Chapter Summaries

Jor-El showed Kara and Clark the Fortress of Solitude and gave them Kryptonian battle suits, while Kara warned Clark that General Zod and his soldiers could come to Earth. Clark learned that the Codex of Life inside him made him a target, and he asked Kara to train him by beating him up.

• Jor-El explained Kryptonian history and abilities to Clark and Kara, then showed them the dead Kryptonians in suspended-animation pods.
• Jor-El gave Clark and Kara battle suits made from Kryptonian material, and Kara agreed to teach Clark.
• Clark flew freely outside the Fortress of Solitude until Kara ambushed him and warned that opening the fortress had sent Earth's coordinates into space.
• Kara told Clark about the feud between the House of El and the House of Zod and warned that General Zod might come to Earth for the Codex of Life.
• Kara explained that Clark's natural birth gave him unlimited potential, and Clark asked her to beat him up so he could train.

After leaving Paradise Island, Li Ang traveled with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy while the other women returned to Gotham. Harley revealed that they were going to Salt Lake City to confront Rachel’s birth mother, and Li Ang went along to learn more about Rachel’s past.

• During their final days on Paradise Island, Harley Quinn negotiated with Queen Hippolyta to invite the Amazons to Gotham.
• Kate Kane, Black Canary, and Huntress returned to Gotham with Nora, while Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy took Li Ang with them.
• Harley asked Queen Hippolyta to arrange a plane and departed with Li Ang and Poison Ivy.
• After crossing the continent, the group landed in Salt Lake City, where Harley revealed that Rachel’s birth mother lived.
• Harley said she wanted to learn why Rachel’s mother had abandoned her, and Li Ang agreed to investigate with her.

Li Ang, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy infiltrated St. Moses Hospital to find Angela, overcoming its armed guards and strange defenses. They reached the director’s office, where a room decorated with images of the Devil suggested the respected-looking doctor was hiding something sinister.

• Li Ang and his companions toured Salt Lake City before driving to St. Moses Hospital, which Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy suspected was no ordinary mental hospital.
• Poison Ivy used plants to subdue guards outside, while Harley Quinn charged inside and fought the guards who raised the alarm.
• Li Ang trapped the hospital in the Mirror Dimension, and Harley Quinn killed one guard before getting another to point them toward the director’s office.
• Li Ang stopped Harley Quinn from entering carelessly, then shattered a gargoyle that flew out of the opening door.
• Harley Quinn entered the director’s office and saw an old doctor surrounded by pictures of the Devil.

Li Ang and his companions rescued Angela from the Mental Hospital after defeating the director’s summoned Demon. Angela reacted to Rachel’s name, but Harley Quinn exposed her supposedly confused behavior as an act.

• Li Ang questioned the director about Angela, and Harley Quinn tortured him until he revealed where she was being held.
• The director summoned the Yellow-Eyed Demon, but Li Ang cast out its soul and destroyed it with Magic Chains, learning that Lucifer was in the human world.
• Harley Quinn shot the director, and Li Ang burned his corpse before the group used a map to find Angela.
• Poison Ivy gently told Angela that Rachel was there, prompting Angela to ask where her daughter was.
• Harley Quinn claimed to be Rachel, and Angela denied it while pretending to be mentally ill, so Harley Quinn challenged her explanation.

Harley Quinn exposed Angela’s act and decided to investigate why she had faked being mentally ill, while Li Ang and Poison Ivy returned to their hotel. After catching them together, Harley Quinn grew furious, and Angela saw a chance to win her over and avoid Arkham Asylum.

• Harley Quinn slapped Angela, saw through her act, and threatened to send her to Arkham Asylum.
• Poison Ivy restrained Angela with branches as Harley Quinn took charge of watching her.
• Harley Quinn told Li Ang she wanted to uncover Angela’s real motive, and they returned to the hotel with Angela.
• Li Ang called Kate Kane to arrange a plane, then went into the bathroom with Poison Ivy.
• Harley Quinn overheard Li Ang and Poison Ivy together, confronted them, and returned to Angela in a rage.
• Angela mocked Harley Quinn’s jealousy, then decided to try to win her over to escape her dangerous situation.

Angela tried to recruit Harley Quinn by dangling the secret of how Rachel could summon Him, but Harley refused to help her reach Rachel and took her to Arkham Asylum. Back in Gotham, Li Ang reunited with his goddaughters, as Ciri showed off her growing magic and Kara continued training Clark.

• Angela told Harley Quinn that Rachel could summon Him and promised revenge on Li Ang and Poison Ivy if Harley helped her, but she withheld the summoning details.
• Harley Quinn questioned Angela during their flight to Gotham, but Angela refused to reveal how to summon Him or let Harley see Rachel.
• After landing in Gotham, Harley Quinn took Angela to Arkham Asylum while Li Ang and Poison Ivy went home.
• Ciri greeted Li Ang, demonstrated her newly awakened teleportation ability, and continued developing her magic.
• Kara kept training Clark, whose growing strength had made him difficult for her to handle.

Harley Quinn and Kate Kane had Angela restrained at Arkham Asylum so they could learn about Rachel’s threat, and Harley frightened Angela into telling her past. Angela revealed that her real name was Alara and began describing how an ancient ritual brought a demon into her life.

• Harley Quinn and Kate Kane arranged for Arkham staff to frighten Angela with a staged injection.
• Harley Quinn entered Angela’s room and told her the staff would turn her into a lunatic.
• Angela agreed to tell Harley her story and revealed that her real name was Alara.
• Alara said she had joined an evil cult as a young woman and had been made its saintess.
• Alara recalled that one of the cult’s summoning rituals brought forth a handsome man who revealed himself as a demon and forced himself on her.
• Harley Quinn interrupted Alara with questions, prompting Kate Kane to curse at her and tell her to let Alara continue.

Harley Quinn learned that Angela had Rachel to serve as a vessel for Three Palaces, then told Li Ang about the demon god and the Sanctuary. Li Ang agreed they should search for the Sanctuary, and he told Rachel that her mother was alive.

• Angela told Harley Quinn that Three Palaces had used her bloodline to create a way to reach Earth, and that she had fled with Rachel before sealing Rachel's memories.
• Harley Quinn agreed to help Angela find the Sanctuary, while Kate Kane erased the records of their conversation.
• Harley Quinn told Li Ang what Angela had said, and he warned that Three Palaces was too powerful to confront directly.
• Li Ang suggested finding and destroying the Sanctuary, and Harley Quinn said Rachel might soon be able to see Angela.
• Li Ang told Rachel that they had found her mother, and Rachel eagerly asked where she could see her.

Li Ang took Rachel to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One lifted the seal on her memories and revealed that Three Palaces had destroyed her homeworld, Azarath. Rachel resolved to grow strong enough to seal him away, and the family later headed to New York to visit Gwen.

• Li Ang brought Rachel and the rest of the family to Kamar-Taj to ask the Ancient One to undo Rachel's sealed memories.
• The Ancient One removed the seal, and Rachel remembered that Three Palaces had destroyed Azarath and left it in ruins.
• Rachel learned that she carried Three Palaces' blood and vowed to train until she could seal him away.
• Li Ang and the family left Kamar-Taj and went to New York to visit Gwen.
• New Yorkers recognized Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy and crowded around them for photographs, until Harley Quinn lost her temper.

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy struggled to convince a crowd they were real before S.H.I.E.L.D. brought Li Ang and his goddaughters to meet Gwen. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Kara flew off to help Gwen fight Rhino, while Natasha Romanoff’s conversation with Li Ang prompted Harley to accuse her of trying to seduce him.

• Harley Quinn failed to convince the crowd she was real, and Poison Ivy exposed their powers by lifting a groper with plants.
• Coulson escorted Li Ang and his goddaughters to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where they said they only wanted to see Gwen.
• Kara, Ciri, and Rachel discussed how deeply Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and Li Ang refused to meet anyone beyond their assigned agent.
• Natasha Romanoff introduced herself and showed them Gwen struggling against Rhino on television.
• Kara asked to help Gwen, received permission from Natasha, and flew away at supersonic speed.
• Natasha began speaking with Li Ang, and Harley Quinn accused her of trying to seduce him.

Kara saved Gwen from Rhino, revealed her power to the public as Supergirl, and escaped with Gwen before reporters could surround them. Meanwhile, Brock Rumlow arrived on Alexander Pierce’s orders to meet Li Ang and the others, but Gwen told him they had already left.

• Natasha tried to learn more from Harley Quinn, who warned that Batman might attack if he sensed a threat from Another Earth.
• Kara appeared during Rhino’s fight with Gwen, stopped his charge, and effortlessly overpowered him.
• Kara melted Rhino’s armor with Heat Vision, then left him for George Stacy and the police.
• Kara carried Gwen away from the reporters, and the girls arranged to meet somewhere safer.
• Brock Rumlow arrived with Hydra agents claiming Alexander Pierce wanted to meet the guests, but Gwen said Li Ang and the others had already left.

Rachel reunited with her birth mother, Angela, at Arkham Asylum, while a shadowy figure later entered Angela's body. That night, an Amazon Elder arrived in Gotham and was shot by a sniper as Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey welcomed her.

• Li Ang and the others brought Rachel to Arkham Asylum to see Angela, who remained unresponsive.
• Harley Quinn comforted Rachel and watched Angela warily before the group left the asylum.
• A four-eyed shadow appeared in Angela's room and slipped into her body after they had gone.
• Harley Quinn told Li Ang that an Amazon Elder was coming to Gotham, and she and the Birds of Prey went to meet her at Archie Goodwin Airport.
• A sniper shot the Amazon Elder in the chest, and the Amazons pulled her back into the plane while Harley Quinn and the others reacted in fury.

After Deathstroke shot and killed an Amazon Elder at Gotham’s airport, Harley Quinn and Li Ang vowed to find the assassin and whoever hired him. Donna Troy stayed in Gotham to help investigate, equipped with powerful gear from the Titans.

• Deathstroke shot an Amazon Elder at the airport and escaped as Black Canary identified him.
• Donna Troy told Harley Quinn that she and the Amazons would handle the investigation, while Harley promised to find the culprit.
• Harley told Li Ang that Deathstroke had attacked the Elder, and Li Ang identified him as Slade Wilson and ordered that he be found.
• Li Ang told Diana that someone had attacked her people in Gotham, and Diana agreed to have Donna work with him.
• The Amazon Elder died, and Queen Hippolyta ordered the Amazons to continue cooperating while Paradise Island prepared to send help.
• Donna put on her Titans-bestowed armor and weapons before rejoining Harley Quinn and the others.

Harley Quinn learned that Deathstroke was Slade Wilson and ordered his family arrested under flimsy pretenses. The chapter left Slade hiding in a safe house, promising his ex-wife he would find a way to free her and their children.

• Harley Quinn and Donna Troy returned to Gotham with the Birds of Prey and the Amazons.
• Harley identified Deathstroke as Slade Joseph Wilson, and the women decided to arrest his ex-wife and children.
• Harley accused Slade’s ex-wife, Adeline Wilson, of discrimination and ordered the family taken into custody.
• Slade answered Adeline’s call from his safe house and learned that she and their children had been arrested.
• Slade told Adeline not to resist and promised to find a way to get the family out.

Harley Quinn turned Deathstroke Slade’s mission into a paid contract to kill his original employer, while both planned to settle their scores afterward. Slade identified Kate Kane as the person behind the job and drove toward Metropolis to kill his target.

• After Wayne Enterprises was named as the force behind his family’s arrest, Slade learned Kate Kane had acted against him and left his safe house before the Birds of Prey arrived.
• Harley Quinn called Slade and offered to pay him to kill his original employer, threatening his family if he refused.
• Harley Quinn and Slade bargained over the fee and agreed on fifty million dollars, with Slade giving her a bank account number.
• Harley Quinn told the others she intended to deal with Slade after he completed the hit, and Slade likewise planned to return to Gotham and take revenge on her family.
• Slade identified Kate Kane as his target, looked over a photo of Harley Quinn’s daughters, and drove toward Metropolis.

Li Ang and Kate Kane learned more about Deathstroke’s estranged children while Harley Quinn investigated the International Gang’s mysterious weapons suppliers. General Antiope arrived safely in Gotham, and the chapter ended with Li Ang spotting Lex Luthor on the news.

• Li Ang questioned Rose Wilson, who agreed to testify against Deathstroke and described how his brutal training had injured her.
• Li Ang met Donna and discussed plans with Kate Kane and the others.
• General Antiope arrived from Paradise Island without incident, and Harley Quinn left Li Ang and Kate to host her.
• Harley Quinn told Li Ang that the International Gang was receiving weapons from an unidentified source in Metropolis.
• Li Ang noticed Lex Luthor on the television news.

Li Ang learned that LexCorp had tried to infiltrate Paradise Island, while Superman’s debut led to a clash with Harley Quinn and the Amazons after he captured Deathstroke. The standoff continued as Harley Quinn and Deathstroke argued over who had ordered Lex Luthor’s assassination.

• Antiope told Li Ang and Kate Kane that LexCorp workers had tried to sneak into Paradise Island’s castle, prompting the Amazons to end their partnership.
• Li Ang and Kate learned that Lois Lane had named the newly appeared hero Superman after interviewing him.
• Harley Quinn called Li Ang and urged him to come over because a fight had broken out.
• Superman brought Deathstroke to Gotham after stopping him from assassinating Lex Luthor, and Donna Troy and the other Amazons attacked Superman before he knocked them aside without injuring them.
• Superman asked Harley Quinn about Deathstroke’s claim that she had ordered the assassination, and Harley said Lex Luthor had attacked her people first.
• Deathstroke called Harley Quinn a criminal wanted by Batman, and Harley retorted that Batman had never tried to catch her.

Li Ang and the others captured Deathstroke after Superman delivered him to them, then handed him over to the Gotham Police Department. At the celebration, Kara told Li Ang how Clark had come to like the name Superman because Lois Lane had chosen it.

• Superman brought Deathstroke Slade to Harley Quinn and Li Ang, then left after awkwardly acknowledging Li Ang as Kara's godfather.
• Donna Troy overpowered Deathstroke and bound him with the Lasso of Persuasion, but could not control his will.
• Harley Quinn beat Deathstroke until he returned her fifty million dollars, then Li Ang and the others turned him over to the Gotham Police Department.
• Harley Quinn hosted a celebration at a Wayne Enterprises hotel, and Li Ang brought Kara and his other goddaughters.
• Kara told Li Ang that Clark had found Lois Lane's name for Superman appealing because Lois had come up with it.

Li Ang asked General Antiope to help find Rachel Roth’s underwater Sanctuary, and she offered to contact the Atlanteans. Meanwhile, Batman learned that LexCorp supplied the weapons and saw evidence that superhumans were appearing across America.

• Li Ang introduced his three goddaughters to General Antiope, who suggested training them on Paradise Island, but Li Ang said Diana had already trained them and they still needed to attend school.
• Li Ang asked Antiope whether the Amazons could locate Rachel Roth’s underwater Sanctuary, and Antiope offered to connect him with the Atlanteans.
• Li Ang and Antiope disappeared from the party for two hours, while his goddaughters joined the festivities and Kate later dragged him away again.
• Alfred told Batman that the weapons had been traced to LexCorp and that Lex Luthor was recovering but would eventually have to face Superman.
• Alfred showed Batman videos of people across America using emerging superhuman abilities, including controlling marine life, running at extreme speed, and robbing ATMs.

Li Ang and Kate learned that LexCorp backed the International Gang, then joined General Antiope and Donna at the beach to contact the Atlanteans. A crowned mermaid emerged from the sea, revealing that the Atlanteans had answered the call.

• Kate Kane told Li Ang that LexCorp was helping the International Gang sell weapons, and she planned to cut Lex Luthor's influence out of Gotham.
• Li Ang and Kate visited General Antiope and Donna, then joined them for a trip to the beach.
• General Antiope explained that Donna Troy had studied photography and wanted to open a photography studio.
• General Antiope blew an Atlantean conch horn at Crimson Cape to summon the Atlanteans.
• A red-haired mermaid wearing a crown emerged from the water.