Aquaman #39

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Synopsis

Traveling from deep space to the deep sea, Aliena arrives on Earth. The target of her mission... Aquaman! The Sea King is located, traveling outside of Atlantis, with Aqualad and Mera. When Mera playfully upends Aquaman from his mount, Aliena sees an opportunity to sow dissent between the Atlantean KIng and Queen. As Aquaman pulls himself up off the sea floor, Aliena encases him in a hard water bubble, and hurls him into the mountain side. Aquaman, believing Mera responsible for his plight, cries out to his wife to end her prank before he's killed. Seconds before the bubble crashes into the mountain, Aliena physically pulls Aquaman from the bubble. In doing so, she herself is rendered unconscious. In actuality, she's merely feigning injury. Aquaman furiously confronts his wife over her shenanigans. Mera's protestations of innocence fall on deaf ears. Through tears, she departs the King's presence. Aqualad leaves to comfort her. Aliena "recovers", and tells Aquaman her tale. Like Mera, she, too, is from an extra-dimensional water world. An explosion of a substance called "Uritrium" catapulted Aliena into Aquaman's world. A large amount of the Uritrium came through with her, and it's radiation is, even now, beginning to kill her. She enlists Aquaman's aid in burying the Uritrium deep enough underground that she will be shielded from it's effects. To that end, Aquaman summons swordfish, sea turtles and whales to excavate the sea floor, then bury the Uritrium, 200 feet below the sea floor. In gratitude, Aliena kisses Aquaman, then returns to the underwater cave that serves as her base of operations on Earth. There she reports the success of her mission, and receives new orders.... kill Aquaman!Aliena spies Aquaman swimming past an underwater volcano. Dropping strange pellets into the mouth of the volcano causes it to prematurely erupt. Aliena, however, gets tangled up in a mass of underwater flora before she can swim to safety. Aquaman is just about to swim clear of the...