- Rocket: So Tornado built this android... to party?
- Zatanna Zatara: Not how he'd put it. But yeah, more or less.
- Vandal Savage: Fifty thousand years of life, and nothing ever troubled me as much as the founding of the Justice League. Dedicated to maintaining society's calcified status quo, the League would protect mankind from disaster, crime, tragedy of any kind. Had you never heard of "the survival of the fittest"? In essence, you heroes sought to protect humanity from its own glorious evolution. As such, you forced my more enlightened colleagues and myself, to organize a response. We created or co-opted networks of operatives, placed key-individuals in key-positions, made certain we were on the cutting edge of all new technologies, genetic engineering, biochemical engineering, robotics, nano-robotics, even techno-sorcery. Not to mention every conceivable method of mind-control. Cold-heard science, a little misdirection, and now you champions of stagnation have become our agents of change, forcing the human race to evolve on a more advanced schedule, allowing the Earth to take its rightful place at the center of the Cosmos.
- Aqualad: Something else is wrong.
- Robin: The entire League was under Savage's spell for just over a day. We accounted for most of that time, but these six -
- [Shows images of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hawk Woman, John Stewart and Martian Man-hunter]
- Robin: ... Went missing for a full 16 hours we *can't* account for.
- Batman: Sixteen hours. What did we do?
- Red Tornado: Stay off your radio. Let the Super-Cycle track Superboy. Instruct her to mask all signals. We cannot allow the League to track us.
- Kid Flash: Right, of course. Just one question. WHY IS THE JUSTICE LEAGUE AFTER US?
- Conner Kent: Kryptonite hurts.
- Robin: That's why Batman keeps it in an overwhelmingly impenetrable vault in the Batcave... Well, more like a whelmingly penetrable vault.
- [Roy aims an arrow at Aqualad]
- Aqualad: I have not come to harm, or apprehend you. But the Team requires answers.
- Roy Harper: Me, first. Tell me something you haven't told anyone else. Tell me who broke your heart!
- Aqualad: [sighs] Tula. The girl I love chose my best friend Garth over me, while my best friend on the surface world aims an arrow at my chest.
- [Roy lowers his bow and arrow]
- Black Canary: What are you doing to Red?
- Kid Flash: It's not how it looks.
- Black Canary: It looks like you're downloading his consciousness into a new body.
- Kid Flash: Okay, it's pretty much exactly how it looks.
- Red Tornado: Fortunately, this Starro-Tech is body-specific. As John Smith, I am now free of outside control.
- Robin: This Starro-Tech It worked on super-powered humans, four flavors of alien, an android even Doctor Fate; defeating all of you without a fight?
- Red Tornado: Indeed. A remarkable achievement, one not easily countered.
- Klarion the Witch Boy: Come on, we can take 'em!
- Vandal Savage: Yes. But in the process, you'd lose control. Perhaps even destroy this station. And whether or not they're in our thrall, "The Light" still needs the Justice League alive, for Phase Two.
- Superman: The Team did good work here. *You* did good work.
- Conner Kent: Uh, thanks.
- Superman: So... I heard you took a name.
- Conner Kent: Uh, yeah. Conner Kent.
- Superman: My secret identity is "Clark Kent".
- Conner Kent: [Shocked] I didn't know! I wasn't trying to-...
- Superman: No, thing is I'm glad, Conner Kent. It seems right.