Wonder Woman:
A Slave to a Nation
Chapter Four:
Not your
ordinary Gloria
By
Dumbtime
(Dumbtime@hotmail.com)
…A few days after Wonder Woman’s second visit to the lab…
While sorting through the
information obtained from Wonder Woman’s thought extrapolation, one of the
young scientists uncovers an interesting assortment of facts. Sitting at his
desk, he stands up and shouts across the office space in the direction of his
supervisor. “Oh my goodness!! This is totally amazing!!” he proclaims with
excitement, “Looking over these facts here I can barely believe it but it has
to be true. There’s another amazon here in the city and we never knew it. And
based on what I’m uncovering, Wonder Woman never knew it either.” He quickly
gathers the information and rushes the data over to his supervisor. Shocked by
it, the supervisor quickly picks up the phone to call the head of the
Laboratory. Upon hearing the excitement of the discovery, the head scientist tells
him to keep analyzing the data and that he’d be right there.
When he arrives, the main scientist
in charge of the Wonder Slave project gets brief on the findings. The lab
supervisor reports, “Gloria Clemons is Leon and Jennifer Clemons’ daughter. If this
is true, based on piecing the facts gathers from Wonder Woman’s thought
extrapolation and the government records we have on the Clemons’ family, that
Jennifer Clemons was in fact the Amazon called Dalia, then Gloria is an amazon
as well,” Upon hearing that and looking over all the data presented to him, the
head scientist says, “If that is the case, this little operation just got more
interesting. I need to call my superior so he can get hold of the president.”
…Flash back to 30 years prior…
A rising criminal mastermind named
John Li Lang was bent on taking over most of the criminal active on the east
coast. Slowly absorbing the gambling, prostitution and drug rings around the
capital city, the only thing standing in his way from finalizing his plans was
Wonder Woman. She had foiled all the attempts to establish connections and
footholds to increase his control over the city and outlying areas. He set out
to rid the nuisance and devised a plan to stop Wonder Woman once and for all. After
well calculated interactions and well placed opportunities, he was able to
spring a trap and managed to capture Wonder Woman.
While he had her in his grasps, for
several days he used a couple of different techniques in mental torture to
soften her resolve to oblige him with information that he could use to keep her
in check as he began executing his plan for the take over of the city. After
she showed signs of breaking, he used the magic lasso on her to gain valuable
information about anything he could get in hopes of turning her to his ways. He
asked several questions about things relating to her and her origins and wanted
to know where she actually came from.
After several days of intense
interrogation, her will broke and she revealed to him the existence of “
The villain, with newly gained
knowledge of how Wonder Woman operated, was quite elusive and escaped her grasp
on many different occasions. Wonder Woman sent word back to the island for help
with the matter. Dalia was sent in response. She was almost a twin to Diana,
except she had blonde hair instead of raven. She was as physically fit and in
as good of shape as Diana and had the body that dripped of lusciousness. She
also was the top guard of the queen’s rank and would’ve been Wonder Woman if
Diana hadn’t beat her in the competition held on the island for the role of the
super heroine.
Not suspecting two Amazon “super”
women coming after him, Lang set another trap to recapture Wonder Woman. Some valuable
information he was able to get out of Wonder Woman during the interrogations was
the close connection between her and Diana Prince. Wonder Woman was able to
circumvent the direct questions that would have directly exposed her
alternative self, but instead made it know that there was indeed, in Lang’s
eyes, a bond between the two. He sent an enticing note directed to Diana at the
I.A.D.C in hopes of luring Wonder Woman into his trap.
That same day, disguised as Diana’s
cousin from out of town, Dalia was in Diana’s office on a visit to see Diana. Being
nosey while waiting for Diana to return to her office from talking to her boss,
Steve Trevor, she was shifting through some papers sitting on Diana’s desk when
she noticed an unopened letter. Curiosity got the best of her and she opened
it. Upon reading the message in the letter, she figured that the culprit that
wrote it had to be the guy they were looking for. Realizing she had just
intercepted the note before Diana could see it; she decided to take matters
into her own hands. Pride, blinding her cautiousness, allowed for her to fall
right into the hands of Lang and his goons. The unsuspecting Dalia walked right
into the trap and was captured.
After springing his trap on the one
he thought was Wonder Woman, Lang was quite surprised to see someone different
snared in it. He had Dalia incapacitated by drugging her with chloroform and had
her taken back to his lair. There, for the next few days, he proceeded to
interrogate her for the same information he wanted from Wonder Woman, the
location of the Amazon’s homeland. He stepped up the torture techniques he had
used on Wonder Woman by using the lasso that Dalia had possessed along with a
few mind altering drugs and concoctions he had developed for the “super amazon psyche.”
He also had her raped and tortured every night until her will broke. Completely
tamed, obedient to her new master and gushing with the information Lang wanted
to know, Dalia compliantly gave up the location of her homeland and all the
knowledge she had about the Amazons.
Now possessing the valuable location
of the island of his “soon to be amazon slave harem’, Lang had no further use
of Dalia so he decided to discard her in a back alley way near downtown of the
capital city. Taking her off in an unmarked van, they pulled into one of the
slum areas that were under the control of Lang’s operations. Stripping her of
all her clothes, the last thing the villain did before kicking her out of the
van was to use the lasso on her one last time. He wanted her to forget
everything that she knew. Everything, not just what he had done to her since
the time she was captured, but every thought she had. He wanted her to forget
her home, her identity, and her will to be who she was. He wanted her to become
nothing. He figured that she’d either die or become one of the local
prostitutes because of her looks. When he lifted the lasso off her shoulders,
she had complete amnesia. He then kicked the shocked and stunned woman out of
the van and drove off. With no idea where she was, who she was and what she was
doing there, the world around her began to grow dark and enormous. The defeated
amazon collapsed in the dark street.
While the incident with Dalia and
the van was going down, Staff Sgt. Leon Clemons was just leaving his mother and
brother’s apartment complex. He had come back to pay a monthly family visit and
to check up on his little brother. He didn’t want him to be getting involved
with any of the local gangs like he did when he was young. Their dad had long
been gone and
Turning the corner at the alley
near his mother’s apartment complex,
One year of therapy sessions, set
up by
Unbeknownst
to Leon, Jennifer, a.k.a. Dalia, was still an amazon. Any offspring born of an amazon would also be an amazon. At the local hospital, the
doctor’s marveled at the near perfect baby they helped deliver. Because of that
fact, Gloria grew up faster than most babies. She was walking at four months
old and talking at ten months. Her body and mind were growing at a phenomenal
rate and she started school when she was 3, as she was as big and strong as
most 6-7 year olds. Because of the mix between the genes of
Lang’s
campaign to conquer
With no sign of her anywhere and Lang’s
inability to tell them where she was after he dropped her off and erased her
memory, they accept the reality that Dalia was either dead or lost forever. But
they never gave up looking and hoping.
One day, fifteen years after
Dalia’s disappearance, when Wonder Woman was doing a visit to a local high
school to influence the teens to stay out of trouble and do what was right, she
saw a figure in the crowd that she recognized from many years earlier. Jennifer
heard from Gloria that Wonder Woman would be at her school that day so she went
to see Wonder Woman for herself. Wonder Woman cornered Jennifer after the
visitation and asked here if she ever knew a person that looked like her named
Dalia. Still not being able to recall anything because of the “amnesia effect”
from the command of her magic lasso, she denied ever knowing any one with that
name. But, even through the denial, her posture and quirks tip off Wonder Woman
that she indeed was Dalia.
Wonder Woman sent word back to the
Queen that Dalia was found. The Queen was quite pleased to find out Dalia was
still alive. She then told Wonder Woman that the Queen’s Guard would deal with
it and that she should stay clear of the matter. She told her that she should
not be involved with Dalia in order to keep Wonder Woman’s reputation and namesake
clear of any suspicions.
The Queen’s Guard confronted
Jennifer and Leon one night while Gloria was out with her friends from school.
With the help of a lasso, they restored Dalia’s memory and she told
Gloria was down-trotted and
depressed for nearly a year after her parents were killed in that car wreck.
She ended up living with her aunt and uncle. Because of her enhanced physical
condition and superb mental abilities, she went on to excel in academics and
athletics during her time in high school and college. She expressed great
interest in become a crime investigator and work in under cover operations.
When the I.A.D.C. took notice and
called on her to become an intern and cadet, she never thought twice about it.
She excelled faster than any cadet in the program and made field ops two years
after she started. She nearly broke all the records at the academy that Diana
had set when she was there. Her beauty made it easy for her to go under-cover
as a model or debutant. Her physique and wits made the jobs easy to get in and
out. Her strength and agility made any confrontations over in seconds. Her
intelligence made it easy to get the right information. She was perfect for the
job.
With her desire to succeed and the
work load that she took on, she never had time to seriously date any one on a
regular basis. Because of her exotic untamable beauty, many advances were sent
her way, even from some of the most powerful men in the world, but she had no
real desire to accept any of them unless it was a part of the mission she was
on.
Friends were even harder to come by
for Gloria. She was either to gung-ho about work or completely not interested
in the involvements of “civilians”, as she would put it. Needless to say,
outside her uncle, she didn’t have any true friends, until she interned under
Diana at the I.A.D.C.
Diana was quite impressed that
Gloria broke most of her records she set at the academy and wanted to know more
about her. She encouraged her boss to give the internship to Gloria. When she
came on board, they were an instant hit. They were able to relate on the same
level about life, men, work and the such. Diana
introduced a feminine feature that Gloria never got to use much growing up;
chit-chat.
They were close, and at one point,
even closer. At Gloria’s apartment, after a successful sting operation put one
of the biggest Drug Lords on the eastern seaboard behind bars, they celebrated
with way too many glasses of champagne. Diana’s innocent brush up against
Gloria’s arm turned into an exploratory tender issue. The next morning they
woke up on Gloria’s bed completely naked, with a heavy hangover and embarrassed
but not regretful.
...Present day, Lunch at the mall…
Diana looks up at Gloria after
taking a bite of her chicken tortellini and says, “So what was the real reason
you wanted to be the FIRST customer at THAT Victoria Secret’s anyway?” Gloria
shyly looks back at Diana and replies, “Well, because I though you would look
so good in that black lace and I really love the strap lingerie. I thought we
could have some fun. They were providing private changing rooms and serving
free champagne to the first 10 customers.”
Diana tells Gloria, grinning as she
reminisced about how good that night was, “You and your silly champagne, didn’t
you get enough of that stuff a few months ago after that sting. I know I did. I
had a hangover all day the next day.” Blushing, Gloria answers back, “Anything
to get you drunk and in sexy lingerie works for me.” They both burst in to
laughter at Gloria’s comment.
When Diana got back to her desk
from lunch with Gloria, she noticed the phone message light was blinking. When
she open her voicemail, she noticed only one message from the D.O.D. “I wonder
what those guys over there want, they are always trying to poke their noses
into our investigations,” she says as she presses “1” to listen to it.
A masculine voice bolsters, “Hello,
Slut!” Instantly Diana’s eyes flickered as she losses conscious thought and her
mind opens to receive the command that her master was about to give. The voice
continues, “Your friend Gloria is an amazon and must be captured and brought to
us. You will entice her over to your apartment tonight, changing into Wonder
Woman and use your magic lasso to program her to come to the Laboratory at the
D.O.D. compound at
Picking up the phone again, she
dials Gloria’s extension. When Gloria picks up, she quips, “You know that
conversation we had at lunch about champagne and lingerie? How about we try it
again at my place tonight after work?” Gloria responds, “I was wondering when
you were going to ask me that. You can count on me being there. I’ll meet you
in the carport, no need to take two cars where we are going since we’ll be
right back here in the morning, if you catch my drift.” Diana licks her lips
and responses, “Stop, you’re making me blush. I’ll see you in the garage at