Chapter Summaries

Ba Di reviewed reports on Barry Allen’s disappearance and the failure of his Doomsday experiment, then ordered Lex Luthor added to the project and dispatched squads to support Mike against Ocean Lord Ohm. The chapter ended with Antiope arriving at Emperor Tower, marking Paradise Island’s entry into the human world.

• Hera reported that Constantine had disappeared while pursuing Bruce and that Barry Allen had vanished after leaving Indonesia at Mach 278.
• Ba Di identified speedsters like Barry as a major threat and decided he needed to capture Barry and obtain the Speed Force.
• Hera told Ba Di that the seventy-eight thousandth Destruction Spore experiment had failed after the spores stopped evolving above three million degrees.
• Ba Di ordered Lex Luthor transferred into the Doomsday Project and sent two special operations squads to help Mike eliminate Ocean Lord Ohm.
• Lex Luthor brought Antiope to Emperor Tower, where she represented Paradise Island’s emergence into the human world.

Antiope toured Emperor Tower with Ba Di and learned how far humanity’s science and weapons had advanced, while Ba Di assessed the Amazons and the Greek Gods as potential threats. After she left, Hera warned that Barry Allen was running at extraordinary speeds, and Ba Di felt space-time begin to distort around him.

• Antiope met Ba Di at Emperor Tower, and he sensed that she possessed power comparable to a high-level Kryptonian Gene Warrior.
• Ba Di showed Antiope humanity’s research institutes and described weapons such as nuclear and hydrogen bombs, shocking her with their ability to devastate Paradise Island.
• Ba Di considered the Amazons’ strength and the Greek Gods’ power, then agreed to Antiope’s request to show her niece Diana around Emperor Tower.
• Antiope left, and Hera warned Ba Di that Barry Allen was accelerating through a run in Papua New Guinea.
• As Barry’s speed rose, Ba Di felt his cells and soul react while space-time twisted around him.

Ba Di resisted a force that tried to pull his soul onto another road, then demanded to know where Barry Allen was and flew away from Emperor Tower. Meanwhile, Mike lured Ocean Lord Ohm to a remote mountain range, where Bruce and Hal prepared to fight him.

• Ba Di broke free of the nameless pull by unleashing his bodily magnetic field, cracking the floor and blasting Luther away.
• Ba Di shouted at Hera to tell him where Barry Allen was, then shot into the sky as onlookers watched in amazement.
• Mike brought Ocean Lord Ohm to a dry mountain range by exploiting Ohm's arrogance and appetite for cruelty.
• Bruce used Barry's Speed Force time to connect his neural-linked exoskeleton to his body, enabling him to see through imaging and stand despite his blindness and paralysis.
• Hal checked on Bruce, who said his body was too weak and that he needed a stronger one to fight.

Barry failed to travel back in time and concluded that Ba Miu Luo Di was unaffected by time and had stabilized the universe. A massive white figure descended onto Li Gao Plain, creating a vast crater and leaving Barry facing its overwhelming presence.

• Barry lost control while running faster than 800 mach, crashed through cypresses, and struggled to his feet.
• Barry tried to return to the past but failed and realized that Ba Miu Luo Di was not affected by this world's time.
• Barry concluded that Ba Miu Luo Di had stabilized the universe, preventing time travel without his cooperation.
• A massive white figure plunged from the sky and struck the plain, forming a huge crater and sending shockwaves across the island and ocean.
• Barry retreated from the impact, then felt the towering figure's presence crush his will as it rose through the dust.

Ba Di unleashed his planetary-level power and threatened to destroy New Guinea Island unless Barry knelt. The chapter ended as Ba Di brought his foot down, leaving the island’s fate unresolved.

• Barry fought through Ba Di’s oppressive magnetic field and remained standing with support from his yellow electricity.
• Ba Di’s unrestrained power warped the air and light, crushed the ground, and sent stones floating and crumbling.
• Barry demanded to know where Ba Di came from, and Ba Di ordered him to kneel.
• Ba Di threatened to destroy New Guinea Island and its twelve million inhabitants unless Barry submitted.
• Barry pleaded that Ba Di would not hurt civilians, but Ba Di counted down and brought his foot down.

Ba Di’s step ruptured the mantle beneath New Guinea Island, sinking it and unleashing catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis. As Flash raced to rescue civilians, Ba Di used Hera to simulate Flash’s behavior and establish an action model, then prepared to stop him.

• Ba Di’s step shattered the mantle beneath New Guinea Island, splitting the island apart and killing and endangering millions as the land sank.
• The rupture triggered earthquakes and volcanic disturbances around the world, while a massive tsunami threatened Pacific coastlines.
• Flash angrily blamed Ba Di but raced across the collapsing island, carrying civilians to inland Australia and returning for more.
• Ba Di watched Flash’s rescue runs and estimated that his speed had exceeded Mach 1200.
• Hera completed seventy quadrillion simulations, calculated Flash’s speed at Mach 1724, and established an action model.
• Ba Di looked down at Flash and declared that he was finished.

Flash raced across New Guinea Island and rescued millions of people as it broke apart, but Ba Di used the rescues to predict his movements and ambushed him. Ba Di froze off Flash’s legs and choked him while Flash begged him to save the remaining people.

• Flash carried civilians from the collapsing New Guinea Island to safety, rescuing 4,802,391 people.
• Ba Di used simulations and data from Flash’s rescues to predict where he would go next.
• Ba Di arrived beside Flash and killed a homeless man in the impact before grabbing Flash by the throat.
• Flash used Speed Force Vibration to try to escape, but Ba Di slowed the lightning with freezing breath.
• Ba Di froze and shattered Flash’s legs, then demanded to know whether Flash still wanted to travel through time.
• Flash apologized and pleaded with Ba Di to save the people still in danger.

Ba Di held Flash above the sinking New Guinea Island and argued that Flash’s attempt to save millions of refugees could devastate Australia and the people already living there. Flash was left trembling with guilt as Ba Di blamed him for failing to consider the consequences of his actions.

• Ba Di seized Flash and carried him into the sky as New Guinea Island broke apart and began to sink beneath the waves.
• Flash urged Ba Di to save the people on the island, but Ba Di asked whether Flash believed he had caused the catastrophe.
• Ba Di explained that moving more than four million refugees to Australia could overwhelm the country, endanger its residents, and provoke violence or foreign intervention.
• Ba Di accused Flash of saving some people while bringing disaster upon others and said Flash should have considered the consequences.
• Flash trembled and admitted that all of this was connected to him.

Ba Di psychologically manipulated the devastated Flash into agreeing to travel through time by blaming him for the deaths caused by his refusal to kneel and promising to save the people threatened by the tsunami. Ba Di planned to use Flash to return to the past and save someone he loved, then contrasted Flash’s respect for the law with his own power to make and enforce it.

• Ba Di accused Flash of choosing resistance over submission and blamed him for the destruction of New Guinea Island and the deaths and displacement that followed.
• Ba Di admitted that he had caused the catastrophe and revealed that he had studied people’s psychology to exploit them, while Flash sank deeper into guilt and despair.
• Ba Di told Flash he wanted to travel through time to save someone he loved and offered aid to Australia and the tsunami’s other victims in exchange for Flash’s help.
• Flash agreed to travel through time with Ba Di, desperate for a chance to save people.
• Ba Di thanked Flash and said that Flash left criminals to the law, while Ba Di created the law and put people to death.

Batman appeared to die while fighting Mike, and Hal fled the battlefield after using a radiation grenade to weaken the Kryptonian warriors. Mike regained control and ordered his forces to focus on Ocean Lord Ohm, who had turned the fight around with magic.

• Batman and Mike fought at close range until Batman went limp and Hal saw him lying motionless.
• Hal used a Radiation Ray Grenade to weaken the Kryptonian Gene Warriors, then fled while two other warriors pursued him.
• A flashback revealed Bruce had sent Barry to distract Ba Miu Luo Di and planned to infiltrate the enemy through a consciousness-transfer device, while warning Hal to abandon his body if necessary.
• Mike recovered his awareness, recognized the projected information from his contact lens, and ordered the warriors pursuing Hal to return.
• Ocean Lord Ohm used magic to gather water, scatter the attackers, and confront them atop a towering wave with his Magic Five-Pronged Trident.

Mike ordered his squad to retreat from Ocean Lord Ohm’s overwhelming tidal attacks, intending to recover and wear him down without causing a war between Atlantis and humanity. Ba Di arrived, crushed Ohm, and ordered Mike to proceed with the plan while doubting whether Batman was truly dead.

• Ocean Lord Ohm turned the battle against Mike’s team with powerful water magic, and Captain Cold warned that they might lose teammates.
• Mike ordered a tactical withdrawal, reasoning that the squad could recover and defeat Ohm through attrition without killing him in a way that might provoke Atlantis.
• Ohm tried to trap the retreating squad in a towering enclosure of seawater and taunted them about war with Atlantis.
• Ba Di arrived at supersonic speed, stomped Ohm into the ground, and revealed that he was carrying the unconscious Flash, whose legs had been frozen and broken off.
• Ba Di sensed no signs of life from Batman but doubted the apparent death, then ordered Mike to proceed according to the plan.

Amanda Waller gathered representatives of the world’s superpowered organizations to form an alliance against Ba Miu Luo Di after his actions threatened to provoke a global war. The alliance agreed to place Death Knell in command, as he claimed to have spent ten years preparing to kill Ba Miu Luo Di.

• Amanda Waller ordered the representatives to surrender their electronic devices and explained that Ba Miu Luo Di’s actions required international cooperation.
• Al Sheikh questioned the detective ape’s presence, and Amanda and Death Knell identified it as Grodd, Ape City’s representative and a longtime ally against Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Amanda revealed that Ba Miu Luo Di had sunk New Guinea Island, caused catastrophic tsunamis, and killed the Ya Te Lan Di Si envoy who had come to negotiate peace.
• Iron Mask General, Al Sheikh, Zatara, and the other representatives agreed to establish a united alliance of the world’s superpowered forces.
• Death Knell claimed command, citing his decade of studying Ba Miu Luo Di and preparing to kill him, and the detective ape and the other organizations approved.

Aquaman struggled to feed more than seven million people rescued to the Fiji Islands after stopping the Pacific tsunami. Hal arrived at Aquaman’s outpost and said he needed Aquaman and Diana’s help with a more serious problem.

• Aquaman reflected on the devastation across the Pacific and the millions of people displaced by the tsunami.
• Aquaman asked Mu Ke when food from the Ba Miu Luo Di Group would arrive, then ordered supplies transferred from Atlantis and soldiers sent to catch fish.
• Aquaman stopped his royal guards from attacking Hal, who had entered the outpost without fighting them.
• Hal thanked Aquaman for helping humanity and asked to speak with him and Diana about a more serious matter.
• Aquaman invited Hal inside to talk.

Diana trained on a mountain before Artemis summoned her to the Royal Palace, where an intruder named Victor claimed he was connected to her future. Diana arrived as Queen Hippolyta questioned Victor about his claim that they would help found the Justice League.

• Diana practiced with her Greek spear on a mountain overlooking the Amazon palaces and the human world beyond the sea.
• Artemis told Diana that a man had infiltrated the Royal Palace through the secret passage in Diana’s room and that the queen wanted her back.
• Hippolyta questioned Victor, who said he and Diana would found the Justice League and protect Earth together.
• Diana and Artemis entered the great hall, where Diana looked at Victor in confusion.

Ba Di inspected the failed Doomsday experiments and learned that a giant embryo prepared for his rescue plan was nearing its intended form. On the Ninth Floor, Mike recognized Barry through their secret code, revealed himself as Bruce, and learned that Ba Miu Luo Di wanted Barry to help him return to the past.

• Ba Di visited Luther’s Doomsday research chamber, where another experiment had failed.
• Luther showed Ba Di a giant embryo expected to grow to thirteen meters, and Ba Di recalled the figure he hoped to save.
• Mike watched researchers fit Barry with prosthetic legs designed to store and restrict the Speed Force.
• When Barry’s power began to return, Mike intervened and warned the researchers to sedate him.
• Mike used the secret code shared by Bruce, Barry, Hal, and Victor, and Barry realized Mike was Bruce.
• Barry told Bruce that Ba Miu Luo Di wanted him to help return to the past before the researchers sedated him again.

Ba Di prepared to recreate Jenny’s bionic body while trying to preserve the moment of her death, then learned that a spacecraft would arrive near Coast City. At Mogoro Beach, Hal Jordan, Victor, Diana, and Aquaman gathered to confront the newcomer, with Diana demanding justice and Aquaman invoking Atlantis’s wrath.

• Ba Di watched researchers complete Jenny’s bionic body and resolved to recreate her death scene so he could save her.
• Hera warned Ba Di that an alien spacecraft would land at Mogoro Beach in Coast City in under forty-eight minutes.
• Ba Di connected the approaching spacecraft’s arrival in Coast City with the Green Lantern Ring.
• Hal Jordan, Victor, and Diana waited at Mogoro Beach, where Diana vowed to make the newcomer confess using the Lasso of Truth.
• Aquaman emerged from the sea with his trident and declared that Atlantis would unleash its wrath.

A Bin Su’s spacecraft crashed near Coast City, and his Green Lantern Ring left Hal Jordan to choose a new bearer. It selected Ba Miu Luo Di, identifying him as a Kryptonian with the will to overcome fear.

• Hal Jordan and Diana Prince, Victor Stone, and Arthur Curry watched A Bin Su’s failing spacecraft descend toward Mogoro Beach.
• The spacecraft crashed into the shore, and Diana deflected a rock thrown toward Hal by the impact.
• Hal opened the wrecked spacecraft and saw A Bin Su’s body as the Green Lantern Ring left his finger.
• Hal reached for the Ring and declared that he would inherit A Bin Su’s will, but the Ring flew away into the darkness.
• The Green Lantern Ring found Ba Miu Luo Di, who raised his hand and received it.
• The Ring identified Ba Miu Luo Di as a Kryptonian who possessed the great will to overcome fear and welcomed him to the Green Lantern Corps.

Ba Di faced Aquaman and Diana after killing Ohm and destroying fifty million human lives. Diana unleashed her divine power and attacked alongside Aquaman, leaving Ba Di confronted by both heroes.

• Aquaman hurled his trident at Ba Di to avenge Ohm, but Ba Di's Heat Vision knocked it away before Aquaman caught it.
• Diana charged Ba Di with her shield, and they clashed with enough force to crater the ground.
• Diana demanded to know whether Ba Di had killed fifty million people, and he admitted that he had.
• Diana struck her Guardian Silver Bracelets together, sending divine energy through Ba Di and cracking his finger bones.
• Diana transformed with golden light and leapt at Ba Di with her sword as Aquaman charged on a wave with his trident.

Ba Di fought Diana and Aquaman in the night sky, overpowering both despite their divine weapons and powers. He left Aquaman crushed beneath his foot, holding the captured trident as blood scattered among the stars.

• Aquaman rode a rising river toward Ba Di, who froze the waves and immobilized him before Diana joined the battle.
• Diana clashed with Ba Di using her God Killer Sword, but he struck the blade and injured her hand.
• Ba Di smashed Diana's Aegis Shield and sent her flying toward space, leaving her badly hurt.
• Aquaman broke free and hurled his magical trident at Ba Di, who deflected it with a shockwave from his Heat Vision.
• Ba Di reached Aquaman before he could reconnect with the ocean, crushed his chest with a stomp, and caught the returning trident.

Hal lost the Green Lantern Ring as Ba Di brutally defeated Aquaman and left him pinned beneath his trident. Desperate to avenge his fallen comrades, Hal reached for the fear energy of Parallax and commanded it to serve him.

• Hal collapsed in despair after the Green Lantern Ring abandoned him, leaving him unable to call on the Green Lantern Corps.
• Ba Di crushed Aquaman's chest, then hurled the trident into him and pinned him dead in the crater.
• Victor ran toward Aquaman while Ba Di flew off to pursue Diana, and Hal watched helplessly.
• Hal recalled the losses of the Justice League and his allies, then decided he needed power to avenge them.
• Hal reached for Parallax's fear energy in A Bin Su's corpse and ordered it to serve him.