Chapter Summaries

Abin, Bzzd, and Gambino searched Huihe Star for Brainiac and discovered signs of his presence as Apokolips attacked the planet. After receiving Bzzd’s distress message, Heisenberg assembled the Justice League, Amazons, and Kryptonian warriors and prepared to lead them to Huihe Star, leaving Bach on Earth to watch for Darkseid.

• Abin, Bzzd, and Gambino reached ruined Huihe Star and split up to search for Brainiac.
• Two Bio-robots rose from beneath the ruins as a computer identified Green Lantern Corps members invading a hidden base.
• Heisenberg restored sunlight to Mogo and learned that Mogo had argued with Bach about transforming her terrain.
• Bzzd reported that Apokolips and Brainiac’s Bio-robots were fighting across Huihe Star over Brainiac’s collected Kryptonian city and Heisenberg’s people.
• Heisenberg summoned the Justice League, Amazons, and Kryptonian warriors, then ordered Bach to remain on Earth and monitor Darkseid while the others prepared to descend on Huihe Star.

Glorious Godfrey and Miracle Grace sent an army through a Boom Tube to attack Huihe Star, where Abin, Gambino, and Bzzd were searching for Brainiac. Trapped by the planet-wide barrier and surrounded by enemies, the Green Lanterns regrouped as Huihe Star revealed its defenses, and Bzzd prepared to contact Mogo for help from Green Lantern Headquarters and Lord Heisenberg.

• Miracle Grace ordered Glorious Godfrey to investigate Huihe Star, and he opened a transport passage to send their controlled forces onto the planet.
• Abin spotted the invasion and warned Gambino and Bzzd, who realized the Boom Tube and attackers confirmed they had found Brainiac’s location.
• Gambino and Bzzd discovered an invisible barrier trapping them on Huihe Star, while Bzzd fought off the pursuing Lanterns and asked Abin and Gambino to join him.
• Abin, Gambino, and Bzzd gathered under heavy attack, and Huihe Star awakened with weapons and Bio-robots emerging from its surface and underground structures.
• Gambino formed a green-light maze to protect Bzzd while he tried to contact Mogo and request support from Green Lantern Headquarters and Lord Heisenberg.

Brainiac’s defenses and Apokolips’s forces turned Huihe Star into a catastrophic battlefield, while Bzzd contacted Heisenberg for help. Heisenberg then led a rescue force toward the planet, with Clark and Bruce preparing for their first cosmic war.

• Brainiac deployed ghostlike biological weapons that killed countless invaders as Glorious Godfrey’s slaves and Apokolips forces flooded Huihe Star.
• Gambino’s green-light maze collapsed under fire, so he, Abin, and Bzzd fled through the battlefield after Bzzd relayed the situation to Heisenberg.
• Brainiac activated a planetary plasma-cutting net that killed most of the slave soldiers, while the three Green Lanterns sheltered and watched the fighting.
• Heisenberg assembled Amazons, Atlantis warriors, and Kryptonian Military Guild fighters; Clark changed into a black combat uniform and resolved to prove himself to the Kryptonians.
• Bruce checked his space-ready Megalodon Armor, and Heisenberg used the Bifrost to send the Divine Kingdom ship to Bzzd’s location.

Heisenberg’s forces arrived on Huihe Star and began a battle against Brainiac’s forces while the Kryptonians assembled technology to reach Brainiac’s core. Brainiac prepared a red-sun irradiation trial, and Miracle Grace and Glorious Godfrey sent millions of reinforcements through Boom Tubes.

• Bzzd’s communicator call let Mogo and Heisenberg locate him, and the Bifrost brought the Divine Kingdom ship to Huihe Star.
• Heisenberg armed his troops and assigned the Amazons to secure the battlefield, the Atlanteans to support them, the Kryptonians to assist scholars, and the Justice League to rescue and command as needed.
• Hippolyta led the Amazons into battle alongside the Atlanteans, while Fiona, Astra, and the other Kryptonians rapidly cleared the surrounding area.
• The Divine Kingdom AI identified Brainiac’s core beneath the metal-rich planet, and Heisenberg ordered the magnetic devices deployed to bore down and force out Brainiac’s ship.
• Brainiac extracted data from three Kandor Kryptonians and began preparing a red-sun irradiation trial against the invading Kryptonians.
• Miracle Grace and Glorious Godfrey opened thirty Boom Tubes around the Divine Kingdom’s defensive ring, sending enemies in at more than a million per second.

The Divine Kingdom’s forces fought to hold off Brainiac’s invasion while the strong magnetic conversion device started up. Clark unleashed his full power against the enemy hordes, and Brainiac deployed new defenses as Gres joined the battle; the fighting continued across Huihe Star.

• Fiona and the Kryptonians attacked the enemies pouring from the Boom Tubes, while Astra ordered them to contain the passages rather than waste time trying to destroy them.
• The scholar announced that the strong magnetic conversion device had begun a two-minute startup, and Hippolyta and Mera led the forces in defending it.
• After Diana urged him to stop treating the battle like a game, Clark used global targeting and Heat Vision to destroy Brainiac’s conventional forces and scattered Spectre weapons.
• Godfrey identified Clark as a top-tier threat, and Gres left the City of Thought to join the fight as Brainiac revealed his true body and ordered planetary defenses deployed.
• Astra and the Kryptonians intercepted negative-ion attacks while two scholars raised a Positive Ion Defense Barrier, and Fiona led Kryptonians across the planet to destroy heavy weapons.
• Bruce used the Oarfish Armor to freeze and destroy enemies, while Arthur fought with his trident and complained that his breathing mask itched.

Clark confronted Gres, whose psychic powers distorted his perceptions and turned those around him against him. Heisenberg watched Clark struggle to tell reality from illusion and joked that Superman had been controlled again.

• Gres appeared before Clark, seduced him, and introduced herself as Gres after he asked her name.
• Clark realized Gres was an unusual psychic enemy and brought her to the Kryptonian scholars, but she claimed she had made them all her people.
• Clark attacked Gres, but Barry rescued her, while the others saw Clark assaulting an Amazon warrior and insulting everyone around him.
• Clark questioned whether Gres was controlling his senses and actions, then wondered if he could trust anything he saw.
• Heisenberg showed Mogo the scene and laughed that Superman had been controlled again.

Heisenberg comforted Mogo and promised to protect her from being modified, then dealt with Steppenwolf, who had tried to escape Mogo. Outside the divine kingdom, Bruce’s desperate concern for Clark was mistaken for a declaration of love, leaving Superman stunned.

• Mogo admitted that she feared being modified by Bach, and Heisenberg promised to let her remain herself.
• Steppenwolf climbed Mogo’s highest mountain to escape, but Heisenberg blasted him beyond the atmosphere and dragged him back, shortening the mountain when he crashed.
• Steppenwolf refused to betray Darkseid or Apokolips and asked Heisenberg for a quick death, so Heisenberg summoned the Bifrost and asked what would happen if Steppenwolf’s people betrayed him.
• Batman asked how to free Clark from an illusion, and Hippolyta rushed to use physical force before Bruce stopped her.
• Clark opened his eyes after misinterpreting Bruce’s warning as a declaration that Clark was the love of his life, and he stared at Bruce’s affectionate, worried gaze.

Heisenberg killed Miracle Grace after discovering she had controlled Clark, then used Steppenwolf to expose her identity and declared him an ally. Godfrey left Darkseid and entered the battle seeking death at Heisenberg’s hands, and the chapter ended with Heisenberg grabbing his head.

• Heisenberg crushed Gres, killed Miracle Grace, and freed Clark from her control.
• Heisenberg gave Miracle Grace’s remains to Scholar to study and develop protection against mental control.
• Heisenberg announced that Steppenwolf had joined his ranks, though Steppenwolf fought Godfrey’s creatures rather than surrendering.
• Darkseid learned of Miracle Grace’s death, and Godfrey told him he was leaving to avenge her and charge into battle.
• Godfrey emerged through a Boom Tube on Huihe Star and asked Heisenberg to kill him; Heisenberg seized his head.

Heisenberg killed Godfrey and ordered the scholars to study his and Gres's bodies while Darkseid watched and prepared the Dark Elite to depart for Huihe Star. As the heroes regrouped, the magnetic device pierced the planet, leaving the warriors to survey the vast passage through its core.

• Heisenberg crushed Godfrey's head, sent his body away with Gres's corpse for study, and ordered the scholars to prepare a plan.
• Darkseid watched the battle from Apokolips and ordered Desaad to ready the Dark Elite for departure.
• Heisenberg asked Clark about being controlled, while Bruce questioned him and resolved to investigate how Godfrey's ability had affected him.
• Heisenberg ordered the warriors away from the central device as the Kryptonians and other heroes cleared space around it.
• The magnetic device pierced Huihe Star, and the survivors saw a vast passage through the planet filled with ruined structures.

Heisenberg and the Divine Kingdom forces faced Brainiac’s attack, while Clark confronted him and was swiftly defeated. Kara and 132 armored Kryptonians joined the battle, and Heisenberg prepared to settle accounts with Brainiac over Krypton and its stolen city.

• Brainiac emerged in a six-kilometer spacecraft and fired an ion attack at the Divine Kingdom forces, but Heisenberg shielded them and neutralized it.
• Clark confronted Brainiac over Krypton’s people, then attacked and was captured; Brainiac broke all four of Clark’s limbs using red-sun radiation.
• Astra tore Clark from Brainiac’s grasp and threw him to safety, where his eight-year-old cousin Kara caught him and promised to protect him.
• Kara flew toward Brainiac’s ship as Fiona returned with 132 armored Kryptonians, and Heisenberg led them to face Brainiac.
• Heisenberg thanked Brainiac for preserving Kryptonians, then said he would settle the debt for the invasion and the stolen city.

Heisenberg fought and destroyed one of Brainiac’s bodies on Huihe Star, then faced fifteen more while the Kryptonians searched for their people. As he began battling the duplicates, Darkseid opened a passage from Apokolips to Huihe Star.

• Heisenberg seized Brainiac, burst his eye, hurled him to the ground, and stomped his head apart.
• Brainiac’s tentacles attacked, but Little Broken Ball blocked them while Heisenberg battered Brainiac’s body with hundreds of thousands of punches.
• Heisenberg ordered Scholar to study Brainiac’s metal, then sent Fiona and the Kryptonians to search for their people.
• Fifteen Brainiacs emerged from the skull-shaped ship, and Heisenberg warned them he would destroy everything they owned if his people were not returned.
• Heisenberg blocked the Brainiacs’ plasma beams and charged into battle as Darkseid began opening a passage to Huihe Star.

Darkseid opened a portal to Huihe Star, where he and Heisenberg prepared to fight while Apokolips's forces attacked the planet. Mantis killed Wonder Woman, and Barry began running faster in an attempt to turn back time.

• Darkseid told Mantis that an Old God among the Kryptonians had killed Gres and Godfrey, then opened a portal to Huihe Star.
• Heisenberg destroyed the last Brainiac and greeted Darkseid as he emerged from the portal.
• Desaad assigned Apokolips's forces to attack Brainiac's troops, Heisenberg's warriors, and the Kryptonians, while Mantis charged into the Amazon warriors.
• Mantis killed more than fifty Amazons, broke Diana's wrist, stabbed her, and beheaded her.
• Barry saw Diana's death and ran faster, determined to turn back time.

Heisenberg survived Darkseid’s Omega Ray and fought back with Gungnir while the battle spread across Huihe Star. As the heroes struggled against Apokolips’s forces, Diana was attacked again, and Kalibak chose Clark as his opponent.

• Barry used the Speed Force to save Diana from Mantis, though Diana lost her right arm and Barry was wounded.
• Heisenberg endured Darkseid’s Omega Ray, then hurled the tracking spear Gungnir at him.
• Clark fought Mantis and kept him from attacking the other heroes, while Arthur was badly outmatched.
• Granny Goodness attacked Diana, who healed her severed arm and fought back with help from Batman in Oarfish Armor.
• Kanto claimed Barry as his prey, while Kalibak announced that he would fight Heisenberg’s child, Clark.

Kanto ambushed Barry, who inferred that the assassin’s power made him appear only when his dagger injured its target. As Heisenberg pinned Darkseid with Gungnir, Kalibak charged in and challenged Heisenberg’s son, prompting Little Broken Ball to eagerly accept.

• Kanto crossed the teleportation passage and ambushed Barry, repeatedly cutting him with a dagger that appeared along his path.
• Barry reasoned about Kanto’s ability, tried to strike him, and learned that he could not harm the assassin even when Kanto appeared beside him.
• Heisenberg’s Gungnir evaded Darkseid’s grasp and nailed him to Huihe Star, while Mantis knocked Clark away to watch Darkseid suffer.
• Desaad ordered Viman Wanderbar to enter the battlefield, but Kalibak shoved him aside and charged Heisenberg.
• Kalibak challenged Heisenberg to send out his son, and Heisenberg sent Little Broken Ball to fight him.

Little Broken Ball revealed herself as Mogo and unleashed a devastating attack that shattered Huihe Star. As Heisenberg and Darkseid began fighting, Batman was relieved that the battle had not taken place on Earth.

• Kalibak mocked Little Broken Ball for being a ball, and she asked Heisenberg if she could use more force against him.
• Heisenberg allowed it, and Mogo blanketed Huihe Star in green light, striking Kalibak and destroying more than half the planet.
• Heisenberg protected his warriors with his Bio-field while Huihe Star broke apart, and Darkseid charged at him instead of checking on Kalibak.
• Heisenberg and Darkseid collided and fought, sending shockwaves through the shattered planet, while Mantis resumed attacking Clark.
• Batman watched the battle and felt relieved that Heisenberg and Darkseid were not fighting on Earth.

Heisenberg and Darkseid fought in a brutal struggle while Desaad intervened to separate them and restrain their allies. Desaad then faced Heisenberg’s target-seeking Gungnir, which pursued him across universes and threatened his heart.

• Batman ordered the Divine Kingdom troops to eliminate the remaining enemies, while Diana charged Granny Goodness and stabbed her in the chest.
• Heisenberg and Darkseid seized each other and inflicted severe injuries as they fell from the sky.
• Viman Wanderbar suggested Darkseid’s danger was far from over, and Desaad transferred his runes to Viman before joining the battle.
• Desaad trapped Barry and Bzzd in a spatial barrier and separated Heisenberg from Darkseid with another barrier.
• Heisenberg summoned a sun above Huihe Star and launched Gungnir at Desaad, whose spatial defenses failed to stop it.

Heisenberg battled Darkseid in space while his allies fought Darkseid’s forces on Huihe Star. Desaad died after Mogo destroyed him, while Viman Wanderbar and Kanto summoned a vast Parademon army and then sealed Darkseid and his forces outside Apokolips.

• Desaad took Heisenberg’s spear through the chest, and Darkseid charged Heisenberg while shielding himself with Omega Ray.
• Heisenberg drew Darkseid away from Huihe Star and ordered Mogo to kill Darkseid’s subordinates.
• Mogo burst out of Desaad’s chest after he removed the spatial barrier trapping The Flash and Bzzd; Barry learned Desaad’s apparent final words had nearly helped him escape.
• Barry spotted that Kanto had vanished, while Bzzd joined the fight and the battle on Huihe Star continued in the heroes’ favor.
• Viman Wanderbar summoned billions of Parademons onto Huihe Star, then Kanto destroyed the teleportation rune to seal Darkseid and the Parademons outside Apokolips.

Heisenberg and Darkseid continued their multiversal battle, trading blows while discussing the D1969 Multiverse and Heisenberg’s rapid growth. Heisenberg crushed planets and asteroids into a sphere to attack Darkseid, while Batman and the Kryptonians moved to keep Parademons from joining the fight.

• Heisenberg and Darkseid paused their battle to discuss how little time had passed since they last met and why Apokolips had designated the universe the D1969 Multiverse.
• Darkseid said he had renamed the universe the Heisenberg D Multiverse, and Heisenberg promised to rename it Darkseid’s Fallen Ground after defeating him.
• Heisenberg used Universal Gravitation to draw asteroids and two moons toward Darkseid, then compressed the colliding celestial bodies into a sphere.
• Batman witnessed Heisenberg’s power and ordered the Kryptonians to prevent Parademons from assisting Darkseid.
• Fiona, Astra, Kara, and Norn acknowledged Batman’s order as Kryptonian warriors flew up to intercept the Parademons.

As the battle against Apokolips raged across Huihe Star, Clark recovered from his fight with Mantis and searched the collapsing planet for Kandor City. He found the protected city deep underground and prepared to bring his people back.

• Fiona and the Kryptonians fought Parademons while the Amazons, Atlanteans, and Victor defended the Divine Kingdom's formation.
• Barry told Victor that Kanto was stalking him from another dimension, and Victor left him to face the assassin alone.
• Diana finished Granny Goodness, while Mogo trapped Mantis and dragged him away from Huihe Star to fight in space.
• Clark collapsed after enduring Mantis's attacks, then recovered under Heisenberg's summoned sunlight and insisted on searching for Kandor City.
• Clark traveled deep into Huihe Star's shattered core, found Kandor City inside a small ball of light, and declared that he had come for it.

Clark found Kandor City and broke its barrier, freeing its surviving Kryptonians, but the city’s expansion left him injured and the Kryptonians exposed to painful solar evolution and a Parademon attack. Heisenberg opened a passage to Marvel-19999, and Hela arrived on a dragon to attack the Parademons.

• Clark found Kandor City beneath Huihe Star and carried it to the surface while its surviving Kryptonians waited in despair.
• Zor-El calmed the Kryptonians and told them to secure themselves while Clark tried to free them.
• Clark broke Kandor City’s barrier, causing the city to expand and restoring its primitive atmosphere; he crashed and lost his strength, while the Kryptonians began painfully evolving under the yellow sun.
• Parademons swarmed Kandor City, and the distant Amazon and Atlantis forces could not reach it.
• Heisenberg opened a passage to Marvel-19999, and Hela charged out on a dragon and attacked the Parademons in the name of Asgard.