CHAPTER 1 GIGANTA’S REVENGE Reporters and TV crews crowded the front steps of the grand Gateway City Museum of Antiquities The tall well-dressed director himself stood on the top step smoothing his hair as everyone scanned the skies She said she’d be here a camera operator muttered A reporter smiled over at him She still has a couple of minutes She’ll be here Wonder Woman keeps her promises Moments later the reporter pointed toward the sky See There she is now Wonder Woman dropped past Gateway City’s skyscrapers to land on the steps next to the director She held a magnificent shield Is that it a reporter shouted The famous Golden Shield of Dolos It is Wonder Woman said She held up the shield so the news photographers could get good shots of it
It is said that this shield a gift to the Amazons from the god Dolos will repel any attack its holder faces Wonder Woman continued But it is more valuable as a work of art than as a weapon And so my mother Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons of Themyscira has agreed to loan it to this museum for a week-long exhibit celebrating world peace The director stepped forward smiling proudly In three days Wonder Woman will formally present the shield to the museum he told them The event will kick off the World Peace Charity Gala Giganta hurled her last dart at Gorilla Grodd’s picture The dart slammed into the dartboard right between his eyes Bull’s-eye the villain muttered Just one more hole in a picture pocked with them It didn’t help her get revenge on the former partner who had once landed her in jail But it made her feel a tiny bit better The TV droned on in the background of her small hideout Something about some boring museum exhibit She sighed and began to pull darts from the board
Sticking darts in Grodd’s picture wasn’t nearly as satisfying as she’d hoped it would be What she really wanted to do was punch a hole in the gorilla mastermind himself But so far she hadn’t figured out how to do it Then the words Golden Shield of Dolos caught Giganta’s attention She turned to see Wonder Woman holding up a golden shield on TV The mythical weapon was supposed to keep the one who held it safe Grodd always wanted that shield Giganta muttered She knew he didn’t believe in its magic He thought the shield’s metal gave it its power If it even works at all After all Dolos is a god of treachery Giganta shrugged She didn’t care if it worked or why She only knew that Grodd would try to steal it And so she wanted to steal it too right from under his nose I’m going to take his prize and show Grodd I’m not just another pretty face she muttered He should never have abandoned me to rot in prison when he could have rescued me so easily Giganta turned back to the dartboard and threw her handful of darts one by one THOK THOK THOK THOK THOK
