Chapter Summaries

After Minato Namikaze accused Batman of masterminding Yongye’s assassination, public outrage surged and the Eye Society demanded Batman appear within twenty-four hours. Batman rejected Wonder Woman’s call, activated plans to hide, and fled into Gotham’s sewers.

• Sharon announced that the Eye Society would hunt Minato Namikaze worldwide and ordered Batman to come forward within twenty-four hours.
• Minato Namikaze’s confession sparked a global uproar, with the public accusing Batman of killing Yongye.
• Batman realized Minato Namikaze had shifted the blame onto him and ordered Alfred to prepare the Batcave and backup identities for a long-term operation in hiding.
• Batman ignored Wonder Woman’s encrypted call and escaped Wayne Tower through a hidden passage into Gotham’s sewer system.

Natasha Romanoff coordinated the hunt for Minato Namikaze and Batman while Diana Prince agreed to meet Batman, who hoped to clear his name. In Gotham, Joker publicly branded Batman one of his Madmen, and the accusation rapidly spread online.

• Natasha Romanoff received search commitments from Daisy Johnson, Wanda Maximoff, and Mera, then set out to pursue Minato Namikaze and Batman while Diana Prince remained unresponsive.
• Diana Prince received Batman's message asking to talk and replied by asking where to meet.
• Batman sent Diana the location of a hidden abandoned subway entrance in Gotham's East End, hoping she would help him find Minato Namikaze and clear his name.
• Joker gathered more than two hundred gang members at an abandoned chemical plant and declared that Batman was one of the Madmen and an agent of chaos.
• The Madmen Gang uploaded Joker's speech, and millions of views and hostile comments spread the claim that Batman had killed Yongye and belonged with the Madmen.

Joker exploited Minato Namikaze’s framing of Batman to turn Gotham against him and rally the city’s gangs, while Batman remained trapped in the sewers to avoid The Boys. As Gotham descended into violence, Wonder Woman went to confront the criminals, leaving Batman alone and bitterly cursing Yongye and Minato Namikaze.

• Joker and Harley Quinn used the public backlash against Batman to rally their gang and announce that they would set Gotham ablaze.
• Batman watched reports of criminals attacking across Gotham while he stayed hidden from The Boys and could not clear his name.
• Batman received alerts that Mr. Freeze, Penguin, Joker’s Gang, Killer Croc, and the Falcone Family were causing chaos across the city.
• Wonder Woman called Batman, told him she would handle Gotham’s criminals, and ended the call after he urged her to be careful.
• Batman remained in the sewer and cursed Yongye and Minato Namikaze for disrupting his plans.

Diana Prince defeated Mr. Freeze at Gotham's Central Bank, while Natasha Romanoff attacked Penguin's dock operation. Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff began confronting the Joker Gang outside an abandoned Chemical Plant.

• Diana Prince blocked Mr. Freeze's Freeze Gun with her bracer, disarmed him with the Lasso of Truth, and knocked him into the bank steps.
• Mr. Freeze's Mercenaries fled, and Batman watched Diana's fight live through a Drone.
• Natasha Romanoff broke into Penguin's hideout, blasted his munitions crates with lightning, and declared she was taking his docks.
• Batman watched Natasha's attack from the shadows as she said Penguin could not keep him from escaping.
• Wanda Maximoff gathered Chaos Magic and spread it over the Joker Gang Members patrolling outside the Chemical Plant.

The Boys cleared Gotham’s criminal strongholds and threatened to arrest Batman, who remained in hiding after Minato Namikaze framed him. Yongye gained a Sagittarius God Cloth from the System and considered continuing to conceal his strength.

• Wanda’s Kurenai Chaos Magic captured the Joker Gang’s outer ranks and cornered Joker’s core gang members at the Chemical Plant.
• Batman watched the battles from a Gotham sewer as the police reported Mr. Freeze and Penguin’s capture and the Maroni and Falcone Families’ retreat.
• Wanda declared that the next person The Boys would arrest was Batman, who clenched his fists as he faced the public accusation and his helplessness.
• Yongye received a Super Blind Box after Batman suffered a mental blow and opened it to obtain the Sagittarius God Cloth.
• Yongye put away the God Cloth and looked toward Lex Luthor’s secret experimental base.

Yongye used the Anti-Life Equation to make Luthor’s Doomsday intelligent, then watched as the creature battled Superman in Metropolis. After Doomsday impaled Superman, Yongye appeared disguised as Minato Namikaze and announced to the cameras that he would replace Yongye as Earth’s savior.

• Yongye learned of Luthor’s Doomsday project and planned to use the Anti-Life Equation to turn the creature against its creators.
• Doomsday emerged in Metropolis, and Superman attacked him but was wounded by his bone armor and spikes.
• Superman struck Doomsday with the last of his strength, but Doomsday impaled him with bone spikes and prepared to finish him.
• Yongye transformed into Minato Namikaze and teleported into the battlefield between Doomsday and Superman.
• Minato introduced himself to the cameras as Fusang’s new savior and vowed to protect Earth, leaving Superman, Batman, and Laxington stunned.

Yongye, disguised as Minato Namikaze, won public support in Fusang while much of the world condemned him for claiming to protect Earth. At the battlefield, he secretly used the Anti-Life Equation to direct Doomsday’s behavior, then fought alongside Superman as Doomsday began marching toward downtown Metropolis.

• People around the world condemned Minato Namikaze for killing the previous Savior and declaring that he would protect Earth, while people in Fusang celebrated him as their hero.
• Yongye, disguised as Minato Namikaze, implanted three commands in Doomsday with the Anti-Life Equation: to fear Kryptonite, destroy major American cities, and avoid Lois and Martha.
• Minato Namikaze attacked Doomsday and asked the wounded Superman if he could still fight; Superman freed himself from a bone spike and agreed.
• Superman struck Doomsday’s knee as Minato Namikaze hit its ribs with two Rasengan, deepening the cracks in its armor.
• Doomsday’s energy blasts injured Superman and forced Minato Namikaze to dodge, then Doomsday ignored both of them and headed toward downtown Metropolis.

Minato Namikaze used a Sage Art Rasenshuriken to badly wound Doomsday, but Doomsday healed and rampaged toward downtown Metropolis. Superman tried to stop him and protect civilians at the city's tallest skyscraper, where Doomsday impaled him through the abdomen with Bone Spikes.

• Minato Namikaze struck Doomsday's chest with a massive Sage Art Rasenshuriken, tearing through his armor and exposing his muscles and veins.
• Doomsday healed his chest wound and charged into downtown Metropolis, destroying buildings as he went.
• Superman attacked Doomsday from behind, but Doomsday swept him through a shop and continued toward the city's tallest skyscraper.
• Superman put himself between Doomsday and the civilians trapped on the skyscraper's observation deck.
• Doomsday punched Superman in the abdomen and impaled him with three Bone Spikes, leaving him unable to move.

Doomsday impaled and hurled Superman into a ruined office tower while Minato Namikaze announced a strategic retreat, triggering outrage across the world. Doomsday left the civilians in the observation deck alive and continued toward Metropolis’s East End, while Superman’s fate remained unknown.

• Doomsday pulled the Bone Spikes from Superman’s abdomen and kicked him through a nearby office tower into the rubble.
• Minato Namikaze told the livestream audience that the enemy had fallen for his plan and that he was making a strategic retreat, then vanished.
• People around the world condemned Minato Namikaze online, and Fusang’s initial celebration turned to anger and shame.
• Doomsday’s chest wound healed as it turned away from the observation deck and advanced toward Metropolis’s East End.
• The civilians watched blood seep through the rubble where Superman had fallen, with his fate still unknown.

Yongye gained basic access to the Fusang Divine Kingdom after Minato Namikaze’s retreat turned Fusang into a global laughingstock. As Doomsday continued tearing through Metropolis, Thor, Tony Stark, and Natasha Romanoff arrived to fight him.

• Yongye watched Minato Namikaze retreat and Superman disappear into the Ruins while Doomsday advanced through Metropolis.
• Fusang’s public humiliation shattered the nation’s composure, earning Yongye an Ultimate Blind Box through Heartbreak Points.
• Yongye opened the blind box and gained basic access to the Fusang Divine Kingdom’s network of faith and worship.
• Yongye resolved to hunt the gods of Fusang and other pantheons, but chose to let Doomsday continue rampaging for the show’s finale.
• Thor and Tony Stark arrived to confront Doomsday, and Natasha Romanoff struck his knee with the Square Hammer, cracking his armor and making him stagger.

Thor, Tony, Natasha, Diana, and Wanda attacked Doomsday together, but it absorbed their energy and blasted them back before continuing toward a skyscraper full of civilians. The heroes regrouped and hesitated between attacking and risking a stronger counterblast or letting Doomsday destroy the building.

• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to pull Doomsday's arm aside while Wanda exploited a weakness behind its knee, setting up a five-way assault.
• Thor, Tony, Natasha, Diana, and Wanda struck Doomsday together, cracking its bone armor and exposing its wounds.
• Doomsday unleashed a burst of dark green energy that hurled the heroes backward, then bounded toward downtown Metropolis and crushed buildings along the way.
• Tony realized Doomsday absorbed energy from their attacks, while Natasha, Diana, and Wanda recognized that fighting it conventionally would make the danger worse.
• The five heroes regrouped as Doomsday approached a skyscraper with dozens of civilians trapped on its rooftop, but they hesitated over whether to attack.

Batman tried to weaken Doomsday with Kryptonite missiles while the heroes attacked together, but Doomsday destroyed the missiles with heat vision. Doomsday turned on the battered heroes and began gathering a dangerous power as his chest wound smoldered.

• Quake Daisy tried to slow Doomsday’s fall with shockwaves, but Batman arrived in the Batwing and called for everyone to attack.
• Natasha, Diana, Thor, Tony, and Wanda struck Doomsday from five directions, shattering his armor and worsening his injuries, but he unleashed an energy blast that hurled them away.
• Batman fired two Kryptonite missiles at Doomsday, who destroyed both warheads with heat vision before they could hit him.
• Batman realized his plan had failed again as Doomsday turned toward the five recovering heroes and gathered power in his dark red eyes.
• Doomsday’s chest wound smoldered as bone armor peeled away, and he opened his mouth.

Doomsday overwhelmed the five heroes and continued toward downtown Metropolis, while Natasha blamed Batman for a failed plan. Batman gave Diana a Kryptonite Spear and insisted it could kill Doomsday, leaving her to decide whether to risk another attack.

• Doomsday struck Natasha, Thor, Tony, Diana, and Wanda with five beams, injuring them and driving them back.
• Natasha accused Batman of misleading them, while Wonder Woman saw the devastation and could not defend him.
• Batman threw Diana a Kryptonite Spear and swore that it could weaken and kill Doomsday if it hit a vital spot.
• Diana considered the weapon's chances against Doomsday, then resolved that they had no choice but to risk everything.

Diana, Natasha, Thor, Tony, Wanda, Daisy, and Batman coordinated another assault on Doomsday, targeting cracks in his armor. Doomsday destroyed Batman’s Kryptonite bullets and melted Diana’s spear, leaving Batman stunned by the monster’s tactical intelligence.

• Natasha, Thor, Tony, Wanda, Diana, Daisy, and Batman prepared a coordinated attack on Doomsday’s weak points.
• Natasha, Thor, Tony, Wanda, and Diana struck Doomsday at once, shattering armor and making him stagger.
• Batman fired a barrage of Kryptonite bullets at the crack in Doomsday’s chest armor.
• Doomsday used Heat Vision to destroy the bullets and melt Diana’s Kryptonite Spear in half.
• Batman cursed as he realized Doomsday had anticipated his attacks and was more tactically capable than Superman.

For five days, Doomsday ravaged cities across the United States while the Superheroes failed to stop it and Superman remained too injured to fight. With the country in despair and Minato Namikaze missing, General Lane urged Laxington to contact the Eye Society because Lois believed Yongye was still alive.

• Doomsday healed from its Metropolis injuries and destroyed parts of Pittsburgh, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles over five days as the Superheroes repeatedly failed to stop it.
• Batman tracked Doomsday's attacks and regretted having driven Yongye away, while people across the country demanded to know whether Yongye was dead.
• Laxington heard emergency recommendations as Doomsday destroyed Los Angeles and learned that Minato Namikaze had vanished since the Metropolis battle.
• General Lane told Laxington that Yongye was their remaining hope and that Lois believed he was alive.
• Laxington ordered the government to keep trying to contact the Eye Society.

Yongye returned to Manhattan after secretly traveling the world and claimed at a global press conference that Minato Namikaze had badly injured him. He then proposed moving Doomsday to Fusang to end the disaster in the United States.

• Sharon Carter told Nick Fury that Yongye had returned but was too badly injured to intervene immediately.
• Yongye reviewed footage of Doomsday's destruction, reflected on his travels, and told Sharon to arrange a worldwide press conference.
• Yongye addressed the global audience and blamed Minato Namikaze for ambushing him and destroying his apartment.
• Yongye announced that he could move Doomsday to Fusang and end the disaster for the United States.

Yongye proposed moving Doomsday to Fusang and letting Americans decide through a nationwide vote. General Lane failed to reach Yongye until Lois arranged a meeting, where Lane was stunned to see Yongye pull Lois into his lap.

• Yongye said he planned to move Doomsday to Fusang because Minato Namikaze was responsible for the crisis.
• Yongye announced two polls that would let Americans choose whether to move Doomsday, and said he would follow the results.
• Laxington told General Lane to persuade Yongye to send Doomsday to the Eastern Country or the Big Hairy Country, with Fusang as a fallback.
• Lane failed to get a meeting through Sharon Carter and asked Lois to arrange one with Yongye.
• Lois brought Lane into Yongye's office, where Yongye pulled her onto his lap in front of him.

Yongye rejected General Lane’s request to send Doomsday to Russia and backed transferring it to Fusang, where Minato Namikaze was held responsible. After a public poll overwhelmingly supported the transfer, Wonder Woman confronted Yongye and demanded that he not send Doomsday to Fusang.

• Yongye refused General Lane’s request to send Doomsday to Russia, insisting it would either stay put or go to Fusang because Minato Namikaze bore responsibility.
• General Lane left Yongye’s office after Yongye cut off their discussion and turned his attention back to Lois.
• The Eye Society posted a poll asking whether Doomsday should be transferred to Fusang, and option A won with 99.9 percent of the vote.
• Fusangese commenters reacted with despair and blamed Minato Namikaze as the poll result spread.
• Wonder Woman entered the President’s office and ordered Sharon to leave Yongye’s side before telling him not to transfer Doomsday to Fusang.

Wonder Woman confronted Yongye over sending Doomsday to Fusang, but he demanded she spend a night with him in exchange for replenishing the divine power in his Golden Cloth. She refused, then fled after seeing Yongye pretend to get intimate with Sharon Carter, leaving him laughing in his office.

• Yongye blamed Minato Namikaze and Fusang for America’s suffering and rejected Diana’s appeal to guide the public away from revenge.
• Diana agreed to sacrifice herself, and Yongye showed her the Golden Cloth and claimed it needed its divine power replenished to destroy Doomsday.
• Diana sensed that the Golden Cloth’s divine power resembled Athena’s and asked Yongye how he could restore it.
• Yongye said Diana had to keep him company for one night, but she refused and declared she would stay until he agreed to her request.
• Yongye pulled Sharon Carter into his arms and pretended to get intimate with her in front of Diana, who blushed and fled down the corridor.
• Yongye released Sharon Carter and laughed, saying Diana had run fast before telling Sharon to continue.

The exhausted heroes pursued Doomsday through the ruins of Los Angeles, unable to stop its destruction. Yongye arrived in Golden Cloth and ordered them to leave, while Tony accused him of using the crisis to settle a personal grudge; Yongye defended his actions by citing the American vote.

• Doomsday demolished buildings as Natasha, Tony, Thor, Daisy, Wanda, and Diana watched, battered and exhausted.
• Doomsday leaped northwest, and the heroes prepared to pursue it despite their injuries.
• A golden light struck the ruins, and Yongye emerged in Golden Cloth.
• Yongye mocked the heroes for eating Doomsday's dust and told them to leave while he dealt with the monster.
• Tony accused Yongye of dumping Doomsday in Fusang to settle a personal grudge, and Yongye replied that 99.9 percent of Americans had voted for it.