Chapter Summaries

Hal Jordan defeated Power Ring, removed his ring, and brought him back to Seaside City, where the government concealed Power Ring’s identity. Reports of other metahumans with Syndicate members’ abilities led Night Owl to suspect that people from a parallel world had arrived, possibly connected to Alfred’s mission.

• Hal protected Carol from Power Ring, then revealed himself as Green Lantern and fought to save civilians from Power Ring’s rampage.
• Green Lantern fought Power Ring above the ocean, recognized that the ring was controlling him, and sealed the ring inside his Ring World after taking it from him.
• Green Lantern caught the powerless Power Ring and returned him to Seaside City, where the government took him into custody while hiding his true identity.
• Martian told Night Owl that people with abilities like Power Ring’s and Johnny Quick’s had appeared in Seaside City and Central City.
• Night Owl recalled Alfred’s mission in a parallel world, suspected the new metahumans had come from there, and left for Gotham to investigate.

Dane fought Mazahs on the Moon, causing destruction that drew the attention of NASA and the Crime Syndicate. Queen Super arrived after detecting the battle and found Dane holding a badly injured Mazahs.

• Dane flew to the Moon and fought Mazahs beneath its surface, using lightning and the molten metal in the lunar core against him.
• Mazahs released the force he had absorbed from Dane and the lunar core, blasting Dane through the Moon's surface before trying to lead the fight back to Earth.
• Dane prevented Mazahs from escaping and continued fighting him as their battle destabilized the Moon and was detected by observatories and NASA.
• Kid Flash helped Barry avoid Johnny Quick while analyzing Johnny Quick's limited connection to the Speed Force.
• Queen Super detected the lunar signal, took Night Owl's spacecraft to the Moon, and found Dane holding a half-dead Mazahs.

Dane defeated Mazahs, took his Shazam power, and rejected Queen Super’s offer to join the Crime Syndicate, though she unexpectedly kissed him. Meanwhile, Night Owl returned to a changed Gotham and set out to find his counterpart, Bruce Wayne.

• Dane defeated Mazahs on the moon, captured Queen Super, and brought them both back to Earth.
• Dane removed the voice power from Alexander Luthor and used Luthor’s spell to take Shazam’s power for himself.
• Queen Super killed Alexander Luthor, completing the power’s voice-password change, then invited Dane to join the Crime Syndicate.
• Dane refused the invitation and subdued Queen Super, who surrendered and then kissed him.
• Night Owl returned to Gotham, realized someone had changed his city, and suspected his counterpart Bruce Wayne was involved.
• Night Owl decided to seek out Bruce Wayne, his younger brother in another world.

Batman entered Gotham’s sewer labyrinth to meet Joker’s Gang and offer help against Night Owl. After revealing himself as Bruce Wayne, he gained a chance to prove his allegiance by presenting Alfred, whom Red Hood had secretly brought in.

• Night Owl’s control of Gotham’s network and some Wayne Enterprises satellites was reported as Batman entered the sewers to find Joker’s Gang.
• Batman fought Bane and Killer Croc when they challenged him, then surrendered to Catwoman and revealed his face and name.
• Riddler and the other survivors questioned Bruce’s identity and loyalty, while Bronze Tiger tried to attack him before Catwoman intervened.
• Batman said he had brought a gift, and Penguin identified the bound captive as Alfred as Red Hood emerged from the shadows.

Hal met Sinestro, who warned him that the evil OA planned to invade Earth after Hal sealed Power Ring, and Hal vowed the Justice League would defend the planet. In Central City, Barry settled into life in the parallel world, earning a laboratory assistant position at Central City University.

• Carol came to Hal’s home, claimed authority as his boss at Ferris Company, and took him shopping.
• Hal sensed Sinestro approaching, left Carol, and met him in the sky above Earth.
• Sinestro explained that OA had noticed Hal and intended to conquer Earth, and he asked Hal to warn the Justice League.
• Hal said the Justice League would protect the parallel Earth despite it not being their own.
• Barry learned that Iris’s fake-ID contact had cheated her, while Kid Flash secretly corrected Barry’s records.
• Barry got a laboratory assistant position at Central City University through Iris’s introduction.

Barry, as The Flash, intervened in a battle between the Rogues and Johnny Quick’s men, then raced Johnny Quick back to Central City Bank. He left the confrontation unresolved when Captain Cold’s Cold Gun fired wildly after Barry knocked it away.

• Barry learned that the Rogues were fighting Johnny Quick’s subordinates at Central City Bank and rushed there to protect civilians.
• Barry outpaced Johnny Quick, who returned to the bank after learning his men were losing to the Rogues.
• Captain Cold froze Johnny Quick’s hand with his prototype Cold Gun, and Barry caught the weapon Johnny Quick threw at him.
• Barry refused to help Captain Cold kill Johnny Quick and urged him to hand the speedster over to the police.
• Johnny Quick struck the Cold Gun as Captain Cold tried to fire it, and Barry knocked the weapon away just as its freezing ray discharged.

Barry saved civilians from Captain Cold’s freeze ray with help from Green Lantern and Sinestro, who captured Johnny Quick. Dane brought Queen Super to Demon Island, where Diana recognized her as Lois Lane from another world and prepared to face her.

• Barry used the Speed Force to move civilians out of the freeze ray’s path and redirected the weapon with debris.
• Barry’s lightning overwhelmed the freeze ray, but Green Lantern contained its explosion and Sinestro destroyed the falling frozen cloud.
• Sinestro trapped Johnny Quick, and Captain Cold tried to shoot him before the heroes explained they would capture him rather than kill him.
• Dane and Queen Super flew to Demon Island, where the Amazons saluted Dane and Queen Super learned he had conquered the island.
• Diana and Zatanna watched Queen Super arrive, and Diana went out to meet her after Zatanna suggested the Amazons might settle their rivalry with a duel.
• Queen Super traded insults with Hippolyta, and Diana’s arrival broke their tense but peaceful exchange.

Queen Super and Diana fought across Demon Island, with Diana eventually pinning Queen Super and winning their barehanded duel. Queen Super accepted the loss but continued to insist she was the woman best suited for Dane, while Zatanna revealed Pandora's Box.

• Queen Super and Diana's fight spread beyond the arena as they tested each other's strength, speed, and skills in different environments.
• Dane observed that Diana was gaining the advantage as Queen Super grew impatient, and Diana eventually restrained her with joint locks.
• Diana declared victory, and Queen Super conceded after failing to break free.
• Diana released Queen Super and offered her a hand, which Queen Super accepted before vowing that Dane would eventually see her as his best match.
• Zatanna removed her hat and pulled Pandora's Box out from inside it.

Dane learned that a threat from deep space was looming and enlisted Queen Super to help deal with the Crime Syndicate. Meanwhile, Vixen and Doctor Light dismantled gangs in Queens, prompting New York’s crime bosses to investigate the new vigilantes.

• Dane used Pandora’s Box to learn of an approaching alien threat, and Queen Super offered to help him subdue the Crime Syndicate.
• Zatanna briefly controlled Queen Super with magic, after which Dane agreed to reward Queen Super if she helped capture the Syndicate’s remaining members.
• Dane reviewed the situation and focused on Vixen and Doctor Light, who had been destroying criminal organizations in Queens.
• Vixen and Kimiyo continued raiding gangs, while local bosses gathered to decide how to stop them.
• A woman at the gang meeting presented evidence that new superhumans were acting as vigilantes, and the bosses laughed at the idea of superheroes.

Vixen met Amanda Waller, who tried to recruit her and Kimiyo against the Crime Syndicate. Waller revealed she worked for President Slade Wilson, and Vixen recognized him as Deathstroke from her own world.

• Gang leaders discussed recruiting the newly emerged superhumans, and Waller offered to speak with Vixen.
• Vixen and Kimiyo followed a lead to an empty warehouse, where Vixen found Waller waiting alone.
• Vixen questioned Waller about her loyalties, and Waller tried to persuade her to target the Crime Syndicate.
• Vixen demanded to know who stood behind Waller, and Waller said she reported directly to President Slade Wilson.
• Vixen realized Slade Wilson was Deathstroke from her world and received a telepathic message from Dane.

Rose Wilson learned that her father planned to use a planet-destroying Quantum State Bomb to deter the Crime Syndicate, and she rejected his strategy. After Wilson refused to meet Waller’s superhuman allies, Rose secretly contacted Waller and offered to meet them in her father’s place.

• Vixen told Waller that her group’s boss wanted to meet the people backing her, and Kimiyo warned that gang gunmen were surrounding the warehouse.
• Waller sent her allies away, ordered her subordinates to deal with the gunmen, and called President Wilson to discuss the new superhuman team.
• Rose overheard Wilson hesitate to meet the team, confronted him, and learned that he was relying on a Quantum State Bomb capable of destroying Earth.
• Rose argued that Wilson’s plan was reckless, then memorized Waller’s number before leaving the White House.
• Rose called Waller from home and offered to meet the superhero team on her father’s behalf.

Batman defeated Night Owl by exploiting his armor’s systems, but Catwoman rejected Batman’s choice to spare him and ended the Joker’s Gang’s alliance with Batman. Night Owl remained in custody, while Gotham’s conflict and Batman’s isolation deepened.

• Batman used Night Owl’s armor weaknesses to gain the upper hand, but Night Owl’s suit adapted and countered Batman’s fighting patterns.
• Batman’s nanotechnology locked Night Owl’s armor and disabled him, revealing Night Owl as Thomas Wayne Jr.
• Catwoman tried to shoot Night Owl, but Batman caught the bullet and shielded him from her gunfire.
• Catwoman emptied her magazine against Batman’s armor, then declared that the Joker’s Gang was no longer allied with him.
• Night Owl warned Batman that the Joker’s Gang could become Gotham’s greatest destabilizing force once the Court of Owls was gone.

Dane explained to Rose Wilson and Amanda Waller that he and the Justice League came from a parallel Earth and had intervened to stop the Crime Syndicate. He proposed diplomatic relations between their worlds, and the chapter ended with Rose asking the League to capture every Syndicate member as Dane warned that they might escape prison.

• Batman knocked Night Owl unconscious, and Red Hood brought the immobilized Dick to Dane.
• Dane met Rose Wilson with Amanda Waller and Vixen, then revealed that his team came from another Earth and that Night Owl was Thomas Wayne Jr.
• Dane explained how Outsider and Atomica had planned to help the Crime Syndicate invade his world, prompting his team to defeat the Syndicate in this world.
• Dane told Rose and Waller that the Justice League had political backing through Kandahar and proposed establishing diplomatic relations between the two worlds.
• Rose asked Dane to help capture every member of the Crime Syndicate so the public would see they were not invincible.
• Dane warned Rose that the Syndicate members would be difficult to contain and might escape from prison.

Dane learned that Night Owl’s cloned Wonder Family had stolen the planet-destroying Quantum State Bomb and went to interrogate the captured Night Owl. Night Owl admitted he had arranged for the clones to detonate it without reporting back, while Dane realized Night Owl had known about parallel worlds before Outsider’s contact with him.

• Rose told Dane that President Wilson wanted to meet him, and Dane learned that Night Owl’s Mazahs-powered clones had stolen the Quantum State Bomb.
• Dane rushed to Gotham to question Night Owl, while Dick disguised himself as Thomas Wayne Jr. to help oversee Gotham’s reconstruction.
• Night Owl told Dane he had ordered the Wonder Family to find a place and detonate the bomb without contacting him again.
• Night Owl said he had originally intended to use the bomb against Dane’s world but had acted too late.
• Dane concluded that Night Owl had learned about parallel worlds before Outsider contacted him and began questioning how Outsider and Atomica had crossed between worlds.

Dane read Night Owl’s memories and learned that Metron’s Mobius Chair had convinced him Gotham was doomed to remain evil. Night Owl sought to destroy the Main World so its hope would transfer to other universes, and he had used Outsider and Atomica’s accidental arrival as a trial for that plan.

• Dane concluded that Night Owl had targeted his world from the beginning and used his mind-reading ability to uncover Night Owl’s past.
• Night Owl’s memories revealed that Thomas Wayne Jr. had originally tried to eradicate Gotham’s evil, even killing his parents and Bruce to pursue his idea of justice.
• Metron showed Night Owl, through the Mobius Chair, that Gotham was founded on corruption and that his efforts to reform it were futile.
• Night Owl learned that the Main World’s hope could be transferred by destroying it, and he began developing a plan to exploit the multiverse’s cycles of destruction and reboot.
• Atomica had been sent by Johnny Quick to spy on Night Owl, but a fight with Alfred activated the Quantum Initiator and sent them, along with Pandora’s Box, to the Positive Matter Universe.
• After Outsider reestablished contact, Night Owl made the Positive Matter Earth a trial run for his plan to destroy the Main World.

Dane learned that the Quantum State Bomb could not be detonated without its separate activation mechanism, but the Wonder Family might seek Deathstorm to bypass that safeguard. The Justice League planned to seize the Crime Syndicate’s base by luring Ultraman into a trap, while Owlman left Dane with a cryptic claim about what he had seen.

• Dane recognized Owlman’s nihilistic doubts about reality but chose to face life directly, and Owlman told him he had seen Dane before leaving the Mobius Chair.
• President Wilson met the Justice League at the White House and explained that the Quantum State Bomb’s activation and detonation mechanisms were stored separately, making it impossible to detonate by brute force.
• Dane reasoned that the Wonder Family might need Deathstorm to activate the bomb and concluded the Justice League needed to find Deathstorm’s information at the Crime Syndicate’s base.
• Superwoman proposed luring Ultraman to the base by claiming Mazahs had been captured, with Plastic Man impersonating Mazahs and someone else posing as Owlman.
• Superwoman revealed that Ultraman’s only weakness was the sun and that he had tasked Deathstorm with creating artificial Kryptonite.

Dane’s attempt to lure Ultraman into a trap failed when Ultraman spotted clues that Night Owl and Alexander Luthor were impostors and fled to Metropolis. Dane caught up and fought Ultraman there, drawing the oppressed city’s attention as Ultraman appeared to be losing.

• Dane disguised himself as Night Owl, and he and Queen Super lured Ultraman to the Arctic base by claiming they had captured Alexander Luthor.
• Ultraman noticed that the impostors’ hearts were in the wrong positions and escaped, prompting Dane to pursue him while Queen Super watched through the base’s satellite system.
• Ultraman reached Metropolis, sent Jimmy Olsen to confront Dane, and retreated to a hidden room to absorb Kryptonite.
• Dane defeated Jimmy and found Ultraman’s Kryptonite stockpile, but Ultraman emerged enhanced and attacked him.
• Dane endured Ultraman’s Heat Vision and struck him down into Central Park, where Metropolis residents recognized Mazahs and watched their rulers fight.

Dane defeated Ultraman after he overdosed on Kryptonite, but their fight devastated Metropolis before Dane took him to President Wilson. Meanwhile, the Justice League fought the Martian, and Diana struck him with a blast of divine power that sent him flying.

• Dane used a lightning strike and a series of blows to overwhelm Ultraman, whose Kryptonite-fueled strength and arrogance had increased.
• Dane accidentally caused a massive explosion in Metropolis, knocked Ultraman unconscious, and drove the dust clouds out to sea before leaving with him.
• Dane delivered Ultraman to President Wilson and explained that Ultraman had escaped the Arctic base and taken more Kryptonite in Metropolis.
• The chapter recounted how the Martian’s betrayal and uncontrolled powers had caused Mars’s extinction, before he came to Earth and submitted to Ultraman.
• The Martian mocked the Justice League, and Diana fought him while the others held back; she finally interrupted his attempt to phase and blasted him away with divine power.

The Justice League brought Plastic Man to the battlefield to counter the Martian’s psychic attacks and restrain his Intangibility. With Batman’s device disabling that ability, Plastic Man wrapped around the Martian, who transformed into a giant dragon as the League rushed to attack.

• The Martian knocked Wonder Woman down with a psychic attack, and Green Lantern struggled to resist the same power.
• Batman recalled that Plastic Man was nearly immune to psychic abilities and had Zatanna teleport him to the battlefield.
• Batman equipped Plastic Man with a device based on Night Owl’s research that could disrupt the Martian’s Intangibility.
• Plastic Man ignored the Martian’s psychic attack and wrapped his body around him, preventing him from escaping through Intangibility.
• The Martian transformed into a giant fire dragon, and Wonder Woman bound one of its claws with the Lasso of Truth as the League attacked.

The Justice League defeated the transformed Martian while Dane and Superwoman finished their fight with Ultraman and reunited with the others. Superwoman revealed that Deathstorm was at Yellowstone Park, where the Quantum State Bomb could trigger a catastrophic geological disaster.

• Green Lantern restrained the dragon's jaws while Vixen, Doctor Light, and Red Hood helped bring it down, and Batman had Barry throw a grenade into its mouth.
• Diana knocked the Martian unconscious, and Zatanna reported that Dane had finished his fight, though Metropolis had suffered extensive damage.
• Superwoman teased Dane about their destructive natures, but Zatanna's message interrupted them before they could become intimate.
• Dane and Superwoman returned to the meeting point, where Diana described the Justice League's battle against the Martian and the team discussed the remaining Crime Syndicate forces.
• Dane asked Superwoman about Deathstorm, and she said he was at Yellowstone Park, the likely site Wilson had identified for the Quantum State Bomb.