Chapter Summaries

The Justice League planned to stop Dream’s spread while investigating the Mysterious Organization and its sacrifices, then Iron Man’s team captured the Stockholm branch and questioned its leader about the Ancient Creatures. The leader revealed that horror movies were linked to the creatures’ awakening, but the chapter left their true threat unresolved.

• Andrew sent Raven and Zatanna to ask the Myrtlewood Demon King to help develop an antidote for Dream, while Cyborg went to warn Argus about its spread.
• Andrew assigned Flash, Sonic, and Tails to secretly save people at active sacrificial sites, and Batman and Iron Man to capture bases where rituals had failed.
• Iron Man’s team took control of the Stockholm base’s systems, defeated its members, and confined them while the monsters remained in their cells.
• Iron Man’s team used Mary’s Lasso of Truth to question the branch leader, who said the organization had arranged annual sacrifices since 1920 to keep the Ancient Creatures sealed.
• The leader claimed that horror movies were connected to the creatures’ awakening and that the organization had opened film companies to make them, but most of the companies had gone bankrupt.

Iron Man and the superheroes traveled to the England headquarters to investigate the Ancient Creatures, while Andrew secretly interfered with the sacrifice at The Cabin in the Woods. The Zombies attacked Kurt and Julie, but Andrew’s Nano Clone rescued them, leaving the underground staff scrambling to recover control.

• Iron Man ordered Andrew to teleport the superheroes and his Battle Suit Legion to the England headquarters so they could obtain the camera and investigate the Ancient Creatures.
• Iron Man had Mary use the Lasso of Truth on the branch’s members, and they found no Dream Demon King subordinates before infiltrating the England headquarters.
• At The Cabin in the Woods, Dana chose a diary that revealed the Buckner family as the Monsters for the sacrifice, while Andrew watched and judged the staff’s indifference.
• Kurt and Julie went into the forest, where Buckner family Zombies attacked them, and Andrew’s Nano Clone shot the Zombies and helped Kurt carry Julie back to the house.
• The professor learned that Andrew had disrupted the attack and ordered the staff to ensure Dana died last as Kurt and Julie returned to the house.

Andrew and the students barricaded themselves in a cabin while a professor’s team tried to manipulate them into splitting up. As Marty uncovered the surveillance cameras and Japan’s sacrifice failed, the professor ordered more zombies sent in to force a last attempt at success.

• Andrew arrived with a rifle, helped the group seal the cabin, and treated Kurt’s wound while explaining that he was investigating a murder case.
• A professor in an underground base released mist that made Kurt and several others urge the group to split up, but Andrew punched Kurt and broke the effect.
• Marty searched for cameras, found one, and pulled its wires from the wall, leading the group to suspect someone was manipulating their Fate.
• The base staff learned that Japan’s sacrifice had failed, leaving their site as the last hope against the world’s destruction.
• The professor ordered the researchers to send in more zombies, insisting that killing the group could still complete the sacrifice.

Andrew helped Dana and the others survive a Zombie attack while covertly investigating the sacrifice ritual and the Ancient Creature beneath the sites. After Kurt appeared to die at a Defensive Shield, Andrew learned the being was an avatar of Earth’s fear and asked Tony to secure a camera so he could contact it.

• Flash reported that insiders had sabotaged the Japan site, and Andrew sent him to help Iron Man’s group in England.
• Andrew used a Gatling Machine Gun and a rocket launcher to fight off the Zombies at the cabin, then led the group toward the collapsed tunnel.
• Andrew secretly protected Kurt with Nano Particles before Kurt crashed into an invisible Defensive Shield and appeared to die.
• The underground base began the sacrifice for The Jock, and Andrew sensed the Ancient Creature’s anger and learned it was a single being embodying Earth’s fear.
• Andrew asked Tony to obtain the camera needed to communicate with the Ancient Creature.

Andrew’s group turned back toward the cabin to find the Dream Demon King, while Argus and the Justice League tried to contain the Dream crisis. The Dream Demon King prepared to trigger a worldwide slumber, and the chapter ended with Raven learning that the antidote would take at least a month to develop.

• Andrew drove the group back toward the cabin, and Julie took a rifle to avenge Kurt and help kill the Mastermind.
• Cyborg told Argus that Dream was linked to the Dream Demon King, and Argus agreed to delay revealing the truth while warning people away from the drug.
• The Dream Demon King revealed that he planned to use Dream hidden in city water supplies and microwave devices to trap the world in the Dream Realm.
• The Dream Demon King told Mechanical Trigon to occupy Lucifer at Hell’s entrance as he prepared to launch the Global Slumber Plan.
• Andrew watched the Dream Demon King’s preparations and sent Raven a warning, while the Myrtlewood Demon King said an antidote would take at least a month to develop.

The Dream Demon King launched his plan early, sending vast numbers of people into a disaster-filled dream realm. Andrew and the Myrtlewood Demon King prepared to protect the RIPD, while superheroes entered the dream to stop the threat.

• The Myrtlewood Demon King proposed linking the RIPD to the Dream Demon King's dream realm, and Raven said Trigon would use one of his requests to make him act.
• The Dream Demon King's followers spread Dream through city water, causing people around the world to fall asleep and enter the dream realm.
• Andrew sent Tony a Dream Device and directed the heroes to defend the RIPD, while Cyborg and Flash began rescuing people with the Unmanned Armor.
• Tony and the other superheroes entered the dream realm and witnessed disasters destroying cities across the world.
• Black Adam explained that people's despair about the future was creating the dream realm's catastrophes.

The superheroes planned ways to slow Dream’s spread and investigate the Mysterious Organization without sacrificing civilians, then Iron Man’s team captured its Stockholm base. The captured leader explained the organization’s history and its connection to horror movies, leaving the heroes with more questions about the Ancient Creatures.

• Raven and Zatanna went to Boston to ask the Myrtlewood Demon King to help develop a Dream antidote, while the heroes planned to capture failed ritual sites and protect people at active ones.
• Andrew gave Flash, Sonic, and Tails Nanotech Guns to secretly keep people at the active sacrificial sites from dying, and assigned Batman and Iron Man teams to capture bases.
• Iron Man’s team took control of the Stockholm base’s systems and subdued its members without releasing the monsters in their compartments.
• Iron Man questioned the branch leader, who claimed the Ancient Creatures were real and that his organization had arranged annual sacrifices since its founder made contact with them in 1920.
• The leader said more Ancient Creatures awakened as horror movies grew popular in different regions, and that the organization had created film companies to produce horror movies.

Andrew contacted the Ancient Creatures and learned that the Avatar of Fear was divided between Fear and Audience Consciousness, with the latter keeping it dormant through horror films. He persuaded it to enter his device and join a horror show under conditions that protected the four protagonists, spared the world, and helped locate the Dream Demon King's true body.

• At Hell's entrance, Mechanical Trigon decided to locate the Dream Demon King's true body by using fake souls and investigating the Ancient Creatures.
• Andrew modified Tony's camera to contact the Ancient Creatures and learned how its Fear and Audience Consciousnesses shaped its actions and cooperation with the Dream Demon King.
• Andrew offered the Ancient Creatures a chance to participate in a horror show through his nano clone, promising to contain its aura of fear.
• The Ancient Creatures agreed to avoid destroying the world, spare the four protagonists, and help Andrew find the Dream Demon King's true body.
• Andrew formed a helmet from Nano Particles and invited the Ancient Creatures to put its consciousness inside.

The Ancient Creatures entered the movie through the Nano Clone and joined Andrew’s group, enjoying the zombie-filled adventure while Ghost Rider began secretly corrupting him. The group discovered the underground monster facility and prepared to unleash one of its creatures when armed guards waited outside the elevator.

• The Ancient Creatures entered the helmet and took control of the Nano Clone, then drove Dana, Julie, Hodden, and Marty safely back to the cabin through a zombie attack.
• Andrew and Ghost Rider discussed corrupting the Ancient Creatures; Ghost Rider estimated the process would take a year and began merging with him.
• The Ancient Creatures led the group into a hidden elevator beneath the cabin, where they saw the many monsters kept in the underground facility.
• The professor ordered guards to kill everyone except Dana, especially the man he believed was Andrew, as the fat man directed the elevator toward an ambush.
• After Dana realized the elevator was being controlled, the Ancient Creatures proposed breaking the glass wall and releasing the monster opposite them when the doors opened.

Dana and her companions escaped the Underground Base as the Ancient Creatures released its monsters, while Andrew trusted his plan to keep the Ancient Creatures from destroying the world. In the dream, the Dream Demon King summoned the Dream Snake God, who put most of the superheroes to sleep and struck Faora as she tried to wake Diana.

• The Ancient Creatures and Dana’s group shattered the glass wall, allowing a doll monster to attack and slaughter the armed personnel outside the elevator.
• The Ancient Creatures escaped into the control room with Dana, Julie, Hodden, and Marty, then activated the red emergency button and released the base’s monsters.
• The professor urged the researchers to complete their sacrifice, but monsters overwhelmed the armed personnel and began killing everyone in the base.
• Andrew reflected that he had already persuaded the Ancient Creatures and expected the Dream Demon King to reveal his location once he contacted it.
• The Dream Demon King brought in the Dream Snake God to help defeat the superheroes, and the Snake God’s gaze sent Tony, Superman, Diana, and others into a second-layer dream.
• Faora teleported to Diana with a Myrtlewood leaf, but the Dream Snake God struck her with his tail and sent her crashing through buildings.

The Dream Snake God exploited the superheroes’ fears in their dreams, but Andrew helped Iron Man resist despair and revealed a way for Diana to fight back. Diana learned how to lure the Dream Snake God into probing her golden light so it would be counterattacked.

• Faora escaped the Dream Snake God’s Space Lockdown and continued attacking it, while it lamented that the Dream Realm weakened its power.
• Iron Man feared he was only a fictional character until Andrew urged him to rebel rather than surrender, restoring his resolve.
• Andrew told Iron Man that he would forget the Second Layer Dream but retain an obsession with breaking the Fourth Wall.
• The Dream Snake God made Diana relive Andrew’s disappearance, but Andrew returned and asked her to go with him to the New World.
• Andrew explained that Diana could trick the Dream Snake God into probing her golden light, which would counterattack and severely wound it.

Diana’s golden power wounded the Dream Snake God, allowing the superheroes to fight back while the Dream Demon King struggled to secure help. At the Underground Base, the Ancient Creatures led Dana and the others to the Altar, where the professor revealed they had been chosen as sacrifices and urged them to die for the world.

• Diana’s golden light struck the Dream Snake God’s soul, and the awakened superheroes attacked it while Faora and the others fought to keep pace.
• The Dream Demon King refused to join the battle and failed to persuade Mechanical Trigon to send an avatar, while the Dream Snake God continued fighting for the promised souls.
• The Ancient Creatures led Dana, Julie, Hodden, Kurt, and Marty through the Monster-filled Underground Base to the Altar, where they encountered Dana’s professor and the female military officer.
• The professor explained that Dana and Kurt’s group had been selected as sacrifices and claimed their deaths were necessary to save the world.
• Dana and the others lowered their guns and gave up resisting, prompting the Ancient Creatures to protest.

Ancient Creatures stopped the sacrifice at the America Sacrificial Site, while the Dream Demon King’s schemes were exposed and the heroes joined forces to confront him in Hell. The chapter ended with Mechanical Trigon revealing that he planned to silence the superheroes after they dealt with the Dream Demon King.

• The fat man revealed himself as a follower of Dream Realm, but Dana shot him before Ancient Creatures disarmed Dana, Julie, and Hodden, leaving the sacrifice unable to proceed.
• The statue collapsed as Ancient Creatures was born, and the Dream Demon King activated the Seed of Consciousness hidden in the fat man.
• Mechanical Trigon found the Dream Demon King and exposed his plan to use Ancient Creatures to destroy Earth and steal its souls, while the Dream Snake God agreed to help the heroes in exchange for control of the Dream Realm.
• Andrew sent the superheroes to Hell and tasked Raven, Zatanna, and the Myrtlewood Demon King with awakening Earth’s citizens and ensuring no souls were lost.
• The superheroes confronted the Dream Demon King in Hell, where Mechanical Trigon called them cannon fodder and admitted he might silence them afterward.

Mechanical Trigon revealed how he and Andrew Wang uncovered the Dream Demon King's plan, but the Dream Demon King used his swamp to create dream clones of the superheroes and their allies. While Andrew finished dealing with the Ancient Creatures and rescued Kurt, the heroes fought their copies in Hell Swamp.

• Mechanical Trigon explained that he had asked Andrew Wang to investigate threats to Earth, leading them to discover the Ancient Creatures and trace the Dream Demon King's plan.
• The Dream Snake God rejected the Dream Demon King's offer and agreed to help the heroes defeat him in exchange for a promise of future assistance.
• The Dream Demon King summoned dream clones of the superheroes, Mechanical Trigon, and the Dream Snake God, and ordered them to attack their originals.
• Andrew told Dana and the others that the sacrifice and apocalypse were over, healed them, and revealed that Kurt had survived but was badly injured.
• Dana and her companions realized Andrew was Andrew Wang, Wonder Woman's boyfriend, while the superheroes battled their dream clones and Shazam struggled against his equally strong copy.

The Dream Demon King’s Replicants tested the heroes while he secretly tried to escape, but Mechanical Trigon outmatched his clone and revealed that he had anticipated the plan. The Dream Demon King was trapped by Trigon’s Seven Deadly Sins clones, who grew stronger from Earth’s shared rage and prepared to kill him and give his origin essence to the Dream Snake God.

• Black Adam, Batman, Wade, Diana, and the other heroes fought their Replicants, while Faora lured hers away and the injured Dream Snake God struggled against his own.
• Mechanical Trigon turned the Dream Demon King’s Nightmare Beasts into steel, overwhelmed the Replicant, and destroyed its Energy Core as the Dream Demon King fled through a gap.
• The Dream Demon King escaped into a space surrounded by seven Trigons, who revealed they had deliberately left him a route into their trap.
• The Dream Demon King drew Earth’s survivors into a shared dream and urged them to attack the Seven Deadly Sins, swelling his power with their rage.
• The Seven Deadly Sins clones absorbed the Dream Realm’s negative aura and grew to match the Dream Demon King, while Pride revealed they intended to kill him and give his origin essence to the Dream Snake God.

The Seven Deadly Sins defeated and killed the Dream Demon King, while Andrew claimed the Dream Base Point and proposed turning the dream into a game to relieve humanity’s stress. After negotiating with the Dream Snake God, Andrew prepared to wake the public and assigned Shazam the task of finding Lucifer and returning him to Hell.

• The Seven Deadly Sins used the Judgment of the Seven Deadly Sins and a Time Curse to defeat the Dream Demon King, then killed him and took his corpse and soul.
• Andrew collected the Dream Base Point, and Mechanical Trigon sent the superheroes away before bargaining with the Dream Snake God for help refining the Dream Demon King into a divine artifact.
• The Dream Snake God agreed to help Mechanical Trigon five times and assist with refining the artifact in exchange for part of the Dream Demon King’s origin essence.
• Back on Earth, Andrew showed the superheroes the Dream Base Point and proposed creating a dream game to give people an outlet for their stress.
• Andrew explained that Hell’s Demon Kings might exploit humanity’s distress and told Shazam to find Lucifer and bring him back to manage Hell.

Andrew proposed turning the Dream Realm into a game and a voluntary resting place for souls, and the superheroes agreed to discuss the rules while he blurred the public’s memories of the disaster. After the world woke and learned what had happened, Diana confronted Andrew about his other wives, and he told her he would explain everything after the next two years.

• Andrew explained that the Dream Realm could become a safer online game and a place where willing souls could begin new lives after death, and he assured Batman that he could fully control it.
• Iron Man and Batman agreed to further discussions, and Andrew decided to blur rather than erase the public’s memories of the Dream Realm disaster.
• Andrew used the Dream Base Point to clear the Dream Realm, waking Marty, Dana, Julie, Hodden, and the rest of the sleeping population.
• Alice explained the Dream Demon King’s attack on Kuaidou Live and directed people who had taken Dream to free examinations, while rescuers and authorities handled the aftermath.
• Diana asked Andrew whether he had several wives in another universe, and he admitted it before saying he would explain more in two years.
• Diana declared that she would not share Andrew with other women and would keep him in her universe.

After defeating the Dream Demon King, Andrew planned a Dream Game with help from Tony and the others, while preparing for the coming conflict with Hell. The game’s public launch was announced, and viewers reacted excitedly to its promise of free adventures and a wish from the Justice League.

• Andrew took Diana back to the Space Fortress, then reviewed his rewards, including the Dream Demon King’s remains, the Dream Cornerstone, and the deity’s aid.
• Over the next two months, Andrew, Iron Man, Batman, Cyborg, and others designed the Dream Game, building environments intended to entertain players without harming the public.
• Andrew and Tony agreed that players could collect thirteen hidden badge fragments to make one reasonable request of the Justice League.
• Andrew told Tony that Lucifer was on Earth in America but would not return to Hell, and he reassured him that Hell’s demon kings would not destroy Earth.
• Andrew’s team publicized the Dream Game on television, prompting viewers to discuss what they would wish for if they collected all thirteen fragments.

Dream Game opened to the public and quickly became a beloved virtual Second World, while Players began hunting for its Fragments. After two months of success, Andrew and Stark Industries rejected capitalists seeking to profit from the game.

• Players learned how to enter Dream Game, and James Halliday fell asleep, created the avatar Arnok, and was astonished by the game's realism and one-life rules.
• James saw I am Shazam's Big Brother obtain a Fragment by winning rock-paper-scissors one hundred times in a row, then began studying the game to search for the others.
• Andrew teased the Old Mage about Shazam's Fragment, and Billy explained that he had accidentally revealed how to obtain it; Andrew ruled that the Fragment could not be sold.
• Andrew showed Diana the Crystal pillar collecting mental waves and brought Ralph and Vanellope into the game, while he and Diana explored a hidden level together.
• Batman, Iron Man, Lucifer, and other characters entered Dream Game, which eased public despair and became a worldwide sensation over the next two months.
• Capitalists approached Andrew and Stark Industries to seek business partnerships, but both rejected them, saying they were not short on money.

Andrew learned that S1 Darkseid had threatened to invade his universe unless the heroes surrendered S1 Diana, and he agreed to help her. S1 Diana revealed that Darkseid had ambushed the Parallel Universe Justice League with more than ten thousand Mechanical Supermen, leaving its Earth on the brink of ruin.

• Andrew learned that James had obtained eight game fragments by studying superheroes and asked Alice to keep an eye on him.
• S1 Diana emerged through a portal seeking help, and S1 Darkseid threatened Andrew with war unless he handed her over.
• Andrew closed the portal and gathered the superheroes, who agreed to support S1 Diana against Darkseid.
• S1 Diana explained that Darkseid had secretly built a huge force of Mechanical Supermen and lured the Justice League to Apokolips.
• S1 Diana described how the Mechanical Supermen overwhelmed the heroes, killing many of them, while Shazam objected to hearing graphic details.