radicalducati Chapter 49 The Formation of an Alliance
Chapter 49 The Formation of an Alliance
"I hope that the Amazons will completely and thoroughly withdraw from the British Isles."
If this is the premise for Joey's cooperation with the Amazons, Wonder Woman would naturally not agree to their proposal. The only place the Amazons who have withdrawn from Britain can go is the ocean, where they would face certain death if they confronted the Atlanteans.
Even if she couldn't match his strength, she had to fight to the death for her people's right to survival, but Joey offered an additional condition she could accept:
"I will bring Paradise Island back."
"impossible."
When Wonder Woman fought the Atlanteans on Paradise Island, she broke the seal on Tartarus, causing the long-suppressed active volcano on the island to erupt instantly, annihilating most of the Atlantean invaders on the island at that time.
The ensuing massive tectonic activity also caused Paradise Island to sink into the sea.
"Simple, like picking up a stone from underwater."
Joey reached out and helped Wonder Woman up from the ground: "Want to come and take a look?"
As Wonder Woman left with Joey, Penthesilea's eyes revealed her displeasure, and she once again lashed out at the members of "Nemesis":
"Diana shouldn't have trusted a man again. You've all failed in your duty. You should have seized the opportunity to kill that man!"
Meanwhile, the members of Wonder Woman's bodyguard, the Nemesis, remained noncommittal. They were the Queen's Guard, composed of the most valiant women on Earth, and obeyed only the Queen, not her aunt.
All of this was witnessed by Kara, who was left behind at the scene and had not gone far. It seems that the subsequent merger with the Amazons will not be as smooth as initially expected.
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Wonder Woman chose the British Isles as the new Paradise Island for a reason: the original Paradise Island was located in the North Sea of the Netherlands, an area surrounded by Britain, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.
Compared to other regions, using Britain, which is isolated from the European continent, as a bridgehead for advancing into the whole of Europe was indeed the most appropriate decision.
Joey felt that Wonder Woman's strategic thinking was somewhat superfluous. Even if she directly invaded the Netherlands or Northern Europe, given the rather weak defense capabilities of other Western European countries, which were essentially just playing around with the situation, they probably wouldn't dare to say a word against it.
In fact, just as Wonder Woman announced her conquest of the entire United Kingdom, the European Union, represented by the Gauls, had already begun debating whether to resist or submit.
"You actually tried to lift an entire island?"
Wonder Woman is blessed with the power of Hercules, so she may be able to lift the weight of such an island, but weight is weight, and when it is distributed across an entire island, it is a different story.
"You can first consider where the new Paradise Island should be located."
After uttering those words, Joey vanished into the sea. In no time, a huge whirlpool appeared on the once calm sea, and then the submerged Paradise Island emerged from the water and reappeared in the world.
"Oh my god."
Wonder Woman once again saw her island, with its ancient Greek architecture and marble carvings, and volcanic rock covering the entire island, centered around an erupting crater.
Joey simply cut off the entire base beneath Paradise Island and lifted it out of the water. Kryptonian biomechanics is something that is hard to explain, but it does allow him to completely lift the entire Paradise Island and its continental shelf base, rather than piercing through it.
He held the island high, its shadow covering Wonder Woman and the entire sea:
"Your people can rebuild their homes on Paradise Island, but now the island needs to find a better place to go."
The magical barrier erected by Zeus on Paradise Island was closed long ago and there is no possibility of it being reopened. The island, now exposed to the light of day, is no longer suitable to remain in the North Sea.
Joey and Wonder Woman finally agreed on the final destination for Themyscira – the Arctic.
Although some political entities with vested interests may disagree, the Arctic remains a region without sovereignty for the time being.
Joey had already placed Kara's spaceship in the Arctic, so a Paradise Island wouldn't make a difference. As for the climate issue, it could be solved using the technology on Kara's spaceship.
Upon seeing her homeland again, Wonder Woman begins to recall the deadly conflicts of the past, conflicts that seem endless:
"If you just leave Paradise Island in the Arctic, it will soon attract an attack from the Atlanteans. The hatred Aquaman has for me is just as deep as my hatred for Aquaman."
The Atlanteans killed Wonder Woman's mother, and Wonder Woman herself severed the head of Mera, Aquaman's former consort. Even if Wonder Woman were willing to let go of her hatred, she wouldn't believe that Aquaman would do the same thing.
Do you want to know what I think?
Joey has a different view on the conflict between the Amazons and the Atlanteans. Although the two sides seem to be locked in a life-or-death struggle, in the end, the human side suffered the most casualties.
Wonder Woman has not yet been able to carry out a large-scale crackdown in Britain to cause enough casualties due to her own intervention, but Aquaman, who has declared a state of war, has already begun to launch indiscriminate attacks on all units that appear in Atlantis territory.
In the Atlantis worldview, all the oceans on Earth belong to them as their 'territory,' and all the airspace above the oceans is their 'airspace.'
He looked at Diana, who was deeply worried about the impending conflict:
"Perhaps your feud with Aquaman was the main cause of the war, but the fundamental driving force that allows this war to continue is that the vast majority of people in your two races who have a voice secretly want to take this opportunity to wipe out all mortals in the world."
The royal feud between the two of you has merely provided an excuse for both sides to go to war.
Joey needs to provide shelter for the remnants of Paradise Island and work to appease the Atlanteans as quickly as possible.
Because the Sea King of this world never learned what mercy was from his human father, he will soon discover an obvious truth in his conflicts with the land dwellers:
The existence of six billion land-dwelling inhabitants on Earth was a complete burden for the Atlanteans.
And the 'super weapon' that Aquaman secretly built is about to be completed.
In the original timeline, this superweapon was powerful enough to render all the land on Earth barren.
Once Aquaman decides to press that button, Joey will have no choice but to cut his losses.
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"No one understands Aquaman better than me~ Don't worry, I like Aquaman, and Aquaman likes me, we have a great relationship~ I've already sent our most capable superheroes to negotiate with him~ WW3~ It's absolutely impossible~"
Cyborg is maintaining his parts system at his secret base in Detroit. As a cyborg whose body is almost entirely made up of only his heart and half a brain, his mind has long since transcended the real world and moves freely in cyberspace.
At this moment, one of the threads of his processor was browsing a video in cyberspace of his own president playing the accordion and spouting nonsense, and he couldn't help but curse in his mind.
The President didn't even know Aquaman's name, yet he dared to casually claim that they were good buddies. Moreover, he used his extraordinary wisdom to assign Captain Atom to discuss an alliance with the Atlanteans.
Although it was not a good idea from any perspective, Captain Atom, as a soldier, had no choice but to obey, and as a result, he has not returned and there has been no news of him since.
While ordering the powerful Captain Aries to enter the lion's den, the President also demanded that Cyborg quickly assemble a truly powerful super team to stop the battle between Wonder Woman and Aquaman.
The president even took it upon himself to name this super team the Justice League of America, and specifically noted that justice or injustice was secondary, but it had to be American.
Thinking about this, Steelbone felt like his processor was about to overheat from this person's nonsensical commands.
He chose to cooperate with the government as a national security advisor in order to help more people, and now he has this kind of leader to deal with; this is his own fault.
Meanwhile, just as the Amazonian invasion was settling down, another wave of trouble arose. After a battle whose course and outcome remained unknown, the Amazons temporarily ceased their hostile activities against Western Europe.
But Cyborg can see every connected camera in the world, access every extraterrestrial probe satellite, bypass any network firewall, and he also has his own informants in the British Isles.
He saw the two figures wearing red capes and the large "S" on their chests.
Those were the same markings and clothing as those on the spaceship of "Subject 1," the alien visitor who had crashed in Metropolis, been imprisoned underground in Metropolis for twenty years, and was later rescued.
They came from outer space.
The battles on the British Isles and the experimental data from Subject 1 in the laboratory have already proven the strength of the opposing race.
Although their attacks on the Amazons objectively saved millions of lives and they claimed to bring peace to the planet, the thought of what his own fellow Earthlings had done to that Amazon...
Steelbone felt nothing but dread.