Raven finds Mala in the room they found in, still half-naked and curled up in a ball in the corner with a vacant stare in her eyes. She seems only vaguely aware of the world around her; she does however flinch as Raven appears in the doorway.
"Mala?" Raven asks, getting only another flinch from the woman, moving into the room over to her Mala seems to pull back. "It's me, I am not going to hurt you."
"Not again…" Mala whispers while shivering, Raven sighs slightly before drifting into the emotionless mode. She needs to detach herself before she sends forth her soul-self to wrap itself around Mala who only gives a quiet whimper of fear. While Raven's own eyes are a blazing white, seeing what has traumatized Mala so, her body keeps moving, picking up the black silhouette of Mala and carries her to the simple wooden bed before sitting down with Mala in her arms.
Unmoving they sit like this for several minutes, till Raven's soul-self slowly retreats back into her. For the first time the two women lock eyes without hostility between them, Mala as if she has awoken from a long terrible dream, Raven's eyes showing compassion for the woman in her arms.
"It's ok, let it out." Raven whispers, it starts with shaking, before the tears appear in Mala's eyes and the walls she had built us around herself over thousands of years come crashing down. Raven finds herself remembering when Zatanna had realized what had been done to her, so it doesn't come as a surprise that she is receiving a fierce hug while Mala cries her eyes out into her shoulder.
Raven stays with her until she has quieted down, having become increasingly aware of a sense of dread emanating from the direction where Hippolyta and the others are. Telekinetically she unclasps her cloak before wrapping Mala in it.
"He is back, isn't he?" Mala whispers fearfully.
"Maybe, I will have to go check." Raven replies. "Will you be ok?"
"I will." Mala says, Raven nods and stands up to put the larger woman onto the bed. "If its him… do me a favor." Raven looks at her in surprise at the request.
"What?"
"Make him suffer." Raven nods slightly before looking up sharply as she senses an emotional outburst from the direction.
"I will, stay safe." Raven says as she picks up Mala's sword and hands it to her, Mala nods as she grabs the sword firmly before Raven storms out of the door.
"Wenches!" Heracles roars while attempting to swat Diana away with his right hand while his left is slowly crushing Donna's throat. Cassandra is lying unmoving at the base of a pile of rocks, and Hippolyta has been lost beneath the waves of the sea.
Heracles had exploded from beneath the sand, covered in a huge bleeding wound from the impact of the ship adding to the wounds from the grueling fight with Diana, with a speed none of the Amazons had ever seen him move with, Hippolyta had been his first target, receiving a vicious backhand that sent her flying into the side of the beached carrier and into the sea. Cassandra, his half-sister, had by bad luck been his next victim, getting punched in the head, sending her crashing head first into the nearby rocks. More bad luck was to befall the women as Donna tried to engage him as he turned into a right handed punch, only to get caught by his left in a vice-like grip that causes her to black out.
"Fiend!" Diana shouts before aiming a kick at his right ribs, getting a growl of pain out of him, but because she has had to close the distance to deliver her attack, she is vulnerable to the fist that sends her to the ground.
"I… WILL… HAVE… YOU… ALL!" Heracles roars as he grabs, Donna's right leg, releasing her throat before using her as a club to beat Diana down between words. To Diana this is an ugly reminder of her fight against the alien; Mongul in Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
"PUT THEM DOWN!" Ravens roar has Heracles look up to see her fly towards him, transforming in mid air. The crazed giant of a man oddly enough just smiles before Raven slams into him, making him drop Donna on top of Diana.
Rolling backwards before getting up, he regards his new opponent that has placed herself between him and the two fallen. "You have no hope to match my strength."
"I don't need to." Raven replies as she draws her sword, igniting her form, the sand beneath her feet begins turning to glass in the heat that's been fueled by her anger.
"Bah!" Heracles sneers before charging with his arms spread wide, crossing the distance quickly. Raven teleports out of sight as the sand whips up, lowering the visibility to less than half an arm's length while burning at inhuman temperatures that creates a thin film of glass over his body.
"You cannot win." Heracles hears Raven's voice at his left before a burning pain trails diagonally across his back.
"Harlot! Face me honorably!" Heracles curses as he swats away at the sand-filled air around him.
"You are the last person here who can demand honorable combat!" The biting pain appears again across both of his tights. "But we are not you." She continues as the sand falls to the ground, revealing Heracles to have doubled back in the sandstorm to stand just before the waters edge and Raven to stand halfway between the water and the trees, sheathing her sword as her wings and horns disappear into her, as they would only be a hinderance. "Let's go." She says before she charges across the beach.
Heracles thinking she will try to bowl him over again spreads his legs and braces for impact with spread arms. Instead, Raven slides at the last moment in between his legs before rams her elbow into his left knee and rolling aside as he falls onto his back. Raven is quickly back up to dig the scallops on her armor into his chest, getting a roar of pain out for him, before he lands and heavy blow to her own ribs, sending her flying into the closest trees, breaking one apart in her fall. Both of them get up slowly staring at each other while taking stock of their own wounds, as if on a pre-agreed signal the two charge each other.
This time they collide, and begin their struggle. Raven dodging and weaving under Heracles' massive limbs that he swings at her like logs, while she keeps landing blows at the pressure points she can get to, but even in her enhanced form, it is like punching a mountain. Realizing that he will sooner or later land a blow on her, Raven switches tactics, instead of relying on her knuckles, she begins using the points of her fingers to claw away at him instead, quickly earning Heracles the look of one fighting a wild animal with a number of bleeding wounds. A minute passes without him landing a hit, while the number of scratches rises slowly before Raven is caught in a devastating attack that squashes her head between both of Heracles' fist before a second strike sends her to the ground. Raven's senses explode in light at the blow and her body goes numb for a second before she realizes Heracles is straddling her while slugging away at her head, each hit making her word explode in light.
"You fight well, but no woman can defeat me." Heracles spits, his own body at the point of exhaustion. "Hurk!" Again he is caught unaware as a woman charges forth from the jungle and impales him with her sword, before jumping back, leaving the blade sticking out from his chest and back.
"But we will fight you to the bitter end you filth!" Mala growls through clenched teeth, using Raven's cloak as a means to cover herself.
Raven regains her senses as she sees Heracles standing at her feet, pale and looking at the blade lodged in his chest. Slowly moving his right hand to the pommel. "You… you wounded me." He says, sounding more surprised than hurt. "NARG!" He says the instant he pulls the blade from his body, splattering himself and Raven with his blood. "DIE!" He screams as he hurls the blade at Mala before collapsing on his hands and feet, to the sound of a yelp and thud.
Raven twists her body so she can see what happened. "NO!" She scrambles over to Mala that has been pinned by her own blade to a tree through her chest, leaving her feet to dangle a few inches above ground. Mala is paling quickly, but is still alive. "Mala… Mala, talk to me!"
"Sister… Raven… is that you? I… I can't see." Mala asks quietly, while Raven curses inwardly, Mala is fatally wounded, the sword having at the very least sliced open a part of her heart.
"It is."
"Don't… don't worry about me… I… I… see the Fields…" Raven can see Mala's eyes have gone blank, no longer seeing the world around her, even reaching forwards with a hand placing it on Raven shoulder, but doesn't meet her eyes. Her eyes begin to water and she smiles as blood leaks out of the corner of her mouth. "I…see…Elysium…" Her last words before her head and arm slumps down, Mala, Captain of the Themysciran Royal Guard for over three thousand years, is dead.
"No… NO!" Raven curses as she grabs Mala's head and lifts it up. "Mala, wake up! Come on damn it! Wake up!" Raven shouts at the unmoving body before pulling the sword out of the tree, making the body slump to the ground, trailing blood down the trunk. A small and unnoticed part of Raven's mind is surprised at her own reaction; she hadn't known Mala well and only heard of her before meeting her a few days ago and didn't like her. Mala was professional and direct but shared her Guard's view of everyone else, but still it feels to Raven that this is the hardest death she has ever seen, as if Mala had been a close relative to her.
"You will pay dearly for your actions here today, no matter whose son you are." Hippolyta's voice has Raven turn away from Mala's corpse to see Heracles standing with a drenched Hippolyta behind him, pointing her sword at his back.
To Raven a red film seems to fall over the world at the sight of Heracles, who seems to be smiling slightly at her. Raven's eye's turn to a blazing red as the air turns incredibly cold, which is visible by the fogging breath of Hippolyta and Heracles, the monarch seemingly realizing something bad is to befall the demigod steps to the side as the trees and sea is caught in a sudden gale of wind and the sun is darkened before Raven spews a tremendous amount of black energy from her mouth and eyes surrounded by red lightning. Heracles screams at the impact of mystical force against him as Hippolyta is forced to leap clear, but before his world goes dark he hears a voice in his head above the roar of the spell.
"Once again you bring shame into my house by assaulting our last, most devout followers, I shielded you from punishment once before in hopes of you becoming wiser. But now you will face your punishment alone!" Heracles realize as his last thought that his father has abandoned him.
As the light returns, Hippolyta is witness to Raven standing with slumping shoulders, heaving for breath, but still glaring hatefully at the sight before her. A beeline on the ground between Raven and Heracles that was once white sand is now gray rock, as is the stretch behind him leading into the sea that has become a hissing pool of lava that is being cooled rapidly by the surrounding sea. Heracles himself has suffered the same fate; he is now an unmoving statue, with a scream frozen on his face while his huge arms are held up in front of him to ward off attack. In a fit of primal fury, Raven takes a few deep breaths before roaring her victory at the skies, creating an echo in the distance, before she collapses onto her hands and knees.
"A fate richly deserved." Hippolyta notes grimly, sheathing her sword as she eyes the statue with contempt. "But there is more work to be done Sister."
"As, you… command." Raven replies with a tired voice before getting back onto her feet, swaying slightly. "The injured must be cared for." She continues stiffly as she moves to Cassandra. "You are not wounded?"
"I am fine as long as I can wield a sword." Hippolyta replies as she carefully moves Donna off Diana, the former being severely wounded with a broken leg and head injury as the most visible wounds. Diana is only bruised and out cold judging from Hippolyta's estimation. "How is Cassandra?"
"Fractured skull, possible back injury, but she should be fine in time." Hippolyta nods at Raven's words, remembering her limitation with the healing of others that will be even more taxed now. "How are they?"
"Diana is waking, Donna will need your aid." Hippolyta says as she sees Diana's eyes move behind the lids. A few seconds later her daughter groans before waking to full consciousness.
"Ohh… what hit me?" Diana groans to herself as she clutches her head.
"That would have been Donna." Raven notes dryly as she carries Cassandra over, putting her down gently before beginning to treat Donna.
"Oh… Heracles!" Diana shouts suddenly remembering something, sitting up to the sight of the stone statue. "What happened?" Diana asks.
"He murdered Mala, this is his punishment." Hippolyta says coldly as she moves over to the body of the woman. "Be at peace sister, you will be remembered with honor." She whispers to Mala as she kneels at her and closes her still open eyes.
"No…" Diana sighs. "Was there nothing you could have done?" She asks Raven, otherwise busy healing Donna as Hippolyta busies herself with wrapping Mala in Raven's cloak.
She shakes her head. "It was too late." Raven sighs. "She said she saw the Fields." Diana nods grimly at this.
"She is in a place of honor then." She says.
"That she is." Hippolyta agrees as she picks up Mala. "Can you move them?"
"Donna will be movable in a moment Your Highness." Raven replies stiffly, Diana had come to recognize the tone as the one Raven went into after she had expended a great amount of energy, it surprises Diana somewhat that Raven can even heal at this point, which she had learnt took more energy out of her than offensive magic. "Now we should be able to." Raven announces. "Diana if you can take Cassandra? Be careful with her head." Diana nods before getting to her feet to lift Cassandra in her arms.
"What about him?" Diana asks, taking a look at the statue.
"He won't be going anywhere." Raven replies dryly as she carries Donna, supporting her battered body with her magic.
The three walk back in silence, following the path Diana and Hercules had carved into the jungle during their battle. With none of them flying, and having to take care of the injured, it takes them almost half an hour to get back to the city, the first one to greet them, is the swearing Madam Rouge, whose arms and legs have been nailed to several different trees with spears and arrows, stretching her out like a huge sheet. The three pay her no heed, nor do they bother with the fallen form of Phobia lying in a pool of her own blood on the street.
They make their way to the central square before the palace; it is protocol when large numbers of injured occur that the healers vacate their temple to tend to the wounded in the square. Arriving at the square, they find it in a state of 'orderly chaos' where the wounded are laid out on blankets on the ground while new arrivals are being moved between them and the healers are moving slowly from injured to injured. On the stairs of the palace, they can see General Philipus almost resembling an octopus with her arms in constant movement as she directs everything around the square. It somehow relieves the three to see her doing this, since it means the fight is over.
"Your Highness! I was about to organize a search party, you have injured?" Philipus asks as they approach.
"Donna and Cassandra need assistance, Captain Mala is beyond it now." Hippolyta says, getting a shocked expression from those around her. "Are there others who have fallen?"
"Unfortunately your Highness. We are placing them in the throne room." Hippolyta nods grimly before walking past Philipus and into the palace. "Sister Raven, I hope you have the strength to lend your aid here?"
"I will do what I can." Raven replies, getting a nod from Philipus before she singles out two vacant blankets for Donna and Cassandra.
Raven reports to Niobe who sets her to work on the wounded, others who are not normally associated with the healing houses also report their desire to help however they can, this includes Hippolyta who proclaims she would not lose more sisters this day if at all possible. Diana is set to work on organizing the cleanup operations, ordering the invaders down onto the breach after being disarmed and having them carry their own dead.
In the middle of the chaos, Starfire is at first completely lost. With the enemy defeated, the Amazon's effortlessly drift into drill's thousands of years old and are quickly either tending to their wounded or herding the invaders together. That is before she comes across an armored Amazon standing in an alleyway, pressing a hand on a gut wound that has punched through her leather armor, while her head is covered by a helmet.
"Would an outsider care to help me get to the palace square?" The woman asks as Starfire approaches.
"If you will direct me to it." Starfire replies as she has the woman throw her free arm over her shoulder. "I can fly you there?"
"No, we will walk." The Amazon replies quickly, Starfire is a little surprised, but she shrugs it off. "May I know you name?"
"Starfire of Tamaran, and you?" Starfire asks as they walk.
"Sera." The Amazon replies. "Do they have warriors where you come from?"
"We are a warrior people by heart." Starfire replies.
"Good, I would hate to think the outside world is without them." Sera replies, the two keep chatting as they walk, Sera seems to listen carefully to Starfire's description of her people and their wars, which seems to have Sera's greatest interest, before they reach they arrive at the palace square.
"Raven I have Sera here who needs assistance." Starfire says as they encounter the empath at the entrance to the square, though obviously weary, Raven's head snaps around quickly at the mention. Hippolyta is dressing a wound on another Amazon's arm on the row besides Raven also looks up sharply.
"I know no Amazon by that name." Hippolyta says as she stands up to regard the newcomers, finding it hard to see Sera's face thats hidden in the shadows of her helmet.
"Star get away from him!" Raven says sternly.
"Him?" Starfire asks in confusion.
"Ares!" Hippolyta snaps in realization as a red glow appears where the eyes of Sera should be. The woman lets out a deep chuckle that belongs more to a man than a woman, before her shape grows and changes into the God of War's blue armored form. Having fully transformed, he pushes Starfire away, sending her bouncing across the square before crashing into a group of guards, knocking them all over.
"How annoyingly perceptive you are Child of Destruction. I was hoping to remain hidden till I could incite you all to slaughtering your opponents. Perhaps I will just linger till you do that anyway." Ares replies as he unfastens his huge battle axe. Getting lots of shocked murmurs from those who can see him. "Is it not just to take vengeance on those who have injured your sisters, taken their lives?!" He calls out loud for all to hear.
"He is inciting them." Raven whispers to Hippolyta who nods in agreement. "Stand down!" Raven shouts. "I have touched the mind of Heracles! Willingly he joined the invasion of our island! But only after consulting the one who sent him against us thousands of years ago! Is that not true Slaughter God?! Did he not ask you for advice and your blessing?!" Just as swiftly as Raven felt the anger in the Amazons build towards the defeated invaders, the anger is now redirected onto Ares, who sneers at Raven for stealing his momentum.
"If you will not avenge your own fallen, then I will do it for you." He rumbles before turning around to march down to the prison camp.
Hippolyta is quick to stand in his path with her arms spread to block him. "We are Athena's chosen, not your butchers, our fallen will not be dishonored by you!"
"Ah, but you cannot stop me little Queen." Ares chuckles as she smiles behind his helmet.
"I know a place you should see." Raven says from behind him, before both the God and the Queen are swept away.
"Where are we?" Hippolyta asks as the three appear on a floating rock in the middle of nowhere on an otherwise bright world where a distant song can be heard, like a choir.
"My Queen, I would like to welcome you to Azarath." Raven announces as Hippolyta turns around, seeing a huge rock crowned by a ghostly white city.
"You place of birth. But why bring us here?" Hippolyta asks before Ares groans as he goes down on one knee.
"Azarath is a closed dimension, Trigon's curse is still in place, preventing spirits from leaving. But this dimension is at peace and has never known war." Raven replies as she takes off her helmet. "Here, Ares, God of Murder, has no power."
"No…" Ares heaves heavily as he can feel his vast energies being drained from him at a tremendous rate.
"Is it not a beautiful sight?" Raven continues, addressing Ares. "Here, let me help you to better see." She says before pulling off his helmet and throws his arm over her shoulder and has him lean on her. Hippolyta is surprised to see him slowly take on a starved visage. "Diana told me he is weakened when compassion is shown." Raven explains as a white light appears to draw closer to them from Azarath.
"Raven, welcome back. I see you have brought visitors." Hemon's voice announces his presence before the spirit of the elderly man appears before them. "Ah Queen Hippolyta, welcome to our humble land." He says as he bows to her. "And who is this unfortunate? I sense much strife in him."
"This is Ares, I thought he would be interested to see a world without his influence." Raven replies as Ares seems incapable of answering.
"Ahh, well then, I will be pleased to say that he should meet a colleague of his." Hemon says as the light approaches them; Raven pretends she doesn't notice Ares trying to pull away from it.
"Ares, be at peace." A soft voice of an elderly woman says before the light seems to embrace him, getting a dry sigh out of him before he vanishes.
Athena, sitting in her study on Olympus, is busy at her laptop, going over the events on Themyscira, reviewing the battle, taking measure of the events. Pleased that the Amazons have decided not to be dishonorable to their captives, while wondering how long Heracles will remain frozen. Her owl hoots a little from its perch on her chair, without breaking her gaze from the screen, Athena picks up her laptop and leans back in her seat with it. A second later a blue form crashes onto her table, breaking it in half before a helmet follows it, making a hollow clang against the chest plate of the figure as it bounces off it.
"Brother, how nice of you to drop in." Athena notes without looking up. Ares just lets out a hollow sigh from the ground before he closes his eyes, he will need time to recuperate from this experience.
"Azar? Is that you?" Raven asks in surprise at the voice she recognizes.
"It is child." The light says before seemingly losing much of its radiance and shrinks to take on the form of a kindly looking elderly woman in a white cloak and robe. "My my you have grown." She notes at Raven who now towers over her. "Into a proud woman I see."
"I…thank you. But what are you doing here?" Raven asks.
"Offer sage advice when wanted and teach when needed, nothing more than what I did from our time together. But I came here when I realized Azarath had been restored in spirit, followed by many who wished to remain at my side. But I am being rude, who is your companion?" Azar asks, turning to face Hippolyta.
"This is Queen Hippolyta of Themyscira." Hemon adds.
"And you are the living goddess that raised Raven?" Hippolyta asks, ignoring the cold that makes her breath fog.
"That I am. I was curious who you were." Azar replies, more to herself seemingly. "When I was young I found a mirror in the gutter of the monastery I was raised in, I cast a spell to see its history, there I saw you pass it on to the group who was rumored to have harassed an angel at the monastery years before. Again curious about the reaction Raven displayed, I searched long and hard about her identity, but I found only her heritage, the knowledge of what would come, should she have fallen, and that she had not yet been born. I knew then, that the possibility of the future I saw had to be avoided. From there my own task began, and Azarath was first born." She explains before turning to Raven again. "But if you will allow it, I wish to see what my former pupil has been doing since my spirit left my body."
"Of course." Raven says hastily before bowing so Azar won't need to stretch herself to reach her temples. During her time with her, Azar often used this technique to see if young Raven was reading what she was supposed to. But the experience often left Raven feeling drained, and this time is no exception as Azar's eyes flash for a second before removing her hands.
"Ah. It really shouldn't surprise me your life has had it course that it did, we didn't teach you otherwise really. But I am pleased Trigon is no more." Azar says. "Now, you must go, I see I am preventing you from saving the lives of your sisters. I will send your mother your regards. Till we meet again." Azar says before raising a hand that sends the two from Azarath in a flash of white.
The two arrive with a flash in the palace square, initially startled at the sudden transport and the wall of heat. Hippolyta is the first one to notice the stares they receive after a few blinks on her own.
"Ares will not trouble us any further this day." She announces, before returning to the bandage she left, Raven blinks a few more times, before following.
They proceed well into the evening with their task, fist addressing the grievously wounded Amazons before moving onto the lighter injuries. The task grows when Queen Mera appears, asking if help could be spared for the Atlanteans as the undersea battle had left the medical facilities of the fleet in ruins. Hippolyta sends a few of her healers to the harbor, after she is made aware of the average Atlantean's low tolerance for strong sunlight, other than the guard that accompanied Arthur who had received treatment so they would not dry out. Raven is relieved when all of her friends turn up, mostly unharmed. Magala and Philipus had been off to find herbs far away from the city and had only become aware of the invasion when the shell hit the palace. Io almost ambushed the ones who came looking for her, finding ten invaders on the floor of her smithy, only two having survived her hammers ministrations. Still she refused to leave, having had some sort of epiphany on how to make her healing machine function, going so far to test it on her own wounded arm. Io was in a state of depression when she later received treatment from a new second degree burn, when they others heard, they had enough tact not to laugh.
During it all, the Justice Society, along with Starfire, has been busy organizing the remaining Reich forces, getting them back onto a few ships, stripped of armaments before they are sent away, to be greeted by a UN sponsored fleet Mr. Terrific had hailed into the vicinity after he received Hippolyta's call. Hippolyta had decreed she did not want to see more needless death this day, nor sully Themyscira's soil with the blood of the invader any further. The invading meta-humans are rounded up and teleported to a facility called the Slab, a prison designed by the American government to detain meta-human criminals. Some kind soul had treated Gunhild's wound, which had prevented her from bleeding out. Blitz and her were amongst the first to be moved to the beach, true to Raven's word, Blitz would need extensive treatment to ever run or walk normally again, as it had healed, but is now unable to support Blitz's weight. Midnight had confirmed it when he got to look at her, though he doubted it was in anyone's interest to let Blitz's leg heal properly. The empty vessels of the fleet, the carrier included, were broken down into scrap by Dr. Fate before being sent to another dimension till it could be decided on who would have the salvage rights.
Changeling was asked to lend his assistance to the Atlanteans, having their own clean-up operation to tend to beneath the waves. His ability to turn into monsters of the deep proved invaluable, because the actual creatures lived far from the current location and could not adapt to survive at the lower water pressures. Like the time they first met, he quickly develops a competition with Tempest in moving ships with Garfield using muscle and Garth using his aquakinesis. Later Garfield could report that Orm was unlikely to be ever seen again as Arthur had directed two of the gargantuan sharks patrolling Themyscira onto him during the battle.
When there is no more to be done for the wounded this day, Hippolyta receives the Justice Society along with Garfield and Koriand'r at the southern tip of Themyscira, taking Diana and a weary Raven with her as the only other. Here the old comrades talk, remembering their times together and receive food and rest for their troubles. Aquaman, Mera and Garth join them later on, to make sure the diplomatic relations had not been strained by the actions of today as Arthur accepted that it was one of his men that led the foes to the hidden island. While they are all tired, Raven is asleep on her feet, she had never expended the amount of energy she had this day, not even the day when she fought Black Adam. Her condition makes her only vaguely aware of her and Fate discussing what spell she had used on Heracles, the conscious part of her mind guesses Wisdom has taken over. Eventually the Society returns to the outside world, taking Changeling and Starfire with them while the three sea dwellers return to their realm as well.
The Batcave:
"Mr. Terrific." Batman notes from the cave computer as the man appears on his screen.
"Hey Batman, I just wanted to let you know there was an incident on Themyscira during Arthur's visit." Terrific says.
"Go on?" Batman says while he keeps working on the double homicide case he came across last night.
"A group of Nazis wanted to take over, brought their own meta team along with the Brotherhood of Evil, Brother Blood and Heracles. The situation was taken care of, thought the Amazons suffered some casualties." Terrific replies. "But I wanted to let you know Fate noticed that Raven has overstretched herself in the magical area, and will be unable to work it for some time, he couldn't say how long this would last."
"What was she doing?" Batman asks, breaking off from the murder case, this was a first to him that she had burnt out.
"Fate says she first cast an extremely powerful spell that turned Heracles to stone after he murdered one of the Amazons before her eyes and that was after she had levitated a Supercarrier-class ship into the sky before dropping it on him from a kilometer's height. Fate says Heracles is alive and can be revived, but it will take time. After that, she was called on to heal many of the wounded. Lastly Ares decided he wanted in on the action and tried to coax the Amazons into killing the Nazi prisoners, according to Hippolyta, Raven took him to Azarath. I am not sure why she took him there, but we had a discussion once over theology once, where I speculated that 'gods' feed off worship?"
"So she took him to a place without nourishment, he would be like a fish out of water there." Batman says.
"Exactly. Apparently they met Azar's spirit there who cast some kind of spell to see Raven's memories before sending them back." Batman nods at the image of Terrific before turning back to the murder case.
"Put that on her League notes for now, she doesn't use her magic in Gotham. Any other injured?" he asks.
"Donna was messed up pretty bad, having been used as a club against Diana. Cassandra has a head injury, but they will both mend in a few weeks time. The Titans and Donna's colleagues have already been notified." Terrific says. "You are still taking them to the charity ball?"
"Unless Diana calls it off. But I have to go." Batman replies. "Anything else?"
"Only that Starfire and Changeling was recovered during the fight, the Brotherhood thought holding them captive would force Raven into inactivity."
"Were they reported missing?" Bruce asks as he zooms in on a detail in the photo.
"Doom Patrol had it sent while we were fighting; apparently the two got jumped during their vacation. They called in when they found out."
"Good, thanks' for the update." Batman says.
"No problem." Terrific says before the link is killed, while Bruce strokes his cheek, his mind occupied by the case, he has concluded it is a message, but he has yet to discover what it is, and too many of the specials are out.
Author's Notes: Hmm, wonder how long that will last? :)
Next chapter: Richard puts his head in a box. An institution is changed. Hippolyta receives an eye-opener. And Raven breaks a leg!