Chapter Summaries

Metron recounted how he arranged the exchange of Highfather and Darkseid’s sons to prevent war, then confronted the Anti-Monitor on Earth-3 as the Anti-Monitor prepared to destroy the universe. The Anti-Monitor defeated Metron and declared that Darkseid was the key to everything.

• Metron described how he persuaded Darkseid and Highfather to exchange their sons, Scott and another child, helping prevent a war between Apokolips and New Genesis.
• Metron recalled that the Anti-Monitor had survived the destruction and rebirth of the universe and had begun threatening it again.
• After the Crime Syndicate left Earth-3, the Anti-Monitor arrived at the ruins and confronted Metron, who sat on the Mobius Chair.
• The Anti-Monitor drew power from the planet despite Metron’s pleas to stop and his offer to help him return to the beginning.
• The Anti-Monitor struck Metron with a red beam and said he was about to settle accounts with Darkseid, whom he called the key to everything.

The Justice League responded to an approaching object in space and reports of a woman with a Green Lantern Ring causing destruction on Earth. Meanwhile, Scott Free infiltrated Darkseid's palace to steal Apokolips battle plans, but a powerful figure confronted him.

• Jino sent Clark and Shazam into space to investigate the object approaching Earth and warned them not to fight.
• Singer reported that a woman wearing a Green Lantern Ring was causing widespread destruction, so Jino sent Batman and Diana to Earth to investigate.
• Scott Free recounted his childhood as an exchanged child enslaved on Apokolips and how he escaped to Earth as Mister Miracle.
• Scott returned to Apokolips, entered Darkseid's palace, and began downloading its battle plan files to seek help for the Justice League.
• A towering figure confronted Scott, mocked his ties to New Genesis, and shattered the blades Scott threw at him.

Diana and Batman stopped a woman controlled by a green ring from attacking civilians in New York City, but the ring’s explosion brought a mysterious assassin after Batman. Batman revealed his monstrous strength and overwhelmed her, while she remained determined to escape with the ring.

• Diana intercepted the ring-controlled woman’s tank shell and cut off the arm wearing the ring with the Sword of Hephaestus.
• Batman captured the green ring in a metal canister, but the canister exploded and prevented Singer from opening a transport channel.
• A gray-black-skinned assassin attacked Batman with scythe-like weapons and said she intended to kill him first.
• Batman transformed into a bat-winged monster and battered the assassin, revealing strength absent from the records she had studied.
• The injured assassin pulled the ring from her pocket and ordered it to send her back.

Clark and Shazam spotted three spaceships near Earth, and Clark stopped the two pursuing ships before intercepting the damaged one headed toward the planet. Its wounded pilot, Scott, called himself an Earthling, so Clark took him to the Watchtower for answers.

• Clark and Shazam noticed a silver spaceship approaching Earth, and Clark warned Shazam not to act without orders.
• Clark saw a dark-gold ship and a white ship chasing the silver one, then disabled both pursuers' engines with his Heat Vision.
• Clark stopped the silver spaceship before it could reach Earth and tore open its cockpit.
• The wounded pilot introduced himself as Scott and said he was an Earthling.
• Clark had Shazam bring Scott along and flew with them toward the Watchtower.

Scott told Jino and the Justice League that Darkseid was preparing a massive invasion of Earth, prompting Jino to call the League back for a meeting. In New York, Batman and Wonder Woman confronted a powerful metal giant after the Female Assassin failed to escape, and Batman requested backup.

• Clark and Shazam brought the wounded Scott to the Watchtower, where Jino asked him to explain what had happened.
• Scott identified himself as Mister Miracle and revealed Darkseid planned to send conquered worlds’ forces against Earth before attacking with Apokolips’s army.
• Clark, Barry, and Lex offered responses to the threat, and Jino ordered Singer to summon everyone to the Watchtower for a meeting.
• The Female Assassin’s ring bounced her back to New York, where a huge metal giant appeared before Batman and Wonder Woman.
• The giant knocked Diana aside with his hammer, and Batman used Venom’s tendrils to request support from the Watchtower.

Jino arrived in New York in time to save Diana from Anti-Monitor and began fighting the powerful intruder. Batman and Diana left the battlefield through the sewers after Jino put Batman in command of the Justice League.

• Jino intercepted Anti-Monitor's hammer strike and knocked the metal giant away from Diana.
• Batman told Jino that Anti-Monitor had arrived through the Green Lantern Ring and that his identity and abilities were unknown.
• Anti-Monitor introduced himself and attacked Jino with a bolt of lightning, which Jino countered using Zeus's Lightning.
• Batman received Jino's message putting him in command of the Justice League and urged Diana to trust Jino.
• Diana smashed open a manhole, and she and Batman escaped into the sewers while Jino fought Anti-Monitor.

Jino defeated Anti-Monitor and returned to the Justice League, where he began organizing Earth and other factions for the coming battle against Darkseid. The chapter left Batman and Lex preparing to gather forces while Jino called for criminals to be controlled with Nano-bombs.

• Anti-Monitor fled through time after realizing Jino was stronger than him, but Jino followed him to the Jurassic era and attacked him with falling dinosaurs.
• Jino seized Anti-Monitor and killed him with Heavenly Power, the roots of Yggdrasil, the light of Krypton, and Dream Power.
• Jino entered the Justice League meeting and confirmed that Anti-Monitor had been killed, easing the League’s concerns about Earth’s immediate crisis.
• Jino urged the League to unite Earth’s forces and resist Darkseid, ordering Batman to contact factions and governments and to use A.R.G.U.S.’s Nano-bombs to control extreme criminals.
• Jino assigned Lex to work with Batman, and both men left to begin organizing Earth’s forces.

Batman visited Arkham Asylum and told the imprisoned villains that he and the Justice League faced an unprecedented crisis and powerful enemy. He said he did not expect to return alive, leaving the inmates stunned by the prospect of never seeing him again.

• Bane threatened Two-Face over flipping his coin while Bane slept, and Two-Face joked about using a coin to decide how he would escape.
• Bane asked why Joker was repeatedly banging his head against the wall, and Two-Face said Batman had likely caused Joker's distress.
• Killer Croc roared at the mention of Batman, and the Arkham inmates turned toward the entrance as Batman arrived.
• The inmates shouted at Batman, then fell quiet when he ignored them and told them they might never meet again.
• Batman said he and the Justice League faced an unprecedented crisis and powerful enemy, and that he did not think he would survive.

Batman told Arkham’s prisoners that an alien invasion threatened Earth and asked them to protect Gotham if he died. Bane and Joker rallied the inmates to help defend the city, leaving them united behind Joker’s plan, Operation Save the Bat-Kid.

• Batman explained that Earth faced a grave crisis and said he wanted the prisoners to protect Gotham after his death.
• Bane insisted that Batman must not die at the hands of the invaders and urged the inmates to help him.
• The prisoners argued over whether they should defend Gotham, while Joker threatened those who opposed the plan.
• Joker announced the Arkham Escape Plan and gathered the inmates’ support for Operation Save the Bat-Kid.

Jino and Mister Miracle traveled to New Genesis to recruit Highfather into an alliance against Darkseid, and Jino warned that the planet was about to be destroyed. Highfather's son challenged Jino to a fight, and Jino invited him to attack.

• Highfather learned that two visitors from Earth could travel through space without spacecraft and ordered them brought before him.
• Mister Miracle agreed to accompany Jino to New Genesis, despite warning that Highfather was wary of Darkseid.
• When Highfather asked his name, Mister Miracle called himself Nomad and showed no warmth toward his biological father.
• Jino warned Highfather that New Genesis was about to be destroyed, provoking anger among the ruler's guards and children.
• Subid challenged Jino to a fair battle, and Jino ignored the sword at his feet and told him to make his move.

Jino secured New Genesis as an ally by demonstrating his overwhelming power and convincing Highfather to oppose Darkseid. After leaving the planet with Mister Miracle, Jino headed for Oa to recruit the Green Lanterns.

• Subid attacked Jino with his lightsaber, but Jino caught the blade, broke it, and threw him to the floor.
• Highfather dismissed the others, and Mister Miracle told him about Darkseid’s plot and the coming catastrophe.
• Jino revealed his vast power, persuading Highfather to cooperate against Darkseid.
• At a banquet, Mister Miracle reflected that Earth was his home and that he could not love New Genesis again.
• Jino and Mister Miracle left New Genesis for Oa, where Jino planned to seek the Green Lanterns’ support.

Jino and Mister Miracle arrived on Oa, where Green Lantern Sinestro questioned them about their business. Jino recognized Sinestro as the future leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps, and the chapter left their meeting before he answered.

• The chapter recounted how Krona's experiment created the multiverse and the Anti-Matter Universe, leading to his exile from Maltus.
• The Maltusians split, and one group settled on Oa, discovered the Emotional Entities, and created the Green Lantern rings and Corps.
• Jino and Mister Miracle approached Oa, where Sinestro stopped them and identified Earth as belonging to Sector 2814, protected by Abin Sur.
• Sinestro introduced himself as a protector of the Green Lantern Corps and asked Jino and Mister Miracle why they had come.
• Jino recognized Sinestro's history as a tyrant who would later be exposed by Hal Jordan, exiled, and allied with Parallax to create the Yellow Lantern Corps.

Jino forced Sinestro to take him and Mister Miracle to Oa, where he asked the Guardians of the Universe to join the fight against Darkseid. The Guardians refused to send Green Lanterns, offering only material aid and condemnation.

• Sinestro tried to send Jino and Mister Miracle away, but Jino confronted him with knowledge of the people he had enslaved on his homeworld.
• Sinestro led Jino to a nearby planet and threatened him, but Jino crushed his pistol, nullified his ring's shield, and forced him to agree to bring them to the Guardians.
• Sinestro took Jino and Mister Miracle to Oa, then left them to speak with the Guardians of the Universe.
• Jino asked the Guardians to ally with him against Darkseid, while Mister Miracle noticed fear in several Guardians' eyes.
• The Guardians refused to commit Green Lanterns to the fight, but offered material aid and promised to condemn Darkseid.

Darkseid reflected on his rise to power and sent his Parademon army to Earth, while Batman prepared for the coming war. The invasion began when Parademons appeared across Gotham City and attacked its civilians.

• Darkseid recalled how Yuga Khan disappeared, how he killed Heggra, and how he remade Apokolips into a world ruled by strength.
• Darkseid gathered his subordinates and ordered the Parademon army to go to Earth and slaughter.
• Batman considered the uncertain outcome of the coming war as Venom asked whether he was afraid.
• Alfred alerted Batman that Gotham City's energy detectors had registered a threat beyond their limits.
• Parademons emerged from blue teleportation pillars across Gotham City and opened fire on the crowds.
• Batman leaped from a tower and declared that the war had begun, while Venom eagerly anticipated the slaughter.

Parademons invaded cities across the world, forcing Batman and the Justice League to fight an overwhelming assault. As Clark battled the arriving Kalibak in Metropolis, Diana faced Granny Goodness and her warriors in London.

• Batman and Venom fought Parademons while Batman contacted the Justice League and warned that the invaders were appearing worldwide.
• Barry fought Parademons in Tech City, Clark defended Metropolis, Diana battled in London, and Aquaman sent Atlantis's army to protect coastal cities.
• Kalibak appeared in Metropolis and challenged Clark, and the two began trading powerful punches.
• Granny Goodness arrived in London with female warriors and sent them to attack Diana.
• Diana blasted Granny Goodness's warriors away and attacked her, but Granny Goodness dodged and invited Diana to serve Darkseid.

Jino and Mister Miracle reached Apokolips, where Jino created and launched a destructive orb at the planet. Darkseid learned that the invasion of Earth was going well, then saw a brilliant light erupt from Apokolips's slave mines.

• Jino flew to Apokolips with Mister Miracle and learned that its blue beams were teleportation devices.
• Jino formed a golden orb, infused it with Dream Power and Yggdrasil's laws, and gave it guaranteed impact.
• Jino hurled the orb at Apokolips and commanded it to explode.
• Darkseid heard from Desaad that his forces were holding back the Justice League while Parademons attacked Earth's humans.
• Darkseid asked where Jino Luthor was, then saw a dazzling light swell from the slave mines.

Jino destroyed Apokolips, but Darkseid emerged from the wreckage and the two began fighting. With the transmission channels shut down, Earth’s defenders turned to wiping out the remaining Parademons and preparing to support Jino.

• Jino unleashed his full power and destroyed Apokolips, but Darkseid survived and confronted him.
• Jino and Darkseid clashed, while Mister Miracle watched their battle unfold.
• Clark fought Kalibak as Singer reported that Faora and Kara had cleared Kansas and that the military’s nuclear launch attempt had been stopped.
• The transmission channels went dark, and Faora arrived to face Kalibak as Clark suspected Jino had succeeded.
• Batman learned that Jino had likely succeeded and ordered Earth’s defenders to eliminate the remaining invaders before supporting him.

After Darkseid’s defeat, Jino rested at home and spent time with Clark, reflecting on their lives as superheroes. Jino and Clark decided to attend their senior-year reunion together.

• Jino defeated Darkseid after a prolonged battle that devastated a region of space, and the Justice League took charge of the aftermath.
• Jino returned to his castle, where Kara Zor-El, Faora, Old Butler Jack, and Lex welcomed him as he took time to recover.
• Jino joined Clark for a metahuman football game at Kent Farm, and Clark told him that Lana Lang had found a new boyfriend.
• Clark mentioned their senior-year reunion, and Jino agreed to attend with him.

Jino and Clark attended a crowded dance party in Smallville, where they signed autographs and encountered familiar faces from their past. Abby, now beautiful and confident, flirted with Clark, prompting Lana to approach him as jealousy stirred between the women.

• Jino funded Jack's dance party, and Jack spread the news that Jino and Clark would attend, drawing a large crowd.
• Clark and Jino signed autographs while Clark noticed Little Black Pete keeping his distance and saw Lana with her boyfriend, Chloe, and Lois.
• Abby introduced herself to Clark, reminding him that she had been mocked for her appearance in high school and revealing that she had once written him a love letter.
• Abby flirted with Clark, and Lana, watching from across the bar, grew jealous and headed over with her boyfriend.
• Lana greeted Clark, while Abby recognized her intentions and reacted with disgust.

Jino left his vacation after Abby and Lana Lang competed over Clark, then returned to Stark Tower and accepted Thor’s challenge to fight. The chapter ended as Jino stopped Mjolnir with one finger.

• Abby sat on Clark’s lap and declared that she wanted to date him, while Lana Lang confronted her.
• Jino left the bar and suddenly appeared at Stark Tower, where he teased Tony about Pepper Potts and proposed throwing a party.
• Thor told Jino that Loki had escaped Asgard after stabbing him with a paralyzing blade.
• Thor challenged Jino over the damage he had caused to Asgard, and Jino agreed to fight him using one finger.
• Thor flew outside and hurled Mjolnir at Jino, who halted the hammer with his index finger.