Chapter Summaries

Allen went to Wayne Plaza, where he reunited with Talia and met Diana and the Justice League as they searched for Bruce. An ambush opened a passage to the Dark Multiverse, and the Dark Knights arrived, leaving the heroes facing a new threat.

• Allen stored Azrael Drake in Arkham Fortress, then rode through downtown to collect relief money before heading to Wayne Plaza.
• Damian left after arguing with Talia about his father, and Allen joked with Talia before Diana confronted him over his rumors.
• The Justice League arrived and spotted a battered Bruce in the crowd, but Bruce warned them that the gathering was a trap.
• Assassins attacked the heroes and civilians, while the Midnight Tyrants joined the rescue and the Comedy Troupe fled.
• A Batarang reached Bruce, and Bat-Metal fused with the coordinate host, opening a passage to the Dark Multiverse.
• The Dark Knights emerged from the black lightning, and everyone turned toward Allen after he supplied a dramatic line.

The Justice League fought the Dark Knights while Allen, calling himself Funny Bat, confronted The Joker over Batman’s kidnapping. Allen easily overpowered The Joker and sent him crashing into a landmark building.

• The Dark Knights attacked their Justice League counterparts, forcing the League to retreat from Gotham City while the Midnight Tyrants watched.
• Allen challenged The Joker to hand over Batman, but The Joker said Barbatos had taken him and sent three Joker Robins to attack.
• Allen seized Damian from the Negative Universe, kicked the other Joker Robins away, and ordered Orm to freeze them.
• Allen explained that he had long awaited The Joker’s arrival, then caught both of The Joker’s punches with ease.
• Allen snapped The Joker’s wrists and kicked him into a landmark building, burying him beneath falling stone.

Allen beat The Joker and learned that the Dark Universe passage would let more Dark Batmen arrive as it stabilized. He sent Oliver to the Batcave while he set out to treat the alternate-universe Batmen.

• Allen surprised The Joker with a kick and repeatedly slammed him into the ground while mocking his dark, fear-driven plans.
• The Joker claimed that attacks from a positive-matter universe could not kill him and that he would resurrect in an antimatter universe, but Allen stabbed him repeatedly with the Blade of Redemption.
• The Joker warned that more Dark Batmen would arrive as the Dark Universe passage stabilized, and Allen asked Arthur whether he had developed an antidote to the Joker Virus; Arthur admitted he had not.
• Allen decided to pursue an unspecified plan involving the Joker Virus, then asked Oliver to go to the Batcave and await further instructions.
• Allen departed with the Midnight Tyrants and the Comedy Troupe to treat the alternate-universe Batmen, while Oliver called the other Justice League members.

Allen injected The Joker with an irreversible serum meant to create seven personalities, but the antimatter universe’s influence caused the personalities to turn out female. The group decided to hand The Joker over to the Justice League as a communication arrived from the Batcave.

• Allen ordered Unita to send Plan number one to the Batcave and prepare a laboratory while The Joker remained restrained.
• Allen created the Seven-Day Multitasking Needle and explained that it would make The Joker develop seven personalities over seven days.
• Allen injected the serum into The Joker, who soon awoke with a coy, tearful female personality.
• Allen concluded that The Joker’s antimatter origin had reversed the serum’s intended effects and said the irreversible treatment could not be corrected.
• Allen proposed handing The Joker over to the Justice League, and Unita announced an incoming communication from the Batcave.

Allen arrived in Metropolis in Bat armor while Superman fought the Devastator, and revealed a plan to weaken the Dark Knight with cloud cover and Kryptonite weapons. The chapter left Allen facing the Devastator as he prepared to use his weapons.

• Oliver told Allen that the Dark Knights were taking over hero-protected cities and that Iron Man had received the files; Allen said he would appear soon.
• The Devastator overpowered Superman in Metropolis and nearly killed him with heat vision.
• Allen arrived in Bat armor, distracted the Devastator, and claimed he was there to watch Superman die before defeating his opponent.
• The Devastator struck Allen, but Allen returned unharmed and explained that his Anti-Justice League armor was built to withstand attacks.
• Allen revealed that he had blocked out the sun with weather missiles and displayed a Kryptonite Smoke Bomb and a Kryptonite Grenade, alarming the Devastator.

Allen used decoys, Red Light Drones, and modified Avengers equipment to defeat the Dark Knights threatening Metropolis. With Red Death trapped and the Devastator weakened and imprisoned, Clark regained his strength and took revenge.

• Allen tricked Red Death into catching fake kryptonite weapons, then immobilized him with a slowing smoke bomb and a hardening-fluid grenade.
• Allen activated Red Light Drones across Metropolis, weakening the Devastator, and transferred his armor to Clark so Superman could pursue him.
• Clark caught the weakened Devastator and beat him in a plaza while Allen explained that the armor kept Clark powered by simulated yellow sunlight.
• Allen used a modified Hulkbuster Cage from Tony to build a sealed Red Light Cell around the Devastator.
• The Red Light Drones returned to the sky, restoring Metropolis’s overcast daylight after the Dark Knights were contained.

The Justice League faced Dawnbreaker’s attack on Coast City while Allen entered the darkness and exploited Bruce’s painful memories to take his ring. Allen ended the Darkness Program, leaving Bruce powerless and confronting the grief he had never overcome.

• In Evergreen City, Lex Luthor proposed demonstrating the Ultron project to Amanda Waller and other officials as they watched The Devastator’s attack.
• Superman, Barry, and Allen entered Coast City’s darkness, where ring-created monsters threatened civilians and Allen fled a nurse-shaped construct.
• Dawnbreaker overwhelmed Hal Jordan, and Barry rescued Hal as Dawnbreaker vowed the city’s danger would continue until he was defeated.
• Dawnbreaker followed Allen’s signs into an alley and watched a projection replay his parents’ murder, then unleashed his fury on the surroundings.
• Allen severed the fingers bearing Dawnbreaker’s ring, claimed it, and ended the Darkness Program, leaving Bruce powerless and grieving.

Allen claimed credit for defeating Dawnbreaker, sent the Justice League to fight The Devastator, and took Hal's Green Lantern Ring before heading to Themyscira. He confronted The Merciless as the Amazons faced destruction, but the fight had not yet begun.

• Allen bragged that he had defeated Dawnbreaker and declared himself Sinestro Dawnbreaker.
• Allen told Clark to lead the Justice League to support Cyborg against The Devastator, then borrowed Hal's Green Lantern Ring and donned his Bat Saint Seiya armor.
• The Merciless threatened Diana and the Amazons, while Queen Hippolyta refused to submit.
• Allen arrived on Themyscira and claimed that Dawnbreaker and Hal had given him their rings because they admired him.
• The Merciless prepared to attack Allen, but Allen objected that three against one would be unfair.

Allen joined Diana and Hippolyta on Themyscira, summoned ring-made fighters to battle Merciless Iron Fist, and borrowed Diana’s divine artifacts to take him on. Merciless Iron Fist raised an undead legion from the lava, while Allen prepared to answer with a summoning of his own.

• Allen summoned Little Right with the Sinestro Corps Ring to attack Merciless Iron Fist, then teased Diana about being jealous and called himself her fiancé to Hippolyta.
• Diana retrieved the Sword of Vulcan and the Lasso of Truth, and Allen borrowed both before stepping into the fight.
• Allen summoned Little Left with the Green Lantern Ring and sent her after Merciless Iron Fist while Little Right kept him occupied.
• Merciless Iron Fist split the ground with lava, forcing Allen to dodge and fly out of reach.
• Merciless Iron Fist summoned undead puppets from the lava, and Allen recognized the display as a rival to his own summoning technique.

Allen used summoned angels, darkness, chains, and the Lasso of Truth to defeat the Merciless Iron Hand and remove his War God Helmet. He discovered Bruce beneath it and ended the fight with the Dark Knight incapacitated.

• Allen summoned five light-element angels and empowered them to attack the undead.
• The Merciless Iron Hand drew a war blade from the magma and destroyed Allen's constructs, including Ultraman Tiga.
• Allen covered Themyscira in darkness and used multiplying snakes that transformed into chains to restrain the Merciless Iron Hand.
• Allen lassoed the Merciless Iron Hand's helmet and pulled it off, revealing Bruce beneath it.
• A venomous snake crawled into Bruce's mouth, and Allen declared another Dark Knight defeated before complaining about the helmet's smell.

Allen and Diana traveled to Atlantis, where Brusie Wayne and the Dead Water Legion attacked the city. Brusie overwhelmed Aquaman Arthur and wounded him before Allen and Diana crashed into the palace during their arrival.

• Allen mocked the captured Merciless Iron Fist, and Hippolyta ordered him imprisoned.
• Allen and Diana headed for Atlantis while its residents fled the Dead Water Legion's attack.
• Aquaman Arthur stayed behind to defend Atlantis and sent Mera and their child to safety.
• Brusie Wayne defeated Aquaman Arthur in combat, then injured Atlanna when she tried to intervene.
• Brusie impaled Aquaman Arthur, but Allen and Diana crashed a submersible through the palace wall.
• Allen accused Diana of deliberately ramming the palace to settle an old grudge, and Diana denied it without meeting his eyes.

Allen and Diana used a rocket to drag Brusie out of the ocean, where her powers weakened and her fear of light became a liability. The chapter ended with the three rising above the sea as Brusie began to suffer from the change.

• Allen gave Diana the Green Lantern Ring so she could breathe and move underwater, then confronted Brusie while Aquaman and Atlanna lay wounded.
• Allen identified Brusie by her name and tried to distract her, giving Diana time to bind her with the Lasso of Truth.
• Brusie tried to overpower Diana and break free, but Allen climbed onto Diana's back and created a massive rocket with the Sinestro Corps Ring.
• Allen launched the rocket through the palace roof and toward the ocean surface, while Diana held Brusie with the lasso and shielded them from her water attacks.
• The rocket burst out of the sea with Allen, Diana, and Brusie attached, and Brusie's vision blurred as her body began losing moisture away from the water.

Allen defeated Brusie with a desiccant injection, and the Justice League gathered at the Hall of Justice to plan Bruce’s rescue. Allen proposed asking Barbatos to release Bruce and then suggested parading the captured Dark Knights naked through the streets.

• Brusie tried to attack Allen and Diana in the sky, but Diana’s Green Lantern attack failed to stop her.
• Allen revealed he had secretly flown behind Brusie and injected her with a super-strength desiccant, causing her to lose seawater until she was defeated.
• The Dead Water Legion collapsed into black water after Brusie lost consciousness.
• At the Hall of Justice, the Justice League discussed rescuing Bruce while Allen directed the Midnight Tyrants’ publicity photos.
• Allen suggested asking Barbatos to hand Bruce over, then proposed stripping the captured Dark Knights and parading them through the streets.

Allen confronted Barbatos, who threatened to invade with armies from the Dark Multiverse, and revealed twelve Infinity Gems to force him to back down. Barbatos released Bruce and vanished, leaving the Dark Knights abandoned.

• Doctor Fate sensed a dark aura as Barbatos arrived through a black hole and revealed that Bruce was a spatial coordinate for further invasions.
• Allen offered to join Barbatos, then claimed he had a trump card and displayed six Infinity Gems on each of his armored hands.
• Barbatos recognized the gems and, after Allen described the additional six, agreed to release Bruce.
• Bruce fell from the black hole, weakened from sustaining the spatial passage, and Allen noted that Serpent's Blood could restore him.
• Barbatos vanished as the black hole closed, abandoning the Dark Knights.

After helping the Justice League survive the Dark Knights’ invasion, Allen pretended to wield twelve Infinity Gems and forced the heroes to kneel with outrageous threats. The ruse ended when he revealed the “gems” were Skittles, and Diana began choking him in anger.

• Allen rejected Bruce’s thanks and demanded tens of billions as a token of appreciation.
• Allen threatened to alter the universe with the Infinity Gems, claimed he had made humanity unable to reproduce, and forced the Justice League to kneel.
• Allen ordered Diana to massage his shoulders and threatened to make the entire Amazon Tribe pregnant, so Diana reluctantly obeyed.
• Allen admitted the Infinity Gems were Skittles and that he had fooled Barbatos, enraging the Justice League.
• Diana grabbed Allen by the neck and shook him until the Skittles flew from his mouth.

Allen searched Seattle for the Merciless Knight, repurposed the War God Helmet as Nanaue’s crown, and then traveled through time after the system assigned him the Mage profession and Kamar-Taj timeline. He encountered Gabriel in a dilapidated temple and recognized her as soon as she arrived.

• Allen rode through Seattle with Oliver, admitted he had no idea whether the Merciless Knight was there, and returned to the hotel.
• Allen tried to give Nanaue the War God Helmet, but it was too small and nearly suffocated him, so Allen secured it as a crown.
• The system assigned Allen the Mage profession and selected the Kamar-Taj timeline for his next time travel.
• Gabriel found shelter in a dilapidated temple, where Allen greeted her while pretending to be a god.
• Allen recognized Gabriel and asked why she had left the West to cause trouble in the East.

In 1524, Allen traveled with Yao to Kamar-Taj, where he planned to become the Sorcerer Supreme despite Yao’s modest goal of learning magic and returning to her village. After Allen turned a crowd against Agatha Harkness with a fake sob story, a mage intervened and found Agatha covered in cow dung.

• Allen learned that Yao was heading to Kamar-Taj to study magic and declared that he would take the Sorcerer Supreme title from her.
• Yao and Allen set out for Kamar-Taj, where many young people had gathered to seek instruction from Agamotto.
• Allen made Yao carry him through the city, then pretended to be crippled after a purple-haired girl mocked them.
• Yao played along with Allen’s act, prompting the crowd to pity him and turn on the girl, Agatha Harkness, as a witch.
• A middle-aged mage stopped the crowd and checked on Agatha, who said she wanted to bathe after people smeared cow dung on her.

At Kamar-Taj, candidates took a test to trigger a reaction with Mystic Rings, while Allen teased the Ancient One and provoked Agatha. Allen and Agatha agreed to a bet over who could make the more complete portal, but the test had not yet reached their group.

• An elderly sorcerer explained that candidates had to use Mystic Rings to trigger a magical reaction and demonstrated how to open a portal.
• A village boy opened a portal during the first group’s test, while only two other candidates produced sparks and the rest failed.
• The Ancient One joined the second group and managed only to trace sparks as another candidate succeeded.
• Allen challenged Agatha to a contest, betting that the loser would become the winner’s mount.
• Allen acted out several ridiculous mount poses until Agatha tentatively asked to cancel the bet, but he reignited her anger by calling her Cow Dung Girl.

Allen concealed his portal spell behind Agatha’s, then revealed extraordinary magical talent and won their bet, making Agatha his mount. At Kamar-Taj, he ignored training but further astonished a supervising sorcerer by opening portals without a Mystic Ring or gestures.

• Agatha completed a portal spell while Allen appeared to have failed, and she mocked him for lacking sorcerous potential.
• Allen revealed that his portal had covered Agatha’s, moved it aside, and opened another portal with barely any effort.
• Allen reminded Agatha of their bet and rode on her back after she lost.
• Kamar-Taj began training its new apprentices to master five spells within a month, while Allen sat apart and refused to practice.
• Allen leaped onto Agatha to go to the cafeteria and opened a portal without using a Mystic Ring or hand gestures, prompting the supervising sorcerer to recognize his immense talent.

Allen decided to forge his own magic artifact, then went to Kamar-Taj’s library to find out how. After learning the Knowledge Spell at a glance, he began making the artifact while a crowd of skeptical mages watched.

• At lunch, Allen teased Agatha over her food and asked her for advice on choosing a magic artifact; Agatha recommended a ranged weapon, while Allen said he would forge his own.
• Agatha mocked Allen’s plan, but refused to bet with him after his earlier tricks; The Ancient One also declined to bet.
• At magic artifact class, Allen chose a pair of Mage Fans for The Ancient One, and the white-haired mage demonstrated that they could transform into weapons and shields.
• Allen went to the library and asked an old mage for a spell that would let him read magical writing; after seeing the Knowledge Spell once, Allen learned it immediately.
• Allen skimmed books on Inscriptions and began forging a magic artifact as skeptical mages gathered in astral form to watch.