Chapter Summaries

Ba Di reacted to Flash's defiance by ordering Hera to identify the opposing superhumans' relatives for execution after the coming invasion of Emperor Tower. After reviewing ten years of memories from another universe, he learned General Zod would reach Earth in about three months and that two Kryptonians had disappeared near a suspected Brainiac base.

• Ba Di blamed his own leniency for Flash's repeated defiance and ordered Hera to locate the opposing superhumans and exterminate their nine clans.
• Hera told Ba Di that Death Knell was preparing to lead Earth's heroes in an assault on Emperor Tower, and Ba Di ordered her to file their relatives' identities and wait until the invasion ended before executing them.
• Ba Di opened his mind to ten years of alternate-universe memories and reviewed how events involving Flash, Batman, Diana, Hal, and the other heroes had differed.
• Hera reported that General Otto was marching on Ya Te Lan Di Si, the Amazons sought to ransom Diana, and Ba Di's agents expected to take control of governments within a month.
• Hera reported that General Zod's Kryptonian warship was about ninety days from Earth and that two Kryptonians investigating a suspected Brainiac sentinel base near the moon had gone missing.

Aboard the Kryptonian warship bound for Earth, Faora confronted Haier over his betrayal of Ba Di, while Haier regretted the choices that had helped doom Krypton. Faora left him alone with his painful memories.

• General Zod's forces traveled toward Earth aboard the warship Haier had repaired after awakening in the Phantom Zone.
• Faora remembered Ba Di as footsteps approached her in the observation room.
• Haier asked Faora whether she was thinking about Ba Di, and she angrily told him he had no right to speak his name.
• Faora blamed Haier for betraying Ba Di and helping Jor-El bring about Ba Di's defeat and flight from Krypton.
• Haier recalled his failed attempts to reconcile Krypton's leaders and wished he could return to the past to save Krypton.
• Faora walked out of the observation room, leaving Haier alone with his regret.

Kryptonian reconnaissance soldiers La Jin and Jie Mi were trapped inside Brainiac’s tiny lunar outpost after its robots shrank them. They began searching for the Shrinking Ray Gun so they could escape and report to His Majesty, while La Jin sent Jie Mi to distract the robots.

• Brainiac’s outpost on the Moon’s far side shrank La Jin and Jie Mi while they investigated it, forcing them to flee its robots.
• La Jin blew up important parts of the base, then led Jie Mi away from a robot search using their concealment watches.
• Jie Mi proposed attacking the base’s mastermind, but La Jin reminded him that reconnaissance and finding the Shrinking Ray Gun came first.
• La Jin ordered Jie Mi to draw attention on the east side while he stole the gun, and assured him that His Majesty had said he would not die.
• Jie Mi ran east to attract the mechanical soldiers, declaring that he would always believe in His Majesty.

Ba Di watched over Jenny as her human body regenerated and learned that Antiope had arrived with Amazon Warriors to retrieve Diana. He heard Antiope’s request to take Diana back to Paradise Island, leaving the decision unanswered.

• Ba Di visited Jenny’s tank in the Underground Research Institute and confirmed that she would awaken once her brain adapted to her grown body.
• Hera told Ba Di that Antiope was waiting in the conference hall, and he asked to meet her in his office.
• Antiope arrived at Emperor Tower with Artemis and General Phillips, whose anger and resolve reflected their determination to retrieve Diana.
• Antiope apologized for Diana’s trouble and firmly asked Ba Di to let her return to Paradise Island.
• Ba Di reacted with surprise and asked, “Take her back?”

Antiope tried to persuade Ba Di to release Diana, blaming the Justice League for misleading her, but Ba Di refused to treat Diana’s capture as a minor offense. The meeting remained tense as Antiope sent the furious Artemis and Phillips outside to speak with him alone.

• Antiope praised Ba Di’s rule and reputation, claiming Diana had been deceived by the Justice League and asking him to forgive her.
• Ba Di pointed out that Diana could have killed him and showed no willingness to let the Amazons take her back.
• Artemis angrily declared that the Amazons did not fear battle, but Antiope rebuked her and ordered her and Phillips outside.
• Artemis argued with Antiope, then left the office with Phillips while Ba Di remarked on the Amazons’ vigor.
• Antiope apologized for Artemis’s behavior and returned to the matter of Diana’s release.

Antiope tried to secure Diana’s release by offering Paradise Island’s resources and support, then warned Ba Di that Diana was Zeus’s daughter. Ba Di revealed that he already knew and was unafraid of Zeus, leaving Antiope facing his demand that Paradise Island submit or be destroyed.

• Antiope offered Paradise Island’s friendship, artifacts, and warriors in exchange for Diana, but Ba Di rejected her proposals.
• Antiope warned Ba Di that Diana’s identity could bring down the wrath of the gods upon him.
• Antiope revealed that Zeus, the God King of Olympus, was Diana’s father and threatened Ba Di with his wrath.
• Ba Di said he already knew Diana was Zeus’s daughter and wanted to fight Zeus, rendering Antiope’s threat ineffective.
• Ba Di demanded that Paradise Island serve him or be destroyed in war.

Ba Di confronted Antiope and the Amazon Warriors after they refused to submit, then showed them a film depicting a planned nuclear attack on Paradise Island. The chapter ended as the movie began, leaving the island’s fate uncertain.

• Antiope rejected Ba Di’s demand that the Amazons become his subordinates and declared that they would fight rather than surrender.
• Artemis and Phillips entered and stood with Antiope, making their hostility toward Ba Di clear.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to darken the windows and bring fruit, then announced a film about Paradise Island’s destruction.
• Ba Di’s projection showed Paradise Island and narrated its history before introducing a trial of its magical defenses against modern nuclear weapons.
• Antiope watched as the film began, while Ba Di presented the coming attack as an epic disaster movie.

Ba Di tested Paradise Island’s magical barrier with a nuclear bomb, then revealed Hera had found a way to break it with two stronger blasts. The Amazons remained divided between confidence in Zeus’s protection and growing alarm as Ba Di prepared to continue.

• Antiope feared nuclear weapons could wipe out the Amazon race, while Artemis and Phillips dismissed human technology and challenged Ba Di.
• A hundred-thousand-ton-yield nuclear bomb exploded against Paradise Island’s magical barrier, which remained intact.
• Artemis tried to attack Ba Di, but Antiope and Phillips restrained her.
• Hera reported that two nuclear bombs detonating on opposite sides of the island could disrupt the barrier’s energy supply and break it.
• Ba Di taunted the worried Amazons and urged Hera to proceed, warning that they might soon beg him for mercy.

A nuclear bomb struck Paradise Island, but Zeus's magical force field shielded the Amazons, prompting Hippolyta to prepare for war as more weapons approached. In Emperor Tower, Ba Di and Hera dismissed the Amazons' confidence in the barrier while Artemis and Antiope watched.

• A nuclear bomb exploded over Paradise Island, and its magical force field protected the Amazons from harm.
• The Amazons reacted with anger and began organizing warrior squads to defend the island.
• Gang Se told Hippolyta that the magic tower had detected two more weapons approaching Paradise Island.
• Hippolyta concluded that Antiope's negotiations had failed and ordered the Amazons to prepare for war.
• In Emperor Tower, Artemis challenged Ba Di's confidence in human weapons, while Hera said Zeus's force field was only a regional magical structure.

Ba Di watched as successive nuclear strikes exploited the magical protective force field’s weak points and destroyed it. The second missile devastated Paradise Island, leaving countless Amazons and much of the island engulfed in fire and smoke.

• Hera explained that the protective force field redirected energy toward attacked areas, leaving other parts of Paradise Island vulnerable, and Ba Di told her to watch the incoming missiles.
• A seven-hundred-kiloton missile struck the island’s western side, draining the force field and shaking buildings across Paradise Island.
• Antiope realized the force field could not withstand another strike and shouted for the attack to stop, but Ba Di said it was too late.
• A three-megaton missile hit the weaker eastern side and shattered Zeus’s protective force field.
• The blast engulfed more than a fifth of Paradise Island, hurling buildings, forests, and countless Amazons into the air and fire.

Antiope, Phillips, and Artemis watched footage of a nuclear attack devastate Paradise Island and saw that another bomb threatened to destroy the Amazons. Artemis attacked Ba Di in fury, but Hera stopped her and sent her crashing into a wall.

• The footage showed Zeus's magical protective force field failing and a nuclear blast killing and injuring Amazon Warriors, including Artemis's friend Duo Li Si.
• The narrator announced that another one-megaton nuclear bomb could wipe out Paradise Island, and Antiope and Phillips cried out for the attack to stop.
• Ba Di said that those who had never felt fear would never understand surrender as Artemis resolved to kill him.
• Artemis charged Ba Di with the Sword of Fury, smashing the office floor and sending papers and glass flying.
• Hera intercepted Artemis with a shoulder strike that hurled her into the wall, then returned to Ba Di's side and prepared another fruit for him.

Artemis attacked Hera but stopped when the nuclear missile threatened Paradise Island. Antiope knelt before Ba Di and offered to submit in exchange for time to persuade the Amazons, leaving Artemis shocked and Phillips defending Antiope’s decision as necessary for their people’s survival.

• Artemis recovered from Hera’s strike and prepared to attack her again, but Antiope stopped her when the screen showed a nuclear missile flying over the Atlantic toward Paradise Island.
• Antiope knelt before Ba Di and offered to serve him, asking for time to persuade the Amazon Warriors to submit as well.
• Artemis accused Antiope of betraying Amazon, unable to accept her decision to surrender.
• Phillips slapped Artemis and insisted Antiope had not betrayed Amazon, explaining that the leaders had to find a way for their people to survive.
• Artemis realized she had hurt Antiope and fell silent.

Antiope, Phillips, and Artemis submitted to Ba Di and pledged the Amazons’ loyalty in exchange for Paradise Island’s survival. The nuclear missile exploded harmlessly high above the island, leaving the three women’s pledges in place as the Amazons celebrated.

• Antiope begged Ba Di to stop the nuclear attack and offered Paradise Island’s submission.
• Phillips knelt beside Antiope and pledged her loyalty to Ba Di on behalf of the Amazons.
• Artemis knelt and vowed to abandon the gods, serve Ba Di, and become his sword in exchange for sparing the Amazon people.
• The nuclear missile exploded high above Paradise Island, and the Amazons cheered as the island escaped destruction.
• Antiope and Phillips felt bitter relief while Artemis remained silent and resolute.

Ba Di reflected on his ambition to remake Earth as the Amazons returned to Paradise Island. On the moon, Brainiac’s forces pursued Captain La Jin and the wounded Jie Mi until a white figure appeared to save them.

• Ba Di watched the sunlight and resolved to shape Earth according to his will, changing a song lyric from a road of heroes to a road of demons.
• Antiope, Artemis, Phillips, and Hera returned to Paradise Island to persuade the remaining Amazons to submit to Ba Di.
• Brainiac’s robots attacked Captain La Jin and Jie Mi as they escaped the Space Base in a black ship.
• Jie Mi urged Captain La Jin to leave him behind, but La Jin refused and repeated Ba Di’s words about finding hope at a dead end.
• The ship’s wing and engine were destroyed, and the pursuing ships prepared to fire on La Jin and Jie Mi.
• A white figure arrived from Earth, blocked the laser beams, and told them they would not die.

Ba Di rescued Jie Mi and Captain La Jin from Brainiac’s Sentry, then pursued the retreating machine toward the moon. The Sentry merged with Brainiac’s Space Base and transformed into a colossal mechanical jellyfish, which attacked Ba Di with high-frequency blades.

• Jie Mi excitedly spotted Ba Di and nearly bled to death while Captain La Jin tried to stop his bleeding.
• Ba Di shielded the spacecraft from the Sentry’s lasers, shoved it toward Earth, and faced the Sentry’s powerful particle beam.
• Ba Di identified the green figure as Brainiac’s Sentry and cut through the particle beam with Heat Vision as he pursued it toward the moon.
• The Sentry connected to the Space Base, which expanded and transformed into a giant mechanical jellyfish.
• The mechanical monster attacked the approaching Ba Di with high-frequency oscillating blades.

Ba Di defeated the Mechanical Jellyfish’s Sentinel and claimed the space base as spoils, while Brainiac received its combat data and decided Ba Di was worth collecting.

• The Sentinel System identified Ba Di as a planet-destroying Kryptonian-blooded organism and began transmitting combat data to Brainiac.
• The Mechanical Jellyfish attacked Ba Di with its weapons and tentacles as he dodged, admiring the machine and planning to turn it into a giant Gundam.
• Ba Di saw the Sentinel at the Mechanical Jellyfish’s core, broke through the machinery, and pulled a chip from its brain after the Sentinel completed its data transmission.
• The Mechanical Jellyfish shut down, and Ba Di pushed it toward Earth to claim it.
• Brainiac received the transmitted information and declared Ba Di worth collecting.

Victor asked Hippolyta to help unite metahumans against Ba Miu Luo Di and rescue Diana, but Artemis rejected his account of Ba Miu Luo Di and had him imprisoned. The Amazons considered offering Victor to Ba Miu Luo Di, while Phillips raised Victor’s plan to infiltrate Emperor Tower and steal Kryptonite.

• Victor urged Hippolyta to help metahumans infiltrate the Ba Miu Luo Di Group, obtain Kryptonite, and rescue Diana.
• Artemis punched Victor and accused him of deceiving the Amazons about Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Artemis listed the ways Ba Miu Luo Di had protected civilians and improved their lives, then rejected Victor’s claim that his rule was only a disguise.
• Artemis knocked Victor unconscious and ordered the guards to imprison him.
• Artemis told Hippolyta she would offer Victor to Ba Miu Luo Di, and Phillips hesitantly brought up Victor’s plan to infiltrate Emperor Tower and rescue Diana.

Hippolyta decided that the Amazons would submit to Ba Miu Luo Di and fight Ya Te Lan Di Si, redirecting their people’s anger away from him. To protect the Amazons and free Diana from imprisonment, she planned to pass Diana the queen’s throne and marry her to Ba Miu Luo Di.

• Antiope and the others agreed that the Amazons could not fight Ba Miu Luo Di again after his nuclear threat forced them to submit.
• Hippolyta ordered General Phillips to prepare for war against Ya Te Lan Di Si and tell Ba Miu Luo Di that the Amazons would serve as his warriors.
• Hippolyta told Antiope to spread word that Olympus had abandoned the Amazons and gradually introduce faith in Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Hippolyta announced that she would pass the Amazon Queen’s position to Diana, then declared that she would marry Diana to Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Antiope understood that Hippolyta hoped Diana’s marriage would preserve some Amazon culture and protect the Amazon Warriors from being destroyed.

Death Knell gathered superpowered representatives from nearly forty countries to plan an attack on Emperor Tower and steal its Kryptonite, as Ba Miu Luo Di's influence spread across the world. He secretly assigned the attackers to prepared traps, setting them up for a complete wipeout.

• Ba Di's capture of the Brainiac Sentry Space Base alarmed governments around the world and intensified their fear of his growing power.
• Representatives at a secret Nevada base described how Ba Miu Luo Di had taken control of their nations and urged Death Knell to launch an operation.
• Death Knell said the opportunity would come within two days and presented the theft of Kryptonite as the mission's goal.
• Death Knell assigned the superpowered representatives to separate routes and dead ends inside Emperor Tower, intending to send them to their deaths.
• Hera's database had provided Ba Di with the representatives' abilities, and he prepared counters for their powers.

Ba Di prepared Earth's Space Base and defenses against Zod's approaching Kryptonian spacecraft while receiving political proposals from Death Knell and Hippolyta. He ordered a final push to seize every nation after taking Diana to Paradise Island the next day.

• Ba Di oversaw the Space Base's construction as mechanical soldiers installed weapons and a force field to defend Earth from alien invasion.
• Hera reported that she had reconstructed Zeus's magic force field and strengthened Earth's array foundations using Amazon magic tomes.
• Ba Di told Hera to modify the Sentry body, but Hera misunderstood his request as a desire for a sexual body.
• Ba Di reviewed the National Alliance's resolutions and Hippolyta's plans, including marrying Diana to him, and rejected the proposed marriage arrangement.
• Hera told Ba Di that Raven was looking for him, and he planned to have her establish Earth's Guardian Force Field.
• Ba Di ordered Hera, Death Knell, and Luther to eliminate opposition within a day, then take control of every nation after he took Diana to Paradise Island.