After dropping The Mustache Mage off at the entrance to the London Sanctum Sanctorum, Su Ming had Adjutant, who was still online, teleport him to Earth-0. As he had promised Green Arrow, he was going to Star City to find him.
The city had been unaffected by the upheaval elsewhere. It was still the same old place: the second-darkest city in the United States after Gotham.
Of course, the gap between second and first place was enormous.
If darkness and madness were scored on a scale, Gotham would get a hundred points, while Star City would get ten at most. Third place, in Su Ming's opinion, should go to Cyborg's hometown of Detroit. People there had been driven mad by poverty and had spent the past few years doing every kind of terrible thing. Maybe it deserved a six?
But one visit to Detroit was enough. So many of its streets lay abandoned that you could barely spot a living person after dark. Where was the fun in that compared to Star City?
The city's most striking feature was the enormous star-shaped park at its center. It was Star City's landmark and made quite a statement about environmental protection.
It used to be an old slum. Many poor residents had refused to leave, and the government had no way to move them out.
Desperate poverty drove people toward shady ways of making money, and trouble broke out everywhere. Villains would commit crimes and then disappear into the neighborhood, where even Green Arrow couldn't find them.
With crime so rampant, businesses like drug smuggling and human trafficking needed cover. Beneath the slum lay a maze of tunnels complex enough to rival those along the United States–Mexico border.
In the end, Black Arrow was the one who solved the problem. He loved