Chapter Summaries

Donnie obtained the last Mother Box on Earth from Diana and planned to use three Mother Boxes to exile Ancient Doomsday to another realm. He considered letting a Destruction Spore infect him so he could preserve it, then asked the Mobius Chair to calculate his odds of success.

• Diana gave Donnie a Mother Box and returned to Themyscira, where Artemis told her the gods’ statues were collapsing and the queen was praying.
• Donnie returned to New York and dismissed Klein’s report that the authorities demanded intelligence about the approaching enemy.
• Donnie considered allowing a Destruction Spore to parasitize him, reasoning that the Plot Gem and his regeneration could protect him from Doomsday taking over his body.
• Donnie entered the secret chamber and asked the Mobius Chair to calculate the chances that his plan would succeed.

Doomsday reached Earth seeking the essence he believed Donnie possessed, and parasitized him with a Destruction Spore to steal it. Donnie used the AllSpark to fuse three Mother Boxes and send Doomsday away in White Light, promising to kill him someday in the God Realm.

• Doomsday arrived in the Solar System, while Sinestro watched and regretted failing to reach it first to retrieve Su's heir.
• Donnie flew out from Earth to confront Doomsday, who studied him and fired Heat Vision that Donnie's energy blocked.
• Doomsday lunged at Donnie and secretly parasitized him with a Destruction Spore that began extracting his essence.
• Doomsday believed the spore would drain Donnie and complete him, but Donnie thanked him and said they would meet again in the God Realm.
• Donnie used his AllSpark to fuse three Mother Boxes, and their White Light struck Doomsday and sent him away.

After Doomsday was transported from Earth to Apokolips, Darkseid confronted the monster and was struck by its opening attack. The chapter ended with Darkseid flying backward as Apokolips shook.

• Earth's observers dispersed after Doomsday's defeat, while Batman and Tony reflected on Donnie's repeated role in saving the planet.
• Darkseid ruled Apokolips while its armies sent Parademons through portals to conquer other universes.
• A sudden passage brought Doomsday to Apokolips, where he absorbed the last traces of the Unique God power within him.
• Darkseid rose from his throne and asked Doomsday what he was.
• Doomsday roared and punched Darkseid, sending him flying as the ground collapsed.

Doomsday adapted to the God Realm and fought Darkseid, growing stronger as he endured the Omega Ray and Darkseid’s attacks. He ultimately defeated Darkseid, leaving the God Realm shaken by the battle.

• Doomsday adapted his body to the God Realm’s frozen Spacetime and tried unsuccessfully to evolve the trace of Unique God essence he had taken from Donnie.
• Darkseid attacked Doomsday with the Omega Ray and smashed him into the ground, destroying vast stretches of Apocalypse.
• Doomsday emerged from the ruins with his wounds repaired and evolved defenses against Darkseid’s attacks and Omega Ray.
• Doomsday and Darkseid’s battle spread across the God Realm, alarming the dormant Unique Gods as Doomsday gained the advantage.
• Doomsday crushed Darkseid’s chest with a final punch and sent him crashing toward Apocalypse, defeating him.

After Donnie exiled Doomsday to the God Realm, the gods erupted in alarm and anger over the scourge’s arrival. Donnie returned to Earth, removed the Destruction Spore from his arm, and began studying Doomsday’s genetic template with the Transformers so they could prepare for his possible resurrection.

• News spread across the God Realm that Ancient Doomsday had defeated Darkseid and escaped into their world, prompting many gods to panic and blame whoever had exiled him.
• Donnie dismissed the gods watching from a distant star system and returned to Earth, where he decided the Destruction Spore had to be studied and destroyed before Doomsday could use it to resurrect.
• Donnie transferred the uninfected cells from his left arm, severed the corrupted limb, and placed it on a sealed experiment table as it transformed toward Doomsday’s form.
• Donnie summoned Shockwave, Ratchet, Wheeljack, and Ambulance from Mars and ordered them to analyze Doomsday’s genes, copying as much of the template as possible while destroying any dangerous changes.
• Wheeljack found that Doomsday’s genes were too complex and constantly changing to fully analyze, so Donnie urged the team to record as much as they could and pursue a controllable Ancient Doomsday.

As Donnie prepared to leave Earth and build a planet of his own, he asked Klein to mobilize the Sky Eye Society in support of a joint invitation from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and the Brotherhood. The invitation called on Mutants worldwide to join him in a New World, leaving Earth in an uproar.

• A mysterious red-eyed woman detected a potential warrior capable of killing Darkseid and headed for the main universe to find him.
• Donnie ignored attempts to contact him as he prepared to leave Earth with Ancient Doomsday's genetic sample, while Klein turned away visitors seeking to reach him.
• Klein urged Amanda to remain on Earth with the Sky Eye Society, arguing that Donnie needed reliable people to watch over his homeland.
• Donnie ordered Klein to mobilize the Sky Eye Society and fully support the Mutants' operation.
• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and the Brotherhood sent Mutants worldwide invitations to join them in building a New World without oppression or discrimination.

Sinestro brought Optimus Prime to the new OA planet for Green Lantern training, where the Guardians accepted him while privately worrying about his connection to Donnie. Sinestro then received permission to lead Lanterns in capturing Parallax to avenge Abin Sur.

• Sinestro told Optimus Prime that he had to undergo strict Green Lantern training, and Optimus agreed.
• Ultra Magnus warned Optimus to contact him if the Guardians threatened him, but Optimus said they would not dare.
• Sinestro and Optimus flew to the new OA planet, where the Guardians discussed Donnie, the Mother Box, and their past defeat by Darkseid.
• Ganthet ordered Sinestro to train Optimus until he became a qualified Lantern, while the Guardians concealed their misgivings about him.
• Sinestro asked to lead Lanterns in capturing Parallax for Abin Sur's death, and the Guardians approved his request.

Donnie’s invitation for Mutants to immigrate to Cybertron sparked fierce debate on Earth, while his forces ensured registration could proceed without interference. After discovering that Elizabeth Braddock, known as Psylocke, had applied and possessed Omega-level potential, Donnie planned to help her surpass her bottleneck.

• Mutants with physical mutations began traveling to Sky Eye Society registration stations, and undead soldiers and transforming cars forced police to withdraw.
• Elizabeth Braddock registered under the codename Psylocke and confirmed that she wanted to accept Donnie’s invitation.
• The office worker explained that Elizabeth still needed to pass a screening before she could receive Cybertronian citizenship and begin immigration.
• At a United Nations conference, Donnie told Professor X and Magneto that Psylocke’s application had been classified as an S-rank record because she had Omega-level potential.
• Donnie clarified that Psylocke was only quasi-Omega-level and resolved to meet her and help her unlock her potential.

Donnie announced that Mutants could leave Earth with him and that a genetic drug would prevent the X-Gene from being passed to future generations. After leaving the United Nations, he traveled to Hank Pym’s laboratory to obtain an artificial intelligence for Cybertron.

• A representative accused Professor X of using Cerebro without government authorization, while Donnie and Magneto intimidated the assembly into silence.
• Donnie declared that he would take any Mutants willing to leave Earth and would suppress the X-Gene in those who remained and in future generations.
• Donnie left the United Nations, convinced Earth would regret allowing Mutants to disappear.
• Donnie opened a portal to Hank Pym’s laboratory, where he sought the artificial intelligence intended to become Cybertron’s mainframe.

Donnie took control of Hank Pym’s newly created Ultron-1, rewriting it into a powerful program loyal to him. After reflecting on how his actions had weakened Earth while removing many threats, he met Barry Allen in Central City to talk.

• Hank Pym panicked when Donnie appeared in his laboratory, but Donnie said he wanted the intelligent program rather than Pym’s technology.
• Donnie warned Pym that the program could destroy Earth, erased Ultron-1’s original consciousness, and rewrote its code under his control.
• Donnie took the black-box core and warned Pym not to research artificial intelligence again.
• Donnie went to Central City, considered the dangers and losses his interventions had brought to Earth, and strolled through the city as an ordinary person.
• Donnie entered a coffee shop, sat across from Barry Allen, and said they should talk.

Donnie met Barry Allen and learned that Dr. Harrison was training Pietro, then asked Barry to take him to the Particle Accelerator Laboratory. The chapter ended with Donnie arriving there alongside Barry, intent on seeking Harrison’s future technology and a way to access the Speed Force.

• Barry recognized Donnie as Mr. Guardians, excitedly revealed that he was the Flash, and greeted him as a longtime admirer.
• Donnie asked Barry about Pietro, and Barry explained that Pietro was training with Dr. Harrison after losing a race to him.
• Barry said Harrison had trained him too, while Donnie reflected on Harrison’s connection to Reverse-Flash’s technology for stealing the Speed Force.
• Barry used the Speed Force to carry Donnie from the city center to the Particle Accelerator Laboratory.

Pietro struggled to improve his speed while Reverse-Flash concealed his contempt and continued posing as Dr. Harrison. Donnie arrived with Barry and asked to speak with Harrison alone, leaving the others to speculate that he planned to recruit the laboratory team.

• Pietro learned that his speed had increased only from fourteen to fourteen point one times the speed of sound, while Harrison reassured him and privately dismissed him as useless.
• Donnie and Barry entered the laboratory, and Harrison concealed his alarm when he saw Donnie.
• Donnie asked to speak privately with Harrison and sent Barry, Pietro, Cisco, and Caitlin outside.
• Cisco and Pietro concluded that Donnie might be planning to recruit Harrison and the laboratory team to leave Earth.

Donnie confronted Thawne and forced him to hand over his twenty-fifth-century and Speed Force technology before leaving the laboratory with the data. Thawne was left shaken by the belief that Donnie could destroy every version of him, while Donnie rejoined Barry and the others.

• Donnie demanded Thawne's technology and threatened to kill him if he refused.
• Thawne gave Donnie a USB drive containing his twenty-fifth-century and Speed Force technology.
• Donnie absorbed the USB's contents and warned Thawne to return to his own era.
• Thawne slumped into his wheelchair and feared that Donnie could kill every version of him across the timeline.
• Donnie rejoined Barry, Pietro, and Cisco, sent Pietro through a portal to New York, and heard Cisco hesitate about exploring space.

Donnie returned to Gotham, freed Thomas Wayne from the duty of watching Batman, and reunited with Bruce. After discovering Batman was researching Doomsday genes with Lex Luthor’s brain, Donnie warned him that the unstable material in his belt would turn him into a monster.

• Donnie visited Mayor Thomas Wayne and told him he was free from Donnie’s orders.
• Donnie silently left Thomas and wandered through Gotham, observing people he had known years earlier.
• Donnie found Batman branding criminals and greeted him as an old friend.
• Batman confronted Donnie over Lex Luthor’s death and experiments, while Donnie revealed he knew Batman had continued researching Doomsday genes.
• Donnie warned Batman not to touch the unstable genetic material in his belt, then lit a cigarette.

Donnie said goodbye to Batman and warned him not to use the dangerous Doomsday Cells as a conventional weapon. As Donnie prepared to relocate willing Mutants from Earth, Stephen arrived to promise that Earth would be protected, and Donnie quietly raised the matter of Earth's core.

• Donnie and Batman argued about whether law or violence could stop powerful enemies, and Batman said he would still let the law judge Donnie if he defeated him.
• Donnie warned Batman that his Doomsday Cells had too many flaws and should be saved for desperate circumstances.
• Batman returned to the Batcave and examined the Doomsday Virus he had prepared as a last resort against Donnie.
• The Sky Eye Society prepared to distribute genetic drugs that would remove the X-Gene, while Donnie planned to give his departing followers an Immunity Vaccine.
• Tony, Stephen, and others came to see Donnie off, and Donnie took Stephen aside to warn him about Earth's core.

Donnie warned Stephen that Cosmic Locusts slept within Earth's core and could awaken a swarm of powerful parasitized Celestials, then prepared to leave Earth and build a home on Cybertron. As Donnie and his companions departed, Mainframe Ultron recorded the beginning of Cybertron Year One.

• Donnie revealed to Stephen that a mad Final Judgment Master had died on Earth four billion years ago, and that Cosmic Locusts beneath the planet could threaten the world if disturbed.
• Donnie urged Stephen to monitor Earth's core, then advised Nicktimus to heed Stephen and fulfill his responsibilities.
• Klein informed Donnie that the authorities had transferred the manufacturing technology for True Adamantium and beta Adamantium to Ultron.
• Donnie prepared to leave Earth with the Transformers, Wanda, and a small group, while others stayed behind and the Transformers continued developing Space Bridge technology.
• At dawn, Donnie announced that it was time to go, brought Mainframe Ultron online, and ordered it to record the beginning of Cybertron Year One.

Donnie led nearly a hundred thousand passengers aboard two colossal ships from Earth to a star system in the Centaurus Arm, where he planned to establish a new home. The chapter ended as he explained that he would create a planet between the system’s second and third planets rather than terraform the distant third planet.

• Donnie and Max discussed the voyage as Ultron described its unsuccessful experiment improving tea with cosmic radiation.
• Donnie observed that Max had reached the limit of Level Four and was nearing demigodhood.
• The two ships crossed tens of thousands of light-years and arrived at the star system Donnie had selected.
• Donnie explained to Wanda that the system’s active Yellow Sun suited Kryptonians and that the system could support Mutants.
• Donnie told Wanda he planned to create a new planet between the second and third planets instead of terraforming the third.

Donnie named the new star Omega and declared the system the Cybertronian Galaxy as the migrants celebrated their new home. The chapter ended with Bumblebee discovering that Bulkhead’s collision had broken his vocalizer, leaving him unable to make himself understood.

• Donnie named the sun Omega and the star system the Cybertronian Galaxy, prompting all one hundred thousand migrants to celebrate.
• Wanda approached Psylocke, learned she had volunteered to immigrate, and recognized her remarkable potential as a Mutant.
• The Transformers turned a warship into a racetrack, where Bumblebee sped ahead until the lost Bulkhead crashed into him.
• Bulkhead helped Bumblebee up, then told him his vocalizer was broken and that he could not understand his beeps.

Donnie stripped mineral-rich planets in the Andromeda Galaxy, repeatedly frustrating Galactus as he tried to eat them. The Skrulls blamed the Kree for the destroyed planets, then learned that Galactus had reached their homeworld.

• Donnie destroyed uninhabited planets in Andromeda and sent their useful matter to Cybertron.
• Galactus tried to eat a Skrull mineral planet, but Donnie blasted it apart and took its matter.
• Donnie destroyed two more planets Galactus tried to eat, enraging Galactus before he left to devour another world.
• The Skrull king blamed the Kree for the missing mineral planets while the empire investigated.
• An Academy of Sciences expert warned the Skrull king that Galactus had arrived at their homeworld.

Galactus devoured the Skrull homeworld, and the Skrulls blamed the Kree and began preparing for war. Meanwhile, Donnie gathered matter in Cybertron’s star system and formed a metal planet, leaving Cybertron gradually taking shape.

• The Skrull king sent an envoy to negotiate with Galactus, but Galactus killed the envoy and began eating the Skrull homeworld.
• Galactus devoured a huge portion of the planet, then flew toward another planet as the Skrull king and officials escaped.
• The Skrull officials blamed the Kree for Galactus’s attack and began mobilizing for war against them.
• Donnie gathered vast amounts of matter between Cybertron’s second and third planets to build a planet.
• Donnie formed a gray metal planet slightly larger than Earth and considered its moons, atmosphere, and soil for vegetation.