"LAGOON BOY:" "How can you stand to look in the mirror?" "Atlantis, King Orin, the Team." "You've betrayed us all." "Neptune's beard!" "I can't believe I once idolized you." "BLACK MANTA:" "Why is this prisoner still aboard?" "He should be delivered at once to our Partner." "Prepare a pod." "I will handle it personally, Father." "BLACK MANTA:" "Negative." "I have other duties for you, my son." "You're not his son." "You're his errand boy." "I am aware of my role in the larger picture, La'gaan." "Are you?" "I'm so getting you back for this, chum." "[THUDS]" "Kaldur'ahm, you should know my faith in you is absolute." "But others require further proof of loyalty." "You have my word, Father." "I will do whatever it takes to enter the Light." "♪ Young Justice: "Darkest" ♪ Season 2 Episode 14" "Brother Tommy, I think we're plum crazy to throw in with this feller." "I mean, it wasn't two years ago Mr. Aqualad here... was trying to lock us back up in Belle Reve." "Well, Sister Tuppence... folks say he had a change of heart since finding out who his pappy is." "I hear he switched sides because of some girl..." "Which I totally get." "You know, if it's the right girl." "Ugh." "Step back, Junior." "You're giving me the chills." "But in a good way, right, babe?" "Me, I'm more concerned about this Tigress." "How come the Terror Twins ain't never heard of her before?" "You know we can hear you." "That we do, missy." "These are open questions, you see." "So which one of you wants to ask your open questions of Black Manta?" "Which one of you wants to suggest to the big bad... that his son and his son's handpicked right hand can't be trusted?" "Don't look so defeated." " I'm here for you, babe." " Ugh." "Will you cut that out?" "Can't help myself, babe." "Been kind of obsessed since the first time I laid eyes on you." "This is the first time you laid eyes on me." "Technically." "But see, five years ago in Belle Reve... this Martian girl was posing as you..." "[ICE CRACKS]" "So go give the skeevies to her." "I'm wearing her down." "Perhaps we could focus on the mission now." "We are closing on our target." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "Dude, what are you doing?" "Here to hang, chill, spend a little downtime with my buddy Blue, BB, Beetle, Bee-tell." " You know, chillanging." " And put my secret ID at risk?" "SCARAB:" "The Impulse is trouble." "Destroy him." "Overreacting won't help." "Don't beat yourself up." "I'll never get used to this retro obsession with secret identities." "What's the point in hiding how crash we are?" "If you don't know, I can't explain it." "Let's just get out of here before someone spots us." "[DOG BARKING]" "Oh, excuse..." "Mal?" "What are you doing here?" "I thought I'd surprise you, beautiful." "Hardly seen you lately." "Mal, we saw each other last night." "Mission briefings don't count." "Look, Karen, I wanna take you out." "Like back in high school." "You know, dinner, movie, busted curfew." "That sounds great, Mal." "But I need to put in a couple hours at Dr. Palmer's lab." " I'll keep you company till you're done." " Okay, but you'll be bored." "[GROANS]" "CAPTOR 1 [SPEAKING IN ALIEN LANGUAGE]:" "CAPTOR 2 [SPEAKING IN ALIEN LANGUAGE]:" "BLUE BEETLE:" "Here, watch this one." " Well?" " Yawn." "Really?" " That's the best you can do?" " No." "[BLOWS]" "Top that, hermano." "Oh, not bad, not bad." "Boulder's definitely feeling the mode... but one thing I learned in the future, amigo, is that it's easier to destroy... than to create." "Ta-da!" "SCARAB:" "The Impulse has created nothing." "And its premise is faulty." "Tactical destruction is more effective than creation." "Uh, "Ta-da" what, exactly?" "Curb the attitude, get a little altitude, hermano." "Whoa." "Impulse by Impulse." "Is that crash or what?" "Crash." "Totally crash." "[BLUE BEETLE GRUNTS]" "Blue!" "Oh, man, I spent 1.5 seconds on that self-portrait." "It was my masterpiece." "[IMPULSE GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTING]" "ICICLE JR.:" "Hold him steady." "Now move." "Blue!" "SCARAB:" "The advantage is ours." "Recommended tactic:" "Evisceration." "Or since they outnumber us four to two... we could recommend tactic:" "Strategic retreat." "Totally." "But first, how did they find us out here in the middle of...?" "Aha." "So you're Aqualad." "Working with the bad guys, I see." "Taking their alien tech to track our friend Blue." "Not crash, dude." "Not crash at all." "Zoink, moded." "They can't follow us now." "Let's book." "BLUE BEETLE:" "Booking." "Well, that's brilliant, chief." "You let them get away, with the tracking device." "Now how do we find Beetle?" "As it happens..." "COMPUTER:" "Recognized:" "Blue Beetle, 5-2-2." "Impulse, 5-2-3." " Ha, ha!" "Left them in the dust." "NIGHTWING:" "Left who in the dust?" "And what is that?" " Souvenir." " Souvenirs are Beast Boy's thing, ése." " Really?" "Thought it was Kid Flash..." " Can we get to it?" "Sorry." "Aqualad attacked us with Icicle Jr... the Terror Twins and a ninja I didn't recognize." "This is how they tracked Blue." "I made sure they couldn't do it again." "So you brought foreign, possibly alien tech into the Cave?" "Rookie mistake." "All right, give it here." "TOMMY:" "If you had another one of them gizmos, why not just say so?" "It is not the same." "This one confirms the first device acted as a Trojan horse." "Impulse brought it into the Cave... where it remotely hacked and bypassed all security." "Mount Justice is ours." "[NEWGENISPHERE BEEPING]" "[YAWNING]" "So, beautiful, when you're done... maybe we could hit the Happy Harbor Bowlarama." "Like old times?" "The Bowlarama closed down months ago." "It did?" "Oh, man." "We had some killer fun there." "Yeah." "In high school." "RAY:" "Hey, guys." " Oh, Mal." "Good to see you." " Thanks, doc, I..." "Oh, Dr. Palmer, you have to see this." "Excellent work, Karen." "Of course, we'll need to test this against the white dwarf fragment." "Test is prepped and ready." "Shouldn't take more than three hours." "RAY:" "Beautiful." "Let's do it." "[BELLS TOLLING]" "[SNORING]" "[SNIFFING]" "[COLLAR BEEPS]" "WOMAN [ON TV]:" "Hello, Megan." "[LAUGHTER ON TV]" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "[GASPS]" "ICICLE JR.:" "Terror, move!" "[COLLAR BEEPS]" "Sorry, son, collar's done shut off your strength." "[SUPERBOY GROANING]" "And that's not all it can do." "[SCREAMING]" "Don't know about you, Junior... but I'm harboring some old resentments against this boy." "Oh, yeah." "Let's finish him." "AQUALAD:" "Belay that." "When the time is right, you will have your revenge." "For now, I need Superboy alive." "[COMPUTER BEEPING]" "Aw, I'm an idiot." "Oh, this one's a classic." "Ice over the floor, the Speedster can't get traction, right?" "Wrong." "That worked so nice, I'll try it twice." "Ah!" "My hands." "What are you made of?" "Snips and snails and puppy dog tails." "[COLLAR BEEPS]" "Ah, nice try, but I'll just vibrate right out of this..." "No speed." "I'm moded, aren't I?" "[GROANING]" "Sorry." "No super-powers for your collar to turn off." "[SCREAMS]" "AQUALAD:" "Stand down!" "SCARAB:" "Switch to plasma cannon, wide dispersal." "Incinerate them all." "Good guys included?" "No, thanks." "This battle is over." "I don't think so, traitor." "Then rethink, Beetle." "This is the same type of bomb that obliterated Malina Island." "I am holding down the dead man's switch." "If my thumb comes off this button, for any reason..." "Mount Justice falls." "SCARAB:" "The traitor bluffs." "And if not, I calculate we can survive the blast." "But my friends can't." "We're standing down." "[COLLAR BEEPS]" "Wise choice." "I'm fine, by the way." "Good." "Escort Beetle, Impulse and Beast Boy to the Flyer." "What about these two?" "As hostages here, they have value." "But Nightwing is an ordinary human." "Superboy, a human-Kryptonian hybrid clone." "Neither category is of any interest to our Partner." "Aqualad, you'll regret this." "I believe I have outgrown the name Aqualad as well as anything resembling regret." "I will leave the bomb with you, as a souvenir." "Oh, and the dead man's switch has a five-mile range." "Do not pursue." "Move it, bug." "SCARAB:" "No." "We cannot allow ourselves to be taken prisoner." " Not much choice, is there?" " None at all." "SCARAB:" "Inaccurate." "I have accessed the functions of this inhibitor collar." "I will disable it so you may attack." "And risk Aqualad blowing up the Cave?" "I don't think so." "SCARAB:" "Then, Jaime Reyes, you leave me no choice." "I am taking control." "What?" "No." "You can't." "[ICICLE JR." "AND TIGRESS GRUNT]" "No!" "You were right." "It was a bluff." "Get him." "[BLUE BEETLE SCREAMS]" "AQUALAD:" "I was not certain that would work." "But it seems Beetle is indeed vulnerable to mystic energy... and sedatives." "Bring him aboard." "[GROANING]" "Can't believe we didn't end Superboy when we had the chance." "Boss Fish still has a soft spot for his old team." "Do it." "[NORMAL VOICE]:" "You sure?" "Do it." "[SIGHS]" "[DETONATOR AND BOMB BEEPING]" "Oh, no!" "Duncan to Watchtower." "Mount Justice is gone." "I mean, there's been an explosion." "A big explosion." "Request immediate assistance." "Get here." "Fast." "[ENGINE RUMBLING AND NEWGENISPEHERE BEEPING]" "Sphere?" "[MAL PANTING]" "[GASPS]" " Conner." "Superboy." "Wake up." " What?" "Questions later, man." "Grab Wolf." "The S-Cycle's sinking." "Right." "Right." "Will Sphere be okay?" "Uh, yeah, I think so." "She folds up to heal." " Can you make it to shore with Nightwing?" " Yeah." "I got him." "COMPUTER:" "Recognized:" "Kid Flash, 5-0-3." "What happened?" "It was necessary." "It better have been." "Spill." "Aqualad needed to find a way to help us rescue Lagoon Boy." "He'd already injected a microscopic tag into La'gaan's bloodstream." "And he used the raid on the Cave to pass essential Intel." "A flash drive with, among other things, tracking software that can locate the tag." "Like that's all he did." "Wally, he had to make it look good." "He put inhibitor collars on us, but he knew I'd get us out of them." "He took three more hostages." "Members of your Team." "And we'll rescue them when we rescue Lagoon Boy." "Dick, he blew up the Cave." "You guys almost died." "No." "It's all on the flash drive." "He knew I'd have to pursue to make it look legit and that's exactly what happened." "He gave us time to get out." "We just..." "We got caught in the debris field from the explosion." "Do you even hear yourself?" "What if even one of you had been left behind, huh?" "Why take that risk?" "Why go to such extremes?" "The drive explains that too." "He needed to cement his position with the Light... and the Light's Partner." "Wasn't that why he "murdered" Artemis?" " I guess it didn't convince everyone." " You guess?" "The Cave is..." "Was just a place." "Worth sacrificing if it helps us stop the invasion." "Look, I'm sorry you lost all your souvenirs." "Are you serious?" "I don't care about that junk." "I'm worried about Artemis, terrified for her." "You've put her right into his hands." "Wally, we're talking about Kaldur here." "I know." "Kaldur, our friend... who, in the space of a few months, lost the love of his life... and found out Black Manta was his father." "Isn't it possible Aqualad might actually be a traitor?" "A triple agent?" "He's supposed to be playing them... but are you absolutely sure he isn't playing you?" "BLACK MANTA:" "Come with me." "Please allow me to officially introduce Kaldur'ahm..." "My son." "He has succeeded in every mission and then some." "Not only did he capture Beetle as instructed..." "But he acquired two bonus Metas as well." "As for the destruction of Mount Justice, well..." "RA'S AL GHUL:" "Indeed." "We appreciate initiative, vision... and strong family ties." "Welcome to the Light, Kaldur'ahm." "It is time for you to meet our Partner."