Chapter Summaries

Jino rejected Jor El’s offer to inherit Kryptonian destiny and build a Kryptonian world, insisting that he chose his own identity and actions. He destroyed Jor El’s orb and declared that he was human.

• Jor El showed Jino visions of Chloe, Lionel, and Lex, using their secrets to persuade him that humanity was vile and that he should join the Kryptonians.
• Jino dismissed Jor El’s accusations, arguing that people should be judged by their actions rather than their thoughts or feelings.
• Jino used his Bio-field to break the dungeon’s chains and attack Jor El’s orb with Heat Vision.
• Jino overwhelmed the orb’s energy shield and destroyed it, silencing Jor El.
• Jino laughed at the wreckage and declared that he was human.

Clark was lured by Jor-El, who branded him with the House of El crest and mind-controlled him into going to the Luthor Chemical Plant. Lex discovered an invulnerable intruder approaching the factory and sent Bizarro to stop him while calling Jino for help.

• Clark found an orange sphere in the hospital flowerbed after hearing Jor-El call to him.
• Jor-El promised Clark answers about his birth mother, then branded his chest with the House of El crest and took control of his mind.
• Jor-El ordered Clark to go to the Luthor Chemical Plant and bring him everything there.
• Lex evacuated the underground laboratory after a guard reported that an intruder had broken into the factory and could not be stopped by bullets.
• Lex sent Bizarro to confront the intruder and called Jino for help.

Clark, controlled by Jor-El, fought his way into Lex's underground base and seized a strange mask, but its Quantum Energy erupted and pulled both Clark and Jino into a Spatial Wormhole. Lex was left behind and hurried to capture the lingering signals in hopes of saving his brother.

• Clark defeated Bizarro and forced his way through the metal doors into Lex's experimental base.
• Clark found Lex fleeing with a strange mask and took it from him.
• Jino arrived and fought Clark for the mask, but its Quantum Energy engulfed them both and formed a Spatial Wormhole.
• The Spatial Wormhole swallowed Jino and Clark before closing, leaving Lex alone in the wrecked laboratory.
• Lex went to the experimental counter to capture the fading signals and search for a way to save his brother.

Jino and Clark were thrown through time and space, crashing into 1943 Brooklyn during World War II. Jino emerged from the impact and declared himself a god from beyond the universe to a stunned Steve Rogers.

• Jino and Clark hurtled past universes and crashed into a solid surface.
• In Brooklyn, Steve Rogers was beaten by thugs after objecting to an enlistment advertisement.
• A blazing object fell from the sky and crashed near Steve, scattering the thugs and leaving him stunned.
• Jino emerged from the crater with wings and used Singer to identify the era as World War II.
• Steve asked Jino if he was an angel, and Jino declared himself a god from beyond the universe.

Erik witnessed a mysterious young man named Clark fall from the sky into a German prison camp, where Klaus Schmidt took him captive after discovering his skin could not be pierced. Clark woke in an unfamiliar room and learned from Schmidt that he was in Germany.

• German soldiers shot an elderly woman who fell behind during a march through the prison camp, while Erik watched with his father.
• A meteor crashed in the nearby forest, and German soldiers investigating the crater found an unconscious young man.
• Klaus Schmidt arrived, tried and failed to stab Clark, then ordered the soldiers to carry him back to camp.
• Clark woke in a locked room and saw armed soldiers wearing World War II German uniforms.
• Klaus Schmidt introduced himself to Clark and welcomed him to Germany.

After meeting Steve Rogers, Jino flew to a coastal island and encountered Zheng Xian and Zhang Heng’s disciple after they had defeated a Japanese invasion force. Jino then appeared over Japan, where the Emperor mistook him for a god.

• Steve Rogers introduced himself to Jino, who promised to visit him in thirty minutes and flew away.
• Jino found Zheng Xian and his bald disciple on a coast covered with the bodies of Japanese invaders.
• Zheng Xian recognized Jino as a formidable stranger, and Jino left after confirming he no longer needed to intervene.
• Jino appeared floating above a palace in Tokyo, and the Japanese Emperor hailed him as a god.

Jino destroyed Eastern Island with meteors after its people celebrated him as their god, then vanished as powerful beings across Earth and the universe sensed his arrival. In Brooklyn, Steve Rogers waited anxiously for a mysterious visitor, and the chapter ended as he opened the door to reveal a pair of expensive black shoes.

• The people of Eastern Island celebrated Jino as their god, but Jino told Singer that they had mistaken his intentions.
• Jino covered the sky in darkness and summoned enormous meteors that shattered Eastern Island, killing its inhabitants and the Japanese Emperor.
• Sorcerers from Kamar-Taj, the king of Asgard, and a purple-skinned giant sensed Jino’s power, but he vanished before they could trace him.
• Zheng Xian and his disciple watched the meteors fall into the sea, and the disciple admitted that he believed Jino could kill them with a finger.
• Steve Rogers prepared for a mysterious visitor in his Brooklyn apartment and rushed to answer the door, where he saw expensive black shoes.

Clark learned that he was imprisoned in wartime Germany and suspected Jino had destroyed Eastern Island, while Jino took Steve to the Technology Expo, where Steve could begin his path to becoming a super soldier. The chapter ended with Jino telling Steve that the expo would change his fate.

• Clark planned to rescue the prisoners and find a way back to his own timeline, then burned his notes when Dr. Schmidt approached.
• Dr. Schmidt told Clark that Eastern Island had been bombed and sunk, and Clark wondered whether Jino had done it but denied knowing who was responsible.
• Steve asked Jino for a way to become stronger so he could enlist and fight evil, and Jino agreed to take him somewhere.
• Jino led Steve through Brooklyn to the Technology Expo and said it would change his fate.

Jino abducted Dr. Erskine from a technology exhibition and brought him to a village in the Himalayas, where he refused to let the doctor choose whether to go with him. After leaving Erskine guarded, Jino headed for a hidden palace in the mountains to seek someone out.

• Jino used Steve to find Dr. Erskine at a technology exhibition, then gave Steve a vial of Amber Gold and approached the doctor.
• Plainclothes agents confronted Jino, but he threw one aside, resisted their bullets, and knocked out several agents with his Bio-field.
• Jino caught up with Dr. Erskine and carried him through the exhibition hall's skylight, flying east with him.
• In a Himalayan village, Jino told Dr. Erskine he would take him to a more advanced world, then left him in a woman's care despite his refusal.
• Jino leaped toward a palace concealed behind a transparent barrier in the Himalayan blizzard.

Jino found the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj and learned that Clark was in Germany. He arrived as Clark was recaptured by Schmidt, killed Schmidt with Heat Vision, and left Clark and the rescued civilians free.

• Jino reached Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One agreed to reveal Clark's approximate location if Jino left Earth afterward.
• The Ancient One located Clark in Germany, where Clark had escaped with imprisoned civilians and was searching for a missing boy named Erik.
• Schmidt caught up with Clark, threatened to kill a child, and forced Clark to surrender.
• Jino arrived and ordered Schmidt to release the child, but Schmidt insisted that a gun made him faster.
• Jino killed Schmidt with Heat Vision before Schmidt could finish speaking.

Jino and Clark targeted Red Skull’s Hydra base to obtain the energy needed for multiversal travel, but their arrival turned into a fight with Hydra’s forces. Jino froze the soldiers and crushed Red Skull’s limbs, leaving Red Skull begging for his life.

• Jino told Clark they needed an energy source for multiversal travel and planned to contact Red Skull using Schmidt’s identity.
• Red Skull rallied his Hydra army and prepared to use Cosmic Cube-powered bombs, but refused Schmidt’s request to visit.
• Clark crashed through the ceiling into Red Skull’s base and survived the soldiers’ energy-beam attack.
• Jino arrived and froze the Hydra soldiers with his True Ice Freeze Ray.
• Jino used his Bio-field to break Red Skull’s limbs, and Red Skull pleaded with him not to kill him.

After returning with the Cosmic Cube and Dr. Erskine, Jino learned that Clark had been controlled by Jor-El, an energy entity. He went to the Native American Cavern to confront Jor-El and began attacking him with the Cube.

• Jino killed Red Skull and ordered Dr. Zola to lead him and Clark to the Cosmic Cube.
• Jino used Singer to extract the Cosmic Cube's energy, and he and Clark vanished in a burst of blue light.
• Three weeks later, Lex tracked Jino to the Luthor Chemical Plant, where Jino returned with the Cosmic Cube and Dr. Erskine.
• Jino told Lex that Jor-El had controlled Clark and said he planned to kill the energy entity.
• Jino opened a spatial rift into the Native American Cavern and unleashed the Cosmic Cube's energy against Jor-El.

Clark returned to Kent Farm, overheard that Martha had miscarried, and blamed himself before hiding in the barn and deciding to leave. After defeating Jor-El, Jino visited the Kents and learned Clark had disappeared again, leaving Martha afraid she might lose him too.

• Clark reached the farmhouse but overheard Jonathan and Martha discussing Martha's miscarriage and his return.
• Clark hid in the abandoned barn, blamed himself for the loss, and decided that leaving was best.
• Jino put away the Cosmic Cube after Jor-El died and the passageway closed.
• Jino visited Kent Farm and told Jonathan that he and Clark had been exiled to another planet by Jor-El.
• Jonathan said Clark had returned but vanished, and Martha pleaded with him to bring Clark home.

Jino investigated a spacecraft that arrived at the Quarry Cavern and found Kara Zor-El, Clark's cousin, inside. He woke her, but instead of attacking, Kara began crying and accused him of bullying her.

• Singer detected an unidentified craft descending toward the Quarry Cavern and guided Jino there through a Spatial Tunnel.
• Jino tracked the crash trail into the cavern and found a futuristic spacecraft bearing the crest of House of El.
• Jino smashed the spacecraft's shell and discovered Kara Zor-El sleeping inside.
• Jino recognized Kara as Clark's cousin and the future Supergirl, then pinched her cheek to wake her.
• Kara woke up, swatted Jino's arm, and burst into tears while he watched her confusion.

Jino brought the young Kara Zor-El to Luthor Manor, learned that she had come to Earth to protect her cousin, and told her to look for Carl El. Lana Lang and Chloe then visited, worried about Jino and Clark, and asked where Clark had gone.

• Kara Zor-El ate fried chicken at Luthor Manor while the maids speculated that she was Jino's girlfriend.
• Jino asked Kara how she had reached Earth, and she explained that she had slept through the journey and had come to protect her cousin, Carl El.
• Kara decided that Jino was her cousin and offered to protect him, but Jino corrected her and sent her to take a bath.
• Old Butler Jack told Jino that Lana Lang and Chloe were waiting outside, and Jino invited them into the manor.
• Lana Lang and Chloe asked where Jino and Clark had been, and Jino told them they had been trapped somewhere and escaped.
• Lana Lang asked where she could find Clark, and Jino remembered that Clark had said he wanted some peace and quiet.

Clark encountered a super-fast boy stealing bread in a Metropolis supermarket and chased him across the city, hoping to learn his connection to Smallville. The boy escaped across the sea, leaving Clark wondering what he knew about Jino and Clark.

• Clark finished his construction work, went to a supermarket, and watched bread vanish from the shelf.
• Clark caught a yellow-haired boy with a backpack full of bread, but the boy mentioned Uncle Jino and Uncle Clark and denied knowing what Clark meant by Smallville.
• The boy broke free using golden lightning and raced out of the supermarket, and Clark pursued him through Metropolis.
• The boy ran across the sea and taunted Clark, who stopped at the water's edge and wished Jino were there.

Jino learned from Clark about the mysterious speedster and discovered that the boy had stolen Kara’s steak at Luthor Manor. Jino caught Bart using his speed to escape and threatened to kill him.

• Lana pleaded with Jino to find Clark, while Jino admitted he only knew Clark was in Metropolis.
• Kara appeared in the living room, asked for chicken legs, and left Chloe shaken enough to hurry home.
• Jino called Clark to ask about the boy, while Kara discovered that her steak had vanished from her plate.
• Bart ate the stolen steak beside the pool and tried to run back for more food, but an unseen force stopped him.
• Jino appeared behind Bart, gripped his neck, and demanded a reason not to kill him.

Jino questioned Bart Allen about his arrival from the future and learned that Bart had come to the present to survive the Speed Force’s effects on his aging. After using a Talent Replication Card on Bart, Jino gained the Speed Force and prepared to explore it and the timeline.

• Bart told Jino that he was Barry Allen’s grandson, had come from the thirty-first century, and used the codename Impulse.
• Bart explained that his inherited Speed Force power had rapidly aged him, so his grandmother sent him to the present to stabilize it.
• Jino tried to learn what his future self was like, but Bart refused to reveal anything, so Jino decided to use a Talent Replication Card on him.
• Jino took Bart to Luthor Manor’s hall, where Kara asked whether he had found the thief and then went with Bart to the kitchen for food.
• Jino’s Golden Card copied Bart’s power, granting him the Speed Force, and he unleashed its lightning as he prepared to run.

Jino pushed through the Speed Force corridor and traveled into the past, emerging in the ocean in 1918 with his strength nearly spent. As German warships approached, their soldiers saw him walking on the water and wondered if he was Jesus.

• Jino accelerated through the Speed Force corridor until he entered a strange blue space filled with scenes from his past.
• Jino ran beyond his own memories and was swept away by a surge of blue light as history rewound.
• Jino emerged in the ocean in 1918, where he crashed through a World War I-era plane before plunging into the sea.
• Exhausted, Jino started toward nearby islands to rest, but German warships approached through the fog.
• A German soldier spotted Jino standing on the water and wondered if he was Jesus.

Jino killed a squad of German soldiers who fired on him, then discovered a Mother Box on Themyscira and approached the island. Queen Hippolyta welcomed him as an honored guest, and Jino introduced himself as a god.

• German soldiers encountered Jino standing on the sea, and one fired at him, prompting the squad to attack.
• Jino froze the soldiers and their sailboat with his Extreme Blue Beams, then sensed a Mother Box on a nearby island.
• Hippolyta recognized Jino’s power and ordered the Amazons not to attack, instructing them to welcome him if he came ashore.
• Jino walked across the sea toward Themyscira, and Hippolyta had the Amazons dismount and greet him.
• Jino asked Hippolyta for food and told her she could call him a god.