Soon after he had stepped down from leadership the speedster and the Kryptonian show up. They weren't with Man-Bat Jr. That meant they were missing two team members now. That's great. He had realized that Sandstorm was gone after the zombie situation settled down. He tried to look for his body among the murdered, but couldn't find him. He just figured that he escaped without telling the others. The newly elected leader of the team immediately told Accelerator that she was thinking of sending him with the team to Hell with Amazon, Rhea, and Max. JC personally still believed that it wasn't the best team for the mission, but he decided not to argue it any further. It wasn't his decision anymore. It never really was.

Then came the knock. He immediately became more alert. How were they able to find them already? The communicators. Dammit. He knew they should've destroyed them. Or maybe that wasn't it. Either way this safe house wasn't as safe as everyone had thought. That thought amused him a little bit. Anything to make Simone look bad. No, shut up. That's not you. That's not the type of guy you are. You're not the petty type. He shook the thought from his head and got ready to fight, but then it dawned on him. Their enemy wouldn't knock. Luthor or his lackeys would have used this moment to catch them off guard and kill them instead of knocking.

JC relaxed a bit and even moreso when the voice mentioned Sandstorm and that he was a friend looking for him. Pistolera decided to check and see what he wanted, but not before telling Kid Krypto to turn him into paste if he tried anything funny. He could have sworn that was the thing that we didn't want him to do. He could be wrong, but he was quite sure that he wasn't.

JC decided not to say anything on the matter. He had just guessed that Sandstorm had escaped and left them to fend for themselves, but now it seemed that he might be in trouble. He sat on the couch and waited for them to figure out whatever they were going to do. He started to guess that they just found the home team's mission. So much for keeping a low profile.