Chapter Summaries

Ian left the Zombie Universe after turning Odin into a baby, leaving Thor to care for him and Loki trapped in a jar. The TVA arrived, slowed Thor with a time weapon, and arrested Thor, Gwen, and Captain America, while Morgan was inexplicably left behind.

• Ian vanished with several artifacts and told Thor to feed baby Odin formula, leaving Loki's soul in a thermos.
• Thor hurled Loki's thermos away, but a zombie nearly ate Loki before Doctor Strange rescued him and trapped him in another jar.
• Doctor Strange recognized Ian in Loki's account and became ecstatic, while Thor struggled to change and feed baby Odin with help from Gwen and Morgan.
• Morgan supplied Thor with warm formula and baby supplies, then a TVA team emerged through a portal and declared the group variants.
• The TVA slowed Thor and arrested Thor, Gwen, and Captain America, but left Morgan behind when they departed through the portal.

Gwen Stacy was detained by the TVA and brought before Jarvis, who revealed that he wanted her help finding Ian Kent and the hidden ONE-ABOVE-ALL. Back in the Batcave, Ian discovered his mother and Batman were gone, then heard a mysterious visitor warn that his father was about to die.

• Gwen was arrested as Variant A-114, forced to sign records of her words and thoughts, and accused of interfering with Morgan Stark, the timeline’s Anchor Point.
• Deadpool appeared as one of the three judges, but a TVA agent interrupted Gwen’s trial and escorted her to the Supreme Tribunal.
• Kang the Conqueror identified himself as Time Administrator No. 7, and the Supreme Tribunal revealed itself as Jarvis, who sought information about Ian Kent.
• Jarvis told Gwen that Ian had hidden the true supreme being, ONE-ABOVE-ALL, and that finding this being was necessary to return events to the right track.
• Ian returned to the Batcave, found that Loki’s soul and the Norse God Soup were missing, and discovered that Lois Lane and Batman had left.
• A voice outside the Batcave told Ian that his father was about to be beaten to death and asked whether his funeral would interfere with Ian’s schedule.

Ian learned that Superman was on Mars and fought through Injustice Superman’s clone army to reach the planet, only to find Mars sealed by magical chains. As Ian confronted Injustice Superman and Batman, Mars exploded, revealing two golden figures fighting at its core.

• Ian recognized Joker in the Batcave, endured his laughing gas, and forced him to reveal that Superman was on Mars.
• Ian used Pen Draws the World to torment Joker, then left for Mars while Joker dug up Ian’s note and returned to vandalizing the Batcave with Harley Quinn.
• Ian crossed space and annihilated most of Injustice Superman’s clone army with World-Burning Pulse before discovering magical chains barred entry to Mars.
• Ian found Injustice Superman standing on Batman on Phobos, fought Injustice Superman, and learned from Batman that the runes on him suppressed emotion.
• Mars exploded during the confrontation, and Ian saw two golden figures fighting at the planet’s core.

Superman and Golden Superman unleashed a multiversal clash whose light threatened Earth, while Batman, the heroes, and an unknown boy helped the planet survive. As Ian watched the Supermen continue fighting, their battle reached Darkseid’s territory, leaving the stunned warlord to wonder whether they had come there on purpose.

• Superman rejected Golden Superman’s plan to eliminate alternate Supermen, and their clash unleashed a torrent of golden energy that erased Mars and swept toward Earth.
• Ian used Injustice Superman as a shield, while Batman’s clone perished in the light; the real Bruce survived and launched an orbital shield that was only 37% complete when the wave arrived.
• A mysterious protective film filtered the golden light above Earth, leaving people and heroes unharmed, and Bruce wondered who had intervened.
• Joker killed the Cloaked Figure, claimed Superboy-Prime as his new child, and carried him away while saying he would make him his guardian.
• The golden light awakened the ancient king Teth-Adam in a Gotham museum, and he vowed to reshape the world according to the nightmare’s will.
• Ian carried the unconscious Injustice Superman as Superman and Golden Superman fought on, eventually entering Darkseid’s territory and startling the warlord.

Clark fought Golden Superman across the universe while Ian used Whisper to fuel his father’s anger, and their battle devastated Apokolips before Darkseid joined in and was overwhelmed. Meanwhile, Ian accidentally stabbed the freed Injustice Superman, then began treating his injuries as the fight continued on the Black Box.

• Clark and Golden Superman battled across dimensions, and Ian used Whisper to provoke Clark with imagined stories about Lois remarrying.
• Clark and Golden Superman crashed into Apokolips, damaging Darkseid’s palace and destroying his forces as they fought.
• Darkseid attacked the two Supermen with the Omega Effect, but they teamed up and battered him into his Omega Armory.
• Ian recorded Darkseid’s defeat while Injustice Superman regained consciousness, free of the runes controlling him.
• Injustice Superman approached Ian to explain himself, but Ian startled and stabbed him with Gungnir.
• Ian realized Injustice Superman was no longer controlled and began treating his abdominal wound with improvised medical tools.

Ian operated on Injustice Superman, implanting a nest of twelve embryos made from Angels' feathers before sedating him again. Meanwhile, Darkseid trapped Ian’s father and another Golden Superman in the Realm of No Light, but Ian’s intervention gave Clark Kent a chance to strike back with All-Black the Necrosword.

• Ian cut open Injustice Superman’s abdomen, built a glowing nest from Angels’ feathers, and implanted it with twelve embryos.
• Ian stitched Injustice Superman’s abdomen closed, painted over his wounds, and explained the embryos before sedating him with Kryptonite.
• Darkseid overwhelmed the two Golden Supermen and dragged them into the Realm of No Light, where their strength and hope began to fade.
• Ian used the Black Box to locate the battle, then hurled Gungnir through the dimensional barrier to distract Darkseid.
• Darkseid caught Gungnir, but Ian sent All-Black the Necrosword through the widening rift, and Clark Kent seized it and swung at Darkseid.

Clark used All-Black the Necrosword to wound Darkseid, who escaped, then returned to the battlefield and listened as Ian proposed an elaborate scheme to finish him. The chapter ended when Ian’s Black Box received a call from Hell, which Ian claimed came from Bruce.

• Clark took All-Black the Necrosword through a rift and used it to split Darkseid’s Omega Beams and attack him.
• Kal-El restrained Darkseid briefly, allowing Clark to cut his arm with the sword and inflict a wound that resisted healing.
• Darkseid tore away the corrupted part of his body and fled through a rift after blasting a passage out of the Realm of No Light.
• Clark shook off the sword’s influence, removed its symbiote armor, and returned to the battlefield, where Ian criticized him for letting Darkseid escape.
• Ian proposed faking a divorce and a romance to lure Darkseid into attacking a police officer, but Clark sealed Ian’s mouth with a strip of cloth.
• Clark found Injustice Superman awake and crying, while Ian explained through writing that he was repenting; then Ian’s Black Box displayed a call from Hell, and a mouth formed on his abdomen to announce that Bruce was calling.

Ian answered Batman’s call and returned to Earth with Clark, bringing the traumatized Injustice Superman along. As Batman reported trouble in Gotham, Golden Superman met with The Batman Who Laughs in a shadow realm and examined a mysterious box containing Outer Universe power.

• Ian answered Batman’s call with a barrage of jokes, and Batman insisted he was alive before urgently summoning Clark back to Earth.
• An explosion cut off the call, so Clark grabbed Ian and prepared to fly home; Ian also seized the despairing Injustice Superman and brought him along.
• During the flight, Ian claimed Injustice Superman had to remain emotionally calm because of a fetus, leaving Clark bewildered and Injustice Superman pleading for help with his eyes.
• Injustice Superman warned Clark that Golden Superman had only retreated and would return, then Clark demanded to learn more about the Supreme Alliance.
• Golden Superman met The Batman Who Laughs in a realm of shadows, where a strange metal box containing dense Outer Universe energy was presented to him.

Golden Superman accepted The Batman Who Laughs’s Dark Spark Lens and began transforming into a living darkness, while Clark returned to the ruined New York and Ian confronted the imprisoned Black Adam. The chapter ended as Ian headbutted Black Adam to invade his consciousness.

• The Batman Who Laughs persuaded Golden Superman to open the ominous box, and Golden Superman touched the Dark Spark Lens, which engulfed his golden radiance and began changing him.
• Clark brought Ian and the defeated Injustice Superman to New York, where Ian secretly collected Batman corpses while Bruce confined Black Adam in a force-field prison.
• Wonder Woman explained that Black Adam had attacked the League, and Batman warned Clark that a dark nightmare was stirring within the prisoner.
• Batman called Ian over for help, and Ian entered Black Adam’s unstable prison after jokingly calling himself Bruce’s uncle.
• Black Adam grabbed Ian by the throat and struck his chest, but Ian survived through absurd bodily tricks and provoked the ancient emperor.
• Ian seized Black Adam’s moment of rage and slammed his forehead into Black Adam’s, beginning an invasion of his consciousness.

Ian entered Black Adam’s mind to investigate the abnormal dark power, but was pulled into a strange Japanese city where he encountered a statue of Ultraman Belial. Meanwhile, Batman questioned Injustice Superman about the Supreme Alliance and a coming disaster, while Mera warned that ocean pollution was awakening something ancient.

• Ian headbutted Black Adam and forced his consciousness into Black Adam’s mind, leaving them both unconscious and spitting rainbow-colored foam in the cage.
• Batman confronted Injustice Superman, who revealed that the Supreme Alliance had sent him on two missions and might be searching their universe for something.
• Injustice Superman warned that a future disaster might involve an Outer Universe invasion and identified Paradox as the Batman Who Laughs’s wary collaborator, prompting Clark to recognize her name.
• Injustice Superman agreed to share more information if Batman helped resolve the trouble Ian had caused in his abdomen, while Aquaman left to help his brother Orm after a suspected mutation from radioactive water.
• Mera warned that pollution was stirring something ancient in the ocean, and Injustice Superman suggested destroying undersea cables and shipping routes to cripple human industry.
• Ian was pulled into a Japanese city within Black Adam’s mind, encountered a strange boy carrying an egg, and then saw a statue that revealed itself as King Ultra Belial.

Ian tricked Belial into entering his body and devoured his power and the essence of an Ultra Universe fragment, gaining a new class and several levels. Inside Ian’s Extra Dimension, Belial was reduced to a powerless Level 9 Common NPC, while Ian considered making Franklin a guide for newcomers.

• Ian recognized Belial as the dark Ultra villain who had taken control of an Ultra Universe fragment and stolen the New Land of Light name.
• Ian pretended to accept Belial’s tempting offer, then revealed his chaotic nature and absorbed Belial’s power and universe fragment.
• Ian unlocked the Lord of Radiant Ash class, gained experience that raised his Entropy Annihilation Lord level to 29, and began integrating the fragment into his Extra Dimension.
• Belial found himself powerless in Ian’s dimension, where a passerby dismissed him as a strange mixed-blood and Franklin showed him his Level 9 Common NPC status.
• Franklin gave Belial a copy of To Live and left him to face life as an NPC, while Ian praised Franklin’s potential as a newcomer guide.

Ian watched Belial get arrested for wrecking the library, sentenced by Franklin, and sent to South Beria for labor reform, where he met Sabretooth and abandoned his escape plans. Ian then returned from Black Adam’s mind after purging an alien parasite, only to charge Batman for every word of his diagnosis.

• Belial received a massive fine after damaging the library, but Jean Grey and the X-Men arrested him when he resisted and took him to Citizen Court.
• Franklin sentenced Belial to labor reform in South Beria, where an Alarm Clock Supervisor ordered him to plant a million cotton flowers while his debt continued to grow.
• Belial tried to recruit the workers to rebel, but Sabretooth told him that Legion had been cured of his mental illness through labor reform and then introduced himself.
• Sabretooth admired Belial’s claws and scent, horrifying Belial and making him long to return to the Ultra world.
• Ian and Black Adam stopped convulsing; Ian told Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman that he had removed the alien parasite from Black Adam, who remained deliriously laughing.
• Ian charged Batman ten thousand dollars for each letter of his diagnosis, leaving Batman audibly gasping.

Batman, Clark, and Wonder Woman dealt with Black Adam and the fallout from Ian’s intervention, while Ian left for school after provoking Bruce. In the Batcave, Batman discovered that Injustice Superman’s stomach contained angelic power singing a hymn about twelve babies in one belly.

• Batman controlled his anger as Ian flew off to school, and Wonder Woman joked about Bruce’s reaction while Clark tried to calm everyone down.
• Batman said he trusted Ian more than Clark or Diana, then flew toward Gotham with Black Adam’s cage to make preparations.
• Wonder Woman handled reporters in New York until an anonymous source supplied embarrassing satellite photos of the Justice League, which made her lose her composure.
• Clark took Injustice Superman to the Batcave and subdued Black Adam, who warned that Ian had devoured the darkness controlling him; Clark silenced him with emergency tape.
• Batman examined Injustice Superman and found concentrated angelic power producing a stable, life-incubating hymn; Clark heard it sing, “Calabash Brothers, Calabash Brothers, twelve babies in one belly.”

Clark and Injustice Superman recoiled from the holy song and learned that the twelve embryos in Injustice Superman could not be safely removed, so Bruce sent Clark to talk to Ian. At school, Ian lectured a classmate about Batman, promoted Mijiale’s livestream, and accidentally sacked Emily before Madison arrived with a familiar carved stone chair.

• Clark and Injustice Superman were overwhelmed by Ian’s holy song, and Injustice Superman begged Bruce to remove the twelve embryos.
• Bruce explained that the embryos were bound to Injustice Superman and protected by an Anti-Removal Protocol, then told Clark to resolve the family matter with Ian.
• Ian lectured a classmate on Batman’s costume, encouraged Lena to tip Mijiale’s livestream, and covered Emily’s head with a sack when she tried to surprise him.
• Madison tore the classroom door from its frame and carried in a carved stone chair with heating and ventilation for Ian.
• Ian recognized Madison’s chair as the one he had seen in Heaven and demanded to know where she had found the Old Stonemason.

Ian learned that Madison’s mysterious Old Stonemason was her neighbor, Rick Sanchez, and grew increasingly suspicious of the impossibly advanced stone chair he had made. The chapter ended with Ian discovering Rick’s business-card titles: “Interstellar General Craftsman” and “Dimensional Repairman.”

• Ian questioned Madison about the stone chair, but she suspected Old Stonemason of mass-producing it and planned to confront him after school.
• Madison explained that she was making ten thousand stone tablets, while their physics teacher struggled to get the pair to pay attention in class.
• Emily declared she would wait for Ian to leave Madison and even offered to transplant her uterus to him so he could have a child.
• Madison learned she had no report card because she had signed her exam with her Twitter nickname, “[Nightblood Clan · Silent Underworld Phoenix · Tear of Wounded Love Princess].”
• Madison invited Ian to help find a supposed shogunate-era treasure in her father’s Japanese villa, but Ian redirected the conversation to Old Stonemason.
• Madison told Ian that she had saved Old Stonemason’s wife and identified the craftsman as Rick Sanchez, whose card called him an “Interstellar General Craftsman” and “Dimensional Repairman.”

Ian discovered that Madison’s Old Stonemason was Rick Sanchez and tried to stop her campaign proclaiming Ian the next God. Madison had already recruited Jordan to distribute flyers, and Ian’s heartfelt message accidentally inspired Jordan to expand the campaign with a dramatic new story.

• Madison showed Ian a photo confirming that her Old Stonemason was Rick Sanchez, leaving Ian terrified of the dangerous scientist living nearby.
• Madison told Ian she had made flyers declaring him the next God, gained Rick’s support, and paid Jordan to distribute them in Metropolis.
• Ian urged Madison to stop the campaign and texted Jordan to burn the flyers, but Madison dismissed his concerns and defended her plan.
• During history class, Ian wondered about Rick’s place in the DC Universe while Jordan watched Jonathan play football at another school.
• Jordan interpreted Ian’s grateful message as encouragement to help the family’s grand plan, then began expanding the flyer with a dramatic Superman story.

Jordan wrote an elaborate origin story about Stocking Angel while Ian considered an impossible class-change quest and ate lunch at school. When Sam Winchester asked Ian to help find John and Dean, Ian agreed after Sam offered the Winchester family's exorcism notes as the basis for a profitable business.

• Jordan wrote a dramatic script about Stocking Angel, a mocked angel guided by God's remnant soul in a ring.
• Ian refused Emily Parker's homemade lunch by claiming allergies, then studied the Lord of Radiance class-change quest and suspected it concerned The Great Darkness.
• Sam Winchester told Ian that John and Dean had vanished while tracking the Yellow-Eyed Demon in Wyoming.
• Ian dismissed Sam's worries with jokes and offered funeral services, while Sam pleaded for help and tried to tempt him with Dean's magazines.
• Sam offered the Winchester family's exorcism notes, and Ian eagerly agreed to find John and Dean while pocketing the magazines.

Ian agreed to help Sam protect the Winchester family’s files and find his father and brother, then witnessed Rick Sanchez training criminals and abducting Morty for an adventure on Apokolips. When Sam waited for Ian that night, Jordan Kent arrived disguised as him and tried to take Sam to rescue his family.

• Ian collected Sam’s files, promised to find his father and brother in Seattle, and listened as Sam left to prepare for their meeting.
• Ian disrupted Ms. David’s class by protesting her assumptions about his identity, then left school and discovered Rick teaching criminals how to evade superheroes.
• Ian watched Rick take Morty to Apokolips, saw Rick return through a trash can, and was driven away by a fart-trap balloon.
• Sam waited at the Metropolis plaza, where Jordan Kent arrived pretending to be Ian and urged him to go rescue his father and brother.

Sam Winchester and Jordan Kent traveled to Seattle to search for Sam’s missing father and brother, but their inquiry led them to a gathering of Vampires at Saint Caesar Church. Meanwhile, Apokolips exploded while Ian was bathing, and Batman feared Darkseid would blame Ian and target the Kent Family as the chapter ended with Ian asleep in the Marvel Universe.

• Jordan flew Sam to Seattle in a cardboard box, leaving Sam frozen after the trip.
• Sam and Jordan searched for Saint Caesar Church, but locals refused to discuss it until a middle-aged man offered to guide them there.
• At the church, the guide and the gathered townspeople revealed themselves as Vampires, and Jordan attacked them with Heat Vision.
• A blast destroyed Apokolips, and Batman warned Clark that Darkseid would likely blame Ian and seek revenge on Earth and the Kent Family.
• Ian remained unaware of the explosion while bathing and receiving a massage in Demon Manor, then fell asleep and crossed into the Marvel Universe.

After Apokolips exploded, Earth was flooded with blinding light as Lois went to cover the crisis and Jonathan learned Jordan had been captured in Seattle. Ian leveled up and landed at the End of Time, where Alioth attacked before Lady Loki dragged him away and he immediately annoyed her.

• Apokolips's explosion lit Earth, prompting worldwide panic and police to arrest doomsday preppers while broadcasters offered false explanations.
• Lois left for the Daily Planet, and Jonathan spotted a burning flying saucer crash before Jordan called for help from St. Caesar Church in Seattle.
• Jordan told Jonathan that a three-eyed woman had knocked him out with a Kryptonite baton and was preparing to exorcise him, but Jonathan chose to call their father instead of rescuing him himself.
• Superman watched Jordan being placed in an exorcism array while ignoring Jonathan's call, and Ian leveled up after gaining experience from his dependents.
• Ian woke in the TVA's junkyard at the End of Time, recognized Alioth, and armed himself as the monster charged.
• Lady Loki seized Ian and fled from Alioth, and Ian recognized her before taping her mouth and demanding that she bring him a more agreeable Loki.