Bring Out the Heroes Inside

You then had a wicked idea: what if you **** them into scenarios where their true heroes' hearts would push at being imprisoned by Grodd's mind control, and help them break free. So you got up, using the tree you crashed into for support, and looked to Vixen smugly. "Come on, animal girl. I dare you to go rhino on me again."

"If our victim wishes it," Grodd's dual voices said, "then so be it. Vixen, oblige him." And when she touched her fox necklace, you took it as your cue to channel the same animal. You both ran inside the transparent rhinos briefly towards each other, bashing arms into each other and staving the other off into place. You and she grunt and strain to maintain the standoff, but you soon curled your foot backward to one side and quickly made a quarter turn to make Vixen lose her balance and stumble forward. Then you quickly took advantage of the situation and channeled the powerful squeeze of a boa constrictor to restrain her, especially her arms.

She could hardly breathe, never mind escape. "Any of you want to get at me, you'll have to kill us." Grodd grinned toothily and said,

"As you wish. Diana, kill them." She had a pained expression on her face, but you watched her approach as she cracked her knuckles.

"So this is the great Wonder Woman?" you goaded. "The real one would never let any man tell her who she is, or what to do. And like her friends, Diana is no killer." As she was preparing to smash your skulls in, Vixen still struggled with freeing herself. But Diana hesitated.

"I command you to kill him!" Grodd yelled. "Whatever the cost!" And she was about to, nearly swinging her fists down on you when she stopped just inches from your face.

"My lord..." Diana strained to break free, showing you that you had gotten through to her, too. Then, from out of nowhere, an explosion of smoke covered the area. And by the time Grodd and his servants stopped coughing, and the smoke cleared, you were long gone.