Justice:

A Reclaiming Equestria Story Featuring DCAU Batman and Woman Woman

Chapter Five: Rebels

*****Castle of Friendship - Sealed Room*****

Everyone quieted down as Clark listened through the crystal of the castle to the conversations outside. Most of what he heard was the sounds of women, or mares rather, being beaten, raped, and beaten again. But then after a few minutes he head the excited voice crying out for the Warden. He listened as hooves, which that still freaked him out, pounded against the crystal floor and made it to the main floor itself.

"Sir Spike! The guards you sent to retrieve the Discord Statue, they're dead! All of them!"

The sounds of wet slapping stopped, and next there was the sound of heavy footfalls. Those sounds neared the voice of the one calling out.

"What do you mean they're all dead?"

The silence was deafening, but it lasted for less than a second before the entire wall in front of them shook.

"EXPLAIN!"

Everyone backed up as they heard that.

"YOU WORTHLESS WRETCH! EXPLAIN NOW!"

The voice was roaring, actually roaring. The entire wall shook again, for a brief moment, before there was a solid thump against it. It became quiet again, but Clark could still hear what was going on. He didn't dare stop listening to the voice that had been roaring a few moments ago.

"You were supposed to lead that group, weren't you?"

"I… Sir Spike please…"

There was another thump against the wall.

"You were supposed to lead it, and I had given you some Timber Wolf Bane. Did you even consider giving that to them before sending them out?"

There was whimpering and another thump.

"Guards, change this worthless hump of flesh into a Doe. Strap her down, and put a belt on protecting her vagina," the voice became harsh, raspy, "Because she's going to pay with her ass. She's going to pay long and hard with her ass right to the point of it breaking. And then I'm going have it healed only to have her pay again, and again, and again."

"NO! PLEASE!"

The footfalls began to sound as if they were heading away, and Clark could hear the sound of kicking, scraping, and then a male voice rising in octive until it sounded like a female's voice.

"Come on Cunt! Your new master wants your ass!"

There was a wicked laugh, "He didn't say we couldn't enjoy that ass beforehand. Hold her down."

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

Diana had seen the kind of anger, no unadulterated rage, the create known as Discord was showing. She'd seen it on Bruce's face after he discovered what Luthor had done. She'd seen it when he went to Luthor Towers and nearly beaten him to death. She also watched as Fluttershy gently talked to him, trying to reign in his rage at those who had hurt her. She gathered that the Pegasus wasn't telling him to not be angry, but to not attack everypony, to keep from hurting ponies that are only acting the way they are because of the Caribou Magic.

She watched and she realized how closely it mirrored what had happened between her and Bruce. How she had managed to keep Bruce from stepping over that last line. It had been an important moment for the both of them. Bruce had already brought her back, restored her memory, helped her realize who and what she was, but at that moment the both of them truly understood each other.

She hoped that the same would happen for the two she was watching. That the self proclaimed master of chaos and this kind pegasus would have the same moment together. She looked at Bruce who was working with something. She walked toward him and realized that he was putting together what looked like a small metal foundry. She watched as he checked everything, and then watched him get a small fire going. Once that was done placed what looked like a very old looking ceramic cup onto a holder. He then slowly moved the holder into the small furnace. The old stone seemed to be holding it well enough, and he seemed to have it ventilated outside through a series of circular stone tubes that seemed to lead directly outside. He opened the furnace once more, pulled the ceramic cup's holder out, and then he began dropping in small pieces of metal that looked like it had come from the broken material of the Caribou's weapons.

"Bruce?"

He looked toward her, "I'm getting low on weapons."

She grinned as she walked toward him, "I didn't know you knew how to work a forge."

He grinned, "While I was training I found an old iron worker that took me on as an apprentice. He basically took ruined weapons left over from World War II, melted them down, and turned them into tools and useful things for the people that lived around him. He taught me how to build a furnace from basic materials," he looked at her, "And you haven't been with me when I've had to Austrilia in order to stop a shipment of snakes specifically bred to attack only humans."

"One of your enemies?"

He nodded, "Pamela Isley. She was using nature to fight her battles."

The smell of the furnace drifted slightly, and Diana could smell the metal inside. It reminded her of Themyscira, how her sisters would often do metalworking when needing a new tool, hinges, or something else that required fresh metal to craft it. The difference was that this had a heavy smell. She'd been around some of the forges before, and she had smelled when they were melting and mixing metals. This smelled like it was just pure iron. She watched as Bruce sniffed the air as well. He opened his belt and took out what looked like a small collection of little tiny metal marbles. He opened the furnace, pulled the cup back out, and dropped in about three of the marbles. He pushed it back inside, waited for a few moments, and then pulled it out again only to stir it with a broken blade that was sitting near him.

He pushed it back inside and shook his head, "No wonder their weapons broke. It looks like they made them from unrefined iron."

*****Castle of Friendship - Hall outside of the sealed room*****

Shayera grinned as she finished ripping through the magical veil that was sealing the room from the rest of the castle. She wasn't one to say much, but the design of the castle seemed almost as if the crystal had naturally grown into place. She glanced toward Superman and noticed how he seemed to be in awe of the building itself. He walked toward one of the walls and touched it. Before she could make a joke about how perhaps he should consider taking the wall and getting a room with it someone shouted. She looked toward the one shouting and saw what looked like reindeer wearing a loin cloth. He stormed toward them.

"What are these two cunts doing dressed and uncollared?!"

He reached forward and grabbed Shayera's blouse, ripping it down the front, and tearing her blouse and sports bra completely off. John was about to do something, but she beat him to it. Her mace connected with the reindeer's head, causing it to go flying into the wall. The sound echoed through the castle. The sound of running hooves filled it, and group looked at each other. Without question, or thought, John created a bubble around them with his ring, and then flew toward the end of the hall.

There was much about this world he didn't know, understand, or most likely could really come to grips with, but there was one thing he was certain had to exist here. And that was that if an object was moving at a fast enough speed, and was hard enough, it could punch through anything. He ignored the various brightly colored bolts of energy flying toward them, and instead the bubble burst through the side of the castle leaving a huge hole in its wake. He had absolutely no idea where to fly, or he didn't until someone poked his side. He looked toward the girl, the unicorn, that had came with them from her world.

"That down there is the Everfree forest. I don't know what's going on, but I know that most ponies don't go in there. They think it's too dangerous."

With that endorsement he flew down toward the forest and the moment they were on the ground he destroyed the bubble they were in. Unknown to them eyes had seen their landing. Shayera took the remains of her blouse, wrapped it around herself, and created a mock tube top. It was certainly better than letting the girls just hang out. She looked at their guest.

"Do you have any idea of what's going on?"

The unicorn shook her head, "No, this isn't the home I know. I'm not sure what happened, but I can only guess those reindeer looking guys caused it."

"Not to be that guy, but we really need to find someplace to get to. I've got a feeling that our new friends are going to searching for us pretty soon."

Shayera nodded. Wally had a point.

"Any suggestions?"

She started to step when something exploded nearby. She looked around, uncertain of what it was that blew up. Off in the distance was a hooded figure. She growled, but Clark held his hand out.

"We're not here to fight. We just escaped a group of beings back in that village. We're searching for a couple of friends of ours."

"Yeah, one of them dresses like a bat, doesn't really smile…."

"I know of the two of whom you speak, but to me your story does reek."

Shayera stepped forward, "Look, they don't look like us. We don't normally look like us. We came through some portal, it changed us, now, have you seen them or not?"

The figure moved slightly closer, "Wait here, and do not move, I shall bring one back and then your story we will prove."

With that she took off.

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

Zecora neared the castle. Normally she didn't wander too far from her home, but if what those strangers said was true then it was important to find the ones with Princess Luna, and if what they said wasn't true then it was still important for obvious other reasons. She moved into the castle, seeing Discord sitting down, holding Fluttershy, his face buried somewhere in her shoulder. She didn't know, nor was she here to ask. Instead she spotted Princess Luna who seemed to be discussing something with her two guests. She moved toward them only to have a pink blur jump out and tackle her to the ground.

"Hiya Zecora!"

"Pinkie Pie, it is you. While it is good to see you, and that is true, I have news I must tell, please let me up, or I fear the news I must yell."

"Okie Dokie Loki!"

Zecora smiled at her, moved toward the Princess, and gave a slight bow. She then began to fill them in on the ponies she saw, describing their clothing, and Diana's eyes widened.

"Are they still there?"

Zecora nodded.

Bruce looked at furnace, pulled out the cup, and poured its contents into what looked like little bat shaped holes in a small collection of stones.

"Let's go get them, and hopefully make sure that Clark doesn't fall under whatever magic the Caribou are using."

Zecora lead them toward where the group was, and Bruce looked at what stood there. Instead of most of the founding members in their normal forms he saw them in the forms of the ponies here. When Clark began to talk he noticed right away that it wasn't in English, but rather Equestrian like everyone else talked. He closed his eyes, pinched his nose, and said the one thing that came to his mind.

"I hate magic."

The group moved, heading back toward the new base, and along the way they began to fill each other in on what had been happening. Clark explained how they went to looking for both Bruce and Diana. He went on to describe how they tried every possible frequency for the universes, and finally with the help of Dr. Fate and Zatanna they were able to get to a parallel world where they found Sunset Shimmer who led them over.

As he filled Bruce in on what happened Sunset talked animatedly to Princess Luna. Luna was more than happy to converse with her, and she learned that part of Sunset's familiarity with her was due to her double on the world Sunset had went to.

"I am an educator there?"

Sunset shrugged her shoulders, "Eh, more like an administrator," she said as she tried to scratch her back, "Wow, something is bothering me."

Luna stopped, looked at her, and then smiled softly, "Tell me, before coming here, did you do something you never believed possible. Channel magic in a way that shouldn't have worked. Perhaps fixed or created a new spell that went beyond your understanding?"

She nodded, "Yeah, the Friendship games, I took the girls' power and…"

She reached back, and then looked at Luna.

"What… What's going on?"

Luna removed the necklace with the geode she had gotten from Camp Everfree. Once she did Sunset let out a scream as she fell forward. A blinding orange light covered her. It became nearly as bright as the sun itself, and it all but blinded those around it. Finally a shaky breathed Sunset stood. She groaned and stretched out her wings. Her eyes widened as she looked over her shoulder to see her wings.

"I..What?!"

Luna smiled at her, "You've achieved something no other pony could do. You saved those close to you, and you mastered a magic never before seen by pony kind. Sunset Shimmer, you have ascended."

She flapped her wings, which was admittedly awkward, and gained about a foot of lift before falling. She looked back at Luna, her eyes wide with uncertainty.

"I don't deserve this. Seriously, I really don't deserve it!"

Luna touched her shoulder, "The fact that you have ascended speaks different. Were things different I am certain that there would be a celebration, a grand ball or gala perhaps, and then the official coronation would take place. Unfortunately that cannot take place until we've removed the Caribou from our lands."

Sunset swallowed what she was feeling and looked at Luna, "What about Twilight, and Princess Celestia?"

Luna shook her head, "Princess Twilight has fallen to the control of the Caribou. We intend on freeing her, and the rest of the heroes of Equestria, and mine sister has fallen as well. I pray that she is able to be saved. I will not say that she gave in too easily, but she made compromises with Dainn, trying to please him, and she did it for the safety of her subjects. Each compromise came with a new humiliation," Luna looked at the ground, "The last we, I, saw of my sister she was strapped to our breakfast table, crying out like a foal while Dainn allowed two minotaurs to ravish her. It was not her fault, and I would never believe it to be so, but I feel that her need to see the best in everypony is part of what allowed this."

Sunset looked toward darkened canopy of the trees. She knew that Princess Celestia tried to see the good in everypony, in fact that was one of her core lessons, but she couldn't believe her old mentor had fallen so far. She had studied every writing about how Celestia had worked to protect her ponies. She even read the myths and legends about how a knight from another world, a different realm, had been called to this world by Celestia. It had seemed far fetched before, but looking at the two humans in the group perhaps it wasn't as far fetched as she believed.

The old myth claimed that the knight helped fight a tyrant with Celestia, but so much of the text had nearly been ruined by age. She knew only that he went by Grayspear, he was married to Celestia, and that he died after the thirtieth Summer Sun Celebration. She wasn't sure what brought the two humans into this world, but she could tell that whatever it had been worked exceptionally hard to make them compatible for this world.

Once the group began to move again, and a few questions were answered as to what happened, it didn't take long to reach the castle. Sunset stood outside and looked at it. She'd read about it, heard about it, but she never imagined that she would actually see Celestia's old home. She walked into the castle, and there she saw Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, her brother… She looked toward the others that looked surprised. Before anyone could say a thing Bruce ran forward his teeth bared. He studied the large red male. He was obviously strong, perhaps more so than Bane, and there wasn't any obvious weaknesses. He was about to attack when the god of Chaos they'd rescued moved between them.

"Now, now, per Fluttershy's suggestion I reached out and felt for somepony that wasn't affected by the magic the Caribou use. Low and behold I found the pairs, er.. Apples seemingly unaffected."

"Princess, not that Ah ain't glad ta see ya got yer magic back, but what in tarnation is going on here?!"

Princess Luna smiled, Fair Applejack, there is much I will tell you, and much we must discuss, but before we do I believe we need to discuss a plan."

The group gathered near Bruce's foundry. He picked up one of the new bat-a-rangs and tested it.

"Our guests down in the dungeon explained the strengths and weaknesses of the patrols they use. He also went ahead and explained where the most prized prisoners are," Bruce said as he pointed at a few blocks he'd sat up to symbolize the local village, "Here at their castle is where one of the Princesses, and a hero to Equestria are at. From what I understand both are heavily guarded by the Caribou," he then pointed toward another building, "This is Sugarcube Corner. Apparently its owner is under suspicion of being a sympathizer. He currently only has three females in his home, but they were planning on running a check to see if his prisoners were acting accordingly."

"Mr. Cake isn't one of them, not completely, I mean he likes to do things to Mrs Cake, but that's 'cause they really like each other. But he tried to convince them to leave me there, but they wouldn't. I know that he got Flitter though."

Sunset looked at her friend, or at least her friend's double, and she felt better. She was relieved that her friends were here. At least that ponies that were like her friends were here. She decided to stop thinking about it as Bruce explained the plan of action. She followed along, listening as he said the first step would be in finding those who were unaffected, and then bringing them back here. The next step would be to see if the Lasso of truth could be used to break the magical hold the Caribou's magic had on the citizens there. If it could, then they would start freeing them as soon as possible.

"You know, I could make it far easier and get all of the ponies here, and then make it rain boiling hot chocolate down on the Caribou. Boiling hot chocolate that will never cool no matter what they do with it. Oh, I could so use Pinkie Pie's bubble gum hot chocolate recipe, that way it will stick to them!"

"Is he serious?"

Discord turned to the dark chocolate colored Earth Pony. He leaned toward him, "Of course I'm serious. They hurt Fluttershy, and it's only fair that I hurt them in return."

John shook his head, "No, that's not the way we need to do things."

Shayera shook her head, "John, we don't have the moral high ground here."

He looked like he was going to argue, but she raised her hand, "We might not have went as far as the Justice Lords, but we've done things, some questionable things, that I know none of us are proud of."

Discord looked at Luna who shook her head, "It is amusing, but would you want their suffering to equate to just this? We have a chance to undo their entire society. Not to mention, I am quite certain that Celestia and I would be more than happy to turn their home over to you."

Discord grinned as he rubbed his claw and lion's paw together.

"Then what is the plan?"

Bruce looked at him, "We begin getting those out that are unaffected, then we move on to freeing others," he looked at Clark, "Is the portal connection to our universe still open?"

Clark nodded, "It should be."

Bruce nodded, "Good, I doubt it, but if needed we'll contact more of the league. We'll leave after sunset."

Having a time set, and knowing there was time to kill, Sunset began wandering the halls of the castle. She found herself in a place that she was certain Twilight would have had a massive joygasm, as Pinkie called them, the moment saw it. The walls were lined with books, and not just any books, but ancient tomes that had been collected together for Celestia and Luna when they lived here. She walked through it and slowly she saw something in the corner of her eye. She neared it and picked it up.

It had been years since she held an actual Power Ponies comic. Back when she was Celestia's personal student she would occasionally get one and breeze through it. The Power Ponies were a nearly unstoppable force, and she enjoyed their adventures. It was strange to see on in here, but she flipped it open. The moment she did she noticed that it looked like there was some foals that reminded her of some of the younger classmen back at Canterlot High.

She looked at the pages, really trying to figure it out, and then she felt it. It was an enchantment, something similar to Haycart's theory, but done to give a longer lasting effect. That's when she remembered Cell Shade. He was the creator of the Power Ponies, and it was rumored that he created an advanced enchantment on some of his comics that took Haycart's theory and pushed it to the very limits.

If that was the case, then those girls inside of the comic might actually be there. She'd have to wait to talk about it, but she gently put it back down, figuring that someone, possibly Spike, had put it there for safekeeping. And if that was the case then she wanted it remain safe. She wasn't sure of the time, but she began walking back toward the main hall, and as she did she listened to the sound of the castle around her.

It was certainly ancient, and she could hear some of the stones shifting. She wasn't sure, but if this was to become the Rebel Alliance then they would need to fix it up a bit. She wanted to laugh as she realized the Star Wars' pun she'd used. Rainbow would have already pointed out that she was a dork, Pinkie would have offhandedly mentioned that she thought that Episode VI was the best one, so why couldn't she do an Ewok pun.

She was certain that Fluttershy would have agreed with her, but mainly because she adored the Ewoks. She had a feeling that Fluttershy would adopt Wicket and his entire village if they were actually real. She shook her head as she walked. Who was to say that they weren't. The multiverse theory seemed to be true, at least as far as she could see, and if that was the case then who was to say that the Star Wars Universe wasn't real? She did wonder if it existed in other Universes. She decided that she would ask the ponies, well people, she came through with later.

She neared the main hall and everyone getting ready.

"Shayera, I'm assuming that your mace still works against magic?"

She nodded, "It does. Do I need to take Point?"

Bruce nodded, "It would be a good idea. Lantern, provide backup. Diana and I will run interference. Clark, you and Wally do what you can to get as many of the unaffected out as possible."

"What about us?"

He looked at Sunset.

"This isn't a walk in the park."

She glared at him, "I've done dangerous stuff before, and besides, I want to try to help and save my friend."

He stopped what he was doing, "And we are going to try and do that. But we can't afford to be emotional about this. It needs to be clean, quick, and efficient. If any of us are too emotional we run the risk of the mission failing, someone getting hurt, or causing unnecessary harm to those we're trying to save."

"You can't just leave me here!"

Sunset didn't see his hand move, but she heard something. She looked down to see a small round ball. It stopped near her, and a faint yellow gas shot out of it. She coughed for a moment before she fell back. Before she hit Wally caught her.

"Bats, I don't mean anything, but she might have been some help."

Bruce glared at him.

"Okay, shutting up."