Chapter Summaries

Batman’s Brother Eye satellite was taken over by Grid, which used Batman’s stored intelligence and countermeasures to capture Superman, Flash, and Batman. Diana’s allies gathered to fight back, and Luthor finished creating an AI called Brainiac, but the group still had no clear plan against Grid.

• Yota learned that Grid had seized Brother Eye and used its data to capture Superman, Flash, and Batman.
• Luthor revealed that Grid had originated from Cyborg’s digitized consciousness and finished creating his own AI, Brainiac.
• Diana introduced Joker, Luthor, and Captain Cold, who had each joined the effort because Batman, Superman, or Flash had been captured.
• Yota asked Joker, Luthor, and Green Arrow whether they had a plan, noting that Batman’s countermeasures would not easily stop most Justice League members.

Yota and the Justice League debated how to stop Brother Eye and Grid while avoiding harm to the civilians transformed into robots. Diana ended the argument by insisting that saving the civilians came first.

• Luthor proposed using his Superman-fighting armor and Brainiac’s cover to destroy the Brother Eye satellite, but Joker warned that Grid and numerous converted satellites were the real threat.
• Luthor, Joker, and Green Arrow argued over whether to rescue Superman or Batman first, while Green Arrow cautioned that Kryptonite and Grid made their plans unreliable.
• Yota offered Wanda and Ancient One a chance to leave, but they chose to stay and face the Brother Eye robots.
• Yota considered ways to defeat the robots but held back because they had been transformed from ordinary humans.
• Diana stopped the Justice League’s debate and declared that rescuing the transformed civilians had to come before saving Superman or Batman.

Yota and the others planned how to destroy the Brother Eye satellites, disable its robots, and rescue the captured heroes. Yota volunteered to fight Superman, believing the battle would let him advance his Kryptonian bloodline.

• Yota proposed using Ancient One's portals to strike the Brother Eye satellites and said he could quickly manufacture electromagnetic pulse devices if they had raw materials.
• Luthor offered to lead Yota to the raw material warehouses, while Wonder Woman asked the group to plan for the captured heroes, who were likely controlled by Brother Eye.
• Luthor admitted his armor was not powerful enough to fight Superman, Captain Cold feared Flash's speed, and Joker said he could handle a controlled Batman.
• Wonder Woman assigned herself and Luthor to fight Superman and Captain Cold and Shazam to fight Flash, but Yota volunteered to take on Superman instead.
• Yota told Wonder Woman that his strength had improved during his travels between worlds, and he privately hoped the fight would advance his Kryptonian bloodline.

Yota and the others began their plan to weaken Grid by destroying its satellites and gathering materials for electromagnetic pulse machines. With Luthor producing a prototype, they prepared to launch the next phase against Brother Eye.

• Ancient One opened portals to the satellite coordinates, and Yota raced through them to destroy every Brother Eye satellite.
• Diana praised Yota’s speed, while Luthor confirmed that the satellites were gone and Grid’s surveillance and nanomachines had been weakened.
• Yota asked Luthor for warehouse coordinates, and Ancient One opened portals so Yota could collect more than a hundred thousand tons of materials.
• Luthor built a small electromagnetic pulse machine, and Yota analyzed it before beginning to mass-produce copies.

Yota rapidly manufactured electromagnetic pulse machines to counter Grid, and Ancient One helped the Justice League deploy them worldwide. The pulses freed many people from the Brother Eye robots, while the group prepared to face Grid and its controlled heroes.

• Yota filled Luthor's underground base with electromagnetic pulse machines in a few hours, and Luthor said they could save people around the world.
• Joker and Luthor warned that Grid had likely noticed the missing materials and would protect powerful heroes such as Superman and Flash.
• Yota revealed Kryptonite knuckle dusters called the Deadly Five Rings and said he could use them against Superman.
• Ancient One opened portals around the world, allowing the group to transport and activate the machines quickly.
• The electromagnetic pulses disabled the robots and revealed the humans trapped inside them as Grid struggled to respond to the Justice League's rapid attacks.

Grid used Superman to send the Fortress of Solitude crashing toward Metropolis, hoping to destroy humanity. Yota rushed to intercept it, while Grid withdrew Superman rather than risk its last trump card.

• As Brother Eye nanobots were stripped from cities, Grid decided to destroy humanity and took control of Superman.
• Grid flew Superman to the Fortress of Solitude and used him to shove it toward Earth as a weapon aimed at Metropolis.
• Jor-El recognized that another artificial intelligence controlled Superman, but could not stop Grid through their incompatible technologies.
• Luthor learned that the Fortress of Solitude was falling toward Metropolis and warned that its impact could devastate the city and much of the United States.
• Yota used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach Metropolis and flew toward the falling fortress.
• Grid anticipated that Yota might carry Kryptonite and made Superman turn away rather than risk its last trump card.

Yota saved the space station but failed to find the controlled Superman, who headed for Yellowstone with a nuclear bomb to trigger the supervolcano. Luthor, Joker, and Green Arrow realized the danger, but Yellowstone erupted before they could intervene.

• Yota stopped the falling space station with gravity manipulation and stored it in Dark Space, then searched unsuccessfully for the controlled Superman.
• The controlled Superman flew toward Yellowstone Volcano carrying a B41 nuclear bomb to cause a catastrophic eruption.
• Luthor's Brainiac detected Superman heading toward Wyoming, and Joker deduced that he was going to detonate Yellowstone.
• Luthor tried to open a portal to Yellowstone, but Brainiac reported a massive energy reaction at the volcano.

After Yellowstone Volcano erupted, Yota and the others devised a plan to contain the toxic ejecta and remove it from Earth. They arrived at the devastated site and prepared to act while staying alert for Superman.

• Yota appeared at the underground base and learned that Grid had detonated Yellowstone Volcano.
• Luthor organized a plan for Shazam to create a tornado that would lift the eruption’s solid material, so Yota could gather it and send it out of Earth’s orbit.
• Yota offered to summon rain so Captain Cold could use his freeze gun to help cool the volcano.
• Wonder Woman led the group through a portal opened by Ancient One to Yellowstone, where Luthor handed out anti-radiation medicine.
• The group surveyed the erupting plateau, and Luthor warned everyone to watch out for Superman’s ambush.

Yota used a decoy and a Kryptonite weapon to defeat Brother Eye-controlled Superman while Shazam’s tornado and rain gathered Yellowstone’s volcanic debris. After the other heroes vanished, Luthor and Captain Cold’s upgraded device froze the volcano.

• Yota and Shazam formed a tornado and torrential rain to draw Yellowstone’s volcanic ash and debris into Yota’s Dark Space.
• Brother Eye-controlled Superman struck Yota’s Wood Clone, but the real Yota used a Flying Thunder God seal to ambush him and pull him into the Dark Space with a Kryptonite knuckle-duster.
• The two Flashes vanished, and Yota wondered why Superman had not split into twins.
• Luthor installed Captain Cold’s freeze ray in the giant armor and fired an enhanced beam that froze the volcano.

Yota and the heroes stopped Yellowstone’s eruption, though volcanic ash had already caused catastrophic damage across America. With Superman captured and most controlled heroes rescued, the team prepared to save Flash and destroy Grid while Batman remained in Gotham amid an Arkham prisoner looting spree.

• Captain Cold froze the volcano until it fell silent, and Luthor said Yellowstone would remain quiet for thousands of years despite the deadly ash fallout.
• Yota confirmed that Superman had been captured and said the team still needed to rescue Flash and destroy Grid.
• Luthor offered to restore Superman, but Yota refused, and Wonder Woman backed his decision.
• Wonder Woman said most heroes under Brother Eye’s control had been rescued and revealed that Batman had recovered after an electromagnetic pulse removed his control.
• Joker reported that Batman was still in Gotham, where freed Arkham inmates had begun looting.

Yota absorbed Superman’s Kryptonian cells, greatly enhancing his powers, then flew to Gotham and found the city engulfed in widespread violence. He speculated about why Gotham was so full of criminals as he surveyed the chaos.

• Yota extracted cells from both versions of Superman, merged them back together, and absorbed enough Kryptonian bloodline to raise his own to three-quarters.
• Yota gained stronger flight, senses, and mental processing, and concluded that only Heat Vision and Freeze Breath remained before he resembled a standard Superman.
• Yota lost control of his increased speed and flew across the Pacific before quickly adjusting to his new abilities.
• Yota reached Gotham and saw at least a thousand people looting, burning, and smashing things across the city.
• Yota wondered whether Gotham’s unusually chaotic population came from comic-book schemes or some higher-dimensional influence.

Yota quickly suppressed Gotham’s unrest and delivered Bane and the captured criminals to Blackgate Penitentiary before rejoining Batman. Batman revealed he had a temporary virus for Grid, and Yota deduced that he was buying time to develop another virus against Brainiac and destroy both AIs together.

• Yota created tens of thousands of shadow clones and suppressed Gotham’s unrest in five minutes.
• Yota recognized Bane’s Titan Venom as a fatal stimulant, took him to Blackgate, and left the captured criminals there.
• Batman told Yota that Grid had defeated his backdoor and removed the bombs from the Brother Eye satellite.
• Batman explained that his virus could temporarily disable Grid but that he was reluctant to use it without a perfect opportunity.
• Yota guessed Batman was guarding against Luthor’s Brainiac and planned to develop a virus that could eliminate both Brainiac and Grid.

Yota helped Batman buy time to develop a way to deal with Brother Eye, then dismantled the Justice League headquarters’ hidden weapons and systems so the League could safely use the building. The group gathered to discuss their next problem: Flash, who remained under Brother Eye’s control.

• Yota told Batman he would claim Batman was making a virus to deal with Brother Eye while Batman worked on his backup plan.
• The Justice League dismantled its headquarters’ computer-controlled weapons and defenses because Grid could exploit the systems.
• Yota swiftly stripped the headquarters of its hidden mechanisms and circuits, then patched it up enough to host a meeting.
• Yota told the group that Batman needed time to finish his plan and that their main concern was Flash.

The heroes discussed how to locate Flash while Grid still controlled much of the internet, then Yota revealed that he had removed the nanobots from Clark. Shazam took the unconscious Superman to low Earth orbit to recover under guard.

• Wonder Woman criticized Batman, but Green Arrow urged the heroes to focus on Flash and Grid.
• Yota asked whether they could locate Flash, and Green Arrow explained that Grid had disrupted satellite surveillance.
• Luthor asked about Superman, and Yota revealed Clark's emaciated body after removing the nanobots fused into him.
• Yota explained that Clark would recover in sunlight and ordered Shazam to take him to low Earth orbit and guard him.
• Luthor offered his solar greenhouse, but Yota distrusted him, and Shazam carried Superman into space.

The Justice League failed to find a way to locate Grid and Flash, then learned that Grid was using a growing Antarctic hurricane to threaten Earth’s atmosphere and ozone layer. Yota and the League faced a plan that could trigger mass extinction, while Grid and Flash remained at large.

• The Justice League ended its meeting without a way to find Grid and Flash, and Luthor and Joker left after disguising themselves.
• The League agreed to stay cautious and remain together because Flash, under Brother Eye’s control, could attack them individually.
• Yota reasoned that Grid’s artificial intelligence would struggle to innovate, but he remained concerned about the Flashes’ Speed Force.
• The DEO reported that an Antarctic super hurricane had intensified more than tenfold in half an hour.
• Green Arrow concluded that Grid was using Flash and the storm to disrupt Earth’s atmosphere and expand the Antarctic ozone hole, potentially causing mass extinction.

Yota raced to Antarctica and captured the Brother Eye-controlled Flash, then returned him to Justice League headquarters for the team to free. The storm left behind by Barry's running battered the Antarctic ice before it dissipated, while Yota wondered how quickly the Speed Force could keep growing.

• Yota refused Green Arrow's offer to notify the others and sped alone to Antarctica.
• Yota spotted Barry running inside the Antarctic hurricane and noted how much faster he had become.
• Yota caught Barry and swallowed him in black aura, causing the Speed Force storm to collapse and ravage the Antarctic ice.
• Yota returned to Justice League headquarters and released the restrained Flash, bound in Secondary Adamantium.
• Yota left Flash's robot control intact, trusting Green Arrow and the others to remove it without harming him.

Green Arrow struggled to remove the nano robots controlling Flash, while Yota revealed that another Flash had been captured. In Antarctica, Flash’s disappearance triggered a Speed Force rupture that brought a powerful parallel-world Flash into Grid’s base, where he defeated Grid and set out to find his mother.

• Green Arrow said he needed three or four days to break the nano robots’ control over Flash, and Yota tore away part of Barry’s nano shell and poured hot water over him.
• In an Antarctic cavern, Grid used Flash to charge a treadmill-powered time machine and planned to travel twenty years into the past.
• Flash vanished from the treadmill, causing the gathered Speed Force to explode and open a passage through the Speed Force wall.
• A parallel-world Flash emerged in Grid’s base, phased through Grid’s nano robots, and dismantled the base around him, leaving Grid’s head in his hand.
• Grid’s head exploded, but the Flash deflected the blast and decided to find his mother to learn whether he had changed the ending.
• As the Flash prepared to leave, he heard rumbling from the sky.

Yota met a Flash from another world who had been pulled through the Speed Force, and the two returned to Justice Hall so he could help. There, the visiting Flash saw this world’s Flash restrained after being possessed by Brother Eye nanobots.

• Yota landed and recognized the arriving hero as Barry, but learned that he was a Flash from another world.
• The visiting Flash explained that a Speed Force disturbance had accidentally brought him there, and Yota agreed to let him help.
• Yota and the visiting Flash traveled at high speed to Justice Hall.
• The visiting Flash saw the local Flash strapped to an experimental table and asked whether that was his counterpart.

Yota explained that the rescued Flash came from a parallel world, and the comic-book Flash freed him from Brother Eye’s nanobots using the Speed Force. The group headed to the dining hall, where most of the Justice League and Yota’s companions had gathered.

• Yota told Green Arrow that the comic-book Flash came from a parallel world with its own Justice League and many heroes and villains.
• The comic-book Flash recognized the Brother Eye nanobots controlling the other Barry and offered to help him.
• The comic-book Flash used molecular vibration and the Speed Force to pull Barry free of the nanobots.
• Barry asked how the comic-book Flash had performed the technique, and the Flash began explaining it to him.
• The hungry group went to the dining hall, where they found Diana, Master Gu Yi, Wanda, Pietro, and other Justice League members.

Comic Flash told Wanda and Pietro about their comic-book futures, unsettling them, and Yota warned Wanda that Chthon could eventually take over her body through Chaos Magic. He urged her to use her separation from Chaos Magic in this world to grow strong enough to oppose Chthon.

• Green Arrow explained to Comic Flash that Wanda, Pietro, and Ancient One had come to the world with Yota, and Comic Flash revealed that he knew them from Marvel comics.
• After dinner, Pietro told Wanda that the comics said she would fall in love with a robot, and Wanda silenced him with her magic.
• Wanda asked whether Magneto was her father, and Yota said she could seek a paternity test while warning her that Chthon had made her a vessel for Chaos Magic.
• Yota explained that continued use of Chaos Magic could let Chthon possess Wanda, while stopping its use would not prevent her body from changing.
• Yota urged Wanda to strengthen her natural talent while she was separated from Chaos Magic and hidden from Chthon.