Chapter Summaries

S1 Diana asked the heroes to save her conquered Earth, and Andrew organized an investigation and a war effort involving Trigon and the Dream Game Players. In the Dream Game, James suspected the missing fragments were hidden inside the Crystal Pillar and resolved to keep searching for them.

• S1 Diana told the heroes that Darkseid had conquered her Earth, and Andrew agreed to help despite the overwhelming forces there.
• Raven proposed asking Trigon for help, and Andrew confirmed that Trigon would join the fight while promising to keep the Parallel Universe safe.
• Iron Man, Batman, Superman, Flash, and S1 Diana formed an advance team to scout the Parallel Universe as Andrew prepared the others for war.
• Andrew gave Diana, Alice, and Mary nine Crystals to hide at marked locations, then contacted Mechanical Trigon and asked him to target Darkseid and his Omega Beams.
• Andrew entered the Dream Game and told James to prepare for a special dungeon; James guessed that the missing fragments were inside the Crystal Pillar and continued searching for them.

James decided to join Dream Game’s upcoming war instance while a system announcement drew players and governments worldwide into action. In the Parallel World, Iron Man, Batman, Flash, and S1 Diana met Damian and S1 Constantine, learned Earth had fallen to Darkseid, and debated a risky plan to destroy the towers before Darkseid left for Oa.

• Andrew announced a three-day, around-the-clock war instance with a selection tournament and valuable rewards, prompting players and governments to prepare.
• James decided to enter the instance and asked Morro to buy him a white horse.
• S1 Diana brought Iron Man, Batman, and Flash to devastated Themyscira, where an Amazon described Earth’s defeat and the Resistance’s warning that Darkseid’s three towers would destroy the planet.
• Iron Man used a Magic Card to contact the Resistance, and S1 Constantine and Damian appeared; Damian revealed Batman had been captured and Alfred had died.
• Damian said the Resistance planned to attack the towers with nuclear weapons while Darkseid went to Oa, but Iron Man and Batman warned that the plan could be a trap and would not stop Darkseid from rebuilding them.

Damian, Iron Man, and Batman prepared a counterattack against Darkseid by targeting the Super Engine in the New York Tower, while Diana and Alice began establishing a network of devices to connect the parallel universes and absorb resentment energy. In Andrew’s dream game, James and Morro entered the team tournament to attack a fortress, and James transformed Mechanical Superman into a Mechanical Sheep as their assault began.

• Damian told Iron Man and Batman that destroying the Super Engine could delay Darkseid, and they agreed to gather intelligence at his headquarters and plan a counterattack.
• Alice assembled a device at the first designated site, and Diana placed the crystal inside it to establish a spatial coordinate and begin absorbing resentment energy.
• Andrew launched a team and individual selection tournament in the dream game, with teams tasked to destroy fortresses defended by Mechanical Superman and Parademons.
• James and Morro entered the team event with an Evil Unicorn, and James used Mechanical Mosquitoes to scout the fortress before planning their attack.
• James charged the fortress on the Evil Unicorn, drew out Mechanical Superman, and used Polymorph to turn him into a Mechanical Sheep.

James and Morro cleared the Selection Tournament instance, then James inspected the Merit rewards while Andrew watched the candidates. In a Parallel Universe, Mechanical Trigon and Raven found S1 Raven struggling to contain Trigon, and Mechanical Trigon offered to take the seal from her.

• James used Illumination Spell and his staff to keep Mechanical Superman at bay while Morro dug beneath The Citadel, and the pair cleared the instance when it exploded.
• The System Elf congratulated James and Morro, explained that the War Instance would begin at an unknown time, and showed them the Merit exchange list.
• Andrew praised James's Magic-Tech Dual Cultivation and sent Mechanical Trigon and Raven through a Parallel Universe portal.
• Mechanical Trigon and Raven found S1 Raven in a ruined wasteland and dimmed the Gem on her forehead, easing her struggle against Trigon.
• S1 Raven explained that she had placed the Seal Stone on her forehead so she could guard Trigon while living on Earth, but growing resentment had strengthened him.
• Mechanical Trigon promised to deal with Trigon completely and asked S1 Raven to give him the seal.

Mechanical Trigon absorbed Trigon and joined Raven in preparing to fight Darkseid, while Andrew coordinated a counterattack against Darkseid’s forces. With Darkseid heading to Oa and the Resistance ready to strike New York Tower, the gathered heroes and Players awaited the start of the war.

• Mechanical Trigon sealed and devoured Trigon, becoming this universe’s Trigon, while Raven recovered and agreed to help fight Darkseid.
• Andrew sent Green Lantern to warn Oa’s Green Lantern Corps and gave him a device that could briefly hold Darkseid back.
• Darkseid left Earth with over a thousand Mechanical Supermen to attack Oa, leaving Chair Man to oversee the tower’s construction through Cyborg.
• Green Lantern reported that Oa’s defenders had prepared but faced a difficult battle, while a mysterious contact urged the Resistance to attack New York Tower and contain the other two towers.
• Andrew took command of the Resistance’s counterattack and promised to handle the other towers without sending anyone on a suicide mission.
• More than ten thousand elite Players gathered in the Dream Game lobby, waiting for the War Instance to open.

James and the other selected players entered a parallel Earth ruled by Darkseid, where Andrew’s dream game brought them into reality to help fight the invasion. The players and Andrew’s allies began an assault on the New York Main Tower, while the larger battle against Darkseid’s forces remained ahead.

• James and over ten thousand players accepted the war instance and arrived on a scorched parallel Earth, where they learned Darkseid had conquered humanity and built three towers to destroy the planet.
• Alice explained that the players would fight alongside superheroes, while viewers and authorities watched the experiment and recognized the dream game’s potential.
• The Light Screen vanished, and James led the players in charging Mechanical Supermen and Parademons; his staff disrupted their senses long enough for the players to attack.
• Andrew brought the superheroes and resistance troops near the New York Main Tower, then Mechanical Trigon arrived with Ravens, villains, Mechanical Supermen, Parademons, and Mechanical Warriors.
• Andrew sealed the surrounding space and blocked communications with Darkseid as the combined force charged toward the tower.

Andrew's forces attacked the Tower while Mechanical Trigon and Cyborg helped them counter the Mechanical Supermen and infiltrate the defenses. The Atom's squad reached the Super Engine room, where Zatanna prepared a device to help them break through.

• Chair Man sent Mechanical Supermen to contact Darkseid, but the Seven Deadly Sins intercepted them and turned them into allies.
• Andrew equipped the attackers with Trigon's magic whips, and the superheroes, villains, and Resistance fought the Mechanical Supermen and Parademons.
• Mechanical Trigon contacted Cyborg inside the Tower, and Cyborg regained control of his body and agreed to assist the attack.
• Andrew ordered The Atom's squad to enter the Tower, and Cyborg guided them through its defensive loopholes toward the Super Engine.
• The Atom's squad reached the guarded Super Engine room, and Zatanna assembled two semicircular devices for their next move.

The Atom’s team attacked the Super Engine while Mechanical Trigon battled Injustice Superman and thousands of Mechanical Supermen. S1 Batman broke free of his control after seeing what appeared to be Damian’s death, only to learn that Wade had staged it.

• Flash reached the Super Engine with a Teleportation Device, but Injustice Superman froze him, forcing Flash to teleport away before he could use it.
• Mechanical Trigon blocked Injustice Superman’s attacks, fought off the Mechanical Supermen, and was briefly teleported outside the Tower by the Super Engine.
• The Atom led the others against the remaining Mechanical Supermen while S1 Cyborg confronted the controlled S1 Batman in the command room.
• S1 Cyborg showed S1 Batman a hologram in which a Mechanical Superman appeared to kill Damian, and Batman broke through the control glasses in grief.
• Andrew revealed that the supposed victim was Wade in disguise, and Wade explained that he had faked Damian’s death to awaken Batman.

S1 Batman broke free of Darkseid’s control and joined S1 Cyborg in sabotaging the Tower, forcing Darkseid to leave Oa for Earth. On Oa, Green Lantern used Andrew’s resurrection device to revive fallen allies for one hour, while Mechanical Trigon gained control of more Mechanical Supermen.

• S1 Batman revealed that he had secretly resisted Darkseid’s control and began working with S1 Cyborg to destroy the Tower and attack the Super Engine.
• Darkseid sensed S1 Batman’s awakening, ordered the Green Lantern Corps destroyed, and teleported back to Earth when he could not contact the Tower.
• Green Lantern activated Andrew’s Sky-Piercing Tree device, which resurrected the fallen Green Lantern soldiers for one hour.
• Green Lantern fused with Ion Shark and became the new Ion Warrior as the resurrected Corps attacked the Mechanical Supermen.
• Andrew watched Mechanical Trigon turn more Mechanical Supermen against their former masters using the Demon King Whip and Nano Mosquitoes.

Andrew confronted Darkseid in Washington while Faora and Ability Armor attacked the Apokolips fleet, and he fought Darkseid using an enhanced Mechanical Godzilla. Meanwhile, S1 Batman and S1 Cyborg prepared the Tower to explode and secretly warned the others to retreat.

• Andrew teleported to Washington with Faora and Ability Armor and challenged Darkseid, who attacked Faora before turning to Andrew.
• Faora and Ability Armor engaged the Apokolips warships while Andrew summoned Mechanical Godzilla to fight Darkseid.
• Darkseid's Omega Beams temporarily disabled Mechanical Godzilla's claw, but Andrew repaired it with dream energy, and Mechanical Godzilla gained the advantage in their clash.
• Faora destroyed a warship with Heat Vision, while Ability Armor used gravity control and duplicates to bring down more ships.
• S1 Batman and S1 Cyborg set the Tower to explode in one minute and secretly sent a retreat warning to the other side's system.

The Super Engine began to self-destruct, and Darkseid tried to force Andrew to surrender by threatening to destroy the battlefield and Earth. Mechanical Trigon stopped the explosion by freezing the engine, while Andrew refused Darkseid’s offer and prepared to face him himself.

• S1 Batman and S1 Cyborg destroyed the Tower and fired missiles at the exposed Super Engine while the heroes held off the Mechanical Supermen, but the engine remained unharmed.
• The Super Engine activated its self-destruct system, and Darkseid told Andrew that its explosion would kill everyone nearby unless Andrew became his subordinate.
• Superman and Flash could not approach the engine because its energy disrupted space, and the Atom’s Shrink Ray also failed.
• Mechanical Trigon arrived with over two thousand Mechanical Supermen, captured Injustice Superman, and used a Magic Array to freeze the Super Engine before storing it away.
• Andrew rejected Darkseid’s offer and said he would handle him himself, while Mechanical Trigon sent his Mechanical Supermen to help the heroes fight and capture the remaining enemies.

Mechanical Trigon freed Injustice Superman from Darkseid’s control while Andrew defeated Darkseid by trapping his Omega Beams and destroying his body. Darkseid escaped to the original DC Universe, where he merged with his counterpart and prepared to seek revenge on Andrew and the Justice League.

• Mechanical Trigon broke Darkseid’s control over Injustice Superman, restored his memories, and sent him to help the others while keeping his focus on Lois.
• Andrew used Mechanical Godzilla’s Proton Scream to trap Darkseid’s Omega Beams in the Mysterious Space, then exploded Mechanical Godzilla against Darkseid.
• Darkseid survived by using his Omega energy to activate a Shuttle Device, escaping with only his soul and Omega Beams as his body was destroyed.
• Darkseid entered Andrew and the others’ original DC Universe, where the pull of his counterpart drew him to the other Darkseid.
• The two Darkseids agreed to merge, combining their memories and strength so they could take revenge on Andrew and the Justice League.

After the Parallel Universe’s victory over Darkseid’s forces, Andrew proposed rebooting the ruined world so its dead could return and Darkseid would be absent. The survivors agreed to let Flash attempt it, while Mechanical Trigon gathered the Mechanical Supermen and Apokolips’s technology.

• Darkseid consulted the statue of Serpent God Set, who told him to keep making sacrifices and avoid confronting Andrew until he had grown stronger.
• Andrew had Faora and the Ability Armor freeze the escaping ships, then joined Mechanical Trigon as he converted the remaining Mechanical Supermen and led the Players to victory.
• Batman and S1 Batman discussed the ruined Earth and their distrust of Trigon, prompting Andrew to gather the survivors and propose a Flash-led universe reboot.
• Andrew explained that the reboot could restore the dead and remove Darkseid from the New Universe, and the survivors agreed to proceed after he prepared equipment.
• Mechanical Trigon claimed the captured Mechanical Supermen, stripped Apokolips of its production line and technology, and persuaded Injustice Superman to provide blood by offering to kill Joker after the reboot.

Andrew sent Flash to 2013 to begin the World Reboot, but Trigon manipulated events so the Justice League would trust him and imprison Flash. Andrew revealed the deception was a staged surprise, and Flash learned that they had successfully saved Earth in the rebooted universe.

• Andrew rewarded the Players with increased Merit and the ability to revive game characters who had died in the instance.
• James concluded that the Crystal Pillar was not the location of the final fragment and began searching the hall for it.
• Flash traveled back to 2013, where Trigon revealed that he had been assimilated by Mechanical Trigon and had become his equally powerful clone.
• Trigon sent Flash back to the present, where the Justice League believed Trigon's accusations and tried to imprison him.
• Andrew appeared with Iron Man and Mechanical Trigon, explained that the imprisonment had been a staged surprise, and told Flash they had saved Earth.

After defeating the Dream Demon King, Andrew planned a Dream Game that would let people explore dream worlds and hunt for hidden fragments. A public advertisement announced the game and its Justice League reward, sparking excitement among viewers.

• Andrew returned Diana to their room in the Space Fortress, then reviewed the rewards he had gained from the Dream Realm, including the Dream Cornerstone and the Dream Demon King's possessions.
• Over the next two months, Andrew, Iron Man, Batman, Cyborg, and others developed the Dream Game, with Batman advising them on how to protect the public.
• Andrew and Tony agreed that players could collect thirteen fragments hidden by Justice League members to earn one reasonable wish from the League.
• Andrew told Tony that Lucifer was in America but would not return to Hell, and he assured Tony that Earth could withstand the coming conflict with Hell.
• A televised advertisement promoted the Dream Game, and viewers reacted excitedly to the free game and the chance to make a request of the Justice League.

Alice brought Pikachu to Andrew, who made a Pokeball and proposed a Pokémon Partner Program for Earth. James revealed the last Dream Game fragment was hidden inside the huge screen, gathered the fragments, and wished for Pokemon to be treated well, only to learn Andrew had already planned to protect them.

• Alice stopped Howard Clifford's mercenaries from capturing Pokemon and brought Pikachu and the rescued Pokemon to Andrew.
• Howard Clifford ordered his teams to stop capturing Pokemon, moved those already caught to a forest, and told scientists to clone a Pokemon from a fossil's DNA.
• James found the final Dream Game fragment inside the huge screen and negotiated with other holders to gather all the fragments.
• Andrew caught Pikachu in a Pokeball, demonstrated its Thunderbolt, and proposed studying Pokemon with Argus and the authorities before launching the Pokémon Partner Program.
• Andrew hired James for the Dream Game development team, and James wished for Pokemon to be treated well; Andrew said he had already planned to do so.

The heroes' attack on the Super Engine triggered its self-destruct system, but Mechanical Trigon took control of the Mechanical Supermen and froze the engine before it could explode. Darkseid's threat to destroy the battlefield failed, and Andrew chose to face him himself.

• S1 Batman and S1 Cyborg demolished the Tower and fired missiles at the exposed Super Engine while the heroes held off the Mechanical Supermen.
• The missiles left the Super Engine intact, and its self-destruct system began charging an explosion that would devastate the battlefield and disrupt space.
• Darkseid offered to stop the self-destruct if Andrew surrendered, but Andrew refused as Superman and the other heroes failed to approach or disable the engine.
• Mechanical Trigon took control of over two thousand Mechanical Supermen, captured Injustice Superman, and froze the Super Engine with a magic array.
• Mechanical Trigon stored the frozen engine and sent his Mechanical Supermen to help the heroes, while Andrew told him he would deal with Darkseid himself.

Tim discovered that R gas had made Aipom attack him, then teamed up with Charmander to investigate Harry’s disappearance and the gas’s source. Wade joined them as they headed for Lime City’s Underground Pokemon Battle Arena, while Howard and Argus monitored Wade and continued their search for Mewtwo.

• Howard dismissed the Justice League as a threat once he captured Mewtwo, believing the fossil’s energy would strengthen it enough to defeat them.
• Tim found R gas and a forgetful Charmander in Harry’s apartment, and the gas caused nearby Aipom to turn vicious and attack them.
• Tim and Charmander escaped the Aipom, were disbelieved and chased away by Lime City residents, then decided to investigate the gas and Harry’s disappearance.
• Andrew ordered an investigation, and Wade volunteered, found Tim and Charmander, and learned that an Underground Pokemon Battle Arena was where Harry had obtained the R gas.
• Wade, Tim, and Charmander set out for the arena as Howard learned of Wade’s arrival and told his secretary and an Argus cyborg to keep watching without acting.
• Howard and the cyborg discussed their search for Mewtwo and Argus’s plans to prepare for the next disaster and challenge the Justice League.

Wade, Tim, and Charmander uncovered Howard’s Pokemon laboratory after a chaotic battle at Crested Head’s underground arena. Howard lured them there to draw out Mewtwo, but Alice identified him as the mastermind and Andrew ordered Wade to deal with the laboratory.

• Howard discussed using Demon genes to create Demon Pokemon and planned to present them alongside Mewtwo to Argus’s leaders.
• Crested Head forced Charmander to fight a drugged Charizard, and Wade, Tim, and Charmander joined the resulting brawl as R Gas sent the arena into chaos.
• Wade used his special flag on Magikarp, which evolved into Gyarados and flooded the arena; the group captured Crested Head and learned about a Pokemon research laboratory.
• Howard sent Greninja to the laboratory to injure Tim and the others, hoping to draw out Mewtwo, while Wade led the group inside.
• Alice identified Howard as the laboratory’s mastermind and told Andrew, who ordered Wade to deal with the laboratory.

Wade joined Tim and Charmander’s assault on Howard’s laboratory, where Howard turned on Argus and sent cyborgs and demon Pokemon against them. Charmander tried Andrew’s evolution device, but it failed because his soul did not match his body, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Wade let Greninja’s attacks pierce him, healed from his wounds, and helped Tim and Charmander fight their way toward the laboratory.
• The Cyborg identified Wade and tried to withdraw Argus from Howard’s project, but Howard used a Mechanical Pokemon to disable him and block communications.
• Howard ordered cyborgs and demon Pokemon to attack Wade, Tim, and Charmander, while Wade fought back and gave Charmander Andrew’s evolution device.
• Charmander used the device, but it announced that a soul mismatch prevented him from evolving.
• Wade learned that the device had not malfunctioned and asked whether they still needed to fight.