A Tale of Two Corps, Part 2

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**A Tale of Two Corps, Part 2** is the second episode in the second season of "The Justice League Show", introducing Kara Zor-El and the Blue Lantern Corps (all in full characters and appearances), as well as Zor-El and Alura In-Ze, respectively.

## Synopsis

After the Justice League gets imprisoned (and turned into cabin boys) by the Red Lantern Corps, Superman's trump card, in the form of his lost cousin, Kara Zor-El, is the only hope to stop the war between the Blue and Red Lantern Corps and defeat Darkseid and his Orphan Stone of Soul.

## Plot

One day, at the Belle Reve Penitentiary, Sinestro (in his fairy costume) uses a storybook to recap from the last episode to his cellmate, Black Manta.

The story begins with the Justice League being interrogated by Attrocitus, who plans to use them as leverage to force the Blue Lantern Corps into surrendering peacefully and end their conflict with them for good in the way he sees it, but he soon changes his mind (due to the power of Darkseid's Orphan Stone of Soul), ordering his henchwoman, Bleez, into vaporizing the prisoners and invading Earth if the Blue Lantern captain does not arrive within one hour. Meanwhile, the Justice League is forced into slavery by the Red Lantern Corps.

Meanwhile, in the cargo bay of the Javelin, the girl finally awakens from her sleep inside her pod, donning herself in a cheerleader-like uniform complete with a cape, a pair of boots, and a similar "House of El" crest on her top. Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler, discovers her in the cargo bay, so he manages to knock her out with his umbrella before interrogating her, but she has no knowledge on what he's talking about. Facing her interrogator head-on, thankfully, the girl introduces herself as Kara Zor-El, a young twelve-year-old Kryptonian girl born in Argo City, the capital of Krypton. Kara's story ends with her noticing her cousin's pendant was confiscated into one of Alfred's tailcoat pockets, causing him to slap her in the face, plop her onto the floor, and then drag her onto the Javelin's bridge where he ties her up on one of the stations' chairs and contacts the League about his progress on the conn. This gives Superman an idea for the Justice League to break out of prison, so he huddles his comrades together to formulate a jailbreak plan.

Later, a passing mother-vessel belonging to the Blue Lantern Corps arrives at the scene just in time for Darkseid to use his Soul Stone on them, forcing them to aim their fusion cannon on the Red Lantern Corps' mothership. Luckily, using her superhuman strength, Kara, upon managing to free herself from her bonds, aims the cannon directly at the ship's brig, freeing the League miraculously before returning to the Javelin. After blocking the security outside the brig, the League escapes from the Red Lanterns to try and disable all the ships from both sides before the war is back on; the Red Lantern fleet is then deployed to pursue the League in order to try and recapture them.

Not long after the League disabled half of both fleets, Darkseid begins using his Soul Stone on the heroes one by one. Meanwhile, the Blue Lanterns' fusion cannon aims at the Red Lanterns' mothership again, but Green Lantern uses his Power Ring to try and disable it, only to shoot it at the Javelin, destroying it in the process. Although Kara and Alfred manage to survive the blast, communications with the Justice League have already failed. Before facing Darkseid alone for all the trouble he has caused, Kara places Alfred in her pod and sets its coordinates back to Hero City's NASA Space Station where he will land safely to ensure the Soul Stone doesn't put him in a violent trance too.

Finally, Kara confronts Darkseid, challenging him to a duel for everyone his Soul Stone placed under a trance. At first, Darkseid mocks her (by reciting "1 Samuel 17:43" from the bible), recognizing the girl as his challenger, but he reluctantly accepts her challenge after she pushed him far all the way to the breaking point by making him say his response to it; provoked by Kara's introduction, Darkseid tries to suck Kara into his Soul Stone, but Kara uses her heat vision to disable its power, returning everyone back to normal before freeing the Legion of Superheroes from their imprisonment inside it.

The duel soon ends with a defeated Darkseid cursing Kara for being much stronger than an ordinary child and trying to flee, but the League blocks him and sends him flying into a nearby moon where he crashes there. A relieved Attrocitus soon apologizes to the Justice League for his mistakes, thanking them for saving everyone and allowing the peace treaty between his Corps and the Blue Lanterns to continue peacefully. As both Lantern Corps celebrate their liberation from Darkseid's control, the League makes a sad salute to the destroyed Javelin, which soon disappears behind the moon.

Back at Hero City's NASA Space Station, Kara introduces herself before the Justice League; she tells them a colored version of how she came to be on Earth as a form of child abandonment, but the League presses her for a more truthful story. She relents and tells them that she had a spat with her parents and hid inside the pod, making her arrival on Earth purely accidental. She wants to go back home to Krypton to repent of her sins, but Superman sadly reveals to her about the tragic fate of her parents from thirty years ago. Finally realizing what had become of her parents from three decades ago, Kara soon suffers from survivor guilt to condemn the destruction of Krypton and the death of her family. Eventually, Batman warmly offers Kara a job as a junior member for the Justice League, and that she will find Earth as her new home as Superman did when he finds this planet like one ever since he was a baby; Kara soon accepts Batman's offer, eventually reuniting with Superman as she recognizes him as her long-lost baby cousin (now grown in his early 30s).

While the two cousins happily embrace, a distraught Green Lantern laments over the Hall of Justice being turned into a history museum in their disbanding and the Javelin being destroyed in the confusion between the two Lantern Corps, but Batman begs to differ, presenting, before his fellow Leaguers, their new headquarters, the Watchtower (constructed by Wayne Enterprises in cooperation with NASA), which emerges from below the Javelin's launching pad. Soon, the Justice League celebrates their reunion, along with Superman announcing that their team is back in business.

Meanwhile, Lex Luthor was introduced to his cellmate, the Joker, who suspects he has a crowbar in his uniform, causing him to protest that he hasn't had one.

The story ends with Darkseid, having returned to his homeworld of Apokalips, regenerating his disabled Soul Stone and storing it into his Fatherbox before vowing to meet the Justice League once more once he has five more Orphan Stones in his possession while unaware that the destroyed Javelin crashed into his castle.

The episode ends with Black Manta snoring while Sinestro finishes the story, even though Luthor can hear him from his cell next to theirs.

### Script

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### Screenshots

Alfred confronting Kara for stowing away on the Javelin.Lex Luthor screaming.
## Trivia/References

* The "Mii Channel Music" theme song should be played in Kara Zor-El's first entrance in the series (after emerging from her space pad).
* The interrogation scene between Alfred and Kara should be similar to that scene from Disney's 2010 movie, "Tangled", where Rapunzel attempts to pry information from Flynn Rider about why he came into her tower.
* When Luthor screams after his cell door closes in his face, this sequence should be a spoof from a Dutch meme, "Hier nen euro", taken from a "Stressmannetje" commercial.
* At one point during the episode, Kara makes reference to Sailor Moon's iconic "In the name of the moon" speech.
* There is a scene that parodies Alfred Hitchcock's *Psycho*. In this episode, after Kara emerges from her space pod to start her day right, she is suddenly ambushed by Alfred. Alfred catches Kara as an intruder hence a stowaway in the cargo bay and nearly beats her to death with his umbrella.
* When Kara kneels distraught while screaming, "YOU MANIACS - YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DANG YOU! GOSH-DANG YOU ALL AS WELL!", those should be a reference to the ending scene of the 1968 American science fiction film, "Planet of the Apes", where protagonist George Taylor curses mankind for destroying Earth because of World War III.
* A moment of Kara recognizing Superman as her long-lost cousin, Kal-El, is a reference to Walt Disney's 1991 film, *Beauty and the Beast*, where Belle recognizes Prince Adam as the Beast within him.
* As Kara flies out of the Javelin to free the Justice League, the theme song for 1984's *Supergirl* film should be played in the background. This music piece should also be played again in the next episode.