User blog comment:Anomymous Writes/Blue Beetle's Future/@comment-5458789-20120925202030/@comment-1038387-20120925202905

Greg Weisman has already let slip that the 2056 are a result of a "Reach apocalypse". So it's the Partner, but if Jaime has any part in it, we don't know.

It's uncertain if the scarab takes over - he never did in the comics. That was first used in The Brave and the Bold.