Recaps

Bruce and Yang Ming fought Deathstroke in the poison-filled Underground Laboratory while Dick’s team stalled the mercenaries outside. Yang Ming captured Deathstroke and found a map marked “Vessel,” then demanded to know who had hired him.

• Ivan shorted a spare capacitor to blind Deathstroke, giving Bruce a chance to break his visor as poison gas spread through the Laboratory.
• Tim used the old waterworks controls to split and trap the assault team, while Dick, Jason, Loki, and Jessica worked to hold them back.
• Dick found a terminal message confirming the neurotoxin release and Batman’s entry, so he alerted Yang Ming, who opened a Space Door into the Laboratory.
• Yang Ming used a scalpel to disable Deathstroke’s exoskeleton, then sent him through a gate to remove his explosive vest before bringing him back and restraining him.
• Yang Ming found a map in Deathstroke’s shoulder armor marked with the old Air-Raid Shelter, the Underground Laboratory, and “Vessel,” then asked who had paid him to come.

Yang Ming and Bruce captured Deathstroke, who revealed that Bruce Wayne was his target but refused to disclose his employer. A clue linked the failed assassination to the Court of Owls, and Yang Ming revealed that he knew Bruce was Batman as they headed to the Police Station.

• Yang Ming removed a poison capsule from Deathstroke's throat and treated his wounds while Bruce questioned him; Deathstroke identified the target as Bruce Wayne but kept his contract confidential.
• Yang Ming found an explosive in Deathstroke's dagger clasp and a passive beacon inside his mask, then sealed the beacon as Gordon's officers took Deathstroke into custody.
• Yang Ming discovered an owl-shaped metal fragment in Deathstroke's vest, and the Laboratory server announced that Court of Owls intervention was authorized for the next operation.
• Yang Ming and Bruce prepared to visit the Police Station, and Yang Ming called Bruce Batman, revealing that he knew his identity.

Lex Luthor secretly used his blood to bypass the Kryptonian ship’s restrictions and begin repairing Zod’s remains in the Genesis Chamber. The chamber detected a second active response inside the corpse that had begun before Lex’s intervention.

• Lex Luthor learned that Deathstroke had been detained and ordered his receiver dismantled while revoking two executives’ access and arranging their accidental deaths.
• Lex Luthor rejected Elias’s offer to come upstairs and approved the pilot power application for the clinical project.
• Lex Luthor entered the underground facility alone and used a fingerprint replica, Kryptonian material, and his own blood to access the Genesis Chamber’s repair procedure.
• Lex Luthor confirmed the procedure that added foreign genes to Zod’s repair sequence, and the nutrient solution turned cloudy as instruments pierced the corpse.
• The control console detected a second active response inside the Genesis Chamber and reported that it predated the foreign-gene injection.

Lex Luthor continued cultivating Zod’s remains after the Genesis Chamber revealed a preexisting consciousness and a Doomsday sequence, naming the subject Doomsday despite Elias’s objections. Meanwhile, Gordon questioned Deathstroke after his attack on Bruce Wayne, and Bruce and Yang Ming suspected the Court of Owls remained behind the attempt.

• Lex Luthor discovered that Zod’s remains contained an ancient Doomsday sequence and an autonomous heartbeat that had begun before foreign genes were introduced.
• Elias determined that the chamber’s stable neural activity resembled an existing adult consciousness, but Lex Luthor dismissed his warning and continued cultivation.
• Elias tried to pause the process, but Lex Luthor locked the control and named the subject Doomsday; Elias left his access badge behind.
• Gordon questioned Deathstroke at Blackgate Penitentiary, but Deathstroke refused to answer and said he was waiting for a lawyer.
• Yang Ming and Bruce Wayne discussed Deathstroke’s injuries and concluded that the Court of Owls likely still wanted Bruce dead; Bruce said they would not succeed.

Elias and Lex Luthor watched Zod’s body transform into a dangerous monster in LexCorp’s underground Genesis Chamber, while Elias secretly saved the experiment’s data. Clark heard the creature’s heartbeat and entered LexCorp just as the monster rose and the building went dark.

• The Genesis Chamber went out of control as Zod’s body rebuilt itself into a creature with unstable neural signals, and Elias left Lex Luthor to secretly save the experiment’s data.
• Elias hid the data module behind a photograph of Kardashian, while Lex Luthor opened the Blast Door and declared that the creature should choose for itself.
• The creature targeted Elias, and Lex Luthor’s electric grid stimulated its evolution instead of killing it.
• Clark heard the heartbeat from underground, sensed danger, and walked toward LexCorp with Krypto after paying the hot dog vendor.
• The creature survived the electrical attack, and Lex Luthor unlocked every underground security door as it rose from the shattered chamber.
• Clark entered the LexCorp lobby as the lights went out, and Krypto barked at the danger below.

Doomsday emerged in Lex Tower and battled Clark through Metropolis, adapting and growing stronger with every exchange. Elias escaped with Doomsday research and contacted Bruce Wayne for help as Lex Luthor watched the fight and encouraged it to continue.

• Doomsday broke through the lobby floor and attacked Clark, who drew it away from the fleeing crowd and toward the river.
• Clark and Doomsday traded blows across the city as Doomsday's armor grew thicker and Clark bled for the first time.
• Lex Luthor ordered his staff to record the battle and dismissed trapped workers as experimental losses.
• Elias took a photograph containing Doomsday research, escaped Lex Tower, and called his assistant to contact Bruce Wayne.
• Doomsday blasted Clark into an elevated bridge while Lex's monitors revealed that their fight was accelerating Doomsday's evolution.

After Elias Thorne warned Bruce Wayne that Doomsday was rampaging through Metropolis and overpowering Clark, Yang Ming recruited Retsu Unohana and Jessica to help with the disaster. They arrived in the central square, where Doomsday had adapted to Clark’s attacks, and prepared to evacuate civilians and confront it.

• Elias Thorne told Bruce that Lex Luthor had created Doomsday from General Zod’s corpse and that it was advancing on Metropolis while defeating Clark.
• Yang Ming received an emergency mission to help Clark eliminate Doomsday, with Superman’s death as the failure condition, and opened a doorway to bring in medical support.
• Yang Ming recruited Retsu Unohana and Jessica, and the three crossed into Metropolis as Bruce prepared the Batwing.
• Doomsday struck Clark through a shopping mall and adapted its armor to his attacks while Retsu used Minazuki and Jessica rescued injured civilians.
• Clark joined Yang Ming, who gave him a syringe and told him to draw Doomsday away from the crowds, as the monster lunged toward them.

Yang Ming and Clark tried to draw Doomsday away from Metropolis and discovered that it adapted to every attack. As Bruce and Yang Ming headed to LexCorp for kryptonite, Elias reported that Doomsday samples were going out of control and the kryptonite in his possession had awakened.

• Yang Ming and Clark fought Doomsday, which adapted to Armament Haki, Heat Vision, and other attacks, so they focused on leading it away from the city.
• Yang Ming contacted Bruce and told him that Lex Luthor had created Doomsday from Zod’s body and might have kryptonite at LexCorp.
• Yang Ming diverted Doomsday through an Anywhere Door while Clark continued drawing it toward an uninhabited area, and rescuers treated survivors in Metropolis.
• Bruce joined Yang Ming and confirmed that Elias had found kryptonite sealed in LexCorp’s underground laboratory.
• Elias revealed that Doomsday samples were out of control and showed Yang Ming and Bruce the kryptonite in a metal box before the feed cut out as something inside began knocking.

Yang Ming, Batman, and Elias escaped Lex Luthor’s collapsing underground facility with kryptonite weapons and Lex in custody. They returned to the devastated battlefield, where Clark was still fighting Doomsday.

• Yang Ming defeated two active Doomsday tissue monsters while protecting Elias and the kryptonite box.
• Lex Luthor triggered the facility’s self-destruct and antigravity isolation fields, but Yang Ming opened a brief portal into the surveillance room.
• Batman copied the facility’s records, and Yang Ming restrained Lex Luthor before they gathered a kryptonite-tipped spear and aerosol rounds.
• Batman stopped the self-destruct countdown, and Yang Ming took Lex and Elias through the Anywhere Door back to the battlefield.
• Clark blocked Doomsday’s attack but was smashed into the ground.

Yang Ming and his allies fought Doomsday, which adapted to kryptonite and their attacks, while Yang Ming treated Clark away from the battlefield. Retsu Unohana unleashed Bankai and submerged Doomsday in a sea of blood, but Yang Ming sensed that the monster might be learning her power.

• Bruce fired kryptonite aerosol rounds that weakened both Doomsday and Clark, so Yang Ming moved Clark to safety and treated him.
• Doomsday tore away its kryptonite-contaminated armor, regrew its defenses, and turned its attention toward Yang Ming, Bruce, and Lex Luthor.
• Jessica and Krypto joined the fight, but Doomsday grew bone wings and began charging a powerful blast.
• Retsu Unohana arrived after the casualties were evacuated and released Bankai, filling the wasteland with a sea of blood.
• Retsu Unohana stabbed and bound Doomsday with blood blades, but it adapted and developed an energy that Yang Ming thought might be imitating her Bankai.
• Retsu Unohana let the sea of blood swallow Doomsday and stepped forward to continue fighting it.

Yang Ming and his allies stopped Doomsday from evolving by exposing the source of his regeneration and removing the dark core from his chest. After Doomsday crumbled, Yang Ming received the Rumble-Rumble Fruit as his emergency mission reward.

• Retsu Unohana repeatedly dissolved and cut Doomsday in her blood sea, but Lex Luthor warned that the cycle of destruction and regeneration was helping Doomsday evolve.
• Yang Ming called off the blood sea and coordinated Clark, Krypto, Jessica, and Bruce to expose Doomsday's chest while avoiding further adaptation.
• Yang Ming disrupted the energy flow in Doomsday's armor, allowing Bruce and Clark to drive a kryptonite spear through the exposed bone armor.
• Yang Ming cut the rootlike connections between Doomsday's dark core and his body, while Clark and Bruce held him down and kryptonite weakened him.
• Yang Ming removed the core, and Doomsday's armor and flesh crumbled away.
• Yang Ming received the Rumble-Rumble Fruit after the emergency mission was declared complete.

After Doomsday was defeated, Yang Ming left the cleanup to the others and traveled to the central United States to test the Rumble-Rumble Fruit he had received as a quest reward. He confirmed that its lightning abilities worked separately from his other powers, while a tiny piece of Doomsday's tissue remained unnoticed in the soil.

• Retsu Unohana withdrew her Bankai, and Bruce removed the kryptonite from Doomsday's remains while Yang Ming examined Clark and refused Lex Luthor's demand to take the corpse.
• Bruce arranged joint police and military custody of Doomsday's remains, while Yang Ming treated Lex Luthor and put his medical charges on LexCorp's tab.
• Yang Ming opened an Anywhere Door and left for the central United States, assigning cleanup and recovery work to Jessica, Bruce, Clark, and Retsu Unohana.
• Bruce and Clark organized the rescue response, and Bruce restrained Lex Luthor for arrest as Elias questioned whether Doomsday was truly dead.
• Yang Ming ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in a desert, discovered that he could turn into lightning and summon it without triggering his other powers, and began testing its strength.

Yang Ming tested the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Armament Haki, and the Eight Gates, recording their capabilities and physical risks. After a costly combined attack, he sensed a strange electrical rhythm echoing from deep beneath the desert.

• Yang Ming tested elementalization and lightning travel, but misjudged his direction and crashed through a gas station wall, then recorded the risks of navigation and returning to physical form.
• Yang Ming measured his condition and tested lightning output, discovering that stronger current could destroy equipment and that Armament Haki worked alongside his lightning.
• Yang Ming combined lightning, Armament Haki, and the first three Eight Gates to smash a metal target, then shut the powers down when his heart rate and muscle signals reached dangerous levels.
• Yang Ming used Observation Haki to detect a faint electrical pulse beneath the desert that repeated a rhythm matching his heartbeat.

Yang Ming, Tony, and Steve learned that the Mind Scepter had been replaced with a replica and suspected Hydra had taken it to a base in Sokovia. With official permission delayed and an experiment possibly underway, they set out to investigate while trying to keep the mission from becoming a revenge operation.

• Yang Ming treated Tony and mediated the dispute between Tony and Steve over how to handle Bucky.
• Fury reported that the Mind Scepter had been stolen from a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment warehouse without triggering any alarms.
• Yang Ming identified Sokovia as the likely destination and warned that Hydra might be using the scepter to experiment on two Stark-hating test subjects.
• Fury warned that entering Sokovia without authorization could be treated as an invasion, while Hill reported that three unmarked planes had entered the mountains.
• Yang Ming, Tony, and Steve agreed to investigate from outside Sokovia's airspace and stepped through the Blue Doorway above the Atlantic.

Yang Ming, Tony Stark, and Steve Rogers infiltrated Hydra’s Sokovia base after Yang Ming detected its hidden occupants. As Hydra prepared to deploy Wanda and Pietro against them, the heroes confronted the rising threat in the first-floor corridor.

• Strucker warned Wanda and Pietro that Yang Ming was the Avengers’ greatest threat and ordered them to kill him if they met.
• Yang Ming, Tony, and Steve arrived in a snowy forest near Sokovia, where Yang Ming sensed the base and two recently modified young people beneath the mountain.
• Yang Ming turned into electrical current, traveled through a damaged power cable, and overloaded the base’s surveillance, defenses, and backup generators.
• Strucker rejected an evacuation and released Wanda and Pietro, telling them that their parents’ killer was in the lobby.
• Tony, Steve, and Yang Ming entered the base, and Yang Ming warned Tony about Wanda’s mind-affecting powers before preparing to face Pietro.

Pietro’s attack on Tony was redirected by Yang Ming, while Wanda used Chaos Magic to turn Tony and Steve against each other. Yang Ming broke her mental attack and subdued both men, then stopped Pietro again as he approached Wanda.

• Pietro charged at Tony, but Yang Ming opened doorways that redirected him into a steel column, leaving him injured in a crater.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to trigger Tony’s and Steve’s traumatic memories, making them fight each other.
• Wanda attacked Yang Ming’s mind, but his Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed her and severed her control over Tony and Steve.
• Yang Ming used high-voltage electricity to stop Tony and Steve’s fight and warned he could shock them again if they were not clearheaded.
• Pietro tried to attack Yang Ming, but Yang Ming struck the floor with lightning and knocked him down.
• Wanda gathered red energy again and told Yang Ming to stay away, calling it a blood debt with Stark Industries.

Yang Ming defeated Wanda and Pietro, then helped Tony uncover the Stark Industries weapon that had trapped the twins as children and arranged treatment for them. He rescued the group from Strucker’s countdown and destroyed the Hydra base and armory, leaving Strucker captured and the Mind Scepter with Tony.

• Yang Ming incapacitated Wanda and Pietro, while Tony and Steve reviewed records showing a Stark Industries shell had trapped the twins in Sokovia when they were children.
• Yang Ming warned that the twins’ health was deteriorating and agreed to treat them if Tony supplied equipment, anesthesiologists, and a fee.
• Strucker took the Mind Scepter, activated the base’s demolition charges, and fled through an underground passage.
• Yang Ming intercepted Strucker, took the Scepter, and opened a doorway for Tony and Steve to evacuate the twins and Strucker.
• Yang Ming redirected the explosion into a Hydra armory, destroying it and the base before handing the Scepter to Tony.

Yang Ming challenged General Alexei’s attempt to seize the Scepter and the wounded twins, exposing evidence that Sokovia’s military had tolerated Hydra’s experiments. As Yang Ming opened a route to the clinic, a soldier raised a gun and fired.

• General Alexei ordered Yang Ming, Tony, and Steve to surrender the Scepter, Strucker, and the twins, but Yang Ming accused the military of tolerating Hydra’s human experiments.
• Yang Ming revealed that he had removed the Scepter’s energy module, while Tony and Steve insisted that the wounded twins needed medical treatment.
• Yang Ming recorded the confrontation and contacted Fury, while Tony displayed transport records linking Hydra deliveries to the National Defense Army Logistics Department.
• Steve urged Yang Ming to move the wounded, and Yang Ming opened a doorway to the clinic while warning the general that the recording had been backed up.
• An adjutant reported that the Logistics Department demanded an end to negotiations, and Yang Ming spotted a soldier raising a gun and told him to get down just before a shot rang out.

Yang Ming stopped Hydra operatives from framing the Avengers, saved General Alexei, and uncovered a remote signal linked to bombs inside the captured men. The general was already being driven away when Yang Ming warned that the vehicle carrying him was in danger.

• Hydra operatives shot General Alexei and other soldiers, then tried to make the attack look like the Avengers had started a massacre.
• Yang Ming, Steve, and Tony disarmed and captured the eight attackers while Yang Ming urgently operated on Alexei's neck wound.
• Yang Ming demanded that the Sokovian military protect Wanda and the other children and keep the captured men alive for questioning.
• Yang Ming discovered a fresh needle puncture and concealed piece of metal on one captured man, which Tony identified as a remote signal device.
• The captured operatives woke as red lights appeared on their chests, and Yang Ming warned the adjutant that bombs were inside their bodies.
• Yang Ming ordered the military to stop the vehicle carrying the unconscious Alexei, but its engine had already started and its door had closed.

Yang Ming saved Alexei, exposed Hydra’s plot, and brought Strucker and the wounded twins to his clinic, where Wanda and Pietro agreed to work off their treatment costs. The chapter ended with Yang Ming revealing that he had secretly kept the Mind Stone from the Scepter.

• Yang Ming stopped Alexei’s transport, disabled the suicide soldiers’ synchronized bombs, and secured Alexei’s agreement to pay his fees and invite the Avengers to help.
• Yang Ming handed Strucker over to Hill, brought the twins and Bucky to the clinic, and refused to let S.H.I.E.L.D. enter the surgical area.
• Tony showed Wanda and Pietro records clarifying Stark Industries’ role in their parents’ deaths and Hydra’s manipulation, while they saw Bucky struggling to recover his identity.
• Wanda and Pietro signed contracts to work off the cost of their treatment at Yang Ming’s clinic.
• Yang Ming told Tony the Scepter had no Energy Core, then secretly opened a container holding the Mind Stone.