Chapter Summaries

Su Ming’s team killed Ganthet and the captured Guardians, then traced the Black Lantern plague’s spread to its source. They returned to the main battlefield, where Hal led the Lanterns toward victory while Kyle faced Soranik’s scorn and Sinestro’s contempt.

• Ganthet accepted responsibility for the Guardians’ past actions, warned Diana and Su Ming that Perpetua existed, and asked to die; Diana beheaded him with the Black Diamond.
• Su Ming cleared the fallen Green Lanterns, while Lobo crushed a ring and Barry rested after using the Speed Force to contain the Guardians.
• Bobo examined Oa’s cosmic monitor and confirmed that the Black Lantern plague originated away from Earth and had spread sector by sector.
• Su Ming set off to find Hal and Sinestro, while the Lanterns outside continued fighting the Black Lanterns across the main battlefield.
• Hal overwhelmed the Black Lanterns with his Green and White Lantern power as Soranik watched him, Kyle lamented her reaction, and Sinestro regarded Kyle with contempt.

Hal and the allied Lanterns fought their way toward the Central Power Battery to rescue Ion while Hal weighed whether to revive the Guardians. Sinestro led the advance as Hal recalled the Guardians’ secret crimes and the bizarre fate of one of their covert agents.

• Hal and the allied Lanterns advanced toward the dimmed Central Power Battery, which Black Light was trying to invade.
• Hal destroyed the Black Lantern versions of Guy Gardner and Arisia, while Carol warned him not to pursue other women.
• Sinestro took the lead in clearing the way as Hal discussed whether to revive the Guardians and worried they might ambush the Justice League.
• Hal recalled that the Guardians had repeatedly conspired against the Justice League, and that the Sinestro Corps’ Book of Fear recorded their erased crimes.
• Hal remembered that a covert Corpse agent sent to Earth had been killed by police before carrying out a mission.

Hal and his wife were attacked by Sodam Yat, a partly corrupted Green Lantern, while Su Ming’s group arrived. Su Ming left Hal to Sinestro and the Lantern Corps, leading his group elsewhere as the fight continued.

• Sodam Yat attacked Hal, battered him into the ground, and fought against his own body’s control as Hal urged him to resist the Black Lantern.
• Su Ming recognized Sodam and recalled his history, including his childhood friendship with Tessalon, his recruitment as a Green Lantern, and his future transformation into Ion to fight Superboy-Prime.
• Diana asked whether they should help Hal, but Su Ming ordered Cloak to bring the group in another direction.
• Su Ming said the Lantern Corps needed to hold off the enemy’s main force and trusted Sinestro not to let Hal die.

Deathstroke's group reached the dim Central Power Battery, where Parallax ambushed them and revealed his intent to destroy Oa. Deathstroke prepared to fight the First Lantern, who claimed he knew who Deathstroke was.

• Deathstroke's group flew toward the Central Power Battery under stealth while Bobo warned that their progress felt too easy.
• Diana agreed that the Black Hand would not let Hal purify Oa, while Harley and Bobo traded insults and Lobo voiced his envy of their camaraderie.
• The group arrived at the dim Central Power Battery, and Deathstroke silenced his Green Lantern Ring's alarm with his Yellow Lantern Ring.
• Parallax fired a multicolored beam at Deathstroke, who blocked it with the Nightfall Greatsword.
• Deathstroke identified Parallax as the First Lantern, and Parallax said he would destroy Oa and kill everyone there.
• Parallax claimed he knew who Deathstroke was as Strangle surged out and began transforming him for battle.

Su Ming understood Parallax’s origins and his futile search for the mysterious invader who destroyed Earth-15. Parallax’s attempts to develop power capable of saving his world ended with his duplicates trapped across Parallel Worlds.

• Parallax was born on Earth-15 in the thirty-first century, where his mother created a Teleportation Lantern Battery using a spectrum linked to life throughout the Multiverse.
• As Earth-15 was destroyed, Parallax’s mother activated the device and sent him into the Timeline to find a way to save their people.
• Parallax discovered the seven-colored Emotional Spectrum and sent fifty-two duplicates across different Time Points and Parallel Worlds to research it.
• On Earth-3, Parallax and a Demon Lord developed Power Rings and discovered the Emotional Entities, but their disagreement forced Parallax to flee without the green ring.
• Parallax partnered with the Little Blue Men to capture Ion and mass-produce Power Rings, but they imprisoned him and later destroyed his time-travel device.
• Parallax sent duplicates to the Little Blue Men of other Parallel Worlds, but they betrayed him as well and trapped every Parallax.

Deathstroke used The Mask’s powers to distract Parallax with a bizarre song-and-dance routine, exploiting Parallax’s curiosity as part of their plan to defeat him. While he danced with Parallax, the others discussed Harley and Batwoman’s knowledge of other multiverses, and Bobo concluded that Parallax was already dead.

• Deathstroke transformed into a green-faced performer and began singing and dancing to distract Parallax.
• Bobo, Harley, Diana, and Barry reacted to Deathstroke’s performance while Harley explained that The Mask had once told her he came from another multiverse.
• Harley said Batwoman had known about other multiverses but kept quiet because she considered the information dangerous.
• Deathstroke pulled Parallax into the dance, and Bobo concluded that Parallax was already dead.

Deathstroke defeated Parallax by exploiting his emotional impairment, biological traits, and curiosity, then explained the strategy to the others. With the injured Lanterns gathered near the Central Power Battery, Hal outlined a plan to cleanse the Black Lantern energy and save Ion, while Deathstroke began asking him about headaches after his resurrection.

• Deathstroke finished dancing as Parallax dispersed, and Lobo marveled that he had controlled Parallax through dance.
• Harley explained that Parallax had emotional cognitive impairment, and Deathstroke described how he had used curiosity, song, and dance to immobilize him before Strangle stabbed him with the Black Diamond.
• Deathstroke explained that Parallax had biological traits, a soul, and little Magic Resistance, making a direct fight unnecessary; he teased Diana that he had danced partly because he knew she wanted to watch.
• The battered Hal, Carol, Sinestro, Kyle, and Soranik regrouped, and Hal said they would use White Lantern light to cleanse the Black Lantern energy and Light of Dawn to save Ion.
• Sinestro said the remaining Lanterns were fighting the zombies elsewhere, and Deathstroke asked Hal whether he had suffered headaches since being resurrected.

Deathstroke stopped Hal from using the White Lantern Ring to revive Ion and knocked him through the ground with a frying pan, while Sinestro knocked out Carol. Sinestro sent Soranik to retrieve Hal as Deathstroke prepared to explain his plan.

• Hal decided to proceed with rescuing Ion and prepared to use his White Lantern Ring.
• Deathstroke persuaded Hal to conserve his ring's energy, then recited a different Lantern oath.
• Deathstroke struck Hal with a frying pan, sending him through the ground and prompting Carol to attack him.
• Diana blocked Carol's violet beam, and Sinestro knocked Carol unconscious with a frying pan.
• Sinestro told Soranik to find Hal, then demanded that Deathstroke explain why he had knocked Hal out.

Deathstroke and Sinestro extinguished the Green Lantern Central Power Battery and drew Nekron out of hiding. The group faced the revealed Darkseid, now a Black Lantern Zombie, as he emerged from the Ultraviolet Lantern Battery with Ion in his grasp.

• Deathstroke used a hidden ring to drain the Green Lantern Central Power Battery while telling Sinestro that the answer was in their hands.
• Barry explained Deathstroke’s habit of knocking people unconscious, and Harley knocked Kyle out with her hammer.
• Deathstroke sent the unconscious Carol and Kyle back to Earth, while Diana voiced her fears about their relationship and left to find Harley.
• The vanished Central Power Battery left behind dense Black Light, and Deathstroke called out Nekron through a megaphone.
• Darkseid emerged from the Ultraviolet Lantern Battery as Nekron, holding Ion, and threatened Deathstroke.

Su Ming deduced that Darkseid had become Nekron’s host and was hiding in the Green Lantern Central Power Battery, waiting to seize the Entity of Life through Hal. After Deathstroke disrupted the trap and confronted him, Darkseid attacked Diana, but Deathstroke saw through his attempt to bait him.

• Su Ming pieced together clues from the New Gods, Scarface, Parallax, and earlier timelines to conclude that Darkseid was a Black Lantern Zombie hiding inside the Green Lantern Central Power Battery.
• Deathstroke sent Hal away and had Harley knock out Kyle, leaving Darkseid without a White Lantern channel to reach the Entity of Life and the Force of Connection.
• Darkseid launched Omega Beams at Diana, but the girl in black robes blocked them while Laurie countered Darkseid with Heat Vision.
• Deathstroke charged Darkseid with Godslayer, but withdrew after one slash and recognized that Darkseid was pretending to fear the weapon to lure him into reach.

Darkseid revealed his plan to detonate the Black Lantern Central Power Battery on Oa and destroy Deathstroke’s group. After sealing the planet with his Omega Field, he prepared to activate the bomb, but Deathstroke remained amused and untroubled.

• Darkseid fought Deathstroke’s group while declaring that he had become the embodiment of Anti-Life and seeking the Power of Grayskull.
• Deathstroke warned Darkseid about Hordak and asked whether he had obtained Starro or the Living Nebula.
• Darkseid shrank to his original size, revealed his plan to detonate the Black Lantern Central Power Battery, and sealed Oa with his Omega Field.
• Sinestro, Diana, Laurie, Barry, and Lobo tried to stop Darkseid from pressing the Mother Box, while Deathstroke watched calmly.

Su Ming revealed that Hal had destroyed the Black Lantern Central Power Battery, disabling Darkseid’s detonator, and called in Superboy-Prime to break through Darkseid’s Omega Field. Superboy-Prime arrived and prepared to confront Darkseid, while worrying about how the moment would appear on camera.

• Darkseid repeatedly pressed the Mother Box’s button, but the broken detonator did nothing.
• Su Ming explained that Hal’s White Lantern impact had damaged the Black Lantern Central Power Battery, then taunted Darkseid over the megaphone.
• Darkseid expanded his Omega Field and challenged Su Ming, who said he had prepared a tough opponent for this remaining plan.
• Su Ming called for Superman, and Superboy-Prime broke through the Omega Field and arrived beside him.
• Superboy-Prime exchanged jokes with Su Ming about being filmed, then addressed Darkseid and accidentally added an insult toward the Little Blue Men before asking for it to be cut.

Deathstroke saw through Darkseid’s attempt to force him to spend his favors and summoned Superboy-Prime instead. Superboy-Prime destroyed Oa and defeated Darkseid while rescuing everyone, but he accidentally left Ion behind, and Deathstroke gave the surviving tentacle a chance to choose whether to live.

• Deathstroke deduced that Darkseid was baiting him into using up his allies’ favors and calling on the Nightfall Greatsword, so he summoned Superboy-Prime instead.
• Superboy-Prime attacked Darkseid under Deathstroke’s encouragement, and Harley and Bobo cheered him on.
• Superboy-Prime unleashed the power of all eight Power Rings, destroying Oa and blasting Darkseid apart while rescuing everyone from the planet.
• Bobo pointed out that Superboy-Prime had forgotten Ion, and Superboy-Prime returned with only one of the fish’s tentacles.
• Deathstroke touched Ion’s surviving tentacle with his White Lantern Ring and said it could choose whether to live or die.

After helping defeat Darkseid during Blackest Night, Deathstroke’s group returned to Earth-0 and parted ways with Superboy-Prime. The Martian Manhunter then asked Wonder Woman to discuss a confidential Justice League matter concerning Batwoman.

• Su Ming wished Sinestro well and promised to visit him in the Anti-Matter Universe, while Sinestro crushed his Black Lantern Ring and thanked Deathstroke’s group.
• Deathstroke paid Lobo with Dolphin Magazine issues, then his group left through a Spider Web-patterned wormhole as Ambush Bug interviewed Sinestro.
• Back in The Flash’s dormitory beneath the Hall of Justice, Barry recovered from the trip and Superboy-Prime departed for the Cosmic Forge to watch over World Forger.
• The Martian Manhunter arrived and asked to speak with Wonder Woman alone about Batwoman and the Justice League’s operations.
• Su Ming let Diana go with J’onn, reasoning that the issue likely involved Batwoman’s finances and the League’s ability to compensate people affected by its missions.

Su Ming and his companions relaxed after returning from Multiverse 2, joking about the Justice League’s troubles and making plans to eat at Barry’s home. Damian approached Su Ming, reconsidered asking him to reunite with Talia, and joined the group for dinner instead.

• Bobo and Harley speculated about J'onn and Bruce’s financial problems, while Su Ming and Deathstroke joked about instant noodles as compensation.
• Su Ming told Bobo that the three gorilla beauties had already been sent away, and Laurie thanked Deathstroke before leaving to see her father.
• Barry invited Su Ming and Harley to dinner in Central City, and Harley happily accepted.
• Damian approached Su Ming, abandoned his plan to ask him to reconcile with Talia, and asked to join the group for dinner.
• Su Ming welcomed Damian, who thanked The Flash, but Barry asked him to keep using his old title.

Su Ming learned about several developments from Wally, then spent time with Diana and Harley before taking Harley on vacation to a mythological version of Athens. As a Spartan fleet attacked the city, Su Ming waited for someone to bring him a new weapon.

• Wally told Su Ming that one Roy had gone with Red Hood to the Hall of Everything to investigate Hypertime, and that Olympus had returned while Zeus had taken new girlfriends.
• Su Ming agreed to have Sepulk watch Olympus and discussed the missing Mobius Chair, then took Harley and Damian back to Gotham after dinner.
• Diana fought Su Ming at the Hall of Justice, and they ended up spending the night together before she handed him back to Harley.
• Su Ming took Harley on vacation after a week’s delay, arriving in a mythological Athens where the people were fleeing a Spartan attack.
• Su Ming and Harley climbed a beacon tower to watch the Spartan ships bombard Athens, and he caught a burning boulder while they looked for wine.

Su Ming and Harley watched the war between Athens and Sparta from the Great Lighthouse as Kratos rampaged through the city. After Zeus tricked Kratos into surrendering his divine power to a greatsword, Kratos was left wounded and powerless, and Zeus took the weapon.

• Su Ming moved with Harley to the Great Lighthouse, where they watched Athens and Sparta fight amid attacks by a Cyclops, a sea monster, and a giant.
• Su Ming explained that the bald warrior was Kratos and said he would not take Kratos's Blades of Athena.
• Kratos slaughtered people and soldiers in Athens, gathered Red Soul, and fought the Colossus of Bronze while Su Ming filmed him with a Doom Bot.
• Kratos defeated the Colossus with a Divine Power Greatsword after pouring his divine power into it, but the Colossus's counterattack wounded him and shattered his armor.
• Kratos tried to reclaim his divine power, but the Giant Eagle transformed into Zeus and seized the greatsword first.

Su Ming and Harley watched Zeus reveal that he had arranged Kratos’s rise and then turned against him to protect Olympus. After Zeus killed Kratos and attacked Sparta, Su Ming backstabbed Zeus, took the Blade of Olympus, and left both gods’ fates unresolved.

• Zeus explained that he had helped Kratos defeat Ares, then decided to eliminate him because Kratos threatened Olympus’s interests.
• Kratos defied Zeus, who drove the Blade of Olympus into his chest and unleashed its power against Sparta and the surrounding area.
• Zeus destroyed Kratos’s heart and left him for dead before turning away to celebrate his victory.
• Su Ming secretly stabbed Zeus with a black sword, took the Blade of Olympus, and kicked Zeus into the sea.
• Harley asked whether Zeus had died, and Su Ming said that Zeus and Kratos would survive while he kept the weapon.

After collecting the Blade of Olympus, Su Ming and Harley left the ruined city and returned to Marvel’s Omniverse. The story shifted to Franlo, where rumors of an ancient empire’s buried treasures had turned a quiet grassland planet into a crowded tomb-raiding hub.

• Su Ming explained that Kratos’s body was being dragged to the Underworld and said he still needed more divine artifacts to upgrade Godslayer.
• Harley suggested visiting the Future, but Su Ming refused and ordered the Adjutant to send them back to Marvel’s Omniverse.
• The chapter described how rumors of an ancient super-empire’s treasures drew bounty hunters, scavengers, officials, and other newcomers to Franlo.
• Tomb raiding boomed on Franlo, and the Imperial Army began buying up artifacts, backed by a powerful black-robed leader rumored to be a Sith.

A treasure hunter on Franlo removed a mask from an ancient mechanical worm, accidentally waking it, before Aphra killed him and took the mask and a motorcycle spark plug. Deathstroke and Harley arrived on the planet and set out to find an archaeologist who could help Deathstroke obtain something.

• A treasure hunter found a giant mechanical worm underground and pried the mask from its head to sell it.
• The worm activated, and the hunter escaped its cave before an explosion collapsed the shaft.
• Aphra killed the hunter, took the mask from his body, and stole the motorcycle's energy spark plug.
• Deathstroke and Harley arrived on Franlo among a herd of Dream-Eating Beasts.
• Deathstroke told Harley they needed to find an archaeologist, as a robed dwarf approached them from a mud house.