Aftermath

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The flight back to Rhode Island is long and silent - Dinah, for one dwelling on all those men who just dropped dead the second J'Onn touched them with his mind. they won, but it doesn't feel like a victory, and then - then there's J'Onn.


Back in the cave, it still doesn't feel like anyone's going to say anything until Aquaman speaks up.

"So what now?"

Dinah sighs. "Now, I think we ask some hard questions. J'Onn - I think I speak for everyone when I say that, though we appreciate the fact that you're on our side..." and there's a whole lot of apology that has to come oout there, on everyone's side. "...mostly, we still feel betrayed."

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Flash tells everyone to relax. Who else would make a noise like that except: "Snapper, is that you? Come on out!"

Sure enough, the young man appears, but as he staggers into sight, the heroes are stunned to see him beaten and bruised.

"Uncle Simon!" Snapper gasps. "It's Uncle--Uncle Simon! You gotta stop him!"

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"Snapper!"

He almost stumbles into the room, and Dinah starts forward to catch him, pulling a hankerchief out of her jacket to clean up the blood.

"...tried to kill me," Snapper manages. "But I got away."

"He did this to you?" she asks. Simon, the representative of their funder? "Why?"

"Because I know now. The alien we've been looking for - it's him. And he's not..."

But before he can finish the sentence, an alarm sounds.

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"Is that--?" Flash asks in disbelief.

"--The NORAD alert?!" GL finishes, just as amazed.

"Yeah!" Snapper replies, his voice growing panicked. "That's what I was trying to tell you! Uncle Simon's the alien--and he's not alone anymore!"

He stumbles out of Dinah's hold and runs clumsily to the cavern's opening. "He was getting Locus to make the world over... for his people!"

And as the heroes follow Snapper into the open air, the night skies above are no longer dark.

They're filled with the flashing lights of dozens--hundreds of alien ships, screaming through space, heading directly for Earth.

The invasion has begun.