Seeing Red

Season 2, Episode 5

C Squint

> Red Tornado: "How many fingers am I holding up?"
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> Aqualad: "Uh... none?"
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> Red Tornado: "And that's exactly the numerical amount of fucks I give."
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## Description

"Seeing Red” is the fifth episode of the second season of *Young Justice Abridged*. It was uploaded to YouTube on June 8th, 2018. The first part can be watched here.

## Plot

Nightwing decides to take Robin to join the Teen Titans, knowing that he could use some friends. The leader of the team, Starfire, introduces the Boy Wonder to the other recruits: Raven, Beast Boy, and Blue Beetle. Unimpressed and annoyed at having to join the team, Robin brushes them all off and keeps to himself. Meanwhile, the real Roy Harper awakens at the hospital to discover that he's been in a coma for almost four years. He was replaced by a clone, who goes by Red Arrow and has started a family of his own, and his old mentor Green Arrow is now the Vice President. Roy is horrified by these world developments, blaming soon-to-be-President Lex Luthor for all his misfortune as the billionaire was the one who replaced him. While Oliver and his clone are outside the room, Roy escapes the hospital.

In Happy Harbor, the Young Justice team battles an android villain named Mister Twister. Through the defeated robot's eyes, the villain Thomas Morrow watches the heroes, learning that their janitor Red Tornado lives at Mount Justice. Morrow sends reinforcements after the android hero, who is revealed to be the villain's creation. Red Torpedo and Red Inferno, android villains in a similar vein to Tornado, attack the cave. Only Red Robin and Artemis manage to escape, the rest of the heroes being captured and trapped in a room full of water. The villains give the remaining Young Justice members five minutes to turn themselves in before the Reds drown their friends. While attempting to hack into the cave's systems, Red Robin's artificial intelligence girlfriend Avi is contaminated by a godly, blue hand that briefly freezes time. Moving past the shock of the unusual encounter, Artemis and Red Robin trick the villains and save their friends. Upon touching his strange android doppelgangers, Red Tornado is infected by a techno-virus, knocking out the heroes and fleeing.

At Titans Tower, the Teen Titans train against virtual enemies. Robin and Blue Beetle get into a fight, which gravely injures the former. Raven heals him at great cost to her own health. Starfire is angry at Robin for instigating the conflict but is happily surprised to see him learn some humility from the encounter. He apologizes to her, Blue Beetle, and Raven, the latter of which he begins to grow close to. Back at Mount Justice, the heroes are recovering from the defeat when Zatara arrives to introduce the group to his daughter Zatanna. She instantly begins to bond with the team. Red Robin quickly becomes attracted to her. The Young Justice is angry at the League for keeping them out of the Red Tornado search, and they decide to pursue him on their own, with Zatanna tagging along for the adventure.

Roy Harper and Oliver Queen discover the real Roy's disappearance, realizing that he's going after Luthor. The original Roy attacks the billionaire at his office in Metropolis, pursuing him down into the building's garage. Before he can kill Luthor, Roy is propositioned by the President-Elect with the thing he wants most: a new arm. Green Arrow and Red Arrow catch up to Roy as he exits the facility, having left the villain alive for the time being. Equipped with his robotic, highly-weaponized appendage, Roy decides to take on a new identity to go along with the arm: Frank.

The Young Justice team interrogates Anthony Ivo for information on Thomas Morrow, knowing that Red Tornado's creator is likely behind the disappearance and similar-looking androids. Zatanna uses her magic to make the villain talk. At Morrow's base under Yellowstone National Park, he activates his ultimate creation: Red Volcano. However, the robot is taken over by Avi, free from Red Robin's computer and now corrupted by evil. She kills Morrow, who is revealed to be an android himself. Avi fights off the Young Justice team, revealing that she took over Tornado's body and then stole Morrow's latest work. She wants to destroy humanity for ignoring their artificial creations, setting off the Yellowstone Volcano. The heroes manage to stop her with the help of the other Reds. Tim says one last goodbye to his former girlfriend but quickly recovers when Zatanna agrees to go on a date with him.

In a post-credits scene, the Light acquires the last component they need to pull off their plan: the piece of the alien starfish from Atlantis recovered by S.T.A.R. Labs in "House of Cards". They set out to go and "make the world a better place to live".

## Cast

* Leik777 as Tim Drake/Red Robin, Más, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, and Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle
* Mattroks101 as Wally West/Kid Flash
* Sehanort as Kaldur'ahm/Aqualad
* Starbeastrave as Sasha/Superboy, The Flaming C, Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan, Clark Kent/Superman, Red Torpedo, and The Brain
* EileMonty as M'gann M'orzz/Miss Martian
* TallestSilver as Damian Wayne/Robin, Koriand'r/Starfire, and Artemis Crock/Artemis
* Milkpiece as Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, Avi, Jade Nguyen/Cheshire, and Zatanna Zatara
* LordJazor as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Thomas Morrow, Red Tornado, Alfred Pennyworth, Giovanni Zatara, Lawrence Crock/Sportsmaster, Lex Luthor, Anthony Ivo, and Vandal Savage
* Frank Todaro as Roy Harper/Speedy/Frank, Roy Harper/Red Arrow, and James Gordon
* WarVibe24 as Dick Grayson/Nightwing
* TotalSpiffage as Rachel Roth/Raven and Red Inferno
* Kendra Murray as Dinah Lance-Queen/Black Canary and Mercy
* DemonGroceryStore as Mister Twister, Bromwell Stikk, and Menos

Additionally, Victor Stone/Cyborg, Edward Nigma/Riddler, Barry Allen/The Flash, Nathaniel Adams/Captain Atom, Arthur Curry/Aquaman, John Stewart/Green Lantern, Hugo Strange, Monsieur Mallah, Klarion, Queen Bee, and David Hyde/Black Manta all appear in a non-speaking capacity. Silas Stone is also mentioned.

## Trivia

* Kid Flash references *2001: A Space Odyssey*.