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| THROWBAOOOOTHROWBAOOOO | Wonder Woman couldn't fathom the drastic events as they rapidly unfolded around her. Something had possessed her to place the riveting artifact onto the pedestal only for all hell to break loose as a direct result of her mindless action. I've opened Pandora's box.. Merciful Minerva.. The looming alien battleship filled the sky, its overwhelming shadow covering Giza like a dark mantle. An enormous cloud hovered atop the Great Pyramid like a dark turban on a solemn old man, each spark of lightning a colorful thread woven in the fabric. Diana stared at the scene intently; the man judged her for her reckless actions like a stern father. Thunderclaps carried his admonishing bellows to Diana while she bit on her lips nervously. The Gods are reprimanding me. She concluded as she watched the castigating Great Pyramid of Giza vanish into the darkness, swallowed by the dust, the vicious mocking of the Gods persisting within the murk. "Go back to the camp" Diana hissed at the scientists behind her. "Evacuate the area immediately. I'll take care of this" mess I started. The sheer severity of the calamity had paralyzed the mortals behind her. They stood awestruck by the massive storm and the mammoth alien ship that peaked through the gloom. "Go now!" she yelled at them, completely uncharacteristic of her, and ushered them towards the camp. "Should we alert the authorities?" Sally asked the group as they dashed towards the camp. "They already know. People in Jordan can see this thing!" Professor Stuart explained. "I hope she can deal with whatever that was.." Dakari prayed. "It looked like a full-blown alien invasion!" Diana heard their distraught conversation fade in the distance. Even so late in the night, the enormous ship was immediately visible against the veins of lightning encircling it. Diana watched it slowly float towards her, the dark cloud trailing it until they were centered in the sky directly above her. The belly of the beast opened releasing dozens of sarcophagi that rained down like comets with an odious purple trail. Diana watched the descending salvo with sparkling eyes, the large coffins plunging into the surrounding dunes with resounding thuds and tremors. Each one of them was the size of a school bus. Plumes of smoke rose from underneath each planted sarcophagus before the coffins were kicked open from the inside. They're transport pods! Diana quickly surmised. Each pod carried around a dozen fighters, and more than twenty of these pods were dropped in the bombardment. The alien fighters were extremely tall to the point that the shortest of them towered Diana by at least two feet. They wore reinforced armor suits that made them look like mechanical robots, and if it wasn't for the lack of wiring, Diana would've assumed this war was against an army of android warriors. The invaders wielded all sorts of firearms. Those closest to her had shotguns and assault rifles, while those further in the back aimed at her with sniper laser sights. Some of them had grenades and daggers strapped around their waists. This was a well-armed well-disciplined army that seemed to possess centuries of experience in warfare and conquest. Her shield blocked the first shots fired by the aliens; twenty high dins from the rifles shooting her shield and then a deeper clunk from the sniper rifle all rang in her head. Roaring, Wonder Woman raised her shield and sword and lunged at the enemy with inhuman speed. Zapping through their ranks, she slashed at their joins and throats like a deadly whirlwind. Those who died only fell to the ground after she was yards away, already slicing and hacking at a different foe. Their suits of armor made them impervious to most forms of damage, but their joins, particularly near their ankles, knees, and elbows, as well as their throats, were vulnerable to Diana's blade. 
She'd slain a score of opponents before a grenade exploded at her feet and sent her flying away to the side. Merciful Minerva! Her skin, armor and weaponry were immune to fire, but her boots and other garments were now damaged. Gunfire intensified, she could hear the aliens closing in on her and flanking her. The sniper's laser-sights scanned the dunes surrounding her waiting for her to peak her head. "Die, slave!" The looming soldier atop the dune was holding another grenade ready to chuck it at her. Diana quickly recovered to her feet and whipped out her lasso, then cracked it towards the alien's feet. The lasso wrapped itself around his feet in multiple knots causing it to stagger and fall from the dune backwards towards his squad. Diana retrieved and fastened the lasso around her waist before an explosion rang from the other side of the dune, smoke misting the air well enough for her to advance without threat of being gunned down. Diana made her way through the desert circling around the pyramid, using sand dunes as cover. The sky above her was lit with the barrage coming from Anubis' ship. More pods were falling closer to the camp, and other sorts of space crafts were hovering and buzzing around at lightning speed. What have I done? Remorse filled her lungs with every breath, guilt making her feet sag deeper in the sands with every step. With all her strength and superpowers, Wonder Woman wished, out of contrition, for the ability to reverse time so she could undo her mistakes. No, my crimes. Navigating her way through the dunes, the Amazonian found herself getting closer to the marksman. The alien was using his scope to scout all the surrounding dunes closer to the smoke in hopes of finding her, and had no idea his prey was prowling, hunting for him. When she was a few feet away from him Diana pounced on him and buried her sword into his shoulder-blades. She threw the corpse from the side of the dune and watched it tumble down before an ear-piercing bang erupted from a nearby hill, and another sniper squarely found Diana's chest. She toppled over and tumbled down the dune akin to the corpse. Mercifu- She gasped and coughed repeatedly, blood gushing out of her wound and painting her armor red as Aphrodite's hair. Immense pain jolted through her body for a second then immediately subsided, like a single angry wave after a season of drought. The wound on her chest closed gradually in a matter of seconds, her skin mending and stitching as her breath and heart rate were placated to normal levels. There is hundreds of them. I need to head back to the camp. 
With her strength completely recovered, Wonder Woman lunged upwards and flew towards the sniper that'd shot her. Several laser sights appeared from various dunes and hills and other sniper nests around the area and all pointed at her. They struggled to keep her under their cross-hairs as she zigzagged in the sky, rising and sinking, turning and spinning, through the clouds and fumes, until she landed at the marksman's hill. Rolling on the ground she dodged his shot, and then with a swift slice she cut his armed hand from the elbow up. Immediately she seized him forcefully, hugged his body close and turned around, a handful of sniper shots landing on his chest and bouncing off the armor until one found his throat and finally rendered him dead. Panting, Diana lunged again skywards and flew towards the camp. A sniper bullet grazed her thigh and she bit through the pain as the flesh welded together almost instantly. Her entire body was marred with her dried blood making her look like a living corpse. Parts of her attire were burnt, but the fire in her eyes burned more than anything else. Fueled by a sense of guilt and obligation to right her wrongs, Diana was determined to put an end to this invasion. She made her way towards the camp as high away in the sky as she could, away from the gunfire and alien space crafts. She later landed in the middle of the camp. 
The alien army had wreaked havoc in the camp. The tents were ablaze, smoke and cinders turning Giza into Pandemonium. Corpses piled on the sides of the roads between the burning tents. "No.." a tear ran down her cheek. "I couldn't save them.. I should've hurried here.." | THROWBAOOOOTHROWBAOOOO |
