Episode 17: The Hunt
Takes place on May 27 - 30
The Justice League is guarding the key room on the WarWorld. For some reason the Reach are keeping the captured Team and the crystal key on a different part of WarWorld. Miss Martian and Nightwing are searching WarWorld for the Team but are having difficulties (Hey, it's a big planetoid). Also on WarWorld, Arsenal is narrowly avoiding being captured or killed by the Reach, who are looking to tie up loose ends.
Lex Luthor gives the Runaways a mission to rescue the Team and a fatherbox that will track Kryptonians (more specifically Superboy) and teleport them near his location.They fight some Reach goons and meet up with Arsenal but when they reach the prisoners Black Beetle attacks them. Arsenal frees Mongul to distract him. He also tries to get the crystal key but it has been stolen by Deathstroke.
At this point they're found by Nightwing and Miss Martian, who had found Sphere and used her to track Superboy. They take the Runaways, Arsenal, and the Team to the bioship. Nightwing offers the Runaways a spot on the Team but when he hears about Arsenal's stunt with the airlock he kicks him off the Team. The Runaways are grateful to Arsenal for helping them, so they angrily reject Nightwing's offer and Arsenal joins them. When they boom tube back to their hideout they're contacted by Luthor. Arsenal tells the others how Luthor was responsible for his kidnapping and the loss of his arm. He also correctly deduces that the whole mission was a distraction so one of Luthor's men could take the Key. The Runaways decide to stop taking orders from Luthor and go on their own.
Notes:
- The Reach Ambassador and Blue Beetle do some more propaganda, but when the Ambassador appears on G. Gordon Godfrey's show he is called out for lying about their fleet.
- The Runaways go their own way and Arsenal goes solo.
Tropes
- Both Sides Have a Point: When Godfrey calls out the Ambassador's lies about the Reach fleet, the Ambassador reminds Godfrey that Blue Beetle and those same ships saved the day. Godfrey immediately replays a video where the Ambassador stated that the Reach only had one ship that was only for observational purposes, but that and the fleet were enough to repel Warworld. As Godfrey continues, if the Reach lied about their hidden fleet, then what else are they hiding?
