"Last Rights" is the 34th issue of the official Young Justice spin-off comic series and the six and final of Young Justice: Targets. The "Director's Cut" version includes the bonus short "Yesterday's Children: Memory Six". It was released first digitally on DC Universe Infinite on November 8, 2022 and the print version was released on December 27, 2022.
You've witnessed teams across the globe band together in the name of a shared goal—through twists and turns, friendships and betrayals, they have held steady in their goal to rescue Queen Perdita from the foul conspiracy she has been ensnared in. And now, in our final issue, we ask the question... will they succeed? Find out in this dramatic, action-packed, and heart-wrenching finale!
Perdita Vladek wakes up on the floor of her cell surrounded by Count Vertigo, Queen Bee and Psimon. She sees Arsenal, Halo and Red Arrow standing over the bodies of Arrowette, Miss Martian and Tigress. Bee explains that she placed some of the Team under her thrall and had them kill the others. Perdita blames her uncle, but Vertigo explains that the plan, genius though it was, was not his. He explains how his liberation had merely been a front to cover the real reason for Perdita's abduction, with any one with clues to the truth placed in temporary comas, buying enough time for the Kryptonite Perdita had been carrying to be implanted into Metallo before the ruse was uncovered.
Perdita asks her uncle what he gets out of the plot. His freedom, he explains, and the opportunity to lead an uprising in Vlatava, taking advantage of the Markovian border crisis, starting with the assassination of Queen Perdita by a rogue Meta-human. Bee then orders Halo to kill Perdita, who begins to comply...
Earlier, aboard the Watchtower, Alpha Squad discusses the problem of Queen Bee's powers. Tigress explains that it is a mixture of pheremones and a low level psychic puch. Miss Martian can handle the latter, and Red Arrow explains strong garlic pills can thwart the former. Arrowette concludes they merely need the right tricks to fake their deaths.
Back at the factory, Halo drops the facade of obeying Queen Bee and blasts her, Vertigo and Psimon instead. The "dead" Teammates stand up. Miss Martian and Tigress head off to help Superboy while the others are ordered to take Perdita back to Baby. As Halo opens a boom tube, Perdita worries over Miss Martian and Tigress. Red Arrow assures her she only needs to worry about anyone who gets in their way, as the heroines easily fight their way through the soldiers in the halls.
Elsewhere in the factory, Stargirl is enraged that Shimmer has destroyed her Cosmic Staff and hits her with a high kick. Mammoth becomes distracted by his sister's predicament, allowing Beast Boy to throw him into Devastation, freeing Wonder Girl from her clutches, who then uses her lasso to tie up Devastation and Mammoth. Metallo taunts them as he is about to kill Superboy, while Match lies unconscious next to them, but Miss Martian arrives in time and shatters Metallo's hands telekinetically. She then rips out the Kryptonite from his chest, but Devastation calls out her hypocrisy; M'gann is eager to save her husband, but would leave Metallo to die without the Kryptonite? Miss Martian signals Halo for a boom tube.
At his office at LexCorp HQ, Lex Luthor admits to Otis and Mercy that leaving the Kryptonite with Metallo was a class act on Miss Martian's part, before he suddenly disappears before his minions' eyes. Hovering unseen just above them, Luthor calmly deduces he has been abducted into a glamour-concealed force-bubble by the Justice Leaguers standing before him. Zatanna and Rocket question how he could prove it or who would believe him. Kaldur'ahm then informs Luthor that Perdita is family and is to be off-limits to his and the Light's machinations. Luthor asks, after having faced down Superman, if Kaldur really expects him to be intimidated by children. Kaldur simply says "yes", and a shaken Luthor is returned to his desk.
In the medical bay, Conner recovers in a solar suit and solar pod, as Superman, Miss Martian and Nightwing discuss recent events. M'gann is glad they got everyone out, and with no nasty psychic leftovers from Psimon in Perdita's mind. Nightwing is disappointed they lost the Kryptonite, but M'gann says she and Metallo both made their choices and will have to live with them. Superman is confident they can deal with it, and Conner notes that you can't win them all, but what matters is they got Perdita and Match, the latter recovering in a solar pod next to Conner.
At Royal Memorial Hospital, the coma patients begin to wake up. Denny immediately worries for Perdita, but she is there and reassures him she is okay. Dinah says that deep down they knew she'd be alright, as Will and the rest of the Arrow family affirmed that they'd make sure of it. Perdita thanks everyone, but Garfield reminds her that, even though they have split up, they will always be family.
As Alpha Squad's mission briefing concludes, Tigress thinks that it is imperative they rescue Perdita, especially on that day.
She remembers the time, six years ago exactly, when Perdita called Wally West at their apartment. It was the fourth anniversary of her heart transplant, when Kid Flash had saved her when Count Vertigo tried to stop the procedure from going ahead. Wally tells Perdita that he knows this day brings back bad memories, but that she is the bravest person he knows. He tells her that being brave doesn't mean she can't also be scared, and that she should call him anytime like she just did. He promises to always be there when she needs him, and Artemis kisses him on the cheek.
Wally's funeral was well attended.
Artemis reflects that she loved Wally for making that promise, but it was one he would not be able to keep. She remembers his funeral, attended by all members of the Team, past and present, the Justice League, Wally's parents and others. She was too lost in her own grief to see it then, but she now knows other were just as lost. After the ceremony, Garfield approached a devastated Perdita to assure her it was okay to be upset. Perdita calls herself selfish, to Gar's doubt, and admits that after so many horrible things had happened to her, Wally had become her safety blanket and wasn't sure what to do with him gone. Gar assures her that, though no-one can replace Wally, she is not alone.
At Baby's helm, Tigress reflects that life hadn't been exactly easy for Perdita since then, but that she and the rest had kept Wally's promise for him. Halo reports that Conner will be okay, and Tigress pilots Baby back home. Perdita laments that she has become a damsel in distress, but Gar reminds her she was part of a covert mission to get Kryptonite into safe-keeping, and passes on that he is sure this is the last time she will be targeted by the likes of Lex Luthor. She is safe, he reiterates, as Tigress mentally wishes Wally a happy birthday.
Miss Martian fearlessly protects Superboy against Metallo as she previously did when Lor-Zod attacked Superboy in "Death and Rebirth". She refers to Superboy as her husband, following their marriage in "Death and Rebirth"; and she mentions Superboy's supposed death in "Volatile".
Garfield mentions that he and Perdita are no longer a couple. They broke up in "Kaerb Ym Traeh!".
One of the posters in Artemis and Wally's home shows a plane. This particular plane is a Supermarine Spitfire, a nod to Artemis and Wally's popular fan ship name, coined by the late Kent Nelson in "Denial".
