Chapter Summaries

After Sepulchre detected a vast hollow beneath Antarctica on Martha Earth, Su Ming and his team infiltrated it and discovered a huge underground city. They stood in an outpost overlooking the city as Su Ming began planning their next move.

• Sepulchre reported that the Adjutant had detected unnatural heat beneath Antarctica and suspected the continent concealed a massive underground space.
• Su Ming led the team through a Boom Tube to Antarctica, where Strangle dug a shaft into the hollow below.
• Su Ming fought off a squad of crystal-powered robots, while the team found strange plants in the outpost.
• Harley smashed a man-eating flower that had reached for Bobo, and Su Ming had Strangle consume it.
• Su Ming showed Bobo the enormous underground city, complete with an artificial sun, and began laying out a plan.

Deathstroke and Bobo found a recording cartridge in the outpost and played it on a hidden restroom projector. The film explained how the Prophet led humanity to build an underground city before beginning to describe the prophesied end on January 1st, 1950.

• Bobo found a well-used game-cartridge-like object while searching the outpost, and Deathstroke suspected it stored information.
• Deathstroke discovered a hidden cartridge reader in the restroom wall and inserted the object while Bobo, Harley, and Raven watched.
• The recording showed a training film claiming that humans once lived freely on Earth's surface before the Prophet warned of an approaching end.
• The film depicted the Prophet leading followers to Antarctica, where they built an underground city using his advanced technology.
• The narrator said the prophesied end arrived on January 1st, 1950, and began describing the day from the Prophet's account.

Su Ming and his companions watched an underground training film about the Magitech Sanctuary City and its scavenging missions, then questioned why its Prophet wanted surface relics. Bobo concluded that the missions were likely a way to gather souls for Voodoo rituals, leaving the Prophet’s true purpose unresolved.

• A film depicted the Hand of the Void turning Earth into a zombie wasteland and described the rise of Sanctuary City through 2555 AD.
• Su Ming examined the crystal inside the cassette, while he and Bobo discussed the city’s Magitech technology and the Prophet’s possible source of power.
• The film instructed residents to scavenge historical objects and human remains, prompting Harley to suspect the Prophet was hiding his real motives.
• Harley reasoned that a long-lived Prophet with access to Magitech would have little need for dangerous scavenging missions.
• Raven hinted at Voodoo, and Bobo recognized that collecting remains and relics could be a scheme to harvest soul energy.

Su Ming and his team investigated the outpost and learned that its inhabitants collected objects from the dead, possibly to summon souls, while a Prophet used advanced technology to place human souls into Ice Elemental bodies. They descended into the vast Underground City to search for clues about the Prophet, entering a strange metropolis combining 1950s designs with crystal-powered technology.

• Bobo explained how objects belonging to the dead could be used to summon their souls, and Su Ming concluded the scavengers might be collecting items for some kind of exchange.
• Su Ming stopped the instructional video, and the group searched the outpost, finding a route to the surface but no captives or useful records.
• The group decided to investigate the Underground City, and Bobo warned them against using the elevator because it might alert the search teams.
• Su Ming ordered everyone to follow Deathstroke's command and used the Cloak to descend roughly fifty kilometers into the city.
• The team arrived in a vast underground metropolis whose vehicles, vending machines, and neon signs resembled the 1950s but ran on transparent crystals.

Deathstroke investigated the underground city and learned about its relic expeditions, then chose to have Raven search for soul activity instead of pursuing Prophet. The group prepared to investigate clues that could help stop the snowfall and monster invasion on Earth-0.

• Deathstroke disguised himself, traded a World War II lighter for clothing, and learned that Prophet sponsored dangerous surface expeditions to recover relics.
• Deathstroke returned to the group and made stilts for Bobo while explaining that the city’s customs remained fixed in the 1950s.
• Harley suggested finding Prophet, but Bobo argued that they should follow soul fluctuations and spatial debris linked to Soul Infusion.
• Raven said Prophet’s identity was secondary to stopping the snow, and Deathstroke decided she should perform a Spirit Medium Ritual.
• Deathstroke gave Raven a pen taken from a zombie and secured Bobo on his stilts while dismissing Bobo’s complaints about looting.

Su Ming and his companions questioned the soul inside the Jane Doe zombie, then used a staged vending-machine incident to reach Sanctuary City's authorities and investigate its relic trade. They learned that Prophet had become the white sun above the city and that an untraceable group bought relics, so Su Ming prepared to flood the market with antiques from his company.

• Bobo summoned the soul inside Raven, which said it felt drawn to a cold sun, and Su Ming proposed marking it so they could track it.
• Su Ming and Harley damaged a vending machine to bring the police, then went with an officer to the station while Bobo and Raven followed as backup.
• At the police station, Su Ming learned how to submit relics and discovered that Prophet had become the white sun when the city was built.
• Su Ming told Bobo that a secret group with high-level passes bought relics, though the police did not know who they were.
• Su Ming planned to retrieve old returned goods from Wilson Enterprises and sell them as antiques in bulk.

After returning to Sanctuary City, Su Ming staged an antique auction to draw out the mysterious organization and its Prophet. The auction succeeded, and the group waited for their targets to react.

• Su Ming returned through the Spider Totem with relics from Marvel, and he and Bobo discussed using them to lure the regulators.
• Su Ming explained that he wanted to confront the Prophet directly and eliminate the source of the threat to Earth-0 of Multiverse 1.
• Su Ming arranged newspaper coverage, hired audience members, rented a venue, and secured television and radio advertisements for the auction.
• The next day, Su Ming presented the First-Generation Immigrants' Relics Auction and told the crowd the goods had belonged to the city's pioneers.
• Bobo and Harley watched as the delighted residents bought the relics, expecting the mysterious organization to come after Su Ming.

Bruce Wayne received a cryptic invitation about the snowflake monsters and hurried out to meet its sender, while the Justice League continued investigating Skeletor and the threat tied to him. Martian Manhunter had deliberately disguised the League’s message to signal Bruce that the situation was serious.

• Alfred woke Bruce and gave him a tablet full of Justice League, Bat-Family, and monster-investigation updates.
• Bruce read an encrypted invitation featuring a microscopic snowflake image and rushed toward the Batcave to meet its sender.
• Bruce told Alfred to have the Justice League consult Shazam about sorcerers before he left for his date.
• Hawkgirl questioned Batwoman’s apparent laxness, and Martian Manhunter explained that he had impersonated Diana to conceal a warning from anyone monitoring their messages.
• Martian Manhunter contacted Shazam, while Hawkgirl agreed that Nth Metal and Thanagar needed protection.

After his acquittal, Luthor returned to Divinity and examined Brainiac’s findings about the two Roys, who appeared as identical versions of the same person. Luthor and Brainiac suspected the anomaly pointed to Sigma and began investigating the Multiversal snowstorm as a show of good faith toward Deathstroke.

• Luthor left court after being acquitted, sent Mercy to rest, and went to the hidden Divinity.
• Brainiac presented Divinity’s intelligence, including records of Arsenal Roy appearing in a superposed state of constants.
• Luthor and Brainiac discussed how the two Roys might reveal a higher concept called Sigma that encompassed the Speed Force and quantum phenomena.
• Luthor began a new Divinity mission to investigate the snowstorm spreading across several Earths.

Deathstroke and his companions defeated the special agency’s strike team while waiting for a more important enemy to arrive. When Raven sensed that someone had used the golden pen to perform a soul-summoning ritual deep beneath the Underground City, the group set out to investigate and draw out the hidden Prophet.

• The special agency’s all-female strike team stormed the hotel room, and Deathstroke used Symbiotes to kill them.
• Deathstroke, Bobo, Harley, and Raven played mahjong while Deathstroke explained that he was waiting for stronger enemies and could use the golden pen to locate the Spirit Medium Ritual.
• Raven sensed that their detained soul had been disturbed and identified a deeper Underground City as the ritual’s location.
• Su Ming installed surveillance devices, then led the invisible group through a sewer entrance toward the deeper city to find the ritual and lure out the Prophet.

Su Ming and his companions followed Raven’s spell through the Underground City’s sewers to a sealed hall, where they opened a container holding an alien corpse. The group remained in the hall, surrounded by more sealed boxes and several unexplored exits.

• Su Ming and Bobo discussed a monster plant used as food in the Underground City, and Su Ming proposed brewing and selling alcohol made from it.
• Raven identified a heavy door as the route toward the place called by her soul-descent spell, and Su Ming broke through it with Godslayer.
• Su Ming found a spacious hall containing sealed containers and assigned Strangle and Cloak to guard the exits while Bobo and Harley searched.
• Bobo asked Harley to open a container, and she smashed its lock with Warhammer.
• Bobo looked inside and found an alien corpse.

Su Ming investigated a flylike alien corpse in a technologically equipped morgue and planned to use Strangle to read its memories. Beneath the Hall of Justice, Diana rejected the Essence Society’s invitation to join them and affirmed her place with the Justice League and her people.

• Raven switched places with Deathstroke, leaving her to guard the door while he examined the corpse Bobo had found.
• Su Ming identified the corpse as an alien technological creation, noted its keycards and tactical vest, and cut off its head for Strangle to investigate.
• The Essence Society visited Diana beneath the Hall of Justice to thank her for helping save the multiverse and invite her to join them.
• Hera praised Diana and asked whether Deathstroke would reconsider Olympus’s marriage proposal, while seeking access to the Inversion Ball.
• Diana declined the Essence Society’s invitation and said she would remain with the Justice League, her friends, and her people.

Deathstroke’s group learned that the Prophet was a hidden Darkseid who had rebuilt his power beneath Antarctica, using trapped souls to animate elemental creatures. They fought their way through the underground factory, where Harley unexpectedly charged at Stompa, one of Darkseid’s New God warriors.

• Strangle spat out an Alien’s frozen brain, and Deathstroke explained that the creature’s memories revealed the identity and history of the Darkseid they were hunting.
• Deathstroke and Raven pieced together how Darkseid used White Diamonds, souls, and elemental creatures to create an army, while noting that an unknown sorcerer had likely helped him.
• As enemies battered the factory doors, Raven sealed two entrances and Deathstroke led the group through the third, blasting a path through the ice-and-snow monsters.
• The group entered a hall guarded by Stompa, who identified herself and attacked with an energy wave that Deathstroke deflected.
• After recognizing Stompa as a member of Darkseid’s Nemesis squad, Deathstroke prepared to counter her, but Harley shouted that she knew the warrior and charged at her.

Harley recounted her troubled childhood, her path to becoming a psychologist and fighter, and her encounters with Joker and Darkseid. After breaking the fourth wall and pausing time, she resumed her fight and knocked Stompa unconscious with her hammer.

• Harley described her father’s murder, her mother’s struggles, and being sent alone to Gotham at thirteen.
• Harley recalled how Benny took her in, how she met Red at school, and how she later earned a Doctor of Psychology degree at Gotham University.
• Harley recounted meeting Joker at Arkham, being captured by Darkseid, and training with the Female Furies under Granny Goodness.
• Harley froze time during Stompa’s charge, repositioned herself, and resumed the fight with her hammer held in front of Stompa.
• Stompa charged into Harley’s Power Hammer and was knocked unconscious, while Harley asked Bobo to continue.

Harley and the group fought their way through a hall full of enemies while Constantine questioned the imprisoned Enchantress about Skeletor. Diana revealed that her boyfriend already knew about Skeletor and Darkseid, leaving Constantine curious about what he had told her.

• Harley claimed she had cheated with help from an unseen acquaintance, then teased Bobo as the group continued through the corridors.
• Su Ming assigned Harley and Raven to fight a squad of Nemesis members while Deathstroke dealt with Parademons and robots.
• Constantine tried to bargain with the imprisoned Enchantress, who revealed unsettling claims about his past and refused to cooperate.
• Constantine told the Enchantress he would use her as bait to draw out Skeletor, while warning that the group might not rescue her in time.
• Diana joined Constantine and said the Spectre had visited her, then revealed that her boyfriend already knew about Skeletor and Darkseid and had ordered her to share his words only with Constantine and Batwoman.

Batwoman and Barbara traced Joker’s mass kidnapping to his online followers, who were gathering in eastern Gotham, and Batwoman raced to stop them. Barbara then spotted the original Deathstroke entering the city with several companions.

• Batwoman followed trucks toward the eastern Gotham reservoir after estimating that Joker had taken around 2,000 people.
• Barbara found hundreds of Joker fan forums and identified a user called 'Scare Ghost' rallying followers to gather for warmth.
• Batwoman set out in the armored Batmobile to stop Joker’s followers from dying in a mass self-immolation.
• Barbara spotted Deathstroke entering Gotham with several friends and clarified that she meant the old one, without a cape or pet.

Su Ming and his companions descended into the source of Multiverse 2’s white sun, discovering a vast Omega Energy pillar powering the Ice Elementals. They began destroying the creatures and their makers as they continued toward Darkseid.

• Su Ming, Deathstroke, Harley, Raven, and Bobo fought through Parademons and Nemesis Squad warriors in the underground passage.
• Raven sensed a terrifying energy ahead, and the group reached the final door to the white sun’s source.
• Su Ming opened the door and revealed a vast cylindrical chamber containing a pillar of light that Raven identified as the sun the souls had described.
• Deathstroke warned Raven that the pillar was Omega Energy, then wrapped the group in his cloak and led them down the spiraling stairs.
• The group saw Magic Engineers insert soul-filled crystals into Ice Elementals, bringing the creatures to life.
• Su Ming used the Power Ring to crush the newly activated Ice Elementals and the Magic Engineers as he continued the descent.

Deathstroke’s group confronted Darkseid on Apokolips, where Deathstroke killed Desaad after defeating him with help from Strangle and the Power Rings. Darkseid finally rose from his throne, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Deathstroke’s group arrived at Darkseid’s platform and found Desaad and an elderly woman standing beside the hooded figure on the throne.
• Desaad attacked Deathstroke after Deathstroke dismissed his warning, while Darkseid remained seated and watched.
• Deathstroke and Desaad clashed weapons as Strangle secretly damaged Desaad’s cranial nerves.
• Deathstroke used the Power Rings and Nightfall Greatsword to pierce Desaad’s chest and kill him.
• Deathstroke challenged Darkseid to speak, and Darkseid rose from his throne.

The Joker captured James Gordon Jr. and explained that he planned to use his death as part of an elaborate production aimed at Batwoman and Batman. He began preparing to torture and kill James in a warehouse, while Batwoman was kept busy elsewhere.

• The Joker drugged James Gordon Jr. by arranging for his medication to be switched, then abducted him from the convenience store where he worked.
• The Joker gouged out James's eye, saved it in a bottle labeled for Deathstroke, and explained that Cheshire Cat's poison had left James unable to move while still feeling pain.
• The Joker told James that he was obsessed with Batwoman and wanted to make her smile through his staged crimes.
• James deduced that his death would provoke Commissioner Gordon and cause conflict with Batwoman, but the Joker said the plan was only the beginning of a much larger production.
• The Joker said he had hired a Deathstroke to keep Batwoman occupied, dressed James like a present, and opened a surgical kit to begin his performance.

Su Ming and his companions discovered that the figure on Darkseid’s throne was Kalibak, who had been left behind when Darkseid departed. Kalibak became Darkseid’s substitute, and Su Ming lowered his sword, prepared to see whether the obedient New God would cooperate.

• Su Ming prepared to defend his group as the hooded figure raised his hands in surrender and said Darkseid had left.
• Bobo guessed the figure was Orion, but Deathstroke and Detective Chimp identified him as Kalibak, Darkseid’s eldest son.
• Detective Chimp recalled how Kalibak’s obedience and straightforwardness had repeatedly made him an ineffective commander and an easy opponent for the Justice League.
• Su Ming concluded that Kalibak had survived the war against the Evil Thought Nobles because he had been excluded from Darkseid’s plan.
• Su Ming lowered his greatsword and decided not to kill Kalibak if he cooperated.