Young Justice

Conner, the fires...

On it.

Gar! Garfield, are you all right?

What happened?

The Zeta-Tube. It exploded.

But my brother... he was in the tube!

-Where is he? - I'm not sure.

But he isn't here.

He may have zeta'd away before the explosion.

You mean the explosion

caused by the terrorist Ma'alefa'ak?

Look, I'm not my brother's

biggest fan right now,

but M'comm did not do this.

So you say.

But Martian Manhunter

made it to the Watchtower, right?

-Em'ree? - Right?

- Em'ree! - I don't know!

The explosion blew out the connection

to the M'arzz-Earth Communications Satellite.

I can't reach the Watchtower!

Can you fix it?

Maybe.

Yes.

Soon, I hope.

But J'onn's okay! He has to be okay!

-He has to be. He has to be... -Did the Zeta-Tube malfunction?

No.

Some external source added thermal energy

to the Power-Core during the Zeta-Transmission.

This was clearly sabotage.

Ma'alefa'ak, you are under arrest.

Listen, I had him pinned,

telekinetically and psychically.

And you both were holding scramblers on him,

when the Zeta-Tube exploded.

It's clear he wasn't behind this.

Ha! An A'ashenn defending another A'ashenn.

What a surprise.

Seems you've conveniently forgotten

how he snuck in here

by blocking his presence telepathically.

That's not illegal!

But it's ma'al suspicious.

Arrested for being A'ashenn.

Talk about your surprises.

I have to go with him.

All three of us will go.

Of course.

We'll try to find out what happened here.

Rita... Ah, I mean, Em'ree.

You need to reestablish comm with the Watchtower.

In a minute.

First, I need to perform

some damage control with the Queen,

given all the psychic rumors this explosion will cause.

We're still investigating the cause of the explosion.

...understand there was an explosion

at the Science Center...

...Ma'alefa'ak was arrested...

It was A'ashenn terrorism, of course,

what else could it be?

J'onn J'onzz is reported dead...

I told you no ma'al good

would come of that Zeta-Tube.

You mean the Zeta-Tube

you wanted stopped?

What do you imply?

Mother, is it true?

Rumors are flying.

Is J'onn J'onzz really dead?

We do not know.

But sabotage is certain.

And the infamous Ma'alefa'ak has been arrested.

There's evidence against him?

I'm sure there will be.

He's an A'ashenn activist and agitator.

He is a terrorist!

And you know this based on what?

Just trust me, my boy.

You'll understand when you are older.

Excuse me.

I hope the Earthlings

are not reacting negatively to this turn of events.

Why worry about ma'al Earthers

at a time like this?

Nothing odd here.

Or here.

But we got this, right?

I mean you've studied with Dick,

I've studied with Tim.

We can totally do the detective thing!

I know, Gar! I'm working on it.

You totally see something, don't you?

Burn marks.

Two small points of impact

on the Power-Core's thermal panel.

There. Bypassed.

What? What did you bypass?

The fried comm-circuits.

I should be able to patch a signal

through the M'arzz-Earth Communications Satellite

to the Watchtower.

When? Now?

Soon.

Ah. It's no good.

The Zeta-Tube

and all communications to Mars are out.

Problem's on their end, not ours.

Then it is clear...

Something has gone wrong.

Just after you zeta'd here, thankfully.

Cyborg, boomtube us there.

Can't, sorry.

I've never been to Mars,

so without a comm signal to pinpoint a safe location,

I could end up boomtubing us into the middle of a mountain.

There might be another option.

Steel.

We need the Javelin back at the Watchtower, ASAP.

Understood. Setting return course.

M'arzz to Watchtower.

Do you read?

Is J'onn J'onzz with you?

I am here, Em'ree.

I am fine.

What happened on your end?

Oh, Uncle J'onn!

You're all right!

The Zeta-Tube was sabotaged.

It exploded. But no one was hurt.

Dude, you had us worried!

We weren't sure you made it out before the blast.

Locking in on their signal...

Hey, bring 'em back!

- I-I can't! - What happened?

I don't know.

The M'arzz-Earth Communications Satellite...

it isn't down...

it's gone.

I didn't have time to secure a lock on their signal.

We're right back where we started.

Steel, what's your ETA?

We're on the other side of the Milky Way.

Even at post-lightspeeds

it'll still take us a couple of days.

Then for now, M'gann, Conner, and Garfield

are on their own.

Someone's definitely trying to cut Mars off

from Earth and the Justice League.

And who would do that?

And this guy is...

No idea.

Prince J'emm.

Those explosions...

they couldn't have been his play, could they?

No, but he's up to something.

He wanted to make sure the League couldn't intervene.

So what now, Imra?

Nothing's changed.

We watch. We wait.

We stay ready.

What were you thinking, M'comm?

Your choices, your actions...

Son, this is not the way to bring change.

It's not your way.

Because you like being a grease-mat to the G'arrunns.

I am G'arrunn!

Is that how you feel about me?

I need a moment alone with my brother.

Oh, am I your brother again?

I thought the little green beastie

was your brother now.

You were pretty tough on them.

No tougher than they deserve,

from me or you.

That's not fair. They love us.

You know they do.

Not enough.

When only two of twenty-nine children

are A'ashenn, love is not enough.

Our parents failed to teach tolerance

and acceptance even in their own home.

Maybe they failed,

but at least they tried.

Which is worth what?

How many of our G'arrunn siblings

plan to attend your wedding?

Face it, our parents' ways don't work.

And your ways don't work either, Miss Martian.

If they did, I wouldn't be sitting here innocent.

Innocent of this.

But you're no innocent.

You killed two innocents on New Genesis

and tried to start a war!

I-I feel like I don't even know you anymore.

Of course, you don't know me!

You abandoned me! Ran away to Earth!

I... I-I had to go... I was...