Using Honor I opened a portal for us to go through to return to Wakanda. There we updated King T'challa and others present about Namor's fateful decision. "Impressive if true," said T'challa, still skeptical. I didn't blame him for that at all. "But I still want proof." And that would only come if the Chinese fleet turned around. The Kirby remained on standby. Fury and Hill appeared on a holo projector. "They're still right where they've been the whole time," said Fury. "Have the Atlanteans left?" said T'challa. "They have; but it could still be part of Mandarin's plan." I rested the side portion of Honor against my shoulder. "I have an even greater edge with Honor now. I can fight more like Thor now to give you that visual." I wasn't trying to be the warmonger here but it was good they knew all the options.

"You want to put some fear of god into them, is that it wonder woman?" said Fury. I shrugged. "Can't hurt can it?" Peter said, "I'm all for it. Let her put some real thunder on those commies and see what happens." There was that ongoing/justifiable fear among them that it could could all lead to escalation, but Peter had faith in my newly modified Asgardian situation to where that wouldn't be the case.

"Very well," said Fury. "Drive them away if you can. Maybe our favorite punk Mandarin will show up too." I nodded once. "Yes sir." "You want me here?" said Pete. I touched his face. "Yeah, if you don't mind?" "Hey, you got the super mallet; not me." I scoffed. "We'll get you there spider." I opened a portal with Honor and flew into it.

XXX

I hovered above the Chinese fleet still anchored in the Indian ocean. I used Honor to send a message to all of them. "This is Wonder Woman to the communist scum below me. You can all hear me; you can tell my power is magical. I indeed hold an Asgardian hammer in my hands that rivals Thor's. You don't want to screw with this and everything else with it."

I held out Honor and brought forth a ton of lightning and shot it down into the ocean before the parked ships. It sent water flying everywhere. Like Thor my father too was god of thunder/lightning. "This is but a mere fraction of what my hammer can do with my channeled willpower... Again, I ask you, do you really want war? The Atlanteans have left you; Mandarin will eventually be defeated; it's just a matter of time..."

Honor alerted me that the Chinese fleet's fear had grown considerably. It wasn't quite terror but it wasn't much less either. They hauled anchor...and started sailing away for China again.

I could "hear" the cheers from Wakanda even from here...

XXX

I returned to the Wakandan situation room. They were indeed cheering. There were still concerns over Sobek terrorism but for now things were on the up and up. The Sobeks depended on the Chinese fleet to make this plan work. That was now dust in the wind... The Sobeks would likely go into hiding again for now. It seemed for the moment that victory was ours.

I was quick into Peter's arms. "Way to go babe." "Thanks." He then frowned. "Are you really taller than me?" "You're five ten..." "Yeah." "I'm six feet. I'm an amazon; duh." We shared a pure dork moment and hugged again tighter this time. There were people all around us; cheering us; but they gave us our space.

It was definitely happy time...but what I would later come to realize was despite being right about Mandarin and his pathetic/cowardly allies...brother was still going to get more directly involved whenever things got "boring/weak" enough. And don't forget - he did have the dead Marvels from the last Marvel reality at his beck/call still too... Additionally, Mephisto was going to make an intro, and on behalf of my brother as his new main Marvel agent to torment us/the world.

And true to most Marvel realities...Mephisto had a proven hatred for Spider-Man; even mine...