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Negotiator: Reyes, if that energy doesn’t discharge, it will blast this chamber!! We’ll both die! Jaime: ...If that’s what it takes to save the people I love... Okay. Scarab? Khaji Da: COMPUTING Negotiator: I... I can hear it. It’s talking! Khaji Da: AGREE TO STAY. REYES [FRIEND] / SACRIFICE [GOOD]. SCARAB [HERO] Jaime: How do you like that... Negotiator? Khaji Da: DETONATION IN EIGHT SECONDS. DETONATION IN SEVEN / SIX / FIVE-- Booster Gold: [ shows up using time travel ] Lucky for you, time is always on my side. Jaime Reyes: Booster Gold?! Booster Gold: [ grabs Jaime ] Come on, Jaime! Last second!! Literally!! Jaime: [ reaching out ] We can’t leave him! Negotiator! Take my hand!!

Ow. Ow ow ow. They’re not dead. My family is not dead. The scarab was trying to tell me something about them... when they shut it down. So I’m gonna just believe they’re okay. Focus on what I’ve got to work with... a two-ton door made out of unpunchable-ium. Couple of cracked ribs. My shoulder’s wrecked. An open wound between my shoulder blades. No scarab. So no healing ability... ...And no powers. I’m trapped on an alien spaceship, and I have no powers. But I’m the Blue Beetle. And the thing about us Blue Beetles... “We don’t need no stinking powers.”