answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Greywing101: It might not be Peter that Diana is going to tear apart, he's pretty innocent compared to Twidle and Zunn.
Harbinger of Kaos: Yeah, Peter has been pretty pateinent... but even he'll run out of it eventually. Question is, when? As for Carol snapping and trying to take out Diana and Psylocke and even Faora so she can have Peter to herself, it's coming.
rmarcano321: There's a few that can get more girls than Peter, but with one of them, the women tend to end up dead or wish they were dead while the others simply get heartbroken.
Tom2011: Who said he'd make something to destory them?
MCRasengan: It's literally at the point where it will either make or break it.
Mashot Tito: Part of it is to keep Diana in check, she'll be less likely to rebel if there's a child of her's that they can use to 'convince' her to back down. There's a few others, but that's cheif among them, though Darkseid just wants to drive an even furter wedge between her and Superman, just for the hell of it. Armria is Darkseid's favorite, mainly because of the power she possesses though Kalibak is a close second given he's Darkseid's first bron and eldest.
Bladewolf101: Peter will have more important things on his mind when he goes to Earth. He ccan care less about the League so long as it doesn't get in his way.
Guest: No, there's no porphecy, Mortalla just wants to know if her son will have any competition for the throne. It's neither Gorr or Thanos.
Deadpool517: It's worse... much worse.
chimera621: Grail hates Diana, but she doesn't hate her that much.
Zayden StormVoid: This won't be the last time one of Peter's siblings tries to claim Diana and Grail won't always be there I'm afriad. Yeah, the wedding was also another way for Darkseid to show his children, and anyone else thinking of trying to overthrow him that he is DARKSEID. They want Apokolips, their gonna have to really work for it. We'll see soon enough when Peter brings Ultron online, he's getting very, very close. It's not Darkseid's father or Galactus, even though they'll both show up in a later arc, and it's not the Anti-Life equation made physical, it's something far worse than any of them. Scott will play the role of supportive ally and freind for Diana while he's on Apokolips.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used.
Diana let out a pained groan as she slowly cracked open her eyes, her head feeling like she took a punch from Ares. Her back was also killing her and she felt cold as she laid on the stone table bare as the day she was bron-
"What?" Diana said as her eyes shot open completely and she sat up, wincing at the sudden movement intensifying her headache and looked down to see she was lying on her and Peter's dining room table, naked and with several hickies all over her breasts, neck and shoulders.
The Amazon's eyes widened in horror as she desperatley tried to remember what happened last night. She remembered the wedding, attending the reception and meeting another one of Petter's broothers, a twsited horrid creautre. She remembered talking to Zunn and Mortalla before she had the urge to fetch herself a drink and then...
"By Hera..." Diana whispered in horror as she remembered the state she was in after she drank from one of the glasses on the table.
The lightheadedness, the arousal, the compulstion to listen to Zunn as he tried to drag her away somewhere... she also remembered Grail intervening. And how she pawned her off to Peter where they... they...
"By the gods" Diana said as she held her head in her hands and fight back the tears gathering.
She knew they didnt get far, she could remember that much and her body didnt have the same feeling as it would after a night of love making. But to be touched, to have his hands on her in such a way... but what really horrified her wasn't that Peter did it even though it was clear he was hardly better off than her, it was that-
'I actually enjoyed some of the things he did to me' Diana thought with revulsion.
Even know she could feel the echoes of his touch on her, his lips atatched to her breasts. She repressed a shiver as she climbed off the table and looked around for signs of Peter. Aside from the discarded suit he wore lastnight lying on the floor, in tatters she noted, he was nowhere to be seen.
"P-... Peter?" Diana called, hopingg that he wouldnt respond.
Her call was met with dead sielnce, casuing her to sigh in relif as she fetched the remants of her dress and made her way to the restroom where she could take a very long, very cold, shower and scrub her skin raw until she was ceratin she was clean. The moment that Diana stepped into the bathroom the scent of blood hit her, causing her to freeze and look around for the source. She didn't have took very long to find it.
"Hera..." she whispered as she saw the shower had a small puddle of blood in it and splattered on the sides.
She looked around for any more signs of blood as she flipped on the shower head and watched as the warm water washed the dark red liquid away. Diana doubted it was her blood, and she doubts anyone else has been in her and Peter's apartments, which only left him. She reluctantly went through her memories to see if at any point she may have hurt Peter last night but found no cause as to the reason he'd be injured to the point he'd lose this much blood.
'Perhaps something happened after I passed out and before I awoke' Diana thought as she angled the shower head towards the wall to wipe away the blood before she stepped in herself.
Not the most sanitized shower she's been in but not the worse. Bath houses on Themyscira after a particular brutal day of training would be covered in grime, sweat and blood. And occasionally more when some of the more feisty warriors needed 'more' to help burn off the adrenaline they were feeling. Half an hour later, Diana was out, covered in a towel and inside her closet looking for a suitable outfit to wear for the day, her skin felt too raw for her armor and she didn't want to risk chaffing her body. Which meant she had to wear a dress, and sadly, Peter's choices in dresses were something that she found a bit too... revealing, even by her standards. After a few minutes of searching, Diana settled on perhaps the most conservative dress she could find that possessed double slits that reached up to her waist, a deep plunging neckline was held together by a few straps that crisscrossed on her back.
She tied the last strap down before she glanced at the footwear she had available and was annoyed to see that they were all heels. Would it kill anyone to give her some actual shoes or at the very least sandals?
"I should pay a visit to the tailor later, see if he can fashion me something more practical" Diana said to herself as she picked a pair of black open toed heels to wear before she departed her room.
She didn't even make it five steps from the doorway before she heard Warbird's voice.
"So the slut finally emerges from her cave"
Diana paused before she turned to see the blonde Fury leaning against the wall with her arms folded and a dark scowl on hr face that still made her look breathtaking. It was than that her words registered in Diana's mind and her eyes narrowed as she felt her anger stir "I beg your pardon?"
"And apparently deaf too" Warbird mocked as she pushed herself off the wall "Did Zunn blow your ear drums out while he panted in your ear like a beast in heat?"
Diana's hand curled into a fist as she stared at the woman "I'm going to ask you this only once Warbird, be quiet"
The New God/Kree hybrid glared at Diana as she stepped closer to her "Why? Because you can't stand being called out on your unfaithfulness to Peter?"
"I was not unfaithful to him" Diana replied with narrowed eyes "Zunn and his brother drugged me last night and attempted to force themselves upon me"
"Didn't look like it from my point of view" Warbird snapped, her eyes glowing with anger "You seemed pretty willing to have that thing's hands all over you!"
"When your drugged, your willing to allow a lot of things to happen to you" Diana but out as leaned in towards Warbird "Final warning. Be quiet"
Warbird narrowed her eyes at Diana, her body tense as Photon energy began to gather in her hands before dissipating and she took a step away from the Amazon "Fine... I have better things to do anyway"
"And safer" Diana stated as Warbird to turned to leave before she paused at her words.
Warbird slowly tuned back towards Diana with a glare "Come again?"
"It appears I'm not the only one that's deaf today" Diana said with a challenging smirk.
Warbird gritted her teeth as Diana and took a step forward, her posture indicating she intend to send a punch towards the Amazon before she was suddenly pushed against the wall, Diana's arm pressed against her throat and her face right in Warbird's with a glare.
"Today isn't a good day to test me Warbird..." Diana hissed lowly.
Warbird growled at Diana as she tried to break the other woman's grip but found her hold to be solid. To the blonde Fury, it was like trying to physically overpower either Grail or Barda when she hasn't augmented her strength by absorbing an abundant of energy. After a few seconds of a useless struggle, Warbird stopped and simply glared at Diana.
"Understood... Princess" she bit out with a snarl.
Diana fought down the urge to put the blonde through the wall before she released her and stepped back and took several calming breaths. She then turned on her heel and made her way towards Peter's lab, fully aware of the dark murderous look her fellow Fury was giving her...
...
Peter held back a grown of discomfort as he stood before several high intensity deep tissue and gene scanning machines that Vision was carefully operating. His back was killing him tot he point that eh almost didn't get up today and his head felt like he took a punch from Kalibak at full force.
"Well Vision, what do you see?" Peter asked as he saw Vision's attention focused solely on the screen in front of him.
"The extra limbs that protruded from your back this morning seemed to have regressed and your energy fluctuating seems to have come back under control" the android said as he typed a few more things down on the terminal.
"Any idea to what caused it?" Peter asked with a frown as his mind wandered back to this morning, when he tried to take a shower only to have six barbed spider like limbs erupt from his back.
It was only a combination of re-enforced, sound dampening technology embedded in the walls and Peter's will that kept Diana from waking up to any screaming he did.
"It could be that your reaching a sort of metamorphosis like several of your fellow siblings have in the past and are either developing new abilities or more of your potential is awakening" Vision explained.
"Guess it was too much for it to be a painless process regardless" Peter said dryly with a nod "Alright, send the information to my private terminal. I'll go over it later today"
"Very good sir" Vision said as he typed in a few commands and sent the relevant data to his master's terminal "Sir, I also have news on your request of Nth metal from your father's private stores"
"What'd he say?" Peter asked as he stepped off the platform that he's been occupying for the last half hour as Vision ran every test Peter could think of to explain this morning's event.
"He's agreed to it" Vision said as he powered down the terminal and watched as Peter made his way to the area in his lab he's reserved for study of the mysterious stone he retrieved several weeks ago.
Peter nodded, satisfied that his request for nth metal to lace Ultron's frame was approved. With it, his new A.I. would be far more durable then Vision and given Nth metal's unique energy absorption and projection abilities, flight and enhanced strength, he'd be able to protect Peter from all but the strongest of foes.
'Like Grayven...' Peter thought with a troubled expression on his face as he brought up the data he's collected on the mysterious stone.
With Grayven now the heir apparent of Darkseid, and the own bastard's lust for power, Peter and many of his other siblings all silently agreed that it was only a matter of time before Mortalla's son made his move. He wouldn't move against Darkseid, not for a long while ort he find something to give him the edge he needs but he will move to eliminate any threats to his claim to the throne of Apokolips.
Mainly his siblings... and Peter knows that he was pretty high on the list that Grayven kept of siblings that he wanted dead, if not in power than because he just hates Peter.
'Hopefully Ultron will be enough for him' Peter thought with a frown 'Kalibak won't always be there to protect me and my Furies aren't strong enough to take him in a fight'
Even Faora wouldn't be able to match Grayven in raw power, and she was one of Darkseid's most powerful warriors.
"Sir?" Vision called from the other end of the lab, dragging Peter from his thoughts.
"Yes?" Peter asked as he glanced back at the stone hovering before him in a stasis field and typed down several more notes that he meant to do the other day but got sidetracked.
"Lady Diana is on her way now" the android said with a thoufhtful look on his face "She appears... unhappy"
"I can guess why" Peter said with a eye roll "Though I'm afraid she's going to find taking revenge on Zunn and Twidle difficult given they left early this morning"
"She may take her aggression out on you, sir" Vision advised.
"Well, it's a good thing I have you, eh?" Peter said with a snort of amusement as he shut off the terminal's screen but kept the scan on it going "How long till she's here?"
His question was met with several loud knocks against his lab's door that caused the room to shudder in response. Vision glanced at the door with a worried frown as he began to activate his more agressive defense protocols. They wouldn't be much against Peter's wife as he wasn't designed for combat but he hoped it'd be enough to stall her.
"Never mind" Peter said with a grunt as he sent a mental command via his suit for the doors to open and allow his enraged wife in.
"WHERE ARE THEY?!" Diana demanded with her blue eyes burning like twin blue suns of rage.
"Good morning to you to my beloved, I'm feeling great by the way, thanks for asking" Peter said in a sarcastic tone.
"Where. Are. They?" Diana growled out towards Peter as she stomped towards the New God, her hands clenched tightly to the point her knuckles ached.
"Gone" Peter replied with a shrug "Zunn left on his dreadnaught to link up with the last of my farther's fleets as they prepare to attack the Skrull Empire while Twidle went back to his world to... do whatever it is he does there"
Diana closed her eyes in frustration before she suddenly slammed her fist into one of the tables near her, cracking the metal and causing the table to buckle under the force of her blow. Peter watched emotionlessly as the contents of his table wen't flying or fell to the floor.
"Do you have any idea how long it's going to take for me to clean some of that up?" Peter asked dryly as Diana's glare snapped towards him.
"You think what this is a joke? What they almost did to me?!" she demanded in outrage.
"No, in fact I'm far from happy with what they did to you" Peter said with a shake of his head "But... they aren't here. Being angry won't serve any purpose"
"So your saying I should just let them go?" Diana hissed.
"No, I'm just syaing instead of being angry, you can do what I'm doing... planning" Peter said as he sat up and approached a part of the lab that was filled with energy blastsers of all kinds and an untold number of bladed weaponry that Diana knew would leave the likes of Ares and Hepheastus green with envy.
"Planning what?" she asked carefully as she watched Peter pick up a few axes before tossing them aside, unconcered with where they landed.
"How to get back at them, and make sure they never know I'm coming or risk them going to ground until they feel it's safe to crawl out of whatever hole their hiding in" Peter said as he exmained a sword with a critical eye "Trust me, Zunn once went over a century before anyone could find him. And Twidle as a built in teleporter in his armor that even magic struggles to track or negate"
"So what do we do then?" Diana asked.
"Monitor them for now, see where they go and wait for the perfect oppituinity to strike" Peter said as he held up the sword he was holding "Will this do?"
Diana stared at the sowrd and had to admit it was beautifully crafted yet was clearly made for actual combat "It's... impressive"
"Good" Peter said with a nod before he turned to Vision "Go fetch me a Motherbox, one of the newer models. If Desad has a problem, tell him to take it up with me"
"Very good sir" Vision nodded as he turned on his heel and left the lab, leaving Diana standing there in confusion.
"What are you planning?" she questioned the New God before her.
"You'll see" Peter said with a smirk. "But if it helps, I'm planning to use a Mother box to get to Zunn and Twdile's locations"
"Won't they hear us coming?" Diana inquired with a frown "Their called 'Boom' Tubes for a reason"
"I may or may not have a way to make it silent" Peter said with a grin before he held up the sword in his hand "And I may know a way to downsize it into something more... useful. All I need to do is hollow out the handle, make the pomel a little bigger and gut the Mother box Vision is fetching me the important parts and boom, a weaponized Mother sword"
Diana's eyes widened at this "Your going to give me a sword capable of making Boom tubes?"
If he did, and he allowed her to keep it...
"Think of it as an act of trust" Peter said with a unreadable look on his face, as if he heard or sensed where her trail of thought was going at what he said "So far, you've proven to be helpful and even saved my life and that of my Furies. Plus I'd be a poor husband if I didnt give you gifts when the occassion called for it"
"How thoughtful of you" Diana said dryly.
"And consider it a test" Peter said with a knowing grin.
"What do you mean?" Diana asked with narrowed eyes.
"I mean, you'll have the ability to leave Apokolips whenever you want... to whereever you want... to whom ever you want" Peter said with a pointed look on his face "And with my advancements to your Mother sword, no one will ever know you left for a long time... even me"
Diana said nothing as she and Peter held each other's gaze, an unspoken tension in the air as each waited for the other to speak. Finally, Peter broke it with a simple shrug as he stabbed the sword into a table, casuing Diana to wince at the sound of the metal cutting through the stone like metal that made up most of Peter's work spaces.
"But, we're worry about that later" Peter said as he turned his attention back to Diana "Was there anything else you need or did you just come by to vent your rage on my and plan out how to find and kill my brothers?"
"Kill?" Diana said with surprise.
"That is what you wanted yes?" Peter asked with a frown "To have me help you kill them"
"No, I wanted them to pay for what they tired to do to me but... why would you think I would kill them?" she asked.
Peter shrugged "Cause, I planned to"
Diana stared at her husband in shock "You would kill your own brothers? Because of what they tried to do to me?"
Peter gave Diana a grim smile "Don't flatter yourself beloved, this is a long time coming. I just now have an actual and justifiable reason to follow through with it"
"But... their your bothers" Diana said.
"Blood doesn't make family Diana" Peter said with a dark edge in his tone "And in this family, it means even less"
"But still... to kill your own flesh and blood. And to speak of it so casually" Diana said with a shake of her head "Do you truly feel nothing for them?"
"Their animals Diana, even by Apokolips standards" Peter replied with a shrug "And unlike your friends back on Earth, I'm not going to let an attempted rape of my wife go unpunished. To do so would simply invite them to try a second time. And trust me when I say this Diana, they don't make the same mistakes twice"
Diana was silent at this, unable to offer up an argument to Peter's claim as her mind wandered back to one particular incident that happened to one of the League's members... an incident that almost broke it completely.
After a few minutes of silence, Diana sighed "I don't like what your proposing"
"It's called justice" Peter said.
"Justice calls for a fair trial and for the accused to plead their case" Diana said.
"A fair trial, on Apokolips?" Peter said with a raised brow before he broke out in a full blown laugh "Oh man, that's priceless!"
Diana watched as Peter leaned heavily against his workspace as his body shook with laughter. After a few seconds, Peter's laughter died down as he glanced back at Diana and saw the annoyed scowl on her face "Oh, you were being serious, weren't you?"
"I was" Diana snapped.
"Oh..." Peter said before he shrugged "Still a good joke. Better than any I've come up with recently"
"I'm sure" Diana said in a bland tone as Vision appeared in the doorway with a Mother box in his hand.
"I've retrieved a mother box sir" Vision said as he floated over to Peter who snatched the device from the android the moment he was within reach.
"Good" Peter said as he eyed the advance tech before he nodded and tossed it over towards the sword he held earlier "I'll get started on it later tonight"
"Very good sir" Vision said with a nod as he retreated to another corner of the room while Peter turned his attention back to Diana.
"So, aside from helping you hunt down my brothers and make them pay for their attempt on you, did you have anything else to tell me?" Peter asked.
Diana was about to respond with a 'no' before she took her leave when her confrontation with Warbird came to mind "actually, there is something you could do"
"And that is?" Peter asked.
"I want you to talk to Warbird and tell her to cease her antagonizing of me" Diana said in a curt tone "Or the next time she addresses me like she did today, I'm putting her through a wall"
Peter's head quirked at this "I'll... speak with her"
"And perhaps Psylocke as well" Diana said as she turned to leave.
"Of course" Peter said with a nod at the departing form of Diana before he turned his attention back to his terminal and was prepared to settle in and begin more tests to run on it when he noticed something odd come up.
The scans for the unique energy pattern the stone were complete and after spending the better part of a minute searching, it found a nearly identical match on another planet that Apokolips has been to on a number of occasions. Peter stared at the coordinates before he a smirk began to form on his face.
"Earth... why am I not surprised?"
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And done.
Next chapter, ...Ultron online.
