Recaps

Su Ming traced a series of magical attacks to Merlin, who had stolen the Alchemy Stone and sought Hecate’s Door to reach the origin beyond the void. Su Ming and his companions confronted Merlin at the Golden Door, where Merlin wounded them with powerful magic and the fight continued.

• Su Ming helped restore Cyborg, then investigated Zatanna’s soul attack and discovered that Merlin had been resurrected and was connected to the murders.
• Su Ming found Ainala Rostu at Wayne Manor and learned that Merlin had stolen the Alchemy Stone, then questioned Etrigan about Merlin’s plans.
• Su Ming used Dream’s library to learn that Hecate had used a door to look beyond the Source Wall, and realized Merlin sought something beyond it.
• Merlin entered Hecate’s buried city and searched for the Doorway so he could cross the void, reach the origin, and witness the Omniverse.
• Su Ming led Diana, Donna, and Bobo into the drained city and followed Merlin’s trail through an endless well into a hidden Pocket Dimension.
• Su Ming and his companions fought through Merlin’s magical beasts and found him standing before the Golden Door.
• Su Ming shattered Merlin’s barriers and demanded the Alchemy Stone, but Merlin unleashed powerful magic that transformed the area into a snowy plain and injured Diana.

Su Ming and his allies uncovered Doctor Santo’s soybean smuggling operation and his plan to deploy military robots in Gotham. As Gotham’s crime bosses mobilized against Acolytes Industries, Su Ming set out to find Santo and Poison Ivy searched for him.

• Su Ming, Diana, and Donna killed Merlin, then recovered Merlin’s treasures before a chaotic presence beyond the Golden Door briefly overwhelmed Su Ming.
• Su Ming returned to the Hall of Justice and joined Detective Chimp in investigating radioactive beans linked to online claims about the multiverse.
• Su Ming and Batgirl traced the bean shipments to a Gotham factory, where Damian joined them and the group uncovered a shipment guarded by mercenaries.
• After the factory exploded, Barbara traced the shipment’s route to an underground dock, and Su Ming led the group through Gotham’s sewers to the Tidal Power Station.
• The group captured Master of Extras and found a hidden safehouse containing a portal built by Lex Luthor, which Doctor Santo had used to trade military robots for beans from a post-nuclear world.
• Su Ming’s group suspected Santo was using the portal to secure food and military power, while Santo persuaded Mayor Nakano that his Praetor robots could clean up Gotham and accused Batwoman of murder.
• Su Ming brought Harley back to Gotham, and Harley gathered the city’s villains while Deathstroke showed them Santo’s robot program and urged them to attack Acolytes Industries.
• Su Ming left the villains to cause chaos and pursue Santo, while Poison Ivy searched for him through the plants in a small park.

Su Ming’s hunt for Doctor Santo and Brutus uncovered an occupied Earth where time moved differently and a plan to disrupt the Justice League. After killing Santo and learning Brutus was not working for Darkseid, Su Ming prepared with Superman and Luthor to face Brutus’s approaching reinforcements.

• Su Ming traced Doctor Santo through Gotham, found the Acolytes Industries building destroyed, and discovered robots massacring the city’s gangs as an emergency decree made Nakamura a potential puppet president.
• Su Ming’s group tracked Santo through a portal to another Earth, then joined forces with Cindy and the Legends of Tomorrow to attack Brutus’s underground shelter.
• Su Ming and his allies realized that different Timeline Speeds had given Santo and Brutus extra time to prepare, and Su Ming suspected Darkseid was cultivating powerful villains across Hypertime.
• Brutus confronted the group and explained that his world was dying and his people needed somewhere to survive, then fled through a red Doorway after Su Ming defeated him.
• Su Ming followed Brutus to Santo’s laboratory and shot Santo dead, while Strangle’s reading of Santo’s memories revealed that the Jet-Bow squad had sent him to disrupt the Justice League and that Brutus was not working for Darkseid.
• Su Ming concluded that Santo knew little about Darkseid’s plans and decided to search Cyborg’s memories, while the Legends sought another shelter and Sara considered Su Ming’s offer to help her have children.
• Superman and Luthor joined Su Ming’s camp, where Su Ming said he was waiting for Brutus’s big brother, then set out with them to confront the approaching reinforcements.

Su Ming defeated Zubado, reunited with Luthor and Superman, and began investigating Gotham’s blackout and Liquid Metal Robots. He brought Polaris to counter the robots, but her power triggered a destructive outburst before Harley helped calm her.

• Su Ming cooked the brain-like communicator from Brutus’s Safehouse, then defeated Zubado with Deathstroke and Deadpool’s help and sent Zubado’s ashes to the Adjutant for research.
• Su Ming found Luthor fighting Brutus on Mercury, and Superman knocked Brutus unconscious before carrying him away for treatment.
• Su Ming asked Luthor to search for Grail and sent Synthezoids to prepare an outpost and Martial Arts Tournament on Soybean Earth.
• Su Ming returned to Gotham during a worldwide blackout, reassured Barbara and Damian, and learned that Liquid Metal Robots were attacking the city.
• Su Ming met Batwoman and Julia Pennyworth on a yacht, where Batwoman and Detective Chimp identified magnetism as the likely means of powering and controlling the robots.
• Su Ming brought Polaris from Utopia to Gotham, where she sensed the robots’ magnetic field and crushed them after a stray bullet triggered her anger.
• Su Ming stopped Polaris’s rampage, and Harley helped calm her with Bobo while revealing that a suspected parallel-universe attacker had targeted her home.
• Commissioner Gordon let Su Ming’s group examine a robot but refused to release it from police custody, and Su Ming warned him about the danger as Gordon prioritized stopping the riots.