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CHAPTER 34: SECOND STRIKE

-Justice League Tower-

Shayera couldn't believe this was happening. She was in a one of the prison cells on the Watchtower, they were heavily reinforced chambers with a cot, a sink built into the wall and a toilet. The door itself could only be opened from the outside. She was just sitting on her cot thinking about it all and she couldn't believe what J'onn had told her. If it was anyone else she would have punched him for making such an accusation towards her. He had explained what he had seen in John's mind and who the attacker was and everything that was said.

She hadn't believed it herself until she saw the image from John's mind. She had seen herself beating the one man she loved into submission. The things she had said like this whole Shiera Sanders thing, Sanders was supposed to be another person that she had known back home. It wasn't some personality hidden in her mind. But the thing was when J'onn tried to look into certain parts of her mind he couldn't get into.

She had strong mental shields it had been part of her training just in case that was why they never knew she had been a spy all those years while on Earth. But she had willingly let them all town as he had probed her mind and yet he had said there was still a mental block on her, a very powerful one hiding part of her mind from him.

It was at those words that made her felt cold inside, she knew who she was but she had never had anything like that done to her. She had never had a part of her mind totally shielded and couldn't explain it. She couldn't have had her memories altered before she left. She remembered Sanders she was sure of it, at least she thought she did.

For the past few hours she spent trying to figure this out. She tried to remember anything from her time back home that was out of order or that could help her. But it had been a long time ago and her memory wasn't perfect. But she still tried to find anything that might prove even to herself that this wasn't really happening.

The problem was if her memory was altered then how could she know? How could she trust her own memories, she wouldn't even try to question her own mind if she hadn't seen the images herself. She was trying to remember her day after she had left. She knew she had left because she had brought back supplies but then how well do you remember events like that? She could only partially remember that day, she had been thinking about other things and so she wasn't sure just how long she had taken.

So she just sat there thinking, trying to figure out if this was all some type of frame up or that she was insane.

Elsewhere in the tower in one of the science labs Peter was looking over the technology he took from Cyber-Spider that was laid out on a work bench. He was taking it apart and looking at it while the actual criminal was sitting in a jail somewhere awaiting trial. Of course they would have to give this to the police later for the tail but at the moment he had it.

It was amazing the kind of pull you had with a Justice League ID card. All he had to say was that he wanted to take a look at the technology and they let him. At the moment he wanted help for his as his new friend Atom was taking a look on the inside. Since this was a machine and not DNA he was a real help here. Plus with his powers he could take an up close look at it without him taking it all apart in certain places.

He was looking over the back pack piece that the legs connected to. So far the entire suit linked up to his nervous system through sophisticated sensor system. The helmet actually managed to do a real time brain scan as well a link to his spinal cord with even more advanced sensors. It was all fascinating to him really. The entire suit worked as one, the visor in the helmet had a HUD on it as well as many options to it. Although at the moment it seemed that to work it you needed the brain scan of the current user.

'Well that's a nice security system," Peter thought to himself as Atom was taking a look at one of the leg parts that was taken off the pack and on a separate table. 'Brain scans are as far as I know are impossible to fake.'

So far the suit was really top of the line and he was trying to find any trace of a serial number on any of the parts but they were all erased. He hoped that Atom could find something that was too small or hard to get to that might have been missed. But so far they had at least identified the more unique and hard to get items and would run a search program to find out if any were stolen or something.

He sighed and leaned back in his chair, it was hard to concentrate with what was going on with Shayera. Personally he didn't want to believe it, she was a good friend of his and seeing her and Lantern together they were a great couple so why in hell would any of this happen? There had to be something else going on and the only reason he wasn't trying to figure it out was that Batman was looking into it. Now sure he and Bruce had butted heads a few times but they did respect one another and he knew if anyone could get to the bottom of it he could.

He had wanted to visit her but J'onn wanted to be sure that she wasn't a danger to either anyone or herself just in case. So he chose to do what he usually did when things got like this, he buried himself in work. He didn't even notice when the door opened, but Atom who was about an inch tall and getting a closer look turned to see Supergirl walk in. He was about to say something when she caught him and winked and made a quite motion.

He grinned and nodded and watched as the young blond snuck up on Peter as he made notes with what he was finding out. Peter was just jutting down a few things when a pair of hands covered his eyes. "Guess who?"

"Donna I told you not here, I don't want Kara to find out about us," He joked.

"WHAT!" His spider sense and speed didn't prevent her from hitting him in the arm…HARD.

"Ow! It was a joke! A joke!" He said grabbing his arm looking at the pissed off blond. He had nearly been thrown off his chair by that punch of hers. Having a girlfriend who could kick your ass without trying had a few down sides. The major one was not getting her pissed at you.

"You better have been," She glared at him crossing her arms. She had only just now fixed her relationship with Donna and it was just getting comfortable with her again and she really didn't need something like this to happen. Atom had to smiled at the two of them and went back to work trying not to laugh. Kara sighed and figured she'd make him pay for that later, "So then…Anything interesting?"

He was glad that she was letting this go and that she pulled that punch a bit although there would be a bruise there later, "Oh yeah whoever built this thing knew what they were doing, all state of the art and all of it really advanced. I mean whoever had this had lots of resources and one major bank roll."

"So I take it this isn't the kind of thing you just walk into an electronics store," She stated looking at some of the exposed systems, "You know I'm no expert but I think some of this looks like the kind of thing Luthor Corp makes. That or Wayne Tech."

"Good guess, there's a bit of both in there we think." He nodded his head over to Atom.

Atom chose to increase his size at that moment and looked over to the two of then, "Hey Spidey check out this leg. The design is pretty amazing as it interacts with neural commands acting just like an arm."

Peter and Kara got up and walked over to an open leg where it was all exposed. "Look at here and here, this is the most interesting parts I believe," He pointed at certain parts and Peter looked closely at the insides.

"Yeah, you know…This kind of…" Peter looked closer and examined it as he took a deeper look. He hadn't been sure but this seemed eerily too familiar. In fact he knew this technology all right, but it was impossible to be what he thought it just couldn't be.

Kara noticed how he just trailed off and she was getting a bit worried, "Hey is everything okay?"

Peter however was just in total shock at what he was seeing. He didn't want to believe this, he had thought that he had left it all behind but he knew this work. He knew it all too well and this was just insane because it shouldn't exist here. Peter suddenly bolted for the door with Kara hot on his heels. "Hey! What's going on? Where are you going?"

Peter looked over his shoulder running for the teleportation room, "To have J'onn teleport me down to where they're holding Cyber-Sider."

"Why?"

"I need to ask him about a Doctor!"

Kara just stopped there not sure if she had heard right before she took off after him again, "What?"

-New York-

Diana was busy getting ready, with everything going on with Shayera and all it was just very hard. No one knew what was going on and she was getting ready. She had called off any meeting she had today as she really wanted know what was going on. One member of the original team was in the medical ward still unconscious and the other suspected of being the one to do it.

It was true that she still wasn't sure about Shayera; sure she still had feelings of being betrayed by someone she once considered a sister in arms. Diana had tried to work along side of her but at times it wasn't easy. But she was certain that she couldn't have willingly have done to John what she had heard. John and her had been pretty much inseparable and to be honest she found it just hard she could do something so cold blooded.

J'onn had told them of the possibility of what was going on with her and that was a scary thought in of itself. She walked out of her room as saw Donna in her own red uniform looking like she was getting ready, "Are you off somewhere too?"

"Yeah I'm assigned to go on guard duty for a peace conference with Vixen, Green Arrow and Long Shadow."

"He's going out on missions now?" Diana was a bit surprised but glad for it, he had been itching for something to do and since J'onn had given him a clean bill of medical help then he must have felt that he was deserving to start his duties.

"It's just simple one to get him used to being part of the League, or so I'm told," Donna shrugged. Although it would be nice to have someone she knew on the team. She hadn't really gotten to know the other two at the moment although from what she had heard the other two were pretty easy to get along with.

Diana nodded, she was glad that Long Shadow was finally starting his life again. She had been worried that his condition would have been fatal. She stopped a moment to think about that, if it wasn't for Peter they might not have found a cure for him in time. Then there was his idea to her mother to help and get back into the 'good graces' of her sisters. His relationship with Kara and who knows what else he had done, it was strange he hadn't save the world or done anything that would make him well known over the world and yet his life had a great impact on the League.

It was strange how he seemed like a mundane member at first glance and yet he had been very helpful. She wondered what their life would have been like without them. Donna mean while was ready to contact J'onn for a teleportation when she caught a blue and red blur. She looked over and was surprised to see Superman there. "Sis were you expecting company?"

Diana turned to see Clark there wondering what he was doing here. "No, I wasn't," Wonder Woman was a bit confused and went to the patio outside the sliding doors. "Is something wrong Clark?"

Superman nodded, he looked a bit stressed to Diana, he carried himself a bit more rigid then normal and wondered what was wrong. "There's trouble not to far away, Metallo is loose and I wanted Kara out of the way for this one."

Diana nodded, "Yes I remembered what happened last time." For a minute Clark just nodded his head, "But what about Peter? Shouldn't he be involved? New York is a city under his protection lately."

"He's busy somewhere else at the moment and so I was hoping to catch you." He explained to her. Diana knew just how dangerous Metallo was and she also knew that Superman would need help with this.

Diana looked to Donna, "Looks like I'm heading out."

"Trouble?"

"It's Metallo, you go on with your assignment and I'll handle this if we need backup I'll call J'onn." Donna kind of wanted to go with her big sister, since Metallo from what Kara once told her used Kryptonite and they might use an extra person given how strong his metal body was. But she knew that she had to learn to follow instructions and besides if she left the others for the guard duty she knew J'onn would chew her out for it.

"Okay but take care Big Sister."

Diana smiled warmly at her and nodded, "You too Little Sister." She watched as Donna activated her communicator and J'onn had her teleported away. Then she looked at Superman, "Lead on then, let's hurry up with this because I want to get to the bottom of this Green Lantern and Shayera mess."

"Yeah I feel the same," he told her and flew off. She followed him over Manhattan to the dock area. She didn't see Metallo anywhere and she was starting to wonder why he was here in this area. Sure it was out of the way but from what she knew he liked to hold up in better class of area. He had expensive tastes from back when he was human and even though he couldn't take any of the pleasures that he used to he still liked to surround himself in high class items. Even when hiding out.

"Are you sure he's here?" She called out to him.

"Positive I tracked him to that warehouse," He pointed down to one of them and flew down towards it. She flew with him and landed him outside of the building with him. "He's inside I can see him."

"Alright I'll go in first since I'm not effected by kryptonite," She told him as she made her way to the door.

"I'll be here and will come in when needed."

She nodded to him and tried a side door. I was locked but a simple twist with her strength broke the handle, the door opened easily now. She stepped in looking around the place, there were heavy shadows all over the place and she couldn't see very well. 'I don't like this, this all just seems wrong,' Diana found some equipment and wondered if this was what he used to repair himself but the equipment didn't look advanced enough for robotics.

"What is going on here?" She asked herself wondering where Metallo was. Then suddenly a blast of heat hit her back and she cried out in pain. She fell over a table and turned to see Superman there his eyes glowing red, "Clark?"

She was hit again by the heat vision blast in the chest sending her flying through some of the equipment. Wonder Woman had no idea what was going on but the others had to be warned, she touched her communicator in her ear, "Watchtower come in! Come in!"

"They can't hear you," She looked up to see Superman looking coldly at her, "This place had some shielding in it that prevents commutations."

She stood up and was ready to throw a punch when someone grabbed her arm. She turned and was about to attack when she was surprised by who she saw, it was herself. "Hello again, it's been a long time." Her 'twin' said with a savage grin then hit her in the jaw with a powerful fist.

Diana tried to figure out what was going on when a green beam of energy hit her as she landed on the ground. She looked up to see it was Green Lantern but he looked different he looked like…'The Justice Lords! But how?' Diana thought as it all became clear. They must have been the ones to attack John.

"You…It was you that attacked John wasn't it?" She said trying to get up to get a mace in the face. She looked to see the Justice Lord Hawkgirl with shorter hair standing there with a mace.

She smiled at the slightly battered Wonder Woman there, "You got that right, we're going to make you all suffer just as we have. You all will feel the pain and humiliation that we had to endure!" She went in an overheard strike with her mace but Diana blocked it with one of her bracelets. Then she countered with an uppercut to Hawkgirl's chin.

But then Superman was on her again hitting her in the ribs. She knew that she couldn't stand up to them all and made for a window flying up, but then the Justice Lord J'onn phased through the ceiling and hit her in the face. She tried her best to fight back and she never gave him but there were too many of them and they soon worn her down. Pummeling her into submission, she felt pain all over and she hadn't had a beating this badly since her meeting with Mongul in Superman's Fortress of Solitude on his birthday.

They just kept on beating her, and even though her body healed faster then a human's the injuries were piling up until she no longer had the strength to stand. Her uniform was in tatters, she had blood from her nose and lip as well as cuts. Her body had many bruises on it and some parts of her body felt numb, she knew that wasn't a good sign and that she might have a few internal injuries. But she still remained defiant, she was an Amazon warrior and she would never surrender even in the face of her death. She only wished that she could have warned the others.

Wonder Woman spat out some blood onto the floor, her whole body hurt and she was still trying to figure it all out. How did they return to this world? The other Batman had said he would never use that dimensional technology, but also how did they get their powers back? She heard a pair of footsteps behind her approaching and she looked out through her eye that wasn't swollen shut that all the Justice Lords were still there.

"Well I see I missed out on the fun, pity."

She tried to place the voice but then felt something cold and metallic wrap around her throat and she was face to face with someone else. Her eye widened at who it was, she had seen and even used a few of Peter's training sessions before and the man before her looked exactly like a man that shouldn't have been here. "Y-you?"

Doctor Octopus smiled at her, "Ah so I take it young Mr. Parker has been talking about me? I'm honored that you know of me. Yes it is I, Doctor Otto Octavius or just Doctor Octopus and as I am sure you've already have guessed…Yes, Parker wasn't the only person transported into this reality."

She tried to think but the lack of air with the metallic tentacle around her neck was cutting off her air a bit. She was wondering how all of this fit in together, how he was with the Justice Lords?

"Well I see that brain of yours is working over time, don't worry all will be ready soon but first we need something from you." He gave her a small cold smile that made her wonder just what this mad man was after.

It was then that J'onn stepped forward. When Green Lantern and Shayera had been asleep before their attack, he had tried to slip into their minds. He had already placed that powerful mental block in her mind so that his counter part would think there was a hidden personality. The only way to see otherwise was to break through the mental barrier but that would cause immense pain and he knew his counter part could never do that.

He reached out and gripped Wonder Woman's head with his hands and started to push with his telepathy into he mind. She tried to fight him, he felt her resistance but unlike his counter part here he had no qualms about hurting this woman. He pushed past her mental barrier tarring them down and ripping through her defenses.

Diana screamed in pain, it was like someone was ripping her mind apart, she tried to fight oh how she tried but it was no use. Her mind wasn't strong enough and soon she blacked out from the pain in her mind mixed in with the pain of her body and lack of air. J'onn stayed like that for a few minutes before letting go, "I have what we need."

"Good, then we can proceed to the next phase," as he dropped Wonder Woman's limp form.

"Not just yet," The Justice Lord Diana said stepping up and taking the arm bands from her and placing them on her own arms to replace the replicas. Then she took the communicator from her double's ear and placed it in her own, "There, now I think we may need a boost by now."

Doc Ock nodded it had been long enough and he didn't want them to lose their powers totally again. It was a good thing he had brought the device with him. He would give them each a shot to recharge their powers again, with the exception of Green Lantern who had a fully charged power ring. He decided to take her to the locked up in a special cell they had made for her. Then soon the real fun would begin.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 35: UNEXPECTED HELP