"If you had another one of those gizmos, why not just say so?" asked Tommy.

"It is not the same." Said Kaldur. "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." All his teammates smiled. "Mount justice is ours."

"Oh, wow." Said YJ Robin.

"You make a really convincing villain." Said younger Wally Sr.

"I was very deep undercover." Said oldest Kaldur.

Kaldur drove his sub near the mountain and entered through water into the cave. Sphere approached him then left when Kaldur put his hand on it.

Tigress put an inhibiter collar on Wolf.

There was a knock on Garfield's door. He paused the episode of Hello Megan and opened the door. It was Tuppance, she punched him in the face.

Conner was in the grotto looking at Artemis's hologram when Tommy Terror attacked. "Terror, move." Said Junior who then blasted Conner. Conner broke the ice though, and tried to attack Tommy, but Tommy put a collar on him.

He bent his hand back. "Sorry, son, but collar's done shut off your strength." Said Tommy.

"And that's not all it can do." Said Junior as he shocked Conner.

"I don't know about you, Junior, but I'm harboring some old resentments against this boy." Said Tommy.

"Why?" asked Zala.

"I posed as him in Belle Reve." Answered oldest Conner.

"Oh, yeah, let's finish him." Said Junior.

"Belay that." Said Kaldur. "When the time is right you will have your revenge, for now I need super boy alive."

Nightwing, Blue beetle, and Impulse heard alarms. "uhh, I'm an idiot." Said Nightwing.

"You would never admit that now." Said younger Wally Sr. to YJ Robin.

"Shut up Wally." Said YJ Robin.

He turned around and Tommy Terror threw Conner at him.

Junior shot ice at the floor. "Oh, this one's a classic. Ice over the floor, and the speedster can't get traction, right?" Said Bart. He ran up the wall and pushed Junior off his perch. "Wrong."

Tuppance was carrying beast boy. "That worked so nice, I'll try it twice." Said Bart. He bounced off of Tuppance and into Tommy. Tommy lifted him up. Bart tried to punch him. "Uhh, my hands. What are you made of?" asked Bart.

Don thought he should probably teach his son how to fight people with super strength in the future. The he shuddered because admitting Bart was his son was awkward, even if it was just to himself.

"Snips, and snails and puppy dog tails." Said Tommy. He put a collar on Bart.

"Nice try but I'll just vibrate right out of this… oh, no speed. I'm moded aren't I?" said Bart.

"Yep, that's what inhibiter collars do." Said younger Artemis.

Tommy punched him to the ground. Blue beetle blasted Tommy with some kind of sound wave thingy.

Nightwing pushed Conner off of him and stood up, but immediately fell again because Tigress kicked him. She sat on his chest and put a collar on him. "Sorry, no super powers for your collar to turn off." He said. Then he pushed her away with his legs. He stood up then was electrocuted.

Blue beetle was about to shoot someone. "Stand down!" said Kaldur.

"Switch to plasma cannon, wide dispersal, incinerate them all." Said the scarab.

"That thing is evil." Said Wally Jr.

"Good guys included? No thanks." Said Jaime.

"This battle is over." Said Kaldur.

"I don't think so traitor." Said Jaime.

"Then rethink, beetle." Said Kaldur. "This is the same type of bomb that obliterated Melina Island. I am holding the Deadman's switch. If my hand comes off this button for any reason, mount justice falls."

"Yes, very realistic villain." Mused Kaline.

"The traitor bluffs." Said the scarab. "And if not, I calculate we can survive the blast."

"Yeah, but not anyone else." Said Zala.

"But my friends can't." said Jaime. He flew to the ground. "We're standing down." Tommy put a collar on him.

"Wise choice." Said Kaldur.

"I'm fine by the way." Said Junior.

"I don't think Kaldur cares." Said middle Artemis.

"Good, escort Impulse, beetle and beast boy to the flyer." Said Kaldur.

"What about these two?" asked Tigress.

"As hostages here, they have value, but Nightwing is an ordinary human. Super Boy, a human/Kryptonian hybrid clone. Neither category is of any interest to our partner."

"Aqua lad!" yelled Nightwing. "You'll regret this." Kaldur punched him in the gut.

"Your trying to hard." Said TT robin. Nightwing shrugged.

"I've outgrown the name Aqua lad, as well as anything resembling regret." Said Kaldur. "I will leave the bomb with you, as a souvenir. Oh, and the dead man's switch has a five mile range, do not peruse."

"You took this really seriously." Said Emily.

The villains and their hostages were walking to the flyer. "Move it bug." Said Junior as he pushed Jaime.

"No, we cannot allow ourselves to be taken prisoner." Said the scarab.

"There isn't much choice is there?" asked Jaime.

"None at all." Said Junior.

"Inaccurate, I've accessed the functions of this inhibiter collar. I will disable it, so you may attack." Said the scarab.

"That would be useful." Said Marcus.

"Not with lives at stake though." Said Jaime.

"And risk Aqua lad blowing up the cave? I don't think so." Said Jaime.

"Then Jaime Reyes, you leave me no choice." Said the scarab. "I am taking control."

"It can do that?" asked Cyborg.

"Yeah," said Jaime.

"What? No, you can't." Jaime attacked the villains against his will. He knocked Aqua lad into a rock and the button fell out of his hand. "No!" said Jaime.

"No," said youngest M'gann.

The mountain didn't blow up.

"Good, I thought it was going to explode." Said younger Wally Sr. Tigress looked down.

"You were right, it was a bluff. Get him." He tied to attack Kaldur, but Kaldur used his Atlantean sorcery to electrocute him, leaving a spot of open flesh. Tigress hit the skin with a blow dart, and he fell over.

"I was not certain that would work." Said Kaldur. "But it seems beetle is indeed vulnerable to mystic energy, and sedatives. Bring him aboard."

"Can't believe we didn't end super boy when we had the chance." Said Tommy when they were back in the flyer.

"Boss, here still has a soft spot for his old team." Said Junior.

"Do it." Said Kaldur to tigress.

She took of her mask. "You sure?" she asked.

"Do what?" asked Raven. Aqua lad and tigress looked sad.

"Do it." He said. She took a breath then hit the button. The mountain exploded.

"What!" yelled yj Robin.

"No!" said M'gann.

Beatboy gasped. "Oh no!" yelled Bart. They flew away.

The screen showed Mal get off his motorcycle and see the explosion. "Duncan to watch tower." He said into a communicator. "Mt. Justice is…gone. I mean there's been an explosion, a big one. Requesting immediate assistance, get here, fast."

He drove to the wreckage and started looking through it then he heard a noise. "Sphere?" he asked, the pulled out his phone and used the camera to look for sphere. He found him in the water. He swam out and saw Nightwing, Conner, and Wolf unconscious on sphere. He grabbed Nightwing when he fell into the water.

"Well, that's embarrassing." YJ Robin muttered to himself.

"Conner, Superboy, wake up!" he yelled then splashed Conner with water.

"What?" said Conner as he woke up.

"Questions later, man, grab wolf. The S cycle's sinking." Said Mal.

"Right, right." Said Conner as he grabbed wolf.

"Will sphere be ok?" asked Mal.

"Yeah, I think so." Said Conner. "She folds up to heal. Can you make it to shore with Nightwing?"

"His personality seems a little different in the future." Younger Wally Sr. said to YJ Robin.

"Yeah." Said Mal. "I got him."

The scene changed to Nightwing drinking coffee in the hall of justice, and Kid flash being announced. "What happened?" Wally demanded.

"It was necessary." Said Dick.

"A bit extreme though," said Ferra.

"It better have been." Said Wally. "Spill."

"Aqua lad needed to find a way to help 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." He held up a flash drive. "A flash drive with among other thigs, tracking software that can locate the tag."

"Like that's all he did."

"Wally, he had to make it look good. He put inhibiter 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."

"Wow." Said Bart.

"Nice to know you care." Said Jaime sarcastically.

"Dick, he blew up the cave. You guys almost died!"

"Since when is Wally the reasonable one?" asked youngest Artemis.

"No, it's all on the flash drive. He needed to pursue to make it look legit, so that's exacly 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?"

"Yeah, why?" asked Mary-Jade. She'd always wondered that herself.

"The drive explains that too. He needed to cement his position with the light, and the light's partner."

"Isn't that why he 'murdered' Artemis?"

"Guess he didn't convince everyone."

"You guess!" Wally yelled.

"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."

Younger Wally Sr. glared at yj Robin. "Hey I haven't done or said anything yet." YJ robin said. So Wally glared at Nightwing.

"Are you serious?" Wally yelled as he pushed Nightwing down into a chair. "I don't care about that junk, I'm worried about Artemis. Terrified for her. You 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 Aqua lad 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?"

Oldest Kaldur was sad that Wally felt that way, but understood why.

A/N: I think this is the longest chapter I've written so far. I hate when I have to make chapters into multiple parts, so I just made this longer instead of making 3 parts. Please review.