02x16 - The Terror Beyond: Part II

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Previously on justice league...

If you help grundy,
grundy will help you.

The curse removed your soul.

Grundy wants it back.

Will magician help?

I will do everything I can.

The walls between the
worlds have been torn asunder.

I order them now sealed.

Banish the old ones
and seal the breach.

Stop!

You take the magician.

Your mace seems
to be giving him fits.

Those runes...
They're thanagarian.

Hah!

What do you know
about thanagar? Talk!

You've run out of choices.

Tell us what
you're doing... Now.

We were trying to prevent that.

Worm face tries to
att*ck grundy's friends.

Grundy crush!

Stay back, all of you.

Everything's in the
hands of fate now.

How could you possibly
know that incantation?

Where I come from, it's
the closest thing we have

To a prayer.

Is it over?

No. Only a beginning.

It will rest, then att*ck again.

We must complete
the original spell.

You don't have the strength.

Nor do I have a choice.

What is going on here?

What was that thing?

There's no time.

Make time... Or are you scared

Because there's
no water in here?

We're not gonna
fight again, are we?

No, we aren't.

I'll show you what
you wish to know.

Pretty.

Where is that?

It's atlantis thousands of years

Before it sank
beneath the waves.

In those days, atlantis was
ruled by sorcerer kings.

And fortunately
so, for atlantis,

Along with most of
the ancient world,

Found itself under
att*ck by extradimensional

Beings called "the old ones."

The old ones nearly
destroyed humanity

As they prepared the way

For the most powerful
of their number...

Great ixthultu.

But king poseidon gambled
that they could be stopped.

He gathered nearly all of the
ambient mystical energy on earth,

Then forged it into
a single w*apon.

The power of the trident

Served to banish the
old ones from our realm.

But the price was high.

Poseidon knew that
the same mystic energy

He used to defeat the old ones

Also powered the spells
that prevented atlantis

From sinking beneath the ocean.

He saved the world,

But doomed atlantis
to rest forever

At the bottom of the sea.

Now the old ones seek
to return to our world.

Already, fissures have appeared,

Allowing creatures
from their world

To gain entrance into ours.

When you interrupted,

We were helping fate cast
a spell to bar their way.

And now we must
complete the ceremony.

I won't let you
t*rture grundy again.

It's not exactly t*rture, diana.

More like... Sacrifice.

How do you know
so much about this?

My people once
worshipped ixthultu.

On thanagar?

The old ones are
an evil not bound

By your understanding
of geography.

In return for his favors,

My ancestors made
offerings to him.

I can't believe anyone
would cooperate

With that... Thing.

It was thousands of years ago.

We were still a
primitive culture.

With your knowledge,

Perhaps you can help
with the ceremony.

Forget the ceremony.

We're not sacrificing
grundy or anybody else.

Grundy volunteered.

I'm not sure he's
competent to volunteer.

Does he even understand
what you're asking of him?

Grundy understands.

Grundy helps magician, then
magician will help grundy.

I agree with superman.

There has to be another way.

There is.

We go to ixthultu's
world and kick his slimy...

Bird nose is right.
Fight, not hide.

No. We should stick
to our original plan.

This may be better.

It's more likely to work than
simply recasting a broken spell.

It's a fool's errand.

I joined with you
to protect atlantis.

And the rest of the
world be hanged?

We need your power.

So do my people.

My place is with them.

Aquaman...

I have spoken.

Very well.

A spell to return
you to your home.

Enza, I must ask you...

To remain here as your anchor

So you can find your way back.

Prepare yourselves.

I always thought it was
a fable to scare children.

I'll take point.

No! Keep down!

What did you do that for?

In this realm,

Ground and sky are
not always parallel.

If we are separated,

You could become
hopelessly lost.

I'm glad to see you safe.

And I you, my love.

Assemble my w*r council.

Atlantis is in grave danger.

att*ck from the surface world?

Not this time.

But our enemies must
be very near indeed.

You've heard reports
from our sentries.

No.

It's the creatures of the sea.

Mira, I can't hear
their thoughts.

They're gone.

I still don't see

How your people
could have fallen

Under the sway of a
creature like ixthultu.

Thanagar was a harsh
world in those days.

Ixthultu gave us agriculture,

Mathematics, philosophy.

The foundations of
our entire culture.

But something changed?

You stopped believing in him.

Yes.

Modern thanagarians bow down

To no higher power.

I sense that we are
very near our goal.

Grundy hates
stupid screaming man.

Grundy knows how he can crush

Lots of screaming men.

Aargh!

Bird nose helps grundy?

But bird nose and her
friends hate grundy.

Grundy help bird nose,

Bird nose help grundy, ok?

Excuse me. Hawkgirl smash.

Everybody ok?

Ok. Fine.

I am unharmed.

Let's get on with this.

For atlantis!

Let me ask you something.

Do you really gain strength

When you call on your gods?

Of course I do.

My beliefs sustain me.

That must be comforting.

There are times when faith
is all we have to rely upon.

I don't know how you can

Bear the weight all alone.

Great hera.

What is that?

The breach between this
dimension and our own.

My spell weakens.

It is only a matter of time

Until it fails altogether.

Then we stop them here.

Not all of us.

You and wonder woman
halt their advance.

The rest of us will take
the battle to ixthultu.

Stay on the path.

Magician, why we stop?

He's here. I feel him.

Where?

I'm not sure.

Everywhere.

Be on your guard.

Speak not until
spoken to, dust molt.

Ok, that was just rude.

Wind molt, who are you?

Shayera hol. Hawkgirl.

You have the stench of
the thanagarians upon you.

Says the giant squid.

Definitely thanagarian.

I will speak to the hawkgirl

Before I destroy her.

You others hold no interest.

Grundy crush pimple man.

Hang on, grundy, I've got him.

Get back, bird nose.

Let me put that out for you.

Speak to me, child of thanagar.

Nothing to say

I've got a gesture for
you, but my hands are tied.

How I've missed
your people's spirit.

We don't miss you.

We outgrew you...
Thousands of years ago.

I gave your people everything.

Why did you forsake me?

Forsake? We threw you out.

The price for your
favors was too high.

My tribute was equitable.

I earned your faith.

Really?

What's a fair
price for the souls

Of my ancestors?

Snake face steals souls?

Give grundy back
his soul, snake face,

Or grundy crush!

You hear grundy?

Give it back!

Where is grundy's
soul, snake face?

Tell grundy!

Tell grundy, or grundy crush!

Uh!

They aren't attacking.

No, they're running.

I think I can seal the
breach with the trident,

But I need something
to plug the hole.

But what's big enough to...

That could work.

Let's find the others.

Oh!

They're... Strong.

Begone!

Aargh!

Grundy must be close for
snake face to fight so hard.

Big ugly monster
thing won't stop grundy.

Oh...

Grundy.

Grundy can't move.

Bird nose get
grundy's soul for him?

Rest. I'll finish
what you started.

You will not do this thing,
shayera hol of thanagar.

Ixthultu still has faith in you.

So do i.

Bird nose?

I'm here.

Ahh...

Grundy thinks he
is going away now.

No. Just hang on.

Do you think grundy's
soul is waiting for him?

Grundy, I don't believe...

Yes, it's waiting for you.

Then grundy gets his reward.

I tried to do this according
to human customs.

You honor his memory.

He was happy at the end.

I still don't understand why.

It's faith, hawkgirl.

You're not supposed
to understand it.

You just have it.