Chapter Summaries

Dane punished Damian for leaking Superman’s son’s birth by making him care for Jonathan Jr., while Barry considered changing the timeline to save his mother. Barry sought a way to keep Kid Flash from interfering and offered Doomsday Flash a chance to try his AI-assisted suit.

• Dane watched Damian struggle with caring for Jonathan Jr., then returned to managing Umbrella and its interworld operations.
• Barry returned home and encountered Doomsday Flash, who explained himself to Henry as a stockbroker before Henry noticed anything unusual.
• Barry welcomed Doomsday Flash and privately considered visiting another timeline to give Nora a happier life.
• Barry worried Kid Flash would discover his plan and stop him, so he looked for a way to distract it.
• Doomsday Flash asked how Barry controlled the Speed Force’s electrical effects, and Barry described Kid Flash’s help and offered him a chance to try his suit.

Barry traveled back to 2004 and killed Reverse-Flash before he could murder Nora, but Nora and young Barry saw him covered in blood and fled in fear. As Barry ran through the Speed Force Bowl, he saw that Nora was accused of Reverse-Flash’s murder because he had left the body and knife behind.

• Doomsday Barry gave Barry a nanotech suit, and Barry gave him his old elastic suit in return.
• Barry ran into the blue Speed Force space and reached the Time Bowl, where he found the moment Reverse-Flash attacked Nora.
• Barry emerged through a temporal wormhole and crushed Reverse-Flash’s heart before he could stab Nora.
• Nora mistook Barry for a threat, grabbed young Barry, and fled while Reverse-Flash died mocking Barry as a murderer.
• Barry returned to the Speed Force Bowl and saw Nora charged with murder after the authorities found Reverse-Flash’s body and the knife at the Allen home.

Barry was thrown into a timeline where Nora had been convicted and a younger Barry was about to gain the Speed Force. After meeting his younger self, Barry realized the lightning strike that would give him powers was imminent and tried to stop it.

• The court convicted Nora of second-degree murder, and Barry was sent flying out of the Speed Force Bowl by a mysterious black figure who sealed the temporal rift.
• Barry reached the Allen family home, learned Henry was visiting Nora, and hid upstairs when his younger self returned.
• The two Barrys met, and Barry learned his younger self was eighteen and had not yet gained the Speed Force.
• Barry recognized September 29 as the night his younger self would gain powers and hurried to the Research Center's Crime Lab.
• A lightning bolt struck the lab's chemical reagent counter, and Barry sprinted toward his younger self to stop the strike.

Barry lost his Speed Force while saving Little Barry, who gained the powers and began learning how to use them. After Barry prepared him a suit and planned to rebuild the Speed Force Bowl, General Zod appeared on Earth’s phones, leaving Barry alarmed by how much the timeline had changed.

• Barry accidentally fell out of the Speed Force, and the lightning and chemicals struck him and Little Barry, giving Little Barry the Speed Force while Barry lost his powers.
• Little Barry mistook Barry’s intervention for a deliberate rescue, carried him to safety, and brought him to his apartment.
• Barry explained the Speed Force to Little Barry, who raced off, caused chaos, and fell asleep from hunger and exhaustion.
• The next morning, Barry gave Little Barry a black suit stored in a ring and proposed rebuilding the Speed Force Bowl so he could return to the future.
• A message reading “You. Are. Not. Alone.” appeared on phones, and Barry recognized General Zod as he addressed Earth.

Barry and Young Barry sought Dane Davis’s help against Zod, but discovered that most of the Justice League did not exist in this world. Dane identified a Kryptonian woman held in Rússia as a possible ally and prepared to contact Batman in Gotham.

• Barry explained that Zod planned to transform Earth and decided to find Dane Davis, but searches revealed almost no information about him.
• Barry hacked Pioneer Technology’s servers to draw Cortana’s attention, and she arranged a meeting with Dane at the Detroit tower.
• Dane deduced that the two Barrys were from the future and revealed that he had not gained Shazam’s powers and that Superman did not exist in this world.
• Dane showed the Barrys a spacecraft held in Rússia and explained that its occupant was a Kryptonian woman who might help against Zod.
• Dane revealed that Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern did not exist in this world, but Batman did, and said he would prepare to go to Gotham.

Dane brought Barry and Young Barry to Wayne Manor, where they met an older Bruce Wayne and learned that Barry’s time travel had changed the timeline. After Dane revealed that a female Kryptonian was imprisoned in Siberia, the group considered rescuing her to help fight Zod.

• Dane flew Barry and Young Barry to Wayne Manor in a Quinjet and ejected them above the grounds.
• The three entered the decaying manor, where Bruce attacked Barry in the kitchen before hearing his explanation of the altered timeline and Zod’s threat.
• Barry told Bruce that his timeline’s Dane had used Cortana to monitor events, prompting Dane to question why his counterpart had not stopped Barry from changing the past.
• Bruce explained that Barry had moved onto a new timeline with a different past and future, while Dane warned that changing time could create a chaotic multiverse.
• Dane revealed that Superman did not exist on Earth but that a female Kryptonian was imprisoned at a secret Russian base in Siberia, and Bruce questioned whether she would help fight her people.

Dane, Batman, Barry, and Kid Flash rescued Kara Zor-El from a Siberian military base where she was weakened by Red Sun radiation. After recovering under the Yellow Sun, Kara attacked the mercenaries and was brought to Wayne Manor, where she awoke and questioned her rescuers.

• Dane convinced Bruce to help by explaining that Zod planned to use the Genesis Engine to transform Earth into a new Krypton, and Bruce flew to Siberia while Dane brought the two Barrys.
• Dane ejected Barry and Kid Flash from the Quinjet again, then reunited with them outside the Siberian base and used his transformed watch to cut through its gate.
• Batman and the group reached Kara's secure room, where Dane freed her as Red Sun lights weakened her and Cortana downloaded the base's Red Sun technology.
• Dane used his Mark 50 armor to disable the mercenaries, carried Kara into sunlight, and watched her recover enough strength to defeat the attackers.
• Dane and the others took Kara to Wayne Manor, where she woke beneath the sunlight and demanded to know who they were.

Dane tested whether magic existed in this world, entered the Rock of Eternity, and gained Shazam's power after sealing the Seven Deadly Sins again. He then went to Kandahar and summoned Black Adam, intending to take the power that had once been his.

• Barry told Dane what he knew about how Dane had obtained Shazam's power in another timeline.
• Dane used chalk to write magical runes on a door, opening a passage to the Rock of Eternity and proving magic existed to Barry and Kara.
• Dane found the Wizard's staff suppressing the Demon Eye and the Seven Deadly Sins, then recited “SHAZAM” and gained Shazam's power.
• Dane used his new magical knowledge to reinforce the seal on the Seven Deadly Sins and blasted them with lightning when they tried to tempt him.
• Dane flew to Kandahar, found Black Adam's prison, and summoned him with the Shazam spell.

Dane stripped Black Adam of Shazam's power, then helped Barry regain the Speed Force. The group planned to use Kara's escape pod to send Zod and his followers back to the Phantom Zone, and split up to act as the battle began.

• Dane used his scepter to take Black Adam's Shazam power and returned to Wayne Manor.
• Barry underwent a lightning experiment to regain the Speed Force, and Young Barry's Speed Force triggered Barry's recovery.
• Kara explained that Zod and his followers had escaped the Phantom Zone, and she proposed using the Phantom Drive in her escape pod to send them back.
• Dane revealed that Kara's escape pod was likely at Star Labs in Central City, while Bruce learned that A.R.G.U.S. was involved.
• Dane showed the group footage of Zod's forces attacking Earth's soldiers and split the team: Young Barry and Batman would retrieve the escape pod, while Dane, Kara, and Barry headed to the battlefield.

Dane led the fight against General Zod’s Kryptonians, using Barry and the military to weaken them before luring Zod’s forces toward the Genesis Engine in Metropolis. As the city suffered catastrophic casualties from the Engine, Kara moved to help Batman break through its defenses.

• Dane knocked Faora unconscious, fought the Kryptonians with divine lightning, and gave Barry a Kryptonian metal dagger to use against them.
• Zod broke Barry’s hand, then fought Dane in the air while Little Barry stayed on the battlefield’s edge, too frightened to help.
• Kara found the Genesis Engine in Metropolis, and Dane arranged for the Kryptonians to pursue her there while Batman brought the cargo.
• Dane killed the wounded Kryptonians left behind and stored their bodies in The Rock of Eternity, while Little Barry resented his actions.
• Batman arrived in Metropolis and saw the destruction caused by the Genesis Engine’s expanding gravity field.
• Kara told Batman the Engine’s defenses were too strong for Earth’s aircraft and flew toward it to break through them.

Dane and his allies destroyed the Genesis Engine with the escape pod’s Ghost Engine, creating a singularity that swept away most of Zod’s forces. After the debris fell and sunlight returned, Zod confronted Dane, furious that his plan to rebuild Krypton had been ruined.

• Dane weakened Zod near the Genesis Engine with the Red Sun Radiator and lightning, then struck him with a Lightning Spear.
• Batman’s Batwing could not approach the Genesis Engine, so Kara carried the escape pod toward it while Batman distracted the pursuing Kryptonians.
• Dane helped Kara against the Kryptonians, then took the escape pod and used lightning and Mercury’s Speed to send it into the Genesis Engine.
• The Ghost Engine created a singularity that pulled in the Genesis Engine, debris, and most of the Kryptonians, while Little Barry rescued Batman and Dane escaped the pull.
• After the singularity vanished and the debris fell, sunlight restored Zod’s strength; he accused Dane of destroying Krypton’s future and attacked him.

Dane killed Zod and Kara destroyed the second Genesis Engine before leaving to pursue revenge on the people who had imprisoned her. In the aftermath, the Daily Planet publicized the superhumans, while A.R.G.U.S. officials began discussing what they knew about Kara and the others.

• Dane killed Zod with a hidden spike, and Kara learned that he was dead.
• Kara destroyed the second Genesis Engine, then flew north to continue her revenge against the people who had imprisoned her.
• Dane scavenged Genesis Engine wreckage in Metropolis, while Barry wondered whether Kara would return.
• The Daily Planet published reports and photographs of Dane, Kara, Batman, and the two Flashes.
• Amanda Waller told her superior that Kara was the Kryptonian who had been traded to the Red Federation, and identified Kara's lifeboat as the ship the United States had traded for.
• Amanda told her superior that A.R.G.U.S. could not locate Dane or the Flashes and had no files on them.

Dane discovered that Cortana had hidden a Quark Ball containing energy and memories from another timeline, revealing how Barry’s actions had changed history and caused Nora Allen’s death. The chapter ended with young Barry returning home and learning that Nora was gone.

• Amanda identified Bruce Wayne as Batman, but her superior forbade her from targeting him because of his political and economic power, so she decided to act in secret.
• Dane questioned Cortana about her concealed knowledge, and she gave him a Quark Ball that released Speed Force energy and memories into him.
• Dane saw the altered timeline, learned that Barry had killed Reverse-Flash, and discovered that Nora had died in prison after exposure to the Genesis Engine’s toxic atmosphere.
• Young Barry returned home to find Henry grieving, and Henry told him that Nora was gone.

After learning that Nora had died, Little Barry entered the Speed Force and discovered that Barry Allen had been the killer who sent her to prison. He repeatedly changed the past to save Nora, but each altered timeline brought new disasters, and he finally decided to restore Barry’s original actions.

• Henry told Little Barry that Nora had been ill for years and had hidden it from him, and Little Barry ran from home in anger.
• Little Barry reached the Speed Force Bowl and traveled back to witness the murder that had led to Nora’s imprisonment.
• Little Barry recognized the killer as Barry Allen, the future Flash who had lent him the black suit.
• Little Barry tried to stop Barry from killing Reverse-Flash, but Reverse-Flash then killed Nora in the changed timeline.
• Little Barry helped Barry kill Reverse-Flash and save Nora, but Dane’s absence left Earth unable to stop Zod’s later invasion.
• After repeated attempts to prevent Zod’s destruction of the world and find Dane failed, Little Barry decided to let Barry kill Reverse-Flash as before.

Old Barry destroyed converging timelines to create a new world, then Dane placed Barry Allen’s consciousness into it. Barry awoke in a Flashpoint universe where Nora was alive and the Amazons and Atlanteans were at war, while his dreams hinted at another reality.

• Old Barry gathered altered timelines and made them collide, creating a new timeline before falling asleep as its Speed Force source.
• Dane tossed Barry Allen’s consciousness into the new timeline, where Barry awoke in a police station with memories of a strange dream.
• Barry’s colleague gave him coffee and discussed the Elastic Man murder case while news reported war between the Amazons and Atlanteans.
• Barry encountered Nora after work, realized he had forgotten her birthday, and went home with her to celebrate.
• Barry woke from another vivid dream, watched reports of the Amazons’ war with humanity, and struggled with the feeling that the world was wrong.
• Barry rushed to the police station late and found his coworkers gathered noisily together.

Barry learned that Atlantis and the Amazons had plunged humanity into a devastating war, while Cyborg and A.R.G.U.S. tried to organize a superhero response. Troubled by recurring dreams of the Justice League, Barry traveled to Gotham to find Batman, but his dreamlike familiarity with Bruce Wayne's home ended with Batman beating and interrogating him.

• Barry watched reports of Atlantis flooding Western Europe, and the conflict escalated as NATO fought the Atlanteans and Amazons, eventually using tactical nuclear weapons before supernatural beasts appeared on the battlefield.
• Atom Captain disappeared after intervening in the war, and Amanda questioned Cyborg, who could not locate him and agreed that a superhero team needed Batman.
• Barry's recurring dreams confused his memories, so he decided to find Batman in Gotham and traveled to Wayne Manor.
• Barry recognized the manor and a Wayne family photograph from his dreams, but Batman struck him and accused him of working for Gotham criminals.
• Batman interrogated Barry, who identified himself as a Central City police officer seeking Batman because they had been friends in his dream; Batman broke one of Barry's fingers and demanded to know why he had named Bruce.

Thomas Batman tested Barry Allen’s claim that his memories came from another timeline by recreating the lightning accident that gave Barry his powers. After Barry survived and recovered at super speed, Thomas believed him and asked him to help change a world threatened by escalating war.

• Batman tortured Barry, then recognized that Barry’s account of Bruce Wayne’s parents did not match his own history and questioned him about his dream.
• Barry explained that he was the Flash and described his powers; Thomas proposed that Barry’s dreams were memories from a timeline he had changed and took him to the Batcave to write down the chemicals involved.
• Thomas strapped Barry into an electric chair and struck him with lightning, nearly burning him to death, but Barry regenerated and escaped his restraints using his new speed.
• Thomas accepted that Barry’s story was likely true, while Barry’s memories began causing severe headaches when he tried to recall them.
• Barry confirmed that he had super speed and discussed making a durable suit; Thomas offered materials in exchange for Barry’s help changing the world before the war led to greater nuclear devastation.

Lois Lane uncovered how the gods enabled the Amazons and Atlanteans to resurrect, but Steve Trevor’s rescue mission ended in capture and death, exposing Lois’s presence to Diana. As the Amazons pursued Lois, Diana began planning a magical weapon, while Barry Allen finished his speed-resistant suit and vanished to test whether he could travel through time.

• Lois Lane learned that Zeus and Poseidon could arrange for fallen Amazons and Atlanteans to be reborn, and she resolved to get her intelligence off New Themyscira.
• Steve Trevor led a small rescue unit onto New Themyscira, where a two-headed hound and Amazon warriors attacked them.
• The Amazons captured Steve with the Lasso of Truth, and he revealed that his mission was to rescue Lois Lane before killing himself with a grenade.
• Diana ordered the Amazons to capture Lois Lane, while Lois escaped after identifying a weak point in New Themyscira’s magical barrier.
• Diana turned to the gods for help creating a magical weapon to counter Atlantis’s reported world-destroying weapon.
• Barry Allen completed his red speed-resistant suit and disappeared from the Batcave to test whether he could break through the time barrier.

Barry recalled that another version of himself had used the Speed Force to alter history, and Thomas traced clues about Superman and Dane Davis. Thomas agreed to join Cyborg’s government team on his own terms and recruited Barry, then they set out to find Superman; meanwhile, Deathstroke and Alexander Luthor located Atlantis’s Doomsday Device just as Atlantean forces attacked their warship.

• Barry told Thomas that he remembered altering history in his dream and encountering a younger version of himself, leading Thomas to investigate the changed timeline and the missing heroes.
• Thomas found evidence that a Kryptonian ship had crashed in Metropolis decades earlier, but he and Barry could not locate Dane Davis.
• Cyborg arrived, and Thomas agreed to join his metahuman team if he could command it and recruit his own members, including Barry as The Flash.
• Cyborg hacked into the Pentagon’s system and found the location of the person Thomas wanted to recruit, so the three headed there.
• Deathstroke confronted Alexander Luthor about their failed search at sea, and Luthor revealed that Atlantis’s Doomsday Device lay beneath their warship.
• An Atlantean warship rose beside the RAVAGER, and armored Atlanteans opened fire on Deathstroke and Luthor’s crew.

Deathstroke and Luthor’s attempt to seize Aquaman’s Doomsday Device drew the Atlanteans and Amazons into a battle, where Aquaman and Wonder Woman clashed. With the demigods occupied, the two escaped in an Atlantean fighter and found the device: a hidden fortress that moved across the seafloor.

• Deathstroke and Luthor fought the Atlanteans until Ocean Master and Black Manta arrived, then a signal brought Aquaman to the battle.
• Aquaman killed Clayface and ordered the surface-dwellers killed, but the Amazons arrived and attacked both sides.
• Wonder Woman fought Aquaman while Deathstroke pulled Luthor into the sea, and they escaped the battle in an Atlantean underwater fighter.
• Luthor stunned Aqualad with the fighter’s cannon, then piloted it with Deathstroke toward Aquaman’s Doomsday Device.
• Luthor realized the device was a mobile fortress crawling along the seafloor and asked Deathstroke whether they could reach it without being discovered.