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^^ Moray / Terran Doran ^^

— Erin —

Diana made an entrance, floating up calmly into the middle of the situation. "Greetings, Deathstroke. You should reconsider your choice of opponents. This one is under my protection!"

"Wonder Woman? Go drink your coffee. I assure you, the very moment that I feel threatened, I am not too proud to ask for help. That moment has not yet arrived." I smirked at Deathstroke, (the current threat regardless of all the other enemies,) and he raised an eyebrow, looking mildly impressed by the display of my balls of steel.

She hummed, and slowly sat down on the corner of the building, within sight but out of the way, and accepted a cup of coffee from an amused, levitating Zatanna. "Well... I apologize for interfering in your battle, then, Nomad. Please, continue; I will interfere no more, only watch, as you are not a member of the League, and it was never my place to interfere either way."

"Good to know. Open fire." Slade raised a fist swiftly.

The ninja wielding guns opened fire on me without hesitation, aiming their guns at a slightly downward angle, to avoid hitting each other with any missed shots, and I gritted my teeth at the pain of what felt almost exactly like paintballs, which would probably bruise me over time, but were currently just an annoyance.

I glanced up, just in time for the two groups of ninja to run out of bullets, almost simultaneously, and dodged the massive beast-man slamming into the roof, cracking it all the way to the foundation.

A single near-lethal kick to his neck at my full strength was enough to send him reeling and unable to stand straight, then a heel-kick to his temple knocked him out cleanly. The other meta woman used my laser-focus on him to get close, and she struck me soundly across the skull, making me take a knee as my vision shook.

She took a second swing, but I calmly slipped a hand under her arm, then gripped her wrist, punching upwards and savagely shattering her entire shoulder. While she screamed in rage and pain, I stomped on her left knee, breaking that as well.

"Stay down, little girl, or I will break your neck. This fight is between Deathstroke and I, not you plebes and failures." I frowned at her disapprovingly, channeling my mother when I'd misbehaved, and walked away, towards Deathstroke. "And you, that was almost well done, had you not underestimated me, yet again. Some Master Tactician, Hmm?"

He grinned. "I got time to catch my breath, didn't I?"

I hummed. "Using your pawns as chaff... smart; I respect that. Let's continue, then." I stood still, commanding him to come to me with an imperious one-fingered 'come hither'. I wasn't stupid enough to step into his traps, after all.

He frowned, likely annoyed with the waste of his work, and leapt nimbly over his invisible minefield, launching a series of explosive marbles and throwing knives at me to obscure my vision and keep me on the defensive.

"You aren't very smart, are you? I've proven that I'm at my strongest when I'm on defense, haven't I?" I asked, then stopped moving. "Oh you son of a bitch..."

"Hey! Leave my mother out of this!" He frowned.

"You're auditioning me!!! You're trying to reaffirm the Light's confidence in Lady Shiva, by proving she lost to a worthy opponent!!!" I accused him heatedly, growling.

He stopped throwing his knives, and hummed. "I'm actually incredibly impressed you figured that out... and that just proves me even more correct. You're smart."

I snorted. "I'm a Doctor who achieved 3 PH.D.'s in Quantum and Theoretical Physics, as well as 7 Master's Degrees in engineering and applied mathematics, all before the age of 26; that, tied together with my IQ, -clocked at approximately 180 on the International Scale of Intelligence, 220 being the highest ever,- well... Smart is an insult."

He raised an eyebrow slowly. "The full package, huh? Super-Smart, built like a horse,-"

"Compare me to a fucking HORSE!!! One... More... Time..." I growled.

He smirked. "Ahh, but you have your buttons, don't you? Not wise, letting me see those." He retreated slowly, as my rage became easily visible to him, and the gravel under my feet began to turn to sand with every step I took.

When he leapt back to the second building, avoiding his own traps, I didn't follow, instead choosing to bite back verbally, and gain the emotional advantage. "Oh? Should I then bring up your murdered children, in response? How many are you up to? Two dead children? Or was it three? I can never remember all your dead loved ones, it's a long list." I hissed back at him.

He stiffened, and then stepped back to the edge of the building. "It seems you know more about me than I, you. That'll change, soon."

I laughed. "It really won't. There's nothing to find, considering I'm not from this planet. Maybe your alien palls have some info on me, but I doubt it."

He paled slowly, and then bowed his head. "I have no idea what you're talking about. Good day." He attempted to leap off the building, but I whipped down the side of the building and into the alley he was leaping into before he landed on the small motorcycle, and slit its tires.

Then I caught his collar, slugging him across the chin in his surprise, and placed him over my shoulder casually. "Nuh-uh, honey, you're mine now. I was going to let you go, when you entered the diner, but you had to make an enemy of me, instead of making peace. That was your mistake. A little time-out in Belle Reve Prison, -just until your allies in the Light decide you should be released, of course,- will teach you a thing or two about burning bridges."

He struggled a bit, and I gripped his knee threateningly. "I'm not releasing you, and should you struggle more than my liking, I will shatter your legs, to prevent your escape. I know you'll heal, after all, even without a Lazarus Pit."

I tied him to a light post while he submitted to being my prisoner for now, and then punched him again, knocking him out before he could do something dramatic. "That should do it!"

"Impressive." Wonder Woman nodded, holding the multiple collars of the ninja, and Mammoth over one shoulder, as well as the strong woman I couldn't remember the name of over the other, unconscious now.

"Thanks." I helped her tie them all up, (keeping a close eye on Deathstroke the whole time,) then waited for someone from the League to arrive and take them off our hands.

Zatanna went to the roof, repairing the damage done by Mammoth's attack, and I stretched, humming a tune, then had a thought, checking Slade's pockets.

"What are you looking for?" Diana asked.

"He thought he was fighting a Kryptonian, so he would've brought Kryptonite..." I explained, and grinned, pulling the small crystal bullet on a silver chain from around his neck. "A Kryptonite Bullet... he really did have one, but he didn't use it... Curious." I checked his gun, just to be sure, but he only had the one, apparently.

I tucked it into the little lead pouch that Kaldur had given me, and closed it, just as Superman touched down next to us. "Hey, it's Superman! How you doin'? They're all yours." I gestured at the pile of enemies, grinning.

"Hmm... Deathstroke, Devastation, Mammoth, and even the League of Shadow's Ninjas... not bad for a new hero, even working with a couple veterans like Wonder Woman and Zatanna!" He smiled jovially, and picked up the prisoners, tying them all together so he could carry them as one package.

"Just her, actually; I was drinking a delicious cup of coffee, and Zatanna was busy preventing property damage." Diana shook her head.

He raised an eyebrow. "You let her fight alone?"

"She didn't need the help, clearly, and I thought she needed an opportunity to prove herself against worthy opponents. Deathstroke is among the most worthy enemies we have, currently. Also, she rather sternly refused my help." She shrugged.

He hummed, and looked me up and down again. "Alright then... very impressive. Impulsive and not too bright, refusing Wonder Woman's help, but impressive."

I snorted. "Says mister 'I've Got This' himself?"

Diana laughed loudly at his wounded expression, and patted his cheek lovingly. "She's got you there, my dear, now off with you before they wake up, hmm?"

"You're right. I'll see you at the Watchtower later. Uhm! For the meeting, that meeting that Batman called!" He nodded quickly and lifted off, increasing speed slowly so as to not kill them all with whiplash.

I laughed softly, and patted Diana's hip. "You've got him all kinds of tongue-tied, haven't you? Good for you, girl! Now, bra shopping." I prioritized casually, and went to find Zatanna.

"Sigh, and this is why I preferred when I had a layer of fat to make all this into smooth lines! No bra in existence works with muscles!" I groaned, staring in the mirror at the umpteenth racy bra I'd tried on.

The girl who was helping me try on the bras sighed, leaning against the wall. "Honestly, your figure is very difficult to fit for..."

"It's not your fault, darlin', don't worry. I'm sure I'll find something that works, but maybe not today... either way, the girls at work will appreciate the gifts I picked out, they usually don't have the time to go shopping. Bra Shopping takes time to do right, after all." I nodded at the large box full of the 200 or so bras I'd bought before we started.

I'd known I would take up a lot of their valuable time, so I bought something first, so the lady who had to deal with me got her commission. Still, 200 bras was a lot of money, ($13,000+, as the cheapest one was $65...) and I made a mental note to pay Zatanna back immediately. (Though, where she was getting that kind of money was an interesting conundrum.)

She nodded. "That's true, and it'll be a good girls-day, if you bring them all to have them fitted, then go to the spa next door, you can make a Spa-Day out of it!"

"Exactly my plan, my dear, I'll see you then!" I smiled and kissed her cheek, taking that bra off and setting it on the chair, then pulling my own back on, dressing quickly.

I found Zatanna and Diana in the Cafe again, and loaded the large box into the back seat. "Alright, off we go, huh? Anything else we need?"

"We bought some groceries for the house while you were busy, so no, we're all stocked! Oh, and Kyra wanted me to give you this." Zatanna held out the stack of bills that Slade had left on the bar. "She says she wouldn't accept blood money, and she was pretty sure no money was bloodier than Slade Wilson's."

"She's not wrong." I hummed, and placed the money in the glove compartment. "Superboy will find that, and he won't know where it came from, therefore the Karma is reset. Problem solved!" I grinned.

She laughed, and climbed into the truck. "I suppose that makes sense. Let's-"

"Wait- Slow down, what's happening?" Diana snapped suddenly, listening to a small communications device, not a phone.

I couldn't hear the other end, surprisingly, but she nodded a few times, and then looked out at the harbor. I saw Superman almost instantly, squinting as he whipped around super-fast, using wide-dispersal heat-vision on a near-tsunami-size wave that was coming towards the harbor, resulting in a massive cloud of steam.

"Oof... that is nasty... but where did he put the prisoners?" I snapped, and Diana nodded.

"Superman, where did you stash the Prisoners? Nomad and Zatanna will keep them locked up until you're done, they're not much help against a wave." She spoke quickly, grabbing me and flying towards the waterfront, Zatanna levitating after us swiftly.

I sighed, sure Superman could hear me. "All I wanted was coffee and bra-shopping, and you boys couldn't handle yourselves without us ladies for five seconds, could you?"

Diana laughed, and set me down on the beach. "The prisoners are already at Belle Reve, except for Deathstroke, who apparently slipped away through some unknown means."

Superman landed next to us swiftly. "Hey, I did my best! He's tricky!!!"

"Back to work, Children, Squabble Later!!!" I snapped at them both, and they sheepishly darted off, Diana removing boats from the waves and dry ocean bed while Superman got back to work destroying the wave.

Zatanna spoke a spell I didn't hear, and suddenly a path appeared in the water, revealing a man with a glowing trident, as well as a smaller person of undeterminable gender, with a glowing collar around their neck.

"I'll take the glowy trident guy and the collared person, you help the spatting couple, Σαφές?" I grinned at Zatanna, and charged towards the divide in the wave.

The man with the trident pointed it at me as soon as he saw me charging. "Ah! Finally someone challenges the Ocean Master! But I do not recognize you, Amazon, and therefore you are beneath my attentions! Moray! Attack."

The collar pulsed a vivid red, and the person turned, leaping towards me as fast as a bullet, with both hands full of water. As they leapt, the water took form as a hammer, which crashed into my side at full speed, like a Mack Truck had just collided with me.

I lurched backwards, clutching the painful bruise that was forming on my ribs, and dodged the next swing, diving in and gripping the collar with both hands, tackling the person to the ground.

"Ha! You will never break that collar, Amazon! It was forged by Hephaestus Himself!" The dork with the trident laughed haughtily at me.

"As was that Trident..." I grinned, and punched the person under me cleanly across the jaw, knocking them out. The hammer turned to just water again, and I nodded, jumping up and slamming myself into the man in charge as hard as I could.

He laughed cockily when I barely shifted him back a few steps. "You are strong, for an Amazon, but not even Superman can match my Might whilst I hold the Spear of Neptune!"

I raised an eyebrow and kneed him in the balls as hard as I could ever have done it, full wind-up and all.

He dropped to his knees slowly, a high-pitched shriek exiting his mouth, and I gripped his hand, not touching the trident directly. I knew how that would go, after all, seeing as I was not Atlantean royalty. Using it, I struck the collar's clasp, and grinned when it pulsed once, like the trident was a key unlocking it, and popped it open.

I pulled the collar off of their throat, and then placed it in my pocket, kicking the trident away from Ocean Master before he could stab me with it. "Howzabout now? Without your little fork? Am I stronger than you now, d'ya think?" I asked, and kneed him in the face before he could answer.

The wave crashed down around us, and I growled, grabbing the unconscious person who'd been recently de-collared, and Ocean Dork as well, waiting for the impact.

Instead, a small dome appeared around us, and one of my steamier dreams came half-true, as a (sadly)half-naked Aquaman entered the bubble, the ocean closing around us. He picked up the trident, and hummed, turning it over in his hands. "Sweet work, uh... Nomad, right? Ocean Master is no joke, a pretty decent fighter... you caught him monologuing, didn't you? He does that a lot." He grinned swarthily, making my heart flutter, though I didn't show it.

"No, actually, I just kicked him in the balls pretty hard. He's all yours." I shoved my captive at his half-brother, and he growled, opening his mouth.

Aquaman punched him in the mouth, popping out a tooth and breaking his jaw, it looked like. "Ahh... that felt good, thanks. Now, who's that Atlantean you've got there?" He asked, looking at the person I was holding.

The dark charcoal of their skin was fading slowly, to a delicious mocha, and their ears curved out, instead of pointing like an elf, and finally their glowing blue atlantean tattoos darkened to a purplish color, but their long, silky hair stayed a pale white.

"Uhm... Ocean Dork called them 'Moray'? They had a golden collar around their throat, the Trident unlocked it, and he said it was forged by Hephaestus? The trident and collar together seemed to make them obey his orders. They've got burns under where it was, as well." I examined the wounds calmly, which looked relatively fresh.

"Hmm... never heard of anything like that... and I've never seen that atlantean before, but the word 'Moray' seems familiar... keep watch of-... uh, I guess Them,- yeah, keep watch of them for now, I'll check in after I put this bastard where he belongs." He picked up Ocean Master, tossing him over one shoulder, then waved, jumping out of the bubble.

I frowned, wondering how to get to the surface with an unconscious person, and the bubble started moving, towards the shore.

I snagged the tooth that'd flown out of Ocean Master's mouth, as a thought, then carried Moray with me, until the bubble reached the shore, and popped, leaving me chest-deep in the ocean.

I held my charge above my head, keeping them dry, and waded to shore that way, joining Zatanna and Diana up where the beach usually was, when a tsunami hadn't just come in and been nearly entirely turned to steam, leaving a few hundred tonnes of fish laying on the beach as it slowly filled back in.

I sat down on one of the benches, and groaned. "All I wanted was coffee, food, and Lingerie. What else could POSSIBLY-"

Zatanna tackled me and covered my mouth swiftly.

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