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

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

Because of the revelation that Granny Goode’s Goode Googles aren’t any good and intel picked up from Santa Prisca that reveals Tara Markov is now with somebody named Granny, the staff 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 have been being led and due to 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-Pressure and Forager to an underground Meta-Human combat membership and public sale.

Tara — or Terra as she’s now identified — is combating 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 dropping Meta-Teen nonetheless fetches a excessive value at public sale.

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

Not everybody within the Outsiders staff is current, nonetheless. Halo — very lately revealed to be the spirit of the Mom Field inhabiting a human physique — and Dr. Jace are left again in Completely happy 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 spot 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 need to rescue the lacking youngsters in spite of everything. Geo-Pressure and his sister reunite, with Geo-Pressure eradicating Terra’s mind-control machine and Terra expressing remorse for crimes she was compelled to commit whereas beneath the Mild’s affect. The 2 don’t wish to sit round and wait, so that they leap to assist Nightwing and the remaining, ultimately rescuing all of the Meta-Teenagers.

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

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Besides —

Within the closing 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 staff is barely a part of the villains’ grand grasp plan.

This twist isn’t unprecedented. DC’s Terra is often the unhealthy man and her previous animated appearances saved in step with that. Her different fashionable iteration in Cartoon Community’s Teen Titans noticed her led astray by Slade. Although she ultimately sacrificed herself to save lots of the town, she spent the latter half of season 2 as a villain. Terra was an enormous fan favourite, however it seems to be 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.