What if everything that Diana knew was a lie?
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This is the story of Wonder Woman,
which started up in DC Rebirth.
Deep in the Bonnicon Forest of Bawanda.
Diana calls out, telling someone that she knows that they're
there and that they need to talk.
She knows that they do not want her here,
and if given any other choice,
she would honor that. Though it is her preference to
give but three warnings,
this being the first. She will only be an enemy
if she is treated as such.
Meanwhile, over in Langley, Virginia,
Commander Etta Candy heads into the picket to learn more
about the current Kadula operation.
Leigh advises that there are 18 total targets,
but they also have another concern and that is that
Wonder Woman has been seen entering the Bawandan airspace,
though they are attempting to verify that is true.
As Etta enters the command room,
she tells everyone to get her calm set up for
the Echo team and once connected,
she asks Steve Trevor for a status report.
But as the choppy communications come in,
he tells her that he's kind of in the middle
of a firefight,
so give him a few.
As the firefight begins to die down,
Steve says that they have all of their fingers and
toes so they're doing OK,
but Cadulo knows that they're coming.
Etta tells him that they need to make sure that
they stop him before he reaches his target,
so make sure that they get there before him.
Steve signs off telling her that they will make it
happen over and out.
Back in the Bonacon Forest,
Diana finds a pile of bones and she calls out
that if this is a warning,
she defies it and this will be her second warning.
Meanwhile, back with Steve in another part of Bawanda,
he asks Edda to let him make sure that he's
getting this right.
She's asking if he's compromised operational security.
Edda tells him that she knows that he has a
long history with Diana,
but Steve says that she does too,
and if Diana is in country with them,
it has nothing to do with them.
Edda says that she would understand if he had leaked
information,
but Steve tells her well,
he didn't. Besides, him and Diana have not spoken in
a long time.
Back over in the forest,
Diana continues making her way,
knowing that they are there,
but she has already given 2 warnings and this will
be her final.
She has come to ask their goddess for aid,
and she will not leave until she has her answer.
But as she finishes her sentence,
a pack of Buddha jump off of the cliffs,
all gnarling and wielding blades.
It doesn't take more than a few moments for Diana
to subdue the package.
She calls that again for her to face her.
She came here to talk,
not fight. And after another roar comes out of the
trees,
billowing in the wind, something jumps by,
slashing at Diana. The beast jumps by again,
cutting her down, and Diana says please just listen,
but Cheetah pins her down.
As Cheetah pins her down,
Diana shouts, and it's about the mascara.
She can't find it. So please Barbara,
and help her find a way home.
Barbara Ann gets up and tells her to say it,
say it again using her proper name.
And again Diana tells her that she's come seeking help.
Barbara Ann. So Barbara Ann jumps from the tree,
shouting for her not to call her,
that he stole her name and she let it happen.
Diana tells her that her memory then fails her because
she tried to stop her.
She did this to herself that has another pack of
the Buddha walk towards them.
Diana says that the followers return and Barbara Ann tells
her that they are worshippers,
not followers. Barbara Ann then leads Diana away,
stating that the Buddha are devoted to Erskataka and they
think of her as a goddess.
Diana tells her that she needs her help.
Olympus is now close to her,
but once more she has lost her way to the
mascara.
Barbara Ann shows her teeth,
asking if she's asking for help,
the same way that she helped her,
the way that she let Earth's Kataga use her and
turn her into this.
But she is now his cursed bride,
his unfaithful wife who is condemned to eat man's flesh.
She was supposed to be her friend.
Diana reaches out, touching Barbara Ann's face,
telling her that she still remains as such.
That has never changed. Barbara Ann pulls away telling her
that she hates her and as she sniffs the wind
she says that they should move so try and keep
up. Meanwhile, back with Steve and his men,
the team stops driving and they all begin to ask
each other if what they are seeing is real.
Manny tells Chris yeah, they're all seeing it too and
Chris says all right,
just making sure. Before the men.
A forest appears and Davey says that wasn't on the
map or the SAT imagery or the Recon from the
drone and Steve tells him no it wasn't,
but they have to find those girls before Kadulo's men
delivers them so they should just move on.
Back in the forest, Barbara Ann leads Diana,
telling her that they need to move faster in order
to reach the temple.
The worshippers are coming and they are hunting for him,
but through the brush, another of the Buddha step out
and Barbara Ann says that they seem to be a
bit too late.
A spear is thrown, piercing Barbara Ann in the back
and the rest of the pack gang up on Diana.
Diana manages to fend off the ones grabbing her and
Barbara Ann picks her up and tears through the others.
Diana shouts for them to get away from her,
and as she gets closer she sees Barbara Ann eating
one of them.
As Barbara looks back, Diana tells her that she must
stop this,
but Barbara says that she can't,
she can't control it. She's an animal,
a beast that must consume man's flesh.
Diana struggles, holding her down,
telling her that she is not an animal,
but a woman and a friend.
As Barbara Ann stops fighting back,
she tells Diana that she will help her find her
home,
but only if she does something for her in return.
Help her kill ertz Kataga and free her from this
curse.
Diana tells her that she has her word,
but over at the temple that Diana and Barbara are
trying to reach,
Kadulo asks if they know why they are here.
He goes on stating that they are here because ertz
Kataga wills it.
They serve him as Steve and the rest of the
men up here bound.
He says actually he's here to give him a chance
to surrender so
how about that? As Kadulo holds a photo taken from
Steve.
Steve tells him to be careful with that and Kadulo
asks him who is this woman to him and Steve
tells him Wonder Woman.
Kadulo punches him, stating that he might want to reconsider
that answer,
but Steve tells him it's a little complicated.
As the Buddha walk up,
Kadula tells them to go ahead and bring the others
to the sacrifices.
This one, he will be the vessel for his becoming.
Back in the forest, Barbara Anna asks Diana what does
she mean by she can't return home,
and Diana says that when she first left the mascara,
she knew that she would never be able to return.
That was the price the Amazons had to pay for
paradise.
Leaving meant that they would be abandoning their immortality,
and they had accepted that.
The mascara isn't a place that one could simply fly
to.
To reach it, their patron gods had to allow it.
Even though she returned many times before,
now she can't seem to do it.
Have the patron gods forsaken her?
However, she knows not what has changed her memories.
They all seem to be wrong.
Someone has been messing with her and she does not
know who or why.
Barbara Ann says that maybe her gods play games with
her as Urds Atagat plays with her and Diana tells
her perhaps,
but as Diana looks around,
she sees the Buddha are no longer pursuing them.
Barbara tells her that they no longer need to,
they know where they're going and Earth's Kataga will finish
the job for them.
Inside the temple, Steve's men sit in a cage with
a few of the other captives and Chris mentions that
there is only about half of what is supposed to
be here. Davey says that rescuing the other girls comes
after rescuing themselves first,
but is anyone else seeing a way out of this?
And Mandy sits back stating just wait for it.
In the darkness, they see a shrine and then a
figure and Diana and Barbara Ann charge in knocking out
the Buddha and Diana tells everyone hello.
She's happy to see them all as well as surprised,
but if they're here, where's Steve Trevor?
After freeing everyone, Diana begins to ask if this is
everyone and Chris says that they are missing about a
dozen more.
She then asks why are they even here and Chris
goes on stating that the target was a warlord named
Andres Kudolo and to stop him from performing a ritual
to free Earth's Kataga and give him a human form.
They've arrived. Barbara Ann says that that that's why Kudolo
has Steve,
he's being consumed. Earth's Kataga Tarana tells the ECHO team
to go ahead and get the girls out of here,
her and Barbara Ann will find Stephen Handel Kadulo.
As Diana and Barbara Ann make their way through the
temple,
Diana asks why would Earth's Kataga need women for his
freedom,
and Barbara Ann explains that since the beginning,
he's always had women worshipping him.
One of them is to become the Cheetah,
his bride. The Cheetah would be the protector and blessed
with a long life and power.
However, for her, Earth's Kataga was angered that he was
not the first to enjoy her body and thus cursed
her.
As Barbara Ann goes on,
Diana says that she is beginning to think that she
is being deceived as much as her and the inner
chambers.
Cadulo begins the ritual to call for the ertz Kataga
and offers Steve as his sacrifice ertz Kataga's eyes begin
to glow as he slowly rips himself away from his
bindings and he reaches out to Cadulo.
Cadulo shouts for him to take his flesh and use
it as a tool of his becoming,
and as ertz Kataga starts to absorb Cadulo.
Steve says normally she gives 3 warnings,
but he doesn't think that he's going to get any.
Before Cadulo can ask what he's talking about,
Diana jumps in kicking ertz Kataga stating that he can
we consider the warnings already given.
As Earth's Kataga and Cudulo fall,
Diana says that she's sorry that she's late,
and Steve tells her that he really wasn't that worried.
The two hug and Diana says that she misses him,
but as Steve says he does too,
Cudulo tells the Buddha to get them.
Suddenly Cudulo realizes that nothing is happening and Barbara Ann
finishes killing off the last of the Buddha stating it's
so hard to find good help isn't it?
Cudulo shouts at her calling her unfaithful but as Barbara
Ann drags her nail across his throat she tells him
to please stop talking.
She then punches Cudulo and Diana tells Steve to go
ahead and get the girls but before she can finish
Ernst Kataga gets up knocking her away.
He slams his fists down on her and he looks
away but as he looks away Diana jumps up ripping
that arm off as he grabs Diana with the other
hand. Ernst Kataga tells Barbara Ann that she needs to
remember help him and he will free her.
Diana shouts for her not to listen and Ernst Kataga
slams her down again,
telling her be quiet. Diana manages to pull out her
lasso when she throws it on Barbara,
telling her to use it with the girls to bind
him.
Erskataga shouts that he will not be tracked by the
likes of them and then his words begin to trail
off.
Barbara Ann and the other girls form a circle around
Erskataga and he begins to decay and fall to pieces,
and once it's over, all that's left of him is
a small plant.
Diana looks around for Barbara Ann,
but as she sees her,
she lays in her human form,
stating that he lied to her.
Everything that she did, all of the things that he
made her do,
all lies. And that concludes the first four issues of
Wonder Woman Rebirth.
Now, the situation with the Wonder Woman is interesting because
every other issue is a different time period.
They're telling a year one storyline and the current storyline
in Rebirth.
These first four issues shows Diana reaching out to Cheetah
to try and solve her problems so that she can
get her help in discovering what is actually going on
with the mascara. But we'll start discovering that information in
the next episode when we cover the next two issues
before Diana pretty much goes insane.
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