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Shayera slowly looked out of the window of Diana's invisible jet, a twinge of sadness stabbing into her chest as she watched her adopted home begin to vanish into the distance, slowly wrapping her wings around herself, both her and Diana in their normal forms. She had loved Themyscira, and if she was honest she really didn't want to leave, her Amazon sisters had accepted her, never calling her a traitor or a freak, they were so kind to both her and Diana. The entire island was so peaceful and joyful; there was a total lack of hate, it truly was the paradise Diana had always made it out to be. The thing she would most miss though was Hippolyta herself, she had come to treat Shayera like a second daughter, she was kinder and more caring towards Shayera than the young red-haired Amazon's real mother had ever even tried to be. Slowly Shayera looked round at Diana's mane of raven hair, watching her lover flying the jet away from their home and knowing this must be hurting her lover just as much.
Slowly she stood and stepped over to the controls, leaning over Diana and pushing the button to turn the jet onto Auto-Pilot, gently taking Diana's hand and gently pulling them from the controls, Diana slowly and sadly looking up at her lover, Shayera slowly sliding down to sit in her lover's lap, the tanned skin of her arms wrapping around Diana's perfect form.
"I don't want to leave," she admitted softly as Diana's strong arms wrapped around her slightly larger form, wings sliding around her lover, holding the two women together. "Themyscira's the only place I've been accepted since the invasion, even in the league there are still some people who hate me," she mumbled softly, allowing herself a moment of sensitivity and weakness. She could feel her lover gently giving her a comforting squeeze.
"It's not like we can't go back Shay" Diana whispered softly, gently pressing a kiss to her lover's auburn hair, "And I'm sure Bruce will be able to whip up some personal teleporters to get us home in instant", Shayera slowly relaxing at this, feeling comforted in her lover's arms, slowly beginning to smile at the thought of seeing her friends again, she'd missed them all and despite her trepidation couldn't wait to see them again.
Wally groaned softly as he slammed into a wall, his body indenting in the concrete but not smashing through it, falling down to his hands and knees before looking up at the Goliath pale skinned Zombie lumbered towards him, seeing over Grundy's shoulder that Green Lantern had his hands full with Volcana, Copperhead and Deadshot all at once.
"Talking man hurt Grundy... GRUNDY RIP OFF TALKING MAN'S HEAD!" the gigantic undead behemoth bellowed, charging at Flash leaping up
"My head? Oh crap…" Flash mumbled, dodging the charge by inches and letting Grundy smash through the concrete wall he'd just crashed into, smirking softly before he felt a smack round the back of his head slamming him to the floor, Copperhead leaping onto his back, hands grabbing the Flash's wrists and twisting them back as Grundy lumbered back through the hole he'd just made, bellowing at Flash.
"WHY TALKING MAN HURT GRUNDY!" he bellowed, stomping towards the prone Flash.
"I just wanna help you find your happy place. Do you see how angry you are? I mean, I'm sorry, but come on. I think your pants are too tight..." Wally joked out before a reptilian tail wrapped around his throat, beginning to squeeze, Wally closing his eyes and starting to vibrate his molecules to become intangible, allowing Copperhead to slide through him and jumping back, returning solid just in time for Grundy's fist to send him flying down the road, bouncing off the tarmac before sliding to a halt, hand lifting to his ribs, feeling several stuck in awkward positions while warm red blood trickled from a split lip, Grundy lumbering over him and raising his hands over his head.
"GRUNDY KILL TALKING MAN!" he bellowed before pausing, what sounded to Flash like an English Accented voice call out from above.
"Hey big boy!" the hero and villain both looking up at the figure floating above them, it's long flowing gold cape and golden armour shining in the sun, long blond hair whipping around in the wind, "Pick on someone your own size", with that the figure shot down towards the two.
"Bird nose?" Grundy whispered softly, too quietly for Flash to hear, before a tanned fist crashed into his jaw, sending the giant supervillain flying down the street, smashing straight through the same concrete wall as before, Angelus floating down to stand over Flash.
"Are you hurt?" she asked, quickly kneeling on one knee beside Flash, the speedster groaning in pain but still managing to put on what he thought was a flirtatious playboy smirk but just looked like a slightly dazed grin.
"Depends Babe, will I get you as a nurse if I am?" he replied, the tanned Amazon rolling her eyes and moving a hand to his rips, feeling them broken she gently lay him down again, looking up in time to see Aurora slam her arms together over Green Lantern's unconscious form as Copperhead and Deadshot lay out cold to the side, blocking Grundy's punch with her bracelets, though to Wally it just looked like she'd blocked with her arm. Slowly Aurora pushed herself up onto her feet, forcing Grundy to give ground before her knee flew up, driving itself into the zombie's gut
Out of the corner of her eye Shayera spotted Volcana taking aim at her lover, leaping at the pyrokinetic and causing her to crumple to the ground with a well placed kick to the jaw, spinning and leaping at the winded Grundy, slamming her fist to the zombie's temple while Diana punched the other temple, the Goliath man swaying before crashing to the ground out cold, both women smiling at each other before looking round at the out cold Green Lantern and the shocked Flash. He'd only seen Superman take on Grundy before and walk away unhurt.
"Those sparring sessions with Artemis paid off then" Diana smirked, seeing Shayera's irritated look instantly, the blond having been made to endure plenty of sparring matches with the Amazonian general to 'become a true Amazon' and to get control of flying without her wings and her incredible new strength.
"Mala, nothing makes those sessions with her worth it, I swear my shoulder blades still ache" Shayera replied in a huff, lifting a hand to massage where her wings would have been. The two women had decided on the flight to Metropolis that when in public to use the names of two of their sisters, both of whom were close friends of the pair. Diana chose to use the name Mala after her first true friend on the island while Shayera chose Venelia, the first Amazon to call her 'Sister' when arriving upon Themyscira.
"Nothing?" Diana whispered slightly seductively, slowly licking her lips and stepping forwards, both hands moving to stroke across her lover's sides, giving her the most seductive look possible, their faces so close they were nearly touching one another.
"Well I can think of one thing" Shayera purred softly, leaning forwards to give Diana a quick yet deep kiss, the two women funneling all the love they had within themselves into this one sweet moment before they broke apart, stepping back from one another so as to avoid another incident like when they had first gone public with their relationship, several reporters hurrying towards the two women, beginning to shout questions, the many men and women of the press receiving glares that could freeze nitrogen.
"Please, can we have a statement!" "Who are you?" "Where did you come from?" "Are you members of the Justice League?" were all called out towards the two women before the cops ran onto the scene, beginning to shove back the press and spectators while special forces operatives began to cuff the supervillains hands behind their back, Diana and Shayera moving aside to allow them to cuff Grundy, the red-haired princess stepping over to John as the blond Amazon slid down to kneel beside the Flash, the speedster having passed out from pain already.
"Come on Wally, you can't be too badly hurt, you'll be ok" she whispered in her newly British lilted voice, not looking up as a shadow appeared, looming over her, instead gently lifting Flash into her arms. Only looking up as a very familiar throat was cleared.
"If you intend to interrogate me and my partner Superman I suggest we have these two returned to your headquaters for medical treatment" she told the Kryptonian bluntly and a little more harshly than nessercary, inside intensely worried about the young man she had come to think of as a younger brother over time, Superman looking a little shocked at her slightly frosty tone, Shayera's harsh expression vanishing as she looked up at her friend, "My apologies, I am simply concerned for the health of your collegues as Flash has sustained broken ribs and Green Lantern appears to be unconcious from a blow to the head", smiling nervously at Diana as the princess carried John over to them.
Within seconds Superman, Green Lantern, Flash and the two Amazons had teleported onto the watchtower, Diana and Shayera both glancing up at a map of the station in case any changes had occurred since they had left, Diana turning to Superman.
"We shall take these two to the infirmary, then we shall talk, and I suggest you bring the other founders to the meeting as they shall want to know of the tidings we bring" she told him, her voice sounding like it had a slightly Italian edge to it to the Kryptonian's ears, the goliath of a man nodding and allowing the two women to fly off towards the infirmary. Not five minutes later the pair of heroines finding themselves outside an incredibly familiar doorway, the founder's conference room, Diana slowly taking her lover's hand.
"It'll be ok Angel, if we can trust anyone it's them" she whispered to her noticeably worried lover. Shayera sighed softly before looking at her lover.
"I know, but it's still hard to reveal myself before a man again" she admitted softly, Diana giving a small chuckle at this
"You already sound like one of our sisters" she told her lover, successfully and substantially lightening the mood, Shayera giving a small smile and chuckle as the doors slid open in front of them, the two women slowly stepping inside to once again meet some of the best friends they would ever have.
Lex Luthor could feel himself floating high above the earth, not strong enough yet to create his own corporeal form, simply floating atoms and molecules with consciousness woven in between them, and to sense the earth below him, whispering out in his mind.
"The world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from the another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take our breath away". Slowly he paused, pondering his own words, the power of the Anti-Life Equation surging through him.
"The unizerse has taught me the value of life. If I can so much as hope to preserve it here then order must be achieved upon this chaotic planet. This world is sick, rife with plague, famine, death, pain and disaster. Metahumans and monsters roam freely, this world must be healed" he thought softly, molecules absorbing a small Hydrogen atom into themselves, beginning to form matter from it for his own true body.
"Lex Luthor was too foolish to see this, it took the very Anti-Life Equation to show it to him. Now he is gone, now there is only… Doctor Manhattan"
A/N: Anyone like the Doctor Manhattan twist then? I think he's got the potential to be a great villain. Anyway, first a shout out, thanks to BladeMaster357 who's been a big help with ideas to help continue this fic. Also another thing, while the rings don't actually alter Diana and Shayera's voices it does alter the perceptions of those around them so they look and sound different, this didn't effect Grundy due to the chaos magic in his mind but effects literally everyone else. Also as was mentioned earlier, on Diana's armour, imagine the panties as being like her old ones crossed with a Greek plate skirt, but gold and metal. Shayera and Diana aren't really as fond of Green Lantern as the other founder due to his whole previous relationship with Shayera (And since I myself don't like his character). Please Review, they always brighten my day and fuel my plans for world conquest lol