Wonder Woman: The Return of Kane
by marat
Chapter Five
Almost insensate in the darkness that crushed in around her, Wonder Woman
only felt the damp tiled floor beneath her knees and the pressure at her
chained wrists that were suspended over her head. Her head was spinning.
The pain and stimulation of something left inside her prevented the dazed
heroine from focusing on her situation.
She groaned in the face of the agony that had become her attendant.
*****
Kane ran down the hall, gasping for breath. For more than an hour, he had
been pushing his out-of-shape body, wending his way through the labyrinthine
halls of the underground complex, checking room after room, some of them
more than once, looking for a young blonde woman. He never stopped to ask
himself why he was doing it.
As he turned the corner and gazed down the corridor that looked like every
other hallway in this place, he couldnt tell whether he had traveled
this way before or not. Then, without warning, a set of double doors located
about fifteen yards away swung open and two huge men, laughing and patting
one another on the back, walked quickly away from him. He recognised them
immediately: Valdez and Jonas. Jonas dabbed his nose with a bloody
handkerchief.
Kane sprinted the last length of hallway, standing before the still-swinging
doors and peering through the glass at the darkened interior of the womens
locker room. Cautiously, fearfully, he reached out his right hand and slowly
pushed open one of the doors. Kane tried to peer into the blackness. Even
the bright light from the hallway didnt illuminate much more than the
semicircle of the tiled floor that lay in front of him. Holding the door
open he stood behind the other, closed, door, peeked his head around the
edge, and listened.
Finally, he asked softly, Audra?
Inside the locker room, all was pitch black. The narrow wedge of light that
spread outward from the open door showed nothing other than two fixed wooden
benches near the entrance.
Audra? Are you here?
Kane reached his hand inside the locker room, brushing up and down the wall
next to the doorway, looking for the light switch. For what seemed an
interminable period, all he felt was the smooth painted surface. Finally,
however, the plastic cover met his searching fingers. He flicked the switch
upward and brilliant neon light flooded the room.
Wonder Woman was near the far wall, close to the entrance to the carpeted
dressing area that led to the showers. When the lights came on, Kane saw
her twist her head downward, as if her eyes had been physically struck by
the bright lights.
She was on her knees. Her arms were stretched over her head, the links of
chain joining her wrists tied to a makeshift rope that connected to pipes
that ran across the ceiling. Her athletic body leaned forward, and the heroic
Amazon had buried her face in the crook of her arms. Her magnificent body
had been used by the two men who had just left. Her satin bustier had been
pulled from her body and lay crumpled on the floor next to her. Its dramatic
red and gold satin reflected the light vividly. He saw her blue and white-starred
tights in the corner behind her. The only part of her uniform that remained
on her body was the golden girdle of Hippolyte that had settled low on her
hips. Her exposed hips and thighs seemed to be covered with scaly, dried
cum. The sweat that covered the rest of her body made it glisten in the overhead
lights.
She slid off of her knees to a position resting on the side of her right
thigh and hip. As she did so, her arms were pulled upward, revealing her
beaten expression. Kane saw that her raven-black hair hung askew, dangling
in long, perspiration-soaked strands across her stunning face and that her
eyes were almost closed. Glossy lines marking where the streams of tears
had run down her cheeks were evidence of her torture. A spool of saliva drooled
from her mouth spiraling downward toward the floor. As soon as she saw him,
she turned her face from him, staring at the ground, hoping to avoid his
glance. The light glinted off her golden tiara, highlighting the single red
star in the center. Its brilliance mocked the heroine who wore it.
As Kane drew closer, he noticed the scuffs and small tears in the leather
of her red boots.
Dianaer, uh, Wonder Woman! he said in a harsh whisper.
He wanted to ask her about Audras whereabouts. Did she even know who
Audra was? He had seen Liddys henchmen leave, but they didnt
have the blonde with them. Would Wonder Woman know anything about
Audra?
As Kane looked down on the Princess of the Amazons, he saw the pain in her
face. Suddenly, he realised that before there could be any attempt to find
Audra, and perhaps effect a rescue, this woman would need to be unfettered,
both physically and mentally.
The helpless and humiliated Champion of All Women turned away from him. Her
nakedness and her sexual debasementthe second such degradation in so
short a timemade the heroine seek a safe haven, any refuge, any corner
where she could hide from witnesses to her shame.
Kane removed his jacket and wrapped it around the debased, violated woman.
She took a large gulp of air as she tried to say something. All that came
out of a shudder and a short groan. She shifted her weight again, and then
whispered, barely audibly, Plplease
. She took another
gulp of air. As she squeezed her eyes shut, she moaned quietly, In-
side
inside me.
Gently and ever so slowly, Kane helped Wonder Woman shift her position so
that she sat uncomfortably on the tile floor. He carefully reached down between
her thighs and up toward her vagina, where he himself had only recently had
had his dreams fulfilled. Protruding barely a half-an-inch from that Elysium
was the hard ivory of a massive dildo. Soaked with her fluids, its surface
slipped twice from his fingers as he tried to grab it. In frustration he
tried a third time, and the clumsy scholar only succeeded in pushing it
infinitesimally deeper into the heroine. He heard pain in her intake of breath,
but the helpless, exhausted woman could no longer scream.
He tried again. This time he only succeeded in twisting the ivory a few degrees.
Despite the agony she felt from other parts of her body, the combination
of pain and ecstasy showed as she stiffened her spine and raised her eyes
to the ceiling. Trying once again, this time Kane felt it begin to ease from
her sex. Bit by significant bit, he relieved the avenger. He saw the lines
on her face smooth out to reveal the pristine loveliness that he knew so
well. With each little bit of the sex toy that emerged from within her, she
sighed, he thought, gratefully.
It took long minutes, but eventually the fourteen-inch object was removed.
Kane looked at it in disgust, a disgust he felt for himself. The white object
was thickly coated with the superheroines honey, and as its sweet odor
filled his nostrils, he came near to retching. He harkened back to his own
rape of this woman mere days ago, and the smell revived the sense of triumph
he had experienced then, a triumph now polluted by what he had facilitated:
The drug he had used to defeat Wonder Woman had allowed brutes to destroy
her. He violently threw the ivory phallus against the farthest wall of the
room.
He gently lifted the unsteady Champion to her feet, at the same time pulling
his jacket over her chest. Now standing, her chained wrists were suspended
in front of her. Kane reached for the improvised cords that secured her to
the ceiling. He pulled at them, several times, failing to release them, and
her. Finally, frustration showed in his face and he reached into his pocket
and pulled out a narrow key. He inserted it into one of the metal loops that
circled the Amazons wrist. It opened easily and her right arm dropped
to her side.
Wonder Woman felt her Amazon strength return to her, but her relief at the
resurgence of her power was tempered by the humiliation she had suffered.
Kane quickly released her other wrist, returned the key to his pocket, and
then led the shaking woman to a nearby bench, where he helped her to take
a seat. Then he gathered up the crushed red-and-gold satin breastplate and
the blue and white-starred tights from the floor. As if approaching an alter
with an offering to a goddess, he brought Wonder Womans uniform to
her. As he looked over her abused body, Kane only noticed something now.
There was no blood.
He sat next to the hunched-over Champion, still holding the artifacts of
her heroism. From far back in his throat, he said very softly, Its
my fault, Diana. What happened to you
its all my fault.
She didnt seem to hear him. Having made his attempt at confession,
for a moment he thought better of it. Then he repeated his declaration of
guilt. Its all my fault, Diana. Im sorry.
Her returning strength allowed Wonder Woman to note what was being said.
What
what do you mean?
I
I
Kane stammered. He really wanted to tell the
truth. His whole body sagged as he wrestled with his dilemma. Its the
right thing to do. Its the only way to find Audra. Its the only
thing I can do.
Finally, he said quietly, Lets get you cleaned up. Then, Ill
tell you everything.
*****
When Wonder Woman emerged from the shower, she bore herself with an attitude
much more befitting a superheroine. As she dressed, even her torn bustier
and boots seemed to only add luster to the glory of her beauty and dignity.
Now, restored, she was truly the Champion of All Women.
Kane led her out of the locker room. This room had been the scene of an emotional
rollercoaster for the Amazon Princess in the last few hours. First she had
fulfilled herself with the ecstasy and the purity of her lovemaking with
Audra, where both women had experienced a sensual completeness and union.
It was a bond between the two women which no male would understand or comprehend.
But it had been followedand sulliedby the devastating rape carried
out by Valdez and Jonas, an attack that was as incomprehensible to the heroine
as the psychic and sexual union would have been to any man. How had they
defeated her again? She was prepared for them; she was capable of defending
herself. An Amazons physiology gave her great strength, even when chained.
The earlier defeat had been washed away, and her lifespirit had been restored.
Yet, when she tried to attack, weakness overwhelmed her, a weakness that
allowed the two men to humble her again.
Kane stood slouched over in the corner near the double doors. He stared at
the tile floor, only occasionally raising his eyes to glance at the Amazon.
Now freed from her manacles, Wonder Woman walked toward him, an inquiring
look in her eyes.
Come with me, he said.
They walked a short distance to the T where the hallway ran into
a cross-corridor. Turning left, he led the Princess about fifty yards to
a centrally located office. On the door was a plate: G.G. Liddy. He turned
to her. In here.
But he didnt move. Wonder Woman reached out her hand and tried to the
knob. The door was locked. When she looked at the aspiring academic, he nodded
toward the door, a heartfelt sadness showing in his eyes. She twisted the
doorknob easily, breaking the lock and opening the door. It swung open revealing
a spartan office. Kane reached inside and flicked on the light switch next
to the entry. A desk and chair, a small counter, and a padded chair were
all the furnishings to be seen. Only a framed photograph of a smiling Liddy
with an also-smiling Richard Nixon decorated the walls.
Kane walked behind the desk. He gestured for Wonder Woman to seat herself
in the cushioned chair. He passed her a file. Wonder Woman noticed the name
on the tab: C.F. Kane.
She opened the half-inch-thick file and quickly absorbed the information
it offered. As she finished, her shoulders had visibly drooped and her head
hung a little lower. Her worst fears had been realised.
While in prison, Kane had had conversations with his cellmate, as often happened,
about the circumstances of his capture and arrest. That man, a white-collar
felon with contacts in the CIA, got word to some friends. They in turn had
contacted Kane about possible employment after his now-pending release.
Kane had been met at the gate to the State Prison by a representative of
the President of the United States. (How his head must have swelled and spun
at the same time, Wonder Woman imagined.) He was taken to Washington, and
the record of the interrogation that followed was recorded verbatim, as if
transcribed from an audiotape. The professional investigators who debriefed
Kane soon came to the conclusion that hypnotism would restore a fuller and
more accurate record of what had happened months earlier in Newark.
The deep hypnotism had worked. Kane had recalled all of the information he
had been ordered to forget under the power of the magic lasso. He had given
the White House Security Team, for this is what the organisation that now
employed him is called, all of the material he had gathered on the Amazing
Amazon for that now-discarded dissertation. All of it.
They knew about Amazon society on Paradise Island. They knew her secret identity.
They knew the extent of her powers and her strength. They knew all of the
details of her weaknesses. They also knew what had happened to her in
Kanes hands, the things she had only known because she had seen the
films made at the time. As Wonder Woman handed the file back to Kane, her
hand shook and she felt a small dizziness pass over her. How would she overcome
this?
*****
Through all of this Kane had said nothing. For a brief moment, their eyes
met across Liddys desk. Then, Kane dropped his glance, unable to maintain
contact. He spoke very softly. We knew that your strength was taken
from you when you are chained by a man. The President wanted you out of the
way, so we figured that the easiest way would be a trap. You fell right into
it the other night.
I remembered how susceptible you are to drugs. Without them we
couldnt have defeated you in Delaware. Well, I decided what I wanted
to do to you. I wanted to use your strengths against you. So, I decided that
a drug that would take away your strength when adrenaline is poured into
your bloodstream would be exactly right.
Of course, there was no drug that acted that way. So, when the Government
cant get the exact drug it needs, it can arrange to have it made. I
simply gave the government chemists the specifications, and they gave me
the drug.
You drugged me?
Much more than that. Here he stopped. Wonder Woman saw tears
brimming in his eyes. I
I didnt
He stopped
again.
I wanted to punish you for what you had done to me, for what you had
stolen from me in Newark. I could have been a professor somewhere
I
could
Wonder Woman didnt move as he lurched in his seat,
covering his face with his hands. His shoulders shook as self-pity overwhelmed
the smallish man. It made him seem smaller.
Im a good teacher, Diana. I know my subject, and I can get students
interested. There are lots of areas in the Classics where research can be
done. Thats why theyre called the Classics: Theyre relevant
even today. I could have contributed something to scholarship. Oh, I know
Im no Joseph Campbell, but I could have made some contribution.
Anyway, they came up with a drug called Ludovicalamene. I injected
it into you while you were unconscious right after you were captured.
Thats why, when I
he paused for a long time,
raped
you
you werent able to stop me. When
you determined to resist, and your body fired up its defenses, you were weakened,
not strengthened. Even I could handle you alone.
Wonder Woman looked at Kane with disgust.
Im so sorry. I was just so angry at you. I thought you had destroyed
my life, my future, everything I ever wanted to be.
The beautiful Princess of the Amazons simply stared at him.
Kane tried to change the subject. Thats why you couldnt
fight Liddys men. Your body naturally produces adrenaline when threatened.
You prepare for fight or flight. Anyway, the drug wasisstill
in your system. It will be for another 48 hours.
You did this to me. You took away my ability to defend myself. You
raped me and then you helped others do so. How could you? You, an educated
man?
I told you. I was furious with you. This was the only way I knew to
get even with you.
Men are like that. When confronted with a woman who challenges them
on their own terms, they react with violence and seek to dominate her in
the only way they can. When youre apologising to me, you should do
so for your gender.
This time it was the scholar who was speechless.
In Newark, I said that you were amoral, that you were like the scientists
and doctors who performed scientific experiments in the Nazi camps. It seems
that, for all the knowledge you profess and all the knowledge you have gained,
you havent learned anything about Right and Wrong. You claim to have
something to offer in the Classics. Evidently, you havent studied Ethics
or Morals.
Kane felt a coldness enter the pit of his stomach. He knew that the superheroine
was right. But he also had to get her to save Audra from Liddy. She was the
only one who could. He despaired of that possibility. She certainly didnt
owe him a thing.
Wonder Woman continued to berate Kane. While youre studying the
Classics, why dont you see whether theres something
in there about Mans inhumanity to Man. And even more specifically,
his inhumanity to Woman. Look at what Hercules did to Hippolyte, the Queen
of the Amazons, after hes defeated her. Or how Zeus behaved. Or Narcissus.
The mythology is filled with stories of Men who mistreat, discount, and rape
women. Do you think there might be a lesson there? A lesson thats relevant
for today? Thats why theyre called the
Classics.
Wonder Woman, please stop.
Why should I do anything you ask?
Kane now told the beautiful Princess everything he had discovered about
Liddys grotesque plan: About how government scientists had extracted
Hitlers DNA and how he had planned to introduce an embryo into the
Amazon to carry it for him; about Audras kidnapping and her improvised
role in the project. Wonder Woman sat, slumped, in the chair by the time
he finished. The possibility of stopping Liddy seemed bleak.
I think I know where hes taken Audra, Kane was saying.
Theres an old CIA safe house across the river in Maryland. They
dont use it much any more and Liddy often talks about turning it into
a personal retreat.
Please, Diana. Wonder Woman shuddered when he called her that.
Please, Diana. Youre the only one who can rescue her. I dont
know whether you got to know her at all, but she means more to me than everything
I ever may have. Please save her. After that, you can do what you want to
me. He rose from his seat and removed the framed photo of the President
and his boss from the wall. Behind it was a small safe. He looked at the
heroine with beseeching eyes.
The beautiful Amazon Princess rose and walked to his side. Do you want
me to break into this, too?
Your magic lasso is in there.
Wonder Woman grabbed the dial and was on the verge of tearing it from the
face of the safe. Suddenly, Kanes face lit up with an inspiration.
Wait! Try 20-4-89.
The Amazons deft fingers quickly twirled the combination. The door
swung open. That combination probably opened half the safes in Nazi
Germany. And 30-1-33 opened the other half, Kane said smugly. When
Wonder Woman looked at him, the smile disappeared from his face.
Reattaching her golden lasso to her belt, Wonder Woman seemed complete again.
Even the tears in her bustier and boots seemed to vanish.
*****
Kane had given the Amazon the location of the small estate that he believed
housed Liddys operation. He paused dramatically and looked steadily
into her flawless features. To avoid the effects of the Ludovicalamene,
you must avoid excitement, anger, fear, anything that would lead to the
production of adrenaline.
You make it sound easy. You know that an Amazons physiology is
heightened compared to normal men. One of the sources of our power is the
strength we gain from the way our systems react to stimuli.
I also know of your Zen-like ability to master your emotions, to keep
your head when all around you are losing theirs, and blaming it on
you.
Spare me the Kipling. It wont be easy and you know it. How do
I know this isnt just another trap?
You have only my word. And, despite all Ive done to you, and
attempted to do to you, have I ever lied to you?
Wonder Woman decided to change the subject. You said the President
wanted me out of the way?
Thats what I was told. Kane was grateful for the new direction.
You were a threat to some plans hes evidently had drawn
up.
As Wonder Woman exited the room into the brightly lit hallway, she said,
I know of these plans.
*****
It was late afternoon. Wonder Woman had been confined to the subterranean
chambers beneath the White House for so long that she had lost all sense
of time. She didnt even know what day it was. How many days had she
been confined, tormented, there? How long had it been since she had seen
Penelope, her roommate? It seemed like months, though she was sure it had
only been days. As her star-spangled formed floated high above the traffic
moving to and from Maryland on I-95, she searched out the obscure farm road
that led to the estate.
Inevitably, it was there, there behind the line of trees that Kane had told
her marked the turn. Her lithe form dropped lower, carried on the air currents,
and finally her boots came to rest on the soft grass next to the dirt path
that led to Liddys hideout. Standing tall, the Amazon took a few deep
breaths, bringing her body, and her power, under control
Kanes description of Liddys plan meant that there was little
time to spare. The sun was still high in the sky; so waiting for the cover
of darkness was not an option. Wonder Woman had to get to the house as quickly
as possible. Audra may already be undergoing the procedure to implant the
reborn Hitler within her. While it may not be torture, or even painful, to
do so, the procedure had to be stopped.
Kane had told her that the house had no basement and that the first floor
was not used at allmostly storage rooms and a library. That left the
second and third floors. Wonder Woman considered that Liddy probably would
have his lab at the safest part of the house, in the middle of the third
floor, in the interior, if possible. She noticed that though the first and
second floor windows were barred, the third floor was not. Perhaps it might
be possible to enter at the end of the building.
*****
The Amazon Champion let herself into the house through a window on the east
side of the house, away from the sun. It appeared to be a bedroom. She moved
through the shadows toward the door. The Champion of the Amazons gingerly
opened it and peered into the hallway.
There was no one in sight. From her vantage point at the end of the hall,
she could see the stairwell leading to the second floor. There were only
shadows reaching up from that level.
Her powerful body slid through the door and into the hall. The carpeting
was thick, plush. Wonder Woman moved quickly, knowing that there was little
likelihood of a squeaking floorboard to give her away. She used that speed
to swiftly check the doors along the passageway. Only the door to a single
interior room was locked, she discovered.
Of course, she thought. They would be waiting for her.
*****
She was right.
Inside the room, Liddy, Valdez, Jonas, and two others waited. And strapped
to a table was the naked, blonde form of Audra LeVelle. Audras narrow
ankles were strapped into stirrups so that her spread thighs stretched upward
from her hips and her knees were bent. Exposed and vulnerable, dried trails
of tears were visible on the side of her face. But her cries were muffled
by the purple gag that secured the ball of cloth in her mouth. Her wrists
were also strapped to the table on which she lay, near the sides of her head.
The leather of the examination table squealed softly as her toned body
squirmed.
But none of the men watched the erotic movements of her petite, flawless
body. They all stared at the door, and, more specifically, at the doorknob,
which they now saw begin to turn, first one way, then the other. Wonder Woman
was in the house. She was at the door. They knew how to defeat her. Two among
their number had done so twice. But in each case, she had been chained, her
strength taken from her. Would they be able to do so again, when she was
at her full power? They also knew of the drug that slumbered in her system,
awaiting the adrenaline that would give them the advantage they needed.
*****
Wonder Woman knew what was on the other side of the door. She also knew that
going through that door was the only way to rescue Audra. She focused into
the center of her being, slowly drawing deep breaths, her eyes closed, determined
that her mind remain in control of her physical being. If she lost control,
she knew that she would again fall into the hands of her enemies.
Grasping the doorknob, she pushed hard, shattering the lock and powering
through the doorway into the darkness on the other side.
Four of the men stood about twenty feet inside the door, directly in front
of the Amazon Champion, bathed in a pool of bright light. The fifth was next
to the examination table where the struggling, moaning figure of Audra LeVelle
was secured.
Welcome, Wonder Woman, George said, cheerfully, as she entered
and got her bearings. Weve been expecting you. Audra and
the single man in white were behind and to the right of the large group of
men. She stood in the small rectangle of light at the doorway, gauging the
situation. There was darkness between the light that surrounded her and the
pool of bright light that wrapped around the figures in the center of the
room.
Then you know that Ive come for her, the Princess said,
her head nodding toward the captive girl strapped to the table.
Ohh, I cant allow that. Not yet, the bald mustachioed figure
replied, the ceiling lights reflecting off his polished dome.
I know what youre intending to do. How can you, a citizen of
the United States, a public official sworn to protect our freedoms, want
to bring back thatmonster? Wonder Woman asked. Her voice remained
even, almost calm.
Liddy smiled. Because he was the greatest figure of my lifetime. He
wanted to elevate the human race to its full potential. That too is my
goal. He paused, then continued, Is it not also yours? Isnt
it what the Amazon race is dedicated to?
The slandering of her race struck the Princess like a blow across her face.
She caught her breath and looked briefly to the floor. In that instant, Liddy
cast his eyes toward Valdez, who moved a step closer to the Amazon. Liddy
smiled to himself.
The beautiful Amazon regained her composure almost immediately. The
Amazons seek the fulfillment of the human race through virtuous means,
she replied. And I intend to prevent you from achieving your goal.
She looked at Audra, lying still on the leather examination table. Next to
her, a dark man in a white lab coat seemed frightened.
It took mere seconds for the superheroine to reach the table and release
her friend as though the bonds that held her were paper. As she helped the
girl up, Audra removed the purple gag. Wonder Womans warning stare
was sufficient to keep Dr. Ganguly at bay. The flawless blondes lissome
body twisted out of the stirrups and sat on the edge of the table. Wonder
Woman helped her step to the floor and, eyeing the men, led her to the door
that now hung off its hinges. She looked out into the hall and saw that it
was bare. She looked at the man who was nearest her. Might she borrow
your coat? the Amazon asked, the politeness dripping with sarcasm.
He was, like the others, very large, and as he handed over the blue blazer,
Wonder Woman knew it would amply cover the petite form of the young woman
she had rescued.
She smiled at Audra as she gently pushed her into the hallway. Go
now, she whispered. The blondes tear-stained eyes looked back
in fear. Go, she said again.
*****
As Audra escaped down the hall, throwing on the jacket that would reach to
her thighs, the Amazon Princess turned to the men in the room. Just as she
did so, the man whose jacket now covered the little blonde one leapt across
the darkness at the heroine. Catching him in mid-flight, Wonder Woman casually
tossed him against the wall on the other side of the open door. The crash
of his big body startled Audra as she made her way downstairs. Fleeing down
the steps as quickly as she could, and gazing after her looking for pursuit,
she didnt notice as the front door eased slowly open.
*****
The man was knocked out, but was otherwise uninjured. Liddy was concerned.
The odds had been reduced to no purpose. It would be difficult enough to
take the Amazon; but now that one of his fool henchmen had tried to act too
soon, he had made it more difficult for all of them.
Liddy knew he had to agitate the heroine, if conquest and capture were even
possible. He had made a start with his reference to Hitlers goals.
He knew Wonder Womans weak point, but whether he had enough time to
exploit it was not certain. He only needed a little break. Dr. Gangulys
chloroform would take care of the rest.
End of Chapter Five
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