Chapter Summaries

Diana fought Ba Di in space, but he repeatedly overpowered her and sent her flying. On Earth, Amanda Waller urged the fifteen-country alliance to launch nuclear weapons together against him.

• Diana struck Ba Di with an artificial satellite and used the Lasso of Truth to bind him, but he broke free and lashed out with Heat Vision.
• Diana released the lasso and attacked Ba Di with the God Killer Sword and Aegis Shield, but he blasted her away and pursued her through space.
• Amanda Waller and representatives of fifteen countries debated whether to use nuclear weapons while Diana fought Ba Di.
• The alliance repeatedly demanded that the United States launch its highest-yield nuclear weapon, but Amanda Waller proposed that all fifteen countries launch their weapons together.

Hal absorbed the fear of humanity and mutated into an insect-like being as he headed into space, where Ba Miu Luo Di was overwhelming Diana. Fearing Ba Miu Luo Di’s victory, the world’s powers agreed to launch nuclear weapons at the battle.

• Hal endured the fear energy spreading through his body and felt the terror and despair of people across Earth.
• The fear transformed Hal into a mutated, insect-like creature with jointed limbs, and he climbed toward space.
• Ba Di repeatedly struck Diana in space, draining her divine power and leaving her close to defeat.
• World leaders debated using nuclear weapons, fearing both Ba Miu Luo Di’s victory and his retaliation.
• The United States, Russia, Britain, and other nations reported nuclear warheads locked on the target area.

Diana was battered by Ba Di in space until Hal arrived and joined her plan to restrain him at the center of an approaching nuclear strike. Earth’s nations launched more than fifteen nuclear bombs toward Ba Di, leaving the missiles converging in space.

• Ba Di struck Diana through a weather satellite, and she realized she had no chance of defeating him alone.
• Hal caught Diana with his insect limbs and told her that more than fifteen super nuclear bombs were on their way.
• Diana agreed to help Hal restrain Ba Di and readied her Aegis Shield and Lasso of Truth.
• Ba Di noticed Diana and Hal’s brief exchange and looked toward Earth.
• Earth’s nations launched nuclear missiles toward Ba Di as people watched their fiery trails rise into the sky.

Diana and Hal attacked Ba Di in space, but Hal’s fear-inducing limbs made Ba Di confront his terror of an ordinary life and reignited his desire to change the world. After Ba Di killed Hal, Diana seized him and flew toward the nuclear missile, but he caught her in a headlock as they continued toward it.

• Diana’s Lasso of Truth attacked Ba Di, but he froze it with his Freezing Breath and broke free.
• Hal sent his enlarged insect-like limbs at Ba Di, who severed one and was struck by a vision of the ordinary life he feared.
• Ba Di overcame his confusion, thanked Hal for reminding him of his fear, and punched a hole through Hal’s chest, killing him.
• Diana grabbed Ba Di from behind and carried him toward the nuclear missile, grieving Hal’s death.
• Ba Di trapped Diana’s neck in his arm as they flew toward the missile, declaring that it would bring a day of Nuclear Peace.

The United States and other nations launched a barrage of nuclear missiles at Ba Di, hoping to stop his rule. Ba Di survived the explosions and emerged unharmed, while Diana was knocked unconscious and the world watched in terror.

• The U.S. President, Amanda Waller, Sam Lane, and other leaders waited anxiously as nuclear missiles launched, with Sam Lane saying the nations might have to surrender if they failed.
• Ba Di let Diana hold him and push him toward the incoming missiles as she struggled to stop him.
• The first nuclear missile struck Ba Di, burning away his skin and muscle, but his body rapidly regenerated while the blast knocked Diana unconscious and sent her flying away.
• More than a dozen additional nuclear warheads detonated around Ba Di, filling the night sky with an enormous fireball that frightened people on Earth.
• After the explosions faded, Ba Di emerged from the nuclear blast with a faint smile.

After the nuclear blast failed to harm Ba Miu Luo Di, the U.S. President nearly killed himself before Amanda Waller stopped him. Death Knell presented a plan to exploit Ba Miu Luo Di’s war against two ancient powers, raid Emperor Tower for Kryptonite, and kill him.

• Satellite footage showed Ba Miu Luo Di emerging unharmed from the nuclear explosion, crushing the U.S. President and his advisers’ hopes.
• The U.S. President raised his Glock Pistol beneath his chin, but Amanda Waller knocked it aside and urged him not to give up.
• Amanda Waller connected the President to an encrypted conference with superhumans and national leaders, telling them Death Knell had proposed a last-ditch plan.
• Death Knell explained that Kryptonite could weaken Ba Miu Luo Di, though Ba Miu Luo Di had seized every known piece on Earth.
• Death Knell said Ba Miu Luo Di’s forces would attack Amazon’s Princess Diana’s people and Ya Te Lan Di Si after he captured Diana and killed its king, leaving Emperor Tower vulnerable.
• Death Knell called on every superhuman to follow his orders, invade Emperor Tower, seize the Kryptonite, and kill Ba Miu Luo Di.

Ba Di defeated Hal Jordan and searched space for him, but Hal sped toward the depths of the universe before Ba Di could catch him. Ba Di suspected Hal would merge with Parallax and become a Parallax Demon, then returned to Earth with the unconscious Diana and the recovered weapons.

• Ba Di found Diana unconscious in the radiation and dragged her along while retrieving her Aegis Shield, Lasso of Truth, and God Killer Sword.
• Ba Di detected Hal three million kilometers away and flew after him.
• Hal accelerated through space with his insectoid limbs, and Ba Di calculated that catching him could take at least thirteen Earth years, so he abandoned the pursuit.
• Ba Di concluded Hal was heading toward Parallax and might become a Parallax Demon, a cosmic threat Ba Di could not currently defeat.
• Ba Di considered using the Green Lantern Ring to confront the Parallax Demon and returned to Earth.

After testing Diana’s strength, Ba Di began preparations to unify Earth, ordering invasions and the takeover of nations that had launched nuclear bombs. With his forces mobilizing, he went to meet Flash.

• Ba Di handed the captured Diana to a research-type Hera, then ordered Otto to lead fifty thousand Kryptonian Warriors to capture every citizen of Ya Te Lan Di Si.
• Ba Di ordered Little Hera to surround Paradise Island with two hundred thousand Kryptonian Warriors and superpowered Gene Warriors, and to kill the leaders of the countries that had launched the nuclear bombs.
• Little Hera connected to the central system and began assigning personnel before falling asleep; Ba Di carried her to bed.
• Ba Di visited Pamela’s Plant Kingdom and Raven’s Magic Academy, preparing magical defensive armor and telling them to ready for war.
• Ba Di retrieved and froze Jenny’s nearly completed bionic body, then went to meet Flash.

Ba Di had Flash restrained in Emperor Tower while Ferdinand Swann studied the Speed Force and its potential applications. When Flash agreed to help Ba Di return to the past in exchange for his parents’ safety, Ba Di realized Flash’s mother was alive in this world.

• Ferdinand Swann reported that Flash’s Speed Force could be produced continuously with sufficient nourishment and might enable superluminal or time travel.
• Ba Di ordered Ferdinand to awaken Flash, and Flash erupted with electricity before the extraction equipment drained his blood and Speed Force again.
• Ba Di demanded that Flash honor his promise and threatened to target the families of those who opposed him.
• Flash agreed to help Ba Di return to the past if Ba Di promised not to harm his parents or anyone else’s family.
• Ba Di questioned Flash’s claim that his parents were alive, then reacted in shock as Flash pleaded for their safety.

Ba Di suspected that this world’s Flashpoint had emerged from many intersecting choices rather than Flash alone, and wondered whether his own arrival had altered the timeline. He waited for Flash to wake so he could learn how far events had progressed.

• Ba Di feared he might have replaced Superman and been captured by humans, then lost himself in memories of his past actions.
• Ba Di’s magnetic pressure injured Flash, who spat blood and fainted; Ba Di told Ferdinand Swann to give him nutrients and watch over him.
• Ba Di considered how his presence might have changed Death Knell’s and Batman’s histories, but found no way to confirm it.
• Ba Di connected Ya Te Lan Di Si and Paradise Island’s emergence, Diana’s meeting with them, and the coming conflict to the likely start of Flashpoint.
• Flash woke in pain, and Ba Di asked him how far the world’s events had progressed.

Ba Di concluded that Flash could restore the timeline and erase him from existence, making Flash his greatest enemy. He held the weakened Flash by the throat but stopped short of killing him, demanding that Flash travel to the past with him.

• Ba Di questioned Flash about how far into the future he had seen, and Flash said he knew events only up to before the Justice League was founded.
• Ba Di examined Flash and reasoned that the future consciousness that would replace him had not yet arrived in this world.
• Ba Di concluded that Flashpoint had brought him into this unstable world and that Flash restoring the original timeline could erase him.
• Ba Di decided Flash was his greatest enemy and seized him by the throat.
• Ba Di held Flash without crushing his neck and demanded that Flash travel to the past with him once.

Lex Luthor examined Doomsday Cell test results while anticipating Ba Di’s military operation, then faced Mike’s accusation that he had betrayed Ba Di. Luthor admitted the charge, and Mike dropped his angry act as the two silently sized each other up.

• Lex Luthor inferred from supply movements that Ba Di was preparing a military operation, but focused on developing Doomsday instead.
• Mike entered Lex Luthor’s office with documents accusing him of giving Death Knell routes to Ba Miu Luo Di Group military supplies.
• Lex Luthor noticed that Mike’s behavior lacked his usual mannerisms and suspected he was connected to Death Knell.
• Lex Luthor calmly admitted that he was the traitor.
• Mike abandoned his angry pose, and he and Lex Luthor met each other’s gaze in a tense contest of wits.

Mike, whom Lex Luthor recognized as an unfamiliar version of himself, challenged Luthor over Ba Miu Luo Di’s rule of Earth. Luthor agreed that Earth needed unity but not a god as its ruler, and he joined hands with Mike.

• Lex Luthor told Mike that he was not the Mike he knew and demanded to know who he was.
• Luthor defended Ba Miu Luo Di by citing the peace, prosperity, and environmental improvements his rule had brought to Earth.
• Mike acknowledged Ba Miu Luo Di’s achievements but argued that he wanted humanity’s worship and that Earth should not be ruled by a god.
• Mike quoted Luthor’s belief that myths must be dismantled, prompting Luthor to reconsider their shared opposition.
• Luthor said the world needed unity but not a god as its ruler, then clasped Mike’s hand.

Ba Di took Flash to a deserted highway outside Metropolis and used the Speed Force to carry them across the continent. Flash’s prosthetic legs disintegrated under the strain just as the pair entered a spacetime vortex.

• Ba Di brought Flash to a highway outside Metropolis, intending to use him to travel and determined that Flash would die afterward.
• Flash activated the Speed Force, and Ba Di flew alongside him as they raced down Highway 6.
• Their sonic boom threw a passerby onto an RV, and Flash accelerated to avoid encountering anyone else.
• Flash’s metal prosthetic legs vaporized under the Speed Force’s high-frequency vibrations.
• Ba Di held Flash as they rushed into a spacetime continuum vortex.

Ba Di traveled back in time to save Jenny and found her imprisoned in Fine Steel Cage, suffering from her monstrous body. After Death Knell revealed that Jenny had sacrificed herself to protect Ba Di, Ba Di moved closer to the camp, determined to rescue her.

• Ba Di and Flash arrived in the past, and Ba Di froze Flash in the woods so he could not affect events.
• Ba Di used Penetrating Sight to find Jenny imprisoned at General Vick's camp and saw the pain her body endured.
• Death Knell asked Jenny whether she loved Ba Di or wanted him dead, then accused her of misleading General Vick to protect Ba Di.
• Jenny painfully answered that protecting Ba Di was worth it, and Ba Di continued toward the camp to save her.

Ba Di secretly eased Jenny’s pain and replaced her with a bionic copy so his past self could still experience the events that would drive him to save her. He hid nearby to monitor the copy and wait for his arrival several days later.

• Ba Di used his magnetic field to evade the camp’s patrols and went to see Jenny suffering inside the steel cage.
• He sent nanites into Jenny’s body to regulate her nuclear reactions, slow her growth, and reduce her pain.
• Ba Di froze Jenny, removed her from the cage, and placed a bionic Jenny in her place.
• He hid in a nearby forest and monitored the bionic Jenny while waiting for his past self to arrive.

Barry used his remaining Speed Force to break free enough to send Bruce a message and draw Ba Di’s attention, while Ba Di witnessed his own past as a transparent figure and realized how his existence escaped time, space, and the universe. The chapter ended with Ba Di watching the past reenact itself and struggling to absorb what he had learned about his nature.

• Barry broke his head free from the ice and used a bitten-out tooth to scratch a circular pattern into several Red Oaks as a message for Bruce.
• Barry fired another tooth into a massive tree, causing it to crash onto the ice and crack it while leaving him badly injured.
• Ba Di noticed Barry’s actions but saw that he lacked the strength to escape, then turned his attention back to the distant camp.
• Ba Di watched his former self appear as a transparent figure formed from rippling air, while General Vick and the soldiers reacted as they had before.
• Ba Di realized that time imprinted a figure to repeat his actions, while he himself existed only in the present, and watched the past scene unfold again.

Ba Di ensured Jenny’s replacement died as planned, then captured the badly injured Flash and took him to an Atlantic island. Three days later, after sensing Flash consider trapping him in the past, Ba Di ordered him to return to the future.

• Ba Di watched his past self leave for Metropolis after confirming the Jenny replica’s explosion and the real Jenny’s capture had gone according to plan.
• Ba Di confronted the limbless Flash, who blamed him for changing history and warned him about the consequences.
• Ba Di retorted that Flash had caused Flashpoint by changing his mother’s death, then grabbed him and flew away.
• Three days later, Flash walked on metal prosthetic legs on an Atlantic island and worried about Ba Di’s plans and whether Bruce would find a hidden place.
• Ba Di arrived after sensing Flash consider leaving him in the past and ordered Flash to return to the future because the Speed Force had accumulated enough.

Ba Di forced Flash to run with him through the Speed Force back to the future, threatening him over any changes to the timeline. During the trip, Flash’s legs suddenly returned, revealing that the future had changed, and he escaped Ba Di as they exited the temporal tunnel.

• Ba Di warned Flash that he would kill Flash and his family if the future changed, then ordered him to begin the run.
• Flash activated the Speed Force, and Ba Di held him as they entered the tunnel of time.
• Ba Di sensed the Speed Force guiding him back toward his original era, while Flash’s severed legs began flickering into view.
• Flash’s legs became real, and he realized Bruce had found his warning and changed the future.
• Ba Di demanded to know what Flash had changed and threatened the superheroes and their families.
• Flash vibrated free and fled the tunnel ahead of Ba Di, who pursued him with murderous intent.

Flash arrived in a decade altered by Ba Di and fled across the country after Ba Di pursued him with Heat Vision. In Africa, Flash realized that the Justice League had vanished and that heroes and villains had suffered drastically changed fates under Ba Miu Luo Di.

• Flash emerged from a spacetime tunnel onto Highway 50 in Death Valley and received memories of an altered decade.
• Ba Di burst from the tunnel and pursued Flash with Heat Vision, melting Highway 50 into a lava trench as Flash escaped.
• Flash ran across several states and the ocean before stopping on the African savanna, shaken by how close Ba Di had come to killing him.
• Flash examined his memories and discovered that the Justice League no longer existed and that many heroes and villains had met different fates.
• Flash recalled that Ba Miu Luo Di had sunk New Guinea Island, killing fifty million people, and was about to rule the world.