OK everyone, I am so sorry it took me a while to update this, I was in a rut as to how to proceed with the next chapter. But I think this final product was a job well done on my part :) Now, I just want to thank all of you guys for the support for this story, all the love you've given it and all your feedback, it means a lot and it's greatly appreciated.
Now I give you, a "Thor-ed" up Wonder Woman. Enjoy :) and I don't own anything.
Chapter 11: For Themyscera
This was NOT how Hades envisioned his conquest happening.
With an enraged war cry, Diana flew quickly at the God of the Underworld, slamming Mjolnir into his face. Instantly, lightning sparked and crackled from the hammer upon impact as Diana's blow sent Hades flying into the cavern wall. Immediately after she heard the impact, Diana raised Mjolnir into the air, instantly summoning the power of lightning down from above, the celestial blasts consuming the infernal hordes that besieged her sisters and mother, slaying them instantly. The creatures that were still coming out of the gateway saw this and instantly knew new fear, turning on their tails and making to return back into the Underworld.
"COME BACK HERE, YOU COWARDS!" the lord of Tartarus yelled after them, but to no avail; after seeing the new celestial might that Wonder Woman possessed with this hammer, they suddenly saw that the Underworld wasn't the worst place to be.
"Very well, then," Hades snarled as his hands began burning with infernal fires. "I will simply have to deal with you myself, Diana. Do not think that this newfound power of yours can help you match my own strength and-"
BOOM!
With an echoing hit, Thor landed a powerful axe kick out of nowhere, slamming the Greek deity into the ground.
"Do not doubt the might of Mjolnir, Hades," Thor snarled as he picked him up by the hair, then slamming him back into the ground. "The might of Asgard has felled many enemies."
"Sisters!" Diana cried with passionate confidence and spirit. "We can still win, yet! To the gates of Tartarus, my sisters! Drive the remainder of the creatures back! Let no others pass through!"
"Remember what I have taught you, Amazons!" Thor cried out to them. "Remember the formations! We shall deal with Hades! FOR MIDGARD!"
With a roar of battle, the Amazon army, led by Hippolyta and Philippus, charged towards the gates to the Underworld, beating the remaining infernal creatures back, ready to defend the gateway once again and ensure their victory.
Suddenly, Thor was blasted by the flames of Hades, sending him back a few dozen feet. "You think you two can best the God of the Underworld?!" he roared, his eyes blazing with fury and fire. "You are nothing to me, do you hear me!? I HAVE POWER THAT RIVALS THAT OF ZEUS! ALL LIFE ENDS WITH ME! I AM-
"WOULD YOU SHUT THE F*** UP?!" Diana yelled as she landed a devastating hit with Mjolnir against his face, effectively shattering his helmet and sending him flying into the cavern ceiling. With a massive jump, Thor followed and as Hades came crashing down, the Asgardian met him with a powerful knee to the face.
"Wonder Woman," Thor mused as the two gods landed-the Asgardian on his feet, the Olympian on his face. "Such words do not beget a princess." He smirked as he looked at her.
"Most princesses don't have a dark and broody bat as a lover, or know the Flash," she replied with her own smirk, enticing a laugh from Thor. "Thor…your hammer-"
"It would appear that Mjolnir found worth in your determination and unshakable resolve to defend this realm, your undying love for these people," Thor replied. "There is great honor and value in such convictions, and worth as well; truly, Diana of Themyscera, you are a noble, honorable and worthy warrior, and a great ally."
"I…I thank you, Thor," Diana said, her pride swelling exponentially as her grip on Mjolnir tightened. "Those words mean much to me."
"Verily? Taking compliments from the man who almost destroyed your island, as you said?"
"Remember, I'm the one with the hammer now," she replied with a smirk.
"It isn't the weapon, Diana of Themyscera, but the warrior holding the weapon."
"AMAZON!" Hades roared with fury and infernal rage as he came out of the crater Thor had made with their collision. "YOU WILL SUFFER FOR YOUR ARROGANCE AND DEFIANCE! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOUR LITTLE PETS, STARTING WITH THE BATMAN! HE-"
Wonder Woman didn't get a chance to retaliate at the threat Hades made to her lover; Thor had simply lashed out with his powerful fist and landed a devastating uppercut on the Greek god's chin, then before he could fly off from the impact, he grabbed at his armor and flung him at Diana. "Wonder Woman, batter up!"
Instantly knowing what the Asgardian meant, and wondering how he knew such a phrase, Diana swung Mjolnir at the incoming Olympian, sending him flying across the cavern's length, into another wall.
"I wasn't sure you'd know what that meant," Thor smirked as the two warriors ran over to continue the fight.
"I'm surprised you know it at all," Diana replied with her own smirk. As they made their way over to Hades, she grabbed a nearby sword and flung it to Thor. "Here," she said as he caught it. "Arm yourself, since I have your weapon, and I don't plan on returning it anytime soon."
Hades was ready for them; as they ran over to once more engage him, he instantly unleashed a breath of scorching infernal fires, forcing them back out of surprise. Taking the advantage, he leaped at Diana and slammed her into the ground, using his foot to keep her hammer arm down. "The hammer may be mighty, Amazon, but even with its strength, you cannot hope to defeat me-"
"You have a problem, Hades," Thor roared as he jumped onto the god's back and thrust the sword into his back with his godly strength, enticing a roar of pain from the lord of the Underworld. "You seem to have a fixation on Wonder Woman; as such, you fail to notice everything else around you-especially me!" Thor continued his attack by punching the hilt of the blade, his incredible strength sending it further into Hades' body, as such that the blade burst out through his front. Diana took this opportunity to place a well-aimed kick at Hades' crotch.
Hades thought the pain couldn't get any worse before she did that.
Relishing the howling screams of pain Hades was now exhibiting, Diana squirmed her hammer arm out of under his leg and bashed his leg with it. Right afterwards, Thor grabbed his head and slammed it again into the ground, the impact sparking the birth of another crater. In a blind rage and infernal fury, Hades madly struck at the Amazon and the Asgardian, shooting fire at them from his mouth and his hands; but in his anger and hatred, he could not accurately hit them, and the two warriors took that to their advantage. They moved in perfect coordination and synergy, each landing blows and hits that were complimented by the other's actions. As warriors, they complimented each other perfectly.
Hades eventually got in a lucky hit; he blindly blasted more infernal fires and by sheer chance Diana was hit, stunned and caught off guard. She fell to the ground as Mjolnir fell from her hand, but she instantly got back up. Forgetting the hammer, she merely jumped at Hades, grabbing him in a choke hold and mercilessly punching him in the back near the wound Thor had created when he drove the blade into him.
"This is for killing the gate guards, you monster; this is for almost killing me and my mother and my other sisters! THIS IS FOR THE WORLD YOU WISH TO MERCILESSLY CONQUER!" she roared as she pushed him roughly onto the cavern ground and grabbed the hilt of the blade; without mercy or restraint, she drove the blade upwards along Hades' back. As the deity screamed in pain, Diana instinctively stretched out her hand, and Mjolnir returned to her. Stunned at how she did that, she nevertheless remembered the task at hand and slammed the hammer into the blade's hilt, driving it further into his body.
At that, Thor grabbed Hades and brought him up to his face. "Listen closely, Hades of the Underworld. You have been given a simple warning right now. What Wonder Woman and I have done to you, what we have done to your retreating armies…this pales in comparison to what will happen to you if you should chose and attempt to conquer this realm again in the future…at the hands of Diana of Themyscera." He tightened his hold on the god, and continued with a snarl, "THIS is what will happen to you by MY hands." Focusing every bit of his godly strength into his fist, Thor powerfully punched Hades in his stomach and followed up with a devastating snap kick into his face, sending him flying into the cavern ceiling.
"Diana-Mjolnir!" he yelled. Instantly knowing what the Asgardian meant, Diana threw the hammer at him, and Mjolnir once more returned to its master. Whirling his weapon, Thor flew after up to Hades as he began falling, and swung devastating blows at his face, and then aiming Mjolnir at him, he fired a mighty blast of lightning at his falling figure; the blade in Hades' body instantly caught the celestially electric charges and brutally coursed the pain through the Olympian's body. Normally, such attacks would be less than nothing to a God of Olympus, but this was celestial lightning and it could actually hurt the god…possibly any gods.
"HAVE AT THEEEE!" Thor roared as he slammed Mjolnir upon the back of Hades head the moment he impacted on the ground, the thunderous boom echoing powerfully through the gargantuan underground cavern.
"This…isn't…OVER!" Hades roared as he struggled to get up, his mouth, eyes & hands furiously ablaze with infernal flames. "I WILL take this world-"
"YOU WILL NOT!" Diana cried furiously as she powerfully kicked Hades in the jaw. "You are going back to the Underworld, as Zeus himself decreed millennia ago."
"You cannot…do this to me…I AM THE GREEK GOD OF THE DEAD AND THE UNDERWORLD!"
And suddenly, everything since his arrival to this realm made clear sense to Thor.
"And I," he snarled as he grabbed him by the throat, "am the Norse God of Thunder."
And suddenly, everything Diana learned about Thor made clear sense to her.
Hades could only sputter at those words. "Norse-?! What is this-?!"
"AMAZONS!" Thor roared. "Away from the portal, now!"
Heading his cry, Hippolyta did just that. "Come, sisters! Our victory is almost at hand!"
As the Amazons retreated from the gates to Tartarus, the retreating demons, skeletons and spirits saw this and assumed that this could be their opening to attack the realm of the living again. No sooner did they begin to charge, however, did Thor fling their lord and master at the portal, scattering them. The instant that they saw his brutalized condition at the hands of the Amazon and the Asgardian, they knew fear-something that the spawn of the Underworld had never experienced before. Instantly, they turned on their heels as ran in panic to return to their own realm.
"No!" Hades roared. "I AM HADES! I WILL NOT-" He never finished as Diana flew at him and snap-kicked him through the gates, returning him to Tartarus.
"No…"
"Now, Hades," Diana snarled as Thor came next to her. "You have and you SHALL stay in Tartarus. This world is not yours to rule." At those words, the two heroes looked to each other.
"Together?" Thor asked, stretching his hammer arm.
"Together," Wonder Woman replied, grabbing Mjolnir by the lower handle.
Both gripping Mjolnir, they aimed it at the gateway, ready to do what had to be done. Immediately, Mjolnir glowed as lightning crackled from its head in anticipation of the attack. As Hades roared in defiance, the Amazon and Asgardian struck.
"FOR THEMYSCERA AND FOR MIDGARD!"
With their unified cry, the hammer fired its lightning, a gargantuan blast of celestial electricity, at the entrance to the Underworld. The blast not only went through, sending Hades back hundreds of feet deeper into his kingdom, but it sealed the gates themselves, the doors slamming shut under the force of the lightning blast, the heat searing the entrance completely tight and off. The gates of Tartarus were finally closed once more.
The threat of Hades was gone.
"We…we won," Diana said, the shock evident in her voice. "We won."
For a good ten minutes, the Amazons and the Asgardian stood in silence. That is until…
"VICTORY, AMAZONS!" Thor cried out, his hammer in the air. "THE ENEMY HAS BEEN VANQUISHED, AND NOW, WE CELERATE WITH FEAST!"
Instantly, the Amazons cheered, thrusting their various weapons into the air also, cries of victory on their lips. Diana's cries were the loudest of them all, her sword and Lasso in both hands, both hands pumping into the air in victory.
"Thor," she began to say. "I don't…I don't know what we could've done if it were not for you helping us in the battle. I thank you, on behalf of Themyscera, the Amazons and the entire world, especially the Justice League."
"It was an honor, fair maiden of Themyscera. I-" Thor suddenly stopped, looking upwards…towards the direction of stairways that served as the entrance to the cavern.
"What is it?" Diana asked, surprised by his sudden change of air. She saw him tense up, gripping his hammer tightly.
"Magic…my hammer can sense it; above us on the surface, very powerful magic beings has appeared," Thor replied, anger slowly climbing into his voice. "And their essence is similar to that of Hades…and my own; it is godly in nature."
There was only one reason that would ever happen on Themyscera, Diana realized.
"Amazons," she cried out. "To the surface-others have arrived on Themyscera." At her words, the Amazons took their weapons and immediately went to the surface, followed by Hippolyta, Philippus, Diana, and Thor.
"My daughter," the Queen asked. "What is going on?"
"Thor has sensed the arrival of others with Hades' essence on Themyscera, Mother. We both know what that means."
"It appears Hades was right in a sense," Philippus interjected. "They did arrive too late."
Within five minutes, the entirety of the Amazon population and the Asgardian came out of the cavern, out of the palace and into the plaza of the palace, and were immediately greeted by a surprising sight, one that made everyone present-save Thor-gasp in reverence.
Before them all stood Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes, Morpheus and Hypnos, the pantheon of Olympus.
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Well now, what could Olympus' gods be doing on Themyscera? How do you think Thor will react to this? Tell me what you thought guys!
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Now, I'm working on the next chapter, and I'll try to have it up by next Monday (yes I'm quitting the twice weekly schedule). Also, check out my new Justice League FanFic, "Justice League Tomorrow," and my Avengers/X-Men FanFic, "The Return."
Until next time, readers :)