Wonder Woman is feeling strange...

Wonder Woman couldn’t stop feeling the strange fangs she had grown with her tongue. They felt strange and unfamiliar, but worryingly she was getting used to them. She was walking slowly through Gotham Central Park with a hand held tracking device. All of the affected hero’s communicator signals had vanished apart from one and it’s trail had brought Diana here, the middle of a park in Gotham.

The tracker beeped softly as she closed on her prey. Diana was getting a strange feeling of being watched. Leaves rustled behind her and she swung around. Nothing.

“Come on Diana, calm yourself.” she said under her breath. The transformation and corruption of her friends had left her feeling strangely ****.

Suddenly she heard a roar from behind her and something heavy leapt onto her back, scratching with sharp claws. Diana swung around and caught it in the chin with her elbow, sending it flying. Diana righted herself and looked at what had attacked her. It was a strange cat like creature, obviously female, sharp teeth and feral eyes like her own but much more developed.

It spoke. “Diiii… Annn. Aaaa” it hissed.

“You know me? Who are you strange beast? Tell me who you are.”

“I waaaaaaasssss Oraaacle” came the response.

“Oracle, oh my god! Please Barbara, let me save you from this curse. Let me free you Barbara.”

The creature did not answer, it just leapt again. This time Diana was ready and she stepped quickly to one side while wrapping her lasso around the beasts ankle.

“Stop.” she commanded. The creature stopped in it’s tracks, the power of the lasso compelling it to cease it’s attack.

“Oh my god! Barbara! What has she done to you? I command you to listen. I am your friend. Let your mind be restored to it’s old self. Let barbara Gordon inhabit this body once again.” commanded Wonder Woman.

The creature writhed in pain on the floor, screeching at the top of it’s lungs.

“Nooooo. I don’t waaaaaant her baaack. Aaaaaargh.” but slowly it calmed and after a minute the creature looked up at Diana.

“Dianaaa? Oh thaaank you. It’s me. I can feel the creature in my mind but I’m restored! Pleassse help me!”

“Come Barbara,” said Wonder Woman, helping Oracle to her feet. “I shall take you to Themiscira. The Purple Rays will restore you to your previous form.”

“Thaank you Diana.”

Diana release Barbara from the lasso and took her hand. “We’ll have your body and mind matching again in no time. This way.”

Landing on Themyscira they were met by Diana’s mother Hippolyta and Wonder Girl.

“Diana, what do you think you are doing bringing THAT here” Hippolyta snapped. Barbara rather sheepishly hid behind Diana, slightly paranoid that she was actually naked under her fur. She’d never been to Themyscira before. Diana’s mother looked the same age as Diana. She was dressed in a beautiful form fitting purple dress. Barbara wondered if Amazons aged at all.

“Mother. She is a friend and she needs help. We must use the Purple Ray to cure her of her malady. This creature is a great heroine and has done many good things for the world. We must help her.”

Hippolyta sighed. “Very well. We will cure her but once it is done she must leave.Cassandra. You will take this creature to the chamber and rid her of this monstrousness. Diana, you must leave. Deal with whatever caused this abomination.”

Wonder Girl stepped up. “Right away. Come on Barbara. I’ll take care of you.”

She led Barbara towards a huge tower, Barbara taking long powerful strides alongside her. A tall spire capped off the structure, a purple glow emanating from the top.

“That is where the energy for the Purple Ray comes from. It surrounds us all on this island and the tower pulls the energy into a single concentrated beam. It has the power to change you back to your natural state. It will reach into your mind and find the body you truly belong in. Any imperfections will be removed and you will be exactly as you were before this happened to you.” said Cassandra as they entered the tower.

“Exactly as I was? Will I lose my ability to walk?” asked Barbara.

“I’m afraid that is correct. Anything that was done to you by this corruption will be reversed. The machine cannot create new forms only restore. The only possibilities are you as you are now or the old you.”

Barbara looked down at her legs with a sad expression in her eyes.

“Come, lie down here.”

Barbara sat down on the large table and whipped her legs up off the floor. Her tail curled around and she stroked it one last time. Wonder Girl walked over to a control panel and took hold of a large lever.

“Just relax and hold in your mind the image of your old body.”

Barbara couldn’t relax. The thought of going back to her old self had upset her. She couldn’t think about it without wanting to cry. The image of her new self kept coming to the front of her mind. Was it so bad? She could walk, run. She was very agile and powerful. Loathe as she was to admit it to anyone she kinda liked being such a feral instinctive creature. She was suddenly washing in purple light. She could feel the rays scanning her mind but she couldn’t stop thinking about her new body, about how Kara had cured her and about how Kara was spreading the Cat’s Eye Diamond’s power, corrupting more and more people.

Barbara’s eyes began to glow. Yellow light shot from them, following the path of the purple light, replacing it and beaming into the mechanism. The machinery started to glow and dark smoke poured out. Cassandra ran over, trying to stop whatever was going wrong but just as she reached it the purple ray machine exploded in a yellow flash. At the top of the tower a huge yellow pulse burst out replacing the purple rays for a second. The room was torn apart. Barbara leapt out of the door, avoiding the chaos but Cassandra was engulfed. Landing safely on all fours Barbara looked back.

“Oh god. What have I done? Cassandra!?” she cried. She stood, her tail wagging. “All this chaos just because I couldn’t stand going back to my old paralysed body. I must find Cassandra”

Barbara ran over to the rubble and started digging. She threw stones and lifted boulder aside until she saw a hand reaching out of the debris. It was moving.

“Cassandra, oh, thank god!” She grabbed the hand and pulled. Wonder Girl emerged from the rubble and stood before her, a changed woman. Her eyes with the slight yellow glow of the power of the Cat’s Eye. Small fangs poked out of her mouth. Strangest of all her outfit had shifted colour. The Amazonian red changed to a golden yellow.

She lowered her eyes and bowed to one knee. “My Queen.”

“No. Oh no. No no no no no.” yelled Barbara. “I’m not your Queen! Oh god. What have I done?”

There was a noise from behind her and she spun round. Standing there was Hippolyta, flanked by a number of other Amazons.

“Cassandra, what have you done? This creatures essence has invaded the purple ray, and through it the essence of the Amazons is corrupted.”

Hippolyta and the other Amazon’s eyes were all glowing yellow. “We are compelled to serve the source of our power. The purple energy permeated our very being but now it has been usurped by the Cat’s Eye’s power. It is in our very essence. Barbara is our new Queen. Her will is ours, but her mind is not that of the essence. She must be purified. We will drive out all that is not of the Cat’s Eye power. She will become it’s power in the purest form. She will be our goddess.”

Hippolyta slipped off her crown and placed it on Barbara’s head. As the crown fell into place Barbara felt a sudden affinity to the women, a compulsion to lead them flowed into her mind, but more what she felt was the power of the Cat’s Eye Diamond flow back into her. Why shouldn’t she rule. She would be an excellent Queen. The world would tremble at her feet. Queen Barbara didn’t sound so bad, or maybe Queen Oracle. Maybe something more fitting to her new body. Queen Lynx. Perfect. She looked up and down Hippolyta’s curvaceous form. Flawless.

“Come to me Hippolyta. Stand before your Queen. Queen Lynx of the Amazons.”

“Yes my Queen.” She approached Lynx and stood directly before her.

“All will stand before me. All will feel my bite” she hissed as she lunged forward at the motionless Amazon. She plunged her teeth into Hippolyta’s waiting flesh and drunk deep. Hippolyta moaned in pleasure as Lynx’s bite fed her transformation. Sated Lynx drew back and watched as fangs grew in Hippolyta’s mouth and claws formed on her fingers and toes.

“The Amazons will be remade in my image. Bring them all to me.”

“Yes my Queen.” said all of the Amazons present as they turned to fetch their compatriots.

“Now Hippolyta. Take me to my throne.”

“Yessss my Queen.” hissed the feline Amazon creature that Hippolyta had become, leading Barbara off to take her place as Queen of the Amazons.