Chapter Summaries

The Father agreed to help the Guardians of the Universe attack He-El, but warned that their trap for Darkseid on Oa Star would fail. He demanded Doomsday’s flesh and blood so New Genesis could fight Darkseid afterward, leaving Ganthet to consult the Green Lantern Corps.

• Alex told The Father that the Olympian Pantheon had begun attacking New Krypton and that the Guardians planned to use the war to eliminate He-El.
• The Father doubted the Guardians could defeat Darkseid and explained that He-El’s ability to stand against him offered New Genesis hope.
• The Father warned Ganthet and Alex that Darkseid knew about their trap on Oa Star and that his Omega Beams would overwhelm it.
• The Father offered to help deal with He-El if the Guardians gave him Doomsday’s flesh and blood for the fight against Darkseid.
• Alex refused, but Ganthet took The Father’s warning seriously and said he would contact the Green Lantern Corps.

The Guardians of the Universe debated the danger of Darkseid’s planned attack on Oa Star and agreed to send Doomsday’s flesh and blood to New Genesis as insurance. At the New Krypton Magic Academy, Athena declared her loyalty to New Krypton and Zeus attacked her, but a mysterious hand caught his thunderbolt.

• Scarface warned the Guardians that Darkseid’s decision to attack Oa Star despite seeing through their trap meant he was confident of victory.
• The Guardians voted to send Doomsday’s flesh and blood to New Genesis so The Father could prepare to oppose Darkseid if Oa Star fell.
• Zeus demanded that Athena return to the Olympian ranks as the Twelve Olympians gathered over the New Krypton Magic Academy.
• Athena declared herself a citizen and goddess of New Krypton, its Legion Commander, and He-El’s future wife.
• Zeus hurled a colossal thunderbolt at Athena, but a hand crackling with dark lightning seized it and challenged him for attacking one of its own.

He-El confronted Zeus and the Twelve Olympians after Athena declared she had found hope and would oppose Olympus for New Krypton. He-El struck Zeus into a vast crater, then faced the remaining eleven gods as they attacked.

• He-El appeared before the Magic Academy students and stationed army, shielding them from the Olympians' pressure.
• Zeus challenged Athena for betraying the Olympian Pantheon, and Athena said she had found her hope.
• Hades and the other Olympians reacted with envy, disbelief, pity, and scorn toward Athena's choice.
• Zeus sentenced Athena to death, but He-El rushed in and smashed Zeus out of the sky, sending him into a crater more than fifty kilometers wide.
• He-El declared that Athena was his, and the eleven remaining main gods attacked him.

He-El overwhelmed the Olympian gods by briefly sending each attacker into the world of The Three-Body Problem, leaving them stunned and unable to fight. Zeus remained furious and ordered the gods to kill He-El, who sat on an iron throne and challenged them to feel what he had done.

• He-El sent Hera flying with Heat Vision after his Traversal Vortex stunned her, and Athena retreated to watch the battle.
• He-El struck Apollo, froze Poseidon inside a block of ice, and slapped Ares and his chariot away after briefly pulling each god into another world.
• He-El evaded Artemis's arrows and Hephaestus's hammer, then stopped Artemis, Demeter, Hermes, Dionysus, and Aphrodite from continuing their attacks.
• The Olympian gods who had faced He-El remained too stunned to attack again, while Zeus and Hades were the only principal gods he had not pulled into the other world.
• Zeus erupted from the ground and ordered the Olympian gods to kill He-El, who formed an iron throne from his cape and asked, “Do you feel it, gods?”

Zeus ordered the Olympian Gods to kill He-El, but the gods who had briefly experienced independent existence returned to Zeus’s side yearning for that freedom. Their response made Zeus realize that something was wrong with the gods.

• Zeus rose from the crater and commanded the Olympian Gods to attack He-El.
• Hera, Apollo, and Artemis recalled the sensation of existing as independent intelligent life-forms and flew back toward Zeus with renewed determination.
• Poseidon broke free from his ice prison and headed toward He-El, longing to regain the feeling of freedom.
• Ares rose from his wrecked chariot and joined the other gods, asking Athena whether their experience was real.
• The gods looked to Athena and understood why she had betrayed the Olympian Pantheon, while Zeus sensed their loyalty had changed.

Zeus assembled the Olympian gods, New Genesis fighters, and Guardians of the Universe to kill He-El, but the gods refused to obey him. Hera asked He-El how they could follow Athena’s path, and He-El ordered Zeus killed.

• Zeus ordered the Olympian gods to attack He-El, but a Boom Tube opened and brought The Father of New Genesis, seven fighters, and two Guardians of the Universe as reinforcements.
• Zeus condemned He-El and Athena to death and commanded the assembled forces to execute them, but the Olympian gods hesitated.
• Hera blocked the Guardians of the Universe and postponed the attack, declaring that the Olympian Pantheon needed to settle its internal matters.
• The Father restrained the Guardians of the Universe while Hera bowed to He-El and asked what price the gods must pay to pursue hope as Athena had.
• Zeus accused Hera and the other gods of betrayal, and He-El calmly ordered them to kill Zeus.

The Father confronted Ganthet over the Guardians of the Universe’s failures and revealed that a Guardian had helped He-El obtain Doomsday’s flesh and blood. Alex identified Scarface as the suspected traitor, and Ganthet pleaded to be released because Oa Star could not be allowed to fall, but The Father left their fate to He-El.

• Ganthet demanded to know why The Father had turned against the Guardians, and The Father accused them of letting Darkseid grow stronger by refusing to destroy Apokolips.
• The Father argued that the Guardians’ efforts to preserve peace would leave the universe vulnerable, then revealed that a Guardian of the Universe was cooperating with Darkseid.
• Alex deduced that Scarface had persuaded the Central Council to give He-El Doomsday’s flesh and blood, and Ganthet realized He-El had received it to help fight Darkseid.
• The Father decided that He-El was New Genesis’s only hope and resolved to support him, while Ganthet feared what Darkseid’s assault on Oa Star would unleash.
• Ganthet asked The Father to release them and spare Oa Star, but The Father said He-El would judge them, and Ganthet looked toward him.

He-El ordered the Olympian gods to kill Zeus after showing them the possibility of becoming independent beings. Hera and the others attacked Zeus, leaving him battered beneath their combined assault.

• He-El ordered the Olympian gods to kill Zeus, and Hades left Zeus's side to join the encirclement.
• Hera declared that she would kill Zeus for the chance to become her own person, then led the attack.
• Poseidon, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Artemis, and Aphrodite joined the assault, each rejecting the memories and family bonds implanted by the original body.
• Zeus fought back and blasted away several gods, but the Olympians overwhelmed him with lightning, magic, flames, and arrows.
• The gods' combined attacks badly wounded Zeus, whose anguished cries rang through the void.

He-El watched the Olympian Gods defeat Zeus and submit to him, while Zeus warned that they would betray He-El too. As The Father brought him Doomsday's flesh, He-El realized that his body and Doomsday’s might have been destined to meet and merge.

• Apollo held the defeated Zeus aloft before He-El and said the gods would need centuries to erase his body and soul.
• Zeus condemned the Olympian Gods for betraying him, but Ares, Aphrodite, Poseidon, and Hera defended their choice to follow He-El and seek independence.
• Apollo punched Zeus as He-El watched the Olympian Gods submit to him.
• He-El recognized that his body’s many superpowers and Doomsday’s adaptive physique could be complementary parts of a greater whole.
• The Father approached He-El carrying Doomsday’s flesh sealed in a transparent sphere, with two Guardians of the Universe behind him.

The Father of New Genesis offered He-El Doomsday’s flesh and secured his cooperation against Darkseid. When the captured Guardians of the Universe demanded to return to Oa Star, He-El required them to surrender their advanced Emotional Spectrum information, and Alex and Ganthet handed over their unrestricted Green Lantern Rings.

• The Father gave He-El Doomsday’s sealed flesh and agreed to cooperate against Darkseid.
• Ganthet accused He-El of conspiring with Darkseid and begged him to release the Guardians so they could defend Oa Star.
• He-El refused to let the Guardians leave without a price, saying he would otherwise let Darkseid destroy Oa Star before he killed him.
• He-El demanded all information on the Emotional Spectrum, and Ganthet rejected the demand as the foundation of the Green Lantern Corps.
• Alex removed the restrictions on his Green Lantern Ring and gave it to He-El, explaining that Oa Star held a threat capable of destroying the universe.
• Convinced by Alex’s reasoning, Ganthet also removed the restrictions on his ring and handed it to He-El.

He-El brought the Father and the Olympian gods into the The Three-Body Problem world, where they experienced the freedom of independent existence. The Father offered to merge New Genesis into New Krypton after the war with Darkseid, and Hera then offered Olympus as well.

• He-El used a Traversal Vortex to bring the Father, his star-level combatants, and the Olympian gods into the The Three-Body Problem world.
• The Father and the Olympian gods reveled in feeling their own existence, with Poseidon laughing, Demeter kissing the earth, and Aphrodite dancing.
• The Father offered to lead New Genesis against Darkseid and, if they won, merge New Genesis into New Krypton and serve as its governor.
• He-El considered the benefits of making the Father New Krypton's governor and merging New Genesis into his empire.
• Hera offered to merge the Olympian gods, the Divine Realm, its lands, and its people into New Krypton.

Hera offered the Olympian Gods and the entire Divine Realm to He-El, hoping to gain independence from their true selves. He-El accepted their allegiance on the condition that they follow New Krypton’s laws and ordered them to prepare for war against Darkseid before joining New Krypton.

• Hera offered He-El the Divine Realm, its inhabitants, and the Olympian Gods’ unconditional obedience.
• He-El warned the gods that joining New Krypton meant strict laws and the possible loss of their divine authorities.
• Hera and the Olympian Gods agreed to obey He-El and give up their territory and authorities in pursuit of independence.
• Poseidon, Ares, and the other gods declared their willingness to fight and sacrifice themselves for He-El.
• He-El ordered the Olympian Gods and The Father to fight Darkseid first and merge into New Krypton afterward.

Ganthet and Alex returned to Oa Star and warned the Guardians that Scarface was a traitor planning to let Darkseid breach the planet’s defenses. The Guardians realized she had gone to the fortress to guard the Book of Oa, leaving her location—and the threat she posed—unresolved.

• Ganthet and Alex arrived at the central assembly hall and found Scarface’s seat empty.
• Ganthet told the Guardians that Scarface planned to let Darkseid into Oa Star from within.
• The Guardians reacted with shock and considered Scarface’s support for restoring the Seven Lantern Corps as a possible motive.
• Alex asked where Scarface had gone, and the Guardians said she was in the fortress guarding the Book of Oa.

The Guardians rushed to the fortress after learning Scarface was guarding the Book of Oa, where they found she had imprisoned its guardian, Ska, and admitted to betraying them. Scarface declared that the Central Power Battery had begun to crack, leaving the Guardians facing the start of her plan.

• Ganthet and the other Guardians flew to the Book of Oa fortress after hearing Scarface was inside it.
• The Guardians found Ska trapped in a psychic labyrinth while Scarface stood before the Book of Oa.
• Scarface accused the Guardians of resisting change and failing to take Darkseid and He-El seriously.
• Ganthet tried to learn what Scarface had prepared on Oa Star so the Guardians could use it against Darkseid.
• Scarface said it had begun, and the Guardians heard that the Central Power Battery was cracking.

Thaal Sinestro emerged as a Yellow Lantern after the Green Lantern Central Power Battery ruptured and released Parallax. The explosion devastated Oa Star, killing hundreds of Green Lanterns and destroying a tenth of the planet’s surface.

• The Guardians of the Universe recognized that the cracking Central Power Battery threatened to release Parallax, whose yellow fear energy made Green Lantern Rings ineffective.
• The Green Lanterns tried to contain the battery with green constructs, but a yellow tentacle pierced one Lantern and dragged him inside.
• The Central Power Battery exploded, sending a shockwave through Oa Star and killing more than six hundred Green Lanterns while destroying the surrounding region.
• Thaal Sinestro emerged from the energy pillar wearing yellow armor and a Yellow Lantern Ring, then recited the Yellow Lantern oath of fear.

Scarface revealed that she had helped Thaal Sinestro turn his Green Lantern Ring into the Parallax Demon Ring, then faced the Guardians of the Universe after her actions destroyed the Green Central Power Battery. As the Guardians overwhelmed her, she called for He-El and was transformed by a bolt of lightning into black-gold armor.

• Scarface explained that she had sealed Parallax inside Thaal Sinestro's modified ring, allowing him to command the Yellow Lantern Corps.
• The Guardians of the Universe attacked Scarface in fury over the destruction of the Green Central Power Battery and a tenth of Oa Star.
• Scarface fled to Oa's skies, but several Guardians pursued and repeatedly battered her while Thaal Sinestro fought hundreds of Green Lanterns elsewhere.
• Scarface escaped the Guardians' encirclement, faced them, and shouted, "He-El!!!"
• A lightning bolt struck Scarface, healing her injuries and clothing her in black-gold armor as a distant gaze turned toward them.

He-El prepared New Krypton, the Olympian Gods, and New Genesis for war after sensing Scarface use his power amid chaos on Oa Star. The chapter ended with Darkseid requesting a communication link, which He-El ordered Zero to establish.

• He-El sensed Scarface using the power he had given her and witnessed chaos beginning on Oa Star through her eyes.
• The Olympian Gods reported that their legions and ancient War Ark were ready for battle.
• The Father of New Genesis reported that eight hundred million Warriors were prepared to travel through the Space Bridge.
• Zero told He-El that Darkseid had requested a communication link, and He-El ordered him to put Darkseid through.

He-El rejected Darkseid’s demand to continue their pact, prompting Darkseid to threaten him with Superman, whom he had captured and transformed into a Parademon. He-El ordered his forces to destroy Apokolips, and The Father proposed using New Genesis as a weapon against it.

• Zero concealed the conference room’s preparations from Darkseid and opened his communication call with He-El.
• Darkseid mocked He-El, claimed he had helped him obtain Doomsday’s flesh and blood, and ordered him to stay home and honor their pact.
• He-El rejected Darkseid’s demand and laughed at the prospect of upsetting him.
• Darkseid revealed Superman, threatened his life, and ended the call after demanding He-El behave.
• The Father revealed that Superman had been transformed into a Parademon, and He-El ordered his forces to destroy Apokolips.
• The Father proposed crashing New Genesis into Apokolips to create a super black hole and destroy Darkseid’s realm.

Scarface and Thaal Sinestro prepared to leave Oa Star after battling the Guardians of the Universe, but a Boom Tube opened above the planet and unleashed an Apokoliptian invasion. Steppenwolf emerged and challenged them as Parademons flooded the sky.

• Scarface used the stellar power He-El had bestowed upon her to withstand the Guardians of the Universe and announced she would leave.
• Ganthet condemned Scarface for accepting He-El's power, while she insisted she had chosen her own path.
• Thaal Sinestro defeated the Green Lanterns by exploiting their rings' yellow impurity and joined Scarface.
• A Boom Tube destabilized Oa Star's spacetime and poured a swarm of Parademons into the sky.
• Steppenwolf emerged from the Boom Tube, killed a Parademon in his way, and challenged Scarface and the Guardians.

The Boom Tube trapped Oa Star in a separate spacetime dimension, cutting off the Guardians of the Universe from their reinforcements as Green Lanterns battled Apokolips’s invasion. Steppenwolf’s forces held the Guardians at bay until Darkseid emerged from the Boom Tube.

• The Boom Tube disrupted spacetime, preventing Scarface from establishing a Mind Transmission channel and blocking the Guardians of the Universe from bringing in fifty Stellar-class reinforcements.
• The Guardians of the Universe and more than a thousand Green Lanterns attacked the Parademons while five Guardians tried to stop the Boom Tube from enclosing Oa Star.
• Superman, transformed into a Parademon, attacked the Guardians, while two Guardian Parademons joined Steppenwolf and drove back a Guardian who neared the vortex.
• Eighteen Guardians and the Green Lanterns fought back against the Parademons, but the Boom Tube sealed Oa Star off from the rest of the universe.
• Steppenwolf rallied the Parademons to chant for Darkseid, who emerged from the Boom Tube.