Chapter Summaries

Duke prepared a Saiyan clone and spacecraft for his planned show, but General Zod’s broadcast revealed a Kryptonian threat to Earth and disrupted his plans. As governments began searching for Kryptonians, citizens flooded hotlines with reports, including accusations against superheroes and Batman.

• Duke created a Nappa clone, equipped him with a battle suit and scouter, and prepared to begin his plan the next day.
• General Zod broadcast a warning across Earth, demanding that Kal-El surrender within one planetary day or Earth would face the consequences.
• Duke dismissed the threat and kept his Saiyan plan, while superheroes across Earth prepared to respond to the Kryptonians.
• Duke met several newcomers from other worlds in Unknown Space and received their memories from the Duke of Fighting World.
• After one day of the countdown, governments launched the operation Finding Kryptonians Among Us, and citizens reported suspected aliens, superheroes, and Batman.

Clark Kent surrendered himself to General Zod in hopes of preventing war, but refused to let the Kryptonians transform Earth and kill humanity. As Zod began deploying the World Engine, Earth’s Superheroes assembled in Metropolis, while Duke prepared to take over the plot as Vegeta.

• Batman’s popularity surged after Heath Ledger uploaded a close-up photo, while the government searched for the hidden Kryptonian.
• Clark Kent revealed himself to the Great American Empire Defense Department as Kal-El and surrendered to the Kryptonians.
• General Zod demanded the Codex to rebuild Krypton on Earth, but Superman refused to sacrifice humanity and defeated Zod and Faora in battle.
• Superman told the Great American government about Zod’s plan, and the government activated its backup plan for war.
• After adapting to Earth’s atmosphere and growing stronger, Zod ordered the World Engine deployed to transform Earth, prompting the Superheroes to gather in Metropolis.
• Duke styled his hair as Vegeta, reviewed the plan with Nappa, and prepared to take over the plot.

Two World Engines began transforming Earth while the superheroes struggled to stop the Metropolis machine, and the military hesitated to use nuclear weapons against the city. Vegeta and Nappa arrived, destroyed the World Engine, and announced their intent to kill everyone and sell the planet.

• The World Engines altered Earth's gravity and terrain, while a military expert warned that the planet would become uninhabitable.
• A general refused to authorize a nuclear strike on Metropolis and instead sent fighter jets and missiles, but the gravity field crushed the attacks.
• The superheroes fought Faora and her Kryptonian soldiers as the expanding gravity field caused widespread destruction.
• A spacecraft entered the atmosphere and crashed into the World Engine, shutting it down.
• Vegeta and Nappa emerged from the spacecraft, and Vegeta ordered Nappa to kill everyone without damaging the planet too badly.

Nappa and Vegeta revealed themselves as Saiyans who planned to sell Earth, and Nappa attacked the superheroes in Metropolis. The heroes survived his bombardment behind Green Lantern’s shield, while Vegeta blocked the Kryptonians and identified them as valuable merchandise.

• Batman questioned Vegeta and Nappa, and Nappa declared that the Saiyans were the universe’s strongest warrior race.
• Nappa attacked Batman, who dodged his first punch but was kicked through a wall.
• Green Arrow hit Nappa with an explosive arrow, but Nappa emerged unharmed and unleashed a barrage of Energy Blasts.
• Green Lantern shielded the superheroes from Nappa’s bombardment, and Wonder Woman stepped forward to fight him.
• Faora prepared to retreat, but Vegeta blocked the Kryptonians and said he planned to sell the survivors of Krypton.

Nappa overwhelmed the superheroes until Superman arrived and rescued them from his Big Bang Attack. General Zod joined the battlefield, while Vegeta ordered Nappa to capture the Kryptonians alive and warned him that Superman and Zod were different from the others.

• Wonder Woman and the superheroes surrounded Nappa, but his superior strength and speed let him defeat them and damage Batman's mech.
• Nappa unleashed a Big Bang Attack that swallowed the superheroes in a massive explosion.
• Superman appeared above the battlefield carrying the rescued heroes.
• General Zod arrived and rejoined the Kryptonians as Faora explained Nappa's strength.
• Nappa asked Vegeta if he could kill the Kryptonians, but Vegeta ordered him to capture them alive and warned him about Superman and Zod.

Superman defeated Nappa while Vegeta effortlessly overwhelmed Zod’s five Kryptonian soldiers. After Nappa apologized for losing, Vegeta killed him, leaving the heroes and Kryptonians stunned and declaring that defeated trash had no right to live.

• Superman dodged Nappa’s attack and struck him hard, then defeated him with Heat Vision after Nappa charged again.
• General Zod ordered five Kryptonian soldiers to attack Vegeta, but Vegeta evaded their blows and knocked them all away with a single counterattack.
• Superman told Vegeta to take Nappa and leave Earth, while the other heroes celebrated Nappa’s defeat.
• Nappa apologized to Vegeta and asked to return to the spacecraft for treatment, but Vegeta called him useless and blasted him to ashes.
• Superman demanded to know why Vegeta had killed Nappa, and Vegeta said defeated Saiyan trash had no right to live.

Vegeta and Superman moved their battle to the Sonora Desert, where Vegeta revealed his Saiyan pride and attacked with overwhelming force. As Vegeta bombarded Superman with Ki Blasts, the other heroes and Zod followed behind, while the United States seized the alien technology and bodies left at the battlefield.

• Vegeta challenged Superman to choose a remote battlefield, and they flew to the Sonora Desert as Zod, Faora, and the other heroes followed.
• Zod planned to kill Vegeta if Superman lost, then eliminate Superman and claim Earth for the Kryptonians.
• The United States military secured the World Engine, alien corpses, and the Saiyan spacecraft for study.
• Vegeta declared himself the strongest Saiyan and claimed Kakarot and Broly were weaklings, while Superman suspected stronger Saiyans existed.
• Superman struck Vegeta, but Vegeta blocked the punch and knocked him into a rock formation with a blow to the abdomen.
• Vegeta unleashed a continuous barrage of Ki Blasts at the buried Superman, laughing as explosions tore through the desert.

Vegeta overwhelmed Superman, then fought General Zod and challenged the Kryptonians to attack him together. Superman, Zod, and Faora charged Vegeta as the Flash secretly sent coordinates to the Batplane.

• Vegeta battered Superman across the sky and blasted him into the desert with a Flash Cannon.
• General Zod joined the fight, and Vegeta taunted him while dodging his trained attacks.
• Superman recovered and joined Zod, while Deputy Commander Faora flew over to help them.
• The Flash crouched in a bush and sent the coordinates to the Batplane.
• Superman, Zod, and Faora charged Vegeta, who threatened to destroy the planet if they failed to entertain him.

Vegeta fought Zod, Faora, and Superman in the desert, eventually overpowering Superman and blasting him into a crater. As Zod and Faora disappeared, a nuclear missile approached Vegeta, who remained confident it could not hurt him.

• Zod grabbed Vegeta's wrist to create an opening, and Superman and Faora attacked alongside him.
• Vegeta threw Zod into Superman, knocked Faora away, and battled all three Kryptonians as they adapted and pressed their attack.
• Batman identified an incoming nuclear warhead on the Batplane's radar, while the others worried about Superman and humanity's last weapon.
• Superman seized Vegeta and carried him toward the edge of the atmosphere, but Vegeta escaped, battered Superman, and hurled him into the desert.
• Vegeta fired a Big Bang Attack into Superman's crater, then noticed Zod and Faora had vanished and saw a nuclear missile approaching.
• Vegeta folded his arms in midair and dismissed the nuclear bomb as harmless fireworks.

Vegeta survived the nuclear strike and revealed his overwhelming power by entering a Super Saiyan Simulation State. He defeated Faora and Zod, then seized Superman and declared the fight over.

• Vegeta emerged unscathed from the nuclear blast and destroyed the drone sent to check on him.
• Vegeta explained that he would become a Super Saiyan, then activated his Super Saiyan Simulation State and called himself Super Vegeta.
• Vegeta struck Faora so hard that she flew off toward the horizon.
• Vegeta blocked Zod, endured his punch, and sent him crashing deep underground with a Lightning Speed Fist.
• Vegeta seized Superman by the throat and deflected his Heat Vision with golden flames.

Superman awakened Solar Flare Mode and fought Vegeta across Earth and space, but Vegeta kept pace and regained the advantage with a teleporting counterattack. The battle continued with Superman trapped in Vegeta’s barrage of blows.

• Superman activated Solar Flare Mode, broke free of Vegeta’s grip, and blasted him into the sky with heat vision.
• Superman struck Vegeta with a series of powerful attacks, sending him crashing into a vast desert crater.
• Vegeta released his full power and met Superman’s next attack head-on, producing an explosion that tore through space.
• Vegeta used Lightning Speed Fist to batter Superman into the ground, but Superman recovered and charged at him again.
• Superman and Vegeta fought at extreme speed across the sea, the poles, and outer space.
• Vegeta used an afterimage to appear behind Superman, struck his back, and trapped him in a barrage of punches.

Vegeta overwhelmed Superman with a Final Flash that battered him across the Moon, but Superman absorbed sunlight and counterattacked from the Sun. Vegeta began charging a Final Flash Kamehameha as Superman’s golden-lit Heat Vision rushed toward him.

• Vegeta tracked Superman’s afterimages by his ki and struck him with a Final Flash that drove him into the Moon and carved a huge crater into its surface.
• Vegeta repeatedly attacked Superman on the Moon and in space, leaving him badly injured as satellites transmitted the fight to Earth.
• Vegeta grabbed Superman and threatened to destroy Earth, but Superman broke free and flew toward the Sun while Vegeta shot at him.
• Superman absorbed sunlight at the Sun, but Vegeta fired another Final Flash and sent him toward it.
• Superman fired golden-lit Heat Vision from the Sun at Vegeta, who began charging a Final Flash Kamehameha.

Superman defeated Vegeta with a solar-powered attack and left him buried in a crater, then joined the other heroes as Batman proposed forming a team. The heroes thought Vegeta was dead, but he erupted from the crater alive and threatened to kill them all.

• Superman overpowered Vegeta with Heat Vision, then drove him into a crater as his own energy ran out.
• Wonder Woman and the other heroes arrived, and Green Arrow assumed Vegeta had been melted in the crater's magma.
• Batman proposed forming a hero team to face future threats and suggested naming it the Dark Council, which the others rejected.
• Vegeta erupted from the crater alive, badly injured and out of his Super Saiyan state, and vowed to kill everyone.

Vegeta fought the remaining superheroes after his battle with Superman, defeating them but escaping Earth in his spacecraft. He warned that he would return with Kakarot and Broly, leaving the surviving heroes to face the threat of three powerful Saiyans.

• Green Arrow, Cyborg, and Flash attacked Vegeta, but he tricked the heroes into gathering close and unleashed a ki blast that knocked out five of them.
• Wonder Woman and Batman kept fighting Vegeta; he wounded Batman with a ki ray, then knocked Wonder Woman unconscious with another explosion.
• Green Arrow accidentally hit the airborne Batman with an explosive arrow, while Vegeta pinned Green Arrow to the ground with Wonder Woman's sword.
• Vegeta collapsed from his injuries, but a spacecraft from Metropolis arrived and carried him away before the weakened Superman could reach him.
• Vegeta promised to return with Kakarot and Broly, and the heroes later woke to the news that three powerful Saiyans might come to Earth again.

A week after the Saiyan attack, Dean Duke enjoyed a glowing reputation in Gotham while the world mobilized heroes and villains to prepare for the Saiyans’ return. Superman, Lex Luthor, and General Zod joined forces with Earth’s governments for now, though each pursued separate plans as the Saiyan threat kept humanity united.

• Mayor Cardu Kardulihan removed Crane as dean and appointed Duke to lead Arkham Asylum after praising his work.
• Duke watched Superman receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, then dismissed Quizzle after she emerged from beneath his desk and resolved to counsel her later.
• Governments competed to recruit superheroes and Supervillains, offering generous pay and benefits as they organized teams to face the Saiyans.
• Lex Luthor persuaded Superman to share Kryptonian technology and began building a clone army while learning Superman’s weakness, Kryptonite.
• The United States offered General Zod and the surviving Kryptonians an autonomous region in exchange for helping fight the Saiyans, while Zod secretly intended to seize Earth afterward.

Batman visited Dean Duke at Arkham Asylum to ask for help preventing a future war, arguing that Earth's peace depended precariously on the Saiyans. Duke denied having any special ability, but Batman accused him of hiding his true identity and pressed him to discuss saving the world.

• Duke played games in his office until Batman entered through the window and asked for his help.
• Batman explained that the Saiyans' threat was the only thing keeping Earth's powers from fighting, and he feared a civilization-ending war within ten years.
• Duke wondered whether Batman had discovered his connection to the Saiyans, then claimed he was only an ordinary mental hospital dean.
• Batman said his investigation proved Duke's former goldfish-man persona was a disguise, citing Duke's continued employment of his attractive secretary.
• Duke agreed he was not a goldfish man, then caught himself before being drawn into Batman's demand to plan how to save the world.

Duke rejected Batman’s request for help with the Hellbat Suit and offered him Bane as an assistant, while jokingly naming him Robin. In Unknown Space, Duke from the One-Punch Man World met three newcomers and learned about a version of himself who had moved away from the Powerpuff Girls’ town, only to adopt a useless cat named Tom and face trouble from a resident mouse.

• Duke told Batman he would not help build the Hellbat Suit and suggested he ask the Justice League for help instead.
• Duke explained that he had locked up Bane, then revealed he had implanted Batman’s personality into him and suggested calling him Robin.
• Duke from the One-Punch Man World arrived in Unknown Space, met three newcomers, and exchanged memories with them.
• Duke learned that the first newcomer had moved away from the Powerpuff Girls’ town and settled near the Simpsons to live quietly.
• The newcomer adopted a cat named Tom, which failed to catch the mouse already living in his house.

Duke from the One-Punch Man World welcomed three newcomers and heard how their lives had unfolded in their own worlds. Newbie Duke discovered that his Dream of the Red Chamber world also contained Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, while the Interpol Agent described his cases before taking on a kidnapped boy’s case.

• Duke from the One-Punch Man World teased Newbie about his past and learned that he planned to remain single.
• Newbie Duke explained that he had become Jia Baoyu’s younger brother and realized the Jia Family’s decline could not be prevented through ordinary means.
• Newbie Duke watched a performer’s supernatural rope trick, learned from him about Daoists and ghosts, and discovered his world also contained Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
• Newbie Duke resolved to seek cultivators and eventually rebel against the Qing emperor, but Duke from the One-Punch Man World warned him about the power behind Jia Baoyu’s world.
• The Interpol Agent recounted his past cases, including missions with Officer Chen Jiagu, Meng Bo, Flying Eagle Jackie, Officer Lee, and Jimmy Tong.
• The Interpol Agent took up the kidnapping case of a boy with a special identity, setting aside his investigation into twelve bronze statues.

Ultraman Cosmos subdued the rampaging Mudong, but Duke transformed into Zetton to challenge him. Cosmos summoned Ultraman Zero and Ultraman Dyna, leaving Duke surrounded by three powerful Ultra Warriors.

• Mudong attacked Tokyo after a human-directed blast destroyed its underground home, and Cosmos arrived to throw it away from the city.
• Cosmos defeated Mudong with his Full Moon Wave, calming it and sending it back underground.
• Duke, bored and eager to fight, transformed into Zetton in front of Cosmos and frightened the onlookers into fleeing.
• Cosmos sent a beam into the sky, summoning Ultraman Zero and Ultraman Dyna to join him in surrounding Duke.

Duke fought Ultraman Zero, Ultraman Dyna, and Ultraman Cosmos, using his teleportation and ray absorption to gain the upper hand. Dyna sent Duke through a wormhole, but Zero and Cosmos vanished with him, leaving Dyna alone in empty space.

• Zero charged Duke, but his kick and Emerium Ray passed through Duke before Duke struck him with teleportation.
• Dyna and Cosmos joined the fight, but Duke outmaneuvered them and absorbed their combined rays before blasting all three Ultras.
• Dyna and Cosmos restrained Duke while Zero struck him with a Spacium Ray, and Dyna opened a wormhole to send Duke away from Earth.
• Duke jumped into the wormhole, but Zero and Cosmos disappeared too, and Dyna found only empty space when he followed.