Chapter Summaries

Heisenberg put the Justice League through brutal combat training in the Amazon arena, using his light to heal their injuries so the fight could continue. Meanwhile, Bruce and Kid Flash searched ancient carvings for information about Darkseid, and Bruce was left to study the records after Kid Flash quickly catalogued them.

• Heisenberg healed the heroes with his light and challenged them to survive his attacks.
• Clark attacked Heisenberg with punches and Heat Vision, but Heisenberg dislocated his arm and cracked his spine before throwing him aside.
• Heisenberg defeated the rest of the Justice League, then declared that their combat training would last at least six hours a day and repaired the arena for another round.
• Hippolyta guided Bruce to the library's ancient carvings, where Bruce said the records could help them prepare for Darkseid.
• Kid Flash photographed and organized the carvings, identifying records about Darkseid and his subordinates, then offered to help further.
• Bruce praised Kid Flash and sent him out of the library so he could examine the records alone.

Bruce studied records of the ancient war against Darkseid and resolved to find what was drawing him to Earth so he could lure his forces into space. At the Zenith Arena, Heisenberg continued brutally training Barry and the others, and Arthur faced his turn to fight.

• Bruce read an Amazon record describing how the gods, Amazons, Atlantis, giants, and Green Lanterns fought Darkseid across the galaxy, but hundreds of billions of Parademons let him escape.
• Bruce concluded that he needed to identify the force drawing Darkseid to Earth and planned to consult Atlantis's records and European legends so he could lure Darkseid's army into space.
• Heisenberg defeated Barry, whose leg he had repeatedly torn off during training, then ordered Victor to take him to eat and recover.
• Amazon warriors fed and praised Barry while some competed over their admiration for him and Arthur; Arthur worried that he would soon have to fight Heisenberg.
• Heisenberg snapped Diana's neck again, and Arthur reluctantly entered the arena, realizing he was likely to die in his turn.

Heisenberg put Arthur and Clark through brutal training in the arena, then stopped when Hippolyta invited him and the heroes to a feast. Arthur resolved to find a weapon, while Lois woke and learned that Clark was still dead.

• Heisenberg impaled Arthur with Gungnir, criticized his lack of a suitable weapon, and threw him aside.
• Heisenberg used shifting gravity and force fields to overwhelm Clark, then battered him for over ten minutes while the spectators watched.
• The Amazons cheered for the fight, Lois cried over Clark's injuries, and one warrior knocked her unconscious to quiet her.
• Heisenberg cut off Clark's arm, taunted him with a false chance to counterattack, and impaled him again before healing him.
• Hippolyta invited Heisenberg and the heroes to a feast, so he ended the training and asked her to summon Bruce.
• Arthur decided to seek a weapon, and Mera told the newly awakened Lois that Clark was still dead.

Bruce learned that Superman had been sued by the parents of two children killed in a Metropolis kindergarten fire and rushed back to investigate before the controversy reached Clark or his great-grandfather. Meanwhile, Heisenberg continued brutal training in the arena, where Arthur joined the Amazons’ bloody melee as the heroes grew accustomed to violence.

• Bruce learned from Alfred that the parents of two children killed in a kindergarten fire had sued Superman, and that their attorneys and backgrounds showed no clear signs of manipulation.
• Alfred said he had failed to persuade the parents to withdraw the lawsuit, while Bruce warned that the dispute could provoke Clark and his great-grandfather and set off for Metropolis.
• Heisenberg ended Clark’s training session, teased Lois about her changed reaction to Clark’s repeated deaths, and released the Amazon warriors to fight in the arena.
• Arthur asked Heisenberg to let him join the melee, then fought hundreds of Amazon warriors without his trident.
• Heisenberg watched the heroes accept the bloodshed and resolved to reshape their understanding of justice through continued brutal training.

Heisenberg continued training the heroes on Themyscira while Batman left to investigate Superman’s disappearance in Metropolis. Near the Moon, Steppenwolf’s arrival was interrupted when a Kryptonian ship emerged from a wormhole, and Fiona led its warriors into battle against him.

• Batman’s plane left Themyscira, and Clark woke as Mera, Kid Flash, Victor, Arthur, and Diana prepared to fight him together.
• Steppenwolf arrived near the Moon, planning to scout Earth before Darkseid’s invasion, but his spacecraft was struck by a ship emerging from a wormhole.
• Fiona chose the lunar wormhole for the Kryptonian ship’s return and ordered her warriors to attack after identifying Steppenwolf’s vessel as Apokoliptian.
• Steppenwolf emerged with his axe and commanded the Parademons to attack, while Fiona gathered power to face him.

Fiona and the Kryptonian warriors fought Steppenwolf and his Parademons in space, but Steppenwolf escaped toward Earth with Fiona clinging to his craft. As Batman headed for their predicted landing site, Heisenberg prepared the Justice League to face the arriving Apokolips force.

• Fiona and the Kryptonian warriors tore apart Steppenwolf's ship and battled the Parademons, while Steppenwolf decided to flee toward Earth.
• Fiona pursued Steppenwolf, launched herself onto his escaping craft, and fought him as it spun and broke apart in Earth's atmosphere.
• Alfred told Bruce that the craft and two combatants were falling near Cayenne, and Batman changed course to intercept them.
• Clark defeated Arthur on Themyscira and completed his battles against the other Justice League members.
• Heisenberg spotted the Apokolips force overhead and told the injured Justice League that he would take them to face it.

Fiona fought Steppenwolf after they crashed onto Earth, while Batman interfered and then supported her with an arsenal of miniature weapons. Heisenberg arrived with the Justice League, restrained Fiona briefly, and brought tens of thousands of Parademons to Earth, leaving the League to make the falling Steppenwolf kneel.

• Fiona escaped the crashing ship, disarmed Steppenwolf, and wrestled him on the ground until Batman arrived in the Batplane.
• Batman attacked both fighters, but Fiona spared him after he claimed to be a friend of Heisenberg, and Steppenwolf backed off when Batman invoked Darkseid's name.
• Batman returned to the fight with mechanical bats and miniature aircraft, helping Fiona drive Steppenwolf into the sky.
• Heisenberg arrived with the Justice League, restrained Fiona, then freed her and reassured her that the Apokoliptians' arrival was not her fault.
• Heisenberg used the Bifrost to bring tens of thousands of Parademons and thirty-seven Kryptonians to Earth, then ordered the Justice League to make the falling Steppenwolf kneel.

Diana and the Justice League coordinated to subdue Steppenwolf, but Fiona’s contempt for the heroes sparked a confrontation that let him escape. Heisenberg then sent Clark after Steppenwolf to demonstrate Kryptonian power to Fiona.

• Diana, Arthur, Barry, Cyborg, Mera, and the others worked together to pin Steppenwolf before Heisenberg, who praised their teamwork.
• Fiona dismissed the heroes as weak, clashed with Mera and Clark, and insulted Bruce, prompting Arthur to laugh.
• Under the influence of Diana’s lasso, Arthur revealed that he had been laughing at Bruce, and the heroes’ restraints on Steppenwolf fell apart.
• Steppenwolf broke free, pinned Arthur with his trident, declared that Darkseid would make Heisenberg kneel, and fled.
• Heisenberg stopped Fiona from pursuing Steppenwolf and ordered Clark to bring the Apokolips warrior back quickly.

Clark revealed that Kryptonians gained powers from Earth’s yellow sun and defeated Steppenwolf, while Heisenberg restored Steppenwolf’s strength and demanded his respect. Steppenwolf knelt before Heisenberg, and Heisenberg warned the Justice League that his war with Darkseid had begun and their training would intensify.

• Clark demonstrated his sun-powered abilities by withstanding Steppenwolf’s axe, shattering it, and beating Steppenwolf into submission.
• Fiona questioned Clark about the source of his powers, and Heisenberg revealed that Clark carried his genes.
• Heisenberg forced Steppenwolf to his knees and told the Justice League that Darkseid’s forces would continue coming to Earth, so they needed more training.
• Steppenwolf claimed Heisenberg was unworthy to be Darkseid’s enemy, but Heisenberg overpowered him and made him give his name.
• Heisenberg healed Steppenwolf, restored his armor and axe, and demonstrated control over them until Steppenwolf knelt and respectfully addressed him as Your Majesty Heisenberg.

Heisenberg captured Steppenwolf and destroyed the remaining Parademons, then welcomed his Kryptonian warriors as home and ordered them to remove their masks and armor to unlock their powers. As the transformed warriors began adapting to their new abilities, Fiona mourned Krypton and Mera resolved to protect Atlantis and pursue the Aquaman throne.

• Heisenberg bound Steppenwolf and ordered Clark to take him to Themyscira as a training target, while promising Mera’s people could use him after she became Aquaman.
• Heisenberg destroyed the remaining thirty-two thousand Parademons and welcomed his thirty-seven Kryptonian warriors, declaring that Earth was their home.
• Heisenberg announced Darkseid’s declaration of war and told the Kryptonians that their future standing would depend on their own achievements.
• Heisenberg ordered the Kryptonians to remove their masks and armor, causing them to convulse as they gained new powers; Fiona recovered first and accidentally fired Heat Vision at him.
• Fiona apologized, recognized her new strength, and lamented that Krypton might have survived if its people had discovered their potential sooner.
• Mera resolved to protect Atlantis and her Kingdom of Xebel and to become Aquaman, while Clark and Diana considered their ties to Heisenberg and the Kryptonians’ growing power.

Heisenberg awakened the Kryptonians to their solar-powered abilities and appointed Fiona to lead an Elder Guard, while declaring that Krypton would abandon artificial reproduction. He sent the heroes and Kryptonians away for training, but Bruce remained alone in the South American wasteland after the others vanished.

• Fiona worried that Kryptonian technology and Genesis Chambers would not work on Earth, but Heisenberg promised to change how Kryptonians reproduced.
• Heisenberg awakened the Kryptonians and adjusted their solar-radiation exposure, allowing them to gain strength and fly.
• Heisenberg appointed Fiona commander of the Elder Guard and ordered her squad to train on Themyscira with Mera.
• Heisenberg assigned the heroes to train against the Kryptonian squad and Steppenwolf, prompting Arthur to protest.
• Heisenberg teleported everyone away, but Bruce stayed behind after asking not to return to Themyscira.

Heisenberg returned to the Kryptonian spaceship and reunited with three scholars and its long-serving AI. He declared that Krypton would be rebuilt under a new system focused on developing every Kryptonian’s potential, and the chapter left him suspending the pursuit of the Codex.

• Heisenberg left Clark in charge of Themyscira and flew to the Kryptonian spaceship near the moon.
• Scholar Bach confirmed Heisenberg’s identity, then he and the two other scholars rushed out to greet him.
• Heisenberg connected to the ship’s AI, which granted him full command and pleaded for Krypton to be rebuilt.
• Heisenberg promised to rebuild Krypton, gave the spaceship a new name, and appointed Bach as Krypton’s historian.
• Heisenberg rejected Krypton’s old militaristic system and said the people should develop their own potential rather than pursue the Codex.

Heisenberg transformed the returning Kryptonian scholars with Earth's yellow sun and set them to work rebuilding Krypton and contacting their scattered compatriots. As he returned to Earth with them, he affirmed that he would recruit Earth's heroic “miracles” and declared that Darkseid’s greatest achievement had been avoiding him until now.

• Bach warned Heisenberg that the Kryptonians had only one woman and could not rebuild their population through natural reproduction alone, but Heisenberg assured him more compatriots were on their way.
• Heisenberg engraved a sun emblem on his insignia, transformed the scholars with solar radiation, and Bach discovered their new Bio-field abilities and potential to reshape life.
• Heisenberg transported the Divine Kingdom to his Kryptonian Spaceship above Metropolis, where the ship merged with his original vessel and gained a stronger energy barrier.
• Heisenberg told Bach to prioritize contacting Kryptonians across the universe and begin constructing the Earth base from its completed blueprint, while postponing Antimatter research.
• Heisenberg told Bach that Earth’s heroes were its miracles and said Darkseid’s greatest achievement was that Heisenberg had not yet existed in the universe Darkseid traveled through.

Heisenberg oversaw the Divine Kingdom base’s upgrades, while Bruce arrived and discovered that its AI had transformed his plane into a Kryptonian spacecraft. In Rozburg, Astra awakened Kara Zor-El and set off with her toward the new Kryptonian world and Heisenberg.

• Bach began planning the Divine Kingdom base’s renovation and communications upgrades, hoping to contact Kryptonians imprisoned in the Phantom Zone.
• Divine Kingdom seized Bruce’s plane and rebuilt it in seconds as a Kryptonian fighter capable of Mach 3,000, though it lacked jump capability and strong antimatter defenses.
• Heisenberg told Bruce that Kryptonians and scholars were based in Metropolis, urged him to prepare for Darkseid’s invasion, and left through the Bifrost.
• Astra’s fortress captured Kara Zor-El’s spacecraft in Rozburg, and Astra ordered her warriors to retrieve its navigation data and depart the Phantom Zone.
• Astra awakened Kara, promised to care for her, and told her Heisenberg might help restore the Kryptonians and defeat Brainiac, the Collector of cities.

Heisenberg used repeated defeats to break Steppenwolf’s resolve while Bach reported signals from Kryptonians scattered across the universe. Heisenberg and his people began rescuing them, and he supplied the energy for Astra’s group in the Phantom Zone to break through to Earth.

• Diana, Arthur, Cyborg, and Kid Flash repeatedly defeated Steppenwolf while Heisenberg revived him, and Heisenberg explained that the failures would eventually make him reveal Apokolips’s secrets.
• Bach told Heisenberg that the divine kingdom base was complete and that signals from Kryptonians had been detected throughout the universe, so Heisenberg and Clark left Themyscira with thirty warriors.
• Bach showed Clark and Heisenberg the expanded divine kingdom, its Kryptonian plants, and the new technological plans, then reported that seventy-six Kryptonians were trapped in Rozburg in the Phantom Zone.
• Heisenberg contacted Astra and instructed her to use his Bio-energy to power Rozburg’s weapons system and break through the Phantom Zone.
• Astra ordered the people of Rozburg to prepare the energy channel as Kara eagerly awaited their leap across the Phantom Zone.

Heisenberg used Rozburg’s ancient weapon and Gungnir to bring the Phantom Zone fortress into Metropolis, where it was absorbed into the Divine Kingdom. Kara reunited with her cousin Clark amid the surviving Kryptonians’ joy at finding their plants again, and Clark wept as he embraced her.

• Astra ordered Rozburg’s energy cannon to fire, and Heisenberg’s divine power opened a passage through the Phantom Zone.
• Heisenberg threw Gungnir through the space-time barrier, bringing the shattered Rozburg above Metropolis, where Clark and thirty Kryptonian warriors caught its falling pieces.
• The Divine Kingdom took control of Rozburg and absorbed it into its base while Heisenberg safely brought Astra and Kara down.
• Kara and Astra discovered Kryptonian plants in the Divine Kingdom, and Clark cried as he realized how desperately his people had longed for a home.
• Heisenberg introduced himself to Kara as her kinsman, and she told him she needed to find her cousin Kal-El.
• Clark approached Kara, confirmed that Kal-El was safe, and embraced her and Heisenberg while sobbing.

Heisenberg comforted Kara over her parents’ choice to remain on Krypton and welcomed the surviving Kryptonians into a new home. His bond with them awakened the Life Equation, and he organized the survivors’ rescue and solar radiation treatment.

• Clark revealed to Kara that he was Kal-El and promised to take care of her, but Kara protested that he was already too strong to need her help.
• Kara grieved that her parents and uncles had stayed behind on Krypton, and Heisenberg explained that they had chosen to remain with their homeland.
• Heisenberg asked the Kryptonians to build a new home and nation with him, and hundreds of them pledged to stand by his side.
• The Kryptonian plants flourished as Heisenberg awakened the Life Equation, then he rejected its overwhelming happiness and welcomed the Kryptonians home.
• Heisenberg sent Kal-El to rescue remaining Kryptonians and instructed Divine Kingdom to begin radiation treatment for those not yet exposed to the sun.
• Kara left with Astra for treatment, promising Heisenberg she would return because they were family and he should not be lonely.

Heisenberg sent Clark and thirty Kryptonian warriors to find scattered survivors and bring them home, while rejecting the Phantom Zone as a prison. On a lush planet, Clark reunited with Tiff-Don-El, whose plan to seize a Green Lantern Ring drew the attention of Mogo, the living planet beneath them.

• Bach reported that twenty-six of the remaining Kryptonian signals had been confirmed, and Heisenberg sent Clark and thirty warriors to help the survivors and bring them home.
• Heisenberg told Bach that criminals would face labor or death rather than imprisonment in the Phantom Zone.
• Clark arrived on a lush planet, located Tiff-Don-El, and introduced himself as El-El while Heisenberg’s projection accompanied him.
• Tiff-Don-El told Heisenberg she had found a Green Lantern Ring on the planet and proposed killing Mogo to take it and travel through time to save Krypton.
• Heisenberg warned Tiff-Don-El that they were standing on Mogo, as green light gathered across the sky and enveloped the planet.

Heisenberg introduced himself and the Kryptonians to Mogo, a living planet and Green Lantern, after Tiff had mistaken her for an enemy. Mogo explained her history and her attachment to her ring, while Heisenberg reassured her that the Kryptonians meant no harm.

• Mogo spoke to Heisenberg, Clark, and Tiff, sensing that Heisenberg meant no harm but that Tiff had wanted to kill her.
• Heisenberg introduced himself and revealed Mogo as a living planet and the strongest Green Lantern, prompting her to greet him, Clark, and Tiff.
• Heisenberg explained that Tiff had been wrong about using Green Lanterns to travel through time and had failed to identify the planet they were standing on as Mogo.
• Mogo recounted her origins, how a Green Lantern Ring chose her, and why she would not let anyone threaten her or take it.
• Heisenberg assured Mogo that the Kryptonians only mourned their destroyed home and did not intend to harm her, but Mogo remained upset about Tiff's earlier actions.

Heisenberg comforted the lonely Mogo with sunlight and affection, and she eagerly accepted him as her father. He offered to take Mogo home so his people could live on her, leaving her wondering what a happy planet was.

• Mogo told Heisenberg that people repeatedly came to attack her, even though she tried not to hurt them.
• Heisenberg arrived on Mogo and bathed her in sunlight, then embraced her as she grieved for the home she had lost.
• Heisenberg invited Mogo to call him Father, and she excitedly accepted.
• Tiff apologized for targeting Mogo to obtain the Green Lantern Ring, and Mogo forgave her.
• Mogo learned that Krypton had been destroyed and offered to let Heisenberg's people live on her.
• Heisenberg offered to take Mogo home, and she asked what a happy planet was.