Episode 12: True Colors
Takes place on April 7 - 9
The Reach have partnered with Lex Corp, ostensibly to improve crops and help feed poor nations. Alpha team (composed of Robin/Tim Drake, Impulse, Blue Beetle and Arsenal) are sent to investigate.
Meanwhile Sports Master, concerned about his reputation after Aqualad killed Artemis, meets with Black Manta and Vandal Savage and demands Aqualad's death. When they refuse he attacks, only to be stopped by his replacement Deathstroke. He escapes in a helicopter piloted by Cheshire.
Alpha team manages to get a sample of the additive the Reach are using and are about to escape undetected when Arsenal destroys some equipment. They are attacked by Black Beetle. A Curbstomp Battle ensues, but they are rescued by a mysterious Green Beetle, who appears to be Martian.
They escape to the Kent farm and Green Beetle reveals he is a Martian archaeologist who discovered a scarab on Mars. It bonded with him and tried to take control but was unprepared for his Martian biology. Apparently thousands of years ago the Reach sent the scarabs to developing worlds so they'd have inside agents when they invaded. He heard about the Reach on Earth through television and decided to help.
Meanwhile, Luthor and Savage meet and discuss how the heroes got the additive, as expected. Food with the REAL stuff the Reach added is already being shipped out. They also look at pictures of the abductees the Reach had experimented on and comment that with how effective the Team has been, maybe they need a team of their own . . .
Notes:
- The Atom and Bumblebee tried to remove Jaime's scarab but were unsuccessful.
- Robin is about to tell Nightwing about Arsenal's actions, but decides against it.
- Vandal Savage has borrowed Psimon from Queen Bee so that he may bring Aqualad out of his catatonic state . . .and so he can put together his memories.
