before he can be taken into custody, however, the riddler escapes back into the lab. he reactivates the teleporter and prepares to use the vortex's power as a superweapon to destroy gotham, but is knocked out by the question. the vortex grows out of control, but at the same time a human shape begins to manifest in it. working together, mystery inc. and the super heroes reverse the device's polarity, allowing batman and scooby to drag the figure free of the vortex before the machine self-destructs. the figure is revealed to be leo scarlett, who was not disintegrated by the vortex but instead caught in an interdimensional void, and is now happily reunited with his father.