Wow

Wow is the eighth chapter in the Wombles Seven.

Meanwhile Shansi and the woman in the swimming costume -Ellie- were at the beach.  Shansi was just about to dive into the sea when somebody leapt out of it. “Where’s Clary?” he demanded. “Who’s Clary?” chorused Shansi & Ellie. The somebody didn’t answer & walked away.

Katy was having a honeycomb hot chocolate in the massive hall of her mansion. Suddenly, the door flung open and the woman who’d flung it open walked right up to Katy. “Kathryn!” she screamed frantically. “You are being hunted! Somebody knows you’re here, and they think you’re being a wicked Queen, or something like that. Their notes call you Katy Perry.”

“I am Katy Perry!” snapped Katy. “And I am *going* to be Queen, whether they like it or not, and then they will forgot all about that so-called hero Catherine Steed. Queen Catherine the Sixth is a phrase that shall never be spoken again!”

The woman who’d flung the door open was confused. “This is a joke, right?” she checked with a nervous, yet convincing, fake smile. “You do remember me? ‘Cause I remember you, Kathryn Hudson. We met a few years back, you know, when you were still in California? We became good friends?”

“I’m Katy Perry now.” Said Katy, leaning back into her chair and swirling her drink with a long, false blue fingernail. “I haven’t got time for no old friends.” So the woman who’d flung the door open huffed in frustration and stalked right back out of the place.

Meanwhile, the somebody who’d leapt out of the sea had managed to discover Clary’s body and also find a strange item with a ruby in it and wound up accidentally bringing her back to life which luckily he was glad about, but Clary was just confused. “Jace?” she said. “I thought I’d been tortured slowly to death by the demon Trigon?” “Tortured?!” “Well, I seem to be fine now, so there’s no point in worrying, is there?” “Um…I suppose not?”

The woman who’d flung the door was furious, but still not convinced that this whole “wicked Queen” thing was anything but an over elaborate lie and she wasn’t going to let one argument stop her from protecting an old friend. She was still going to do this thing, so now she just needed to figure out what to do next, and why anybody believed this ridiculous gossip nonsense.

“The last thing I remember I was nursing The Joker…”  The blonde woman was confused.  “Hello blonde woman” said a voice.  “You look a bit like Harley Quinn.”  “Who’s there?” asked the blonde woman.  “And who’s Harley Quinn?  My name is Dr Harleen Quinzel!  And why did I wake up in a sewer?”  The voice came nearer.  It was Alfred Pennyworth.

“Ah” he said, “Well, this is the first time I’ve been thankful for amnesia.  You went a bit mad you see, and called yourself Harley Quinn.  You liked to carry a giant hammer around.”

Harleen looked blank.  “But I’m a psychiatrist” she said, confused.  “Why would I do that?”

“The Joker hypnotised you to fall in love with him.  Though, the effects were starting to wear off anyway.  I mean the love part.  You were still insane, but starting to realise that the Joker was just toying with you.”

“Oh.” Said Harleen.  She didn’t know what else to say.  There wasn’t much to say.  She had just woken up and discovered that she used to be insane.  What do you say in this situation other than “Oh”?

At that moment, Alfred’s phone rang.

“Hello? Ah, Master Bruce.  Oh?  Okay. I’ll meet you by the tearoom.” Alfred walked away, climbed out of a drain, and headed to the beach where John’s Tearooms was.  Bruce was there waiting for him.

“Alfred.” He said.  He wasn’t wearing his bat-suit at the moment, so he needed to be careful and quiet about what he said.  “So, I was thinking about forming a team?”

“Ah yes.” Replied Alfred, “I shall search for people with the right talent then.”

Later, Bruce and Alfred were back in the Batcave.  “Have you found anyone who could help us yet, Alfred?” asked Bruce. “Yes, a few.” Answered Alfred. “First there’s this man from Metropolis who can bent steel with his bare hands, he is immune to bullets, he’s stronger than a wild bull, faster than a speeding a bullet, and he can fly, and he can shoot lasers from his eyes, and he can freeze things with his breath. People call him Superman.”

A picture of Superman appeared on the Bat Computer.

“Wow.” Said Bruce simply.

“Then, there’s this woman from Washington D.C.  She has bracelets that bullets bounce off of, she’s almost as fast as Superman, she can leap very high, and she has a lasso that compels people to tell the truth when tied around them.  She never seems to age.  She’s known as Wonder Woman.”

“Wow.” Said Bruce again as an image of Wonder Woman was shown on the screen.

“Next, a man from Central City who is as fast as Superman, can throw lightning, can run through walls, run up buildings and run on water, and can duplicate himself, and can create the illusion that he’s duplicated himself, and can time travel, and can create wind funnels by rotating his arms fast, and can fly by rotating his legs fast.  He’s known as The Flash.”

“Wow.” Said Bruce for the third time as a picture of The Flash was shown on the screen.

“And then there’s a man who’s been showing up in different cities of America who can communicate with sea creatures, leap very high, control water in large amounts, and has a large trident to stab things with.  Known as Aquaman.”

“Wow.” Said Bruce for the fourth time as a picture of Aquaman was shown on the screen.

“And then there’s a man- or at least people think it’s a man- with green skin who can walk through walls and fly, and has telepathic abilities.  Some people think he’s a martian so call him Martian Manhunter.”

“Wow.” Said Bruce for the fifth time as a picture of Martian Manhunter came up on the screen.

“And finally, a man in Coast City who can fly and create green objects from his strange ring, known as Green Lantern.”

“Wow.” Said Bruce for the final time as an image of the Green Lantern appeared on the screen.

“And I suppose you could get Robin and Batgirl to help as well.”

“Okay. So all of these people are American?”

“Well yes.”

“Then let’s call ourselves… Oh I don’t know, the League of American Justice Bringers?”

“Very well, sir.”  And it was settled.  The League of American Justice Bringers were teaming up to stop Cadmus, Katy Perry, Trigon, The Joker and the Invaders.