Chapter Summaries

Lin Li drove Vandal Savage off but failed to stop him from escaping, and the heroes gathered to plan how to prevent Savage from destroying Central City within twenty-four hours. The chapter ended with Lin Li sensing a faint trace of magic in Thea.

• Lin Li revealed that Vandal Savage had escaped after avoiding his attack, despite being badly injured by Freefall Strike.
• Malcolm blamed Lin Li for letting Savage escape, threatened Oliver over Thea's safety, and left the warehouse with a throwing knife still in his chest.
• Oliver said Savage had to be stopped within twenty-four hours, and Barry explained his time travel and the future in which Central City and their friends were destroyed.
• Barry told the team that Savage had used the Scepter of Horus to destroy Central City, and Lin Li urged everyone to discuss the crucial details carefully.
• Team Flash, Team Arrow, Carter, and Kendra gathered at a remote farm, where Cisco and Caitlin greeted Lin Li and Felicity introduced him to Laurel and Thea.
• Lin Li sensed a faint trace of magic when he shook Thea's hand.

Lin Li took command of the plan to stop Vandal Savage from escaping and destroying Central City, assigning the team to gather a meteorite, investigate Savage, and prepare their support. He also sent Oliver to resolve his personal crisis and Barry to help Cisco, then called Constantine to ask whether he was still at the hotel.

• Carter revealed that Vandal Savage had caused a flood that killed at least two million people while searching for him and Kendra, and Kendra left the room overwhelmed with guilt.
• Cisco offered to use Carter as bait in frustration, and Lin Li seriously considered the idea before Felicity guessed his plan.
• Lin Li assigned Barry to retrieve a meteorite sample, Cisco to develop technological support, Caitlin to prepare medical supplies, Felicity and the others to investigate Savage, and Diggle to monitor him and stall for time.
• Lin Li told Oliver to settle matters concerning his son before joining the operation, and Oliver agreed to leave with a clear mind.
• Lin Li told Barry to help Cisco finish the arm bracers and speak with Kendra, then Barry ran to Keystone City.
• Lin Li called Constantine and asked whether he was still at the hotel.

Lin Li questioned the unusual time travel that had brought him back to Central City, then focused on preparing to stop Vandal Savage. As the teams readied for battle, Cisco helped Kendra awaken her Hawkgirl abilities and finished arm guards designed to withstand the Scepter of Horus.

• Lin Li asked Constantine about the strange time travel, then learned that ordinary barriers could stop Vandal Savage's Doppelganger Divine Art from escaping.
• Lin Li ended his call with Constantine and informed Ghost Fox Killer that he had left.
• Oliver visited his son while Felicity, Laurel, Diggle, Barry, Caitlin, and Thea prepared for the coming fight and searched for Vandal Savage.
• Caitlin described Team Flash's extensive preparations, and Thea recognized how thoroughly the team planned for dangerous battles.
• Cisco guided Kendra into recalling her past, helping her spread her wings and reveal Hawkgirl's abilities.
• Cisco finished meteorite-isotope arm guards capable of striking against the Scepter of Horus.

Lin Li and his allies went to Jurgens Industries after Vandal Savage challenged him, and Lin Li found Savage transformed by the Scepter of Horus’s power. Savage declared himself a god and unleashed a hurricane in the warehouse as their confrontation began.

• Barry returned with Diggle and reported that Vandal Savage had appeared and demanded that Lin Li lead the team to Jurgens Industries.
• Lin Li ordered everyone to follow the plan, and Oliver, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Diggle, Thea, Laurel, and Barry headed to the meeting place.
• Lin Li flew to Jurgens Industries and crashed through the warehouse roof, where he found Vandal Savage standing within a magic circle with the Scepter of Horus.
• Vandal Savage said the Scepter had revealed his divine power and that he intended to enslave humanity.
• Lin Li mocked Savage as a mortal altered by energy, and Savage drove the Scepter into the floor and unleashed a hurricane through the warehouse.

Lin Li and Vandal Savage traded powerful attacks that destroyed the warehouse, ending their long-range battle. Vandal Savage flew into the sky to continue the fight as Lin Li rose to meet him, while a yellow lightning streak arrived below.

• Lin Li shattered Vandal Savage’s magic circle and caught his dark-blue throwing knife, then used its remains to break apart an energy sphere from the Scepter of Horus.
• Vandal Savage sent a widening blade of blue energy through the warehouse, but Lin Li tore open the ring with his Demon Claw.
• Lin Li launched a Tearing Crescent at Vandal Savage, whose blue-and-gold energy blade collided with it and brought down the warehouse.
• Vandal Savage emerged from the rubble and flew into the sky, where Lin Li rose to face him as yellow lightning raced across the ground.

Lin Li attacked Vandal Savage in the sky, where the divine power in the Scepter of Horus let Vandal withstand his Tearing Crescent. Lin Li’s lightning discs hurt Vandal, then Lin Li vanished and struck from above as Hawkman and Hawkgirl arrived.

• Barry arrived at the collapsed warehouse and watched Lin Li face the empowered Vandal Savage in the air.
• Lin Li hurled two lightning discs at Vandal Savage, combining high-frequency tearing force, electricity, and intense heat.
• Vandal Savage took the hit, nearly lost control of his energy, then recovered and swore to kill Lin Li.
• Lin Li disappeared into the darkness, then brought a tremendous force down onto Vandal Savage from above.
• Hawkman and Hawkgirl flew toward the battle and witnessed the clash between the two sources of light.

Lin Li injured Vandal Savage with a devastating Freefall Strike, but the Staff of Horus kept Savage alive. Savage then transformed into a forty-meter-tall manifestation of Horus and threatened to destroy Central City along with Lin Li.

• Lin Li slammed Vandal Savage into a huge crater with a Freefall Strike, but Savage's protective energy remained intact.
• Barry, Carter, and Kendra watched the aftermath, and Kendra warned that the Staff of Horus held divine power.
• Vandal Savage rose from the crater with minor injuries and decided to stop trading blows with Lin Li.
• Vandal Savage poured the Staff of Horus's energy into his protective aura and grew into a forty-meter-tall hawk-headed giant.
• Oliver and Team Arrow saw the giant, and Diggle cursed that Central City was always about to end the world.

Vandal Savage manifested a giant Horus energy body and caught Lin Li after its magical eagle cry disrupted his consciousness and Speed Force. Lin Li recovered enough to direct the others to attack Horus’s deep blue energy system, which he believed would let him absorb Savage’s divine power.

• The Flash evacuated nearby civilians while Barry, Carter, Kendra, Oliver, Diggle, Thea, and Laurel gathered to watch Lin Li fight Horus.
• Vandal Savage attacked Lin Li with Horus’s giant hands, then struck him with a magical eagle cry that overwhelmed his senses and stopped his Speed Force.
• Horus caught Lin Li in its palm, and Thea cried out as the group feared he would be crushed.
• Lin Li spoke to the team through their communicators and explained that Horus contained deep blue meteorite energy and pale golden divine power.
• Lin Li told the team to use Cisco’s weapons to destroy the deep blue energy system so he could absorb Savage’s divine power.

Oliver’s team launched their coordinated attack on Vandal Savage while Lin Li faced him directly. Lin Li escaped Vandal Savage’s crushing divine-energy sphere by absorbing it with the Book of Magic, and the team began disrupting Horus’s left leg.

• Lin Li identified Horus’s left leg as the vulnerable target, and Oliver assigned the team roles before sending everyone into action.
• Barry ran toward Horus, Carter carried Oliver into the air to attack with Element X-coated arrows, Kendra prepared to provide support, and Diggle, Thea, and Laurel set up magnetic screens.
• Vandal Savage poured divine energy into Horus’s hand to crush Lin Li, but the Book of Magic opened a gateway and drained away the pressure.
• Vandal Savage cut off the energy forming Horus’s hand and abandoned it, but the Book of Magic swallowed the golden sphere and freed Lin Li.
• Vandal Savage recognized the Book of Magic’s space as a God Realm, while yellow lightning wrapped around Horus’s left leg and made it tilt.

Barry damaged Vandal Savage’s Horus energy form, while Oliver used Element X arrows to destroy its structure. Vandal Savage reclaimed the remaining azure energy and raised his scepter, but a black Demon Claw grabbed his hand.

• Barry tore open the Horus energy form’s left leg with his armored gauntlets, making it tilt as Vandal Savage sent an energy tide at him.
• Barry dodged three azure beams using the Speed Force, and Carter carried him away on hawk wings.
• Oliver fired three Element X arrows into gaps in the Horus energy form, then Carter carried him away.
• The arrows exploded inside Horus, destroying its structure and forcing Vandal Savage to let it dissipate.
• Vandal Savage recalled the remaining azure energy into the Scepter of Horus and vowed to kill everyone.
• A black Demon Claw appeared and clamped down on the hand holding the Scepter of Horus.

Lin Li tore off Vandal Savage’s arm and took the Scepter of Horus, then fought to break through Savage’s divine shield as Savage tried to flee. Lin Li trapped him in the sky and repeatedly kicked his shielded body around like a soccer ball, draining his divine power.

• Lin Li ripped off Vandal Savage’s arm, and Savage threatened to torture Lin Li’s friends and descendants before deciding to retreat.
• Lin Li sent the Scepter of Horus to Barry, who retrieved it with Cisco’s armored gauntlet and discovered he could control its power.
• Lin Li used Vibrational Phasing to attack Vandal Savage’s divine shield, but Savage forced his claw back out with divine power.
• Vandal Savage fled inside his golden shield, but Lin Li caught up and kicked it back before it could escape.
• Lin Li repeatedly kicked Vandal Savage’s shield around the sky, keeping him trapped while draining his divine power.

Lin Li battered Vandal Savage through the sky until Barry and the others used the Scepter of Horus to destroy him. The heroes returned to their lives, while Carter and Kendra chose to settle in Saint Roch and become a superhero couple.

• Lin Li kicked Vandal Savage through the air until the weakened Aegis Shield began to fail.
• Barry, Oliver, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl aimed the Scepter of Horus at Vandal Savage, whose body the azure beam reduced to ashes.
• The Scepter of Horus vanished, and Barry and Oliver celebrated Vandal Savage's death while Carter and Kendra felt relieved that their cycle of pursuit might be over.
• The Team Arrow members returned to Star City, while Carter and Kendra chose to live in Saint Roch and Cisco said goodbye to Kendra.
• Cisco's mood lifted when he and Barry sang together on the drive back to STAR Labs, where the team's usual routine resumed without Harry.

Lin Li fine-tuned the prototype accelerators while STAR Labs prepared new research and Cisco and Caitlin developed tools to improve or counter metahuman abilities. Barry struggled with Iris’s confession and his feelings for Patty, and the chapter ended with Lin Li discovering that his ice cream was not poisoned.

• Lin Li adjusted the prototype accelerators to improve control of Speed Force particles and finalized his investment in Mercury Labs as preparations began for a spacetime research project.
• Cisco built a visor that amplified emotional fluctuations and helped him trigger Vibe attacks, though his uncontrolled ability exposed him to Barry and Iris’s private moments.
• Caitlin developed a second-generation Overload Gene Collapse serum that could temporarily paralyze a person, but she had not tested it on a Speed Force user.
• Barry’s fame grew after The Flash received credit for defeating Vandal Savage, while Iris confessed that she liked him and Barry remained uncertain about his feelings for her and Patty.
• Lin Li told Barry that his uncertainty suggested he leaned toward Iris, then discovered that his ice cream was not poisoned.

Lin Li and the others discovered that Harry had returned to Earth-2 to confront ZOOM after leaving a video confessing that he had poisoned Lin Li’s ice cream and planted a Speed Force-draining device in Barry’s suit under ZOOM’s threat. They decided Harry might be in danger and agreed to help him despite Lin Li’s objections.

• Lin Li, Barry, and Cisco noticed Harry had been missing for over a week and found that the wormhole had been stabilized and shut down.
• Cisco discovered that Harry had likely used Quark-Color-Flavor Connection Technology to return to Earth-2, and Lin Li confirmed Harry had entered the chamber without coming back out.
• Barry found a USB that contained information about the wormhole technology and a video from Harry.
• Harry’s video confessed that ZOOM had forced him to poison Lin Li’s ice cream and place a Speed Force-draining device in Barry’s suit, and Harry apologized before destroying the camera.
• Caitlin, Barry, and Cisco argued that Harry should still be helped, while Lin Li said Harry had meant to trade their lives for his daughter’s; the others agreed to help him anyway.

Lin Li, Barry, and Cisco traveled to Earth-2 to help Harry and confront ZOOM. After arriving, they began searching for Harry, ZOOM, and information about Central City.

• Lin Li, Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco agreed to go to Earth-2 to help Harry and take the fight to ZOOM.
• Barry removed and destroyed the device that had been stealing his speed, while Caitlin packed emergency supplies.
• Lin Li and Cisco stabilized the wormhole, and Barry, Cisco, and Lin Li traveled through it to Earth-2 as Caitlin stayed behind at STAR Labs.
• The three arrived in Earth-2's STAR Labs basement, where Cisco took commemorative photos.
• Lin Li ordered Shanshan 2.0 to search the local network for maps, Harry's whereabouts, and information about ZOOM.

Lin Li, Barry, and Cisco found Harry at Earth-2 STAR Labs and learned that Harry had tried to lure ZOOM into a trap to rescue his daughter. After Harry’s plan failed, Lin Li ordered the group to confront ZOOM directly and said Harry’s daughter was at Dengtian Cliff.

• Lin Li used Shanshan 2.0’s data to locate Harry and led Barry and Cisco through the evacuated STAR Labs.
• Harry apologized for poisoning Lin Li’s ice cream and stealing Barry’s speed, then admitted he had engineered events to bring them to Earth-2.
• Harry angrily blamed Barry and Cisco for delaying the rescue of his daughter, who ZOOM had held for nearly four months.
• Harry explained that he had filled STAR Labs with serum mist and tried to lure ZOOM there, but ZOOM had not appeared and Harry had heard nothing about his daughter.
• Barry promised to help Harry, and Lin Li said Harry’s interference had ruined his original plan to defeat ZOOM.
• Lin Li ordered the group to confront ZOOM directly, follow orders, and rescue Harry’s daughter at Dengtian Cliff.

Lin Li and Barry entered ZOOM’s hidden base at Dengtian Cliff to rescue Harry’s daughter, but Lin Li intercepted the returning ZOOM. After they clashed, ZOOM attacked Lin Li inside the cave.

• Lin Li, Barry, Cisco, and Harry entered ZOOM’s base, and Shanshan 2.0 warned that ZOOM might know they were there.
• Barry took Cisco and Harry deeper into the base while Lin Li stayed behind and intercepted ZOOM at the entrance.
• Lin Li revealed that he knew ZOOM was a time remnant, and the two prepared to fight.
• Cisco called for Lin Li after discovering Harry’s daughter and an iron-headed man imprisoned inside, interrupting the standoff.
• Lin Li and ZOOM broke the sound barrier and attacked; ZOOM dodged Lin Li’s Tearing Crescent and launched another strike from the cave ceiling.

Lin Li and ZOOM fought to a standstill in the cavern, where ZOOM claimed Lin Li would cause Barry’s Father to die. ZOOM fled toward Central City, and Lin Li pursued him at high speed.

• Lin Li dodged ZOOM’s attack, kicked apart his lightning ball, and sent a crescent-shaped ion blade slashing at him, but ZOOM evaded it.
• After both speedsters paused their attacks, ZOOM claimed that Lin Li would get Barry’s Father killed and that he would ultimately win.
• Lin Li accused ZOOM of taking Barry’s Father hostage, but ZOOM denied it and taunted Lin Li to try catching him.
• ZOOM raced out of the cavern, and Lin Li followed close behind as they sped through the forest and across a lake.
• ZOOM turned toward Central City while Lin Li continued pursuing him.

Future Lin Li enlisted ZOOM to help activate Magnestar and destroy Earths across dimensions, promising him eternal existence in the Speed Force. After Future Lin Li left to draw Barry and the others into an interception, a vast swarm of Time Wraiths pursued him, leaving ZOOM shaken by the danger.

• ZOOM admired Magnestar, a device capable of destroying Earths across dimensions, alongside Future Lin Li in Lin Li's former armor.
• ZOOM challenged Future Lin Li's promise, but Future Lin Li reminded him that his collapsing genes left him no real choice but to cooperate.
• ZOOM apologized and offered to handle Barry's father, but Future Lin Li refused and said the time was not right.
• Future Lin Li sensed that the moment was near, said he would go to Earth-2 to make Barry and the others return to intercept him, and told ZOOM to prepare everything.
• Future Lin Li vanished in a burst of lightning, and thousands of Time Wraiths poured from a wormhole to chase him.
• ZOOM stayed frozen as the Time Wraiths passed him, then wondered what Future Lin Li had done to attract so many of them.

Barry, Cisco, and Harry rescued Jessie and freed an imprisoned man while Lin Li fought ZOOM. Lin Li killed ZOOM repeatedly, but ZOOM used time remnants to evade death and multiplied across Central City, declaring himself its king.

• Barry, Cisco, and Harry rescued Jessie from ZOOM’s hideout and found an iron-headed man imprisoned behind carbyne glass.
• Cisco and Harry used electric current to weaken the carbyne, then smashed the glass and freed the man.
• Lin Li chased ZOOM toward Central City and pierced his heart, only to discover he had killed a time remnant.
• Lin Li killed ZOOM again, but another time remnant appeared, and ZOOM used more remnants to stay ahead.
• ZOOM multiplied into countless versions atop Central City’s rooftops and declared, “This world, I am king!”