Chapter Summaries

Ba Di faked a medical crisis to get the prison guards to open the metahuman cells, then knocked them out and recruited the prisoners into an organization against Flash. After killing one prisoner who challenged him, Ba Di led the group in a prison break and named them the Rogues.

• The warden opened the metahuman prison after doctors confirmed Shi Nate was near death and began treating him.
• Ba Di knocked out the guards, doctors, and nurses, then made the warden release the prisoners with his fingerprints.
• Heat Wave, Trickster, Captain Boomerang, and Weather Wizard agreed to join Ba Di's organization against Flash.
• A prisoner challenged Ba Di's authority, and Ba Di killed him before the others agreed to join.
• The prison alarm sounded, and Ba Di knocked out the warden and led the group through the prison break.
• Trickster asked for the organization's name, and Ba Di called them the Rogues.

Ba Di organized the Rogues, established their rules, and led them in reclaiming their weapons and preparing to fight Flash. A week later, Ba Di defeated Flash with an electrostatic field, fulfilling Shi Nate’s final wish and ending the Rogues’ story.

• Trickster tracked Flash’s movements while the Rogues discussed how to stop him.
• Ba Di told the Rogues to recover their weapons and established rules against killing, drugs, harming women and children, and attacking fellow members.
• Ba Di split the Rogues into three groups to rob a bank, buy equipment, and steal their weapons from the Dangerous Weapon House.
• The Rogues drew Flash’s attention away from the courthouse while Ba Di and his group reclaimed their equipment.
• A week later, Ba Di lured Flash to a planned location and used an electrostatic field explosion to paralyze him.

After more than a hundred descents, Ba Di reflected on the strange missions he had completed and grew tired of repeatedly ruling Earth before falling asleep in search of a new experience. He descended into a rejected Time Remnant who declared himself Savitar.

• Ba Di descended into Mogo and destroyed Earth, fulfilling Mogo’s wish to protect the universe as the survivors worked together to rebuild it.
• Ba Di’s descent as Winn Schott failed when Supergirl fell in love with the television Flash instead of him.
• Ba Di descended into Iron Man, took the Infinity Gauntlet, and became the shared enemy of the Justice League and the Avengers.
• Ba Di completed more than a hundred descents, strengthened his power, and remained unaware that the Phantom Stranger was gathering forces against him.
• Ba Di grew weary of ruling Earth, checked on his wives and temple construction, and went to sleep hoping for a fresh descent.
• A Time Remnant relived the rejection of his family and friends in the Speed Force before declaring, "I am Savitar!"

Ba Di entered Savitar's Speed Force Prison and experienced the rejection and discrimination that had driven Barry's Time Remnant toward madness. After Iris, Joe, and Cisco fled from him, Caitlin stayed and tried to comfort him.

• Ba Di examined his scarred reflection and considered Savitar's desire to kill his family and become a god.
• Ba Di walked through the recreated Interstellar Laboratory and heard Joe, Caitlin, Iris, and Cisco discuss their refusal to accept the burned Time Remnant as Barry.
• Iris left the control room hall, followed by Joe and Cisco, unable to face Ba Di.
• Ba Di asked Caitlin why she had stayed, and she tried to reassure him that the others would adjust.

Flash returned to the Interstellar Laboratory with the Magic Stone after stopping Alchemist, while Cisco and the others worried that Alchemist’s master remained a threat. Phantom Stranger appeared and warned the team about a newly born Only God, then gave Flash access to a multiverse communication room and advised them to keep the Calcified Speed Force from opening a passage.

• Flash brought the Magic Stone back to the Interstellar Laboratory, and Cisco took the box while hearing what seemed like his brother’s voice.
• Flash and the team discussed Alchemist’s escape and the danger posed by the master he had been summoning.
• Phantom Stranger entered the laboratory and asked Flash and his team to help fight a newly born Only God and save the multiverse.
• When Flash refused to trust his unexplained request, Phantom Stranger sent a point of light into his forehead, giving him access to a multiverse communication room.
• Phantom Stranger identified the Magic Stone as the Calcified Speed Force and warned the team not to open a Speed Force passage before vanishing.

A newly arrived Barry Allen introduced himself to the Flash Multiverse Contact Group and was mocked for his low speed. The Flashes argued over who was fastest, then recalled an earlier Barry Allen who had outrun even a Cosmic God’s teleportation.

• The Flash Multiverse Contact Group welcomed a newcomer while its members argued and joked about their identities, odds, and the many Flashes who were Reverse Flash.
• The newcomer said he was Barry Allen, had recently gained the Speed Force, and averaged about 8 mach, prompting the group to ridicule his speed.
• Barry explained that he had just helped Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Cyborg stop Steppenwolf from invading Earth.
• The Flashes boasted about their speeds, and one member calculated that Wally had moved at 13 trillion times the speed of light while saving five hundred thousand people during a nuclear explosion.
• A member said Wally was not necessarily the fastest and described a Barry Allen who had once outrun a Cosmic God’s teleportation.

Ba Di resisted the Speed Force’s sleep control, absorbed Central City into Calcified Speed Force, and ate part of it as Maltesers. When new memories revealed that Flash had not released him and that several multiverse contact groups had appeared, Ba Di crushed the reborn city and suspected they were targeting him.

• Ba Di detected the Speed Force’s attempt to put him to sleep and resisted it after 1,873 cycles of Savitar’s repeated life in Central City.
• Ba Di created a Speed Force vortex and absorbed Central City, its buildings, and its people into a fist-sized Calcified Speed Force stone.
• Ba Di ate part of the stone while watching the Speed Force rebuild Central City around him.
• Ba Di received new memories mentioning the Phantom Stranger and several multiverse contact groups, realizing Flash had not released him as expected.
• Ba Di crushed the newly formed Central City beneath his foot and wondered whether the groups were targeting him.

Phantom Stranger, Golden Superman, and Spectre gathered at the ruined Hero Star to face the multiverse’s crisis, while Mandrakk arrived in a mechanical avatar. They were ordered to set aside their hostility and use Mandrakk’s Thought Robot Superman to fight Ba Miu Luo Di.

• Phantom Stranger crossed the deserted Hero Star and looked toward the ruined Hall of Heroes of All Worlds.
• Golden Superman arrived and asked why his power was suppressed, and Phantom Stranger identified the Hero Star as the planet of the previous multiverse’s Only God.
• Spectre arrived and explained that he had invited Golden Superman to help judge an Only God born within the multiverse.
• Mandrakk appeared aboard a Monitor warship and said the Only God had left in search of truth.
• Golden Superman threatened Mandrakk, but Spectre urged him to stay calm and called Mandrakk a lesser concern.
• An unnamed speaker ordered everyone to stop arguing and told Mandrakk to bring his Thought Robot Superman so they could fight Ba Miu Luo Di.

A mysterious vortex opened in Central Technology Plaza, and Savitar emerged from it with the same Speed Force signature as Barry. Savitar proved faster than Barry could track and ended the chapter holding Iris by the throat and demanding Barry state his last wishes.

• A dark vortex appeared in Central Technology Plaza and sent nearby people fleeing.
• Barry arrived from Interstellar Laboratory and recognized the vortex's energy as connected to the Speed Force.
• Savitar emerged from the vortex and asked Barry for the date and time.
• Savitar vanished too quickly for Barry to follow, even with Speed Force vision.
• Savitar reappeared holding Iris by the throat and demanded that Barry state his last wishes.

Ba Di revealed that he was the Time Remnant who became Savitar and explained why Iris had to die to recreate Savitar's cycle. He killed Iris in front of Flash, then put on his armor and faced the grieving Barry.

• Ba Di removed his helmet and told Flash that Iris's death would make him create a Time Remnant.
• Ba Di explained how Flash's family had rejected the revived Time Remnant, leading him to become Savitar.
• Flash rushed toward Iris as Ba Di stabbed her through the back.
• Ba Di kicked Flash away and threw Iris's lifeless body onto the plaza.
• Ba Di's armor covered him in silver lightning as he said Savitar had suffered the same pain.

Ba Di completed Savitar’s cycle, then killed Flash and took his place beside Iris’s body. Cisco and Caitlin arrived to find him holding the dead Iris and appearing heartbroken.

• Flash attacked Savitar with yellow lightning, but Ba Di easily withstood the explosion and taunted him over his inability to save Iris.
• Grief and rage drove Flash to create hundreds of Time Remnants, who surrounded Savitar and charged.
• Ba Di killed all but one of the 498-plus Flashes, then sent the final Time Remnant through a spacetime wormhole to the past to become Savitar.
• Ba Di shed Savitar’s armor, changed his appearance to match Flash, and killed the original Flash while he held Iris’s corpse.
• Ba Di took the Flash Contact Group orb from Flash’s brain and adjusted it to synchronize with himself.
• Cisco and Caitlin arrived through a breach and found Ba Di holding Iris’s body.

After killing Iris and disbanding the Flash Team, Ba Di posed as a grieving Barry Allen so he could access the multiverse Flash Contact Group and identify who was plotting against him. He found the group’s Flashes trading Speed Force sex advice instead, leaving him stunned and uncertain whether these were his would-be enemies.

• Ba Di impersonated Barry Allen, mourned Iris, and sent Cisco and Caitlin away after disbanding the Flash Team.
• Ba Di examined the Flash Contact Group and suspected that someone with magical knowledge and Monitor technology had created it to target him.
• Ba Di connected to the group through Savitar’s soul and read a stream of messages from Flashes discussing Speed Force sex.
• Ba Di realized the conversation had nothing to do with a plot against him and wondered whether these idiots were really his enemies.

At the Ruins Temple, Golden Superman argued that Ba Miu Luo Di had likely infiltrated a Contact Group after the systems went undetected for over half a year. The group accepted that the theory made sense, but Mandrakk proposed sealing everyone in every Contact Group, prompting an immediate objection.

• The Phantom Stranger reported that Ba Miu Luo Di had not spread any systems for over half a year, and the group discussed whether he had infiltrated a Contact Group.
• Mandrakk and the Phantom Stranger said they could not detect Ba Miu Luo Di’s possessing will, even though they could track his systems.
• Golden Superman deduced that Ba Miu Luo Di had entered a Contact Group and stopped spreading systems because he was monitoring them and improving his sub-systems.
• The Phantom Stranger and the Spectre recognized that they had relied too heavily on the Contact Groups and agreed the deduction was plausible.
• Mandrakk proposed summoning and sealing everyone in all the Contact Groups, and the others objected.

Mandrakk argued that sacrificing many superheroes could prevent Ba Miu Luo Di from becoming another Yuga Khan, but Spectre, Phantom Stranger, and Golden Superman rejected the plan. Golden Superman presented three strategies devised by Quantum Batman to locate Ba Miu Luo Di’s hidden consciousness and prepare a sealing trap.

• Mandrakk urged the others to sacrifice superheroes to seal Ba Miu Luo Di’s consciousness, but Phantom Stranger and Golden Superman refused.
• Mandrakk warned that Ba Miu Luo Di could become another Yuga Khan, causing Spectre to reconsider before ultimately refusing to sacrifice the heroes.
• Spectre said their urgent task was to find and trap the consciousness, then planned to take Ba Miu Luo Di’s body to the Source Wall after sealing it.
• Golden Superman presented three research files containing plans developed by Batman, and Mandrakk dismissed them as useless.
• Golden Superman explained that Quantum Batman had a Quantum Body and enough wisdom and computational ability to help locate Ba Miu Luo Di’s consciousness.

Quantum Batman deduced that Ba Miu Luo Di had infiltrated the Flash Contact Group, where the Speed Force made him impossible to monitor. He narrowed the search to three Flashes whose rapid growth in power matched Ba Miu Luo Di’s ambition.

• Golden Superman asked Quantum Batman to help locate Ba Miu Luo Di’s hidden consciousness among the Contact Groups.
• Quantum Batman concluded there was a 73.73261 percent probability that Ba Miu Luo Di was in the Flash Contact Group, which he could not monitor through the Speed Force.
• Mandrakk proposed sacrificing all 457,000 Flashes to seal Ba Miu Luo Di, but Golden Superman objected.
• Quantum Batman explained that Ba Miu Luo Di’s hunger for power would drive him to push the Speed Force to its limit.
• Quantum Batman identified three Flashes with abnormally fast increases in speed and said there was a 90 percent chance Ba Miu Luo Di was one of them.

Quantum Batman identified the third Flash as highly likely to be Ba Miu Luo Di’s consciousness and proposed a plan to lure him to a sealing site. He also recommended using Raven to drive Ba Miu Luo Di out of the multiverse and into a fight with Trigon, and Phantom Stranger agreed to retrieve her.

• Quantum Batman described three Flashes whose extraordinary powers suggested they might be Ba Miu Luo Di’s consciousness, judging the third Flash more than 80% likely to be him.
• Quantum Batman explained that the third Flash’s speed had reached his universe’s limit, making him its God of Speed after he possessed a Time Remnant and replaced the original Flash.
• Mandrakk proposed unlocking the Contact Group’s teleportation ability to lure the suspected consciousness to the sealing site, and Phantom Stranger, Spectre, and Golden Superman agreed.
• Quantum Batman warned that Ba Miu Luo Di could evolve resistance and proposed sending Raven to Trigon so Ba Miu Luo Di would leave the multiverse and fight him.
• Phantom Stranger agreed to invade the Ba Miu Luo Di Universe and take Raven from Ba Miu Luo Di.

Ba Di infiltrated the Flash Contact Group to uncover who was targeting him, then entered a supposed rescue mission that led into a trap. Spectre and the others failed to capture him because the Flash body had no soul, and Ba Di’s consciousness remained in his true body.

• Ba Di used his grief over Iris to gain the Flashes’ trust while investigating the Contact Group.
• Ba Di applied to join a multiverse rescue mission and stepped through a Space-Time Rift, losing access to his universe’s Speed Force source.
• Ba Di arrived in a barren place inside a sealing magic array and recognized Spectre, Golden Superman, Phantom Stranger, and Mandrakk as his captors.
• Spectre activated the array and declared that Ba Di’s body would be sent to the Source Wall, while Ba Di pretended to surrender.
• Ba Di’s Flash body vanished into particles, and the four realized his consciousness remained in his true body before deciding to proceed with their next plan.

Ba Di learned that Golden Superman and the Monitor Race had invaded Oa Star, turning its inhabitants and everything on the planet to gold. After confronting Golden Superman, Ba Di realized the attack was meant to keep him occupied, as Phantom Stranger and Spectre appeared on Earth.

• Terminal Hera told Ba Di that Oa Star and the Lantern Corps were under attack by the Monitor Race and Golden Superman.
• Ba Di opened a passage to Oa Star and found the planet and its inhabitants transformed into gold.
• Ba Di confronted Golden Superman and Monitor Mandrakk, demanding to know whether they had come alone.
• Golden Superman said he would restore the Lantern Corps but wanted Ba Di to stay there for a while.
• Phantom Stranger and Spectre appeared before Raven on Earth.

Raven completed Earth’s planetary magic-array defenses, but Spectre and Phantom Stranger abducted her to stop Ba Di’s multiversal expansion. She sealed herself in a crimson crystal, fearing her capture would provoke Ba Di into destroying the multiverse.

• Raven finished inscribing magic arrays across Earth and prepared to return to the Ba Miu Luo Di Temple.
• Spectre and Phantom Stranger appeared, isolated Raven from the temple, and demanded that she go with them.
• Raven offered to persuade Ba Di to let beings die naturally before reclaiming the Systems, but Spectre insisted that Ba Di himself was a threat.
• Phantom Stranger told Raven she would return to her father, and she realized Ba Di would likely fight Trigon to rescue her.
• Raven encased herself in a crimson crystal and told Ba Di that she was fine.

Ba Di transformed into his Only God Body after Raven’s mental connection to him was severed, and he devastated the Oa Star Galaxy in rage. After Golden Superman escaped through the fifth dimension, Ba Di tore open the universe and absorbed the Blood Domain’s dimensional matter, vowing to destroy the multiverse.

• Raven told Ba Di she was fine, but their mental connection abruptly snapped, leading him to realize she had been taken hostage.
• Ba Di’s rage blasted Oa Star from its orbit as he transformed into his enormous Only God Body and attacked Golden Superman.
• Ba Di tore away half of Golden Superman’s body, crushed it, and destroyed the Monitor Race’s mothership and fleet while Golden Superman hid in the fifth dimension.
• Golden Superman fled the universe, and Ba Di’s strike ripped a vast hole through its membrane, letting Blood Domain matter pour inside.
• Ba Di absorbed the flowing dimensional matter and vowed that the entire multiverse would die with Raven.