Our return to man's world wasn't dull. I'd contemplated returning to Europe to continue my short lived royal tour (along with helping women in trouble as we talked about earlier)...but the wonder plane had told us that we were needed in New York instead...
Donna and I flew supersonic for the city. It didn't take us long to get there. People cheered and waved at us from below as we flew past them. We landed on a skyscraper and looked around. It was a lovely day. "What did the wonder plane feel was wrong out here?" Donna said in puzzlement. "There's nothing wrong here." I could only nod as we looked around in opposite directions; using our super senses to take in the city. I mentally asked the wonder planet to specify the nature of the threat or why it had sent us here. It said it had detected some strange energy readings but from here could not elaborate. Donna, linked to it now at all times too, said, "That's damned odd." She was right. The wonder plane had the best scanners in creation.
"Ares?" she couldn't help but say, and do so with dread. I could only slowly shake my head with uncertainty.
She walked up beside me. "What now highness?" I looked over the city again. "We need to stay here for a while; we need to get our bearings on what this might have been about. It's not everyday that the plane's sensors can be fooled like that. The lack of clarification is disturbing."
I then summoned my power and turned into civilian clothes. Donna lopsided grinned like I often did. "Chic as ever." I then winked at her and held up a credit card. "What's that highness?" "Diana for now; we're posing as civilians here to better understand what we are dealing with." I waved my hand over her and she too appeared in civilian clothes. "Whoa maj - I mean Diana - that was cool!" She scrutinized our two outfits. "Yours is still better though." I straightened the collar on her black silk blouse. I then stuck the card into her hand. "May I present the wonder card." She looked at it confused. "Wonder card?" "Yep. A magical credit card without limit. In the hands of a young woman that is very dangerous..." She gave a broad smile. "Hell yes - I mean-" I put a hand on her shoulder and laughed. "It's quite all right. It's a WMD for shoppers... and we are in Manhattan..." "You really know how to turn lemons into lemonade you know that?"
I shrugged. "Well, we do have time to kill - at least until we can figure out what brought us here...and there's nothing to say we can't have some fun being normal girls while doing it. What do you say?" "Lead on my queen." "Is that an order?" Her mouth hung open at that but I winked and she gave a relieved chuckle.
I called on my power and transported us to the street below. It didn't take us long to blend right in. Our concerns for now were gone, and that was good enough. We would be on the lookout for anything troublesome as undercover superheroes would be; that was for sure. I didn't know what the hell this was about but Donna had the same confusion about it as I did. That was a good sign; we weren't losing it! Yet I would ever be strong for both of us; I was her mentor after all.
