Chapter Summaries

Black Adam outsmarted Shabak, who possessed Hawkman, and teamed up with Shazam to help free Hawkman. Meanwhile, Raven and Doctor Fate pursued Faust toward his hidden Magic Array, planning an ambush.

• Black Adam pretended to lose control, captured Shabak, and blasted him with lightning while Hawkman and Shazam watched.
• Shabak returned by possessing Hawkman, and Black Adam and Shazam fought him while trying to spare Hawkman.
• Black Adam told Hawkman to resist Shabak, then secretly signaled Shazam to gather power for a joint strike.
• At the International Gang base, Faust fled toward his Magic Array, and Raven followed with the Shadow Demons and Doctor Fate.
• Doctor Fate used Mirage to disguise the group so they could ambush Faust.

Raven sent Faust to Hell after he surrendered, while Doctor Fate joined her in Los Angeles to fight the Demons. Constantine, Zatanna, and Etrigan trapped Destiny and banished him to Hell; they then went to Gotham as the remaining Demon outbreaks were concentrated there and in Los Angeles.

• Raven exposed Faust's illusion and defeated him, then sent him to Hell at Andrew's suggestion despite Doctor Fate's objections.
• Andrew sent Raven and Doctor Fate to Los Angeles, where Demons had broken through the military defenses and killed civilians.
• Constantine, Zatanna, and Etrigan lured Destiny into a Magic Array and used Wade's self-destruction to knock him and Etrigan into Hell.
• Zatanna praised Wade's successful teleportation, then learned that his teleportation had failed several times before.
• Andrew sent Constantine, Zatanna, and Wade to Gotham to fight the Demons, leaving Gotham and Los Angeles as the remaining major outbreaks.

Mechanical Trigon captured Destiny and Faust in Hell, sealed their magic, and forced them into brutal strength training while taking Destiny’s Dream Stone. After Etrigan and Jason separated, Mechanical Trigon recruited the dying Jason as a foreman, telling him he would end up in Hell regardless.

• Mechanical Trigon shattered Destiny’s defensive shield, severed his connection to the six Altars, and stopped his escape attempt.
• Mechanical Trigon sealed Destiny and Faust’s magic and ordered them to train as strength-focused mages against eighteen bronze robots, healing them with Immortal Bodies so the beating could continue.
• Mechanical Trigon took the Dream Stone from Destiny, and Etrigan’s Mission ended.
• Jason separated from Etrigan, causing the wounds Destiny had inflicted on him over a thousand years earlier to reappear.
• Mechanical Trigon offered Jason a foreman position and said he would become his subordinate in Hell after death anyway.

Jason and Etrigan accepted Mechanical Trigon’s offer to work in Steel City as the Demon Kings prepared a desperate assault on the Rock of Eternity. Their plan transformed Shabak into a Demon King and trapped Superman and the others, leaving Andrew’s team to face him.

• Mechanical Trigon invited Jason and Etrigan to join Steel City, and they accepted.
• The Blazing Demon King persuaded the other Demon Kings to transfer their power to Shabak and use the remaining power to close the Rock of Eternity’s passage to Earth.
• The Demon King Projections transferred their power into Shabak just as Shazam and Black Adam struck him with lightning, causing him to explode and then re-form as a Demon King.
• Andrew sent Diana and Faora to join Black Adam, Shazam, and Hawkman, and warned them that Shabak could destroy Kandak City and bring down all six Demon Kings.
• Iron Man arrived to join the fight against Shabak as Diana and Faora prepared for battle.

Black Adam, Diana, Tony, and the other heroes fought Shabak, whose Demon King powers let him overpower them until Diana’s illusions and Andrew’s Eternity Ore helped destroy his body. Shabak’s flames began reforming into weaker duplicates, and Andrew identified a fatal weakness for the heroes to exploit as Diana prepared to act.

• Andrew used Doctor Fate’s Helmet of Nabu to send Diana hidden items, including equipment she concealed with Mirage Magic.
• Shabak evaded the heroes’ attacks and used spatial teleportation, but Alice activated Andrew’s Space Lockdown device and prevented him from teleporting.
• Diana used Mirage Magic and a duplicate to confuse Shabak, then stabbed him with the Sword of the Fire God carrying Eternity Ore, which exploded inside him.
• Andrew warned the heroes that Shabak could reassemble from his flames, so Diana, Black Adam, and Tony used their ultimate attacks to weaken and scatter them.
• Shabak formed four weaker duplicates from the remaining flames, and Andrew told Diana that Shabak shared a fatal weakness with Shazam before Diana split up to engage the duplicates.

Diana and the heroes defeated Shabak, ending the Demon King invasion and freeing the six cities from the demons. After Andrew sent the villains’ remains to Trigon, the heroes continued rescue operations, while Black Adam flew to Kandak to protect it and Andrew’s allies worried about the danger he might pose.

• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to force Shabak to reveal his name, stripping away his power as the heroes defeated his remaining forms.
• Black Adam killed Ismail, causing the vortices over the six cities to vanish and weakening the demons; the six Demon Kings retreated and vowed to return.
• Andrew ended the livestream and sent Shabak’s corpse through Raven’s Gate of Hell to Trigon, where Destiny and Faust continued their punishment.
• Andrew teleported the heroes to cities still occupied by demons so they could finish the war and rescue civilians.
• Andrew told Black Adam to protect Kandak as its ruler, but Black Adam said he would act only as its Guardian and flew back to the city.
• Old Mage warned Andrew that Black Adam could become more dangerous than Shabak if he lost control.

After the Demon Kings’ attack ended, Andrew arranged for Adriana’s family to help Black Adam settle into life as Kandak’s guardian and tallied the rewards from the disaster. Demons began appearing more often as cultists summoned them, while Constantine stayed with Argus for the pay; the chapter ended with Maze restoring power to Lucifer’s struggling bar.

• Andrew freed the superheroes from the Rock of Eternity and sent them to help rescue survivors in the six cities hit by the disaster.
• Andrew hired Adriana to help Black Adam adjust to modern society and become Kandak’s guardian, and Amon eagerly accepted the job.
• After Adriana’s family left, the Old Mage inspected the Rock of Eternity while Andrew counted his gains, including the Dream Stone, Eternity Ore, Black Adam, and Shabak’s corpse.
• Demons were summoned more frequently as some people began worshipping them, and Constantine agreed to keep fighting for Argus after being shown a stack of bills.
• Lucifer and Gabriel discussed their unpaid bills at the Light Bar until Maze restored the power and mocked Lucifer for being unable to pay the electricity bill.

Diana and the heroes defeated Shabak, and Black Adam killed Ismail, ending the Demon King invasion. Andrew sent Shabak’s corpse to Trigon and dispatched the heroes to rescue survivors, while Black Adam returned to Kandak as its self-appointed guardian.

• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to force Shabak to reveal his name, stripping away his power and turning him back into Ismail.
• Black Adam and the heroes stopped the remaining Shabaks, and Diana forced the last one to reveal his name before Black Adam killed Ismail.
• Ismail’s death ended the demons’ power surge, and the six Demon Kings withdrew to the Rock of Doom while vowing to destroy Earth and its superheroes.
• Andrew sent Shabak’s corpse through Raven’s Gate of Hell to Trigon, who planned to turn its power into Curses while Destiny and Faust continued their punishment.
• Andrew ended the livestream and teleported the heroes to cities still overrun by demons so they could rescue people and finish the war.
• Andrew told Black Adam to protect Kandak, and Black Adam refused to rule it directly before flying back to the city.

Andrew introduced a consciousness-transfer system that let Lois use a second body for work while safely resting during pregnancy, then helped Clark and Lois get engaged. In a parallel spacetime, Batman and Luthor were building a device to reach another universe.

• Andrew scanned Lois and confirmed that she and the baby were healthy, explaining that Clark could have children with humans and other intelligent species.
• Andrew showed Lois a selection of cloned bodies she could control remotely through a helmet, and Clark thanked him for solving her work and pregnancy dilemma.
• Clark proposed to Lois, who accepted, and their families and fellow superheroes came to congratulate them.
• In a parallel spacetime, Batman asked Luthor when his Parallel Universe Device would be ready, and Luthor estimated it would take another month or two.
• Harley Quinn asked whether the device would let them visit other universes.

Batman’s resistance group sought a way to stop Injustice Superman while he and the Ninja Master prepared robots to control humanity. At Clark and Lois’s wedding, a robot resembling Superman attacked New York, where Diana fought it and met a Diana from a parallel spacetime seeking Superman’s help.

• Batman told Luthor to complete the Parallel Universe Device before Injustice Superman and the Ninja Master finished their robots.
• Injustice Superman learned the robots would be ready within two months and said humanity needed to be restrained.
• Clark and Lois married in Metropolis Park, with their families and superheroes attending.
• Alice alerted Andrew that Diana was fighting a Superman-like robot amid destruction and casualties in Times Square.
• Andrew sent Diana and Mary to Times Square, where Diana fought Mechanical Superman while Mary spoke with S1 Diana, who said she had come from a parallel spacetime to find Superman.
• Diana trapped Mechanical Superman and struck his back with the Sword of the Fire God, astonishing S1 Diana with her mastery of Zeus’s divine power.

S1 Diana explained how Lois’s death, Superman’s retaliation, and the deaths of his father and Green Arrow led him to rule through force in her universe. Clark and the others learned that Superman’s opponents were hiding from him, while Mechanical Superman remained frozen in the Space Fortress.

• Diana defeated Mechanical Superman and had Alice teleport him to the Ice Freezing Zone, then took S1 Diana to the Space Fortress.
• After his wedding, Clark joined the superheroes to hear S1 Diana explain that Joker’s fear toxin made Superman kill pregnant Lois, after which Superman killed Joker.
• S1 Diana said Superman’s plan to stop wars and imprison supervillains split the Justice League, and Harley Quinn’s escape from Arkham led to Nightwing’s death.
• S1 Diana described how Superman’s conflict with Batman and the authorities worsened, until the authorities killed Superman’s father and Superman killed Green Arrow.
• S1 Diana said Superman and Ninja Master built a crime-free New World by capturing or killing opponents, forcing Batman and the remaining heroes to hide and rely on supervillains for help.

S1 Diana explained how Injustice Superman seized control of her world and how she traveled to find help. Andrew agreed to build a device so Clark and a team could confront him, while Lois planned to try persuading him by video; Andrew then examined the captured Mechanical Superman.

• S1 Diana described how Injustice Superman killed Joker followers, used Mechanical Supermen to control the world, and forced her allies to seek help from another universe.
• S1 Diana explained that Luthor's device could only travel between universes, and that Luthor destroyed it after she escaped to prevent more Mechanical Supermen from following.
• Andrew agreed to rebuild the device from Luthor's information, and Clark agreed to help fight Injustice Superman with support from the other superheroes.
• Lois asked to join the mission, but Clark, Batman, and Andrew refused; Lois then offered to record a video to persuade Injustice Superman.
• Batman and Iron Man questioned S1 Diana while Clark and Lois returned to their wedding, and Andrew went to inspect the captured Mechanical Superman.

Injustice Superman learned that a parallel universe contained another Lois Lane and prepared to cross over to see her, while the original Lois went on an interview in her Second Body. Injustice Superman found her there, leaving Lois shocked by his sudden arrival.

• Andrew analyzed the Mechanical Superman and suspected someone else had helped create it.
• Injustice Superman learned from Luthor that the portal led to a Parallel Universe with another Lois Lane, then used a collar to control Luthor and ordered him to rebuild the device.
• The Ninja Master and Damian took the captured heroes and villains away while Batman silently hoped Diana would act against Injustice Superman.
• After Clark and Lois's wedding, Lois entered her Liquid Metal Robot Second Body and flew to interview the King of War in the Middle East.
• Injustice Superman crossed into Lois's universe, tracked her by listening for her name, and arrived at the King of War's villa during her interview.

Injustice Superman met Lois in another universe and tried to take her back, but Clark intervened and the two Supermen began fighting. As Clark gained the advantage, Ninja Master and twenty Mechanical Supermen arrived secretly, while Injustice Superman unleashed Heat Vision.

• Injustice Superman learned that Lois was a robot, apologized for her death, and defended his harsh rule as a way to prevent further tragedies.
• Lois rejected Injustice Superman's reasoning, activated her alarm, and told him that Clark was her husband.
• Clark confronted Injustice Superman and fought him while Lois rescued people from the collapsing villa.
• Andrew gathered the superheroes to watch the fight and prepared to teleport them in, while Diana, Batman, and Iron Man moved nearby.
• Ninja Master brought twenty Mechanical Supermen through a portal and ordered them to stealthily approach the battlefield.
• As Clark pushed Injustice Superman back, Injustice Superman used Clara's power and fired Heat Vision at him.

Hulk defeated the High-Temperature Giant and helped the heroes restore order in Miami while S.H.I.E.L.D. battled Extremis soldiers aboard a tanker. Steve killed Seven and found two potions, while Tony sprang a trap that engulfed Killian in an exploding Battle Suit.

• Hulk smashed the High-Temperature Giant’s spine, then hurled him into the sky before he could destroy half the city by exploding.
• Susan led the heroes in finishing off Miami’s remaining terrorists as the tanker battle continued and Gwen sensed an explosion threat inside the ship.
• Electro found the terrorists being injected with unstable Extremis, triggered one to explode, and destroyed the group in the cabin.
• Steve killed Seven with an Energy Grenade and found two vials in a metal box, including a possible Rage Potion.
• Tony used his Sonic Cannon to hold Killian in place, then trapped him inside scattered Battle Suit parts that exploded around him.

Nick Fury’s campaign against the Vampires was disrupted when Doctor Connors’s Lizardmen spread chaos across New York, forcing S.H.I.E.L.D. to divide its efforts. Wang Nanxuan sent the Peace Knights to rescue people infected by the Lizard Potion, while Natasha continued working overtime at Rebirth Tower.

• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. teams to attack the Vampires with Tony Stark’s ultraviolet weapons while Iron Man waited to confront Deacon Frost at the Altar.
• Rat people released green potion across New York, transforming exposed citizens into Lizardmen and attacking a patrol officer.
• Nick Fury dispatched Iron Man to the city, ordered Barton to replace him against Deacon Frost, and called for military and Quinjet support.
• Wang Nanxuan ordered the Peace Knights to rescue people infected by the Lizard Potion, using an antidote developed by Gwen and modified by Trask.
• Wang Nanxuan considered recruiting the Black Widow Legion while Natasha complained about being made to work overtime.

Ultron escaped Los Angeles with Tony Stark and the AllSpark, planning to use Electro and Tony to build a device that would animate electrical appliances and destroy humanity. As the heroes and Defense Bureau began organizing to recover the AllSpark, Carter formed an alliance with Optimus Prime, while Illyana kept Starscream as her pet.

• Ultron used the Mind Stone to control Electro, revealed his plan to activate the AllSpark worldwide, and fled Los Angeles with Electro and Tony Stark.
• At Hoover Dam, Megatron and Optimus Prime argued over the AllSpark, while Illyana subdued Megatron and forced Starscream to submit to her.
• Optimus Prime took the Autobots to Los Angeles to help eliminate the robots, and the Daily Bugle warned the public that Ultron planned to destroy humanity.
• Carter gained President Ellis's approval to cooperate with Optimus Prime, and the two sides formally agreed to recover the AllSpark and share information about the Decepticons.
• Starscream tried to escape Illyana by transforming into an F-22, but he crashed when the space ahead of him turned into the ground.

Andrew sent a version of himself and Gwen into a Parallel Universe while remaining in the Main Universe to investigate the growing connection between the worlds. In the Parallel Universe, Gwen learned they had arrived in another New York as Miles fled the Particle Collider ruins carrying Spider-Man’s final mission.

• As the Universes resonated and a Space Channel began forming, Andrew let a version of himself and Gwen be pulled into the black vortex while he stayed behind to monitor the connection.
• A projection of the Parallel Universe’s New York appeared over the Main Universe, and Tony ordered a city evacuation and a superhero meeting as the heroes prepared for another disaster.
• In the Parallel Universe, the Particle Collider exploded, leaving Spider-Man badly injured; he gave Miles Morales a USB drive and told him to destroy the laboratory before Kingpin destroyed New York.
• Miles fled as Green Goblin pursued Spider-Man, who died, and Andrew collected Spider-Man’s soul with his consciousness.
• Andrew and Gwen arrived in Times Square, where Andrew identified the location as a Parallel Universe and Gwen apologized for dragging him into the crisis.

As the Battle Suits pursued Ivan and Obadiah through the devastated city, the Military prepared to bomb Broadway Avenue and the spacecraft. Andrew learned of the plan from a Black Widow, leaving the looming threat unresolved.

• Andrew used the Illusion Realm to sell Demon King safety insurance to frightened residents fleeing Queens and Manhattan.
• Obadiah hit Old Green Goblin’s Aircraft with a missile, and Tony caught Norman before Abomination Three chased him across a rooftop.
• Nick Fury told Tony that Andrew was drinking tea on a rooftop and might intervene if the situation became dire.
• At Grayburn Academy, the Man in Black fled with Hulk’s Blood while Black Widow pursued him; Tony and Ivan resumed their fight, while Howard fought Obadiah and Psylocke fought Bucky.
• A Black Widow told Andrew that the Military planned to bomb Broadway Avenue to eliminate the Abominations and target the spacecraft.

Andrew confronted Hit-Girl and Little Hela about their ruthless methods, then took them to the Zombie Universe to fight Zombies and learn how to use their powers responsibly. As they left, Odin and Frigga discussed the threats facing Asgard, while a visitor arrived in Nightmare Hell seeking Nightmare Demon King.

• Andrew showed Hit-Girl and Little Hela that they had killed undercover police officers and warned that suppressing gangs with violence could provoke a dangerous backlash.
• Spider-Woman, Jessica, and Colleen found the Demon Sisters using a magical Paper Crane, and Andrew transformed it into a Transformer and gave Jessica and Colleen spheres that could transform small appliances.
• Andrew took Hit-Girl and Little Hela aboard Second Mount and brought them through the Quantum Portal to the Zombie Universe, explaining that he would train them while they fought Zombies.
• Andrew revealed that Little Hela's Divine Power had been passed to her by someone who destroyed herself rather than lose her power; he promised to teach Little Hela to use it.
• Odin and Frigga discussed Little Hela, Hela, and the need to prevent Ragnarok in their Universe.
• A visitor quietly arrived in Nightmare Hell to seek Nightmare Demon King.