Jesse Quick and Arisia travel to Bolivia to help the legendary Wonder Woman investigate the disappearance of an archaeologist friend of the Amazonian princess. However, the three heroes get into serious trouble and find themselves far from home.
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Note to readers: both Jesse and Arisia met Diana when they helped Kara and the Amazon deal with the volcano in the Sea of Java in Chapter 20.
Also, the mature rating of this story comes into play near the middle of this chapter which is probably NSFW. I will place a spacer of stars above and below the NSFW part for those who only wish to read the SFW sections. Thanks!
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Zeta Beam Chamber
Under what will become the Tiahuanaca Pyramid
40,000 years in the past
Emerald.
Gold.
The golden one had become immortal half a century after she'd traveled thousands of light years to a distant planet when her homeworld had been destroyed due to the short-sightedness of her own people.
The emerald one had joined her lover in everlasting life when she'd symbiotically merged with the eldest sentient being in all of existence.
They'd left their homeworld in the middle of the 23rd Century after everyone they'd loved, with the important exception of their two children, had died.
The lovers wandered among the stars for several millennia before they'd returned home sometime at the turn of the 700th Century. During their odyssey, they had become greater than either the Old or New Gods had ever been, with knowledge, abilities and skills acquired from across the breadth of the universe. Upon their homecoming, they had entered into a covenant with their descendants and bestowed upon them a fraction of their power so long as their scions would continue to fight the never-ending battle for truth and justice. Then, once they'd forged their covenant, the lovers returned to the golden one's Fortress of Solitude in the center of their homeworld's sun, though, often, they could be found frolicking on the surface of the dark side of the Moon or in the space between Mercury and Venus to the public chagrin yet private amusement of their immortal offspring who believed their parents were too cute. The siblings, actually, were ecstatic that their parents had returned to the Solar System to stay.
One day, using a minuscule portion of her power cosmic, Ion and the golden one, who most sentient beings during the 700th Century and beyond, with the exception of their offspring and the twins' spouses, simply called Prime, transported themselves to the distant past in the guises of the Atlantean deities, Deedra, the goddess of nature, and Jheryl, the goddess of truth and knowledge. While her golden lover smiled beatifically at her, the emerald one hovered through the air and pressed the face of the alien artifact she'd continued to wear even though it had long been superfluous into the face of the stone. Once the imprint was in place, she'd set into motion that events that would lead to the timeless and epic love affair that awaited them in their glorious future.
Tiahuanaca Ruins, Bolivia
Present Day
Local Time 1014
"I can't believe Wonder Woman wanted you to come to Bolivia to help her!" Jesse Chambers exclaimed. "I mean, she is so amazing it's hard to believe she'd need help handling anything!" The effusive woman paused momentarily before she added in a conspiratorial whisper, "You know, I wrote an entire chapter about her in my Master's thesis!"
"You don't say."
"And now I get to hang out with her, twice in the same year!"
Now the alien Green Lantern turned and shot an askew glance at her friend as they were ensconced in their safety seats while they traveled inside the energy construct bubble generated by her ring. At that very moment, they were high in the virtually cloudless azure sky over the nation of Bolivia hurtling toward their destination. She then regarded the speedster with a bemused expression on her elvish face. "Actually, the Princess told Lena and me she needed a Green Lantern to assist her with something and since Lena had to attend one of her board meetings, I volunteered."
"Even so, I know Steve can't wait to hear about you helping the Amazon Princess later on tonight when we're out on our double date together."
A sly smile dawned on the golden skinned woman's face. "No shit. The men in his family really are fixated on the Princess!"
"Maybe so but I know that man is even more fixated on you!"
She nodded her agreement then grew quiet.
Perhaps it was unfortunate that humans were sexually compatible with her species. The first time Steve and she had copulated, she'd begun to realize that maybe she had gotten in a little over her head. Shockingly, the sex had been freaking awesome. At first, she'd considered the possibility that maybe it had been an extremely lucky fluke and they'd come crashing down to Earth, so to speak, the next time around. However, a few days later...
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Steve was a big man. During their dates, she'd vaguely noticed it because she was used to looking up at most entities. But lying down with his body covering hers, it was quite evident. Now she grinned inwardly and pressed her face into his neck while he thrust inside her, stretching her deliciously wide.
Despite the difference in their sizes, they fit together wonderfully. They'd sparred together over the past few months and they'd grown accustomed to each other without her realization of it. It struck her at that moment she knew his body almost as well as her own.
Soon, she raised her lithe legs and wrapped them around his hips, allowing him to ride her higher. She pulsed around him and felt her own release as she danced along the razor's edge of her fourth orgasm. Then Arisia sucked in a desperate breath through her teeth. "Steve!" Then she gasped.
Suddenly, he slid a hand beneath her ass and angled her hips upwards, causing her engorged clit to rub against him. Barely keeping his own crisis in check, he groaned while she felt the rush of her impending implosion rapidly approaching. Then he pressed himself deep inside her and they came together.
She drew in a languid breath as her body relaxed and he whispered tenderly, "You glow brightly even without your ring."
She grinned and kissed him tenderly.
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Now, after having returned from her pleasurable trip down memory lane, Arisia sighed heavily. One day soon, the Guardians were going to tell her that Lena wouldn't require a trainer any longer and dispatch Arisia back to her own sector of space. Although she'd miss her student…well, actually her partner now, she had no doubt that Lena was ready to go solo. The Terran woman was perhaps as strong as Sinestro, Tomar Re and Arisia herself, and the teacher was immensely proud of what Lena had become. Yet, the one thing she hadn't counted on was to become so connected to Steve Trevor in such an embarrassingly short amount of time.
Suddenly, Jesse derailed her train of thought. "Hey...are you okay?"
She smiled perhaps a bit too brightly. "Yeah! Sure! Nothing to worry about here! I was just thinking I can't wait to meet John. I saw him on the video broadcast display at Steve's place when you fought against those bad men in New York City. He's quite tall and handsome."
"Yeah...he is at that," Jesse agreed with a dreamy smile on her lovely face. "He's also quite the gentleman. At times, though, he seems a little lost for some reason. Apparently, his former mate—wife—whatever did a real number on him when she guilt tripped him for losing his memory after some prejudiced bastards split his skull and nearly killed him after they'd become mortal when they were in close proximity too long. At least, that's what he told me. Actually, I'm kind of surprised he was comfortable enough to share that with me. Arisia, for a man who might be even stronger than Kara's cousin, it's surprising how gentle he is with me. And he's really different from a lot of guys I've known. He's far more interested in listening to what I have to say than talking about himself. It's kind of...nice, you know?"
She smiled warmly at her tall companion because Steve treated her that way, too. "I think I do, Jesse. By the way, thanks for tagging along."
"Not a problem, girlfriend. I'm happy to go anywhere with you!" The alien grinned warmly at her human friend while the speedster sighed wistfully. "You know, when I was a kid, Wonder Woman inspired me so much! She was really the first superhero, a role model for women everywhere. She's been fighting the good fight for nearly a century!"
"You don't say?" Arisia drawled with a tiny smirk on her face. Although she was about to tease her friend a bit over being such a fan-girl of the Amazon, the Green Lantern was secretly just as impressed with the woman as Jesse was. With her legs for days, abs that even gave Kara's a run for her money and flowing dark brown hair that always looked perfect even when the woman hovered over boiling hot magma during the time they struggled to contain the erupting volcano in the Sea of Java, the Princess cut a very striking figure indeed.
"Jesse...the Corps has been protecting the universe for more than three billion years. Why, Mogo's been on the job during most of that time, so I think it's safe to say she'd win the longevity title over Princess Diana."
"Wow," Jesse breathed. "That is a hell of a long time! So, Mogo's people are practically immortal?"
Arisia chuckled. "She isn't really a person, Jesse. Mogo is a planet, a sentient living world all her own."
While her stunned friend contemplated the wonder that was Mogo, she spied the clearing next to the ruins where Diana had asked them to meet her. Soon, she set their energy construct down and willed it away when they saw the Princess approach them garbed in her Amazonian armor.
"Arisia! Jesse! Welcome to Tiahuanaca!" the tall demi-goddess announced in her husky voice with her exotic and alluring accent.
"Thank you, Diana," she said while her gaze panned across the cross-shaped pyramid that, at first glance, appeared to be birthed from a hill. Moments later, after she'd scanned it with her ring, she'd determined the earthen mound had been entirely man-made with a mixture of large and small stone blocks and Tenon puma and human heads studding its terraces. "This appears to be quite...ancient in comparison to most places I've seen on your world," Arisia noted, hopefully in a manner that wouldn't imply she really thought the place was quite a dump and insult the Terran warrior princess.
"That's true, Arisia. However, a colleague of mine who I believe disappeared in connection with a certain chamber located below the pyramid you see before you thought it may be far older than the structure above it."
"Are you investigating your colleague's disappearance, Diana?" Jesse asked.
"I am," the Princess answered. "Batman suggested I work on developing my observation skills along with my deductive reasoning to help battle crime when evil-doers manage to escape apprehension at the scene of their wrong-doing. My colleague, who often worked as an archaeologist for my museum, had recorded some interesting observations about the chamber he claimed predated this pyramid by more than 45,000 years. Shortly thereafter, though, he disappeared from the face of the Earth. That was two years ago. No one has seen him since then."
"What's his name?" the speedster asked.
"Adam Strange. He was a pleasant man. We often talked whenever he found his way out of the field and presented his findings to the curator responsible for ancient South American artifacts at my museum. His outlook on the world reminded me so much of Plato's. Not only was Adam a reputable scholar and researcher, he was a genius at mathematics and calculus, as well."
"Although I'm sorry your friend has been missing for so long, why did you need me to come here?" Arisia asked.
"There's a slab that appears to have a keyhole in the shape of the face of your Power Ring. Rather than attempt to force the entrance myself and possibly destroy any artifacts or evidence that might lead me to Adam, I thought having you insert your ring into the impression may open it for me."
"Wait a second," Jesse snapped. "Are you saying that this impression may be more than 45,000 years old?! Who in the hell could have had dealings with Lanterns on Earth so long ago?"
Diana smiled provocatively and leaned toward the speedster appearing as if she was prepared to share a juicy secret with her. "Adam believed the chamber may have been built by the ancient Atlanteans."
"What?! Atlantis was real?"
Diana nodded. "Indeed it was. Although Man's World has very little information about it, the library on my island home still maintained records about the ancient ones. From what I recall, it was a continent located in the North Atlantic where the earliest and most highly advanced society the Earth has ever known was developed. The records stated that Atlantis owed its existence to both mysticism and science. While the rest of the world had yet to benefit from inventions such as the wheel, the Atlanteans had already created highly advanced technological wonders. Legend has it they even had managed to combine science and sorcery to create the world's first spacecraft. This vessel is thought to have left our planet some 50,000 years ago. Some have speculated the crew of this craft may have populated worlds that orbit other stars." She then paused to draw a breath then added, "If the chamber below was built by the Atlanteans, it would be a magnificent discovery for Man's World and a perfect legacy to Adam."
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Fifteen minutes later, the three women arrived at the entrance to the mysterious chamber. They all were quite disturbed upon their arrival when Arisia informed them her ring was unable to scan through the slab that sealed off whatever was behind it nor would the ring allow her to phase through the slab to take a peek at what was on the other side. The Lantern had never experienced a situation where her ring wouldn't allow her to pass through anything before.
Now, Diana pointed toward an impression in the slab with her elegant index finger. "There, Arisia. That is where the possible keyhole is."
"All right then. Here goes nothing," the petite woman said as she strode boldly toward the stone and pressed her ring into the form.
Suddenly, the energy from her ring was drawn into the impression and flowed deep inside the slab. Then they heard a loud noise like the sound of the stone of a massive sepulcher scraping against granite as the barrier slid into an opening in the artificial hill.
Soon, the three heroes gazed in wonder inside a dimly lit room with a raised dais in its very center and a matching circle on the ceiling directly above it.
"Well, ladies," Diana whispered, her sharp gaze darting all about the chamber searching for any signs of danger. "I suppose we should examine the room to look for anything that might show Adam had been here."
"Do we have to?" Jesse whined.
"Oh, come on, you big baby!" Arisia teased. "You're fast enough to run on water, Wonder Woman is with us and I have the most powerful weapon in the universe! I think we'll be just fine."
"Yeah, well, when the shit hits the fan, and it always does in our line of work, I just hope I live long enough to say I told you so," the speedster grumbled as they cautiously entered the chamber.
Once inside, they proceeded slowly toward the other side, scanning the room carefully. Moments later they stepped onto the dais and began to cross it while glancing upwards at the circle above their heads.
When they approached the center of the platform, they began to hear an incessant humming noise like thousands of bees had completely surrounded them.
Now they shot concerned looks at one another. "Arisia, Jesse! Ru—!" Diana began to scream a moment before everything around them appeared to be cast in a light as bright as the surface of the Sun.
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"—n" Diana completed her cry before Arisia felt the rush of a breeze and a sprinkling of dew on her face.
Now they were standing under the open sky on top of a dais that appeared to be the same as the one from the chamber except they were on a grassy plain surrounded by stone slabs that reminded her of some ancient ruins located in a place a video documentary had identified as England that she'd seen on Lena's video broadcast display several weeks ago.
A moment later Jesse gasped and whispered, "I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto."
"Who in the name of Zeus is Toto, Jesse?" an exasperated Diana asked. "And why did you mention Kansas? We were never in Kansas. The pyramid is located in Bolivia."
"Don't be so literal, Diana! Jesus, learn some pop culture, why don't cha?" the speedster snapped. A moment later, Jesse's face paled. "Look!" she whisper-shouted while she pointed up into the sky. "Do you guys see what I'm seeing?"
Arisia nodded sullenly as she turned her gaze up from the setting sun to stare at the three moons nestled overhead in twilight's approaching gloom.
"Fuck," Jesse noted woodenly.
"Shit," Arisia hissed.
"Ladies," Diana murmured while she studied the satellites that shined in darkening sky. "I couldn't agree with you more."
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The title for this chapter is a line from an old Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoon when Bugs puts a hurting on the Abominable Snowman.