Chapter Summaries

Sam Lane learned the crippled Kryptonian Mothership was falling toward Delaware and ordered an emergency evacuation. Aboard the burning ship, Alex searched for Aura and tried to reach the hangar, but he encountered an injured Luthor and Faora, who confronted them over stopping Krypton's rebirth.

• Sam Lane learned the Kryptonian Mothership's engine had exploded and ordered residents near its projected Delaware crash site evacuated.
• Alex searched the damaged ship for Aura, but the system suspected Heat Vision had destroyed the AI core and urged him to escape in a small ship.
• Alex raced through the rolling, burning Mothership toward the hangar while trying to avoid debris and flames.
• Alex found Luthor in dented armor and pulled him to his feet.
• Luthor explained that Faora's radiation-proof armor had let her overpower him, and Faora emerged from the flames to confront Alex and Luthor.

Alex tried to convince the system to evolve him into the Divine Dragon so he could fight Faora, but Lex Luthor used a manual lever to detach the corridor and send her into space. Alex followed Lex away from the blast, calling him a genius.

• Alex stepped in front of the injured Lex Luthor and urged the system to evolve him so he could fight Faora.
• The system refused to evolve Alex and pointed out a manual lever that could detach the corridor beneath Faora.
• Alex insisted he could not abandon Lex Luthor and argued that his Kryptonite gave him a chance against Faora.
• Lex Luthor pulled the lever, sealing Faora beyond the hatch as the corridor detached from the Kryptonian Mothership and carried her into space.
• Lex Luthor led the way forward, and Alex watched him go and called him a genius.

As the damaged Kryptonian Mothership fell toward Metropolis, Superwoman and Martian Manhunter joined the rescue effort. Sam Lane enlisted them to guide a missile intended to divert the ship into the Southern Gobi Desert, while Faora pursued a small spacecraft breaking away from the mothership.

• Sam Lane learned that roughly nine hundred thousand people remained trapped in southern Metropolis and that evacuations could save only a fraction of them.
• Superwoman appeared and began rescuing civilians, and Martian Manhunter revealed his Martian form to help evacuate people by bus.
• Sam Lane contacted both heroes and proposed using an intercontinental missile to change the mothership's course toward the Southern Gobi Desert.
• Martian Manhunter and Superwoman agreed to guide the missile, setting down the civilians they had been carrying as they waited for its launch.
• A damaged spacecraft broke away from the falling mothership, and Faora flew through the atmosphere after it.

Alex and Lex Luthor fled Faora in a damaged spacecraft, hoping Kara would stop her, but Kara was quickly knocked into their ship and caused it to explode. As Alex prepared to use the crash to trigger his evolution, Superman flew to stop the falling Kryptonian Mothership instead of rescuing them.

• Alex piloted the damaged spacecraft toward the ground while Faora pursued, and he told the system to prepare an early evolution if they reached the end of the road.
• Lex Luthor spotted Kara on the spacecraft’s display and urged Alex to head toward her, so Kara intercepted Faora after learning the missile could be repositioned without her.
• Kara fought Faora, but Faora struck her into the spacecraft, destroying its propulsion engine and leaving Alex and Lex Luthor trapped in the exploding, uncontrolled ship.
• Alex used Magnetic Psionics to protect himself and hoped the crisis would force his evolution, while Lex Luthor activated his armor’s full-defense mode.
• Superman emerged from the Kryptonian Mothership and flew to brace the falling vessel above the people below.

General Zod blasted Superman away and ordered the Kryptonian warriors to kill every Earthling as the Kryptonian Mothership fell. A missile shifted the ship’s course south, but its crash devastated Metropolis and triggered destruction across the East Coast and beyond.

• General Zod struck Superman with Heat Vision, sending him crashing into the Gobi Desert.
• Martian Manhunter tried to redirect an intercontinental missile toward the falling Kryptonian Mothership but was forced to fight five Kryptonian warriors.
• More than thirty awakened Kryptonian warriors emerged from the ship after General Zod ordered them to kill every Earthling.
• The missile hit the Kryptonian Mothership and pushed it farther south before it crashed into southern Metropolis.
• The crash destroyed buildings, triggered earthquakes and tsunamis, and caused deaths exceeding one hundred thousand.

Kryptonians devastated cities across America as heroes rose to defend civilians and fight back. The battle continued in Boston, Seaside City, and Area 51, with Captain Atom joining the resistance.

• A Kryptonian attacked Boston’s Newbury Street with Heat Vision, killing a husband and threatening his wife and daughter.
• A shield-bearing woman intercepted the Heat Vision and charged the Kryptonian to protect the mother and child.
• In Seaside City, Hal struck a Kryptonian with a green hammer and rallied the city before attacking with a conjured fighter jet.
• A Kryptonian destroyed parts of Area 51, and Captain Atom emerged in silver armor to fight him.

After the Kryptonian Mothership crashed, Faora unleashed a gigantic Three-Headed Divine Dragon and vowed to destroy Earth in revenge. Alex stepped forward to face the beast, but when he triggered his evolution, the Digimon Evolution Song blared from his body and left him bewildered.

• Supergirl caught the damaged spacecraft and saved its two passengers, but the Kryptonian Mothership crashed into southern Metropolis, threatening immense loss of life.
• Faora blamed Kara for destroying Krypton's hope and summoned a Three-Headed Divine Dragon from beneath the wreckage.
• The enormous dragon emerged and flew to Faora as Kara realized that no one else could stop it.
• Kara attacked Faora but was knocked back, then agreed to draw Faora away while Alex faced the dragon.
• Alex activated the system's evolution, which opened his Idealistic Gene, and the Digimon Evolution Song erupted from every pore in his body.

Alex evolved in front of the Metropolis battle, expecting to become a Divine Dragon but instead transforming into a seventy-meter Tyrannomon. He discovered his new body’s immense power and ended the chapter raging that he must really be Agumon.

• Alex’s evolution song spread across Metropolis as golden energy enveloped him and his body painfully transformed.
• Alex learned that his Idealistic Gene had made him a Tyrannomon, and he furiously blamed the system despite its denial.
• Alex grew to seventy meters before Zod, Faora, the Three-Headed Divine Dragon, the Martian Manhunter, Superman, and Kara, then emerged from the golden energy as a Tyrannomon.
• Alex tested his new body when his tail struck the ground and carved a trench, while he discovered his strength, senses, and physical features.
• Alex broke down over the gap between his new form and his Divine Dragon ideal, roaring that he was Agumon.

Alex, grief-stricken after evolving into Tyrannomon, clashed with the Three-Headed Divine Dragon while the battle between the Kryptonians and their opponents resumed. The dragon attacked Alex, who braced against its claw and prepared to fight back.

• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon challenged Alex with a roar after Alex's evolution roar drew its attention.
• Martian Manhunter fought the remaining Kryptonian warriors while General Zod battled Superman.
• Kara called Alex cute, and Alex struck her into Faora before lamenting his Tyrannomon form.
• Alex approached the Three-Headed Divine Dragon, and the two beasts challenged each other with roars.
• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon lunged at Alex and slammed down with its foreclaw, which Alex blocked with both claws.

Alex, as Tyrannomon, fought the Three-Headed Divine Dragon in the Gobi Desert, enduring its charge and pinning its middle head despite his injuries. The dragon’s other two heads then attacked his thighs.

• Alex held off the Three-Headed Divine Dragon’s claw and tore a huge chunk of flesh from its palm.
• The enraged Three-Headed Divine Dragon charged, and Alex braced himself as its middle head smashed into his chest.
• Alex hooked his claws beneath the dragon’s middle head’s jaw and was driven five kilometers through the desert, carving a deep trench.
• Alex pinned the middle head and slammed it down whenever it tried to rise.
• The dragon’s two free heads lunged toward Alex’s buried thighs.

Lucia used the Kryptonian Mothership’s fall to prove herself as a reporter by broadcasting Tyrannomon’s arrival to fight the Three-Headed Divine Dragon. As Alex battled the vastly larger enemy, the children of Metropolis cheered him on, and the adults began joining them.

• Lucia convinced her cameraman and pilot to fly toward the Three-Headed Divine Dragon and begin a live broadcast.
• Tyrannomon appeared in golden energy, and Lucia identified him as an ally who had come to save humanity.
• Metropolis residents worried about Tyrannomon’s size disadvantage, while children who recognized him from Digimon excitedly supported him.
• Alex fought the Three-Headed Divine Dragon, which knocked him down and pinned him beneath its claw.
• The children cheered as Tyrannomon tore through the creature’s palm and emerged bloodied, prompting adults across the square to cheer too.

Alex fought the Three-Headed Divine Dragon in the Gobi Desert, killing one head and badly damaging another before his own severe leg wounds left him unable to stand. As viewers cheered for him as the Dragon King, the wounded enemy prepared to attack again with a glowing red eye.

• Alex drove his claws into one of the Three-Headed Divine Dragon's gills and killed that head while it bit into his legs.
• Alex smashed the nose of another head with his tail, forcing the Three-Headed Divine Dragon to release him and stagger backward.
• Lucia called Alex the Dragon King during the live broadcast, and people around the world cheered and adopted the title for him.
• Alex's legs were badly torn and bleeding, and he collapsed onto the sand after trying to stand.
• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon beat its wings, concealed itself in dust, and began gathering a destructive red glow in its remaining intact head.

Alex endured the Three-Headed Divine Dragon’s Heat Vision with his armored helmet and heat-resistant body, then rose and charged at it. As the two beasts neared another clash, the dragon attacked with a massive blast of Ice Breath.

• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon fired Heat Vision at Alex, who braced himself behind his helmet as the beam melted the ground into a long river of lava.
• Alex survived the blast, rose from the dust, and drew cheers from viewers watching the live broadcast.
• Alex stepped into the lava and found that its heat helped his cells recover, while the system assisted his healing.
• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon flew toward Alex through a sandstorm, and Alex charged at it despite his injuries.
• As the beasts neared each other, the dragon’s two remaining heads combined their Ice Breath into one enormous blast aimed at Alex.

The Three-Headed Divine Dragon unleashed a Super Ice Breath that froze a vast region and threatened Alex. Alex countered with his Super Fireball, and the two attacks collided in a devastating explosion whose outcome remained unclear.

• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon's Super Ice Breath froze the air, lava, and land across more than ten miles as Metropolis Television Station broadcast the attack.
• Alex sensed the danger but could not escape the spreading cold, so he gathered energy throughout his body.
• Alex fired his Super Fireball, which melted a path through the frozen domain toward the Super Ice Breath.
• The Super Fireball and Super Ice Breath collided, erupting in a massive explosion and sending a shockwave across a hundred miles.

After surviving the enormous explosion, Alex emerged from beneath the sand and defeated the badly injured Three-Headed Divine Dragon. The live broadcast ended with the Dragon King standing victorious over the fallen monster and roaring to the sky.

• The explosion shook Metropolis, and viewers feared that both the Three-Headed Divine Dragon and Alex had died.
• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon appeared alive but gravely injured, while viewers could not find Alex in the haze.
• Alex rose from the sand, and the broadcast showed that the Three-Headed Divine Dragon had lost two heads and suffered severe injuries.
• The Three-Headed Divine Dragon tried to flee, but Alex caught it, tore into its body, and broke its resistance.
• Alex smashed the monster's head, killed it, and roared over its body as viewers celebrated his victory.

After the battle, Alex learned that his premature evolution had erased his capacity for love and liking, leaving him emotionally empty. He realized that without those feelings, he could lose his interests, principles, and sense of self, and feared he was becoming Zombie Tyrannomon.

• The Kryptonian invasion left Metropolis sealed off, with millions dead and the world focused on mourning and reconstruction.
• Alex stayed at Lex Luthor's villa while the system explained that his evolution had cost him the ability to love.
• Alex initially dismissed the loss, but panicked when he realized love included his preferences, hobbies, and care for his family.
• The system warned that Alex could lose his other emotions and become numb, impulsive, and unable to care for himself.
• Alex recognized that his former goals and principles might no longer matter to him and concluded that he was gradually becoming like Zombie Tyrannomon.

Alex faced the danger that losing his capacity for love would turn him into an emotionless monster, and the system advised him to revive his old interests while holding to his principles. Meanwhile, Zatanna drove a weary woman toward someone she loved so she could say goodbye before undertaking something dangerous.

• The system realized Alex’s early evolution had left him losing his capacity for love and feared he would become Zombie Tyrannomon.
• Alex grew terrified of the emotional decline and disturbing impulses consuming him, then asked the system how to return to normal.
• The system urged Alex to pursue former hobbies and pleasures while keeping his principles and moral standards.
• Alex began setting rules for himself that he would not cross.
• Zatanna drove a woman in green silk along a Metropolis highway as the woman insisted on saying goodbye to the person she loved before a dangerous undertaking.

Alex attended Martha's funeral in Smallville, where Clark thanked him for helping him understand his ties to Earth. Alex also agreed to Lex Luthor's plan to make Metropolis the first pilot city for Future Energy Technology Company and offered Lex the CEO position.

• Clark welcomed Alex to Martha's funeral and thanked him for helping him realize how important his mother and his life on Earth were.
• Lex Luthor arrived, and Clark warned him to respect the funeral; Alex promised to keep Lex from causing trouble.
• Alex spotted Kara at the service and silently insulted her, prompting her to glare at him angrily.
• Lex told Alex he wanted Future Energy Technology Company's first city pilot project in Metropolis to help rebuild the devastated city.
• Alex agreed to the Metropolis project and offered Lex the company's CEO position so he could manage its affairs.

Alex and Lex Luthor made a deal at Martha's funeral, while Clark mourned his mother and later confronted Lex. After the funeral, Clark questioned Alex's relationship with Lex, and Kara caught up with Alex to speak privately.

• Lex Luthor offered Alex his three-billion-dollar Universal Entertainment Company, and Alex accepted while letting Lex handle Future Energy Technology Company.
• Alex and Lex joined the guests in honoring Martha at the memorial service and followed her coffin to the cemetery, where Clark wept as she was buried beside her husband.
• After the burial, Clark said goodbye to the mourners and warned Lex that he had nothing with which to threaten him; Lex left after greeting Alex.
• Clark asked Alex why he associated with Lex, but Alex said he followed his own principles and promises and walked away.
• Kara said goodbye to Clark, caught up with Alex, grabbed his arm, and told him she wanted to talk.

Harrison Wells arranged for Future Energy Technology Company to rebuild Metropolis rather than Central City, preserving the historical course he believed was necessary for Reverse-Flash’s future. Unable to understand why Alex agreed, Wells continued investigating Alex and learned that his transformed Dragon King form had genes beyond current scientific analysis.

• Harrison Wells agreed with Lex Luthor that Metropolis’s S.T.A.R. Labs would support Future Energy Technology Company’s plans to rebuild Metropolis.
• Harrison Wells reflected that he had steered Alex’s company away from Central City to protect Reverse-Flash’s future and the Speed Force.
• Harrison Wells questioned why Alex had accepted Lex Luthor’s proposal, since Alex’s selfishness and determination to transform Central City seemed to make the decision unlikely.
• Harrison Wells ordered his artificial intelligence to keep observing Alex after failing to explain his behavior.
• Harrison Wells asked whether Alex’s genes had been analyzed, and the artificial intelligence reported that the Dragon King was an unprecedented life-form whose genetics could not be understood with current technology.