Chapter Summaries

At a Destiny Alliance banquet, Xi Nian welcomed Kara and Alice as new members and told the gathered heroes he might someday be able to revive those lost in the Flash Calamity Incident. The gathering ended with hope for the dead’s return and Zatanna realizing she had fallen for Xi Nian.

• Gwen secretly signaled Xi Nian, while Susan and Mera teased each other about their closeness to him.
• Xi Nian gave Kara a Dimensional Ring, and she accepted it as the Destiny Alliance’s ninth member.
• Xi Nian gave Alice a ring, making her the alliance’s tenth member.
• The others stopped Lorna from drinking, and Diana also told Xi Nian to drink less.
• Xi Nian said he might be able to revive those killed in the Flash Calamity Incident, giving Susan and Gwen hope for their lost loved ones.
• Zatanna recalled her encounters with Xi Nian and realized that she had fallen in love with him.

Five days after the Flash Calamity Incident, Xi Nian visited survivors and faced the cost of the battle as the world began rebuilding. He lost sight of a mysterious woman he believed was his sister, but held onto hope that they would meet again.

• Humanity began rescue efforts and reconstruction after more than half the population died in the alien invasion.
• Xi Nian brought Kara to Kandor, where she learned that only a few elderly Kryptonian scientists remained alive, and promised to help restore Kryptonian civilization.
• Xi Nian gave Poison Ivy a place in the Destiny Alliance and promised he might be able to revive her dead plants.
• Xi Nian told Diana that Fantasy Creation and the Soul Stone had disappeared after he destroyed Apokolips's forces, leaving him unable to bring the dead back.
• Carol Danvers briefly approached Xi Nian in Washington, then flew away without explaining why she had come.
• Xi Nian chased a woman carrying a black parasol, called her “Sister,” and found an abandoned pirate teddy bear after she vanished; a black raven flew toward the city.

Five years after the Flash Calamity, Nightwing rescued Jean Grey from military recruiters and brought her toward the Teen Titans, while Jesse Quick investigated the disaster and its vanished heroes. The chapter ended with an unidentified young man returning to New York with Can Luo, apparently without the knowledge of the others.

• New York commemorated the millions lost in the Flash Calamity as the city remained scarred five years later.
• Nightwing rescued Jean Grey from soldiers trying to recruit her, and she agreed to join the Teen Titans for a salary.
• Barry Allen warned Jesse Quick not to investigate the Flash Calamity or the Silver God, but she returned to her apartment and continued studying the incident.
• Jesse Chambers reviewed old evidence and resolved to uncover the truth behind the disaster and the mysterious figure at its center.
• A black-haired young man appeared unnoticed on a New York street and told Can Luo he had come out for some air.

The council members learned that the Young Master had left Energy Absorption Space for the outside world for the first time in more than three years. In New York, he toured the changed city with Alice and discovered that Future Chronicle Company had become the world’s leading corporation, while its powerful mechanical prosthetics had sparked a craze.

• Wanda told the council members that the Young Master had gone outside with Alice and Can Luo, and they agreed to observe the situation.
• The black-haired young man walked through snowy New York and learned from a flyer distributor that Future Chronicle Company had helped transform the city into a technological capital.
• The young man asked Alice about the company, and she reported that it had surpassed Stark Industries and Wayne Enterprises to become the world’s number one corporation.
• Alice explained that the company’s products included combat power detectors and language translators, whose combined sales exceeded ten billion across three generations.
• Alice told the young man that mechanical prosthetics had become fashionable, with some people replacing all four limbs and governments equipping soldiers with them.

Four years after Polaris Lorna vanished during childbirth, Xi Nian explained that he believed she had been lost in the multiverse and vowed to find her. In a nearby parallel world’s Mirror Dimension, a red-haired woman listened and opened a portal.

• Xi Nian walked through New York with Can Luo and reflected on how quickly four years had passed.
• Can Luo reminded Xi Nian that he had withdrawn after Lorna disappeared during her delivery.
• Xi Nian recalled how Lorna and the medical robots vanished from the Energy Absorption Space, and how his searches across the universe found no trace of her.
• Xi Nian told Can Luo he believed Lorna was alive in another universe and promised he would find her.
• In a parallel world’s Mirror Dimension, a red-haired woman overheard Xi Nian’s words, murmured about the multiverse, and opened a portal.

Nightwing brought Little Qin to the Teen Titans headquarters, where she met the team before a military force attacked. As Qin fled through the snow, exhausted and alone, a black-haired young man offered her help.

• Nightwing introduced Little Qin to Damian Wayne and brought her into the Teen Titans headquarters.
• Wonder Girl, Starfire, Raven, and Jonathan Kent met Little Qin, and she realized she could not read Raven's mind.
• Raven warned that Jonathan Kent could not go home, and Damian Wayne announced that military forces were surrounding the headquarters.
• A flaming car crashed through the hall window, Jonathan Kent intercepted it, and more cars flew toward the base.
• Qin fled through the outskirts of New York after the Teen Titans were caught up in the attack, then collapsed on a snowy highway.
• A black-haired young man found Qin and asked whether she needed help.

Xi Nian rescued Jean Grey in New York and learned about her past and unusual powers. Meanwhile, the Teen Titans headquarters came under attack by the Hellfire Club and military forces, leaving Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne facing a dangerous armored opponent as another attacker pursued a target.

• Xi Nian carried the injured Jean Grey to safety after she asked him for help.
• Alice told Xi Nian that Jean had been orphaned, feared for her telepathy, and pursued by the military before Nightwing rescued her.
• Can Luo warned Xi Nian that Jean's powers went beyond ordinary telepathy, and Xi Nian asked Alice to treat her injuries.
• At the Teen Titans headquarters, two attackers set the base ablaze, and a young boy kicked a flaming car away from it.
• Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne confronted a crimson-armored man, who sent another attacker into the base to pursue a target.

Firestorm reported that the target had been teleported to New York, prompting the Hellfire Club to send Subject 13 after her. As the Teen Titans struggled against powerful opponents at the burning base, Azazel tracked the target’s aura into New York City.

• Firestorm told Wong that the target had been teleported to New York and that Azazel was pursuing her, so Wong ordered Subject 13 to be sent.
• Wonder Girl and Starfire fought a powerful leopard-like woman while Raven offered to help but stayed back at their request.
• Deathstroke overwhelmed Nightwing and Damian Wayne, then recalled meeting a boy eight years earlier who had wanted to hire him as a bodyguard.
• Deathstroke contrasted the current generation’s battles with the wars, alien invasions, and dimensional collapses of the old era, when one person had stood above all others.
• Azazel detected the target’s aura above New York City and teleported toward it.

Xi Nian and Alice captured Azazel after he tried to seize the sleeping blonde girl, and Xi Nian learned that Emma Grace Frost now led the Hellfire Club. At Teen Titans headquarters, Conner Kent arrived during Jonathan Kent’s fight with Firestorm and Rebel Youth, and Jonathan angrily rejected him as family.

• Azazel teleported into a New York hotel and approached the blonde girl, but her trench coat blocked him and Alice seized him, dragged him across the lobby, and knocked him unconscious.
• Xi Nian asked Alice about the Hellfire Club, and she identified Emma Grace Frost as one of its Black and White Kings and explained its connection to the Annihilation League.
• At Teen Titans headquarters, Firestorm and Rebel Youth used flames and tornadoes to keep Jonathan Kent at a distance, but he repeatedly got up and charged them.
• Conner Kent landed in front of Firestorm and identified himself, and Jonathan Kent angrily told him he was not allowed to use their family name.

Conner Kent drove the Teen Titans from their burning base and was sent to retrieve a target at a New York hotel. There, Xi Nian confronted him and knocked him backward with a single punch.

• Conner Kent defeated Jonathan Kent outside the base while Firestorm and Rebel Youth watched.
• Deathstroke left the base after telling Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne he would come for them another time.
• Raven teleported Wonder Girl, Starfire, Jonathan, Nightwing, and Damian away before Conner reached the second floor.
• Conner learned from an authoritative woman that his target was at a New York hotel and flew there.
• Xi Nian had Alice remain with the sleeping Qin and decided to face Conner himself.
• Conner charged Xi Nian, who rose while holding Alice and punched him backward.

The Teen Titans escaped the Hellfire Club and learned that Little Qin had been teleported to New York, where Conner Kent was already pursuing her. Xi Nian transformed into Vibranium Vision Mode and confronted Conner, leaving the outcome of their fight uncertain.

• Nightwing Dick warned Damian Wayne that Deathstroke had been far beyond their strength, and Wonder Girl stopped them from arguing over Batman.
• Raven said she had teleported Little Qin to New York, and the Titans decided to go after her despite the risk of meeting Conner Kent.
• Wonder Girl rallied the team to rescue Little Qin, and Raven prepared to teleport them to New York.
• Conner Kent struck Xi Nian out of a hotel, but Xi Nian returned to the lobby and transformed into Vibranium Vision Mode.
• Xi Nian disabled nearby cameras and lights, then challenged Conner Kent and rushed at him.

Xi Nian in Vibranium Vision Mode overwhelmed Conner Kent in a brutal fight, exposing the clone’s incomplete Superman abilities and withstanding his psychic decomposition power. The Teen Titans watched in shock, while Raven recognized Xi Nian as her king.

• Xi Nian and Conner Kent exchanged powerful punches, and Xi Nian blasted Conner into a sewer with crimson eye lasers.
• Xi Nian outmaneuvered Conner, drove him through a construction site, and crushed him into the ruins.
• The Teen Titans watched the fight from a skyscraper, and their scanner rated Xi Nian at its maximum reading.
• Jonathan found Xi Nian familiar, and Raven silently recognized him as her king.
• Conner grabbed Xi Nian’s leg and tried to decompose it with Contact Psychic Telekinesis, but Xi Nian remained unharmed.

Xi Nian defeated Conner Kent, whose psychic attacks could not penetrate Xi Nian’s layered defenses, and spared his life while cutting off both his arms. The Teen Titans watched the fight end, and Wonder Girl decided she wanted to pursue Xi Nian.

• Conner Kent realized his psychic disassembly ability could not harm Xi Nian, whose Steel Body, Energy Immunity, and other defenses made him nearly impossible to injure.
• Xi Nian asked Conner Kent whether he wanted to continue, then cut off both his arms and spared his life because Conner had previously said he would spare Xi Nian.
• The Teen Titans watched Conner Kent’s defeat, and Jonathan Kent felt a strange familiarity with Xi Nian.
• Wonder Girl said she had fallen for Xi Nian at first sight and decided to pursue him and marry him.

Xi Nian left Alice behind and confronted White Queen Emma Frost at her estate, where she recognized him as Wonder Woman’s adopted son, Prince Xi Nian. Emma ordered her people to stay out as the encounter began.

• Wonder Girl admitted she wanted to pursue Xi Nian, while Starfire confessed she might have competed for him if she did not already like someone.
• Xi Nian spotted the Teen Titans, left Alice behind, and flew away without checking on the fallen Conner Kent.
• Firestorm returned to Emma Frost’s estate and warned her that other hero teams might interfere and that Conner could become dangerous.
• Xi Nian entered Emma’s hall, greeted her as the White Queen and a leader of the Hellfire Club, and sat down as she ordered Firestorm to leave.
• Firestorm attacked Xi Nian with a tornado, but Xi Nian pierced it with energy beams and sent him crashing into the corridor.
• Emma ordered everyone to stay outside and recognized Xi Nian as Wonder Woman’s adopted son, Prince Xi Nian, recalling that a Scarlet Loli maid had nearly killed her five years earlier.

Xi Nian confronted White Queen Emma at the Hellfire Club and demanded she answer for her past involvement in Lex Luthor’s schemes and her break-in five years earlier. Emma offered him the club’s resources and everything else she controlled, and Xi Nian left her facing a more personal demand.

• Xi Nian returned to his human appearance and made White Queen Emma serve him coffee while she remembered their past encounters.
• Outside the manor’s hall, Fire Man asked whether the Black King would investigate, but she refused to enter.
• Xi Nian criticized Emma’s coffee and said he had come to settle old scores from the Great Era incident and her break-in five years earlier.
• Emma blamed Lex Luthor for orchestrating the earlier incident and said she had been beaten before she could enter Xi Nian’s home.
• Xi Nian revealed that he had defeated Conner Kent, destroying Emma’s hope that Conner and the Black King could oppose him.
• Emma offered Xi Nian Lex Luthor’s inheritance, the Hellfire Club’s resources, and anything else he wanted, and Xi Nian gripped her neck and asked if that included her.

Xi Nian decided the Hellfire Club was not a threat and chose to deter it rather than destroy or control it. Meanwhile, the Teen Titans found Qin Grey asleep in a hotel, where Alice blocked them until a familiar voice revealed Teacher Can Luo was present in a jar.

• Xi Nian tested White Queen Emma's diamond defense, then released her and declined to take over the Hellfire Club.
• Xi Nian explained that he had changed his plan from destroying the Hellfire Club to warning it to behave, since it posed no serious threat.
• The Teen Titans reached the hotel and found Qin Grey asleep on a sofa, but Alice refused to let Nightwing Dick approach her.
• Wonder Girl sensed that Alice was extremely dangerous, while Jonathan Kent noticed something unusual about her.
• Teacher Can Luo spoke into Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne's minds, and a one-eyed, multicolored starfish in a glass jar rolled out from beneath Qin's windbreaker.

Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne reunited with their former teacher Can Luo, who hinted at the mysterious young man’s ties to their families and recognized the hooded girl. Superman arrived, took Jonathan Kent away, and asked Alice to arrange a visit with the young man.

• Nightwing Dick and Damian Wayne recognized Can Luo as their former teacher and asked why it had left Gotham City.
• Can Luo said it had followed Alice’s master and refused to reveal the young man’s identity, suggesting Jonathan Kent could ask his elders about him.
• Can Luo sensed a familiar spiritual aura around the silent hooded girl and recognized her, asking why she had returned.
• Superman arrived and told Jonathan Kent to come back with him, saying the Hellfire Club matter was already over.
• Superman carried Jonathan away and told Alice to have the young man visit his home, or he would visit the young man himself.

The Flash arrived at the hotel and led most of the Teen Titans away, while Wonder Girl and Raven stayed behind. At the Hellfire Club manor, Emma showed Xi Nian evidence that Qin’s powers had destroyed a crash scene in a burst of phoenix-shaped flames.

• The Flash greeted Can Luo and Alice, then told the Teen Titans that Qin was safest with Can Luo and that they should leave.
• Wonder Girl decided to stay until she could tell Xi Nian how she felt, and The Flash said she might have a connection to Can Luo’s family.
• Raven also chose to stay, leaving Nightwing Dick, Damian Wayne, and Starfire to depart with The Flash.
• Xi Nian questioned Emma about why the Hellfire Club wanted Qin, and Emma revealed that Qin had been in a car crash with her parents four years earlier.
• Emma showed Xi Nian a recording in which phoenix-like flames erupted around Qin and burned the vehicles and everyone inside to ash.
• Xi Nian recognized the flames as a reality-altering mental power with destructive force potentially greater than Scarlet Magic.

Superman told Jonathan that the silver-haired young man was Prince Xi Nian, who had known their family for years, while Barry Allen revealed Xi Nian’s ties to the Prince Family to the Teen Titans. Xi Nian left the Hellfire Club after asking Emma to keep Qin’s matter secret, and Emma was left upset by his tenderness toward Qin.

• Superman told Jonathan that the young man was Prince Xi Nian, who had held him as a child and appeared in a photo at Aunt Kara’s house.
• Jonathan remembered that Cassie planned to confess to him and asked Superman to turn back, but Superman refused because they would both be in trouble.
• At Barry Allen’s home, Barry told Nightwing, Damian Wayne, and Starfire that Xi Nian belonged to the Prince Family, as did Can Luo and Alice.
• Barry explained that Diana Prince was Wonder Woman and that Xi Nian was her adopted son and the current head of the Prince Family.
• Xi Nian left the Hellfire Club manor after asking Emma to keep Qin’s matter secret, and Emma sat alone, upset by his tenderness toward Qin.

Xi Nian met with Cheetah Barbara, whose memories had been damaged after he suppressed the Black Panther Goddess, then returned to New York and encountered Wonder Girl Cassie and Raven. Barry Allen revealed that Xi Nian had turned the tide against Apokolips five years earlier, while Cassie prepared to confess her feelings to him.

• Xi Nian met Cheetah Barbara in the forest and sent her back to watch the Hellfire Club.
• The chapter explained that five years earlier Xi Nian had defeated the Black Panther Goddess possessing Cheetah Barbara, but Barbara had lost many memories during her recovery.
• At the Flash's home, Barry Allen told Nightwing, Starfire, and Damian Wayne that Xi Nian had saved Earth after the Justice League was defeated on Apokolips.
• Xi Nian returned to the hotel and found Alice with Wonder Girl Cassie and Raven.
• Xi Nian recognized Raven and backed away, while Cassie stepped forward, determined to make her feelings clear.