When Kaldur was able to be on his feet, the League called him into a meeting. Aquaman told him to let him do the talking for him but Kaldur refused. He was going to tell them his story in his own words. He was raised to speak for himself unless he is physically unable to, as far as he was concerned, he was alive and able to speak. He walked with a slight limp into the meeting room and carefully took a seat in the chair facing the League. He kept his face stern yet soft by pure instinct. From where this instinct came from he had no idea, but he was going to try and figure that out later.

"How are you feeling Kaldur?" Wonder Woman asked.

"I am still in pain but I will survive," Kaldur admitted honestly.

"How long will you remain in recover?" Green Arrow asked.

"Only 2 more weeks. How are you Green Arrow? I am truly sorry if I harmed you," Kaldur said as his face turned seldom when he remembered attacking the League.

"Kaldur, we are fine. You are the one who actually took real bullets. We knocked the chill off after a few minutes. Don't worry about," Flash explained.

Kaldur nodded respectfully.

"Now, let us get to business. Can you explain to us what happened the night you stole classified files from our computers?" Batman asked as he looked up at Kaldur and turned on the recorder.

"It started after our mission in Belgium. It was a protection case where we had to watch over the American Embrassorbord since he received several death threats. We were able to find the threat as it was handled by the proper authorizes. I was able to do the mission report on the flight back to the Cave before I returned back to my apartment. I went to check on Mrs. Jackson since her husband was away on business. She and her husband live on the floor below me," Kaldur started to explain.

"Why did you go check on Mrs. Jackson?" Batman asked.

"She recently had surgery on her leg. Mr. Jackson told me to make sure that she was doing alright," Kaldur explained.

"Continue," Batman ordered.

"I walked upstairs after I helped Mrs. Jackson with her dishes and laundry. When I walked in, I saw Black Manta in my apartment. I shut the door and we spoke of what he wanted. He told me that if I did not steal the personal files from the WatchTower, he was going to kill the newborn prince. My only goal was to make sure that my queen, my king, Orm, and the child were safe. I agreed to his terms as long as the child was safe," Kaldur continued.

"Why did you believe him?" Canary asked.

Kaldur froze instantly. His hand instantly went to his pocket. Arthur placed a comforting hand on his shoulder and squeezed it firmly. Kaldur placed his free hand on top of his and patted it lightly. He pulled out an amulet from his pocket and opened it slowly. A small holographic picture of a young women in a dress.

"This was-is my biological mother, Kalina. She was an amazing mother. All she wanted was the best for me. Manta killed her when I was only 6 years old. He slaughter her like a pig and I watched it happened. When he said that he would kill the child, I would have been a fool not to believe him," Kaldur explained as he kept his eyes on the hologram.

"Continue Kaldur," Superman said slightly sympathetic.

"Orm called me and told me that Queen Mera was going into labor. From there, I went to Atlantis for the birth of Prince Julian. I-I slipped a sleeping potion into Queen Mera's water so she could fall asleep. I did not want her to see me taking her child, for if she did, she might of called for the guards or try to fight me off herself. I am capable of hurting people even though I do not want to. But I could never in a thousand years willingly hurt my Queen. At that point I had to get the Prince out of Atlantis. I went to the one person who I could trust with the rest of my plan," Kaldur explained.

"Roy," Green Arrow said.

"Yes. Since Red Arrow went solo, no one has ever really gone after him. He was the only person that Manta would not even think to go looking for to find the child. From there I dropped the child off and then went to the WatchTower. After I took the information, I went to Robin for assistance. I asked him to put a virus and a tracking program into a different flash drive so I could switch it from the drive that contained the information that I had stolen," Kaldur explained.

"What I don't get is how you did the switch. From what I understand is that the basket was with Roy and you were in a different state. How did you do it?" Flash asked in confusion.

"Simple. The drive never left Star City." Kaldur said.

The League was looking more confused along with Aquaman.

"Can you elaborate more?" Manhunter asked.

"I had to return to Star City in order to leave the drive on the console of the zeta beam so he could place it inside of the basket," Kaldur explained.

"Okay. What happened after you went to met with Manta?" Hawkgirl asked.

"I didn't go directly go to Manta after that, I went to a-a mutual friend for a favor," Kaldur said as he chose his words carefully.

"Who is this mutual friend?" Batman asked.

Kaldur pondered the question for a moment. After he figure out what to say, he remembered something.

"What time is it?" Kaldur asked strangely.

"I beg your pardon?" Batman asked confused.

"What time is it?" Kaldur repeated.

"Around 8. Why?" Canary asked.

"Wait for it," Kaldur said as he placed his phone on the table.

Not even 4 seconds passed when the phone began to ring. Kaldur picked it up and put it on speaker.

"Yes ?" Kaldur said with a tiny smile on his face.

"Good to see that you're alive Kaldur. How long are you off duty?" Amanda Waller asked.

"Only 2 more weeks Ms. Waller. I going to assume that your portion of the plan has worked out perfectly,'" Kaldur said with a small smirk forming.

"Just like you said. Both Manta and Luthor are in prison. You need to thank the boy genius on your team. If the drive program didn't work, we would have never found out about his illegal arms dealing. We have also arrested several other major players in the arms dealing game. Congrats Kaldur," Amanda explained.

"A congratulations is also in order for you as well. Now, as for the final part of your end of the deal," Kaldur said as he started to lightly wring his hands.

"Black Manta aka David aka Daniel'arhm will also be charged with the murder of Kalina'arhm and the attempted murder you Kaldur. Just like we promised," Amanda said.

"Thank you Ms. Waller," Kaldur said in relief.

"No Kaldur, thank you. We are even now,yes?" Amanda asked.

"Absolutely," Kaldur said.

"Until next time Kaldur," Amanda said.

"Until then," Kaldur said as he hung up the phone. "Going back to your question, Amanda Waller was my next stop. She owed me a favor or two and I figured, kill two birds with one stone as they say," Kaldur explained, now talking to the League.

"You asked Amanda to help with the legal side of arresting Manta and whoever bought the flash drive," Batman said.

"From there she was also able to arrest everyone that Manta dealt with in his illegal arms dealing." Superman said.

"Yes, then from there, I went to meet with Manta and pretended to have no knowledge of what happened to the child. When I left, I called Zatanna for a favor. She was able to make a fake child and I was able to place him on Lex Luthor's door step. From there I met Manta for the final time and that is when the League and my Team arrived and the rest is history," Kaldur explained.

"Kaldur, we understand on why you did what you did, but if you had to do it over again, then would you?" Black Canary asked.

"If I had to do this all over again then the only thing I would change is getting shot at," Kaldur said with a small chuckle which caused him to cough violently.

"We are serious Kaldur. Would you?" Batman said.

"When my mother passed, I kept asking myself these question: could I have stopped it, why did this happened to me or how could this have happened. The one question I never allowed myself to ask was, would I go back in time and change it. The answer I came up with was, maybe all of this had to happen. Maybe my mother had to marry David. Maybe he had to abuse me and my mother. Maybe my mother had to die that night. Maybe I had to suffer all of my trials and tribulations during my time at the palace. Maybe I had to become the Aqualad. Maybe I had to go through all of this in order to be where I am today. So would I change what I did, no. I realized that life is too short to regret things or wanting to change the past. My mother told me before her passing to never become him. I am going to keep that promise," Kaldur explained as he looked at the holographic image of his mother.

"Kaldur we appreciate your honesty. Now, since you did return the files to us unused and unharmed your punishment will not be as sever. But at the same time, you did take the drive and attack us," Wonder Woman explained.

"We will be discussing your punishment later on today," Batman said.

"You are dismissed Kaldur," Black Canary said.

Kaldur closed his amulet and placed it safely in his pocket. As he slowly and carefully got up from his chair, Hawkgirl stopped him.

"Kaldur, I am truly sorry for the loss of your mother," Hawkgirl said sadly.

"Thank you," Kaldur said.

"She would be proud of you. I know he is," She continued as she motioned with her head to Aquaman.

"Thank you," Kaldur said as he stood and made his way to the door.

The League debated about how they were going to punish Kaldur.

"We need to suspend Kaldur permittently," Green Lantern said.

"I get where you're coming from but think about the reason on why he did it," Hawkgirl said.

"What if his plan went wrong? What if someone got hurt?" Superman asked.

"Someone did get hurt. It was Kaldur," Aquaman said.

"Kaldur is a good warrior and a good leader. We need to cut him a break and give him suspension until the doctor gives him a clean bill of health," Black Canary said.

"What if he does this again?" Wonder Woman asked.

"I read Kaldur's mind during this meeting. I saw that Kaldur regretted what he did, but his heart was in the right place. He did not mean to cause any harm to anyone. We need not only to think of what this is going to do to him. But at the same time we need to think of what this is going to do to Atlantis and the world," Manhunter explained.

"His actions could have affected the world and Atlantis in a negative way," Green Arrow said.

"I understand that. But Kaldur's intention have to play a role in this decision," Batman said.

"Kaldur has never done anything without a good reason for it. Because of his actions, I now have one son that"s healthy and alive and another son that is recovering," Aquaman said.

"We need to vote," Flash said.

"Alright, let's get Kaldur and his team in here for the vote," Batman ordered.

The Team was called into the room and waited to hear the verdict.

"We have come to these votes. Please remain silent until the voting is done. The question is, should we terminate Kaldur's role as Aqualad or not. Wonderwoman?" Batman said.

"Yes."

"Hawkgirl?"

"No."

"Green Lantern, John Stewart?"

"Yes."

"Green Arrow?"

"Yes."

"Black Canary?"

"No."

"Superman?"

"No."

"Martian Manhunter?"

"No."

"Flash?"

"No."

"Red Tornado?"

"Yes."

"Zatanna?"

"We get a vote?" Robin asked.

"Yes. Zatanna we need an answer." Batman said.

"No."

"Kid Flash?"

"No."

"Miss Martian?"

"No."

"Superboy?"

"No."

"Artemis?"

"No."

"Aquaman?"

"No."

"And I vote no. The vote concludes, 4 votes yes and 11 votes no. Congratulation Kaldur, you can remain Aqualad after you finish your recovery," Batman said with a tiny smile.

The team cheered happily as Kaldur took a sigh of relief.

"This meeting has concluded. You are all dismissed and thank you for voting," Superman said as he ended the meeting.

The Team said that they wanted to take Kaldur out for ice cream since Wally wanted some but Kaldur declined since he had to deal with another matter.