Departure and Arrival
NSDAP Safe House near Berlin:
Adolph Hitler was in a truly impressive rage, even considering that his most common emothional state was some form of anger. The few specially picked SA men who were with him were all doing their best to avoid him lest he switch from loudly cursing von Lettow-Vorbeck to making one of them his target. After spending a few minutes angrily pacing the room and hurling out a constant stream of abuse towards von Lettow-Vorbeck, he suddenly turned to face one the SA men and shrieked, "Why isn't the ceremony ready yet?"
"I ... I do not know Herr Hitler, I ... er ... I'm just a guard, I don't do that kind of stuff..."
"Then what good are you? Get out of my sight you worm!" The SA guard hastily fled the building in compliance with his orders. Hitler then went back to pacing and cursing, until a few minutes later the door to the room opened and an SA officer informed Hitler, "We can beging as soon as you are ready Herr Hitler."
"What took you so long?" Hitler demanded.
"Well, Herr Hitler you must understand," The officer said, an almost pleading tone coming into his voice, "With a summoning like this the slightest error in the protective circle could result in..."
"I know about summoning circles! Do you think I'm stupid? I've been studying the occult for years!"
"But, if you've studied it then you must understand why..."
"SILENCE! I grow tired of your useless babble, but it is of no moment. Soon I will gain a powerful new servant who will finally allow me to destroy that fool von Lettow-Vorbeck and at begin my plans to bring about the rule of the Aryan race over all lesser beings."
"Of course Herr Hitler," The officer replied in his most soothing tone. "Are you ready to begin then?"
"Yes, I am."
* * *
"Well," Zenobia drew the word out while stretching to work out the kinks in her back from lying on the ground for too long, "what shall we do now?"
Edana gave a slight shrug in response, "I'm not too picky. Want to just head back home?"
"Sounds good to me." Zenobia gave her wings a few quick flaps to work out the stiffness that settled in, and then concentrated for a moment to open a portal to take them back. "Ready?"
"Yup," Edana answered, "Thanks for taking me out here, it's really nice."
"No problem, ladies first?" Zenobia gestured for Edana to go through the portal.
Edana fixed Zenobia with a look, a slightly amused smile playing at the corner of her mouth, "You know you're a woman too..."
"Well yeah, but ... well ... you're a more womany ... woman ... than me ... right?" Zenobia gave her wings a slight nervous flutter.
Edana rolled her eyes, but now was now grinning broadly. "Idiot." She managed to make what was usually an insult sound more like an endearment.
You could have given me a nicer pet name you know..." Zenobia muttered under he breath, though she was now grinning too.
"Nope, idiot works just fine." Edana stuck her tongue out at Zenobia, then quickly pulled it back when Zenobia tried to grab it. "None of that." she warned, narrowing her eyes in playful glare.
Zenobia chuckled and then offered, "How about we both just go through the portal at the same time?"
"Alright." Edana said amiably.
The couple stepped through the portal and began travelling through the dull grey surroundings of interdimensional travel. With a sudden jolt, the two came to a stop, and then Zenobia felt herself being pulled in a different direction, away from her home.
"Zeno?" Edana's voice was tinged with fear and worry, "What's going on?"
"Someone must have grabbed me with a summoning spell." Zenobia explained, her jaw clenched in concentration as she fought the spell. "You head on back, I'll find out who's summoning me and what they need, then catch up with you."
Edana took a moment to process the information, and then rushed forward and tightly wrapped her arms around Zenobia. "I'm coming with you," she declared, her voice hard with determination.
Zenobia considered trying to convince Edana to go back home, but long experience had told her that she was unlikely to be able to convince Edana not to join her on a mysterious and potentially dangerous adventure. "Alright then, we'll go together." With that Zenobia stopped resisting the summon spell and instead let it carry her to her new destination.
* * *
Four SA occultists were chanting the incantations along with Adolph Hitler, while the few guards nervously watched. While all the guards would normally state that the occult was nothing but a hoax, at the moment they could feel the buildup of dark energies which made the hairs on the backs of their necks rise, and left their palms so sweaty they could barely maintian a proper grip on their weapons.
After fifteen minutes of tireless encantments the chanting began to increase in tempo, ending with a loud cry of "Ahgmole morstavla kay, hyindare nostraba de! Iä! Iä!"
For a few moments there was only silence, as all waited expectantly for the results of the ritual. Just as Hitler was beginning to get impatient and was about to turn on the occultists and begin berrating them for messing up the ritual there was a sudden blinding flash of light and a loud cracking sound, followed by a shockwave that knocked down everyone in the room.
Hitler was the first to recover, quickly standing and blinking a few times in an attempt to get his eyes to recover from the stunning flash of light. Finally growing impatient with his eyes for not instantly recovering when he wanted them too, and turned to face the summoning circle and see what his efforts had gained him.
He was more than a little disappointed when instead of the hoped for powerful demon or similar such being, he instead saw two women. One stood at about average height, with brown hair going down to her shoulders, and had on a fairly standard blue dress. The other stood about as tall as most men, and wore her brown hair longer, and had on a red tunic and pants.
Hitler's anger was about to reach the point at which people would start dying when his eyes recovered enough for him to notice that the taller woman had one other feature he had missed, a pair of large feathery white wings. He had been expecting to gain the services of a powerful demon lord, but he quickly decided to see what he could do with an angel instead.
* * *
Upon her arrival Zenobia was less than impressed by the people who had somehow managed to summon her. It was clearly an amateur operation, since most of them were still recovering from Zenobia's entry, which any practiced summoner would have prepared for. The first to recover was the man she assumed to be, by virtue of his different clothing, the leader of the group. "So," she drew the word slightly as she fixed the unimpressive looking man in a shabby greatcoat with a look of bored indifference, "who are you and why have you summoned me?"
"I am Adolph Hitler, leader of the National Socialist and German Workers political party." Hitler did his best to sound calm, dignified, and polite. "I have brought you here to help me with a task of utmost impotance, a foul and evil man by the name of von Lettow-Vorbeck has seized control of my nation and has begun a reign of terror, I have already barely escaped an assassination attempt, and I fear that without help Germany is doomed."
"Right then," Zenobia said simply, doing her best not to give away the fact that she could feel the dishonesty of his statements clearly, not to mention the rather nasty odour that clearly indicated to her that he was the evil one, not this von Lettow-Vorbeck. "So what exactly do want me to do?"
While Hitler launched into a longwinded explanation of what he had planned for her, Zenobia used the noise to whisper to Edana, "Mess up the summoning circle while they're distracted, I can't do much while it's confining me."
"Um ... are you sure that's a good idea Zeno?" Edana's voice showed a hint of nervousness, though she did her best to hide it.
"Yeah, the guy who brought us here reeks of evil and he's lying like mad about the situaiton, this won't end well, and if I'd rather not be restricted when a fight breaks out. I can't mess up the circle, but I'm pretty sure you can since you're a human."
"Alright then." While Edana still sounded a bit nervous, the determination was back in her voice, and it was an easy thing to drag her feet along the floor, knocking the carefully prepared patterns out of position.
Meanwhile, Hitler continued his speach, finally ending with, "Now, with your help I can finally rise to my rightfull place as leader of the German people."
"Sorry, I don't work with liars who reek of evil." Zenobia responded coldly.
Hitler was shocked into silence for a moment, and then snarled, "Very well, if you will not comply with me willingly then you will be made to serve me, pain is excellent motivator. Heinrich!" He turned to the largest SA guard in the room and sharply gestured for him to deal with Zenobia.
The large and heavily muscled German casually walked up to Zenobia, then drew back his arm and launched a heavy punch. Zenobia casually intercepted the fist with her palm, then tightened her grip to hold it in place, producing a series of loud cracks as the bones of Heinrich's hands broke under her unnaturally powerful grip. With an almost lazy backhand slap she broke the large German's neck, killing him instantly.
"That was a mistake," She said in a calm and almost emotionless voice. As she turned to face Hitler, he suddenly noticed that her eyes, rather than a common blue or brown, were the color of freshly spilled blood.
With a single thought Zenobia brought her powerful blade and armor out of the special pocket dimension she stored them in and went to work on her enemies.
* * *
It had not taken long for the location of the supposedly secret NSDAP safe house to become known to the Preußische Geheimpolizei. Even as the above events were transpiring, several officers backed up by a company of the Reichswehr had carefully surrounded the house in order to insure that this time there would be no escape for Adolph Hitler.
Nobody was entirely sure what was going on in the house, a few minutes ago there had been what sounded like a loud explosion, accompanied by a flash of light. Several of the Reichswehr and Preußische Geheimpolizei begun to approach the house, the but the captain in charge of the operation ordered them back, as all potential escape routes had not yet been secured.
Just as the last unit reported itself in place, a loud male scream was heard from the house, followed by sounds of a struggle. The men were moving before the captain could give any orders, and shifted from a slow silent approach to a swift run as a man was thrown head first out the window.
* * *
As with an effortless flick of her hand Zenobia sent the last SA guard flying out through the window, Hitler desperately scrambled away from her, wanting nothing more than to get away from the deadly winged woman. When he found himself backed against a wall he desperately tried to deny the situation, "This can't be happening! I can't die yet, not before I gain my empire!"
Zenobia cut him down without a word. With a small gesture she sent the sword back to it's pocket dimension, then turned to Edana and said, "Now that we're done with them, shall we see about getting back home?"
"Um, yeah I guess we should." Edana looked slightly pale at the carnage Zenobia had wrought through the room.
Zenobia paused in concentration for a moment, then cursed under her breath. "Bad news, we've got a bit a problem about getting home..."
Edana was about to ask for a explanation when a group of heavily armed men burst through the door with cries of "Hände hoch!" Zenobia raised her hands in compliance, deciding she might as well see what these new arrivals wanted, she could always kill them later if they turned out to be as evil as the people who had summoned her in the first place.
As soon as the Reichswehr men realised that Hitler was dead, and instead of the expected SA thugs there were just two women in the room, they relaxed, only to be shocked upon noticing that one of the women happened to have a pair of feathery white wings, and was wearing a set of bloodstained armor that would have fascinated a medievalist.
The Reichswehr men, as soldiers are trained to do when faced with a situation in which have absolutely no training in dealing with, quickly summoned their captain. However, as the Reichswehr had foolishly neglected to train officers at any rank in the proper methods for dealing with a superhuman winged woman from another plane of existance, the captain decided to send the problem up the chain of command, as did every officer who was brought in on the matter until at last Zenobia and Edana reached a point at which the chain of command could go no higher.
Zenobia when armed and armored.