Story: "Amazons Attack!" (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 Superman #173; appears in Superman: The Man of Steel #117 and Action Comics #782 between pages of this issue; next in World's Finest: Our Worlds at War #1)

Guest Stars:

Superman (between pages of Superman: The Man of Steel #117 and Action Comics #782)
Steel II (last in Superman: The Man of Steel #117 - appearance on page 5 here same as appearance page 13 there; appears in Action Comics #782 between pages 10 and 20 of this issue; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #118)
Starfire (last in Action Comics #781; next in issue Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #174)
Tempest II (last in Action Comics #781; appears in Action Comics #782 between pages of this issue; next in World's Finest: Our Worlds at War #1)
Raven (appears in Action Comics #782 between pages of this issue; next in issue Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #175)

Supporting Characters:

Phillipus
Artemis
Penelope (all three last in Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1)
Ipthime
Anaya
Steve Trevor
Etta Candy
Euboea
Myrhha (dies)
Fury I
Troia (last in Action Comics #781; appearance in Action Comics #782 same as page 20 of this issue; next in World's Finest: Our Worlds at War #1)

Villains:

Parademons
Darkseid (appears in Action Comics #782 between pages of this issue; next on p22 of that issue, then in Young Justice #37)
Brainiac-13 (between pages of Superman: The Man of Steel #117 and Action Comics #782)

Other Characters:

Clotho
Lachecis
Atropos (the Moiraie; ancient deities of destiny)

Synopsis:

The face of the conflict has changed greatly - Imperiex is seemingly destroyed and Brainiac-13 briefly turned the allies against one another before they realised they were facing his new Warworld. He is draining Apokolips of energy and is sending an energy tendril towards Earth to do the same there and Wonder Woman has an idea what might be big enough to block it...

The Amazons are devastated by the news that their former queen is dead, and vow to do anything in this war to avenge her. They maneuver Paradise Island into space to block the tendril further and, using the technology of the Wonder-dome, take the battle into the heavens themselves, co-ordinated by Steve Trevor. Old emnities have to be put aside - the tribes of Amazons must even accept help from the minions of the dread Apokolips in this battle.

On Apokolips itself, Darkseid is in despair at the state of his world, powerless, his own strength sapped. He is given a chance for help by Wonder Woman... As Fury, Starfire and others focus their strengths on attack, the Amazons do something distasteful - they pray to Darkseid, focussing their prayers through Wonder Woman and then Raven, knowing that their prayers will restore the deity's strength. Just as his full power returns, they hear that an all-out assault on Brainiac-13 will release the energies of Imperiex (absorbed by Warworld) once more. The technology of Apokolips is needed along with a magical conduit. Wonder Woman calls on the aid of Troia and Tempest. The Amazon's power is combined with that of Darkseid and channeled through Tempest to create a Boom Tube that takes Imperiex AND Brainiac to the dawn of time where they explode harmlessly.

With the war over and Apokolips about to depart to the place it came from, Diana confronts Darkseid on his world. She tells him that when Raven linked them, Darkseid was 'infected' with a part of Wonder Woman's own soul. The evil God may now have to grapple with the concepts of compassion and love...