Chapter Summaries

Xi Nian said goodbye to Doctor Strange and Raven before preparing to leave his universe for the multiverse with the Destiny Alliance. Raven chose to stay behind and guard the Prince Family villa, while Xi Nian and his companions stood ready to depart.

• Xi Nian visited Doctor Strange, named him Sorcerer Supreme, and promised to leave a one-use trump card at the New York Sanctum.
• Xi Nian returned to the Prince Family villa, where Raven told him she would stay and guard it until he returned.
• Raven confessed that she had discovered what she was seeking in Xi Nian and kissed him before he left.
• Xi Nian returned to Destiny Alliance headquarters and found Zatanna had joined the expedition.
• Xi Nian gathered Wonder Woman Diana, Superwoman Kara, Spider-Woman Gwen, and the other prepared companions and announced their departure for the multiverse.

Xi Nian departed his universe with Little Huang, using Space Stone and Mind Stone artifacts to search the multiverse for Polaris. His departure stirred reactions across Earth and beyond, leaving the universe’s hidden forces to awaken in his absence.

• Xi Nian reunited Little Huang with her mother before explaining to Superman and Captain Marvel that his Mind Stone necklace could guide his random multiverse travel toward Polaris.
• Xi Nian donned his protective suit, said goodbye to Superman and Captain Marvel, and activated the Space Stone artifact to leave the universe with Little Huang.
• On December 26, 2020, Xi Nian and Little Huang vanished into the multiverse, carrying the Destiny Alliance with them.
• Cheetah Barbara sensed Xi Nian’s departure at the Hellfire Club and told White Queen Emma that the only person who could restrain her had left.
• Across Earth and the universe, hidden beings sensed Xi Nian’s departure as undercurrents and mysterious forces began to stir.

Xi Nian arrived in a parallel Earth after colliding with The Train, the speedster who had killed Hughie's girlfriend, Lobin. He sent Alice to investigate the world and its superhumans, while a powerful businesswoman learned that The Train had lost an arm.

• Hughie watched The Train accidentally kill Lobin as the speedster raced down a New York street.
• The Train collided with Xi Nian, shattered his armor, and lost his right arm before fleeing.
• Xi Nian confirmed that he had reached another universe and brought Little Huang back to Destiny Alliance Headquarters.
• Xi Nian asked Alice to help gather information about the parallel Earth and its superhumans.
• Xi Nian and Alice appeared in a nearby alley, where Alice began infiltrating local electronic devices.
• A businesswoman was told that The Train had killed a pedestrian, lost an arm, and been caught on camera.

Homelander learned that The Train had lost an arm after colliding with a mysterious figure and ordered Madelyn to identify him. Meanwhile, Xi Nian discovered that he had arrived in a world where Vought marketed superhumans as heroes and Homelander led its most famous team.

• Madelyn told Homelander that The Train had killed a girl, lost an arm, and caused Vought's shares to fall.
• Homelander proposed removing The Train from The Seven and asked Madelyn to find replacements, including Starlight.
• Madelyn showed Homelander footage of a blue-mist figure who broke The Train's arm and disappeared.
• Homelander vowed to identify the mysterious figure and dismissed the threat to himself.
• Alice gathered information from New York's electronic devices and told Xi Nian about the superhuman-filled world and Vought International.
• Xi Nian learned that The Seven's leader, Homelander, was regarded as the world's strongest hero.

Xi Nian and the Destiny Alliance planned their investigation of the unfamiliar world, where Homelander and The Seven operated. Xi Nian and Alice returned to New York and headed for Vought International to learn more.

• Alice told Xi Nian she could gather deeper intelligence by hacking military and government networks but could not guarantee she would remain undetected.
• Xi Nian briefed the Destiny Alliance, noted that Alice had found no information about Lorna, and decided to investigate the outside world in person.
• Diana proposed that the alliance members explore in pairs, and Xi Nian assigned himself to Alice while Wanda stayed behind to guard the base.
• Xi Nian warned everyone to investigate cautiously, contact the others if they found anything, and avoid fighting where possible.
• The next morning, Xi Nian and Alice arrived in New York under fabricated identities and saw reports about The Train and his expulsion from The Seven.
• Xi Nian told Alice they were going to Vought International, the company behind The Seven.

Xi Nian and Alice encountered Starlight on the way through New York, then reached Vought International Tower, where Xi Nian planned to investigate the company for clues about Lorna. The chapter left Starlight surrounded by reporters at the tower entrance as Xi Nian and Alice watched.

• Starlight caught Alice's windblown sunhat and introduced herself as a candidate to join The Seven.
• Alice told Xi Nian that his passive ability had made Starlight's hormones surge, then teased him as they continued toward Vought International Tower.
• Xi Nian said he wanted to infiltrate Vought International to find intelligence and possible clues about Lorna.
• Reporters swarmed Starlight outside Vought International Tower and asked about her joining The Seven.

Xi Nian’s allies investigated separately while Starlight entered Vought International, and Skye and Poison Ivy captured Billy Butcher, leader of The Boys. Diana and Zatanna followed a strange aura to a secret underground laboratory, where they discovered infants being injected with Compound V.

• Xi Nian and Alice kissed unnoticed while reporters surrounded Starlight, and two tiny Ant-Men followed her into Vought International.
• Skye and Poison Ivy explained why they had teamed up, then caught a bearded man following them and learned he was Billy Butcher, leader of The Boys.
• Poison Ivy’s vines restrained Billy Butcher, and Skye poisoned him after he revealed his identity.
• Mera went into the ocean to explore it while Susan waited on the beach.
• Diana asked Zatanna what she thought of Xi Nian, then the two sensed a strange aura in Washington and teleported toward it.
• Diana and Zatanna found a hidden laboratory containing infants connected to equipment and bags of Compound V.

Starlight arrived at Vought International to join The Seven, while Xi Nian and Alice secretly investigated the company. Her excitement collapsed when The Deep sexually harassed her and threatened her place on the team, revealing the corruption behind the heroes.

• Starlight met Madelyn, who praised her appearance and said Vought would give her a new costume.
• Xi Nian ordered Alice to hack Vought's archives, and she began cracking the encrypted files.
• Starlight entered The Seven's hall and met The Deep, who claimed one of the chairs would soon be hers.
• The Deep exposed himself and demanded that Starlight satisfy him, threatening to revoke her place on The Seven.
• Xi Nian realized that the world's supposed superheroes were actually superpowered villains.

Homelander destroyed the hijacked plane’s cockpit and abandoned its passengers, but a red-caped woman saved the aircraft. In Vought’s lobby, Xi Nian learned that a naturally superpowered woman had once fought The Seven, and Starlight unexpectedly injured The Deep with heat vision.

• Queen Maeve returned home, where Homelander arrived and accepted Madelyn’s request to respond to a hijacking.
• Homelander and Queen Maeve boarded the hijacked plane, but Homelander killed the criminals and pilots while destroying the cockpit, leaving the aircraft unable to land.
• Homelander forced Queen Maeve to leave the passengers behind, but a red-caped woman lifted the plane and guided it toward New York.
• Alice told Xi Nian that Vought manufactured heroes’ achievements and had once sent The Seven after a naturally superpowered woman who killed Translucent.
• Starlight suddenly fired heat vision from her hair and severed The Deep’s groin as Xi Nian said he was angry.

Madelyn ordered Starlight confined after The Deep was mutilated, while Xi Nian and Alice prepared a response against Vought. Over the Atlantic, Homelander grew jealous of the woman saving the plane and pursued her with Queen Maeve, intending to kill her and blame her for the disaster.

• Madelyn and Black Noir found The Deep badly injured and accused Starlight of attacking him, then ordered her locked up and the incident concealed.
• Black Noir escorted Starlight away while Madelyn arranged medical treatment for The Deep and awaited Homelander’s return.
• Xi Nian and Alice watched the aftermath from outside Vought’s building, then left to gather Destiny for a meeting.
• Homelander saw a mysterious suited woman pushing the plane toward New York and became enraged that she could do what he could not.
• Homelander told Queen Maeve to help him kill the woman and blame her for the plane’s destruction, then flew after her.

Superwoman Kara and Gwen rescued a hijacked Boeing plane from Homelander and brought it safely to New York, where the crowd celebrated their arrival. Back at Destiny Alliance headquarters, Xi Nian reassured them and prepared the alliance to decide its next actions in the world of The Boys.

• Homelander chased Kara while carrying Queen Maeve, but Gwen trapped them in a miniature black hole long enough for Kara to escape with the plane.
• Kara set the damaged Boeing down in a New York seaside park, and passengers slid to safety as the crowd cheered before she flew away.
• Kara and Gwen returned to Destiny Alliance headquarters and told Xi Nian that they had intervened in the rescue and that Gwen had clashed indirectly with two members of The Seven.
• Xi Nian told Kara and Gwen not to apologize for saving people and affirmed that the alliance would not restrain them from doing what they believed was right.
• Xi Nian called on the Destiny Alliance to review what they knew about the outside world and decide what actions to take next.

Xi Nian’s Destiny Alliance gathered intelligence about a world where Vought International created and exploited superhumans, and learned that The Seven had hunted Lorna. Xi Nian decided to attack The Seven and uncover what Vought knew about Lorna, and the alliance unanimously supported him.

• Kara and Gwen reported saving a plane and said Homelander and Queen Maeve had tried to attack Kara.
• Skye and Poison Ivy described Billy Butcher and The Boys’ investigation into Homelander and the corrupt Seven.
• Mera reported finding no ancient super-civilizations beneath the seas, while Diana and Zatanna revealed that Vought created superhumans using addictive Compound V.
• Xi Nian said he and Alice had infiltrated Vought’s headquarters and found files indicating that The Seven had secretly hunted Lorna three years earlier.
• Xi Nian proposed striking The Seven and uncovering what Vought knew about Lorna, and every member present voted in favor.

After Homelander abandoned the passengers on a hijacked plane and Superwoman Kara rescued them, public outrage sent Vought International into crisis. As The Seven suspected a hidden enemy and welcomed Storm, the mysterious force arrived at their meeting.

• Kara safely brought the hijacked plane back, and passengers publicly condemned Homelander for abandoning them.
• Billy Butcher and Hughie joined the angry crowd demanding answers outside Vought International.
• Madelyn confronted Homelander over his actions, but he blamed a conspiracy and refused to accept fault.
• Black Noir suggested a hidden third party had injured The Deep and The Train, prompting The Seven to consider shifting their scandals onto that enemy.
• Madelyn introduced Storm as a new member of The Seven and said The Train was returning.
• The Seven prepared to hunt their suspected enemy, but the ceiling collapsed as a man announced that they had arrived.

Starlight remained chained in a dark storage room as a violent impact shook Vought Tower and let light into her cell. Above the damaged tower, Xi Nian and his allies confronted The Seven, and Xi Nian took Homelander as his opponent as the battle began.

• Starlight sat chained in a sealed storage room, unable to absorb light or escape, until a crash shook the tower and beams of light reached her.
• An earthquake-like tremor struck The Deep’s medical room, causing the doctor and nurses to flee while he remained helpless on the operating table.
• Homelander, the other members of The Seven, and Madelyn saw Xi Nian and four women hovering above the tower beneath its ruined dome.
• Xi Nian rushed Homelander and drove him through the floors of Vought Tower.
• Diana, Kara, Alice, and Gwen charged into the tower as Storm, Jupiter Jack, Black Noir, and Queen Maeve prepared to fight.

Xi Nian and Diana attacked Vought International, overwhelming Homelander and Queen Maeve as the building was torn apart. Homelander’s Heat Vision failed to hurt Xi Nian, while Diana captured Queen Maeve and prepared to question her.

• Billy Butcher worried that public outrage over Homelander abandoning the airplane would not be enough to defeat him, and Hughie accused Butcher of supporting Homelander.
• Xi Nian forced Homelander through the floors of Vought International’s headquarters, using his strength and Biokinetic Field to overpower him.
• Homelander tried to escape Xi Nian’s hold and struck him with Heat Vision, but Xi Nian remained unharmed and mocked him.
• Diana defeated Queen Maeve with her Guardian Silver Bracelet after refusing to draw her sword.
• Queen Maeve fell from the hundredth floor, but Diana caught her with the Golden Lasso of Truth and pulled her back inside.
• Xi Nian let Homelander’s Heat Vision strike his chin, then slapped Homelander across the face.

Xi Nian brutally beat Homelander while Diana learned from Queen Maeve that The Seven had encountered a mysterious green-haired woman three years earlier. As Fate defeated the remaining members of The Seven, Alice noticed that a man in black had disappeared.

• Xi Nian slapped Homelander twice, then repeatedly punched him as residents of New York City heard his screams.
• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to question Queen Maeve about The Seven's failed mission to capture a green-haired woman three years earlier.
• Queen Maeve revealed that the woman controlled metal, killed Translucent, held a baby girl, and released a burst of yellow light before Homelander took the team away.
• Superwoman Kara knocked out Jupiter Jack, while Gwen trapped Storm in a small Black Hole.
• Alice noticed that a member in black had disappeared and said that his ability seemed unusual.

Xi Nian fought Homelander on the ninetieth floor, then revealed his God-Tier Mode when Homelander and Black Noir tried to ambush him. He defeated Black Noir and restrained Homelander, whom he intended to keep alive for questioning.

• Xi Nian pummeled Homelander while Madelyn begged him to stop, but Homelander killed her with his Heat Vision.
• Homelander grabbed Xi Nian's wrists as Black Noir attacked from behind, but Black Noir's hands broke against Xi Nian's neck.
• Xi Nian revealed his God-Tier Mode, blasting Black Noir through a wall and killing him with golden Heat Vision as he fled.
• Homelander attacked Xi Nian, who shattered his arm with a punch and bound his half-crippled body with the Lasso of Truth.

Xi Nian learned that Lorna had vanished from this world three years earlier and discovered Homelander’s secret Compound V laboratories. After the Destiny Alliance destroyed Homelander’s backup plans, Xi Nian rejected his pleas and struck him down.

• Xi Nian used the Lasso of Truth to learn that Lorna had disappeared after a burst of yellow light three years earlier, and Homelander had searched for her ever since.
• Xi Nian revealed that he knew the locations of Homelander’s secret laboratories, while Skye and Wanda destroyed a facility on the West Coast and Mera and Poison Ivy wiped out a base in Africa.
• Homelander claimed that his Compound V monsters would plunge the world into chaos if he died, but Xi Nian said he did not care and that his allies had handled the other facilities.
• Homelander begged for his life and offered Xi Nian Vought International, money, power, and Starlight, but Xi Nian refused.
• Homelander lunged at Xi Nian as he turned away, and Xi Nian swung his leg backward into Homelander.

Xi Nian and the Destiny Alliance defeated the Seven and left Starlight behind with advice about heroism. Back at the Energy Absorption Space, he gave Compound V to Kryptonian scientists, encountered Felicia Hardy, and returned to headquarters, where he embraced Alice.

• Xi Nian killed Homelander, joined the others after the Seven were wiped out, and prepared to leave Vought Tower.
• Starlight escaped her confinement and asked Xi Nian who he was and whether they would meet again; he told her they came from another world and urged her to do good without seeking fame or money.
• Xi Nian visited the Kryptonian scientists and asked them to study Compound V.
• Xi Nian encountered Felicia Hardy, who said Kryptonian technology might cure her split personalities and teased him about whether she was Teacher Black Cat or Sister Catwoman.
• Xi Nian returned to Destiny Alliance headquarters and pulled Alice into his arms.

Xi Nian and the Destiny Alliance left the Black Robe world after Homelander’s death and Vought International’s collapse, having confirmed that Lorna was alive somewhere in the multiverse. The Alliance renewed its resolve to find her and set off for the next universe.

• Xi Nian carried Alice away while the Black Robe world’s authorities exposed Vought International’s crimes and arrested its executives.
• Hughie attended his girlfriend’s funeral, Billy Butcher returned to his former home, and Starlight told her mother that the age of superheroes had not truly begun.
• Xi Nian told the Destiny Alliance that Lorna was alive and could travel through the multiverse, but explained that traveling back in time would not recover the present-day Lorna.
• Diana, Gwen, Skye, Kara, and the other Alliance members urged Xi Nian to continue the search.
• Xi Nian led the Destiny Alliance toward the next universe to keep searching for Lorna.