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To say that things have been awkward in the Justice League since that thing they never talk about, would be a pretty severe understatement. Dinah is by now convinced that even Aquaman must have noticed how much she's very studiously avoiding any sort of eye contact with Green L- with Hal, and as for Flash and J'Onn - well. There's a reason she's

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All eyes turn to Snapper.

"In where?" Flash asks.

"In the Headquarters! In J'Onn's room! A spy!"

Words can't express how glad Hal is to hear it. Anything to break up all the clumsy pauses and long silences and.... You know, Hal really doesn't do well with 'human resources' stuff, the times when everyone isn't getting along. He keeps telling Carol--. No, never mind.

He hopes whoever it is, they brought a robot army with them.

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"A..."

Dinah's cry of disbelief sticks in her throat as Snapper presses the viewer he's carrying into her hands.

"Good Lord, I know him."

That's not just a spy. That's Mike. A Gotham cop who'd become a regular at the florist shop. The one person in her non-Milliways, non-Justice League life that she could consider a friend. She'd confided in him; about ill advised make outs with friends, about her growing crush on another friend. About her life.

She barely notices when Flash takes it out of her hands.

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The Flash knows the intruder too, but GL could have sworn he said a different name. But it gets a whole lot stranger when he gets a look at the display himself and sees: "Lora Denton! She claimed to be an F.A.A. investigator!"

He hands the camera over in turn. "How about you, Aquaman? Friend of yours?"

Aquaman takes the camera, and the look he gives the display is even more stony faced than usual. "Someone I trusted. Someone we all trusted."

And when he tells them who it really is, GL can hardly believe his ears.

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Dinah doesn't even hear the name Aquaman says; his projection is a hundred times better than it was a year ago when he wasn't used to talking in air, but he's apparently lapsing back into natural instincts, or Dinah's ears blocked out the name before he brain could process it.

Instead she looks at the viewer, at the image of the man in J'Onn's room, who had looked like Mike, or three other people known to Flash, Aquaman or Lantern.

Now, watching the image change again, she realises there's only one person who could look like all three. Who's always looked like all three. And even as she looks, brown skin turns to green and her stomach freezes and turns with the sickening of betrayal.

J'Onn.

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It all happens before anyone can get a grip on themselves. Hal, of course, leads the way, unleashing a house-sized construct in the form of a ram that smashes through the wall into J'Onn's quarters. But as everyone rushes in, and J'Onn--for once caught off-guard--stumbles back in surprise, Flash lives up to his name and dashes between the Martian and his team mates.

"Stop. Everyone stay calm. I'd like to think J'Onn has a reasonable... explanation"

His voice trails off as he turns to see what's left the rest of them staring, open-mouthed, at the far wall of J'Onn's room: a display of nearly every hero--not villain, every hero--they know. And files. Files on each of them, and many, many others.

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Dinah. Hal. Flash. Aquaman.

For a second, all Dinah can do is stare. The Metal Men. Superman. Green Arrow.
Ted. Charlie. Bruce.
Her mother.

"How could you?" Dinah turns on J'Onn, her voice barely in check. She'd told Mike about Hal. About Flash. She'd trusted him. "You violated me! You violated us all!"

Suddenly all she can remember is J'Onn groping blindly, calling her Dinah. She'd been scared at the time, but how could she miss that?

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"This is my fault," Hal says.

Flash asks him why, but whatever answer GL is ready to offer gets drowned out by--of all people--a furious Aquaman.

"We took you at your word that you were as you seem to be. Obviously, that was a mistake. How deep is your deception? We've been looking for a missing Appellaxian...."

Aquaman's voice drops, with a tone of pure menace: "Maybe it's you."

"It isn't," J'Onn protests. "Please... trust me.

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Dinah wants to trust him; they all do, she's sure. But standing in front of a wall with detailed information of all her friends, family and colleagues, she understands why Snapper Carr... well, snaps.

"No! Why should we? Why should we believe anything you say?"

The outburst from the boy is apparently too much for J'Onn, who takes off, flying upwards.

"He's running!" Dinah shouts.

Then he does have something to hide.

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Hal's been a space cop too long not to see that coming. A cage construct starts to surround J'Onn.

"Forget it, alien! You're not going anywhere!"

But before Hal can get the cage fully around him--nothing. The Martian disappears, right in front of them.

Aquaman shouts that J'Onn's gone invisible, and Flash yells to everyone to spread out and cover the exits. But before even he has a chance to move, a huge hole is punched right through the rocky ceiling. Everyone stumbles back to avoid falling rubble, except Hal, who uses his Ring to deflect a heavy stone and flies up through the hole.

"I'll try to track him. But I don't know what luck I'll have."

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"Yeah."

Only Flash has it in him to say anything, as the remaining four, none of whom can fly, watch Green Lantern head up after the treacherous Martian Manhunter. There doesn't seem to be anything they can do.

Flash lowers his eyeline, to the globe of Mars J'Onn always kept in his quarters.

"Yeah."

In a blur of red, he pushes the globe across the room, sending it smashing against the wall in a shower of red.

Dinah watches it, trying not to think too hard about how the League seems shattered.