Dinah Laurel Lance (
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This is a totally logical and sensible way to do things. Shut up.
The way is: Dinah has a whole list of cities and places she wants to visit, including all over the United States; California, Pennsylvania, even Kansas, as she hasn't yet thoroughly investigated Keystone City.
She's starting in Greece.
This is, she claimed, because it's her vacation and she's always wanted to vacation in Europe and soak up the Mediterranean sun. But it's really because she's much less worried and apprehensive about what she'll find on Themiscyra than, for example, Star City, California. She hasn't even decided what she wants to find, but she can handle not finding it better if she starts with the Amazons.
Zinda's gone off to look at Egypt, after dropping Dinah off at an abandoned airfield. For some reason island-hopping on her own in a tiny plane is easier than admitting to Lady Blackhawk she doesn't know exactly which island is which on this world. Also, it feels more like a vacation.
The way is: Dinah has a whole list of cities and places she wants to visit, including all over the United States; California, Pennsylvania, even Kansas, as she hasn't yet thoroughly investigated Keystone City.
She's starting in Greece.
This is, she claimed, because it's her vacation and she's always wanted to vacation in Europe and soak up the Mediterranean sun. But it's really because she's much less worried and apprehensive about what she'll find on Themiscyra than, for example, Star City, California. She hasn't even decided what she wants to find, but she can handle not finding it better if she starts with the Amazons.
Zinda's gone off to look at Egypt, after dropping Dinah off at an abandoned airfield. For some reason island-hopping on her own in a tiny plane is easier than admitting to Lady Blackhawk she doesn't know exactly which island is which on this world. Also, it feels more like a vacation.
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Male voices.
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Oblivious. Completely.
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As she reaches the steps up to the temple, she calms herself and slows. It's probable she'll just ahve to deal with scared survivors: nothing more.
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Still oblivious. Naturally. We wouldn't want to ruin the dramatic impact!
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The situation is this:
Three men stand at one end of the room, around a sack of looted silverware and ceramic goods, over which they appear to be arguing. Two more men, and three women lie dead on the floor. All of them, living and dead, sport a range of injuries, but that's the only thing they have in common. This isn't just a multi-cultural gang, but appears to be a multichronological one as well. One of the living men has a sword and a doublet, for crying out loud.
And then there's the man near the entrance. Holding the gun. Which he's pointing in Dinah's face. He doesn't look old fashioned in the slightest.
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He slings his bag over his shoulder, and sets off towards the noise.
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A quick check of the room: she counts four guns in the hands of three men. One sword. A knife. There is another sword on the floor. The man closest to her is shaking with fear and anger. Of the other three, two look more like a threat.
Oh, and when another man comes back in through the far entrance, that makes three. He's big, ripped, and has an air of major confidence that means Dinah instantly tags him as a meta.
"Kill her," he says the second he lays eyes on her.
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Luckily, he's behind the guy holding the gun on the woman - or rather, the man who was holding the gun - because Indy's whip has just snapped it out of his hand, and Indy is pulling his own gun and stepping behind the cover of a pillar.
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Indy blinks, and steps out from behind his pillar, keeping the remaining men covered.
"I guess maybe you don't actually need my help after all," he drawls, impressed.
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Two men stay standing. One - the original gunman - runs at top speed out of the temple without looking back. The other - the leader, looks for a moment like he's going to enjoy a challenge from a pretty young woman.
Bam.
Thwap.
Thunk.
He stays down.
Dinah turns around.
"Thanks for the thought, th..."
She stops mid-sentence.
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"Any idea what they were up to, other than the obvious?"
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That's Indiana Jones!
Soooo much better than orcs.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Dinah says, business like. She gives the loot filled bag a cursory inspection and crouches down by one of the dead women.
Definitely dead.
"We could wait til they come round and ask them?"
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He turns over the nearest unconscious body with a grunt, and begins binding his hands between his back. With his own shirt. Poetic justice, no?
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And tries not to let Dr. Jones see quite how often she glacnes in his direction.
"So you're not with these men?"
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"Rabble like that. Nope - Indiana Jones, at your service - I'm an archaeologist. They, by the looks of it, are looters."
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Dinah pulls the belt extra tight and stands.
"I'm Dinah Lance. Thanks for showing up when you did."
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"You're welcome," he says again. "Not that you needed me."
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She kicks the bag over to him and shakes the fourth guy awake.
"Hey, sleepy head."
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His eyes get rather round.
Oh. My.
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"You'll pay for this, bitch."
Dinah rolls her eyes.
"really, that's the best line you've got? Do you know what this island is?"
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"Watch your mouth or you'll lose a few more teeth."
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This is an implied lie: Dinah's easily the most dangerous person in the room, she judges.
"You know what's been happening in the rest of the world? And you're here looting old ruins? Why?"
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Hold on, what?
Indy frowns at her. Either she's crazy (which he judges to be fairly likely, all things considered) or he's missed something being away from civilisation for a few days.
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