Recaps

Miao Mu dressed in clothes prepared by Mrs. Alfred and examined Brucie's reconstructed Multiverse map, discussing the nature of her world and its possible front and reverse sides. He then prepared to leave, and Brucie offered him a motorcycle for transportation.

• Miao Mu woke to repeated Adventure Treasure notifications, checked the Omega Energy accumulating in his Hyper-Adapter, and changed into clothes prepared by Mrs. Alfred.
• Miao Mu joined Brucie in the command room, where she showed him her reconstructed Multiverse map and let him view it through special glasses.
• Miao Mu asked whether their world was on the front or reverse side, and Brucie argued that different choices could lead to either destruction or survival.
• Miao Mu said he needed to travel somewhere far away, and Brucie revealed a modified motorcycle for him to use.
• Miao Mu admired the motorcycle, then felt uneasy when Brucie contrasted it with the Batmobile and a blue Porsche.

Brucie searched for information about Miao Mu and prepared payment for his treatment while deciding to regain her ability to stand. Miao Mu found two unusual items in Gotham and set off to search for a third.

• Brucie found no records of Miao Mu in Gotham's databases, while Mrs. Alfred prepared gold and antiques as payment for his treatment.
• Brucie said she would use an exoskeleton to stand again and considered Mrs. Alfred's suggestion that she take a trip.
• Miao Mu followed his intuition to an abandoned house and found the Lion King's Sidearm, a supernatural weapon with a folding bayonet.
• Miao Mu searched a crow's nest at Indian Hill and found Two-Face's Decision Coin among the birds' collected objects.
• Miao Mu flipped the coin, but it chose nothing because he had not been considering a decision.

Miao Mu found and tested the unpredictable Smile Pocket at an abandoned amusement park before returning to the Bat Base. There, he examined Brucie's severe spinal injury and prepared to treat her, but an alert from the Batcomputer interrupted them.

• Miao Mu searched the abandoned amusement park and recovered a smiley-face cushion that stored objects in an unpredictable dimensional space.
• Miao Mu tested the Smile Pocket by storing a chair and a television, then set fire to the tent before leaving.
• Miao Mu returned to the Bat Base, where Brucie asked whether he could heal her spine and offered payment for treatment.
• Miao Mu examined Brucie's scan through special glasses, saw how badly her spine was damaged, and told her to prepare for treatment.
• The Batcomputer suddenly sounded and its virtual screens lit up, making Brucie's expression turn ugly.

Halin infiltrated the hospital and freed Harley Quinn, who had been imprisoned for over a year. Harley agreed to marry him and set out armed to reclaim what she considered hers, while Halin promised to find Batwoman for the wedding.

• Halin entered the hospital using his credentials and sedated a guard in the surveillance room.
• Halin found Harley Quinn in a caged room and broke in, bringing gasoline, explosives, and a lipstick presented like an engagement ring.
• Halin reunited with Harley, and she learned Gotham had been lively while she was imprisoned.
• Harley agreed to marry Halin and asked him to find Batwoman so she could attend.
• Harley destroyed the hidden camera, left the cage, and walked into the corridor as gunshots rang out.

Miao Mu stopped Brucie from leaving to work on Bane’s armor and treated her injured spine with a healing potion. After Brucie flirted with him, the two began an intimate encounter, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Brucie used her mechanical exoskeleton to try to leave, but Miao Mu caught her when she was overcome by pain.
• Miao Mu carried Brucie to the bedroom, removed the exoskeleton’s controller, and realigned her broken vertebrae while she drank his potion.
• Brucie teased Miao Mu as her spine healed, and Miao Mu made a sexual advance.
• Brucie welcomed Miao Mu’s touch, and he pounced on her.

Miao Mu spent the day with Brucie while Barry remained trapped at sea until a mysterious statue pulled him away. In Gotham, Harley Quinn set a trap for Bane, fought Batboy, and sent him to invite Batwoman to her party.

• Miao Mu and Brucie flirted in bed before she went to shower, while Miao Mu forgot that Barry was still missing.
• Barry tried to escape the ocean with the Speed Force, discovered a metal statue resembling Miao Mu, and was sucked into a black hole when he connected to another Speed Force current.
• Harley Quinn unplugged Bane's respirator, rigged a gasoline fire trap at his hospital room, and left him chained inside.
• Harley Quinn confronted Batboy in a parking lot, dodged his attacks, and wounded him with a knife.
• Harley Quinn sprayed Batboy with laughing gas and ordered him to invite Batwoman to her grand party, which might also be a wedding.

Harley Quinn turned Gotham Police Headquarters into a villainous party and declared herself Gotham City's mayor, but Riddle Woman stole the criminals' crown and challenged them to find it at Eagle's Nest. Firefly was badly injured pursuing her, and Pig-Faced Professor took her away for surgery.

• Harley Quinn and the assembled villains celebrated after criminals seized Gotham Police Headquarters and turned it into a party venue.
• Harley Quinn announced that she wanted to become Gotham City's mayor and promised to abolish its laws, prompting the criminals to crown her their king of crime.
• Riddle Woman stole the crown and declared that whoever found it at Eagle's Nest would become the king of crime.
• Firefly pursued Riddle Woman through a skylight, but a water cannon blasted her back and left her severely injured.
• Pig-Faced Professor carried Firefly to his operating room, while Commissioner Gordon was set to serve as a wedding witness and cake.

Miao Mu wandered through a riot-torn Gotham, was shot by a boy carrying a teddy bear, and killed the boy and his hidden puppet. After spotting strange moth-shaped lights, he sensed someone lurking nearby and shot them, but the cloaked figure survived and raised their head.

• Miao Mu found Gotham in flames and chaos, knocked down a looting police detective, and took a chocolate bar before paying for it.
• A boy asked Miao Mu to break a shop window so he could retrieve a teddy bear, then shot Miao Mu when his back was turned.
• Miao Mu survived the gunfire, killed the boy with his revolver, and discovered that the teddy bear was empty.
• Miao Mu identified the boy as the Ventriloquist and the teddy bear as Scarface, then noticed moth-shaped beams shining down over Gotham.
• Miao Mu used his Golden Hexagram pendant to spot a lurking figure and shot them three times before kicking them into a wall.
• The cloaked figure showed no blood and raised their head after Miao Mu's attack.

Brucie raced through Gotham to get help and rescue Batboy, fighting Killer Frost and Poison Moth along the way. She escaped Poison Moth by ramming her car and headed for the nearest Batbase, where Mrs. Alfred had prepared help.

• Brucie found Gotham in chaos and drove to the police station seeking Commissioner Gordon, but discovered it deserted and Batboy tied up beneath a tablecloth, poisoned with the Joker’s laughing gas.
• Brucie gave Batboy an antidote and evaded Killer Frost’s freeze gun, then incapacitated her by overheating her protective suit and handcuffed her to a pipe.
• Poison Moth attacked as Brucie carried Batboy to the Batmobile, forcing Brucie to flee while calling Mrs. Alfred for help with the antidote.
• Poison Moth pursued and fired missiles and bullets at Brucie, who turned around and rammed the moth car, crippling it.
• Brucie drove toward the nearest Batbase with Batboy while Mrs. Alfred prepared everything.

Miao Mu met a masked woman from the Court of Owls, who told him an ancient prophecy predicted the world's destruction and asked him to help restore it. He left without learning her identity, and she revealed a face identical to Brucie's as she disposed of Ms. Powers.

• Dick Grayson led Miao Mu to a villa where a masked woman was waiting for him.
• The woman took Miao Mu into an underground chamber and explained that the Court of Owls had heard a prophecy about a god destroying the world.
• Miao Mu recognized the prophecy's god as Barbatos and suspected the world was headed toward a dark version of Negative Earth-11.
• The woman said Miao Mu could change the world because the god wanted him dead, and he decided he knew what to do.
• After Miao Mu left, the woman removed her mask, revealed a face identical to Brucie's, and threw Ms. Powers into the Electrum fountain.

Harley Quinn attacked Riddle Woman’s hideout, only to learn the crown was hidden in one of eleven boxes scattered across Gotham. As Brucie flew toward the city’s only quiet location, Arkham Asylum, Miao Mu decided he had a way to save the world and pursued the Batplane in a stolen police car.

• Harley Quinn followed Riddle Woman’s recorded taunts, learned the crown was hidden in one of eleven boxes around Gotham, and destroyed the recorders in a rage.
• Brucie prepared the Batplane to search for Commissioner Gordon while Mrs. Alfred told her that Miao Mu had gone looking for her.
• Brucie flew over Gotham, used the Batplane’s searchlight and machine gun to scatter attackers at a jewelry store, and noticed Arkham Asylum was the only place without reported chaos.
• Miao Mu saw the Batplane overhead, decided he knew how to save the world, and stole a damaged police car to follow it toward Arkham Asylum.

Brucie broke into Arkham Asylum to question Halin about Harley Quinn and Joker, but learned nothing before Miao Mu arrived. He handcuffed himself to Brucie and left with her in the Batplane, warning her not to unlock the cuffs before dawn.

• Brucie found Halin in Arkham Asylum and demanded to know where Harley Quinn and Joker had gone.
• Halin blamed Brucie for the deaths outside, and she tortured him until he still refused to reveal their whereabouts.
• Miao Mu climbed through a broken window, found Brucie, and said Mrs. Alfred was worried about her.
• Miao Mu handcuffed himself to Brucie and warned her that opening the cuffs could bring consequences neither of them could bear.
• Brucie took Miao Mu to the Batplane, where he climbed into the cramped cockpit with her and she activated autopilot.

Miao Mu tried to keep Brucie from losing herself by keeping her close and revealing that Gotham was shrouded in darkness while the rest of the world remained normal. They went to Wayne Tower to wait for whoever was targeting Brucie, where Deadshot appeared.

• Miao Mu pulled a bullet from his wound while Brucie watched, then tore her uniform and carried her into the bedroom.
• Afterward, Miao Mu showed Brucie that it was eleven in the morning and Gotham was still pitch-black beneath thick clouds.
• Miao Mu told Brucie that someone was trying to drive her insane and that Gotham and Brucie were the door and key to what was happening.
• Brucie decided they should go to Wayne Tower, and she and Miao Mu flew there in the Batplane.
• Deadshot arrived on the rooftop after receiving a hundred million, drew his pistol, and confronted Brucie and Miao Mu.

Brucie and Miao Mu defeated Deadshot and offered her a bodyguard job, but a group of apparently unkillable Talons attacked the rooftop. Deadshot was killed as the Talons pursued Brucie and Miao Mu toward the elevator.

• Deadshot ambushed Brucie and Miao Mu with gunfire, but their linked handcuffs and Brucie's grenades helped them close in and subdue her.
• Brucie questioned Deadshot about returning to Gotham, and Deadshot admitted she had taken a hundred-million-dollar contract to kill Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu offered Deadshot two hundred million to protect Brucie, but Deadshot declined and asked to be sent to Blackgate Prison.
• Talons climbed onto the rooftop, and Miao Mu grabbed Brucie and ran for the elevator while Deadshot shot the attackers.
• A Talon stabbed Deadshot to death, but the Talons who had been shot rose again and rushed after Brucie and Miao Mu.

Miao Mu and Brucie fought their way through Wayne Tower while Talons pursued them, then faced Deathstroke. The chapter ended with Miao Mu drawing Lion King's Sidearm and challenging Deathstroke to finish the fight.

• Miao Mu and Brucie fought off Talons in Wayne Tower using bullets, Batarangs, flashbangs, and Killer Frost's freezing serum.
• Miao Mu and Brucie set a trap for the Talons, killing two and scattering others before Deathstroke appeared.
• Deathstroke opened fire with an automatic shotgun, forcing Miao Mu and Brucie to take cover as Talons attacked from another direction.
• Miao Mu charged Deathstroke, blocked his bullets with his armor, and traded blows with him while Brucie fought a Talon nearby.
• Miao Mu drew Lion King's Sidearm, revealed its Nth Metal bayonet, and challenged Deathstroke to kill him or call off the fight.

Miao Mu defeated Deathstroke in a brutal fight, but discovered that Brucie had disappeared. After Deathstroke attacked him again, Miao Mu overwhelmed him and repeatedly bombed the shop where he had crashed; Deadshot watched from a rooftop and received a shocking message.

• Miao Mu used his Nth Metal bayonet to cut Deathstroke's armor, then charged him through the glass wall of Wayne Tower, sending him falling outside.
• Miao Mu found Brucie missing, shouted in anger, and rappelled down the tower to search for him.
• Deathstroke survived the fall and shot Miao Mu, whose white flames and Demon Armor let him withstand the attack and beat Deathstroke into a nearby shop.
• Miao Mu threw several grenades into the shop, blasting it apart as he left and returned to bomb it again.
• Deadshot watched Miao Mu from a rooftop while treating his own wounds, then read a new message and widened his eyes in disbelief.

Harley Quinn rejected the bounty’s killing game and decided to create her own chaos, while Miao Mu fought Mad Hatter and Crocodile Woman after learning Brucie was in Crime Alley. He recovered Mad Hatter’s hypnotizing perfume and left to prepare to rescue Brucie.

• Harley Quinn saw the bounty poster featuring Batwoman and decided to make the contest fun by driving people insane instead of hunting for a winning ticket.
• Mrs. Alfred told Miao Mu that Brucie was in Crime Alley, and he broke the miniature computer after ending the call.
• Mad Hatter sent hypnotized people to attack Miao Mu, but Miao Mu fought through them and confronted Crocodile Woman.
• Miao Mu incapacitated Crocodile Woman and Mad Hatter, then found a bottle of men’s perfume among Mad Hatter’s belongings.
• Miao Mu took the perfume and left to prepare to stay alive and rescue Brucie.

Miao Mu used a hypnotic perfume on Dick, then fought through Gotham’s villains to rescue Brucie, only to discover he had been lured into an explosive trap. Brucie woke restrained in the ruined Batcave, where a masked woman suggested she had forgotten something.

• Miao Mu returned to the house in Gotham Old Town, overpowered Dick, and hypnotized her with perfume.
• Black Mask and Penguin Woman held Brucie captive in Crime Alley while Poison Ivy Man guarded the area with man-eating plants.
• Miao Mu crashed into the alley, fought off the villains with grenades, freezing agents, and herbicide, and freed Brucie from her chains.
• Female Clayface crushed Miao Mu while Poison Ivy Man confronted him, but the helmet concealed an explosive that blasted them both apart.
• Miao Mu saw Caesar’s face on his coin and leaped from the rooftop.
• Brucie struggled against restraints in the ruined Batcave as Harley Quinn examined old files and a woman in an owl mask told Brucie she seemed to have forgotten something.

The owl-masked woman and her Talons recovered radioactive stones from Batwoman’s Batcave while leaving Harley Quinn behind to guard Brucie. Miao Mu arrived, confronted the woman, and knocked Harley aside, leaving the clash over the stones unresolved.

• The owl-masked woman detonated the collapsed structure again and ordered the Talons to retrieve a safe from the bottom of Batwoman’s Batcave.
• The Talons crushed the safe open and recovered black radioactive stones that Batwoman had found at an abandoned base.
• The owl-masked woman ordered the Talons to secure the cave and Brucie, then tossed Harley Quinn an ivory-white pistol as payment before leaving with the stones.
• Miao Mu rode into the Batcave, used grenades to blow up a Talon, and aimed his gun at the owl-masked woman.
• Harley Quinn pressed the pistol to Brucie’s head, but Miao Mu rushed over and punched Harley into the wall.

Miao Mu and Brucie escaped their restraints and confronted the owl-masked woman, whom Miao Mu recognized as Thomas Elliott. When the Smile Pocket devoured the black stones and attacked Miao Mu, its poisoned blade left him collapsed on the floor.

• Miao Mu freed Brucie, gave her his Utility Belt, and tried to swallow Harley Quinn with the Smile Pocket, which spat her back out.
• Miao Mu used Harley Quinn as leverage, but the owl-masked woman refused to negotiate, and Brucie knocked off her mask during their fight.
• Miao Mu recognized the woman as Thomas Elliott, then fought a Talon over a bag of black stones.
• The Smile Pocket sprouted a hand and rapidly swallowed the scattered stones while Miao Mu grabbed several for himself.
• The Smile Pocket attacked Miao Mu, stabbed his hand with a poisoned blade, and swallowed the remaining stones.
• Miao Mu stabbed the Smile Pocket with his bayonet, then collapsed as the poison made him dizzy and numb.

Miao Mu woke after a week and learned that the apocalypse had ended, while Joker had been found dead under mysterious circumstances. Twenty days later, he used Jesse Quick’s Speed Force to travel away from Gotham, leaving Brucie behind; afterward, a package arrived at Wayne Manor.

• Miao Mu woke from his week-long coma, and Brucie explained that his flask had helped treat the poison and that order had returned after the apocalypse.
• Brucie told Miao Mu that Joker had been found dead with her neck broken and her heart missing, with no matching fingerprints or palm prints.
• Twenty days later, Miao Mu and Brucie took a photograph together at the old Gotham manor, and Miao Mu prepared to leave to retrieve Barry.
• Jesse Quick arrived, charged Miao Mu’s Time Grandfather Clock with Speed Force, and Brucie pressed its lightning-bolt button to send him away.
• Jesse Quick answered the Wayne Manor doorbell and brought Mrs. Alfred an unexpected package addressed to the manor.

Miao Mu and Barry collided while traveling through the Speed Force and became trapped in a frozen field. Miao Mu used the Hyper-Adapter to escape with Barry, and they landed in the Batcave long after Miao Mu had left.

• Miao Mu and Barry crashed into each other in the Speed Force, and their entangled powers vanished, leaving them frozen in a falling pose.
• Barry unleashed his Speed Force, while Miao Mu slowly reached for the Hyper-Adapter and used its Omega Energy to pierce the stillness field.
• Barry wrapped Miao Mu in the Speed Force and ran in place, carrying them out of the field as Miao Mu’s memories flashed past.
• Barry struck the ground and was knocked unconscious when the Time Grandfather Clock fell on him.
• Miao Mu recognized the Batcave beneath Wayne Manor, freed himself from the clock, and retrieved a photograph and the repaired Smile Pocket from the display cases.

Miao Mu found Brucie injured and preparing to transform herself with Dead Water, so he tore through the shelter door and destroyed the machine before the change could finish. He tried to save her with Dionysium and plasma as a mysterious voice offered him a deal to save her.

• Miao Mu followed the bloodstains to a sealed vault and removed the armed Gatling gun blocking it.
• Brucie prepared to become one with Dead Water, hoping to find a way to stop it after it had devastated the world and killed Mrs. Alfred.
• Miao Mu tore through the vault door, destroyed the transformation machine, and burned the escaping Dead Water with Holy Flame.
• Miao Mu treated Brucie's wounds with Dionysium and plasma and urged her to stay alive.
• The Ouroboros mark on Miao Mu's wrist changed as Brucie's blood touched it, and a voice offered him a deal to save her.

Miao Mu made a deal with White Mammon to save Brucie and learned that Batman Who Laughs had been manipulating events and watching him. After Dead Water attacked and Miao Mu shielded Brucie, he concealed her and set out to settle things before White Mammon’s protection wore off.

• Miao Mu heard a voice from Hell, and White Mammon offered to help Brucie in exchange for an unconditional favor.
• Brucie’s heartbeat returned, but Dead Water attacked Miao Mu in the operating room.
• Miao Mu trapped Dead Water in the Smile Pocket and burned it with holy fire.
• Miao Mu realized Batman Who Laughs had been influencing events and learned White Mammon had blocked Batman Who Laughs’s perception for an hour.
• Miao Mu put the Cloak of Levitation on Brucie, strapped blood bags to her, and carried her away to settle things.

Miao Mu and Barry reached the Court of Owls’ maze, where Miao Mu found The Drowned beneath the fountain and demanded to know what Batman Who Laughs had taken. The Drowned attacked him, but Brucie intervened, and she revealed her hatred and envy of her former friend.

• Barry carried Miao Mu and Brucie to a villa, where he trapped the Dead Water in the Smile Pocket while Miao Mu opened a hidden passage.
• Miao Mu broke through the dry fountain in the Court of Owls’ maze and found a hidden aquarium filled with monsters and The Drowned.
• Miao Mu asked The Drowned what Batman Who Laughs had taken, but she attacked him with Dead Water.
• The Drowned wounded Miao Mu and lifted him by the throat until Brucie threatened her with an Nth Metal bayonet.
• The Drowned released Miao Mu and told Brucie that she had envied her, wanted to become her, and hated her.