Chapter Summaries

After the battle, Andrew arranged for the Zerg Overlord to feed on demons in Hell and set a plan in motion for Alice and Constantine to subdue the Demon Kings. The heroes turned to rescue work while Andrew prepared a celebration in a restored New York, where a vast new venue had appeared.

• At Andrew's instruction, the Zerg Overlord devoured swarms of Zerg to recover and agreed to eat demons in Hell instead of harming humans.
• Andrew sent the Demon Kings through a portal, then told Alice to work with Constantine to subdue them and eventually claim this universe's Hell.
• Andrew announced a celebration and assigned Bruce Wayne to find beautiful women and handsome men, while Wonder Woman left to develop her powers and avatars.
• Batman, Doctor Strange in Two-Face's body, and Two-Face considered their respective interests in Rachel and Batman's exposed identity.
• Flash, Long-haired Superman, and other superheroes went to rescue people trapped in collapsed buildings while the supervillains prepared to celebrate.
• Batman discovered that New York had been restored and that a huge, luxurious celebration venue had appeared beside Times Square.

After defeating the Zerg Overlord, Andrew celebrated with his allies and revived Kara, but Crimson Demon God Cyttorak appeared to announce a final battle in the next world. The celebration resumed, and Andrew offered Indigo a chance to defect rather than return to Hell.

• Andrew welcomed the game characters and agreed to revive Kara after Young Barry confirmed he wanted her back even if she did not become his wife.
• Andrew drew Kara's remnant soul from Young Barry's watch and placed her in a Great Cocoon, but Cyttorak stopped time and announced that Andrew had met his requirements for a final battle in the next world.
• Cyttorak invited Chthon, Set, Death, Hoggoth, and Galacta to join the battle as enemies, promised Andrew a chance to seize control of the next world, and said he would wait for him there.
• After time resumed, Andrew told The Ancient One that nothing was wrong, then advised Young Barry to take Kara's cocoon somewhere sunny so she could emerge within three days.
• Andrew invited Indigo to stay with his allies instead of returning to Hell, warning that Chthon and the others would distrust and exploit her if she went back.

After returning to Hell, Indigo found Chthon and the Losers Alliance preparing to invest heavily in a new assault on The Kung Fu Master, while Andrew celebrated the victory and recruited Ability Users for the coming Hell War. The chapter ended with Batman consulting Doctor Strange about a spell and warning against relying too much on Andrew.

• Andrew released Indigo and let her return to Hell, where she found Chthon and the others urging Demon to join another major attack.
• Homelander, Thanos, and Wade brawled while Alesha cheered Wade on, and Wade was sent flying with half his body missing.
• Chthon and the Losers Alliance committed most of their resources to the coming battle, and Demon agreed to provide an avatar and a treasure.
• Andrew celebrated with the others and offered the Ability Users a chance to keep their powers if they fought for him in the Hell War.
• Batman asked Doctor Strange about the reliability of his spell, then cautioned that they should not rely too heavily on Andrew.

After defeating the Zerg Overlord, Andrew delegated the world’s cleanup, recruited allies for the coming battle against the Crimson Demon God, and sent the weakened Half Bug King to recover in Hell. He counted the rewards from his victory and looked ahead to further wars and his campaign to become Lord of Hell.

• Doctor Strange urged Batman to decide soon whether to use the spell, while Alice took charge of the aftermath and invited Batman to meet with Humanity's High-Level Executives.
• Andrew teased Batman with Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth, then asked Harley whether she wanted to return to normal; Harley said she preferred her current self.
• Andrew recruited Hoggoth and Galacta for the battle against the Crimson Demon God and attended a successful celebration banquet with the rescued warriors.
• Andrew brought the weakened Half Bug King to Hell, ordered the Sloth Demon King to let him devour demons, and warned him not to let any genetic material escape.
• Andrew tallied his rewards, including increased reputation, the Zerg Overlord’s remains, Perfect Doomsday, the Rebirth Gem, billions of abilities, the Ability User Legion, and two Skyfather-level fighters.

The Zerg Overlord recruited a mysterious Multiversal Entity to observe the wager against the Mechanical Demon King, while the Crimson Demon God invited the Power Demon King into the coming battle. Andrew prepared to face the Crimson Demon God, taking the Kung Fu Master and planning safeguards in case the Crimson Demon God refused to accept defeat.

• The Zerg Overlord offered half his Universes to a mysterious Multiversal Entity for help, and the entity agreed to observe the battle before deciding whether to join.
• The mysterious Multiversal Entity demanded two Universes as an observation fee and asked the Zerg Overlord to find another Multiversal Entity to accompany him.
• The Crimson Demon God invited the Power Demon King to join the super battle, and the Power Demon King accepted so he could see the Crimson Demon God fight at full strength.
• Andrew fled the Parallel Universe after Zatanna, Cheetah, and other women pursued him, then took the Kung Fu Master with him for the coming battle.
• Andrew planned to bring Galacta and Hoggoth, and he gave the Kung Fu Master the Rebirth Gem to fuse with the Time Gate in case the Crimson Demon God broke the wager.

Chthon gathered Demon, the Losers Alliance, Indigo, Wade, and Thanos to prepare a composite Curse against the Crimson Demon God in case the Mechanical Demon King lost their wager. Andrew learned of the plan through his informants and intended to alter the Curse while keeping Indigo safe, as the story left Andrew confident he could survive the coming confrontation.

• Chthon explained that the Crimson Demon God might break his promise and attack the Mechanical Demon King if he lost, so he proposed cursing him to turn dark during an emotional Loss of Control.
• Chthon asked Alesha and Indigo to add their abilities to the Curse and persuaded Demon, Set, and Death to contribute strands of their Origin power.
• After the meeting, four urgent messages informed Andrew about the plan, and he praised Chthon’s idea while deciding to alter the Curse using the hidden trick Alice had placed in Indigo.
• Andrew chose Indigo to take the blame if the Curse went wrong and told Alesha he would ask Wade to help Indigo escape if needed.
• Alesha offered to join Chthon’s team to help Andrew, but Andrew assured her that he had a ninety percent chance of winning and could retreat safely.

Andrew prepared for his coming decisive battle with the Crimson Demon God while arranging for more contestants to join the game. After three peaceful months, a Mirage appeared over New York, and Andrew and his allies moved to confront the threat as Catwoman headed for a Shelter.

• Andrew spoke with his undercover agents and reassured Billy that he could help turn him into a Doomsday if Chthon experimented on him.
• Andrew and Alice discussed rewriting Indigo’s Curse, while Chthon unsuccessfully tried to persuade Eye Demon Shuma to help remove it.
• The Zerg Overlord returned with two Multiversal Entities, who agreed to watch Andrew’s decisive battle with the Crimson Demon God.
• Andrew took Catwoman shopping, and she asked him to gather information so she could build a career as a filmmaker and fashion designer.
• A Mirage appeared above New York, prompting civilians to evacuate, and Andrew left Catwoman to join his allies in the sky and in Hell as they responded to the threat.

Andrew's group and Chthon's group entered Cyttorak's world, where the Crimson Demon God revealed it was the Terminator world and challenged them to break Skynet's destined destruction of humanity. The chapter ended with Andrew asking whether they could return to the past as humans or machines.

• Andrew and Chthon accused Cyttorak of luring them into his world, but Cyttorak appeared with the Power Demon King and explained that he controlled the world.
• Cyttorak described the world's Terminator timeline, and Wade recognized the story from the movies.
• Cyttorak explained that he had made humanity and Skynet his servants and sent them to entertain him while remnants of the world consciousness plotted against his control.
• Cyttorak offered to send the group's consciousnesses into the past, where they would have to break Skynet's destined destruction of the world, while the Power Demon King opposed them.
• Andrew asked what restrictions would apply, and Cyttorak said they could only use the powers of the race they chose before Andrew asked whether that meant human or machine.

Andrew and the others chose their Terminator-world identities and returned to 1984 to challenge Fate. Andrew arrived in Los Angeles as Kyle Reese, then began preparing for his mission by locating Sarah Connor and bargaining with Cyberdyne Systems’ owner.

• The Crimson Demon God assigned the Power Demon King to kill Sarah Connor and John Connor, while the others chose mechanical races and returned to the past; Indigo entered as Skynet.
• Andrew chose to return as a human and used the remnant World Consciousness to claim Kyle Reese’s plot identity, drawing accusations of cheating from Chthon.
• The Crimson Demon God projected scenes from the game for New York’s residents to watch as the players synchronized with events in the past.
• Andrew arrived naked in a Los Angeles alley in 1984, stole clothes from a supermarket, and discovered that Cyberdyne Systems had developed the world’s computer system.
• Andrew searched for Sarah Connor, prepared weapons against Terminators, and called Cyberdyne Systems owner Lyle with a graphical user interface system’s code.
• Andrew stopped reciting the code and offered Lyle the rest in exchange for a list of items, giving him three hours to obtain them.

Andrew raced to protect Sarah Connor and rescued her from Thanos’s attack, while Lyle began gathering the requested supplies for their deal. After Thanos alerted Chthon and the others, the Crimson Demon God questioned whether Andrew’s technology had been restricted, and Andrew explained that his access to other superheroes’ technology had removed those limits.

• Lyle doubted he could obtain Andrew’s requested supplies in three hours, but Andrew refused to negotiate, and Lyle ordered his people to gather them before meeting Andrew with bodyguards.
• Andrew found Sarah Connor working at a restaurant and rushed there, where Thanos shot at her; Andrew tackled her out of the bullet’s path and led her toward the back door.
• Andrew’s electric disc incapacitated Thanos, allowing Andrew to escape with Sarah on his motorcycle, while Thanos later killed a police officer, took his identity, and reported their escape.
• Chthon learned that Andrew had rescued Sarah and gathered the others, while Andrew told The Kung Fu Master, Hoggoth, and Galacta to meet him at a warehouse.
• Chthon’s Main Body urged the Crimson Demon God to restrict Andrew’s technology, and Andrew explained that summoning superheroes let him obtain technology despite the original restrictions.

Andrew escaped with Sarah Connor and brought her to a warehouse, where he revealed that he and his robot allies had traveled from the future to protect her from Skynet. Sarah remained overwhelmed by the revelation as Andrew began examining the robots for possible upgrades.

• Andrew agreed to limit his technology to Iron Man's inventions, while Chthon and the others intensified their search for him and Sarah.
• Andrew and Sarah abandoned their motorcycle and stole a car to evade the people searching for them.
• At the warehouse, Hoggoth, Galacta, and The Kung Fu Master startled Sarah, and The Kung Fu Master copied her appearance.
• Andrew explained that he served Sarah's future son, John Connor, and that they had come from the future to protect her from a Terminator sent by Skynet.
• Sarah asked for time to herself, while Andrew sent Hoggoth to guard the entrance and began examining Galacta and The Kung Fu Master for possible upgrades.

Sarah learned that her son John Connor would become the Savior, while Andrew and his allies pursued plans involving Cyberdyne Systems. The Mechanical Demon King captured Lyle and his materials, and Chthon’s group arrived too late but began tracking them.

• Sarah questioned Andrew about John Connor’s future and learned that John was known as the Oracle.
• The Power Demon King joined Chthon, Thanos, Wade, and the Losers Alliance after discovering clues linking Lyle to the Mechanical Demon King.
• Chthon’s group headed toward Lyle’s location, believing the Mechanical Demon King planned to use Cyberdyne Systems to break Destiny.
• Andrew’s allies ambushed Lyle’s bodyguards at a warehouse, and Andrew took Lyle and the crate of materials with him.
• Chthon’s group reached the warehouse after Andrew had left and began analyzing the clues to track him down.

Andrew and his allies prepared to fight Skynet’s Terminators while trying to prevent Judgment Day. After building a battle-ready Mark Armor, they waited at a warehouse for their pursuers to arrive.

• Lyle learned that Cyberdyne Systems would create Skynet and that the machines would destroy the world, then agreed to help Andrew.
• Andrew explained that stopping Skynet would be difficult and ordered Lyle to arrange a secret weapons shipment through a trusted business partner.
• Andrew and Galacta built a crude Mark Armor, which The Kung Fu Master merged with and reshaped into red-and-gold armor.
• Andrew confirmed that he had lured the pursuing Terminators toward the group so they could defeat them and then discuss breaking destiny.
• At the warehouse, Andrew’s allies knocked out Lyle’s business partner and the workers to keep the mission secret, then prepared the weapons for the coming battle.

Andrew and the Demon Kings ambushed each other outside a warehouse, where Andrew’s new Iron Man suit gave him the advantage and let him eliminate Death. The Crimson Demon God granted Death a chance to return to 1991, while Death asked Indigo to prepare a way to save the others if they lost.

• The Power Demon King drove the group toward the warehouse, and Chthon assigned Wade, Death, Set, and Thanos their battle positions.
• Explosives destroyed the truck, scattering the Power Demon King, Set, Chthon, and Thanos as Hoggoth and Galacta attacked.
• Andrew arrived in his Iron Man suit, fought Chthon and Thanos, and destroyed their tracking plasma arms before pursuing Death.
• Andrew used liquid metal and a Laser Blade to damage Death’s head, then escaped Death’s self-destruct blast and became the first to eliminate Death.
• The Crimson Demon God gave Death the resurrection slot tied to Skynet’s robot sent back to 1991.
• Death asked Indigo whether she could obtain a Cross-Time Teleportation Device to rescue the remaining forces if Chthon and the others lost.

Andrew and his allies fought Chthon, Set, Thanos, and the Power Demon King, while the Kung Fu Master assimilated Wade and accepted his surrender. The villains escaped through Indigo’s modified Time Machine with the Power Demon King’s head, leaving Andrew’s side victorious but unable to stop them.

• Hoggoth fought the Power Demon King, while Galacta blasted Set and then taunted Chthon, Set, and Thanos from the air.
• The Kung Fu Master revealed he had hidden inside Wade and began assimilating him, but accepted Wade’s surrender and took over his body.
• Andrew arrived after killing Death, and the Kung Fu Master joined the battle against Chthon, Set, and Thanos.
• The Power Demon King threw his head to Chthon before Andrew’s Pulse Cannon destroyed his body, and Chthon’s group vanished with the head through Indigo’s modified Time Machine.
• Wade explained that Indigo had enabled the escape, and Galacta reprimanded him for not warning them sooner.

After Chthon’s group fled, Andrew prepared to use their twelve-hour absence to travel to 1997 and confront Judgment Day, while Indigo began upgrading the other side. Andrew revealed that John Connor would not be born, then sent Sarah home and planned to repair Wade so he could absorb Death’s liquid metal.

• Chthon’s group kicked Wade out of their chat after learning he had surrendered, and Indigo offered to upgrade them before they returned to fight the Mechanical Demon King.
• Indigo warned that spacetime rules meant Chthon’s group could not return to 1984 for twelve hours, while Andrew decided to travel to 1997 using a Time Machine built with Death’s chip.
• Andrew explained that he had taken Kyle Reese’s fate and would become the Savior’s father, so John Connor would not be born; he then sent Lyle to gather supplies and manpower for the Time Machine.
• Andrew told Sarah she was safe and would give birth to John Connor, then arranged for her to go home and said he would help resolve her other troubles.
• Andrew offered to modify Wade so he could absorb Death’s remains and recover using the liquid metal.

Andrew and his allies traveled through time to stop Judgment Day, but a collision between their temporal journeys scattered them across different eras and parallel worlds. Andrew arrived alone in a 1984 parallel timeline, while Chthon and the others planned to stop him and exploit the wager with the Crimson Demon God.

• Andrew gave Lyle a graphical operating system and energy technologies, asking him to suppress other tech companies and prevent artificial intelligence from emerging.
• Andrew upgraded the Battle Armor and his allies, then led them into the Time Machine despite Wade's complaints about not following Terminator's clothing customs.
• Chthon sent his group toward 1997 to intercept Andrew, but their temporal fluctuations collided with Andrew's journey and scattered both groups into different times and spaces.
• The Crimson Demon God told the Power Demon King that he would accept defeat, explaining that his true body was the Crimson Plane and he could eventually be reborn.
• The Power Demon King relayed the Crimson Demon God's secret to Chthon, who planned to stop Andrew and find a way to place the Curse inside the Crimson Demon God.
• Andrew arrived alone in a parallel 1984, learned that its Cyberdyne Systems was larger and Judgment Day was set for 2017, and wondered whether someone had deliberately sent him there.

Andrew and Death were separated into different eras after a spacetime collision, while Chthon’s group pursued Andrew’s allies in 2017. Andrew captured half of Death’s T1000 body, but the other half escaped and found Sarah, whose truck carried two T800s.

• Andrew learned that his allies had landed in 2017 and that Genesis would go online in two days, so he told them to survive until he could support them.
• Chthon’s group discovered that Andrew was absent, while Death reported being a T1000 in 1984 and escaped the programming urging it to kill Kyle Reese.
• The Battle Armor spotted Death’s police-car disguise, and Andrew destroyed the car and captured the liquid-metal half of Death’s body.
• Death’s surviving half escaped through the sewers, stole a car, and headed toward Sarah before detecting two Terminator signals ahead.
• Death climbed into Sarah’s truck and found an elderly T800 beside another immobilized T800.

Andrew rescued Sarah Connor from Death, who had taken control of a repaired T800, and captured and assimilated Death. After revealing himself as Kyle Reese and claiming Sarah was his future wife, Andrew left with Sarah and the elderly Terminator to find somewhere safe to talk.

• The elderly Terminator and Sarah, who knew a T800 and Kyle Reese would arrive, rescued Kyle after dealing with the T800, while Death secretly repaired and took control of it.
• Death attacked Sarah in the truck, but Sarah escaped, fought back with a shotgun, and was saved from Death’s killing blow by Andrew.
• Andrew captured Death with liquid-metal threads, froze and assimilated her, then collected her remaining liquid metal.
• Andrew introduced himself to Sarah as Iron Man, revealed he was Kyle Reese, and claimed they would conceive John Connor within twenty-four hours.
• The elderly Terminator arrived and questioned Andrew; Andrew bound the T800 and flew away with him and Sarah as they left to talk somewhere safe.
• Sarah asked whether Andrew was truly Kyle Reese, and the elderly Terminator confirmed his appearance while noting that Sarah had previously refused her destined pairing with him.

Andrew reunited with Sarah and the elderly Terminator, explained how he had reached their world, and learned that Judgment Day would now occur in 2017. They began preparing new Battle Armor and a Time Machine to travel there, while Andrew and Sarah grew closer.

• Andrew followed Sarah and the elderly Terminator to an abandoned underground station and explained that he was Kyle Reese from a parallel world.
• Andrew told them he had built his Battle Armor using knowledge from Iron Man and offered to make Sarah a suit from the captured T1000.
• The elderly Terminator explained that his mission had changed to protecting Sarah and that they had planned to stop Judgment Day in 1997, but Andrew said it would now happen in 2017.
• Andrew told Sarah he had willingly traveled back to protect her, and she grew shy as the elderly Terminator warned him to treat her well.
• The elderly Terminator said the Time Machine was built but needed a T800 chip, and he went to find missing materials while Andrew began building Battle Armor and teaching Sarah how to use it.