Chapter Summaries

Russ told Fulgrim that Father had arranged for them to enter Universe 07, where Earth had fallen to an invasion, and showed him intelligence about the devastated world. As Fulgrim considered how to save its survivors, the story shifted to a starving mother and daughter in a subway refuge, where a sudden explosion shook the tunnel.

• Russ revealed that a Space Gate to Universe 07 would open in two and a half hours and warned Fulgrim to keep their conversation secret.
• Russ showed Fulgrim a file describing Earth-07's invasion, the slaughter and assimilation of its people, Apokolips' Destroyer Demon army, and the surviving Kryptonian Clark Kent.
• Fulgrim urged Russ to prepare for the coming mission, and Russ agreed to postpone drinking until after they returned.
• In an abandoned subway tunnel on Earth-07, a hungry girl whispered to her mother while soldiers patrolled the makeshift refugee shelter.
• A violent explosion suddenly reverberated through the subway tunnel.

A Destroyer Demon attacked the underground shelter after a scavenging team rescued a demigod, killing the soldiers sent to stop it and driving the residents into panic. Diana of Themyscira prepared to fight the creature, but Fulgrim appeared and said he would fight in her stead.

• The mother and daughter fled through the tunnel as residents panicked and soldiers rushed toward the explosion; the girl wished the soldiers luck.
• A radio message warned the patrol that a Destroyer Demon had broken through the entrance, and the corporal led more than sixty soldiers against it.
• The Destroyer Demon absorbed their attacks, killed the soldiers, and continued toward the shelter’s residential area.
• The mother and daughter found the wounded Diana restrained in a medical tent and recognized her from an old newspaper, then freed her.
• Diana armed herself and charged at the Destroyer Demon, but Fulgrim interrupted and declared that he would fight in her stead.

Fulgrim tested the limits of a regenerating Destroyer Demon on Earth-07 and destroyed it after discovering that energy attacks strengthened it. He then returned to the Space Gate, where the 13th Battalion established a forward base and treated the shelter survivors, while Fulgrim planned to seek information from Diana.

• Diana stopped fighting and watched as Fulgrim confronted the Destroyer Demon at the shelter.
• Fulgrim severed the Destroyer Demon's arms and head, then teleported it away when it began regenerating.
• Fulgrim discovered that the Destroyer Demon absorbed plasma and endured its lasers before destroying it with Psionic Power.
• Fulgrim concluded that the 13th Battalion needed intelligence about the monsters and identified Diana as a potential source of information.
• Fulgrim returned to the Space Gate and helped Genro Sigurd oversee construction of a forward base.
• The 13th Battalion supplied and treated more than forty thousand shelter survivors, including Diana.

The forward base housed Earth-07 survivors in comfortable quarters, where a mother and daughter experienced hot water, ordered food, and received a delivery from an Octopus Sentinel. Fulgrim questioned Diana about Kryptonite and learned of a laboratory holding a meteorite that could help the base fight the Destroyer Demons.

• The Main Universe forces established a large forward base and sent the 13th Battalion’s forces out to rescue Earth-07 survivors.
• A survivor mother and daughter settled into a barracks suite, ordered food through its holographic panel, and received it from an Octopus Sentinel.
• The mother cried with relief as her daughter ate, saying she was happy the girl finally had a bright future.
• Fulgrim questioned Diana, who explained that Kryptonite could kill Destroyer Demons and that her Resistance force had been slaughtered while trying to seize a meteorite from a guarded laboratory.
• Diana warned that the Resistance had found only one meteorite and had no real chance of winning, but Fulgrim said Umbrella’s technicians could analyze it and manufacture enough Kryptonite to fight the demons.

Fulgrim learned from Diana how Darkseid conquered Earth-07 and destroyed the Justice League, then proposed a plan to obtain a Kryptonian meteorite, draw out the enemy, and rescue survivors. The chapter ended as the forces prepared to carry out the operation.

• Fulgrim sent Diana to Umbrella technicians for treatment after she told him Kryptonite could harm the Destroyer Demons.
• Diana recounted how Darkseid conquered Earth-07, killed or scattered the Justice League, devastated Themyscira, and turned Superman into a puppet who led the Destroyer Demons.
• Diana explained that her Resistance was wiped out during an attempt to obtain a Kryptonian meteorite, leaving her gravely wounded before scavengers brought her to the shelter.
• Russ pledged support from his Honor Guard and the Olympian Army, while Fulgrim outlined a plan to retrieve the meteorite and use a diversion to enable rescues.
• Fulgrim assigned Sarah Kerrigan and the 13th Battalion's stealth team to seize the meteorite, while Genro Sigurd would lead the Second and Third Companies in rescuing survivors.

Sarah Kerrigan and the Ghost Wolves infiltrated the Philadelphia Experimental Base to secure the Kryptonian meteorite, but Batman arrived and attacked the facility first. Sarah abandoned stealth to beat him to the target, immobilizing enemies across the base with a Psionic Power shockwave that also sent Bruce falling from the air.

• Fulgrim sent Genro Sigurd and the Ghost Wolves toward the experimental base while he and his Honor Guard drew the enemy away from the forward base.
• Sarah and the Ghost Wolves reached the Philadelphia Experimental Base and discovered nearly ten thousand prisoners guarded by human traitors and Parademons.
• Batman attacked the base in an ultra-heavy tank, using missiles and poison darts against its defenses as he advanced toward the experimental building.
• Sarah recognized Bruce Wayne and ordered the Ghost Wolves to rush the target facility and secure the Kryptonian meteorite before him.
• Sarah released a Psionic Power shockwave that bound the traitors and Parademons in place and caused Bruce to fall from midair.

Sarah secured the Kryptonite meteorite, freed ten thousand prisoners, and captured the real Batman before leaving Earth-07 with the Ghost Wolves. Meanwhile, Fulgrim and the Alpha Wolves lured in a horde of Destroyer Demons and began fighting them, with one Alpha Wolf recovering from a surprise punch by slapping his attacker unconscious.

• Sarah cut through the laboratory defenses, retrieved the Kryptonite meteorite, and contacted the forward base to arrange an airlift for ten thousand prisoners.
• Sarah released Batman from her psionic restraint, stopped his escape attempt, removed his helmet, and identified him as the real Batman.
• Sarah told the Ghost Wolves to report Batman as a native hero from Earth-07 and ensure their squad received the credit before the evacuation transport departed.
• Fulgrim and more than a hundred Alpha Wolves lured thousands of Destroyer Demons to Allentown, where a frost dragon froze many of them with a psionic storm.
• The Alpha Wolves and their giant wolves attacked the Destroyer Demons, but one demon punched a hammer-wielding Alpha Wolf into a building.
• The Alpha Wolf struck back with a slap that knocked the Destroyer Demon unconscious.

The Alpha Wolves defeated the Destroyer Demons at Little Lehigh Park, while Fulgrim returned to the forward base to prepare for a prolonged rescue campaign. There, Sarah interrogated Bruce Wayne, who revealed how he survived nearly nine months in space and returned to Earth-07 to fight the occupying forces.

• An Alpha Wolf guard used combat experience and wrestling techniques to defeat a Destroyer Demon, while the Alpha Wolves and pure Psionic lifeforms wiped out the other attackers.
• Fulgrim returned to the concealed forward base, sent military Sentinels to disrupt Apokolips's forces, and continued planning to rescue Earth-07 survivors while protecting the Space Gate.
• Sarah and the survivors returned with Bruce Wayne, whom Fulgrim had examined and then assigned to Sarah for interrogation.
• Sarah told Bruce that Diana was alive, prompting him to explain how Darkseid diverted his Batplane to Venus after Bruce tried to carry a hydrogen bomb through a Portal.
• Bruce described using Venus's gravity to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, then rebuilding his strength and launching planned attacks on the occupying forces.
• Bruce said he had attempted to seize the Kryptonian meteorite at the Philadelphia laboratory before the Main Universe's intervention led to his capture.

Bruce Wayne recounted his ordeal to Sarah, who arranged for him to sleep while Fulgrim asked to borrow him for his new legion. As Genro Sigurd’s forces approached a hidden shelter city, Raven cared for the limbless Damian Wayne there, until an explosion interrupted them.

• Sarah questioned Bruce, then had him put to sleep and carried away by augmented technicians for treatment.
• Fulgrim asked Sarah to lend Bruce to his forming legion because Bruce reminded him of one of his Primarch brothers; Sarah said they would wait for Battalion Commander Sigurd’s return.
• Genro Sigurd led troops toward a hidden settlement of three million people while the 13th Battalion prepared its forward base to receive survivors.
• A reconnaissance Sentinel found that the settlement was a vast network of underground hive cities built inside mountains and ruled from a former nuclear shelter by Hoggett H. David.
• Raven returned to her room with medicine and food, quieted the glowing ruby necklace, and woke Damian to eat and take his medicine.
• Raven fed Damian, who had lost all four limbs, and they discussed fewer soldiers patrolling the city before a distant explosion interrupted them.

Raven and Damian tried to escape the Hive metropolis but were caught in a clash between the Marines and the Space Wolves. After the Wolves offered to treat Damian, Trigon possessed Raven and attacked, leaving the platoon leader and his brothers blasted away by the impact of his shot.

• Raven packed supplies and used magic to carry Damian through the Hive metropolis toward an exit while its authorities prepared to abandon the residents.
• Raven and Damian hid near the gate as Marines loaded supplies, then a blast breached the station and six Veteran Elites of the Space Wolves entered.
• The Space Wolves killed the Marines who opened fire, accepted the survivors' surrender, and invited Raven and Damian out of hiding.
• The platoon leader offered to use nanotechnology to restore Damian's limbs, and Raven became excited by the prospect.
• Raven lost control and transformed into Trigon, who reached for Damian; the platoon leader rescued Damian and fired at Raven, but the blast's shockwave knocked him and the five Wolves down.

Trigon overwhelmed the Veteran Elites, but Sui Bian intervened, healed Raven, Damian, and the soldiers, and sealed Trigon again. The 13th Battalion evacuated Hive City 01’s survivors, while Hera arrived with the Olympian Army and reacted angrily to Diana’s presence.

• Trigon blasted the Veteran Elites aside, defeated the sergeant, and prepared to possess his body as Raven struggled to regain control.
• Raven’s necklace shattered, releasing Trigon’s projection, but Sui Bian’s golden radiance restored Raven, Damian, and the Veteran Elites before sealing Trigon in a sphere.
• The platoon leader thanked Sui Bian, and the 13th Battalion agreed to guard Trigon while evacuating more than three million people from the Hive cities.
• Genro Sigurd spoke with Raven, and she agreed to let the 13th Battalion keep watch over her sealed father.
• Hera arrived with the Olympian Army to reinforce Fulgrim, then called Diana a womanizing piece of trash after sensing her in a nearby medical building.

Fulgrim’s forces liberated Earth-07, while Russ’s engineers recreated Krypton and delivered Kryptonite for use against the Destroyer Demons. After Sui Bian accelerated life’s emergence on New Krypton, he ordered Russ to support Fulgrim’s planned assault on Apokolips and prepared to confront Darkseid himself.

• With Hera’s Olympian Army, the Space Wolves, and Artemis’s Grey Knights supporting them, Fulgrim and the 13th Battalion liberated Earth-07 and eliminated its Destroyer Demons, traitorous government, and Apokolips forces.
• Russ had engineers recreate Krypton at maximum power, then transported twenty million tons of Kryptonite to Fenris, where the munitions factory began making Kryptonite explosive rounds.
• Sui Bian moved New Krypton into the Solar System and created a miniature yellow dwarf star to warm it, then accelerated its development until cyanobacteria appeared in its oceans.
• Red Queen reported that Fulgrim had found a route to Apokolips and was preparing a surprise assault on Darkseid’s forces.
• Concerned about Darkseid’s power, Sui Bian ordered Russ to prioritize supporting Fulgrim and prepared to send his own Psionic Power avatar into Universe 07.

Fulgrim, Russ, and Sui Bian’s forces defeated Darkseid’s campaign in Universe 07, while Sui Bian planned the expanding territories and defenses of the other universes. The chapter ended on Taloc, where trainee Sisters of Battle Tanya Adams and Celestine arrived with a new group of Umbrella employees.

• Russ and Fulgrim led the assault on Apokolips, and Fulgrim killed Darkseid’s material projection after Russ gave him the chance.
• Sui Bian’s psionic projection swept away the invading demons and local evil entities in Universe 07’s higher-dimensional space.
• Sui Bian expanded the Space Gate and planned governance, defense, and development for the newly incorporated universes, including assigning Roger to govern Universe 03.
• An Umbrella transport ship arrived at Taloc, where newly transferred employees disembarked in the hot metropolis.
• Tanya Adams urged the trainee Sisters of Battle to celebrate, while Celestine quietly read Human Truth.

Tanya, Celestine, and the other intern Sisters of Battle arrived at Olivilan Town and joined the local UNSC Army under Captain Saes Dino Salasche. A month later, an emergency alert reported a suspected high-risk anomalous organism on the outskirts, interrupting their New Year’s celebration.

• Tanya, Celestine, and the other interns were rerouted from the metropolitan area and flown to Olivilan Town.
• Captain Saes Dino Salasche assigned the interns to the 3rd Battalion, 12th Regiment, Talocor Ground Army for six years.
• The sisters settled into the camp barracks and began their internship under the local Army.
• A month later, Tanya celebrated the Main Universe’s New Year at a bar with Celestine, the other sisters, and UNSC soldiers.
• Celestine received an emergency assembly notification about a suspected high-risk anomalous organism on the outskirts.

After learning that anomalous creatures had killed ten civilians and wiped out a Public Security Bureau squad in the rainforest, Tanya, Celestine, and the 3rd Battalion prepared to confront them. The chapter ended as Director Zax Redfield identified the creatures as likely extraterrestrial Zerg and ordered the troops to keep the situation confidential.

• Celestine read the incident report and watched helmet-camera footage showing the creatures attack and kill the Public Security Bureau's second squad.
• Tanya vowed to avenge the dead children, and the Sisters and soldiers returned to camp for a battalion briefing.
• Elite Captain assigned the 1st Reconnaissance Company and trainee Sisters of Battle to escort Director Redfield's team into the rainforest, while the other companies secured the town and its surroundings.
• Zax Redfield identified the creatures as likely extraterrestrial Zerg and instructed the battalion to maintain confidentiality until their threat level was determined.

Tanya, Celestine, Zax, the Auxilia, and UNSC scouts investigated the remains of a special squad in the rainforest and tracked anomalous creatures to an underground hive. They discovered countless Egg Sacs, suggesting the creatures had used the bones as bait while preparing an invasion of Oliviran Town and Taloc.

• Tanya, Celestine, and the trainee Sisters boarded an Osprey-Fisher with Zax Redfield and Auxilia troops, then flew to the rainforest where the special squad had died.
• Tanya learned that Zax was Chris Redfield’s granddaughter and that the Auxilia were secretly accompanying her as protection.
• Zax examined the remains and recommended incineration, so Tanya and the Sisters burned the bones while Celestine prayed for the dead.
• The group followed the anomalous creatures’ trail to an underground hive, where the reconnaissance company split into three groups to search for live specimens and the hive core.
• Tanya’s group found a vast cavern filled with countless Egg Sacs and concluded that the creatures had left the bones as bait while preparing a large-scale invasion.

Zack and the others discovered that the unknown Zerg had spread beneath Taloc and warned its towns as the swarm advanced on Olivilan. A frigate bombardment failed to stop them, and the chapter ended with Zerg bioplasma cannons breaking a Pelican’s shield during the aerial battle.

• Zack warned Taloc’s military and residents, ordered samples taken from the Egg Sac, and sent Tanya and Celestine’s group back toward Olivilan Town.
• Tanya and the Sisters of Battle reflected on the deaths of their comrades as their aircraft detected a large Zerg movement near the town.
• A frigate salvo devastated the rainforest surface, but scans revealed countless Zerg underground and showed them accelerating toward Olivilan.
• Zerg insects erupted from the ground and attacked the aircraft; the troops discovered that some possessed biological barriers that blocked their fire.
• Warrior insects and larger plasma bugs returned fire with bone spikes and bioplasma, and repeated cannon blasts shattered one Pelican’s energy shield.

Tanya and the trainee Sisters survived their assault craft’s crash and chose to reinforce the surrounded Recon Company rather than retreat to a nearby defensive line. They helped the scouts withdraw, and the Yautja company commander killed a Warrior Bug in close combat.

• Zerg anti-air fire crippled the assault craft carrying Tanya, Celestine, and the other Sisters, sending it spinning into the rainforest near Olivilan Town.
• Tanya woke after the crash and found the two crew members dead, while the Sisters and the unconscious pilot had survived.
• After locating friendly forces, Tanya ordered the Sisters to reinforce the surviving soldiers of the 1st Recon Company, and the pilot joined them.
• The Sisters reached the scouts’ position and covered their withdrawal as they fought through the Soldier Bugs.
• A Warrior Bug attacked the retreating force, but the Yautja company commander used his spear and Wristblades to kill it.

Tanya and the defenders of Olivilan Town fought off a vast Zerg swarm with orbital bombardment, newly arrived paratroopers, and powerful Navy weapons. After antimatter warheads devastated the swarm, the Elite Captain led a counterattack, and Tanya charged alongside the Yautja company commander and the Sisters of Battle.

• Tanya and her group retreated to the 2nd Armored Company's defensive line while the frigate kept the swarm at bay.
• Drop Pods delivered Airborne Division paratroopers, and the Elite Captain rallied the defenders to open fire on the advancing bugs.
• Four Hundred-Handed Giants linked their beams and cut through the Warrior Bugs, lifting the defenders' morale.
• The bugs adapted by spreading into separated squads and sending Plasma Bugs and flanking forces against Olivilan Town.
• Carrier-based aircraft bombed the swarm with sixteen antimatter warheads, destroying most of the bugs and leveling the rainforest.
• The Elite Captain led a charge against the remaining bugs, and Tanya followed the Yautja company commander with her Pulse Pistols.

After the battle against the Zerg, Celestine warned Taloc’s leaders that the swarm might be an existential threat, prompting a request for legion support and a mass evacuation. The civilians were moved into the metropolitan districts, where Taloc’s forces gathered to await the Thirteenth Legion and the Zerg’s next attack.

• Celestine sensed that the Zerg were imperceptible to Psionic Power and reported her concern to Umbrella and the UNSC while the battle ended.
• Celestine urged Taloc’s leaders to request legion support and evacuate residents, and Zack’s analysis confirmed that the Zerg could adapt, reproduce rapidly, and assimilate local organisms.
• Sergeant Ran Ze approved the proposals and assigned Captain Salascher’s battalion and Celestine to evacuate Olivilan Town.
• The Elite Captain told the officers to requisition transportation and move civilians into the metropolitan district before the Thirteenth Legion could arrive.
• Taloc’s residents relocated in an orderly manner, and within just over four hours the metropolitan districts had taken in the population while military forces regrouped.