Chapter Summaries

As the Justice League rescued people from Atlantis’s tsunami, Mera told Arthur that King Orm had started the attack and urged Arthur to challenge him for the throne. Orm’s soldiers then revealed they had followed Mera and ordered her and Arthur to return to Atlantis, where Orm planned to fight Arthur.

• Superman, Kara, Flash, Green Lantern, Iron Man, and the others rescued people as Andrew sent Faora to help Star City.
• Mera told Arthur and Andrew that Orm and King Nereus had launched the tsunami in retaliation against humanity, and she asked Arthur to stop Orm by challenging him for the throne.
• Arthur refused to seek the throne but insisted he could defeat Orm, while Mera warned that he would need the Trident of Poseidon to win underwater.
• Mera revealed that Orm’s soldiers had followed her, and Orm accused her of betraying him while defending his plan to punish humanity.
• Orm ordered his soldiers to take Arthur and Mera to Atlantis, where he would fight Arthur at the Ring of Fire.

Andrew, Diana, and Mera set out for Atlantis City to find clues to the Trident of Poseidon and stop Orm from uniting the underwater kingdoms. As Orm prepared to capture Arthur and pressure the Fisherman Kingdom into joining him, he revealed that Ares's divinity was recovering inside the God of War's helmet.

• Arthur and Mera fought off Orm's soldiers, while Diana helped defeat the White Armored Warriors and captured a Red Armored Warrior for interrogation.
• Andrew persuaded Arthur to seek the Trident of Poseidon instead of challenging Orm, then chose to travel to Atlantis City with Diana and Mera.
• Andrew asked Tony and Batman to find a way to persuade Arthur to become King, and the three travelers boarded a vessel bound for Atlantis City.
• Mera told Andrew and Diana that Orm and King Nereus were trying to bring the Fisherman Kingdom and Saltwater Kingdom into their faction, so Andrew urged her to warn the Fisherman Princess.
• Orm ordered Vico to assemble troops for an advance on the Fisherman Kingdom and sent General Muck to recruit Black Manta to hunt Arthur and Mera.
• Orm ordered Vico monitored, then entered a secret chamber containing Ares's helmet, where the God of War's divinity continued to recover.

King Orm prepared to claim the Ocean Lord’s power with the War God’s Helmet while Andrew, Diana, Mera, and Vico escaped Atlantis with the key item for the Trident of Poseidon. Vico and Mera joined Arthur to begin the search for the trident as tsunami rescue efforts continued.

• King Orm put on the War God’s Helmet and vowed to become the Ocean Lord and wipe out the nations on land.
• Diana used Mirage Magic to conceal the ship as Mera guided Andrew and Diana into Atlantis, where Andrew sent Nano Particles to copy the city’s technology.
• Andrew discovered Vico and the others were surrounded by Red Armored Warriors, then teleported everyone away after Vico confirmed he had the Trident of Poseidon’s key item.
• Andrew sent Vico and Mera to find Arthur and told them to obtain the trident, while Diana went back to help rescue tsunami victims.
• Vico showed Arthur a device that could lead them to the Trident of Poseidon, and Mera warned Arthur that King Orm would send people to stop them.

Arthur and his allies searched for the Trident of Poseidon while King Orm's sudden rise and a looming Atlantean war threatened their plans. After Flash defeated Black Manta's ambush, Andrew arranged for Superman to take Arthur to the Trench-filled Sunken Sea beneath the Mariana Trench to retrieve the Trident.

• Arthur gathered friends for a treasure hunt, while Vico told Tom Curry that Queen Atlanna had died and Tom refused to believe him.
• Tony refused General Calvin's request for Atlantis intelligence, and Arthur, Mera, Vico, and Flash traveled to the Sahara and then Sicily to follow clues to the Trident of Poseidon.
• Mera reported that King Orm had captured the Fisherman King, allied with the Fisherman Kingdom, and was advancing on the Saltwater Kingdom with newfound strength.
• Black Manta ambushed the group in Sicily, but Flash disabled the Atlantean soldiers' armor, and Black Manta fled when the heroes surrounded him.
• Mera revealed that the Trident lay in the dangerous Sunken Sea beneath the Mariana Trench, so Andrew called Superman to take Arthur there and gave him a bright sphere to repel the Trench.

Superman left with Arthur for the Mariana Trench while Andrew and the Justice League joined the Saltwater Kingdom to resist King Orm’s invasion. The battle began, and Diana discovered Orm had become the God of War before their underwater duel continued.

• Superman took the white sphere and flew toward the Mariana Trench with Arthur, while Andrew led Iron Man, Cyborg, and Green Lantern to defend the Saltwater Kingdom.
• Tony, Cyborg, and Green Lantern went to the front line, and Andrew livestreamed the conflict as he explained that Atlantis’s kingdoms were preparing for war against the land.
• King Orm led the armies of three kingdoms against the Saltwater Kingdom, and the two forces began a brutal battle beneath the sea.
• Andrew ordered Cyborg and Green Lantern to rescue the Fisherman King, while King Orm defeated the Saltwater Kingdom’s king and prepared to kill him.
• Diana blocked Orm’s Trident and recognized something was wrong with his helmet; Orm revealed he was the new God of War and blasted her away with lightning.
• Diana recovered and attacked Orm with the Sword of the Fire God as Mera and Vico fought Orm’s King Guards and Faora went to ambush the mages.

Diana and the Justice League struggled against King Orm’s prepared countermeasures while Arthur retrieved the Trident of Poseidon and reunited with Queen Atlanna. When Arthur tried to open a way out of the Sunken Sea of the Earth's Core, the channel repeatedly collapsed, leaving him, Superman, and Atlanna trapped.

• Faora attacked the mages, but they controlled her blood and trapped her inside a sphere of black water.
• King Orm pressed his attack on Diana until Andrew’s Steel Particles freed her and joined the fight against him.
• Cyborg and Green Lantern were driven back by King Nereus and Black Manta as the Saltwater Kingdom’s army faced defeat.
• Superman and Arthur entered the Sunken Sea of the Earth's Core, where Superman defeated Karason and Arthur claimed the Trident of Poseidon.
• Arthur reunited with Queen Atlanna and tried to open a Space Channel, but it collapsed each time, leaving them trapped inside.

Arthur and Superman were trapped inside the Sunken Sea of the Earth's Core by General Zod’s ally, who planned to let the Atlanteans and land forces weaken each other. Andrew brought Ryan Choi, now The Atom, to the undersea battlefield and sent him on a rescue mission, while the chapter ended with Andrew telling Tony that Arthur and Superman could not return.

• Arthur failed to open the Space Channel, while General Zod ordered an alien to seal it and planned to exploit the coming war between land and sea.
• Andrew discovered that Arthur and Superman were trapped and summoned Ryan Choi, revealing that he had given him the shrinking belt and calling him The Atom.
• Andrew teleported Ryan Choi to the undersea battlefield and tasked him with rescuing the Fisherman King and dealing with the mages.
• Andrew told Diana to use a disc to bring Orm onto land, then told Tony that Arthur and Superman had been trapped and could not come back.

The Atom helped free the Fisherman King, while the Justice League turned the battle against King Orm’s alliance and forced the Kingdom of Xebel to stop fighting. Diana defeated King Orm in the desert, leaving the allied armies on the verge of surrender.

• The Atom infiltrated the warship, incapacitated its guards, and helped the Fisherman King take control and order his soldiers to attack Atlantis and Xebel.
• Diana used a disc to transport herself and King Orm to a desert, where she gained the advantage over him.
• The Atom and Cyborg captured King Nereus, and Mera declared that Xebel would withdraw from the alliance; Nereus ordered his soldiers to cease hostilities.
• Andrew sent Faora to rescue Superman and Aquaman, while The Atom declined a public debut but agreed to join the Justice League.
• Diana broke King Orm’s trident, wounded him, and knocked him unconscious with a final lightning-powered strike.

Diana and the Justice League defeated Orm’s forces, while Arthur finally reached Atlantis and was proclaimed its king. With Atlantis’s war ended and Queen Atlanna reunited with Tom, the story closed on Arthur taking up the throne and Andrew and Diana celebrating together.

• Diana returned with the defeated Orm, and Vico secured the Atlantean soldiers’ surrender while Andrew told him to preserve the army for Arthur.
• Zod retreated from Faora and sent the Space Alien to help Kratos search for gods in the Middle East.
• Arthur opened the Spatial Vortex at last and arrived at the battlefield with Queen Atlanna, Superman, and Karason after the battle had ended.
• Queen Atlanna declared Arthur Atlantis’s rightful king, and the Atlanteans knelt to welcome him as their sovereign.
• Arthur left the new king’s responsibilities to Vico, Mera, and Queen Atlanna, then visited Orm in the hospital before Queen Atlanna reunited with Tom.
• Andrew and Diana affirmed their love and went to enjoy themselves beneath the sea.

After returning to Themyscira with Diana, Andrew faced a hostile welcome from the Amazons and Queen Hippolyta. When Hippolyta used the Statue of Zeus to intimidate him, it cracked and collapsed, leaving the Amazons alarmed.

• Andrew asked Enchantress Morr and Ghost Rider to turn the War God's Helmet into a growth-type divine artifact.
• Princess Mera led an Atlantean delegation to the United Nations to announce Atlantis and begin negotiations with world governments.
• Flash decided to travel back in time to save his mother and clear his father, then spent months increasing his speed until he could meet the requirement.
• Barry prepared to return to the past on New Year's Day, 2014, while Diana brought Andrew to Themyscira to meet Queen Hippolyta.
• Queen Hippolyta's Amazonian soldiers failed to scare Andrew, so she activated the Statue of Zeus as they passed it.
• The Statue of Zeus cracked and collapsed after Andrew yawned, prompting Queen Hippolyta to warn everyone to get out of the way.

After someone changed the past, Andrew and Diana found Themyscira deserted and learned that the altered timeline had made Queen Anna and Aquaman’s affair spark a devastating war. Andrew suspected Barry Allen was responsible and set out with Diana to find him and restore history.

• After the Amazons tried to seduce Andrew, Diana told him she wanted to make their relationship official and apologized for seeking the treasures to investigate him.
• Andrew sensed that someone had changed the past, and the world rebooted, leaving Themyscira empty and Queen Hippolyta commemorated as having died a century earlier.
• Andrew sent Alice to gather information and found the Mother Box hidden in a sealed building.
• Alice reported that the Amazons had conquered London and renamed it New Themyscira, while Queen Anna’s affair with Aquaman had led to a war that killed millions.
• Andrew learned that Barry Allen had a happy life in the altered world, suspected he had changed his own past, and asked Alice to locate him.

Barry Allen sought Batman’s help after changing history and causing a world where Aquaman and Queen Anna’s war killed over a hundred million people, but he had lost the Speed Force and could not undo it. Andrew, Diana, and Tony arrived in Gotham, and Andrew proposed rebuilding the Particle Accelerator Laboratory to restore Barry’s powers.

• Barry returned to a changed world after saving his mother, discovered the devastation and his lost Speed Force, and went to Wayne Manor for Batman’s help.
• Thomas Wayne, the aged Batman, mistook Barry for an intruder and tortured him, while Alice lured Tony Stark to the manor.
• Andrew and Diana arrived, Tony recovered his Main Universe memories, and Andrew explained the altered world to Tony and Thomas.
• Andrew confirmed that Barry’s Speed Force had come from the Particle Accelerator Laboratory and proposed recreating the explosion, despite the risk to Barry’s life.
• Barry agreed to the dangerous attempt, and Andrew assigned Tony and Thomas to help build the laboratory before Cyborg came to find Thomas.

The group found Superman imprisoned in a Metropolis laboratory and restored Barry’s connection to the Speed Force, but Barry could not recover his full power. They traced a possible cause to the Yellow Figure on the European battlefield, and Old Batman agreed to assemble a Superhero Squad to go there and confront Aquaman and Queen Anna.

• Cyborg told Old Batman that Aquaman planned to use Ocean Master's Device to submerge the world, and Old Batman considered leading a Superhero Squad.
• Andrew and Diana investigated a military laboratory in Metropolis and found Superman imprisoned and severely weakened.
• Tony, Old Batman, and the others activated the particle accelerator, and its explosion restored Barry’s Speed Force but left his power incomplete.
• Barry said the Yellow Figure might have stolen part of his power, and Alice linked the figure to a yellow lightning streak seen on the European battlefield.
• Diana and Old Batman agreed to confront Aquaman and Queen Anna, and Old Batman decided to assemble the Superhero Squad for the mission.

As the Atlanteans and Amazonians began their decisive battle in New Themyscira, Andrew’s allies prepared to intervene while Hal Jordan set out to destroy Ocean Master’s Device. Zod’s Kryptonians arrived to conquer Earth, and Andrew sent Superman and Iron Man to stop the World Engine.

• Andrew organized the superhero team’s trip to Europe, while Barry went to ask Superman to join the fight.
• Aquaman ordered Orm to prepare the Atlantean army to attack New Themyscira, and Queen Anna readied the Amazons to defend it.
• General Lane sent Hal Jordan on a one-way mission to destroy Ocean Master’s Device, while Zod learned that Kal-El and the Codex were on Earth and set course for the planet.
• The Atlanteans and Amazons clashed across New Themyscira, and Aquaman and Queen Anna fought each other as the Resistance prepared to support the superheroes’ decapitation strike.
• Hal and the American air force headed for Ocean Master’s Device as Zod sent the World Engine toward the Indian Ocean and his spaceship toward Metropolis.
• Andrew told Superman and Iron Man to destroy the World Engine, giving Tony a Gravity Bomb before Superman carried him toward it.

Ghost Rider confronted General Zod and the Kryptonians while Tony and Superman headed for the World Engine, as Alice broadcast both battles and the dangers facing Earth. Ghost Rider quickly wounded several Kryptonians with Hellfire and pursued General Zod through Metropolis, while the World Engine remained active.

• Andrew sent Ghost Rider to Metropolis, and Alice took over global broadcasts to show the battles on New Themyscira and above Metropolis.
• Alice warned the public that the Atlanteans could unleash an ocean tsunami and the Kryptonians planned to transform Earth; the World Engine began sending out Gravity Waves.
• The government launched nuclear missiles at the World Engine, but Kryptonian satellite weapons destroyed them, and Faora and the other Kryptonians wiped out the fighter squadron over Metropolis.
• Ghost Rider arrived before the Kryptonian spaceship and defeated Raymond by breaking his Defensive Shield and overwhelming him with sensory pain.
• General Zod led six other Kryptonians against Ghost Rider, who blasted four of them with Hellfire and melted the cars thrown by the remaining three.
• Ghost Rider formed a Flame Whip and pursued General Zod through high-rises, slicing one building in two as Zod escaped into another.

Ghost Rider and the heroes weakened Zod’s Kryptonian forces, while Tony destroyed the World Engine and the Kryptonian spaceship. At New Themyscira, Andrew explained that the Yellow Figure had lured Flash there, and Flash prepared to find out why.

• Ghost Rider killed several Kryptonians and fought off Zod’s Heat Vision as people around the world cheered him and Andrew gained fear force.
• Superman and Iron Man occupied two Kryptonians near the World Engine while Tony fought his way through its defenses and attached a Gravity Bomb.
• The Gravity Bomb destroyed the World Engine, and Tony escaped as the two Kryptonians turned on him and Superman intervened.
• Ghost Rider killed another Kryptonian, then used a giant made of black flames to destroy the Kryptonian spaceship and kill its bald scientist.
• At New Themyscira, Old Batman’s squad contacted the Resistance while Andrew told Flash that the Yellow Figure had lured him there, prompting Flash to prepare to find him.

Flash confronted Reverse Flash to reclaim the stolen Speed Force, but Andrew intervened when Flash was badly wounded, shrinking him so he could fight back. Meanwhile, the Resistance attacked New Themyscira, with Diana engaging Queen Anna and Batman’s team trying to capture Aquaman.

• Flash found Reverse Flash, learned that he had accidentally killed Flash’s mother while trying to kill Flash as a child, and began fighting him.
• Cyborg reported that the air force had been wiped out and Hal Jordan had failed to destroy Ocean Master’s Device, so Batman’s team planned to capture Aquaman alive while Diana took on Queen Anna.
• Andrew ordered Ghost Rider to finish off the Kryptonians and destroy Ocean Master’s Device, and Ghost Rider killed Faora as Zod charged at him with the remaining Kryptonians.
• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to draw Queen Anna away from Aquaman, then fought her with five Mirage Magic copies while Batman, Cyborg, Green Arrow, and the others attacked Aquaman.
• Reverse Flash knocked Flash down and prepared to kill him, so Andrew activated a shrink function he had added to Flash’s belt; Flash used his tiny size and speed to strike Reverse Flash, who fled before Flash grew and chased him.

Diana defeated Queen Anna and helped the Resistance capture Aquaman, while Ghost Rider destroyed Ocean Master's Device and stopped the apparent world-ending attack. The fighting paused under Diana’s orders, but Flash’s battle with Reverse Flash continued, with Flash shrinking and charging into his opponent’s nostril.

• Andrew told Tony that a Nano-Spider planted on Flash would kill Reverse Flash after Flash defeated him, while Flash searched for a one-strike kill.
• Diana defeated Queen Anna, learned they were alternate versions of Wonder Woman, and watched Queen Anna kill herself.
• Diana and the Resistance incapacitated Aquaman, took his trident, and used the captured rulers to make the Atlanteans and Amazonians stop fighting.
• Orm triggered his remote, but Ghost Rider destroyed Ocean Master's Device, and the audience celebrated what seemed to be the world’s salvation.
• Diana killed Orm and declared herself Queen of the Amazonians, prompting both sides to lower their weapons for the time being.
• Flash caught up to Reverse Flash, shrank to ant size, and raced into his nostril.

Flash recovered the Speed Force and stopped his past self from changing the Timeline, restoring the world to normal. Andrew and Diana returned to Themyscira as Andrew assessed his gains and planned how to use the Mother Box.

• Flash threatened Reverse Flash, but Iron Man's Nano-Spider killed Reverse Flash after Flash admitted he could not bring himself to do it.
• Old Batman gave Flash a letter for Bruce, and Andrew supplied him with a bracer before Flash raced into the time passage to stop Barry.
• Flash and several speedsters subdued Barry, and Flash persuaded him to abandon his attempt to save his mother, restoring the Timeline.
• Andrew and Diana found London restored, and Flash called to confirm that everything was back to normal; Andrew suggested he could help clear his father's name.
• Andrew tallied his gains, including Wonder Woman's equipment, the Mother Box, and increased Fear Force and reputation, then Faora took him and Diana back to Themyscira.

Barry accepted Andrew’s offer of legal help for his father, while Andrew arranged for the Lord of Hell to bind the Mother Box to Ghost Rider. Months later, Andrew and Diana attended Zatanna’s magic show, where Andrew recognized Constantine and realized the events of Final Destination were about to begin.

• Batman read the letter his father had sent through Flash, including a plea for him to marry and have children, then hid it from Fred.
• Barry decided to accept Andrew’s terms and a top-tier legal team to help free his father, agreeing to be researched in return.
• Andrew had Morr summon the Lord of Hell, who used Ghost Rider’s World’s Favor to bind and alter the Mother Box for their planned ambush of Darkseid.
• Andrew and Diana discussed Diana’s efforts to bring the Amazonians into human society and her plan to take them on a cruise.
• Andrew and Diana watched Zatanna perform real magic, then Andrew recognized the cancer-stricken Constantine and realized the plot was about to unfold.