Searching for a way back to Earth, and Atlantis, Aquaman continues to find no answers in "The City". Even their leader figure, Brother Warnn, finds Aquaman's request incomprehensible. Aquaman elects to leave "The City", hoping to find some other civilization, one that can help him, in "The Wilderness". The very concept that anything else exists other than "The City", and "The Wilderness", is considered blasphemous to the inhabitants of "The City". Aquaman's female companion warns him against thinking such thoughts, but it is already too late. "The City" guards move in to apprehend Aquaman. The guards' weapons coat Aquaman in enervating bubbles that sap his strength, but the KIng of the Seas is able to scrape the majority of the bubbles off, by swimming through a narrow opening. Taking out