Justice:

A Reclaiming Equestria Story Featuring DCAU Batman and Woman Woman

Chapter Four: Sunset

*****Metrotower - Gateway Room - Next to the Generator*****

The gateway was finally activated, working, and surprisingly there was a need to bring Zatanna and Doctor Fate both in on getting the gateway just perfect. While the gateway was able to locate a general grouping of the frequencies associated with Diana and Bruce's disappearance it just couldn't get the exact location down. Zatanna and Doctor Fate used their connection to the ether to narrow it down further. Once it was completed a small group looked toward it, and most of them noticed right away that the gateway looked almost like a pool of water standing upright. Wally was the first to say something about it.

"So, anyone else feeling all Stargatey about this?"

Shayera groaned, "Really? You're going to joke right now?"

Wally shrugged his shoulders, "Not much else I can do until we decide to try it out. Honestly, I'm a little worried about crossing over into this thing. We don't know much about it, not really, and we don't have Kurt Russell here to lead us through it."

John rolled his eyes, "Wally, I can promise you that whatever is over there Batman has it under control. We don't need SG-1."

Shayera groaned at his answer, "That's it, no more sci-fi weekends for the two of you."

Clark ignored them as he looked at it, studied it, and knew that there was no telling what would happen the moment they stepped through. He was somewhat relieved that both Power Girl and Nightwing had agreed to take over some of the duties for the league in Diana and Bruce's absence. Having the two of them there to help tighten the slack made the choice of going through the portal even easier. Once more he looked at it, considered what could happen, and knew that regardless his friends needed help. He believed that stepping through this portal wouldn't be a one way trip, but he had no idea of what could exist on the other end. He looked at those coming with him. John, Shreya, and Wally stood ready. The four of them walked toward the portal, and then they stepped through it.

He felt sick, exceptionally so, and it rippled through his entire body. It felt like he was being stretched beyond what should have been impossible. Everything grew bright for a moment before the group stepped out. The first sounds he heard was someone gasping, and then retching. He tried to pin it down, and then he realized that the one who was doing it was him. He was on his knees, silently begging God to let this pass quickly. Normally teleportation didn't bother him, so the only thing he could think of was Magic. He stood, and looked at the others. All of them looked okay, but they all looked younger. He looked at his own hands and realized that he looked younger as well.

"Woah, anyone else notice this?" Wally asked.

There was a sound, and the four of them noticed a group three girls walking toward them, "My, I believe that something interesting has just fallen into our world."

Clark looked at them, especially the one speaking, and noticed that their skin tones were different. One was a robin's eggshell blue, Another was a light purple, and the one speaking was close to flesh tone, but off, almost like it was flesh tone mixed with gold. All of them had hair styles that ranged from the eighties right up to the last decade. And he hated to admit it, but every last one of them oozed sexuality.

"Dagi, he's cute, can we keep him?"

"Ugh, Sonata, stop being the worst."

Sonata, the robin's eggshell blue one, looked toward the light purple one, "I'm not the worst Aria! 'Sides I saw you checking him out too!"

Aria rolled her eyes, her hand going through one of her oversized dark and light purple pig tails, "Checking him doesn't mean taking him home."

Finally, 'Dagi, growled, "Enough!" she looked at Clark, and the others, "You'll have to forgive them, they're idiots."

She circled them something like a predator circling prey, "Funny, I don't sense magic on any of you. Oh, great power to be sure, but no magic. That's a shame."

"Adagio, it's not like we could do anything about it. We don't even have our pendants anymore."

"Shut up," Adagio growled as she grabbed Aria by her tube top, "They don't need to know everything."

Having heard quite enough from the peanut gallery Shayera stepped forward. She walked toward the obvious leader, and did the one thing she knew would be sure to get attention. She grabbed her shoulder, and shoved her into the wall, "We're looking for someone, we want to know if anyone appeared, like us, and where they are."

The girl glared at Shayera, and without any hesitation at all she opened her mouth. The sound that came out was soft, soothing, calming, and Shayera felt herself swaying. She felt the girl touch her shoulder and she fell to the floor.

"That'll teach her to shove a siren!" Aria shouted.

"Idiot! They don't need to know everything!"

This time a green bubble formed around both Adagio and Aria. Adagio opened her mouth, but the sound didn't get past the bubble. John looked toward the blue one standing off to the side.

"So, want to answer our simple questions?"

She rubbed her foot, "Umm, We didn't see anyone, but you really need to check with Sunset Shimmer. Her, and her friends, are the ones that's really going to know. Could you let my sisters down now? We were just playing, honest."

He looked at Shayera, relieved that she seemed to be coming out of it, and nodded. He released them and they looked at Sonata.

"Okay, officially we both owe you," Adagio said, "Like my little sister said check with Sunset and her friends. If anyone is going to know, it's going to be them."

The three of them headed into the building, and John heard the sound of a throat clearing. He looked at a dark blue woman, who had a lighter shade hair, tapping her foot.

"While I see no problem with dressing up in costumes, this is a school, and I am going to suppose that the lot of you are new students. Please, come inside, and we will get you registered."

*****Castle of the Two Sisters*****

Diana awoke to find Bruce missing. That wasn't an uncommon occurrence. All too often he would disappear from their bed, and she would find him down in the cave, or there would be a notification on her comms from him. She sat on the bed itself, amazed at the softness of something that was supposed to be well over a thousand years old, and slowly she got off of it. She drew the top sheet around her, unwilling to present her nude body to the world.

Before Luthor, before the brainwashing Grodd put her through, she had never been ashamed of her own skin. After suffering at Luthor's hands her modesty had become far greater. She was only nude in bed, in the shower, and occasionally when she prayed to one of her goddesses. Knowing that Hades was nearby made her wonder if the other gods and goddesses were as well. She decided that at some point she would have to construct a small shrine toward Hera and ask her to help watch over those they were freeing.

She found her armor, slipped it on, and walked out of the room she shared with Bruce. She looked Luna who seemed to be lost deep in thought.

"Luna, is everything okay?"

Luna turned toward her, a faint smile on her lips, "I believe so. Fair Fluttershy has convinced one of the cockatrices to free Discord from his stone imprisonment," she then looked around her, "This castle holds many secrets, and unfortunately it also holds the remnants of our last war. I do not blame Celestia for seeking out peace, but I do believe she did so at a terrible cost. If our subjects had been taught to fight, to resist, I believe Equestria would never have fallen."

She laughed, it was a mirthless sounding one, and she looked toward where the library was, "Instead she allowed Twilight Sparkle to take on the duties of protecting Equestria. Do not misunderstand me, Twilight is indeed powerful, but and her friends, are only six ponies. Even counting her former student and there is merely seven. None of them were prepared for the Caribou."

She walked toward the library, leading Diana into it, "I heard my captors talking, how they were trying to overthrow the Shetland Isles, but those ponies weren't making it easy. The hard life there has made them strong."

Diana sighed, "My sisters have known nothing but peace for well over a millenia. But my mother has them constantly prepare. She prepares in case Man's world attempts to invade, or should the Titans rise once more. She has them prepare because she wishes for them to be ready when something should happen."

Luna nodded. She looked at the walls of books before her. Walking toward one she pulled it down, causing the bookshelf to move, and there she pulled something from behind it. Diana could see a painting of Luna, and another like her, but she was white. The both of them were dressed in heavy armor, and they looked pleased with themselves.

"This was after we managed to stop King Sombra from attempting to spread his influence out to the rest of the world," she touched the picture, "He was not always a terrible tyrant, and at one time he was a true friend, but unfortunately his queen took ill."

She looked at Diana, "I cannot say that I blame him for what he did. He risked everything to save her. He even dove into the most tainted of black magic. It warped him, drove him insane, and he decided the only way to save his beloved queen was to take all that she was and trap her in a ruby pendant."

Luna pointed toward the small golden pendant that Celestia held in the painting, "We could not bare to destroy her, so instead we hid her away."

Diana moved toward her, "I mean no disrespect, but what does this have to do with what's happening?"

Luna looked at the ground, "To defeat Sombra I had to use dark magic, and that placed a stain on me. It festered imagined slights toward mine sister. We became a dark harbinger of death and destruction. If not for the elements we would have succeeded," Luna looked at Diana, "Yet, if Celestia would have kept our armies, trained them, kept them ready, then many of the enemies we had faced would have been slowed down, if not stopped completely, before Twilight could respond. She placed too much onto the shoulders of Twilight Sparkle, and when she fell it meant the fall of all of Equestria."

Diana touched her shoulder, "You blame yourself, don't you?"

Luna looked away, but nodded, "Yes. It is our fault. We...I was the one in charge of our armies. I trained them, kept them ready, and Celestia handled the image of our rule. While she would never admit it, I know she considered my role to be more paultry than her own. Yet, all the while I ensured that our great land was free.

*****Froggy Bottom Bog - Near the Hydra's Nest*****

It wasn't supposed to be like this. He had managed to get one of the former protectors of Equestria away from her owner, took her out here, and had planned on enjoying every hole she had. It was meant to be perfect. He'd have her, enjoy her, and then let the others find her. She wouldn't be believed, and he would have gotten away with what he wanted.

Instead he was looking up in fear at the thing standing before him. The attacks had come hard and fast. He hadn't been prepared, and then his antlers. That thing cut off his antlers like he was some whorish female! Whatever he used to tie him to the tree was more than strong enough to keep him there. He watched as that creature neared his desired prize. She shrank away from his touch.

"Please, this mare will let you do what you want, but please don't beat her."

"No one is going to beat anyone. I am however going to take you somewhere safe."

"Safe?"

He nodded, "Yes, safe. I plan on taking you somewhere that is safe," he looked toward the captured Caribou, "Is there anything here that could harm him?"

She looked at him, and then her ears began to flop forward and backward, followed by a twitch in her tail, and finally her hooves began to tap rapidly.

"Oh, there's a Hydra that should pop up in a few moments and it will eat him."

Bruce looked at the Caribou, walked toward him, and slipped something onto his hand. The Caribou looked down and away from him. Whatever this thing was, it obviously was on the side of the mares. Still, he was a male, he was a Caribou, and it was his duty to inform this strange creature that it would face the entire might of the Caribou army if it continued to help mares.

"My brothers will come for you. They will find you, and they will turn you into a mare then they will rape you into submission."

Bruce's response was to him using the electric knuckles he had slipped onto his hand. Seeing that the Caribou was out cold he untied him from the stump, re-tied his hands behind his back, and then lifted him up over his shoulder.

"You're saving him?"

He grinned, "I wouldn't call it an act of mercy. We need more information, and besides I'm certain that he's going to be questioned fairly harshly."

She followed him, and like the other mares she could tell that he was stallion, granted a strange one, but a stallion all the same. In truth he kind of was dressed like the characters in Spike's old comic books. She still remembered going into the Power Ponies Universe, and when they had the costumes they wore weren't that different. Still, the fact that he wasn't trying to have his way with her made her curious.

Even good stallions were kinda affected by the Caribou's magic. Seeing a stallion that wasn't affected wasn't just different, it was hopeful. As she walked her straight mane began to fluff and curl slightly. Bruce took notice of this, seeing how it seemed to be completely random. The three of them cut through the forest, heading past Sweet Apples Acres, and finally toward the Everfree Forest.

She stopped as they began to enter. It made some sense now. Something in the Everfree had caused this. She wasn't sure how she knew, then again she didn't understand how she knew about the things she did, but she knew that the Everfree itself had a hand in getting them help. She half followed, half led them to the aging castle, and when the gates opened she saw somepony she never expected to see free.

Bruce watched as her hair went from getting a little curly to becoming completely curly and full of life. She ran directly toward Fluttershy, wrapped her into a hug, and just continued to hold her. He then looked at the cockatrice that was glaring at the statue. At first it looked like nothing at all was happening, and then slowly color began to return to the statue. He watched as it began to move, and finally there was a groan.

"Well, that was boring."

*****Canterlot High - Gym*****

Sunset stood there, astounded at what she heard, and then the proof added on top of it nearly blew her mind. She knew that the possibility of alternate dimensions certainly existed, but most of them were simply variations of Equus. Even here, on 'Earth' it was just a variation of her home world, but from what these four were telling her they came from a world that was full of humans, but magic was real, super heroes existed, and it basically sounded like something straight from Cell Shade's comics.

She honestly almost expected to see Mistress Marevelous with them. Instead she took a breath, closed her eyes, slowly counted to ten, and then sighed.

"I'm not sure where your friends ended up. Starswirl the Bearded theorized that there was alternate universes, and if your magic users helped narrow it down to here then it's got to be a world connected to this one, or like it. If it is connected then there's a gateway to it, but if it isn't then we might have to go through that gateway anyway."

Clark held his hand up for a moment. It was obvious that he had a question and she nodded.

"Why would we have to go through the gateway?"

She shrugged, "Well because the magic here isn't like it is back home, and the person to really ask would be Twilight, well the Twilight from that world. I would write and ask her, but she hasn't wrote back to me in a long time. The last thing she wrote was that she was sorry, and she was hiding the book."

John groaned and shook his head, "Okay, ignoring the fact that it's obviously a very bad sign that your friend sent that message, how do we access the gateway?"

She walked with them, toward the front of the school, and once there she looked at the remains of what was once the Wonder Colt's Statue. The Bronco that had represented their school mascot had been destroyed nearly two years ago by their Twilight, but the base of the statue still held the portal itself.

"It's here, It should be open right now. I'm not sure why, but it kind of went back to the way it used to be."

"What does that mean?" Shayera asked as she crossed her arms.

"Well, Twilight had fixed it so that the portal could be accessed all of the time, but now it only works every thirty days. I haven't went through, mainly because I'm a little worried about what might have happened."

Clark looked at it, then at the others, "Okay, it's okay, We'll go through, and we'll do what we can to help, and hopefully find our friends."

Sunset swallowed back her nervousness, "I'll come with you. I… I feel like maybe I should."

She walked through with them, and once they were through the portal a few things became incredibly apparent. One, they were inside some closed off room, and two none of them looked like they had looked.

"Woah… Okay guys, I know that this is going to make me seem like a total dork here, but does anyone else think that we look kind of like the beast folk from Dungeons and Dragons?"

Clark looked at Wally who was still in his costume, but his face had been stretched out to look like a muzzle. He wasn't sure, but it looked like anywhere his skin had been was now covered with a layer of a light orange fur. He turned toward Shayera and noticed the same for her, John was in the same boat, but his fur seemed to match his skin tone a bit more. In truth Clark was worried about what his own skin tone would look like. He was worried until he noticed the swell of Shayera's breasts. The fullness of her hips. He shook his head, trying to clear the thoughts.

"Ngh.."

He turned to look at Sunset who looked older, but was bent forward, her hand resting on her stomach. Suddenly a bright and blinding light covered them and how he had been feeling a moment ago simply disappeared.

"Oh… Oh Celestia… If that's what was happening to Twilight…"

Clark looked at the walls, and then through them. He might not be Bruce, but he certainly knew enough to know the after effects of an invasion when he saw one. He looked back at Sunset.

"The women here, they normally wear clothes right?"

She nodded.

"Yeah, why?"

Clark sighed, "I think that this isn't the place you remember anymore."