Illusion of Control

1 (WHOOSHING) (DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) Young Justice: Outsiders 3x16 Out of Control Hey! Looks like Gardita's in the house! (BOTH CHUCKLE) - Ow! - Why didn't you tell me she was coming? BART: Hey, there, hi, there, ho, there, Gardita. EDUARDO: Hola. Hello, boys. It's so nice to see you again. Garfield Logan, Queen Perdita, meet my girlfriend, Traci. She's a big fan. I'm a big fan. Hello, Traci, lovely to meet you. Hey, Traci. - (SQUEALS) - Ow! Oh, and thanks, you guys, for keeping our arrival quiet. What a relief not to have to deal with the paparazzi. (EXCITEDLY) If you say so. - (GIGGLES) - Yeah, I wouldn't know. BART: Now let's get this party started. Um, this was supposed to be a team building day, right? 'Cause I'm feeling a little like a fifth, sixth, seventh wheel. I mean, so where's the rest of the team? Like, you know, Cassie. Oh, she's in Gotham trying to salvage things with Tim. I gotta get a girlfriend. BOTH (SINGING): A, B, C, D, E, F, G Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full Q, R, S, T, U, V Like a diamond in the sky Baa, baa, black sheep have you any wool? How I wonder what you are - (LIAN GIGGLING) - (APPLAUSE) Nice of Tara and Brion to join us. Yes, but I thought they were going to Taos. Oh, well, Brion said (IMITATING BRION) "It's American Thanksgiving. " "Violet and Tara are the two people I'm most thankful for. " (CHUCKLES) (IN NORMAL VOICE) Since you decided to spend the day with us, so did he. - And Tara? - Well Tara's been through a lot. You know, she doesn't talk much, but she's here. Crash, huh? Yes, very "asterous". Hello, everyone. It's so nice of you to include me. (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) (LAUGHTER) (GROANS) This car moves so slow! Will someone please explain why this is even slightly crash? My friend, sit back, relax, and watch me terrorize the other drivers. Well, now, that does put a new spin on things. Drive on, amigo. Oh, you'll pay for that, peasants! (BOTH GIGGLING) - (THUD) - (GRUNTS) Burn! We got you good! (LAUGHS) - Gotta get a girlfriend. - (LAUGHTER) (DOOR OPENS) (CLICKING TONGUE) Forager has decided that Earth has all the best holidays. Halloween has candy, and Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has everything. (CLICKING TONGUE) Forager asks Victor Stone if holidays here are always crushing that magic. Sorry, Bugg, ask someone else. I'm not crushing anything right now. (DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) (GROANING) Aw, girl, Victor Stone is not crushing anything. Victor Stone is being crushed. Forager must help uncrush Victor Stone. (CLICKING TONGUE) - (LIVELY CHATTER) - What's wrong, Eduardo? It's nothing, Your Highness. No, no, stop that right now. Garfield and I have a rule. There is no "Your Highnesses", or "Your Majesties", or any of that among friends. (BOTH SPEAKING SPANISH) What is wrong, Eduardo? You stare at that girl. You are concerned for her? I failed her. She's a newly minted meta-human, and I was helping her learn to control her powers. - And that didn't go well. - No. She convinced herself that she needed that inhibitor collar. I suppose it gave her the illusion of control. Once she put it on, something inside her just died. And it breaks your heart. Hi, I'm Perdita. (STAMMERING) Oh, I know who you are, Your Majesty. Oh, I'm not anybody's majesty tonight. I love your hair. Your girl, she's pretty great. (BOTH LAUGHING) Believe me, it's been noted. Got you some cotton candy, amigo. You sure about that? Hey, it's a long way from the booth to here, I got hungry. So how's it going with the meta-kids at the center? Mixed bag. Some are really having trouble. I wish I could do more. More? You set this whole party up! Sure, but I wish there was some grand gesture I could make to truly inspire them. GARFIELD: That's the problem with the team. The covert thing gets in the way of the inspiration thing. It's It's just not what I wanted when I came back. The TV star likes the spotlight! Ow! Not cool! It's not about that. It's It's about setting the right example. Offering hope to meta-teens and kids. Could've used some more of that when we went meta. - Exactly. - And that's not all. The game's rigged against us by the Lex Luthors of this world. We need to change (GROANING) Okay. (GROANS) Maybe I did eat too much cotton candy. Dizzy! (ALL GROANING) (GRUNTS) It's Vertigo. That's Count Vertigo to you, peasant. (PERDITA GROANING) (GROANING) No Perdita. My dear niece, I believe it's time for a family reunion. PERDITA: Uncle (GROANS) You cannot win the crown by killing me. You have so little imagination, child. Bring her. Lead the way, boss. (LAUGHS EVILLY) - (GRUNTS) Ow! - Karabast, girl. That was pathetic. (GRUNTS) Perdita! (GRUNTING) (GROANING) Guys, don't get too close, or Vertigo's power will have you feeling the mode. Blue, can't your armor protect you, or compensate or something? (GROANS) BLUE BEETLE: Apparently not. (GROANS) So what What do we do? (BEAST BOY SCREECHES) We follow Beast Boy, keep that whirly bird in sight and wait for our moment. We will get Perdita back safe. (FORAGER SHIVERING) Victor Stone should come into the warm inside. It's just "Vic", okay? You don't have to say my whole name every time! It makes you sound like my dad. Ah, understood. Now, will Vic come enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with Vic's hive? I don't have a hive, Fred! Vic does have a hive with many drones who want to help Vic. Don't you get it? I can't be helped! Oh. (CLICKING TONGUE) Mmm. Caterpillar Vic cannot be helped, but butterfly Vic can. In any case (SHIVERING) Drones must feed, and drones should feed with hive. (CONTINUES SHIVERING) Where drones can be warm. (SIGHS) Look, you like the hive so much, you go feed with it. Victor Stone Go inside! Warm up. No one likes a frozen bug, okay? (SHIVERING) Vic speaks true. BLUE BEETLE: This is so frustrating! We're so close, but we can't get any closer. SCARAB: Scarab can stop the Count Vertigo, Jaime Reyes, by blowing his vehicle out of the sky. Scarab, no! The goal is saving Perdita, not sending her to a fiery death. SCARAB: It helps when you specify such things. It's implied! Scarab wanted to blow it up, didn't he? How'd you guess? You know, I think I can bring it down without injury. That should do it. They'll have to make a controlled landing now. SCARAB: I could've taken out the fuel line with a precision attack. Dude, you are the king of overkill. You never suggest precision. (HELICOPTER ROTOR WHIRRING) They're down, in the pueblo. It was my first time making it. (CHUCKLES) It's good, Artemis. ARTEMIS: Thank you. (CHUCKLES) Could use a little salt. - ARTEMIS: Oh, not on the - (CHOMPING) Well, I must say, my first American Thanksgiving has been lovely. I'm so thankful to have been included. My daughter does set a nice table. Something I'm sure she never learned from me. (CHUCKLES) (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) I had a little help. Or a lot of help, really. I helped Auntie Mouse. Yes, you did, baby girl. I'm not a baby! (LAUGHS AND SIGHS) You must be so proud of Artemis. It's not just the meal, of course. Of course not. It's the degree in Comparative Literature that makes me proud. My daughter will be a college professor. That's wonderful. But I was actually talking about the way she's mentored these young people, brought them onto the team, worked with them as Tigress. You're back with the team? You're Tigress again? Uh Oops. Mom, wait. What are you doing? (SCOFFS) What I've always done! Not always. You left the life behind, then came back to it at a cost that nearly destroyed you. - Don't. - Two years recovering, rebuilding. And now you have a real chance at a normal life. Soon you'll have your master's degree, and then your doctorate. - Which doesn't mean - Look at me, Artemis! Look at your friend Barbara! Is this what you want for yourself? What will it take to convince you? Mom, I am helping people. You don't have to fight crime to help people! You can get out of the life, once and for all. You and Will. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Me and Will? Nothing, he's my brother-in-law. Oh, please, I've seen the way you two look at each other. I wish things were different. But the hard truth is your sister isn't coming back. Even Will knows it. And Lian needs a mother. (ALL PANTING) Lo siento, I can't find them. I've run up and down every walkway, every alley, and every building in this moded place looks exactly like every other. And I mean exactly. I'll get a beetle's eye view. SCARAB: This makes no sense, Jaime Reyes. Gee, you think? Walls don't normally do that. SCARAB: The walls are not involved. It is Jaime Reyes that makes no sense. Why do you hover one meter off the ground? What are you talking about? I'm like a hundred feet up! SCARAB: Your visual input does not match with my site-mapping of this area. Meaning Meaning Vertigo's using illusions to fool us. Ugh! Hello, Megan, I was running in circles. Checking the same building over and over. But Vertigo doesn't have illusion power. So how do we find Perdita if we can't trust what we see? Let's see if we can trust what I smell. Close your eyes and follow the sound of my voice. (SNIFFING) (GROWLING) Sorry, boys and girls, this is as far as you go. (ROARS) - (CLATTERS) - (CHUCKLES) Tickles. (GRUNTING) Ow! What are you made of? (GRUNTS) Sugar and spice and everything nice. (GROWLS) Makes no sense. It's just one guy. Scarab, are we seeing this right? SCARAB: I read one heat signature. (GROWLING) (HIGH-PITCHED TRILLING) (WHIMPERING) (GROWLING CONTINUES) Be careful, my love. This is for the murder of my father! (BOTH GRUNT) (GASPS) (GRUNTS) Baby! (BOTH GRUNT) - She was Devastation! - Well, that explains a lot. Let's go! (GROANING) - Perdita. - I'm all right, really. BLUE BEETLE: Psimon, of course! The illusions, the nausea, all telepathically induced. (KISSING) Are you Come on! I've got to get a girlfriend. Do we follow? Wait, this makes no sense. Psimon and Devastation are both part of Onslaught. They're Queen Bee's enforcers, not Vertigo's. Since when is Queen Bee interested in Vlatava or me? Where's the rest of Onslaught? Oh, I'm so stupid. Wendy and a bunch of the other kids at the center were rescued from Onslaught in Bialya. Then Perdita's kidnapping BEAST BOY: Was just a distraction. (CHUCKLES) (LAUGHTER) Nice of the do-gooders here to collar these kids. Makes 'em easier to control when they wake up. Want to put a meta-human in a box? Huh? Then start with yourselves. Wait, aren't you Holocaust? One of Queen Bee's thralls? Why I'm no slave, ain't no chip on me. Onslaught pays me top dollar. (GRUNTING) (GRUNTING) (GROANS) (GRUNTING) (LAUGHS) (CONTINUES GRUNTING) (GROANING) (GASPS) (HISSING) (STRAINING) Don't wanna know where that would'e landed us. We need to deal with that Father Box so they can't open any more boom tubes. SCARAB: Preparing a precision attack to destroy the Father Box. No! Superboy says Father Boxes are living machines, like you. We're the good guys, we don't kill. SCARAB: There's just no pleasing you. (HISSING) (STRAINING) - EDUARDO: Ha! - (BEEPS) (ROARS) (BOTH GRUNTING) Knew these collars had to be good for something. (YELLS) (GRUNTING) Gas is starting to wear off. (BOTH GROANING) Everyone will be recovering soon. And no way we'll be able to keep the press away now. Maybe you should sneak away. We are supposed to be a covert team, right? - (LAUGHTER) - (WHIMPERS) (CHUCKLES) That is the last bribe you get, puppy. That dog should not be accepting bribes! (DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) Please, leave it to me. You know you can tell me anything. (WHIMPERS) It's Gabrielle. I've accessed more of her memories. She took a bribe from Vertigo's men. I don't think she knew what she was doing, but she's the one that let him into Let who in, dear? The assassin. The meta-human who killed Brion and Tara's parents. (SNIFFLES) It's all her fault. My fault. (CRYING) Now, now, it's not all Gabrielle's fault. In any case, you're not Gabrielle, you're Violet. I'm sure Brion would understand. You can't tell him! Or Tara. They'd never look at me the same way again. All right, it's all right. We'll keep this between ourselves. Just go back inside, return to the table, and try to act normal. I've never been very good at normal. Then they'll hardly notice, will they? Go ahead. I'll be right there. (SNIFFLING) (DOOR CLOSES) (BEEPS) Hello. Yes, it has been a long time, I know. But I need your help. It's not about the limelight. I'm more of a lemonlight person myself. Look, we were here, so we helped. BEAST BOY: The point is, we have meta abilities This is crazy. I mean, against the rules crazy, right? BEAST BOY: better place, a safer place Your guy, he's pretty great. Believe me, it's been noted. If people just give meta-humans a chance, they'll be amazed not just by what we can do, but by what we choose to do. It's crazy. Those hero boys are pretty cool, man. (STAMMERING) Really? Mmm, and not just cool Hot. Well, you know, I'm a, uh A friend of theirs. Sure, you are. (GROANS) You gotta get a girlfriend. (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) (FORAGER EATING NOISILY) (CUTLERY CLATTERING) (FORAGER CONTINUES EATING NOISILY) (FORAGER BURPS)