It begins...

So, I hope all those people who said that we could live in peaceful coexistence with Brainiac have been watching what has been happening all around the world.  Brainiac has decided that it needs to control all the tech in the world, and has bottled many high tech places around the world, to both secure them for himself, and deny us our best tech and scientists.  Oh, and he taking the people in those places over, not as OMAC's, but a form of nanite based mind control.  In the end, it seems Brainiac got most of his targets.  We were unable to prevent Brainiac from bottling Skynet, but we were able to evacuate most of the people before they became trapped there.  I'm sure this isn't the end of its plans, either.  Breaks over, people.  Time to get back in the game.

School's in

Deals with demons.  You'd think in this day and age people would know better.  Apparently not.  We ran into a group of people who had sold their souls for money and power.  Lawyers, of course.  Too funny.  Anyway, this cult of demon worshippers is down a few members.  We tracked some serial murders back to them, and raided one of their strongholds.  It seems almost as if my teammates and I have switched roles.  I was suggesting some cautious recon, while Gekko and Skyline wanted to bust right in.  Actually they wanted ME to bust right in, literally fly through the mansion and into the basement where the cultists were hiding.  My kind of plan.  I immediately came to my senses, and away we went.  Even though I flew through the building very quickly, they still seemed to know we were coming, as they had put this weird spell up that let one of them draw on the strength of the other five while those people were stuck and could do nothing but chant and get beat up.  I turned into a very intense fight, with the demon possessed cultist was able to transfer a lot of the punishment she took to her friends, while blasting us with two sets eye beams that reminded me of the Super-family's heat vision.  Ouch.  Very painful.  And she was very accurate with them.  She managed to nail me twice, both times I thought I was going to be able to deflect them.  Almost took me out, was wobbly for a bit.  I kept doing damage to her friends, and then decided the best way to win was to grab her, and keep her head turned away from us.  She's as strong as I am, maybe a little stronger, but I managed to keep hold of her, and started using her as a battering ram to run her into her friends.  Once all her friends were down, she finally managed to get free and teleported away, leaving her "friends" to us.  Guess you gotta expect that from demon worshippers.  So, we captured the five friends, and they won't be able to pull that trick again.  At least, until they convince others to sign on the dotted line.  We will be asking the authorities to take legal action against the cult, so this should make it harder on them, but there are always, it seems, stupid and desperate people in the world, willing to do anything to get themselves in a better position.  So, I'm guessing they will manage to fill in some of the gaps before we are able to track them down again.

So, you may be wondering what that has to do with the title?  Nothing.  Nothing at all.  Diana and I have decided to start a school!  Well, Diana is helping with resources, but this is pretty much my project.  That is what I was excited about at the end of my last entry.  I mean, if people like Scandal Savage are going to make schools for all the wrong reasons, I should be able to do one for the right reasons.  No indoctrination, no setting up armies for the future, just a place where kids who are having trouble controlling their new powers can come and learn.  I've already got some land lined up, and Sydney and I (mostly Sydney) are looking into what licenses, accreditation, etc, while need to get started.  I've been checking with some mostly retired heroes, asking them to teach.  I think this will be great.  I need a name, though.  Any good suggestions out there?  Most of mine have been taken from Greek history (I AM an Amazon...).  So, I've been thinking stuff like the Academy of the Muses, the Daedalus Academy (Daedalus is kind of a dick, though, the name is associated with science and smarts, but he was also jealous enough of another inventor to throw the poor guy off a tower), the Athenian Academy, stuff like that.  I'm open to other suggestions.  Gotta run.  I need to go to a diplomatic dinner since Diana is busy.

Changes

I've been taking more and more of Wonder Woman's social calendar on to allow her to do more hero stuff.  I have the time, and, frankly, she is more needed than I am out there.  I barely sleep these days, thanks to the blessings of the Alpha Wave.  So, I've been attending meetings, speaking with people, raising money & support for my basketball event and other organizations in the world that need help, and just generally being around and acting as a liaison between the superhero and diplomatic worlds.  One of them anyway.  The diplomats are getting used to me.  I'm a lot blunter than Wonder Woman.  I think sometimes, though, that can help.  I'm inexperienced, so people can forgive me a little more readily than another, and sometimes the blunt truths I speak cut through the diplo-speak and allow more progress.  Sometimes its just me spouting my frustration, but I think I'm doing more good than harm.

The Birds of Prey have taken the field again.  We were alerted that Scandal Savage and the Family Faust had been buying and kidnapping metahuman children and set up a "school", better known as a training and indoctrination compound, to raise an army of metahumans loyal to them.  Not just to help them control their powers, but to literally have an army of metahumans in the future.  And they aren't the only ones.  We also heard that there were similar camps in Germany, China, and another near Gotham (looking at you, Batman) somewhere, right under our noses.  I guess I didn't realize that the Alpha & Omega waves effected many more children than adults.  Some of the people who had sold their children told me one of the reasons they accepted the offer was that their child couldn't control their powers.  One couple told me their child had almost burned the house down twice.  This problem has not cropped up very often, and the legitimate authorities have been slow to respond, understandably, given the events of the last few months, or are reacting the wrong way (looking at you, China).  Anyway, we found the school, and rescued the kids, but are now left with what to do with them.

Oh.  That is....  Wasn't Sydney telling me about....  I gotta go.  This could be awesome!

Bye!

Warworld

You may have been wondering where I've been the last couple of weeks.  Truth be told, I don't want to talk about it much.  My team was enslaved and sold to Warworld to serve as gladiators in their blood sport games.  I killed a man.  He was a Daximite, and the only name I knew was the Deadman, as he was a condemned criminal on his planet, and brought to Warworld to be executed in combat, like the Romans did with their criminals, long ago.  I was going to say they forced me to kill him, but they didn't.  They coerced me, sure, but I had a choice.  He was trying to kill me, and they told me that if I didn't kill him, they'd kill me, but I had a choice.  Its easy to say, "I had to", and move on, but I need to face this.  I choose to kill him.  Dinah is helping me with that.  I am so lucky to be able to share her strength and wisdom.  I worried about my teammates, who have their own burdens, and no Wonder Woman to share them with.  I haven't know Skyline all that long, but I've known Gekko for a while, and she's been different since we got back.  More agitated.  I should talk to her.  I'm not Wonder Woman, but maybe I can help.  It probably doesn't help that we are dealing with a case that makes kinda sick.  I know these things happen, but still, staring it in the face is another matter.  I can't talk about it, though, as I don't want to let the bad guys know we are onto them.  I'll have to spell it out in another post later.

I hope you are doing better since I last posted.  I hope more of you have access to the internet and electricity, and are able to start reading again.  I hope you've found a loved one you thought lost.  Things are slowly getting better.  I just hope they won't get any worse before things get back to normal.

*wave*

Flash Focus

So, we decided to go to the speed force dimension to try and figure out what was going on.  Raven brought us there, and, let me tell you, it was pretty weird.  It was pretty much a grey featureless plain, and you were in constant motion.  It would've been easy to get separated.  And sometimes features would start to appear if you started going fast enough, which makes NO sense.  It was very strange.  We met the Flash there, and it was all three Flash's combined into one being.  Don't ask me how that worked.  He led told us about some areas that he couldn't explore, as those Speed Demon things were hanging out around them.  Long story short, we found a power ring batter in there projecting a giant brain, eating peoples minds, and making itself stronger.  So, we destroyed the power battery, as the locus points it was making were causing the rifts, and it probably would've eventually destroyed our universe.  The Flash said he'd come out after he finished fixing the rifts.

But why do I feel like we missed something?  Dammit.  I don't feel this way a lot.  I'm not a thinker.  My function in most battles is to hit things.  Hard.  If that doesn't work, I hit things harder.  I need to talk to Mr. Terrific.  Maybe Skyline.  She is pretty smart, and she's even on my team. 

Basketball

OK, maybe this is a dumb idea, but I wanted to raise some money for areas hit very heard by the YPRBJ's.  And I wanted to reintroduce the Amazons to the Earth.  I mean, obviously, people know about us, but I don't think people know much about us.  And, I wanted to raise people's spirits.  Most of the organized sports leagues are still shut down, most movies were put on hold, etc.  I think its time to have a little fun, so I'm throwing an event that will, hopefully, do all three at the same time.  Since this is me, and I'm a woman, and all the Amazons are women, I thought it should be a woman's sporting event.  Which (come on America, what gives?), doesn't give me many choices, if I want to hold this in Metropolis.  The only professional woman's sports leagues most people have heard about are soccer and basketball.  Hmmm, Amazons.  WNBA it is!  I don't want to give too many details yet, as this is still a work in progress, but I'm going to try and put together a charity event, featuring learning all about the Amazons, and culminating in a basketball game with superheroes and WNBA players!  I'll be there and playing.  I couldn't get my team to agree to play, but they'll be there as security and moral support.  My sister, Wondergirl, we'll probably be on opposite teams, and Wonderwoman has agreed to come, but she won't be playing.  I've have my whole superhero cast lined up!  This should be awesome.  I hope it doesn't fall through.  And, hey, supervillians, this is for charity.  Don't come an screw this up for everyone.  If you want to just attend, fine.  If you want to donate a little money, even better.  But lets draw the line there. 

Alright, folks, I'm going to end it here.  Don't know why, haven't had one in years, but I feel a headache coming on.

Cya

Search for Speed

As I'm sure many of you know, something is seriously wrong with the speed force.  Random people have been speeding up until they die from heat, and heroes who are superfast have been speeding up randomly, too.   I'm sure you've seen this in the papers, but you may not have known the Speed Force was responsible.  Most superspeedsters have a link to the speed force, even, apparently, me.  My powers don't derive from the Speed Force, but, apparently, I have a link to it anyway.  Since I'm not a science type, I've been working with Mr. Terrific to try and figure out what is going on.  Also, for a while, I've been hearing whispers in my head when I'm going near my max speed, or pushing it for some reason, telling me to "Go faster".  Yes, voices.  Yes, I told people.  No, I'm not crazy.  Turns out it was the Flash, trying to communicate with me, from the Speed Force!  Apparently, he's alive, and stuck in the Speed Force, and there are other things stuck in there with him.  Or maybe there has always been a Flash out here, bleeding some of the energy off when he used his powers, and since he is stuck there, all the energy is building up, and bad things are happening.  We don't know, but trying to go fast enough to catch the Flash, apparently, isn't going to work.  We accidentally ripped a whole into the speed force dimension, and these speed demons came out, and attacked us.  It was weird, they could come out, but the Flash couldn't, or maybe wouldn't.  Anyway, they came out and attacked us, while the Flash worked from the other side to seal the rift.  We kept throwing them back in the rift, and they kept coming back out, it was kind fun.  Once the rift sealed, though, this ball of speed force energy was left behind, and kept trying to wrench us into the speed force dimension.  It actually took little pieces of it every time it happened.  So, yeah, I've had better days.  I heal on the fast side, but nowhere near how Gekko heals.  Its going to take me a week to get get back to fully healthy, and with the crap state the world is in, I don't have that kind of time.

Oh, and, I'm sure if I didn't mention them, my comments would fill up, so yes, the Brainiac domes.  First, let me say, I know a lot of you are scared, or can't work, or can't even feed your family.  It would be callous of me, living in the Embassy, with food, medical care, and heck, even showers, to just say how can you people even think about that.  Your scared, or desperate, or both, and scared, desperate people don't often think straight.  I get it.  Some of you have already gone in, or are seriously considering it.  Ultimately, you have to make that decision, and, yes, it is your decision.  So, make sure you make the right one.  I won't tell you what the right decision is.  You know.  Even desperate, or scared, you know what the right decision is.  What is it that was said about freedom and security?  Let me google it, hold on.  Oh, here it is.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

Stay strong, people.