Chapter Summaries

Martian Hunter stole Thor's crown and Loki's Scepter for Batman, leaving him with five Infinity Stones and only the Soul Stone remaining. Marvel's Command Center lost access to reliable intelligence and could not search for the last stone, while Mephisto hinted to Natasha that he had a plan to help.

• Helen chased after Loki, leaving Asgard Palace undefended as Martian Hunter impersonated Party Thor and stole Loki's Scepter and Thor's crown.
• Batman gained five Infinity Stones, while Marvel's Command Center learned that the Sanctum Sanctorum's false intelligence had led the Mutants into a trap and abandoned it as an intelligence source.
• With the Avengers, Mutants, and mages occupied, Marvel's forces could not search for the final Infinity Stone, and the Command Center recognized how Batman had built on each advantage.
• The Command Center considered using the Supermen held by Charles as hostages and pressured neutral parties to join the fight.
• Mephisto told Natasha he had been waiting for the right moment to help and said he had an idea.

Owlman grew resentful of Main Universe Batman’s success and, after Bruce insulted him on Batman’s behalf, secretly agreed with Mephisto to undermine the war effort. He returned to the base and asked Main Universe Batman to include him in the next combat mission.

• Owlman blamed Main Universe Batman for making him look useless and endured Batwoman’s mockery at the base.
• Owlman visited the construction site, where his constant criticism irritated the Wonder Women and The Flash.
• Bruce told Owlman that Main Universe Batman had warned him to stay out of the way, though Bruce had twisted Batman’s reassuring message into an insult.
• Owlman summoned Mephisto and agreed that a defeat would damage Main Universe Batman’s reputation, then resolved to prevent Batman from taking all the glory of victory.
• Owlman overheard a meeting about obtaining the final Infinity Stone but learned nothing about the Soul Stone’s location.
• Owlman stopped Main Universe Batman after the meeting and asked to join the next combat mission.

Owlman persuaded Main Universe Batman to let him lead a mission using false coordinates as bait, while Arkham Batman prepared to rescue the captured Supermen. Arkham Batman’s team reached Dream Power Doctor Strange, who proposed a dream-world contest to decide the captives’ fate and the Soul Stone’s whereabouts.

• Owlman secured permission to lead a combat squad to search for the Soul Stone, unaware that Main Universe Batman had given him fake coordinates to draw out their enemies.
• Main Universe Batman told Arkham Batman to lead a rescue mission for the trapped Supermen and assigned Joker Jack to help him.
• Arkham Batman, Schiller, Constantine, and Jack traveled through the Dreamscape Dimension, where Schiller warned that Dream Power Doctor Strange had joined Professor X.
• Dream Power Doctor Strange proposed that both sides rescue teammates from nightmare scenarios, with the winners deciding the captives’ release and the Soul Stone’s location.
• Arkham Batman accepted the contest after Jack asked what the opposing side would demand if they won.

Schiller, Arkham Batman, Jack, and Constantine entered Magneto’s World War II nightmare and tried to take young Erik away before Doctor Strange and Charles could reach him. Erik trusted Charles instead, and his uncontrolled powers let Doctor Strange escape with him, putting Schiller’s team behind 0:1.

• Schiller recognized the nightmare as young Erik’s World War II past and explained that his family had been killed.
• Arkham Batman, Jack, Schiller, and Constantine entered the bakery after gunshots, where Erik’s power erupted and destroyed it.
• Schiller and Constantine pretended to be Erik’s father’s American friends and tried to persuade Erik to leave with them.
• Doctor Strange and Charles arrived, and Erik noticed their period-appropriate clothes and was drawn to Charles.
• Arkham Batman and Jack blocked the doorway, but Erik’s outburst collapsed the bakery and Doctor Strange escaped with him, making the score 0:1.

Schiller and Jack exploited the unavoidable deaths of Bruce Wayne’s parents to turn young Bruce against Dream Power Doctor Strange and Charles, bringing their side’s score to 1:1. Arkham Batman reflected on his childhood and the people responsible for his parents’ deaths before the group entered a dream set in Gotham’s Slums.

• Schiller reasoned that the Waynes’ deaths could not be prevented and that disrupting their final movie outing would only make young Bruce distrust the rescuers.
• Schiller and Jack waited in the alley behind the theater while Dream Power Doctor Strange and Charles interfered with the Waynes, prompting Bruce to run outside and his parents to follow him into Crime Alley.
• After Mr. and Mrs. Wayne were shot, Schiller guided Bruce into accusing Doctor Strange and Charles, who fled from the police.
• Schiller drove Bruce and Alfred to Wayne Manor, ending the dream and tying the score at 1:1.
• Arkham Batman said his fear and anger toward his parents had contributed to his running off, but blamed the person who had deliberately targeted his family.
• The group entered another dream in Gotham’s Slums.

Arkham Batman’s group watched a dream of Little Jack killing Doctor Strange and being taken away by Schiller, while Charles and Erik realized the child had deceived them. The scene ended with Jack explaining his disgust at being splashed by vomit, and a new dream began with a car crash.

• Arkham Batman, Schiller, and Constantine followed Little Jack after finding a drug-addicted man dead in a house.
• Doctor Strange and Charles approached Little Jack, and Little Jack stabbed Doctor Strange through the heart with an Iron Spike.
• Schiller ordered Little Jack to come with him, while Erik and Charles examined Doctor Strange’s body and realized Little Jack had planned the murder.
• Arkham Batman explained that the dead man was not Little Jack’s father and that Gotham’s children were not harmless, while Constantine joked about Gotham’s drug-resistant residents.
• Jack said the scene had been humiliating because the man’s vomit had splashed all over him, and the next dream opened with a car flipping through the air.

Arkham Batman, Schiller, and their allies rescued Doctor Strange from a catastrophic car crash, but they could not heal his shattered hands. Schiller concluded that Strange’s survival and recovery had depended on hidden interference, and suspected the person behind the accident had also saved him.

• Arkham Batman and Schiller raced Erik and Charles to rescue Doctor Strange from a crushed car after a severe collision.
• Erik used his powers to unfold the car, and Charles helped carry Doctor Strange to a hospital after Arkham Batman and Constantine failed to treat his shattered hands.
• Schiller reasoned that Strange’s survival, the airbag’s delayed deployment, and his later journey into the Himalayas involved too many coincidences to be natural.
• Schiller concluded that the person who orchestrated the accident had not been Strange’s enemy but the person who saved him.

After Doctor Strange became the Sorcerer Supreme in his nightmare, Charles's side won and the contest score tied at 2:2. The next dream separated the group in a graveyard, where they gathered in a church as Jack confronted the priest and an unknown child knocked at the door.

• Schiller, Arkham Batman, Constantine, and Jack agreed that Doctor Strange's dream followed Destiny, and Doctor Strange ended it by declaring Charles's side the winner.
• Schiller entered a dark graveyard, encountered a corpse-eating creature, and found a small church nearby.
• Schiller forced his way into the church, where Jack, Arkham Batman, Charles, and Erik arrived one by one.
• Schiller accused Jack of matching the description of a nearby axe murderer, and Jack advanced on the Old Priest.
• A child outside the church asked to be let in after getting lost with his father and encountering strange people in the graveyard.

Arkham Batman and the others defeated the devil disguised as a priest, and young Constantine learned that devils were real. In the darkness afterward, adult Constantine told Arkham Batman how his childhood encounter led to his father punishing him for speaking up.

• Young Constantine entered the church as Jack attacked the Old Priest, and Schiller shot Jack while Charles shielded the boy from the crossfire.
• The Old Priest revealed himself as a demon, and Arkham Batman burned him with concentrated sulfuric acid disguised as holy water while Schiller and Erik helped pin him down.
• Arkham Batman reassured young Constantine that devils were real and advised him to gain strength before exposing them, and Constantine admitted he had run away after seeing a monster in a graveyard.
• Adult Constantine told Arkham Batman that his father had punished him after he called the priest a devil, and Arkham Batman let him smoke despite his illness.
• Schiller learned that Jack had coated his axe with water and blood, while he and Jack realized Arkham Batman’s holy water had been concentrated sulfuric acid.

Schiller and Arkham Batman entered Charles Xavier’s nightmare, where the newly exposed telepath faced public hatred and lost control of his powers. Charles’s attempt to erase witnesses’ memories triggered widespread accusations and helped expose Mutants, leaving the crisis escalating beyond the university.

• Schiller arrived at a university and learned from students that Charles Xavier had been exposed as a mind reader while Erik had been captured or seriously injured.
• Schiller and Arkham Batman went to the Academic Affairs Building, where Charles argued with the principal after his classes were canceled.
• Charles saw a student tear down an insulting poster, lost control, and froze everyone at the school with his telepathy.
• Charles released the students and teachers after apparently erasing their memories, but Schiller, Arkham Batman, and some psychology-minded witnesses retained theirs.
• Students and others called the New York Police Department to accuse Charles of controlling their minds, and people began blaming him for unrelated misdeeds.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. was forced to respond as the existence of Mutants was exposed.

After Charles Xavier was captured by a specially modified soldier, Schiller tried to rally allies and arrange a rescue. His warning sent the Divine Spear Bureau and The Ancient One after Erik and Doctor Strange, leaving the rescue effort stalled as Schiller’s side moved to find the original Erik.

• After Jack was stabbed while trying to reach Charles, Schiller decided to find the injured original Erik and have him help rescue Charles before Erik’s allies could act.
• Schiller and Jack went to S.H.I.E.L.D., where Schiller convinced Nick that the military and Hydra might seize Charles, prompting Nick to contact the Divine Spear Bureau.
• Erik and Doctor Strange encountered The Ancient One and her sorcerers on the way to the military base, and she attacked after mistaking Doctor Strange for a time traveler trying to alter history.
• Doctor Strange fought while retreating, and Erik supported him, but they could not escape The Ancient One’s pursuit.

Schiller and his allies found an injured Magneto and sent him to rescue Charles, but Erik reached Charles first, tying the score at 3:3. When Schiller finally revealed that the next nightmare would take place in his High Tower of Thought, countless versions of Schiller appeared around them.

• Schiller traced Charles’s returned mail to a second house, where he and Arkham Batman found an injured Magneto.
• Constantine treated Magneto, and Schiller asked him to rescue Charles, who had been captured and taken to a military base on Long Island.
• The local Magneto could not break into the base, so Erik arrived first and rescued Charles, bringing the score to 3:3.
• Schiller admitted that the next nightmare centered on Schiller Rodriguez and took place in his High Tower of Thought.
• Countless versions of Schiller appeared, and Arkham Batman shouted for everyone not to move.

Arkham Batman tried to keep Constantine and Joker Jack alive as hostile Schiller phantoms attacked them with supernatural abilities. He fled into Agent’s dream world with the others, where Agent angrily confirmed that he knew it was a dream because he could fly.

• Constantine and Joker Jack fled from the attacking Schiller phantoms, so Arkham Batman drew Pursuer’s attention and tried to protect them.
• Pursuer blinked behind Jack, then vanished after Arkham Batman grabbed and threw him aside.
• A shoulder-haired phantom ripped a rib from Constantine while Manipulation’s mental interference overwhelmed Arkham Batman with memories and nightmares.
• A strong phantom battered Arkham Batman with repeated slashes, and a napkin-wearing figure’s presence triggered his extreme hunger.
• Arkham Batman grabbed Constantine and Jack and ran into a gray city of high-rises, where he found Agent.
• Agent dodged Pursuer and flew toward them as Arkham Batman explained they were in a dream, and Agent said he already knew because he could fly.

Arkham Batman and the others searched Schiller’s chaotic nightmare for a safe point, learning that Agent needed Greed to erase a memory and that Room 1509 might be the way out. They found a strange waterslide entrance and entered a bizarre structure, but the chapter ended with some of their companions apparently dead.

• Joker Jack explained that Schiller was controlling the lucid dream, and Agent revealed that Greed was trying to delete a memory while he distracted the other Schillers.
• Jack learned that Agent’s room was Room 1509, and Arkham Batman’s group searched the waterslide-filled dream for a path to it.
• Pursuer attacked the group, stabbing Erik and then Charles, while Dream Power Doctor Strange healed Charles’s wound.
• Arkham Batman’s group and Charles’s group jumped into a giant waterslide loop and emerged inside a maze of impossible corridors and shifting platforms.
• Arkham Batman reached the upper platforms and saw that everyone had arrived, but some of them appeared to be dead.

Arkham Batman and his allies discovered that Nightmare had impersonated Dream Power Doctor Strange and planned to bring the Dreamscape Dimension into reality, but their fight opened a passage that let the Schillers escape. Elsewhere, Loki, Stark, and Strange tracked the Soul Stone to the same dimension, where the escaped Schillers were already roaming.

• Arkham Batman joined the injured Charles, Erik, Jack, Constantine, and Dream Power Doctor Strange, and they followed an abnormal current to a temple containing a door marked “1509.”
• Nightmare revealed that he had impersonated Dream Power Doctor Strange and planned to channel Dream Power into the real world, but Arkham Batman resisted him with concealed magic and gemstone bombs.
• Dream Power Doctor Strange continued resisting Nightmare as the Schillers attacked everyone, and Arkham Batman accidentally blasted open the door, allowing the Schillers to escape.
• Main Universe Batman sent Batwoman and the Dark Multiverse Batman Squad toward a false address, while Loki and Owlman followed them to the real dimensional entrance.
• Loki entered the dimension and found Schillers roaming through it, then Stark and Strange rushed inside to get the Soul Stone before the Schillers could collect it.

Stark, Strange, and Loki discovered that a dimensional passage was filled with violent versions of Schiller’s pathological traits, while Greed confirmed the traits had not escaped the Abyss. Mephisto revealed that he and Nightmare had caused the passage to open, and Greed suspected Agent’s nightmare had manifested the Schillers.

• Stark and Strange emerged from the dimensional entrance wounded, reporting that it was full of teleporting Schillers.
• Greed entered the passage, was thrown back out, and insisted the pathological traits remained in the Abyss.
• Stark confirmed the creatures’ power matched Dream Power Doctor Strange’s, while Strange suggested Nightmare might be involved.
• Mephisto admitted he had tricked Nightmare into opening a passage and helped imprison Dream Power Doctor Strange.
• Mephisto entered the passage and was injured by the Schillers, prompting him to suspect Nightmare had chosen Greed’s dream.
• Greed realized Agent’s nightmare might have created the pathological Schillers because Agent clashed with the traits focused on psychoanalysis.

Greed and the others prepared to trap the Dark Multiverse Batman Squad inside the sealed dimension as the squad fought through Stark’s machines and entered. Meanwhile, Joker warned Main Universe Batman that superpowered Nightmare Phantoms had escaped, prompting him to order Bruce and the Justice League to hunt them down.

• Greed told Stark to let the Dark Multiverse Batman Squad enter the dimension but prevent them from leaving, while Stark mobilized forces to guard the entrance.
• Doomsday Batman used his restored transformation to swallow mechanical weapons as the squad battled its way toward the entrance and passed through the rift.
• Joker arrived before Main Universe Batman and reported that stronger-than-usual Nightmare Phantoms had escaped from the Dreamscape Dimension.
• Main Universe Batman called in Bruce and ordered him to lead his universe’s Justice League in tracking the Nightmare Phantoms, offering him a newlywed-themed Batmobile to persuade him.

Main Universe Batman concluded that the missing Dark Multiverse Batmen were likely trapped in the Infinity Stone dimension alongside the Nightmare Phantoms, so he mobilized a massive force to confront Marvel’s army at the entrance. As the battle descended into chaos, he sent Injustice Superman and the remaining Supermen into the dimension to rescue the missing Batmen, unaware that Main Universe Reed Richards and Central Universe Doom were approaching the entrance.

• Main Universe Batman sent Joker-man to track down Owlman, while Arkham Batman and Agent searched the black market for signs of Nightmare Phantom attacks.
• After finding no reports and hearing nothing from the Batmen sent into the Infinity Stone dimension, Arkham Batman and Main Universe Batman suspected the Nightmare Phantoms had entered it and trapped the team.
• Main Universe Batman judged that the enemy was also trying to contain the threat, then ordered a major mobilization for a direct battle at the dimensional entrance.
• Marvel and DC assembled their heroes and armies, and their forces clashed in a chaotic battle where Spider-Army Spider-Sense helped Marvel avoid casualties.
• Main Universe Batman ordered Injustice Superman and the remaining Supermen into the dimension to search for the missing Batmen.
• Main Universe Reed Richards and Central Universe Doom quietly approached the dimensional entrance.

Marvel and DC forces fought across the space battlefield until a machine at the dimensional entrance drained their energy and exploded, tearing open the rift. The Dreamscape Dimension poured into reality, leaving the wounded survivors exposed to Pathological Schiller’s Nightmare Phantoms.

• Polaris, Havok, and Deathstroke fought the Mutants and Guardians of the Galaxy as Marvel’s numerical advantage pushed the battle line toward Main Universe Batman.
• Main Universe Batman and Manhattan Batman discussed the missing Batmen, the unlikely rescue of Superman, and their search for a Green Lantern carrying something linked to the universe’s Primal Power.
• A machine over the dimensional entrance began extracting energy from both armies, causing powers to malfunction and pulling fighters into its vortex.
• The machine exploded, wiping out most of the battlefield and blowing the dimensional rift wide open.
• The Dreamscape Dimension descended into reality, and Nightmare Phantoms attacked the wounded survivors, leaving Stark hungry and Mephisto reduced to one goat hoof.

After Doom’s explosion unleashed controlled monsters, Arkham Knight survived with Polaris’s help and was pulled into a mysterious dimension. They set off through a waterslide maze to find the others, while Magneto, Scarlet Witch, and the other survivors were already fighting a nightmare inside it.

• Main Universe Batman watched Main Universe Martian Hunter enter the flames and die, then fled as memories overwhelmed him and the battlefield’s wounded slowed his escape.
• Polaris, trapped in Arkham Knight’s battery, helped him defeat controlled Quicksilver and use a healing injection to recover.
• Arkham Knight encountered a controlled Schiller, escaped, and charged Polaris’s battery from a damaged spaceship.
• Polaris and Arkham Knight found themselves in a mysterious dimension and learned that survivors were trapped there after Doom blew open the dimension.
• Polaris and Arkham Knight entered a waterslide maze to search for the others, while Magneto, Scarlet Witch, and other survivors fought a nightmare deeper inside.