Chapter 10: A Team
It was late in the evening in Athens Greece.
A taxi drove through the streets and past the old ancient greek temples up not he cliffs.
The taxi's passenger looked up at them as she sat in the back.
"It's truly something isn't it miss, I see it every day and it still amazes me." The driver said.
His passenger was silent as she sat in the back.
He brought her to some apartment buildings and stopped.
The woman got up and out of the taxi after paying her fair. The woman watched the taxi driver as he pulled away. She sighed as she made her way into the apartment building and eventually her apartment.
She locked the door behind her and walked into the main area of her apartment.
She changed out of her cloths revealed a hidden compartment in the floorboards. She took out a more revealing attire and put it on. The woman lifted up a large metal girder that was in a pile of girders beside a pile of torn up girder pieces.
The woman set the girder down and stood in a fighting stance before furiously striking at the girder with fast and precise strikes. The girder was completely torn apart as the woman pulled up two more girders and placed them on the ground.
She furiously struck the metal with a rage and fury as she began to relive the memories of her city burning and her people being slaughtered.
Diana began to grunt as she furiously dragged up three girders and unleashed on them. Seeing her mother get stabbed by the heathen god of war.
"Ahhh!" She screamed as she smashed all three metal girders apart into pieces.
Diana breathed deeply as she reached down and took out another girder.
She kept doing this for another two hours before she sat against the wall.
She had a depressed look as she looked up at the calendar. She saw it had been a hundred days since her home and people were destroyed, she had been locked up inside her apartment a hundred days.
As Diana sat she began to come to a realization, all of her training, and of her preparing, for what. Was she going to fly back to Themyscira and take on all of Ares's army, then Ares himself which turned out so well the last time.
She wanted Ares to pay for what he did to her people and her mother so badly, but even if she accomplished this, what would she do next? Themyscira was destroyed, her mother was dead, and all of the amazonians were dead. She was the last of her kind, and no matter what she did , she couldn't change that.
There was no one else like her in the world. No one who could understand her, no one who could relate to her. No one who could know what it was like to be her.
Diana held her hands to her face as a few tears came out, she was alone.
Elsewhere in Saint Maurice Catholic Parish at Fort Benning Georgia, a mass was taking place. Dozens of soldiers sat in the church wearing their ACUs.
Sitting near the front was a major who wore more customized ACU.
Eventually he rose up with the other soldiers in his row and came up to take the body and blood of Christ.
As he took the body of Christ the priest noticed something in the major's eyes.
He left the parish with a determined look on his face.
It was the following morning and Diana was wearing a wetsuit on one of Athen's beaches.
She had a large container set on the beach behind her as she stared at the water.
Diana took a deep breath before diving into the water.
She swam further and further under the water until she saw a shipwreck of an old cargo liner.
Diana swam up and into the cargo liner and then inside, searching the interior for anything she ha missed the last time she had visited it. Eventually she kept searching the captain's cabin and found an old safe.
She grabbed it before she heard something moving.
Diana turned to see a mako sharp swimming at her with its mouth open.
Diana smashed her fist into the shark's nose, hurling it into a wall.
A few minutes later Diana surfaced and placed the safe on the sand.
She ripped the safe door open and saw a stack of wet older Euros come out. She placed the Euros in the container and swam back underwater. She kept this up for several hours, bring and more and more potentially valuable items up from various shipwrecks.
As she made her last trip she made her way into a ship. This ship was far older than the others.
Diana searched the interior when she found a solid gold artifact. She took it then noticed there were several sharks inside.
Strangely enough the sharks were staying idle. Not moving towards her.
She curiously looked around when a man came up out of the darkness.
Diana jumped back as she saw the man had long black hair and maroon armor that covered his entire body, including his face.
As Diana backed up she saw another three men wearing the same armor.
Diana turned again to see a woman who had gills on her neck, long red hair tied into a pony tail, and green armor.
The woman stared at Diana who was very freaked out by what she saw.
The woman turned back to the darkness as another man came forward.
The man had gills on his neck like the woman. He had a very muscular toned body, and gad armor on his arms only. He had blue eyes with long black hair including a beard and mustache.
In his right hand was a Trident.
He stared at Diana intensely , looking at the artifact she had taken.
Diana slowly extended the artifact to the man.
The woman beside the man took the artifact from her hand.
The four warriors swam off incredibly fast as the woman and man did the same.
Diana was shaken by what she just saw, though considering all she knew and where she came from , she wasn't too shaken. Still, she wondered who these people were.
She surfaced back on the beach and changed out of her wet suit and into normal cloths. She picked up her container and flew up into the air, being careful not to be seen.
Diana arrived in a small town near Athens and went to a pawn shop.
Inside she set each item on the counter in front of the owner.
He spent the next few minutes looking over the items.
"H'mmmm, all of these items are worth, nine thousand Euros."
"You know the drill, wire it to my account."
"Alright Ms. Prince, one of these days you'll have to tell me how you get all of this stuff."
Diana called a taxi and climbed inside.
"Athens." She said as the taxi driver drove towards the city.
Unknown to Diana, on the mountainside above her , she was being watched.
"We have finally found her."
"We need to tell father. He has long sought her."
"No, we should bring her to him ourselves. Father will reward us."
"Yes, yes, bring in the troops."
"What of the humans?"
"They cannot stop us."
Diana looked out the window as she drove through Athens. She saw the countless people outside walking through the streets. She saw families, lovers, friends, seeing these people day after day made her grow more fond of humans. She knew of some of the dark needs they had done, and still did, she had even occasionally stopped some criminals she saw. But she also saw much good in them.
Even so, she could never truly relate to them. Even if she looked like them, she could never truly live among them as one of them. Be close to any of them.
That was when she heard a series of screams and cries.
She looked out the window in horror to see demonic soldiers and minotaurs running through the streets, attacking people.
The taxi stopped as a minotaur smashed through the windshield and grabbed the driver.
Diana leapt out and smashed her fist into the Minotaur, hurling him into the side of a building.
She looked around and saw Ares's soldiers everywhere.
She rushed back to her apartment and changed into her battle attire, grabbed her sword and lasso.
Diana ran out screaming as she cut down the demonic soldiers one by one.
As she cut down a minotaur she noticed a pair of police officers firing at some demonic soldiers and minotaurs. Their bullets either bounced off whatever armor they had or seemed to have little effect on the creatures.
The police were horrified before they were cut apart.
Diana quickly grabbed a large van and hurled it into the creatures, crushing them.
She kept running through the streets, cutting down as many of the soldiers as she could , but there were too many, and innocent people were getting killed.
Diana saw a family being attacked and quickly leapt over. She cut down the demonic soldiers before smashing the minotaur's sword apart. After doing so, Diana smashed her fists together into the minotaur's skull, crushing like an egg.
As the creature fell over the family watched her in both fear and amazement.
"Run!" She shouted.
Miles away in Metropolis, a man was inside his apartment building's laundry room. He was placing his cloths inside a machine when he heard something on the room's tv.
He turned and his eyes widened as he saw the news story.
"We're getting live footage from Athen's Greece where an army of monsters have arrived and are killing dozens."
The man dropped his basket and rushed out of the laundry room.
Diana hurled her lasso around three Minotaurs before crashing them into a group of demonic soldiers, crushing all of their skeletons.
That was when she saw two men fall from the air.
Diana flew up into the air and caught them both before bringing them safely onto the ground.
Diana looked up to see dozens of demonic harpies in the air.
Diana gave a tired look as she flew up into the air and began fighting off the harpies, using her sword and braces to block their talons while also slicing them apart or smashing their skulls apart with her powerful punches.
Diana noticed an airplane above her being attacked by harpies and flew up.
She grabbed a person who was flung out and placed the woman back inside the plane before rushing through the craft, cutting down any harpies that got inside. The passengers looked terrified as they stared at her.
"Fear not people, I am here to protect you! These warriors of Ares are no match for the greatest warrior of the Amazons!" She shouted before seeing the people's confused and afraid expressions.
She sighed before she felt the plane shake.
The passengers screamed as Diana saw harpies tear the turbines apart and the plan began plummeting towards the city below.
Diana almost fell over until she felt the plane level out.
"What?" She said.
Diana climbed out onto the wing and looked out under the plane.
Her eyes widened as she saw a man under the plane. The man was larger and more muscular than any human man she had ever seen. He had black hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue suit with a large red S on the chest and a red cape. He looked like he was around her age as well.
He was not only flying, but holding the plane up with ease. Diana's mouth dropped as she saw Harpies fly at him only for his eyes to glow red and energy beams fly out into the harpies, burning them into skeletons.
"By the gods." She said in amazement.
Diana wished to speak with this man, but she saw more people in peril below her and flew down. As Diana landed she continued cutting down minotaurs and demonic soldiers.
Superman kept blasting the harpies as they came at him until he reached the Athen's airport and safely placed the Airplane on the runway.
After doing so , Superman flew back up and kept blasting harpies with heat vision, he also tore the others apart with his bare hands.
That was when he saw something below him.
He looked closer with his super vision and saw a Diana as she grabbed a car and flew up into the air , hurled it down into a group of demonic soldiers. Diana kept doing this with cars, semi trucks, and large pieces of metal debris.
"Oh my God." He said as his eyes widened seeing Diana.
Another person flying, another press with supernatural strength. What did this mean?
As Diana kept fighting she saw another group of demonic soldiers and Minotaurs running at her.
She was about to charge them when a pilum javelin tore through the minotaur and exploded.
"What?" She said.
Another warrior revealed himself. A large man wearing what looked like Roman centurion armor. Only the armor was more legendary looking. It was black with shields attached to the arms, and gladius swords attached to the ends of his wrist armor.
The centurion rushed into another group of minotaurs and soldiers, cutting them down, smashing his shields into them and moving incredibly fast, agile, and acrobatically.
Diana was confused, but she welcomed the help.
Diana was about to join in when she saw five move figures come down from the sky and surround her.
Her eyes widened as she saw two were women and three were men. Each adorned in blue greek armor like Ares. One had a massive black hellhound beside him.
"Diana, daughter of Hippolyta. We've been searching for you." One said.
"Antiope, Lycus, Phobos, Eris, Deimos, what are Ares's bastards doing here?"
'We're here for you of course, our father was displeased after you escaped Themyscira alive. You should have perished with the rest of your kind."
Diana gave an intense look as she drew her sword.
"I shall send a message to Ares when I deliver the corpses of his children to him!" She shouted.
"You're coming with us." Phobos shouted as he rushed at Diana.
Diana slammed her fist across Phobos's face, hurling him back. Eris and Deimos both tried to rush at Diana's sides but she blocked each of their strikes with her forearms and legs before leaping up and smashing her foot into Eris's face and her fist into Deimos's face.
The two were knocked back as Antiope came at her back only to have Diana smash her swords apart before landing a powerful kick to her chest.
Lycus rode his hellhound forward and crashed into Diana, nocking her onto the ground as the hound bit at Diana's arms.
Diana smashed her fist into the hound's face, knocking it off her before she whipped her lasso around Lycus, hurling him into the ground.
Unfortunately, as she did this. Deimos, Phobos, and Eris came at her all at once, unleashing their attacks each with glowing hands.
Diana was struck four times before she was able to fight back, blocking their strikes as best she could before striking back, hitting each and forcing them back.
However, Antiope and Lycus came back, hitting Diana onto the ground before she whipped her lasso around them and pulled them into her fists.
The other three came around Diana and overwhelmed her as their other siblings joined in.
Diana was beaten down onto the ground.
"Fool did you really think you could fight us all, alone. " Phobius said before he was hit by a flying punch and hurled back through four buildings and then out of sight.
The other four saw Superman standing in front of them.
"It's a good thing she's not alone."
Moments later the centurion rushed over beside Superman.
"Fools we are gods!" Eris shouted.
"There's only one God, and you're not him." The centurion said. Lycus rushed at Superman with his hellhound, but Superman grabbed the hound and hurled him away before grabbing Lycus and smashing him through several buildings.
Eris rushed at the centurion who blocked each of her strikes before acrobatically leaping up and smashing his shields across her face.
He then slammed his swords into her armor, knocking her back.
Antiope, and Deimos backed up only to have Diana whip her lasso around them and pull them into her grasps.
She lifted them up with an intense look on her face.
"Tell your father, that Diana Prince , daughter of Hippolyta will not fall before him, and that I will get justice!" She screamed as she hurled the two high into the air.
Diana turned to Superman and approached him as the two gave each other particular looks.
"You're strong." Superman said.
"I know."