Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Page #2

a 3D movie with no glasses.

Freeze. Observations?

They avoided his gaze. Kept to the shadows.

Used their element. These were warriors.

Agreed.

Resume.

Ooh! That looked like

it hurt all over again.

Who has the force to knock a quarter

ton of metal to the ground underwater?

Freeze.

That's a barrel roll. These guys

are skilled in 360-degree combat.

Agreed. Note the sound sensitivity.

Makes sense. Sound travels four

point three times faster underwater.

Kiss ass.

Whatever, Mr. Barrel-Roll.

Resume.

Freeze.

So that's what you look like.

Magnify.

Gills? As in mermaids?

As in Atlantis.

Where is this?

These carvings, I recognize them from

the tales of Atlantis I read as a girl.

It sunk into the ocean, but its people were

saved by the magic of the king's trident...

which turned them irreversibly

into creatures of the sea.

That's a fairy tale.

I believe you.

Of course he does.

So where is it?

The location has been lost to time.

What does a mythical mystical

undersea world need with missiles?

And I so dare you to say

that five times fast.

Obviously, they plan to attack us.

Any way you look at this, it's bad.

Terrible idea:
I saw an Atlantis show on

the what's-it channel with this professor.

Maybe he can help us.

We're at S.T.A.R. labs.

The greatest minds on the

planet are right next door.

Jeez, I said terrible idea.

Maybe it's not. Dr. Stephen Shin.

I'm scrubbing through his research.

He's got some pretty out-there

theories about Atlantis.

Superman and I will

go question Dr. Shin.

When did we vote him team leader?

What should the rest of us to do?

Find Atlantis.

Now that the plans have

been set in motion, Manta...

there is no turning back.

You were right to strike first

and strike quickly, my liege.

My mother will not see it as such.

She has yet to grasp the dangers of

the surface as you have, Prince Orm.

Soon she'll have no choice.

She's been waiting for you.

Someday, Mera, I will be on the

throne and you will guard my body.

Let's hope I fall in battle

before that day arrives.

Perhaps you will.

Mother.

Your transparent aggression towards the

surface world has left Atlantis exposed, Orm.

Do you deny it?

That ship would have discovered us.

Nonsense.

Our magic continues to protect us.

We are myth.

They doubt our very existence.

So we hide?

Mother, every day the surface

dwellers grow stronger.

They have guardians with

powers that walk among them.

Guardians directly responsible for

the death of my father, your king.

The volcano that killed your father

was not the fault of the surfacers...

but the one who attacked them.

Death by collateral damage in a

surface war does not comfort me.

They kill our race.

They poison our oceans.

They will destroy this planet

and take Atlantis with it.

We must protect our people and attack.

As long as I am queen, you will

preserve the peace. At all costs.

Do I make myself clear?

Yes, mother.

- Damn her.

- Patience, my liege.

He has always been a problem

child coddled by his father...

unsuitable for the throne.

Our only hope for peaceful existence

with the surface dwellers...

is with the one who is of both worlds.

What of my other son?

Have you seen Arthur?

Yes, my queen.

- And?

- My queen, he is not yet ready...

for the weight of the crown.

He will learn at my side, Mera.

Bring him to me at once.

Dad, watch. I can get to the top.

Not too far, Arthur. Don't fall in.

I can do it. I'm a better

swimmer than you are.

Arthur, no!

I told you to be careful.

I saw her, Dad. I saw my mother.

She was watching me in the water.

- She kissed me.

- It was just the sea...

- playing tricks on you, son.

- No, it was her. I saw her.

She left, Arthur,

and she's not coming back.

It's just you and me now, son,

and I'm not going anywhere.

These photos of Arthur

Curry are proof positive

- of everything I've been working towards.

- I'm very pleased for you, doctor.

The world will have to believe me now.

They'll know what I know.

- Call me after you've made contact.

- I will.

Congratulations, David.

I could not have found him without you.

Thank you, sir.

Manta to Drift One, report.

Payload ready, sir.

Excellent. I will handle the rest.

Take your men to Mercy Reef. Give Dr. Shin

and the half-breed my warmest regards.

Hello? Mr. Curry? Hello?

You have to go away.

Go away or kill me.

I must talk to you, Mr. Curry.

Come back later. I'm really hung right now.

And not in the good way.

I have information you need to know.

It's about your father.

Thank you for seeing me, Arthur.

I have answers for you. I know what you seek.

Slow down. Slow down.

I had a rough night. Who are you?

I am Dr. Stephen Shin,

theoretical marine biologist.

Your father, Thomas, contacted me.

My father's dead.

I know. He was looking for

answers and I have them.

You, my boy, are the key

to all of my research.

Okay, I'm gonna let you in because I

just can't talk through a door anymore.

What the hell?

Look out!

Stand down while you can.

Arthur Curry is under my protection

by order of Queen Atlanna.

Relinquish him to us, Mera.

Or what?

Or we'll take him over

your smoldering corpse.

You are welcome to try.

Fire.

Follow my lead.

I am an investigative reporter,

you know.

Journalism's dead.

Someone got here first.

- Looks like it's been ransacked.

- That's not all.

Someone destroyed Shin's life's work.

Then where's Shin?

Probably dead.

How do you figure?

You don't destroy someone's work

and then let them live to re-create it.

Good point.

Don't touch anything.

Who is this?

Whoever he is, he's got gills too.

Cyborg, run your facial-recognition

program off this picture.

Roger that.

- Name's Arthur Curry.

- I've got a water-logged letter...

from a Thomas Curry. But it's illegible.

Cyborg, can you extrapolate this text?

You got it. Coming at you now.

Thomas Curry begging Dr. Shin

for help with his son, Arthur.

- Why Shin?

- Shin suspects Curry's son...

is half-Atlantean.

Invoke the emergency protocols.

We must tend to our wounded first.

Do you see? Do you see what the

surface dwellers are capable of?

This is terrorism.

No, this is an act of war.

- Yes.

- I agree with him.

Our people swim in a cloud

of fear of the surfacers.

This attack tells us what we already know.

The surface world wants us dead.

My father distrusted the humans.

He saw them as inferior to us.

He made plans to cleanse the surface.

And I say we break the seal

on the Atlantean war plans.

- Yes.

- No.

War would cause senseless

ruin on both sides.

However, I hear the fear

behind my son's words.

Perhaps it is time for our

worlds to come together.

- Heresy.

- But my queen, our traditions?

Have Manta arrange a meeting

between myself and this Justice League.

I will broker a peace

with them in person.

As you wish, Mother.

Take heart, my people.

This violence was an isolated incident.

It is addressed.

Our magical safeguards remain intact.

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