Chapter Summaries

Superman arrived too late to stop a Weeping Angel from sending his three sons away, and Constantine warned him that destroying it could strand them in time. After Superman confronted the homeowner who had placed the statue outside her villa, Batman arrived and pinned her down, threatening to torture her for answers.

• Superman landed at the scene and prepared to destroy the Weeping Angel, but Constantine warned that it had sent the children through time and needed to remain intact.
• Constantine explained how Weeping Angels quantum-locked when observed and sent their victims into the past to steal their time.
• Superman confronted the Female Homeowner, who had placed the statue outside and tried to blame him while refusing to explain where she found it.
• Superman left the villa and Batman crashed through its roof, pinned the Female Homeowner to the floor, and threatened her with torture.

Batman and Superman investigated a Weeping Angel that had sent Jonathan, Jordan, and Damian into the past, while Constantine tried to trace their time coordinates. The Flash arrived, and his Speed Force energy caused the Angel to shake violently and strain against Constantine’s magic circle.

• Batman subdued the Female Homeowner, extracted fragments of her memories, and sent her to Arkham Asylum after learning she had bought the statue from an underground seller.
• Constantine explained that the Weeping Angel fed on the children’s potential life energy in the past, and he began using magic to trace where it had sent them.
• Batman and Superman learned that the seller had distributed multiple statues and worried that the Angels could destabilize history by sending people into the past.
• The Flash arrived to help locate the children, but his Speed Force energy agitated the Weeping Angel and weakened Constantine’s magic circle.
• Constantine warned Superman and Batman to make the Flash rein in his power as the Angel’s restraints strained.

Batman discovered that the Weeping Angel’s image could spread its curse, then deliberately paralyzed himself so Superman could take his body to safety. As Constantine tried to sell Flash an exorcism, a violent disturbance in time struck the area, and Constantine feared the children had changed the past.

• Batman used a generator to freeze the Weeping Angel after it reacted to Barry Allen’s Speed Force.
• Constantine warned Batman that the Angels could share evolutionary advances and threaten entire timelines, but Batman revealed he had been cursed by the Angel’s image.
• Batman severed key tendons and spinal nerves in his own body, fell unconscious, and was carried toward Gotham by Superman.
• Constantine told Barry that he needed an exorcism but that Superman was beyond the curse’s reach, then prepared to charge Barry for treatment.
• The surrounding space warped, and Barry sensed a major temporal disturbance while Constantine suspected the children had disrupted the past.

A spacetime paradox began rewriting the world, turning Metropolis into a cyberpunk city and Gotham into a Joker-themed nightmare while Batman started disappearing. Unable to travel back in time, the heroes went to Demon Manor to find Ian Kent, who woke to the Justice League surrounding him and was promptly caught when he tried to flee.

• Metropolis and Gotham began transforming as the timeline was rewritten, and Constantine and Barry Allen struggled to understand how to stop it.
• Barry rushed to the Batcave, where Batman told him to find Ian Kent if the Hall of Justice time machine could not help them.
• Batman vanished as the timeline erased him, and Clark and Barry raced to inspect the time machine before heading for Demon Manor.
• Clark and Barry forced their way into Demon Manor, where the demons recognized Clark as their master's father and let them pass.
• The Justice League woke Ian, who assumed they had uncovered his secret wealth and tried to teleport away, but a red-gloved hand caught him.

Superman and the Justice League confronted Ian as reality transformed into the world described in his diary and Batman vanished after a timeline collapse. With their usual solutions unavailable, the League debated how to reach the past, until Reverse-Flash arrived and claimed he could help.

• Superman grabbed Ian and learned he had secretly bribed senators and bought nuclear weapons, while the Justice League worried about Batman's contingency plans.
• Superman showed Ian the transformed world and explained that the Weeping Angel had sent Jonathan and two others into the past, causing the timeline to collapse and Batman to disappear.
• Ian protested that he had been left out of the trip to the past, then denied knowing how to fix the crisis when Superman said Batman had connected it to him.
• Wonder Woman proposed using the Speed Force to open a passage through time, but the League lacked a plan, magic could not help, and Constantine said its rules were changing too.
• Flash suggested asking S.T.A.R. Labs for help, and Reverse-Flash appeared, saying that although Wells could not do it, he could.

Reverse-Flash told the League that Ian was their only chance to undo the timeline changes and offered to make him a Speedster. Meanwhile, Jonathan, Jordan, and Damian landed in the past, where they heard a battle nearby and a voice ask, “Clark, tell me—do you bleed, too?”

• Reverse-Flash arrived at Demon Manor, and Superman and the League confronted him.
• Reverse-Flash warned that the altered timeline threatened his own existence and said Batman had vanished from the world.
• Reverse-Flash claimed only Ian could possibly travel back and reverse the changes, then offered to make him a Speedster.
• Jonathan, Jordan, and Damian landed in a rainy alley in an unfamiliar past and realized they had little money or working technology.
• Damian tried to break into a Ford, but an explosion nearby drew the boys’ attention.
• Jordan heard signs of a battle, smelled Kryptonite, and caught an enemy asking Clark whether he bled.

Jordan, Jonathan, and Damian intervened in Batman and Superman’s first fight, knocking Batman away and rescuing Superman but changing the course of the confrontation. Batman soon incapacitated the three boys and confronted Damian, who revealed that Bruce Wayne was his father.

• Batman and Superman fought in an abandoned industrial district, and Batman weakened Superman with sonic attacks, lead powder, and a Kryptonite spear.
• Jordan attacked Batman to protect Superman, while Jonathan checked on Superman and warned Jordan that he had interfered with the past.
• Damian kicked Batman between the legs while he was recovering, and the boys discussed whether Damian had been born yet.
• Batman ambushed the boys with Bat-Drones, Kryptonite powder, and an electrified net, leaving Jonathan, Jordan, and Damian restrained or weakened.
• Batman pinned Damian down and demanded to know who he was, so Damian said his surname was Wayne and Bruce Wayne was his father.

Damian revealed that Bruce Wayne was his father, prompting Batman to capture him and the other boys and take them to the Batcave, where a DNA test confirmed Damian was almost certainly Bruce’s biological descendant. In the future, Reverse-Flash explained that Batman had already prepared a way to help Ian become a Speedster, linking the plan to Bruce’s investigation of the Speed Force in the past.

• Damian told Batman that Bruce Wayne was his father, but Batman knocked him unconscious and captured him, Jordan, and Jonathan before returning to Gotham.
• Clark woke and reunited with Lois, while Batman took the three boys to the Batcave for analysis.
• Alfred told Bruce that Damian’s DNA showed a 99.98 percent probability of a direct biological relationship, but Bruce suspected a conspiracy and retrieved a Speed Force sample.
• Reverse-Flash appeared outside S.T.A.R. Labs as Superman, Ian, and the other heroes waited for him.
• Reverse-Flash said Batman had planned for the heroes to use him to make Ian a Speedster, while Bruce raised the Speed Force sample in the past.

Reverse-Flash and Barry Allen used S.T.A.R. Labs’ Particle Accelerator to link their Speed Force to the sample Batman was activating in the past, hoping to locate the missing children and create a temporary time-running Speedster. Ian threw himself into the energy vortex, and the Speed Force itself screamed for him to stay away.

• Reverse-Flash urged the heroes to help him before the shifting timeline stabilized, and Barry agreed to work with him despite distrusting him.
• Reverse-Flash knocked out the S.T.A.R. Labs staff, staged a public beating of his Harrison Wells Time Remnant, and configured the Particle Accelerator to resonate with the past.
• Barry ran the accelerator track while Batman activated a machine in the Batcave using stolen Speed Force, forming a bridge between their two streams of energy.
• Reverse-Flash told Superman to put Ian into the accelerator’s core, but Ian broke free and leapt into the golden vortex himself.
• The Speed Force spoke through a chorus of voices, screaming that Ian must not be allowed to enter.

Ian entered the Speed Force and tried to merge his personal dimension with it, while the Speed Force fled from him in fear. In the real world, the timeline continued to collapse, and Reverse-Flash realized that sending Ian into the past had caused the changes as he began to be erased.

• Ian was swallowed by the Speed Force after Reverse-Flash's setup guided Barry's energy around him.
• Inside the Speed Force, Ian attempted to claim the dimension by spreading the power of his Extra Dimension, and the Speed Force manifested as Superman Clark to confront him.
• Ian pursued the fleeing Speed Force, insisting that becoming a Speedster would let him save the world.
• Reverse-Flash tried to pull Ian back, but Superman Clark slammed him into a concrete wall before Flash Barry Allen seized him by the throat.
• Barry noticed the world changing faster despite Ian's disappearance, and Reverse-Flash realized that their plan to send Ian into the past had triggered the collapse.
• Reverse-Flash began disappearing from the timeline as the changes accelerated.

As reality warped around the Justice League, Cyborg proposed that Superman reverse Earth’s rotation to delay the timeline from solidifying, and Superman set out to try. In the Speed Force, Ian Yate seized the Speed Force itself and began forcibly merging it into himself, leaving Reverse-Flash horrified by what he had unleashed.

• Cyborg reported that reality would soon solidify as Aquaman, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman Diana underwent drastic changes.
• Flash tried to travel through time but was violently rejected by the Speed Force, leaving him injured with a broken leg.
• Cyborg proposed that Superman fly against Earth's rotation to create a localized time-backflow field, and Superman began the attempt.
• Reverse-Flash’s surviving soul found itself inside the Speed Force and saw Ian Yate seize the Speed Force and begin marking and merging with it.
• Reverse-Flash realized that Ian intended to possess the Speed Force itself and feared what would become of its servants if Ian succeeded.

Ian transformed the Speed Force and gained the Mythic Form: Chronos Monarch, causing a cosmic anomaly to appear across timelines and awaken the Codex within Superman. The chapter ended with Ian unlocking the new Paradoxist class template.

• Ian's gray-white energy overwhelmed the Speed Force, and he gained the Mythic Form: Chronos Monarch.
• A vast lightning-formed figure appeared across timelines, terrifying people in Victorian London and unsettling Sherlock Holmes, Watson, and the Justice League.
• Lady Death met Lady Paradox, who reminded her of her promise to grant Ian Kent his destined death before departing in a blue police box.
• Superman tried to reverse time but felt the Codex awaken within him.
• Ian received a system notice that contact with an unknown superhuman substance had unlocked the Paradoxist class.

Ian gained the Paradox Knight class and took control of the Speed Force, announcing himself as the God of Speed across the timeline. His voice disrupted people in several eras, while young Bruce Wayne was blinded after seeing Ian’s avatar and then encountered Ian in the Batcave.

• Ian awakened the Paradox Knight class, whose quest required him to fool someone on the timeline and accomplish a paradox.
• Ian entered the timeline as the Chronos Monarch and shouted, “Run! Boy! Run!”, startling dinosaurs, Victorian Londoners, the Justice League, Kara Danvers, and Clark Kent.
• Clark lost control of his attempt to reverse Earth’s temporal displacement and was hurled through space as his Kryptonian powers intensified.
• Young Bruce Wayne activated the Batcave’s Speed Force device, saw Ian’s avatar, and was blinded by the overload before cutting the device’s power.
• The unstable Speed Force formed a gate, and Ian emerged in elaborate armor to tease Bruce and offer him replacement eyes.

Ian confronted a young Bruce Wayne in the Batcave, where his bizarre behavior and Bruce’s deductions turned a deadly encounter into a chaotic interrogation. After learning that Lex Luthor had kidnapped Martha Kent, Ian rushed off, briefly returned to restore Bruce’s eyesight, and left Bruce convinced Ian was Superman’s younger brother.

• Ian appeared before the blind Bruce in a three-headed, six-armed form, took a selfie, and complained about the Batcave’s wireless signal.
• Bruce suspected Ian was manipulating the timeline and deduced that Ian urgently wanted him to regain his sight, but Ian taped his mouth shut and restrained him.
• Ian used Bruce’s communicator to ask Alfred whether Superman had arrived, and Alfred reported that Lex Luthor had kidnapped Martha Kent.
• Ian recognized the Batman v Superman timeline and sped away, then returned to replace Bruce’s eyes with a pair of blue eyeballs.
• After Ian vanished again, Bruce analyzed the clues and concluded that Ian was Superman’s younger brother.

Bruce Wayne freed himself with Alfred’s help after Ian left the Batcave, then discovered residual Speed Force energy in his brain. Meanwhile, the Justice League struggled with altered bodies and powers as Barry saw Gotham villains protesting in support of the Joker.

• Alfred came to the Batcave, freed Bruce, and learned that Bruce believed he had released a dangerous human or god from the future.
• Bruce assembled a crude scanner and found Speed Force energy flickering across his cerebral cortex.
• At the Hall of Justice, Diana, Arthur, and Victor struggled with changes to their bodies, while Barry found his speed enhanced and his suit transformed.
• Barry responded to an alarm about Gotham and saw injured villains marching against Batman while demanding the Joker’s rise to power.

As Gotham’s altered villains protested Batman’s rule, Barry Allen rushed to contain them and found a research log in Bruce Wayne’s mausoleum. The log suggested that Ian might not have changed history after all, leaving Barry to warn Superman that someone else may have caused the timeline’s distortions and Ian’s disappearance and death.

• Barry watched Gotham’s maimed villains protest Batman’s tyranny while attacking property and forcing civilians to join their march.
• Cyborg warned Barry that changes from the past were rewriting the present, and Barry raced to Gotham despite his teammates’ altered behavior and memories.
• Barry used his speed to capture the protesters and confine them in Arkham, which had become a vast Batman-themed palace.
• Barry found Bruce Wayne’s wax figure in a crystal coffin and removed a research log describing how a distorted will could spread through a cosmic force.
• Barry read the log’s notes on Batman’s extreme plans to impose order on Gotham and realized the villains might have been victims of a tyrannical Batman.
• Barry contacted Superman and suggested that someone other than Ian had changed history, perhaps causing Ian’s disappearance and death.

Bruce Wayne touched Ian's diary and began forming a dangerous connection with the Speed Force, while Ian rescued Martha Kent from Luthor and delivered her to Superman. Ian then ran into a sleeping Doomsday, leaving Superman and Luthor to face the arrival of the mysterious speedster.

• Bruce Wayne scanned his brain, ordered Alfred to acquire leading biotech and neuroscience institutes, and found Speed Force energy disrupting his mind.
• Bruce touched Jordan Kent's notebook, which identified itself as Ian's Diary, and the Speed Force began organizing itself around it.
• Ian located Luthor's hideout, broke into the building, incapacitated the bodyguards, and rescued Martha Kent.
• Ian carried Martha to the rooftop confrontation and placed her safely in Superman's arms, foiling Luthor's leverage over Clark Kent.
• Ian crashed through the building and stopped in front of a sleeping Doomsday, while Superman and Luthor reacted to his arrival.

Superman rescued Martha from Lex Luthor and returned to the underground fight, where he joined Ian against the Kryptonian monster Doomsday. Meanwhile, Barry received a garbled warning from his future self telling him to find Ian at Arkham and stop the Joker, leaving him confused about the threat.

• Superman reunited with Martha, confronted Luthor about the monster, and stopped himself from killing him when Martha called out.
• Luthor activated the monster and revealed it was his gift to Superman, a greeting from Krypton; Superman arrested him and took Martha to Lois Lane’s apartment.
• Superman returned to Ian’s underground battle with Doomsday, questioned Ian about the monster, and joined the fight.
• Barry Allen captured Magneto-Bro and celebrated his unusual burst of speed before a Speed Force vortex appeared in the detention center.
• Barry saw an older version of himself warn him to find Ian at Arkham and stop the Joker, but the unstable passage vanished before he could ask for details.

Barry and the S.T.A.R. Labs team investigated the future Flash’s cryptic warning about Ian, Batman, and Joker, while Wells secretly checked future records and learned that the timeline had become undefined. A nuclear explosion erupted near Central City, and Reverse-Flash raced back to the control room.

• Barry told Cisco, Caitlin, and Wells about his future self’s fragmented warning and concluded that Ian might be a fixed point who had to survive.
• Wells persuaded Barry to use the Cognitive Substream Analyzer while Cisco and Caitlin searched records worldwide for people named Ian.
• Wells secretly consulted Gideon, who said that the future involving Batman, Arkham Asylum, Joker, and Barry had no stable historical path.
• Wells suspected that Ian had disrupted the timeline and angrily insisted that nothing would stop him from going home.
• A massive tremor shook S.T.A.R. Labs, and Wells saw a nuclear mushroom cloud on the surveillance feed before racing toward the control room as Reverse-Flash.

Reverse-Flash investigated a nuclear explosion and found Ian fighting Superman over nuclear warheads intended for Doomsday. Lady Paradox appeared, stopped Reverse-Flash from attacking Ian, and unleashed a Time Wraith wearing Reverse-Flash’s suit, forcing Thawne to flee.

• Reverse-Flash broke Barry’s leg at S.T.A.R. Labs, warned him not to interfere, and left to investigate the explosion.
• Barry guessed Reverse-Flash was targeting Dr. Wells, but Wells arrived unharmed and redirected the team toward treating Barry and investigating the Speed Force changes.
• Reverse-Flash reached the blast zone and saw Ian fighting Superman while trying to seize nuclear warheads that Ian planned to feed Doomsday.
• Reverse-Flash tried to strike Ian with Negative Speed Force lightning, but a black-veiled woman caught the attack and identified herself as the Time Lord.
• Lady Paradox summoned a Time Wraith wearing Reverse-Flash’s suit, and the terrified Thawne ran from it.