The mid-season finale of Young Justice: Outsiders provides a long-awaited hero to the workforce and in the end has Geo-Drive reunited along with his lacking sister. However whereas issues lastly appear to be going their manner, is that this truly a victory for the nice guys?

[Ed. Note: This article contains spoilers for episodes 10 through 13 of Young Justice: Outsiders]

Due to the revelation that Granny Goode’s Goode Googles are not any good and intel picked up from Santa Prisca that reveals Tara Markov is now with somebody named Granny, the workforce units a plan in movement to rescue the lacking princess. These are two important items of intel: the Goode Googles revealed areas the place Meta-Human teenagers had been being led and because of the Granny hyperlink, Tara’s location is lastly revealed. Whereas the League units off to bust the trafficking facilities, Nightwing, Superboy, Tigress and Black Lightning convey alongside Geo-Drive and Forager to an underground Meta-Human combat membership and public sale.

Tara — or Terra as she’s now recognized — is preventing towards one other Meta-Teen. Together with her personal geo-force powers activated, she will be able to manipulate the earth. She is defeated, however a shedding Meta-Teen nonetheless fetches a excessive worth at public sale.

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The workforce rescues the princess fairly simply by putting a excessive bid for her at public sale. Instantly, they take her again to the protection of the Mom Ship and he or she and her brother Brion are reunited.

Not everybody within the Outsiders workforce is current, nevertheless. Halo — very just lately revealed to be the spirit of the Mom Field inhabiting a human physique — and Dr. Jace are left again in Completely satisfied Harbor to maintain newly-made cyborg Victor Stone firm. However the Father Field, the piece of Apokolptic tech inhabiting Victor’s cyborg elements, senses weak point in Halo and activates her. The 2 face off.

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Nightwing leads the remainder of the adults again into the fray; they must rescue the lacking youngsters in any case. Geo-Drive and his sister reunite, with Geo-Drive eradicating Terra’s mind-control machine and Terra expressing remorse for crimes she was pressured to commit whereas below the Mild’s affect. The 2 don’t need to sit round and wait, in order that they bounce to assist Nightwing and the remaining, ultimately rescuing all of the Meta-Teenagers.

All of them return again to Completely satisfied Harbor, the place Halo reveals she cured Victor of Father Field’s affect. Nightwing says that the League was in a position to deal the Meta-Human traffickers an enormous blow. Tara forgives Dr. Jace for activating her meta-gene. Geo-Drive calls Halo his girlfriend. Nightwing contemplates formally including the teenagers to the workforce. Completely satisfied endings throughout!

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Besides —

Within the last moments of this midseason finale, Terra wakes up early within the morning whereas everybody else is asleep and sends a textual content message to Slade: I’m in.

Two phrases, however they reveal that even with out thoughts management, Tara is now sided with the Mild. The seeming victory for the Justice League and Nightwing’s workforce is simply a part of the villains’ grand grasp plan.

This twist isn’t unprecedented. DC’s Terra is normally the dangerous man and her previous animated appearances saved in keeping with that. Her different common iteration in Cartoon Community’s Teen Titans noticed her led astray by Slade. Although she ultimately sacrificed herself to avoid wasting town, she spent the latter half of season 2 as a villain. Terra was an enormous fan favourite, but it surely appears to be like like she’s set to comply with the identical villainous path in Young Justice — although simply how she components into the Mild’s grand plan has but to be revealed.

Young Justice: Outsiders returns in June on DC Universe.