Story: "Her Mother's Daughter" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Phil Jiminez (plot, script, pencils)
Andy Lanning (inks)
Comicraft (letters)
Patricia Mulvihill (colors)
Heroic Age (separations)
Tom Palmer Jr. and Eddie Berganza (edits)

Feature Character:

Wonder Woman (last in JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; appears in flashback in Superboy Vol. 3 #91 and 'now' in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; next in Superman #173)

Guest Stars:

Superman (appearance on p5 same as JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; also between pages of Action Comics #781)
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner; last in flashback in Superboy Vol. 3 #91; appears in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; next in Superman #173)

Supporting Characters:

Hippolyta (last in JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; appears in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; also appears in flashback between #169 and #170; dies)
Wonder Girl II (last in Young Justice #35, next in Young Justice #36)
Artemis
Phillipus (both appear in flashback between Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #169 and Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1)

Villains:

Imperiex probes

Guest Appearances:

Cissie King-Jones (last in Young Justice #35, next in Young Justice #36)
Lois Lane (between pages of Action Comics #781)

Other Characters:

'Julia' (last in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #71)

Synopsis:

Having heard that her daughter Diana is injured, Hippolyta anxiously searches for her on the Paradocs space arc vessel. Using herbs supplied by the Amazon healer Epione, Hippolyta is able to make progress. The vessel then comes under attack from two Imperiex probes - Green Lantern (also injured) seals the hull breaches, and Diana goes missing, wanting to save the vessel. Hippolyta will not let her, and goes outside herself to fight the probes. One of them is ripped in half by the unbreakable lassoo which she has borrowed from her daughter, but they are able to launch a 'hollower' before the explosion, which heads straight for Athens. While Diana gives Green Lantern the support he needs to mend the hull breaches, Hippolyta battles to stop the hollower from destroying Athens.

As Hippolyta's skin begins to blister and burn from the effort, Diana comes to try and help her, or preferably take her place, but the other probe interferes. Desperate to prove that she is worthy of the name Wonder Woman, Hippolyta grapples with the probe, eventually causing it and the hollower to explode. From far away, Superman sees the explosion and flies in. Here he finds Diana, unsteady on her feet, but protected from the worst by the bracelets of Aegis she has always worn. Hippolyta, however, has fared much worse, her skin a mass of burns. As she breathes her last, Diana desperately tries to convey to her that she saved Athens and that she is after all, worthy of the name Wonder Woman. However, she fears that the last thing Hippolyta will have remembered before her death is Diana telling her to leave the struggle against the hollower, saying 'you're not Wonder Woman'...