03. Seeing Double

Summary: Where is she? Who is the other Diana? Got a surprise in this one.


"She is who she says she is?" J'onn Jonzz revealed to the gathering. The inner council had called on an emergency meeting. Present in the room were, Batman, Superman, Plastic Man, the Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Flash and their Wonder Woman.

"How is that possible? A clone? Someone from another dimension?" Superman was the first to speak up. Everyone except for J'onn and Batman were seated at the table. J'onn was standing because he was the one explaining the test results, both physical as well a mental. As for Batman, he was stationed in his usual dark corner.

"At least we know she is nice," Flash offered his layman's opinion. "The costume is the same. No inverted tiara's, no different colors, nothing. That should mean something, shouldn't it?"

"Yeah," Plasticman picked up from the speedster left off. "Event he stars on her…uh," he looked nervously at Wonder Woman. "You know, not that I count on something. But they are the same size, shape and number."

"Where did she come from?" was Batman's first question.

"According to her, she is from earth," J'onn answered his query, explaining it further with what he had got from their guest. "Theirs is also a Justice League, similar to ours except for a few differences."

"Differences?" Kyle Rayner aka. Green Lantern asked with curiosity. He had seen how the other Wonder Woman had been surprised to see him. It was as if she didn't expect to see him there or was seeing him for the first time.

"On her earth, their league watchtower is stationed in space, in a geosynchronous orbit around the earth, unlike ours, which is on the moon," was the first thing that the Martian revealed. "They too have an executive council with Superman as the chairman. However, their council has a slightly different member structure. The common factors, apart from Superman are Wonder Woman herself, Flash and myself. Batman is a member but he has always maintained a temporary membership status."

"Well, at least Bats is the same," Flash's grin dropped at the patent bat-stare than was sent his way at the interruption.

Continuing as if nothing had happened, J'onnn elaborated further. "Plastic Man is not there. In his place they have Hawkgirl."

"Awe man," the red and yellow clad superhero's face contorted into the face of a hawk. "They replaced me with a chick….no a hawk."

"Hawkgirl!" Diana wondered out aloud. "Is she the same as our Hawkgirl. The one who is a member of the Justice Society."

"That is not confirmed," J'onn answered evenly. "She has only revealed information about common members. I have only limited my questioning to that section. If need be we can get the information in the future."

"What about me?" Green Lantern asked suspiciously. He was sure by now that he wasn't in the league.

"You are a Green Lantern in their universe too," J'onn's answer seemed to calm him a bit. "But you are assigned to a different sector. Their Lantern's name is John Stewart."

"Stewart!" Kyle exclaimed with recognition. "He is on earth and I am not. That means our positions are interchanged."

"It's a likely supposition," J'onn agreed.

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"So what is she doing here?" Batman's voice came from the shadows as he stepped forward and raised the camera from the holding cell they had the newcomer locked in. "How did she get here?"

As everyone watched the eerily familiar visage of Wonder Woman, J'onn explained the events that had conspired to cause the other Wonder Woman to be transported into their dimension.

"Toyman," Superman ground out in anger.

"How do we get her back to her own world?" Diana asked in concern. It was true; everything about her doppelganger was exactly like her, right down the curls of her raven locks.

"We have no confirmed idea at present?' J'onn shook his head. "Although we are working to come up with something, it will take at least a couple of days to come up with something concrete, a week to get a trial run."

"What should we do with her in the mean time," Superman pointed a finger at the screen. "We cannot just keep her locked up like a criminal."

"Its better to keep her where we can keep a track of her. We don't know her true intentions," Batman pointed out as the Devil's Advocate. "We only know what she has told us.

"Amazons don't lie," Wonder Woman instinctively defended her other-dimensional counterpart.

"We don't know if she an Amazon," Batman pointed out again. "For all we know she could be one of Luthor's creations," that struck at Superman. "Or a member of the Crime Syndicate or one from a dozen other possibilities."

"You want me to check the veracity of her claims," Diana challenged fingering her lasso of truth.

"That won't be necessary," J'onn interrupted them. "I have been maintaining a telepathic vigil and her thoughts and brain waves are similar to that of Wonder Woman, even if her experiences and emotions aren't."

"What do you mean J'onn?" Diana asked curiously.

"She has had some experiences that are similar to yours but have worked out differently due to differing decisions on her part," the Martian's answer was cryptic and completely ambiguous.

"I would still like to have it confirmed," Batman stated in a matter of fact manner.

"What do you mean?" Superman cut in with equal interest. 'Maybe there is something in adopting Bruce's paranoia this time,' was the thought swirling in his mind.

"Why don't we talk to her about it?" J'onn almost smirked. "I would like that she tell it herself."

"That would be a good idea," Wonder Woman agreed instantly. "I'll get her."

"No," Batman's sudden outburst stopped her in mid action. "We don't want the two of you getting mixed up. Flash. Lantern."

"On it," Wally West responded as he zipped away to the holding cell, Kyle Rayner close behind him.

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Inside the holding cell,

Diana was sitting calmly waiting for the League to reach a decision about her status. A few hours ago, she had been with her league and now….now she was locked up in a holding cell similar to the one she had on her watchtower. And although the decision had been hers i.e. she had given into voluntarily, she didn't like it one bit, but did it as a show of good faith.

She had arrived in the watchtower and on first glance found nothing out of the ordinary. It was only after she gave it a second look did she notice that she was on the moon and not in space as she was expecting to be. Then came the other and much larger surprise. She found herself face to face with an exact duplicate of herself. She had been instantly surrounded by the present League members, including her other self. Initially she was going to put up a fight, but the telepathic link that J'onn Jones formed between her, himself and the other Diana, let her know that she was no longer in her own dimension, but had somehow jumped worlds to arrive in this one.

'Toyman's robot,' was the first thing that came to her mind. Accepting their demand for instant surrender, she was led to the holding cell. In return for her support, she had been allowed to keep possession of her lasso.

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"Wonder Woman," a familiar voice drew her out of her thoughts. Looking up she saw the familiar form of Flash standing on the other side of the force field. Alongside him was Green Lantern, not the one she was used to working with, but another one. She remembered meeting him a couple of times, but wasn't real friendly with him.

"Wally you can call me Diana," her calm voice and the fact she called him by his name, seemed to throw the speedster for a second.

"Uh-well, yes, I guess so, let me think about it," Flash seemed to be confused looking at Lantern for support, but getting none from the equally confused Kyle.

Entering the pass-code, he deactivated the force field and asked Diana to accompany them to the conference room.

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"Your name," Wonder Woman asked the newcomer, her lasso wound around the other woman's forearm, hers lying on the table.

"Diana," came the confident answer.

"Place of birth?"

"I was created….." both Dianas smiled at each other. "….on Themiscyra, by my mother, Queen Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons."

"Do you mean any harm to us?" the question was asked more for Batman's sake than for anyone else's.

"You can rest assured Batman," everyone chuckled at that answer. Everyone except the masked Batman. "You will be the last person that I do any harm to."

"Why is that?" Batman asked coldly.

"I-uh," Diana looked to her counterpart, silently urging for a respite from having to answer that question.

"You don't have to answer that," the questioning Wonder Woman caught the hesitation.

"Yes she does," Batman didn't let up.

"Well…" Diana hesitated, looking at the other League members with unease. "Do all of you know Batman's identity?"

"Yes," Superman answered her question. "Everyone in this room knows everyone else's secret identity. Please answer Batman's question."

"Kal," their Wonder Woman shot him an exasperated look.

"I'll answer it Diana," the other Diana smiled weakly. "In my world-dimension, Bruce and I…we are….uh….together."

That answer shocked everyone into stupefied silence.

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"Together," Superman was the first to break the tension. "As in…."

"As in romantically involved, intimate," Diana offered with a tender smile.

A very shaken Wonder Woman looked from Batman to Superman to her twin to J'onn, understanding what he had meant by his answer. Finally, her gaze settled on her mirror image, Batman's next question unnerving her even further. "How intimate?"

"Very," the answer came out easily this time. Having gotten over her initial unease, the new Diana was very forthcoming with information about her relation with her Batman. "We have been for quite some time."

"Oh," the interrogating Diana voiced as her mind mulled over J'onn's words. 'Different decisions on her part,' that was what he had said. 'Had she gone through the Martian dream machine just as I had…' was her next thought. '…and decided to pursue relation where I had decided not to.'

"Are there any more questions about my identity," the new Diana asked wearily. "I have had a long day and am tired. If possible I'd like to go home."

"Any more questions," the current League's counterpart looked to her teammates. Getting no more queries, she loosened and unwound the lasso.

"Uh, Diana," the present league's Diana started hesitantly, her mind still reeling from the revelation that in an alternate reality she and Batman were a couple. "We still haven't been able to find a way to send you back."

"I understand that," the other Diana smiled a smile exactly like hers. "What I meant was the dimensional counterpart of my home. The one where you live."

"Oh," the league Wonder Woman seemed to think it over. "I don't think that should be a problem." She looked to the other league members for their comments. "Batman. This way we will be able to solve your problem too."

"I don't have a problem," the Caped Crusader snapped at her.

"Why would he have a problem?" the new Diana looked confused now. "He can have Alfred keep an eye on me. That will solve the under observation problem."

"Alfred?" Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, all three echoed at the same time.

"Yes," she answered, noticing the confused looks she was getting from everyone. "Where do you live?"

"New York," came the answer. "At the Themiscyrian embassy. Where do you live?"

"Wayne manor," that shook the gathering even more. Diana and Batman being a couple was news enough, the fact that they were cohabitating in Gotham City of all the places was something totally out of the realm of imagination. "I've been living there for the past four months."

"And before that?" J'onn asked, being the only league member who had some prior knowledge of some of this startling news.

"Before that, on the watchtower."

"The watchtower?" the Diana living in New York asked in surprise. She herself had a room on the watchtower, but it was mostly for emergency purposes.

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"Yes," the new Diana sighed as she rubbed the back of her neck. How she missed Bruce and his neck and back rubs. "I wasn't even supposed to be on this mission. I was adamant to go on it. Leslie had given strict instructions against it."

"Leslie," that brought Batman into action. "How do you know her?"

"She is our family doctor," Diana smiled at the Caped Crusader's surprised look. "She told me, and I quote stop all this superhero business until six months after the delivery."

"Delivery!" Flash leapt off the ground, away from Batman and both Wonder Women. "Delivery of what?"

"We don't know yet," Diana smiled as her hands protectively crossed over her midsection.

"Hera!" her counterpart fell back into her chair, her wild eyes alternating between Batman and the Wonder Woman from the other dimension. "You-you…and him."

"Not him," Superman corrected her. "Her Batman." The present Batman blanched at the 'her'.

"Yes," the guest Wonder Woman's face seemed to glow with joy. "We are going to have babies."

"Babies!" That got yet another exclamation from the freaked out Flash.

"Yes…twins."


Note: Had planned to reveal this so soon, but decided to do so to make matters more interesting. Hope you liked it. Review and let me know.