Revived On A School Day
An uppercut straight to the jaw of the zombie sent him hurling backwards, slamming into the side of a building where he collapsed to the ground. With a grunt of pain, Grundy pulled himself back up to his feet and glared at the wonder standing before him.
"Come on Grundy, you know how this battle ends," Wonder Woman reminded Grundy, whose response was to spit to the side before charging towards her again. Diana sighed before she darted to the side and avoided the twin arms that grabbed at her, retaliating with a kick to the side that caused Grundy to stagger.
"And I notice that you're not being as talkative as you usually are, even if it is limited speech," Diana continued as she wrapped her arms around Grundy's leg and hurled him across the parking lot and into the street. Grundy snarled while he pushed himself back up, eyes narrowing as the helmeted wonder floated across the street towards him. "And I couldn't help but notice that you were about to smash three, innocent children. You know that upsets me, Grundy."
Grundy bellowed with fury before charging at Wonder Woman, tackling her out of the air and driving her into the side of a building. Diana slammed her forehead into the nose of the zombie and snapped his head back, giving her an opening to plant both boots onto his chest and kick him off of her with one, powerful strike.
Hurling herself forward, Diana drove both fists into Grundy and began to drive him back. Godly blow after blow pounded away on Grundy, but the zombie refused to falter as Diana hammered away on him. "Talk to me Grundy. Why are you here? How did you even get here in the first place?"
"Grundy...smash!" Solomon roared before driving his fist right in the chest of Wonder Woman's, the blow hurling her backwards through a building. The force carried her through the walls and out of the roof of the building, sending her skyward before she finally managed to recover. Wonder Woman shook her head once and looked down in time to see a minivan hurtling through the air towards her. Wonder Woman extended both hands and caught the automobile out of the air with her Amazonian strength, hurling the car into the empty lot before resuming the fight.
"Grundy, please. I do not wish to fight you," Diana tried to reason, but all Grundy did in reply was snatch another car from the road and take aim at the floating woman--a car that Diana noticed had a mother with her two children in the back. "Very well Grundy. You made your choice."
With the speed of a goddess, Diana threw herself down at Grundy and drove both feet into his face. The blow snapped Grundy back and caused him to lose his grip on the car, but it fell for only a moment before Diana caught it. "Do not worry, you are safe," Wonder Woman comforted the people inside, but Diana didn't need her super senses to know that the people inside were screaming.
She lowered the car to the ground and then immediately turned her attention back to the zombie, who was charging towards her with both arms extended. Wonder Woman narrowed her eyes from beneath her helmet while reaching back, taking up her sword and shield as she prepared for the dead man.
Grundy threw a mighty right hook towards Diana, who lifted her shield in time to intercept the blow. The air around the two shattered as fist met steel, creating a shockwave that blew out the windows in the area around them. Grundy roared and staggered back while clutching his wrist, while Diana recovered far quicker. She lunged forward with a cry of battle before swinging her blade with all her Amazonian strength. The blade severed the flesh of Grundy and cleaved his arm clean from his body.
"Stand down, Grundy," Wonder Woman warned the zombie one last time as Grundy collapsed to one knee, snarling as he gazed down at his severed limb. He the reached out and took hold of the arm, holding it to where it had been removed. A moment later dark magic reattached the limb to the zombie, who smirked as he rose up while swinging his fixed limb. "And you've learned a few new tricks since I last fought you. But you aren't smart enough to learn them on your own. Who's helping you?"
Grundy's response was once again to bellow with rage as he charged the Amazon, who simply shook her head at his tactics. Again Diana deflected the punch from Grundy before plunging the sword into his stomach, getting Grundy to howl as black dust began to spurt from his wound. Diana raised an eyebrow in surprise at what was seeping from inside Grundy, giving the zombie a chance to lash out with a left hook.
The blow caught Wonder Woman in the side of the helmet and sent her hurtling through the air, while also dazing her to the point where she couldn't catch herself like before. So a moment later Wonder Woman came crashing back down to Earth, with a car being in the wrong place at the wrong time to catch her fall. Glass shattered and metal folded as the Spirit of Truth crashed down onto the vehicle, getting a small groan from her as she pulled herself free.
"Lucky shot, Grundy," Diana muttered as she rose to her feet...only to take a moment to look around her to see dozens of people standing around the broken car with dumbfounded looks on their faces. "What? Never seen an Amazonian warrior before?" she asked them, yet none could answer when the ground shattered as a massive, grey zombie came crashing down across the parking lot from Diana.
"I would recommend that you all leave in a calm manner," Wonder Woman instructed the people as she placed her sword on top of her shield and hopped off of the car, slowly approaching Grundy as the monster moved towards her in a lumbering fashion. Grundy's next move was to plunge his hands into the ground and tear out a chunk of cement that he aimed at Wonder Woman. She responded by letting her blade fly and impaled the zombie in the arm that had been reattached, causing Grundy to roar as his arm fell to the side...and also caused the chunk of cement to land square on top of his head.
The zombie fell without a sound, allowing Diana to walk forward and pull her blade free of the monster's shoulder. Diana then kicked over Grundy so that he was laying on his back. Grundy grunted once while blinking his eyes, glancing up to find the tip of a blade inches above his face.
"Enough, Grundy. The battle is over. You have lost," Wonder Woman stated. She then placed her shield upon her back before grabbing hold of her lasso, tossing it upon Grundy's chest. "Now then, who is the one responsible for sending you here?" Wonder Woman then waited a full moment, but to her surprise the zombie never spoke. She sheathed her blade and wrapped the lasso around both of Grundy's arms, tightening it with a pull. "Grundy. Who sent you here? I know that you can speak."
"Grundy...can no say," Grundy finally replied, making Diana's eyes widen in shock at his answer. "Grundy want to die. But only way Grundy can...is to get girls magic. Bring magic...or else."
"By the gods, what magic can cancel the lasso's power?" Wonder Woman wondered aloud as she glanced down at her golden lasso. She then gazed down into Grundy's eyes, eyes that were as cold and lifeless as the body that held them. "I am sorry that you returned to life in such a way, Grundy," Wonder Woman apologized as she drew her blade once more. "Perhaps the next time you return from the grave, you will be more reasonable. I have missed speaking with the gentler you."
"Grundy no die. Grundy come back. Grundy always does," Grundy reminded Diana as he stared up at her blade that shone in the sunlight. "Grundy hate it."
"I know. And I am sorry." Diana then plunged her blade right between Grundy's eyes, driving the blade through his skull and out the other side. She watched as Grundy's eyes rolled back in his head and his body went limp, but to her surprise Grundy's body began to fade away in the black sand that he had bled earlier. After a few moments, Grundy was nothing more than a pile of black sand that too faded once the wind blew it away.
"Rest well, Grundy. I will see you again once you rise," Diana promised the zombie before turning to see dozens of people all staring at her with gobsmacked expressions on their faces. Deciding that she didn't want to deal with explanations right now, the Amazon instead chose to hurl herself into the sky and head back to where her student was waiting.
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"Diana!" Sunset exclaimed when she saw the Amazonian float down into the field, racing over to her teacher as Diana removed the helmet from her head and freed her hair once more. "Are you alright?! After you flew off, I've been reading reports about a battle that took place downtown..."
"Do not worry, Sunset. I am fine," Wonder Woman comforted her student as she twirled the lasso around her once more, returning to her mortal outfit that still made Sunset wince. "Just an encounter with an old friend that I did not expect to see here."
"That giant zombie thing was your friend?" Sunset asked.
"In one of his lives, he was," Diana replied with a sad shake of her head before sitting down. Sunset sat down next to her teacher with a look of concern, one that Diana easily read before sighing. "Ask me what you wish, Sunset."
"What was that thing? What is it doing here?"
"I am not certain what Grundy was doing here, but I can do my best to tell you what he was," Diana replied. "Grundy is a cursed soul, one that is forced to return to life after dying or being killed. Each time he returns he possesses a different personality. Sometimes he is brutal and evil, other times he can be reasoned with and is docile. This was not one of those times."
"So he can return from the dead? Is that why you had no issues with...killing him?" Diana glanced at Sunset with a raised eyebrow. Sunset in turn responded by pulling out her phone and tapping on it twice before showing it to Diana. Diana watched as a video of her battling Grundy in the parking lot appeared before her eyes, which ended with her plunging the blade into the zombie's skull.
"Only happened a few moments ago and already it is up on the Internet. The speed at which some humans can upload fascinates me some times."
"Diana, don't you know what this means? It means that people know you're out there," Sunset informed Diana with concern in her voice. "It means that they know Wonder Woman is out there somewhere."
"It was bound to happen eventually, Sunset. That is why I wore the helmet of Ares," Diana replied. "And while they know of Wonder Woman, they do not know who is beneath the helmet. And if Clark has taught me anything, it's that humans are very bad at figuring out secret identities without aid."
"To answer your earlier question though, no, I had no issues with killing Grundy," Diana continued. Diana then saw the look Sunset gave her and replied with a calming smile. "No, it is not because I am a heartless killing machine. Grundy has died many times and has constantly come back, as I stated. What I did simply returned him to the land of the dead for a while. He will be back. Even Hades himself can't-"
"Hades. That's the reason Grundy ended up here," Sunset cut Diana off as the girl rose to her feet and began to think. "He revived Grundy and sent him to this land for a reason. Tell me, when you first found Grundy, what was he doing?"
"Chasing after a few of your magical friends," Diana stated, already catching onto what Sunset was implying. "So, Hades sent Grundy here to either capture or kill some of your friends. That is a very disturbing development. Why would he do that?"
"I don't know...what about the others? Won't he have sent something after them too?" Sunset asked. Diana closed her eyes and concentrated for a moment, yet when she felt nothing she opened her eyes once more.
"No, I do not believe that he has. I felt Grundy when he appeared here, so I assume that I would be able to do the same with any other being he has summoned. But to be safe, I want you and your friends to stick together. Do you girls still do sleepovers or is that an eighties thing as well?"
"No, we still do that here in the twenty-first century," Sunset said with a small laugh. Diana smiled in reply and for a moment the two sat in silence, each of them lost in their own thoughts.
"Hey Diana, I know that you were there for my friends today, but what happens in the future if you aren't there to protect us?" Sunset eventually asked, voicing her fears to her teacher. "I used to think that the power of our Harmony was invincible, but then the nightmare appeared and..."
"All the more reason to train you now, so that you can face whatever comes your way in the future if I am not here," Diana responded with confidence and strength in her voice. As she rose to her feet, Diana used the lasso to summon forth her blades once more, holding out the hilt of one to Sunset. "You must be strong in the face of the unknown, or else it will be able to defeat you without having to try. Be strong, Sunset."
Sunset nodded and rose as well, taking the sword and gripping it with both hands. The two began to fight, if it could be called that, with Diana calling out how to stand or how to move the blade to Sunset. Yet even as they battled, the Amazonian couldn't help but retreat back to her thoughts of what was to come.
'I pray that Sunset is not right and that Hades has not sent Grundy here for a purpose. But if he has, I wonder what that purpose could be. Grundy was ready to kill Rainbow Dash and the others, that I know for certain. But what would he gain from killing them?' Diana pondered as she easily deflected a weak strike from Sunset. 'They are not a part of his world, so he would not have claim on their souls. And if they die, I am fairly certain that the power of the Elements would seek out different hosts.'
'But that does not change what I saw. Hades, if he is behind the attack, was willing to kill the girls and I need to know why--because he sent Grundy here to do it, a very dangerous being. And since Grundy failed, I have no doubt that he will send more of the infinite souls in his realm to try as well. So the questions become, who will he send to try and claim the girls...and will I be strong enough to protect them?'
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Dang, that was intense! Impressive work as always!
So taking bets now, who is going to show up? I am putting my money on Doomsday, he did kill Superman after all.
I'm guessing that Hades drew a blank as to how to extract the magic from the girls. He decided that, if he had their souls, the magic might come along and this would enable him to harness it in some way.
As for why, Athena... Didn't it occur to you that your uncle is treacherous and without honour? That he entered into this bargain with Diana under false pretences and had backup plans in place in case her honourable and compassionate soul left him unable to deliver seven children to be his slaves?
KO awesome chapter, cool fight and Zombie vs Amazon hope the girls are cool with Wonder Women being around.
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Still betting on Bizarro. The guy is just as powerful as superman and is very easy to manipulate.
7050488 Doomsday is too OP. im betting someone of her own gallery, i dont know who thought.
7050488 I'm thinking Cheetah, because reasons.
Wrong character.
7050800 yes so we should tell him that this guy stole his line and see how angry he is, this is how I think it would go"HULK SMASH PUNY ZOMBIE!".
Seems a little silly if Diana doesn't start training the whole group. If they all hold the elements then they are all targets for Hades. Also, looks like this will have the same problem all anime shows have where the bad guy has access to tons of attackers but sends them out one at a time to take a beat down from the main good guy. Still an entertaining story.
7050888 Well, he probably doesn't want what usually happens in a villain team up and have them all turn on each other or have the hero use their abilities/weapons to cancel the others out a la Spiderman vs. Sinister Six. Better to send them all in staggered to wear down WW through a battle of attrition before using (one of) his trump card(s).
7050912 It's a good story either way. I saw this a few times before I clicked on it to read it. I was like "there's no way they can make this story stick". But I finally caved and checked it out. I'm happy I did, it's good stuff. I'm not a big fan of stories that make Sunset the main character, but I don't completely avoid them. This story has a unique approach so it's interesting and keeps me coming back. Plus, Diana is the actual main character with Sunset as the first secondary character. I do hope the others get trained though.
Alternate title: Killed On A School Day.
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Hades can't send Doomsday because of two reasons:
1. Doomsday has no soul, being entirely a construct and without free will, only motive.
2. Even if this version of Doomsday had a soul, it would never fall under Hades' control, as Doomsday never actually dies.
7052738 Like i said OP as fuck.
'you were about to smash three, innocent children.'
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Is it just me, or is there something seriously wrong with that sentence.
Hades ordered Grundy to bring him the girls alive ....
I'm thinking Nightmare (or some other player) changed Grundy's orders (and possibly gave him the power upgrade).
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Actually it has be all Hades. Hades did say to bring the girls alive, but Wonder Woman, he cares less for. Those upgrades must have been Hades' doing in order for Grundy to stand a greater chance against Diana.
I feel wrong for asking this question, because I feel like it makes it sound like I hate the fic when I don't, but it has to be asked. Are the mane six going to do anything other than stand around, do small things that are related to thier basic personalities, and generally be nothing important to the story other than objects to be won? Because that is what is what it feels like through out this story.
I don't know, the fight between Diana and Grundy was great. The training with Sunset and thinkgin was great, even Dash's moment where she and Diana had that I think could've gone better (Or maybe I'm just annoyed with the typical dumb jock cliche) was nice too. However, this is where my critcal side starts kicking in and I begin to notice something. The humane six, aside from Sunset, have really done nothing of promance to the plot. IT's been Diana who's been kicking ass so far for the past 14 chapters. While that is great for Diana, the fact that Hades wants them, the fact that they have done nothing for the past few chapters other than spout out lines of dialouge that feel like they were just there, and that they barely had anything of importance to add to the grundy fight...makes it feel like they are less like actual characters and objects to be won.
And in a story feautring Wonder Woman, who is the girl that should never be defined as "Object to be won" seeing the mane six as this, feels weird. And I want to love every aspect of this fic, but this is one thing that is kind of annoying me.
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The problem with the humane six as opposed to the mane six is that while these girls may have magical power, they are still high school girls. They have no real skill or training nor are all of them cut out to be warriors like Sunset it trying to be. And the foes Wonder Woman is going up against would slaughter them if anyone besides Diana took them on. Their pony halves in Equestria have experience and a better understanding of magic, but the biggest difference is that dangerous evils are common in Equestria, but very rare in this world. And the DC threats are, 9/10 times, far too dangerous for the girls to handle. That's why Diana's doing all of the fighting.