Titans of Justice Unlimited Vol. 2 10 – “Eye of the Beholder”
Written & edited by: Power Guy & GreenLantern
Maxi-micros by: Power Guy


Marston Pharmaceuticals, Gateway City…

It was a tense day for the sub-group of the Titans of Justice known as the Super Friends. The young heroes in training were under the command of former Super Friend and now full-fledged Titan, Totem, daughter of Green Lantern John Stewart and Vixen, against a small fraction of the current Legion of Doom consisting of the male Cheetah, Giantessa, and Sir Simian Sinister.

“You two, keep them busy while I secure the compound!” ordered the Cheetah as he scurried off, leaving his teammates to deal with the Super Friends.





Giantessa shot up to full size as she remarked, “Shouldn’t you brats be laying down for a nap right about now? It is just after lunch time.”





“You’re the only one who’s going to be drifting off into dreamland once I clobber you, big red!” spat Power Lad as he flew towards the daughter of Giganta and Gorilla Grodd.





“Keep your hands off me, streaky!” barked Giantessa as her oversized hand smacked the sidekick of Power Guy out of the sky.

Wonder Girl then hit the red-headed giant smack-dab in the forehead and vowed, “If you’ve seriously hurt him, I swear I’ll make you pay for it!”

“Pfffffttt! You and what army!”

“This one!” answered Gigantus as he matched his half-sister’s size and punched her in the back of the head, causing her to topple over.





“Wonder Girl!” shouted Power Lad as he zoomed back towards the earth.

“No cause for panic,” said the Amazon from another dimension, “Gigantus took care of big red.”

Meanwhile, Giantessa’s other brother, Sir Simian Sinister, was locked in combat with Totem who was harnessing the strength of a gorilla to match her foe’s. “You can’t win, Sinister.”

“What’d you say his name was, Totem?” asked Power Lad with a smirk.

“Its Sir Simian Sinister,” answered the villain indignantly as both Wonder Girl and Power Lad broke out in laughter.





“Hi,” said Power Lad mockingly, “I’m Sister Simeon, sir.”

“Pleased to meet’cha, “Sir Simeon Spitter,” added Wonder Girl. Totem, Giantessa, and Gigantus joined the two impish Super Friends in giggles and laughs.

“You traitors!” shouted Sir Simeon in rage, “After I kill this witch and those two brats, I am coming for you, brother and sister.”

“You mean you three are related?” asked Power Lad.

“Yeah,” answered Wonder Girl. “Gigantus is Sir Simeon’s half-brother” she said with a punch to the enraged gorilla.

“And Giantessa, Sir Simeon’s sister” said Power Lad as he kicked the villainess in a very ungentlemanly manner.

“And Sir Simeon Spinster,” said Totem as she clawed the increasingly enraged villain in the face. “My strength is equal to or greater than yours,” she spat as the two wrestled back and forth, trying to overcome the other.

“While that may be true, you and those puny Super Brats are no match for my mental abilities!” countered the outlaw from Gorilla City as he released a mental blast upon Totem who began screaming in agony. “Ha! I never promised to play fair, fool!” he said as Totem dropped to her knees, holding her head due to the fact that she felt like it was going to explode.

“Get away from her!” ordered the Ray as he lit up like a flare, blinding the criminal gorilla.





As Sir Simian Sinister covered his eyes with his hands, he retorted, “Idiot! I don’t need to be able to see in order to use my mental powers!” With that, he launched another mental attack but this time on the light-powered Titan of Freedom, causing him to spasm in the air.

As Sir Sinister’s vision began to return, he heard a voice coming from behind him, “You may not need to see but I’ll bet you need to be able to concentrate!”

It was Air Wave and he was determined to help his friends. He hit Sir Simian with a thousand decibels of a high pitched frequency that only the gorilla villain’s enhanced hearing could pick up and it was murder on his eardrums which caused him to cease and desist his mental attacks on the heroes present.

Just then, the Cheetah came roaring out of the building with a medium-sized container in hand. “I’ve got what I came for, Super Friends. You’ve failed!”

“Hardly, Cheetah. Your teammate’s are defeated and now it’s six against one,” pointed out Totem, hands on her hips.

“Not today it isn’t,” smiled the grandson of Priscilla Rich as he looked upward to see the Hall of Doom coming into view. The flying fortress shot out a beam that enveloped the Cheetah, Giantessa, and Sir Simian Sinister, teleporting them inside and then flew out of view within seconds.





“Crap-tastic! They got a way,” huffed Power Lad.

“The strange thing is, I’m not sure what they could have stolen that would be of any value to them,” pondered Totem. “This company doesn’t make anything that could really be used as a weapon.

“What do they make?” questioned Air Wave.

“Mostly female supplements like birth control pills, estrogen pills, and menstrual symptom relief pills,” answered the teen supermodel.

“It must be Giantessa’s time of the month,” giggled Power Lad.

“Are you sure you’re ok?” Wonder Girl asked Power Lad. “Giantessa hit you pretty hard.”

“Aww…..are you finally starting to fall for me, Wonder-buns?” asked the obnoxious teen from Earth Two.

The visitor from the Universe of Evil paused for a second and then got uptight and replied, “Wha……..NO! I just thought you might be injured,” as she crossed her arms in front of her chest. “Come on, Totem, let’s go get some lunch,” she said motioning to her best friend.

A few minutes later after the other Super Friends were out of sight, “I know he’s kind of a jerk but why are you always so mean to him? I don’t have to be the Huntress to figure out that you kind of like him,” Totem said, softly.

Wonder Girl remained quiet for a few seconds and then responded with, “Because, he only likes Wonder Girl, not Drusilla.”

“Why don’t you show him your real self and give him a chance to decide?” proposed the wielder of the Tantu Totem.

“Are you kidding?!?!?” screamed Wonder Girl, extremely unnerved. “Besides the Amazons, you’re the only other person on this planet that knows what I look like when I transform back into Drusilla. You’ve seen me! I need crutches to walk and my face is disfigured thanks to that witch of an older sister of mine. I make Professor Ivo look like he could win a beauty pageant!”

“Will you stop already?” Totem said, trying to get her friend to not be so hard on herself. “None of us are perfect. Look at me, I may be a model but how many gigs do you think I’d get if I didn’t wear this weave?”

“I wish all that I had to complain about is my hair,” sighed Wonder Girl. “Anyways, I’m not hungry any more. I’ll catch you later….” spat the teen Amazon as she flew off leaving Totem speechless.

***

In the realm of Ares, maker of war…

Ares gazes into a mystical sphere which is allowing him to look in on Wonder Girl, “So, this Amazon from another universe wishes to be beautiful, does she? Perhaps I can be of some assistance………….HAHAHAHA!!!!”





***

Later at the apartment that Champion and Wonder Girl share in downtown Gateway City…

Wonder Girl makes her way into her bedroom. After using her Lasso of Deception to transform back into Drusilla Prince, she hobbles over to her dresser and picks up a team picture of all of the Super Friends and stares directly at Power Lad. A single tear runs down her cheek and then a few seconds later, she erupts into a full blown cry. She then looks in the mirror at her face, which her older sister, Diana, the Wonder Woman of the Universe of Evil, disfigured several years ago by beating her and then setting her on fire. As she sobs further, she cries out, “H……..h..h…he could nev…..never love a monster like me!!!”

Suddenly, a portal open in her room and Isis steps out and gently says, “Oh, you poor child. There is no need to be so upset.”

Drusilla picks up her head in shock, eyes wide open and asks, “Aren’t you Isis from Earth S? What are you doing here?”

“Calm yourself, Wonder Girl. I saw Totem a little while ago aboard the satellite and she told me how distraught you are. I came here to see if my healing powers could restore your natural beauty that you lost so many years ago.”





“You would really do that for me,” asks Drusilla as her heartbeat starts to increase rapidly.

“Yes, but you have to openly accept my gift. There can be no resistance within you if you truly wanted to be healed,” explains Isis.

“I…..I accept your offer, Isis. Please restore my face and the use of my legs,” Drusilla asks as she folds her hands together, a few tears still dripping from her eyes.

“Let it be done then,” announces Isis as she waves her hands and surrounds Drusilla with a sphere of energy….

A few seconds later, Champion, in her guise of Mindy Trevor comes home and sees a flash of light coming from her young sidekick’s room. “Drusilla?” she yells out as she races into the room and sees what is transpiring. “Isis? What are you doing here?” she asks but due to her ability to sense the truth, something feels off to her. “Wait a minute, you’re not Isis. Release Drusilla!” she orders.

“Right you are, Amazon, but I will honor your request as my work here is done,” replies the faux Isis as she morphs into the form of Ares. As the energy around Druscilla dissipates, Mindy is horrified to see a healed Drusilla wearing a glimmering silver outfit and now sprouting silver wings.

“GREAT HERA!” exclaims Mindy as she does a quick Wonder Spin and transforms into Champion.





“Say hello to my new Silver Swan or rather……..let her say hello to you!” Ares says in a dark done right before his new creation lets loose her first sonic cry which shatters all of the windows and hits Champion with the intensity of a freight train, taking her out before she can act.





TO BE CONTINUED!