Fanfic: Rhulan vs The Justice League

    Beyond yet another portal Rhulan stands on a cliff side facing the ocean. She opens and closes her hand, her eyes narrowed as she stares at her hand, “what is wrong me with?” she whispers, “am I so out of practice? That brute should not have given me so much trouble, no matter how strong he was physically. Was I in the Society of Sorcery so long?...How long was I there anyway?”

 

     A giant Ankh of light appears and from it appears a strange man wearing a gold helmet and cape.

 

    “Creature of chaos,” it says in a deep echoing voice, “know that this world is protected by the Lords of Order.”

 

    He blasts a flat light at Rhulan, she holds out her hand and smiles as the blast is absorbed and drawn into her hand.

 

    “Impossible,” says the man, “no creature of chaos can with stand the power of Dr. Fate.”

 

   He unleashes another blast, this one also absorbed by Rhulan as she floats in the air.

 

   “Just what I needed,” says Rhulan a wicked gleam in her eyes, “a nice little ego boost by fighting some foolish overblown pompous sorcerer who has over studied in a single art form to the point of driving himself insane by it.”

 

    She floats towards Dr. Fate who raises a barrier. Rhulan flicks the barrier taking it down. Dr. Fate attempts another spell *whap* Rhulan backhands him sending him to the ground, before he can hit the ground however he opens another portal and vanishes.

 

    ******

 

    The darkness of the Bat-cave is destroyed by the blast of un-earthly light, and then dark again save for the small light and console of the Bat computer.

 

    “Dr. Fate?” says Bat-man rising from his work on investigating a crime spree, the images on the screen implying it could be The Riddler at work. The man known as Dr. Fate staggers a moment and falls over, his helmet rolling off.

   

    “Zatarra?” says Bat-man to the man previously known as Dr. Fate, “what happened?”

 

    “Nabu,” says Zatarra, “where…”

 

   “The helmet is here,” says Bat-man, “its sitting nearby. How did this happen Zatarra? I thought Nabu only released his host when they died or a new host could be found?”

 

    “Indeed,” says Zatarra, “but…” he remembers the strange sorceress, “We fought someone…Nabu sensed her arrival on our world, her aura….was pure chaos…it drove Nabu to act immediately…but…”

 

    “She won?” asks Bat-man, “and didn’t kill you?”

 

    “Yes, it would seem that way,” says Zatarra, “however she couldn’t be a servant of the chaotic ones…Nabu’s magic had no effect…no…she absorbed it. The power of Dr. Fate was defenseless, and she…was strong.”

 

    Zatarra laughs and winces at the pain in his neck.

 

    “Whiplash,” says Bat-man.

 

    Zatarra smiles, “Not my first time being back handed by a woman Bat-man, but wont a wont forget…”

 

    He looks at the helmet, “However I think Nabu felt it too…beyond the body, I don’t think he’s ever experienced anything like it before…guess the old boy had an angry lover.”

 

    “Angry lover?” says Bat-man.

 

   “She was no one he knew…” says Zatarra as he forces himself to sit up, “however Bat-man we need to inform the league…if she could do this to Dr. Fate…there’s no telling how dangerous this sorceress of chaos is.”

 

    ******

 

    “With as many magical enemies we encounter,” says Martian Man-hunter at the consoles of the Watch Tower’s computer, “our instruments have been calibrated to lock on to any high level magical energies, it does help if we have the signature on file however.”

 

     “Of course,” says Zatarra as he waves his hand over the computer chanting his words, “there from my…Dr. Fate’s battle with her…there…” he points to the screen pointing at the outskirts of Metropolis, not far from where Dr. Fate had fought her.

 

    *****

 

    “Pitiful,” says Rhulan tossing aside a man known on this world as The Wizard,

“illusion spells against one who is a master of all forms of sorcery including psychomancy…you are an amateur at best. I wander if that other guy in the helmet is off someplace trying to plan a better scheme of attack…” she smiles, “there is little more dangerous than a spell caster who has had time to prepare.”

 

    She flies off not caring about the fate of the unconscious super-villain in the park. Over the city she flies and lands on the side of a building.

 

     “Are you a super-hero?” asks a girl from behind her.

 

    Rhulan does a double take at the girl who *zipped* as Rhulan would put it behind her so fast she hadn’t detected her, not to mention this petite blond is wearing a skin tight blue shirt with a red S on it, a short red cape, a red mini-skirt, and red boots.

 

    “Well, well, well,” says Rhulan with a smile, “aren’t you a cute little thing, so tell me little S girl are you also a sorceress.”

 

    The girl floats in the air, “Seriously? You don’t know who I am? Seriously?”

 

    “Should I?” asks Rhulan, “well to be honest I am new around here…”

 

   Rhulan’s smile creeps out the girl, “Maybe you’d like to show a sight seer some of the sights, a little dinner, some dancing, the trendy spots…secluded spots…all the places the places to see…and…you fly around in a mini-skirt?”

 

    The girl blushes, “Uh…I’m wearing a leotard under this…”

 

    Rhulan dips her head around, “sure…if that’s visible from the ground…sounds like a fun way to tease the locals, what ever floats your boat…well…my apologies I don’t have your name.”

 

    “I’m Super-girl.”

 

    “Super,” says Rhulan, “and your number?”

 

    “Uh…” says Super-girl, “I…I’m not into…and besides we just met…and you left The Wizard just sitting in the park…I mean I know he’s a super-villain and all but really when you take them down you’re supposed to take them to the police. That’s what my cousin says anyway, but sometimes he just ties them up in a fence or something…I assume he assumes the police will show up and you know…”

 

    “Any who,” says Rhulan hovering, “I was just starting to get bored of this place but you…”

 

    A sudden flash of blue and red hits Rhulan with an *oomph* flying straight out of the city.

 

   Super-girl just floats there confused and says, “Clark?”

   

    ******

 

    In the air out of town Super-man has dragged Rhulan via is ramming tackle; which is now cut short as despite his intention to knock the wind out of her Rhulan knees him in the chin stopping him in his tracks followed by a double fisted strike to his head.

 

    Rhulan backs up in the air glareing at the man in such a similar costume to the one called Super-girl, “Who the hell are you?” demands Rhulan, “you that Super-girl’s boyfriend or something?

 

    “I’m Super-man,” says the man, “and no I am Super-girl’s cousin, you really must not be from around like Dr. Fate said,”

 

    “So,” says Rhulan, “this is that fool’s counterstrike huh? Summon a man-god? So be it…bring it on.”

 

    “I don’t want to hurt you lady,” says Super-man, “but,”

 

   “You already tackled me,” says Rhulan, “soooo, surprise Thunder Cannon!”

 

   Super-man blocks her electric blast being knocked back a short distance,

 

   “I warned you,” says Super-man as he lunges at Rhulan, she blocks his punches with her “Spirit Shield” but even so she is being knocked back through the air further and further from the city and out along the sea line.

 

   “Damn,” thinks Rhulan, “again another insanely strong one,”

 

   She surprises Super-man by suddenly dropping her shield and punching him the jaw.

 

   “Right,” says Super-man, “nearly forgot you were strong,”

 

    “Maybe I should have kicked you in the nuts instead of the chin,” says Rhulan.

 

    “Such language,” says Super-man.

 

    “Seriously,” says Rhulan imitating Super-girl tone and poise.

 

   Super-man apparently does not find that funny as he blasts his eye beams at her. She surprises him again by catching the beams (in a way) by having them rotate around her outstretched fingers together flat palm. She raises her hand, the beams growing as they spin. She floats higher and aims her hand down at Super-man while saying, “Reversion.”

 

    The blast hits Super-man square in the chest knocking him into the ground. Super-man shakes it off and flies straight up at her at such speed that she is forced to *teleport* to avoid it. She appears quickly and rotates her arms together gathering a violet energy, “Mystic Blast!” she shouts. Super-man is hit, goes up, and comes down into the trees.

 

     “Looks like the big guy needed our help after all,” says a man behind her. As she turns a green energy blasts shoots her into the ground, splintering a few trees in the process.

 

    She shakes her head as she raises herself from the crater muddying up the well trimmed grass. She looks at her hands as green sparks dance between her fingers, “huhmmm,”

 

  She looks up to see a man in a green uniform.

 

   “Stay down and surrender,” says the man, “as a none-native of this world its my duty as a member of the Justice League and the Green Lantern corps to inform you that you are trespassing on a protected world, an hostile actions,”

 

    “You know,” says Rhulan interrupting him, “with such a flawed form of energy, attacking someone like me, you may have wanted to make your first attack a bit more fatal. Try it again.”

 

    “Ma’am,” says Green Lanter.

 

   “Fire Sphere!” yells Rhulan as she tosses a red bubble like orb at Green Lantern, he puts up a shield that blocks the explosion.

 

   Something else flies at her from nearby which she catches in the air, a baterang which explodes in her face.

 

   In this moment Bat-man sees a blue aura around her, as the flames depart, not harming her at all.

 

   “Toys can’t harm me,” says Rhulan.

 

   “How about this!” shouts Green Lantern, Bat-man ducking out of the way. In a moment he realizes ducking to avoid the excess energy and debris from the blast was un-neccisary as Rhulan slices through the blast, her hand encased in a yellow glow. He hears her say in this moment, “Antithesis.”

 

    “Hal!” shouts Bat-man, but its too late as Rhulan aims her hand and yells out,

“Antithesis!” a yellow beam blasting Green Lantern square in the chest.

 

   He is caught in the air by Wonder-Woman who is accompanied by Captain Marvel and Red Tornado.

 

   “Did we miss the party,” says Wonder-Woman.

 

   “I do not believe so,” says Red Tornado, “if by party you mean the battle with our opponent. I do believe she is still right there.”

 

   Wonder-woman shakes her head and hands Green Lantern to Red Tornado.

 

   “I’m okay,” says Green Lantern as his aura charges back up and he floats, “just caught be by surprise is all.”

 

   “Enough!” screams Super-man, his costume torn up as he charges Rhulan, surprising her and Wonder-Woman who were about to fight.

 

   He punches Rhulan with an upper-cut so strong it sends her into the air.

 

   He flies up into the air after her, her head is tilted back. When she tilts it back to him her expression is one of pure hated, especially with the glowing red eyes, black tiger stripes on her face. Just as Super-man gets close she grabs the sides of his head, her hands turned into large black claws. Her cape has become shadowy wings and her aura red.

 

    “Cataclysm of the Demon Lord,” says Rhulan as a red energy and red bolts cascade over Super-man, causing agony through out his body.

 

    “Leave him alone!” shouts Captain Marvel flying towards her.

 

    She drops him and shrugs with a smile, her appearance returning to normal. Captain Marvel flies down to catch Super-man.

 

    A whipping sound grabs her attention, she turns to see a golden lasso flying towards her. She *zips* out of the way, grabs the lasso and *zips* again; tying up Wonder-woman in her own lasso when she appears again.

 

    “Well aren’t you a gorgeous one,” says Rhulan pressing her breasts against Wonder-Woman’s back and leaning in to whisper in her ear, “what you say when this little battle is over you, me, and the petite blond go find a nice restaurant and see where the night leads us.”

 

    “woah” says Rhulan as Wonder-woman spins and faces her, except something is wrong. She notices right away her arm braces are missing, and Rhulan is holding them.

 

    “Will you look at that,” says Rhulan, “we just met and I’m already undressing you, a little too forword? Well you were trying to tie me up with rope before? Have to say I never tried that, but if that’s your thing…”

 

   “Stop talking and fight,” says Wonder-woman.

 

   Rhulan shrugs and drops the Arm Braces.  Wonder Woman flies down to catch them.

 

   “Its my turn,” says Captain Marvel flying at her.

 

 

   “Telekinetic Hold,” says Rhulan, stopping him. Her demeaner changes as she looks at him. Her eyes narrow.

 

    “You,” she says, “this is a spell on you…you…” Her eyes glow blue, “you’re just a child!”

 

    “Dis-spell!” she says with a wave of her hand, turning Captain Marvel back into the boy named Billy Batson. As he starts to fall Rhulan flies down and catches him, she utters a sleep spell putting him under.

 

    Wonder-Woman catches up but stops, as do Red Tornado and Green Lantern.

 

   “Let him go!” yells Wonder-woman.

 

    Rhulan ignores her and lands right in front of Bat-man, holding Billy Batson like a baby cradled in her arms and hands him to Bat-man while saying, “You people should be ashamed putting a child in such danger. I can not imagine such irresponsibility as allowing a kid even with such a powerful transformation to fight someone at my level.”

 

   She flies back into the air, smiles and *zips* appearing right in front of Green Lantern, grabs his wrist, nearly crushing it and pulls his ring off. She lets him drop and flies up. Red Lantern yet again has to catch Hal Jordan.

 

    “Give that back,” says Wonder-Woman as Rhulan *zips* around dodging her.

 

    She examines the ring as she does so, “Now, now,” says Rhulan, “I just want to get a good luck at this thing…a magic ring? Noooo, its some form of ultra-level advanced technology…huh…why anyone would make a minor reality distortion device that utilizes a single psychomantic wave form that could easily be countered like this is beyon….no…beneath me. Eh…”

 

    She tosses the ring back at Wonder-woman who catches it surprised.

 

   “I wouldn’t put that piece of junk in my collection,” says Rhulan, “besides I’m not a thief, and it’s hardly a trophy to take an empowerment device from a human.”

 

    “What?” says Wonder-woman looking at the ring and back at Rhulan.  A cyclone suddenly kicking up takes them both by surprise. Wonder-woman turns to see Red Tornado with bat-man tending to Super-man, Billy Batson, and Green Lantern. No this was caused by The Flash.

 

    Rhulan *zips* down, “A knew combatant?”

 

    She attempts to back hand him but he vanishes and appears behind her.

 

 

    “I can sense you are just a human,” she says, “altered perhaps but no stronger and no defenses, you would advised to surrender.”

 

    She *zips* and…she is not behind him like she intended, instead he is behind her and smiling. She *zips* again, and again, and again, and he does the same.

 

   She frowns as he crosses his arms and smiles saying, “we can keep this up all day, that little trick of yours lady, I’m guessing its really short ranged, I’d say you can only go maybe fifty feet.”

 

   “Fast learner,” says Rhulan, “but your strategy to distract me until one of the heavy hitters regains their strength or hits me when I’m focused on you wont work.”

 

   “Really?” says Flash just as Wonder-Woman is about to strike from behind, however there is a blue flash and Rhulan vanishes completely.

 

   Wonder-Woman finds herself upside down for no reason and the Flash has a submarine sandwich in one hand and an upside down bowl on his head.

 

   “Childish I know,” says Rhulan, standing by a tree eating a sandwich “but don’t worry I didn’t do anything lewd during my thirty minute break…got a sandwich…well stole a sandwich…guess I can contradict myself about the whole thief thing…just not a professional one, got a sports drink…yeah stole that too. Not like I have money people…unless you tight wearing heroes have some cash I can borrow in your none-existent pockets, I’m good for it. She takes a bite of the sandwich.

 

    “hey,” says Flash as he moves a little woozy, “whyyyy, ddiiiid, yooouuu, boowwl…” he falls over and starts snoring. Wonder-Woman picks up the bowl and sees some weird writing inside it.

 

    “A spell,” says Wonder-woman.

 

   “He’ll wake up…eventually.” says Rhulan, “just speed equals force…for me…not sure how he’s avoiding that law of physics. But to hit him at his speed for me would probably have killed him.”

 

    Super-girl arrives and lands next to Super-man, “Cla…Kal’el are you alright?”

 

   Super-man starts to come too, holding his head and shaking it.

 

   “Shit,” says Rhulan as Super-man takes off, even before Bat-man can finish the word, “Clark,”

 

   A sonic boom erupts and the ground and air are rippled by a shockwave as Super-man collides with a spherical barrier around Rhulan, sparks flying from her hands into the wall of the shield. He punches again and again.

 

   Rhulan’s voice echoes, as though coming from the surface of the body and not her mouth, “This is the Perfect Barrier, even you can not get through it…unless you can hit hard enough to dislodge a continental shelf…you’d have to cause an extinction level event to get past my barrier and….”

 

   Super-man continues punching, his teeth grinding and his eyes red, “and…” continues Rhulan, “I think he’s too pissed too care…my attack…or he’s just pissed.”

 

   Wonder Woman flies over, “Super-man,” she says trying to grab his arm. He turns around surprised by the sudden touch and punches her, sending her flying into the ground.

 

   “Oh my God,” says Super-man suddenly realizing what happened, He flies down, “Diana I’m sorry, that witch must have done something, I though you were her…”

 

    “It could just be they look a little similar,” says Bat-man, “Super-man, you need to calm down.”

 

   “Yeah,” says Super-girl, “cuz, you came out of no where and just wammed her. Then Hal shows up and says I should stay put, next thing I know Wonder-woman, Red Tornado, the Bat-plane, and Captain Marvel are flying over here. No way am I letting you…”

 

   “She’s dangerous,” says Super-man, “she took down Dr. Fate and…”

 

   “She’s toying with us,” says Bat-man, pointing at her, “look right now she’s just standing there eating.”

 

    “I concur,” says Red Tornado.

 

    “Where were you,” says Super-man, “Look at our friends here, Hal, Billy, and Wally,”

 

    “They are alive,” says Red Tornado, “through out the fight my analysis has concluded that this individual has restrained herself, not using lethal force. If she had used the power she used to incapacitate you she could have easily killed any one of us outright, save for perhaps Wonder-woman.”

 

    “Clark,” says Bat-man, “she literally handed Captain Marvel to me and chided me for letting a child fight her.”

 

    Super-girl chimes in, “I though she was…a bit odd but nice.”

 

 

    “Perhaps I can conclude her motives,” says Martian Man-hunter appearing out of no where right next to Rhulan, “hold still miss,”

 

    “Wait!” says Rhulan but it’s too late, the Martian Man-hunter falls over unconscious.

 

    “See!” shouts Super-man.

 

   Rhulan levitates the martian and sends him towards the others and drops him at Super-man feet.

 

   She teleports and appears in front of super-man glaring at him right in the eyes, “for your information macho man in the red undies, I happen to have a psionic barrier that attacks psychic intruders automatically unless I lower it first. No time to do that with a psychic sneak attack…yeah he should be fine too after a nice long nap, provided he wasn’t trying anything too hard…then you can expect brain damage.”

 

   “Leave my city,” growls Super-man.

 

   Rhulan looks over at Super-girl, “Sorry cutie another time perhaps, it seems I’m not welcome in this MAN’s personal property that happens to be this city…guess he’s the king…a weird world where king’s dress like that…but, another time petite cutie.”

 

   She floats up and stops, reaches into her cape, the red lining turning black and pulls out a hexagonal amulet, “Yo, Kinky babe with the rope, if you and the blond cutie ever change your mind use this and give me a call.”

 

   She tosses the amulet down to Wonder-Woman.

 

   “Till next time folks,” says Rhulan as she opens a portal and vanishes.

 

    ******

 

    -Later on the Watch Tower.

 

    “What is wrong with you Clark?” says Super-girl, “you been exposed to Red Kryptonite or something?”

 

    “Kara,” says Super-man, “She was hitting on you…”

 

    “So,” says Kara, “and I was politely turning her down, I do have friends who are gay you know, hmph, who’d have thought you of all people would be a total homophobe.”

 

   “What no,” says Super-man, “She also attacked Dr. Fate first, for all I knew she was trying to enchant you and…”

 

 

   “To be fair,” says Zattara in the hospital bed one over from where Super-man is being examined, “Nabu attacked her first, and it would seem after our fight she took down a super-villain in Metropolis.”

 

    “What?” says Super-man.

 

   “Yeah,” says Super-girl, “that’s why *I* approached her, she took down that Wizard guy and just left him on the ground in the park. So I was like telling her how we do things and then she got kind of flirty and then you showed up and…”

 

   “Thanks Kara,” says Super-man, “I know the rest,”

 

   “Really,” says the Flash getting up from his bed, “even the parts were you were unconscious?”

 

    “What about the parts where you were unconscious,” says Wonder-woman turning the amulet around in her hand.

 

    “We really should examine that,” says Martian Man-hunt, still a bit woozy from his short lived coma.

 

    “Agreed,” says Bat-man, “even if its not a bomb…pretty sure someone like that wouldn’t need one, it could still be some sort of spying apparatus.”

 

    “Did we win,” says Green Lantern coming too,

 

    “We’re alive and she fled,” says Super-man.

 

   “I’d say took her leave,” says Wonder-woman, “she seemed disgusted by the world of men.”

 

   Flash raises an eyebrow thinking, “What’d I miss?”

 

   “At any rate,” says Bat-man picking up the hexagonal amulet from a desk, “we really should get this too lab immediately.”

 

 

    ******

 

    -In the space between spaces.

 

     Rhulan stands on a black stone viewing the Justice League through a dimensional window undetectable in their realm, “Heh, that was just the exercise I needed to get me back in my game.”

 

    She smiles, “too bad I couldn’t manage to bed those two hotties, maybe next time.”