Avery P.O.V

"Do you see anything down there that would tell you why there gone or were they went?" I asked. I had a possible idea as to why they left but not were.

"According to a Vex construct down here. The Vex managed to retake control of the Vex part of the gate the hive were using to bring back there dead and they disdisrupted the ritual and the portal collapsed. As to your second question there is only one place they could have run off to and thats the ascendent realm." Jayden said.

"What's the ascendant realm? and more importantly how do we get there?" Batman asked.

"The ascendant realm is an alternate universe under control of the Hive and we can't get there, only ascendant Hive and the Taken can get there. And before you ask ascendant Hive are basically just high ranking Hive and there soldiers." I said.

"So what do we do?" Flash asked.

"We can't do anything." Leo said bluntly.

"Oryx's options will be limeted to thanks to the Vex incursion. He can't just attack Earth now, he doesn't have enough soldiers. So he will probably try to solidify his position. Where and how I have no idea." I said.

"So we have to wait." Green Lantern said.

"Unfortunately." Leo said.

"We should probably check on your mother Diana." I said. Diana's eyes widened and she started to run towards the city she quickly turned around and looked at me.

"You might want to cover up." She said before she started to run again. I looked down ar my chest and winced. A large gash was going through my armour showing my chest. I looked over at my helmet on the ground it was cracked right doen the middle. I growled and let a small string of curses.

"Can you fix it?" Superman asked.

"I needed to kill a Ahamkara to make that helmet." I said. Before anyone could ask Leo gave the answer.

"Big wish granting dragon. Things had a nasty habit of turning on whoever made the wish leading to a great hunt that wiped most of them out." Leo explained. A flash of light appeared over my body and my armour was replaced by Stormdancer's Brace.

"Try not to get struck by lightning wearing that." Jayden said as he emerged from the tunnel.

"Let's go." I said "You all have cities to defend and you have been away long enough I would recommend you head back to your respective cities. I will contact you at some poiynin the near future so I can I give you information on how to fight the Hive and the Taken." I said to the remaining league members. The others seeing the reason behind what I was saying started to make their way back to their javelin. "And one more thing, I heavily recommend you get over your aversions to guns soon, because trust this old Guardian when I says this, we are at war and we are going to need every bulley we can get to win it."

several minutes later

It had been a short walk to to the center of the city. As we got closer we could hear multiple voices yelling on rage.

"That doesn't sound good." Jayden said. We walked towards the voices and arrived at a small amphitheater filled with about fifty Amazons.

"They must be the survivors." Leo said silently. In the center of the group stood Diana and her mother Hippolyta both looking rather furious. Across from them stood a blond Amazon wearing a white skintight suit accented with gold trims and a gold crown.

"Aresia what you are saying is madness!" Hippolyta said.

"We can't let this go unanswered! We have to strike back, man's world must answer for this atrocity!" Aresia yelled garnering many cheers of approval.

"What you are suggesting is genocide!" Diana yelled.

"Men are nothing more than monsters and we shall rid this world of them!" Aresia yelled.

"My word on this is law Aresia! You shall do no such thing!" Hippolyta roared.

"Then maybe we need new law." Aresia said. The entire crowd immediately got silent shoocked by what she was suggesting.

"What?!" Hippolyta said in shock.

"You heard me! If you aren't willing to avenge our sisters than you shouldn't be queen!" Aresia yelled.

"This is treason Aresia!" Diana yelled at her.

"You of all people should understand this Diana. You have seen the evils of man's world first hand. You can lead us to a new era an era were we have saved all women from the tyranny of men." Aresia began. "You are the best of us. You know their weakness, you can lead us to victory, you can avenge our sisters." Aresia said as she put her hands on Diana's shoulders ignoring the look of shock and disgust on her face.

"This is madness Aresia! I'm not going tp lead your war, and I am certainly not going to hehelp you overthrow my own mother!" Diana said definently.

"Bu-" *Click* Aresia's voice was cut off by the sound of a guns hammer being clicked into place.

"That's it I've heard enough." Jayden said as his invisibility fell reveling himself to the crowd. I blinked right next to him and Leo being Leo unceremoniously pushed his way through the crowd.

"Diana please tell me we were just hearing things horribly out of context." I said.

"How dare you even a speak to her!" Aresia yelled.

"Oh they do more than just speak." Jayden said.

"Now is not the time for your euphemisms Jayden." Leo said flatley.

"You, You-!" Aresia yelled struggle to find the right words.

"How dare you degrade our princess with such comments, she would never lower herself to such acts." A random amazon in the crowd yelled. Other amazons began yelling similar things at Jayden as well as threats to do things to his genitals. To his credit he seemed to be completely unaffected.

"You know for a bunch of women that hate men they have an odd obsession with my privates." Jayden said.

"Jayden. Shut up." Leo said. Diana finally getting tired of the shouting and the many insults being thrown at her boyfriend decided to end the shouting in the best way she could think of at the moment. She walked straight up to Avery, grabbed the collar of his robes, brought his face close to hers in a swift jerk, and planted her lips on his in a passionate kiss. The crowd immediatly shut up and got very quiet. This lasted for several minutes until Diana deemed that it was properly driven into the amazons skulls her thoughts on the matter. She broke the kiss and turned around holding my hand stepped foward.

"As I have very clearly shown, I love him! He saved my life on multiple occasons and has completely earned my trust as well as my love. Men are not our enemies! The vile race of monsters and demons that attacked us is. They are known as the Hive and they seek to destroy all of humanity, man and woman! They are the ones that orchistrated and led the attack on our home! They are the ones thst must pay!" Diana orrated to the crowd her voice clear and powerful

"But why attack us specifically?!" One amazon yelled out. Diana looked over at me knowing this was my area of expertise and thus could give a more informed answer. So I started speaking.

"The Hive sought to use the gate of hades under your island in conjuncture with one of their own rituals to resurrect their gods Oryx and Crota. I said.

"This is completely ridiculous!" Aresia yelled behind us.

"Blondie do us all a favor and shut your mouth." Jayden said he pushed his gun against her head. "You willl not speak to me that way!" Aresia yelled as she grabbed Jayden's arm and threw him over her shoulder. Jayden acting with surprising dexterity angled his body so he would land on his feet and when he did he launched himself at her knocking her off her feet and onto the ground. Jayden landed on top of her and pointed his gun at her head.

"Avery I am done playing around, please allow me to put this rathing madwoman out of all of our misery." Jayden said furiously.

"That's enough Jayden! Put the gun down! and Hippolyta if you would please control your amazons genocidal urges that would be nice." I said. Jayden wordless got up and put Thorn back in its holster. Hippolyta walked over help Aresia up.

"You canno-" Aresia's voice was cut off by Hippolyta putting her hand over her mouth.

"Just stop Aresia, this conversation is over. We are not to going to wage war against the world of man and if any of you do, consider yourselves banished!" Hippolyta ordered. The crowd gasped at Hippolyta's declaration. None of them knew how to respond to this news. Aresia pushed Hippolyta away with fury in her eyes.

"I can't believe what you are saying! You are treading on our sisters graves by siding with these monsters!" She yelled. "Sisters hear we must avenge our fallen sisters and destroy these abominations!" She yelled trying to rally her sisters to her cause. Much to her shock and dismay her sisters remained silent. In fact many of them were trying to make themselves appear as small as possible. "Ar-Artemis." Aresia said looking for some sort of support. Artemis looked down and remained silent. Aresia's shocked stuttering soon turned to rage. "Your all cowards!" She yelled as she turned and walked away.

"Say the word and she wont get more than fifty yards." Jayden said. I simply looked at Hippolyta for an answer.

"Your choice. She did just try to overthrow you." I said to her. Hippolyta shook her head.

"Leave it. she has always been a firebrand, I will let her calm down then speak her again." Hippolyta said.

"Be careful when you do. She might be angry enough to try something." Leo said.

"Duly noted." Hippolyta said.

"So what now?" One Amazon asked.

"We rebuild." Hippolyta said.

"And I will be there every step of the way." Diana said putting her hand on her shoulder. Hippolyta sighed and looked at her.

"No you won't." Hippolyta said.

"What?" Diana asked.

"As much as I want you here you are needed elsewhere. You have your world to protect and I have mine. Plus I have a feeling you will be needed in the fight against Oryx." Hippolyta explained.

"But mother-." Diana began.

"Diana that is an order from your queen. You are to protect our world from harm do you understand." Hippolyta said emphasizing our. Diana understood what she was saying and smiled.

"Yes my Queen it will be done." She said bowing.

You will also give me regular updates in person so I may learn of the world we live in." Hippolyta said smiling.

"I will mother I promise." Diana said.

"And to you Avery Dragoon, I have a question." Hippolyta said.

"Yes?" I responded.

"Do you love Diana?" She asked bluntly.

"Yes without a doubt." I said without a shadow of a doubt. She looked at me intently for a few seconds before her expression softened.

"Then I approve of your relationship and it has my blessing." Hippolyta said.

"Thank you." I said. I turned and looked at Diana. She had a rather large smile on her face. "We should probably get going then. Contact me if you have any reason to belive the hive have returned." I finished.

"I will Guardian." Hippolyta said. With that we all headed back to the Javelin in silence. When we arrived instead of heading to the cockpit Diana flopped face on one of the side beds the events of today finally catching up with her.

"Jayden." I said looking at him.

"Yeah I'll fly. Come on Leo I will giveyou a crash course in how to fly this rust bucket." Jayden said. With both of them gone I walked over to Diana and sat down next to her. She grabbed my arm and dragged me doem onto the bed besides her. It was a rather tight fit so Click replace my armour with regular clothes. She wrapped her arms around me and pressed her head against mine.

"I love you too." She said as she drifted off into sleep