, this Diana had destroyed by bringing war and tyranny. "You STAIN Amazon honor," she snarled, her sword glistening in the sunlight. "We are to temper man's aggression, not enable it."

Regime Wonder Woman simple huffed at the words, and replied with authority and confidence, "After Metropolis, Superman showed me the truth. Mankind's temper can be tempered-only QUELLED!"

"Superman showed you…or you manipulated him to see things your way?" Diana angrily countered. "You took advantage of his weakness and vulnerability, his mental state being as fragile as it was-!"

"I did no such thing! I aided him in recognizing that this world is too corrupted for us to simply stand by and not do enough to establish and preserve order! Man's World is filled with chaos and disorder! How can you not see that we must do what is necessary?!"

"Because," Diana said, her eyes trained on her corrupted counterpart, "we are not benevolent gods."

And the Amazon Queen's face went from angry to shocked-only of a split second, but Diana caught it.

"So…your Batman told you those words, too."

"Batman is an enemy of the Regime. He cast his ballot when he decided to resist Kal's quest for peace and order-when he abandoned a friend in need!"

"As you abandoned him?!" Diana roared. "Abandoned him for this rise to power?! For this madness that now plagues the planet?! For KAL?!"

"Kal is-!"

"IS WHAT?!" Diana spat. "What is it about Kal that made you leave a true warrior and protector of Man's World for a corrupted man!? He was in mourning of his city and his wife-his unborn child! How could you sink so low and do such a thing!? You had promised yourself to another-!"

"Who was not wise enough to see that we needed to rise up and take charge-!"

"TAKE CHARGE!? YOU HAVE TAKEN THIS WORLD'S FREEDOM!" Diana screamed. "Your Bruce saw what was coming, and he was doing everything to prevent such tyranny! You were raised to follow such beliefs, to appeal such ideals-give service, protect the innocent and save friend and foe alike! What you have done-what you began and started-was the exact opposite!"

*Flashback*

Diana walked the halls of the Insurgency base that the alternate Batman had established in the Gotham underground. They had been through quite a lot, with the battles and the revelation of how their counterparts had fallen from grace, and their successful mission of saving their Batman…her Batman…her Bruce. Upon seeing him once more, she had rushed for him, taking him into her arms and passionately kissed him as never before, thankful he had returned to them and to her, and despite the pain he was in, Bruce had returned it in full. The alternate Batman, knowing where this was going to go, quickly got the others out. The next half hour had been pure bliss for the Amazon, and she had been quite pleased and content to see the passionate fire burn that always burned in Bruce's eyes again.

A fire, she realized, the Insurgency Batman didn't have in his own.

She'd seen the way he had kept looking at her, the glances and the millisecond long desires and lust in his eyes, but she said nothing. She took it to be that this Batman had also become enamored with this world's Wonder Woman, as her Bruce had with her…a Wonder Woman who had abandoned the Amazon ideals. Did he have something with her prior to this madness?

"Why does it matter to you?"

"Because I would feel the same way if my Diana left me for Clark. You know what I mean."

Diana froze, backing herself up to a wall, hiding from the door entrance she had been approaching. Both Batmen were inside, speaking…about her and the other Diana.

"It doesn't matter anymore," the Insurgency Batman retorted. "What matters now is the mission-"

"Cut the bullshit, Bruce," her Batman cut in. "Just tell me-you know I'm not going to stop pestering you about it, I have your stubbornness after all." There was silence, and Diana just waited, until… "Every day, I live with the same fear…that she'll realize she can do so much better and leave me, and we know she really can do so much better."

"Yes-I lived it, remember?" the Insurgency leader snarled. More silence.

"Be honest, Bruce," her Bruce said. "Be honest with yourself for once in your damn life, and tell me."

"Tell you what, exactly?!" the other Bruce snapped. "Tell you that I have a hole where my heart is supposed to be, one that grows bigger and more painful everyday as I wake up realizing that the one woman I have ever truly loved like no other is waking up in the arms of another man and not mine?! That she abandoned me and left me for another, one that I was always afraid she would end up with since I realized I really did love her?! That her spitting the ideals that we both believed in and upheld together back in my face as she chose the path of corruption was the most painful day of my life?! That she destroyed the light she set up so lovingly and caringly in my black hole of a heart and shattered it in the process?! That the love, the kisses, the lips, the body and the tender moments she reserved for me and me only now belong to HIM?!"

Diana was shocked at every word that came out of his mouth. Her counterpart…she had destroyed him, she had torn him apart. She had ripped his heart into pieces and spit on the remains. She had left him for their Kal, their Superman. How could she have done that?

"I knew I would be feeling like this when I brought her here," the alternate Batman admitted. "I observed your world, you know that. I took in what I needed to choose your friends…and I was able to see how pure she was, how idealistic and loving she was. I…needed to see it again in reality, I needed it close to me. You don't know how much I forced myself to not kiss her every time I saw her. Living every day, seeing my…this world's Diana corrupted by him, an empty shell of what she was, defiling the ideals that we both once shared…I missed the real Diana."

"She's beyond saving now," her Bruce said. "And…I'm sorry to say, but I doubt she'll be returning to you once this is over."

"I know," Insurgency Bruce said through gritted teeth. Diana couldn't but take a peak. Both Bruces were sans cowl and sat in front of each other. The alternate Bruce, she realized, had a tear running down his cheek. "But I will say this-I never will regret what we had together. I loved her…and despite everything…I still do. All I wish I could've done…was protected her from doing this to herself."

And then, Oliver announced they had a visitor.

*End Flashback*

"You not only left the path of true heroism and of the ideals of peace and compassion," Diana snarled, a glare in her eyes that Bruce would've been proud of, "but you left your Bruce, who chose to fight for this world's freedom, for Kal, who decided to enslave it."

"Bruce was a fool!" Regime Diana spat. "He was too weak to do what needed to be done before a catastrophe could've been prevented! He had many opportunities to ensure the Joker never destroyed Metropolis and never took them! He was and still is a weakling and a fool, and I am GLAD my eyes were opened before I made a greater mistake by joining his resistance to our order!"

"A mistake!?"

"Yes, a mistake-being with Bruce Wayne, the Batman, a man too caught up in his quest for vengeance to see the bigger picture! Kal saw it, and he helped me see it too. My lot is cast with Kal, the one I should've been with from the beginning. It is through him that Man's World knows order!"

"Order? Conquering nations? Enslaving the masses? Abolishing freedom? Slaughter the innocent?" Diana snapped. "As Zeus fooled Hippolyta, Superman beguiles you!"

"Your world's Amazons' must be weak-willed if YOU are their queen!" And with a yell, Regime Wonder Woman attacked, and Diana raced to meet the attack, on thing in mind.

'This is for Batman."


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So, how did you like it? A bit different from what I've been writing these last few chapters, but I think it works well (of course I'd think that, I WROTE IT!) Remember to leave your reviews and what not, because I love hearing from you guys :D

Next chapter/one-shot/drabble/whatever comes to mind coming soon, so until next time, readers!

And if you're interested, I invite you to check out "Vengeance: Men Among Gods," my reversal take on Injustice.