Chapter Summaries

After Caitlin attacked STAR Labs in anger over Lin Li’s capture, the team began planning to bring him back while he faced the Speed Force inside its domain. The Speed Force appeared to him as Caitlin and Kara and offered to explain itself.

• Caitlin froze much of STAR Labs and fought Barry, Cisco, Wally, and the Legends, blaming them for Lin Li being taken by Savitar.
• The group restrained Caitlin with Cisco’s super-sticky slime weapon, and she fled after threatening them.
• Sara and the injured Legends vowed to bring Lin Li back, while Cisco, Ray, Martin, and the others began searching for a way to do so.
• Inside the Speed Force, Lin Li broke free from Savitar and found himself in a convincing copy of STAR Labs.
• Lin Li met Caitlin, who said she meant him no harm, and Kara, who explained that the earlier attack had not been Caitlin.
• Another voice spoke from behind Lin Li and offered to answer his questions.

Lin Li questioned the Speed Force about a hostile Shanshan and the mysterious “him” before Savitar suddenly attacked him. After they clashed, Lin Li found himself in Jitters Coffee with Ghost Fox Killer and demanded to know why Savitar was still present.

• The Speed Force used the forms of Caitlin, Kara, and Diana to speak with Lin Li, and Kara explained that the Shanshan he had met was a mutant born from his arrival and emotions that Future Lin Li had later resolved.
• Diana said Future Lin Li had devastated the world while fighting an evil being and an omniscient, omnipotent being, causing the Flashpoint changes that led to “him” appearing.
• Savitar suddenly charged Lin Li, and their powerful clash wrecked the control hall and sent both of them crashing into walls.
• Lin Li recovered in Jitters Coffee, where Ghost Fox Killer appeared and told him Savitar was on the other side.
• Lin Li pulled free from Ghost Fox Killer’s embrace and asked why Savitar was still there.

Ghost Fox Killer told Lin Li that an unknown foe had calculated his future and warned him to combine the power of reality with the power of this world. Lin Li reaffirmed his heroic resolve as Savitar tore through space and appeared before him.

• Ghost Fox Killer explained that Savitar remained trapped in the Speed Force and could escape only if someone outside opened a spatial breach.
• Ghost Fox Killer told Lin Li that his return to reality and subsequent reentry had caused damage, and that an unknown foe's existence would become clear when he returned to Central City.
• Ghost Fox Killer warned that the foe had calculated Lin Li's future by predicting his emotions, choices, and circumstances, and urged him to remain true to himself.
• After Ghost Fox Killer faded away, Lin Li recalled his difficult past and resolved not to change his heroic nature, declaring his Knight's Code as the Lightning Rider.
• Lin Li summoned the Transcendence Armor as Savitar tore through space and appeared before him.

Diana woke from a nightmare of becoming a tyrannical Amazon queen, while Hippolyta and Antiope argued over whether she should train for the war they feared was coming. Meanwhile, Lin Li was stranded in another world, and Barry returned to STAR Labs with a grave warning after visiting the future.

• Diana woke from a nightmare in which she ruled the Amazons, killed millions, and died in the arms of a figure in black armor.
• Hippolyta discovered that Antiope had secretly trained Diana and ordered the lesson stopped, while Antiope insisted Ares was returning and Diana needed to be prepared.
• Diana walked along the shore to vent her frustration and spotted a black figure washed onto the beach.
• At STAR Labs, Cisco blamed Sara for firing the Speed Force cannon and sending Lin Li into another world, then asked the Legends to retrieve him.
• Barry returned to STAR Labs and told everyone that he had run into the future.

Diana found the unconscious Lin Li on Paradise Island and was shaken by memories of a future in which he had fought her and she had died in his arms. After recovering enough to be brought before the Amazon queen, Lin Li recognized the young Diana.

• Diana discovered Lin Li unconscious on the beach, and images of their future encounters flooded her mind.
• An attendant dragged Diana away and reported the man to Queen Hippolyta.
• Lin Li woke in a Greek-style room and learned from Shanshan 2.0 that his injuries would take a year to heal and that the island suppressed energy.
• Amazon physicians treated Lin Li while female warriors guarded him, leading him to suspect he was on an island of Amazons.
• Several days later, the warriors shackled Lin Li and brought him before the Queen, where he recognized the young Diana.

Lin Li told Diana he knew her future self from another world, alarming the Amazons and prompting them to bind him with the Lasso of Truth. Shanshan 2.0 took control and blurted out increasingly outrageous declarations, leaving Lin Li surrounded by furious warriors.

• Diana concluded that Lin Li had met and killed a future version of her in another world, horrifying Hippolyta and Antiope.
• Hippolyta ordered a warrior to bind Lin Li with the Lasso of Truth as the Amazon Warriors turned against him.
• Lin Li switched control of his body to Shanshan 2.0 to resist the lasso's power.
• Shanshan 2.0 loudly declared that Lin Li would build a harem and make Diana his woman, stunning the Amazons.
• Shanshan 2.0 continued with crude boasts about Lin Li and Paradise Island, while Lin Li furiously rebuked her in their shared consciousness.
• The Amazon Warriors accused Lin Li of being an enemy of Ares and called for his death and hanging.

Lin Li remained imprisoned while the Amazons argued over whether to kill him for the future destruction he had caused in another world. Diana defended him as a hero, and the chapter ended with Antiope demanding a duel to the death.

• In the water prison, Lin Li blamed Shanshan 2.0 for their predicament after her thoughts spilled out under the Lasso of Truth, while Shanshan 2.0 worried they might die.
• At the royal palace, Antiope demanded that Lin Li be executed because he had killed another world's Diana and destroyed its Amazons.
• Hippolyta weighed whether Lin Li posed a threat or might help protect Paradise Island, while Diana argued that he had stopped a tyrannical version of herself.
• Antiope and Hippolyta insisted that Lin Li might kill Diana, but Diana said she would rather die than become a tyrant who slaughtered humans.
• Hippolyta comforted the tearful Diana and signaled agreement with Antiope, who challenged Lin Li to a duel to the death.

After Diana freed Lin Li from the water prison, she struggled with what she knew of his future and worried about the kind of queen she might become. Lin Li agreed to Antiope’s death duel after warning that his full strength could sink Paradise Island, and a month-long recovery period began before the island’s Amazons started challenging him.

• Diana freed Lin Li from the water prison and escorted him through Paradise Island, where he teased her and reassured her that she could choose her own future.
• Diana told Lin Li that Antiope wanted a duel to the death, and he initially refused before agreeing to face her.
• Lin Li told Hippolyta and Antiope that one full-power punch could sink Paradise Island, and Diana confirmed that he was telling the truth.
• Antiope gave Lin Li one month to recover before their duel, and Hippolyta arranged a room for him.
• The next morning, a large Amazon Warrior came to Lin Li’s door to provoke him, beginning his fights with the women of Paradise Island.

Artemis confronted Lin Li over his challenge to General Antiope and demanded that he fight her first. After she repeatedly called him gutless, Lin Li agreed to follow her to the Duel Stage, while a crowd of Amazon Warriors came along to watch.

• Lin Li woke late, opened his shutters, and admired Paradise Island before Artemis began pounding on his door.
• Artemis accused Lin Li of insulting the Amazon Warriors and said he had to defeat her before he could challenge General Antiope.
• Lin Li refused to duel at first and asked why Artemis had come, while the gathered Amazon Warriors insisted he must defeat them before reaching Antiope.
• After Artemis kept calling him gutless, Lin Li lost his temper and agreed to go with her to the Duel Stage.
• Artemis led Lin Li toward the Duel Stage as the Amazon Warriors followed, making jokes about how badly he would be beaten.

Lin Li faced Artemis on the Duel Stage while Hippolyta revealed that she had manipulated events to make Antiope witness his abilities. The chapter left the duel about to begin, with the Amazon crowd roaring for Artemis and Lin Li remaining calm.

• Lin Li chose a longsword and climbed to the Duel Stage amid the Amazons' hostile cheers.
• Antiope confronted Hippolyta and accused her of spreading rumors and provoking Artemis into challenging Lin Li.
• Hippolyta explained that Diana's nightmare of the Amazons' destruction and Diana's death had made her want Antiope to see what Lin Li could do.
• Antiope accepted that the duel oath must be honored and watched with Hippolyta, though she remained displeased with Hippolyta's interference.
• Lin Li and Artemis reached the Duel Stage as the Amazons roared for Artemis, while Lin Li stood unmoved by the crowd and wind.

Lin Li defeated Artemis with a precise sword strike despite his weakened condition, leaving the Amazons stunned. From afar, Hippolyta and Antiope recognized that he was stronger than they had expected, and Antiope watched him with renewed determination.

• Artemis charged Lin Li as the Amazon Warriors cheered, but he calmly stepped inside her spear’s reach and avoided her attacks.
• Lin Li cut Artemis’s Achilles tendon with a controlled sword stroke, causing her to collapse when she tried to move again.
• Artemis admitted defeat, and the Amazon Warriors fell silent at how quickly Lin Li had beaten her.
• Hippolyta and Antiope watched from a distant mountain and concluded that Lin Li was stronger than they had imagined, even while weakened.
• Antiope looked toward Lin Li, her opponent one month later, with renewed determination.

Lin Li defeated a succession of Amazon Warriors who challenged him each day to prevent his duel with Antiope. After thirty days of failed challenges, the Amazons admitted he was qualified to fight Antiope.

• Amazon captains plotted to challenge Lin Li, and Artemis warned Melanippe not to underestimate him, but Melanippe dismissed her concerns.
• Melanippe challenged Lin Li and ran onto his sword, leaving him to call for a medic as the Amazons stared in disbelief.
• Over the following days, Lin Li defeated challengers using varied tactics, including an archer, an armored warrior, and a beast tamer with a tiger.
• For thirty days, the Amazon Warriors tried and failed to stop Lin Li from reaching his duel with Antiope.
• When the agreed month ended, the Amazons admitted Lin Li was qualified to fight General Antiope.

Lin Li defeated General Antiope in a sword duel on the wind-battered Duel Stage after controlling their exchange for hundreds of moves. Antiope acknowledged his victory as Lin Li left, while Hippolyta waited below with killing intent.

• The Amazon Warriors gathered on the surrounding peaks and watched anxiously as Antiope faced Lin Li.
• Antiope charged Lin Li, and they exchanged hundreds of sword strikes while Lin Li secretly dictated the fight.
• A sudden headwind slowed Antiope, allowing Lin Li to point his sword at her throat and win.
• Antiope accepted her defeat and said the Amazons would remember Lin Li’s name.
• Lin Li walked down from the Duel Stage as Hippolyta waited below with killing intent.

Lin Li faced Queen Hippolyta’s decision to kill him after learning he had destroyed the Amazons in another world, then offered to teach Diana as a way to protect her and the Amazons. He left Hippolyta weighing his proposal while the Queen’s Guard kept their weapons trained on him.

• Lin Li went with the Queen’s Guard to a palace banquet hall, where Hippolyta awaited him among armed guards.
• Lin Li calmly ate as he confronted Hippolyta about her plan to kill him and explained that she had hoped he would die honorably in a duel.
• Hippolyta admitted she could not allow him to kill the Amazons and Diana, while Lin Li argued that she had delayed acting because of pity and Amazon principles.
• Lin Li offered to become Diana’s teacher and guide her toward becoming a kind queen and hero.
• Lin Li warned Hippolyta that killing him could estrange Diana and her people, and urged the Queen to choose whether to accept his offer.

Lin Li persuaded Hippolyta to abandon her plan to kill him and confront the need to guide Diana and the Amazons away from a destructive future. After exposing Hippolyta’s lack of plans for governing Paradise Island, he declared that he should teach Diana.

• Hippolyta realized killing Lin Li would shame the Amazons and estrange Diana, while Lin Li urged her to prevent the disastrous future at its source.
• Hippolyta asked whether Lin Li could guarantee Diana and the Amazons would avoid that future, and he admitted he could not.
• Hippolyta questioned what Lin Li could teach Diana, but his knowledge of advanced mathematics left her bewildered.
• Lin Li pressed Hippolyta to explain her plans for Paradise Island and Diana’s future, and she could not provide any.
• Lin Li outlined the challenges the Amazons might face if exposed to humanity and argued that Diana needed to learn leadership and governance.
• Hippolyta accepted Lin Li’s criticism in silence, and Lin Li said he should teach Diana.

Lin Li began teaching Diana by taking her into the forest, where he tried to broaden her understanding beyond strength and combat. He introduced her first lesson in conquering the sky by assembling a glider.

• Hippolyta announced that Lin Li would teach Diana, angering the Amazons and prompting Antiope to lead them in grueling training.
• Lin Li avoided the Warriors who wanted to challenge him and took Diana into the forest for her first lesson.
• Lin Li questioned Diana about wasps and ants, then had her clear a path with a machete as they climbed the mountain.
• At a mountain platform, Lin Li explained that he would help Diana become a qualified queen and hero by developing more than her fighting ability.
• Diana eagerly asked Lin Li to teach her to fight, but he instead assembled a glider and announced that they would try another way to conquer the sky.

Lin Li bonded with and educated Diana through exciting activities and nightly assignments, helping her grow into a capable future queen. Seven years later, as adult Diana's next challenge approached, Shanshan 2.0 reported a flaw in the magical barrier that could produce a trace of the Speed Force.

• Lin Li strapped Diana to himself and launched their glider from a cliff, showing her that it could fly.
• Diana delighted in soaring over the Amazon city and sea, while Hippolyta watched in alarm and later took her daughter away.
• Lin Li assigned Diana an essay as homework, promising more flying if she completed it thoughtfully.
• Over the following years, Lin Li taught Diana through projects, adventures, and nightly assignments, and she grew into a capable future queen.
• Seven years later, Shanshan 2.0 told Lin Li that a flaw in the magical protective barrier could create a trace of the Speed Force.

Lin Li discovered that the magical protective force field around Paradise Island had weakened, restoring her Speed Force and beginning to awaken Diana’s strength. She took Diana to inspect the likely breach, but their departure was interrupted by an aircraft crashing into the sea.

• Lin Li felt her Speed Force return and learned from Shanshan 2.0 that a scan of Paradise Island could be made around eight the next morning.
• Diana accidentally smashed the lower half of Lin Li’s door with a light kick, revealing that her strength was awakening.
• Lin Li told Diana that the force field had a breach and that she might leave Paradise Island, urging Diana to learn about the human world.
• Lin Li and Diana went to the beach, where Shanshan 2.0 identified the sea ahead as the likely location of the breach.
• An iron-skinned aircraft appeared overhead and plunged into the sea, trailing dark smoke.

Lin Li and Diana rescued Steve, a German pilot carrying documents about poison formulas, after his plane crashed near Paradise Island. German soldiers invaded the island, and the Amazons defeated them, taking Steve prisoner for questioning.

• Lin Li and Diana freed the trapped pilot from his crashed Fokker and brought him ashore.
• Lin Li discovered that the pilot, Steve, was a German soldier and took his documents, while Diana accidentally knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Li read the documents and realized Steve was a spy carrying information about poison formulas being researched during the war.
• Several boats of German soldiers entered Paradise Island's waters, and Diana blew a whistle to summon the Amazons.
• Lin Li pulled Diana and Steve behind a reef as the soldiers approached, but Hippolyta led the Amazons into battle.
• The Amazons defeated the German soldiers with five dead and took Steve to the judgment grounds, where they bound him with the Lasso of Truth.

After Steve Trevor revealed the war and Doctor Poison’s weapons under the Lasso of Truth, Lin Li asked Hippolyta to let Diana leave Paradise Island for a final lesson. Hippolyta agreed and revealed Diana was Zeus’s daughter and a weapon against gods; Lin Li promised to help Diana stop Ares, then prepared to restore his power while Diana privately resolved to give him an unforgettable memory.

• Steve Trevor revealed his intelligence mission and the German Army’s secret weapons under the Lasso of Truth.
• Lin Li visited Hippolyta and asked permission to take Diana off Paradise Island so she could witness humanity and complete her education.
• Hippolyta revealed that Diana was her daughter with Zeus and was created to kill gods.
• Hippolyta permitted Diana to leave with Lin Li and asked him to stop Ares from harming Amazons and humanity.
• Lin Li reassured Diana that he would stay with her until they stopped the war Ares planned, then said he would restore his power that night.
• Diana hid her sadness and resolved to leave Lin Li with an unforgettable memory while he was unable to move.