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Player Name: Shira
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Character Name: Shayera (Hawkgirl) Hol
Character Fandom: Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, DCA

[Shayera awoke on a grassy meadow in a damp white dress that even she would consider short, with a pain in her back and her mace immediately to her right.

Well. Things could be worse.

Slowly, so as not to attract attention in case someone was watching her, she reached out for the hilt of her familiar weapon. Once she had it in her hand, Shayera immediately sprang to her feet.

Oh good. There was no one in sight. Peachy. That meant there was no one around to immediately pound for answers. She attempted to take to the sky, but her back immediately exploded in pain.]

What the--

[She craned her head to see two tiny useless golden wings between her two Thanagarian ones. Now that annoyed her.]

All right, whatever joker thought it was a good idea to take away my clothes and leave me my mace should come out now so we can share a good laugh.

[Glancing around again, she located a book. Picking it up, she saw her name on it.]

Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

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A bunch of kids- Teen Titans. They're from alternate universes. Justice League in each one of them, but key differences otherwise. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were all here at one point, but they left at the same time I did originally.

[The same time he did.]

Just how many times are you saying you've been here?

Third time's the charm, right?

[A hint of a smirk at that, but he was not amused by it at all. He'd had his own history of failures, but none quite as bad as this.]

[Three times? Shayera doesn't bother hiding her surprise or her annoyance. It's not at him, but this entire situation is lighting her frayed fuse.]

And you don't know what's bringing us here? Or why they see fit to do this?

[She turns around so he can see her wings within wings.]

[He raises an eyebrow at that. He'd always wondered what it would do to someone already with wings. Well...]

It's a bio-morphic side effect of arriving in this universe. I've got them too. So do the Malnosso.

[Shayera tilted her head to get a better view of John's wings.]

Cute. [Pathetic, really. Look at the dinky little things.] They can't possibly work.

[She was stalling, really. He'd given her all the pieces of information she needed in order to put the situation together, and she didn't like it one bit. She didn't want to have to say it, not when they were talking so civilly after... but she would have to say it, in a moment.]

Oh, they work. Just enough to be a pain in the backside. But that's all they do.

[Though he looks down at the village warily.]

Problem is, the people on this world are born with wings like yours. There's a whole army filled with them just itching to wipe us out. You might run into people who aren't very good at telling the difference.

[...great, she's kidnapped and brought into a new world and still going to be considered scum.

Shayera rested the head of her mace in one hand almost contemplatively.]

Then I guess I won't have to worry about winning any popularity contests.

[From that look in her eye, it told him what he needed to know. She'd already betrayed Earth to the Thanagarians... and then vice versa.]

The people in this enclosure are reasonable enough. It's on the outside you'll have trouble.

[Shayera turned around.]

Trouble, I can handle. But I don't do well in enclosed spaces.

[She began to fly upwards.]

[After a moment's hesitation, he starts to follow.]

What are you doing, Shayera?

What does it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to find where this 'barrier' begins.

[And from the way she's gripping her mace, three guesses as to what she does when she gets there, and your first two don't count.]

Allow me. I'll save you the headache.

[Literally. An invisible barrier means she's just going to run smack into it. So he sends up a beam of energy up and past the two of them. It splashes off the top of the barrier with a brilliant effect and a slight ripple from the barrier distorts the sky above.]

Thank you. That does make things easier.

[And with a shout, she sped up towards the barrier. Sure. Clark, Diana, and Bruce had all been here along with John and they hadn't gotten out, but she hadn't tried hitting it yet. She wouldn't rest easy until she did. After all, Nth metal had properties that the other memories of the team just weren't equipped with.]

[He kept his position and waited to see what happened. He knew her mace was unique and hell, he wasn't so paranoid that he wasn't going to dismiss the possibility that she'd be the one to find a way through.

But if it didn't work or if it backfired, then he wanted plenty of room to catch her.]

[Shayera swung the mace at the barrier with all her might. Ther barrier didn't budge. That meant she did. Tricky physics. She might have seen a ripple as she went spiraling down, it might just have been a shadow cast by John's ring, but she could feel the difference - her mace hadn't even made an impact.

She had more immediate, if less frustrating concerns. She needed to right herself as opposed to crashing into the ground. The additional wings on her back were making that difficult. Damn the things.]

[Sure, Shayera had hundreds of feet to tall to figure out the falling thing. But John was here, he was adapted to the barrier's power limitations, and he had a Power Ring. With it, he created a soft malleable surface for her land on.]

[At least he'd done her the courtesy of not making it shaped like a baseball glove. Then they would have to have Words.

As it was, her fall was simply stopped. Her wings - her knew wings - reacted with extreme pain. She made a soft sound of pain which she attempted to cover with an:] Oomph.

Sorry. Should have went with a glove.

[It would have contoured to fit her new wings better. Less rough that way. Regardless, his eyes were glued to the top of the barrier, still hoping for some kind of lingering effect.

Once again he was disappointed. An all too familiar experience.]

"You're lucky you didn't," Shayera said, regaining her balance and flying towards him. "I didn't even dent it."

That wouldn't, of course, stop her from trying again. But possibly not while John was here to catch her.

"Me, Diana, and Clark through everything we had at it. For hours. The only thing we got for our trouble was being exhausted and me draining my ring."

Batman, naturally, watched. Even though he knew they had no chance at it, he never said as much.