Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace (Volume 1 (Digital)) with a cover date of May, 2020.
Synopsis for "Planned Extinction"
This story is reprinted from Wonder Woman Giant (Volume 2) #3.
Wonder Woman learns from Gorilla City's general Tolifhar that an alien brought by her near their location was responsible for killing his soldiers. She is confused and asked as to what she did two days responds that she was vacationing at a lake with Steve Trevor. There, they were contacted by Etta Candy who informed them about an asteroid heading for Earth.
After receiving its projected flight path, Diana flew away to stop the asteroid and destroyed it, hoping it would disintegrate into smaller pieces she could easily deal with it. The opposite happens however and one of the large pieces heads toward Earth, though Diana is able to reduce its speed, thus preventing any disaster. Tolifhar states that he sent two of his men to check the site where it drowned into the sea after noticing strange lights coming from it, but they were killed by an alien beast. The next day it killed more gorillas as well as their domestic animals.
The general invites Diana on an expedition to hunt the beast and she agrees, deciding to search the asteroid it came in to gather more information first. At the crash site, she notices that the asteroid's insides contained a vessel filled with alien technology in addition to chains and strange tubes with a green liquid, theorizing it was fed with the liquid while chained up. She also infers from a digital map that it was originally heading towards a giant star or a black hole. She takes the vessel to Tolifhar and tells him what she learned. He however refuses to subdue and interrogate it, preferring to kill.
As she begins clearing the path for the gorillas, they are suddenly attacked by the alien beast. Diana gets captured in its tail and is unable to break free from its grip. The gorillas hit it with a RPG, making it turn its attention towards them and releasing her As the pound it with more rockets, it disappears but remerges from beneath the ground trapping Diana and Tolifhar.
In the beast's grip, her thoughts merge with him and she learns that it eats up species and was sent to a black hole by an alien civilization that poisoned itself to subdue it. As he demands she take her to the Amazons so he can eat them and replenish his strength, Diana focuses her mind on standing peacefully at a beach. As it demands it give her information instead of focusing on the beach, Diana conditions that it release Tolifhar and it does.
The beast tells her that it wants knowledge and strength by consuming various species, leading Diana to respond that it only uses it for killing. As she encourages him to use its power for good like her, it rejects. This leads Diana to realize that it has only darkness and doesn't care about anyone, thus it cannot be redeemed. The beast realizes then it has been reattached to the green liquid it was with in the ship, as she had figured out it was keeping him sedated. As it falls unconscious, Diana decides to put it back in the ship and send it to the black hole it was meant to go.
Appearing in "Planned Extinction"
Featured Characters:
- Wonder Woman (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Etta Candy
- Steve Trevor
- General Tolifhar (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Alien beast
Other Characters:
- Gorillas
- Hephaestus (Mentioned only)
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