Wonder Woman Death Metal

With the company of the Swamp Thing, his power vastly depleted by the near-total destruction of Earth's vegetation, Wonder Woman bided her time. When the Batman Who Laughs ordered her to melt down her invisible plane so he could use its substance as chains and armor, she readily agreed. She secretly forged some of it into an invisible chainsaw and, taking the Batman Who Laughs by surprise, she struck him a fatal blow. However, he'd planned for his death. One of his Dark Knights transplanted his brain into the body of an alternate Dark Knight whom the Batman Who Laughs had lobotomized, then bestowed with reality-altering abilities. Reawakened with cosmic powers, the Batman Who Laughs began testing his new talents, preparing to remake the entire Multiverse in his horrific image.

Wonder Woman teamed with Batman, who returned with a Black Lantern ring that could reanimate the dead. They found the Flash Family, who agreed this was the time to draw on the last remnants of the Speed Force, before the Batman Who Laughs became too powerful to stop. Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, and Batman went to New Apokolips, where they defeated Darkfather and freed Superman, who was infected by Anti-Life. They freed the other heroes held prisoner there and set out to gather enough cosmic energy to defeat the Batman Who Laughs and return the universe to its proper state. But just when they thought they'd succeeded, the Batman Who Laughs redirected that energy to himself.

The Batman Who Laughs left to remake the Multiverse. Wonder Woman and her allies were approached by Lex Luthor. He had plans to use Tenth Metal to guide them to the World Forge, where they'd create a machine that would use Anti-Crisis Energy to restore the universe. Instead of creating it from fear, like the Dark Multiverse, it would be made of hope. But Diana realized it also had to come from truth and asked her friends to be honest with her. Batman confessed he was dead, which was how he could use the Black Lantern ring. Superman admitted there was no curing the Anti-Life Equation in him. They asked Wonder Woman to battle at their side one last time. While the others led teams on other battlefields, Wonder Woman led an army of clones of the alien bounty hunter Lobo to the World Forge.

While an army of Lobo clones held off the minions of the Batman Who Laughs, Diana reached the World Forge and plunged in. Forging golden armor fueled by Anti-Crisis Energy, she attacked the Batman Who Laughs, now equal to him in power. The sacrifice of her friends as they fought to the end despite impossible odds inspired her. Her battle with the Batman Who Laughs careened through the timestream, reaching the end of everything. Diana saw visions of the past, present, and future, and of the world that could be when the fight was won. Just when it seemed she would strike the final blow, blackness overtook everything. Diana awoke in what seemed like the world she remembered from before the Dark Knights attacked. She thought that she had won and restored her world, but had she?

Diana saw another version of herself. She thought it was one of the Dark Multiverse duplicates she'd encountered before and attacked, but she soon sensed that this Wonder Woman held the true Lasso of Hestia. She realized she was on another Earth, elsewhere in the Multiverse. With the help of the heroes there, she discovered that while she'd repelled the Dark Knights from her universe—probably at the same time the heroes here banished them—they were not permanently defeated. She had to be vigilant for their return. But she also learned she had another purpose here: to be around versions of her friends from before everything went dark... to remember them in their ideal forms, so she'd be ready when the time came to restore her world. And she will not stop fighting until that moment comes.