TITLE: Mind-Bender

AUTHOR: Lotsy

CHARACTERS: Batman / Wonder Woman

RATING: M

WARNINGS: Author Chooses Not to Use Warnings

DISCLAIMER: I love Justice League, but especially Batman and Wonder Woman. Unfortunately, I do not own the characters and, if I did, things would be much different for them.

SUMMARY: A surprise appearance by two of Diana's rogues causes chaos for some of the members of the Justice League.

Mind-Bender

"Well, that was fun," she said with a self-satisfied smirk as she surveyed her surroundings. "What shall we do next?"

Her hands came to rest on her hips as she too took great pleasure in what they had done. Several stone statues gazed lifelessly back. "I don't know," she thoughtfully replied, a purple fingernail coming to rest against her bottom lip. "We've already visited Mykonos, Bora Bora, and Madagascar. I think we need a change of scenery that we haven't been to in a while."

Medusa's eyes narrowed as she considered the options. There were just too many to choose from. "I feel like causing some real trouble."

Circe's lips spread into a grin. "Gotham," she announced. "I think we need to cause Diana some trouble. It's been far too long since we gave that goody-two-shoes Amazon a run for her money."

"I love it," Medusa agreed. "Let's go."

XXX

People ran screaming for cover as Circe and Medusa began to unleash terror on downtown five o'clock Gotham traffic. They had cars bound up in jams as far as the eye could see as they stood in the downtown square. Medusa decided that Circe had been right. This was the perfect place to cause chaos and Diana and her superhero friends hadn't even shown up yet.

"They act as if they've never seen snakes before," Medusa noted, the serpents on her head hissing and slithering around in anticipation of more victims. "I wish they'd stand still long enough to get a good look into my eyes."

"Just use that beautiful, melodic voice I gave you," Circe told her.

"Oh, right," Medusa murmured. "How quickly I have forgotten."

Medusa turned her attention to a man running past her, hoping to stop him literally in his tracks. "Look into my eyes, dear boy," she called to him with an entrancing voice that caused him to stop. "You know you want to."

The young man found himself turning towards her, unable to escape her charms. Looking right into her eyes, he felt his body immediately begin to stiffen, his muscles freezing as his body was turned into stone right there in the street of downtown Gotham.

"That's just wrong, man," Flash said as he suddenly skidded to a stop several feet away, knocking his knuckles against the hardened stone head of the man.

"Oh, look," Medusa squealed in delight. "A new victim!"

"I don't think so, sister," Flash quipped. "I am not going to fall for your 'look into my eyes' scam. Wondy warned me about you."

"Well, then, I guess I'll just turn you into a cow then," Circe decided, raising her hands to cast her spell.

"A cow!" Flash cried. "That's what you think of when you look at me? Not a strong ox or a sleek jaguar? A freaking cow?"

"Just hold still, you little dust mite," Circe groused. "This won't hurt a bit.

A bright bolt of light shot from her fingertips and directed straight at Flash. He immediately took off, the blast of magic missing him. He stopped in front of Medusa, taking her scarf from around her neck and tying it around her head to cover her eyes to keep anyone else from being turned to stone.

"Hey!" Medusa screamed in rage, blindly swiping at him with her long fingernails only to miss him.

Some of the serpents on her head hissed at him, spitting its venous poison at him. "Whoa!" Flash cried, pulling on the sleeve of his uniform to find the spot that had burned a hole in the material. "Those dudes are nasty!"

"Get back here!" Circe yelled, continually trying to blast him with her magic only to miss as he ran in circles around her. "Just wait till I get my hands on you!"

"Too bad you'll have to deal with me instead," Diana announced, landing in front of Circe, and punching her in the face.

Circe flew backward, hitting a parked car and leaving a massive dent. She stood to her feet with a laugh as she dusted herself off. "Took you long enough to show up," she taunted her. "Too busy fooling around with that husband of yours or playing mommy to your new baby girl?"

Diana's hands clenched tightly with fury. "Never mention my baby again or I'll make sure you live to regret it."

"Hey, Medusa," Circe called to her. "Look who decided to show up?"

"Did she bring her doom and gloom husband with her?" Medusa asked.

A bola flew through the air, suddenly wrapping around Medusa's body and pinning her arms against her sides. "You called?" Batman growled as he flew onto the scene on his grappling line.

"Oh, goody…the Bat," Circe gleefully cried, applauding Batman's arrival. "Do you think I can get an encore performance from you? You should have heard him, Medusa. He sang so beautifully to save his darling Amazon. It was quite romantic."

"What?" Flash exclaimed, his head snapping to his left to look at Batman. "You sang for Diana? How did I not hear about this? Can we get a repeat performance?"

Batman glared darkly at him, his lip curling into a sneer. "No," he rasped.

"So, you'll sing for Diana, but not for me?" Flash questioned him.

"Yes," he scowled.

"Come on, Batman," Circe tried to coax him. "Just a little tune? A song and dance?"

In response, Circe found herself encased in a golden lasso that had wrapped around her. "I think you and Medusa have had enough fun for one day. I heard what you did in Bora Bora and Mykonos."

"Wait till you hear about Siberia," Medusa told her with a grin, breaking the bola with little effort before adjusting her scarf around her neck where it had originally been.

"Duse!" Circe yelled at her, disappearing out of Diana's lasso only to reappear a few feet away. "What happens in Siberia stays in Siberia."

"Oh, right," she replied. "You won't get to hear about that but look into my eyes and I'll be happy to tell you about Madagascar."

"We heard about Madagascar," Batman icily stated. "You turned some of their police force into statues and others into Burmese pythons."

"Pythons?" Flash shouted, raising his hands up in the air in exasperation. "You turned them into Burmese pythons, but you want to turn me into a stupid cow?"

Circe shrugged a shoulder. "It was just the first thing that sprang to mind."

"Well, try…MOO! MOO!"

Before Flash could finish his sentence, he found himself as a bovine on all fours and mooing angrily. "Circe!" Wonder Woman cried.

"He was annoying me," Circe replied. "Now, what shall I turn you into this time? A piglet is going to be so hard to top. I could turn you into a dung beetle, but you could get stepped on. I want something that will last. Maybe a hippo…or better yet a bat! Batman would love that, wouldn't you, handsome?"

Batman sneered at Circe, unexpectedly throwing a Batarang at her. It bounced off her forehead, causing her to stagger back. "Owe!" she winced, rubbing her forehead. "Just for that, I'm going to turn you into a warthog."

"I want to turn them into statues!" Medusa whined. "Why do you get to have all the fun?"

"Fine," Circe huffed with a roll of her eyes in annoyance. "You turn the Bat to stone, and I'll turn Diana into a filthy little bat. Happy?"

"I guess," Medusa pouted. "I was hoping for more Justice League members to immortalize forever in stone, but I guess he'll do for now. Would you like to pose first, Bat?"

"Sorry, you won't be there for your baby girl, but think of it this way, Diana," Circe jeered at her. "You can find yourself a nice bat out there to mate with. I'm sure Batman will understand."

A threatening growl emanated from Batman's throat as he took a step forward. He'd had more than enough of these two. It was time to send them back from where they had come from. He threw a Bat smoke bomb as Circe pointed her fingers at Diana.

Smoke filled the air making it difficult for Circe to find Diana and Medusa to seduce any victims. "Nice try, Bat!" Circe yelled, waving her hands, and causing the smoke to disappear.

"Lift your spell on Flash," Diana demanded.

"I think I like him better the way that he is," Circe decided.

Flash stomped his hoof before turning and wandering over to a small strip of grass along the sidewalk to graze. "Circe!" Batman growled, his patience running thin.

At that moment, Zatanna appeared, landing on the road beside Circe. "Not you again," Zatanna irritatingly groused, noticing the cow. "Who is the cow?"

"Flash," Diana told her.

Zatanna put her hands on her hips, leveling a glare at the witch. "Turn him back."

"Or what?" Circe demanded to know.

"You don't know who you're dealing with, missy," Medusa said, coming up behind her.

Zatanna clicked her fingers without even looking over her shoulder as she murmured a spell, a welder's mask suddenly appearing on Medusa's face. "Shut it," Zee said. "I'm not talking to you."

"Get this thing off me!" Medusa screamed, trying and failing miserably to remove the mask from her face.

Diana bit her lip to keep from laughing at the sight of Medusa being contained like this. If only she had a camera to record the moment so her mother could see it. Bruce did have a mini camera in his cowl that recorded everything. Maybe he could print her picture of it.

"Keep it up and I'll seal your mouth shut," Zatanna threatened Medusa. "Now, remove your spell from Flash."

"Fine," Circe ground out. "I'll release Flash from my spell if you release Medusa…and Batman sings."

"Not happening," Batman spat out, crossing his arms defiantly against his chest.

Flash wandered back to the group, gently nudging Batman's elbow with his nose. He mooed softly, rubbing his head against Batman's arm. Batman's arms fell to his sides, his head falling back with a sense of utter defeat. He was not going to get out of this.

"One," Batman snapped. "One short song. No more."

XXX

Diana couldn't stop laughing, receiving a deadly glare from her husband sitting in the booth next to her. "I can't believe you actually sang for Flash," she managed to utter between bouts of giggles.

"I feel honored, Bats," Flash said, popping a French fry into his mouth. "It means a lot to know that you care about me as much as you do Diana."

"I wouldn't go that far," Batman ground out with a sneer.

Zatanna almost spit out her strawberry milkshake as she set her glass on the table. "It was the best!" she crowed. "Circe got you to sing twice—once for the woman you love and again for your—"

"Best friend," Flash interjected with a grin, picking up his triple-decker burger. "You're the best, Bats. I'll never forget this day for as long as I live. Now I know that all those times you threatened to shoot me out of an airlock was just your way of saying that you really care."

"No…no, it doesn't," he snapped.

Wiping the tears of laughter from her eyes, Diana leaned over to discretely kiss Bruce on the cheek. "I think you're the noblest man I've ever known," she told him. "I'm just glad I actually got to hear it in person this time."

Batman looked at his wife, the slits of his cowl narrowing. "How did you know what song I sang for you the last time?"

Diana's lips curled into a grin. "Zatanna told me," she revealed. "I never knew you had such a beautiful voice. You should sing more often…especially our song."

Bruce smiled softly despite himself, taking her hand in his under the table. "I think we need a more romantic song than 'Am I Blue?'."

"She can't have our song, Bats," Flash said in no uncertain terms. "'Lean On Me' will be our song forever. No one can take that away from us."

"I didn't pick it," Batman pointed out. "Circe picked it. Blame her."

"Still, man," Flash replied, tapping his chest above his heart with his fist. "It really gives me the feels."

Zatanna and Diana burst into another round of laughter, Batman ignoring them as he ate his hamburger in utter humiliation. This was the most embarrassed he had been in his life. Singing for Diana hadn't been nearly this embarrassing. He'd been singing to save the life of the woman he was falling in love with. But Flash? He'd never live this one down. The shame would follow him for the rest of his life.

"You two can stop laughing now," Batman grumbled. "It's not that funny."

"Yes, it was," Zatanna maintained.

"It was sweet, Bruce," Diana reassured him, squeezing his hand. "I hope you'll sing for Amari someday too."

"I do," he confessed. "I just make sure no one is around to hear it but her."

"Aww," Zatanna cooed, touched by his admission. "You sing to your baby girl. That's the sweetest."

"Wow," Flash said. "I was seriously scared of you all of this time. Now, I know there's nothing but a big teddy bear behind that cape and scowl."

"No, fear me," Batman protested, leaning in. "You should be very scared of me."

"Whatever you say, ol' buddy," Flash replied with a grin, reaching across the table to pat his shoulder. "I promise it'll be our little secret."

Diana nearly choked on his soft drink, picking up a napkin to wipe her mouth. "Flash, you have the fastest mouth in the League," she reminded him. "Everyone knows you're the one that keeps the rumor mill running at full speed."

"I know, but not this time," Wally reassured them. "Not when it comes to my newest best friend."

Batman sighed heavily, his shoulder sinking in defeat. He knew this had been a horrible decision. He should've left Wally as a cow. At the very least, he could've brought him to the manor to live in the horse barn in the lap of luxury. It would have been better than this.

"So, what was it like being a cow?" Zatanna asked, stealing an onion ring from Wally's tray.

"It was a mind-bender," Flash revealed, his eyes growing wide. "Very trippy. It was like I was sort of aware of what was going on and yet not really. I don't remember a lot of it."

"I don't remember a thing when Circe turned me into a piglet," Diana confessed. "One moment, Batman and I are confronting Circe. The next, I'm tied up on a conveyor belt about to be chopped to pieces."

Batman looked to his wife in shock. "You never told me that," he said, an icy shiver of dread racing up his spine. "I knew you were in trouble, but I had no idea you were that close to being slaughtered."

"The spinning blade came within an inch," she divulged, a smile forming on her red lips. "You came through for me in the nick of time."

Batman shuddered to think of how close he'd come to losing her before he'd had a chance to begin a life with her. "I'm just thankful Circe reversed the spell when she did."

"Me too," Flash uttered. "I was starting to crave alfalfa and a heifer."

Zatanna snickered, stretching her arms above her head before checking her watch. "Wow, I didn't realize how late it was getting," she responded. "I have a show tonight I need to get to."

"Yeah, I gotta go too," Wally announced. "This little get-together in Gotham has been a blast, but I have a date with Linda tonight."

"When are we going to get to meet Linda?" Diana asked.

"Someday," Wally said as he scooted out of the booth they had been sitting in.

"Maybe we can all go out for a steak dinner," Batman evenly stated.

Flash looked at Batman, his mouth agape in shock. "Did you just make a funny?" he asked him only for a grin to spread across his face. "A big teddy bear with a sense of humor. I knew there was more to the fearsome Bat."

"I'm not funny," Batman insisted. "I was being serious. Dead. Serious."

"You crack me up, Bats," Flash said with a laugh, clapping him on the back. "Thanks again for the save. See you later."

With that, Flash zipped out of the diner. "It's been fun," Zatanna told them. "Call me again next time the evil duo shows up."

Zatanna exited the diner, leaving Batman and Wonder Woman and the bill. Batman just shook his head as he pulled out a wallet to pay the bill. "Ready to go home, ol' Blue Eyes," she quipped.

Batman glared at her but couldn't suppress the slight twitch at the corner of his mouth. "How do you know about ol' Blue Eyes?"

"Alfred introduced me to Frank Sinatra," she revealed.

"I'm impressed," he replied as they walked out of the small diner.

"So, are you going to sing for me again?" she asked, giving him a sweet smile in hopes of enticing him.

"Maybe," he ultimately decided. "Depends on what you're going to do for me in return."

"Hmmm…" she thoughtfully hummed. "If you sing, maybe I can do a sexy little strip tease for you."

Batman nearly stumbled in his step with the thoughts that offer conjured in his mind. "Now that would definitely be a mind-bender."

"Then, it's a deal," she uttered with glee, pulling him towards the waiting Batmobile.

A/N: Love how this turned out. I was in the mood for something fun this time around.

UPDATE: Sorry to say I'm still working on Family Tree. I am 2 chapters in but I don't like what I have so I'm going back to rewrite it. Sorry, it's taking me so long, but I only want to post my absolute best & not some crappy fic just to get it out. I promise I'll make it worth the wait! Much love to fave fandom! #Wonderbat