WWLAOS: And these are worse. They're psychotic, evil/weird goddess worshiping feminists. Athara is goddess who has run afoul of men, both human and divine before, and been soured.


That was when it all came apart. Music flared to life around them, seemingly with no source, but Kim recognized the song. Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries'. Genny materialized in the middle of the room. She was dressed in her usual blue camo tank top, and shorts, bearing a four foot long sword in either hand.

"This room was supposed to be sealed to magic!" Giaharoje roared at Sandra.

"It's not magic, but she can't hurt..." Sandra's word died in her throat as she did, Genny's blade lashing around to sever the corrotid artery and make sure of the strike. The woman behind Genny lunged, but the sword in Genny's other hand punched through her lung, and she collapsed coughing up blood. Giaharoje lashed out with her own knife pulling into a feint as the first blade cut up across her chest, sending a spray of blood splattering the women chained to the wall. Athara roared in defiance and lightning sizzled out from her right palm, disrupting Genny's holo display for a moment. The three remaining women saw the generator hidden in her form and lunged for it. Genny twisted and the weapons appeared to lash out and shatter the bonds holding Shego's arms. Genny vanished in a puff, as the women appeared to hit the generator. Shego lashed out in two separate directions at once. One down betweenKim's feet, and the other overher head, melting the chains above her arms, freeing them. The second blast freed Kim's legs. Kim lunged forwards crashing into Giaharoje, sending them both tumbling to the floor, wrestling for the knife.

Shego blasted at Gwen's chain's freeing her, but a half-hearted thrust scored across her right shoulder, and she turned away to deal with that threat. The third remaining woman turned to Athara.

"Mistress, give me the power and I can defeat them in your name. Take the fallen ones as sacrifices!" She called out, pointing to the two women Genny had killed.

"So be it." Athara's arms rose, one draining the blood and dying strength from the bodies, the other lashing out to give power to the other woman. As the power was about to impact her, she jerked sideways, and Genny was in her place as the powers intersected. Genny jerked up right, feeling the power flow. The generator was pushed out of her back, as she took a physical form. She inhaled deeply, and then exhaled.

"Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout." Genny grinned, and swung forwards to attack the stunned goddess.

Kim and Giaharoje meanwhile, rolled across the floor, alternately fighting the knife away from their own throats, or trying to pull it away from the other. "I don't want to hurt you!" Kim snarled at one point.

"But you must die for me to gain power." Gia returned, and brought her leg up to knee Kim in the stomach. She half-succeeded, as Kim's brought her legs up, and wrapped them around the others waist and then twisted them around, so Kim was on top, and gave her the leverage to twist apart the other woman's grip on the knife. The knife clattered as it impacted the wall. A few quick punches later, the other woman was unconscious on the floor, as Kim stood, surveying the remains of the room. Shego's opponent was down, knife sticking out of her right arm, blood appeared to be running from the wound, although slowly. Shego was freeing the others, and Genny?

She was dancing clear of the lightning the goddess was throwing at her. "I am a god, a higher being, you cannot win!" Athara screamed.

"I don't have to. I just have to distract you for a short time, until my backup arrives." Genny answered. "That's long enough." Genny stopped moving and Athara lifted her arm to take advantage of the lull in motion. Lightning flickered out, but instead of moving at Genny, it curved around and vanished behind Athara. She spun around. Six women stood behind her, four front in the line, a woman with an owl on her right shoulder, in full armor and carrying a shield. To her left, a woman carrying a bow and arrow, in a hunters outfit, and to her right, a blonde woman, looking more than a little bored.

"Athena. Diana. Aphrodite." Athara stepped backwards.

"For being the submissive aspect, you cause an awful lot of trouble." Diana chided.

"A pity your ceremony did not go as planned, or we would have been honor bound to assist you in creating your super warriors." Athena sighed in disapproval.

"Super warriors? Don't you mean super babes?" Aphrodite asked with a half grin. The two more serious deities ignored both her and the comment.

"For now, I believe it is our duty to seal you away for another ten thousand years or so." Diana smiled raising her hand.

"You are right my sister." Athena's hand rose.

"Wait." A fourth voice, this one male spoke. "Athara's role is not finished in the grand game. I ask you lenience 'til her part is completed. Then you may bind her.

"And what in return will we receive?" Aphrodite asked coyly.

"What ever you want." Came the answer. Athena and Diana sighed, hands falling.

"Agreed. We will spare her for now. You will deliver her unto us when her part is finished." Athena replied.

"And Aphrodite can have our favors." Diana snorted, before vanishing. Aphrodite giggled, and left, the three second stringers disappearing with out so much as a word. Athena turned to Genny.

"Why did you fight them?" She asked.

"Why not?" Genny asked. Kim found herself affronted, that the AI was talking to a Diety that way. Athara seemed to be trying to slink away. Kim considered saying something, but Athena beat her to the punch.

"Stop right there. I am not finished with you, and you will wait until I am ready for you. The rest of you may go and clean up. Gwen, Ilene, and the remaining delegates, except for the three who were trying to partake in the ritual left. Those three Kim and Shego tied up, and left sitting in the corner. Athena eyed Kim and Shego as they came to stand behind Genny. "You will stand with her?" They nodded solemnly. "Good. Why not? I do not understand your answer."

"Sorry, habit. I mean, why should I have not fought them? It was wrong what they were trying to do, and no one else could, so why shouldn't I?" Genny shrugged, figuring it was a good enough answer.

"Why not simply free your friends, so that they could fight, without injuring anyone?" Athena asked. Genny narrowed her eyes.

"If they would engage in combat, I'll fight them. I started the fight to protect my friends, and I would do it again. You're sounding awfully pacifistic for being a warrior goddess." Genny snorted, folding her arms. Kim swallowed hard unsure what the goddess was going to do, at what seemed to Kim to be an affront to her power. Athena laughed out loud.

"A good answer. It is my judgement, that you should be rewarded for aiding your friends. So I give you the power that the others would have gained had they completed their attempt. Worry not that anyone will be harmed. I have far more power than Athara, and need no sacrifices to do this. Now take form, and life, and retain what you once were. You are now a live being, and at the same time, a being of energy and technology. You may now exist in either form, and retain full control over your electronic form while you are living tissue. And I fixed that while I was at it." Athena smiled placidly, and vanished.

"Well, that was new." Shego muttered.