My apologies for the hasty exit, but I have a city to destroy!
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Weird. Am I the only one creeped out here? Where is everyone?
Perhaps the shield frightened them.
Could be. But usually, when a city looks this empty, flesh-eating zombies are involved.
You watch too many movies.
[Promptly afterwards, they hear a large crowd ranting]
Maybe you don't watch enough!
SCDr. Sarah Corwin
[fires at Flash, only to suddenly find him next to her] How...
You blinked.
People of Central City! The age of hairless, simple-minded humanity is over! Today, a new age dawns. Today, Grodd rules. [crowd cheers] Humans are slow, ugly, immoral, and have an unpleasant body odor!
Hey, who you calling slow?!
Flash, don't heckle the supervillain.
Flash! I can't hold them off much longer!
How much do you weigh?
About four hundred of your pounds. Why do you AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!
You're a bigger fool than I thought.
Oh yeah?! Well, you're... naked!
[preparing to don his helmet] The world will miss your sparkling intellect. Goodbye, Flash.
Not bad, huh? I outsmarted a super-genius!
Guess you're not as dumb as you look.
Yeah! and I... Hey, I resent that! Nobody makes a monkey out of me!
[About Aresia] I like her style.
A definite improvement over Luthor.
SSaleswoman
It's the latest scent! Wear this, and you'll have to beat the men off with a stick.
Believe me - I don't need a stick.
An Amazon? That's ridiculous!
I don't think so. [pulls out Aresia's necklace] I managed to take this off her. [throws it to Wonder Woman, who catches it] It's an Amazon design, isn't it?
Yes... but it could be a forgery. [throws necklace back to Batman] Besides, Amazons don't steal; it's against our code. And we never leave the island. [turns to leave]
[pointedly] Never?
[Wonder Woman stops short at this]
[Hawkgirl and Queen Hippolyta make their way towards a tower by a cliff]
That necklace belongs to Aresia - she's supposed to be here in solitary meditation.
[They make their way up up the tower, only to find an empty room]
Looks like she got tired of contemplating her navel. Nobody's been here in weeks!
I feared as much...
So why was she in here? Did she do something wrong?
No. It was the final step of her rebirth. You see, Aresia was not born an Amazon - she comes from Man's World. When she was but a child, her homeland became the battlefield for a bloody and senseless war. The victors were cruel, and denied even the basic humanity of their defeated foes. Soon neighbours, friends and schoolmates were all gone. Her family had no choice but to flee. They eventually made their way to a refugee ship... but even here fate was not kind. Pirates raided the ship and stole their few meager possessions. [flashback shows the pirates firing at the ship, sinking it] Aresia survived, clinging to a piece of floating wreckage. Miraculously, she washed ashore here, on Themyscira. I found her, and nursed her back to health. Then, we Amazons adopted her, trained her, and magically endowed her with Amazon strength. I've often wondered if we did the right thing... Still, how could we refuse?
You couldn't.
And now, she's deserted us.
[walks up to a chest] Maybe we'll find some answers in here. [lifts the lid open]
What is it?
Books. [pulls one out] Maps, city guides...
These things are forbidden here!
Why?
We believe contact with outside world could corrupt us.
[regards book in her hands, entitled "History of Germ Warfare"] It's sure starting to look that way.
So this Aresia is not really an Amazon?
She's an orphan. It's hard to imagine what that kind of trauma could do to a child.
[Batman gives her a pointed frown]
TTsukuri
So the poison only effects men?
Exactly. That's why it didn't hurt you two.
But why? What do you have to gain from all of this?
[indignant] "What do I have to gain"?! Look around you: Man's World is filled with greed, deception and cruelty! But I'm going to change all that! Today, we women take control!
You can't be serious.
[sneers] Can't I?
[about Aresia, to Hawkgirl] Even when she was a child, I could sense a bitterness within in her. She was never really one of us.
I think she fits in pretty well.
[shocked] How can you say that?!
Aresia's just taking her precious Amazon code to its logical extension.
We don't teach hatred!
Except when it comes to men.
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