It doesn't matter if this crime I'm participating in is only a small one, a temporary one. It is still a crime against human rights, against free will. Somehow I feel as if I've lost the war right here and now - that by selling out my principles I've rendered our fight meaningless. 
Appearing in "Betrayal"
Featured Characters:
- Squadron Supreme (Main story and flashback)
- Lamprey (Donald McGuiggin)
- Blue Eagle (James Dore Jr.) (Main story and flashback)
- Redstone (Main story and flashback)
- Shape (Raleigh Lund)
- Moonglow (Melissa Hanover) (Main story and flashback)
- Dr. Spectrum (Joe Ledger) (Main story and flashback)
- Haywire (Harold Danforth) (Main story and flashback)
- Inertia (Edith Freiberg) (Main story and flashback)
- Foxfire (Olivia Underwood)
- Whizzer (Stanley Stewart) (Main story and flashback)
- Hyperion (Main story and flashback)
- Power Princess (Zarda) (Main story and flashback)
- Ape X (Xina)
- Thermite (Sam Yurimoto) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Redeemers (Main story and flashback)
- Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (Main story and flashback)
- Black Archer (Wyatt MacDonald) (Main story and flashback)
- Mink (Main story and flashback)
- Remnant (Main story and flashback)
- Pinball (Main story and flashback)
- Master Menace (Emil Burbank) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
Mr. Schwartz
Locations:
- Great American Desert
- Squadron City
- Master Terminal Room
- Master Menace's Observatory
- New Troy State
- Richmond Manor
- Hibernacle
Items:
Vehicles:
- Squadron City Shuttle
Synopsis for "Betrayal"
The Squadron and their new recruits train in the desert outside of Squadron City, and Moonglow secretly uses her illusory powers to win. Whizzer then tells them there'll be a public address later that day.
In their office Power Princess confides in Hyperion that she thinks the Utopia Program has cost them a lot so far - four of the Squadron have died since its inception, and four have left their ranks - but Hyperion reassures her that they're doing the right thing.
Later, the five new recruits are sworn in to the Squadron, all feeling bad about lying as they are actually double agents for the Redeemers.
Notes
More drawbacks of the Squadron's Behavior Modification programme are revealed, as Ape X discovers that Moonglow has hacked into the Squadron's memory banks and sent plans of the Behavior Modification Device to Master Menace. As Moonglow is a Squadron member, the behavior-modified Ape X cannot inform on her, and the resulting mental conflict renders Ape X catatonic.
Nighthawk compromises his own principles to behavior-modify Blue Eagle so that he forgets about coming across the Redeemers' plotting.