Chapter 10
Aztecs vs Amazons...
Montezuma washed the blood off of himself in his shower. He had just gotten done sacrificing another person to the Sun God. Now he had to get rid of the evidence and wash up before the body began to stink.
However, as the second version of the fearsome warrior stepped out of the shower and began to get dressed in regular clothes, a very familiar voice bellowed through the room.
"Montezuma!" The Sun God called out.
"Yes my Sun God?" The man questioned as he slipped on his shirt.
"I have a mission for you." The voice bellowed.
"Of course." The Aztec stated, "What is it?"
"I want you to sacrifice a descendant of the conquistador, Hernan Cortés." The voice bellowed "As punishment for destroying our glorious empire!"
"And where am I going to find that person?" Montezuma asked.
"Paradise Island." The voice stated.
"Where?" Montezuma asked, confused.
"You know of Wonder Woman, yes?" The voice asked.
"Of course." Montezuma stated.
"She is from a place called Themyscira." The voice stated, "It is an island in the middle of the Agean, not too far from the Greek island of Naxos."
"Will you guide me there?" Montezuma pleaded.
"Of course." The voice bellowed "You cannot get there without my help as the island is hidden away from the world by powerful forces."
"Got it." Montezuma stated, "And who am I looking for?"
"There, a young female washed up on their shores as an infant." The voice bellowed.
"Okay." Montezuma confirmed he was following "I need a name."
"Her name is Donna Troy." The voice put out "If you look at the mirror, you can see her as she is right now."
The mighty Aztec looked at the mirror to see a young female, the same age as Polybius, sitting on the steps to a temple. She was chatting with some of her friends and looked like she was having a good time.
"Remember her face." The voice bellowed "We will have a small time window to kidnap her."
"Alright." Montezuma said, "Can't you just teleport her here, like you did that lady from Gotham, or the other lady from Metropolis, or that girl from, uh, DC?"
"No." The voice bellowed "But I need you to make an appearance there at a very specific time."
"Why?" Montezuma asked.
"Because what we are doing is far bigger than the Titans." The voice bellowed "We are going to destroy the current world order put in place by the Imperialist Europeans and restore our proper way of life!"
"What about Wonder Woman?" The Aztec asked "I don't think you have blessed me with enough power to fight her. I'll probably get beaten badly and all of this will be for not!"
"Don't worry about her." The voice said "I've already taken care of everything. All you have to do is execute."
Two weeks later at Titans Tower, late in the day, Polybius was working in his garden, the Garden of Eden as Beast Boy was now calling it, and tending his plants. Polybius was having a hard time working with the Aloe Vera plants, which seemed to be having a hard time growing. This was causing the teen a lot of stress for himself as he needed them.
"Hey, Polybius." Robin said as he walked up to the mute Titan.
Polybius looked up from the plant and gave a small smile to the leader.
"How're the plants doing?" Robin asked.
The mute Titan shook his head.
"I see." Robin said examining the Aloe Vera plants "It's probably the soil."
Polybius shook his head. The mute Titan thought it was the climate, but Robin didn't press it any further.
"So, Polybius, I wanted to ask you something." Robin said.
The mute Titan looked up at his leader.
"Want to go do something with the team?" Robin asked.
Polybius was completely taken off guard by the question. Aside from Raven, that is the last question he expected to hear come out of Robin's mouth. And it was clear that the leader picked up on this.
"Look, both you and I have been putting a lot of work into catching Slade and Montezuma, and Starfire said we both need to take a break, so I need to know if you like baseball?"
Polybius nodded.
"Great!" Robin said "The game is gonna start in half an hour. See you up in the main room."
Polybius smiled as he finished up with his plants. There wasn't really much he could do for them, and he was getting just enough harvest to sustain himself, so he really didn't have much to worry about.
Heading upstairs, Polybius saw Cyborg with a Chicago Cubs hat on his head.
"Oh yeah!" Cyborg shouted happily "The Cubs are gonna whoop the Cardinals today!"
Polybius then snapped his fingers, getting the large Titan's attention.
"What is it, Polybius?" Cyborg asked.
Polybius shook his head.
Polybius then pulled out his notebook and wrote down something that made Cyborg mad.
"Oh come on!" Cyborg shouted, "Don't you dare tell me you're a Cardinals fan!?"
Polybius nodded his head as he joined the biggest Titan on the couch.
"Oh no!" Cyborg shouted with sarcasm in his voice "You're on the wrong side of this game!"
Polybius shook his head. The mute Titan knew that the Cubs were going down.
"Oh, it's on!" Cyborg said.
The two sat on opposite sides of the couch as the game started up.
"Play ball!" The announcer shouted happily.
Meanwhile, on the far side of the world in Greece, Montezuma, who was dressed in his Aztec garments, was in a small wooden canoe. The boat was driving itself as the big man prepared himself for the mission he was about to undertake.
"Montezuma?" The Sun God asked him.
"Yes?" Montezuma questioned.
"Remember the face of Donna Troy?" The voice asked.
"Show it to me one more time." The man requested.
"Look in the water." The voice ordered.
The Aztec did as he was told and saw that the girl was still awake and it looked like she was just looking out at the stars from her room.
"Alright." The big man said as the image faded away.
"Now you've gotta be quick about this." The Sun god stated, "If you aren't off and away from the island by roughly 6 AM tomorrow, you're gonna have to deal with Wonder Woman."
"What!?" The Aztec said in surprise "I thought you said you took care of her!"
"We'll that is going along with my timing." The voice bellowed "You see Montezuma, the picture I am looking at is far bigger than the one you are. And I have been working hard to put this all together. Lining up events and making sure we take advantage of situations is critically important."
"And that's another thing." The Aztec asked, "If she's an Amazon, then isn't she a Greek, not Spanish."
"Donna was adopted by the Amazons as an infant." The voice stated "Making her the foreigner in that land, no matter how much she looks like Wonder Woman."
"Ah…" The Aztec stated, "That makes sense now."
"Exactly." The voice stated "Now rest up big man. We've got about an hour and a half before you get to the island. From there, you will mostly be on your own, but so long as you use stealth and the powers I have bestowed upon you, you should be fine. I'll create a beacon above her that only you can see to help guide you to her."
"Got it." Montezuma said.
Meanwhile, back in Jump City, during the third inning of the scoreless game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, the Titans got a mission. Apparently, Slade had set up a Chronoton Detonator to destroy time itself.
Naturally, the Titans had to answer the call, however, things didn't go quite as planned as an hour after taking the call, Robin had broken off from the rest of the group to go hunt Slade. The others meanwhile discovered that the detonator was a phony. And then they got shot with some sort of laser weapon that hit all of the Titans hard. Hard enough to push them into the water.
"What was that?" Beast Boy asked as the group surfaced above the sewer water.
"I don't know." Cyborg said, "But whatever it was, it only had enough juice for five shots."
"One for each of us." Raven said.
"Well come on Polybius!" Cyborg said, "Let's get back to Titans tower and finish our ball game!"
Polybius smiled as the team began to make their way towards the tower. Once there, they others joined Cyborg and Polybius in watching the ball game as they awaited Robin's return.
Meanwhile, back in the Aegean sea, Montezuma could see the fabled Paradise island less than a quarter of a mile away.
"Alright." The god stated, "Now I have already put into motion everything to give you the best chance to sneak in."
"Alright." The Aztec said.
"But you need to go out loud." The voice bellowed.
"Yeah… What?" Montezuma asked.
"Getting to the girl is going to be the hard part." The god stated, "However, once you have her securely in your possession, you need to be as loud as you can getting off the island."
"Why?" The Aztec asked.
"Because we want them to know you were here." The voice bellowed "Just to really rub it into their faces."
"I don't think I can take them all on." The follower stated, "I mean, yeah, I'm powerful, but surely not enough to defeat them."
"I have that covered." The god stated "Just leave everything to me. You just focus on getting the girl."
"Whatever you say." Montezuma stated.
"And one more thing!" The voice bellowed as the boat came up on the shore of the island "No killing! Don't kill anyone! Just knock them out if you have to, but not killing, or seriously injuring anyone! If you do so, stopping Wonder Woman will be a much bigger problem, one I can't promise you I can solve."
"Got it." Montezuma said as he stepped off the boat.
"Now go get that girl!" The voice ordered.
As the boat sank underwater to hide itself from prying eyes, and the Aztec warrior quickly made his way into the trees. Once there, he looked up at the sky to see the beacon the Sun God had been talking about. It was a large, glowing, purple arrow in the sky pointing directly down at the target.
"This is almost too easy." The Aztec commented to himself as he began to make his way to the beacon under the cover of darkness.
Montezuma moved quickly and silently through the trees and bushes. He came upon a patrol wandering around, armed in their traditional greek hoplite equipment. They didn't see him and just walked right past him, not even stopping.
"Man, I wish I could fight them." Montezuma whispered to himself "This is a nice island. And seeing Aztec Eagle warriors fight greek hoplites would be something epic to see."
"Focus!" The voice of the Sun God called out "While that would be awesome, that part of the plan is way down the line. It'll be a few years before we get that far. For now, just focus on getting the girl."
"Of course." Montezuma said as he resumed his forward movement.
Coming up on the actual city of the island, Montezuma suddenly realized by what the Sun God was talking about when they said getting her was the hard part.
Despite it being rather late at night and most of the island's inhabitants being asleep, there were still a good number of them standing watch. And his target was towards the far side of the settlement.
"Don't go around." The god stated, "You don't have time."
"Then how am I supposed to get there?" Montezuma whispered.
"With the changing of the guard that is about to happen." The voice stated "They all swap over at the same time. This gives you about a ten-minute window where security will be at its lowest. Which means you should be able to sneak across the rooftops almost the entire way there."
And sure enough, only a few moments later, the Aztec warrior watched as all of the guards suddenly left their posts to go and wake up their relief.
Climbing up on a tree, the Aztec warrior used this to get onto a roof of one of the houses. Once there, he began making his way down the line of houses that lead almost directly to where the beacon was pointing to.
Once at the end of the line of homes, the Aztec warrior was able to easily make his way to the ground by some conveniently placed boxes. From there, he was able to sneak across the street to the house.
Sneaking in through an open window, the Aztec warrior took a moment inside to catch his breath.
"Good." The god stated "Now just get the girl, but be careful. We don't want them to know about you until after you have secured girl.
The warrior didn't respond as he began making his way through the home right to where the beacon was pointing to.
Silently making his way upstairs, the beacon started to fade away as Montezuma came upon the door to Donna's room. Once there, he silently opened the door to find her sleeping in her bed, her back facing away from the door.
"There she is." Montezuma whispered to himself as he entered the room and closed the door behind himself.
"Alright." The voice bellowed, but only Montezuma could hear it "You're finally here."
"I am…" The warrior said as he just realized something important "Wait, I don't have anything to tie her up with."
"I'm already ahead of you." The god stated.
Suddenly, on Donna's night dresser, a large coil of rope appeared.
"Perfect." Montezuma said as he picked up the rope.
"Now I want you to do this in a very specific way." The voice stated.
"How so?" The warrior whispered the question.
"It has to be traumatic for her." The sun god stated, "She needs to pay for what Hernán Cortés did to our people!"
"So what do you want me to do?" Montezuma asked.
"A lot of bluffing." The god started to explain "A lot of threats, a little pain, this knife might help."
Suddenly, in the same spot the rope appeared, the sacrificial dagger the warrior had stolen from the Jump City museum appeared.
"I don't really care what you do. Threaten to rape her, kill her, torture her, whatever you need to do to make this as traumatic as possible for her. You may not be the smartest person to ever live, but I trust you can do this one simple thing without my help."
"Of course." The warrior stated.
"Just again, no killing, or seriously injuring her, or anybody else." The voice instructed, "I've got everything covered, but if you screw this up, I will leave you to these women and whatever consequences they deem fit to bestow upon you."
"Got it." Montezuma said as he walked up to the bedside of Donna's bed.
Looking down at the sleeping girl, the Aztec warrior thought for a moment as to how he could make this as traumatic as possible for the girl. After thinking about it for a moment, he settled on a course of action.
Leaning his macuahuitl against the wall, he used both of his hands to grab hold of the girl. One hand went over her mouth and the other on her arm as he tossed her over so she was on her back, looking up at him.
Donna let out a muffled yelp of terror as she locked her fearful eyes with the Aztec. He looked down on her, and it was clear that terror quickly overtook her.
"Don't you freaking dare do anything stupid." The warrior stated as he quickly got real close to her face, being only inches apart "Not a sound, or what I'm going to do to you is going to be a lot worse than what I already have planned."
Donna didn't move as fear overtook her.
"Blink if you understand me." The Aztec warned.
Donna blinked.
"Good." Montezuma said.
Taking his hand off her mouth, the Amazon tried to struggle against the bigger man. However, with a quick and hard throw to the ground, that ended that real quick.
"Oof!" Donna let out as she hit the ground.
"What did I say!?" The Aztec warned, "You've earned yourself some extra torture later…"
"Please let me go." Donna pleaded in fear.
"Shut up!" The big man whispered loudly.
The Aztec warrior then followed it up with a punch to her jaw to get her to shut up.
"Ow…" Donna let out as he pulled away.
"You say anything else, I'm going to cut out your tongue and force you to eat it!" The Aztec warned.
Grabbing the nearby rope, the Aztec was quick to tie up the defenseless girl. He even went as far as to use his dagger to cut some of the rope to create a gag for her.
"Now then." Montezuma said "To make this known. So that way your sister can waste her time hopelessly looking for you."
Donna struggled as the Aztec picked up his macuahuitl with his right hand, and held her with his left. He walked up to the girl's door and quickly kicked it down with a thunderous amount of force, catching the attention of the few guards outside.
"Time to have some fun." Montezuma said as he hurried down the stairs.
Exiting the building, Montezuma was confronted by two Amazons who were on guard.
"Stop!" One of them ordered.
"Let her go!" The other demanded.
"Not until my people are avenged!" Montezuma stated, "And this descendant of my people's destroyer shall pay the price!"
The two women charged the warrior but were out of their league. With one fell swoop of his macuahuitl, he sent both of them flying into a nearby building.
This gained the attention of everyone on the island as the subsequent collapse of the building put everyone on high alert.
"Man!" One of the Amazons shouted as Montezuma began to make his getaway.
Using Donna as a human shield, this stopped the Amazons from firing arrows at the big man, forcing them to go melee as they didn't want to hurt her. This, however, was going disastrously for them as his super-strength, combined with the far longer reach of his macuahuitl and longer arms, they couldn't get close enough to him to really stop him.
That being said, however, they did have one key advantage over him, and that they had numbers on their side, and they were effectively using this to slow down the Aztec.
"I could use some help here!" The Aztec suddenly shouted in the chaos of screaming women.
"Of course!" The voice only he could hear replied "Let's see how they like a sunset invasion!"
Suddenly, a horde of warriors dressed in traditional Aztec warrior fashion came charging out of an alleyway behind Montezuma. They were a mix of Ocelotl and Cuauhtli warriors as well as a few Coyote warrior priests.
They charged the Amazons with a ferocious battle cry and the battle ensued. As was traditional for Aztec warriors, they made sure not to kill anyone, but rather incapacitate them.
The ensuing battle between Aztecs and Greeks raged on, allowing Montezuma to escape with Donna. However, just as he was getting to the exit of the settlement, two things happened.
Firstly, a fire broke out and quickly engulfed much of the settlement. And secondly, the Amazon queen stopped him.
"You've gone far enough." The queen of the Amazons declared.
She, and a small handful of elite Amazon warriors stood between him and his escape.
"Let her go!" The queen demanded.
"You do not understand!" Montezuma declared "She is a living descendant of Hernán Cortés, the man single handedly responsible for the destruction of the once great and mighty Aztec Empire! She must pay for what he did to my people and my empire!"
"I see." The queen said "Amazons attack!"
As the handful of elite Amazons charged Montezuma, however the Aztec warrior was soon accompanied by an even greater number of Ocelotl warriors. This freed up Montezuma almost entirely to escape. With the minor exception of the queen that was.
"You are not leaving with her!" The queen declared "And you are not leaving this land alive!"
"Think again!" Montezuma said "You Greeks laid the foundation for the Spanish to destroy my people! This is a grievance that cannot be forgiven! And you all will pay for it in this sunset invasion!"
"Our island will not fall!" The queen declared "And you will not win."
"But I already have!" Montezuma said "For I am Montezuma, and I hate losing!"
The two combatants charged each other. The queen was quick to try and land a thrust with her spear on the bigger man. However, this was easily blocked by Montezuma. The Aztec then took a quick swing with his macuahuitl and knocked the queen far away from himself.
With the queen out of the way, the Aztec quickly made his get away to the shore where his boat was. However, as he made his get away, back in the center of the burning settlement, the sunset invaders had taken control of the main temple where the Amazons did most of their praying.
Up at the top, there was a large slab of marble on it with a bull on top of it. The bull had been knocked down by the Aztecs and turned into a sacrificing table.
Dragging up an Amazon with long red hair, she was overpowered by several invading warriors and was brought up on top of the steps of the temple to the place where the bull had once been.
Fighting hard against the men, but to no avail, the Aztecs held her down spread eagle to the marble slab and stripped her of everything.
Once they were ready, a Coyote warrior priest walked up with a sacrificial dagger in hand. He raised it high over the woman's exposed skin and began to speak.
"As the darkness has fallen upon our people, we people have seen hard times! However, we have been saved from total destruction by the Mistress! May the blood of this sacrifice give the sun the power to rise tomorrow, and may we devluge in this heart as to spare us from your wrath as the sun rises on us again!" The priest declared as all of the eyes of the Amazons set on what was going on.
With that, the priest then sunk the blade deep into the woman who cried out in pain. While still alive, the priest then dragged the obsidian blade upwards towards her neck, but stopping just short of reaching that point.
With her last dying breath, the woman watched as the priest stuck his hand inside her still living body, felt him grab her heart, and then watch him pull out the still beating organ for all to see.
"For our survival!" The priest shouted loudly for all Amazons to hear.
The priest then quickly brought the heart to his mouth and began eating the raw, still beating organ. The body of the female warrior was then decapitated and body tossed down the stairs. Her head was put on a pike and stood up in front of the temple.
"By the gods." The queen said as she watched what was unfolding at the grand temple.
Seeing this, this was a massive morale blow for the Amazons as it seemed that the sunset invaders were going to destroy them.
However, after another fifteen minutes of fighting, suddenly, with no rhyme or reason, the Aztec warriors suddenly fled, taking everything they had brought with them into the forest, including all of their dead.
"After them!" The surviving Amazons declared.
Despite being very close to the invading warriors, as soon as they lost sight of the Aztecs, they seemed to have vanished. Not a single trace except for all of the destruction they had caused, could be found.
Meanwhile, back on the raft Montezuma had used to enter the island, he was now using to get off the island.
Well out of bowshot, he had successfully gotten away and now was on his way back to Jump City with his prisoner, Donna Troy.
And there you have it. This chapter was a lot of fun to write, I'll say that.
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