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Wonder Woman - Dr. Psycho's Mind Games
by Steve Zink
This story was inspired by and done in tribute to a number of pictures
done by Tebra, a few from Kirk Lindo, and one by Joe Gravel. It also
borrows some ideas and a few words posted to Superstories Addventures,
along with some capped pictures done by Luke to give tribute to them.
After trying over the years to get the better of Wonder Woman using his
own mental skills and also various abilities borrowed or stolen from
other super beings, Dr. Psycho finally decided to go to a scientific
genius for help. Lex Luthor normally kept his devious inventions to
himself for his own agenda against the Man of Steel, but when he was
asked by the grotesque midget villain for a device to bring down Wonder
Woman, the bald super criminal figured this could be a step toward
Superman himself and decided to help. So when Dr. Psycho was contacted
and told to visit the lab in Luthor's Metropolis corporate headquarters
building, his spirits lifted.
It would not be wise to visit Lex in his usual, easily identified form,
so before leaving for the trip to Metropolis Dr. Psycho used his
ectoplasmic extractor to change himself into a tall but more or less
nondescript looking, middle-aged black haired man. With the code words
prearranged between he and Lex, Psycho was given ready access to the
LexCorp building once he got there. After a brief stop to be checked by
Mercy, Lex's gorgeous security expert, he went in to confer with Lex in
person.
After a few minutes of villain to villain chat, the two went to the
special elevator leading from Lex's office to the lab buried well below
the bottom level of the skyscraper. The bald super villain led his
'customer' to the far corner where a glass cylinder stood. "Psycho,
this may look like normal glass, but in reality it's a special polymer
that can resist the strength of even a super being's blows. I'm not
sure about it withstanding Superman's heat vision, but for your
purposes, it should be more than adequate. I suspect from experience
that you won't even be worried about fists if your hypnotic abilities
are put to good use."
Psycho nodded. "Correct, Lex. Or at least as far as I have planned.
Now, what about the device you worked on for me?"
Lex pointed to a unit mounted in the top of the cylinder. "There it is,
Psycho. Tests on homeless vagrants have shown results leading to what
you want, but in reality, the Amazon will be a real test to see just
what the Parody Pulsator can do. In some way or another that
sanctimonious bitch will end up as a woman with a totally opposite
personality. I'd like for you to let me know just what the result is
and how her costume changes during the process."
"Of course," Dr. Psycho replied, "and I hadn't figured on her costume
being affected by the pulsator also. That's an added benefit." Then,
as he looked at the entire assembly, Lex's customer asked, "But how will
I get Wonder Woman into the cylinder?"
Lex grinned. "That's the fun part, Psycho. Watch this." Lex reached
for a small control box and pressed a button. The seemingly solid
cylinder rose into a collapsed or compressed circle surrounding the
Parody Pulsator on the ceiling. "You saw how quickly it went up, but
just wait until you see how fast it can come down." Another button was
pressed, and in what seemed like the blink of an eye the cylinder was
back in place. "Even if you don't have the Amazon knocked out or
otherwise senseless, this can come down and trap her."
Dr. Psycho grinned his approval. "Looks perfect, Lex. All I need to do
is rig a false ceiling so that this device is out of sight and it should
be perfect. I presume in its compacted form it can be shipped and
handled reasonably easily. Now, just how much do I owe you for this
little jewel?"
"If I was to ask for money for this device," Lex said with a wide grin,
"I doubt very much you could afford it, Psycho. But I don't want any
money; I just want the results of your first for real use of the machine
so I'll know if I can indeed use it on big blue and a few other heroes
I'd love to get out of the way. If it does what I hope, we'll have new
allies in crime, instead of old heroic enemies."
"Ah, in that case you have my deepest thanks, Lex. Now, if you can get
this device packaged and sent to the site I told you about in Gateway
City, I'll get back there and set myself up to meet the Amazon."
"Of course, Psycho. Please tell me, I know you won't have Wonder Woman
come to you in your true form. Are you going to see her as you are
right now?"
"Ha, ha," Dr. Psycho laughed in reply. "No, in fact I've already been
preparing her for the visit. The Amazon has been having some
fascinating nightmares and visions lately, provided by me, of course,
and to find out why she is having such strange dreams it has been
arranged for her to visit Doctor Yvonne Simons, a specialist in
superhuman psychiatry."
Lex crossed his arms as he raised an eyebrow. "And perchance, am I
standing before Dr. Simons?"
"Yes, indeed," Psycho answered with a grin. "It's a bit too involved a
process to change right here in front of you, Lex. Perhaps you'll meet
her at some point during this working trial run of the device."
"Right, I'm hoping it will be she who will give me the results of Wonder
Woman's change," Luthor told him. "Okay, we'll get this all packed up
and I'll have the guys doing the delivery see if you want any help
setting up in your office."
"Thanks, Lex. Since they're already familiar with the device, let your
guys know I'll let them do all the set up work. Now, lead the way back
up and out of here, please."
Luthor nodded, then waved an arm in the direction of the elevator. Lex
let Psycho off at ground level, then went all the way back up to his
penthouse suite.
* * * * *
As soon as Psycho got back to Gateway City, he went to the office leased
to Dr. Yvonne Simons. Since everything going on for the next few days
to a week would involve the psychiatrist herself, he put the ectoplasmic
extractor to use for the second time that day. Moments later, the black
haired man was replaced by a tall and very shapely and well proportioned
female with wavy blonde hair going halfway down her back. "Ahh," she
said in her soft and sexy enough to be a phone sex operator voice, "back
into the form of the woman who has already talked to and will soon meet
Wonder Woman. And most likely, the last person to ever see the Amazon,
too! Ha, ha!" She giggled, almost like a gleeful high schooler.
The usually male villain had played female roles before, but never to
the extent he intended to this time. Psycho wanted Yvonne to appear
totally at ease and normal to his enemy when she showed up at the
office, so he had decided to live as her even overnight when it wasn't
entirely necessary. Living as Yvonne for a few days to a week or more
would make her seem like just who she pretended to be. The only thing
Psycho was worried about was having something happen while Lex's techs
were installing the device; as a female, SHE would be much more easily
injured in an accident, not to mention having to possibly fend off any
sexual advances they might make. 'Just let one of them try that,' she
thought. 'I'll get him separated from his companions and he'll soon
join me as a member of the fairer sex. A much more exotically built
member of the fairer sex who will draw lots of attention on the
streets!'
For the next two days and nights, Dr. Yvonne Simons mentally fed more
and more horrendous visions and nightmares to Wonder Woman. By the time
she would be able to come in for a visit, the Amazon would be a real
mental case.
On the third day, the team of technicians from LexCorp arrived with
Luthor's new toy. Taking advantage of her much increased height, Yvonne
had already reset the hung ceiling of the office. It took the techs
only three hours to install the Parody Pulsator in the gap between the
hung ceiling and the true ceiling above. They also cut through the
false ceiling where the cylinder would descend and disguised it almost
perfectly with the circle still being in place but hooked to an ultra
quick snap switch to slide it out of the way in the thousandths of a
second it would take for the cylinder to drop into place. To Yvonne's
half disappointment and half thankfulness, none of the guys made any
eyes at her, let alone come on to her. As soon as the job was done,
they were history, leaving no sign that they'd even been there to any
but a very careful eye. Yvonne was not worried - she knew just where to
look for the circular cut out, and she could barely notice it.
With good timing, Yvonne got a phone call from Wonder Woman an hour and
a half after the Luthor team left. "Let me check my schedule, Wonder
Woman, hold on a moment." She stalled as if having a clerk look through
an appointment list, then came back with, "Yes, if you can come in
tomorrow afternoon after 3:30 I should be able to see you with nobody
else here to spot you." She nodded as the Amazon told her about the
building mental stresses she was feeling, then said to watch for her at
3:40. "Very good, Wonder Woman, I'll be here all by myself and watching
for you then. Goodbye."
Just for reinforcement, as soon as she hung up Yvonne projected another
horrific visage to the Amazon's mind. 'I'll let her have tonight off,'
she mused. 'That way she'll be fresh and open for the end of her
present life tomorrow.'
Unlike the Amazon, who even without prompting from her foe would toss
and turn all night, Yvonne slept very soundly that evening. Anxiety was
banished from her mind, replaced with the idea that this would most
likely be the last evening that she'd sleep as a female. For the time
being, at least.
* * * * *
The buxom Amazon shifted with a bit of embarrassment on the leather
couch. "Thank you for agreeing to see me, Doctor. I...admit that I'm a
bit hesitant about coming to see you, but I've heard that you've not
only helped people with metahuman abilities before, but that you're
also...discrete." She looked worriedly over to the tall and attractive
young woman with long blonde hair, dressed in a feminine but
professional beige suit emphasizing her own well built chest and female
curves in the chair at the desk.
The disguised villain nodded. "Of course, Diana. I can call you Diana,
can't I?" At her nod, she continued, "The psychology of metahumans is a
barely explored field, especially in the area of dreams. There are so
few of you who are willing to...subject yourselves to the rigorous
examinations necessary that it's hard to gather empirical data.
Nevertheless, I think I can help you."
'I can help you because I'm the one who's been sending those disturbing
dreams into your mind, you Amazon cow,' the disguised Dr. Psycho thought
to herself. 'I knew you would come to me if I posed as a young FEMALE
psychiatrist who had done graduate work in metahuman psychology...'
With a dazzling white smile the faux therapist continued, "Now, in
regular cases I would conduct a series of interviews and such to build a
case history. However, I believe that in your situation more drastic
measures are called for, since you're in need of immediate relief." She
prepared a needle and approached the heroine. "This is a mild sedative.
It'll help you relax, hopefully as a preface to putting you under
hypnosis so we can find the underlying roots of your disturbing
visions."
Wonder Woman bit her lip hesitantly. She barely knew this woman.
Letting herself by hypnotized right off the bat was presuming a lot...
But then she flashed back to the nightmares, where she would alternately
wake in fits of screaming terror or flopping about in
pools of her own cum. She would HAVE to find some relief...she hadn't
had a decent night's sleep in two weeks. "All right," she nodded,
extending her arm and steeling herself for the sting of the piercing
metal.
With practiced ease, the Doctor gave her the injection. Her smile grew
wider, for in reality this chemical cocktail was not a sedative but
actually a powerful will suppressant. The Amazon would keep her full
faculties, but in a few moments her mind would be malleable putty,
completely Psycho's to mold and shape. Or more precisely, hers and the
Parody Pulsator.
Indeed, within minutes Diana's face had smoothed into an emotionless
mask, her eyes glassy and empty.
"Your will is now mine to control, Wonder Woman. Until you hear the key
words, 'On your own,' you may only do what I tell you to. Nod if you
understand." The blank face nodded. Yvonne grinned. Time for a test.
"I'd like for you to get up and stand next to my desk, Diana," the
insidious brainwasher suggested.
"Stand and move over to your desk," she parroted as she stood to move.
In a trice, she stood ramrod straight before her enemy completely
helpless and exposed to Psycho's wicked whims. There wasn't even any
need for her to move, for the Amazon was directly under the Pulsator.
"And now," the gorgeous blonde chuckled, "the fun begins..."
The disguised Psycho reached to the actuator tucked behind a photo on
the desk. Not even needing to pick it up, she stabbed a petite finger
at the actuator button and in the blink of an eye the clear cylinder
dropped down from the ceiling. Wonder Woman remained motionless with
her arms at her sides, surrounded by the glassy material.
'Now then,' the blonde mused, 'we can't have a mindless or no willpower
villain when the machine has done its job.' She stood directly in front
of the Amazon, and in a loud voice said, "On your own."
It took a few seconds, but Wonder Woman did come back to her full
faculties. She saw her doctor standing directly in front of her, and
then noticed the clear cylinder surrounding her. Her hands shot up to
spots directly in front of her chest for maximum effect and pushed while
asking, "Doctor Simons, what-"
She stopped as soon as she started, for no matter how hard she pushed,
the cylinder appeared to resist the Amazon's incredible strength. Her
psychiatrist answered without needing the full question. "You are
trapped inside a cylinder strong enough to hold Superman, Wonder Woman.
Yes, getting you here into this office was merely a ruse to get you
inside that cylinder. Now I can finally get out of this female form."
"Inside the cylinder for what purpose?" raged the heroine. "Out of this
female form, did you say? By Hera, are you Dr. Psycho?"
The blonde laughed heartily. "Yes, indeed, Wonder Woman. I'm not Dr.
Yvonne Simons, I am Dr. Psycho. And in just a few moments, you will no
longer be Wonder Woman! When the cylinder rises, I will welcome you
with open arms as a fellow villain. Today your present life ends, and
your new life of crime begins."
"WHAT?! NO!!" the Amazon started to scream, but her voice fell silent
as a svelte finger hit the start button for the Parody
Pulsator. A loud hum came from the unit over Wonder Woman's head, and
the moisture in the air of the cylinder turned into a dense fog, hiding
her from view.
The normally diminutive dwarf and woman-hating mentalist now actually in
the form of a beautiful woman laughed wildly as she watched her captive
hidden in the mists of the Parody Pulsator. Psycho wasn't sure what
she'd be transformed into, but whatever it was, it would be a complete
mockery of everything Wonder Woman stood for.
The disguised villain's excitement was rewarded, for when the cylinder
lifted her subject was no longer clad in her heroic Amazon costume, but
instead in a costume of a totally different sort, that of her longtime
nemesis, the original Cheetah. Her bust was bulging in the tight
costume with her nipples plainly evident, and her luxuriant black hair
was completely hidden inside the head to toe yellow catsuit with black
splotches. A long and thick tail came from a spot just above her
gorgeously feminine butt, and it wasn't hanging straight down but
twisting as if alive. The heels built into the feet of her costume
looked like they were nearly twice as high as the ones that had been on
Wonder Woman's boots, so the Pulsator must have made even the costume of
the new villainess a parody. There was no sign of any of her original
costume, but Psycho had no way of knowing that the wrist shooters around
both of her wrists used to be Amazon bracelets. All of her compulsions
for justice and heroism had turned into desires for evil. To clean out
bank vaults, to clean away the morals of her contemporaries, whom she
wished dearly to turn into parodies of themselves.
Worst of all, though, was the extreme urge she felt to destroy her foe,
Wonder Woman. She knew that once the hated Amazon was dead, she would
be free to create mayhem for the rest of her life as Cheetah. The catch
was, since she herself was truly Wonder Woman, there would be no way for
Cheetah to ever destroy her foe. This would cause the villainess to
eventually lose her mind.
Psycho had no way of knowing this flaw in the mind of the new
villainess. "Cheetah, glad to see you made it here to Gateway City,"
the blonde said in welcome.
The new villainess could think of nothing better to do so she stepped
over to her greeter and embraced her in a hug. Yvonne, as much as she
abhored women as her true self, experienced some very pleasant feelings
coursing through her body as she joined with her foe turned ally, and
was very pleasantly surprised when she felt Cheetah's tail caressing her
back and butt. As their breasts angled to mesh with each other, Cheetah
answered by saying, "Glad to be here. Now I can create hell in this
city and try to draw out my enemy, Wonder Woman."
Yvonne's eyes widened as she shook her head. 'What did you say?!' she
thought. 'She must have all the original compulsions of Priscilla, now
that she has her life. I wonder...' The blonde pulled away from the
hug, and while holding Cheetah's shoulders asked, "So that I can still
help you in your plans, can I ask who you are when you aren't Cheetah?"
The villainess narrowed her own eyes, then replied by saying, "I guess I
can tell you. I am always Cheetah, but when I'm not in my costume I go
by the name of Diana Prince."
Dr. Simons nodded, thinking, 'Good, so she isn't also thinking she's
Priscilla.' As she took her computer notepad in hand, the blonde said,
"If you don't already have a place to stay while you're here, I can get
something set up for you."
Cheetah shook her head. "That won't be necessary. I'm going to find a
place on my own, but I'll get back in touch once I'm settled. In other
words, don't call me, I'll call you. Unless you have anything else, I
want to get going."
"No, nothing else," Yvonne said as she closed the notepad, "and the door
to the left end of the hallway exits into the loading dock at the rear
of the building so you should be able to get out of here without being
noticed. Good hunting, Cheetah!"
The new villainess nodded, then turned for the door and was gone.
Yvonne reached for her phone and hit the speed dial for Lex Luthor. Lex
knew who was calling, so as he hit the button he said, "Did you use the
Pulsator?"
He heard a pleasantly feminine voice say, "It worked beyond my wildest
dreams, Lex. The machine turned Wonder Woman into a new version of the
old Cheetah. And her costume changed completely to that of her new
identity, also. She even has a tactile and very much alive tail that
seems like the original. Her heels did seem a lot higher, though."
"By old, do you mean Debbie or Priscilla? And that must be the fact
that you're a woman now, why else would you notice her heels?"
"Priscilla. But she doesn't have Priscilla's name, she still calls
herself Diana Prince. And if anything, she seems even more wicked than
Priscilla was. Male or female, it would be hard not to notice the
incredible stiletto heels she now has."
Lex frowned. "This means we now have two Cheetahs, Psycho. I'll see
what I can do to put Barbara out of circulation for the time being."
There was a moment's hesitation before the female voice came back. "I
hadn't figured on our new costumed Cheetah meeting the furry one, Lex.
They are already on opposite coasts, but if there's anything you can do
to make Diana the only Cheetah for the time being, that would be good."
"Shouldn't be any problem, YVONNE," Luthor said with emphasis. "I do
wish this was a video phone. I'm sure with the way you despise women,
you're going to get back into your normal form as soon as this
conversation finishes."
"Yes, indeed," he heard. "And we do know now just how effective your
Parody Pulsator is. With what it did to Wonder Woman, I can't wait to
see what else you do with it, Lex. You'll just have to use your
imagination, because Yvonne Simons will cease to exist in moments."
"So when my guys get there to collect the Pulsator they're going to see
your normal self?"
"If they see me at all, Lex. I suppose somebody will have to let them
in. We'll see. Thanks again, and bye."
"Goodbye, Psycho, an I'm glad the machine worked as hoped. Stay in
touch."
"Right, bye."
Just she'd told Lex, Psycho went straight to the ectoplasmic extractor
and set it to do away with Yvonne. In mere moments, Psycho lost half
the height as his normal and hideous form reappeared.
* * * * *
When Cheetah got to the door the blonde had pointed out, she pulled it
in and stuck her yellow and black spots with two small cat ears cowled
head out just far enough to do a quick scan to confirm nobody was in
sight. Thus assured, she stood tall in her unbelievable heels and
strode out onto the small loading area. 'Now then,' she thought while
noting the signs over nearby doors and her tail danced sensually behind
her, 'if I'm going to find a place to stay while luring my foe Wonder
Woman into battle, I'd better get my claws on some clothes to cover or
take the place of my costume.' She walked down to a sign saying
'Employees Only: Cathleen's Couture' and saw that the door was propped
open. 'So much for their security,' she thought as Cheetah stepped into
the back of the shop.
There proved to be nobody in the rear of the store, and after purposely
willing her tail to stick straight up her back and curl back down the
villainess stealthily moved toward the front where she heard a customer
thanking the clerk at the register, and no other sounds. She made her
way to a spot from which she could see the register, and spotted the
good looking but hardly gorgeous middle aged redhead with a large bag in
her hand now turning toward the front door. Cheetah waited a moment
until the door closed, then concentrated on any more noises. It seemed
that the young woman who had been behind the register was now the only
person in the store other than herself. She lifted her left hand and
selected a button on one of the tubes wringing her wrist. 'One knockout
dart should give me the run of the store,' she thought.
Cheetah stood and walked very openly into the store itself, her tail
once more active and her heels making very evident clicking sounds.
Intrigued by the new sounds, the clerk came back, expecting to see
another customer she hadn't noted before. When she came upon the
menacing looking woman in the garish costume, the woman froze. "Gee, if
you're going to just stand there like a totem pole maybe I don't need
this," Cheetah said as she lifted her left arm. "But I don't like to
take chances."
The claw on Cheetah's gloved right index finger ticked the button on the
tube she'd selected earlier on her left wrist, and a small dart shot out
to lodge in the clerk's neck. The woman slumped to the floor
immediately, her eyes rolling and then closing. Cheetah reached for the
keys clipped to the clerk's belt and pulled them off, then went straight
to the front door to lock it. "No more customers for now," she said
aloud, "I want to do my shopping all alone." But before looking through
any of the trendy clothes, she made her way to the back door to close
and lock it. No sense inviting any other felons to her party, or
allowing anyone with any real reason to be there in. If they were to
use keys in the lock, Cheetah would hear them with plenty of time to get
out of the way.
With the shop now secured, Cheetah went up and down a few aisles looking
to see what was available. While she would have liked to grab one or
more of the black or red leather miniskirts, there were no shoes in the
shop so she'd have to stick with at least the bottom of her costume for
the time being. She pulled a yellow skirt off the hanger that would go
down to her calves, and held it to her tiny waist. "Good, with this my
costume legs and heels look like fashionable boots," she muttered
softly. "Now, for those miniskirts and a blouse or two."
After collecting three miniskirts, one knee length one and one more long
skirt, Cheetah added five blouses of mix and match colors and textures
to the pile on her left arm. She went to the register and grabbed one
of the large bags, into which went her haul along with some of the knee
length hose from a display. Then she held up the key ring. One small
one looked about right, and in it went into the lock on the register
drawer. The drawer sprang open, exposing what had to be many hundreds
of dollars in cash. "Don't these fools know about making money drops
during the work day?" Cheetah scowled. "I bet they're too used to
customers using credit cards and I just got lucky that one or more
customers paid big bills with cash. Now I have enough to actually go
buy some shoes and boots, and also pay for my room."
Cheetah looked around and spotted some purses on a shelf. Into a rather
large black one went all the cash. Then she grabbed her bag and the
purse and headed for one of the changing rooms. After she pulled her
cowl back and off her head, Cheetah shook her long black hair to loosen
it up. Then she unzipped her costume from her neck down between her
breasts and down to her waist, which also took the mystical life out of
her tail which shrank and then disappeared. She pulled off her wrist
shooters and laid them in the purse. Next she pulled her hands and arms
out of the identically colored and wickedly clawed gloves and sleeves of
the costume, then rolled it flat around her waist. Braless, she put on
a black faux leather blouse, followed by the calf length yellow cotton
skirt. In the mirror, Cheetah saw herself as a very good looking woman
in a sharp yellow and black outfit with long black hair and trendy boots
with really sexy heels.
Leaving her knocked out host behind, Cheetah unlocked the front door and
went back out the rear. Now as Diana Prince instead of Cheetah, she
added a few more bags while visiting two shoe stores and three larger
women's clothing stores. By the time she got to the apartment complex
that was showing weekly rentals and space available, Diana's hands and
arms were full. She'd given up trying to count how many times she was
asked by salespersons how she was able to stand, let alone walk, in the
ultra high heels she was wearing. One of the shoe store guys knew to
stop asking when one of her purchases was a pair of black lace up, calf
high ballet toed boots.
Diana put on her little girl lost face for the woman at the apartment
house. It didn't take much to convince her that Diana had lost her
driver's license and that it didn't really matter anyway, did it, since
she was paying in advance with cash. Since many of the renters were
call girls, the woman didn't give her newest renter any hassle. Diana
made her way up to her new domicile, and started to put away all her new
apparel. Before finishing, though, she unbuttoned her yellow skirt and
sat down to pull off the bottom of her costume. She merely set the
costume aside since she intended to put it to use again later in the
evening. On a whim, Diana slipped her feet into one of the pairs of
nylon knee highs and then opened the box with her new ballet toed boots.
She was on her toes while putting away the rest of her some stolen, some
bought with stolen money clothes.
After changing into black fishnet pantyhose and a more normal looking
pair of triple strapped black shoes with hooker heels and her black
miniskirt, the villainess who now looked as black as her soul went for a
bite to eat. She enjoyed ignoring all the guys who thought she was
looking for business. With her tummy feeling satisfied, Diana then made
her way back to the apartment. As soon as it was dark, Cheetah got back
into her costume and left via the fire escape on the back side of the
building. Two banks felt her sting that night. Security cameras in
each got good imagery of the feline felon.
* * * * *
Aboard the JLA Watchtower at its watch station with clocks showing Earth
time in various locations such as Metropolis 1502, Central City 1402 and
Gateway City 1202, Flash watched a scrolling report of news relating to
two bank robberies that had taken place the night before in Gateway
City. 'Wonder Woman's down there right now,' he thought, 'I wonder why
she didn't get involved?' The speedster kept reading, then his eyes
widened when he read about the perpetrator. Wally then gasped when he
saw the pictures captured by the security cameras in the banks. When
he'd read it was Cheetah doing the robberies, he expected to see the
furry form of Barbara Minerva. The sight of what appeared to be the
original Cheetah from back when he had only been Kid Flash came as a
shock. The only other Leaguer on board at the moment was Martian
Manhunter, so Wally hit J'onn's pager button.
A few minutes later the hulking green form of the lawman from Mars came
up behind Flash. "What's up, Wally?"
"J'onn, last night in Gateway City two banks got robbed by Cheetah, but
it wasn't Barbara Minerva. This Cheetah looked just like the original
from eons ago, Priscilla Rich. Same type of costume, anyway, even the
tail. Diana is supposed to be down there right now, but nobody saw her
anywhere near either bank. I just tried to page her, but there was no
connection at all on the frequency."
While listening, J'onn was also reading the scroll his teammate had
noted. Then he said, "Something's not right down in Gateway City.
Leave word for the others that I'm going down there to try and locate
Diana. If her comm system is inop, maybe I can find her using her
brainwaves. I should be able to handle the situation on my own, but
I'll zap you if I need any help."
"Okay, J'onn. I'll note you leaving on the Gateway teleporter at 1906
Zulu. Good luck, and do let me know as soon as you find Wonder Woman."
Martian Manhunter waved a salute to Flash, then turned to walk over to
the teleporter. He set the button for Wonder Woman's location, then was
gone.
At more or less the same moment, J'onn came into view inside a small
room. He opened the door to see a familiar sight, the roof of the condo
building that was home to Princess Diana of the Amazons, known to man's
world as Wonder Woman. He walked from what looked like a tool shed on
the outside to the door leading into the stairwell of the building.
Down the steps the not very jolly green giant went until he got to the
fifth floor. Ringing the doorbell and knocking on Diana's door brought
no response. Desperate times call for desperate measures, he figured,
so from his belt J'onn retrieved his very high tech lock pick. Diana's
door was open in seconds.
It was evident that the Amazon was not home, but J'onn did the obvious
and gave the place a thorough look-see. There was no sign of any foul
play, and no indication that his teammate had left any kind of message
for others. She was just plain gone. Then the Manhunter stood still
and concentrated, probing with his mind. After almost two minutes, he
snapped his fingers. Very faint indications of Diana's brainwaves were
coming from what seemed to be the opposite side of the city. What he
perceived greatly disturbed J'onn, for after 'listening' for more than
five minutes he found that Diana was thinking of herself as Cheetah.
There were weak indications that she knew Dr. Psycho was somehow
involved in her change of identity. After listening a bit more, he
thought, 'By the moons of Mars! Dr. Psycho has convinced Diana that she
is Cheetah! She now has an overpowering desire to destroy Wonder Woman!
If she cannot find Wonder Woman, she will go permanently insane! To
save my teammate, I must become Wonder Woman! But if she wins, she will
permanently become Cheetah! I dare not fail!'
Martian Manhunter disconnected from Diana and then pondered the
situation for a moment. If Diana needed to find Wonder Woman to keep
her sanity, he could easily allow that to happen. But to fight the
Amazon? If he was to become Wonder Woman and go into battle with Diana,
J'onn would absolutely have to win; otherwise, Diana would remain as
Cheetah and spend the rest of her life as a super villainess. Assuming
he did win though, what would that do to Diana? Would she lose her
sanity then and there, or would her teammates in the JLA be able to
somehow restore Diana to her true identity?
That would have to be handled as the situation developed, the manhunter
decided as he morphed his hulking green form into the tall but
beautifully feminine form of Wonder Woman. J'onn had taken on many
human female forms in the past, but never one as exquisitely shaped and
beautiful as Princess Diana's. She felt all the power and strength in
her adopted amazon body, along with the bonuses provided by the golden
power belt molding her already narrow waist into an even smaller and
shapelier one. J'onn had purposely made every part of the costume she
wore be identical to the original, which also gave her odd feelings of
subservience from the bracelets around her wrists.
Just to make sure, J'onn walked over to Diana's vertical mirror on the
bedroom door. She stood in front of it with her hands on her hips and
saw just what she'd hoped, the heroine known to the world as Wonder
Woman. Then, as she perceived the size and weight of the breasts on her
chest, the Amazon put her hands under the globes of flesh and hefted
them. What a feeling that gave her! Her left hand reached up and
pulled down on the golden W covering her left breast to expose the
aureola and nipple. A long fingernail touching that nipple made a bolt
of pleasure shoot through her body. But before the temptation took her
any further, Wonder Woman put her golden W back into place.
The Amazon then reached down to her waist to unclip the golden lasso
looped at her side. She had seen Diana use it on a number of occasions,
and knew that it could extend almost by sheer willpower besides being
incredibly strong and unbreakable. As for its power to cause a person
around whom it was looped to speak only the truth or obey whatever
instructions were given by its holder, Wonder Woman was sure the lasso
she held would do just what it was supposed to. She looped it into a
circle to form a big halo around her reflection, then on a thought
wrapped it around her own shoulders. "You are J'onn J'onzz, but only
you can know that. No one else, even with the power of this lasso, can
make you give any other name than, 'I am Wonder Woman.' While in this
form, you will think and act just as you would if you were the real
Wonder Woman."
As she rolled up her lasso to reattach it to her power belt, Wonder
Woman figured she had just made it so that nobody would be able to tell
she was anyone other than whom she appeared to be. What she didn't know
was that she had just banished the powers of J'onn J'onzz. While she
still had J'onn's memories and mission in mind, she knew only that she
had to be the person she had become. So, with the Amazon's strength and
skills, but none of Martian Manhunter's shape shifting or mind reading
powers, the heroine who was almost Diana and knew she was Wonder Woman
left Diana's condo to go find the villainess who was Diana and knew she
was Cheetah - both with exactly the same bodies, if not powers.
As she was going down the stairwell, Wonder Woman realized she no longer
had a communicator with which to call Flash or any of the others. She
turned around and broke into the condo for the second time, this time
with force instead of finesse. She sheered the lock with her strength,
then went to the desk and wrote a note explaining what she had found out
and what she was now intending to do. Oddly, she found that even though
she could mention changing from Martian Manhunter to Wonder Woman in the
note, the only name with which she could sign it was Wonder Woman. This
should have keyed the heroine to the error she'd made with her lasso,
but in her haste she didn't pay it enough attention. With some record
now left behind, Wonder Woman did her best to make the door look normal
and then got back to her search.
When she got to the street, the Amazon started to wonder about getting
to the other side of town. Walking that far seemed a bit much, even if
she could run twice as fast as the best Olympic runners. She felt a
strange sort of tingling from the tiara on her head, then knew just what
to do. Wonder Woman's invisible airplane was more than just that, it
was any form of transportation needed by the heroine. In mere moments a
humming noise came from behind, and only Wonder Woman could see the
invisible motorcycle waiting there. She thought briefly about the skin
tight blue unitard and blue helmet normally worn while riding the bike,
but since she didn't have the biker costume handy, people would have to
see the normally clad Wonder Woman zipping along the streets without any
sound. It was as this vision sped toward her goal that she also
recalled the different costume boots that went with the biker costume.
The high heels on her normal costume boots kept slipping into the
perforations of the bike's foot pads.
Then she stopped as another thought came to the Amazon's head. 'If I've
got all the other powers of Wonder Woman thanks to the perfect copy of
her costume, I wonder if...?' J'onn had watched Diana raise her arms
and spin, to reappear after a burst of light in whatever clothes she
seemed to be imagining. So, Wonder Woman parked and got off the bike,
then raised her arms and spun. After the usual burst of light, she
reappeared in the blue biker costume, flat heeled boots and all. 'Well,
I'll be!' she thought. 'I do appear to have been accepted by the Greek
gods as the true Wonder Woman!' Properly clad now, Biker Wonder Woman
got back onto the seat of her invisible motorcycle and on the way to
Diana. Passersby now were seeing just what they normally did, and
seemed to ignore her. When she got close to the apartment complex,
Wonder Woman parked and got off the bike and then spun again, to revert
to the more usually seen costume and in so doing increase her height by
four inches.
It was as she approached the apartment building from which Diana's mind
waves were felt that Wonder Woman noticed finally the error she'd made
with her own lasso. She could no longer use her mind to search. Again,
this should have made her stop and possibly even use the lasso on
herself to fix the situation, but the Amazon kept right on going without
worrying about it. After all, she was supposed to think and act as who
she was, Wonder Woman. She willed her wonder bike to go back into
hiding, then went to the back side of the apartment building. It was a
few minutes after one in the afternoon. What few people were nearby
didn't pay her any attention; the residents of Gateway City must be used
to seeing the colorful heroine in action. Utilizing the same fire
escape Cheetah had used the night before, Diana number two climbed up to
the window of the apartment she knew was being rented by Diana number
one. She just hoped number one was still at home.
* * * * *
Wonder Woman was prudent enough to not barge right in, but instead
ducked and peeked to see if there was any sign of activity inside. Sure
enough, the first thing she spotted moving was a thick and furry tail
that wiggled back forth in and out of view. Diana had to be in her
Cheetah costume and seated at a table to the right of the window. What
Wonder Woman couldn't see was the huge piles of valuables on the table
that Cheetah had stolen the night before which she was sorting and
assessing. The Amazon waited, not very patiently, to see if Diana was
going to get up and move so she'd have an easier entry. Her waiting
paid off, for after about ten minutes she saw the tail move and then the
full head to...'Moons of Mars, how does she walk in those heels?!'
Walk Cheetah did, though, right out of sight. Wonder Woman pried open
the window, not difficult since her target had done just the same the
night before, and slipped into the room. She took one quick look at the
valuables on the table, then started looking for a spot from which she
could hide and stay out of Cheetah's sight. She was still looking when
that became pointless - Cheetah came out of her bedroom door to see the
one person she wanted to find more than any other standing right there
in the living room of her own apartment. "Wonder Woman!" she exclaimed.
At the same time Cheetah was bringing her right arm up to fire a poison
dart at her foe. The claw of her left index finger tripped the trigger
button as she was finishing her exclamation.
Wonder Woman raised her arms and used the bracelet on her right wrist to
deflect the dart. "Bullets and bracelets or darts and bracelets, it's
all the same to me, Cheetah!" she replied while getting behind a high
backed chair to provide a bit of cover. 'Wait a minute,' she suddenly
thought, 'how did I just rattle off that bit about bullets and
bracelets? Oh well, no time for worrying about that now.' Then the
Amazon pulled her lasso free. 'If I can get this around Diana before
she fires another dart...'
Wonder Woman stepped out from behind the chair as Cheetah was readying
her right wrist for another shot. She charged at the heroine turned
villainess, her lasso looped and ready to go. Cheetah got off the
second dart, and in bringing her wrists up to deflect it, Wonder Woman's
lasso went flying loosely toward Cheetah. The feline felon reached out
and grabbed the lasso, yanking it from the distracted Amazon's hand.
Cheetah looped the lasso herself, and rapidly flung it over the head of
Wonder Woman. As it fell over her shoulders, Cheetah pulled it tight
and for good measure wrapped it around and around the heroine until her
arms were tight against her sides.
"Stop fighting and stand still, Wonder Woman!" Cheetah ordered.
The Amazon felt the same compulsion she'd noticed when instructing
herself earlier, and obeyed without question. She was afraid to say
anything, lest she give Diana any ideas. She shouldn't have worried,
for ideas were exactly what Diana...Cheetah was getting.
"I can't believe how much you look like me, Wonder Woman," Cheetah told
her. "We could be twins. Say no more unless I tell you to, and get on
your hands and knees."
The bound Amazon did just as her unwilling muscles mandated, and dropped
to the floor so that Diana loomed over her. What was she getting at
with all the talk about being twins?
"Get up on your knees and pull your arms behind yourself, Wonder
Woman." Even with that lasso wrapped around her arms, the Amazon found
herself putting her wrists behind her back after she got up so that she
was balanced on her booted toes and her knees. Then she felt Cheetah
pull her elbows together and tighten the lasso so that she was bound
even more humiliatingly. "Now then, tell me who you really are."
Now J'onn became thankful for the idea she'd had earlier. "I am Wonder
Woman."
"No, who are you when you aren't Wonder Woman?"
"I am Wonder Woman," J'onn answered.
Then what J'onn couldn't have expected occurred. "Shit! In that case,
you fucking bitch, that is exactly who you are, Wonder Woman," Cheetah
told her. "You are Wonder Woman and no one else. If ever you have known
yourself to be any other identity, you may never know of it again. You
have all the memories of being Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman...and no one
else."
What little bit of Martian Manhunter that was still active in the mind
of Wonder Woman suddenly became hidden to her. She now knew only that
she was the Amazon heroine called Wonder Woman.
"Stand up, Wonder Woman."
With difficulty, the bound Amazon leaned back off her knees and then
rose. Cheetah placed her gloved right hand under Wonder Woman's chin
while her left held on to the lasso. She seemed to be looking more and
more closely at the face of the heroine. "Looking at you like this is
like looking in the mirror...except for that tiara on your head," the
villainess told her. "I'm going to unwrap this lasso from you now, but
I order you to stand perfectly still and not try to move, let alone
escape." Cheetah did just that, and saw her foe standing rock solid
before her.
"Hug me and kiss me, Wonder Woman," Cheetah instructed, "I want to see
what it's like to kiss my twin."
Without any
the waist of Cheetah. Cheetah likewise put her left arm down and spread
her clawed hand on the Amazon's right hip, and her right arm under
Wonder Woman's left arm with her right hand on the bare left shoulder
blade. Two massive sets of breasts intermeshed and squeezed together,
and Wonder Woman tilted her head to the right as Cheetah tilted to the
left. Their lips joined, and as two sets of eyes closed, two tongues
met.
Suddenly Cheetah pulled away. "Mmmmm, that was fantastic," she purred.
Then she quickly looped the lasso around the Amazon's neck, like a
leash. "Take off your top and shorts, Wonder Woman. You can leave on
your boots, tiara and bracelets, but I want your body nude."
Just as quickly as she had back in Diana's condo earlier, Wonder Woman
pulled off her golden power belt then stripped off her blue with white
stars shorts and finally her red and gold bustier. Since there were
obviously no bra or panties, her body was now bare. "Very nice, Wonder
Woman. Now I can see just how much more you look like me. Down on your
hands and knees again, slave!"
Cheetah stood in an imperious pose with her left hand on her hip and the
right clutching the golden lasso. "Who are you?"
"I am Wonder Woman."
"No, you are my slave. Who are you?"
The Amazon clenched her teeth in a scowl. "I am your slave."
"That's right, slave. Now, pull off your bracelets."
There was nothing the slave could do but follow her instructions. First
the left and then the right bracelets came off her wrists. "Now to see
if what I've been thinking will work," Cheetah said while she zipped the
lasso off the slave's neck and pushed her flat to the floor. Wonder
Woman, who could only now think of herself as Cheetah's slave, felt her
hands being bound together behind her back and then her still booted
ankles being similarly bound. As the lasso was tightened, her back
arched and she found herself with her ankles drawn to her hands in a
hog-tie bondage.
Cheetah got up and proceeded to pull off her entire costume except for
the cowl still covering her luxurious black hair. Luxurious black hair
exactly like that of the stripped heroine bound on her floor. Then she
started to check her idea. First she pulled on the red and gold
bustier, followed by the star spangled blue shorts. Then, after she
clipped the gold power belt around her waist, Cheetah felt a surge of
strength go through her body. Finally, she placed the two bracelets
over her wrists. Holding up her right arm, she looked at it and said,
"Since I look just like Wonder Woman, there's no sense in trying to kill
myself. I can get out of my desire to destroy Wonder Woman by becoming
Wonder Woman." She bent down and grabbed the lasso between the ankles
and the wrists. "Slave, I order you to reveal to me all I need to know
to become you!"
The bound heroine started to say what would be needed to become a
dominated slave, but Cheetah cut her off. "Slave, for the time being
you are Wonder Woman. NOW tell me what I need to know to become you!"
Corrected, she began to recite everything she knew about being Wonder
Woman. Cheetah took this all in, unaware that in the back of her own
mind was every bit of this same information. It took over an hour and a
half for the Amazon to tell her captor all she knew.
As soon as she finished, Cheetah untied the lasso from the heroine's
ankles and then proceeded to pull off each of her boots. The villainess
sat to pull each onto her own feet, knowing already that they would fit
exactly. She stood in the heels that were nearly three inches shorter
than those on her regular costume, but figured she could get used to the
lesser height. Then she bent and pulled the tiara off her bound twin's
head, followed by placing it likewise over her own. Then she walked to
the mirror in her bedroom and turned her back to it. Looking over her
shoulder, a first glimpse showed that she was now Wonder Woman. But
with her own wicked eyes, she could see herself as Cheetah. 'But soon
someone else will have this reflection,' she mused. Looking like Wonder
Woman, there was no end to the fun she could now have.
Then the evil Wonder Woman walked back out to the naked and bound female
in her living room. She grabbed the lasso and then said, "You know what
they say, 'Wonder Woman always wins!' Too bad for you...I am Wonder
Woman...and you are not anymore!"
The new Wonder Woman then proceeded to do a reverse of what happened
earlier. It took a lot less time since the tied up woman already knew
nearly everything there was to being her new self. When the
instructions were finished, Wonder Woman grabbed the costume she had
removed earlier and handed it to her. The new Cheetah sat to slip her
feet into the leggings and felt the extreme arch they were put into.
The new villainess now felt for herself the unbelievable heels she'd
marveled at earlier, but like her predecessor, loved the way they made
her feel as she stood to pull the catsuit up to her waist. "I just know
you thoroughly enjoy the height those heels give you," Wonder Woman said
when she saw how her twin was delighting herself. Then, after the top
was zipped up between her breasts and her fingers into the claws of her
gloves, the cowl was pulled over her head to hide all that black hair.
When the costume was complete, the tail hanging from above her butt
thickened and became alive. She reveled in the way her alive tail felt.
Wonder Woman looped the lasso loosely around the yellow and black
spotted shoulders. "With my old costume, you make a very convincing old
me. You are now the feline felon with not a shred of decency in your
body. You will continue your life of crime, and when the rest of the
JLA comes to help me, you will fight them, of course...just as I would
have done! Eventually you will allow yourself to be captured. After
all, we don't want to see a dangerous criminal such as you get away, do
we?"
Wonder Woman then glared at her twin. "Now you will behave exactly like
me before!"
The new Cheetah thought of all the fun crimes she could commit, along
with the super sexy clothes and boots she could wear when she wasn't on
the job in her costume. If anything, the identity instructions her
predecessor had given for her Diana Prince alter ego had given her an
even wilder idea of how she should look and act. "Yes, Wonder Woman,
I...I shall obey. I am Cheetah, the enemy of all that is good and
righteous." She was already thinking of ways she could try to trap and
defeat Wonder Woman. 'Just wait until that fucking bitch lets me get a
hold of her lasso...and allow myself to be captured eventually? Yeah,
when hell eventually freezes over!'
* * * * *
Wonder Woman willed the invisible motorcycle to come to her as soon as
she came down from Cheetah's apartment. She got on it with no intention
of changing into the biker costume. She had other ideas for costumes
into which she would change...none of which involved blue or red. She
rode the bike only far enough to put it into a big enough space, then
willed it into the form of the invisible jet. She climbed into the
cockpit, then zoomed into the sky. Halfway across the country toward
her goal of turning Supergirl into a Superslut that would join her as a
super villainess, the now evil Amazon had second thoughts about leaving
her replacement behind on her own. Instead of getting into a turn which
at her Mach number would have a radius of hundreds of miles, she pulled
the jet into a steep climb so as to start a loop that would peak at the
edge of space. At the top she rolled to wings level and started a
gravity assisted even quicker flight back toward Gateway City.
She was more than pleasantly surprised upon landing to hear word about a
daring daylight robbery at a savings and loan. Since the news people
had already called she herself Cheetah upon seeing the security camera
footage from the night before, Wonder Woman grinned wickedly when she
found out that it was Cheetah hitting the S&L. 'I can't let her have
all the fun,' she thought while getting out of the jet and willing it
away for the time being. Hidden as she was in the secluded landing
spot, the Amazon raised her arms as her predecessor had told her (and
she herself had actually done countless times without knowing it) and
spun. What she had in mind for clothing bore no relation to anything
seen before after the burst of light. Gone was the heroic red, gold and
blue of Wonder Woman. In its place was a gleaming silver unitard
identical to her old Cheetah costume but without a tail and a totally
different cowl. Now her entire head, including her face, was enclosed
in the almost metallic silver. There were two tiny holes for her nose,
an opening for her lips, and two openings at her eyes. The golden lasso
was replaced by a silver whip, wrapped around her torso and extendable
just as the lasso if needed. And, she was back to what to her felt like
the more natural seven-inch plus heels on the boots built into her
costume.
To the security guards at the jewelry store who felt the sting of her
willpower nullifying whip, the villainess said, "Just remember that you
have been looted by Metallica!" When she finished there, the gleaming
felon changed back into Wonder Woman and made her way to what had been
her apartment. She wondered if Cheetah would notice the extra bags of
jewels on the table top, and grinned. The news reports she had been
hearing told her that there was no need to even personally check on her
replacement. Had she stuck around though, Wonder Woman would have been
more than surprised. Shortly after she left to just spin into street
clothes and cruise the night streets, Cheetah came back to make a few
changes herself.
* * * * *
By the time the sun went down, the Cheetah who had started as Martian
Manhunter had already more than doubled the loot residing on the table
in her apartment. The reports of her brazen daylight robberies were in
news flashes across the country, in particular noted by Lex Luthor on
the east coast and Dr. Psycho on the west. Added to what they'd seen
from her robberies the night before, both thought the changed heroine
was turning out to be a perfect villainess. They had no way of knowing,
of course, that this was a second changed heroine.
Since she saw no more sign of the woman she thought of partially as the
foe she needed to destroy and partially as her partner in crime,
thoughts which really confused the villainess, Diana had removed her
costume and gotten into some clothes that would make any man seeing her
forget about her other identity. In her stretch pink tube top and
cherry red leather jacket over her black leather miniskirt, she looked
like a hot to trot slut. Added to this, though, was the glossy nude
crotchless pantyhose and the black calf high ballet toed boots. She was
really a sight to see, and with the extreme makeup on her already
superbly beautiful face, Diana Prince was making all those who saw her
think she was a high class whore on the make. She grinned wickedly at
all who dared to actually approach her. "Sorry, worm, you're not
worthy."
Dressed as she was, Diana was able to scout for other females she
intended to trap and then turn into her cohorts in crime. She just sat
and observed, taking sips occasionally from the drink which had little
effect on her Amazon body.
* * * * *
Flash had been relieved at the JLA Watchtower's duty desk by Aquaman at
the Earth American east coast time of 1800, or 6 pm for the members of
the JLA who abhorred what sounded like military time. Wally had told
Arthur about the situation in Gateway City and that J'onn had gone down
to check things out. "And you haven't heard anything more from J'onn
since he left?" the King of Atlantis asked the speedster.
Flash shook his head. "Nope. But I figured he'd call if anything came
up, so up to this point I've been just watching and waiting. Nothing
has happened in Gateway City as far as I know."
The Atlantean merman scowled. "That doesn't sound like J'onn to me.
Stick around, Wally, I'm going to call an alert for all JLA members."
By the time most of the League was seated at the conference table,
Aquaman was able to tell them that things most definitely had started to
happen in Gateway City, and none mentioned anything about Wonder Woman.
"Cheetah was at it again, if anything more brazen and wicked than the
night before, and a new villainess calling herself Metallica hit a
jewelry store. If J'onn is down there, he's not making his presence
known. Pretty obviously, he wasn't able to find Wonder Woman either.
Diana hasn't been seen for two days now." Hearing his briefing were
Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Flash, Dr.
Fate, Zatanna and Hawkgirl.
Superman was chairing the meeting, and scowled as he saw the empty seats
at both Diana's and J'onn's spots. "J'onn was our primary telepath, and
without him it's going to be rough trying to figure out what's going on
in the minds of these new villainesses. Arthur, you can read minds from
close proximity, can't you?"
Aquaman nodded. "But not with the precision J'onn has."
"Okay," the Man of Steel said, "even though there are reports of at
least two felons on the loose down there, I think the best idea is to go
down together and stay as a single group until anything makes it
necessary to break up. Zee, I'm glad that you're back and can possibly
help Dr. Fate if we need any magical help tonight. Wally, you and I can
do the high speed recon runs. Dinah, you and Ollie stick with Zee and
Kyle. Arthur, stay with Sheira so she can give you a dip in the Pacific
if needed. She can also fly you to wherever we need some mind reading,
presuming Lantern or myself aren't on hand. Bruce, you stick with Inza.
She can get you anywhere instantly to give help where needed."
Batman interrupted Superman. "Kal, do you see any need for Selina's
help since we're dealing with a cat oriented felon?"
Superman shook his head. "I doubt Catwoman would be of much help
tonight, Bruce. Granted, her skills are right up the alley of these
villainesses, but I think we've got all the help we need at this table.
Now, if Selina was a mind reader instead of a stealthy kitten..."
Kyle broke in then. "Kal, if you think we need them, Booster and Blue
Beetle are back at my place. They were visiting when the call came."
"No, I doubt Ted's mechanical aptitude would be of much use tonight,"
Superman answered, "and Booster is still too much of a loose cannon for
me, Lantern. I think we can handle the task with the team as it is at
the table. Okay, folks, let's get a move on."
Superman did his usual thing and zipped Earthward on his own, while the
rest prepared to be wrapped in a green power bubble from Kyle's ring for
transport. Before he activated it, though, Zatanna said, "Hang on,
Kyle, I can do this a lot faster. How does Gateway City Central Park
sound to all of you?" Most heads nodded. "llA fo su ot lartneC kraP."
The entire group disappeared...
...and reappeared in the moist grass of Gateway City's Central Park
amongst a few startled onlookers. They waited a few moments, then Kyle
shot a green energy flare into the sky. Within seconds the Man of Steel
dropped in on the group. "What took you so long, Supes?" Wally joked.
"Let me guess," Kal answered, "Zee Express."
"Faster than a speeding bullet," the beautiful black haired magician in
her traditional tophat and tails over fishnets costume replied. She was
the only one in the group now thinking the park wasn't such a good idea.
Hawkgirl, Black Canary and Dr. Fate were all wearing costume boots that
had flat or low block heels. Zee's dress black pumps had sharp stiletto
heels that were sinking into the soft soil.
"Let's get going, then, Wally," Superman said. "You take the west side
of town, I'll take the east. If you spot either Cheetah or Metallica,
or any other criminals for that matter, get word to me and the others."
Flash didn't need to say anything, he just waved a salute at Kal and
then blurred into a red and gold speed demon. Superman took off as
quickly, but in the air as opposed to on the ground.
Batman lost his patience right away. "Inza, you know the insides of
Diana's condo, don't you?"
Dr. Fate thought for just a moment, then said, "It's been a while, but I
know where it is and the layout of her interior, BATMAN."
The Caped Crusader shook his head. "Sorry, Fate. I forgot there were
people within earshot. How about teleporting us into Wonder Woman's
condo, that was most likely where Martian Manhunter would have gone
first. Maybe there's some clue as to what's going on there."
The golden helmet atop the head of Inza nodded, and both disappeared.
"She's as good at that as me," Zee noted.
"Maybe better, Zee," Aquaman replied. "Dr. Fate's been doing this for a
lonnnngggg time."
"I just hope something happens soon, or I'm going to die of boredome,"
Kyle mentioned.
Black Canary nodded at Ollie, then walked over to Green Lantern.
"Kyle," she said softly, "patience is not just a virtue. It's something
an experienced crime fighter like Green Arrow or myself has learned to
value; you never know when fate is going to drop the big one on you, and
patience will afford you better than anxiety."
Just as Dinah was finishing, all the communicators of the JLA members
beeped. Hawkgirl was the first to open the line. "Kal, Wally, and all
the rest of you. This is Bruce. Get over to Diana's condo ASAP!"
"So much for patience," Kyle said with irony in his voice.
"Ready, everybody?" Zee asked. Luckily, Zatanna had just visited Wonder
Woman a month before, and knew the interior of her place very well. As
she saw heads nodding, the mage said, "s'anaiD moordeb." The group left
the view of those watching in Central Park to reappear in one of the
rooms Zee knew best...for reasons left unsaid for now.
Hawkgirl felt her wings brushing the ceiling which she appeared under,
and angled them to a more relaxed position. Then she noticed what was
around herself and before any of the others could ask, said, "Zee, her
bedroom? Any particular reason we ended up in here?"
Black Canary was grinning to herself as she saw Zatanna blush while
replying, "Ah...Sheira, let's just say I knew this spot better than any
other in the condo and leave it at that for now, okay?"
Hawkgirl giggled as she nodded her head.
The three guys tried their best to just leave the girls to their fun.
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