Due to severe injuries suffered during an explosion, Aquaman is rushed to a local hospital. While en route, Mera reflects on the past events that have brought them to this point. The Atlantean royal family had been enveloped in a mysterious whirlpool. Mera found herself cut off from her family. In shot order, Mera was abducted by Atlantean thieves, long ago exiled from the underwater city. Though she cried out to her husband for rescue, Aquaman was laid low, by a blow from one of her abductors. Mera's captors released her to a group of surface men, who took the Queen of Atlantis onboard their submarine. To Mera's astonishment, Narkran, the leader of Atlantis in the Royal family's absence, was revealed to have aided in her abduction. The long submarine journey to the surface left Mera in a