The Power of Gods: A Wonder Woman Fanfiction Story
Episode 9:
High noon, over the streets of Bialya…
On a roof sized Themiscyra International TV set, gold letters say, "do you feel like Bialya just isn't going your way? Do you want a new ruler?" The last word explodes, a ring of gold jewels absorbing waves of gold spirit energy.
From within, the gold letters continue, "well, now you can challenge Queen Bee yourself in a fight to the finish. The Wreck-A-Ruler Contest! Grand Prize: The Bialyan throne. Second Prize: Two financial free months of luxury for the surviving five finalists. And just for entering, you get…well, just some $5 Bialyan gift cards. The Wreck-A-Ruler Contest: We are not responsible for any loss of consciousness you may experience in..." The last part is much smaller. Offscreen, two stacked houses down, a large basket like rope net hangs over the capital city.
Queen Bee herself in Themiscyra International battle wear is standing in it, surrounded by several fallen contestants. They're Bialyan men and women, in mostly white varying battle wear. Queen Bee slightly sighs, "almost too…easy." She then notices a figure under the alias Shim'Tar coming onto the rope net, in a full magical clay plated battlesuit. It is mostly chalky white, its center glowing in bright yellow spirit energy. Medium dark blond hair comes down from the back.
With her yellow spirit energy blade out, she mutters coldly, "I'm not." Queen Bee slightly laughs, getting out her interestingly black spirit energy blade. They charge, the spirit energy blade sparks flying. Queen Bee though uses her other fist to knock Shim'Tar backwards, swinging her spirit energy blade into the Shim'Tar battlesuit's center before she could dodge. Shim'Tar coughs hard, struggling to get back up from the rope net walls.
Queen Bee figures, "you really thought you could destroy my reputation…Hippolyta?" She spirit energy slices off the Shim'Tar helmet, revealing a familiar Amazon Queen crown under it. Hippolyta slightly chuckles, "actually…it's your source of magic that I must destroy."
She simultaneously back spin kicks Queen Bee, knocking her against the rope net. Hippolyta gets herself back up, Queen Bee beginning to get back up. Before Queen Bee can stop her, Hippolyta cuts into the rope net with her spirit energy blade. Half of the rope net falls, Hippolyta grabbing onto it hard. Queen Bee, in her charge, slips downward on the tipping rope net. And Hippolyta spirit energy blade slices into Queen Bee. Queen Bee, in Wonder Doll parts, explodes.
The rope around Hippolyta explodes, no longer able to stop her from falling. And on a rope net a house below, the original Queen Bee in her puffy sleeved dress uses her bright yellow spirit energy blade to send Hippolyta into unconsciousness. From behind Queen Bee, Aresia slightly laughs, "good. My only regret is that Hippolyta won't be conscious enough to see her nation crumble to dust."
Queen Bee turns to her, "but with Wonder Woman still at large…?" Aresia concludes, "oh, I have something special in mind for her. The Bana-Mighdall nation and Themiscyra International will not be embarrassed again: Once the Bermuda Triangle is ours." She turns to a fighting force of hundreds of Wonder Dolls in duplicate form: All of the Cheetah, Aresia, and Queen Bee.
In New Gateway, Florida…
In light of a certain reality warp, this city mostly is made up of red striped bright white escape pod styled houses stacked in eight rows. It stands over many of its neighboring cities and towns, though a few stand just as high. They're mostly styled the same way, but with evenly spaced wildlife preserves. For New Gateway, parking lot styled roads bridge the gaps between the houses and apartment building styled buildings in dark blue.
There are a few exceptions, with one being the Tempest Key Mall. Its outer walls look like light blue tidal waves. Inside are three beach sand colored levels, floored with light bluish watercolors from red to purple. Carrying two white shopping bags, United States fighter Diana walks out of a clothing department store. She wears a white starred bright blue dress. A light blue banner is across the department store's entrance in blocky white letters, "Which Way?" Alongside Diana is Antiope under the citizen identity Evadne, with a dark green feathery like dress over her Amazon battle wear.
Evadne slightly sighs, "why do you insist on these bags? Our Amazon strength could easi…" She and Diana pause at a glass mall railing. Walking around in the distance are several young women, in mostly red golden eagle T-shirts and red starry lined mostly white dresses.
Diana puts the shopping bags down, to the left and right of herself. Diana says lowly, "it could also easily frighten people in the modern world: Both men and women who aren't ready to accept magic."
Evadne argues lowly, "so that interview with Etta meant nothing?!" Diana whispers, "no, it did: Most mortal world representatives are considering our magic slowly, but surely. Most of the modern world though...would rather laugh off magic because they fear how dangerous the power of gods can be."
With a slight chuckle, Evadne considers, "maybe Men's World's people aren't the only ones considering things slowly, Diana." Then a watery magic mirror portal appears in a flash of light.
Diana slightly chuckles, "looks like paradise needs our Amazon strength." She and Antiope vanish into the watery portal, Diana bringing the shopping bags with her. A few guys were just walking nearby, shocked by the sight. Then they just mutter to themselves about going back to sleep and walk it off.
In a few mortal minutes, in the Russian Far East …
At the edges of two dark green forests, a camp with four pale red and black striped tube shaped warehouses stands on some grassland. Past one of those forests is the giant active volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka, mostly covered in snow. This area is called Kamchatka. Several guards with large raggy red robes and solid black face masks patrol around the camp. The sheer smell is enough to keep away the nearby bears, giant eagles, and deer. A watery portal opens, on top of one of the warehouses. Wonder Woman and Antiope appear there, now with Amazon battle wear. Antiope comments, "almost too easy. I'll take the left."
She and Wonder Woman run jump off of the same warehouse, but towards two separate warehouses a street length away. In mid jump, Antiope slashes her dark blue spirit energy blade into a fallen unconscious guard. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman in mid jump catches the suddenly noticing guard nearby with her golden lasso. As Wonder Woman lands on another warehouse, the second guard is slingshot launched into one of the nearest forest trees. Wonder Woman jumps after him, into the same tree. Antiope lands on a third warehouse.
The conscious guard's robes are caught on a tree branch. Black robotic extendable tentacles come out of the robes's sleeves, lifting the guard to his feet on the branch. Wonder Woman swings up from a few tree branches, swinging at the guard from behind. He reactively turns his robotic tentacles into a shield, but Wonder Woman flip kicks off of it. And with a few seconds to spare, she gets the golden lasso back around him. Wonder Woman inquires, "where's Hephaestus?" Antiope catches up to her.
The guard sighs, "you're wasting time: No one by that name is here." Antiope realizes, "he's telling the truth. But, was Hephaestus here?" Too late to fight the power of the Lasso of Truth, the guard says, "there was someone named that. But if we had known he was involved in magic, the Red Shadows would've held him here for questioning."
Wonder Woman mutters coldly, "do you know where he went?" The guard slightly sighs, "if I did, you'd think I'd sing about it." Wonder Woman takes off the Lasso of Truth. She and Antiope swing out of sight, landing among forest trees. The guard catches his breath, mostly speechless.
Antiope sighs, "well, that was…! Wait." She then notices something odd: A pile of leaves glued together to look like a bush. Antiope quickly moves it, revealing a hollowed out hot springs with burned blackened dirt. Wonder Woman slightly chuckles, "impressive: A modern backdoor."
Meanwhile, over the Bermuda Triangle's waters…
Coming out from invisible jets, the Wonder Doll forces drop down to Themiscyra, Paradise Island, Atlantis, and a few other islands. With black spirit energy blades, they charge at Amazons and Atlanteans. Many of them fall before the Wonder Doll forces, before realizing what's going on on the battleground.
Several mortal minutes later, somewhere around the Red Shadows's camp…
A very dark room has a figure in Red Shadow guard robes, sitting at a very dark desk. The temporarily captured Red Shadow guard is held up by two other Red Shadow guards, facing the figure. One of them asks, "and what shall we do with this Wonder Woman, General?"
The figure slightly laughs, "you idiots: If she knew about Blue Trinity, you'd all already be unconscious! With yourselves, you do not much else but train: Until you hate the feel of your own sweat."
In god minutes, within Klyuchevskaya Sopka…
Through dark red spirit energy flames, the volcano's center is astonishingly dark red spirit flame recreations of the past and ever changing present time. Even with Gaia and Chaos's apparently near blinding colorful god battle before the Big Bang, everything whirls by in seconds and in full detail. Around the recreations is a very long and open cave passage, with several cosmically black stone benches.
One of the benches has become a spirit energy flame furnace. A figure in a full black and red spirit energy blade made battlesuit is over it, making a golden lasso in the spirit energy furnace. He is Hephaestus. Aphrodite is next to him. Aresia and the Cheetah are sitting on a bench from behind. Darkly low, the Cheetah growls, "can't wait to dig my spirit energy into that Wonder Doll." Aresia quickly assures, "in any mortal minute, Wonder Woman will come."
With a arm around Hephaestus, Aphrodite darkly says, "a few god years ago, before Gaia left us to search for our second god creator Uranus, she created Gaianetariums to try to get us working through our personal problems. Chuckle. Almost a shame we're using one against god creations." With Ares's voice, Hephaestus briefly turns to her, "isn't that what god creations are for?!" Aphrodite assures him, "relax, my king of hate: I said almost."
Then from a side opening in the cave passage, Wonder Woman and Antiope pull themselves into the Gaianetarium. The Cheetah whirls around, sensing them. Aresia slightly laughs, "Wonder Woman…and the Anti-Hippolyta." Antiope mutters back, "what's that supposed to mean?!"
Suddenly realizing Hephaestus's handiwork is remarkably slow, Wonder Woman urges, "Antiope, I'll explain later, but we…!" Seconds later, Aresia goddess transformed the cave opening into a cave in. And the Cheetah charges right for Wonder Woman, her spirit energy claws out. She hisses at Wonder Woman, "welcome to the Gaianetarium…of your destruction!" Wonder Woman and Antiope seem trapped. They get out their spirit energy blades for battle, just as the Cheetah and Aresia charge for them.
A mortal hour later, in a high up Bialyan house...
Unconscious Hippolyta is wrapped tightly in a rope net, against a wooden chair in a very dark room. She is watched over by Queen Bee and a Mist Knight. Queen Bee slightly laughs, "if she wasn't already humiliated, I'd…" The door comes down, with Steve and some other United States fighters coming in with their light gun pointers. Steve warns, "surrender."
A mortal hour and a half ago, he was contacted from the Mala nation by Wonder Woman. The Mala nation had noticed Hippolyta's disappearance, and Wonder Woman intriguingly wanted Steve to rescue her. Steve had pointed out, "but don't you hate each other?" Wonder Woman remarked, "just because I hate her doesn't mean I want her destroyed."
Earlier, in the Gaianetarium…
Athena and Hera had just recently appeared near Aphrodite and Hephaestus. Athena muttered coldly, "Aphrodite, take mortal hybrid Hephaestus away: We have unfinished god business." In partial amusement, Aphrodite slightly laughed, "and miss out on all the fun?" She fired goddess arrows right at Athena, who had two round silver shields appear in her hands to deflect the arrows. Hera angrily transformed into a wingless silver dragon, grabbing Hephaestus with dark gold claws. But he had just grabbed his superhot golden lasso, throwing the then smashed unfinished lasso at Hera's dragon face to make her let go.
Antiope and Aresia clashed with spirit energy blades, despite Aresia god teleporting all around her. Directed at the Cheetah, Wonder Woman slightly chuckled, "I doubt you have the skill to destroy me." At the same time, she used her Amazon wristbands as small shields against the Cheetah's claws. In seconds, Wonder Woman swung her fists up into the Cheetah. The Cheetah was knocked against the cave passage floor, but flip tumbled back to her feet before Wonder Woman could strike her with her spirit energy blade.
Presently, in Bialya…
The Mist Knight creates two duplicate Queen Bee images, confusing the United States fighters's aim. The Queen Bees laugh, "which one?" They charge at the United States fighters with spirit energy blades, the United States officers firing with their light gun pointers. From behind one of the Queen Bee illusions, the Mist Knight punches a United States fighter through the open entrance. She falls down two stories into the basket like rope net from earlier, groaning hard against it.
The second United States officer is struck by the real Queen Bee's spirit energy blade, sent to unconsciousness. Steve and the other surviving challenger to Queen Bee here manage to dodge the illusionary Queen Bees. Steve jump kicks into the Mist Knight, getting it unconscious and ending the illusions. The real Queen Bee though tackles Steve, her spirit energy blade retracted into her silver glove. They punch each other, Queen Bee getting more hits on him. That is, until Steve kicks her off. Steve slightly chuckles, "guess I'm the one to take you in."
Getting up, Queen Bee finds herself cornered between the two United States fighters. She slightly laughs, "this isn't over." Thanks to Aresia's Ambrosia, Queen Bee in the form of a bee speeds away through a open window. The second United States fighter sighs hard.
Steve partly assures, "don't worry fighter: We'll get her one of these days." With a small knife, he starts cutting through the rope net around unconscious Hippolyta to free her. Steve mutters lowly to himself, "as for Hippolyta's respect, that may be another story in itself."
Earlier, under Klyuchevskaya Sopka…
As Hera's dragon form was god restoring her face, her dragon tail accidentally swung into the cave passage wall. A resulting cave in buried the Cheetah in rocks, with Wonder Woman barely tumbling out of the way. Hephaestus turned his battlesuit into many launched spirit energy blades, quickly sending Hera's dragon form into unconsciousness before she could see him. The dragon form turned back into Hera's original form, lying against the ground.
Meanwhile, Aphrodite and Athena were smashing just recently appearing magic mirrors into each other. Despite their god self restorations, they were shaking. Aresia used this opportunity to turn one of Athena's magic mirrors into a duplicate Medusa, temporarily turning a interestingly half smiling Athena into stone by Medusa's mortal hybrid powers. But then, Antiope with Wonder Woman managed to duck out of range of many goddess arrows. Hephaestus disappeared.
Antiope inquired, "now what?!" The Gaianetarium's spirit energy flames were recreating a familiar overseas battle, over Aresia and her Ambrosia. She implied, "get ready to jump." Antiope realized, "you're seriously thinking of…?!" Wonder Woman slightly chuckled, "funny: Steve asks the same thing." Behind her and Antiope, Aresia appeared. Ares appeared behind the caved in opening, watching from the side.
Aresia muttered harshly, "say hi to Hera for me." She blasted a large goddess fireball at the two other Amazons. Aphrodite goddess appeared above the Gaianetarium's spirit energy flames. She slightly sighed, "sorry about this." As Aphrodite fired several goddess arrows, Wonder Woman and Antiope jumped into the Gaianetarium's spirit recreations. Aresia's goddess fireball missed, but Aphrodite's goddess arrows purposely hit Aresia. A god shaken Aresia barely vanished away, escaping from Aphrodite's sight. Wonder Woman and Antiope also vanish. Ares came charging back into the cave passage.
He glared at Aphrodite, "by the gods, I practically gift wrapped Aresia for you: How could you not destroy her?!"
Aphrodite muttered back, "and I thought you wanted them coming back for more hate: Silly me for being that considerate!" In their heated arguing, they forgot about defeated Hera and defeated Athena still in the Gaianetarium.
Meanwhile, shown from within the ongoing crackling spirit energy flames…
Wonder Woman and Antiope had returned to Paradise Island, through the Gaianetarium's connection to the cosmos itself. They had come backwards in time, to when the Wonder Doll forces began their charge. And so Amazons on Themiscyra and Paradise Island were alerted to the Wonder Dolls, having been given a fighting chance.
For the following battles, flashes of spirit energy flame sparks and images went by. Wonder Woman had her cape grabbed by a few Aresia Wonder Dolls, but jump back flip kicked into them to launch herself into four random Wonder Dolls like she was flying.
Philippus sliced her spirit energy blade into three Wonder Dolls of the Cheetah, and also used it to bat several of the midair remaining Wonder Doll parts into several then exploding Queen Bee and Aresia Wonder Dolls.
From atop one of the Mala nation's towers, Antiope hurled some purple spirit energy enhanced rocks into several exploding Wonder Dolls.
Many Atlanteans still fell, but easily were restored in Atlantis's waters while the Nereid water blasted the Wonder Dolls away.
Presently, some hours after Steve's Bialyan mission, Cyrene is run jumping from rope net to rope net over Bialyan streets. The sun is going down, with large storm clouds heading right past the sight. The shadows of distant Queen Bee and a few distant Mist Knights are chasing after her, with Queen Bee angry at Cyrene and Artemis for recently game seeking many of her Bialyan fighters. And a surprisingly nervous Cyrene, with two water filled yellow air tanks on her back, doesn't give a damn for fighting at the moment. Then the spirit energy flames give way to cosmic darkness, leaving the answer for that mystery for another day.