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As Steve and Wonder Woman scan the ice field around them for any sign of the fleeing snow vehicle, they suddenly feel the ice begin to give way beneath them. Moving quickly, the Amazon Princess loops her lasso around her nearby invisible jet as Steve and the two kidnappers fall into the freezing water.
Holding
on with one hand, she uses the other to pull Steve up and he in turn uses his
other hand to pull the kidnappers up with him. As they are dragged aboard the
plane, Steve wonders how he is going to explain the loss of the UN jet as it
disappears into the water. Wonder Woman replies that they will have more of
a problem explaining how they lost Dr. Selkirk again, not to mention Sorkhan!
Soon, Wonder Woman is questioning the two captured terrorists with her magic lasso regarding the whereabouts of Dr. Selkirk. They reply that they do not know where he has been taken as they were only told that they were to rendezvous with Steve for the exchange. They had no idea that Sorkhan was even considering kidnapping Selkirk again.
Just then they realise that the aide that had been accompanying Steve (i.e. Diana Prince) was now nowhere to be seen and they start to accuse her of perhaps working with Sorkhan. Immediately, Wonder Woman orders them to forget about Diana Prince and as Steve watches, how awfully protective of her secret identity she is. He considers that maybe she resents him knowing that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman are one and the same and that one day she may just use the lasso on him too...
Meanwhile, the snow vehicle with Selkirk and Sorkhan onboard continues to make its way across the snow field in darkness. Dr. Selkirk asks the terrorist why he had betrayed the UN and Sorkhan replies that they would have hunted him down again just as soon as they had Dr. Selkirk back. But now he has his freedom and the power to make any government of the world bend to his will! With the help of Selkirk's amazing inventions and weapons S.C.Y.T.H.E. will be able to slice through the Earth and sweep away the oppressors of the people!
Dr. Selkirk replies that it will be done with blood but Sorkhan tells him that some always have to suffer for the common good. The terrorist then asks Selkirk how he can have regrets considering it was he who planned Sorkhan's escape by faking his own kidnapping, as well as instructing S.C.Y.T.H.E. on the workings of all his inventions? Surely his goals must be the same as that of the terrorists? But Selkirk replies that his own goals have already been met and he hopes God will forgive him for what he has unleashed on the world. Just then the snow vehicle takes off and heads towards the skies in its other guise - a spacecraft!
The next day in New York, Wonder Woman directs her plane to drop Steve and the captured terrorists off at the UN Plaza while she disembarks in order to transform back into her Diana Prince guise to meet him later. She uses her lasso to change into her civilian clothes and then hails a taxi to take her to the UN Building hoping that she can help Steve explain what happened at the North Pole.
Just as she is about to enter the building though she is stopped by two military officers, Major Bradley and Lieutenant Truman. They explain that they represent a special US Army Investigation Team and they would like her to accompany them. As it involves a matter of National Security she is given no choice and gets into a waiting car.
As they make their way through the New York traffic, they apologise for the 'cloak and dagger stuff' but that their investigation concerns her former boss, Colonel Steve Trevor, whose disappearance is mysterious in itself. She curses to herself that she had never anticipated this kind of problem! How on earth can she tell them that Steve was brought back to life by the Goddess Aphrodite and is now living a new life as Steve Howard?!!
Suddenly, a massive bolt of
lightning hits the Citicorp's skyscraper above and sends masonry crashing down
into the street. As a large block of concrete smashes the front of the car,
Diana uses the opportunity to leap out and in the confusion perform a quick
change into Wonder Woman.
She jumps up onto the rooftop, wondering where this storm has come from considering the weather forecast predicted clear skies? She uses her bracelets to deflect the lightning bolts away from the building and is surprised to see them instantly transform into a tornado! Before she can react she is swept off her feet and finds it impossible to ride the air currents.
As people and cars around her are caught up in the maelstrom, she summons her invisible jet . She climbs onto the wingtip and flies around the vortex at super speed in the opposite direction to the funnel's rotation, canceling it out.
However, the tornado then changes to snowfall and as she tries to make sense of the weird weather she hears her name yelled out. She touches down onto the street where a waiting policeman informs her that she must report to the UN immediately in connection with the strange weather.
Wonder Woman races on foot through the snow to the UN where she is met by Steve who informs her that Sorkhan is responsible for the weather attack. They climb onboard a waiting submarine moored in the East River and dive down beneath the waters.
As the sub resurfaces inside a secret tracking station hidden beneath the river, Steve continues to tell the Amazon Princess that they have been tracking radiation from what the scientists had thought was a piece of space junk. Steve then introduces her to Professor Motta who continues to explain that in fact it was a weather control satellite invented by Dr. Selkirk that had been launched into space three years previously but had been considered a failure. It now appears to be working and is causing the weather havoc already witnessed by Wonder Woman.
Hundreds of miles in space meanwhile, Sorkhan revels in his mastery of the heavens as he remotely controls the satellite from his spacecraft. Selkirk tries to stop him but is struck to the floor by the terrorist. As the doctor nurses his bruised chin, he tells Sorkhan that the terrorist is no warrior for the people. He then explains that as a young man, he had fled his own country leaving his wife and son, because his own government wanted to use his inventions to further their tyranny. When he read some of Sorkhan's writings he felt that the terrorist really believed the goals of worldwide unity and Selkirk felt that his inventions could perhaps assist that cause - but how wrong he had been! Pointing a gun at the doctor, Sorkhan yells at him to shut up!
A few miles below, the invisible
jet has just left the Earth's atmosphere and Steve has already donned his bulky
space suit. He watches as Wonder Woman puts a thin transparent plastic figure
hugging suit over her normal costume and she explains that Amazon spacesuits
are a little more advanced then Man's!
Soon they approach the satellite and she tells Steve that she will let him off so he can try and deactivate the device while she searches for Sorkhan's craft. As he begins to work on the satellite though he is fired upon by the approaching spacecraft. Steve removes his own weapon and before Wonder Woman can warn him he fires it at the attacker. The momentum of the blast pushes him in the opposite direction and he begins to float away into space.
Wonder Woman quickly orders her jet after Steve and uses the momentum of its departure to push herself towards the spacecraft and land on its nose. She looks through the cockpit canopy and orders Sorkhan to give himself up and return to prison. But Dr. Selkirk cries out "Prison? No! the boy must be free!" and opens fire on the Amazon.
Although she manages to deflect the energy blast with her bracelets the force pushes her away into space too. Selkirk cries out again that although he has lived in slavery, 'the boy' must be free and she assumes that he is cracking up under the strain of being kidnapped. He fires at her again and using her bracelets once more, she cleverly deflects the ray back at the spacecraft while using the momentum of the blast to push her back to the returning invisible jet with Steve now onboard.
The spacecraft is sent tumbling out of control and begins to burn up in the atmosphere so she swiftly uses her magic lasso to snare it. Ordering her plane to pull up, she slows the heated spacecraft and eventually manages to lower it safely to the ground.
She rushes over to the steaming vehicle and wrenches the hull away to rescue Sorkhan and Selkirk. They find Sorkhan in a protective suit and Steve grabs him angrily. Meanwhile Wonder Woman attends to the badly burned Dr. Selkirk and asks him why he had tried to stop them? He tells her that when he was younger he had lived in slavery, spending years in prison after fighting for his own beliefs. He had deserted the ones he loved the most but they had eventually managed to escape the country too, moving to Lugwainia.
Recognising the name of his own country, Sorkhan stares down in sorrow at the dying Selkirk who, with his last breath, reveals Sorkhan to be his own son.
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