Charybdis, with his beautiful partner Scylla, explains to Aquaman that his instrumentation drains the powers from Dolphin and Aquaman, augmenting his own powers. The injured Aqualad wakes up long enough to see a person he thinks is Tula, before falling back into unconsciousness. Charybdis explains his plan to poison the Earth to Aquaman, then kills Scylla in a fit of insanity. She wasn't the real Scylla, his old partner, who died when a bomb went off in her hands. Garth wakes up, the woman is there and tells him where Aquaman is, but leaves before he can confirm it is Tula.