Chapter Summaries

Su Ming's group defeated and beheaded the brainwashed Captain, then entered Solus's castle with Deadpool scouting ahead. Deadpool triggered several traps, and Su Ming prepared to free him before the group continued upstairs to confront Solus's remaining sons.

• Su Ming recognized the dead Bucky and concluded that the brainwashed Captain had killed him without hesitation.
• Deadpool joined Spider-Gwen in attacking the Captain, while Little Wong used magic to interfere; Gwen knocked the Captain down, and Deadpool beheaded him.
• Su Ming buried Bucky's and the Captain's heads, paid Deadpool five hundred dollars, and sent him ahead to scout the castle.
• Deadpool triggered a blade trap that split him in half, then an iron maiden trap that trapped and crushed him.
• Su Ming entered the hall carrying Deadpool's remaining half and said Strangle would dismantle the traps before the group went upstairs to find Solus's remaining two sons.

Deathstroke led his group through the Inheritors’ trapped castle to find Solus and Malos, discovering the twins feeding on a Black Panther totem. Su Ming attacked them, but the brothers counterattacked through the smoke.

• Deathstroke chose to track down Solus and Malos, then had Strangle follow their music through the castle.
• Spider-Gwen, Peni Parker, and the others fought past brainwashed guards and traps while Little Wong concealed the battles in the Mirror Dimension, exhausting himself with repeated spells.
• Deathstroke’s group reached the twins’ suite and watched them feed on a Black Panther totem.
• Solus and Malos embraced and began kissing, shocking the group watching through the door.
• Su Ming punched through the door with a Cosmic Energy attack, striking the twins and blowing off the top of Deadpool’s skull before a counterattack emerged from the smoke.

Su Ming and his allies confronted Solus and his forces inside the castle, where the planned ambush turned into a chaotic battle. Su Ming fought Solus while the others faced the Inheritors, and Deadpool and Gwenpool fell from the collapsing castle in an inflatable raft.

• Su Ming blocked the Cosmic Energy Ray aimed at Takuya and revealed that he had anticipated Solus's ambush.
• Su Ming assigned the team their opponents, then charged Solus as Takuya summoned Leopardon and brought down part of the castle.
• Deadpool attacked the two brothers from an inflatable raft, but Gwenpool climbed aboard and disrupted his plan.
• Deadpool and Gwenpool fell toward the ground after Deadpool cut the soles off the brothers' shoes.
• Su Ming continued fighting Solus, whose speed and slippery defenses had increased, while preparing to remove his green hat.

Su Ming and his allies forced Solus to drop the Serpent Crown, then Su Ming rejected the crown’s system and destroyed it. The chapter left Solus gathering the broken pieces while Strangle consumed the last fragment.

• Su Ming, Strangle, and Deathstroke attacked Solus from below, using gunfire and electrified weapons to make him look down.
• Little Wong completed a spell that locked down nearby teleportation, while the Cloak of Levitation waited to seize the Serpent Crown.
• Solus lowered his head as he struggled against the tickling attacks, and the crown fell into the Cloak’s grasp.
• Su Ming received a system prompt from the crown, refused to bind with it, and cut the Serpent Crown into pieces.
• Solus chased Su Ming and tried to gather the fragments, but Su Ming melted a hidden shard into liquid metal and fed it to Strangle.

Deathstroke baited Solus into an isolated planetary system and exploited the Inheritors patriarch’s weakness to cosmic radiation, killing him without using his trump cards. He waited to ensure Solus’s body and soul were destroyed before returning to finish the fight on Castle Continent.

• Solus tried and failed to repair the shattered Serpent Crown, then charged at Deathstroke in a rage.
• Deathstroke fled the Solar System to protect Earth, leading Solus beyond the Milky Way while Takuya, Deadpool, and the other Spider-Men remained to contain the Inheritors on Castle Continent.
• Deathstroke and Solus collided in a remote planetary system, shattering planets and stirring up fierce stellar radiation.
• Deathstroke provoked Solus into speaking and breathing in radiation, which weakened him and slowed his movements.
• Deathstroke cut off Solus’s head and waited for his corpse to burn in the star, then told Strangle to catch the head.

Su Ming returned to the battlefield after killing Solus and found his allies finishing off the remaining enemies. He left Deadpool interrogating two prisoners and went underground, where he found Wong speaking with a woman.

• Su Ming returned to the Solar System, gave the broken Serpent Crown to Cloak, and flew back to the battlefield.
• Su Ming found Takuya piloting Leo Patton and learned Wong had gone to search beneath the castle.
• Deadpool and Gwenpool tortured two captured brothers while Su Ming asked them whether anyone in the world had escaped brainwashing.
• Su Ming left the interrogation to Deadpool, found the cellar entrance, and discovered Wong speaking with a woman below the castle.

Su Ming and Little Wong freed Howard the Duck from the Inheritors’ dungeon and learned how he had ended up there. Su Ming promised that Parker Industries could help resolve Howard’s legal troubles, leaving Howard hopeful about getting his life back on track.

• Little Wong showed Su Ming the imprisoned Howard the Duck, whom Su Ming recognized and ordered freed.
• Howard told Su Ming that the Inheritors had captured him after detecting his totem scent.
• Howard explained that he had become a wanted non-registered person because officials refused to recognize him as a person or provide him with the documents needed to register.
• Howard described working as a taxi driver while evading H.A.M.M.E.R. and his girlfriend Chloe’s threatening ex-boyfriend.
• Su Ming promised to ask Spider-Man and Parker Industries to help Howard with his legal problems, then offered to explain how money could help.

After the battle, Su Ming said goodbye to the Spider-Men and arranged for Gwenpool to attend university and find a home. He took her to look at Asgard, which had recently crashed.

• The Spider-Men thanked Deathstroke for helping defeat the cloned Inheritors, and he gave Shadow Spider and the Spider-Man from India Spider Totems.
• Su Ming sent the Spider-Men away through the Spider Web, paid Wade, and stayed behind with Gwenpool and Little Wong.
• Gwenpool asked whether superheroes felt lonely after a crisis ended, and Su Ming invited her to keep traveling with him.
• Su Ming helped Gwenpool enroll at the State University of New York, and she asked to live in Asgard.
• Su Ming agreed to take Gwenpool to see Asgard and transported her and Cloak there.

Deathstroke and Gwen Poole visited Doctor Strange in Alaska, where Strange suggested a new place for Gwen to live. Deathstroke brought her to the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum to meet Kaecilius and learn whether Set had sent a message.

• Deathstroke and Miss Poole visited Doctor Strange in Alaska and checked on the dormant Yggdrasil, whose zombie fertilizer was decomposing too slowly in the cold.
• Doctor Strange warned that someone might come searching for the Asgardian Vault and told Strange to notify the Adjutant if anyone appeared.
• Doctor Strange told Deathstroke that the Avengers had turned a Celestial shell in Greenland into a vacation villa, but Gwen rejected the idea of living in a corpse.
• Deathstroke chose That Village as a warmer home for Gwen and asked Doctor Strange to open a portal to the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Deathstroke told Gwen that Kaecilius worked there as a Great Mage and that he intended to ask whether Set had sent a message.

Su Ming visited Kaecilius’s laboratory and discussed his experiments before showing Gwen the Savage Land and visiting Carol Danvers’s family farm. He asked Carol to help find Gwen a place to live nearby, while warning her about the coming activation of Earth’s A-Net barrier.

• Kaecilius told Su Ming that he was breeding controllable, virus-carrying xenomorph-like creatures for use as cannon fodder, and Su Ming cautioned him about the risks of biological research.
• Su Ming and Gwen walked through the developed Savage Land, where Su Ming explained his preparations for several kinds of unnatural disasters and took her to Mary Danvers’s farm.
• Su Ming greeted Carol while Mary trained Little Joe, and Carol said construction had begun on S.W.O.R.D.’s space station with help from the people Su Ming had recommended.
• Su Ming told Carol he planned to activate the science-based A-Net barrier around Earth and then asked whether Gwen could live somewhere near the farm.

Su Ming visited Daisy’s home to ask about renting a place in Brooklyn, where he met Caroline and learned that Hela had secretly traveled from the Underworld through Asgard’s surviving passages. As he prepared to investigate the passages and search for Loki, Adjutant summoned him to deal with a possible problem in the DC Universe.

• Su Ming took Gwen back to New York after she rejected Carol’s nearby properties, then found Daisy away from home and spoke with Cosmo, who said Thor and Hela had gone shopping.
• Caroline returned with leftovers, and Su Ming asked her about nearby rentals; Gwen eagerly left with Caroline to go shopping.
• Su Ming and Cosmo discussed life in the United States until Daisy and Hela returned from shopping.
• Hela explained that she could reach Earth through Asgard’s surviving secret passages, which other travelers might also use.
• Su Ming decided to send Monark to seal the passages and planned to contact Doom for information about Loki.
• Adjutant interrupted Su Ming with word of a possible problem in the DC Universe.

Deathstroke learned that Darkseid had escaped and ordered changes to Sepulchre to prevent his return. The Adjutant then showed him changes on Earth-0, including Hippolyta’s resurrection and her clash with Diana over Diana’s relationship with Deathstroke.

• Deathstroke and the Adjutant discussed Darkseid’s departure and the lack of a countermeasure because his true form remained beyond the Multiverse.
• Deathstroke authorized replacing Sepulchre’s Anti-Mother Box Network with the Golden Throne and its Omega Pit with the Inversion Ball and Star Beacon.
• The Adjutant showed Deathstroke changes on Earth-0 after Lucifer’s final battle with The Batman Who Laughs.
• Hippolyta had been restored from her petrified state and argued with Diana over Diana’s obedience to Deathstroke and their ambiguous relationship.
• Diana and Hippolyta settled their disagreement by fighting according to Amazon tradition.

Su Ming watched Diana and Hippolyta fight while the Adjutant showed him surveillance of Gotham and other developments during the global snowfall. The chapter ended with Black Canary storming out after suspecting Green Arrow of cheating.

• Diana and Hippolyta fought over their ideals, and Su Ming decided not to interfere in Amazon affairs.
• Su Ming watched Batwoman and Catwoman defeat Penguin at the Iceberg Lounge and take food supplies.
• The Adjutant reported that Joker and Punchline had disappeared into Gotham’s sewers and that Lex Luthor was likely to win his lawsuit.
• Su Ming watched a drone recording of Green Arrow and Black Canary, in which a hidden-number call interrupted them.
• Black Canary accused Green Arrow of having another lover, slapped him, and left.

Su Ming returned to Earth-0 during a severe blizzard and reunited with Harley, who urgently sent him to repair the building’s old boiler so her cats would stay warm. The chapter left Su Ming heading for the basement to find coal and restart the heating.

• Roy Harper, stranded in The Gambia after returning from the dead, called for Superman, who took him to Star City to reunite with Green Arrow.
• Su Ming learned that Nightwing had reopened Titans Tower as a university and that Damian had gone to question Talia about her relationship with him.
• Su Ming traveled to New York, where a blizzard had buried streets in snow and disrupted emergency services.
• Harley welcomed Su Ming into her freezing apartment, where she had been keeping warm beside a fire while making a questionable cake.
• Harley told Su Ming that the heating was shut off and sent him to repair the basement boiler and find coal to protect her cats from the cold.

Deathstroke repaired the basement boiler while Oliver and Superman discovered that two different Roys appeared to exist. The chapter ended with them questioning the identity of the tearful Roy in Oliver’s bedroom.

• Deathstroke reassured Eggy that he had come to fix the boiler, then repaired it with Strangle’s help.
• Big Tony entered the basement, greeted Su Ming, and left after saying he had eaten liver.
• Deathstroke decided to fly to the Great Lakes region to find coal for a test run.
• Oliver told Superman that the Roy in his bedroom was not the Roy he knew, and called the Roy he had been in contact with.
• Roy answered from Mexico and confirmed he was carrying out his resurrection mission, leaving Oliver and Superman wondering who the other Roy was.

Su Ming restored heat to Harley’s building during the deep freeze and helped her feed the cats. After Harley decided to find Poison Ivy, Su Ming explained that the expanding universe had made locating her more complicated, then prepared to teleport them.

• Su Ming relit the building’s furnace and told Big Egg to keep it stocked with coal.
• Su Ming found Harley feeding cats meat from a frozen escaped convict and helped chop it up.
• Harley wanted to become a superhero and help people, then tried to call Poison Ivy but found no signal.
• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to search for Poison Ivy and explained Hypertime to Harley.
• Su Ming activated Boom Tube Teleportation so they could go find Poison Ivy.

Harley rescued Poison Ivy from a frozen island and brought her to Brooklyn, where Su Ming set out to find equipment to revive her. At Luthor’s trial, Su Ming disguised himself as Superman and asked Luthor to lend him a Red Sun Generator.

• Harley used her enhanced senses to find Poison Ivy buried in snow, then teleported her and Deathstroke back to Brooklyn.
• Deathstroke found no heartbeat in Poison Ivy, but Su Ming said she was hibernating and went to get equipment to thaw her.
• During a recess in Luthor’s trial, Luthor and Mercy persuaded the onlookers that the previous Luthor had been a Clone and that the real Luthor was being unfairly prosecuted.
• Su Ming disguised himself as Superman and cleared the room so he could speak with Luthor privately.
• Luthor recognized Su Ming, and Su Ming asked to borrow the Red Sun Generator to warm Poison Ivy.

Deathstroke borrowed Luthor’s portable Red Sun Generator and questioned him about the prolonged snow and cold. Luthor suspected the phenomenon exceeded known technology and said he would investigate after court, while Deathstroke left to pursue his own affairs.

• Deathstroke asked Luthor to lend him the portable Red Sun Generator, and Luthor agreed to send Mercy to retrieve it.
• Deathstroke asked Luthor about the half-month of snow and low temperatures, and falsely claimed that Constantine was investigating for the Justice League.
• Luthor explained that known technology could not produce such widespread cooling without violating energy conservation and thermodynamics.
• Luthor said he would investigate the phenomenon after winning his court case, and Deathstroke departed through the window with the generator.

Su Ming and Harley used the Red Sun Generator to revive Poison Ivy, who warned them that The Green was in danger during the endless winter. After Ivy suggested looking for The Red, Su Ming and Harley headed to Oblivion Bar to seek help from Bobo.

• Su Ming and Harley warmed Poison Ivy beneath the Red Sun Generator while discussing the global blizzard and planning to investigate its magical cause.
• Harley insisted on joining Su Ming to Gotham, and the pair joked and kissed while waiting for Ivy to wake.
• Poison Ivy woke and explained that the freezing temperatures threatened her survival and that she could contact only a few cold-resistant ferns.
• Su Ming left Ivy to manage communications and logistics, while Ivy suggested they look for The Red and Harley urged him to find Bobo.
• Su Ming and Harley traveled through the Justice Society headquarters into Oblivion Bar to seek information from its patrons.

As a global blizzard threatened to worsen the famine, Deathstroke asked Detective Chimp to help investigate its cause. They recruited Raven to join them, while Bobo prepared to leave his overcrowded bar and investigate the snow.

• Harley visited Oblivion Bar, where she and Tracy greeted each other while Bobo and the gorilla staff struggled to serve the crowds.
• Deathstroke asked Bobo whether the blizzard might be connected to the new source of magic that appeared after The Upside-Down Man was imprisoned in the Totality.
• Bobo warned that the snow could spread to the Earths supplying food aid and worsen the global famine.
• Deathstroke asked Bobo to investigate with him, and Bobo agreed, explaining that the bar was running low on liquor and supplies.
• Deathstroke suggested Raven as their wizard, and Bobo called her; Raven agreed to come join the investigation.