Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Fall of Olympus Part Seven.

Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Fall of Olympus Part Seven. 

It was mere seconds ago that Harry was literally sent falling from the top of Club Olympus when Maxie Zeus kicked him through the plate window. The club was on the top three floors of the tallest building in Gotham and he was falling fast.

Harry Potter's life pretty much sucked right now and he was cut up because of all of the glass. He swore mentally to himself for the need of the watch and the fact that his powers weren't completely gone. He really needed them, especially the durability and the flight powers. They might have been extremely useful all things considered.

He was in a lot of pain, but thankfully was able to think straight.

'I can't teleport out of danger due to the momentum,' Harry thought. He did a few mental calculations where he was able to slow his descent slightly. 'If I did, I would just end up hitting the ground with the same amount of force and velocity that I'm going at currently. It would just be a much shorter trip. It'd fucking hurt all of the same though.'

Harry wasn't about to fall to his death though, because that was simply not the way that he rolled. If only he could fly at the moment or summon a broom. With those options out, Harry knew precisely what he needed to do.

Shifting in mid-air, Harry managed to make it so it was a controlled dive, whether than a free fall. When he was in the perfect position, he could see clearly about where he was going and now he was hurtling towards the ground at terminal velocity.

He was somehow able to make out the fact that the building he was falling from has a wider base than the tower part of the building it sits upon. It was basically an extremely long tower that sat on the top of a squatter twelve story building.

It came to him that this wider base just happened to have a pool. He was pretty far up, but his excellent eyesight was able to make that much. Even then though, he was just barely able to make it out.

Harry angled himself in that particular direction. No matter what this was going to suck, but this was going to suck even more if he would hit solid ground. Harry placed his hands down at the side in order to cut down on wind resistance.

From that point, it didn't take too long for him to reach his destination.

There was glass, but before Harry was able to end up going through it, he used his heat vision to shatter it. With that done, he used a shield spell to absorb most of the impact.

With the shield spell into place, he makes a huge impact into the pool landing into it with a huge crack. Regardless of whether he had superhuman durability, or not, Harry could sense he was going to feel like he got hit straight on by a mack truck.

Harry nearly passed out from the pain when he connected. He fought it off and a burst of adrenaline blasted through his body. His arms felt like they were weighed down, but he swam through the pool.

Shaking off the overwhelming numbness that he felt, Harry managed to pull himself out of the water and onto the deck.

Harry could feel the world spinning around him as he tried to push himself to his feet. A sudden onset of dizziness, combined with a dull ringing in his ears brought Harry to his knees.

Despite the shield spell, Harry still had a concussion. The ringing in his head made it hard to concentrate. The cut up back he had, gave him something else to focus on other than the ringing sensation that was in the back of his head.

Other than that, he was perfectly fine. If nothing else, the pain indicated that he was still alive, even though it took every single fiber of his well-being and his will power to stay conscious.

It was a struggle also that Harry was rapidly losing.

'Can anyone hear me?' Harry asked. He had to focus on the bond link because it was his lifeline to the outside world. The thumping got even louder in the back of his head.

'Yes, I hear you, what the hell happened?' Amanda asked.

'Zeus kicked me from Olympus, I'm currently beside a pool beneath his night club, and he's….well he's gone completely nuts,' Harry thought. He concentrated on the location that he was at, basically feeding it to Amanda through the bond. 'Do you have all of that?'

'Yeah, I have all of that,' Amanda said.

'Good, then you need to tell Sarah what's happened, along with the current location,' Harry replied.

'Wait, why don't you just teleport back to the tower for medical aid?' she asked.

'Too many people saw me kicked off of the building and too many people will ask questions if I'm go and turn up later completely healed,' Harry thought. He kept struggling in his attempt to stay awake. There was a loud ringing that continued to pass through his ears. He tried to keep his head up, but he failed. 'Someone from the GCPD has to investigate it…..rather it be Sarah than anyone else.'

Harry could feel his body finally given out. After all of the information was out of the way, he gave into unconsciousness.

The sounds of gunfire could be heard from afar in Gotham City. Magpie and Bookworm had just been in the midst of making a fairly successful and peaceful transaction.

Bookworm rushed towards the nearest stairwell. He had no reason to stick around right now, especially now that the transaction was complete. All he needed to do was find his way out of the building and go from there.

Magpie had slipped off in an entirely different direction all together. He didn't really see what direction she was going, but it was at this point that he honestly didn't care because he had what he was looking for.

Bookworm scrambled his way safely into the stairwell and made his way down several flights of stairs. His destination was to the deck on the third floor.

He stopped and it was obvious that the sounds of gunfire were coming far closer than he thought. There were two sides fighting with each other. The minions of Edgar Prince and Chang-Tzu fought the henchmen of the Penguin.

Bookworm carefully navigated his way on through. The man was not much of a fighter and that much was obvious. He nearly took a stray round to the shoulder and that caused him to wince and make his way around.

He could see Edgar from across the way. He pulled an egg shaped device of some sort out of his pocket.

Bookworm had a working familiarity of Egghead's methods, given that they worked together in the past. He blinked in surprise and ducked for cover, whilst covering his ears.

That was a timely maneuver as seconds later the device was thrown into the air and exploded with a cacophony of light and sound. It sent everyone but himself down to the ground, causing them to grow blind, deaf, and dumb.

Bookworm shook his head, pretty sure that he just got away with something impressive. He turned around and went around the corner.

He went face to face with Egghead. He blinked in surprise at the sight of Bookworm stand before him.

The group inside Club Olympus was trying to process what the hell had just happened. They were pretty sure that Maxie just fried a guy with a spear and then he kicked Harry Potter out of the window.

The crowd had fallen into a silent hush at that point. Maxie, being as pompous as he was, had mistaken that look for one of reverence, but that was the furthest from the fact.

The girls on the other hand were really pissed of the situation. Kara turned to the side, and saw Faora, Karen, and Lily shooting Zeus one of those looks like they would set them on fire with their minds.

'I think I can get him from here, I'll make him light up like a roman candle,' Kara said, balling her fists up. She wanted nothing better than to wrap her hands around Zeus's neck and snap it like a twig.

'We can't,' Karen thought fretfully. There were too many people around, even if they were underneath the Siren's thrall. There were too many chances for causalities. 'But I'm right here with you, if only we can…..'

'That bastard would burn,' Faora said. She closed her eyes and mentally counted to a hundred. She didn't trust herself not to accidentally heat vision the bastard's head off and she kept a pretty close hold on Kara and Karen as well, not trusting them to do pretty much the same thing.

Faora turned around and her gaze met Selina's. She was looking borderline catatonic at this point. She was in the middle of reliving what happened to her and that was a really bad trip down memory lane. To see someone she cared about go through that and potentially not survive, it was an awful thing to remember.

"And now, I will stand before you, with Hera, and we will bring rule and order back to new Olympus!" Zeus yelled in a booming tone of voice.

His voice echoed loudly and if one was watching Juno Jones closely, they could see how impressed she was with him, and that was to say that she wasn't really impressed at all.

Bruce looked about as put off by the situation as the rest of the girls. He was looking for the perfect opportunity to slip away and suit up. Anyone who was able to see past the mask could tell off hand that he was close enough to losing his temper, and he was looking for a chance to slip out.

Unfortunately, one of the models he brought with him was proving rather clingy. She was really terrified and there was not a chance to do so.

Maxie Zeus was in the middle of holding court. He sat upon a big, rather impressive, and extremely gaudy marble thrown that had been brought in for him to sit upon.

"You mortals before me should be glad that I am here before you and you should play homage to my divine power," Maxie said. His eyes swept about the crowd.

'And I wonder how his ego fits in the room with the rest of him,' Lily thought. She was looking around for an opening of some sort to strike Zeus down. The only problem was that artifact he had with him was making an attempt to shoot him down with some spells a crapshoot.

'I think that I'm going to throw up,' Karen thought. She folded her arms underneath her chest and waited to see what was going to happen next.

Maxie's eyes fixed on Mario Falcone. "Mario Falcone, you are the son of one of the pretenders to the throne of Gotham City, the so called Roman, Carmine Falcone. And you have not allowed your men the opportunity to show the rest that I deserve, which leads to inferior breeding. I'm afraid that cannot be allowed any longer."

Two of Zeus's men walked behind Mario and held him.

"You are going to kneel before me and kiss my foot, and you may be offered forgiveness," Maxie replied. "Do so, and all of the crimes of your demented followers will be forgiven. Fail me, and you will experience my displeasure and that is not something that you will enjoy experiencing."

Mario Falcone stood fast and he caught the smirk on the face of his sister, Sofia.

"I don't think….."

Maxie lifted the spear and he sent another bolt of lightning towards the second bodyguard for this evening. He reduced the man to ashes.

"And here is a reminder of what your lack of compliance has caused," Maxie said. "Your father considers himself a worth ruler, calls himself the Roman, but he is nothing but a flawed ruler, who assumes that he as a grand conqueror. He might be the king among mortals, but you sweet prince, are nothing compared to a god."

Maxie snapped his fingers and two of his guards grabbed Mario. Mario proved that he was more than capable of pushing an unsuspecting woman out of the window. He punched one of the thugs in the face and got in a brief hand to hand struggle with another thug.

The thug was picked up and launched into a serving cart, which knocked him out.

The second thug pointed a weapon at him, but Mario was able to disarm him and take him down to the ground. He folded his arm behind his back and cracked his arm behind his back.

"We'll see how much a god you are now, Zeus," Mario said. He turned the gun towards Zeus and held it on him. "Just back off, nice and easy."

"Oh, this should be amusing," Zeus muttered, chuckling. He turned his eyes towards Lorelei.

"You're going to want to put down the gun and come forward," Lorelei sang. The sound of the Siren overwhelmed him. Maria dropped the gun in seconds and Lorelei thought that she could have made him jump out of the window if she allowed him to do so. "And you're to come forward, come before your lord."

Mario's legs moved forward against his will. He couldn't stop himself from moving forward if he wanted to and he didn't really want to. Lorelei smiled when the thug walked forward and there was excitement going through her eyes.

"And now kneel before him just like he intended you to," Lorelei said. Her voice was soft and soothing. "Come on, kneel before him."

Zeus's foot was a bit dirty and there were a few callouses on it, along with something growing on it. It looked like he had been walking through a horse stall in bare feet without washing it for several weeks.

"Yes, you enjoy worshiping your master's foot, you want to do that, kiss his foot," Lorelei sang.

Mario's eyes glazed over when he kissed the dirty, filthy foot of Maximillion Zeus. The crowd looked on this disgust at this blatant display of power porn.

Sofia looked on at her brother in distaste of the fact that he was debasing himself like this. It was coming off as rather creepy.

Mario's body shuddered, it was almost like he was getting some kind of sexual gratification and fulfillment out of kissing the filthy foot of Zeus. He continued to lavish his foot with worship.

"Don't forget the toes," Lorelei ordered him. Pure malice danced from her eyes. This pathetic fool was being humiliated. It was nearly adequate compensation for her losing Harry Potter tonight thanks to this fool. And the fact that Zeus was getting fulfillment out of a man sucking his toes would be run with by the Gotham City gossip rags when this is over.

"Yes, that's what you need to do, but you enjoy worshiping your king, don't you?" Maxie asked with relish.

'And they're both getting into this way too much,' Karen thought. She had a desire to bleach her brain after witnessing all this.

Juno was watching, and she gave a soft tut. Only those who were the closest o her realize that they got up.

"You have done sufficiently good work, you may rise," Zeus said. Mario continued to kiss his foot. "I said that you may rise."

"Rise," Lorelei repeated and Mario got to his feet. She smiled and approached him. "Look at the crowd as you licked your lips."

This disgusting act was concluded and Maxie slipped his boot back up to get to his feet. "Tell him to return to his seat."

"You may return to your seat," Lorelei said. She grew excited about this and excited that both men would end up humiliated after this night is over.

Maxie was sat upon the throne and his eyes narrowed with pure malice. He looked down at all of them.

'Oh great, another grand standing speech is coming,' Kara said. Strangling him seemed to be more rewarding by each and every single moment.

It seemed as if Juno didn't look too particularly impressed by him either.

"You will learn that pleasing me, pleasing your god, and doing as he commands, will lead nothing to nothing but great things," Maxie ranted. His tone grew bolder and his voice echoed. He could really protect. "And not doing so will lead to your destruction. You will all learn to appreciate a god like me, and you will all learn that when I say kneel before me, you will do so. It will be much more rewarding if you do as I say. You saw what happened when Hades had been cast from Olympus. You saw what happened when this fool's bodyguards….."

Maxie paused and pointed at Mario Falcone. Falcone looked rather gazed over. His humiliation had not properly set in.

"You saw what happened when this fool sent his bodyguards at me, and no one is going to stand in me way," Maxie said. "Who dares stand up to the great god known as Zeus!"

He bellowed loudly, his tone getting bolder. With each word he spoke, Juno looked less impressed and her eyebrow started to furrow. This was the best indication of how agitated she was regarding this entire situation.

"And now, it's time for the next subject to kneel before me."

Maxie's eyes cast over the crowd and his eyes fell upon Karen.

'Oh shit,' Karen thought to herself.

"APHRODITE!" he bellowed, looking straight at her large breasts. He was distracted for a brief second, but he reigned himself in. "How nice to see you attend my coronation."

Maxie rose to his feet and made strides towards her. Karen looked at him and wondered how she got herself into these messes.

'Well shit, this isn't going to be good,' Jaime thought frantically. She wondered if they could get a clear enough shot of him if they got close enough.

Lorelei sighed, he forced the crowd from his way. There was a much simpler way to do this, then to deal with any bullshit. "Move aside, move aside, allow your king to pass on through."

The crowd parted like the Red Sea and did allow the king to move forward. Maxie moved forward and closed the distance between himself and Karen.

'Do you think that you can stall for time, until Diana and I can get there?' Dinah asked her.

'Yes, but you two owe me big time, and I mean it, you owe me big fucking time,' Karen thought. She turned around and offered a smile. That was the best thing she could do at this point.

"Hello, Zeus, it's good to see that you have made it here today and have made your presence known," Karen said.

"Yes, it is not as wonderful as it is to see you, my dear Aphrodite," Zeus commented. He reached on and grasped her hand. He planted a light kiss on her hand and pulled her in close. "And I trust that you have been waiting for this as long as I have."

"Oh yes, yes, for longer than you can imagine," Karen said. She closed her eyes, giving a shudder, which Zeus mistook the reason for.

'Oh Rao, give me strength for this,' Karen thought. She wanted so hard to punch this tool in the mouth, but it would blow her cover.

Helena, playing the role of Hera, thanks to the thrall that the Siren had her other was glaring at both of them with utter contempt.

"Let's say we abandon these peasants and we can get reacquainted."

"What about Hera?" Karen asked.

"She will learn to understand that Zeus cannot be tied down with one mere woman, it just cannot be done," Zeus answered.

'And there's something that he does have in common with the real Zeus, imagine that,' Donna thought. 'At least you got to get him points for getting into character there.'

Fortunately for Karen's ability to keep her dinner down, she didn't have to play this charade for much longer. There was a loud crash from the skylight above them. It shattered from the impact.

A dark haired woman dressed in a tight red top, with a choker and bracelets, a black jacket, and tight leather pants appeared. She wore a hood on the top that obscured her face.

Diana, or rather the Huntress, stood up to her full height. The crowd got a nice look of her new costume and she was ready for battle.

Magpie had separated from the Bookworm with her money just around the time that the fighting started. She slipped into the shadows of the parking garage.

From that point, she worked her way up towards the top deck of the parking garage. There was a group of the Penguin's thugs that were keeping her from reaching her destination. At least they thought that they did, she would make them pay for it.

Magpie opened up and grabbed one of them from behind. With a brutal attack, she slammed his head pretty hard into the concrete support pillar. It bounced off against the support pillar with a resounding crack.

From there, Magpie proceeded to take the rest of them out quite brutally. Her fists and feet kept swinging around, knocking them around one at a time.

Magpie looked down at the group of her adversaries. She looked down at them and turned around.

She turned around, just in time to duck an extremely fast kick. It was launched at her head by an extremely irritated Chang-Tzu.

Magpie didn't have much time to recover that. There was a very fast and furious round of blows. She was able to block, counter, or dodge around them. Some of them, the moment she dodged them, it put her in line for another attack.

She might have been crazy, but Magpie could hold her own in a fight.

"Oh you want to play rough, do you?" she asked. She fired back and tried to nail her enemy with one of the vicious kicks, the same type that rocked her back.

Chang-Tzu backed off, he had only begun to fight and the savage battle between the two of them continued.

Magpie was forced to back flip in order to avoid a rather sudden spear hand strike from her adversary. The thief got into a low crouch and then she heard a loud crack. It was something akin to a hammer hitting a sack of meat. That was followed by the sound of a body falling effortlessly to the ground.

The thief looked up and saw a very large gun pointing at her face. It might have been shiny, but it was going to kill her. The man behind the extremely large gun was Oswald Cobblepot, better known as the Penguin. He joined the party between herself and Chang-Tzu, who Oswald pretty much ended up pistol whipping from behind.

Magpie also realized that she was surrounded by Penguin's men. And there was no way out.

The woman might have been a bit eccentric, but she knew just enough to realize that she was in a really dangerous situation. The woman slowly lifted her hand up in a token of surrender and slowly began to stand up.

The class act he was, Cobblepot nailed her in the stomach and smacked her right in the eye. "How dare you do it, how dare you steal from me? Did you really think that you would get away with this, you stupid, bitch?"

He punched her in the mouth hard, splitting her lip.

"How dare you steal from me, Oswald Cobblepot?" he asked her. Her breath had been drilled from her body.

"Wait, wait, I didn't do anything that you wouldn't have done, if you didn't have the chance, it was so shiny, and I got distracted by it," Magpie said, talking fast. She managed not to trip over her words and make things worse. "I'll pay you back the money, all of it, including the extra I got from Bookworm from selling the egg to him. You can have it, you can have it all."

Penguin listened to her spiel with narrowed eyes. He gave a short squawking like laugh. "Well, I guess I can afford to be generous, especially because you're such a hot piece of ass."

He slipped his gun back into the holster. Magpie smiled in relief in response and then slipped the bag with the money off of her shoulder.

She went to hand it to the Penguin and then suddenly drives it into his stomach. Then she followed that up by kicking him straight in the balls so hard that his eyes almost appeared to pop out of his socket.

The three guards took a moment to reboot their brains, just in time to see Magpie leap up into the air and take them out with a spin kick.

Now she's free, she could escape. Magpie looked down, but unfortunately the money that she handed Oswald was gripped in a bearhug. She wasn't going to pull it out without the help of the jaws of life.

Chang-Tzu also slipped off some point during the conversation with the Penguin, but Magpie really paid that little mind when she disappeared into the darkness.

Har-Zod was left lying unconscious with a concussion on the pool room floor. He was slipping further underneath the madness of what happened to him. The recent trend of Harry's rather disturbing dreams was about ready to continue as he slipped underneath.

Harry frowned, even he was having a weird dream, or he was pulled into the spirit realm. There were shadowy figures, humming and things were really getting more screwed up as the time passed.

The chorus of demonic sounding children chanting "he's got the whole world, in his hands" resounded over and over again. Harry kept making his strides forward and things were just getting creepier.

Harry leaned forward and saw a spectral figure dressed in a dark robe. The chanting got louder and louder.

The hood of the spectral figure came down and Harry came face to face with an individual that he had only saw in the papers, and never met. He came face to face with the demonic face of Deacon Blackfire. There was something unsettling about them.

Was he a ghost? Harry couldn't be quite certain. It was one of those points where he really wished his powers over Death were working about as properly, but those had been settled until his CORE had been properly healed.

The next thing Harry knew, he was face to face with Blackfire in the burnt out wreck of the Church. It was the same church where the good Deacon died.

"It's one of the grand regrets that I have, that I've never had a chance to meet you face to face, my brother," the Deacon remarked. "If you've never heard of me, my name is Deacon Blackfire, and my friend, I am the Reaper that will deliver the world from the blanket of lies that it has been wrapped within."

"Oh, I've heard of you already," Harry said. He had not met face to face with Blackfire, because he was fighting against Grundy.

"It is with a great regret that we didn't have a chance to meet when you were fighting my brother, Solomon," Blackfire preached. "Right now, you're hovering in between the realm of life and death, we have a chance to talk and we have a lot in common."

Harry raised his eyebrow, but said absolutely nothing about this.

"We both came to Gotham City from out of town to spread our message to the people," the Deacon preached. "But that's where the similarities end for we went about it in different ways. You tried to win the love of the people by making them fall in love with you. Whilst I have won the hearts and the minds of the downtrodden, the desperate unwashed masses that people like you and your fellow high society types who look up in their towers, looking upon the unwashed masses forget. You might think that you care, but all you see them as a potential tax write off and a business opportunity!"

Harry got up and turned around. He was not in the mood being lectured by the ghost of a dead preacher. He turned around and walked out of the church. He walked into a city on fire.

Deacon Blackfire calmly walked out with them, and Gotham was on fire as far as the eye could see. That might have been disturbing enough in its own right, but the ghosts of various Gothamites continue to go about their day to day as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.

"You might not like the message that I'm trying to spread, but that doesn't mean that I'm wrong," the Deacon whispered with excitement. "You are the one with everything to lose, you are the one who has deluded themselves into thinking that they are the hero this world needs. Well, you are no less delusional than the other sinners who have put Gotham City into the place that they are in. You have already been pushed from heaven to the streets beneath by another false prophet."

The Deacon looked into his eyes with a crazed look.

"You've got an end game planned, but you don't have any idea how to reach it," Blackfire whispered. "Right now, you're as effective as a dog chasing his tail."

Harry paused after an extremely long beat and he looked Blackfire dead on in the eyes. "Those are some pretty impressive words from a dead man."

The Deacon smirked, lowered his head towards the ground so his hair has fallen in front of his face. He held his hands out to the side, during a pretty good impression on Christ on the cross. The bell of the church rang six times, followed by a crash of thunder, as Deacon Blackfire rolled his eyes into the back of his head.

He spoke in an unearthly voice. "Didn't you hear the news, Brother? I'm coming back."

Harry looked at him.

"Harry?"

"And don't you hear? They're calling your name!"

"HARRY!"

After a long beat passed, Harry woke up to the sound of a concerned Sarah. Her voice was extremely frantic as she tried to wake him up. Harry jerked out of his state and his hands frailed along with his legs.

"Oh, thank God, you're awake," Sarah said. Harry looked around frantically, and she pulled him into a hug. "Oh calm down, please calm down, it's fine, you're here, you're….I thought that you actually died for a moment."

"No, not yet," Harry muttered. He wasn't sure if he could, but he wasn't about ready to test that theory. Dying might be the easy part; the coming back from the dead part was something else entirely. "I just had the most fucked up dream in the world."

Sarah waited patiently for Harry to describe the dream that he had to her. Moments passed where Harry finished.

"That's really fucked up," she admitted when he finished. "But, it's impossible for him to come back, Blackfire's dead, I saw the body myself, there's no way possible that he can return."

Harry looked at her with one of those looks. "You know, it's not as impossible as you might think it might be."

It was at this point that Harry noticed his clothes had been cut off and he was wrapped into a blanket. At this sight, he turned to Sarah with a raised eyebrow.

"You were soaking wet and you were on the verge of catching hypothermia," Sarah explained to him. "And I wasn't quite sure about how your system will handle it."

Harry slowly nodded his head when he came back. In his addled mind, it made too much sense.

"So how is the GCPD handling the situation with the hostages up in the Club?" he asked her.

"The lobby is locked down tight, and we can't get up there without using a helicopter," Sarah explained to him. "The only other way up there is the elevator."

Harry knew one thing was for certain, it was now up to Diana and Dinah to get this situation resolved.

Diana just made a dramatic entrance into Club Olympus from the rooftop above. Maxie Zeus on the other hand responded to that little intrusion just about how you would expect. He shot a bolt of lightning directly at her from the Spear of Zeus.

She dodged the attack with expert precision. It was something that she saw coming a mile away.

"Grab this interloper!" Zeus bellowed, waving his goons over towards her. "Make sure she pays for her interference!"

One of the goons tried to nail Diana with a champagne bottle. She blocked it and kicked him hard in the ribs. Another goon tried to jump on her back, but she flipped him down onto the ground.

'So, is this the perfect time to jump in or not?' Kara asked. She watched Diana lay the smack down on these goons, very impressed.

Karen shook her head, seeing Bruce off out of the corner of her eye. She had pulled herself far away from Zeus as possible in the chaos and he had other things in mind. 'We don't want anyone knowing the extent of our abilities. Even if they know about some of them…..'

'Even if the person in question as a pretty good idea what those abilities are in the first place?' Lily asked.

Karen nodded in response. 'Exactly.'

Juno closed her eyes. It was through a sheer stroke of luck that she managed to keep Maxie unaware of the crowd and his goons as well, so they couldn't be used for live cover. And the crowd continued to be blissfully unaware of a fight of any sort that was going on.

Meanwhile, the Huntress was doing battle with Maxie's thugs. She was doing a pretty good job in taking them down. The Amazon ducked behind a pillar and armed herself with a long bow. Her enemies had guns now and with expert precision she disarmed most of them before they could get a lock on her.

While not of her shots were completely lethal, they did hurt like hell, as you would imagine being shot with a bunch of razor sharp arrows. Diana was pretty pleased with the progress that she was making in thinning out the numbers of the enemy.

Unfortunately, a lot of that process was ruined when Maxie lifted the Spear of Zeus and fired a lightning bolt to destroy her cover with a blast of lightning.

Given the situation, and doing all that she could with the bow, she decided to go hand to hand with her enemy. She knocked one of them back with a series of rapid fire shots sending her enemy back.

Her largest enemy tried to swing a large pole towards her. Diana ducked it and then went into a roll. She jumped up high into the air and nailed her with a rising knee to the jaw.

The enemy landed hard onto the ground.

More thugs went after her. She wondered how many of them were put under the Siren's thrall as added muscle and how many of them were Zeus's regular thugs. Diana was going to have to worry about that later.

Diana tore through the thugs. One of them grabbed her from behind, but she flipped out of his attack and kicked him in the face. Another thug tried to smack her, but she ducked it and took them down.

When the dust cleared, Diana was face to face with Maxie Zeus. Who once again lifted the Spear of Zeus and fired another blast of lightning before she could close in on them.

Diana dodged to the side, landing in a low couch, and she darted forward towards him. She lifted a shield that she had on her and hurled it like a discus towards Maxie.

That caught him by surprise and sent the Spear of Zeus flying from his hand. Now that he was disarmed.

"You will pay for that…"

The Huntress jumped forward and buried her fist into the jaw of Zeus. It cracked hard and sent the man lifting off of the ground and flying backwards. He smashed into the thrown behind him.

With that out of the way, Diana turned her attention towards the Siren.

The Siren had an ace up her sleeve, not wanting to get nabbed that easily. She grabbed Helena from behind.

It turned out that the Siren wasn't the only person who had an ace up her sleeve on this night. The Black Canary made her way from the shadows. She had been stealthily sending any thugs down that the Huntress might have not gotten on the backswing.

Black Canary snuck up on the Siren and tapped her on the shoulder. In surprise, the Siren let go of Helena and turned around right into a punch from the Black Canary. The Siren wasn't much of a fighter outside of her powers, so Lorelei was down for the count and taken care of.

The hostage crisis had been dealt with, but there was another problem. The gauntlets Zeus wore had protected him from getting his head smacked in by an Amazon. He recovered a little too quickly and while they were preoccupied by Helena and the Siren, he reclaimed the Spear of Zeus.

"Zeus claims Olympus and I will never be struck down by lightning!"

Maxie sent a burst of lightning from the Spear of Zeus at them. Thinking quickly, Diana used her bracers to deflect the bolt of lightning straight back at Zeus. He reacted that this counterattack accordingly by dancing in place like he stuck his tongue in a socket.

"Well, he wasn't struck down," Black Canary remarked. It looked rather painful and his night was about ready to get worse. Black Canary threw her head back and released a supersonic canary cry that sent him flying backwards into the throne once more.

It cracked as a result of Diana smashing him into it the first time. Therefore the top half of the throne broke off and smacked Maxie on the top of the head. This had the bonus of knocking him out and more importantly finally shutting him up.

With that, Maxie faded to black.